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4 Book and Job Printing i ha uoncora imiub. -OF ALIi KINDS The most widely circulated paper ever published in executed in the Best Style, - at tmso PBICES. Our Job Printing Department, vvith every necessary equipment, is prepared to turn out every va riety of Printing in first-class style. No botch-work turned out from this office; We dupli cate the prices of anv Wirimnr. , Cabarrus, Richmond, Rowan, Montgomery, I Davidson, Randolph, i Stanly, Anson and i Union Counties. stick A PIN HERE. .jATKW MODEKATE. JOHN B. SHERR1LL, Editor. 'ZBZEi JUST : .ISTID IF'E.A NOT.' r Year, in Advance. Volume XII. CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 13. 1894. Number 11. establishment. Sick ii.iv. sufferuijr with stomach, liver and kidney 1 trouble, aiso irom aiier eucc v p ... r.'.i ;ii" in my back and limbs. Different mi'Vu-Uw tailed to benefit me. The first dose f Hood s Sarsaparilla relieved my stomach, l ntinucd and I am ugw permanently Cures AM pain has left me, my appetite Is good, ,'fi so-met an:l refreshing, and I am strong ,.n i Ticvpr loved iwtter neaitn. a. tr. 'lUKKis.'wute lliuff, Tennessee. A . Hood's Fills euro all liver 1IU. 25c. ion Amoena HI EHiMRY, 0 0 at Mt. Pleasant, ;s destined to be FOB YOUNG -:- LADIES IN THE SOUTH. An Able Faculty of Nine Teachers. Ai thoroughly reliable School is the am bition of the management. kirn hn Wn 5. Address, C. L. T. FISHEB, Principal, University of North Carolina. intrudes- the College, the University, tthe ; Law. School, the Medical School, "jinil the Slimmer School for teachers. iVllogo tuition $CQ.0O a year; board $7 t) si 3 a month. ' ; Session Begins September 6th, Address,. - , PRESIDENT WINSTON, July 5. Chapel Hill, N. C. Charlotte Seminary. Offers finnE-rioV advantages in Music, Avt, mid Literary departments, leading jto college or diploma certificate in col tlftriate graded Carl E. Cranz, musical I director. Boarders accommondated. -MISS LILLY V. LONG, .110 N. Tryon fit. Principal. - La Fayette Military Academy. ; A HIGH GRADE. Preparatory School FOB Boys and- Young Men. Thorough Business Course. Fall In-Mnif.-j-ion in Art and Musio. Fine Ca ll tt iknl. Terms very moderate. For eatalosrne containing full particulars and . ;,.,-.-..i .1.1 , ! i Maj.J. W. YEREX. i Aug. i),'04. Jb'ayetteville, N. C. North Carolina College, MT. PLEASANT, N. C. J. SHIRET, A. 51., PRESIDENT. Academic, Commercial, and Collegi iilr Courses. Opens September 4, 1894. OiiliM Superior advantages to young im'ii, Instruction thorough and prac tice), (lood brick buildings, elegant Society ILills, beautiful and healthful ligation, iu nuilari'a. good board, -whole-Sio!,o ilisoipliuc. Expenses per session, .iW to 15. . Georgeville Academy OPENS AUGUST 27th. 'O' iiil inducements offered to vounar " 'ii. Yhimg Indies can obtain the best n.ist.'iu'tio!) in music at'low rates. Spe '"' 'il ntti iitioti eriven to studying Greek, l"'ti;i and Matliamatica. - tliorongh J2nglish education is the (jlj''ct fif the school, and, as an induce "loiii, hoard has been reduced to 6ix .tluliiirH per month, including fuel, lights an I roonis. Address, T. L. WOODWARD, Ph. B., Prin., Ang;J0--lin. Georgeville, N. C. kiORE EYE-GLASSES, "Weak Eyes! Jlorc MITCHELL'S EYE-SALVE A Certain Safe and Effective Remedy for SORE, WEAK and INFLAMED EYES. - rotlHfin.it Iitg-Siffhtednes, and mentoring the Sight of tlus old. urea Tear Drops, Granulation, Stye 1 "mors, Red Eyes, Matted Eye Lashes, AXD PRODUCING- QUICK RELIEF . AND PERMANENT CURB. iw.L'",,a,Iy effit-QcioHs whenasedln '". u?'?,,MHes. as Ulcers, Fever Mi t'iirV .,Twc,".lJ?1lammaio,Ixl,s -uvantage. " SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AT 25 CENTS was Mr. B. F. Harris Uave eu Hood hi)' s! GEMS IN VERSE. Unu to a Cynlo. . He daily trod the ways of busy men, Silent, serene; and in the city's mart They often marked his placid features when They could not read the anguish in his heart j Inscrutable and crave of mien to all Save me, he seamed a man or mar Die wrought. But I I know his calm was but a pall Wherewitutoshroud the skeleton of thought Was not his secret writ upon his brow In one sharp symbol, pitifully plain? That furrow was not turned by Time's dull plow, . . - 1 Rather a sword oat dealt by deathless pain. He doily, paced the city's populous ways. But through his heart a sad and hopeless song Went ever singing, and his patient gaze Was fixed on something far beyond the throng . ... University Courier. A Song of Che sr. '"' There are man; will toll you: "The best has been done: t There is nothing worth striving for under the sr.n: There's no hope for achievement when all of the past Is pitted against you an army so vast Overwhelming in numbers and deed of re- nown. . b were foolish to struggle and wise to lie down." But turn a deaf ear when these croakers ooma near, Seep steadily at It and be of good cheer. "The height you can climb to Is nothing at all. go why make the effort aad risk the rude fall?" On. take but one breath of that sweet moun tain air, And having inhaled It you'll never despair! But striving still upward and onward each day, "The labor, I love Ut" at last