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THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 27,1908.
CATAWBA TO BE HARNESStr.
Company Forming to Develop
Electrical Power From
River.
Amass meeting was held in
the Cit* Ball Thursday night for
the purpose of awakening inter
est in the much mooted question
of developing the Water power
of Catawba river. It developed
chat a few of the local capitalists
had taken the lead in the affair
md hi d been quietly prospecting
for some little time. More than
that quite a little subscription
jvas in evidence which when
totalled amounted to about $125.-
JOO. Most of this had been sub
scribed in Hickory in sums rang
ing from SSOO to $20,000. A few
lames of gentlemen from Lenoir
md Morganton etc were on the
list.
Probably one hundred citizens
were present at the meeting
nost of whom were merchants
and business men. There were
in evidence quite a number of
other professions.
After the men had assembled
S. L. Shuford moved that Hon.
J. D. Elliott be made chairman
of the meeting; this was approv
ed. Mr. Elliott on taking the
jhair stated in brief words the
>bject of the meeting and then
isked Atty E. B. Cline to address
the meeting.
Mr. Cline received close at
tention throughout his remarks,
rle stated that in order to secure
the electrical plant a sum of
$150,000 was needed and of this
imount all but 25,000 had been
subscribed; the meeting was for
the purpose of raising the re
nainder. In concise terms he
spoke of the necessity of the
jlant: If Hickory grew it must
lave new enterprises; enterpris
es must have motive power; wood
eould not be procured for fuel
md coal was fast failing; there
remained onlv electricity. There
fore. if Hickory wanted new
enterprises electrical energy
nust be here for their motive
power. The expense of electri
cal motive power was less than
lalf of any other kind being
supplied at S2O. per horse power.
It was natural for a new enter
prise to be located at a point
where such motive power could
he secured; at Hickory if possible
if not then somewhere else. Now
was the opportune time to build
the plant because the material
needed for its construction was
«:o be had at a low price especi
illy copper wire and cement.
Mr. Cline then explained that
i tentative possession had been
gained of about two miles of the
Catawba.bed and 850 acres of
land adjacent. In these two
miles there was a fall of twenty
eight feet and it was purposed to
erect here a dam of the same
height and .erect an electrical
plant of 5000 horse power. This
the engineers had estimated to
colt $350,000 but if $150,000 could
be raised the plant could be
bonded for the remainder. There
was already a demand for the
full amount of power that could
be furnished.
Estimating the cost of running
the plant at $36,000 a year and
illowing $4,000 extra for a sink
ing fund the investment would
realize about 30 per cent divi
dends.
In closing Mr. Cline showed
that the enterprise would be of
benefit to Hickory in other ways
than financial.
After Mr. Cline's address A,
A. vVhitener, Dr. Ramsay and
E. L. Shuford spoke briefly and
the Mr. Elliott named Mr. Cilley
and Dr. Ramsay as a committee
raise the $25,000.
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diseases. Burdock Blood Bitters pur
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EDDY ISM
Or Christian Science, so Called
(Extracts)
St. Paul in this passage warn
his son in the faith and his sue
cessor in the apostolic offic
against two dangers that bese
him in the region of his religiou
life He is to guard against th
subtleties and deceptions of hu
man philosophy, of science abou
God and man and life, falsely s
called, which some in his day
professing, had erred concerting
the true faith. They—the Apos
tie meant to say, had drifter
away from the truth they haf
been taught and had swung of
into man-made systems and fool
ish delusions. This appeal,'thw
to be on his guard, could no
have been more apropos had th
Apostle had in his mind that nev
religion which has sprung up ii
our day which is best describee
as "Eddyism." The dry, whit
light of publicity has for a yea?
and more been mercilessly beat
ing upon this nineteenth centiir>
revelation, so-called upon it>
founder, its history, its claims,
bringing into the open its weak
foundation, and the slendei
of truth running through it, lay
ing bare to the everyday mar
and woman the mistery that ha£
hung around Mrs. Eddy an(
her cult.
