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THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT.
HICKORY., N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13,1908.
The True and the Untrue.
He was a dog
But he stayed at home
And guarded the family night and
day.
He was a dog
That didn't roam.
He lay on the porch and chased
the stray —
The tramp, the bur glar, the hen
v away:
For the dog's true hea£ for that
household beat
At morning and evening in cold
and heat.
He was a dog
He was a man.
And didn't stay
To cherish his wife and bis
children fair.
He was a man. -
And every day
His heart grew callous, its love
beats rare
He thought of himself at the close
of day
And cigar in his fingers, hurried
avay
To the club, the lodge, the store,
the show,
But he had a right to go, you
know,
He was a man.
—Rev. Francis E. Townsley.
To the People of North Caro
lina.
We and others of the Anti-
Saloon League, called the tem
perance forces together to meet
in convention in the City of Ral
eigh, on Jan 21st. The great
convention that assembled un
animously asked the present
Legislature to give the State a
statutory law against the manu
facture and sale of liquor at the
present session but a majority
of the members of the Legisla
ture, after considering the mat
ter, decided to submit the ques
tion to a vote of the people. The
"Long-Dowd'' bill is now a law.
It is a composite bill prepared
by the best thought of temper
ance men in the State. It is not
as stringent as some of as would
like it to be, but it is an exten
sion of the Watts and Ward bill
to the whole State. On Tues
day, May 26th, the issue will be
presented to the people of North
Carolina, are you "For or against
the manufacture and sale of in
toxicating liquors?" The praise
for this issue being submitted to
the people of North Carolina is
due to the" great heart of the
masses of its citizenship demand
ing this reform, the ministers of
the Gospel of peace and good
will towards men, those Senators
and Representatives who voted
for the bill, most of the press of
the State, the Educators of the
State. The bill leaves intact the
higher local prohibitory laws
now in force in the several
counties.
We have patiently borne for
years the galling yoke of thej
saloon, distillery and drink evil
with all their attending curses
and woes. The time has come
when this enemy to the human
family must be destroyed. No
family, high or low, rich or poor
has not felt the awful curse of
the drink habit. It is the can
ker worm that has eaten into the
heart of the body politic; it has
made the sweet water of life
bitter; the tears that have been
shed by an army of mourners
speaK to our heads as well as our
hearts.
"In the sweetest bud,
The eating canker dwells."
No race is exempt;_ especially
is it injurious to the negro, to
whom the white race owes a
duty. The people of the State,
in the generations gone by, have
resisted to the last ditch tyranny
and oppression, cruelly and
wrong. The power is with them,
and they are once more called
upon to do battle in a righteous
cause. Be not deceived with
false arguments. The business
man and corporation no longer
wants one who drh s in his
employment. The Mill and
Manufacturing towns of the
State have refused to license the
traffic fraught with such evil to
the moral prosperity of the com
munity. How wonderfully they
have prospered by so doing!
This issue appeals to men of all
parties; to men of all creeds; it
is above party, above creed,
above nationalities; it is a matter
of conscience. With malice to
ward none, and with an eye
single to the pubiic good, we
call upon all to Join with us in
the contest. If any have made,
wittingly or unwittingly entan
gling alliances, hurtful to them
selves, or the good of the human
family, we appeal to them to
sever their connection with the
"body of this death," re-assert
their freedom and manhood and
enter test. We especially
appeal to those who have been
against us in the past to forget
all differences for the public
good and enter this contest. It
i 3 a contest against the saloon,
distillery and drink evil, and not
against the man; an issue of
msrit and morals, and not of
msn and politics.
Friends of Temperance, org? r
ize, work, watch and v pray. If
this is done victory is ours.
JNO. A. OATES.
Chm- Ex. Com,
HE RIOT CLARKSON
Pres. of State Con.
R. L. DAVIS.
State Organizer.
HeTnought He Stopped the
Paper.
It is said an acquaintance met
Horace Greely one day, and said:
Mr. Greely, I've stopped your
paper." "Have you?" said the
editor, "Well that's too bad,"
and he went his way.
The next morning Mr. Greely
met his subscriber again, and
said: "I thought you had stop
ped the Tribune?"