you will say. Then turn a deaf ear when the croakers come pear; With face toward the summit oh, be of good , cheer! Think not fat a moment all songs have bees sung! . There are sorrows and Joys that have never found 'tongue! There are hearts today waiting the message you brinfc They listen for songs that you only can singl So think not Of Shajteepeare or Milton or Burns. But sing as they sung, make your sweetest re turns. And turn a deaf ear when the croakers appeaa. Sing life as you live It and be of good cheer. William S. Lord. BIO INVESTMENTS IN THE SOUTH Capitalist Developing the Region by Build - ing Railroads and Manufactories, NewYoik Times. Mr. R. H.. Edmonds, editor of The Manufacturers Record, published at Baltimore, who in few York one day last week, said, in speaking of the South that there is a very decided tendency of capital 'to seek investment in that sec tion. "In fact," added Mr-. Edmonds, "the investment of money in the South promises to become a conspicious feat ure of the times a fad, if it may be so called. The remarkable success of Drexel, Morgan & Co. in the reorgan. ization of the Richmond Terminal Com pany has greatly strengthened the pub lic estimation of Southern railroad inter ests. "The South now has the greatest financial forces in the world working for its up-building.. Drexel Morgan, & Co. and Vanderbuilts control the South ern Railway and the- Chespeake and Ohio, and eventually will own probably 8,00Q or 10,000 miles of road running through some of the finest mineral, agricultural, and timber regions of the word. The Goulds, C. P. Huntington, the Rockefellers, and Sfrs. Hetty Green h ive many millions invested in Texas railroads. Mr. Henry M. Flagler and H. R. Plant have millions in Florida, and are constantly addingr to their in vestments. Hamilton Dlsston, the great saw maker of Philadelphia, has some millions . in Florida, and is pre paaing for immense colonization work. August Belmont and his associates in America and Europe control the Louis ville and Nashville. The Illinoise Cen tral, with all of its fiinancial influences, are now being concentrated upon South ern developement. These roads are now giving special attention to drawing farmers South in addition to what they are doing in turning capital that way. ','Last week the stockholdiers of the Massachusetts Cotton Mills of Lowell, isew JUiriand s greatest cotton com panies, after several months of careful investigation, voted to spend 1600,000 in building a new mill in the South. It is impossible, so the manergers say, for them to hold their trade on coarse cotton goods in competition with South ern mills.' Hence, they are going to build a 50,000-spindle mill South. Some four or five other big New Eng land- mill companies will be forced to follow suit almost immediately. This action is awakening a lively interest all through New-England in Southern cotton manufacturing, and there will probably be a heavy flow of money in to Southern mills. - 'Southern timber lands are now com ing into demand.. Men who have made fotunes out of the increase in "the value of Northwestern timber lands realize that large, timberjracts in the South at from $2 to $5 an acre afford an absolute ly safe purchase with the assurance of a rapid advance. Many are buying simp ly as an investment, while others ' are purchasing for immediate develop ment. Some big fortunes will be made in Southern timber lands during the next few years. The fact is, the whole South is on up grade. ' Its future never looked sq promising as at present. Men, money, and manufacturers are moving that way very rapidly." A Jack-Leg Carpenter. Macon Telegraph. n, ... a lawyer was cross questioning a ne gro witness in one of the justice courts the other day, and was getting along fairly well, until he asked the witness what his occupation was. "I'se er carpecter, sah." ' 'They calls me a jack-leg carpenter, sah. ' "What is a jack-leg carpenter ?" "He is a carpenter who is not first- class carpenter, sah." "Well, explain fully what youiunder- -.1. 3.1.11 . , . ... Biauu a jacK-ieg carpenter to be, in sisted the lawyer. r . ."Boss, I declare I dunno -how to 'splain any mo', 'cept to say him am jest de same diffunce 'twixt you and a first class lawyer." The negro was one of the , old-fashioned kind, and did not mean to be in solent or impudent, but had just de cided in his own mind that the lawyer asking the questions waa not -a first class lawyer. j it is needless to say that, the ques tions ceased at once. k 1 It is need THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY. It Is the Kins of American Railway Systems. Yew York Sun. .On Saturday, the 1st inst, the reor Terminal ganization of the Richmond system was definitely and formally com pleted, and the last of the many prop erties which under the plan of reorganization have lost their unhappy and unfortunate indentities and become merged in a new and propitious enter prise, passed into the possession of the Southern Railway Company. Last Sat urday, therefore, marks, for all practi cal purposes, the completion of the reorganization ; and a consideration of the situation is, therefore, opportune, particularly