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KSTABLISHED 1899
DEMOCRAT AND PRESS CONSOLIDATED 1905
STATE SOON TO HAVE
MACARONI FACTORY
Waldensiarts of Burke County
Attract Attention of Depart
ment of Commerce.
The little colony of Walden
sians at Valdese, Burke County,
•; s attracting Nation-wide atten
tion by its enterprise, industry
and adaptability.
Records at the Department of
Commerce show that several
Waldensians are now erecting a
factory to make macaroni, ver
micelli, spaghetti and noodles.
That will be a new industry for
that portion of North Carolina.
The Waldensians will make their
own flour from home-grown
wheat.
The imports of macaroni and
kindred products to this country
have fallen off considerably since
the European War commenced.
In June, 1914, the United States
imported 10,649,060 pounds at
s47s, 151 and in June, 1915, the
quanity fell to 3.440,582 pounds
at $205,841. If the war contin
ues for another year, this coun
try will be exporting macaroni
and spaghetti. By that time the
cheese business, according to the
way it is going now, will be con
trolled by Uncle Sam.
The Waldensians are proving
themselves very valuable citizens,
Tney make good wine, fine fruit l
and excellent knit goods. The
Department of Commerce is
watching their efforts with keen
interest. Recently a special
agent has been down to look over
their plants.
Three or four commercial
cheese factories and one maca
roni factory since the war start
ed is not bad for western North
Carolina.— Charlotte Observer.
Two Near Tragedies as a Result of
Recent Rains.
Newton, Aug. 27.—Mrs. S. F.
Watson, a well known school
teacher, was almost drowned this
mornirfg in Hildebran's mill creek
when she attempted to cross the
swollen stream on a foot log that
is none too safe even when water
is low. The creek was a roaring
flood, made so by the heavy rains
of the n>ght, and Mrs. Watson
lost her balance, and sank twice
before she was swept against the
bank and ciught hold of a limb.
She was on her way to St. Paul's
west of town, where she is teach
ing a summer school. Dr. George
H. West was called immediately
after she was taken home and be
yond some bruises, she is not ser
iously hurt. • Mrs. Watson is well
known in Statesville, Newton
and Hickory, having done news
paper work in each town.
Another near-accident occur
red east of town when an auto
mobile party including L. B.
Sloop, of the Southern Power
company, started to cross a small
stream the bridge over which
was in such condition that the
machine pushed away the tim
bers in front of it and fell to the
buttment, so that the party was
in imminent danger of taking a
dive into about six feet of water.
The car re3ted on the buttment,
however, and after an hour's
hard work, was pried out of its
predicament.
Despondency Due to Indigestion.
%
"About thre months sgo when I was
suffering from indigestion which caus
ed headache and dizzy spells and made
me tired and despondent, I began tak
ing Chamberlain's Tablets," writes
Mrs. Geo. Hon, Macedon, N. Y.
"This medicine proved to be the very
thing I needed, as one day' B treat
ment relieved me greatly. I used two
tottles of Chamberlain's TaDkts and
they rid me of this trouble." For sale
by Grimes Drug Co. & Lutz Drug Co.
MEN WANTED—In the Men's
-Bible class at the Presbyterian
Church every Sunday morning in
tne main auditorium of the
church at 9:45 a. m. Dr. W. B.
Ramsay, teacher. You will be
greeted with a warm welcome.
If you are not attending Sunday
bcnool we will be glad to have
.vou come out and join the Men's
Bible Class at the Presbyterian
Church on the comer Thirteenth
Avenue and Thirteenth Street.
THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
GRATITUDE
,! a t p T ii%-> -•
Where'er I go I always find
A friend awaiting to be kind
To me, a helping hand to lend,
A smile, a greeting, sweet to send.
Oh! the world is full of love and cheer
Ready to chase away each tear.
. A smile to call to each sad face
And sorrow from each breast erase.
Oh! thanks to each and every one
Who smile, and bless and cheer me on.
Thanks for each flower on my way,
Bright'ning, blessing each passing day.
Praises to Thee, our Father above,
For our hearts thus filled with love,
Each other's joys ready to share,
Each others' burdens eager to bear.
"Love one another, as I love you,"
The dear Christ said—still it is new,
A law though given in times of yore,
Its word —its tones are sweet evermore.
—Julia Elizabeth Cain.