What is Christian Science af
terall? And first, we may saj
this so-called Christian Science is
a sort of philosophy, a form oi
delusion before it is a religion,
much less a science. It is, in
plain words, the theory as old as
man, that there is no reality
save thought. In India, in
Greece, by Plato, by Gautama,
by Bishop Berkeley, by Spinoza,
and by Kant, the German meta
physician, we have had Mrs.
Eddy's ideas presented to U6 be
fore and in far more scientific
form. "The one reality," says
Mrs. Eddy, is God, whose other
name is Mind or Spirit. All is
infinite Mind and its infinite
manifestation. What seems to
be matter is a mortal, material
sense of that which is spiritual
and perfect. Matter and mortal
body are the illusions of human
belief which seem to appear and
and disappear to mortal sense
alone. What does Mrs. Eddy
wish to express by these phases?
Simply this, that matter has no
real existence. But no one has
ever dreamed of doing what Mrs.
Eddy has done, viz., make the
philosophy of idealism ih the
minds of her followers a revela
tion handed down from heaven
at a definite time and place, as
the basis of a new and startling
faith. Now we come to the
crucial question, What is the
difference, the vital vast differ
ence between Christian Science
and Historic Christianity, the
Faith of the Ages? Surely this
first, Historic Christianity, ac
cepts things as they are. It
takes in the entire sum of facts,
as in all their reality, they enter
into our vital experience. It
sees the solid earth in its undeni
able activity. It sees humanity
in its unmistakable flesh and
blood. It sees a vast physical
universe, moving under inexor
able laws, held together by the
stress of co-ordinated forces. All
this it sees, it accepts. It den
ies nothing, it refuses nothing.
Christianity holds to the teach
ing of true science, viz., the
gradual development of the ma
terial universe by the process we
cj*ll evolution, which Jesus illus
trates in his words, "First the
blade, then the ear, after that
the full corn in the ear." And so
Christian Science is utterly un
scientific, f6r science has no
place for finality which Mrs. Ed
dy has always claimed for her
revelation. God has taken time
1 yea, sometimes ages to do His
work, both in the solid earth be
neath our feet and in the upward
novement of human deve'or
nent. And step by step the hi
nan soul has reared these land
narks and made them to star,*
•>s the adamantine rocks, viz.,
till Family, the Statf
;he Cuurch. But denying th
vay of evolution, Christian Sc:
nee becomes philosophical an
.rchy, and in its theory of thing
vould make us break with tb
>ast, scatter to the winds all the
nstitutions that man has. built
lp at an cost of life
md limk and substitute for all
hat man has gained in govern-,
nent, industry, morals, and re
igion, a state in which every
aan would do what seemed
ight in his own eyes. Tbis,
hen, is one indictment against
:hristain Science as a system oi
ihilosophy, or, as we plain peo
>le say, as an everyday working
principle of life.
Let lis look at "Eddyism" as i
eligion. As a religion it offer,
tself and its teaching to the peo
)le of this land. It is therefore
mportant to lay bare its religious
.'oundations. And first as a re
igion it is as full of defects, as
t is fundamentally defective as b
)hilosophy. From the days oi
Richard Kennedy she laid specia
stress on the impersonalities oi
jod. In the first and the third
sditions of Science and Health
•she writes, "God is nota person,
jod is principle." "Principle is
Divine, one Life, one Truth, one
Love." Principle is Mrs. Eddy's
jod, for which she has many
jynonyms; "God," "Mind,"
'Spirit," "Soul," "Substance."
3efore 1875 she wes telling her
pupils they could make no pro
gress till they banished from
their minds the thought of God
is person. In one of her books
she says "God is Love," but she
idds, "Love is Principle, not per
son. '' Another phrase constant
ly in use is, "God is All in All,"
vhich being reversed reads, "All
in all is Godi" This is panthe
ism, and from this she soon plun
ges into dualism. Mr. Mosley,
her apologist, describes her dual
ism in these words: "The Im
mortal Mind and its universe of
pure, perfect and immortal ideas
is in direct opposition to the mor
tal mind and its seeming world
of imperfections."" One of the
strangest claims for Christian
Science made by Mrs. Eddy is
this, that Christian Science is
the Holy Spirit, inasmuch as it is
the promise made by Christ to
send the Comforter to His dis
ciples. And her teaching about
our Lord is especially vague, he
retical and irreverent.
