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Established 1899 ill AEROPLANiSTS ™ringly attaukmetz opigians and Germans Are 4htiog Near Denant— French Fought Brave jy at Blamont. Paris, Aug. 16-Details of a daring lit at Metz, carried out by Snch military aviators were given IT, in an official communication !s --dbr the War Office which says; _ % hall past five on Friday even ■ Lieutenant Cesari and Corporal JUemme. flying in separate areo l S i e ft the French fortress of Ver- I„n«ith orders to reconnoiter and if Lible destrcv the dirgible balloon Sin the German fortress of Metz. "Li»utenant Cesari flew over the fortress"a; a height of nearly 9.000 ' w hile Corporal Prudhemme re- Ljied at the altitude of about 6,800 ijet A terrific fire was directed on tbe 'two aviators from the f ortresj gar den and during the fusillade the rr.o tor 0 ( the Lieutenant's aeroplane stopped. As he did not wish to fail j D his mission he began to voplane and while doing this threw a bomb »ith marvelous coolness. Shortly af raid he succeeded in getting his motor started again. "In the meanwhile the Corporal had hurled his proi ectile also. "The smoke over the city prevent ed the aviators seeing whether they had been successful but they believed they had achieved their purpose and fl:s rmid a rain of shells from quick firing guns. Th*y returned safely to Murdun." The official communication contin «•" "Belgian and uerman troops were reported to be fighting today near Dimct to the south o! Namur, Bel gium. Frnch troops also were in the vicinity. "More than 500 German soldiers were taken prisoners by the French when they occupied a numbSr of mountains in the vicinity of Donou otßougemont on the border of Germa Lorraine Friday. "The Dutch troops in the Nether lands provinces of North Brabant and Limburg are shewing discontent against the Germans whom they accuse oibeing responsible for tn2 actual sit- , nation. Dutch officers are finding j difficulty in controlling their men. "farther tales of the fighting around Balmont and Circy-Sur-Vezouze in the | French Department o( Meurthe-Et- , Mozelle show the Germans were , strongly entrenched behin' earth works • near Blamont when Friday evening the ( French divisions began i'ieir attack. The German cutposts repulsed the French who at daybreak the following iay resumed the offensive, supported by artillery. They succeeded during tte afternoon in taking Blamont and Grey, The German troops then oc- ( espied the heights to the north and ' from there they were also driven. , The German casualties were se- we. All the German and Austrian sub jtcts resident in Morocco have been expelled by French authorities and it is alleged they have extended their i intrigues with the natives since the beginning of the war. The transportation of troops and provisions in France is slow for the moment until the resumption of nor mal railroad traffic, but later it will be Possible to increase the number of trains. The German troops while evacuat a number of villages in Southern J? ace > committed many acts of bru 'ty. Our troops found many houses ,med and corpses riddled with bul e's in the streets, notably at Danne ?, ane ' neaf Altkirch in southern Alsace," Announcements Received. The following announcements have n Reived in this city: Mr, ard Mrs. James W. Ingle nornce the marriage of their daugh ter Gussie Mary to Mr. Alvin Wade Ciine 0 on u Monday, the tenth of August nousand nine hundred and four teen * l reens boro, North Carolina At Home % twentieth Asheboro, N. C. citf tt . ant * Mrs. Cline were in the from di • ev2nin S on their return here k °^ IDg Thev were met to hi ? C' ne ' s father and taken is J!i> l near CoQ over. Mr. Cline €tnn ] nt , n ? wn her «. formerly being was h ln . l^e democrat office and Mann/ 3 W^'' e Home Canner J acturmgCo. Mrs. Cline's par ing l at ? lon College, nearGreens weii' j ls an atrractive young lady anc * as a ost Wends »n£l Ut the State - They will im retum t y gOIO hou sekeeping on their isassJ, l eboro ' where Mr, Cline' Courier a 6 e^'tor of l^e A.sheboro w' 1 ? and Sickly | & s: SSsS 3^ fssfe'rfeSi' rHS HICKORY DEMOCRAT , Tolstoy's Vision. f Ii 1910 Tolstoy, the gifted , Rjssian dictated the following j lines, which are being given i, wide circulation, and which pre- I dieted the titanic struggle now (embroiling Europe: "Thi* h a revelation of events of a universal character which must snortly come to pass. Their i spiritual outlines are no.v before nay eyes. I see ftaating upon the surface of the sea of human fate the huge silhouette of a nude woman. She is—with her beauty, her piise, her smile, her jewels—a super-Venus. Nations rush madly after her each of them eager to attract her es pecially. But she like an eternal courtesan, fl -ts with all. In her of diamonds and rubies is rn- -Hved 'Comm *r:i »i: ; i.' As alluring and a? she seems, m jch 'le i.r Jit >n and a?ony fol low in her *ake Her breath reeking of sordid transactions, her voice of metallic characte'- like gold, and her look of greed are so much poison to the na tions who fall victims to