a
Established 1899
His Glorious
Fourth
By Nellie Cr*vey Gillmore
Copyrighted. 1907, by Mary McKeon. |
THE runabout gave vent to a suc
cession of despairing gasps,
whined faintly and slid to a
faltering standstill. .
Aldrich surveyed the darkening sky
with uneasy eyes, transferring thfem
tentatively to the unsuspecting pink
profile just above his left shoulder.
Dolly glanced up. interrogating his
sudtlon silence, and encountered a de
cidedly anxious glance in return.
"Well, what is it?" she asked, trying
hard to make her tone sound common
place.
'•I hate like the mischief to tell you.
Miss Templeton, but as near as I can
figure we are about nine miles from
human habitation and the gasoline
tank"— He paused dramatically.
"Oh. Jimmy!"
Dolly threw out her hands in a sec
ond of hysterical abandon. Then she
laughed in a lit
tle way that
seemed to cover
up a sob.
"I have often
walked twelve,"
she announced
presently in a
highly cheerful
voice. notwith
standing that the
color had desert
ed her cheeks.
"But it is al
most 7 o'clock,
and I'm afraid"—
"Oh. it will be
quite midnight
before we can
make it, I sup
"I'LJ TAG IT, THAT'S pose," she broke
ALL." in. with A shrug,
"but as it is our only alternative 1
really don't see the sense of sitting
here arguing."
Aldrich smiled and nodded. Fasten
ing the brake, he sprang to the ground,
and, going over to the other side,
helped Dolly to alight.
For an instant they stood in the
middle of the road facing each other.
"But what is to become of the ma
chine?" she a.- ked.
Aldrich divea into his pocket and
brought forth a notebook and pencil.
"I'll tag it, that's all," he laughed,
"trusting to the fates that it will not
fall into hands piratical." He scrib
bled a line across one of the blanks
and fastened it to the forward cushion.
Forty minutes of steady walking
brought them a mile nearer home.
With an unconcealed sigh of weariness
Dolly flung herself down on a prostrate
log. and Aldrich slipped into a seat be
side her. His face indexed a variety
of emotion. Hope, that had hitherto
buoyed him above every difficulty,
shriveled within him. She would nev
er forgive this.
"Dolly," he began appealingly, "heav
en knows I'd rather have lost my right
,hand than"—
She interrupted him with a little im
patient gesture.
"Jimmy, please spare me. It's bad
enough in all reason, but let us not add
tragedy to a situation which is already
melodramatic in the extreme."
Aldrich subsided under the snub, con
templating the toes of his boots in
gloomy silence. Some minutes passed.
The darkness yielded gradually to a
splendor of gold light flung down from
a cloudless sky by thousands of stars,
and everywhere through the misty yel
low innumerable dogwood blossoms
shone solemnly like white crosses.
Suddenly Dolly started up and walk
ed off down the road again, the other
following gloomily.
"Miss Templeton," he began after a
silence, "do you know why I asked
you to come out with me this after
noon ?"
She did not reply at once. The tone
more than the words caused the blood
to scorch her cheeks for an instant
"Why," she returned after a little,
"to celebrate our independence, of
course, just as every one else is doing."
She gave him an inscrutable little
giance from the tail of her eye.
"I wanted to ask you a question," h*
announced gravely.
"Please," she began, walking faster,
"couldn't we discuss"—
"Don't distress yourself," he inter
posed bitterly. "Three times is"—he
looked at her resentfully— "quite suffi
cient to show a fellow how many dif
ferent sorts of a fool he can make of
himself. It is solely in the interest of
friendship I wish to speak now."
Dolly frankly admitted to herself
that friendship was even less interest
ins than the other thing. She bit her
lips as she demanded petulantly, "Well,
what is your question?"
"The other day," he replied quickly,
"I heard that you were going to be
married; that you were going to marry
a poor man, after all. Also that you
had made the statement with your own
Hps. Is it true?" The last words were
uttered hoarsely, almost as a charge.
