fHE HICKORY DEMOCRAT.
Published Tuesdays and Fridays
E. V. MORTON, - Editor and Proprietor
W M. REESE, - City Editor
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second class matter.
Tuesday, August 3, 1915
Rev. D. M. Litaker, formerly
pastor of the First Methodist
Church here now past jr of Main
Street church in Thomasville, has
purchased a tent and began work
in it a week ago. He invites peo
ple to attend in their working
clothes and to takeoff their coats.
The Concord Times says it is an
instance where good common
sense and reason are shown and
regrets that general arrangement
cannot be made by churches of
all denominations everywhere to
hold outdoor services throueh the
summer months.
The public will hear with pleas
ure and relief that the Southern
Railway will eliminate all grade
crossings wherever possible in its
construction work involving the
relocation or double-tracking of
its lines. This measurj is taken
as a "permanent investment for
safety," regardless of the fact
that this means great additional
expense to the Southern Railway.
In connection with the double
track work which is now under
construction in Virginia and
North Carolina, out of 102 miles,
which has been completed 54 out
of 73 grade crossings have been
eliminated. It is almost impossi
ble to eliminate the 19 which re
main.
Farmers' Institutes will be
held at Dr. Foard's store August
4 and at St. James' August 9.
The committee has been fortu
nate to secure Mr. A. L. French,
the noted stock man of North
Carolina, and Mrs. W. N. Hutt,
one of the valued contributors of
The Progressive Farmer, as
speakers on these occasions. It
is hoped that all farmers will at
tend, and take their families
along with them. These address
es will be very helpful, and much
information can be gained, be
sides it is a good place to meet
all your friends, and have a gen
uine good time.
"The Water's Fine"
"Come on in, the water's fine" is
literally true in every sense of these
days. Nothing so reliaves the situation
in hot weather as a nice or cool bath or
swim. It is the order of the day from
the long suffering baby bundled up in
too many clothes to the "stout" over
nourised, under exercised women with
the fan and rocking chair, from the hot
tired workman to the sunbrned school
boy who frequents the "old swimming
hole,"
And why should'nt the boy live on
intimate terms with the swimming hole.
Shame on those nervous, neuresthenic
trouble hunting parents who are con
stantly admonishing their boys "not to
go near the water.'' It is silly to say
the least. Now actually who ever
heard of any boy's being injured by
going swimming, whenever they want
to and for about as long as they want
to? It is one of the finest and best ex
ercises known. No smatl boy is ever
willing to take a bath but show us one
that won't go swimming when he gets
a chance.
Furthermore, to know how to swim
is an important part of any education
these days. Yale requires that every
graduate be able to swim 300 yards be
ore receiving his diploma. If every
boy told the truth and obeyed his moth
er, how many men would know how to
swim.
The most important precautions about
swimming are to learn how to swim by
the assistance or in the presence of
some other good swimmer, to avoid
swimming in filthy water, containing
sewage pollution. (A little clean mud
won't hurt but filthy water is liable to
be swallowed.) to use horse sense a
bout going in over one's deDth or out
too far and About staying in the water
too long, also about plunging into cold
water over heated, especially with a
weak heart. Finally don't go in for a
bout two hours after meals.
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take Grove's
Old Standard Grove's Tasteless
chin Tonic is equaUy valuable as a
Oeneral Tonic because it contains the
asSK •*assffisssssa
out Makna, Enriches the Blood and
guilds up the Whole System. 50 cents.
My Sort of Man.
I don't believe in 'ristercrats
An' never did, you see;
The plain ol" homelike sorter folks
Is good enough fur me.
0' course I don't desire a man
To be too tarnal rough,
Bui then, I think all folks should
know
When their nice enough.
Now there is folks in this here
world.
From peasant up to king,
Who want to be so aufully nice
■ They overdo the thing.
That's jest the thing that makes me
sick,
An' quicken' a wink
I set it down that them same folks
Ain't half so good's you think.
I like to see a man dress nice,
In clothes becoming, too;
I like to see a woman fix
As woman orter do;
An' boys and gals I like to see
Look fresh an' young an' spry
We all must have our vanity
An' pride before we die.
But I jedge no man by his clothes, —
| Nor gentleman nor tramo;
The man who has the finest suit
May be the biggest scamp.
An' he whose limbs are clad in rags
That make a mournful sight,
In life's great battle may have
Proved
A hero in the fight.
I doa't believe in "ristercrats;
I like the honest tan
That lies upon the healthful cheek
An' speaks the honest man,
I like to grasp the brawny hand
That labor's lips have kissed,
For he who has not labored here
Life's greatest pride has missed:
The pride to feel that yore own
Strength
Has cleaved fur you the way
To heights to which you were not
born,
But struggle day by day.