when it. is borne in mind that the event is the most notable that has taken place in the history of Amer ican railroads, and that its bearing upon every Southern, business interest is of vital importance. The Southern Railway Company op erates 4,500 miles of railroad and about 150 miles of water line. With the ex ception of 491 miles (Goldsboro, N to Atlanta, Ga.,) which is leased, all the system is owned by the company, and the heretofore complicated and expen sive plan of control by majorities, wholly impracticable andunfortunate in its operation and sure to" make enemies among the minorities, is done away with. The oid Richmond Terminal Company did not own any railroad at J all, and the much vaunted (but m- tnnsically worthless) Richmond and Danville owned only 145 miles. The rest of the Richmond and Danville sys tem was made up of some thirty seper companies, rapginjr-jn length from six to 652 mileB. Efficiency and economy were impossible on this basis, which! also afforded good opportunity for ob jectionable methods of accounting. The organization of the East Tennessee was more compact, buLit, too, left much to be desired. As a result of the reorganization over thirty corporations, whose -iffairs and securities were interlocked iTevery con ceivable way, and in almost hopeless confusion, are united in one company. Thirty Boards of Directors and thirty sets of seperate accounts disappear sim ultaneously. The original plan waa dated May, 1, 1893 ; it was issued on May. 23, 1893, and the response of security holders was prompt, and by the middle of June, 1893, success was as sured so .far as their co-operation was concerned,. - . The summer and autumn of 1893 paralyzed the South, in common with the rest of the country,'' and railroad earnings shrunk greatly. New condi tions and new complications were pre sented, and the problem became one of dealing with bankrupt receivers as well as bankrupt corporations . By strenuous efforts everything was held together, and as soon as possible some amend ments to the original plan were pro mulgated, mainly to solve the financial problems of the receiverships, and also to cut down the'interest charges of the reorganized companypending a return to normal conditions. These amendments were made public on March 1, 1894, and they were so reasonable in character that they were quickly accepted by the security holders, and the reorganization was at once pushed forward with such rapidity that within four months the new company was formed, and now) within two months more, the last of the property comes into its possession 4,500 miles of railroad which, exactly six months ago, had almost dropped to pieces, and which but for the strong hands that held the properties together during all the financial troubles, would have drop ped 'to pieces, are now brought into one compact and ethcient company. Ihe new company ia organized under a charter granted bv the Legislature of Virginia, supplemented by its confor mity to the laws of all the other estates in which it owns property. The reorganization has involved two trustees' sales, viz : Richmond and West Point Terminal Railway and Warehouse Company. Trustee's sale under 6 per cent, col lateral mortgage. Trustee's sale under 5 per cent, col lateral mortgage. One receiver s sale, viz : Richmond ancLWest Point Terminal Railway and Warehouse Company. Ten foreclosure sales, viz., covering Richmond and Danville and its leased lines. East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia (under two mortgages ). Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Columbia and Greenville. ' Louisville Southern. Georgia Pacific. Western North Carolina. Northwestern North Carolina. Oxford and Clarksville. Clarksville and North Carolina. Six conveyances without foreclosure, VIZ Atlantic, Tennesse and Ohio ; Rich mond, York River, and Chesapeake ; Washington, Ohio and Western; Pied mont; Statesville and Western; Oxford and Henderson. And we understand that some half dozen minor sales and as many more conveyances of other kinds are now in progress im order to perfect the minor details of the work. Prior to the re organization, the properties now merged into the Southern Railway Company were covered by about seventy seperate mortgages. About forty of these mort gages nave been eliminated in one way or another escribed briefly, and ignoring many small branch lines, the Southern Rail way Company extends from Washing ton, or more properly, from Alexandria Va. , via Salisbury, N . C. , to Augusta and Atlanta, Ga.; and thence to the Mississippi;River at Greenville. At Sal isbury another main line crosses the State of North Carolina by way of Ashe- ville; thence over to Knoxville and Chattanooga, Tenn., an! from there to Rome, Ga., where it divides; one line going to Brunswick and the other to Meridian, Miss. Another line ruus from Louisville to Lexington and Bur gin, Ky., there' connecting with the Cincinnati Southern." The Cincinnati Southern and Mem phis and Charleston were included in the plan of reorganization as originally promulgated, but were dropped from the amended plan, as the Becurity hold- era failed to accept the terms ottered. 