Dolly's white lids dickered as she
looked up into his eyes.
"It is quite true," she answered un
hesitatingly, the crimson playing all
over her face.
Aldrich stopped short and faced her,
compelling her glance to meet his in a.
iiuddenly masterful manner.
• 'LWhy?" he .demanded passionately^
THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
Dolly shrank away from him; his
vehemence half frightened her.
"Because," she said proudly, "I love
him."
Aldrich was silent for a moment, but
his silence was more tense than words.
He came close to her, so close that his
hot breath stirred the hair about her
temples.
"Once you refused me," he broke out
savagely, "twice—three times! And J
was a poor man."
Dolly flared up.
"Your inference is more than flatter
ing!" she remarked, her eyes snapping.
"Your love would have been my
strongest incentive toward success,"
he went on, ignoring her comment alto
gether. "I never intended that you
should share a life of poverty. I had
meant to work night and day, day and
night, to give you everything that other
women have."
She looked at him curiously, and a
warm light sprang to her eyes, but she
said nothing, and for several minutes
they walked on in silence.
"I did not refuse you because you
were poor," she observed presently,
"and even had I done so it would have
been more for your own sake than
mine, Jimmy. One's ideas, however,
become revolutionized sometimes." she
added in a lower tone.
Suddenly, less than a quarter of a
mile away, a thin streak of light shot
skyward, then another and another, till
the clouds were lurid with sparks and
opalescent shafts of fire. The indis
tinct music of a band mingled vaguely
with distant shouts of laughter, inter
spersed with fusillades of cannon
crackers.
Dolly grabbed Aldrich's arm and
pulled him to an abrupt standstill
"Jimmy, the picnic!"
Dolly almost collapsed with joy. Al
drich breathed a mixture of relief and
annoyance. "It looks that way," he
said. He studied her a second with
grave brows. "You tired of my com
pany even sooner tban I thought you
would," he muttered jealously.
Dolly made no reply, but stooped
carelessly and broke a spray of golden
rod nodding by the roadside and com
menced to strip off the blossoms with
a little preoccupied air.
Aldrich appeared to be pondering
something. His next words came pre
cipitately:
"I didn't tell you of my good luck,
did I?" he asked.
"No," she said. Something In his
manner caused her heart to sink unac
countably. ,
He turned to look into her eyes as
he pursued with what unconcern he
could muster:
"I'm going away. I've at last re
ceived that appointment, and it is now
only a question of time before I shall
begin to climb rapidly. Besides, it's
best all round, I think."
"Going away!" Dolly stopped stock
still. Her lips framed the words duUy,
the color fled from her cheeks, and the
whole world looked drab. "When?"
she continued after a pause, her face
turned away.
"The sooner the better. Right off
tomorrow perhaps."
"Jimmy!"
He started and looked at her with
eager eyes, the blood pulsing' swiftiy
nil through his veins.
"Don't go," she said, her voice chok
ing in a little swift sob.
He placed himself in front of her
and his hands on her shoulders.
"But you are going to be married,"
he insisted, "and it is no place for me.
I—l couldn't endure it."
"But it is the only place for you. I
want you to be there—at my wedding.
If you refuse,
I shall not get
married at all,
so there!"
Aldrich caught
her hands and
held tbem in a
determined grip.
The wild hope
that throbbed
suddenly in his
heart made him
for the moment
almost rough.
"You can't play
with me a mo
ment longer," he
breathed turbu
"TO THE CHURCH," lently. "Who is
SHE SAID SOKTLT. THIG ' MAN
"The man—l—love."
"Who Is he?" he repeated savagely.
"Don't! He is hurting my hands ter
ribly, and"—
"Well?"
"Perhaps he doesn't know yet that
I've accepted him. He has asked me
only three times, and the last time I re
fused him. I"
"Dolly, will you marry me?"
A flash of the old coquetry domi
nated her eyes for the second.
"But it is Independence day, Jimmy.
