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§ 47 ACRE FARM g
jg F* ve miles south, very near to churches, on jjjj
pi main public road, good orchard, assorted fruits, wsj
2$ 5 room dwelling, good double barn, double crib, .• Iff
buggy house, grainery. Price $1150.00. S?
S 160 ACRE FARM
3 Seventy acres of which is in woods, 12 acres of
54 good creek bottom, 6 room dwelling house* |P
G plenty out-buildings, another good 3room dwel- SB
C ling house, all situated about four and a half
miles east. Price $4000.00 %
2} 84 ACRE FARM
C Good dwelling and out-buildings, plenty of fp
3J wood land, 12 miles north-east, on main public
|]j road, R. F. D. route Price $1300.00. SC
■H 42 Acre Farm near town, north side. IC
2J 21 Acre Farm on west side. §
-c 100 Acres, 12 miles north-west. Price $5*5).00 5
550 Acres. Elegant home and farm, little way Eg
ifi outside. Price $4800.00. Si
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THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
HICKORY, N C., THURSDAY, APRIL 23,1908.
Dusty Roads Means Disease.-
Washington, April 11' —"I have
noticed that wherever I see bad
roads I invariably see neglected,
unkempt, unwashed children.
If I travel along a good road, I
see children well cared for. I do
not say that one thing directly
follows the other, but they un
doubtedly go together, A comm
unity that is negligent of its chil
dren Will not produce good citi
zens, nor above all things wilfSt
have a high standard of public
health."
This seemingly long-distance
observation on cause and effect
was recently voiced by Dr. Aller •
ton S. Cushman, Assistant Direc*'
tor of the Office of Public Roads
of the United States Department
of Agriculture, at a meeting of
the American Public Health Asso
ciation.
Dr. Cushman was asked yes
terday to justify the statement.
* 'lt is, I thank, justified by a day
spent in an automobile in any
country section," said he, "and,
insisting as I do on the condition,
I think it has a bearing on the
question so frequently asked by
unthinking Ameaicans: 'What
possible relation can there be be
tween the public road and public
health ?\
"If the medical men of the
world know what they are talking
about the relation is intimate.
Dirt and dust mean disease. Clean
liness and sanitary surroundings
work for a better.citizenship.
"Nobody will denv that the
2,150,000 miles of public roads
of America constitute the nation
al dust factory and furnish fully
90 per cent of the dust we inhale.
The delicate breathing apparatus
of the human body was never
meant to harbor such substar.ce";
as ever passing breeze blows
from the throughfares, and the
percentage of people dying from
disease carried by dust is higher
than is generally believed.
"When the public will concede
that to be a fact the Director of
Public Roads and the State and
country - road builders and
overseers will -be given a
greater degree of popular sup
port than they now receive.
Tell the ordinary citizen, or the
busy farmer that the bad, dust
heavy roads are not merely dis
agreeable but dangerous to health
as well, and he smiles sarcasti
cally and shifts the conversation.
"Appeals on the score of clean
liness and good health never stir
red the Californians, bat a slump
in the price of oranges brought
about a wonderful era of activity.
The outcome was gratifying and
California so3n had dustless oiled
roads. In that State the oils poss
ess a higher asphaltum base than
the oil of any other section of
the world, and when they are
spread on the roads the volatile
portion of the oil evaporates and
the asphaltum remains as a bind
er.
' The almost immediate suc
cess of this plan attracted the
attention of highway engineers
throughout the world. In France
and some of our Eastern States
it was at once assumed that oil
ing was the best road treatmenu
and that the long-for solution of
the dust nuisance problem had
been found.
"This has not been proved to
be the case because in many lo
calities the oi.ly oil available poss
esses a petroleum rather than an
asphaltum base. It has been found
that when the volatile portion ev-
I aporates the oil left behind be
l comes greasv and similar in con
-1 sistency to vaseline. Such quality
of oil does not adhere and bind
the road, but is picked up and
scattered by passing traffic, and
the man who gets a 'reasonable'
quantity of it on his clothes be
comes a firm enemy to road oil
ing:.
"If then, as doctors say, dust
means dirt, dirt means disease
and disease means death, dusty
roads have no place in our nation
al economics.'
The Best Half of Zeb Vance.
