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Farm and j Garden BLACK K::CT IN PLUMS. Mo: e Light on the Failure of Plums In , the Ecst. F. C. Se:ips of the Massachusetts ag ricultural college writes follovrs about black knot In plums: ' I have lwK;n interested in looking through the col'cge orchard recently to notice the comparative susceptibility of the different varieties and classes of plums to black knot and In comparing present indications with past- expert ence along the same lines. The tree agent Who sells plum trees which are warranted to be "kind TREK WITH BLACK KNOT, proof' is undoubtedly a nature fakir, but if he selects the right varieties among the Japanese he will come much nearer than usual to the truth. In two rows in the college orchard of twenty two trees each, one of Red June and the other of Burbank, I found In a reasonably long search not a single specimen of black knot. And last year their record was almost equally clean. On trees in adjoining rows of Engel hart and Bradshaw, however, knots are all too abundant, though not nearly so bad as last season. They would probably average half a dozen knots to the tree this season, while last year the same trees yielded a couple of bushels of knots from the two rows. While this is a little discouraging to the man who wants to grow the domes tic plums, as everybody does who wants high quality, still it is surpris ing how little time is required to keep down this disease if It is taken in time and systematically bandied. And it Is equally surprising how badly a tree can be affected and still be recovered satisfactorily. A few years ago the writer undertook to revive some old trees which would ordinarily have been cut down and put on the brush heap. They were a mass of knots from top to bottom. We selected a time when the -snow was on the ground so that the knots could be easily gathered up and cut out every vestigfrof the dis ease, though in some casesr this left a pretty small proportion of the original tree. In removing a knot we cut at least six inches below it, so as to tw sure and take out the roots of the dis ease. That year the trees made a big growth, often three or four feet, but a good many new knots also came out which were removed that autumn, the trees also receiving two thorough sprayings with bordeaux mixture dur ing the summer. The following two years we did near ly all our cutting in the summer and found it much more satisfactory in its results than cutting during the dor mant season. To begin with, as the knots were removed as soon as they appeared we saved the crop of sum mer spores which would otherwise have spread the disease. Then, the knots - being young and soft, we could fre quently shave them off and thus save the branch on which they grew. Last ly, when it became necessary to cut out a branch altogether, in getting rid of a knot, the tree, being still In growth, would at once fill in the space thus made, so that by autumn It could hardly be seen. This work was done in a section where the black knot flourishes like the proverbial green bay tree, yet we found it by no .means a serious matter to rid these trees of the disease and keep them reasonably free. Three cuttings during the summer, with an autumn clearing up (after the leaves were off) of the knots which had escaped thus far. «rmblned with three application* of bordeaux mixture, did the work. Our sprayings were applied one be fore the leaves opened, one after the blossoms fell and one about two weeks later. Lest some may think this a pret- ty serious programme, I may say that the summer cutting the third season took just four and one-half hours for nil orchard of ninety trees. Fresh Eggs. Secretary Wilson says that hereafter eggs sold as "fresh" oj' "strictly fresh" must be exactly what they aue repre sented to be. Storage eggs must be sold as such or under the pure food law the dealer is liaWe to a fine of SSOO or six months' imprisonment, or both. Thousands of people know how « "strictly fresh" egg tastes. This will give them a chance to find out. Hauling Crops. Inquiries conducted in over 1,000 counties of the United States by the department of agriculture indicate that the average length of haul of crops over country roads Is 12.1 miles, the average weight of the load 2,002 pounds and the average cost per mile 2".2 cents, or about $3 per load, the figures being based on cost ot labor, feed, w»;ar, etc. « The Democrat is the paper. sl. Conover Letter. , " Correspondent to the I' emocrat It was not a