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Established 1899 PROFESSIONAL CARDS Dr. J. C. BIDDIX, DENTIST Office over Singer Sewing Machine Parlor. HICKORY, - - N. C. R. W. WOLFE VETERINARY SURGEON Offers his professional services to any one in need of a Veterinary. Phone 199 Hickory, N. C. D. L. RUSSELL ATTYORNEY'ATVLAW Prompt attention given to all matters of Legal Nature Office: Main St., Russell Bldg., Hickory Dr. T. F. Stevenson PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office at Home Calls answered at all hours Phone' 295 - Hickory, N. C. Dr. Walter A. White DENTIST Office over Menzies Drag Store Hickory, N. C. DR. W. B. RAMSAY DENHSI Office: Second-story Post Office Hickorv. N. _C. THE NORTH CAROLINA State Normal and Industrial College Maintained by the State for the Women of North Carolina. Four regular Courses Leading to De grees. Special Courses for Teach ers. Fall Session begins Septem ber J5, 1009. Those desiring to enter should apply as early as pos sible. For catalogue and other information address J. I. FOUST, Greensboro, N. C. Fire Escapes. C. W. Tenney manufacturer of flexible ladders Greensboro, N. C. platforms for fire escapes. According to the new State law all public buildings must be pro vided with fire escapes. Write for prices are call on W. H. Hall, Hickory, N. C. j-10 4-t 3OOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOooocoooo© § Trinity § 0 Four Departments-Collegiate, 5 Q Graduate, Engineering and Law. Q 0 Large library facilities. Well- 0 § equipped laboratories in all de- 0 Q partments of Science. Gymna- g O sium furnished with best appara- 0 § tus. Expenses very moderate. 8 v Aid for worthy students. g g Young men wishing to study 8 0 law should investigate the superior C Q advantages offered by the depart- g 5 ment of law at Trinity College, g 5 For Catalogue and further infor- 0 Q mation. Address Q 8 D. W. NEWSOM, Registrar, | 8 Durham, N. C. O aOOOOV"HX50000000000CXX500CC 1 TRINITY PARK SCHOOL j $ A First-Class Preparatory School o {Certificates of Graduation Accepted for Entrance to Leading Southern Colleges. *» 6 Best Equipped Preparatory School $ § in the South. X Facnlty of ten officers and teach- 2 g ere. Campus of seventy-five acres. J g Library containing forty thousand | q volumes. Well equipped gymna jjj sium. High standards and mod- g S® ern methods of instruction. Fre- quent lectures by prominent lec- • g turers. Expenses exceedingly g § moderate. Eleven years of phe- $ A nomenal success. § For Catalogue and other Informa- ? « tion Address g | H. M. North, Headmaster § Durham, N. C- $ O B rHE HICKORY DEMOCRAT OUR BATTLEFIELDS. A View of Lookout Mountaaia And Some Thoughts En gendere Then. When Jefferson Davis was asked after Ihe war which of his Generals he considered the best, he promptly replied "Bragg." Lee, too, placed his greatest trust in a lieutenant whose inti macy with John Barleycorn was said to give aid and much com fort to his enemies and from this I conclude it is not the part of a great man to think little of a friend. Bragg's efforts toward increasing the pension list were more sincere than successful. "Opportunity," says Mr.. Dooley. "knocks waist at ivery man's dure a'n sometimes whin he comes to the dure hits him over the head with an ax an runs off." The Archey road philos opher may n)t have been t\ i ik ing of Bragg but k : s words apply as well as if uttered with malice aforethought Bragg had Op portunitv floored and sitting on him when all at once the under man biffed him and ostentatious ly skidooed. And Bragg being on a mountain, great was the fall thereof. This world as a whole, like Ceasar's Gaul, is divided into three parts—two parts civilized and the other part landlords and railroad companies. I rode up Lookout mountain on a cable car and it cost me six bits and much bitterness of spirit. Success is the ability to get the world in a sling and soak it. Next to price. I found the angle of ascent the steepest thing in my experience. In both cases I prefer something more horizontal. Riding at an angle of 75 degrees is apt to spoil my appreciation of the scenery and calls forth language of a nature bellicose rather than beautiful, It was lucky for Hooker that his men were provided with feet instead of eabb cars, else he might have added to his medals one of the "23" medallions Bragg had so carefully prepared for the occasion. We may not know as much about air ships but we