Mrs. Eddy says, "Health is not
a condition of matter, but of
mind." Organic diseases she
has cured as readily as function
al diseases. Consumption in its
last stages, malignant tubercular
diphtheria, and cancer that de
fied all other human skill; Mrs.
Eddy claims to have cured.
Ev6h leprosy is easy to relieve
by Christian Science methods,
and malformed limbs and brain
diseases are scarcely worth re
garding in the eyes of th?s school
of therapeutics.
Dr. J. B. Huber, of New York,
undertook an investigation on
his own account of Christian
Science healing. First, eliminat
ing the downright failures which
proved to be numerous, he made
a careful examination of twenty
so-called cures. In these cases
there was no distinct proof of
Christian Science methods.
Some under examination broke
down and restored to evasion.
Some were cured, he found, of
diseases which they diagnosed
themselves.
Holding that there is no such
thing as matter, she disavows
the sacramental character of
marriage, and says there is a
rime coming here on earth when
"there shall be no more marry
ing nor giving in marriage."
She and her system, therefore,
discourage and tend to do away
with marriage, and so with the
Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905.
family and the home. No mem
>ar of the Christian Science body
3 especially commissioned to
;olemnize marriages. Li the
"hurch Manual, with explicit di
ection about everything eUe,
here is silence as to marriage,
.nd the Mother Church in Boston
vhich has a seating capacity of
>OOO, provision is made for a
Sunday school of only 230. "Is
narriage nearer right than cell
)aey," she asks and answers:
'Human knowledge inculcates
:h it it is, while Science indicates
hat it is not."
And now tP sum up and pro
nounce a just verdict upon this
voman's character, this strange
nortal who dares to put herself
tnd her relation above that of
;he unapproacable man of Gali
ee, who denies in the face of
•very fact that she has ever
been at fault in any step or act
>f her life, what do we find to
>e the mainspring and control
ling trait in her personality?
Ani we answer, with all due
ribute to whatever is good in her
:haracter, that "love of money
las been the root, and ambition
ind the goal of this woman's as
>iration." • Address by D. S.
iloodv.
THE LIST.
Vames of Those Subscribing
to Water-Power Develop
- ment Company.
We, the undersigned agree to
subscribe the following amounts
n the capital stock of a company
o be formed to x develop the
jvater. power on Catawba river
near Hickory, N. C.
No expenditures to be made
until at least $150,000,00 in valid
subscriptions be obtained. Shares
to be SIOO each.
Name Subscription
J D Elliott, 17.000
A A Shufore 15.000
C H Geitner 8.000
K C Menzies 6.000
J E Montague 1.100
J A Martin . 1.000
W B Ramsay _ 2.000
J L Cilley 2.000 ,
E B Cline 5.000
WLSherrill .560
W H Nicholson 1.000 -
S L Whitener 1.000
C H Geitner 5.000
J L Riddle , ~ 1.000
P C Setzer - 1.5000
L Flagler 1.000
C C Bost . 1.000
Bost& Newton • 2.000
J C Temple 1.000
E A Sommers 1.000
W B Menzies 1.5000
H F Elliott 1.000
F B Ingold 1.000
J W Elliott 2.500
E Lyerly ~ 2.000
AM Kestler 10.000
F'MScroggs . 1.5000
Temple Sommers .500
J R Whitener .200
D S Abernethy .500
C H Cline .500
W S Martin .500
Geo. Lyerly 5.000
McCoy Moretz .500
A. LjShuford .500
E L Shuford .500
J G Carrier .500
J A Cline .500
A F Hart 1.000
B F Seagle .500
J L Latta .500
Abee & Edwards 1.000
P A Setzer 1.000
Hickory Brick Co. 1.000
J W Shuford 1.000
J W Blackwelder 1.000
McComb Bros. 5.000
A A Whitener 1.500
J S Leonard . 1.000
J M Edwards .500
Walker Lyerlv 2.000
G W Hall .500
J F Abernethy 2.000
H H Abee ' .500
J A Lentz I.OOC
C A Munroe 1.000
G R Wooten -100
J Guy Cline .500
The following subscriptions
were received at Lenoir.
