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Eslablished 1899 Old steward Swam Thsßljer Twica. He Ow:l His Liia to An Old Woman's Fear. . SHE ROCKED THE DOGS. The Hickory Fox Hunting Contingent Had One of the Most Exciting Chases in Their History last week. The crack of fox hounds owned by the Hickory Fox Club had the iace of tieir lives Tues day morning, the 21st. In the wee small hours of the daw n, a the first faint rays of the sun were greeting- the new day, the pack jumped the wisest of all the reynard family in one of the laurel covered hills near Moore's Ferry. It was an ideal morning for a race, the ground beiag damn enough to hold the scent, and the music that floated back over the hills, brought gladness to the souls of Jule Abernethy, Frank Allen, Pink Campbell and a number of the good farmers of that vicinity, who awoke in time to hear it. From the squealing yelp of the youngest puppy in the pack to the deep mouthed bay of old Drum Abee, the voices o2 the dogs united in the wild free song of the chase and many a fat Plv mouth Rock cockerel waking from his night's sleep as the pack swept by, rai&ed his voice in an indignant crow at such an unusual disturbance. For an hour and a half the old fox circled the hills, making many turns and back tracks in a vain effort to throw off the pur suing dogs. But on they came, drawing a little nearer with every turn and cheered on by lustv yells from the eager listen ers.' Ai last the fox was pushed so closely that he attempted to cross the Catawba river. The river was up about 5 feet that morning and the current was running so swiftly that he was washed out one-quarter mile be low where he went in on the same side of the river. But he made another circle and succeed ed in crossing farther down the river. Owing to the high water the ferryman would not take the men and dogs across, but one young fellow came over and took' sof the dogs to the other side. These dogs struck the track where fhe fox had come out of the water and while the boy came across for another load they disappeared in the direction of Bowman's store. The second bad of dogs also joined the others as soon as they reached the bank. The boy who had taken the dogs across would not risk another trip and so the Hickory people did not get to hear the last of. the race. But according to reports of several of the Alexander county boys who followed the dogs the race lasted until 3 o'clock that evening. Old Reynard circled the lower end-of Alexander coun ty several times and at last, late in the evening, the dogs trailed him to the foot of Barrett's mountain. A. woman who lived there thought the dogs were after her sheep and succeeded in driv ing them off by throwing rocks at them. But for this unlucky incident the hunters are confident that their dogs would have caught the fox. However, they are enthu siastic over the race and are planning another one after this same sly fellow in the near future. WHISKY EDICT OUT. Taft Says All Potable Liquor Must Be the Goods. - In a 4,000 word opinion, just made pnblic. President Taft has decided the much-mooted ques tion, "What is whiskey?" so says the Washington Herald. Differing with Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, Lloyd W. Bowers, Solici tor General of the United States, and former Attorney General Bonapart, the President, in ef fect, finds that the other inter pretations of the pure foood act of June 30, 1906, as applied to whiskey, have been too narrow. Mr. Taft states: After examination of all the evidence, it seems to me overwhelmingly established that THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT for 100 years the term 'whisky* in th« trade and among custom ers has included all potable liq uor distilei from grain: that the straight whiskey is, as compared with the whiskey made by recti fication or redistillation and flav oring and coloring matter, a sub sequent improvement, and that therefore it is a perversion of the pure food act to attempt now to limit the meaning of the term whiskey to that which the mod ern manufacture and tasse have made the most desirable vari ety." Both Dr. Wiley and Mr. Bona parte found that the term whis key could be applied only to straight whiskey or such liquor as was made by one distillation and by aging in chared barrels. Solicitor General Bowers, says the President, fell into the error of making too nice a distinction in reference to the amount of c mgenric substance or trace of fuel oil with regard to constitut ing whiskey for practical pur poses. The Baptist Bazaar. The Ladies Aid Society of the First Baptist Church has just concluded the work in their an nual bazaar. They report net proceeds of $230.00, and for this splendid result the> feel indebted to their untiring President, Mrs. J. Worth Elliott, to a h st of faithful workers, and especially to a long list of firms and indi viduals. Special acknowledge ment and thanks are due the following: Wm. Rigley, Jr., & Co., Chicago. Chewing gum; Fred B. Lindsay Co., N. Y. Case Possum Brand Coffee, one box of Buckingham cigars—all given through Patrick & Mosteller of Hickory. From Church & Dwight Co , N