are Jong on candidates and tourist guides. The one to whom we fell yictims was a walking talk factory of 120 wild cat power. Samson if provided with this man's jaw bone instead of that other ass's would have had no trouble with the Philistines, and might in time have hoped to si lence Delilah herself. He was a colored man, though not a minister, and with the ex ception of the afore mentioned St. Vitus Dance in his tongue no one would have taken him for a non compos menois. He gave us much interesting information, some of which appeared truthful and some historical. On Lookout Mountain, where forty years ago the gray clad army lav flushed with success and hopeful of victory, is now a modern little city, whose great est bid for fame is that it has no physician nor needs them. There are postal cards, however, and a large hotel by which means a wayfaring man can negotiate in jury unto himself at a modest rate. The government maintains a postoffic 3 and national park, both fillei up with war tims material. Th 2 entrance to Point I*ark is made in the image of Morro Cas tle, which building, be it remem bered did service as an ambulance for the Cubans, who were mak ing an enforced trip to the Bless ed Isles as a consequence of dis turbing Christina's siesta by their vulgar_activities. In the park are the same can non with which Bragg purposed to reduce Rosecrans to his orig inal elemen:s. There are old stockades on the mountain and the crumbling .remnants of an HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1909. old fort, both infested by young pirates who offer a look at Chat anoogo through a telescope for a modest stipend. The which is m jch the same as offering to let the man in the moon look at Po dunk Corners through a smoked glass. I walked through the park and stood on the Pulpit Rock which Davis occupied when he told his listening armies that all the for ces of the north could not dis lojge them. Sermons on the mount are pic turesque but sometimes disfigur ed by a painful absence of facts. I stood on a ledge of rocks and looked, as thousands before me have done, down that sheer fall of fifteen hundred feet, and mar velled that mortal man sufficed to climb it. I saw out in the plain the little white house that was Hooker's headquarters while the fight was on. I traced out the detour his men made to cross the Chick*mauga and the path they took when they climbed the mountain. Then I turned to Missionary Ridge and the little knoll where Grant lay till Hook er's cannon flashing on Lookout Mountain left him free to tight his own foes. Chattanooga is a typical Amer ican city deeply infested with smoke and Insurance agents. Hard by Lookout Mountain lifts its mighty form until its head far aloft attains the sea-tinted throne of God and in silent majesty looks out forever across the plane of Time and History. At its base flows the Tennes see, warranted by those who know it to be more crooked than Tammany Hall. Into the Tenn essee riyer flows the Chickamau ga with a lordly current four inches deep and navigable for light draught turtles in the wet season. Here, one may stand and look at the Kentucky festive feuds, gaze at North Carolina politics, watch Ben Tillman do the Pitch fork act in South Carolina, see the water wagon in Georgia and Alabama. Eleven states and three battlefields are in view when the haze lifts and each battlefield was mightily won and saw its thousands die. And yet this field of blood was a holy ground to the Indians. Surely time works changes. As I stood there looking out over the vast amphitheater of past arms, my thoughts went back to the far distant days of old, and I mused on what might have been, and what, if the Chief tain had been there, would have been. If Bragg after driving Rosecrans into Chattanooga could but have crushed him there with out delay, how changed the tide of human things! Then while the sun lay him down to sleep beneath the Tenn essee hills, I mused over the events of those fateful years when the stars in their courses f ught against the South, as Si sera of old. The beginning of the war had seen a Confederate battle line extending along two rivers—the Potomac and the Ohio. Behind the Potomac. Lee stood at bay and though the Northern storms beat heavily upon him, he fell not. Then learning by hard ex perience that nothing was to be gained in front the Union armies begafl to creep in flanking move in ants down the Mississippi to cut