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l PUBLIC UEGER, FRIDAY JUNE 2, - ' . . . . ' .it., . v.3 ' I ,' r : : ; : : : : : j . IA, THE POOR PARMER! Tender Solictiude for Him Shown by All Members of Congress. Representative Dupree, of Louisana, in the Congressional Record I shall not inject the American .farmer into this debate. I have no doubt that he,in common with every good citizen is intensely interested in the proper disposition of the pending resolution, and I am quite sure that there are eloquent and ingenious statesmen on both sides of this chamber who, given the op portunity, would and could' prove conclusively that his whole future welfare is dependent on the passage or defeat of this measure. I shall eliminate the farmer,, however.from no feeling of hostility or indiffer ence, but, on the contrary ,form a feeling of friendship for and sym pathy with him; for I believe that since the 4th of April last he has been worked "overtime" in. the House and that he is entitled to a . rest if not a resti at least an op portunity to pursue his avpcation undisturbed by the "applause," the ""loud- applause," and the "loud and prolonged appal-use"that have greet ed every allusion to him on this floor. If he lives in far-away Dakota, where the snow is beginning to melt It was falling yesterday in Wyom ing giy him a chance to sow his fields. If by good fortune he lives in Louisana, where he can Taise four crops a year, give him a chance to reap his harvest and to plant another crop. ' Certainly the farmer cannot justlj complain that he has been neglect ed or overlooked in this extra ses sion, for the Record teems with praises of him; of his patriotism; of his industry; his energy; his pluck; his progressiveness;with ex ultant joy at his prosperity, and tearful lamentation at his adver sity. Always he has held the center Df the stage, with light of every hue known to the spectrum playing artistically and effectively on his Sturdy form and noble brow. The majority and the minority are equally his friends. Leaders and followers, veterans and recruits, Standpatters and insurgents, gentle men from every section, of every Style of oratory, of every degree of personal pulchritude, and of every -sartorial taste, have testified to their affection for him and their tender solicitude for his welfare. JThe gentleman from Birmingham, (Mr. Underwood) loves him no less than the gentleman from that les ser Birmingham, Pittsburg (Mr Dalzell). The gentleman from Mich igan (Mr. Fordney), though he would sell him his lumber at the highest possible price, thinks as much of him as does my silver tongued and silver-haried friend from the cotton belt, the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Hefflin). That king of globe trotters, with the inevitable diary in hand, the gen tleman from Connecticut (Mr. Hill), is no more his friend than is the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Candler), who prefers the beauties of the Tombigbee to the castled banks or the Rhnei. .It,.w6uldjrbe,sw3 AMno decide who has the farm- ear's interests most at heart wheth er the Sage of Danville (Mr. Can non) or the Giant from Marion (Mr- James) as it was to decide the memorable debate at the Press Club the other night on the relative merits and demerits of hirsute or namentation. The Apostle of Pre cedents, the gentleman from Maine (Mr. Hinds), is his philosophic tribute to "The Man with the Hoe," was- not less solicitous than the poet-statesman from California (Mr. Kent), who made "Dune" McKin lay famous by defeating him. The gentleman from Washington (Mr. La Follette), who lives so near Saskatchewan that he can see the frolicsome sheep play hide and seek across the Canadian border has no advantage in his love for the farm er over the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Dies), who, from his Beau mont home, can hear the turbulent roar of the Mexico Sea- By such as these has the farmer been glori fied within the past month, and by a host of others, including the distinguished leader of the minor ity, the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Mann), whose quondam incis iveness and blithe spontaneity and "near" omniscience are not so con spicuous now as in the good old days when his desk was connected with the Speaker's chair a wire .less apparatus and he could always send or receive the danger signal C- Q. D. BACK TO THE MINES. Ex-President Lewis Enjoys Picking Coal in West Virginia. "I never felt better in my life. Of course, I am a little sore after not having done any hard physical labor for fifteen years, best fittings will come to me as easy as ever in a few days." said Thomas L. Lewis, formerly