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6 LEDGER, FRIDAY OCTOBER 13, IOIJL CAUSES OF FIRES. People find matcb New York's -Chief Finds Most. Blazes Due to Inexcusable Care lessness. Edward P. Croker in the World Work. Every day in the year there are close to 30 fires in Greater New York. At least fifteen of these are due to carelessness, caused by some body disregarding the fire peril in a way that should be reckoned as a crime, in 1910 the money loss to property from fire in New York Tvas $3,936,3330 There were nearly 10,000 fires. Of the most serious! of these the factory fires were in a majority. But the factory owner is not to be singled out and blamed for conspicuous carelessness: The great causes of fires may be put down in this order: Carelessness in factories.which in most cases means dirt and rubbish and oily waste. Carelessness! in the use of match es. Do you stop to watch where a lighted match falls after you have lighted your cigar? ' Bad electrical wiring. Careless housekeeping- Dark and dirty hallways, at night scratch matches to their way about, throw the in a corner into a pile of rub bish, and a few hours later there is a call for the firemen. Dark basements. Tenants go down after coal or wood with a candle or with matches. A startling number of bad fires occur this way. Oil stoves. Old-fashioned oil lamps. Cigar and cigarette stubs. . They are petty things taken one by one, but they are the principal reasons for the great number of fires occurring in the city like New York From the firemen's standpoint the worst sort of fires are what we call "oil fires," that is, fires where oii breaks-loose from a tank and spreads over floors. Fires in large factories, where there is a great bulk of material stored; fires in any building having a , great area; and packing house, dock and lumber yard fires follow in the or der named. The tenement fire is not a bad fire to fight, comparative ly speaking, nor is a blaze in a skyscraper, Of course if fire in a tall, building ever gained complet possesson of a lower floor- shut ting off access to the floors above, there could scarcely be a worse catastrophe imaginable. These ugly fires oil factory, pac' ing house or lumber yard are prac tically all caused by inexcusable carelessness. This is one of the facts that makes the experienced firemen feel strongly against our national habit of playing with fire. NOllTH CAROLINA IX THE YEAR 1781 and wretched country. In the course of. nine months General Greene recovered from the British , the threes Southern states, North and South Carolina and Georgia, and at the close of 1781, had all of the enemy's forces south of Virginia hemmed within the cities of Charleston and Savanah. THe AUTOMOBILE Autograph Letter of Gov. Nash De scribes Colonial Conditions An interesting letter from Abner Nash, governor of North Carolina, and member of the continental con gress, to General Nathaniel Greene, Granville county, May 24, 1781, brought $26 at auction in Philadel phia a few days ago. Nash, whose autograph is rare, gives in the let ter an account of the deplorable conditon of affairs in this state at that - trying epriod, when General Greene was trying to defeat the British forces under Lord Cornwal lis. Nash writes: '"All my endeavors to raise th milita,even to obstrust the march of Lord Cornwalllis through this Statt proved in vain. I was myself, in their front most of the way, but able to effect nothing. They have not passed over Roanoke into Vir ginia, where the joned enemy are greatly an overmatch for Marquis (LaFayette) . His forces is not only small but hel mentions in the letter of the 15th that he know(s nothing of the Pennsylvania troops- "The Virginia militia are for the present fresh and spirited, and I hope they will prove of great sup port to the Marquis. Our militia,es pecially of the lower parts.are good for nothing. I congratulate you sir. on your success against the enemy to the southward, their being com pelled by the judicious methods you took to abandon their strong posts in the heart of the country. '"The Marquis is very public spirited and disinterested. He wish es me to have much more at heart the reinforcinig of on than him self. Great numbers have taken pro tection on parole of Lord Cornwal lis on hs march through the coun try.and parties of robers.commanded ,by officers of his commissino are ranging through the country com mitting murders, robberies and eve ry species of enormity. Could you permit Gen. Summer to remain a while to assist in punishing t the guilty and in recovering Wilming ton, . it would be of the greatest con sequence to this poor, distressed Greensboro Record- . One often hears that the purchase of the automobile will yet break country While on the other hand, up bobs a man who says that the new vehicles save the people more than they cost and that they en hance the value of real estate by enabling business men to live in the country anld to reach their of fice quickly and pleasantly. He argues that they especially add to the value of suburban property.mak ing it possible for the man of mod erate means to have his home out side of the city. On this claim The Columbia State makes his comment "Let us exam ine this argument by supposing that a bookkeeper in Columbia, now pay ing a monthly rental of $30, buys a home ten miles in. the country and a motor car.For $2,500 he may purchase a two-acre lot, bore a well upon it and erect a cottage with convenience attached equal to those of his rented city home. The car, let us say, costs $1,000. In terest at 6 per cent, will be $210 a year. Twenty dollars will cover taxes in the country and insurance. 