Established 1899
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SAME AS RAILWAYS
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DECLA KI:S PRESIDENT
FIX LEY TO N. C. j
EDITORS.
RAILWAYS AND PRESS ALLIED 1
Mr. Finley, at Asheville, Dis
cusses MutualJuterests of;
Press and Railways and
Their Aid in Community l
Development.
Asheville, N. C.,. July 24.—At the
mteting of the North Carolina Press
Association in Asheville to-day Pres
ident Finley. of the Southern Railway
Company, d livered an address on
"The Relations of the Press and the
Railways and the Value of their Co
operation in Community Develop
ment."
Mr. Finley pointed out the natural
basis for co-operation between the
press an.i the railways growing out
of the substantial identity of their in
terests in community development and
prosperity, bringing to the newspapers
adiitioual subscribers and advertising
and to the railways increased traffic
and making it logical that the press
and the railways, in their respective
lieids. should work in close co-Opera
tion for community development. He
recognized that, while the newspapers
and the railways were thus natural
allies in community development, it
did not follow that there should not
be fair criticism of the railways, and
bdid:
"Fair and just criticism is a proper
function of a free press, but criti
cism cf the agencies which provide
the transportation facilities of the
community should take account of
the economic conditions nnder
which those agencies must work
and should aim. in respect to a
factor so essential to community
development, to be helpful and edu
cational rather than being along
lines tending to create unreason
ing prejudice.
"Personally, I am a great reader
of the newspapers. I appreciate at
its full value the work they are dd
iug and * recognize in their editors,
in many cases, the spokesmen of
their communities. I do not Ignore
what is said in the newspapers rel
ative to our policies. I always take
note of newspaper criticism on mat
ters that it may be within our power
to remedy and all such matters are
given attention so far as it may be
practicable to do so."
Referring to the fact that a railway
can not win the support of public
opinion through the exercise of politi
cal influence or in any other way ex
cept by the intelligent and effective
performance of its functions as a car
rier and- by its responsiveness to fair
criticism, Mr. Finley pointed out that
Its position can only be secure when
the economic conditions surrounding
its operation and the importance of its
functions to development and to the
enlargement of opportunity are appre
ciated by the people of the com
munity, and that this appreciation was
dependent upon enlightened citizen
ship. He spoke of the moral respons
ibility of the press in this connection
and of its power, by presenting fully
and fairly, the economic situation of
the railways and the interest of all of
the people in their prosperity and effi
ciency, to bring about that mutual
good understanding which is indis
pensable to effective co-operation.
As, in an economic senae, produc
tion IB not complete until goods are
put in a position for consumption, Mr.
Finley spoke of the railways as crea
tors of value and as an indispensable
part of the producing equipment of
every community and of every farmer
and manufacturer in it and said that
unjust criticism directed against
farmers and manufacturers would be
Just as logical as against the railways.
Speaking of the right of the rail
ways, just as of any other business
enterprise to present their cause, fully
and freely, before courts, administra
tive tribunals, legislatures, and the
bar of public opinion, Mr. Finley said:
"Enlightened public opinion in
the United States will noJ justify the
relegation of the railways to the
status of the Jew in England in the
Middle Ages, when, as we read in
Madoxe's History of the Exchequer:
'Josce Quartebuch gave forty marks
that his son Hekelin might be dealt
with according to justice'; and 'Jur
net of Norwich gave 1,800 marks
that he might reside in England with
the King's good will.'
"The railways are asking for no
special favors. They ask only that
their Importance in the development
of the country and that the inter
est which each individual has in
their efficiency shall be frankly
recognized. They ask that differ
ences which may arise between them
and individuals or communities
shall be subjects of full and free
conference to be adjusted in accord
ance with sound business principles,
■or that, failing such adjustment,
they shall be adjudicated by the
tribunals constituted by l*w."
Having outlined the condition which
he believed to be necessary to the
most effective co-operation betweon j
ib urasyj a&d tiu» rail way J [Of QiitU"
THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
munity dajL, .
pressed I4bary - -cdmp~-£
eratioa was esesntial.to the fullest d*.
velopment and prosperity of any com
munity because intelligence and trans
portation were fundamental factors in
development, it being the function of
the press to disseminate the first and
of the railways to provide the second.
