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CONCORD, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1901.
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OHIO UKMOCKATICt'OSVESTlOS.
Names a Ticket Hut Does Nut Endorse
Bryan uud the Kansas City Plat
form.
The Ohio State Democratic
Convention named a State tickot
and adopted a platform on the
10th. The Associated Press dis
patch says:
"The Democrats of Ohio today
named the following ticket
Governor, James Kilbourne;
Lieutenant Governor, Anthony
Howells; judge , of Supreme
Court. Joseph Hidy: clerk of
Supreme Court, Harry B Young;
Attorney General, M E Mc
Carthy; State Treasurer, E P
Alshire; member of board of
public works, James B Holman."
The platform is not so much
at variance "with the ordinary
Democratic treud, but every ef
fort to re-endorse W J Bryan
and the Kansas City platform
was setdown on with overwhelm
ing weight. In committee dis
cussion he was denounced as a
leader."
Men Worse Titan Uogs.
You may help a dog out of
trouble, and no matter what kind
of a dog he is clay dog, country
dog or illiterate, aristocrat or
plebe and ho will wag his tail
into paralsis and exhaust every
muscle 'in his body trying to tell
you that every drop ot blood in
his veins is at your service. Help
a mau out of a ditch and what he
will do for you afterwards de
ponds greatly on his breed.
Then are plenty of men who are
not as good as a dog in more re
spects than one. Orange, Va.,
Observer.
r A .1. - i . i . . c
piimung meso special uaus 01
. shabby breeds is the disposition
to injure thoso that they owe and
will not pay or whom they want
to use and can not.
One Boy Kills Another.
A Durham special cf the 11th
to the Charlotto Observer records
the following tragedy:
News was brought here to
night by passengers on the Nor
folk & Western train that a ne
gro boy named Drumright was
murdered late yesterday after
noon by his cousin, Both wore
boys, one 12 and the other 14,
years of age. Some men at
work on a bridge gave the
younger boy two cents to go
after a bucket of water. The
two boys went off together and
late in the afternoon the younger
one was found in a dying condi
tion, passing away soon after
wards. Sinco then nothing has
been heard from the older boy
and the supposition is that they
got into a fuss over the two cents
and this resulted in murder.
There are no particulars about
the matter.
An Ohjtet Lesson.
' Sir Walter Scott, while cross
ing one of the lakes in Scotland,
noticed that on one of the boat
man's oar's was written the word
"Faith'' and on the other,
"Works." He asked what it
meant. For answer the old man
laid hold on the oar "Faith" and
beat vigorously upon the water.
The boat went round and round.
Then he let that oar alone and
used the other, " A oi ks." The
boat still went round. .Then he
rowed with both "Faith" and
"Works," and the boat went
straight forward. Ram's Horn.
, Dakemille Grateful.
The relief committee, of Ba
kersville under date of July 8,
issued a letter of thanks for aid
to those unfortunate people.
They have received $1,455.79 and
have expended $1,117.04, reserv
ing the remainder to relieve suf
fering for food among the poor.
The sums contributed have done
much to erect barns and get
clothing, , but the houses and
many other equipments will have
to bo built up again as from the
first. . . -
"My fust wife," said the old
colored citizen, "wuz kilt by
lightnin'; but lightnin' know
better dan ter come roun' do one
I got now!" Frank L Stanton.
"Yes, women lawyers are still
known as feemales."
The Life of the Lamp
is in the Oil !
Produce o? all kinds taken in
exchange for
Dll.Ii GUIDE ILLHISATIJO OIL.
AT
Thompson & Harris
I rices Cttcaucr Tlan Any One Wi
LAUKISBDKO'S DESTRUCTIVE
FIRE.
Loss Estimated tt (10,000 -CtiHrlot to
Called on for Help.