50 dollars will be. required for the upkeep of the premises. The; ann.ua deterioration of the car will amount to $250, and the maintenance of the car, including cost of gasoline will be about $20 a month, or $240 a year, the owner being his own chauffeur and a competent one at that. , These items aggregate $770 One the other side the city dwell er would pay $360 a year in rent, $8 for water, and about $60 for street car fare for himself and fam ily a total of $428. According to these figures, the city dweller would save $342 a year as compared with the suburbanite, but the city man would not own an automobile and would live in a rented house on a lot one-twentieth of the size of that of the countrymen. Umdoubtedly the expense of living would be less in the country, fuel would cost less, as would light and a number of other necessities. At the same time the countryman would be de prived of many of the conveniences that the city mam and his family enjoy. The comparison would pro bably work out about the same way, if the city man owned his $2,500 cottage. The homeowner, whether in town or in the country would probably profit by a steady advance in the value of his prop erty, but skillful cultivation of the two acres of country land might help substantially to reduce the cost of living." STUFF DREAMS ARE MADE OF Slightest and Most Natural Happen . ing Can Create Violent? Imagining In Mind of Sleepers Outlook. It was a personal experience of a singular character that first im pressed upon me, some years ago, the importance of dreams as a sub ject for serious investigation. Until then I had shared the opinion pre vailing, among laymen- and, it would seem among most scientists also that dreams are entirely fanc iful and meaningless. But my exper ience was such that I could no long er believe this. To state it briefly, it involved the recurrence of a most bizarre dream. At least 20 times during a period of six months I had the same dream namely, that a cat was clawing at my throat. The stag setting and the minor incidents might vary, but always the center episode was the same, and usually the fury of the dream cat's onset was so great that it would awaken me. Naturally Jhis recurrent dream puzzled me, so much so that I spoke about it. But ascribing it to indigeston, and classifying it with ordinary nightmares, I did not let it worry me at all. Then, one day the accident of a heavy cold that settled in my throat led to a medical examination which, much to my surprise, reveal ed the presence of a "growth requir ing immediate treatment by the sur geon's knife. Some time afterward it suddenly occurred to me that since the removal of the dangerous growth I had not once beeen troub led by the cat-clawing dream. ' Its significance now began to dawn on me. ' I had suffered no paini, not even inconvenience, from the growth in my throat. In fact, I had not con sciously been aware of itsj presence. But unquestionably the , organic changes accompanying it had given rise to sensations which slight, though they were, had made am im pression, on my sleeping conscious ness sufficient to excite it to activ iity.My recurrent dream consequently was to be regarded as a symbolic representation of the disorder iQ my throat an attempt to interpret it, to explain it. And indeed ev en in the dream, for all its fantas tic imagery and symbolism;the seat of the trouble was indicated plain ly enough, as I could appreciate af te r the surgeon had completed his labors. An experience was reported by Alfred Maury, one of the earliest scientific investigator of the phe- nomenia of sleep who dreamed tha he was living in Paris during the Terror, and had been put on the proscribed list. After many excit ing adventures he was captured, tried and sentenced to execution. He saw himself dragged through the streets amid a clamoring multitude and forced to mount the scaffold and bare his reck to the fatal blow. In that instant, as the guillotine knife descended, he awoke to find that a piece of the cornice of his bed, had fallen and struck him on the neck. Testifying even more- impressive ly to the twofold action of the dream process and to its rapidity is a dream experience of my own. In this dream I was walking alone at night along a country road. It was lined on both sides by - trees, which, as I learned from a man who presently joined me, were heavily laden with fruit. I picked some pears and ate them as we walked and talked. The road seem ed to overlook a broad valley,, in which, at perhaps half a mile's dis tance, I saw a solitary light My companion told me that it was his home, and invited me to pass the night with him. After a tiring walk in the dark across meadows we reached the house.a small two-room cabin. He retired into the inner room, I went to bed in the outer. I had not been long asleep when, in my dreams, I was awakened by the noise of somebody running, and the thought instantly flashed into my mind that my host was making off with my money. I leaped up shouting: "Stop! Stop!" Then I veritably awoke, and as I did so distinctly heard on the pave ment below my window the sound of hurried footfalls and a voice cry ing excitedly: "Stop! Stop! " " At once it was clear that these two words, penetrating to my sleeping consciousness, had provided the nec essary stimulus to set up a dream process which, in the fraction of a second, had interpreted them as best it could and had presented the result of its interpretation in the form of a curious little narrative of nocturnal adventure. More frequently, however, I be lieve it is safe to say, the dream excitant is connected directly with the state of the sleeper's physical organism- Mention has' already been made of the expert mental de monstration of the ease with which dreams may be presented by ' the use of artificial irritants. One sleep er, whose nose was lightly tickled with a feather, had a horrible dream of a mask of pitch being al ternately applied to and drawn vio lently from his face. Another, at whose feet a hot water bag was placed, dreamed that he was walk ing over hot lava. In a second ex periment of the same sort, the acei- Women! 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Similarly, the application of a slight degree of ! heat to the feet of a patient with paralyzed limbs was followed by a dream of being transformed into a bear and taught to dance by being placed , on red hot iron plates. To Wright's Sil ver Cream we are Selling 50c packages for 25c. Have you seen our $3.00 Cut Glass Bowl. xfori JfewdryC, PMnegj a IH(D)inme is made more enjoyable when the room is brilliantly lighted by the rays of the new Edison Mazda Lamp The best substitute for sunlight in home yet produced is obtained by the use of this latest improvement in electric lighting. The noteworthy feature of the new Edison Mazda is its durability and strength to withstand all ordi nary handling. Come in to-day and let us show you the mer its of this new lamp. OXFORD, N. C. Co Bo KAY 9 OXFORD, IV. C. Lumber and General Building Supplies, Paints, Oils, Builders Hardware. COAL AND WOOD. The Very Best Values in My Line The Goods are Right. The Prices are Right. 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