He .outlined the work, which the
Southern Railway Company is doing
to aid in the development of the ter
ritory traversed by its u neßt express
ing the opinion that it could be said,
without boastfuiness, to be more com
prehensive than similar work being
done by any other railway organisa
tion in the United (States. He said:
"In our work for community de
velopment it is our policy to co-oper
ate closely with individuals and or
ganisations. That It may have been
more effective in some localities
than in ethers has oeen due largely
to lcccl conditions, including the de
gree of co-operation that we have
received. We believe that it has
been particularly effective In West
em North Carolina where we have
participated in the organization and
activities of the Greater Western
North Carolina Association, the
single purpose of which is the .de
velopment of this part of the State.
We should be very glad to partici
pate in other territorial movements
or in a State-wide movement of the
same kind, if carried on directly un
der the auspices of the State or
through a responsible organization
similar to that in this region.
"In all of the development work'
that we are doing, we look upon the
of the Southeast as our
helpful allies. With very few ex
ceptions we have found them ready,
at all times, to publish information
relative to our work and to give
space in their columns to matter
that we have sent them from time to
time which we believed might be
helpful to their readers. They have
very generously given space' to the
publication of our views on subjects
relative to the upbuilding of the
Southeast Many of the newspapers
have gone farther than this and
have commended our policies edi
torially."
Suggesting methods in which . the
press could be of aid in community de
velopment, Mr. Finley spoke of the
publication of matter that would be
helpful to the people already living
In the Southeast, emphasizing the im
portance of farm papers and of devot
ing space in the daily and weekly pa
pers to information as to the' best
farm methods. He suggested that each
newspaper should be a booster for the
Southeast as a whole and for its own
ivarticular community, not exaggerat
ing or overstating advantages and op
portunities, for the truth about the
Southeast was good enugh. He sug
gested that newspaper men acting as
correspondents of papers published in
other localities should embrace every
proper opportunity to incorporate in
their news letters and despatches mat
ter that would serve to attract favor
able attention to their communities.
Speaking of the exceptional opportuni
ties for' community development in
the Southeast, Mr. Finley said:
"It is a field in which intelligent
ly directed efforts are sufe to bring
results. In no State are the oppor
tunities greater than in North Caro
lina. In no State has progress with
in recent years been more rapid.
The members of: this Association
have been among the most effective
workers for community development
in the past and I know that your
efforts will be continued. I wish
oach one of you the largest measure
of success and assure you of the
hearly co-operation of the Southern
Railway Company in community de
velopment."
FLANNIGAN
GETS 12 MOS.
The most pathetic case brought
before our court in some timf
was that of Abel Flannigan who
was taken in custody here Sat
urday night by Police Lentz. Mr.
Flannigan it is said had token or
some bcoze and was driving up
Union Square when he ran info
a crowd that was starding in tht
street listening to the band play,
when he ran over Phillip White
ner. It is stated ti.at Mr. White
">er was badly hurt. Police
Lentz, while on his way to the
lockup with Mr. Flannigan re
ceived a severe blow on his am.-
with a large h : ckory stick that
Mr. Flannigan had at the time.
The case was tried Mondaj
morning before Judge Black
welder, for the three offences,
first drunk and disorderly,
second running over Mr. White
ner, third resisting a lawful offi
cer. For the offences he
was sentenced to the county juil
for twelve months.
Mr. Flannigan lives here with
his mother, whois about 80 vears
ofaore and is in very feeble
health.
Mebane Lock-Up is Full,
July 25 —Special.
Tuesday night the express office
was broken into and eight gal
lons of whisky and two suits oi
clothes were stolen. Chief Lons
and several deputies workec
hard on the case with the resull
that up to noon yesterday thej
j had landed eight negroes in th
lock-up.
HICKORY, N.C.,THURSDAY. JULY 31, 1913
|llE»lPGfuilij
I "How shall Igoupto my Father, and
; the lad be not with me?"
I —Genesis 44:34.
We examined in our last lecture the
natural principles which underlie Par
ental Responsibility, and found the
relations of Parenthood and Childhood
j c i' C'eate parental responsibility
and hlial duty. Second, we discovered
that certain natural and vital endow
inents aie bestowed on children which
render parental responsibility surer of
Us results as weir as give it an absorb
ing interest. These endowments are
Parental love and childhood's passlve
ness and plasticity in the parents'
hands.
We shall now investigate whatclaims
I I he Creator may have in tills matter.