French to Free Belgium
and Retake Alsace Before
Peace is to be Thought of
"Put the question of peace be
fore the country and it would be
blown to nothing," said Premier
Viviana of France, in an address j
in the chamber of deputies, "Not|
until heroic Belgium has been j
freed, not until we have retaken
Alsace and Lorrain, could there
be mischievous divisions among
us.
"Our enemies may
astray in their dull error of last
year, but not we, who have seen
workmen and employer, the rich
citizen and the poor, men of
every party and every walk of
life, fulfilling with a single pur
pose and with equal zeal their
duties in defense of the liberty
of the world.
"We must destroy the legend
that the republic of France, hav
ing borne for forty-five years a
horrible wound, did not make
provision for military defense. I
must repeat the words of the
commander-in-chief during the
last session of the chamber: 'The
Deeds Filed for Record.
Following are the deeds filed
for record.
James P. Whitener to Mary
Ann Pruett for $450, two tracts,
five acres and 77 rods, adjoining
Charles Wniter.er and others.
R D. Bivins to J, T.J Miller
and Z. B. Buchanan for SSOO, five
lots on Catawba Springs road.
W. B, Council to T. L. Henkle
for $650 lot on east side Piedmont
avenue. Hickory.
S. C. Campbell to Mrs. L. E.
Morrison, one-half interest in lots
21 to 54, Highland, for SI,OOO.
S. R. Morrison to Mrs. J. C,
Campbell for $3,0C0, lot 100*200
feet on the 15th street, Hickory.
G. A. Warlickto H. G, McFalls
for S3BO, lot 4, Wilson property,
Newton.
R. P. Dakin to Sue Amy An
derson for S4OO, lot in Hickory.
W, P, Huffman to D. J. Sut
tlemyre for $4,250, lot on 6th
street, Hickory. N
Minnie L. Knox to Mrs. Addie
F. Baker for $2,500, lot on High
street, Hickory.
M. H. Lohr to G. P. Bolick, for
$1,025, lot in West Hickory.
The Clerk Guaranteed It.
"A customer came into my store the
other day aDd said to one of my clerks,
'have you anything to cure diarrhoea?'
and my clerk went and got him a bot
tle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and
Dirrhoea Remedy and said to him, if
this does not cure you, I will not
charge you a cent for it. So he took
it home and come back in a day or two
and said he was cured," writes J. H.
Berry & Co., Salt Creek, Va. For sale
by Grimes Drug Co, & Lutz Drug Co.
republic may be proud of her ar
mies.'
"France has created an army
fulfilling the most modern con
ceptions. She has instilled the
love of justice, the love of right,
and on the day the war began
the children of France united in
support of this high ideal, with
out which there would have been
only armies of mercenaries."
" The deputies cheered the prem
ier wildly. When the demon
stration had died down, Deputy
Louis Accambray, who recently
has several times critisized the
government's conduct of the war,
took the floor and began amidst
disorder a criticism of Minister
i
of War Millerand. The deputy
spoke for an hour, but little of
what he said could be heard be
cause of the confusion.
Afterward several deputies
spoke in approval of the prem
ier's address and the chamber
voted the credits asked by the
government by 539 to 1.
"Diamond Jim" All Lit Up.
"Diamond Jim" Brady out
shone himself the other night at
the opening of "Rolling Stones"
at the Harris Theatre.
Here are what he wore as
studs:
Two miniature motorcycles,
the tires of which were entirely
of diamonds, none smaller than
a karat; the headlights emeralds
as big as eggs and the saddles
rubies like rocks.
If the press anent for "Rolling
Stones" is on his job, he will
suDply Mr. Brady with an elec
trical device whereby the wheels
of both motorcycles can be start
ed rolling and get him to stand
in front of the theatre.
How do we know he does not
skid? Well, he drinks nothing
but water and orange juice.-New
York World.
For a Sprained Ankle.
If you will get a bottle of Chamber
ain's Liniment and obseive the direc
tions given therewith faithfully, you will
recover in much less time than is usu
ally required. For sale by Grimes Drug
Co. & Lutz Drug Co.
Peace With Honor.
Remarked The hiDpopotamus:
"I think I am a lucky cuss;
The mule and horse in battle
fall,
But no one uses me at all."
New York Sun.
For dyspepsia, our national ailments
use Burdock Blood Bitters. Recommen
ded for strengthening digestion, puri
ying the blood. At all drug stores.