"Sol did."
' 'Then there must be some mis
take," said Mr. Greeley, for I
just come from the office and the
presses were running, the clerks
were as busy as ever, the com
positors were hard at work, the
same as yesterday and the day
before."
- "Oho!" ejaculated the sub
scriber, "I didn't mean that I had
stopped the paper; I stopped only
my copy of it, because I didn't
like your editorials."
"Pshaw!" reported Mr.
Greeley, "It wasn't worth taking
up my time to tell me such a
trifle as that. My dear sir, if you
expect to control the utterance of
the 4 'Tribune' by the purchase of
one copy a day or if you think to
find any newspaper or magazine
j worth reading that will never
express convictions at right an
gles with your own, you are
doomed to disappointment."
THE JUMPIN.G OFF PLACE.
"consumption had"me in its grasp;
and I had almost reached the jumping
off place when I was advised to try Dr.
King's New Discovery; and I want to
say right now, it saved my life. Im
provement began with the first-bottle,
and after taking one dozen bottles I
was a well and happy man again,"
says George Moore, of Grimesland, N.
C. As a remedy for coughs and colds
pnd, healer of week, sore lungs and for
preventing pneumonia New-Discovery
is supreme. 50c, and SI.OO at C. M.
Shuford E. H, Meazies, vV. S. Martin
druggists. Trial bottle free.
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The Dentist—Now, Johnnie,
Brace up. It'll be all over in a
minute. Boy—Yes, but just
think of that minute. —Puck.
NO CASE ON RECORD.
There is no case on record of a
cough or cold resulting in pneumonia
or consumption after Eoley's Honey
and Tar has been taken. It stops the
cough and breaks up the cold quickly.
Refuse any but the genuine Foley's
Honey and Tar in a yellow package.
W. S. Martin-& Co.
Wheji and Why We Should
• Advertise.
We know some merchants who
think it is n)t worth while to
advertise during the first months
of the year because they don't
expect much trade until later.
Wonder what those same mer
chants would think of a farmer
who should decide that it was
useless to plant anything in the
spring because he does not ex
pect to reap until fall?
Apropos of this matter of ad
vertising, about which some
people entertain erroneous ideas
we call attention to the follow
ing, which is reproduced from
The Winston-Salem Journal
"With the approach of the
new year, business men and mer
chants are planning their cam
paign for business during 1908.
The progressive merchant man
ufacturer, banker and business
man in any line will include in
his plans a liberal appropriation
for advertising, always one of
the most 4mportant features of
anylegitmate business. It has
been truly said that ' 'Advertising
is the life of trade/' and all wide
awake business men keep that
fact in mind; and the Castomir
is next too, for men and women
of this day and time have realiz-!
Ed that they get the best, fresh-'
est goods from the manufactur- j
ers and merchants who adver-j
tifiO,
Men in all lines of business!
are studying advertising. The
Raleigh Evening Times contain
ed the following, concerning a
recent article on bank advertis
ing which applies wiih equal
truth to other lines of business,
as follows:
"An article by Mr. J. G.
Brown of this city, in the Bank
Advertiser has caused a good
deal of comment by the press of
the State, because of the sound
ness of the idea set forth. Mr.
Brown is himself a newspaper
advertiser and knows whereof he
speaks. Attention is directed to
the concluding paragraphs oi
Mr. Brown's letter:
"You hear people say so and
so is a good advertiser," now
why Is it? It is because they
cannot pick up their paper with
out seeing 'so and so's' adver
tisement. He has always some
thing to say, and they have be
come interested in his advertise
ments—interested enough to
talk about him and his adver
tisements. Be like him; look
upon your advertisement as an
investment; plan it carefully,
judiciously and thoroughly, and
then regard the business you
get from it .as surplus. No in
vestment in the world pays like
good advertising. Continually
cultivating the crop in the grow
ing season makes a bountiful
harvest possible. Cultivate
good advertising and get a har
vest of deposits. You reach in
telligent people through the
n3ws papers, because of the
masses. People who do not
read them are those who do not
place their deposits in the bank.