For certainly His righis must not be
{overlooked. The divine rights have a
ithree-fold basis. They rest on God's
creation of marriage, the home, and
the family. They rest on God's provi
i a* nee. by which he has sustained these
j human institutions, asd lastly on
'f Goo's Redemption, his plan by which
he will ultimately redtem the world
from sir;, one main instrument being
the Cmistian Home,
i Mairlage is fundamentally a reli
j gious contract. It shouM be control
i ltd b.\ civil law, because it is the ba
sis ofjsociet y. But its deepest founda
tions test on the nature of man as a
worshipper of God. As a contract,
God is t lie partv of the first part with
his lights baspd as outlined above,
jthat is. He is the Creator, Preserver
| and Redeemer of the home. The man
land the woman form the parties of
the second part, with the man as the
covenant head. These parties; God
the originator and the human pair the
receivers of the covenant and Its bless
j are solemnly bound by the con
tract.
God gives the powers of nature,
makts the laws cf marriage, plants
human love in human hearts, and
mates them in his providence. He
gives the fruit of the womb, and prom
ises to redeem the home from sin,
binding himself by the blood of the
I everlasting covenant and swearing by
. his own great name. The human pair
take the vows of marriage by solemn
affirmation in the sight uf God and in
the presence of witnessess to ooey
God's laws of marriage, fidelity, love,
help, harmony, and parenthood, and
may claim the divine blessings on their
marriage when they aie obedient.
The main contract is divine; the
subcontract is that between the man
and the woman mutually. This latter
one is the civil and social contract of
marriage. It is the one in view when
it is lightly broken by divorce and sep
aration. But It is of minor slgniti
"cjince to the divine contract, of which
the Lord Jesus Christ has said, "That
which God hath joined together let
man put asunder."
There are only three ways in which
marriage may be cancelled as a reft
gious contract, deatii, adultery and
wilful, permanent separation. Some
question the scriptural grounds for'
tills last one, but it seems recognized
by Paul as a ground for divorce. (See
I. Cor. 7:11, 15.)
God's providence has kept marriage
and the family as the great safeguards
of human happiness, and he makes it
the security for the eternal destiny of
children. The divine rights of this sa
cred family covenant are preserved
alone in the children. The text be
comes a warning, a reproach to the
hearts and consciences of all parents.
How can you go up to jour Father
and the lad be not with you? So we
solemnly enter a compact to lead our
lads and lassies home to God. He
lends them to us and charges us
with them. They are our fiesh and
blood, but God's creatures, indeed We
bring them to his house and by infant
oapiism we dedicate them to God,
their Father and our Father, because
Me has sald,*'The promise is unto you
and your children," and because In
Malachi 2:14 16, God declares the ob
ject of the home is to secure a godlv
seed. We leave the house of God af
ter this dedication solemnly commit
ted to a religious training of our chil
dren in our homes. O, what a gra
cious place is borne. The wise Creat
or had a most beneficent purpose in
erecting this sweetest of all human in
stitutions. In the home He has tied
hearts to heaven. Certainly no msso
elation of ideas can be more closely
knit than those of Motlier, Home and
> Heaven. The Frenchman says, "God
could not always be with the child,
' therefore he made mothers." And
when we shall be ushered into eternity,
) into the great judgment hall, how
glad will be that day as we gather our
loved ones and present ourselves to
our Father and say, "Behold, we and
» the children whom thou hast given
i us." Family religion means an un
v broken family circle in heaven. So,
God's right are conserved when we;
t rain Laadie to fear God, to trust 1h
• the saviour and lead him to give his
■ life in surrender to God.
NATUKAL DBPKAVITT.
? A third principle which must be
, recognized in the rearing of children
is their natural. While Laddie is pas
sive and susceptible and tender lie may
• b(j trained iu goodness and wisdom by
t careful hands, wise heads and loving
hearts, yet lie is by nature sinful and
his natural and unrestrained tenden
cies are toward evil. He is prone to
' sin and early manifests these sinful in
, clinations. He falls into sin without
effort. A lie is a child's natural ref
' uge, especially if by its aid he can es
cape punishment. He has a temper,
and can display a perfect explosion of
F ' wrath. He gets purpie with rage. He
} hasn.'t learned to control his feelings,
and isn't wise enougii to hide his re
■ senttnent.
