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Volume. XIII.
WTs ye?!5'L; A; DESPERATE EXPEDIENT;
just at an end, , and
A.j Oantab, t fnrth-
tosrethp.r -'wKlav ViJo
audience, chieily consistini?' of UK
TEe lecture was
to.atiXb .Walte DnnHni Ar-
ilp. aria afterward ; prepaijea ; to depart. The University ;
but recently . penetrated ;
rt-j , . 1
ii"1"" iuw nie remote trovnr i inn-n
'2 . c mt-T? T vfuvmcrai iown or
almost unprecedented eiiccp!!
twit I please, sleep' ""'"S 4U aoor Delore .the
1"
.mildly and . feel 4 " aoaeuioiy naa aisperscd, Dundas
ft'SU'd-uiiR-sa i over- -, urix ui uia tsiuueutay . eXCnanSf-
i o r k. I feel as 'ine greetings and farewella with some
Lung as. I did at 16 , whose acquaintance -he had mndivrW.
, . T 4.. -1 ' i - . w
f . T V ing nis lew SFeek8 .residence. in
Slurri-
the last' denartpfl - ho
turned on his heel and haying a Blight
sigh, betook himself to his hotel. - I
must have-missed .Miss .Clifford," he
uiuiierea,--stie was-certainly at the4
lecture. i wish I could have seen " her
k efore 1 left. New York,- just to say
good-by.j' - ,
; Meanwhile, the suujcct of Ins reflec
tions, a pretty,; bright-faced girl of
nineteen,, had arrived at her Jiome.
larg6, handsome house, in the principal
street of the little town. In the hall
uhe.met hei father. " -
'ICome into the study ; and shut the
door," he said. ? "I have something
ratheraerious to tell you.' The daugh
ter obeyed. " -
. "The fact is, -Mabel," said Mr. Clif
ford, "I have been;" as 'you may . have
noticed, - inpecuniary difficulties" for
some time past Some months ago, to
meet my more pressiug ;. claims I was
obliged to mortgage the house anl to
get a bill of sale on the furniture". But
.U l .." .
uiiuga uave gone irom baa to .worse, I
ana x Have just found -that,, unless I
can raise; '-i 300.within l two . months, I
shall be.ina fair way to become bank
rupt.' Your Uncle George is such'a
miser that if he', heard the "faintest ru
mor that I was in difficulties through
extravagance he wouldn'f leave me a
farthing far less, give me anything! In
factpit i3 partly on his account that I
am po anxious . to raise this money
quickly, for if I am gazetted before he
dieb (the doctor says he hasn't iwo
months to live) my name will be cut
bui of his will." - -
After a pause he said r '
'I wish, some rich fellow would come
and-marry you, Mab; that, would, pro
vide for you,, at least, and you might
be able to spare a few halfpence for
your poor old father."
Mabel laughed. "At least you could
have the wedding ; presents in that
cause," she said. " '7
Clifford suddenly stopped short in the
midst of his peregrinations. "The very
thing!" he exclaimed. - ,
; . f 'What do you mean?" V : ; -
f 'Quite simple." Send "out invitations
your wedding to some ": person, imagi
nary, if you like. ,Then,:when you
have got a fine array of wedding pres
ents well, the event can be postponed
sudden illness of the bndegroom
a ny thin g. Meanwhile, the presents are
converted into ready money. I am
once more solvent; " Uncle George
dies; they, presto f everything in a flour
isbing condition again!" -"V
: '.'But, father, think ! of - the-deceit!
Wbyi it would be like robbing people!"
'f Pshaw! We're desperate, and all is
fait in such cases. . Besides, r if every
thing does turn ' out, well r and Uncle
George's money comes to us all right,
why, then'we can get" the presents out
of pawn'and return them-r-engagement ,
suddenly broken off .you know. What
objection can there Be to that?"
