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Established 1899 Spelling See Drew Big Crowd. Four Man Stood By The Guns Till 18:3? O'clock. AN OR THOEPIC DOG FALL Mr. M. H. Yount and His Rev eries of Old S veethearts- Neat Sum For Park Improvement. A fine audi-nce was out Friday evening to see Prof. Chas. M Staley play ninepins with Hicko ry's spellers. Prof. Sta- Jey would put the force of a per fect pronunciation and enuncia tion behind words out of Web ster's Blue Back anrt send them boiling across the "alley" of the Academy of Music stage, and sad was the havoc they played. The spelling bee fol.owed a de lightful program arranged by the Civic the benefit of park improvement. A neat sum must been realized for this purpose for the audience about filled the Academy. Mr. J. D. Elliott and Ex Sher iff Black welder tossed up and chose sides Then the bowling began. It was a long ways be yond "Baker" befoie the first orthoepic ninepin tumbled, but finally Prof. Staley sent "acquit tal" spinning down the alley and it floored Mr. Chas. Bost. He left one "t" out. There was a laugh when Mr. J. YV. Shuford drew "coffia" and also when a little later he spelled "monument." Prof. Staley also gave him "garment" and the audience wondered why lie didn't make it "shroud." Mr. Shuford, however, made a grave mistake when he tackled "fascination." That "sc" towards the front of the word bothered him and down he went. "Linchpin" was the ninepin that knocked down Mr. W. A. Self. He spelt it with a "y." Who could expect a lawyer to spell "lynch" with an 44 i"? Dr. YV. B. Ramsay spelled his pastor out of the "bee" on "un skillful" and then lost out him self on "sapphire," forgetting for the moment that the word was spelt a good deal like the name of Ananias' wife. Her bad name, coming down through the centuries, has prevented millions of girls from being named "Sap phira." It's a pretty name, and, presumably, means "blue gem," wnicn only a black lump of coal has inherited as a name. Mr. John Cilley's orthography was "impared." Mr. Geo. Hutton's "apetite" failed him. Mr. Frank Ingold didn't ''em bellish" his word with enough "is." And so on. Mr. Banks seemed to have cre ated a sensation Dy pronouncing his words fore and aft—and all the way through: Thus: "In comprehensibility—l-n, in;c-o-m, com, incom; p-r-e, pre, incompre; h-e-n, hen, incomprehen. s-i, si. incomprenensi; b-i-1, bil, incom prehension; i, ey, incomprehensi biii; t-y, ty, incomprehensibility." At 10:30 o'clock Prof Staley got tired of bowling, as there were four nine pins which rather ouounaiely reiused to go down — Rev. J. S. Moody and Mr. J. A. Bowles on Mr. Blackwelder's side and President R. L. Fritz and Mr. Howard A. Banks on Mr. Elliott's side. Previous to the spelling bee "His Old Sweethearts" was Dulled off with Mr. M. H. Yount as th= hero of the stunt. Apollo would not have been in it with Mr. Yount if the latter had lived on Olympus. The scene showed him, handsomer than Gov. Kitch in, looking over his letters of congratulation on the eve of his weudmg day. In a ruminative mood ne recalls memories of ten old sweetnearts. As he did so. each beuaty appeared on the stage and framed herself in a golden mirror on the centre of the stage. The first was dearest little Betty, a school girl with curls, toting her books to school. En thusiastic Kate came next wear ing a lootuail sweater and wav ing a flag with college colors. Blanche burst upon the view wearing a black Gainsborough, measuring from tip to tip as far as the East is from the West. ►She carried lilacs. Glorious Blanche Minied as Mr. Yount commented on the old days. THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT Elizabeth was No. 4—a Portia like creature in the school girl's mortar cap ana gown. Yount said she had tried to make a D. D. out of him, and Lizzie couldn'c keep a straight face as he said it. Mildred was a staid and stately creature dressed in crimson with fur trimmings. Clara was a s/mphony in white, toting jon quils in one hand and a spotless parachute in t'other under which she had just descended from a s.owstorm in the clouds. Clara couldn't keep a straight face eye-ther, and showed a row of p«ails w! en Adonis said some ti ing funny about being engaged to a girl at Newton. Jeannette galloped into the hero's heart on a Kentucky