A special to the Charlotte Ob
server Thursday says :
"One of the most- destructive
fires in the history .of this town
broke out this afternoon at 2
o'clock in the M A McDougald
furnituro store and the wind was
so favorable that it seemed the
entire town was doomed. A
rough estimate places the loss at
66,O00. The northern portion
of the town is in ruins. " No one
has any adequate idea as to how
the fire originated. The losses
and insurance are estimated as
follows: M A McDougald, two
stores and stock, loss $14,000,
about one-half insured; R E Lee,
two store buildings, livery stable
and stock of goods, $10,000; G M
Wright, $400 stock, $200 insur
ance; H O Covington, two stores
valued at $1,000 each, insurance
$l,2oO; D C McNeill, stock val
ued at $3,500; Sutherland & Mor
gan, $900 stock, $500 insurance;
W D James and A A James,
three stores and goods, $19,000,
insurance about $5,000; J S Mc
Duffie, $13,000 stock, insurance
$1,000; J C Morgan, $2,000 stock;
J B Cowan, barber shop, $600; W
f Kvans, store and stock, $l,oO(),
insurance $2,00O."
Charlotte as well as Fayette
ville was called on for help and
a company responded but before
the start by special train word
came that the fire had been sub
dued and the service would not
be needed.
MNETEEX 1)EA1.
Mostly Epworth League Excursionists
Injured in the Fatal Collision.
The wreck noted Thursday in
which the passenger train and a
live stock train collided contain
ed delegates to the Epworth
League. A Kansas City dispatch
says the death list has grown to
19 with the probability of two
more.
Most of the injured were of
the Epworth League excursion
ists. Great Wrong to Raleigh Knights of
Honor.
The Knights of Honor, of Ral
eigli, have suffered a very griev
ous loss by the perfidy of their
financial agenj whose name we
believe is Charles C McDonald.
It seems that he has been collect
ing from them regularly, but
has failed to turn in the money.
This led to the permanent sus
pension of the lodge more than
a year ago. The revelation
came by tne death of a member
and the effort to collect the sum
of $2,(00, We have noticed that
Mr. McDonald offers to pay the
amount that he has collected ille
gitimately, but this does not re
store the lodge to its standing in
the order and those men, 21 of
them, we believe, who have been
keeping up their payments and
feeling some comfort in the fact
that ere long their dependent
ones would reap the benefits
must now submit to thp disap
pointment. It is too bad on them. It ap
pears though to have been a
loose way of conducting the busi
ness that such thing could hap
pen If you want something spec
ially interesting about Crimson
Clover, send for the leaflet just
issued by T W Wood & Sons,
Richmond, Va. It gives with
other interesting information,
letters from successful growers
of Crimson Clover, giving best
methods of preparation and
seeding best uses and value
about sowing in corn or' cotton
at the last working great value
as a soil improver also about
its use for pasturage, green feed
or hay. The leafl us and cata
logues issued by T W Wood &
Sons are doing splendid work in
the practical information giving
as to the best crops to grow and
the best ways to grow them.
H if. Wjatt Inteipreter.
Mrs. J T Wyatt has received
an appointment as interpreter at
the Charleston Exposition. She
has not decided exactly when she
will go to Charleston, but it will
be vary shortly. She will inter
pret German and French.
The position carries with it
quite a handsome salary. Salis
bury Suu.
Listing Taxes-
Capt. W Murdoch Wiley went
to Concord yesterday to list for
taxation the property of the Un
ion Copper Mine in Cabarrus.
He returned by private convey
ance fron Concord to Gold Hill
and ran up against very serious
obstruction to his progress in an
unbringed creok. The bridge
was washed away by a storm and
has never been replaced. Salis
bury Sun of 1 1th.
State (JnarJ in Camp.
The Third regiment of State
Guards is now encamped at
Wrightsville beach.
THURSDAY NIUHT'S HERMAN.
Complimentary to Miss Cannon and
Miss Jones, of Charlotte.
The most delightful social
event of the week was the ger
man Thursday night at Phifer's
Hall, given by the young men of
the city complimentary to Miss
Margaret Cannon and her guest,
Miss Alice Jones, of Charlotte.
The dance began at 10 o'clock
and lasted until 12. The Con
cord orchestra furnished music.
The couples wore:
MESSRS. MISSES.
C R Montgomery Alice Jones
(Charlotte)
C B Buxton (Winston) Marga
ret Cannon
F Brown
Jno. Williamson
Ed Mo'ss
Ralph Oline
Earl Brown
Robt. Young
E Cannon
Mabel Means
Belle Means
Kate Means
Louise Means
Agnes Moss
Fay Brown
Ola Brown
W Wadsworth
W II Gibson
J Loitch
Ed Hill
Geo. Richmond
Margaret Brown
Janie Ervin
Helen Johnson
Emily Gibson
Jennie Gibson
R P Gibson Mary Ella Cannon
N Cor roll, Mary Young
Jno. Foil Fannie Hill
Will Archibald Sadie Fisher.
