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2 OXFORD PUBLIC LEDGER, FRIDAY OCTOBER 13U iOlt. BROUGHT HIS TOOTHBRUSH. Slit Saint-Saens. the Composer, Didn't Shock Parisian Society. The Cri de Paris told the following story of Saint-Saens. the composer: A Tare visitor to Paris, be is on his visits xrrach sought after as a social lion. One lady succeeded in persuading him to ac cept an invitation to dinner, promising to send to fetch him and also to deposit !tiim at his door when be left, his only Stipulation being that he should be al lowed to make bis adieus at 10 o'clock. The son of bis hostess was dispatch ed Ld good, time and found M. ' Saint Saens in a velvet coat seated before his piano. He rose at once, however, and asked for ten minutes to dress, at the end of which he appeared, tying his white cravat. As be was shutting his Coot behind him he ejaculated: "Good gracious! One minute more! 1 have forgotten my toothbrush!" The young man. to his amazement, saw his guest dive into his dressing Toom and reappear with a toothbrush. Which he pnt away in his breast pock et. On arriving home he told his moth er, who in some uneasiness informed lier friends, and everybody was in Wonderment as to what the great com poser was going to do with his tooth turnsh. Every eye was fixed on him tbrough ajot the dinner, watching him as he ate nd drank and used his finger glass. In the drawing room Saint-Saens talk ed with the ladies and played any piece that 'was 'asked of him till 10 o'clock struck, when he bade farewell -politely to the company. The Journey home was without inci dent, and when they reached his house 31. Saint-Saens simply offered to shake Itands and say good night. Curiosity was too strong, though, for the youth, who said: "Excuse me. maiter. but I should so smch like to know why yon so par ticularly wanted to take your tooth- trusb with you. "Oh. my yung friend. replied Saint Saens. "it is very simple! My lock is Terv stiff, and I always hurt my fingers In turning the key. So I now pass the liandle of my toothbrush in the ring of Hie key and turn it easily. Voilal THOROUGHLY WARMED. Old Time Schoolboy's Experience on a Bitterly Cold Day. An old time gentleman of Newbury port, describing his school days in the opening years of the nineteenth cen tury, has this to say of a wintry day: We found our inkstands all frozen up. These required to be thawed out. To do this there was a board held up by bricks over the stove on which the pewter inkstands were placed, but be fore the copy was written down the Ink wQUld be again frozen. Then the txy took his ink to the stove again end while it was thawing laid in a store of caloric for himself, standing !y the stove, watching closely that the pewter should not melt. The clothes of the boys were mada f corduroy, jacket and trousers in one. and nothing under but a shirt. These absorbed the heat like sheet iron, so that when a boy retruned to his seat be was often compelled to carry his ink stand in his mouth, employing both Stands to hold his trousers off from hi3 tnees. and with every precaution the skin was often mottled and scorched.7 Another old time schoolboy in his later years recalled an even severer ex perience. 1 can remember." he recorded, "how. crowding close to the stove to toast the shivers from my poor little body. I scorched a hole in my trousers in Xront and exclaimed aloud at the dis aster, whereupon the master thrash ed a bole into them behind, and when 1 went home to my mother she told me grimly it was well that things should match and that as my shirt was such an old one she was willing to risk fraying it on the back, and she leached for a strap and did! 1 was thoroughly warmed, and it was the coldest day of the year, but 1 regretted my shivers after all." Sooth's Companion. Helpful Son-in-law. So you asked my wife for our 'Slaughter's hand, did you?" said the stern father. did. and she began to give me a . Jdece of her mind about my persump- tion. and 1 And you beat a retreat and came to see me. Well, sir" "Oh. no! I didn't retreat. I argued It out with her. and before I left she shad given me her consent. So I" "Yon did? Bully for you! You can 1ave the girl, and you can live right 3iere with us. 1 want to study your jsieaj oz aerying my wire ror a year or so anyway. Woman's World. Little Piteher. tady Visitor! am coming to your mamma's company tomorrow. Tommy. jtouiEuy wen. you won i get a goou rapper. Tommy's Papa Tommy, what -do you mean, talking like that? Tom my Well, yon know. pa. you told ma jotTG have to get some chicken feed for her old hen party tomorrow. Bal timore American. rw w-rr n ... - The Widow. "I noticed as 1 came in. said the ealler to ber dear friend the widow. 