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OXFORD PUBLIC LEDGER, F DECEMBER 22, 1911. TrlfflE: We can stand for female aviator, but not for avlatress. mm This is the identical cold wave you rwere wishing for last July. ' i This is a beautiful world to live in, when one's liver is working all right. Some mistakes can be corrected, but eating toadstools is not one of them. AN $800,000,000 INDUSTRY. How fortunate for oyster lovers that the sucessive months have an R in them! Unfortunately weepy, maudlin weather cannot be put into a cell to sober up. A point of great interest is the mani fold values of the by-products of the cotton industry. The cotton fibre is chiefly used for the manufacture of -cIoth, while the by-products are used for many different purposes. Per Instance, the portion of the cotton Hbre that remains on the seed (the lint, as it is called) is taken off in the manufactures incident to the use of the seed and is used for a variety of purposes. It is sold at a much lower Tate than the other, and used for stuf fing pillows, horse-colars, and cush ions, and, stranger to say for adulter- j Ating shoddy. The idea of a shoddy leing adulterated is somewhat amus ing, but that is a fact. It is also used for making fine writing paper and for -the manufacture of guncotton and a jQrcrmber of other purposes. Then there mre the uses of the seed itself, the manufacture of the oil and the value of the hulls and cakes for feeding pur poses. So that we have here an in--histry which represents in its total vahie more than $800,000,000. Our idea of a versatile man is a poet who can eat a second plate of boiled cabbage. Women would do well to let avia tion alone until men have made a greater success of it. A paragrapher asks: "What is a perfect wife?" The only answer we can give is: "How old is Ann?" -HOW PAPER CAME TO BE MADE. Possibly one reason why aeroplanes are not being made safer is that acci dents help swell the gate receipts. Flying from New York to San Fran cisco is just as dangerous as flying from San Francisco to New York. An Illinois judge has decided that Reno divorces are not good in Illinois. Have your divorce papers made transferable. A New Jersey man became the fourth husband of his third wife the other day. Birds of a feather do flock together. Long years ago a Japanese walked through his pretty garden ; to his liome; his hands were clasped behind Ills back and he was thinking, as he -crossed the bridge to pluck a fresh -wistaria blossom that hung just over "his head. This little gentleman had a great many parcels to send out from his shop every week, and he had always wrapped them in silk; but this was expensive material and he aieeded something cheaper for his pur pose. All at once a wasp came flitting toward him, but he thrust it away ' fthst it might not nip his nose, and lo! Ihere at his hand was a wasp's nest! It was made of thin wood pulp, soft ened into a thin paste by the jaws of jibe insect, then formed and left to 4iry. "Why can't I do that same thing?" thought the Japanese mer chant. "Get certain wood, form it into m. pulp by means of . water from the "river and make something like this "wasp's nest in consistency to . wrap jibout my packages." And this was jfhe way paper was first discovered. ;j .i A RECORD LAW SUIT. I A suit in which a French woman, 'lime. Cotton, is the present plaintiff, :. is unique in the annals of long-drawn-out cases. This lady is the legal -heiress of a goldsmith who in 1658 lent the government of Venice 800,000 rowns, the present value of which, with interest, is estimated at about ?$4,00000. The heir of the original .lender was a Frenchman, Jean Thier ry, who died before the loan was re paid. There was a lawsuit over his succession, and Louis XIV. claimed the state, and annexed the French por tion of it. The suit was still dragging -on at the time of the directory, when 'Bonaparte forced Venice to repay the loan. Since then France has been the custodian of the Thierry estate. yThe government has been sued dozens icf times, but to no purpose. Now, lime. Cotton is suing the government iof Austria and Italy, as well as that of France, because each in turn has rnned Venice. Whenever there is a great disaster in this country you are sure to find heroes who gave r risked their lives for others. No, brother, the anti-pistol toting law in New York was not passed for the purpose of stopping the hold-ups in Wall street. A babys cry saved six people from being asphyxiated. Let us learn to be patient with crying babies. They may come in handy. Mr. Malcolm McDowell puts the hobo's cost of living at four cents a day. Eut he fails to tell how the hobo gets the four cents. 'W ORIGIN OF "PLAGIARIST." To appropriate, that is, steal, the tllterary work of another to use it as rone's own thought, the child of one's own brain, is plagiarism, as every Jxdy knows, yet few are acquainted jwith the derivation of the word or oaw that the plagiarist is literally a kild-stealer. Among a certain class jof criminals in Rome in the time of $fce earl'er Caesars, there existed the jdbunnable custom of stealing children omd selling them as slaves. According jto Roman law, the child stealers, when detected, received as a part of the penalty for their crime a severe flog Bing. As the Latin word plaga signi fies a stripe or lash, the ancient kld jaappers were termed "plagiari" that 3s, deserving of stripes. So both the jertme and the criminals received their jauuaes from the castigation Inflicted. The knights of old had one advan tage over their descendants. They could go through the deer season with out being punctured. When we stop to consider the num ber of isms that exist the great won der is that more people do not get into the violent wards. Platinum is now worth two and one-half times as much as gold, and gold is worth about its weight in po tatoes and other luxuries. Relation of Teeth to The Health, (continued from page 7.