Y., 1 box soda through Mr. J. L. Riddle. Newton Hos iery Mills of Newton, N. C.. fine lot of hosiery. H. J. Heintz Co., Baltimore, 1 can high grade con diments. Parker-Gardner Co., Charlotte, 1 handsome Morris Chair Talcum Puff Co., Ashe ville, N. C., lot talcum powder and puffs. Jas. S. Kirk & Co., Chicago, lot Jap Rose soap. Hickory Hosiery Mills, Hickorv, N. C.. excellent lot hosiery. Mar tin Furniture Co., Hickory, N. C., a very pretty sideboard. Weddington Hardware Co., Char lotte, coffee percolator. Whit ener & Martin, of Hickory, cof fee; Shell & Flagler, of Hickory, su*;ar; Peter Kern Co., of Knox ville, lot of fine candies; Colgate & Co., N. Y., Full line toilet ar ticles; Harper's Bazaar, 25 cop ies, with several subscriptions. The display of fancy articles made by the ladies themselves was pronounced by competent judges to be the most beautiful ever seen in Hickory. The city press has been unusuallv kind in this matter, and our thanks are hereby tendered them. Fine Record In the Graded School. For the four months just ended the graded school has made an unusually fine record in atten dance. The total enrollment dur ing this period was 585 pupils, and the average daily attendance for the four months was 503. More than 85 per cent of all the pupils enrolled have been in act ual daily attendance. This is a fine record of attendance, one that cannot be surpassed by any school in the State. The tenth grade led the entire school with percentage for the four months of 96 3 percent- The Junior Crder in Hickory has offered a handsome silk ban ner to the grade which makes the best attendance. This banner will be awarded every four months to the grade which makes the best attendance for that pe riod. In this way an incentive will be offered to all the grades. If the tenth grade wins the prize in the next four months, the pupils will have to bestir themselves, for tne pupils in the other grades mean to capture that banner. Lake Smith Goes to Atlanta. Lake Smith, one of the best known copy writters and illustra tors in the South, has removed from Atlanta to Baltimore, where he has taken charge of the advertising department of Schloss Brothers, wholesale cloth iers. He is planning several national campaigns for the firm. Mr. Smith has been an Atlanta for a number of years where his splendid work with the pen and pencil has won for him a reputa tion second to that of no other copy man in the Southeast. HICKORY, N.C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1909. It Snowsd On December 25. Tbe First White Christmas in 29 Years. IT MELTED TOO SOON. Weather So Told That Cream Doesn't "Ripen" Easily— Few Stains and Tinges in Cotton. Mother Goose came to the aid of Santa Claus on Christmas day. That is if Mother Goose has any thing to do with the feather pul lings in the winter' clouds. It snowed on Christmas eve night, and for the first time in 29 years Hickory and this section had a white Christmas. To the weath er wise are saying: It was not a deep snow. Jupi ter Pluvius interfered and came along with his water-pails to wash out the white polish on the floor of the earth, so that by noon of Christmas day the snow was nearly all gone. But in this time when the seasons have changed so greatly, the snow was enough to make folks think of olu times, even though there was not enough of it to build snow men or to fight a snow-ball battle or to slide down the hill side. The holiday weather has been cold and sunshiny upon the whole, just the kind to kill germs. A gentleman was say ing the other day that it was al most impossible to get the cream in the miik at his house sour enough to make butter. Jack Fn>st drove back the germs that sneak around in warm" weather, so that his cream would not "ri pen." It is well kfiown that the fall weather has been so fine all over the South that there are practi cally no stains and tinges in this year's cotton crop. BAPTIST XMAS TREE. Beautiful Present Given Miss Minnie Rector. A lovely gold locket and chain was presented to Miss Minnie Rector, who had recently resigned as the teacher of the primary class, at the First Baptist Church Christmas tree Monday evening. The presentation was made by Rev. J. D. Harte, the pastor, on behalf of Supt. J. I). Elliott and the whole school. The pastor was happy in his words, and Miss Rector expressed her delighted appreciation in a sentence which welled over with gratitude. The pulpit was festooned with evergreens and holiday decora tions. The excellent program of songs and recitations culminated in the appearance of Santa Claus, whose voice sounded a little like that of Mr. Mace. Superintendent Elliott was in charge of the exercises which preceded tne giving of the pres ents, and wnich was as follows: Prayer bv Pastor. Recitation by Nelson Harte. Song, Welcome beautiful Christmas, by large girls. Recitation, by Kate Elliott. Stocking Brigade, by 1 ittle folks. Song —Bells, Bells, by boys. Recitation, by Juanita Mostel ler, "Little Stars." Recitation, by Ellen Stewart Menzies. Song, The Christmas Tree. Recitation, by Lucy Sledge, "Worth while." Song, by large girls, "Click, click." Philathias, song. Recitation, Kathrine