If you should ask me tomorrow may
be"—
"I shall never ask you again. This
Is your last chance. We are almost at
the picnic grounds. And now I happen
lo recall that there Is a little church
around the corner from here. Shall we
?o to the picnic and celebrate or to the
-•hurch ?"
Dolly turned suddenly and held out
koth hands.
"To the church," she said softly. *1
am tired of independence anyway."
Mrs. S. Joyce, Claremont, N. H.
writes: About a year ago I bought twi
L o'.tles of Foley's Kidney Remedy. It
cured me of a severe case of kidney
trouble of several years staning. It cer
tainlytis a grand, good medicine, anc.
I heartily recommend it." Soid by W.
S. Martin.
HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1908.
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If You Want to See All Your Friends,
Gome to Hickory July 4th.
Letter from Virginia.
Correspondent to the Democrat,
May the 29th your correspond
ent left Conoverto see something
of friends in the northern part of
Virginia, known as the valley of
the Shenandoah. The evening
before I had the pleasure of see
ing the Rev. A. L. Crouse of Char
lottesville, Va, who preached for
us at Conover on Ascension Day.
Passing north from Barber
Junction t J Roanoke, the country
is of no special interest. Near
the State line a number of crates
of spring cabbage were put on
our train. The smoke of battle
was all gone from Winston, as
were Kitchen and Craig. At
Roanoke we changed car 3, and
got some glimpses of the upper
valley of the Roanoke river.
Forty-one miles for eighty cents
and we stopped for the night at
a station called Natural Bridge.
A nice man, who is a railroad
contractor, stayed at the same
house, Mrs. Clarke's. He lives
in Baltimore, and stopped for the
Natural Bridge. A colony of ne
groes live on a body of hilly land
here, are sober and industrious,
bearing a good name. How much
better for all concerned is this
plan than crowding about the
towns and public works.
The Natural Bridge is two and
a half miles from the station.
This is one of the natural curi
osities of this region. It is a
bridge of limestone rock, where
a bridge is needed, crossed by
a country road. Cedar river takes
its rocky way eastward, and pass
ing through a hill in a deep defill
where the perpendicular rock
walls are 200 feet high, it is
spanned by the bridge. Every
one wants to see where young
George Washington climbed up
the wall, just under the bridge,
and carved his initials some twen
feet above the water. Of inter
est, too, is the American Eagle,
wings, head, tail, on the under
surface of the bridge'
Some miles farther north-west,
we pass the gap in the Blue Ridge
through which James river makes
its way toward Lynchburg and
Richmond. Still farther we pass
from the water-shed of the James
to that of the Shenandoah. We
are now in Augusta Cotinty,
where the noble John Lewis with
Hats off!
Along the street tkere come*
A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums.
A flash of color beneath the sky.
Hats off!
The flag is passing by!
Blue an£ crimson and white it shines
Over the steel tipped, ordered lines.
Hats off!
The colors before us fly,
But more thnji the flng is passing by
fights «Li\d lajvd fights. grim ind
great, v
Fought to make and to save the state;
Weary marches and sinking ships;
Cheers of victory on dying lips;
Days of plenty and years of peac*
March of a strong land's swift merest*;
Equal justice, right and law.
Stately honor and reverent iwi|
Sign of a nation great and strong
To ward her people from foreign wren J.
Pride and glory and honor all
Live in the colors to stand or fall.
Hats off!
Along the street there comes
A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,
And loyal hearts are beating high.
Hats off!
The flag is passing by!
YoulK'* Companion.
his equally noble wife and sons
made their home in early days.
So brave and so successful were
they in contesting for life and
propertv and home with Indians,
and later with King George's
troops, that General Washington
said that with a banner in Rock
Fish Gap and a few men from the
Valley like the Lewis's, liberty
would be sure.
Like our part of North Carolina
this part of Virginia was settled
by both Scotch Irish and Germans
Soon after arriving at Waynes
boro, I attended the funeral of
neighbor George Tried, a confed
erate veteran and very success
ful farmer, in his 74tn year.