her charms. "And behold! she has three gigantic arms with three torches ot universal corruption in her hand. The first torch represents the flame of war that the beauti courtesan carries from city to city and country to country. Pa troitism answers with flashes of honest flame, but the end is the roar of gun 3 and musketry. "The second torch bears the flime of bigotry and hypocrisy. It lights the lamps only in tem ples and on the altars of sacred institutions. It carries the seed of falsity and fanaticism. It kindles the minds that are still in cradles and follows them to their graves. "The gieat conflagration will start about 1912, set by the torch , of the first arm in the countries of southeastern Europe. It will 1 develop into a destructive calam ity in 1913. I hear the lamenta- 1 tions of huge battlefields. But about the year 1915 a strange figure from the north—anew Napoleon—enters the stage of j a bloody drama. He is a man of little militaristic training,, a ; writer or a journa ist, but. in his grip most of Europe will remain until 1925. The end of the great { calamity will mark a new politi cal era for the old world. There ] will be left no empiers and king- ' d ms, but the world will • form a federation of the United , States of Nations. There will re main only four great giants— j the Anglo-Saxons, the Latins, , the Slavs, and the Mongolians. "After the year 1925 I see a ( change in religious sentiments. , The second torch of the courte- ( san has brought about the fall ( of the church. The ethical idea has almost vanished. Humanity { is without the moral feeling. But i then a great reformer arises. He , will clear the world of the relics of monotheism and lay the cor- , nerstone of the temple panthe ism. God, soul, spirit and im- , mortality will be molden in a , new furnace, and I see the j peaceful beginning of an ethical ( era. The man determined to this j mission is a Mongolian-Slav. He , is already walking the earth—a , man of active affairs. He him self does not now realize the mission assigned to him by a ' superior power, "And behold the flame of the third torch, which has already begun to destroy our family re- J lations, our standards of art and morals. The relation between J woman and man is accepted as a , prosaic partnership of the sexes, , Art has become realistic degene racy. Politic il and religious dis- , turbances have shaken the spir- j itual fojndations of all nations. , Only small spots here and there j have remained untouched by those three destructive flames. The anti-national wars in Europe, the class war of America, and the race wars in Asia have ' strangled progress for half a . century. But then, in the middle : of this century I see a hero of literature and art rising from 1 the ranks of the Latins and purging the world of the tedious stuff of the obvious. It is the 1 light of symbolism that shall outshine the light of the torch of commercialism. In place of the polygamy and monogamy of today there will come a poeto- 1 gamy—a relation, of the sexes based fundamentally upon poetic conceptions of life. "And I see the nation growing wiser and realizing that the al luring domain of their destinies is, after all, nothing but an illu , sion. There will be a time when the world will have no use for armies, hypocritical religions, and Regenerate art. Life is evo lution, and evolution is develop ment from the simple to the more complicated forms of the HICKORY. N. C.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 20. 1914 ENTRANCE TO THE VAST EXHIBIT PALACE OF FOOD PRODUCTS. " '..V;,.' V» VV- i v;" +/ 1 1 1 1 v ' ' rpm u aff&lsjl '* ~ 11111 IgaraMtgg-^y-N •:• - 3Pwiy^ : ■ > : jfcXt£*s '' - '■■ Mir - ':',!sil^Ei- ujsli! ItV .Mfc«f.tf t : ;MWf * t jsMas -■ ;; '" :^: Sig»|iP" bga^^Kg.; 1 ' p.> ■ '. . /1-uS,«k S •*- |a I ill, ij • mlMrM^rTw'i' •$* ' - ® flu « l > • Yf;YAVI Copyright, 1914, by Panama Pacific International Expooition Company, 'VAS 4 ( This photograph show* the great western portal or entrance way of tha huge Palace of rood ProdmMtt. The half-dome is known as the Half-Dome of Vigor and is 113 feet tin height. Brilliant, riotous colors are employed in the mosaio in the vault of the half-dome, which was designed by Mr. Jules Guerir, one of the mot|' celebrated decorative artlstr in America. To the left are seen some of tha ornamental shrubs that will be in bloom when the Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens at ban Franciseo to February, 1915. > V 'A'. JAPAN ORDERS GERMANY TO VACATE THE FAR EAST Tokio, Aug. 16.