1 Laddie is selfish and will take the
f last peach and eat all the candy wltii
u out hesitation. He will steal and
grow in deception with rapid pace,
l'he foundation of an honest man are
laid in childhood. Honesty means more
than merely not sfcealing. It means
. faithfulness aud care with anj'thiug
P thai/belongs to another. Many a boy
lias become a vandal, a destroyer of
Z other people's property because he is
1 not taught to respect the rights of
Z others iiilnfancy and childhood. Other
d boys grow to be good men, but are
t careless about their accounts and
1 debts and keeping straight records,
y impurity and intemperance also are j
e ready to beguile Laddie's natural ap
petites. The tires of passion tafth®
drunkard and the libertine are started
in the earliest, year*. The flickering
flames made by temj.taiior.'S as they
blow over the coals of rat ural deprav
ity may some day be a volcano of pas-,
sion. Laziness and idleness are other
foes in Laddies heart. While he may
not be a sluggard, lie may not love to
do things worth while. Mind and
body become like the weedy field that
may be rich but useless.
We must remember that Laddie Is a
sinner by nature. Don't be deceived.
Your boy is not incapg&le of evil, noi
ls your girl. Depravit&of one form or
another lurks In their hearts, deprav
ity that bids fair to w-rilck their young
lives, slid make them a-menace to so
ciety, to its property, its morals, its
life, or prosperity. But this is not all.
Eternity and judgment are waiting
to make their revelatioas of yourlleg
lect of Laddie. Don't imagine that
the innocent child is pure and free
from sin because it is so heiress, so
ignorant, so guileless, and especially
because he is yours.
Know him ever as a babe, as a lost
sinner, a member of a lost race, and
confront the dangers that will menace
not only his earthly, but his eternal
future. The words of Judah had bet- >
ter be yours, and your heart be fraught i
with concern over Laddie, as a babe in
3'our arms. Let them take the form of
a prayer and be a protest against sin,
while he Is plastic In your hands In
stead of being a bitter wall and lament
over Laddie after he has wandered
.from your side into the devious paths
of sin without your earliest prayers
and protests. Remember also that the
world and the Devil are his foes and
will rob you of his soul if they can.
O, to think of the bitterness of lean
ing over a silent, face with reproaches
tilling the lieart as you say with fear
ful forebodings, "How can I go up to
m v Father and the lad be not with me?"
We have now traced the natural
principles underlying Parental Res
ponsibility and discussed the divine
rights, and the disturbing principle \
of sin that is to be recoguized. Next
we will discuss the Three Psychologi
cal Motors, or the incentives to be us
ed in child control.
REV. J. G. GARTH.
VILE ROMANISM.
Mob of Catholics Attempt to Assas
sinate Jeremiah Crowley.
After delivering a lecture on the
American public schools at the opera
house in Oelwein, lowa, Jeremiah J.
Crowley, author aud lecturer, was
brutally assaulted and seriously in
jured by a howling mob of Roman
Catholics, inquiry revealed the fact
that the flames of fanaticism had
been kindled several days In advance
and fanned to fury by Father Pat I
O'Conner, the Pope of Oelwin, and I
his brother Eugene, judge of the su
perior court, political boss and bar
room bum.
Mr. Crowley was invited to Oelwein
by the Guardians of Liberiy. He stop
ped at lh« Hotel Mealey and the
hearty reception he received was the
first signal for the beast to show its
teeth, and it seemed the Romanists
were as anxiously awaiting the object
of their hate as were the patriots of
the little city awaiting the arrival of
the man whom they honored and lov
ed.
The Catholics made several at
tempts to intimidate the owner of the
opera house in which Mr. Crowley
was to speak, even threatening to
burn it down if he didn't close its
doors to him.
After the lecture by judiciously of
fering counsel and walking straighi
to his hotel he avoided any serious
assault until within a few feet of his
hotel door, here the hooting and yell
ing became intense and the mobclos
edin for the final attack. Mr. Crowley's
hat was knocked off. and Jlm Hanlon,
a bartender, blackened one of Mr.
Crowley's eyes. The fact that he had
removed his glasses probably saved
his eyesight. Mr. Geo. W. Weaver,
proprietor of the hotel, was watch
ing the mob from the front door of
the hotel and thinking there might
be a possibility of Mr.Crowley reaching
the door alive, took the precaution to
have the screen door open in order
that refuge might be as easy as pos&i.
ble, but before Mr. Crowley could
reach the door he was struck a tre
mendous blow on the head with an
iron, supposed to be a luavy clock
weight. Severe as the blow was, Mr.