thoroughbred, he said. She was there i.i the frame in riding hab ii- and hat, with whip in hand. Helen was No. 8 in society's :>->st bib and tucker. "Life was t»ne long cotillion to her," Mr. Yount said, and she was a fre quenter of pink teas. Beatrice was an artist whom he met sketching "Grandfather" up about Blowing Rock. She was !an artist who would have tested an artist's skill to reproduce, too. Majorie floated into the living picture irame on a strain of soft music. She was a Hallelujah Chorus incarnate but Marsh lost her, he said. She ran off and married a tenor. Ah, but Mary! She was last but not least. Superbly beauti ful, she floated in bridal veil and garb into the frame, a vision of glory, while the music softly sug gested the wedding march. There could be no change of heart after this! The ten young ladies were as follows: Misses Mary Burnsides, Little Brittle; Lucile Shuford, Kate; Nina Ramsey, Blanche; Marguer ite Link, Elizabeth; Margaret Bost, Mildred; Frankie Self, Clara; Helen Chadwick, Jean ette; Grace Abernethy. Helen; Ethel Hendlev, Beatrice; Hazel Elliott. M trjorie, and Mrs Coop er. Mary. The musical part of the pro gram was delightfully contrib uted to by Miss Margeret Bost and Mrs. A. L. Shuford in instrumen tal duet; Miss A. L. Abernethy and Mr. D'Anna in vocal duet; also a solo by Mrs. J. L. Murphy and Sig. S. D'Anna. . The recitations all showed re markable talent and were by Miss Hazel Elliott, "The Inno cent .Drummer;" Miss Heller, "How Uncle Wash Played Santa Claus;" and Miss Margaret Bost, 'The Boy in the Dime Museum," Lieut. Gov. W. C. Newland passed through the city last week on his way to Hot Springs, Ark.,, to take treatment for rheumatism Rev. F. W.-Bradley and Mr. B. G. Bradley of Gaston county, were here last week attending the funeral of their sister, Mrs. Caroline Hanna. The Democrat staff acknowl edges an invitation to attend the opening of the American Trust Company's elegant new banking house in Charlotte on December 15th from 10 a. m. to 5 p, m. Mr. George Stephens is president and Mr. W. H. Wood secretary and treasurer of the company, Street Foreman T. A. Wilson and a force of hands after grad ing the sidewalk for cement just above the Methodist church turned their attention to repair ing the 12th street sidewalks near Mr. R. F, Huffman's store. Mr. Lark H. Robinson brought to the city yesterday several full blown cotton blossoms which he plucked on his farm in. lower Providence township While a trifle small, the blooms were well matured and perfectly formed. Mr. Rooinson states that he nev er betore observed such a condi tion of affairs in all of his experi ence as a cotton planter.—Char lotte Observer. For That Dull Feeling After Eating. ♦ I have used Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets for some time, and can testify that they have, done me more good than any tablets I have ever used. My trouble was a heavy dull feeling after eating. —David Free man, Kempt, Nova Scotia. These tablets strengthen the stomach and improve the digestion. They also regulate the liver and bowels. They are far superior to pills but cost no more. Get a sample at W S. Mar tin's drug store and see what a splen did medicine it is. HICKORY, N. C. s THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1909. How Indians Get Strange Names Re?. Dr. J. L. Murphy Tells In teresting Story. CILLEY A STRATEGIST. The Late J. C. Abernethy's Horror of Holding Live News Catawba Boys' Succeess. Did you ever wonder how '' Rai n-in-the-f ace,'' ' 'Corn-Tas sel," "Man-Afraid-o f-h i s-Po nies," "Big Foot." "Red Cloud," "Horse Head," and all those Indian chiefs that we have read about in books and news papers happened to get their strange names? Rev. Dr. J. L. Murphy, pastor of the Reformed church threw a light on this question which has puzzled us from ancient times. "I am told," said Mr. Murphy, "by a gentleman who lived for some years amongst the Cherokees in the western part of North Caro lina, that the Indian mothers soon after the birth of their little ones go out into the woods or the fields, and the first thing they see which touches their hearts, impressionable as they are. and attuned so delicately to the harmonies of nature, is that which gives name to the dainty little pappoose in the wigwam.'' Thus one can imagine the moth er going out