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Established 1899 Fainting of First Landing Will be Seen Here attfime Mr. Busbee Lectures. As stated last week Hickory is to have the privilege of hearing jlr. Jacques Busbee, of Raleigh, lecture on 9 "Roanoke Island Colony" and to see an exhibit of his splendid paintings of North Carolina historical scenes, lhe exhibits will be held Friday and Saturday afternoons. April 21 and 22, and the lecture will be given Friday even ing, every event at the Opera House. The Civic League is arranging this treat for Hickory people and no one can afford to miss it. The admission will be 25 cents, Mrs. Busbee, who was Miss Juliana Royster, the famous originator of ante-bellum negro post cards, will be with Mr. Bus bee. She was the official photo grapher of the C. & N. W. Auto Mountain pike tour last May. The Winston-Salem Journal has this to say of Mr. Eusbee's lecture: An exceptionally large crowd greeted Mr. Jacques Busbee of Raleigh when he delivered his lecture yesterday afternoon at the High School auditorium, on the subject "Roanoke Island Col ony." Mr. Busbee is an artist of state-wide fame aftd his lecture was illustrated throughout with paintings from his own brush graphically portraying the scene? of the first attempt at colonizing America by the Sir Walter Raleigh colony in 1585. Not only did the paintings show the work of a master artist's hand, but the lecture was written from an artist's point of view and for more than an hour Mr. Busbee made the dead, plain facts of history live vividly before his hearers both in word and artist picture. Many declared it to be an hour of the finest entertainment they had en joyed for a long while. The lecture consisted of the story of the lost colony, which is familiar to every school boy ami girl, but Mr. Busbee, fcy-the aid of the paintings which he made on Roaonke Island during the summers of 1907-08 09. gave the story new life, and put into it a meaning that it had never posses sed for nis hearers before. It will. be ' remembered that Mr. Busbee was sent to Roanoke Island to paint the scenes of the first colony by the North Carolina Historical Commission and it is the fruits of his arduous labors during the three summers in which he was engaged in the work, that he is now showing. The subjects for the pictures are taken from the original let ters written by the members of the lost colony to their friends in England. Perhaps the most graphic picture shown by Mr, Busbee was the landing of the nine men on Roanoke island on the small boat. Behind them is the lashing sea while standing ' on the shore is the Indian queen ready to greet them. Directly behind her are many Indian heaves, and it seems a daring deed for the eight nien to ven ture into the arras of the wild savage. The background for this painting was made by Mr. Busbee on the particular spot where the landing is supposed to have been made. Altogether the artist showed 14 pictures in the lecture, all of which gave evidence that the hand and imagination of a true artist had sketched them. Coca-Cola Wins. Chattanooga Dispatch. The case of the government against "forty barrels and twenty kegs of coca-cola" was decided in favor of the Atlanta beverage in the Federal court here this after noon. In a ruling on a motion for per emptory instructions, Judge San ford held that caffeine is not an added or deleterious ingredient of"the beverage. He overruled the motion on points leading f o the misbranding feature ot the allegation, but counsel for the government moyed to dismiss, without prejudice, the case on these points. A verdict was re turned in the defense. Federal counsel entered a motion of ap peal to the United States, Circuit Court at Cincinnati Mr. H. B. Conley, of Marion, was found dead in bed. Lame Shoulder is nearly always due tT rheumatism of the muscles, and r nickly yields to the free application c t Chamberlain's Liniment. For sale lv a l ' dealers, THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT J The Week in the t | W y n J I'S Clubi. Mrs. Raymond Abernethy was the hostess to the Embroidery Club April 6th. Fourteen mem-, bers present and Misses Mattie Abernethy, Pinkie Forney and Deborah Coe were visitors. The reading of "Miss Minerva and William Green Hill" was re ume . Mrs. L. R. Whitener and Miss Huffman reading sever al chap * rs while the others were busy with fiincy work. By re quest Misses LteWald and Huff man played several beautiful j selections on the piano and the i hostess sang The Holy City. At the close of this delightful after noon a salad eourse was served followed by delicious cake and ice crearr. . Miss Margaret Hoffman will entertain the Club at Mrs. L. R. Whitener's April 20th. The last meeting of the Club year of the Travellers was held April 6th with Mrs. L. T. Mann, at the Methodist Parßonage, After quotations on 'The Desert," Miss Geitner read for Mrs. E. B. Cline her topic: "Fort Said and the story of the Suez Canal," an interwoven tale of good and evil, with good at last predominant and showing the supremacy of the British intellect. Miss Sea gle then told how delightful is "Egypt as a Health Resort," thus closing the journey of the year in Egypt. Mrs. Royster was gladly welcomed back after hej* travels in Europe—and the pictures as souvenirs she brought to her friends were much appre ciated. Also was present Mrs. Drew, the sister of Mrs. Dr. Burtless, one of the founders of the Club, twenty-one years ago. Officers for next year were electad, all unanimously: Miss Geitner, President; Mrs. Royster, Vice-President: Mrs. Chad wick. Secretary. Refreshments in courses were served by the gen ial hostess assisted by her daugh ter, Miss Blanche. Adjournment till next fall was then in order with regrets for the passing of so pleasant as well as profitable a year. The Wednesday Afternoon Book Club was delightfully en tertained on April sth by Mrs. W. A. Hall. After the regular routine of roll call quotations, etc, the hostess read several articles on her book -"Marriage Under the Terror" by Patricia Went worth. A personal letter from her disclosed the fact that her real name is Mrs. Dillon. Her book deals with much history during the reign of Terror in France, and won the Melrose prize over two-hundred other novels. A letter from Mrs. one absent member, full of interest ing news of London, was read by Mrs. E. B. Jones. The guests were then asked into the dining room. The table was aglow with candles, and beautiful pink and white carnations. Each found marking her place, a card from some interesting place in London, sent by Mrs. Beard. The delicious luncheon was serv ed in three courses. The desert bearing a minature French flag as a souvenir for the afternoon. The next and last meeting will be with Mrs. E. Bryan Jones on April 19th. The State Hospital Statesville Landmark. The report of Dr. John Mc Campbell, the superintendent, showed that for the quarter end ing February 28th there were in the Hospital 1,290 patients— -527 men and 763 women. From that date to April Ist 15 men and 16 women were admitted, two patients—one man and one woman —were discharged as cur ed and one man and four women died, leaving a population of 1 311. One patient, Mrs. Julia A. Boone, of Madison county, com mitted suicide March 10th by hanging herself to a hinge of a window guard by means of shoe strings and torn bedding. She was known to have suicidal ten encies ami had . been closely watched, but took advantage of a brief opportunity. Mr. A. A. Shuford, of Hick ory, attended the board meeting. Kicked by a Mad Horse. Samuel Birch, of Beetown, Wis., had a most narrow escape from losing his leg, as no doctor could heal the frightful sore that developed, but at last Bucklen's Arnica Saive cured it ' completely. Its the greatest healer of ulcers, burns, boils, eczema, «calds, cuts, corns, cold-sores, bruises and piles on earth. Try it. 25c at C. M. Shu ford, Moser & Lutz and Walter S. Martin. How Starnes Won The Corn Contest The Freshet Game and for 2! v Days He Coold Not fork His Acre. Earnest Starnes, the Catawba county boy, who beat the State last vear, has an ad in the Dem ocrat now offering for seed corn the grain he raised on his prolific acre. Earnest is in the race I for the record again this year, i He is cultivating the same acre, which he has had in crimson clover. He tells as follows how he raised the crop last year: When I first beeame interested in the corn club it was in 1909,. I selected an acre and only made 63 bu. In 1910 I joined the club and selected an acre that had been in rve the year before. It was bottom land and is what we call black sandy loam. ; It was not the best land we had but it was very good