president of the United Mine Workers of America Lewis went "back to the mines" last Thursday, after having held Dffice in the miners' organization for fourteen years three years as secretary of the Ohio Miners,eight years as vice-president of the United Mine Workers of America and three years as president of that organization. The miners' for mer president has as his partner in the Wheeling Creek Mine, near his home.at Bridgeport, Ohio.where he 1b now employed, Syl Price, with whom he was paired when he left the mines fifteen years ago . "My work as a miner is certainly easier than my work as president tf the miners," said Lewis. "As president I worked fifteen hours a day. Now I work eight hours and my day's work is done, and I can pick coal as well today as I could fifteen years ago." Lewis denied the report from Columbus that he would be a candi date for president of the Ohio Min ers. He says he is not. a candidate for any office. Making Room. -From the Toledo Blade. 'Party gowns will be cut lower in the back this year." 'Is that so? Then we'll have to CBnako our celts narrower ' WITH THE NATURE FAKERS. Garter Snake Stole Pussy's Milk, Quinine-Fed Hen Lays Briskly. From the New York Herald, The mystery of the continued theft of milk left for the pet cat at the plant of the Bergen Point Iron Works, Avenue, and Fifth street, Bayonne, was solved when the thief, a' three-foot garter snake was caught in the act. As a kitten pus- ! sy was taken to the works by one j of the employes.and she became a pet with the office force, who took turns seeing that she did not want for food. Every few hours a saucer filled with milk was placed on the floor for her, and she began to grow fat. Three weeks ago it was noticed, that pussy was getting thin, and the men wondered- The milk diet was doubled, but kitty got thinner. Thomas Quinn, one of the employes, decided to do some detective work. It was his turn to furnish the milk, and after he had filled kitty's sau cer he hid behind the desk and watched- Pussy went at her milk voraciously, but she scarcely had tasted it before the snake came from a closet and rapidly crawled to the saucer. On its appearance the cat wildly dashed away and the snake slowly consumed all the mills its head coiled up over the saucer. Its appetite satisfied, the snake was making tracks for its nest when Quinn killed it. Kitty, it is ex pected, will regain her fat. Fright of . the snake, the men believe,caus ed her decline as much as the loss of the milk. Bloomfield (N. J-) Dispatch to Ne York Tribune. A discovery by Mrs. Archibald De Camp, of North Park street, East Orange i-iay or may not have set tled the question of cheap eggs for future generations. Mr. De Camp, who relishes a fresh egg for breakfast, keeps three hens and a rooster, as his yard space is limited- The fowls are of the Brown Leghorn variety, and they have suc ceeded during the winter in keep ing Mr. De Camp supplied with his favorite breakfast. A week ago the best of the three hens became ill, stopped laying and moped around the back door with drooped head. Several remedies were tried, but were of no avail, and Mrs. De Camp, who is subject to malaria, before going to business last Thursday morning, took some two-grain quinine pills- It occurred to Mrs. De Camp that if quinine helped her husband it might help the sick hen. Taking a pellet from the bottle, she picked up the chick en, opened its bill and dropped the pellet down its throat. In less than two hours the chicken took on new life and became the liveliest one in the small flock. On Friday morning the chicken laid an egg and in the afternoon it laid a sec ond one. Since that time the chick en gets its quinine pill every morn ing, and its keeps on laying two eggs daily. Mrs- De Camp says that if any one doub.ts.J:his story he is at liberty tw-vislt her -:)nNM,isf watch the chickens. From the New York American. Eastern Long Island is disturbed by the report that a nest of copper head snakes has been discovered and that some of the deadly reptiles having escaped there is likelihood that some one may be bitten and die. The foreman of a gang of men stump pulling on the extension of Hulse avenue Baiting Hollow, un earthed the snakes on Saturday, Joseph Bement, one of the workmen killed several of them, but some got away. This deadly species of snakes is very scarce on Long Island. Oh, Yes, he Smiled but, From the Kansas City Times. A man alighted from a Brooklyn avennue car at Thirty-first street, and helped a boy of 7 or 8 years to alight. The child looked glum. "Smile, child, smile," said the man, evidently its father. The boy did not cheer up, how ever, whereupon the father spoke again. "Smile," he said. "Smlie, or I'll slap your bead off " A Dreadful Wound, from a knife, gun, tin can, rusty nail, fireworks, or of any other na ture, demands prompt treatment with Bucklen's Arnica Salve to pre vent blood poison or gangreen. Its the quickest, . surest healer for all such wounds as also for Burns,Boils, Sores, Skin Eruptions, Eczema.Chap ped Hands, Corns or Piles. 