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I For a ltmited time we will give absolutely free | - of charge to each new or renewing subscriber j year's subscription to Th South rn Agriculturist, - Nashville, Tenn. For forty years this paper has been the guide I of thouaands of Southern farmers. If you are „ not a subscriber to our paper, or if your sub | scription has expired, order NOW and get this valuahle present free. We reserve the right to withdraw this offer at any time, so HURRY UP. The Hickory Democrat 1 ValuableEarmstorS lei § 47 ACRE FARM § HJ Five miles south, very near to churches, on {C ej main public road, good orchard, assorted fruits, )C 31 5 room dwelling, good double barn, double crib, buggy house, grainery. Price $1150.00. |? 5 160 ACRE FARM g 31 Seventy acres of which is in woods, 12 acres of £ good creek bottom, 6 room dwelling house, >- |P Cj plenty out-buildings, another good 3 room dwel- 3 C ling house, all situated about four and a half J| miles east. Price $4000.00 »*| 2 84 ACRE FARM 5 cj Good dwelling and out-buildings, plenty of 5 KJ wood land, 12 miles north-east, on main public *5 g road, R. F. D. route Price $1300.00. [C Pj 42 Acre Farm near town, north side. IE 2! 21 Acre Farm on west side. _ JC fi 10Q Acres, 12 miles north-west. Price $550.00 5 550 Acres, Elegant home and farm, little way Si Jjj outside. Price $4800.00. 3 | John E. Haithcock. SSJiS? | ' ] 1 i If you want a job of printing done that PI fl 11 f! fIP I Wll ' give you entire satisfaction, just give 11 iUWIIg ! M&° rder V ° U i THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT - r± • I - | . .. - .>• HICKORY, N.C., THURSDAY. APRIL 30,1908. CURSE OF CHEAP LABOR North Carolina's Brilliant Young Editor one of the Speakers Before Southern Educational Conference at Memphis. Cheap untrained labor is the greatest curse of the South. This was the burden of an earn est address by Mr. Clarence H. Poe, oditor of The Raleigh Pro gressive Farmer, at Friday's session of tbe Southern Educa tional Conference at Memphis, Tenn. The greatest trouble with Southern thought, Mr. - Poe de clared is that hare not yet come to see the prosperity of the average man. "Every man whose earning power is above -normal is an as set to the community, a wealth maker for every man; but every man whoSe earning power is be low par is a burden on the com munity. His poverty makes every other, man poorer. Sup pose you are his fellow citizen. Then because of his inefficiency his proverty as a taxpayer and as a citizen, you will have poorer schools a shabbier church, bwer priced lands, your teacher, your Treacher, your doctor will be more poorly paid (or give waj to someone less efficient),your newspaper will haqe smaller cir culation, your town a' poorer market, your merchant smaller trade, your bank smaller deposit your manufacturer diminished patronage, and so forth. Inevitably and universally*the prosperity of every trade, art and industry in a community is measured by the prosperity of its average man, its common man. Mr. Poe declared that the South's greatest fallacy has been the belief that the farmer, the commcn laborer of every sort, needs no training; educate him and you spod.Jum; the poorer >ou the richer will be the upper classes. Hugging these vampire de lusions, he coriftinued, the South ern plantation ownsr has seen his land abandoned to broomsage and gullies, in spite of the fact that intelligent handling would" "have kept it productive a thou sand years. Preaching this fatal doctrine, the merchant has sold Western meat and scooters and tobacco, when with prosperous patrons he might have quadrup led his profits by selling sulky plows and harvesters and car riages and pianos, Still arguing education and trainingwould spoil the common laborer, our manu facturer has struggled with a small business, when a prosper ous average man would give us the great industries of the North and West. And so with men of every other vocation. Even men of talent—artist, sculptor, orator, poet—flee to other sections un shackled by these errors, or else dit with vision unfurled amonga people untrained to appreciate their genius—when but for these things you might see statutes of Southern leaders in every .city, the work of Southern artists in the world's great galleries the thought of the Southern poet the common heritage of man kind. It is not that we have had no mighty dreamers it is that they sleep in neglected graves, victims of war and waste and. error. Now war and waste, thank God, are behind us. Let us also put error behind us. Of all errors our greatest has been the doctrine that having cheap, ignoraut, untrained labor is a help instead of the curse that it is. And our second greatest error has been the belief that even if education does help the common man, we are too poor to furnish it. The truth is we are too poor not to furnish it. The fullest and freest-training of the average man is the one and only substantial guarantee of Southern prosperity. ' The Wets Are Active* The Apti-Satoon League of North Carolina may think that because they do not see any act ivity on the part of its oppon ents that there is very little op position. Such is not the case. To give an idea of the aggres siveness of those opposed to State prohibition it can be stated that their State headouarters, in a suit of offices in the people's National Bank building, in this city is at present probably the busiest plaee in the State. A force of clerks, stenographers, mailers etc., are. busy day and night, and great cart loads of mail sacks,. loaded down with campaign documents, are sent to the postoffice every day. So great is this end of the business that an additional clerk has been put on at the