— Japan sent an ultimatum to Germany Satur day night at 8 o'clock demand ing the withdrawal of German warships from the Orient and the evacuation of Kiau Chau and giving Germany until Sunday, August 23, to comply with the demand. Otherwise, the ultima tum states. Japan will take action. Kau-Chau, from which Japan has demanded the withdrawal of Germany, is a town on the penin sular of Shan-Tung. China, leased with adjoining territoi«? by Ger many iq 1893 and soon after wards made a protectorate. The German ter tory has an area of about 200 sq *re miles. Germany also controls n extended water-, front Using Tau. the seaport in the territ ry controlled by Germany is strongly lunified. The general expectation here is that the ultimatum will be fol lowed by war. Takaaki Kato, Japanese For eign Minister, simultaneously with the dispatch of the ultima - tum conferred with George W. Guthrie American Ambassador and made to him a broad state ment calculated to assure the United States that American in terests in the Far East would be safeguarded and the integrity of China upheld. Owing to doubts whether com munications toith Berlin were as sured. Japan to insure the ar rival of the ultimatum, forward ed it to Berlin by six channels including Washington, London ane Stockholm. The Govern ment also notified Count Von Rex, German Ambassador to Japan and likewise retarded the time limit for a reply until August 23. Count Okuma, the Japanese Premier, today invited the peers, newspaper men and leading business men to Tokio tu come to his office at noon, at four and at six o'clock in the afternoon, respectively, when he made known to them the terms of the ultimatum and announced that he would give out the negoti ations in connection with the al liance, London, Aug. 17.—Official dis patches say that Greece has re ceived information that Turkish troops are crossing Bulgarian ter ritory and marching in the direc tion of Greece. The Hellenic government in consequence of this has notified Turkey if this news should be confirmed, corres ponding military and naval meas ures will be taken immediately by Greece. Washington, Aug. 17.— A res olution directing Secretary of State Bryan to protest againßt the annoupced intention of Japan to take over Kiau Chau, China, was introduced in the House to day by Representative Britton, of Illinois, mind and body. I see the pass ing show of the' wot Id drama in its present form, how it fades like the glow of evening upon the mountains. One motion of the band of commercialism and a new history begins, 1 ' London, Aug. 17.—A dispatch to Reuters' Telegram company from Nish. Servia, under date of Sunday, says: "A naval battle betwee^ French and Austrian warships b«gan off Budua, Austria, in the Adriatic at9o'clock this morning. The French squadron, coming from the Bouthwese attracted the Aus trian warships. Two Austrian ironclads were sunk, one was set on fire and a fourth fled northward toward Cattaro. Tfee fight lasted over an hour." ■- • Brussels, (via. Paris) Aug. 17. —The standard of the famous German regiment, the Death's Head Hussars, formerly com manded by Crown Prince Fred erick William, was captured by the Belgians in the battle at Haelen and is now at a town ball at Diest. ✓ London, Aug. 17.—Lieutenant General Sir George Gierson died suddenly in a train enroute to London today. He was one of the foremost British military leaders. He had a long war rec cord and at the time of his death held the eastern command in the British army. Diseases Play Havoc With North Carolina Hogs. Washington, D.C., Aug., 20. Diseases caused the swine breed ers of North Carolina to lose 68,- 100 hogs, valued at $612,900 last year, according to a report which has just been issued by the De partment of Agriculture. This is an average death rate of 50 per LOOO head. During 1913 the ratio was 58 head per 1,000 and a total of 77,400 head were lost. Tbe latest Census Reports, which are dated Jan uary 1.1914, show that there are 1,362,000 head of hogs in North Carolina and they are valued at 112,258,000 or $9.00 per head. # The farmers of the entire nation last year lost 7,004300 head of hogs from disease. Their total value was $75,000,000 and the death rate 119 per 1,000. North Carolina Horses Worth $139 . Each. Washington, D.C., Aug., 20. The North Carolina horse is now worth $139.00 per hesd, accord ing to a report just issued by the United States Department of Agriculture, while a year ago his average value was $128.00. There are 180,000 horses on the farms of this state and they are valued at $25,020,000. In 1910 the number of horses in this state wss 167,000 and had an aggregate value of $20,086,- 000. - , „ In the entire United States there are 20,962,000 horses and they are worth $2,291,638,000 or $109.32 each. No civilization has ever ad vanced beyond its agricultural development. The best farmer does not bother about getting ahead of bis neighbor; bis great business t, toget ahead of Mmwlf, ■:V'V V ,V. IT IS A COMMERCIAL WAR. • . . > .v. vi i —v. V M And England's Greed is the Cause of It All. C/.v There are a great many Ger mans in New York and one may get the German point of view al most as well there as in v ßerlin. These New York (Hermans are telling what it is all,about They say that in the last or at bottom, it is really a com mercial war; that England has taken the position that Germany, the competitor in the world's trade and shipping, must be de stroyed. Thev say that England has accorded the same treat ment to Spain,. Portugal, The Netherlands and the Boer re public. Now listen to .the Ger man writer in the ' New York Evening