in the early morning and as the bridal veil clouds fall gracefully upon the shoulders of the blue nills she will call her ti ny redskin darling, "Mist on-the-top-of the Mount ai n s." Or if the new-comer is a girl pap poose and she should see a winged little miner digging gold from the heart of a flower she night call the new baby, "Hum mingbird-in-the heart-of-the hon eysuckle." * * * One of the most brilliant news paper men in the city of Phila delphia, where it takes a man of parts to make a name for him self, is Mr. Gordon H. Cilley, whom Hickory gave to journal ism. The editor of the Demo crat and Mr. Cilley were happily associated together in their early careers on the Charlotte Observ er. Then their paths swung far apart awhile but curved round together once more when they again became colleagues on the staff or the Philadelphia Record, which the former left to become city editor of the Charlotte News while Mr. Cilley still remains with the staunchest Democratic champion in all the Northern press. That Mr. Cilley is considered a star man is evidence.l by the fact that his paper delegated him to report the Thaw trial in New York. This is only one of scores of important assignments he has been given, one other being an interview with the late president Cleveland. Cilley did a neat but hazardous piece of journalistic work during the Russo-Japanese war, and one which has always commanded the enthusiastic admiration of this writer. Gordon is a soldier by heredity and natural inclination. He threw away great prospects in an offer he had received on a Northern paper in order to vol unteer for the Spanish-American war as a member of the Hornet's Nest Riflemen of Charlotte. He had learned by experience some thing of forced marches, and he had made a study of the science of warfare. When the war be tween Russia and J*pan broke out Cilley was given the Associ ated Press war dispatches to han dle for The Record. All the A. P. stuff is rewritten on the Rec ord and Cilley used to do some brilliant work in handling the battles and campaigns. When Gen. Nogi captured Port Arthur he was ordered to go at once to reinforce Gen. Kuroki, who by brilliant flmk move ments, was shoving Gen. Kuro patkin back north through the deep Manchurian snows. Cillev got all the maps he could secure of the country through which Gen Nogi would to proceed. He studied the topography carefully. He noted where the valieys lay and where the victor of Gen. Stoessel would have to cross Korean mountains. He knew the | speedy record the Japanese j troops had made in forced marches when they marched with the allied troops to the relief of the legations at Pekin. Taking all these things into consideration, the young war expert on the Rec ord calculated how long it ought to take Nogi to join forces with Kuroki. On a certain day the Philadel phia Record announced in its "lead" to the war story that Gen. Nogi had add -d his army to that of the forces already driving the Russians in Manchuria. The news wis a "beat" not only on every paper in Philadelphia bul on every paper in the United Stales. Cilley had figure A out that NOoi o.isrht to bp there by that time and thus anticipated the Associated Press bv a day. Tne dav after his statement that Nogi was there ail the other pi pers of the country printed the story, cabled from the Far East. Then Cilley went to Harry Bald win, the news editor, and tolJ him what he had done. "It was taking big risk," was Baldwin's only comment, with out looking up from his desk, where a batch of A. P. copy lay which he was sorting out and hanging on about 17 "hooks" to divide amongst the various men in the news room to be handled that night. * * •*- "The Breed and the Pasture" is the title of a charming little serial sketch which is running in the Sunday Charlotte Observer at th i present time. Its author is Mr. J. Lenoir Chambers, a iead ing business man of Charlotte, who learned to handle the pen years ago when serving upon the staff of the old Charlotte Obser ver. The beauty of the style of this story may be noted from the following bit of description of the old Western North Carolina town which the author is visiting after years of absence,; "A noonday stillness had set tled upon everything except the restless aspens overhead which were kissing their thousands of little green