postoffice to handle this work. TJsen,"too lobbyists are cov ring territory through out the State, and it is safe to say that every hamlet in North Carolina will be visited by agents sent out by those in charge of the campaign. These headquarters are in touch with every sympa thizer of any influence in the State, and special articles are be ing run in a number of the State papers under the guise of nev s matter, when in reality they are paid advertisements. Then too, the aid of the National Liquor Dealers' Association has been in voked and its press agents have been furnished with names of thousands of voters throughout the State, with the result that a constant stream of whiskey literature is floating into North Carolina from Chicago, New York, Milwaukee and other cities A little pamphlet called "Farm Home/' which is sent out as a farmers' periodical, is going in to the-rural districts. It contains much good farm news, but also contains an of liquor articles. There is no doubt but that the closing weeks of the campaign will And the anti-prohibition peo ple redoubling their efforts and waging a campaign such as was never before known in the inter est of licensed saloons and dis tilleries. There will be no lack of funds to carry on the work, and for the next thirty days their headquarters here will know no rest, and it is under stood that branches are to be operated in Raleigh and possibly at other points m the State. — Salisbury Dispatch. "ONE TOUCH OF NATURE MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD KIN." When a rooster finds a big fist worm he calls all the hens in the farm yard to come and share it A similar trait of human nature is to he- observed when a man discovers something ex ceptionally good-he wants all his friends and neighbors to share the benefits of his discovery. This is the tough of mature that makes the whole wolrd kin. This explains why people who have been cured by Chamberlain's Caugh Remedy write letters to the manufactures for publication, that others similary ailing may also use it and obtain aellef. Behind every one of these letters is a warm hearted .with of the writer to Je of use to someone else. This remedy is for sale by W. S. Wart in and Co. Get Rid of Your Quarters 1 hose who believe that thirteen is an unlucky number should fight thy of silver quarters. A startling discovery has been made by a writer in the current Harper's Weekly which should give the typical United States quarter, it appears, has thirteen stars, thirteen letters in the scroll held in the eagle's-beak, thirteen marginal feathers on each wing, thirteen lines in the shield, thirteen horizontal bars, thirteen arrow-heads, and thir teen letters in its name." Who would keep a quarter? Stop itchsng instantly. Cures piles, eczema, salt rheum, tetter, itch, hives, herpes, scabies-Doap's Ointment. At any drug store. „ DELIGHTS OF SEABREEZE, FLA. A Place Where One May Rest From the Trials of Life Seabreeze, Fla. March, 31, 1908. Editor: „ Just 125 miles south of Jack sonville is Seabreeze, Fla., where my friend and I are recuperat ing from - a terrible spell of grippe. JTwelve hours ride brought us from sleet and ice in Salisbury to a land of palmettos, tropical fruits, birds and sun shine.' Seabreeze is a most de lightful resort on the peninsula which extends from St. Augu stine to the southern part of the state. . Seabreeze is bounded by the Atlantic on the east and the Hali fax river on the west, it is con nected with the mainland by a number of bridges. The Hali fax river is one of the numerous semi-salt lagoons, that separates the peninsula from the mainland. These rivers are nearly a mile wide, and they abound in the most delicious fish, crabs, shrimp oysters, etc. Numbers of ama teur fishermen are seen on the bridges every day, crabb ; ng, trolling for trout, or throwing their lines farther out for big ger fish. ' Schools of porpoises sometimes oome tumbling down the river but nobody cares for thenu Sharks and porpoises are often washed ashore on the ocean beach. These are killed and bvried asthe tide will not carry them out again. The sharks here are-harmless. Orange, grapefruit, pumquats, guovao and other tropical fruits thrive here. There ar«v many private groves in Seabreeze and so strict are the laws in regard to trespassing that no one dares to even pick up the fruit that falls under the trees. The birds too, are protected by law, mbeking hirds, jays, wrens, woodpeckers, cardivals and others too numerous to mention, are within a stones throw of us. Seabirds are plentiful and wild ducks dip and dive, or float un molested on the river. The beach is one of the most beautiful in the world. For thirty-five miles nerth and south of here it is as smooth as a floor. On the beach are held great in ternational automobile races. The hotels and boarding houses have been full all winter. The town is opening up new streets and boulevards and many hand some homes and hotels will be built here before the next sea son. The peninsula is formed bv numerous sand deposits from the ocean, so that it is twenty feet higher than the mainland and ten degrees warmer in winter. The gulf stream and the breezes from the ocean and river make it delightful in summer. The people from the interior of the state make this their summer home. ■ Gulf bathing is possible from January to January, but in Feb ruary the Crowds begin to go in. Some claim, that the bathing cures rheumatism and other ail ments, makes thin people fat, and fat people thin and some old people declare that it renews their youth every time they take a dip in the ocean. Be this as it may, the bathers seem to get a world of fun out of it. The crowds are coming up from Miami, Palm Beach, and other points lower down to es cape the heat. When these peo ple are gone, the people from the interior will fill their places so that Seabreeze is full of health jyd happiness seekers all the . year around. - - S.C.3. "'Dr. Thomas' Electric Oil is the , best .remedy for that often fatal disease ' —croup; Has deen used with a iccess in cm family for eight yeras." 