Post "The first step for the execu tion of her last and m&t-impor tant competitor was taken when Edward VII, went to: Pkris and started negotiations Vith th» hitherto despised French; which resulted in the 'entente.' Fol lowing this came later v the con temptible understanding* with barbarian Russia. When this triple compact, the .ifeeet\est ever started by a civilized nation, was completed, the present'fear be came only a question of time. Here were three cowardly as sassins entering into combina tion to attack and destroy a na tion which neither of tsem had the coutage to attack single handed. From one side of it was the hate of a .whipped enemy (having deserved the whipping tenfold), from the second the half-uneonscibus hate of a backward and brutal nation envying and begrudging ita prosperous neighbor of ,bis bet ter and cleaner habitations and country, and from the'third a greedy and all-grasping Idst for trade and easy-gotten gains. "France alone or Russia alone would haye never dared to go to war with Germany, nor would they have ever done so combined. If the English government at the start of the crisis had firmly and unmistakably declared that England would under no con sideration have a hand in it, there would be no war. But, on the contrary, it seems now that England assured France of her protection from attack by a German fleet long ago; otherwise France would have never sent almost her entire fleet to the Mediterranean days before a state of war existed. Which fact, by the way, also proves that all three powers were pre paring for the attack in secret, in spite of their true manifesta tions of peaceful intentions. "But, as long as England alone would have kept off, neither France nor Russia would have mobilized their armies, and so, there would have been no com pulsion for Germany to force the issue, which she was compelled to do, under existing conditions. "This is a struggle for life for Germany, a struggle which she has seen coming for a long time, and which to prepare for was her simple duty,"—Greensboro News. A lasy liver leads to chnrnic dyspep sia and constipation—weakens the whole system. Doac's Refnlets (25c per boa) set mildly on tha liver sad bowsti, At ill drag itof««« ~«drt, Democrat and Press, Consolidated i 905 Reformed Church Notes. The regular morning services will be held at the Reformed church next Sunday, when (he ppstx will preach. At the night a union service will be held at the Presbyterian church when Dr. Murphy will preach. Dr. Murphy has been assisting the Rev. in a pro tracted meeting at the Bethel church this week. N Mr. John Holshouser and family of Concord are visiting Rev. J. L. Murphy's this week. Mr. Holshouser drove through the country in his new car. Claremont College presents a very attractive appearance since it has been painted. The en tire inside of the building has been gone-over and everything is in fine shape for the opening of the school. Married Sunday. Sunday afternoon at the resi dence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Smyre, in the Barger neighborhood. Mr. Fred L. Reese and Miss Anna Smyre were happily united in holy wed lock, Rev. A. L. Bolick perform ing the ceremony. The young couple have the best wishes of all their friends and The Democrat extends con gratulations, wishing them a long, happy and prosperous wed ded life. The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Reese of this township. The wedding was a quiet affair, only the immediate family of the bride being present. Occupants of Automobae Attacked. While on their return from All Healing Springs Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Jones and Mr. and Mrs. Jink ins were attacked by some boys who were standing by the road side. They threw rocks at them several times striking Mrs. Jones on the neck and Mrs. Jinkins on the arm. No serious damage was done but both received pain ful woiinds. The machine was stopped as quickly as possible and going back they found that a boy by the naihe of Mack Moose was the boy who did the throwing. Tines-Mercury Sold. Mr. J. F. Miller, of this city, has purchased the Times-Mercury from Mr. J. F. Click and Mr. W. G. Whisnant, the owners, and will take charge of the business Thursday , August 20. It is said that new type and other equipment will be added at n nce and the paper greatly im proved. This paper was estab lished here in 1891 and is one of the oldest weekly papers in this part of the State. Tbe politics of the paper will be Republican, but it will favor the amalgama- tion of the Progressive and Re- i publican factions in the State, j and support the Progressive-Re publican County ticket now in tbe field in Catawba county. ; Mr. J. F. Click will be retained as Editor of the paper for the i present. Mr. Miller, the owner, will devote his time to the busi- j ness end of the paper. School Notice. : The graded schools of Hickory w3l open August 31, 1914. The city health regulations require alt pupils to present a physician's certificate of vaccination before tfafey can enter school. Under the compulsory attendance