The stags were: Ed Freeze,
Mark Linker, T W Whits, Chal
White, J L Brown, Joe Cannon,
A R Hoover, Joe Hill, V Means.
NEWPORT NEWS STRIKE ENDED.
Men Resume Their Old l'iam on the
Old Terms.
The Newport news striKe is
ended and the men are gone back
to work at the former wages.
A spirit of conservativeness pre'
vails. Men who had even left
are allowed to resume their old
places if fhey comeback prompt
iy.
I tie strikers round it impossi
ble to get the money needed to
continue the strike and found
also that the work was not de
pendent on thorn and that other
hands would soon fill their
places.
BKIIMiE GIVES WAY.
Three Cars go Down With 25 Men
Tne bridge, gave way near
Springfield, Pa., Thursday at 10
o'clock where workmen were
putting in a fill and were unload
ing throe cars of stone, going
down without a moment's warn
-ing. rwonty-nve men were at
work and only one had time to
escape the ran. .Nine men in
cluding five Italians were killed.
Term Could Not He Reached.
The conference at Pittsburg
on the lltn between the union
strikers and the representatives
of metal manufacturers failed to
effect anything and the end of
the strike cannot be surmised yet.
Accident In Ulaaa Factory.
At Kokoma, Ind., on the 11th
ten men in a glass factory were
carrying a plate glr.ss about 10x16
feet upright when it broke and
its pondrous edges came down
on five ot tne men, carrying
scalps and shaving the flesh off
their arms, which it is said they
will lose if they do not die of
their injuries.
Mm. Jeff Davis III.
An Associated Press dispatch
of the 11th from Portland, Me.,
s;iy s :
"Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow
of the former President of the
Confederacy, is quito ill at the
Columbia Hotel, in. this city,
whero she came a few days ago
to spend the summer."
. Kx Judge Wliitaker Dead.
Ed-Judge Spier Whitaker died
at his home in Raleigh Wednes
day, the 9th, of complicated
heart disease.
He made a good record in the
civil war and also entered the
service in the war with Spain
and was in the Porto Rican ex
pedition. Ker. Theodore Parker Married.
The Lutheran Visitor says :
"Ou July 3rd at 9 a. m., in St.
John's church, Wytheville, Va.,
Rev. Thco. C Parker, of Med
ley, Va., and Miss M Etta Kel
ley, were married, Rev, Paul
Soig performing the ceremony."
Mr. Parker was one of the
graduating class at North Caro
lina College at the commence
ment of 18.
tbarbon Among Cattle.
There is a peculiar disease
among cattle in Louisiana and
Arkansas due, it seems, to over
flows of the Mississippi that is
very fatal. It is conveyed also
to people by means of flies and
mosquitoes. Some deaths of
people have occurred. The dis
ease is called Charbon (pronoun
ced as if written Sharbon). It is
i i . i .
a Kinu oi spieuio levur.
Private charities, as well an
contributions to public purposes
in proportion to every one's cir.
cumstaucos, are certainly among
the dobts we owe to society.
Thomas Jefferson.
TO REVOLUTIONIZE STEAM POWER.
Hope to Croat the Ocean Within
Three Daya Carnegie Forming a
Company.
Lieutenant James Weir Gray
don, formerly of the American
navy, who built the London and
Paris Forris wheels, today
pliced on view an invention
which promises to revolutionize
the world's shipping, says a
London dispatch of the 9th.
The invention is a compound
steam turbine bearing the same
relation to the turbine invented
by Mr. Charles A Parsons, in
Glasgow, that a simple engine
does to a compound. Mr. Gray
don's turbine uses steam under
15 different pressures within a
single cylinder the size of a nail
keg.
The model exhibited generates
25 horse power and makes 3,000
revolutions a minute almost
without vibration, as the power
is applied directly to the shaft.
The turbine uses but one third
of the amount of steam required
to run an ordinary engine, and
about half the amount required
by the Parsons Turbine. I
Mr. Andrew Carnegie is or
ganizing a company with a capi-,
tal of $4,000,000 to apply . this
power to steam ships which it is
believed will cross the Atlantic
in three days. The works will
probably be established 'on the
Delaware river, near Philadel
phia. Mr. Herbert Craig, Mr.