1— Mrs* k Mhiteacre, Buffalo,. N. Y. Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905. The Soft Answer, Etc. It is hard for us to see why any sensible man, unbiased by selfish motive, can vote against the pro hibition bill; boT there are pre cisely that-kind of tnen all about . us, and we must not be bigots and refuse to them what we claim for ourselves—perfect freedom of conscience, we cannot see why everybody fails to see cer tain questions of public policy like we do, and we are tempted to say harsh things about them, but that will never de. It is harder still when some man gets red in the face and accuses us of the very things we are thinking of him, and we are greatly tempted to return him the compliment* of the season in the same tearms, but this is to weaken our cause and destroy our power over him. A soft answer turneth away wrath, but a hard and tort always turns it on. Here we are overwhelmed with issues of all sorts—moral, political and every other kind.- Happy the man who, in the midst of the wild clamor about him, holds his temper and his tongue; for the man who is conquered by himself need not go out with the hope of conquering others.—Charity and Children. Bryan and the Negro. The following is from a-speech delivered bv Mr. Brvan in New York some days ago: Under the laws d sfranchising the negro by demanding educa tional requirements in the South the negro has an opportunity to get within the law by coming i within the qualification. But I' want to say to the Republicans j in the North tl:at~under the laws which they have fastened upon the Filipinos,' not one of them can vote under any qualification. The negro in the South has the protection of living under the laws made for the black man and the white man alike, but the Filipinos are kept under laws made for them and not for us. The white man in the South has disfranchised the negro in self protection; and there is not a Republican in the North who would not have done the same circumstance. Those Republi cans in the North who dispute this or say that they are different from the South either are not frank with themselves or are as suming what is not true. The white men in the South will not allow a few men to use the solid black vote to further their own financial and political interests. And that is what was being done. I want to say right now that the white men in the South are giving the negroes better laws than the negroes would give to the white men if they were making the laws. Why, right in Washington they disfranchised every negro even if they had to disfranchise some white men to pfll &AKI POWDER Absolutely Pure Tho on/y baking made with Royal Grape -Cream of No k\m, No Lino Phosphate »■ i ' t do it. The white men of the r South are determined that the , negTo will and shall be disfran . chised everywhere it is necessary . to prevent the recurrence of the : horrors of carpet-bag rule. | The Limit. t A certain well-known minister s of the gospel here_has been re . ceiving whiskey price lists un r til it has become a nuisance. He [ gets letters telling him that our fine old private stock brand So i and So, for 89 cents a qt. is the ; stuff, "and they also tell him that ? if lie will send in so many names - f of drinking people, they will do things for him. He thinks some body sent in his, in a list to get the bonus. And he thought the limit had been reached, but Mon day morning he pulled oit a let ter from his box, opened it and found it a letter from Keeley, urging him to try the treatment, telling him what it had done for others. He knows this is the limit.—Lexington Dispatch. - RHEUMATISM. More than nine out of every ten crses of rheumatism are simply rheu matism of the muscles due to cold or damy weather or chronic rheumatism. In such caces no internal treatment is required. The free application of Chamberlain's Linimen* is all that is needed, and it is certain to give quick relief. Give it a trial and see for yourself how quickly it relieves the pain and soreness. Price, 25 cents; lauge size, SO cents. Sold by W. S. Martin and Co. Some one advises women to shampoo their hair with gasoliue. I vVe presume this illumating i suggestion is put forth in ordes to rde/e tha monotony of the ! celluloid comb peril. RECEIVES CONGRATULATIONS You will soon recieve the congra •tulations of your friends npon your improved appearance if you will take Foley's Kidney Remedy as it tones up the system and imparts new liver and 'vigor. Foley's Kidney Remedy cures bachache, uervous exhaustiou and all forms of kidney and bladder tsoubles. Commence taking it today. W. S. Martin & Co. / Harry Thaw begs to report that he thinks he has been crazy quite long euough now; besides, he wants to get out of that lunatic ay slum before the base-ball season is too far advanced. Even In Wyoming. —A small dog belonging to A. E. Case, of Eayton, Wyoming was draggedinto Tonku river by a trout and drowned-- The dog accompained Case's little son on a fishing trip. The boy hooiced a fish large enough to jerk the fishing rod into the water. The boy sent the dog after it but the trout hauled the dog and pole about until the dog was carried down the rapids and drowned in sight of his master. The boy recovered the pole and, after a hard struggle, landed the trout, which Weighed four pounds.
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