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THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
HICKORY, N.C., THURSDAY. MAY 7,1908.
SHOILD A GtRL PROPOSE.
Fewer Matrimonial Mistakes if
She Did.
/ "When a young man or woman
is 21 or 22 years old it is his o**
her duty to get married," declar
ed Rev. CL F. Thomas before his
congregation at St. Ann Catholic
church, "The young man is
then about 6 years out of school,
ger. orally speaking and if he has
formed good habits let him mar
ry. If he has formed bad habits
he should never marry.
Dr. Thomas gave some practi
cal advice to the young people
present.- Amon» other things,
he emphatically declared himself
in favor of letting the girl pro
pose as well as the man, for this
he said, would prevent many un
happy marriages
The girl is usually very care
ful in selecting a husband,
band, and she is not liable to
make a mistake. With a man
this is often the case.
Let the young man save
money, for i do not think much
of the future wife who lets her
ycung admirer spend all his
money in 'fiowers and candy.
When the young woman sees
him inclined thus she should en
courage him to do otherwise. DP
not be afraid of public opinion.
It is the worst kind of folly to
get married without a cent in
one's pocket. I have known young
men who even had to borrow the
dollar to get the license.
Young man. when you propose
be able to say: "I can support
you; I've got nerve and at least
a little capital to start witn." Be
able to start out independent and
do not rely on father and mother.
Steady yourselves and get your
bearings, and, above all habits.
Keep away from tie saloons and
gambling and remember that
you are making yourselves-
First of all be sure that you
can support a wife a.id then get
a girl worth marrying. When
you ha?e saved something and
have formed good habits get
married right away. Don't wait
till you get another girl; you
have looked around enough and
are supposed to be serious. _
A married man makes the bet
ter citizen, because marriage
steadies a man. You can see it
the day after he is married. The
reason is he's got more steam in
his boiler, A bachelor is mostly
selfish,' Marrying makes a man
unselfish, because the need of
supporting a wife and family
makes him industrious and econ
omical.
To the girls I would say that
when you begin to keep company
get a man that is a man and not a
baby. A man with some dignity
and character, whose intentions
are not always tending toward
the crease in trousers and the
parting of his hair in the middle
and fancy neckties. The world
is full of such today.
Get a man who has work and
don't make him spend all his
money in buying you flowers and
candy. I sound this warning to
voung men: There are many
girls who care for their men
friends only to use them as a
convenience. Don't marry a
man to reform him —it is too big
a risk.
The secret of it all girls is to
put yourselves in the place of the
young man's mother as the lady
whom he intends to marry, be
cause she is his ideal. You must
not be wallflowers and butterflies
for if you look at such they blow
away. You should imitate your
mothers virturs and you will in
variably succeed. It is a pity
| that women don't do the propos
ing lor there would be fewer
mistakes. —Ex,
OASTORZA.
B**™ th * Kind Yon Haw Always Bought
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Gone to Seed.
"It is vtallenough to support a
wise law but there is no need of
going to extremes." These sage
reflections are brought about by
the fiery and if we must say it,
unreasonable zeal which the
Mercury displays for the cause
of State prohibition.
after week that journal
with a reckless disregard of the
danger of injuring its standing
with the Republican party, has
appeared loaded down to the
water's edge with editorials urg
ing the voters to support prohibi
tion.
The thing seems almost to
have become a mania, an obses
sion with the Mercury.
~ In the editorial, news and local
departments# you are sure to
stumble over some bold declara
tion like the following: ,
It is true that the Mercury is
opposed to the Democratic party
anJ. all of its works.
It is also true that a Demo
cratic Legislature passed the
prohibition law and that the Re
publican party hopes to make
votes by taking no stand on the
question. But for years tne
Mercury has fyeld itself out as a
prohibition journal. Jt has lec
tured preachers, teachers and
others whose business it is to
build up public morals and has
criticized them supporting whis
key men. It has criticized the
politicians,—Democratic politi
cians, we mean —for dodging
this issue,
When the Watts and the Ward
laws were under discussion we
opposed them because we said
there was no prohibitiion in
them, We said if you'll give us
State prohibition that would be
like something. The Mercury
would be for that Now with
this record behind us does any
body think that we would keep
silent when state prohibition is
an issue? Let Party advantage
go. What is it compared to
God's eternal What is it
compared to rescuing the hap
piness of little children and help
less women?