meeting of synod but of a conference of Lutherans of the Missouri synod in the south-east, that held sessions here and at Aupustine church the last of August. It was in fact a good time. Concordia .College his reopened for the year with an increase in the number of students. The four profession are busy with their regular work. A young man named Richard Bendick'has been installed as teacher of the Lutheran congre gation at Conover. The school opened last week with forty pupils. The number will no doubt grow to sixty or seventy, some coming from beyond the bounds of the congregation. Juniors Koiner, who has been working for the Piedmont Elec tric Co. Asheville, has gone to the university, Chapel liiP. Ee will study surveying and electric engeerning. It has been well said that a crime should not be "huged up" and hidden because the perpetr ator is of honorable standing. It is equally true that a crime by a laboring man against an officer of the law should be tried and punished as promptly and certain ly as one by the cfficer against a blustering tippler. 9 Moreover, it seeing that a fatal mistake may be maid bv too hasty release from confinement of a maniac. The shocking murder Starr Town should be heeded by all who have the care of one wh'o is or has lately been insane. While many of us have felt the uncomfortable effects of the panic, and whilst some must be guilty of wrong in causing it, yet the panic must be serving a general good purpose. It gives hundreds a needed occasion to page, take breath and iciiect. "Take heed, and keep youi-j selves from all coyetousncs: for for a man's life consistet.le not in the abundance of the thirds which he pogsesseth." who said that?/ J S K Presbyterian Church Notes. Presbyterian services for com munion will be conducted on next Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30. All are invited to these services as they are purely de votional in character and intend ed to engage mind and heart in thoughts leading to the service of the Lord's supper. Communion service will be con ducted at 11 a. m. on Sunday. After the service at the singing of the last hymn a special col lection for the poor will be taken This is in addition to the regu lar collection before the sermon and is intended to provide a fund for emergency calls for charily. At an early date a IMen's Brotherhood will be organized in the church. The purpose of this Brotherhood will be to de velop the brotherhood spirit of Christianity among men, the de sire to be helpful to one another materially, spiritually and social ly, to inform ourselves on the work of the cMurch in its home and missionary fields. Popular addresses will be made at inter vals by prominent speakers of our own city and elsewhere. The household service will be e inducted at 4 o'ciock next Si;n --,d ly afternoon. All the families o' the church are asked to be present even to the smallest rhild. The pistor will prea;h jn "Fishes or The public generally invited to this service. There will be no service at night next Sunday. Beginning with Sunday night Sept. 27th Rev J. G. Garth will begin a series of sermons on marriage—"The Tie that Binds." There will be four serm>ns in the series as follows: 1. The We lding Bells. 2. The sitting room vs the club 3. The Hickory Stick. 4. The Old Fohis a Home. Ti ese sermons will be preach ed on Sunday nights and all are invited. The first one Septem ber 27th. Resolutions of Respect. Whereas it has pleased our Heavenly Father to remove from the Sunday school of Holy Trin ity Lutheran church, our sister, Miss Laura Deitz;_ and whereas the earnest Christian character and the intimate relations long held by our deceased sister with the members 6f the Sunday school render it proper that we should place on record our ap preciation her service and character, therefore be it re solved: First. That while in her death the Sunday school has lost one of its most faithful and devoted teachers We bow to the de vine will, feeling grateful for the example of such a life -and faith as hers. Second: That though trans planted to the Heavenly King dom, the influence of her gentle and cheerful disposition remains with us. Third. That we tender oar sincere and heart-felt sympathy to the bereaved family and in voke the ministration of the Divine Comforter in their be half. Fourth. That these resolutions be entered upon the minutes of the Sunday school, and that a copy be sent to the family of the deceased, to the Lutheran Church Visitor and to the town papers for publication. Hattie