Aycock in his speech at Fay
ette vi lie said: "There isn't any
dangerin being a man!" flashed
the Govenor and making the con
trast with the names ciaed, ask
ed: "What has become of the
I anti-prohibition leaders of those
days? Tnereis not of all that
army but one man who has not
been forgotten. There was one
man who never shall be, whom
the people loved then as they
love his memory now because of
what he did for them in the days
of '6l-'65 so that he could do
anything and say anything with
out fear tff losing his hold on
the affections of his people. That
was Zeb Vance. Eufc although
he was against prohibition he
told the truth about it.
"Do you remember, asked the
ex-Governor, What Vance said
when Dr. Abernethy asked him
to vote for prohibition?
"My God, Abernethy," said he
"My heart's with you but my
stomach's against you."
"We had the best part of Zeb
Vance," exclaimed the speaker
"We had his heart and you liquor
people have his stomach."
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Essay on Newspapers.
Here is a small boy's essay on
newspapers. He ough'; to make-a
good editor when he grows up.
"Newspapers are sheets of
paper on which stuff to read is
printed. The men look over it
and their seenames" in it. I don't
know how newspapers came in
to the world. I don't think God
does. The bible says nothin about
editor?, and I never heard of one
being in heaven. The first editor
I ever heard was a feilow who
wrote up the flood. He has been
here ever since. Some editors be
long to the church and some try
to raise whiskers. Sometimes the
paper dies and then feel glad,
but some one startes it up again
Editors never went to school be
cause editors don't get licked.
Our editor don't amount to much
but pa says he had a poor chance
when a boy. He goes without
underciothes in winter, wears no
socks and has a wife and ten
children. Pa hasn't paid his
subscription in five years and
don't intend to."—Ex.
"ONE TOUCH,OF NATURE MAKES
THE WHOLE WORLD KIN."
When a rooster finds a big fat worm
he calls all the hens in the farm yard
to come and share it A similar trait
of human nature is to be observed
when a man discovers something ex
ceptionally wants all his
friends and - neighbors to share the
benefits of his discovery. This is the
tough of ature that makes the whole
wolrd kin. This explains why jpeople
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 wish
of the write, to Je of use to someone
else. remedy is for sale by
W.S. Wartin and Co.
The Growth of Snowdrift.
The enormous in the use of
Snowdrift Hogless Lard, not on
ly in the South, but in the North
as . well, although little
effort has been made to introduce
it north of the Carolinas, is an
other striking example of« Sout
hern enterorise and Northern ap
preciation of Southern products.
"Tour father Is In politics," said the
stranger, "is he not?"
"Yeh," replied the boy, "but mom
thinks he's getting cured of it."
"How do you mean?"
"Why, his stummick has gone back
on him, and he can't drink like he
useter."—Catholic Standard and Times.
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Can the Republicans Afford it.
The refusal of the House Com
mittee on the Election of the
President to report the bill for
the publicity of campaign con
tributions and the method em
ployed by the chairman to pre
vent committee action on the
bill, are not calculated to win
glory for the Republican major
ity. This is one of the measures
which John Sharp Williams
thinks would be promptly passed
if it were brought to vote and
the fact that unusual measures
were resorted to in order to
strangle it in committee shows
that the Republicans do not want
it to pass. In view of recent
revelations as to the sources of
campaign funds, and the popular
feeling aroused by them, it seems
incredible that a meritorious
piece of legislation intended to
minimize the evils resnlting
from the employment of vast
secret electoral funds should find
so little support in the party of
of great moral ideas.
The principal bill before the
committee is that introduced by
Mr. McCall, of Massachusetts,
and endorsed by the National
Publicity Bill Organization. It
provides that all campaign con
tributions for use in Federal elec
tions shall be made to' a duly
authorized politicii committee;
that the committee shall keep de
tailed accounts of receipts and
expenditures, and that a sworn
statement setting forth the com
mittee's financial transactions
shall be filed within thirty days
after the election with the Clerk
of the House. Provision is made
as in the New York law, for
summary judicial inquiry into
failure to comply with the act. "
The measure is simply designed
to introduce into the dark and
devious ways of campaign com
mittees the healthful light of
publioity. Similar legislation
has been found useful in New
York and it ought to be enacted
in every State, as well as by Con- j
gress.
The failure of the Republican
majority to p Brmit the passage
of a measure to promote the pur
ity of elections and to minimze
electoral corruption against
which no constitutional objec
tions can be urged, will assured
ly leave a bad impression in the
minds of the people. A Presi
dential election is now coming on
which ought to be conducted on
the level so far as financing is
concerned. Four years ago both
parties accetped contributions
from corporations and other
questionable sources. The Dem
ocratic minority is willing to
help put a stop to that sort of
thing. Will the majority dare
go on record as favorable to un
derhand election financiering?—
Washington Herald.
