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THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 14,1908.
Legislative Candidates.
As the time for the primaries
the county convention draws
near, interest in the legislative
candidates increases. It seems!
that Elliott wiil be nominated for
the senate without opposition, as,
indeed, he deserves to be. He
ka° every qualification for the
place and has served the party
long and faithfully. He has a
hose of friends in every part of
the county wh© are thoroughly
aroused and determined to see
that his name goes on the ticket
for State Senator or knew the
reason why. It is safe to say
that if any opponent should ap
pear against him he would en
counter a ground swell that
would impress him.
For the house Attorney Yount
is a candidate for re-nomination. ;
He represented Catawba in the
last house and made quite a re
putation. He took a high stand
and was chairman of
several of the most important
committees. He has a very large ,
following who are enthusiastically
backing him and will not admit
even the possibility of bis defeat.
Mr. D. L. Russell, a young at
torney of Hickory, is also in*the ;
field for the house. He has never
before been a candidate but he 1
takes to politics as naturally as a
duck does to water. He has been
a resident of Hickory all his life
except for a short time during
which he practiced law in Gas
tonia and Kings Mountain.
Either of these gentlemen
would make a capable representa
tive.
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 Ro.ky Mountain Tea.
Menzies Drug Co.
The Man And His Job.
There is nothing more harm
ful to a man's business than the
failure to deliver goods on time.
When you promise a customer to
get his stuff to him at a certain
hour, you should get it there at
all costs. If you fail to keep
your word, all the excuses in the
world will not help matters in
the least.
Very often it seems an utter
impossibility to make good a
promise of this kind, and then
you get busy digging up excuses.
Haven't you wished that vou had
recorded all the ridiculous ex
cuses that people have made
when vou reminded them that
they had gone back on their
word? One chap had the in
genuity to say to a customer
that the delivery boy went in
sane while on his way over and
had to be removed to a hospital.
Then, of course another boy had
to go up town to the hospital to
get the package, causing several
hours delay as a consequence.
"They are on the way now,"
or "You should have received
them by this time," are phrases
more distasteful to a purchaser
than medicine. They are not
only false but also lack origin
ality and a shipping clerk who
1 can't think up better excuses
has no right to his job.
Absent-minded shipping clerk
who lost his position and succeed
ed in getting a place in a
doctor's offipe, was once heard
to make this break. One day an
excited voice came over the
telephone. "Why don't you
send the doctor? I've called up
several times, and —" The ex
shipping clerk cut her short, and
in a mechanical sort of way, rat
tled back. "Yes, will be over in
J a minute, ma'am; just putting
1 'im on the wagon."
That is about the value of the
excuses offered for non-delivery
E of goods.
~ Never can tell when-you'll mash a
it finger or suffer a cut, bruise, burn or
e scald. Be prepared. Dr. Thomas'
U Eclectric Oil instantly relieves the pain
—quickly cures the wound.
Keep Clean Inside.
Ycung man delibe~atelv -insult
the man who starts to tell a smut
ty story in your presence bjrturn
ing 011 your heel.
Such a corruptionist has no
more right to steal your pure
thoughts than he has to put his
hand in your pocket and take
your money.
These retailers of filth are
whited seyulchers—clean on the
outside, but inwardly filled with
dead men's bones. They are de
bauchers of clean minds, robbers
of-purity.
You should never permit your
self to listen no an improper story
—a story you would not care to
repeat to your mother or your
sister. The filthy fuggestiveness
will soak into your memory as
spilled ink soaks into blotting
paper.
Allow no man to drag your
mind through a sower.
Do you know there is many a ;
man who would sacrifice much to
day to be able to wipe from his J
memory some of the thing "he
listened to when a boy?
The man who will deliberately
repeat a risque story in the pre
sence of a youth deserves no
respect. He is an incarnate devil
of meanness. He is daubing a
coarse picture on clean walls.
No gentleman will tell a story
he could not tell iu the presence
of ladies.
Do you remember what Gene
ral Grantsaid to the officer who
began to tell a story, remarking,
"There are no ladies present,"
whereupon the silent soldier
quickly retorted, "There are
gentlemen present?"