Mr. Fried was a bugler in the
calvary, Company E. first regi
ment, Capt. Thos. W. McClung.
Gen. J. E. B. Stuart was their
first colonel, and later their gen
eral. Mr. Fried was a valued
soldier. Six of his surviving
comrades, of his company, served
as pall-bearers.
This is a land of limestone and
good water, of wheat and hay.
Sturdy industry nas always
dominated the people. The larg
est and finest hay crop in the his
tory of the valley was harvested
last year. Land is not easily
bought, and the average price is
about S7O tos7s per acre. There
is a fair prospect for fruit
and for crops this year.
Before leaving Catawba, I
learned that our county school
board have provided for a snm
mer school for teachers. I hope
all who expect to teach, in public
schools of the county will attend.
The success and the use of the
enterprise will depend in a large
measure on the interest in it
manifested by the teachers.
J.S. K.
BORN IN IOWA.
Our family were all born and raised
in lowa, and have used Chamberlain's
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
(made at Des. Monies) for years. We
konw how good it is from long exper
ience in the use of it. In fact, when in
El Paso, Texas the writer's life was
saved by the prompt use of this remedy
We are now engaged in the mercan
tile business at Narcoossee Fla., and
have introduced the remedy here. It
has proven very successful and is con
stantly growing in favor. —Ennis Bros.
This remedy is for sale by W. S. Mar
tin & Co.
Subscribe for the Democrat.
Consistent.
A gentleman from Mr. Moses
Harshaw's county tells The Dis
patch man that the Republicans
wanted him to run for congress,
but Mose said said nay; he once
stumped the district and hollered
" Cleveland panic," and charged
it all up to the Democratic party
when the hard times came; and
he wasn't going out to the people
and try to dodge this Republican
panic, for it was a Republican
panic, and Rocsevelt caused it.
Now if Mr. Cannon were nom
inated, said Mr. Harshaw. then
he could go out and make preach
ments with a good face.
Mr. Harshaw is, to say the
least, consistent about panics.—
Lexington Dispatch.
Nature has providid the Stomache with
certain natural fluids know as the di
gestive juices and it is through these
juices that the food we eat is acted up
on in such a way as to produce the
rieh red blood anar flows through the
the veins of our bodv and thereby
makes us strong, healthy and robust,
and it is the weakening of these dig
estive juices that destroys health. It is
our own fault if we distroy our own
health and yet it is so easy for any one
to put the stomache out of order.
When you need to take something take
it promptly but take something you
know is reliable —something like Ko
dol For Dyspepsia and Indigestion.
Kodol is pleasant to trke it is reliable
and is guaranteed to give relief, It is
sold by C. M. Shuford & W. S Martin.
Dischargee for Not Obeying
Orders.
On last Wednesday evening
C. T. Morrison sold to D. M.
Burke a half interest in 4'Won
derland" one of his moving pict.
ure theaters, after the trade was
consumated Mr. Morrison request
ed two employees, Messrs Hicks
and Gordon Setzer, to instruct
Mr. Burke as to operating the
mechanical department, in which
department these men were em
ployed, this, these young men.
refused to do. Upon this infor
mation Mr. Morriaon dismissed
them on the grounds of not obey
ing orders. In doing this Mr.
Morrison did his duty and noth
ing more.
Stomache troubles are very common in
the dummer time and you should not
onfy be very careful abouz what you eat
just now but more than thes you should
be careful not to sllow your stomache
to become disordered and when the
stom?che goesjwrong take Kodol. This
is the best known preparatioo that is
offered to the people to day for dyspep
sia or indegestion or any stomache trou
ble. Kodol digests all foods. It is sold
by W. S Martin & CM. Shuford.
Importance of Public Roads.