hands to the breezes from my blue mountains —breezes and mountains, that I had come there to feel and see again from this old porch. God bless and keep them both for the rest and the strength and the hope they bring to such as I, for the velvet pink and brown to so many cheeks of the youth of Eva» ston, for the power they have given to the nerves and brains of men and women who have gone out from these foot-hiils to fill the falling ranks of those who, in citips and factories and counting rooms, are giving their lives to the building up of this greatest of all Republics." The following paragraph "spots" the town as being al most next door neighbor to Hick ory and in a county adjoining Catawba: "Harbin's and that other hotel were however alike in one par ticular —a certain ar hitectural appendage in the way of a row of one-story "offices," more or less extended according to the patronage of the hostelry, with a narrow balcony running the full length of the building. The al most universal existence of this appendage to all taverns in old towns in the South is proof of the fact that the tavern depended, in the older days, almost entire ly upon the patronage of lawyers who followed the Court as it moved from county to county. In those rooms, accessible to the street, counsel and client could meet, and hence they are to this day referred to a« offices Some of them that housed Andrew Jackson may be yet standing, for it was in this section where the impetu ous, headstrong young lawyer be gan the practice of his profession and in this very town of Evans ton lived another distinguished lawyer with whom he fought his first duel —or rather went out to the field of honor to redress a fancied wrong, for there was no fight. His opponent, an older and more self-contained charac ter, discharged his pistol in the air, and then turned upon Jack son and read him a lecture on his high temper and uncon trollable behavior." * * * The first subscriber to the Dem ocrat under present proprietor ship came came voluntarily from a former Catawba county man now in Charlotte —Mr. Zeb G. Shelton. He and the editor of the Democrat virtually began life together and lived in the same house in Charlotte nearly 20 years ago. Mr. Shelton makes good at whatever he turns his hand to—business, farming or anything else. He is now in charge of the children's de- Mr. Gilbert 0. White In Town. Dnrham Engineer Who Has Street Contract Here. WAITING ON ALDERMEN. Many Streets Already Sur veyed and Others Yet to be—Tar for Top Coating. Mr. Gilbert C. White, of Dur ham, who has the contract for the engineering work in connec tion with the putting down of the new streets in the city, was at the Hotel Huffry Thursday and spoke freely of his plans to a representative of the Democrat. Mr. Gilbert is now awaiting spe cific directions from the Board of Aldermen. Surveys, he says, have been made all over the town, includ ing 9th avenue, 10th, 14th, 15th, and 17th streets and 13th avenue and Union Square of course, and still further surveys will be made. The plans contemplate putting down 10,000 square yards of cement sidewalks and some form of improved pavement on the square or at the Subway. Macadam or some form of pav ing will be used. Mr. White re commends trying tar on the ma cadam. It is sprinkled on the surface and rolled in. It is used in the North, he savs, in the larger cities and in the parks and in Massachusetts on the country roads. Tar via is such a preparation. It is said that tests have shown its life to be 8 years State News. Maj. T. B. Young, of McDow ell died on the 3rd inst. at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. Z. Page. The Franklin Press, of Macon county, is supporting Wm. J. Cooke for Congress in the 10th disti ict. Mrs. Chas. M. Hawkins, a bride of a few weeks, says the Marion Progress, tried to commit suicide on the night of the 6th by drinking laudanum, but was prevented. She wanted to join her husband in Richmond and he would not allow it, asking her to wait till he could perfect his plans to reach Marion. Hoyle Eddleman Martin, the 8 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Martin, of the Arlington Cotton Mill in Gastonia, had both legs cut off by a freight train and died three hours later, partment in the mammoth store in Cuarlotte of which his broth er, Thomas