"The banker depends for his
patronage upon the people who
are thinkers; therefore, an in
telligent advertisement will set
intelligent people to thinking. A
medium which enters the home
and is looked forward to each
day or week, is the medium in
which to convey your arguments
to the people. Let the hand
bill the advertising scheme, or
the newspapers? Judge others
by yourself—you read the adver
tisements in the papers you pat-
KEEPING OPEN HOUSE.
Everybody is welcome when we
feel good: and we feel that way only
when our digestive organs are working
properly. Dr. King's New Life Pilb
regulate the action of stomach, live
and bowels so perfectly one can't heir
feeling good when he uses these pills
25c at C. M. Shuford E. B. Menzie
W. S. Martin drug stores.
Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905.
ronize the merchants who adver
tise, so let your light shirt
through the columns of the
newspapers—it pays.
"Not *nly should banker
everywhere weigh cafefull;
what Mr. Brown says but all
business men who have anj
articles in which to interest the
people, should do so."
News of Edith.
Snowing this morning it look*
like winter has been cold enougl
foi; us all, this month. Farmer
need not fear the 801 l Weav
hurting the crop this vear, he if
set back. Its the 801 l Weav
that hurts the farmer most, i
has damaged the pi-ice of las
years crop and is- now looking
to get the next.
Farmers have little dn3 to
wards this years crop. We
raise lots of cotton in Mountai
Creek but so far have not heard
of any one that will mike cotton
the leading croo this year.
The Lyies Creek correspond
ent got smartly into it. I speit
he lacked the discipline in rais
ing laid down by J. S. K., ir
last weeks Democrat. That
j letter was Law and Gospel an
without its application in tht
home and scholia, we need
expect anything only by chance.
I am glad the legislature ha
done its do, again and aajourneu
I have yet to hear any country
people complain of the prict
they formerly had to pay to
travel on the railroads." Nor
have I beard anyone praise the
reduction. 1 suppose they ai
not the common people, but I ck.
hear of the lateness of the de
li very of mail since the railroad;
reduced their trains the rural
people don't get their mail from
one to two days as early as they
did under the star route system.
That amounts to something in
the battle with business. Think
of the farmer three days behind
the markets.
Well prohibition is the issue
before the people now and from
what I hear I think the country
people will take less stock ,in it
than anything that has ever
been agitated among the people
unless it is good roads.
This year will be one of the
hottest political campaigns the
country has .had *for years, *its
going to be hot from township
to President too many factions
in all parties that kick if they
don't think they are controlling.
They are like these children
raised without the discipline of
the rod if they obtain it will be
by chanee.
Well it does seem that those
who have tried and failed ana
whose principles have not been
adopted by the masses ought to
stand aside and let others try
their hand and there is not a
few of those common people
who have become satisfied that
a large amount of those elected
to office are more interested in
politics and how to get back|
again than they are for the good I
of the country.
It continues snowing, with
success to the Democrat I'll
close
GREEN HORNE...
DeWitfs Carbolized Witch Hazel
Salve is best for cuts, bruises and
scratches. It is especially good for
piles. Sold by C. M. Shuford, W. S.
Martin & Co.
We cheerfully confess to be
just old-fashioned enough to
like to sit in front ef a fireplace.
CASTOR IA
for Infants and Children.
Tb« KM Ym Haw Always Bought
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The, more a man knows the
less he's inclined to boost
Coddling the Stomach.
- Do not pamper the children with ho*
house methods there is a common-sense
method. If the children or the man or
woman show a tendency to be "off their
feed," if they begin to lose flesh, their
stomach should be toned up with a harm*
!ess tonic which will increase the secre
tions of the digestive tract A tonic made
jf native medicinal- roots which will in
vigorate the stomach into greater activ*
! ty and increase the secretion of the
!>iiosphates from the food —» remedy
which will do this is one which has
ttood the test of public approval for
uearly forty years, and contains no alco
hol or narcotics. We refer to Dr. Pierce's
CJolden Medical Discovery. It can be
riven to the smallest child with perfect
freedom. Jf the blood is Impure, if pim
ples, boils, headaches occur, if the atom
«h is weak —first eradicate the poisdtis
irom the blood.