There is no problem today of
such importance as the public
roads. For popularity the poli
tician has advocated railroad
legislation, and he has worked
the people up to the point that
the reduction of freight rates bv
the transportation cnmpanies is
now foremost in the minds of
the farmers in general, when as
a matter of fact, the adoption of
no legislation will relieve, or ma
terially benefit the farmers in
general. The fact is ten times
the tonnage is hauled over the
railroads. Statistics show that
it costs £ cent per ton per mile
to haul by dirt road. The public
roads are the farmers own lines
of transportation and to them, in
their deplorable condition he pays
a revenue that is appalling, three
fourths of which could be elimin
ated if the road overseers and
others would do their full duty.-
—J.M. ALLRED. in Lenoir Topic.
FOR A SPRAINED ANKLE.
As usual treated a sprained ankle
will disable the injured person for a
month or more but by applying Cham
berlain's Liniment and observing the
directions with each bottle faithfully, a
cure may be effected in many cases in
less than or)e week's time. Thfs lini
ment is a most remarkable preparation
Try it for a sprain or bruise, or when
faid up with chronic or muscular rheu
matism, and you are certain to be de
lighted with the brompt relief which it
affords. For sale by W. S. Martin & Co.
Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905.
List of Marshals.
The following Marshals have
been chosen for the 4th of July
celebration in Hickory.
Hickary.—J. H. Aiken, Perce
Mouser, E. G. Suttlemyre, W. H.
Shuford, Roy Abernethy, Rus
sel Robinson, F. A. Abernethy,
Edgar Abernethy, A. L. Shuford
H. H. Little, C. T. Morrison, T.
L. Henkel, W. I. Caldwell, Dr.
Wolfe, M. H. Groves. J. M.
Ramsaj, J. A. Moretz, F. B. In
gold, Bruce Rockett, F. 0. Ell
iott, Terry Shell, A. T. Wood, N.
W. Clarke, Robt. Grimes, Dr. J.
H. Shuford, B. B. Blackwelder,
Raymond Hefner, Murphy Rock
ett, R. C. Hutton, J. W. Ballew,
Z. B. Buchanon.
Newton.—Ralph Corpening,
Frank Garvin, R. B. Knox, Geo.
Moose, D. J. Carpenter, Sum
Wilfong, W. A. Rhyne, D. M.
Boyd, Zeb Yount, Dr. Everhart,
Perry Rowe, J. H Yount.
Catawba.—A. H. Williams, T.
J. Long, C. G. Rufty.
Statesville.—D. J. Craig, P.
A. Bryant, H. L. McCall, Will
Bristol, Lake Steels, Grier Miller,
Frank Curlton.
Lenoir.—H. M. Kent, Edmond
Jones, Gaither Hall Jr, Tom
Newland, L. P Henkel, J. C.
Seagle.
Granite Falls. —J. R. Williams,
John Hoke, J, M. Aired, Dr.
Corpening.
L'.ncolnton, —T. J. Smith, Har
ry Reid, R. S. Rein'nardt, E. c.
Baker, Dr. Wright.
Morganton. —W. A. Leslie, A.
M. Kistler, S. R. Collett, Manley
McDowell.
Shelby.—Charlie Daygett,
Max Gardner, Evans Mcßrayer.
Hudson.—John Lingle, H. B.
Lingle, John Sigmon.
Bridge water. —Walker Lyerly,
G. S. Abernethy.
Henry River.—A. N. Adder
holdt.
Henry.—A. N. Sain.
Charlotte.—Geo. B. Hiss.
Taylorsville.—Ed Hedrick, Alf
Payne.
Hiddenite.—J. F. Moose.
Drexel.—Frank Huffman, H.
G. Alexander.
Oxford Ford. —C. E. Smith.
Valdese. —Fred Mytre, Peter
Tron.
Connelly Springs.—B. B. Aber
nethy, J. E. Coulter.
Old Fort.—P. H. Mashburn.
Claremont.—Geo. Setzer.
Conover.—James Bolch.
Rhodftiss. —W. S. Taylor.
Gastonia.—Tom Craig.
Mortimer.—S. T. Jackson.
Reidsville—J. C. Morrison.
Marion. —R. F. Burton, Earn
est House.
Greensboro.—R. J. Mebane,
A. A. Shuford Jr, Chief Mar
shal.