Stevenson "Santa Claus." Ean Drill, by eight girls. The party, song, "Jing, jing, jing." Santa Claus comes while chil dren are singing the song, "The merriest time." A Model Ideal in Journalism. From the Raleigh News and Observer. Mr. Howard A. Banks, who has had exceptional newspaper experience, has heard the call to the simple life and retired from daily journalism to become edi tor of The Hickory Democrat, a weekly. The men in North Carolina journalism —Hale and Holden—never edited any but a weekly and their papers ex erted State-wice influence. The most successful editors of dailies in North Carolina had their train ing on weekly papor3. The editor of this paper and the Charlotte Observer could never have had the all-round experience that has been their equipment if they had not devoted their earnest vears to doing every sort of work on a weekly. They an i others thought it promotion to go from weekly to daily journalism. The versa tile Walter H. Page, when he changed the Dailv State Chroni cle to a weekly headed his an nouncement: "Change But For ward." It created some comment and a smile, but twenty years later Mr. Banks endorses Mr. Page by retiring from the Char lotte News to become editor of the Weekly Hickory Democrat. The first number of the paper under the directior of Mr. Banks is as bright as a 'dollar. His sal utatory is sound a hare'.-: tooth. "From it'tM fbHo*ing ex tracts are taken: "This paper will have its convic tions upon the great political and mor al issues of the day, and will endeavor to present its views courageously yet at all times tolerantly, and without im pugning the motives of others. In politics it will be Democratic, and hopes it may play a part in winning Catawba again to be the banner Demo cratic county of North Carolina. Born and reared in Buncombe, the editor of the paper grew up al one and the same time under the putple shadows of the Blue Ridge and under the inspira tion of the towering r.ame of Zeb Vance. It will stand for the democ racy of Jefferson as interpreted by Vance. It will stand for the Democ racy of 'Old Hickory' in the town of new Hickory." * * " "We remember once to have read a treatise on the field of the journalist by Col. Henry Watterson, in which, after defining his duty as a new.'gath erer and as an exponent .of pure Democracy he added, and finally, brethren, to preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified.' As an obscure admirer and follower of the last of the old Ro mans of the press, we may not say less than this. It is related of Tennyson that at a favorite summer place in England he was accustomed to pass the humble cottage of a find but poor old woman. k What is the news, mad am?' he asked one day. 'I know only one piece of news, Sir Alfred,' she answered, 'and that is that Jesus Christ died ' lor all men.' That,'said tne great poet after a thoughtful pause, 'is old news, and good news, and new news!' "Somewhere in the paper we hope to have a corner for this old news, ana good news, and new news, along with the rest of the news.," The time will n°ver come when there will be need for a religious journal, and Nortn Carolina is blessed with excellent ones, but there is need that the spirit or reverent faith and honest pres entation of Christianity shall be a part of the very warp and wool of every newspaper, daily and weekly. The new "Laymen's Movement'' stresses the respon sibility of the new editor of the Democrat shows t.ha" he has the true conception of the high of an editor. He must be a mai> before he is an editor, and hoi j up high ideals toward which a man and editor he strives to at tain. There is no open door to usefulness greater than that oi the editor, and happy is that peo ple whose paper is guided by an editor who, in an age of too much flippancy and materialism, de clares that he will have "a cor ner for this old news, and good news" and seek to inaKe his pa per a positive exponent of the Christ. This high ideal of jour nalism does honor to the editor and will cheer the hearts -of all who, often afar off, are seeking to follow the teachings of the Savior, whose birth is the inspir ation of this happy Christmas week. Three Holiday Marriages. Married in Icard Township, Rurke county, at the residence of H. A. Adams, on the 23d of December, Mr. Fred Roney to Miss Lillie Johnson, the pretty and accomplished daughter of Mr. David Johnson. Both are of Catawba county. Alao on the 24th inst., at the same residence, David Lail to Miss Francis Stilwell. Both of Burke county. On the 26th inst., at the same residence, Felix Stilweil to ,Vli s Lizzie Young. Both of Burke countv. , _ . H, A. Adams was the officiat ing magistrate in all the mar rages. _ Mrs. S. F. Watson, who has a fine school at Conover, the holidays in Hickory. Limited Parcels Post Wanted. It Will Not Hurt the Coantry Stor3. EXPRESS PEOPLE KICK. Citizens in the Coun' ry should Urge Their Representa tives in Congress to Give this Lift. Written for The Democrat. Ry far the majority of people living on rural routes desire a parcels post, such as the citizens of Entdand and Germany pos sess. It seems, however, that