'tbat you have made a change in your errants. You have a white butler mew. "Yes.- sighed the widow, "a white tmtler. but a negro cook. I go into half mourning this season.' Harper's. Inherited It. "'What a matchmaker that woman is, to be sure!" Yes. but she comes by it honestly. J understand ber father was a pro aaoter. Detroit Free Press. f DEATH BY FALLING, Pain and Fear Seem to Have No Plaee In the Ordeal. It is difficult to imagine a more hor rible accident than falling with an airship, yet in the opinion of a Ger man psychologist. Fritz Kahn, death resulting from such a fail is not ex ceptionally painful, says the New York Evening Post He argues that it is likely to be met in a state of in difference or even an agreeable half conscious condition of minL He wit nessed the fall of Helm a fall which lasted a number of seconds, as the airship fluttered to and fro like a piece of paper before the final descent The distance was about eighty yards. On recovering consciousness after sev eral days Heim remembered only the ascent. Everything between that and his awakening in the hospital was a blank. Mountain climbers have had similar experiences. A French geologist who fell over a precipice attests that be swooned and never knew what hap pened. Whymper, on the other hand, remained fully conscious when he fell on the Matterhorn. Bounding from rock to rock, he calculated the inter vals between the shocks, wondered how long he could stand it. felt no pain and came to the conclusion that death through a fall must be one of the least disagreeable ways of ending one's life. A boy of eight who fell twenty-two yards declared that his only thought was that he might lose his new pocketknife. At a meeting of the Swiss Alpine club the geologist Helm described his feelings during a fall. His first thought was that now he would be unable to deliver the address he had promised; then he thought of the ef fect on his family of the news of his death. He wanted to take off his spec tacles to save his eyes from being damaged by broken glass. Various scenes from his past life flitted across his consciousness in rapid succession. There was no fear, no pain, but rather an agreeable state of mind, like that which is brought on by soft music. RADIUM RAYS, Their Velocity the Highest Known Speed of Matter In Motion. The earth travels , in its orbit round the sun nineteen miles a second. The sun itself, like all the other stars, has its own proper motion . through space. Some authorities have calculated its speed at twelve miles a second. A few stars move more slowly than this, others much more rapidly. A returns maintains a speed of not less than 100 miles a second, and the star called Qroombridge 1830" travels 150 miles in the same brief time. But the speeds of the heavenly bod ies are slow compared with the mo tions of the tiniest known particles of matter. The sun would seem to stand still could we compare its velocity with that of the radium "rays. These ra diations are produced by successive ex plosions of tiny groups of the tiny atoms of radium. The "alpha rays," being themselves , infinitesimal frag ments of matter, are thrown out with a velocity of perhaps 12.000 miles a second. The "beta rays" travel still faster. In the emanations of this wonderful radium we find the highest known speed of matter in motion. At 12,000 miles a second it would take little more than two seconds for a particle of matter to travel all the way round the earth. Look at your watch and note the duration of two seconds; then imagine that in a chariot drawn by "alpha rays" you have been round the world. There is hardly time in two seconds for you to think the journey. The highest measured speed, how ever, is. not the speed of matter, but the speed of that etberie vibration which we call light. And light trav els at the rate of 18G.000 miles a sec ond. -Youth's Companion. "The Thunderer. It was the mud flinging of an earlier mode of travel than the motorbus that gave the London Times its nickname of "The Thunderer. Two ladies at Kew had been splashed by an unman nerly horseman passing them too close ly, and the Times came out with a strong leader alleging the offender to have been the Duke of Cumberland. In due course it was found that the horseman was not the duke, and in a further article by way of apology the Times used the words "We thundered out,' ah expression that so tickled the public that the name of "Thunderer" was bestowed on the paper forthwith. A Notable Statue. In the beautiful city of Buenos Aires is perhaps the only statue in the world erected by . white men to a negro. This is the statue of Falucbo. a