Tfred mothers worn out by the peevi
sh cross baby have found Cascasweet a
boon and and a blessing, cascasweet is
for babies and children and is especie
aily good for the ills so common in hot
weather. Look for the ingredients print
ed on the bottle. Contains no harmless
drugs Sold by C, M, Shuford & W, S.
Martin,
Big Celebration at Hickory.
The city of Hickory extends a
cordial invitation to the citizens
of Statesville and surrounding
country to come and join the peo
ple of Hickory in celebrating the
Foruth of July in grand style.
Ample preparations are being
made to entertain a crowd of 50,-
000.
Imported shows will be there
with startling features; high-div
ers will be presented to the
crowd with their marvelous
feats.
Great aggregations of novel
features will be presented to the
crowds throughtout the whole
day. Let everpbody go.—Eyen
ing Mascott.
Tying her bonnet under her chin,
She tied her raven ringlets in:
Then to the store she went with glee,
For IJollister's Rocky Mouatain Tea.
E, B, Menzies
About Federal Buildings.
Upon the enactment of a law
authorizing: the acquisition of a
site for a Federal building, the
Treasury Department invites,
through a local paper, proposals
for the sale or donation of a suit
able corner. This advertisement
gives such information as to the
dimensions of the site and the
general requirements as will en
able intelligent preparation of
proposals.
The offers are opened in Wash
ington at the time stated in the
advertisement, and as 30on there
after as practicable an agent of
the Department is sent to make
a personal examination of the
proposed locations and such
others as he deems desirable.
Upon this report, together with
representations in writing from
other sources, the Department
selects the site and, if the prop
erty is to be acquired by pur
chase, accepts the offer of the
successful bidder, subject to the
conditions stated in the adver
tisement and the Attorney-Gen
eral's approval of the title.
vVhenever the Department is
unable to purchase an acceptable
site at a reasonable price, or
where acceptable title can not
be secured by voluntary convey
ance, a selection is made and the
title acquired by condemnation
proceedings, in which the price
to be paid, is judicially determin
ed.
The buildings (if any) op the
site should be reserved by the
vendor, to be removed upon
notice after payment for the
land has been made. Generally,
notice to move is not given until
the construction of the Federal
building is about to begin, if the
vendor is willing, pending such
removal, to pay a reasonable
ground rent.
Plans for public buildings are
taken up in the order in which
the titles to the sites therefore
are vested in the United States,
and the contracts for their con
struction are let at as early a
date as practicable.
ACT QUICKLY.
Delay Has Been Dangerous in
Hickory.
Do the right thing at the right
time, • .
Act quickly in times of dan
ger.
Backache is kidney d anger.
Doan's Kidney Pills act quick
ly.
Cure all distressing, danger
ous kidney ills.
Plenty of evidence to prove
this.
G: W. Pennell, Fireman, living on
Cotton Mill Road, Lenoir, N. C., says:
"I suffered for some time from a sore
ness and dull aching across the small
of my back. The kidneys were very
much disordered from headaches and
felt a noticeable lack of energy. I de
cided to try Doan's Kidney Pills, pro
cured a box and began using them ac
cording to directions. The pains soon
disappeared, and it was not long be
fore my kidneys became strong and
gave me no trouble whatever. I feel
much better and my health has im
proved so wonderfully that I earnestly
recommend Doan's Kidney Pills as a
reliaqle kidney remedy.
For sale by all dealers. Price
50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, New York, sole agents
for the United States.
Remember the name —Doan's
—and take no other.
Election Returns to Be Can-
vassed on the 18th.
The exact vote in the late pro
hibition electiori will not be
known until after the 18th. The
State Board of Elections meets
on that day to canvass the returns
and declare the result. When
the board completes its work
Gov. Glenn will issue a proclama
tion declaring the result.
The majority for prohibition is
believed to be 43,442. The official
count will probably make but
slight changes in the figures.
OASTORIA. -»
B*n tha he Kind You Haw Always Bougft.
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