Carnegie's agent in London, con
firms Mr. Graydon's statement
regarding the invention. Mr,
Graydon also intends to apply
the invention to submarine boats,
and, with a gas generator, to au
tomobiles." Rates to the Firenieu'i Tournament.
There sooms to be some mis
understanding as to how and
why tin reduced rates to Char
lotte during tho firemen's tour
nament were not extended to the
24th of July. When the presi
dent of the State Firemen's As
sociation asked for special rates
on the 21st, 22nd and 23rd they
were granted, and would have
been granted on the 24th also if
the request had been made, and
if the rates are unaccommodating
the ticket agent here nor Mr.
Proctor should be held respon
sible, nor any official of the
Southern, for they would gladly
have granted special rates for
every date that festivities are to
be held in Charlotte, and if the
president of tho Concord fire
company will ask the president
of the association to look into
the matter special rates will be
given on the 21th, when our
company, the band and rooters
go over to Charlotte in one
great body to bring back the
laurels.
Concord Cotillion Club Organliod.
Thursday night at 8 o'clock at
Phifer's Hall a dancing club was
organized to be known as the
Concord Cotillion Club, with an
enrollment of forty-five mem
bers. The following officers
were elected: Dr. R S Young,
president; W H Gibson, secre
tary and treasurer; M L Rich
mond, Ed Moss, Joe Cannon and
G B Means, board of governors.
This club will rent a hall and
give one or two dances a week.
K. of P.'s Find Crookedness.
The Knights of Pythias are in
trouble over the squandering,
misappropriating or embezzling
of their endowment fund, effect
ing a shortage of $500,000. John
H Hinsay, ex-president and
member of board of control, is
charged with the chief part of
the crime and has resigned. The
supreme lodge has authorized
the prosecution of all connected
with the crookedness.
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Goat Eata Surgeeus Needles.
Thursday Dr. R S Young was
called to amputate Mr. William
Plott's thumb that had been
mashed at the Cannon mills and
while the operation was going
on water was up sot on a case of
eighteen needles. These were
placed on a piece of paper and
put in the sun to dry to prevent
them from rusting, when a goat
cam 3 along and ate noodles, pa
per and all. This morning from
all appearauces the goat does
not neod the modicine mau.
Daily of 12th.
HEAD END COLLISION IN MISSOURI
Sixteen Dead and Many Injured Cou
ducior Makes a Mistake.
A passenger train and a live
stock train made a head-end col
lision near Norton, Mo., on
Thursday in which sixteen peo
pie were killed outright or died
soon after and two will proba
bly die, beside a number of
others loss seriously injured
It seems to have beeu an un
accountable mistake of one of
the conductors. The trains wore
practically demolished.
TURKEY PAYS UP.
The $05,000 Indemnity for Losses to
Americans Settled Without a War.
Turkey has at last paid up the
$95,000 indemnity claims against
her for American losses and
wrongs suffered in the Armenian
troubles some ton years ago.
Much delay has attended the ef
forts of our government to col
lect the amount and a war was
anticipated sometimes but diplo
matic skill has triumphed. The
American government will dis
tribute this amount among the
claimants.'
It. R. Directors Appointed.
The Raleigh correspondent to
the Charlotte Observer under
date of the 9th says :
"Governor Aycock today made
the long expected appointments
of State directors of the North
Carolina Railroad. Great is the
number of disappointed. The
lucky are: Hugh G Chatham, of
Elkin, (who is to be president),
L Banks Holt, of Graham; L M
Michaux, IGoldsboro; W II Wil
liams, Newton; A W Graham,
Oxford; Vines E Turner, Ral
eigh; S CPenn, Reidsville; C M
Cooke, Jr., Bessemer City. Dr.
J L McLollaud, of Mooresvillo,
is appointed State's jiroxy. It is
well understood here, as it has
been for weeks or months, that
Dan Hugh McLean is to be sec
retary and treasurer of the North
Carolina Railroad, but the offices
of secretary and treasurer may
be separated. The directors meet
Thursday. The Governor noti
fied them by telegraph of their
appointment.
Baseball Thursday.
Wilmington defeated Charlotte
Thursday evening on the Wil
mington grounds by a score of 6
to 4, and if it had not been for a
home run by Knau with two men
on bases and a three-bagger by
Murray in the right time Char
lotte would not have scored.