land. I put two two-horse loads of stable manure on it and disced it under with a disc harrow. Then I put three loads of manure and 15 loads of woods mulch or rather the rich dirt that accumu lates in the woods. When this was done I plowed it with a two horse Oliver plow and broke it about 8 inches deep. I then har rowed it with a drag harrow and a disc harrow and when I had done this I went over it with a drag or rather a scrub as we call it and smoothed it down level, i Immediately after this I took a drill and drilled broadcast 4001bs. of commercial lime and 4001bs. of 16 per cent, acid phosphate. On th» 30th of April I planted the corn (the variety being tfce White Majestic) with a double row corn planter putting 2001bs. of 16 per cent, acid phosphate in the row and running rows about 42 inches apart. I used the ensilage plates and put si> gallons of corn on the acre. I did this because the bud worms were bad in that part of ti.e land. I went over the acre al>ou» every ten days or a week with a weeder until the corn' was f JO" high. Then I plowed thje corn for the first time, it being about knee high. I plowed it again in five days, then thinned it out to one stalk about every 12 inches and then the freshet came and I did not get to work it for 28 davs. The creek overflowed its banks and washed down more than half of it and washed some of the top soil away. I had to go in it and pinch out the hearts ofvmore than half of it. After this delay of 28 days the corn looked yellow and seemed very discouraging to me. But I kept in good hope and put 200 lbs. of 16 per cent, acid and three loads of manure on it for a top dressing. I then plowed it under with a cultivator, this time mak ing the third time. I plowed it every five days until I had plow ed it six times and the last time that I plowed it I sowed crimson clover in it. The corn was in tassels and the silks weie dying on the ears when this was done and I would stress the late culti vation for I think that it was what led me to success. Yours respectfully, W. ERNEST STARNES, Hickory, N. C. Democrat Ads DO THE WORK. "I sold a cream Separator to a Cald well county man the other day," said Mr. W. J. Shuford, of the Hickory Seed Co. "I asked him how he came to buy a De Laval Separator and he said he saw the ad in the Democrat, and in his neighbor's paper, at that." . ' • # * "It Pays to Advertise," said Mr. Shuford, "and to keep everlasting ly at it." HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY. APRIL 13. 191K BEST EAR OF CORN.' | Took the Prize Cup Offered bv 1 Mr. W. K. Kellogg.. R. A. James, o£ Charleston. q 111., has the proud distinction of having grown the best ear of corn in all the 3,125,713,601 bush - els of last year's bumper crop. At the National Com Show just held at Columbus, Ohio, this gentleman was awarded the W. a K. Kellogg National Corn Tro " phy, donated in 1906 by W. K. j Kellogg, president KeL- T MoT?•' " ! > > •%- 1 1 * i 1,1 ) ■lilll 1 v'f 1 1 i , I * it" t sjj 1 \ ' * iMMMM - " IHLJPF . rm I ' Form 1 The W. K. Kellogg National I Corn Trophy | ogg Toasted Corn Flake Co., of ' Battle Creek,Mich. Thousands of ears of corn from all parts of the country and of ill varieties were entered in the competition. The selection of the grand champion Sweepstakes and the award of the Kellogg trophy were made on general points of superiority. * The ear of corn grown by Mr. James is of Reid's Yellow Dent i HK J9I Warn I K '' -J ' |L A. Jam—, Winner of W. K. Kellogg National Corn Trophy lor 1910 variety. It is 10 inches long, 7£ inches in circumference, and has 20 rows of kernels, 6 to the inch in the row, average 5-8 of an inch in depth, and 516 of an inch in width. It is indeed a very correct tvpe of yellow, dent Old Fields of Toe County Seat Liielj to Get Avery's Court House—Maple Sogar Mating. Correspondence of the Democrat Boone, April Bth.