( Cleanliness of the . face and hnds nxe required of the children t in ; our schools, yet the filthiest 'part of; the human body, the mouth;; 'is unno ticed because the filth there is. hid den, The filth of the human' mouth is the most dangerous, yet we send our children to schools where they mingle with ether children, rinhale their breath exchange chewing gum, saliva. And there are many other clean their slates with bacteria lader ways for. dissemination of these di sease germs in our schools, yet no vent it, while thousands of dollars adequate measures are taken to pre are spent on ventilaiton. Health is more important tham wealth, and a knowledge of how to secure it and ward off disease is more important than arithmetic or latin or manual training. It is the duty of the public schools to teach the rising generation to be better able to meet wit'i conditions as they will find them. Neglecting any part of this work is neglecting an important du ty, and what is more important than health? How can the children be expected to learn these things when their parents are ignorant of them, unless they are taught in the schools? At present the schools pay almost no attention to this most important subject . In order to prove lo you the importance of this work, I . will nations made in various parts of give you the results of more exanai "the country. In Cleveland O., out of 2,672 school children examined 1-479 did not use a tooth brush, 2,145 had never had any dental work other than extraction. There were teeth containing cavities 1, 673. New York 500 between 14 16 years old were examined found 14 with sound teeth, 2,808 decayed teeh and 2,550 could have been sav el with proper denstry. In November 1909 I examined at th! Oxford Orphan Asylum 88 chil dren and found 356 decayed teeth. What is true of other school chil dren is true of our own. As it does no good to call atten tion to a wrong without suggesting a remedy, I suggest three things as especially important: 1. The insistence by the teachers on cleanliness with regards to the mouth. 2. Each teacher to be provided with subject matter along these lines suitable to her pupils, and be required to give talks to them therefrom- 3. Ultimately, at least compulsory examination of the teeth and the placing of them in a satisfactory coaditior. before admission to thf schools is granted. I bel:e"e that if you will look at this matter seriously you cannot hlep but see that it is of great im portance, and that it should be tak en up by the school boards on their cwn initiative. The dentist would of course be willing to suggest, ad vise, or assist in any way possible. R. F. D. News. This writer sends Christmas greet ings to 111:. editor, the manager and readers of The Public Ledger- v Many patrons have recently killed some very fine hogs. This writer R. Woody, to Mrs. J- H. and Miss P'.thel Breedlove and to Rev. W. S. returns thanks to Mr. and Mrs. J. Hester, for a nice chance of fresh meats, sausage and cracklinsiThahks to aunt Marry Currin for a bag of nice potatoes. R. F.D. men usually fare well about cornshucking and hogkillimg time. To the men and boys of the world, do not think you must get drunk and swear and do all manner of meanness because it is Christ mas and disgrace yourselves and your family, but be temperate in ail things, conduct yourselves aright and do not be guilty of things that will make your own people ashamed of you. This writer sentBeattie a messag' and a telegram before he died. The message was this, "The way of the . transgressor is hard," the tele gram was, "If guilty and not con fess it, Hell will be your home." - D. N. HUNT. Took Fatal Joy Ride. Savanah, Ga., As the result of a midngiht automobile accident on the grand prize automobile course several nights ago, Mrs. W. J. Don' nell of Norfolk, Va., died this after neon at a local hospital. Her leg was amputated in a vain effort to save her life. A man who accompa nied Mrs. Donnell on the trip was injured but not seriously. Teddy Says He Won.t That Theodore Rooseveelt will not be a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination next year if the message that will be delivered by Gifford Pinchot in an address at Mediana, Ohio, Friday night next- lyE. -jfl o We are not going to move nor are we selling goods at cost but we are selling goods as cheap as anybody so come on and buy will treat you right. We have several SPECIALS going at a BARGAIN so get OUR PRICES before buying. UPCHURCH BROS. Funeral Directors and Embalmers, m Oxford, N. C. J Sunday morning, Dec, 17, Mr. Wardy J. Mangum of Vance County, led to the hymenial alter.Miss Het- tie Longmire, one of Oxford's pop ular young ladies, Rev. J- A. Strad ley officiating. The undertakers having decided to call themselves "morticians" we pre sume that hod-carriers of the future will be known as "mortariaris." Brooks' comet is said to be com posed of illuminating gas and cyano gen, but the scare manufacturers can not frighten us after the Halley hoax. A New York woman has just re ceived $200,000 from the husband she ran away from to join a younger man. Which shows how grateful he was. A Greek couple in Connecticut wait ed 24 hours at a church for a priest to come from Boston to marry them, so evidently they