M. Shelton, is the able head, the Ed." Melon Co. * * * There passed away near Hun tersville recently a fipe old man at the age of 81 years, Mr, W.M. Munday. He came originally from Rock Springs, Catawba county. He was a carpen ter by trade and helped to build the main building at Davidson College before the war. After the war he became manager of the big Caldwell plantation in Hope well, Mecklenburg county, which was inherited bv Mrs. Sarah Caldwell White, of Charlotte. Mt\ Mundav was for 46 years or more the trusted and honored manager of this farm. He never married but devoted his life to training two nephews, the Barkley boys, one HOW of North Wilkesboro and the other of Huntersville, R. F. D. The editor of the Democrat and the late Mr. James C. Aber nethy, of Newton, worked to gether, shoulder to shoulder, some years ago on the staff of the Charlotte Observer. Aber nethy was a splendid workman and loved the rush and excite ment of a morning newspaper. He was a true "soldier of the day and night," as Henry Wat terson calls the journalist. "Jim," I said to him one mid night, as the linotypes were clicking out copy into metal lines, "let's buy us a weekly paper somewhere and be independent." "What!" he exclaimed in hor ror. "get a live piece of news and have to hold it six days be fore printing it? Excuse me!" And yet that is what the editor of the Democrat is now doiug. It does come a little bit hard at first. " H. A. B. Democrat and Press, Consolidated i 905 A Bullish Census Report. * The census bureau on Wednes day, reported that there were 8,878,277 running bales of cotton ginned from the growth of 1909 to December 1, as compared with 11,008,661 for 1908. The total crop for 1908 was 13.089.005, and for 1907 is 11,- 757,822. The corrected statistics of the,quantity of cotton ginned this season to November 14 are 8,112199 bales.' By States the cotton ginned from the 1909 growth to Decem ber l r follows: Alabama, 919,575; Arkansas, 613,871; Florida, 55,958; Georgia, 1,677,232; Louisiana, 2 3 7,553; Mississippi, 866,950; North Car olina, 536,163; Oklahoma, 504,- 826; South Carolina, 998,340; Tennessee, 206,357; Texas, 2,212,- 319. All other States, 49,133. The report exci ted the mar ket and May cotton sold up 17 points that day, to 15.39. Always a Bird. From the Charlotte Observer. A constant reader handed The Observer the following dispatch from Lebanon. 0., under date of November 6, as a contribution, presumably, to the science of or nithology: "Having four different sur names in her brief time and all those the names of birds is the unique distinction held by Mrs. Elizabeth Martin of Paris, Ky., who is now visiting her sister, Mrs. Eugene Hartsook, near Leb anon. She began as Elizabeth Bird in Harrison county, Ky., and first ventured from the home nest when she married Bud Mar tin. When Mr, Martin died she married Edward Crow, a farmer. When the time came to change nests she allied herself with Wil liam Robin and lived happily un til the matrimonial season of Mrs. Robin again rolled around, 1 Then David Buzzard, a widower, I more attractive personally and socially than his name would in indicate, appeared and Mrs. Rob in became Mrs. Buzzard. "Into the Buzzard roost Mrs. Martin carried one little Martin, two little Crows and one little Robin. One little Buzzard was already there to welcome the other birds." Round Trip to Rochester The present day has witnessed a remarkable renaissance of the young people and the laymen in the work of the church. In the present issue is published the rates to the Rochester, N. Y., convention of the student volun teer movement for foreign mis sions. These gatherings are al ways inspirational and uplifting. The Southern gives a round trip j rate from Hickory of £25.50. Obituary—Mrs. Hanna. Mrs. Carolina Hanna was born in Gaston county, Dec. 4, 1833. Her maiden name was Caroline Bradley, and at 13 -years of age, she accepted Christ, and united with the Methodist church, of which she continued a faithful member until her marriage to F. S. Hanna, Nov. 28, 1860. Mr. Hanna was a member of the As sociate Reformed church, and after the birth of children, the parents united with Olney church of the Southern Presbyterian de nomination, and both remained faithful, consistent, devoted ser vants of Christ in that church till death. The family moved