1 TheyHave not bettered their condition by their refusal and the general im-; nrpssinn is t,hnt. Ronner nr later, inese lines will be acquired, lhe boutnern ; Company is also expected to control the Georgia Central when reorganized. a j l j. L i, ' Among the most important cities reached by the Southern Railway are . Washington, D. C, Alexandria, Va., Charlottesville, Va., Richmond, Va., Lynchburg, va., uanvuie, va., . iai- eigh, N. C.j Durham,- N. C, Greens boro, N. C, Statesville, JN. C, Asne- ville, N. C. , Salem-Winston? N. V. , Charlotte, N. C. , Columbia; S. C. , Spartanburg, S. C, Greenville, S. C, Augusta, Ua-i Atlanta. Ga., Macon, Ga,.. Brunswick, Ga., Bristol, Tenn., Louisville, Kv., Lexington, Ky., Knox- ville, Tenn., Chattanooga, Tenn., Rome, Ga., Birmingham, Ala., Anniston, Ala., Columbus, Miss., and Selma, Ala. The lines of the company, located as they are," reach and serve all of the diversified interests of the South. In the way of mineral, they penetrate its two great coal fields, viz. , the Kentucky and Tennesse coal fields on the north and the Alabama coal fields on the South; and from these are able to sup ply the States traversed by them. They also reach the great iron industries of tfie South at Knoxville, Cleveland, Chattanooga, Anniston, Birminghan and intermediate points. Iron is made cheaper at Birmingham than at any other place in the United States, or, for that matter, in the world. On the western division of the system there are over thirty iron furnaces. Through in numerable small branches the company goes into the very heart of the lumber territory m the States through which it runs, it is able, of course, to draw cotton from every direction, not only on its own lines, but from its connections, and it ienetrate8 the sections of North and South Carolina and Georgia which are occupied by cotton mills. The growth of cotton mills along the line is, perhaps, 'one of its most remarable features. Right through the hard times new mills have been going up, especial- y in Isorth Carhna. Its lines in Ken tucky; enable it to 'control its full share of the tobacco business at Lousville. and, in addition to this, it penetrates in every direction the country in which tobacco is grown, especially in the neighborhood of Oxford and Durham, in North Carolina, and along almost the entire length of the former Western North Carolina Railroad, which is now a part of its system. By wav of Au gusta and its connections to Florida it does a very large share of the garden truck; business in the Southeastern States: It is the most direct passenger ine from Washington to Atlanta and all the intermediate points, and also as short as anv line to Flordia. The old Piedmont Air Line, which is a part of the system, has long been famous. The properties embraced in the re organization had bonded and floating debts of about $135,000,000. This is now reduced to a bonded debt of- $94,- 000,000, including sufficient bonds which are reserved) to take up all un derlying bonds and all the bonds and stocks of the 491 mifes of leased rail road. The company will also issue about $6,000,000 :more bonds during the next two years, to purchase addi tional equipment and improve the pro perties, which will make the total bonded debt of all ..kinds $100,000,000. The plan of reorganization wisely pro vides that $30,000,000 of bonds addi tional (to be strung out through a series of years) may be issued hereafter only for the further development of the. pro perty.: The interest charges before the re organization were about $7,500,000 per annum, and sinking funds were about $600,000 to $700,000 per annum addi tional. The new company's charges are $4,100,000 for 1894, $4,700,000 for 1895, and $5,400,000 for 1896. The old company was always in such dire financial straits and had such large fixed charges thai it could not afford to spend. a" cent on the property -.-where such I expenditures could possibly be avoided, and in this way it really lost business. . Futhermore, its financial necessities led it to litigate all claims of shippers for lost or damaged - goods, such litigation in nine cases out of ten having for its object simply to procras tinate and delay payment, lhe new company, organized as it now is, can, of course, follow a different policy, and by fair treatment of shippers is sure to enlarge its business. Another interesting feature is that, notwithstanding the nominal control of the former East Tennessee; Virginia and Georgia ,and Richmond and Dan ville systems by the now defunct Ter minal Company, there was no actual control, and the two companies did not co-operate even in the ordinary inter change of business. The jealousy be tween the two was so great that they preferred to turn business over to some outside connection rather than . give it to each other. Another feature is the consolidation of the business organizations and the reduction of expenses at junc tion points where the Danville and East Tennesse have each maintained seperate organizations heretofore. In several of the Southern States, leg islation has been bitterly hostile, and it must be admitted that the .way these companies were conducted provoked