Crowley remained on his feet and
passed in at the hotel door with Ills
life but with an ugly wound which
was bleeding profusely and the sight
of which sickened the bystanders.
The scalp wound upon Crowley's
head shows where the fang of the
serpent stung him, and the black eye
where the fist of the Roman hierarchy
answers the orator with a blow. Rome
cannot say that Crowley was not in
jured, for the writer saw the wound,
and saw a local physician in Aurora
remove the bandage placed there by
Oelwein physicians.
: Rome's trained forces and federa
ted societies—her public declarations
by popes and bishops, her hostility to
republics and free institutions, writ
ten in blood and siiffering;her inquisi
tion and persecutions, have all wit
nessed Against her, and now, lest we
forget, and be deceived, she shows
her hand in Oelwein, lowa. And if
in lowa, what about New York, Phil
adelphia, Boston, Chicago and San
Francisco, whore the beast is en
throned in political - power and plun
ders the people with a free hand.
"Come out of Iter my people, that
ye oe not partakers of her iniquity,
and that ye receive not of her
plagues."—'The Menance.
For Cuts, Burns and Bruises
In every home there should be a
box of Bucklen's Arnica Salve, ready
to apply in every case of burns, cuts,
wounds (V scalds. J. H. Polanco,
Delvalle, Tex., R. No. 2, writes:
"Bucklen's Arnica Salve saved my
little girl's cut foot. No one be
lieved it could be cured." The
world's best salve. Only 25c. Rec
ommended by C. M. Shuford, Moser
& Lutz and Grimes Drug Store, adv.
Re?. G. W. Fink is holding a
ten day revival meeting in West
Hickory. Every one is cordially
invited to attend these meetings.
g 1
EDITOR ACQUITTED.
W. 0 Saunders Wins Out in Case
. With E. F. Aydlett
Special to The Observer.
Elizabeth City, July 27.-W.
O. Saunders, editor, of the In
dependent. a weekly newspaper
published here, was acquitted of
the charge of criminal libel Fri
day afternoon before Magistrates
M. H. Dixon Jr., and R. F. Tuttle
in Edenton.
Mr. Saunders was arrested
several days ago and taken to
Edenton upon a warrant sworn
out by Mr. E F. Aydlett of this
city, charging him with libelling
Mr. Aydlett in a certain article
Which appeared in The Inde
pendent several weeks ago. The
case was continued on account
of a witness who was to testify
for Mr. Saunders, being absent.
; He was given a hearing and
the case required several hours
to dispose of it. Mr. Saunders
was represented bv Attorneys
McMullan of Heitfordand Co
hoon of Elizabeth City. The
State was represented bv Attor
neys Bond, Pruden, and Vannof
Euenton.
After the evidence had been
introduced and the argument
made, the magistrates decided
that there was not enough evi
dence to warrant them in hold
ing the defendant and the case
was dismissed.
Craig Knows Nothing of Rate Agree
ment.
Asheville, July 27.—Comment
ing upon the Associated Press
dispatch from Norfolk last night
to the effect that the North Car
olina Corporation Commission
and the representative of the
railroads had reached an agree
ment on the North Carolina rate
trouble Governor Craig tonight
said:
"1 know nothing of the result
of the conference at Oid Point
Comfort between representa
tives of the railroads and the
Corporation Commission except
I what I have seen in today's pa
pers. Whenever Mr. Travis, as
chairman of the Corporation
Commission, shall submit to me
any basis of settlement I shall
carefully consider the same and
pass upon it alter mature delib
eration. This is a matter of the
highest importance. It affects
the welfare of all the people of
the State and it has received the
attention of the men of the State
most interested in our prosperity.
A public sentiment has been
aroused that demands a just
settlement of this question, &i
settlement just to the railroads
and just to the people. If these
differences are not adjusted be
fore the meeting of the special
session of the Legislature, I feei
sure that that body will take vig
orous action to remedy the injus
tice that the people of the State
have suffered by discrimination
against them iu freight rates."
Honie for Confederate Women Loca
ted on Ramsaur Site, Fayetteville.
Raleigh, July 25.- Secretary J.
A. Turner of the State Commis
sion for erecting a home for wives
and widows of Confederate vet
erans, was here today, returning
from Fayetteville, where he and
Chairman Ashley Home and Col.