AH IMITATION OF NATURE'S METHOD,
•f restoring waste of tissue and impover
shment of the blood and nervous force is
•sed when you take an alterative extract
•f native roots, made without the use of
!cohol, like Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical
discovery. . This vegetable medicine
•oaxes the digestive functions and helps
a the assimilation of food, or rather takes
.'rom the food Ju3t the nutriment the
blood requires.
Along with its use one should take
jxercise in the outdoor air, get all one
.an of God's sunlight and air; practice
i deep breathing exercise every day.
This "Medical Discovery " gives no false
stimulation, because it does not contain
alctfbol or a narcotic. It helps digestion
and the assimilation of such elements in
the food as are' required for the blood.
Unlike a cod liver oil, against which
the already sensitive stomach will declare
ipen rebellion, this tonic has a pacifying
iction upon the' sensitive stomach and
jives to the blood the food elements the
tissues require. It maintains one's nutri
tion by enabling him to eat, retain, digest
and assimilate nutritious food. It over
comes gastric irritability and symp'-; a»s
of indigestion, and, in this way,' fever,
night-sweats, headaches, etc., are done
away with.
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
purifies the blood and entirely eradicates
the poisons that breed and feed disease.
It thus cures scrofula, eczema, erysipelas,
boils, pimples, and other eruptions that
mar and scar the skin. Pure blood Is
essentiarto good health. The weak, run
down, debilitated condition which so many
people experience is commonly the effect
of Impure blood. Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery not only cleanses the
blood of impurities, but it increases the
activity of the blood-making glands, and
it enriches. the body with an abundant ■
supply of pure, rich blood.
A consideration of first importance in
deciding what medicine to take for the
cure of blood or stomach disorders is as to
its hacmlessness.
Dr. Pierce is frank and open with the
public for he tells just what is contained
In Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
—its ingredients are Golden Seal root,
Queen's root, Stone root, Black Cherry
bark, Bloodroot3landrakeand pure triple
refined glycerine. Concerning Golden
Seal the highest medical authorities agree
with Prof. John M. Scudder who says,
"It stimulates the digestive processes,
and increases the assimilation of food.
By «hese means the blood is enriched,
this blood feeds the muscular system. I
mention the muscular system because 1
believe it first feels the increased power
imparted by the stimulation of increased
nutrition. The consequent improvement
on the nervous and glandular systems are
natural results.
"In relation to Its general effects on the
system, there is no medicine in use about
which there is avch general unanimity of
opinion. It is t miver»aUy regarded as the
tonitf useful in all debilitated states."
Concerning -Bloodroot The American
Dispensatory say*. "Stimulates digestive
organs. Increases action of heart and
arteries—stimulant and tonic. Very val
uable as a eough remedy— acts as a sed
ative—further valuable as an alterative."
Read all about vourself, your system,
Mie physiology of life, anatomy, hygiene,
simple home cures, ete., in The Common
Sense Medical Adviser, a book of 1008
pages. For cloth-bound copy send 31
cents In one-cent stamps, or for paper
jovered 21 stamps. Address Dr. £▼.
Pierce, Buffalo, N. T.
Speaking of glad surprises,
did you ever find a quarter in
the pocket of a pair of discarded
trousers? 3
A NIGHT ALARM.
Worse than an alarm of fire at night
is the metallic caugh of crup bringing
dread to the household. Careful
mothers keep Foley's Honey and Tar
in the house and give it at the first
sjgn of danger. Foley's Honey and
Tar has saved many little lives and it
is the only safe preparation for children
as it contains no harmful drugs.
W. S. Martin & Co.
People attending court at New
ton often suffer serious incon
venience on account of not being
able target reliable reports about
the trains at night. Train No.
82 will frequently be reported on
time. The hacks will take the
passengers from the hotels to the
depot and then as apt as not it
will turn out that the train is an
hour late. This is very incon
venient to the travelling public
and ought to be remedied. There
is no fun in waiting an hour or
so in a cold depot when the pas
sengers might as well be at the
hotel. We hope steps will be
taken to remedy this trouble.