such legislation. As a result of the re organization there is already a much better feeling in this respect, and it certain to grow as the community better served. r- The Discovery Saved His I.Jfe. Mr. G. Caillduette, Druggist, Beavers ville, 111., says: "To Dr. King's New Discovery I owe my life. Was taken with La Grippe and tried all the physi cians for miles about, but of no -'avail and was given up and told I could not live. Having Dr. King's New 'Discov ery in my store I sent for a bottle and began its use and from the first dose began to get better, and after using three bottles was up and about again. It is worth its weight in gold. We won't keep store or house without it." Get a free trial at P. B. Fetzer's Drug Store. . Nobody is ever awakened by the preaching of a man who 13 himself half (voivc. ...:'.:.. TO THE CREDIT OF DEMOCRACY .Congressman Sic (Dreary Reviews the Work Which. Congress pas Done- . Washington, Aug. 21.- James B, of the Foreign McCreary, Chairman Affairs Committee, TA. i l ... . .1 . and i one of the Democratic leaders of the' House, in ! reviewing the work of the Il0ue during the present session of Congress, said to a representative of the United Press to- ;aay "The -House has passed more good bills and enacted" more important legis lation than any of its predecessors in ten years, or any with which I am familiar, and I have been watching the course of legislation for twenty years. The repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman Silver act was of immense importance to the whole country. .We were in the midst of a financial panic "when the President called Congress to gether, and after the repeal of the bill the panic 6eemed to be checked. When the Senate passed it and the President approve it the monetary condition of the country improved and bank failures ceased, "Then a bill was passed repealing the odious Federal Election law, dispending with Supervisors and Marshals at the the polls and wiping from the statute books all statues which menaced the freedom of the ballot box. "There has been, important legislation reclaiming about 50,"000,000 acres of public lands given by Republican Con gresses to railway corporation, and which under the terms of the various acts, have not been held sacredly for ; actual settlement, and should never have been given to corpora tions. .. "The Chinese Exclusion bill, ' which saved $8,000,000 by providing legisla tion which the Chinese accepted, rather than be deported; the bills to give effect to the Bering Sea awards, which regu lated our sealing interests in Bering, and the Hawaiian resolution, sustaining the President in withdrawing from the Sen ate the annexation treaty which requir ed our Government to pay $3,500,000 for the Hawaiian Islands, are among the good and important measures pass ed by the House. ' "The Tariff bill is not as sweeping and as comprehensive as I desired, but it is the best tariff-reform bill since 1857. when a Democratic Congress amended the Walker Tariff bill of 1846 by reduc ingtariff rates to an average rate of 18 per cent. It should be remembered that the Republican Party has by its record shown that is a high protection narty, because when it came into power the average rate of luty-was 18 per. From 1862 to 1866 it raised this rate to an average rate of 40 per cent. ; in 1883, to 41 per cent. , and it reached its culmi nation in 1890, when the McKinley bill was passed fiixing the average rate at a fraction under 50 per cent. 'The new Tariff bill places wool, salt, lumber, farming machinery, cotton ties, cotton bagging, binding twine, and a nuraber of other necessary articles on the free list. The dutv on woolen goods and clothing has been reduced from an averaee rate of 98 per cent to 48- per cent., and millions of dollars annually will be saved to the people on clothing and woolen goods alone, and the aver age rate under the new Tariff bill is 66 per cent., as against an average rate of 50 per cent, in the McKinley bill. The sugar bountyr" amounting to $12,000,000 annually, has been repeal ed, and, from my standpoint, the tax of 2 per cent on incomes is a just and woner tax, and will make hose people who have grown rich under the iniquitous legislation of the Republican Party pay their part of Federal taxation Congress had to raise $30,000,000 an nually in addition to the amount already provided for to pay the necessary expen ses of the Government, and this could come only from increased tariff taxa tion or from a tax on incomes. And I prefer the latter. The passage of the bills enabling Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona to come into the Union are good bills. ' 'I am sure business will begin reviv ing, now tnat tne tanii bin nas become a law. Confidence is always necessary to prosperity. There has been a want of confidence for many months, but with the repeal of the three great and important acts passed by Republicans, to wit, the purchasing clause of the Sherman bill, the McKinley Tariff bill and the Federal election laws, and the feeling of security that always comes after such important legislation nas Treed unon. in mv opinion it is certain to start business