25c. at J. G Hall's. Fire Horses on Pension. From the New York; World. Spark and Flame, horses that have drawn the fire engine of Liberty Steamer company, Hackensack, N. .J for the past seventeen years,have been retired on a pension. When it was announced recently that Spark and Flame were to be sold members of the Liberty com pany asked the improvement com mission to retire the horses and per mit the company to pay board for them until their death. In compliance with their request the set of reso lutions were drawn up, introduced by Commissioner James T. Hutchin son and signed by Mayor C- W. Bell. The horses were particular fav orites because of their love for children. John Terhune, who drove them for seventeen years, says he never used a whip on them. A Charming Woman is one who is lovely in face, form, mind and temper. But its hard for a woman to be charming without health. A weak, sickly woman will be nervous and irritable. Constipa ted and kidney poisons show in pimples, blotches, skin eruptions anc" a wretched complexion. But Elec tric Bitters always prove a godsend to women who want health, beauty and friends. They regulate Stom ach, Liver and Kidneys purify the blood; gives strong nerves bright eyes, pure breath, smooth, velvety skin, lovely complexion and perfect health.Try them,50c. at J. G. Hall's. FEES OF ATTORNEYS. Interesting Case in. New York Court Involving Contingent Com pensation. From the New York Sun- A contingent agreement,, to com pensate attorneys in land1 or in money came before the appellate di vision of the supreme court in a suit of Thomas W. Butts and Albert W. Bailey, the attorneys, against Marie Julie Collons Carey, the client and others, to partition certain pre mises which became the client's property as a result of the suit in which the contingent agreement was signed. . Upon the trial of the case the attorneys abandoned their claim to a right to the partition ofx the premises and asked to estab lish a lien on the property under their retainer. They got judgment for the entire amount of their serv vices, but the appellate division sets it aside and orders a . new,-.cial In 1904 the attorneys, who "were practicing as partners, werV re tained by Mrs. Collins to bring an action against her son, Charlse H. Collins, to" set aside a deed execu ted in" 1885 to six lots in the Bronx- They took, the case on a contingent basis, and were to re ceive nothing unless they recovered the property of some part thereof, or a judgment for the value or some part thereof. The agreement provided that "she shall and will pay, deliver, transfer, and convey to them, and they will accept as compensation in full for their ser vices and counsel fees, one-fourth of any and all money or property which may or shall be paid." By the agreement the client also, trans ferred to the attorneys one-foufi the property for which she '1 Vs suing, except two plots.and ftSf.s agreed upon adjudging the fee after including the house and lot where she lived, should be allowed to the judgment the improved property her, and if there was not a suffi cient portion remaining to ajfrow the attorneys one-fourth of the whole, they were to get the equiva lent in cash. The attorneys obtained an inter locutory judgment adjudging the property to be held by the son 'as trustee for their client and direct ing him to reconvey the property to his mother and give an account ing. Pending the accounting the client conveyed to her daughter 29, 500 square feet of property, leav ing a remainder of 1 0,700 square feet. When this deed came to the attention of the attorneys, they filed their suit for partition of the entire property and to have it ad judged that the conveyance was subordinate to their rights under the retainer, on the theory that the retainer constituted a conveyanc of an undivided one-fourth of the premises. At this time they had not fully performed their services under the retainer, bceause they had not obtained a final judgment or reconveyance to their client by The trial court found thav co?iveyanc.by-'jx4ei tenki.jsL J. daughter was without considerat, and was executed and accepted in fraud of the rights of the attorneys, although the appellate division says there was no allegation of fraud upon which to base the" conclusion. The client and her daughter