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s'i:'''; OXFORD. RUBUCimSEH FRIDAY. JUNE 17. 1&21 - 'l r I'M U 1 i 1 1 f (111 in if ! I;; f f if :S lily jiil ii ?' !".-: i jj ';'iij.ijt j '.'i ; r: ; -f mi run - --f ,1 i a i. ! v '. ' l i't'' tV. Ml': K 3 Ml i- C'i - :1 t'Ei,:i' llil Hi 'tji 'ii I Hi!. l rill if J ill ''iiiMI 1 I i' If' 1 i. I IS! Ideal Lighting. According to an Illuminating engi neer, what is wanted today in home Illumination is the sort of good light ing tha.t is found on the shady side of a tree on a sunny afternoon. Substi tute for the sun a new 100-watt lamp, for the sky the creamy ceiling of a living room and for the tree an opales cent disk or howl from the ceiling you now get a soft radiance which floods the entire room as though it were opened to the sky; from the diffusing disk 70u get a generous addition of light directly beneath having the quality of iltejd sunlight. You' have approxi mated the charming effect of mellow radiance that was apparent under the ree. Tree's Peculiar Growth, Trees that grow with a spiral twist, concealing a ropelike fiber under a straight bark, are not unknown, but are generally regarded as arboreal curiosities. A recent instance in which a pine tree of this curious formation, discovered through the agency of a lightning stroke, is reported by W. M. Kern, of New York city. The bolt, in its downward course, circled the trunk seven times, leaving a spiral channel in which a man's arm could be laid, and disclosing the fact that the grain of the wood followed the same helical lines, though the bark and limbs ap peared normal. Popular Mechanics Magazine. Ripe. First-Class Scout I found a little green snake this morning. Tenderfoot Better leave It alone. It might be as dangerous as a ripe one. Boys' Life. Hcwd He Get Themr Redd I see a man down on Long Island r::is a collection of 15,000 fleas. Greeny That seems queer. The average man can't catch one. Keep Well Do not allow the poisons of undigested food to accumulate in your bowels, where they are absorbed into your system. Indigestion, con stipation, headache, bad blood, and numerous other troubles are bound to follow.- Keep your system clean, ss thous ands of others do, by taking an occasional dose of the old, reliable, veg etable, family liver medi cine. Thedford'o '0 0 'n lack- Draught Mrs. W. F. Pickle, of Rising Fawn, Ga., writes: "We have used Thed ford's Black-Draught as a family medicine. My mother-in-law could not take calomel as it seemed too strong for her, so she used Black-Draught as a mild laxative and liver regulator . . We use it in the family and believe it is the best medicine for the liver made." Try it Insist on the genuine Thedford's. 25c a pack age. E-75 Me Jo. Our Prescription Department Is As Good As Any In The State- ;4 When you need medicine yu need pure medicine. Drugs, like li seed, can be bought for less money by taking those that test a lit- tie below standard. I You don't want that kind for your life may I he at stake. We don't sell that kind reputation are both at y Get your-medicine here and you JJo Druggist and -3 .! ymm i"iiw ittliljiili! BELONGED TO MEDICI FAMILY Well-Known Pawnbrokers' Sign Once the Heraldic Device of House Famous in History. During the Middle ages the Lom bards made a practice of lending, money at interest. The Medici fa mil;, was the first to turn the practice intr a profession. Many years before, Averardo de Me dici, a commander who served with distinction under Charlemagne the Great, killed the giant Mugello, whose club had three iron balls attached to it in-order that it might be a more effective weapon. For this reason th? family of the Medici adopted the three balls, gilded, as the heraldic device or. their coat-of-arms, and the appearance of this insignia soon came to be rec ognized as a symbol for money-lend ing. Incidentally, the name of the Mallei family has been further perpetuated through the word "medicine" a trib ute to the skill of the members of this house in the art of healing. Prodigies of the Past. Long before the war it was stated that a man was too old at forty. But now It looks likely that soon the cry will he "too old at fifteen!" A small boy of eight summers re cently tackled twenty or thirty of the best chess players in the world, set ting them all problems they could not tackle; another child appears on the scene, who, at the age of seven or eight, pens a diary, which the greatest literary lights describe as wonderful; while we'll soon have quite a small library of juvenile novels. It was regarded as a phenomenon when Chatterton wrote immortal pcems at twelve, when Mozart com posed in his fifth year a concerto so difficult that only the most practical artists could play it, when the Infant sen of Evelyn, the diarist, could read Latin and Greek at three and one-half, when Macaulay had written a poem a loner as 'The Lady of the Lake" at eight and wfcen Millais carried off a gold medal for painting at