J. A. Bryan of Newbern, consti
tuting a special committee from
the commission, selected the site
for the home. They chose what
is known as the Ramsaur site, j
This consists of five acres, two
miles from town,*on Haymount,
the most fashionable suburb of
the city.
The commission proposes to
erect at once a $12,000 one-story
fire-proof building, work on this
to begin by September 1. It is
understood that there are a num
ber of wealthy North Carolinians
who will probably donate other
buildings before a great while.
The Daughters of the Confedera
cy propose to furnish the build
ing, and have the money in hand
to do this.
It is estimated that there will
not be room for more than 25 old
ladies when the State's building
is completed and the $5,000 an
nual maintenance appropriation
will not take care of more than
that number. Mrs. Hunter G.
Smith of Fayetteville is the chair
man of the board of ladies that
has been working up this home
the past several years.
Causes of Stomach Troubles.
Sedentary habits, lack of out door
exercise, insufficient mastication of
food, constipation, a torpid liver, worry
and anxiety, overating, partaking of
food and drink not suited to vour age
and occupation. Correct your habits
and take Chamberlain's Tablets and
you will soon be well again. For sale
by Moser & Lutz and Grimes Drug
CO. t «dv.
Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905
BIG REVIVAL AT DUNN.
Sixty-Four, Mostly Mature People»
Join Churches.
Dunn, July 25. —For the papt
15 days Rev. F. B. King of Ral- A
eigh has been assisting the
tor of the Baptist church, Rev.
James Long, in a series of meet
ings here. At the close of the
service last night several offered
their names for Church member-'
ship. Sixty four joined the Bap
tist Church during the meeting,
and a number of others will join
ot!»er churches.
One thing remarkable about
i the work here has been the large
number of heads of families that
have joined the Church. A maj
ority of the 64 have been men
and women, a number being
classed as older people.
Mr. King is an intensive work
er, planning his campaigns and
carrying them gut with system
and judgment. The secret of his
success is the personal effort put
forth in his meetings.—Charlotte
Observer.
Armed With Repeater Calls on Ball
Player.
Winston-Salem, July 25 —At a
hastily summoned meeting of the
Board of Aldermen tonight state*
ments relative to the conduct of
some of the city policemen in re
gard to the Charles Snipes "epi
sode and the refusal on the part
of the policemen to arre=t him
following an alleged difficulty be
ginning at Prince Albert Park
yesterday afternoon and termin
ating at the Hotel Webster last
night, when Snipes appeared
with a Winchester rifle, in com
pany with his Frank
Snipes, and called for Stuart, one
of the Winston-Salem ball play
ers with whom he had had a
fight, were heard in a prelim
inary investigation from Messrs.
P. A. Gorrell, T. W. Watson, Tom
Wise, Jim Wiggins and Russell
Vaughn. Mayor 0. B. Eaton of
this city, after bearing the evi
dence, suspended Chief of Police
J. A. Thomas, and Deputy Sheriff
W. F. Byrd until tonight at 8
o'clock, when there will be a
thorough investigation with
sworn testimony from the wit
nesses apd when the officers wilt
! also be allowed to present their
sid* of the case. *
Following his temporary sus
peiioiuii Chief Thomas last night
stated that he had been hastily
summoned to the Hotel Webster
by T, W. Watson, who had stat
ed that Charles Snipes was look
ing for a ball player with a gun,
that he went to the hotel and
found Snipes, but did not arrest
him because he was ignorant of
the aff air at the ball park, as he
had been at the Superior Court
all day .as a witness in a murder
case and was not aware that
there was any charge against
Snipes. |Harry Smith and Luther
Stuart were arrested last night
on a charge of assault and each
was placed under a SSOO bond,
there also being a warrant
against Charles Snipes for resist
ing an officer.
All night long the tide of feel
ing ran high, and it is said that
the city has never been so deep
ly stirred since a riot about 20
years ago _____
The Auto Bug.