con tended that the mother's equality in the property she did not convey was ample to satisfy any lien of the at torneys. The trial court exclude evience on this point on the ground that it was not germane to the issue The higher ' court holds that this was error- ' Justice Laughlin, writing the ap pellate division opinion, says it is quite clear that the attorneys are not entitled to a decree of a court of equity adjudging that they have a lien against the part of the premises conveyed by the client's equity in the premises retained is of suificient value to protect the attorneys' rights under the retainer. If there is any ambiguity in the agreement ot the retainer, it is to be construed most strictly against the attorneys who drew it, the court said. The attorneys contended that the client did not have a right to make a selection of any part of the premises until they had agreed with respect to the fee to be charg ed, but Justice Laughlin says there is no force, in this contention, and concludes: t- "The enforcement of the general agreement of retainer as herein sought - by the respondent would be oppressive, and should not receive the sanction of a court of equity." KATOL&ON NOT AT ST. HELENA. French Historian Declares Emperor Fooled English AVith a Double. Mrs. B. C. Baskerville's Paris Cor respondence in the New York World. ' What if Napoleon never saw St. Helena? i What if he fooled the English to the last and died, as he lived, a free man? ' Absurd!" you exclaim. Tans of literature, written in every language of modern civilization, tell you he did die a prisoner on that rocky is land. You believe in it as you be lieve in the Fourth of July or in T hanksgiving day. It is a hard, solid fact, which nobody e ver doubts. And yet a very distinguished French historian has been doubting it foi years, and has searched proofs to back his doubts for a decade. Finally he has boldly declared to the world that history for once is wrong. M- Ommessa, the hsitorian in question, boldly declares that Na poleon I, after losing all on the field of Waterloo, refused to give himself up to the hated English.es caped to Italy, and, instead of him self sent his double, Private Ro beant, to St. Helena, in accordance with plans laid long beforehand.Gen. Bertarnd, the friend of a lifetime, made the supreme sacrifice of ac companying Robeant to the island so as to blind the English to the trick being played on them. For seven years, according to Omessa, the real Napoleon lived in Verona, selling spectacles to British travel- 9' I M -- .XKiCSsSAXAX - M VT7TA FrrZ BUULU1 111 '111 I I IJ Fl 5 Easily laid can be laid right Yireproor Stormproof Last as - r?r.i i -1 i uccu icpsuis. r or runner detailed ers. At last the desire again ,to see his only son, whom he adored (or was it some new political plans in that restless brain?), got the bet ter of his caution. The former em peror, the former conquerer of Eu rope, the hero of the finest army the world has ever seen, went to Vienna, where his little son .was in care of Francis II, Austrian em peror, who had thought it an honor to call Napoleon son-in-law, and shot down like a dog while trying to climb the wall which divided him from his son- Omessa, whose declarations have created a tremendous sensation throughout Europe, backs his state ments with various docuiments. .j:"They are not mere materials for a sensational historical romance," he said. "Neither are they publish ed just to annoy the English. They record strange events known at the time of their happening to more than one Frenchman, but loyally kept secret by those who worshiped their emperor as a god. These facts are drawn from various source One witness is an Englishwoman, anothed an Italian, a third and Aus trian all enemies of Napoleon.who had no interest in believing him elsewhere than at St. Helena." . An Indian Elopement. The dark clouds of war are not without occasional rays of sunshine. When the surrendered Indians were peacefully camped among the valley of the Yellowstone, there occurred one morning a great commotion in the camp of the Ogalallas, and the Indians were running in every direc tion anxiously looking for their most popular man, the head warrior Hump, who could nowhere be found He was, physically, the finest type of the savage Indian that I have m mmmmMmmiBNALBMK Oxford, CAPITAL STOCK - -SURPLUS AND PROFITS 5SE V This bank cails your attention to its large capital which places it in position to easily take care of the. In terest of its many customers, and the interests of those who are desirous of forming relations with a bank of large Capital and Resources. 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