nine! Rv.t now it's becoming quite the usual thing. Rub-My-Tism is a powerful antiseptic. Cures infected cuts, old sores, tetters, etc. Not Due To Sex Alone Oxford Women Have Learned The Cause Of Many Mysterious Pains and Aches. Many women have come to know that sex isn't the reason for all back aches, dizzy headaches and urinary disorders. Men have these troubles, too, and often they come from kid ney weakness. To live simply, eat sparingly, take better care of one's self and to use Doan's Kidney Pills, is bound to help, bad kidneys get better. There is no other remedy so well-recommended by Oxford peo ple. Ask your neighbor. Read this case; Mrs. M. L. Wheeler, New College St., Oxford, says: "I was troubled a lot with my kidneys and back. My back was sore and lame and my kid neys were disordered. I was ' often dizzy and my condition was pretty bad. Doan's Kidney Pills were re commended to me so I got a supply at Lyon's Drug Store. They cer tainly made me feel a great deal better and I gladly endorse them for the benefit I received." 60 c, at all dealers. Foster-Mil-burn Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. for your life and our stake. can be sure that you get the (S. HALL I Seedmen mm INDUSTRIES TIED T0T0BACC0 Prohibition of Weed Would Mean Big Financial Loss to Allied Trades. WHO USES THE WATCH? The Smoker Mainly Also Responsible for Spending Hundreds of Millions Annually for Licorice, Sugar, CoU, Cigar Boxes, Tin Foil, Etc. By 'GARRET SMITH "Got a match?" How many times a day Is that ques tion asked in these United States? How many more times is the question unnecessary because most pockets are kept well supplied with the useful little article? Anyhow, inasmuch as it is estimated that there are 30,000,000 i tobacco users In the country, we would guess that the answer to that question ! would run into the hundreds of mil- ' lions. For if it weren't for the smokers in these days of electric lights how many matches would be used? A pretty small proportion of the number of these "sticks of blazes' produced in the country every year. Abolish to bacco and the match business would bft shot to pieces. But the match business is only one of a dozen or more allied industries which derive large revenues directly or indirectly from the tobacco trade and would stiff er heavily if national pro hibition of tobacco were to go Into effect as some of our reformers would have it. The annual sales of tobacco products, based on retail prices, is es timated at $1,937,000,000. Of the cost o producing and selling this quantity of cigars, cigarettes "and other forms of the weed, some hundreds of million dollars are paid out for other things than the raw tobacco and labor of making it up. $25,000,000 a Year for Boxes For example, the tobacco trade con sumes each year 45,000,000 pounds of licorice, 50,000,000 pounds of sugar, both used in flavoring tobacco, and 630,000 tons of coal. It is estimated that the value of wooden cigar boxes used Is $25,000,000 a year, quite an item to the lumber business and to manufacturers of the boxes In making these boxes 550,000 pounds of nails are employed. Other large items used in making and pre paring tobacco for sale are tin and lead foil, paer for bags and cigarette wrappers, cloth for tobacco 4ags, la bels, coupons, etc., involving the print ing trade extensively. Then building contractors and manu facturers of machinery are largely In terested. Investments In plants and machinery employed In manufactur ing tobacco are estimated at $102,000, 000. Replacement, up-keep and inter est on the investment make no small sum annually. And let realty men note there are approximately 325,000 tobacco farms in the country, with a total estimated valuation of $160,000,000. Of further in terest to real estate men is the fact that there are 700,000 retail establish ments selling tobacco, involving a total rental and up-keep Impossible to esti mate, besides the large amount of of fice space occupied by administrative branches of the general business. . The insurance men, too, have their share of the pickings. The tobacco business pays out annually $7,000,000 in premiums In the United States. And there are the railroads who reap revenue from 2,210,000 tons of tobacco products every year. As for the advertising business, here again it is impossible to form any estimate of the enormous annual outlay. The prohibition of tobacco would also knock a good-sized hole in the receipts of the United States government. The internal revenue1 receipts from tobacco for the fiscal year 1920 amount ed to $295,809,355.44. " Customs duties provided an additional $25,000,000 in round figures, making the total revenue return to the government $320,000,000. Influence on Popular Sentiment It is this interlocking of the tobacco business with so many other interests and the vast amount of financial loss that would be involved in the abolition of tobacco that is one of the most se rious aspects of the