SI.OO a bottle.
HICKORY, N. C., TUESDAY, \UGUST 31, 1915
LEI PEOPLE KNOW
ABOUT THE STATE
Publicity Bureau Says Home
Home Hunters Mu& Be In
duced to Look This Way.
The North Carolina Publicity
Bureau, in a circular letter it has
just put out. announces that it
proposes to let people know
about this state so that the vast
army of people that are moving
from one place to another in i
search of new homes will look j
this way. The letter, in which
this matter is discussed in detail,
is as follows:
"Do you know that Bip?r cent
of the people in North Carolina
were born in the state, and that
22 per cent, of the people of
Wyoming were born in that
state?
"Do you know why so large a
percentage of Wyoming's people
came from other states? Because
they thought Wyoming a better
state than their own.
"Now you know North Caro
lina is a better than Wyoming,
don't you? And you know that
the 689,000 people born in New
York who are living in other
states would be, or at least a lot
of them would be, living in North
Carolina if they knew what a
good state this is don't you?
"Do you know that over 777,-
000 of the people living in Mis
souri were born in other states?
Suppose those three-quarters of
a million people had known what
a irood state North Carolina is.
Don't you think a good bunch of
them would be here?.
"Don't you think that the
926,000 people who went to
Illinois, or the 825,000 who went
to Texas, or the 615,000 who
went to New York from other
states, might have sent a whal
ing big delegation
to North Carolina if they had
known something about this
state?
"Do you know what the State
Publicity Bureau proposes to
do? It intends to let people know
about North Carolina so that the
vast army that is moving to hunt
new homes will look this way.
In the United States nearly
20.000,000 people are living in
states other than where they
were born. That means North
Carolina has seen one-fifth of
the .entire population of the
United States hunt new homes,
and of that twenty million a
trifle over a hundred thousand
have come to this state, or one
out of 200. Is that our share
when we have the best state in
the Union? The Bureau of Pub
licity thinks not. What do you
think?"
Chas. Trull Must Die.
Charles Trull, the young white
man condemmed to die for the
murder and robbery of Sidney
Swain, an aged merchant of
Charlotte, has lost his last fight
for life. Govenor Craig, after
hearing the arguments of the
young man's attorneys and the
appeal of his mother, declined to
interefere with the operations
of the law. The execution
was set for Friday, September
3rd.
The announcement of Gover
nor Craig followed a full investi
gation into the facts of the case
as well as into the mental condi
tion of the condemned man. A
commission composed of the
superintendents of the three
State hospitals was appointed to
examine into Trull's mental con
dition. They decided that while
he is of a low order of intellect
and a degenerate, that he is
sane.
Recommends Chanberlain's Col
ic, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy.
4 'l never hesitate to recommend
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Di
; arrhoea Remedy," writes Sol Williams,
merchant, Jesse, Tenn. "I sell more
cf it than any other preparations of like
character. I used it myself and found
it gave me more relief than ' anvthing
else I bave ever tried for the same pur
pose." For sale by Grimes Drug Co,
& luU's Drug Co.
GERMANS TAKE MANY
RUSSIANS PRISONERS
Have Captured 200,000 In Past
Month, Also Much Sup
plies And Guns.
Berlin, Aug, 27.—More than
200,000 prisoners, several thou
sand cannon and enough rifles tc
supply several army divisions
have been captured by the Ger
mans since the fall of Warsaw?,
according to the official report
issued today.
In the three weeks following
the fall of the Polish capital the
Russians have been driven back
for more than 100 miles and the
first line of defenses captured.
All of the second line defenses
have also fallen, excepting Grod
no. This city is expected to fall
before General von Hindenburg's
troops before the end of the
week.
Berlin, Aug. 27. —The Russian
fortress Olita. one of the last two
stronuhoids defending the War
saw-Petrograd railway, has been
occupied bv the Germans.
Petrograd. Aug, 27,—L as t
night's general staff statement
reads:
"There has been no change in
the Riga district. To the south
west of Frederichstadt in the
region of Schoenberg and Radzi
vichki on the 24th and 25th, the
enemy, reinforced, resumed the
offensive and severe and stub
born fighting ensued, In the vi
cinity of Dvinsk and in the reg
ion of Okinsta, on the river Sev
enta, we drove the Germans
back,
"In the direction of Vilna, our
troops held up the enemy daring
the 24th and 25th on positions be
fore Ivje and are gradually fall
ing back along both banks of the
River Vilija,
"Oh the middle Niemen and
the front between the Bobr and
the Pripet our armies, in con
formity with instructions, are re
tiring toward the east. The en
emy is pressing our troops only
in certain directions, having on
the 25th concentrated his princi
pal efforts against Bialystok and
on the roads running eastward
from Bielsk to Kleshts'nelo.