Keep your mind unsullied. -A
foul snggestion may harden into
a habit of thought that will lead
you far astray.
Keep clean inside.
It is more a matter of import
ance that you should keep the
dirt off your soul than to keep it
off your clothes.
SERIOUS RESELTS FEARED,
You may well fear serious results from
a cough or cold, as pneumonia and
consumption start with a cold. Foley's
Honey and Tar cures the most obstin
ate coughs or colds and prevents seri
ous results. Refuse substitutes. W. S,
Martin & Co.
Why Not Some Peekaboos?
Shirtwaists for men are to be
revived.
At a meeting of prominent
shirt manufacturers several days
ago it was determined that man
was a helpless creature who
needed suggestion, so it was de
termined to make a large quant
ity of shirtwaists.
Several years ago, when shirt
waists for men sprang into fash
ion and dropped out again much
the worse for ware, it was
thought they were done for good
and all, but by a strange trick of
fate those who did not have the
nerve to wear them have been
sorry ever sinco, and those who
started to wear them and stop
ped have been accusing them
selves of cowardice.
Notwithstanding the direct
slap in the face which the mascu
line wearer of shirtwaists had
received, the Postoffice officials
in Baltimore determined that
what was most comfortable and
most fashionable and told the
ietter carriers to get as many
shirtwaists as they liked. The
consequence has been that every
summer the carriers have gone
merrily on their way with shirt
waists, while the rest of mascu
line humanity sweltered in coats.
It was learned yesterday that
there is a decided sentiment a
mong many taylors to fight the
shirtwaist, because of the body
blow which it gives their busi-1
ness. Despite that fact the shirt
makers have determined to do
battle.—Ex. .
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Riding Astradle.
In his speech for State Prohibi
tion at Wilkesboro, the Chronicle
quotes Judge Prichard as urging
th.3 people of that county "to
if ute the unsavory reputation
given her abroad by sending in a
big majority for prohibition."
From the Chronicle's report of
his speech the following is taken:
"Leading Republicans an}
Democrats all over the State ad
vocate the bill and nationally he
quoted expressions in .favor of
prohibition from such Republi
cans as the lamented President
McKinley who was assassinated
as a result of an anarchist plot
made in a bar-room; President
Roosevelt, Secretary Taft who
will probably be the next Repub
lican candidate and others and
he pitied the soul of the little
politician who is trying to drag 1
the question into politics with
the hope of riding into office
astraddle of a whiskey barrel.
No party, he exclaimed, whicn
stands for liquor, will much
longer have an opportunity of
standing at all in this civilized,
progressive country."
That is the truth. There are
good men in both parties who
doubt the wisdom of State
Prohibition. We hope most of
them will give Temperance the
benefit of any doubt and vote
for State Prohibition, but they
have a right to their views, and
all such men respect tneir con
victions. But they are quite
different from the little politician
of both parties who are running
around the State trying to earn
the money paid them by the
liquor dealers and manufacturers
and pretending that their course
is prompted by a sincere desire
"to serve the party." Men who
wish "to serve the party" do not
take the blood money of bar
keepers and distillers.
ANNUAL RE UNION.
Confederate Veterans, Birm
ingham Ala., June 9th and
11th 1908.
Southern Railway announces
following round trip rates for
the above occasion.
Charlotte N. C. $ 8.95
Durham 11.95
Gastonia 8.55
Greensboro 10.85
Hickory 9.20
Raleigh 12.05
Goldsboro 13.45
Approxinately low rates 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.
Badly Mixed..
A young man who is his own
Grandfather, thus explains
through the press: I married a
widow who had a grown daugh
ter. My father often visited our
house, fell in love with my daugh
ter and married her, so my fath
er became my step-son and my
step-daughter my mother, be
cause she married my farther.
Sometime afterwards my wife
had a son, he is my father's
brother-in-law, and my uncle,
for he is the brother of my step
mother, (namely) my father's
wife. My "step-mother had a son
he is my brother and at the same
time my grand-child, because he
is the son of m> daughter. My
wife is my grand-mother. I am
my wife's husband and grand
son at the same time, and as the
husband of a person's grand
mother is his grand-father, I am
my own grand-father.