Leonard 1 Jennie Lee Little f Com. Mabel Hav/n J Tribute of Respects. It is with profound sorrow that we record the death of M rs. L. C. Bost, wife of Brother L. C. Bost which occurred at Morgan ton Saturday Sept. 5 1908. To the bereaved brother and husband we would tender our sincere and heartfelt sympathy and while mingling our sorrows with his, would commend him to ihe care of our Heavenly Father, who is too wise to err, and too good to be unkind: Therefore be it resolved that in the death of Mrs Bo t, the church and the community has lost a faithful christian, the hus band a true, devoted, and loving companion. Resolved, that a page in our. record of the Jr. O. U. A. M. f be incribed to her memory, that these resolutions be spread up on our minutes, that a copy be sent to tue bereaved brother, a copy to the papers' and the Watchman tor publication. W. H. Wilfong 1 P. A. Rowe fCom. D. P. Smith J Public Sale of Household Goods. Saturday, Sept. 19th at 2 p. m. I will sell at public auction my household and Kitchen furniture ;ompri?ing beds, bedding, chairs dishes, etc. Terms cash. Anyone wishing to buy before hand I will wait on them at any time at my house, close to Episcopal church. This 14th of Sept., 1908. A Mcintosh. A TRAVELING MAN'S EXPERI ENCE "I must tell you my experience on an East bound O. R. & N. R. R. train from Pendleton to LeGrande, Ore., writes Sam A. Garber, a well known traveling man. "I was in the smok ing department with some other travel ing men when one of them went out into the coach and came back and said, "There is a woman sick unto death in the car. lat once got up and went out, found her very ill with cramp col ic; her hands and armi were drawn up so yon could not straighten them, and with a deathiike look on her face. Two or three ladies were working with her and giving her whiskey. I went to my suit case and got my bottle of Cham berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoe.. Remedy (I never travel without it,) ran to the water tank, put a double dose of the medicine in the glass, pour ed some water into it and stirred it with a pencil; then I had quite a time to get the ladies to let me give it to her but I succeeded. I could at once see the effect and I worked with her, rub bing her hands, and in twenty minutes ' 1 gave her another dose. By this time Ave were almost into Le Grande, where I was to leave the train I give the bottle to the husband to be used in case another dose should be needed, but by the time the train ran into Le Grande she was all right, and I received the thanks of every passenger in the car. 5 ' For Sale by W. S, Martin & Co. Lincoln and Bryan. ' Four years ago I voted for Roosevelt, bat today Bryan is, the man who stands for the~ rights of all the people. He has finally risen to the heights of the true and new Democracy and is the champion of the old. The poor man has not had a friend in the White House since t Lincoln died; today he looks to Bryan. "Tis many a day since Lincoln died, And angry seas still lash the shore; But now today, hope, angel-eyed Sits down beside the poor man's door; Today springs promise in the West, Springs like a flower from pra irie god; x Emblem of truth on his broad breast, On his broad brow the sign of God." -John W. Hall. A Novel Case in Police Court. On Monday night Sept. 14 one Lawerance Seagle, alighted from train No. 35 carrying a suit case and acting rather suspicious, Policeman, R. B. Shell noticing that he did not go directly home, followed and demanded an ex planation of his acts. On being .ske.l what his suit case contain ed, Mr. Seagle answered that it centained three gallons and one quart of whiskey. Officer Shell then took Mr. Seagle and the whiskey into custody and carried him before the mayor. Before being arrested, Seagle threw the suit case to the ground and stamped it in an effort to destroy the contents, but was prevented by the officer. On arriving at the Moyor's office it was found that the suit case contained five full quarts intact and eight broken bottles On the trial no evidence was of i fered by defence. For certain j • reasons, (those wishing to know j these reasons may ask Squire Sites) the trial was posponed un til Monday the lawyer for the defence, who, by then was the originator of the law, declared his own law unconstitutional. This law, it will be remember ed, makes the posession of more than two gallons of whiskey by one person in the county of Ca tawba, prima facie evidence of retailing. Seagle was fined fifty