"On the otner sectors of our
front, in general, there has been
no important change."
Bolt Capers About Sleepers.
Lightening frisked all over the
summer cottage of Mr. and Mrs.
Alfred P. Lasher, of New York,
at Hancock Point recently. It
played about the bed in which
they were sleeping and then
partly wrecked the house.
Mrs. Lasher was stunned by
the bolt, but later recovered.
The lightening entered a tower
and passed into the Lasher
sleepine room. It ran almost
completely around the bed, burn
ing a 6-inch hole in a turkish rug
ripped up the hardwood floor,
shattering the ceiling in the liv
ing room, tore out the side of
the house, smashing the win
dows and piazza and went into
the cellar.
No trace of where the lightn
ing left the house can be found.
The cottage was formerly the
property of Ezra L, Stearns, of
Bangor, Me. Mr. Lasher is a
wealthy retired lumberman.
—Bangor (Me.) Dispatch to
New York Sun.
Theory and Practice.
Mrs. Blough—l don't try to
suit every one, I always want
people to take me just as I
am. »
Caller—Glad to hear it, for
we're in a big hurry. I'm the
staff photographer for the Scare
head, and the Sunday editor sent
me out to get a snapshop of
you
Mrs. Blough—Good heavens!
Wait till I run and frill up a bit
and put on some more powder.
—Judge.
A house hold remedy in America for
25 year's—Dr. Thomas' Electric Oil.
For cuts, sprains, burns, scalds, bruis
es. 25 and 50c. At all drug stores.
ANOTHER 'WONDER CHILD.
I Twelye-Year-Old Girl With Aston
ishing Accomplishmenhs.
Another "wonder child" has
been discovered, this one in the
village of Windham, N. Y. For
the past year or two all these
j jneviile prodigies seem to have
been girl 3. Ic may have been
merely a whim of chance, but it
looks as if some of the recent
prodigious energy of feminism
may have taken effect. A well
authenticated boy-prodigy has
not been reported since Master-
Willie Sidis matriculated at Har
vard at the age of twelve. He
was already a wonder of gilt-edge
intellectual attainment, and
twice since that time has he
again looomed large in public at
tention. Once was during his
freshman year, when he address
ed an assemblage of learned pro
fessors and revealed some of the
abstruce mvsteries of the Fourth
Dimention, which he had dis
covered all by himself, and the
other time was two or three
months ago, when having attain
ed the comfortable middle age
of seventeen years, he solemly
announced that he should never
marry and that the charm of
woman had no appeal for him.
Having declared himself with
this fatal absoluteness; it may
be expected that he will hereaf
ter reiapseinto the permanent
obscurity of uninteresting bach
elorhood,
The most recent wonder chil
dren have been girls. One that
shattered newspaper space with
whole columns of text and dou
ble-column portraits several
months ago came from Pitts
bur g. Winifred Sackville Stoner
is a product of "natural" educa
tion, and she herself is already
an educator of some distinction,
besides being mistress of a score
of accomplishments. She speaks
and writes half a dozen langua
ges, including Esperanto, and her
versatility is remarkable. Thel
ma Arnold, of Windham, seems
to be chief ly a product of that
admirable organization known
as the Cam p Fire Girls, Where
Winifred Sac kville Stoner's edu
cation was wholly "natural,"
Thelma Arnold's has been very
special. She has just attained
the distinction of being the first
girl of her years to win the
grade of "Fire Maker," which
among the Camp Fire Girls is a
very great honor indeed, al
though as a routine domestic ac
complishments it i 3 not so highly
esteemed. Thelma qualified for
this superior rank with a fine
list of diversified accomplish
ments.
She can tie a square'.knot]with
out hesitat ion five times in suc
cession; she can tie a bowline,
a sheeD3hank, a clove-hitch, two
half-hitches and a bowline on a
bight; she can recite the Decla
ration of Independence without
faltering; she can point out
seven different heavenly cor
stellations; she can operate
without help an automobile for
four hundred miles; she can re
cite "Mary's Little Lamb" for
ward and then backward without,
an error, and she can make three
different kinds of cake.