had made up their minds. A Pittsburgh scientist says that Andrew Carnegie looks like the ear drum of a whale. That man need not waste his time performing any heroic action. - v A western man has asked the Phil adelphia police to find him a nice wife. Great goodness, does he think the police have anything to do with "nice" people? A NOVEL INN. No Intoxicating liquors have been "Taold here for seventeen years, and will not as long as the present owner alive," said Mr. James Blenkhorn, when applying at Richmond for the .transfer of the license of 'The Lay iton Arms," at Ea6t Layton. Appli cant said it was simply to keep the license on. They might apply for one -when Mrs. Maynard Proud, the owner, died. The license was granted. The property was so willed to Mrs. May nard Proud that the license of the ouse had to be kept. Being a great temperance advocate, she refused to have intoxicating liquors sold there, and for seventeen years she has paid 'for the magistrate's certificate. The UKrase Is now used as a temperance Newly manufactured lumber is said to be made of fifty-seven per cent ;waste paper. Who can tell? Some day your old love letters may appear as a board fence. Fishing Creek Flashes- Mr. J. Y. Longmire went to Ox ford Monday. Mrs. Mary Wright, of OxfOis visiting her sister, Mrs. A. P. Over ton this week. Mr L. T. Harris and family, have moved into their new home. ICsq.. A. P. Overton sold his last load of Tobacco Monday and he made an average of $20 per hundrcc That is pretty good for the land down this way Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Tunstall and children were the guests of Mr. and Mrs.T. J.Brummitt last Sunday. Rev. Mr. Powell will preach at thf Sears Academy next Sunday- We learn that Mr. C D. B. is going to get married. Prof. W. S. Howell has closed his school for the Christmas holidays. We are having right much sick ness in our community. Mrs. Robert Harris is suffering with a rising in her throat, and there are several children who have whooping cough. We have killed a few pigs down this way in the past week, so if you want anything in the fresh meat line, just call around. Mr. Ro bert Harris killed 4 that weighed 385, 325, 307 and 350, average 381 a piece. Mr. T. E.Bobbitt killed six that weighed 1,500. But Mr. Geor ge Hunt is the champion hog rais er as he killed two that tipped the beam at 466 and 477. Who can beat that? HAMMER. Tar River Notes. An eastern clergyman says that wedding fees should be refused be cause they are no more than a wait er's tips. Yes, they are, too. Eight or nine dollars more. A Stamford, Conn., woman who died recently had read the Bible through sixty times. We presume after the third of fourth time she ceased to skip to the last chapter to see how it was going to end. A Cleveland judge granted six di vorces in ten minutes each. At the normal rate of arithmetical progres sion, if he could do that well in Ohio, what a home-breaking record he could establish in Nevada! After he had made his first flight in an aeroplane Postmaster General Hitchcock said: "The time is certain ly coming when we must depend upon the aeroplane for carrying the mail." When that time comes will people who are hit by the pouches that are dropped from above be liable to get Into trouble for obstructing the malls? Mr. Ural Bragg, of Tally Ho, spen the best portion of last week with Mr. W. B. Bragg. Mr. Lee Overton, ofCorinth, came over last Friday evening to aid Mr. John Currin in, some work - a bout his house- We are having a wet time of it now and a freshet is feared in the river i The wood piles look quite pleas ant adorned off with plenty of winter wood. The Bunnies are seeing a hard time, as they are being hunted so much. We don't think there will be any left for Christmas time. If the weather don't change, old Santa will have to lay aside his sleigh and take up a new boat. Our good mail carriers are hav ing a bad time now, .we sympathize with them. Mr. D. N. H. you and Mr. Hub Crews keep on writing.we all like to read your letters. Some more big hogs that are making Tar River farmers happy Mr. W. B. Bragg killed three; one weighing 447, another 475, and an other 379. Mr. Bragg is a. farmer that farms to profit. The people of this community re gret to report that Mrs. A. A. Latta and family have moved from out of its borders. Mr. Sim Latta was a prosperous farmer, a high class tobacco grower. We wish Mr. Latta much success with his fu ture place. - j Miss Josephine Moss is visiting at the home of Mr. W. B- Bragg. i Mr. A. A. Latta, Jr., is making re pairs on the place that he has bought near here.. W. L P. l til mi Miiirn in tiiirm wiiim WE EXTEND TO ONE AND AH.IL. GREETINGS r. II, J! I.TJ WE CORDIALLY INVITE YOU TO VISIT OUR STORE AND LOOK AT OUR IMMENSE LINE. The largest, prettiest, nobbiest up to-date dis play of Christmas Buggies, Harness, and Robes, also big line Carriages just the best present to give to your self, your wife, your daughter, or your son- That promised Surry for your wife and the chil dren. Come across and brighten their hearts with the gift Xmas. The prices are right Then, too, we have the best wagons, and wagon harness. Farming Implements, of all kinds, Gro ceries, Gram, Hay, Etc. HORSES AND FMnULE We thank you heartily tor the liberal share of your patronage given us and earnestly solicit a continuance of same. Make our store your headquarters when fiff Oxford. WE HAVE SOLD MORE BUGGIES AND HARNESS SINCE WE BUSINESS THAN BEEN SOLD FOR SAME LENGTH OF TIME, IN 'S A REASON" BEST VALUE AT Yours Truly, mm wm
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