into the old channels, i Money is plentiful, the crops are good, and, with returning confidence, there must be returning prosperity. : "The expenses of the Government have been reduced -t this session of OonsTess in everv denartment, and the aggregate appropriations are Stb.UUU, 000 less than at the last session of Con- cress and $51,000,000 less than in the second session of the Reed Congi Pension reforms also have been inaugu rated, whereby fraudulent claims are being dropped, and pension appropria tions have been reduced over $q0,00O, 000. "Indeed, I may say, 'We have fought a good fight' we have finished the course, we kept the faith. ' We have done enough for one session. WV will go on with the good work when Con gress meets again." A Generous Wife. TheTiusband Well, dearest, did ycu get your hat? The wife (just home from shopping' Yes, darling; and its a beauty, and, lust think, it cost only $22. 1 am ever so much opliged to you for the money, and for your kindness I have bougt you a new necktie. It is "very pretty, isn t it? " , ' The husband It is, indeed darling What did you pay for it ? . The wife blushing) It isn't the cost that makes the thing valuable, you know, but the spirit in ' which it given. It cost 17 cents. is Henry Ward Beecher gave utterances to a beautiful thought when he said As ships meet at sea, a moment togeth er when ; words' of greeting must be spoken, they away in the deep, so men meet m this' world: and 1 thinlc we should cross no man's path without hailing him and if he needs, giving him supplies." THE BEST THING TO DO. New York Herald- - And let ns consider one another to provoke onto ' love and to good worltB. Hebrews, x 21- : . j - The man who thinks only of himself i and is forgetful of his obligations to1 others doesn't count for much eitlier in ! this world or the next A Tihrelv selfish man who wants v. r"TT f Vl i r Cr anri rri-i?AQ rvYir,r llirno 5.' I . I suburbs of purgatory and will not have far to go when he dies. . To recognize your rights and ignore your duties is to pursue a policy which angels deplore and devils rejoice at God can use a man to the best advan tage when the soul which ig prone to selfishness evicts its tenant and makes room for the occupancy of heavenly visitants. The man who seeks for this world's goods exclusively, whose chief posses sion is a bank account, will . find him self out of place in -heaven, a stranger in a strange land. Money is a good thing to work for, but it isn't the only thine, nor the best thing, It is not well to despise money, but yon should remember that while it will buy neither character nor happiness. Unless you generously share it with those who are unfortunate it will make you narrow and mean. The most pitiful spectacle that eve ever looked upon is the man who has more than he knows wha.t to do with, but refuses to give his surplus to keep the wolf away from the door across the street. , The noblest men are those who give, not those wrh.Q keep, and there is more satisfaction in seeing a poor man's child eat bread which vou have fur nished than in sitting at your own table when plenty abounds, if you ignore the poor man's children and let them go hungry. v True religion is a very simple mattw. You can get along without doing- goadi to your lellow creatures, wjjq need your help. The world is full of sorrows and struggles. Tears fall like showers and sighs fill the air as when the wind sweeps through a forest of pines. Those who-suffer are part fpt the family to which you belong. You have no right to be indifferent. To be neglectful is a crime. If you can lend a helping hand, but refuse to do it on the ground that you wish to use hbth hands for yourself, you lose an opportunity which Proyidence has presented, and you will have difficulty in explaining Vour con duct when the hour of reckoning comes. Doing good to others is the best way to get a blessing for yourself. You will find the strongest proofs that the religion you believe in is from God if you will cease studying the the ology whieh is in books and devote an equal time to God's poor in your neigh borhood. When a man gives cheer to another's the angels mysteriously put cheer heart into his own. It is right and proper to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread," but God asks a price for His answer, and that price is that you shall give some one else a share of the bread He gives to you. If you are suffering from an affliction what will you do ? How shall you seek relief ? By asking God to lighten your burden ? No; by doing what you can to lighten the burden of some equally troubled soul. If you bring a smile to the trembling lips of another, you will soon discover that a smile is alighting on your own lips like a butterfly on a flower. Would you increase your faith? Would you dissipate your doubts? Would you convince yourself that life is very well worth living, even when the shadows throw their gloom on your path ? Then visit those who are wearily plodding along, hopeless and friendless. You will find yourself stroriger by for getting yourself and saying a kindly word to some poor creature who would think he was in heavenly surroundings