Constipation causes headache, nausea,
dizziness, languor, heart palpitation.
Drastic physics gaipe, sicken, weaken
the bowls and don't cure. Doan's
Regulats act gently and cure constipa
tion. 35 cents, Ask your druggist.
Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905.
Hired Girl, Hired Man.
Considerable fuss was recently
made because an estern million
aire has "stooped" to mary a
hired girl living in lowa.
Why?
The girl must have graces and
personal points or the millionaire
would not haye chosen her. And
it is safe to say that morally she
is his equal if not his superior.
There is no stooping about it.
They were on a level, or, if
anything, the hired girl was just
a little above the millionaire.
. All of us in Americe who a
mount to anything are hired peo
ple.
No doubt this millionaiae is a
hired man in charge of some big
coaporation. '
Roosevelt is a hired man.
And so are all our senators aud
congressmen and diplomats—ser
vants in the pay of the people.
And, fellow citizens:
One of the things that are the
matter with this country is the
growing tendency to look down
on the man who works with his
hands or the woman who works
with her hands.
The tendency is devilish and
dangerous.
Let us learn again that the
hands that are scarred by honest
toil bear words as honorable as
those received in battle. The
overalls and the gingham aprons
of labor are as honorable as and
vastly more useful than all the
martial trappings and uniforms
of war.
Let us learn again that the
doctrine of the dignity of labor
is fundamental to the republic.
And so we say hurrah for the
hired girl and the hired man,
these two who loyed each other
for what they were and paid no
aitention to the accidents of for
tunes! —Ex.
Rocky, Mountain Tea
tones the -stomach stimulates the lazy
liver; strengthen the bowele and makes
their action easy and natural. The
best tonic for the whole system. 35
cts, Tea or Tablets.
Menzies Drug Co.
A Pushing Line*
A party of traveling men in a
Chichigo . hotel were one day
bosting of the business done by
their respective firms, when one
of the drummers said:
"No house in the country, I am
proud to say, has more men and
women pushing its line of goods
than mine."
"What do you sell?" he was
asked.
'"Baby carriges!" shouted the
drummer, as he fled from the
room.
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«r of fruits, comes the
H chief ingredient of »
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on ty baking powder R*
moite from Royal i&n
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Pritchard Rakes Tom Settle.
In his temperance address at
Raleigh recently Judge Pritchard
said he thought the voting of
state prohibition was a foregone
conclusion the great concern now
being for a great majority that
will compel effective enforce
ment. Ho thought the present
strenuous campaign could but
create a law enforcing public
sentiment. He was glad there
was no politics in the measure
and stirred little sensation by a
dramatic declaration that the
devil or some, other nefarious
agency sent a man to the state
republican convention at Greens
boro last week to offer a resolu
tion that would put this vital
moral issue in politics and he re
joiced that the convention refused
to entertain the resolution and
adjourned without dignifying it
with even casual consideration.
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 Tar. It
quickly stops the cough and expels the
cold. It is safe and certian in results.
W. S. Martin & Co.
A Fairy Tale.
Once upon a time there was a
storekeeper who allowed his cus
tomers to come into his store
and wait upon themselves. He
also allowed them to put their
own prices on the goods he had
to sell. Each year the store
keeper grew poorer and poorer,
and from time to time he begged
his customers to pay him better
prices. He told them that his
goods were costing him more
than he got for them, and that
he was getting in debt and
couldn't make a living. His
customers only laughed at him
and told him to buy more goods
than he had been buying, and
thereby rn«ke more money. And
the storekeeper followed his cus
| tomers advice, and continued to
grow worse off each year. Now,
this storekeeper wasn't much of
a business man, was he? Here
tofore hasn't the farmer been
doing business somewhat on this
! line?— Cotton Journal.
i Insist upon DeWitt's Witch Hazel
salve. There are substitutes, but there
is only one original. It is healing,
soothing and cooling and is especially
good for piles. Sold byC. M. Shuford.
& W. S. Martin.
If Caleb Powers is to be releas
ed, the governor of Kentucky
should put him under bond not
to go on the lecture platform.
His threat to come to Congress is
bad enough.