dollars including costs, Seagle at once sued for delivery of whiskey and upon giving bond in the sum of ten dollars the whiskey was delivered to coun sel for defense. Under authority of law, he then gave bond in the sum of twenty dollars and demanded repossession of the whiskey. The officer, after demanding the whiskey from its owners, noti fied the town that the services of a doctor and stomach pump would be required to obtain it. The town authorities are to be come ided on their zeal in inforc ing the prohibition laws. Regulates the bowels, promotes easy natural movements, cures constipation —Down's Regulets. Aik your drug gist rcr them, 25 cents a box. % How like the old Butler-Russell Fusicn days sounds the name of Cyrus Thompson and J. M. Mew borne on the Republican State ticket. Mill President Got SkLined. Mr. President of a cotton-mill at Union S, C. —he don't want to see his name in print —had two offers of 500 gallons of paint: $1.30 and $1.25. Took the $1.25; and got skinned. He'd have got three-quarters skinned if he'd taken the other. .The $1.30 was full-gallon; the $1.25 was 18 short. T>e full measure paint was adulterated 40 per cent; the short measure paint was adulterated 45 per cent besides benzine in the oil, don't know how much. Devoe lead-and zinc wasn't sold in the town then. It don't pay to monkey with paint. Devoe cost less than any of 'em; not ~by the gallon, of course; by the house and year. That's how to reckon it Go by name. 7 F. B. Ingoli. IN FASHION'S REALM, I | How a Young Girl's Hair Should Be Arranged. THE EFFECT MUST BE SIMPLE 1 Anything the Leaft Bit Artificial I* Inartistic and Incongruous—Ribbon Adornment Eminently Suited to the FreSh Young Faces They Surround. When a young girl reaches that milestone la career which is marked by the lengthening of hor frocks and the turning up of bar braids, she is as deeply concerned about the fashion of doing her hair as any debutante Is over the question of puffs or no puffs. Candidly, the sub ject of hairdressing means more to the girl who wears her braids up for the first time than It does to her older sis ter/ She has nothing to guide her in the way of former experience, and she does not always get that sympathetic A tOW COIFFOBE. help older sisters might render If they remembered how Important the coif fure Is to the schoolgirl. Doing the hair up does not mean that the hair is actually arranged on the top of the head. The "up" is used comparatively lu contrast to the hang ing braids or curls worn by girls under fourteen. In a general way the yo 'ng I girl's coiffure is following in the load of the one adopted by fashionable women. It suggests ever go slightly a Grecian effect by reason of its ness at the back of the head. A simple way to manage this style of dressing Is to roll the sides of the hair back from the face, either from a middle part or straight back from the forehead, and twist it altogether in a i double loop, pinning the coils across the head in a horizontal line. Anything the least bit suggestive of artificiality in a young girl's hairdress ing Is not only inartistic, but borders on the Incongruous. Naturalness is the point aimed at, and a marcel wave, no matter how cleverly it is accomplished, stamps any head with artificiality. Al •most all girls' hair has a slight wave of I its own around the face, and this may be encouraged by simple means, but never by. the iron. Fancy hairpins, ornaments and combs are not proper features of girls' coif fures. They wear shell pins and combs to serve a practical purpose, but never in a decorative way. When the hair is not tied before it is put up a comb will be found most useful in keeping the hair in place and in making the dressing simpler. These combs rarely show, however, and when one does get a glimpse of them it is only of a bit of polished tortoise shell rim. Rib bons wound through the pompadour and in and out of the coil 3 make a pretty way to arrange the hair for a party. Ribbons are simple and artis tic and eminently suited to the fresh young faces they surround. The dou " MODIFIED PSYCHE. ble faced kind a little over an inch wide gives the best results. The weav ing may start at the back and cross lu front through the pompadour, then be brought back to the knot again and the ends tucked under a loop, of the hair or the two tied in a girlish bow. AMY VARNUM. Don't Be Discouraged. Beginning a thing Is easy. It's the stickiag to it that is difficult. The test of character is the ability to go on and finish. It is a