What though the thousands sneer an'
scoff,
An' scorn your humb'e birth?
Kings are only puppets, you are
king
By rights o' royal worth.
The man who simply sits an' '.* aits
Fur good to come along,
Ain't worth the breath that one
would take
To tell him he was wrong.
Fur good ain't follerin' round this
world
Fur every fool to sup;
You've got to put on,
An' go an' hunt it up.
Good goes with honesty, I say,
To honor ?n' to bless;
To rich and poor alike it brings
A wealth o* happiness.
The 'ristercrats ain't got it all,
Fur much to their su'prise,
That's one of earth's most blessed
Things
They can't monopolize.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Catarrh Cannot be Cured
with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as
they cannot reach the seat of the dis
ease. Catarrh is a blood or constitu
tional disease, and in order to cure it
you must take internal remedies
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internal
ly, and acts directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh
Cure is not a quack medicine. It was
prescribed by one of the best physi
cians in this country for years and is a
regular prescription. It is composed
of the best tonics known, combined
with the best blood puritiers, acting
directly on the mucous surfaces. The
perfect combination of the two ingred
ients is wl at produces such wonderful
results in curing catarrh. Send for
testimonials, free.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo,O.
Sold by all druggists, price 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for consti
pation. —adv't
A Good Household Salve
Ordinary ailments and injuries are
not of themselves serious, but infect
ion or low vitality may make them
dangerous. Don't neglect a cut, sore,
bruise or hurt because its small. Blood
Poison has resulted from a pin-prick or
scratch. For ali such ailments Buck
len's Arnica Salve is excellent. It pro
tects and heals and prevents danger
ous complications. Good for all Skin
Blemishes, Pimples, Salt Rheum, Ec
zema. Get an original 2-ounce 25c.
box from your Druggist.
An Eas, Pleasant Laxative
One or two Dr. Kings New Life Pills
with a tumbler of water at night. No
bad, nauseating taste; no belching gas.
Go to right to bed. Wake up in the
morning, enjoy a free, easy bowel
movement, and feel fine all day. Dr.
Kings New Life Pills are sold by all
dauggists. 36 in the original package,
for 25c, Get a bottle to-day enjoy
this easy, pleasant laxative.
For dyspepsia, our national ailment,
use Burdock Blood Bitters. Recommen
ded for strengthening digestion, puri
fying the blood. At all drug stores.
SI.OO a bottle.
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Efficiency Expert
San Diego, Aug. 2.—The San
Diego Exposition has an effi
ciency expert. He's one of those
exacting and highly technical in
dividuals who can tell you the
life of a lead pencil and declares
if a stenographer could take dic
tation with one hand and tran
scribe-it with the other at the
same time the clerical est could
be reduced so much "pen capita
per second."
Now this fellow i? off on
another tack and he has just con
cluded one of his "scientific" in
vestigations. Ke has figured
out what the Exposition loses
every time a parade passes
through the grounds. This ef
ficiency expert has just informed
Exposition directors that the big
Elks parade the other day cost
$7.930n one point alone. Heal
so figured out that the parade of
the American Beauty tills cost
$9.47.
"You see," says the efficiency
man, "every tune a parade pass
es the Administration building
on the grounds the stenographers
leave their work to see it. They
were all out for the Elks. Ste
nographers get so much per day.
Their wages are so mu c h per
hour. The Eiks parade was so
many minutes in passing. A
dczen stenographers watched it
and the total cost—its easy fig
ure—was just $7.93. As for the
men. Why they watched the
American Beauty parade and
U3ei up just $9.47 of the Exposi
tion's time in doing so. This
must stop."
So thoroughly has this expert
searched into the realms of ef
ficiency that he now proposes
that the gardeners hold a hose in
each hand and that the pigeons
in the Piaza de Panama be train
ed to pick up waste paper so that
the street cleaning force enn be
reduced. The efficiency man is
popular with the financiers of the
Exposition but should he run for
office the votes he would
from employes would be conspic
uous for their absence.
Unpreparedness.
In spite of regnant militarism, ex
tending over mors than a generation,
only one country in Europe was pre
pared for war. With'the exception of
Germany, nobody understood what war
fare would be like or what means v-ore
necessary to prosecute it. After elabo
rate preparations for many years,
nine months of actual fighting —with
such impressive object lessons last fail
as the easy capture of Antwerp and Na
mur—Russia was turned out of her Gal
ician trenches almost asthough big field
guns were as novel to her as Spanish
firearms were to Montezuma. It was
only in May that England effectually
woke to the fact that munitions were
the vital point and began vigorously to
reorganize herself on that basis.