the express companies and their interests will not permit us to have what we want all at once, therefore it seems wise to de mand of our congressmen and senators that a "Limited Parcels Post," or a "Rural Packet Post" established at the present session of congress. For. I ask you, are not the representa tives we send to Washington, sent there to pass laws for the be.iefit of the common people, and chief among them, the rural inhabitants? At the opportune moment during the winter, therefore, let us get busv and write our representat ves, de manding this right to which we ire entitled. Every patron of the rural routes will agree with me when i say, we frequently want some small package from town, such is medicine, a certain spool of uhread, a small package from the •xpress office, and many other tungs. What a great conveni ence it would be to send a card .0 town one day and receive the lesired object the following day, instead of making a special trip ro town for the small package. vVe don't ooject to pay for this service, but we certainly do ob ject to paying the present regu lar merchandise rates. To illus trate: Suppose I order a book >t* a package of goods weighing avo pounds, and tiie • package is sent bv express. According to tne present rates of postage it %vould cost 32 cents additional to >i ing that package the last three >r four miles of the journey, tne carrier could verv easily bring it for 5 or 7 cents, iad thus help to wipe out the mnual postal deficit. When the rural routes were irst established, it was possible to have the carrier bring a small package from town. Of late the law has been changed, and now ou cannot have a carrier deliver t small express package for love >r money, unless it has the nr*- essary stamps affixed. And yon z&n'i censure the carriers.—tnev nust obey the laws. Thereto***, let us secure a change in th*- laws. The old objection offered the parcels post is that it would eliminate the country store. Do the objectors take into consider ation the fact England has operated a parcels post for at least 20 years without any such lire calamity having been visit ed upon the small country stores jof that country? And do our t )bjectors know that there are still small country merchants in Germany in spite of the fact that the German government is annually handling about 150,000,- 000 packages in the mails? If 1 fie citizens of England and Ger many can enjoy the benefits of a parcels post, why cannot w. citizens of these United States enjoy the same benefits, I ask you? Not one objector has suc cessfully answered this question, to my knowledge. The interests of the opponents of the parcels post in the small rural merchant is a selfish inter est. Nobody is openly opposing the carrying of parcels in the mails because the business of the express trust would be harmed thereby. Oh, no! The objec tors are too clever for that. They know that such arguments would kill their cause. So they attempt to blind the people by claiming that the rural mer chant would be forced co the wall. All we need ask is: Has the parcels post forced the country merchant in England and Geimany to the wall? And finally, here is another important point. We are told that the United States has 40,000 more postoffices than express of ces, so thsre are places Democrat and Press, Consolidated i 905 from which a package tha weighs over four pounds cannd be sent at all except by freight Is this a fair condition for sev eral million citizens. I ask you? Therefore, let us have a par eels post. However,, let us b satisfied with a "Rural Packe Post" in the beginning. W can secure this benefit if we rise up in our might and dem ind it, as we should do this winter.. P. C. fl. Kindergarten Entertains*. The Kindgarten apartments of Mrs. H. D. Abernethy at hei home on 13th Street was a de lightful programme was given by the little folk and several of their friends. This was followed by the dis tribution "of gifts from the tree, which contained many things made by the children themselves, fashioned afterward in different forms by their teacher. Parents and friends were in vited and about forty availed themselves of the opportunity. Following was the program: "Merry Christmas Bells, Cho rus." "Sing a song for Christmas," Ida McLaurin. "I'd like to visit Santa Claus" Ellen Stewart Menzies. A motion song "Come, little leaves," bv Alice Cilley, Kather ine Menzies, Ellen Stewart Men zies, Ida McLaurin and Mary Mpn7ip« "I fought I had two Kitty Kins," Mary Stewart Menzies. "Away in the Manger," Aggie Shu ford. Solo—"The first Christmas," Clarissa Harlo we Abernethy. "Children can you truly tell/' Chorus. "There's a song in the air, there's a star in the sky!'' Kath erine Menzies. "In Bethlehem the story goes," Alice Cilley. "0, Clap, Clap the Hands," Chorus. General News. Frederick Remington, the no ced artist and writer, died at his home in Ridgefield, Conn., Sun- Jay. Years ago he said he de sired for his epitaph: 4, He knew the horses." He first fixed his personality on the public mind by his representations of horses, which even gave rise to a con siderable controversy as to whether he used a camera