rare virtue and an exceedingly valuable one. for, what ever you have set yourself to do, there will surely come a time of discourage ment, when you doubt if, after all, it Is worth while. Look out for that time—the time when you are tempted to turn back. It Is there that the dan ger lies. It doesn't matter what your work is—earning a living or making a home or conquering a besetting sin— the discouragement is bound to come. Don't give way to it. Be prepared for ft and make up your mind to keep oa Just the same. | Do you take the Democrat? ? A Call for Campaign Sub- j j scriptions. ; J The Democrat will receive ) ) and acknowledge contributions sto the Democratic National $ j Campaign fund in any amount ? from one dollar upward, for- £ J warding same promptly to the t 5 local treasurer of the Cam- ' J paign Committee. > Tnou/ands of good Demo- \ I crats in North Carolina should ? esteem it a privilege to contri • $ bute their portion to the sue ( j cess of the party. Registrars for November Elec tion. The following gentlemen have been named to act as registra> i for the November election: Catawba, * D. L. Wilke. Shawnee, Tate Leonard, Sher. Ford, D. E. Whitener, Mt. Pleasat, Locke Little, Piney Grove, Jas. Fulbright, Springs, Jean Isenhour, Maiden, Baxter Murray, Caldwells, R, L. Hewitt, Shufords. G. L. Reinhardt, Newton, E. M. Deal, Bandy's, A. F. Wood, Nor. Hickory, H. E. McCombs, # So. Hickory, D. E. Whitener, Early Grove, Frank E. Bost, Conover, J. S. Koiner, Claremont, Geo. E. Setzer. D, P. Rowe, Board cf J. B. Little, r S. M. Hamrick, J Electior s Mourning For the Deceased. Lan Maelaren told this story of grim humor in bis lecture "Scottish Traits;" A Scotch criminal condemned" to death was visited by his counsel, who hopeu to cheer him up just before the execu tion. After some words of cheer he said: "Is there anything I can do for you?" "Thank you, there is one thing you j can do for me before I am executed." "What is that?" "I would ask you to go to my chest and fetch my Sabbath blacks." "And what do you want with your 6abbath blacks?" "I wish to wear them as a mark of respect to the deceased."—Lyceumito and Talent 11100 ol or Indigestion . Relieves sour stomach palpitation of the heart Digests what you eat Speaking of danger, one of the greatest dangers of the age is s high power automobile in charge of a loW-power intellect.—Ex. TEE CHILDREN L2RC IT KENNEDY'S LAXATIVE COUGH SYRUP The murder of the young wo man near Newton by a lunatic, was a deplorable tragedy. The man had been insane, but had been apparently restored to his normal faculties and had con ducted himself as a safe citizen, There toave been other cases of a similar character —cases against which no human precaution can safeguard. —Chronicle. FOLEYSHONEWCAR for chlldront mafe, murm. No opiates Democratic Speaking. Hon. J. W. Bailey, Democratic Candidate for Presidental Elector at large will address the people at Hickory, Monday, Sept. 21 ARE YOU SURE That the ice cream you bur is strictly ' PURE I Do you know that the makers' hands were clean, flies excluded from the factory, and freezers and other utensils kept in Sanitary Condition I Why take any chanee where your health is concerned ? Why not MAKE AND FREEZE YOUR OWN ICE CREAM In 10 MINUTES FOR Ic. A PLATE with Jell-0 ICE mm Mr It is so easy, Simply stir contents of one 13c. package into a quart of milk and freeze, without cooking, heating or the ad dition of anything else. This makes two quarts of ice cream, clean, pure and whole some. A good ice cream freezer can be bought for a dollar or two which will last for and will soon save its cost. ( 2 packages JELL-0 ICS CREAM Pow der for 25c. Flavors: Chocolate, Vanilla, Strauj- I berry % Lemon and Unflavored. , Sold by all good grocers. Repair Shop , I do all kinds of repair work on Buggies, Carriages, Wagons, Wood-work, Blacksmithing. Builder ot Spring Dray Wagons and Platform Gears. J. E. Perkins. HIDKORY', N. C. HITTHE WRONG BANK' Story of the Man Who Wanted4o Open a Small Account. - A WALL STREET EXPERIENCE. J The Would B» Depositor of Modest Means Found Himself In a Plaoe FOP / Millionaires—An Official's Courteous Explanation and Advice. "When," said the man who writes f pieces for magazines and thinga, "by , some strange and unprecedented chance, * I had got hold of a matter of $350 all : at one and the same time It looked big: 1 to me. By an even more carious -,1 chance there wasn't anything that I really needed to do with the money, so ' : I decided that I'd bank it "Now, I knew In a general way that : In order to put money in a bank you've got to be known and give your pedi gree and look respectable, and all that, and I hated to approach a bank with- . out any sort of credentials. Therefore I wont to the business manager of a certain magazine which occasionally prints pieces that I write and asked him what I'd better do. "'Simplest thing in the world,' said he. 