Name Subscription
T B Lenoir .500
J M Bernhardt 1.000
G L Bernhardt I.OOC
G W F Harper .500
OPLutz 2.000
HC Martin -500
CITY SCHOOLS.
» Outline of Work.
The city school work will be
rin the year's work on Monday,
\ugust 31. On the first day pu
pils will be assigned to their
■?rad©3, seats will be allotted,
book lists given out, and lessons
assigned. It is very necessary
cherefore that all pupils be pres
ent on the opening day.
Some changes have been made
in the course of study in the
schools, which changes, it is be
lieved will add to the efficiency
of the schools. The course of
study has been arranged in oc
cordance with the most approv
ed educational principles, and is
the equal of that in any of the
city schools of the State. The,
fundamental idea running
through all the ten grades is to
give the pupils a thorough prac
tical education, and also to give
that mental training and culture
necessary to the highest success
in life. In the primary grades
reading, writing and spelling re
ceive most attention; in the in
termediate grades reading, spell
ing, arithmetic and grammar are
stressed most, with history and
geography for general informa
tion and knowledge; in the high
school department mathematics,
English, history, science and
Latin are of equal importance.
This course of study provides
both for practical utilitary and
for mental culture. No child
will have fewer than four nor
more than five recitations a day,
and it is believed that any child
of average mental ability can do
all the work outlined, without
dropping any subject.
As a matter of information to
all those concerned, a v brief out
line of the course of study is giv
en.
PRIMARY DEPARTMENT.
First grade:—Reading, Ward's
Primers and Graded Classics No.
1; spelling, phonicTand alphabet
methods; writing, pencil and
tablet.
Second grade:—Ward's First
Reader, Graded Classics No* 2,
Bittle People of Other Lands,
Stores of Great Americans, Foust
and Griffins Speller, Vertical
copy book No. 1.
Third grade:—Stepping Stones
to Literature No. 3, Classics Old
and New third reader geograph
ical nature reader, first physiolo
gy, history stories, Foust and
Griffin's Speller, copybook No.
2. number work in division.
DEPARTMENT.
Fourth grade:—Foust and
Griffin's speller, fourth reader,
history stories, primary arithme
tic, language lesson book one,
Tarr and McMurry's geography
book one, copy book 3.
Fifth, grade:—Spelling, read
ing, language lessons book one,
Intermediate arithmetic, primary
history, Tarr and McMurry's
geography book two, copy book
No. 4.
Sixth grade.—Spelling, Reed
Kellogg's graded lessons in Eng
lish, Reading, Intermediate
anthmetic, Murry's new com
plete geography, second physiol
ogy, copybook 5.
Seventh grade: Spelling,
Buehlers English r rammer, read
ing, advanced arithmetic, Unit
ed States history, copybook No.
6, Murry's geography in fall
term and first year Latin in
spring term.
• HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
First year—Advanced arith
metic, elementray algebra, Eng
lish history, Collar and Daniell's
first year Latin, Buehler's gram
mar.
Second year:—High school al
gebra and elementary geometry*
Myer's general history, three
books of Caesar, spelling and def
ining, Reed and Kellogg's higher
lessons in English.
Third year:—Four books of
plane geometry, history of Unit
i ad States and North Corolina
history, algebra and high school
arithmetic, Genung's Outlines of
Rhetoric, Cicero's Orations and
i Virgil's Aeneid, Physics and
ijChemisty.