All this may seem of only cas
ual interest, but it does.no harm
toemphasiz3 the fact that in
this degenerate age there are few
housewives who can boast of
this versatility, especially when
it comes to reciting the Declara
tion of Independence without
hekitating ard doing "Mary's
Little Lamb" backward and for
ward. A clever and capable
wife will Thelma be, with her
recitations, her oid sailor's abili
ty in kr.ot-tieing, her knowledge
of constellations and automobiles
and her skill with three kinds ot
cake.
A peculiar fact with winder
children is that they always
seem to be 12 years old. Young
Master Sidis was 12 when he
entered Harvard, little Miss
Sackville Stoner is 12 and little
Miss Arnold is 12. Tnis may be
only chacne,.or itmaysignify that
twelve is this conventional age
of "arrival" with juvenile prodi
gies.—Providence Journal.
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8 The Democrat Leads R
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New Series Vol. I, No. 29
DISCORD OVER ARABIC
WILL BE ELIMINATED
At Least German Government
Is of That Opinion Accord
ing to Associated Press.
The Associated Press, is in a posi
tion to state on the best authority, that
the Arabic incident may be considered
eliminated, as a source of discord b»-
tween Germiny and America; or at least
is regarded by the German government
in that light.
Moreover, Germany, in its desire to
continue its friendly relations with the
United States had adopted, before the
sinking of the Arabic, a policy design
ed to settle completely the whole sub
marine problem, as effecting America,
on the basis of good >ill and mutual
understanding.
This shown clearly by the statement
of Chancellor von Betnmannhollweg
to the Associated Press, particularly
by his concluding remark to the effect
that not until all the circumstances in
connection with the sinking of the A
rabic had been cleared up, would it be
possible to say '"whether the com
mander of one of our submarines went
beyond his instructions" in which CiS2
Germany would give complete satisfac
tion to the united States. Further
more. during the conversation the
Chancellor twice referred to the in
structions eiven to the commanders. ,
He did not specify in detail the na
ture of these instructions but it may be
said that they are designed to prevent
a repetition of the Lusit an i a 'js
case ard to provide the opportu
nity to escape for American non-con
battants upon torpedoed ships which
the United States desires. Having giv
en these instructions Germaay asled
suspension of judgement on the Ara
bic case until the facts were ascertain
ed, being confident it will be shown
that the sinking of the vessel was not
an unprovoked attack without warning
by a German submarine but was attri
butable either to a mine explosion or
to some action of the vessel itself.
Should it develop, however, that a
submarine acted contrary to instruc
tions, ample reparation will be of
fered.
Germany is still unable to understand
why Americans in these troubled times
travel on belligerent ships instead of
taking American 01 some other neutral
vessels, but since they, in some in
stances, insist upon taking passage on
vessels belligerent, will do
its utmost to provide for their safety.
Sambo's Sad Mistake.
Recently a colored party living
in the suburb s of a large citv
married a large brunett named
Lucinda. Three weeks later he
appeared at the office of a law
yer, looking as if he might have
been dented with flatirons and
bumped into by a road roller.
"Can't stand it no longer,
boss," he sadly remarked to the
legal one. "I wants a diva wee
from dat Lucinda, Las' t'ing
she chucked at me was de
stove. Tomorrer it will be the
chimbley."
"That's all right, Sam."
sootningly returned the lawyer,
seeking to effect a reconciliation.
"Everything will come out all
right. Besides you know you
took Lucinda for better or for
worse,"
"Yes, sad," admitted Sambo.
"So 1 did, sah; but she she is a
whole lot wuss dan I took her
for." —Philadelphia Telegraph.
Where Fear Lay.
Evelyn is very cowardly, and
her father decided to have a
serious talk with his little daugh
ter.
"Father," she said at the
close of his lecture, "when you
see a cow ain't ynu 'fraid?''
"No, certainly not. Evelyn."
•'When vou see a bumblebee,
ain't you "fraid"'
"No!" with scorn.
"Ain't you 'fraid whan it
thunders?"
"No," with laughter, * , o!\
you silly, silly child?"
"Papa," said Eyelyn, solemly.
"ain'tyou'fraid of nothing n>
the world but mamma?"
Remember the man who advertises,.
He has something to advertise.