law all children between the ages of eight and twelve years must en ter at tbe opening of the schools. : It is very important that pupils enter at tbe first in order that the classes may be formed with out delay. This is especially true for children who are entering , school for the first time. Pupils in the first grade cannot do the work successfully unless they enter at tha opening. CHAS. M. STALEY, Superintendent ' Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. Rev. J. H. Wannemacher, pastor. Sunday School 9:45 a. m. Morning Service 11:00 a. m. No evening service. Luther League, Circle 2, will meet next Thursiday with Miss Pearl Miller, to hold the regular business and social meeting. Rev. J, H. Wannemacher is spending this week in Wautauga county where he is attending a mission meeting of the congrega tions there, Polk County (Fla.) Record:— Miss Annie Jordan left Wednes day night for Florence, S. C., where she will visit Mr, and Mrs. W. O. Jordan for a few weeks and later will visit triends in Hickory, North Carolina. No farmer is successful who thinks more of his barn than he do* of bis home. (SOUTHERN COTTON MEN AGREE ON CREDITS PLAN Would Issue Notes—Warehous' ed Cotton, and Credit on 80 Per Cent of Half of Each Farmer's Crop. I Washington, Aug. 14. —The Southern Cotton Congress after endorsing various plans for the relief of the crisis in the cotton market resulting from the Euro i pean war, concluded it 3 sessions here tonight. The congress au i thorized various committees to co-operate with the Federal and State authorities in their efforts to enable the cotton grower to weather the financial storm and secure a fair price for the pres ent cotton crop. After endorsing the work so far done by the Southern i epre sentatives in Congress in the matter of furnishing transporta tion for the export trade, and providing currency to finance the crop, tne congress endorsed a bill introduced in the House by Repre sentative Wingo, of Arkansas, authorizing the issuance of Fed eral reserve notes on cotton. Later the report from the reso lutions committee was adopted outlining a plan to meet the en tire situation. This provided for the appointment of a committee of five members to co-operate with Congress, the Treasury De partment and the Federal Re serve Board to seek means of "financing and marketing the crop, without unnecessary loss to the farmer." The report recommended that all growers hold cotton of the v present crop for the price of 12 1-2 cents a pound, based on mid dling cotton. It urged the Federal Reserve Board and the Secretary of the Treasury to place $300,000,000 in the banks of the South, on the basis of the cotton produced in each State. It then proposed that every farmer should have the right to go to his bank, and secure a loan on notes maturing in six months but renewable for six months, secured by his cot ton on one-half of the' crop he raised, to eighty per cent, of the value of the cotton, based on the average price for the last five years. These notes, the report recom mended, should be made redis countable in the Federal reserve banks. As originally presented the re port recommended that the notes contain a stipulation that the far mer would raise only half of a normal crop in 1915, and if the war was still in progress on April 1, should raise only one-quarter of his crop, thus holding down the 1915 production to prevent a glut caused by carrying over this year's surplus. A vigorous discussion resulted on the striking out of this pro vision and recommended only that the farmer be urged to cut down his crop without stipulation in the proposed notes. The report recommended that tobacco and other crops should be handled in the same way. in the discretion of the reserve board. President E. J. Watson was authorized to appoint a committee to take up the question of provid ing warehouses to store such of the crop as will be held over until next year. He was aleo author ized to name a committee of a member from each cotton State, to call a State convention of nine delegates from each county rep resenting farmers, merchants and bankers, to urge Governors to call special sessions of State Leg islatures to immediately take up the question of installing State warehouse systems. Representatives of the congress will remain in Washington to co operate with the Southern repre sentatives in Congress who are working out plans for legislative aid to the South. Congressman Gudger Re-nominated. In the primary for the nomina tion of a congressman from the Tenth District held last week Congressman James M. Gudger, Jr., received a majority over Robt. R. Reynolds, his opponent, which probably will run more than 1800 when the returns are all in. Alfred Bolick Pardoned. Alfred Bolick, a young white boy, who about two months ago was sentenced to the chain gang for carrying a concealed weapon, was last week pardoned by Gov ernor Craig and arrived home Sunday. He has served about two-thirds of his sentence. The most beautiful fact in the farmers' work is that everything he plants is a lesson in faitb.