Raleigh won a close game
from Tarboro at Raleigh Thurs
day, the score being 6 to 5. Two
home runs were made by btan
ley and Sarber, of the Raleigh
team, and Sarber's -hit was the
longest ever made in Raleigh.
At the beginning of the third
inning Billy LeGrand was hit on
the head and had to retire.
Augusta defeated Asheville by
a score of 6 to 2 at Asheville.
Singular Train Wreck.
At Notinghafri, a suburb of
Cleveland, O., on Tuesday a most
singular train collision and wreck
occurred. It was a double track
and tho passenger train running
50 miles per hour was meeting a
freight train. From some un
known cause a freight car left
the track and tumbled imme
diately on tho track iu front of
the passengor. Four men wore
killed in the wreck that followed
and many were injurod. It was
on an embankment down which
the wreckod engine and cars
tumbled both ways. One sleeper
remained on the track.
Sud Death at HoHpilul.
The Sun says Mrs. MaUie
Howard, of Claremout, died at
the Whitehead-Stokes hospital
in Salisbury Tuesday after a
short illness. Sho had come to
be with her son who had lost a
leg by an injury ou the road as
he was going to Gold Hill, and
she was attacked with acute
stomach trouble for which there
seemed no remedy.
Mine to be Louked Atu r.
The gold mine near rionoer
Mills is to be opened again and
experimented with by a company,
at Anderson, S. C. It is believed
that the mine is valuable.
Life is at best but a froward
child, which must he coaxed and
played with until the end comes,
Sir William Temple.
"AU nature has' been in a
melting mood this woek."
"Even cold-blooded people
have been warm enough th's
week."
"The wild oats of youth turn
to the briers of manhood."
LOCALS.
Mr. Will Weddiugtou is homo
foe a few days
Mr. Ra:ph (Well is homo from
L5 ssemoi .
Miss Elnia Colo is visiting
friends at A.shoboro.
The Rev. Ph. Schmidt spent
l1 ) uiay at Kock well
Mr. Archie Cannon is spending
tho week at Blowing Kock.
Miss Fay Brown is visiting
friends in Salisbury for a few
days,
Mr. Walter Fink has accepted
a position as night operator at
Greers, b. U.
Mr. W F Monroe, of Bala
Mills, is spending several days
in Charlotte.
Mr. Horace Blackwelder has
accepted a position in the Regis
tar of Deeds office.
Miss Delia Monroe, of Bala
Mills, is visiting friends in Char
lotie for a few days.
Mrs. Fulp and two sons, of
Fort Mills, S. C, arrived Friday
to visit at Mr. M E Castor's.
Mr. Horace Miller is improv
it the looks of his homo by the
addition of a room and porch.
Miss Katie Barringer; of Mt.
P easant, is in tho city the visit
iu ; guest of Miss Daslo Barrier.
Mr. Geo. Painter, a popular
tr voling man of Richmond, Va.,
sj-mt Friday night in the city.
Mr. Shi, ford Peeler, of China
G ove, is visiting Mr. John Bar
rier at his home on West Corbin
street.
Mr. T J Jerome and wife, of
Monroe, spent Thursday night
in the city and left for Albe
marle Friday.
Iiss Rosa Uumboll, who has
be.in visiting Miss Mayfield Cole,
re' timed 'o Carthage, her home,
Fi day morning.
Mrs. J C Ma! lies returned
fn.m Sali sbury Friday morning
and states that Mr. Mathos is
mi.ch bettor.
Miss Minnie Allen, of Con
cord, who has been visiting Miss
Mortice Thompson, returned
home last night. Salisbury Sun
of 12th.
We have a large stoclc of high
ornde burning oils on hand at all
tines t trade for produce.
Thompson and Harris, tf.
Mrs. Hazel Saunders, of Sum
ter, S. C, arrived Friday night
to visit her mother, Mrs. Laura
Alien, and family on West Depot
ct.i .lot"
Iiss Constance Cline returned
from ButTalo, N. Y., Friday
niht. Miss Cline has been vis-
iting iu Northern cities for the
past four weeks.
. ,
Bring your produce toThomp-1
son and Harris and receive full
market prices, or high grade
Illuminating oils iu exchange. tf.
