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Entered at the Post Office at Hickory
•bsecond class matter.
HICKORY, N. C M FEB. 22,1912.
CHINA'S NEW CHRISTIAN
RULERS.
The Manchu dynasty has ab
dicated, and poor little Pu Yi,
the wee boy emperor of China,
can never ride hobby horse
around a throne any more. One
statement which has lately ffonr
out in the press is wonderful—
that every member of the new
Republician cabinet is a Christ
ian. Dr. Sunyat Sen, the fath
er of the Republic, the Washing
ton of China, is a genuine f!hr? •
ian, and prayer to Christian un.
has put him where he is. A
few years ago, when there wa
a price of $37,000 on his head, hi
was secretly captured and im
prisoned at the Chinese embas
sy in London, pending deport*
tion to China, His last desper
ate resort was prayer. He praye
He then decided to put a not*
in the waste basket, saying that
he was in great danger. He
said so, and later a servant
emptied the receptacle. It says
in the book of Jonah that "GOG,
prepared a wind." He also pre
pared a breeze in the interest of
the founder-to-be of tht
Chinese republic. This breez*
blew the note across the street
a man picked it up, reported the
contents to Scotland Yards. an
Dr. Sun was soon liberated.
China is very untutored to be t
republic. Only as its peoplt
follow its new rulers into Chrk >
ianity can China ride safely on
the tide of republicanism.
OUR OLD PRESS.
We ask our readers to be a lit
tie patient with us until we curt
our country Campbell press ol
its influenza. The recent spelt
of winter has been too much for
it.
The reason that the Democrat's
press prints faint and indistinct
ly around about in spots is be
cause the bed of the press is just
a fraction of an inch lower in tht
centre than it is at the sides.
The bed (upon which the form*
lie under the cylinder) runs fc
andfro upon rollers. The roller*
have cut deeper into the groove*
of the press bed in the centre,
in the long time the press ha*
been in service. When tht
forms are put on the bed the>
sag down a little bit in the mid
dle, which is responsible for tht
annoying pale print which out
readers sometimes see.
This condition could be easib
remedied if the grooves could
be planed, but neither the Pied
mont Machine and Foundry. Co.
nor at thefeC, & N. W. B. R.
shops are wide enough to ac
commodate this piece of me
chanism. The Campbell presse*
are no longer being manufacture
ed, and hence it is impossible to
get a new press bed from tht
factory. The Democrat is not
yet able to buy a new press al
together, as it would cost about
SI,OOO.
I Our press is still an excellent
piece of machinery if we could
only have this onejpart of it mad
wish to say to out
readers that we are working
hard on this problem, and hope
soon tolhavei it solved. Mean
time be as patient with us as
human nature can, be, when
lhe paper has that [chalky anae
mic look.
r Three car loadsof eggs shipped
in one week by the Bickory
creamery to the northern mark*
ets. It is a great record!
The whole of Western North*
Carolina is simply powdered with
sawdust—-and sawdust yields
wood alcohol and other valuable
chemical products*
ROYSTER FERTIHSft
HITS THE SPOT EVER' F/AT^
The explanation is simple; they ore Tfjr ,
made with the greatest cure and a # l
every ingredient has to pass the Ijj j
lest of oar own laboratories Si' |
f heresndTutormiss , aboutßqysier I I
Fertilizers. # f 1 ,
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l\t, CHAMBER OF COM
COMMERCE.
iniJlO the business men of
.lickory gave SI6OO to maintain
tneir Cnamber of Commerce. In
I*ll they gave This
year, we understand, the tifte
ire apt to be skimpier still. It
jvtli never do. Are we to quit
getting any more railroad shops,
jhair factories, Catawba nvei
jridges, road conventions, ano
ill the like of that?
COMING EVENTS.
Keep constantly in mind that
dickory is still in lesh. The
.ime is bound to come when two
uig things will happen: The
Jatawba river will be narnessed
cor hidro-electric power, and the
Carolina and Nortn-western
Railroad will climb through the
diue Ridge toward Cincinnati
«nd Chicago, and tne coat fields.
Then Hickory will plunge big
city-ward with a hop skip and
jump.