—Maple su gar makers have had good suc cess this spring. Your corres pondent talked with Mr. Jackson Wilson, of Silverstone, in regard to the sugar business in his sec tion. On his land about 500 founds have been made. There are several smaller orchards in the neighborhood. All told there has been more than 2000 pounds made this season, in his neigh borhood. The sugar finds ready sale at 15 cents per pound. When the sap is boiled for a time an excellent quality of syrup is made which sells for one dollar per gallon. Judge Long has just closed s two weeks term of court. Eight years ago Judge Long forced the county authorities to build a new court house at a cost of $20,000. IHe now through the grand jury wants water works and steam heat in the building. His order was that the commissioners corn. Mr. James, the winner, is a vigorous farmer about 40 years of age and of pleasing personal ity, a man who has given careful study to corn culture, and who has achieved his success as a grand champion winner only bv years of hard work and painstak ing «eed selection and careful breeding from season to season. Illinois growers are especially e'ated over the result for the reason that this is the first time in four years that the honors have been wrested from the state of Indiana. Last years's champion ear, the first winner of the Kellogg trophy, was grown by Mr. Fred C. Plain, of New town, lnd. It was also of Reid's "tform 3 WocfcPt Best Ear of Corn for 1910 Yellow Dent variety, crossed with Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905 should be held responsible at the next term of court if they did not obey the jury. Mr. J. M. May, the chairman of the Board, has offered his resignation. The only section of Watauga that the government desires to purchase land in for the Appala chian Park is the East side of the Blue Ridge on the waters of the Yadkin river. Mr. Ed Norris died at the home of his father, Mr. John Norris, last Friday evening. Mr. Morris was a young married man whose home was in Hickory. He leaves a wife and a small child. The opinion is that the town ships of Beech Mountain and Shawneehaw will vote to goin to the new county of Avery. The countv seat will be, it is believed, the "Old Fields of Toe" and be named in honor of Lieutenant Governor Newland. Mr. Conover to Go to Anna polis. Raleigh News & Observer. Mr. J. A. Conover, dairyman of the Department of Agriculture, who also represents the United States Department of Agricul ture in the dairy work has re signed his position. Mr. Conover has been with the North Carolina Department at Agriculture for the past three years, and he resigns to go to \nnapolis to take charge of dairy department work for the Naval Academy. The department in its dairy work has shown much advance under Mr. Conover ad ministration. General News. Hon. W. J. Bryan refuses the request of Memphis to make his home in tttat city on the groand that he is not needed in the South. Forty Southern cotton yarn mills met at Washington to con sider merging but came to no definite conclusion. Craig Lippincott, head of the big Philadelphia publishing house, killed himself. School Fund Trouble. Charlotte Chronicle. The report printed in yester day's Chronicle from The Cataw ba County News, to the effect that the two per cent, school tax levy made by the Legisla ture, is unconstitutional, con firmed. The matter was so decided by Judge Dauiels, in Raleigh. The reasons for the unconstitutionality of the act is that through inadver tence, the Legislature "failed to maintain the constitutional equa tion as between ad valorem and the poll tax.'' The bill neglected to provide for an increase of six :ents in the poll tax. The case will go to the Supreme Court for iinal decision. From present ap oearances, the cause of educa tion in the State is in danger of oeing embarrassed, though some way will be found out of the trouble, no doubt. The with holding of $400,000 from the public school fund would be a calamity. / Alexander Gold Standard. Last year's prize winner is the most perfectly formed ear of the two, though it requires a careful judge to distinguish the points of superiority. The trophy awarded to Mr. James was made by Tiffany, of New York, for Mr. W. K. Kel logg, at a cost of SI,OOO. It is made of Sterling silver, bronze and enamels, and is a truly ar tistic creation. It stands 30 inches in height. Mr. Kellogg's interest in corn glowing can be understood when it is stated that the Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Co., of which he is president, has an output requiring 10,000 bushels of corn a day, raw pro duct, for its manufacture. A peculiar feature is that while the Kellogg product is made exclu sively from selected white corn, the Kellogg trophy has been won each time by a yellow corn ex hibit. The trophy is offered for annual