proposal to pro hibit the sale of tobacco, a proposal, however, which has little support by public sentiment ii the newspaper edi tors of the country are correct in their estimate of that sentiment. In a poll of the editors made recently by the Tobacco Merchants' Association of the United States, through the Press Service Company of New York City, 95 per centof the 7,847 editors who replied expressed the opinion that the people of their communities were op posed to any law against tobacco. As these editors represent some 80,000,000 readers the results form a pretty gen eral test of national opinion. In their remarks accompanying their replies manyof the editors expressed it as their opinion that the opposition of their communities to the abolition of tobacco was based to some extent at least on the damage such a change would do to the business interests of the community. This was particularly true in the tobacco growing states and centers where there were large tobacco SUBSCRIBE TO. PUBLIC LEDGER UNCLE SAM TO GET LARGE SUM OF BOXING MONEY Dempjsey and Carpenti&r Will Be Taxed About Half Million Dol lars. y (New York Special) Uncle Sam never drew on a box ing glove in his life, but he'll make more money than Jack Demsey, Georges Carpentier or Tex Rickard July 2. Figures which will doubtless bring sleepless nights to Demsey's manag er, Jack Kearns, and cause Francois Descamps, manager of Carpentier, more worry than a newspaper pho tographer, were quoted today by In ternal Revenue officials. Demsey 's income tax for $300, 000, approximately what he will re ceive for the battle, will amount to $161,270. Carpentier's toll, when exemptions for his wife and child are subtracted, will total a modest $93,334. How Score Beads. That makes the score on the di vision of the purse read: United States government, $234,- Relief obtained in stantly by taking J. G. HAJX, Druggist Goodrich 30x3 1 anti-skid safety tread f 1 tegaJ 1. One quality 2. Sxtra size 3. Specially designed 4. oAnti-skid 5. Fair price , Boxers, $245,396. ; Interesting news to Mr. Average American citizen, who, according to the revenue officials, pays a tax on lit proposes to cut th Nav?- an annual inmma : Hotnroari chaai tutJ Size rt 1, an annual income (between $5,000 and $6,000. The marked difference between the taxes of the boxers is due to the surtax on the difference between $300,000 and $200,000. Fattest Plum In History. Government profits on the bout also include that ten per cent amusement tax exactedby Federal authorities which will amount to annrorimatAlv lftftftftn on,- aI approximately $100,000. The State of New Jersey will exact a like sum. Promoter Tex Rickard, whose pro fits may be $100,000, will be taxed an amount which will bring the to tal government revenue from the encounter to considerably more than a half million dollars, the richest sporting plum in history. Seaboard Air Line Railw INFORMATION BULLETIN Reduced Rates Certificate Plan STATE B. Y. P.U. Charlotte, N. C. JUNE 14th-18th. ' N Best Service Shortest Route Lv. Raleigh 8:45 a, m. 4:10 p. m. Ar. Charlotte 3:35 p. m. 11:40 p. m. Raleigh-Portsmouth-Norfolk All Steel Sleeping Car Line Open Union Station. 9:00 to 1:00 a. m. Daily Arrive Norfolk 9:00 a. m. ' Raleigh-Washington All Sleeping Car line Open Union Sation 9:00 to 11 p. m. Daily Arrived Washington, 1 D. C, 8:45 a. m. Sunday Excursion rates to norfolk, va. $3.51 Round Trip From Henderson Effective Each Sunday June 5th to September 4th, 1921 Be sure and see that your ticket reads SEABOARD. For all in formation desired call on Ticket Agents or the Undersigned JOHN T. WEST Division Passenger Agent Phone 621 : : : : : : Raleigh, N. C. AattVS GestMdi'Bre Prices Smc& 3Q4 fa 303 safety 30 The name, of -Goodrich on a tire means one quality only. Like, all other Goodrich tires this 30x3i is one quality. This stand ard is a fixed principle, and that quality must be the best our resources, skill and experience can produce. THE a F. GOODRICH RUBBER COMPANY ' (Akron, Ohio Army and Navy. (Philadelphia Record ) The Senate is willing to J on the Armv. ht tw r.wuume Armv from 17ft nn a l&e . v,wv ig lay OQq but it has just added $100 nnn to th, naval bin. It eilLr a of the service might set a it to the Navy, aid' lot' 6 K?y.llas 80t t0 wait somebody to come and for but fte Nm 1 U abad l uu . . e . r?? can 0 in sparu dQ- tuc indvy can go in sp9rl au trouble if the Administrat on L ?f hould adopt ct time minK it shrewd to a spirited foreign policy t0 assembly, substituted. The 'kalnak" n, . The "kaw m be of black cloth or feltinT i made similar to the fez o2 broader. y tIatter and percent ay The last word in Quality The best word in Price SILVEKTOWN CORDS And-Skid Safety Tread TUBES $24.50 $155 $32.90 290 Hl.85 35 H3.10 3.70 $47.30 4S0 $48.40 $4j65 $49.65 .75 $58.90 5SS $61.90 50 Fabric Tires $2jOO Safety 324 $2690 13.45 Safay 3342830 1600 & 334 $3U5 Effective May i 11 .y at
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