if he lived under your roof and enjoyed your advantages. . V hen you are in the presence of tne Lord, who was Himself poor and op pressed, and who so lonely that he knelt in Gethsemane to ask for help, you will be poorly off if you have nothing better to say than that you accepted all the creeds of the Church and kept your-' self unspotted from the world. But you will be well off if you can assure Ilim that you kept some one else un spotted from the world at great pains and sacrifice. Love God, love your , neighbor, obey the command, "Feed my lambs," and you will get a warm welcome at the end of your journey after death. It is not what vou believe, but what vou do, that will entitle you to a resi dence in the New Jerusalem. You may be worth a million but if vou nave done nounng to maxe uie world better you will (he a' beggar You may be counted among the noor. but it vou nave been a orotner to your fellow men a group of angels gath er about bed and usher you with songs into the presence of Him who said 'The first shall be last, and the last first." No one yet loved God acceptably who did not love bis children. There is no room in the house not built with hands for a soul that has not made some sacrifice for others. If vou love your kind and manifest that love bv generous deeds it will be but a step from your grave to Heaven Cure for Headache. As a remedy for all forms of Head ache Electric Bitters has rroved to be the very best. It effects a permanent cure and the most dreaded habitual sick he idahhes yield to its influence. We urge all who are afflicted to procure f bottle, and give this remedy a fair trial In cases of habitual coustiimtion Elec trie Bitters cures by giving the needed tone to the bowels, and few cases long resist the use of this medicine. Try it once, P. B. Large bottles only- fifty cents at Fetzer's dug Store. Col. Breckinridge having declared in a speech that he has "been living in hell for ten years," the Louisville Post protest against his representing a Ken tuckey district in Congress on the ground that he is a non-resident. Highest of all in Leavening Power.- n AMERICAN FARMER STATESMEN Where Once They Cut a figure, Lawyers . and Soldiers Now HqM the Call. 1 Farmers, in the early days of the re public were as prominent in the walks of statecraft and in the honors of office holding as lawyers are to-day. Eight of the original signers of -the Declara tion of. Independence doscribed them selves as fanners or planters. Among those were Eenjemin Harrison, of Vir ginia; Lewis Morris, of New York; Francis Lee, of Virginia, and William Floyd, of New York. The American statesman of that day made few claims to social prominence. Roger Sherman described hiinself as a shoemaker, William Whipf3fe of New Hampshire as a sailor, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania as a printer, and George Taylor of the same State as a foundryman. Nearly all of . the early Presidents were farmers, George Washington hav- j ing been educated as - a land surveyor and having inherited a large tract of land in Virginia. Madison, Jefferson, and Monroe had strongly developed ru ral tastes, and it was not in fact, until the large cities of the country, and more especially the large cities in the Northern States, absorbed so large a share of political influence that the law yers became as yxrominent as they now are. i In the present Congress lawyers pre ponderate, there being 58 lawyers to 1 farmer in the Senate, and 229 lawyers to 24 farmers in the House of Repre sentatives. President Cleveland was admitted to the bar in Buffalo in 1859. Vice-President Adlai Stevenson was ad mitted to the bar in Metamora, 111., in 1858. Secretary of State Gresham was admitted to the bar in Corydon, Ind., in 1858. Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle was admitted to the bar in Cov- L ington, Ky., m loos. Postmaster General Bissell was admitted to the bar in Buffalo in 1868, Secretary of the Navy Herbert was admitted to the bar in Montgemery, the Alabama capital, shortly before the war. Hoke- Smith, Secretary qf the Interior, was admitted to the bar in Atlanta, Ga, The only two members ., in 1872 of the Cabi are Secretary net who are not lawyers of War Lamont and Commissioner of Agriculture Morton But Mr. Lamont, if not qualified by parchment to prac tice law in-the courts, of this State is much better skilled in many of the in tricacies of jurisprudence than a great number of lawyers are, land his- advice and counsel have been repeatedly sought both by large corporate interests and by legislators It is a somewhat peculiar fact that Presidential candidates have with scarcely an exception been chosen by both political parties from the ranks of lawyers and soldiers. The Republicans had soldier candi dates in 1856, 1808, and in 1872 ; they had lawyer candidates in 1860, 1864, 1876, 1880,' 18S3, and 1892. Their one exception was 1884, when Mr. Blaine who was neither a lawyer nor a soldier, was nominated, but running on the same ticket with him was Gen. Logan. The Dchiocrats had soldier-lawer can didates for President in 1856, 1860, 1858, 1876, 1884, 1888, and 1862 ; they had soldier candidates in 1864 