It is very gratifying to hear
that Messrs. Mathes and Pock
are both making steady prog
ress to recovery at ihe White-
head-btokes Sanitarium at Salis
bury. For Sale A car load of Ma
son's improvod Fruit Jars and
Rubbers, Lowest prices guar
anteed. Ed. F White.
ESTABLISHED:
Daily i89o.
A Story
With a Moral!
The editor bml persuaded every merchant In
town to advertise except the old shoe dealer. He
refused.
The editor kept at him hung to him like grni
death to a Georgia darkey.
Finally the editor persuaded the shoe dealer to
pi tall his odds sud ends together and advertise
them at f 1.50 a pair.
A typographical error was made in the ad aud
the shoe dealer wag horn tied to see that it read
"a.flu a pair."
lie rushed to the prlutiug offioe with wrath in
his eyes. The editor was a diplomat aud per
maded him to sell the shoes at SOoents oonviDoed
him lie would be mouey ahead to get the old stuff
out of the store.
Next moruiug the store was filled with custom
era aud the shoe man had to hire Bill Cuadw ick's
boy to help tiim wait ou customers. Next day he
had to net Zeke Luoas' boy and Joe Stivers.
The third day the editor dropped into the store.
Tho old man, Hill Chadwiok's boy, Zeke Luoas'
boy and Joe Stivers wore bnsy celling goods aud
there were customers waiting their turns.
The shoe dealer stopped long enough to make a
year's ooutraot for double the Bpaee of his trial ad.
"Theu you think it paid you ?" asked the editor.
''Yes, 1 ruther thiuk it did," said the old man,
"but what a durn fool I was not to do it twenty
five years ago "
Moral: It's never too lute to start on a good
thing.
Your Job Work
Will be well and promptly done in onr Job Offioe.
Let us estimate on an ad. or a job fur you.
The Standard.
The Henry Geoigo cigar i.
boing exteusivoly advertised in
Concord.
The large elm tree in front o'
Brown's shoe shop has keen re
moved.
Miss Eula Parks is visiting
her aunt, Mrs. Dr. Misenheimer.
in Charlotte.
Mr. Williamson Morris wiL
toach school at Nowells uox'
session, beginning the latter par
of August.
Mr. James Young, ouo of Con
cords popular young men, is iu
the city today. Salisbury Sun
of the 11th.
Mr. William Plott while at
work in the Cannon mills Thurs
day evening got his thumb
mashed off.
Eight Knights of Pythias ac
companied the remains of Mr.
Walter Parish from Mooresville
and acted as ball bearers at the
funeral.
The infant child of Mr. A E
Litaker, of No. 4 township, died
Friday night and was buried
this (Saturday) evening at Mt
Olivet cemetery.
Mrs. Parker, wife of Conduc
tor Parker, wiio runs (Vol :
Mooresville to Winstou-Saljn
aecompaniod the it-inaius of Mi
Walter Parish hou.
Brown Bros, deliver. id ove
four hundred bushels of ntr
wheat to tho Feuix lloi.r mill
Friday This is the tint lie'
wheat they have had.
The manse at the Canaonvill
Presbyterian church is neariii;
completion and Pastor ,'resto1
and wife hope to be iu their ne
home by the first of Aug ist.
Mr. D Frank Barrier arrivoi
homo Wednesday night froi !
Pennsylvania, where he ha
been setting up harvesting ma
chines and putting them to op
erating.
We aro selling high grad.
burning oils cheap water whit.
suushine(150 oil) Hi cts., garnet
ine (150 red oil) V2i cents. Vv'.
pay $1.00 for empty barre s bear
ng our brands. Thompson A
Harris. . tf.
Our very grateful acknowl
ments are tendered to M r. and
Mrs. J Frank Fink for a bag ol I She cannot be just like any body
most excellent wild goose plums , , . , .,. . ...
Palates may divide on a choice eNe' but sho v'1,! h'" something
between this delicious fruit and like those with whom she asso
the tropical orange. Late. Kb, m-w imbibe some-
A contract was closed Friday
evening oy wnicn me oucoru
Cotillion Club takes charge of ; companying autiousness, and
the opera house. An up-to-dat j fall a victim where the other es
floor will be put in and other im , . ,
provements made, and it will be;caPes- But sno ls uot guilty,
used as a dancing hall. ; The unexpected met he, and sho
Much sympathy was justly felt did not know how to ward off
lor ine lauios oi tne Kerornieu
'. Missionary Society at their lawn
festival Friday night. They hail
cotten pretty well spread iu the
court house lawn when typical
j summer showers came and drove
thorn into the court house. Later
they emerged under more favor-
able skies but the patronage was
doubtless not what a favorable
evening would have brought and
the enterprise was a limited suc
cess, which proved very satis
factory under the circumstances.