from Gaston county to Lenoir in 1881, where they spent ten years. In 1891, they removed to Hickory. Mr. Hanna departed this life at a good old age in 1907. Mrs. Han na has survived him only a year and a half, her death occurring at 6 o'clock last Tuesday evening, Dec. 7. Four children and eleven grand children remain to grieve her loss. The children are: M. H. Moore, of Conover; Mrs. W. C. Shell, and Mr. J. W. Hanna, of Hickory, and Mrs. W. S. Smith, of Lenoir. Mrs. Hanna was a Christian woman of a gentle, and sweet disposition, a noble and unselfish character. She was a superior mother and reared her children in the fear of God, and love for his house. She was a kind neigh bor; many friends loved and re spected her. The Lord giveth His beloved sleep. Her Pastor. Mr. P. O. Grist of Lenoir was in the city a short time last week attending the funeral of his rela tive, Mrs. Hanna. His Penmanship Is Remarkable. % Rev. P. C. Wike Pats 239 Words Uadsr a Dime. WON A PIANO FOR PRIZE. Mr. P. C. Setzer, of Hickory, Gets An Interesting Letter from His Cousin in Orange, N. J. Rev. P. C. Wike, of Orange, N. J., has sent as a Christmas souvenir to his cousin in this city, Mr. P. C. Setzer, a remarkable piece of penmanship. In the space the size of a dime he has written with a fine pointed pen 239 words. They cannot be read at all without the of a magnify ing glass. He says that he has written the Lord's Prayer in this same space three times with 41 additional words. Mr. Wike has just won a $3OO piano in a contest in Crange. Of this contest he writes Mr. Setzer as follows: "Hollet & Davis, large piano dealers, got up a contest. They offered a $3OO piano to the one wiio would write Hollet & Davis the oftenest in a space of three by four inches. I entered to win and I won. I wrote that firm's name 1057 times in the given space. I was over 300 times ahead of the next highest. * * * Now a fine Kimball graces our parlor." Mr. Wike did the work mostly after his day's labors were done. He was raised in this county near Balls Creek campmeetingground, went to school at Conover, en tered the ministry of the Luther an church in this county and lat er went to Indiana. He is at present a field missionary with headquarters at Orange. He visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Miles Wike, at the old home in Catawba county about 18 months ago. THE MINES IN 1908. Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead. * and Zinc In the Eastern States. An advance chapter of the Geological Survey's report on "Mineral resources of the United States, calendar year 1908," gives a brief review pf the gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc mining in dustries in the Eastern States in 1908, prepared by H. D. McCask ey. The States considered are Maine, New Hampshire, Ver mont, Massachusetts, New Jer sey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. The total production reported is $5,152,007, representing the output of 105 mines, of which 58 are gold placers, ihe gold pro duce i was valued at $259,143, the silver at $35,070, an increase of $19,241 in gold and a decrease of $21,466 in silver from 1907. The value of the copper mined was $2,624,278, as against $4,061,* 436 in 1907; of lead $3,200, as against $7,451; and of zinc $2,230,- 316, as against $1,364,673. These States therefore show gains in the value of the production of gold and zinc and losses in the value of the production of silver, copper and lead. Gold was produced chiefly in North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama and Georgia; silver chiefly in Tennessee, where the well-known mines at Ducktown furnish silver from ores that are mined principally for their con tent of copper, 98 per cent of the total product of copper in 1908 in the States covered by this report having been derived from these mines. Mr. McCaskey's report, which may be obtained without charge from the Director of the Survey at Washington, gives statistics showing in detail the production of these metals in the Eastern States and reviews by States the conditions and the output in 1908. Two flat car loads of white oak saw logs en route to Norfolk, probably for transportation across the ocean, passed through the city Friday. Some of the logs wore 4 feet in diameter.
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