and 1880. Their one exception was 1872 when Horace Greely was the Democratic nominee Though farmer3 constitute the largest class of American , voting citizens they are usually represented in Congress or the Legislature bv lawyers, and few practical benefits have been 'derived by farming communities represented in Congress or olsewhere by actual agricul turists. The present tendency is ior lawyers to become mo'-e prominent in legislation than before, and for farmers to become less so. The devil probably loves a stingy man. A STRANGE CASE. How an Enemy was Foiled. Tho followin!? graphic statement vill he rrad with intense Interest: "I cannot describe the numb, creepy sensation thatexisted In my arms, hands-and logo. I had to rub and beat those parts until 1 Uey were sore, to overcome In a measure tho dead feeling that had taken in ari.-lii inn. I had a strango weakness ia rr.y 'acU- an.rt !l,round m? waist" together with na indescribable -gone' fcelins in my stomach. Physicians said it was ocpIn:i paralysis, from w Inch, accord ing to tlK-ir universal conclusion, tUaro is no relief. -Onco it fastens upon a person, they say. it continue, its inicl us pr until 5ra rnV lllnn doctoring Such was my prospect- -i hum -'-;,t a yoar and fiaii steadily, but with no p... ticuiar benefit, when I bsw an r'"vtr'1;i,n of Dr Miles' Kestorai.ive V,'"0' ,r it bottle and U-ran usin-r ii. Mars e o is m it maysopm.lutafo-.7diyshad pr -.t-d befoie every bit of lhatc.reeny fechl lad k-ftno. and there has not been cvrn ;..s si test indication of its .return, y.L nuw well as I-over: did., and La ; 0 PA ined tea pounds in' weight;, iiwukh i -from 170 to 137. Four .others have bl. Miles' Restorative Nervineon my rccomen cases as in mine."-James Kane, La hue, O. Dr. Miles Restorative Nervine is sold by all druggists on a positive guarantee, or sent direct by the Dr.Iile3 Medical Co., Elkhart, I , on receipt of price, fl bottle x bottles for 85, express prepaid. It lsree from osiates or dangerous druss. FOB SALE BT DHi h Pi GIBSON Goncordr N( -r .o. -j&si mz? f. Latest U.S. Gov't Report no mm PR0FESSI0AL ARDS oiier weir professional services to the citizens of Concord and vicinity. "All calls promptly attended day or night. Wfuce and residence on East Depot street, opposite Presbyterian church. '. C. Houston. Imm Mfixt CONCORD, N. C. Is prepared to do all work in the most Biirirnvnd Office over Johnson's Dru Store. W. J. MONTGOKEBY. J.'LEE OHO WELL Attorneys nil Counsellors at Lai CONCOED, N. 0 As partners, will practice lawin Cabar rus, Stanly and adjoining counties, in the Superior and Supreme Courts of the State and in the Federal Courts. Office on uepot street. Dr. J. E. CARTLAM Deist,' CONCORD, N. C. ' . . ., v Makes a specialty of filling vour teeth without pain. Gas, ether or chloroform used when dqsired. Fourteen years' e x perience. Office over Lippards & Bar . rier s store. ' St. Cloud Hotel BARBER SHOP CLOSED. Those crinicultural abscissionists. and cramological hair-cutters, and hydrc pathical shavers of beards, whose work is always pnvsiognomicallv executed who were doing business at the St. Of mid Hotel, are now in morecomfortabloarjd congenial quarters in the King block, opposite Patterson's store, near Iiitz's stand, where, with many thanks to'onr old customers for their patronage in the past, we will be glad to wait on them' iu the future, and as many more as are de sirous of having good work done in oui line are cordially invited to give" us a tiial. Satisfaction gnaranteed.' Coolest place in town i ; MONTGOMERY & WARREN. PATTERSON ISMl ME W. G. PATTERSON, Proprietor. Situated four miles South of fJliolby, on C. O. and C. 11. K., one-half mile from Patterson .Springs Station. Spend Yoar Snmmer Vacation AT ; pmn im sin The Prices Have Been Reduced to Suit the Hard Times. Fare and Attention is First-Class in Ev ery Respect. - In Full View of Blue Ridge Mountains, Historical King's Mountain. Open June the 1st. For further information, nddres?, GEO, B PATTERSON, -. Patterson Springs N. C. May 31, '94. and we can secure patent m less time uiao those 5 remote from Washington, cj -t.1 HratviiKT nr nnofo.. with 3escriJ- tion. We advise, if patentable r not, free of i charge. Our fee not due till patent is secured, i . .,,, "How to Obtain Patents," with i cost of same in the U. S. and foreign countries J sent free. Address, v , c OPP. PATEKt OmCE, WASHINGTON, D. W H. LILLY, M. U. B. L. MONTOOltKBr, K in lilly i mm. 1A ssJ tig m Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained, and all Pat- S ent business conducted for Moderate Fees. MORGAN'S IMPROVED CHILL TONIC SUPERIOR TO ALL OTHERS. It 4s a true Chill Care la combination with IJver Tonics. When properly taken it never fails to cure the most obstinate case of Chilla and Fever. Where others fail it will cure. It is pleasant to take, and contains nothing' to injure the most delicate system. Babies take -it easily. As a Totrfe it is without an equal. Gnaranteed by your druggist. ' ,. Price. 50 cents per bottle. . ' . ; .t - , VOSfiTA CO.. Cttattanoepa. Tenn. C1 . Gt3n. v X
The Concord Times (Concord, N.C.)
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