A new use has been found for
petroleum oil. An experiment
was made last week in Columbia
with crude oil as an allayer of
dust and the results were quite
satisfactory. Gaston'a Gazette,
Weekly i8h.
Tiie Tmnitin State.
Thero is always more or less
danger in the transit on state.
From girlhood to young woman
hood, the mind is as unsettled as
the physical nature. Thoughts
are turning into new channels,
and as the body takes on now
functions, tho mind follows in
the same direction. Dolls and
playhouses give place to castles
in the air, and there is a strange
palpitating of the heart when a
young man speaks to her. Sho
is licit at ease io her new cos
turao; her ioiig gown is in the
way, her hair pulls and the pins
hurt, she wants to wear it in
braids agaitij but that happy day
is forever past. She blushes
when a gentteirau asks to escort
her to tlui opera, and only ac
cepts provided he will take her
churn, also. She hasn't the least
; loa what is expected of her,
;nnl n-ombles Test her hand should
re-it too heavily on his arm. Sho
is at a loss to know what to say,
and ou! of sheer embarrassment
oft ju appears loud and fast.
A h rt now anil then, from an
older L'.rl, might be helpful but
shew.! not bear much bossing.
She is inno. ent, and no matter
ho.v hard it may be to account
for tier conduct, as she blunders
aloiig, blindly, the right or
wrong way as fate may lead her.
If not extremely bashful, she
goes to the other extreme, and
is hcid, daring and approach
aoie. i'.ut sho is not wicked. It
is a shame, to speak evil of a
young g il for erratic ways. She
is siinniy taking her bearings,
l' ii! ; l'".r vi-ay into i he realm of
w ..;ii.a.iiiuoti. Sho is shaping
hoi life, molding it after what
she thinks is in those about her.
.b... ,.;,!, ,f v,., ,.
the evil.
Her moral nature had not
awakened to the sin she was com
mitting, However wickod the
man may have been, the yonng
girl he ruined is innocent, until
she takes up a life of shame.
Ignorant and unaided, sho must
mset these great problems of
chastity aud virtue, buttoodfton
the odds are against her. Hor
faith is rudely shaken when tho
boy with whom she romped at
school approaches hor with a
guilty love, and lays unholy
hands on her. It is a cruel
awakeirDg aud that often provos
i i.e crucial period of her life. If
hlio Mauds the test, her safety is
assured, for she now becomes
jho'- uwu protector. She has
parsed into tho realm of young
won; tuiiOoc
i, across tho transi-
itiou s: aie, utid is no longer at a
lo to ki o'v how to conduct her
self. O, that their angels in
heaven, mignt look upon our
dear girls aud help them to pass
sofely over.
Mrs. Salhfi A llanies, MJ Syl
van S'reet, Emporia, Kan.
We k- ml rates to Blowing
Hock, N. C. - Elective Friday,
dune 14, and continuing to and
including Aug. 31, 1901, the
Southern Railroad will sell
ivuud '.rip tickets Concord to
mowing U-jck and return for
train - ; 'ri' i vs and Saturdays
.;i,. ! r tiieiiin.'. leaving
.. .iet Imer than Tuos
en.;. .'. le.r dato of sale, at
r.te et l.L.'i i'or round trip.
A LMi N 1ST 11 ATO U-S N OTIC K.
Having u.tuuitied as tho Ad
ministrator of tht est.it" of Thus.
L Martin, deceased
owing said cs' ite n
tided that :hcy
a, I persons
hereby no
il. ii -'t make
-.nis will lie
--,,.! h.iv
, . i eV u.i
. !!; under
nil . I . y.
. ', 1 bt j
ir recovery.
iroiupt puyu.eui ,
broug
And
ing ckih
must ih'i
sigll.'ii,
or be I or.
lii i:', or
pleaded i
t tii.-. no
bar of I
C. L. KHU i.V,
Administrator,
July 10,
By M li'Caldue:, .Attorney,