The beer of the German, the
half and half of the Englishman
and the absinthe of the French,
have made the men of those na
tions dG the queerest of things
but none of the poisons have ever
yet equalled the bite of the
American auto bug. The man
bitten by the bug first persuades
himself that his health demands
the splitting of the air at the
rate of forty miles an hour of
or that his business de
mands a quicker mode of cover
ing the country, next his con
science is eased up to the point
where he feels fully able to make
the puachase, although the home
is often mostgaged to raise the
coin. These are the first symp
tons and the next is for a cata
logue giving descriptions of all
kinds of gasoline motor cars, a
selection is made, the purchase
price is raised, the auto comes
and then the symptoms become
more pronounced. Whether it
runs backward or forward, just
so it's running. The stenograph
er can run the office, the clerk
| can run the store, and the devil
the newspaper, the banker will
allow an overdraft to pay the
bills. When the auto bug bites
and bites hard the antics of the
poisoned outrival those of the ab
r sinthe drinker.
The business meeting of the
[ Thursday Study Club was held
i July 24th, with Mrs. C. C. Bost,
i president of the club. An in
i teresting program of Travels in
i Switzerland was adopted. Dainty
; refreshments were served by j
.JMiss Margaret Bost.
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A Sensible Plan.
J Secretary Daniels' proposed
; plan to teach trades to those en
listing in the navy is the first
sensible plan that has been broach
ed in connection with either the
[4and or naval forces of the land
I for a long time. The army or
the navy from the standpoint of
the enlisted man has been in the
past a place to drop out not only
i individuality but a purpose in
life. It has been regarded as the
place for failures, the refuge of
the hopeless, rather than a place
for anyone who expects to make
a name for himself in the world.
Uncle Sam has in the past been
proficient in turning out men
from the army and navy, under
I tbe commissioned officers, chiefly
notable for their inability to make
their own living. There have
been exceptions but the excep
tions were not the result of any
training given by the government
during the period of enlistment
When it is considered that the
chances are almost certain that a
soldier will do no real soldiering,
but ultimately return to the
worm of work and commerce, it
seems *■- range that no effort to
provider* that contingency ha 3
been mace in the past.
A soldk-t' is trained for war,
and there is no war. He leaves
the army and has a training for
the only thing at which he can't
make a living.
The secretary of the navy pro
poses to teach the useful trades
to the sailors so that when their
term is up they may qualify for
promotions or if they go back in
to the world they will be success
ful enough to reflect more credit
on their service than the majority
have in the past. —Nevada State
Journal.
Bo ing New Well to Relieve Water
Situation.
Hickory is now having a well
bored at the filtration plant in
the western part of the city- The
well is now nearly 200 feet deep
and will probably be bored to a
depth of 300 or 400 feet. The.
object in boring this well is to
give some relief to the water
question. The filtration plant
which was put in a number of
years ago when the city's system
of water works was installed is
proving insufficient to supply the
needs of the water users of the
city, and this well is expected to
the water from the
filter until some arrangements
can be made to increase the ca
pacity of the filters. The water
ror the past several days has
been very muddy owing to re
pairs being made at the filtering
plant.
New Sunday School Room.
The First Baptist Church have
started work on their Sunday
School room under the room now
occupied by the School. The dirt
is being moved so as to give
plenty of room. The new room
will be fifty feet square and the
floor will be of cement, and a
number of windows will be plac
ed in the wall around the build
ing so there will be plenty of
light and fresh air for all occa
sions. There is also being built
a room for the furnace which the
church hopes to enstall some
time in the future. The increase
of the attendance in the school
has necessitated this work of
building this room.
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Watauga Electric Company.
Mr. N. S. Dasher, of Hickory,
one of the promoters of the new
telephone line from Lenoir to
Blowing Rock, with Mr. John E.
Deai of this place, went over the
line last week and made arrange
ments for rights of way etc., for
the line and staked it out. Work
has already commenced getting
out and delivering poles and the
construction will be rushed to
completion as rapidly as possi
ble. Extra heavy wire will be
used and a first class line con
structed in every wav. There
will be two. stations in the ' line,
Collettsville and Globe, and sev
eral persons along the line may
arrange for special connections
under certain conditions.—Le
noir News.
An Interesting Meeting.
The M. E. Church South at
West Hickory, entertained the
children at the children day ser
vice last Sunday night. The
meeting was largely attended
and an interesting program was
given. The most attractive fea
ture of the meeting was the re
cital of the 14th Psalm by a lit
tle girl nine years of age. We
are informed that this little girl
can repeat four chapters of the
Bible from memory* No one can
tell what good this little girl may
do, as it is sayed in the Bible a
little child shall lead them. This
I meeting was a great success and
{enjoyed by all present*