negro soldier who refused to haul down the Argentine flag at the bidding of the Spanish soldiery during the first Argentine revolution and was shot down by the Spanish. The Last Word. "What's the first word in the dic tionary?" asked the student. The artide a of course, replied Mr. Growcher. "And what's the last word?" "Ask my wife. She's an expert on the subject" Washington Star. His Chief Anxiety. Defendant's Wife Don't worry, dear. The judge's charge was certainly in your favor. Defendant (moodily) I know that. It's the lawyer's charge that I'm thinking about Boston Tran script No life Is so strong and complete but It yearns for the smile of a friend. Wallace Bruca PLUCKY PITCHING. ' - Vedder Sitton's Feat That Landed Championship Pennant. In the greatest -finish that ever marked a minor league race New Or leans and Nashville, southern league contenders, had come to .the wire neck and neck. On Sept. 19. 1008. they met in f: eyes. drawn , as it was. disaster looked to be imminent Bernhard immediately rushed his entire remaining staff back of the clubhouse to be ready for the call, while two - physicians worked above the unconscious Sitton. He came to life again just as the Nash ville team was taking the field for the eighth inning with another in his place. - , ' Staggering to his feet. Sitton insist ed upon finishing " the contest, and Bernhard. against his better judgment, gave way. The heavy battirig end of the New Orleans team was up in or der. With bandaged head, his face still white and drawn from the, shock, in no condition to stand, still less to lead a desperate charge. Sitton electri fied the crowd by striking out two of the first three men that faced him. In the ninth he added two more vic tims to the list In bringing home the victory by the score of l. toO, winning the pennant, by the margin of one point. And then he collapsed: It was. over two weeks before he recovered sufficiently to be up and about, and yet New Orleans batsmen relate that in those last two innings he had shown more "stuff" by a wide margin than at any other stage of the battle. American Magazine. First American Letter Box. A little more than a half century ago the letter box was unknown. The inventor was Joseph William Briggs, nephew of a former governor of Mas sachusetts, who. as head clerk in the Cleveland postoffice. studied the needs of . patrons and after" correspondence with Postmaster General Dennison upon the subject took a train for Washington, bearing a - pasteboard model of the letter box under his arm. The postmaster general saw the mer its of the plan and appointed Mr. Briggs as Special agent to establish the letter box and letter carrier sys tem. The first letter box was attached by clamps to a lamppost that stood in front of a Cleveland drug store, and not a year had passed before fifty-two different cities had adopted the system. National Magazine. Where Miners Lose Their Nerve. ! Men accustomed to working in j mines cannot stand great heights. It j is almost an invariable rule that a ! miner will get dizzy and uneasy If you J take him to a high place, such as a monument or the top of a house, and will try to get back to earth as soon as possible. And yet he can stand un derground on the edge of a 500 foot shaft, look down into the black abyss and never feel a tremor. He can climb up the face of a shaft, knowing that there is a straight drop of a thou sand feet under him. and feel perfect ly at home. Popular Magazine. Scanty Ammunition. Colonel Stark's regiment just prior to the battle of Bunker Hill was quar tered at Mil ford, some four miles dis tant, and was destitute of ammuni tion. About 10 o'clock on the morn ing he received orders to march, how ever, each man received a gill cupful of powder, fifteen balls and one flint. As the muskets were of varying cali ber it was necessary to reduce the size of the balls for many of them. Maga zine of American History. About the Size of It. "Why is it." queried the youth, "that so many people fail to mind their own business?" "There may be one of two reasons, or both." answered the home grown philosopher. "They may have no mind or no - business." Philadelphia Press. The Forbidden. A sailor had just shown a lady over the ship. In thanking him she said: "1 am so sorry to see by the rules that tips are forbidden on your ship." "Bless you, ' ma'am," replied the sailor, "so were apples in the Garden of Eden." London Telegraph. Easier. "If I buy you a seat in the Stock Ex change will you agree to go to work?" "I ain't crazy for work. dad. Make it a seat in the senate." Louisville Courier-Journal. m Art Versus Nature. 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