The United States very proper
ty said to the powers, on the
inreahold of Chinas republican
torm of government: "Hands
jff." Yet why should &he not
jave said the same thing to Rus
sia and England, as Persia was
struggling to her feet?
A Letter f rom Mr. Nichols,
The following extract from a
letter written by a former Hick
ory minister now located in
iVhaleyvilie, Md. to aycung busi
uess man Here will be 01 interest
his many friends.
"The people here mink I am
i*ather foolish about North Caro
tin and the South generally but
i tell them that if they will go
there they will be loonsh as ]
am.
*'l am glad to see you getting a
lood business move on you. 1
have noticed that maiy of the
oig business men of all the cities
of the North as well as the
South where boys raised up on
the farm and who came in and
made there own way. There is
no reason why you should not go
as high as the best of them, but
| remember one thing, the best
i big man of this day and the
future is the man that never
forgets that he belongs to .God
and that he is here on business
for the King. Be the same
simple hearted Christian in the
business world that you were
out on the hillside farm and men
will not only respect you but
will someday rise up to call you
blessed.
| "I have been kept very much
on the run this year by my own
work and helping other men.
Monday I leave for Texas for
three weeks to help in meetings.
I may go there in the spring to
take work. Give my best love
to all the folks who know me in
Hickory.
"Yours very sincerely,
•'J. L. Nichols."
The Senatorial Primary.
The four Democratic candi
dates for the United States Sen
ate, Ex-Gov. Charles B. Ay
cock, Chief Justice Walter Clark,
• / V;
*> •
Gov. W. W. Kiichin and Senator
Simmons, agree to ask the
State Democratic executive com
mittiee to recommend to the
State convention that it ordered
| a senatorial primary tojbe neld at
the general election in .Novem
ber, rules to be prepared by tht
executive committee and sub
mitted to the convention, stati -
inents of all amounts expended
oy each for campaign purpose;
offered the press for publicatioi.
ten days before and ten day*
after tne nomination is maut
and the statements to be tn*
same as required to be made u*
senatorial candidates to tin
secretary of the United Stati
Senate,
Wilson And The Working
MAN.
Harry A. Elbow, of the railroac
trainmen brotherhood, of New
ark, N. J., writes tne following
letter in the Newark News:
Sir,— in Monday's daily paper*
I read an account of an attack
made January 21 on Governoi
Wilson before the Chicago Feder
ation of labor in relation to hit
attitude toward organized labor.
Tne gentleman who directed tht
attack, lam informed, is a Mi.
Quinn. 'How baseless and falst
nis statements are is snown b>
the following laws enacted undei
the administration of Governoi
vVilson:
An employer's liability act,
making the employer responsible
tor tne physical welfare of every
inan, woman or child in his or
tneir employ. An act abolishing
labor in our State prisons. An
act for the safeguarding of busi
ness buildings against lire. A
public utilities act, putting every
public utility in tne State under
the control of the people. A law
compelling all railroad corpora
buns to pay their employes twice
monthly. A resolution on a bill
known as a full crew law, com
pelling the railroads to man their
trains with a sufficient number of
men to protect the lives of its
patrons and employes. An elec
tion law to guarantee an honest
count, thereby protecting the
great mass of workmen from
fraud at the polls, and a compre
hensive corrupt practices act.
These are actual accomplish
ments that could never have been
carried out without the earnest
co-operation of Governor Wood
row Wilson. I would refer Mr.
Quinn and the Chicago Federa
tion of Labor to the Legislature
of January 9, 1912. After a
perusal of it they will, perhaps,
be in a better position to pass
judgement than by the mere
bottomless statements of a labor
enemy. I
I am forwarding a copy of the
aforesaid message to the Chicago
Federation of Labor.
Mr. J. K. Perry, of Beaver
Dam, writes us that last spring
he bought three White Holland
turkeys, two hens and a torn, for
which he paid $5.00. He raised
from them 43 turkeys and Bold
them for $65.22. Who can beat
this for so small an investment?
—Boone Democrat.
Sulphur Springs Sold.
Tayloresville cor. Statesville Landmark.
Some weeks ago it was t -
ported tt at Mr. R. Lee Da t
had sold his interest in Da\ i.