'l'll give you a note to our bank.' "That sounded fine to me. He wrote me the note, and I started for the bank a good deal tickled over how easy the little depositing proceeding had been made. "The bank to which I had the note Is In Wall street I asked the uniformed man who was standing around where I'd find the receiving teller's window, and he pointed that window out to me. I got iuto line and watched the teller take lu money. "I must own that I was a bit stalled to note the great size of some of the deposits he was receiving. Why, fel lows were giving the money to him by the satchelful. But I had my note in my pocket and I remained complacent enough with that consciousness. - "When 1 reached the receiving teller I passed in my note, and the receiving teller, a decidedly civil young man, opened it and read it Then be looked at me, after which he read the note again, this time with a sort of puzzled expression on his countenance. I didn't see why the receiving teller should be puzzled over such a simple matter, but puzzled he seemed. He rang a bell, and the uniformed man who'd directed me to that window appeared. " 'Show this gentleman to the office of the cashier.' said the receiving teller to the uniformed man, at the same time regarding me with a pleasant smile, and the uniformed man led me down the passageway and took me behind a railing where there was a haudsome gray haired gentleman sit ting at a desk. "The handsome gray haired gentle man received me cordially and Invited me to be seated. I handed him my note, which the receiving teller had returned to me, and he leaned back in his chair and read it carefully. Then he, too, looked puzzled after he'd read the note a second time. Then he look ed at me pleasantly over the tops of his spectacles. " 'Ahem!' said the handsome gray haired gentleman, not disagreeably, but in a nice, banker-like way. 'Might l— er—inquire, Mr. Peupbist without seeming to be unduly inquisitive, as to how—er—large a—er—balance you would usually be carrying?' "Well, that was a civil enough ques tion, nothing inquisitive about it w 'Why, sir,' 1 said to the handsome gray haired gentleman, *1 am opening an account with a matter of some $350, but I shall no doubt make some addi tions to that within the next two months, and probably 1 shall carry a balance of—well, say. SSOO or SGOO right along.' "The kindly cashier with the gray hair fairly beamed upon me. • " 'Er—just so. just so.' said he, twid dling his thumbs. 'We feel compli mented, Mr. Peuphlst, we really do, that you should have come to* us. And it is unfortunate—er—really unfortu nate, that we are so utterly lacking in facilities for taking care of accounts of such a character.' " 'You see, Mr. Peuphlst our institu tion is of—er—a sort of special charac ter. It is used as a depository by well, perhaps I should put it in a clearer manner. I say It to you quite in 1 confidence, you understand, Mr. Pen phist, but we have only 1,600 deposit ors on our books, and these 1,600 de positors' aggregate balances amount all the time to a matter of $110,000,000.' "Well, that was about enough. I saw the light then. I'd drifted into a millionaires' bank on the careless ere* deutials of a business manager who'd written me that note no doubt in a thoughtless mood. 1 "The gray haired cashier acted'bully. about It. He recommended a fine bnulc to me—'one that combines perfect re sponsibility with the necessary facili ties for handling accounts like—er— yours, Mr. Penphlst,' he added. "For all of the cashier's nlceness I walked out of there Into the cold gray light of Wall street feeling like a good deal of a human caterpillar. "I didn't go to the bank to me by the cashier; didn't have the nerve to visit any more banks. I't* got $62 left now of the $350, but I'm going to use that as a nest egg, and maybe some day even yet I'll have a bank account"—New York Sun. , The universe is not rich, enough to buy the vote of an honest man.—Oreg- . ory - ; I ' An innocent heart suspects no guile. •-Portuguese Proverb. J f i ■ i •. Subscribe for the Democrat. ■
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