competition until won twice by the same grower. The National Corn show at which the award was made, was an event of tremendous magni tude. At one of the sessions President Taft was present and delivered an address. Dr. J. C. Biddix will spend Sunday and Monday with his baby boy in Baltimore. "Our baby cries for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy," writes Mrs. T. B. Kendrick, Rasaca, Ga. "It is the best qough remedy on the market for coughs, colds and croup. For sale by all deal ert. Catawba Co's. Fair Praised Northern Paper Takes Notice ol What Oar Famers Are Doing. Rural Life, the well-known farm stock journal of Rochester, N. Y., has the following to say of Catawba's Fair and Creamery: Southern Farmers may be con servative in many respects; bat when they once get started on the highway of progress they are pretty sure to outdistance their Northern and Western brethern. They do things not only as well, but frequently better. Hickory is a town in the North Carolina PfemumL It is in the midst of a region of good farms and thrifty farmers. At Hickory is held the Catawba county fair which is unique in the history of fairs. No other fair that has ever been held is like it. It is supported entirely by volurtary contributions. There are no fees of any kind. No fakirs nor side shows are al lowed. It is a purely educational exhibition and is attended by manv thousands of rural folk. The judging of all exhibits is in the open, and the judges are ex pected to tell why they award the prizes as they do. They have a cow testing iompetition, weigh ing the milk and testing for but ter fat. Butter is made on the grounds and the process explain ed. At the last fair, held in No vember, a professor from the state agricultural college had six teen boys engaged in a judging contest with dairy cattle, hogs, horses, poultry and corn; the speakers were men who had something to say along practical lines—the politician was politely invited to stay away. The "Progressive Farmer" of Raleigh, N. C., from which we glean this information, says they do things in Catawba county. They have built up a big dairy industry and decided that they wanted a creamery, so they went down into Georgia where the farmers had paid some creamery promoters $5,000 for an outfit — forgetting that it takes cows to run a creamery—bought the ma chinery, almost new, for SI,OOO, engaged a Danish buttermaker, and started in. The farmers are getting 311-2 cents a pound for their butter fat, and the demsnd for butter cannot be supplied. Then these thrifty folk grt hold of the idea of selling eggs in con nection with their butter. The eggs are gathered every other day; stamped on the end with a number to indicate who furnishes them, packed in neat boxes of a dozen each, and sold at a con siderable advance over the mar ket price. vYhen any patron has three bad eggs charged up against him, he must sell else where. This is only one of many in stances we could give which are indicative of the agricultural awakeing that is taking place in the South. The Site of the Catawba Bridge? Newton Enterprise. As soon as the Catawba river bridge at Hickory is completed, the demands on the treasury from that source could be curtail ed sufficiently to meet at least half the amount required for a farm life school. Rev. Dr. C. M. Richards, of Davidson, and" Rev. W. T. Wal ker, Superintendent of the Bar ium Springs orphanage, spent Monday here to examine into Hickory's sewerage system. A water works and sewerage sys is to be established at the or phanage. In cases of rheumatism relief from pain makes sleep and rest possible. This may be obtained by applying Chamberlain's Liniment. For sale by all dealers. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Minish cel ebrated their golden wedding at their hospitable home, Honey suckel Lodge, in Yadkin Valley on March 27. No Slavery to Work Deskins, Va. —Mrs. Mary A, Van dyke, in a letter from Deskins, says: "I had serious female troubles, lasting 40 days at a time. I was so weak 1 could hardlv walk, so I tried Cardni. Soon I was better. Now, lam well." If you suffer from any form of womanly pain or weakness, take CaTdui, the woman's tonic. Cardui will lift yon out of the misery and weariness, caused by womanly weakness, and help yon to see the bright side of life. Try it« Your druggist sells it. A. M.