or whether, on the other hand, he painted horses in impossible pic tures. It remained for an im proved camera to demonstrate that Remington had seen cor rectly and accurately. A furious blizzard swept the east the day after Christmas. Railroad Traffic was held up from Boston to Washington, and ship ping was badly damaged. Several American colonies are to be established in the State of Sonora, Mexico, where American capitalists have purchased big tracts of land. A concession has been granted by the. Mexican government, to a citizen of Her mosillo, to dam the Sonora river it a point ten miles above the city. Government engineers, who were sent to examine the situation, claim there is enough -vater being wasted to irrigate a stretch of land sixty miles long by twenty miles wide. OXFORD FORD ITEMS. Correspondence of the Democrat. Oxford Ford, Dec. 28. —Mr. Vance Isenhour, of Durham, is spending Christmas week under the parental roof. We are glad to note that Mrs. H. Hefner, who was low with pneumonia, is again recovering. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Isen hour, who have spent the last month with relatives and friends in Catawba county, leave for their home in Oklahoma this week. The schools in this neigbor hood are giving a week holiday. The Children's exercises at St. Peter's Church were postponed until Sunday on account of the inclement weather at the ap pointed hour. "The smile that won't come off" was worn by every child that day. Where are the Christmas wed dings about which we have heard sc mu h? Have they been put off until 1910? Or were those all false rumors we received by "wireless?" H. Test Easy For Enumerators. Saasas Director Baraad Sets February Si!i. 63,000 PLACES TO FILL . • The Examination Consists Largely in Filling Out a Sample Schedule of Population- Washington, Dec. 27. —Any I oerson of good judgment, who ! ias received an ordinary com mon school education, can readi ly and easily pass the test to be i for Census enu merators' pl?ces on Saturday, Feb. sth, the date finally set by U. S. Census Director Durand. It was emphatically stated at the bureau that the test wili be an eminently reasonable and practical one, similar to that ap plied to applicants at the Twelfth Census. It will consist of filling out a sample schedule of popula tion from a description, in narrr tive form, of typical families; and, in the case of enumerators whose work will be in the rural districts, they will be called upon to fill out an additional sample schedule of agriculture, from ir formation furnished by the Cen sus Bureau. " All persons, whether women or men, who may desire to be come Census enumerators must be citizens of tne United States; residents of the supervisor's dis trict for which they wish to be appointsd; must be not less than 18 nor more than 70 years of age; must be physically able to do the work; must be trust worthy, honest and of good hab its; must have at least an ordi nary education and must be able to write plainly and with reason able rapidity. Those who can complv with these requirements are invited to put in their applications, as there will be at least 63,000 en umerators' places to be filled by the middle of March in prepara tion lor the enumeration begin ning April 15th. Application forms, with full instructions for fllling-in, and complete information concerning the test and the method of ap pointment, can be secured by writing to the supervisor of cen sus J. Yates Killian at Newton. All applications, proDerly filied in must be filed with the super visors not later than January 25th. Christmas Visitors in Catawba Correspondence of The Democrat. Catawba, Dec. 28.,—Dr. E. A. Drum, of Richmond, was a guest in town Sunday. Miss Winnie Raid spent Sun day in Hickory with her sister, Mrs. L. W. Poovey. Miss Maude Brady of New Sterling is visicing Miss Bessie Smith. Mrs. T. F. Hudson of Spencer, and Mrs. E. H. Miller of Salis bury spent Christmas with their their parents Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Pitts. Mr. Cleveland Little, of New ton, came down Friday night to spend Christmas with his mother Mrs. Eva Little. Mr. Zeb Reid returned to Ashe ville Sunday after spending his holiday vacation with his parents Mr. _and Mrs. C. A. ReidJ Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Youn*, of Newton, visited Mr. Tom Har well from Friday until Sunday. ! Miss Gertie Aberntehy, who I has spent the last few days here, the guest of her mother, Mrs. Sam Abernethy, returned to her work in Charlotte Monday night. Miss Nora Lowrance, who is teaching near Newton is spend ing this week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Lowrance. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Wilkinson spent Christmas with Mrs. Wil kinson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Q. E. Pope, in Catfish. Miss Annie Lowrance, of New ton, is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Lowrance, during the holidays. Mr. Hal Cooper, of Panama, who is visiting relatives in North Carolina, spent Thursday in town the guest of his aunt, Mrs. Eva Little.
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