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THE PUBLIC LEDGER No. 5 Littlejohn Street. PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY DAN. A. COBLE Editor and Manager. C. E. COBLE Adv. Manager. SUBSCRIPTION S One Year .$1.5© Six Months. 1,00 Three Months. Entered at the Post Office at j.vford, North Carolina as second mss matter. Correspqndence on all matters t interest—news items, notes or suggestion^ for better methods of am or industrial developments, nprovemqnt of roads, schools, etc., is earnestly solicited. Foreign Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSO. k —■ THE LAWYER AND THE MAN The only criticism that has been pnade of Hon. John W. Davis in con nection with the presidential nomina tion is that he is attorney for big in terests. Several months ago, when his chances of the nomination were considered slight, a friend of Mr. Da vis, Mr. Thea. A. Huntley of Wash ington, D. C., wrote the West Vir ginian suggesting that he trim his pails for the nomination by with drawing from the service of the clients who were a handicap of his candidacy. Replying to Mr. Hunt ley, Mr. Davis said in part: “At no time! have I confirmed my services to a single client, anil in counse quence 1 have been called upon to serve a great many different kinds of j men; some of them good, some of them indifferently good, and others over whose character we will drop the veil of charity. Indeed, some of my clients—thanks perhaps to their failure to secure a better lawy er—have become the involuntary guests for fixed terms of the nation and the State. Since the law, how ever, is a profession and not a trade, J conceive it to the duty of the lawy er, just as it is the duty of a priest or a surgeon, to serve those who call on him unless, indeed, there is some insuperable obstacle in the way. No one in all this list of clients has ever controlled, or even fancied that he could control, my personal or my poiltical conscience. I am _vain enough to imagine that no one ever will. The only limitation upon, a right-thinking lawyer’s independence is the duty which he owes to his clients, once selected, to serve upon them without the slightest thought of the effect such a service may have upon his own personal popular ity o rhis political fortunes. Any law yer who surrenders this independence or shares this duty by trimming his professional course to fit the gusts of popular opinion, in my judgment, pot only dishonors himself but dis- ; parages and degrades the great pro-j Jession to which he should be proud j to belong. You must not think me j either indifferent or unappeciative if J tell you in candor that I would not pay this price for any honor in the j gift of man.” j — CRAFTSMANSHIP > There is dead in Grand Rapids, | Jdich., a man whose boast it was that Jie made everything he used save | food. He made all his own clothes, j pis shoes, his hats and even his false j feeth. What money he needed he! earned by painting signs. And he; made the coffin in which he is to be 1 buried. j The man, Frank Way, known as j “Home-Made” Way, may very pro perly be classed as a crank, but there was something of worth in his crank ipess. He was a - living protest against the uniformity a nd efficiency of mass production, which has made modern progress possbile and which has served to rob millions of men of craftmanship. We pay a penalty for every step we take. Once on a time an artisan was master of his trade and the world was full of artisans. Nowa days, so far as the manual work of the world is concerned, to find one craftsman in a hupdred workers is to play in luck. j : Way, of course, was merely satis fying a pride he had in himself; and even so, society showed him his limitations. He did not raise and phear the sheep nor weave the wool into the cloth which gave him his Clothes. He would hae been helpless without the mass output which pro vided him with needles and thread &nd buttons. And ithis is to present only an angle of his self-sufficiency. But he did demonstrate the fact, in danger of being forgotten, that there is joy in individual labor, the joy of the artist in the thing created. We shall never again get away from machine-made articles. Our complex civilization demands them. And only here and there in the mass Is there a man with individuality #®dUgh to make the thing he likes the way he likes it in addition to the work of the cog he is in the industrial jnachine. $ WOMEN AND WAR It must be discouraging to the pa cifists who have been appealing to the women to end war, to be remind ed that war will not be ended in an> such way. There is an instinct stronger than reason which fights against it. As long as it seems to be necessary to have soldiers the wo men as a whole will hold in con tempt the man who refuses to fight. This not because they like war, but because they hold in contept a phy sical coward and a wealking. If a man cannot stand whatever may be the contemporary test of manliness, the women will have nothing to do with hipi. This is not an instinct of civilized woman alone. The British who have fought the natives in Africa have found that the men will take despe rate chances rather than retreat, and these men have explained to their captors that if they had not fought they would not dare go back to their women. Neither the civilized nor the uncivilized woman wants to be come the mother of children by any j sort of weakling. | War will be ended not by fighting | the injustice that leads to war. War j is a product, and its seeds must be devitalized before it will disappear. THE ROBINS A Norfolk firm ordred white oak planking from a lumber company in Tioga, W. Va. The Tioga firm: wrote that it could deliver the plank- j ing in a few weeks but not earlier, j The fact was, it was explained, a rob- ) in was raising a family on the wood j pile and all concerned wished to give the birds a chance. The Norfolk1 firm consented to the delay. Even1 if the story were not true it would be interesting. j One can imagine cases where such giving way to sentiment would be maudlin and downright wickedness. If, for instance, Norfolk had needed the lumber for homes. i But at bottom the sentiment is sound and, like all sentiment, has its roots in practicality. Without birds, insects would rule the