off the western supplies from the Army of Virginia if they could, and if they could not then take whatever the God of War should send. The leader of this flanking movement was Grant, whose corn-juice proclivities have onfounded many moralists, prophets and politicians. Down the Cumberland and Tennessee the flanking armies had moved, capturing Henry and (Continued on fourth page) WORK AT THE POLLS. ■ - ♦— Why Republicans robbed by The Tanfr Should Take This Medicine. A number %f shje manufactur ers, tanners pnd retailers have caused to be sent to their patrons through the United States, a cir cular urging them, in what might fairly be termed hysterical language, to write to their con gressmen and to President Taft urging them to prevent the meat trust from having its way. One of these circulars was sent to J. W. Morgan, a Starke, Flor ida, businessman. Mr. Morgan's reply ought to be read in every precinct of the United States and by every resident thereof, says the Commoner. Here it is: Starke, Fla., June 26, 1909. — National Free Hide League, Chic ago, 111. Gentlemen: I am in receipt of your circular letter concerning the question of free hides. lam heartily in sympa thy with the idea of free raw material, but as for writing to my congressman, or to the pres ident, not much, Johnnv. I dare say 75 p>r cent of the members of the numerous asso ciations • whom you clai.n are affilated in this effort to curb the meat trust, were also affilated last year in the effort of keeping the party in power which is now revising the tariff on the upward grade. Why didn't you affiliate, when you had .*fche chance last year, to put a party in Dower, which was pledged to a downward revision? You came ?quarely up to the "parting of the ways." gentlemen, but you took the same old route, with the result that you are up against it in the same old way, only more so. Now take your medicine, gentle men. You helped to mix the dose—it's just what you voted for, now take it. I hope you get your hide chuck full of it. The people had a chance for better things last fall at the bal lot box. Like one of old, they chose the "mess of pottage." Now. let the meat trust and the oil trust, and the grand old, trust-controlled republican party fill their hides so full of the bur dens of taxation (without repre sentation) that they will finally feel the death grip placed on them,, the yoke will be so galling that the worm will turn at last If oppression is the only thing to bring the people to a realiza tion of their wrongs, let oppres sion be poured out on them. Don't write to your congressman gentlemen. Sit up and during the next four years while you are trying to dodge the lemons which your party is busily en gaged in preparing for you, re solve by the help of God, and the party of Jefferson, Jackson and Bryan, that your votes be cast for the lifting of the burden from the weary back of this great American common people, of whom you are one, and I am one. Your appeals are useless now —as well strap jourself to the tail of a cyclone, and float on in the enjoyment of sweet repose and pleasant dreams. I'm sorry for you, but not too sorry to hope that you'll get your hide full. It's the only thing that will ever teach you anything, apparently. Truly yours, J. W. MORGAN, Board of Elections. Governor Kitchin has appoint ed as members of the State board of elections for the ensuing term Col, Wilson G. Lamb, of William ston; J. D. Elliott, of Hickory; J. C. Clifford, of Dunn; A. B. Free man, of Henderson ville; and Clarence Call, of Wilkesboro, the last two named being Republi cans. The law requires three Democrats and two Republicans. The Republicans are both re-ap pointments, as is also Col. Lamb. Mr. Elliott succeeds R. T. Clay well, of Morganton. Mr. Cliff succeeds R. A. Smith, of Stanley county. "GOD GIVE US MEN." God give us men! Tlie time demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; , Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy: Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not lie; Meu who can stand before a demagogue And damn his treacherous flatteries with out winking; Tall men, sun crowned, who live above the fog In public duty and in private thinking? For while the rabble, with their time worn creeds, Their large professions and tlitir little deeds, Mingle in selfish strife, 10, Freedom weeps. Wrong rules the land and waiting Justice sleeps! —John G, Holland. Education. Our