Why don't Mr. Click "slow up'
just a little bit.
Mr. Click is too pronounced for
prohibition—We don't think.
Nature has provided the stomach
with certain natural fluids known as the
digestive juices, and it is through
these juices that the food we eat is
acted upon in such a way as to produce
the rich, red blood that flows through
the veins of our body and thereby
makes us strong, healthy and robust,
and it is the weakening of these
digestive juices that destroys health.
It is our own fault if we destroy our
own health, and yet it is so easy for
anyone to put the stomach out of
order. When you need to take
something take it promptly, but take
samethiug you know is reliable
—something like Kodol For Dyspepsia
and Indigestion. Kodol is pleasant
take, it is reliable and is guaranteed to
give relief. It is sold by W. S. Mar
tin and C. M Shuford.
"Prohibition does not prohib
it" is the song of the man trave
lling ovfer North Carolina as the
k paid agents of the distillers and
whiskey do you suppose the mak
ers and sellers of whiskey would
put up millions of dollars to fight
prohibition?
Letter to N.W. Propst
Hickory, N. C.
Dear Sir:- Two cans of paint look
alike; two paints look alike, whea open
ed; two jobs look alike, so long as they
're new —unless one is scant.
They are far from alike 5 one is paint
and the other is tTash.
The gallon price is not far from alike,,
They don't cost alike, One % takes_lo
gallons to paint a house: the other
takes 20. The cost of one job is sso*
thp other sloo—it may be $90 —the
job that coast least is the good one:
wears twice as long as the other.
There are two ways of telling good
paint: by the name; by the number of
gallons it takes for a job—least gallons
best paint. By (he name Deyoe; by
least gallons.- -
Yours truly,
53 F. W. DEVOE & CO.
y, S.-F. B. Ingold sells ourjaiut.
The Harrow, Its Use and Its
Abuse.
At this season of the year
there is no implement on the
farm of more importance than
some good form of harrow, such
as may be found in most of the
markets.
As fast as land is broken it
should be harrowed the same day.
This is to pulverize the clods,
make a fine seed bed and con
serve the moisture. Do not
wait two or three days until
several t#ne of moisture have
been lost on each acre. Moisture
is of utmost importance to a
growing crop. We always have
a dry spell some time during the
summer, so we must arrange to
have i good supply of moisture
stored in the soil to carry the
crop right on through the
drought.
If the soil is so dry and hard
when breaking that it breaks up
in clods, then a roller should
precede the harrow. This either
crushes the clods or presses them
into the loose soil so that when
rain comes they absorb sufficient
moisture from the loose soil to
become dissolved. A clod can
hold but little moisture and is
not worth much more to a plant
than is a stone.
In the use of the harrow many
farmers make the-mistake of
trying to break land with them
by placing on chuncks, stones or
by riding on them. They were
not intended for breaking land,
but for surface cultivation. Even
the disc harrow is not suitable
for breaking land.
Another very important use of
the harrow, including the weeder
and similar forms of cultivators,
is in the first cultivation cf young
plants. No future cultivation is
of quite the importance of the
first Even before the planting
begins run the harrow over the
field. If a hard rain comes be
fore the seed comes up. the har
row should |>ass over again.
This should be repeated every
week or ten days, according to
seasons, until the plants are too
large. The ordinary harrow will
cover five to six acres per day
easily, The two-horse forms ten
or more, while the Weeder will
cultivate fifteen acres per day
with a single man and horse.
The teeth (spikes) of the im
plements pass in among the
young plants and destroy weeds
and grass that would have to be
gotten out later by expensive
hand hoeing. Thus they are
both efficient and economical.
The time to use the harrow in
such cultivation is just as soon
after a rain as the land is dry
enough for the horse to walk on
it easily. Do not wait until a
green carpet appears on the sur
face and the soil has Ibe come
dry. It will root up some of the
grass but will simply cultivate
the remainder so that it will
grow all the faster, The good
farmernever sees any grass in
his farm if he can prevent it.
The best time to destroy weeds
and grass is while the seeds are
germinating in the soih and be
fore they make their appearance
above the surface. A day's
work at the proper time is worth
several day's work later.