world and man would die. And so, far more often than most of us suspect, sentiment steps in and, ignoring practical de tails, works according to the larger! wisdom. A GOOD FARM FOR RENT APPLY to Jno. W. Brummitt, Oxford Route 2, or D. G. Brummitt, Ox ford. FLUES & ROOFING IS MY specialty for July. SAMUEL DA VIS the man who pays the freight, i ARMLESS VISITOR AT LURAY IS A WONDER _ i (Baltimore Sun) B. F. Coffman, treasurer of Macon | county, 111., a descendant of the | numerous family of that name of j Page county, who for a month has been visiting relatives in the Valley of Virginia, is a ‘prodigy,” according to the modern meaning of the world. A number of years ago Mr. Coff man lost both arms below the elbows in an accident. Not dispirited by his misfortune, h ebegan life over again, soon becoming a candidate for clerk of Macon county. Putting the stubs of his arms to work, he was soon able to use a pen and in a little while un dertook the mastery of the type writer, succeeding with them both until today he is one of the best pen men in the middle west and has few superiors with the typewriter. This work is done by a clever contrivance that has been attached to the stubs of his arms. Then he undertook the management of the steering wheel ol his car- and has no trouble in clip ping off fifty miles an hour on the Illinois highways. He was recently elected treasurer of Macon county. GOOD TEAM WORK (Batimore Sun) A missionary in Cina sends to an English paper the following Instance of the well-known co-operative work of ants: While eating our midday meal we noticed an ant struggling with a piece of bread about eight times it’s own size. Finding itself unable to carry the bread, the ant went away, and we followed it across the floor, out at the door, and acros the veran da. till it reached a hole, which is en tered. ' Almost immediately it came out, ’ followed by a whole regiment of ants. ! These were led by the ant straight to the piece of bread. Aftr much man oeuvering three of them managed to move it on, and then went over hill and dale—otherwise, knots or iden tations in the floor boards—till they j arrived with it at the door of their home. The rest of the ants followed, sev- j eral carrying smaller pieces of bread, j The whole performance lasted about three quarters of an hour, and the perserverance shown was amazing. —Nothing is expensive if it is worth the price to you. - . — DAVIS HE PAYS THE FREIGHT.; .---■ l WATKWTS POOL NOW OPEN FOR COLORED PEOPLE The Watkin’s Swimming Pool, lo cated on National Highway north of Oxford is now open for the col ored people. Open From 9 A. M. To 10 P. M. “COME ON AND DIVE IN” Big Bargains For Cash Only Tobacco flues at $6.99 per cwt. by the sets, Cotton hoes at 59c, Potato hooks 5-prong at 75c each, Fruit baskets at 49c each, Tobacco twine at 59c per lb.. Big clothes baskets at $2.99 each, Extra large retinned dish pans at 99c, Auto pliers at 35c pair, Harness punches at $1.39 pair, Bread knives at 29c each, Tool Grinders at $3.99, Veneer scrapers at $4.99 each, Grass hooks at 50c each, Smooth planes at 99c each, Block planes at 69c each, Best spark plugs at 49c each, Handled axes at $1.49 each, Stag handle knives and forks at $3.00 set, Tobacco knives at 25c, Refrigerators at and below cost, Reach Balls Gloves and Mitts, Louisville Slugger Bats, Iver Johnson Bicycles, Glass and tin cans, Extra tops, jar rubbers, etc., Frost King and Snow Ball Ice Cream Freezers, Dressed lumber, Lime, Cement and Roofing, Watkins Hardware Co., Inc. HENDERSON, N. C. Paints, Doors, Windows and General Hardware. Serious Enough, However. I Applicants for positions on the po ' lice force of a certain Middle Western I town are of course required to under | go a careful physical examination, j During the examination of one can I didate the physician asked; “What ! did your grandfather die of?” The applicant looked nonplused for a moment and finally admitted’that he did not remember. But in order that his own record be not too seri ously compromised he hastened to add, ‘Anyway, I know that' it was nothing serious.” STRICTLY FANCY SELECTED “Rosebloom Brand” Peaches Crate, six baskets, $3.Q0 F. O. B. Shipment day order received to any address. Send remittance with order. Add express if de sired prepaid. ROSEBLOOM OR CHARD CO., Aberdeen, N. C. (July 18-3tc-ltw) FLUES & ROOFING IS MY | specialty for July. SAMUEL DA VIS the man who pays the freight. Change of Life “When change of life began on me,” says Mrs. Lewis Lisher, of Lamar, Mo., “I suffered so with womanly weakness. I suffered a great deal of pain in my back and sides. My limbs would cramp. I didn’t feel like doing my work, and there are so many steps for a woman to take on a farm. I was very anxious to get better. A friend rec ommended CARDIII The Woman’s Tonic to me and I began using it. I certainly improved. I went through change of life with out any trouble. I can highly recommend Cardui.” At the age of about 40 to 60 every woman has to pass through a critical time, which is called the Change of Life. At this time, great changes take place in her system, causing various painful and disagreeable symptoms. If you are approaching this period, or are already suffer ing from any of its troubles or symptoms, take Cardui. It should help you, as it has helped others. Sold by all druggists. a E-98 Tobacco Flues That Fit INSPECT OUR FLUES AND GET OUR PRICES BEFORE YOU BUY! Bring Us Your Repair Work, Repairs Made Promptly. Oxford Hardware Co. ...iiHiuummiiumiiiiuiiHlI OPPORTUNITY We desire to employ two progres sive salesmen, residents of Gran ville County, to sell Ford Cars, Trucks and Tractors in Granville County. Please apply in person At Once 1 ■1 Alexander Motor Co. Authorized Ford Dealers. Durham, N. C. % Service That is to be the keynote of Your New Drug Store ___ ' ' Ojir Delivery is Always at * Your Service—Telephone Us and We Will Do the Rest* *• * • We want you to feel at home here, just as | though it were your own. Meet your friends here. Leave your bundles with us. We sell postage stamps here as cheerfully | as Drug Store Merchandise, and you j know we are open when the Post Office is closed. Wells Drug Co. - INC. f' “Service That Satisfies” Phone 50
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