White Sulphur Springs hotel ar c
roller mill to his brother, Vlr. W
T. Dayis, Mr. Earl Davis and Dt.
Leeper. For some reason thf
leal was not consummated
this week Mr. W. T, Davis sc'd
lis interest in the property mer
' tioned to Mr. R. Lee Davis an
Chas. P. Matheson, of Taylors
ville. The consideration wa
$5,000.
(Mr. Chas. P. Matheson is th
former clerk of Alexander Su
oerior Court. He will have
charge of the office at this pop
ilar resort next season and vis
itors will find him an agreeable
*nd accomodating gentleman
Mr. W. T. Davis who has bee>
the popular manager of the hot* 1
ever since it was establishes
has not decided as to his futir#
business. —The Landmark.)
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OF FIVE WOSEK
\oves That Lydia E. Pink
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pound Is Reliable.
Reedville, Ore.—"l can truly recon
nend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound to ali women who are passing
hrough the Change of Life, as it irade
npRHNPHQ me a well woman r.ftei
suffering three years."
Mrs. MARY BOG.-JIT,
J|j Reedville, Oregon.
New Orleans, La.
Stiiaiiiil "When passing through
the Change of Life I was
MnM»r>BosertT| troubled with hot fishes,
weak and dizzy spells ana
backache. I was not f: t for
igpj: anything until I took Ly
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proved worth its woight
'ffiri in gold to me. "-Mrs GAS
TON BLONDEAU, 1541 Po
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BAUER, 523 E. Marion St.,
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Mrs. EMMA BAILEY, Alton
BHliißHfl Station, Ky.
Deisem, No. Dak. "I was passing
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F. M. THORN, Deisem, No. Dak.
"Flagler's Folly."
The extension of the Florida
East Coast R. R. to Key West
has been completed and was re
centiy formally opened. It is
called the sea going railroad be
cause it built out over the Flori
da Keys, crossing shallow inlets
on concrete bridges. At one
point the train is out of sight of
land. It is considered one ot' the
greatest pieces of American en
gineering. Flaglers whose mone.v
built this road is 82 years old.
It has been in course of construc
tion for probably sixteen years
and when it was first begun it
was laughingly termed 4 'Flagler's
Folly."
Stops itching instally. Cures piles,
eczema, salt rheum, tetter, itch, hives,
herpes, scabies—Doans Ointment. At
any drag stor«,
Why Hen Don't Lay Eggs in
Winter.
In the current issue of Farm
and Fire side the Poultry Editor
makes the following interesting
report; „ ,
"The price of fresh eggs went
soaring after Thanksgiving, ano
just at that time nearly all hens
quit laying. They did not go on
a strike, but just quit because
they had to. I have received
quit a number of letters from
people in several states asking
why the hens do not lay, und
how to make them lay. Two
farmers wrote that they had
about decided to sell all their
towls but about half a dozen,
because when the price of eggs
was high, they did not lay, and
when is was down below cost of
feed, the laid steadily.
"I have found it very difficult
to make people understand tn*.
a hen cannot make eggs am
feathers at the same time. Shi
can lay while she is sheddin*
.ier feathers, because there it
then no drain on her system for
*iny other purpose. But whe
the new coat of feathers is start
d, she quits, simply because shi
cannot do double duty—mak
feathers and eggs at the sam»
time. When people learns th:
i'act, they will not expect egg:
from a hen that is growing i
oat of feathers. And thej ma.
al) Warn how to manage then
hatching and feeding so as t-
eargs in the late fall an
wint"» , J whpn they want ther
badl . And when they learn
that tnere wiiJ not be any mark
?t lor egg-making compounct
jreDared stock foods, panacea.
nd back-breeding t>onecutter>.
••Pull, ts that are hatched ear
n Aoril will make layers •
hanksgiving eggs if they a.
Ed d jring the summer so th
hey will be matured by tl
ime. As a rule people feed th*
•hicks very well, but when the
>re pretty well feathered, th
upply of food given them is not
utficient to push them rapidl:
LO maturity. There is only one
\ay to feed growing pullets
satisfactorily, and that is to
*eep an abundance..