higher education, like the lower grades, should train the men and the women who are to serve tomorrow as the nation's spiritual and moral guides. Such college education is useful. The man at the stable, in the factory, the shop, the fields, will do bet ter and more valuable work with than without a college training, but this is a lower reason for the sacrifice by which we gain a col lege education, and there is a higher. A college education, like all true education, is for the man himself —the woman her self. It is not a mears to win daily bread, nor a mere tool to make money. A. college trained person has a value grander and greater than a loaf of bread. a heavy purse, or even a big for tune. If one's education has done him any good it has made him a factor for righteousness, for all that is best and most wor thy. K. Judge Allen's Sense. "I had far rather see whis key manufactured and sold in every part of the State without restraint than to have this State prohibition law on the statute books without enforcement." de clared Judge W. R. Allen, of Goldsboro, in convening Wake county criminal court for a two weeks term, July 12th. He was delivering his charge to the grand jury and was urging on the jury the importance of the enforce ment for law. Laws unenforced, he declared, breed disregard and contempt of law. He urged the jurors, without regard to their personal views on prohibition, whether for or against it, to make diligent investigation the county over as to violations of State prohibition. The great majority of the people had voted for the law and there was noth ing for good citizens to do but to unite in efforts for its enforce ment. . It Pays to Advertise. Mary had a little4amb, its fleece was white as snow; it strayed away one day, where lambs should never go. And Mary sat her quickly down and tears streamed from her eyes; she nev er found the lamb because she did not advertise. And Mary had a brother John who kept a village store; he sat down and smoked a pipe and watched the open door. And as the people passed along and did not stop to buy, John still sat and smoked his pipe and blinked his sleepy eye. And so the sheriff closed him out, but still he lingered near, and Mary came to drop a sympathetic tear. How is it, sister, can you tell how other merchants here sell all their goods so readily and thrive from year to year? Remembering her own bad luck the little maid re plies: "These other fellows get there John, because they adver tise."—Winchester Evening Star Democrat and Press, Consolidated r905 | KNOWLEDGE ! I of a depositor's business Ij /»S character and methods is $ ✓j\ an important element in w judging his responsibility. _ $ 4 The broad basis of this w § bank's service is mutual r understanding and confi- % /j\ dence between its officers & and patrons. x | ======= | g Hickory Banking & Trust Co., j Hickory, N. C. l| CBCES*! jjlj Have you a good watch? If B not, you need one, and I am in a position to serve you in the jj|j best possible manner. jj|j SMY STOCK IS LARGE, | and all the reliable makes and grades are always on hand at the lowest prices; 7 to 24 jewel movements, plain nickel to sol id gold cases. I GEO. E. BISANAR, J j|| Jewele and Optician BlltfiiUUUTOroUWfHftnKittfiiiraia I THE BEACON LIGHT | sliines day and night to the mariner who )C sails the seas. You can't get wrecked when IC you cast light on our completely assorted JS Furniture 5 No mariner's compass is truer than values we give for |? dollars paid us. Nothing exaggerated. Buy and be |C ■n satisfied. CASH or CREDIT. IE | Hatcher furniture Co. | S Complete Home Furnishers jjj S HICKORY, N. C. . j| j Summers T j i Draying and transferring done promptly 4 i and reasonably on short notice. Special at- f A tention to baggage transferred. Experienced f 4 and courteous white drivers, 4 J Calls Answered at All Times. j \ SUMMERS TRANSFER CO. i ? Phone 192. " i "V. _ _ FOR lIS YEARS boys have be«n prepared for COLLEGE and for LIFE, and hara bean trained BINGHAM tobeMKHat THE BINCHAM SCHOOL. Mially located on Ashevllle _ _ Plateau- Organiiatlon MILITARY for discipline, control and carriage. Boys expelled SCHOOL 'rom other school! not received. AVICI 011 S boy sent home a. won as diecovered. !- a . .... Hazing excluded by pledge of honor. Limited to 136. Rates reasonabla. ■ ISIU _____ AddiaaaCOL. R. BIHGHA*. Supt., R. f. D., BaiU.ASHTVIUE, K.C
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