Many crops may be grown to
maturity without any cultivation
except that given by a good har
row or cultivator. As a rule the
double, triple or even the quad
ruple forms are more economical
because one man can manipulate
the extra force of horse power
instead of having a man for each
horse.
Then there are the sulky ar
rangements which make the la
bor a great deal easier for the
farmer.
G. R. HUDSON.
Special Agent,
Demonstration Farm Work.
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Democratand Press, Consolidated 1905.
NOTH CA ROLINA CLASSIS
Of the Reformed Church In
Session in Concord.
The North Carolina Classis of
the Reformed Church held its
annual session in Concord, the
first session. having been held
last Tuesday night. • The body
is meeting in Trinity Church,
and will remain in session all
week.
Tuesday night Rev. D, E.
Bowers, of High Point, the retir
ing President, preached the
opening sermon, after which the
Classical communion was held.
The following officers were elec
ted:
President—Rev. C. E. Wehler,
D. D. -
Vice President—George Mc-
Corkle.
Corresponding Secretary—Rev
Shu ford Peeler.
Reading Clerk—Rev. Milton
Whitener.
Wednesday was largely taken
up b> the reports of the various
pastors which showed the gener
al work of the church to be in
excellent condition. The report
of the trustees of Claremont Col
lege at Hickory was read by Dr.
J. L. Murphy.
Ringing resolutions endorsing
state prohibition were unanim
ously passed.
There is a large attendance,
and the sessions are most inter
esting.
On Wednesday night there
was an educational meeting,
which was addressed by Dr.
Snyder, President of Catawba
College, and Rev. W: W. Rowe.
Thursday was devoted to the
general business of the Classis.
Thursday night a strong address
on prohibition was delivered by
Rey. W. H. McNairy. Dr. W.
B. Duttera also delivered an in
teresting illustrated lecture on I
Missions of the Reformed.'
church.
Her hand this man could not get,
His health was not as it should be,
He had not used the "best as yet,"
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea.
Menzies Drug Co.
Rowan Will Cive 300 Majority
for Prohibition.
Rev. W. vV. Rcwe, of Rockwell
who attended the meeting of the
North Carolina Classis is enthu
siastic about the situation in
Rowan in regard to the prohibi
tion election. He says the coun
ty will give a majority for pro
hibition of about 300. All the
reports received here from Row
an indicate that the county will
go dry by a good majority.—
Concord Times.
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Pert Paragraphs.
Even a rich girl may make a
poor wife.
After saying you intend to do
a thing do it.
Ever notice hew much truth.
there isn't in a compliment?
How harsh it sounds to hear a
i man criticise your pet hobby.
But few dancing masters are
to be found in the hop districts.
No. Alonzo, a pile of filthy lu
cre is not necessarily a heap cf
dirt.
The man who sees no good in
others is no good.
There is always some man a
round who is willing to second
any kind of a motion.
Money makes the mare go—or
come or stay, according to the
way it talks to the jockey.
Don't worry about your looks.
"You look all right to your friends
and the rest of the world don't
care how you look.
Anyway, the self made man.
hag. no one to blame but himself.
Life is too short for a man to
do all the things his wife wants
him to do.
What this world needs is an
additional supply of men and
women who talk less and say
more.
COLDS TAAT HANG ON.
Colds that hang on in the spring de
plete the system, exhaust the nerves,
and open the way for serious illness.
Take Foley's Honey and lt
quickly stops the cough and expels the
cold. It is safe and certian in results.
W, S. Martin & Co.
ANNUAL RE-UNION.
Confederate Veterans, Birm
ingham Ala., June 9th and
11th 1908.
Southern Railway announces
following round trip rates for
the above occasion.
$ 8.95
Durham - •--- , 11.95
Gastonia 8.55
Greensboro 10.85
Hickory 9.20
Raleigh 12.05
Goldsboro 13.45
Approxinately low from
other points.
Date of sale June 6th, 7th and
Bth; good returning leave Birm
ingham midnight June 20th.
For further information apply
to any agent Southern Railway.
R. L. VERNON.
Traveling Passenger Agent.
Insist upon DeWitt's Witch Hazel
salve. There are substitutes, but there
is only one original. It is healing,
soothing and cooliDg and is especially
good for piles. Sbld by C. M. Shuford.
& W. S. Martin.