The enormous consumption of shhr
apnel, powder, and like commodities,
was foreseen by nobody outside of Ger
many. We were told the United States
might get much foreign trade outside
the reigon because the belligerent na
tions would be unable to supply their
foreign customers with peaceful goods,
that has not happened. We were net
told that we should be selling hundreds
of millions of do'-hrs, worth of war ma
terial sto the Allies—which has hap
pened
Cjpper men were in the dumps be
cause war curtailed expoits—not dream
ing that prospective demand, based om
war's colosial consumption, would
double the price of their product. No
end of study had been devoted to the
subject; yet the declarations of August
let loose an unknown force. —Saturday
Evening Port.
Traveling Man's Experience.
"In the summer of 1888 I had a
very serious attack of cholera morbus.
Two physicians worked over me from
four a. m. to six p. m, without giving
me any relief and then told me they did
not expect me to live; that I had best
telegraph my family. Instead of doing
so, I gave the hotel porter fifty cents
and told him to buy me a bottle of
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Dia
rrhoea Rtmedy. and take no substitute.
I took a double dose according to the
directions and went to sleep after the i
second dse. At five o'clock the npxt!
mornine I was called by my ordor r.ud !
took a train for my next stopping point,
a well man but feeliDg rather shaky
from the severity of the attack." writes
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by Grimes Drug Co. & Lira's Drug
Co.
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And Build Up TS:o System
Take the Old Standard GROVE'S
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what you are taking, as the formula is
printed on every label, showing it is j
Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form. !
The Quinine drives out malaria, the
Iron builds up the system. 50 cent?
NAVY BUILDING PROGRAM.
Construction of Many Submarine*
Will Be Urged in Congress.
Washington—The next building
program of the United States Navy
will include cetimates for nearly
double the number of submarines ap
propriated tor by the last session of
congress. I (, rom officials in cose
touch with '.ae administration s plans
for the navy it was learned that while
tto general board would wait until
September before making its recom
mendations at least 30 and probably
more submarines certainly would be
reouired. ,
Some naval officers of high rank
think as many as 50 or 75 submarines
would not be too many, but those
who are taking into account the ne
cessity for enlarging other parts of the
navy program believe a conservative
estimate of the number which event
ually will be agreed upon is about 30.
The last, congress in three sessions
authorized 26 submarines and the
United States has a total now of near
ly 70 in commission, or building.
Within two years the total, it is esti
mated, may be brought up to 100 un
der-sea craft.
Secretary Daniels, it is understood,
favors a large building program, be
lieving that !n the development of
the efficiency of the submarine arm
lie 3 the most important task of the
navy today. The action of the last
congress in appropriating for 16 sub
marines when only eight or more
were asked for is oelieved to have
given the secretary confidence that
the next session of congress would
be oven nioro generous.
Wmrn "
MAN CRIED
Suffered Everything Until Re
stored to Health by Lydia
E. Pizxkham's Vegeta
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' frit ' vcry appetite,
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J *-■ ' *— 4 l—a-/ An old wo
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For thirty years it has been the stand
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Notice of Sale of Real Estate Under
j, Mortgage.
By virtue of the powers contained in a
certain deed of mortgage given by H.F.
Yoder and M. C. Yoder, his wife, to M.
A. Rowe and assigned to H. W. Harris,
the undersigned will sell at public auc
tion to the highest bidder for cash, in
front of the Post Office in Hickory Aug
ust 28, 1915, at 1 o'clock p. m., the fol
lowing real estate, default having been
made in the payment of the note for
which the mortgage is secuiity, said
land lying and being in Hickory town
ship, and bounded as follows:
Beginning at a Hickory and runs S.
16 1-2 W. 69 12 poles to a stone on the
old line; then with the old line S. 78 7-8
W. 47 poles to a stone in said old line;
then N. 22 East 15 poles to a Walnut;
then N. 9 E. 13 poles to a stone then N.
j 6!» W. 21 1-4 poles to a Walnut stump in
the river bank; then down the river -18
| poles to an Iron wood on the bank of
the river; then S. 52 E. 28 1-2 poles to a
stone; then N 45 E. 2 1-2 poles to a pop
lar; then N. 3S E. 46 poles to the begin
ning. Containing 31 acres, upland and
4 3-4 acres of bottom.
This July 26, 1915.
M. A. Rowe, Mortgagee,
v H ; W - Harris ' Assignee!
M. H. Attorney.
|Q. H'ferman j>
ARCHITECT
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