Blamed A Cood Worker
"1 blamed my heart for severe d sires
in my left side for two years," write
•V. Evans, Danville, Va. /'but kno
.ow it was indigestion, Dr. King'
>iew Life Pills completely cured me '
-test for stomach, liver and kidne\
-roubles, constipation, headache o
iebility. 25 c. at C. M. Shufoid
Moser &Latz and Grimes Drug Co.
Thomas Settle, of Buncomb
2ounty, will be a candidate t*
che Republican nomination it
Governor and wiil make his ra.
on a local option platform. It
said that Mr. Settle is willing t
nake the race if the local opt«
p;ank is included in the platfori:
not otherwise, and many aecla
for this reason that he will n
be the noimnee, for they arg
that the Republican party i
committed to prohibition just a
tnuu. so.astbe Democratic party
Politicians lLat u SettU
runs on a local option piatforn
ne will poll a tremendous vofr.
SIOO Reward, SIOO.
The readers of this paper wil. K
oleased to learn that there is at i aft
one dreadful disease that science t.
oeen able to cure in all its stages. n>
tnat is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh i
the only positive cure now known tc
the medical fraternity. Catarrh b ; ng
a constitutional disease, requires a ron
stitutional treatment. Hall's Ca airh
Cure is taken internally, acting di
rectly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the systen., thereby destroy
ing the foundation of the disease, and
giving the patient stiengih by build
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.jature in doing its work. The pro
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fails to cure. Send for list of testimon
ials.
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Take Hall's Family Pills for consti
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Hickory township cannot af
ford to lay behind Newton
township on the matter of issu
ing $50,000 of road bonds.
Shocking Sounds
in the earth axe sometimes heard be
fore a terrible earthquake, that warn of
the coming peril. Nature's warning?
are kind. That dull pain or ache iE
the back warns you the Kidneys need
attention if you would escape those
dangerous maladies, Dropsy, Diabetes
or Bright's disease. Take Electric
Bitters at once and see backache fly
and all your best feelings return, *My
son received great benefit from their
use for kidney and bladder trouble,"
writes Beler Bondy, South Rockwood,
Mich., "It is certainly a great kid
ney medicine." Try it. 50 cents at
C. M. Shuford, Moser & Lutz, and
Grimes Drug Co.
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great hindrance to the cure of womanly diseases. Women
shrink from the personal questions of the local physician ;
which seem indelicate. The thought of examination is ab- :i
horrent to thcrn, and so they endure in silence a condition
of disease which surely progresses from bad to worse. aIV %
it has been Dr. Pierce's privilege to cure a Bjjs '|rv>
ire at many women who have found a refuge 91^
for modesty in his offer of FREE consulta* I .
tioo by iqtter. 2111 correspondence is held A V
as sacredly confidential. Address Dr. R. V. 'X*'
Pierce, Buffalo, N. T. J
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THL WORLD
1912 Hditi»n
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attaaa lal taßsntksi of 1911. wan. intcrnatiaa* 1
tlsagrsiaasats and «tiMr great historical areata
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asked who his grandfather was.
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ied in wonder? "Why he is that
big fat man that works in my
daddie's office."
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Boot Maker and j||
Under Moretz-Whitenr's |j|
Some excellent pictures are
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tre.
Stomach Troubles
Cured by Vinol
HERE IS PROOF
" I suffered so long from stomach
trouble and indigestion, that I lost
flesh rapidly VINOL cured me
after everything else had failed. It
strengthened my digestive organs
gave me a hearty appetite, and I
can eat anything without the slight
est distress. Ido not believe any
thing equals VINOL for stomach
trouble and indigestion."
W. E. WATERHOUSE,
Portland, Me.
• Mr. Thos. G .Wallace, of Detroit,
Mich., writes, "I suffered for years
from a chronic stomach trouble.
VINOL entirely cured me after
everything else had failed.''
It is the curative medicinal ele
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with the strengthening properties
of tonic iron contained in \ iXuk.
which makes it so successful in re
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the same time building up the wea '
ened run-down system.
Try a bottle of VINOL with the
understanding that your moneys'
be returned if it does not help y oU *
Forsale by Moser and Lu tz
Drug store.
Mr. W. E. Bacon, of Newton,
was in the city Friday. •