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A Lincoln County girl writes
this advice: "Why do young
men do so much loafing? Go to
work! Push ahead! I am but a
young girl, but I clothe myself
and have money in the bank. I
lay up more money every year
than any young man within three
miles of my home. When they
get* a dollar they go to a dance
and go home a dollar out. I advise
all girls to cut clear of loafing
boys. Stand by the boy who
works and never put your arm
through the handle of a jug."
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Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905.
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Paramount Issues.
Some sav that there can be no
return, of prosperity until Roose
velt is retired to private life.
Others say that there can be no
return of prosperity until the
Standard Oil p®jw that $29,000,-
000 fine and Harriman and Ryan
are deposed fronr- financia
power.
Some say that there can be no
revival of prosperity until Con
gress with its 250 bills to regu
late the railroads adjourns.
Others say that revival depends
upon a physical valuation of the
railroads made with a view to
lower freight rates.
Some say that the future of the
country depends upon putting
rich malefactors in jail, while
others declare that it wilj go to
ruin unless the anarchists are
deported and the socialists sup
pressed.
Some say that the nation will
be involved in moral wreck un
less the stock exchange is closed
up, while others just as insistent
ly declare that there will be in
dustrial collapse unless the doc
trine of the closed shop is over
thrown.
Some sav that the most im
portant problem before the peo
ple is the revision of the tariff,
while others say that all other
problems fade into insignificance
beside that of the prohibition of
the liquor traffic.
Some declare that national
safety depends on the mainten
ance of the right-of private prop
ery and the inviolability of con
tract, while others hold that
there can be no hope for the fu
ture until there is a more equal
distributiou of wealth.
A complete list of "the most
important issues before the
country" wojild fill an entire is
sue of a metropolitan daily and
it is constantly growing. It is
barely possible that the time,
may soon arrive when the people
will get tired of problem", and
sweeping "the mo"st important
issues" into thd dust pan and
thence into the ash heap, will
simply go to work. Time and
work are the greatest solvers of
problems in the world.
Mr. Patterson recently made
the statement that he had per
sonally known every President of
the United States except the lirst
five. Watterson was eight] years
old, and perhaps a page in the
house, when ex-President John
Quincy Adams, then a represen
tative from Massachusetts, died.
Great Scott, Marse Henry! You
been hear a long time—but we
cannot say you are growing old.
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- „ Why Not Home?
Mr. Editor:
I don't see why any good man,
either Democrat or Republican,
could fail to snpport Ashley
Horn for Oovenor, if he is nomi- *
nated, and furthermoae I don't
see why he should not get the
nomination. If ever there was a
time in the history of the State
of North Carolina that the people
need a good straightforward,
busin.sslike and consertive man
in the Govenor's Office now is the
time and we have every reason
to believe that Mr. Horn will
give them that kiud of an. ad
minstration, he has never sought
office, but has alwas been suc
cessful in all his business deal
ings and is a man capable of
discharing every duty that the
office many require.
Now is the opportunity for the
people of this State to get a good
and honest man, capable of ful
filling all the responsibilities of
the Govenor's office, and why
not avail themselves of the op
portunity. Horn is the man.
P. .H
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damy weather or chronic rheumatism.
In such caces no internal treatment
is required. The free application of
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relief. Give it a trial and see for
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His Ad. Was Answered.
Lillian Braythwaite Hill, the
very successful writer of humor
ous advertisements, spoke at a
busjness men's dinner in Chicago
on''Fun in the Ad." Miss Hill
began in this way:
"Does it pay to advertise.
Well, I shoulcLsay so. A man
came to an editor iu the town of
Shelqyville-one day asked the
question.
"Does it pay to advertise in
my paper? You just bet it does,"
the editor replied. "Look at
Sands, the cash grocer, for in
stance; Sands advertised for a
boy last week, and the very next
day Mrs. Sands had twins—both
boys.''—Washington Star.
Watchdogs and Their Bark.
Tho watchdog's honest bark is a
pretty good thing in theory and in
poetry, but it's n good deal of a nui
sance in real life, when the owner of
the watchdog lives In your neighbor
hood and the honest bark Is sounding
away at night when you want to sleep.
It is then that you would like to hear
a shotgun bay deep mouthed welcome
to the honest barker in question.—Em
ooria Gazette.