. '"But the. whole scheme is so prepos
terous. So, father,- I realty can't do
itf','- ... SfJ -v-;;is CtC -v::
"So, you wan't even do that little
service for me? Well, ! might have ex
pected it! Here am I, toiling and slav
ing all these yearss' (Mabel looked
slightly incredulous)- v den ing my
self, paying sweet guineas for your-fees
to local lectures, and this is all the
thinks J get." J :-'
!' I . was at the last to-day," said his
daughter, coloring slightly. v-.:
; 'The last! i Then that lecturer fellow
what's " his name?-3)undas, has
gone?' Look here Mabel!. Let him be
the bridegroom, "lle'il never hear it
he's not likely to ever come back again,
and it will seem much more natural for
you to be engaged to him than to - a
stranger. .There! I flatter myself that
I haye" made a really brilliant-suggestion."
"Father, I must telf you plainly,"
8aidJMabel, flushing angrily. "I de
cline to have anything to do with the
plan." .' . ' -""""Now,
Mabel dear," he said m a
more wheedling tone, "you will be sen
sible, won't you? Surely you can't see
me tremblipg on the brink of ruin like
this, and not stretch out a hand, to help
me! Come, now!" '
Poor Mabel looked irresolutely before
her.- -
"If I could do anything else," she
said entreatinglyi- ?'But a deceitful
thing like that and think of the ex
posure if it should come out!"- i
"No fear of it coming : out, if only
you act your part properly," returned
her father, quick to detect the signs of
yielding in her tone, "And, after all,
it's only for a month: or two at most.
Ihere, I knew you would be sensible.''
,- "But I don't like it at all."- -'
' 'Pooh' You'll soon get accustomed
to it. And now to set, about prepara
tions for carrying it out. I - think, as
we want the thing widely r known, we
Cannot do better than give a - hint to
Miss Worboise, and let nature doits
Wfork.".:: x . ,
; Mabel quite recogmied the truth of
this assertion; for Miss Cynthia Wor
boise, a maiden lady of uncertain age,
and a near neTghbor of theirs, had. a
well-merited reputation for gossip, and
was frequently made use of by her
friends as an asy means 'of: spreading
it! . She, ; threfore, lasseented languidly
to the proposal. - .
"Then that's settled, and I'll drop in
njvself after dinner to-night and tell
her. ' We'ir fix. the wedding for this day
seven weeks, and' who knows what may
happen between this and then? There,
my love, I knew . you would soon get
rjconciled to the idea."
T5.it Mabel was very -far in reajity
r Kpui reconciled to it; and as she
lift the. Btnrlv she felt -her heart rise in
bitter revoit-against it. But what could
fihdo? She had -always been accua-
i tomed to obey her father in everything,
.y.-
brinciriw
into it of Dundas'a name."
though'tof it, her chepk
At the mere
were aved
tfie
feCtiiuS tuu m ji maae.
iicaiiy iranc, .
. However, 8he had asreed to th
and it was i too late to draw, back now.
Ihe only thing- left for her to do was :
w Vh- uvnvu. as weu as she could
ior tne many . unpleasant interviews
which, she foresaw, would- have to be
gone through, '
-; True to his resolution,- Clifford sallied
forth that night to the gossip-monger
and returned in high glee at the manr
nerin which-- his plausible story had
been received "
: ' 'Miss Worboise was delighted," he
said, fStnd consulted me immediately
as to what I recommended for a pres
ent. She is coming round to-morrow,
morning to talk it over with you, so
mind . and prepare yourself -for .any
emergency." - ; ,?'.
Mr. Clifford had not miscalculated
when he said that it-would be quite un
necessary to do more than tell the news
to Miss Cynthia. In less than a week
the whole town was discussing the-en-gagement,
and . Mabel, had received
calls of congratulation from- all her
friends. "Her father, flashing to hurry
up matters, had fixed a day some six
weeks hence, and had sent out dainty,
silver-written invitation cards to their
whole circle. -,
'As he expected, on their being sent
out a.stream of presents, steady enough
to realize hi most sanguine -hopes, be
gan to flow in,, and he more than once
congratulated himself and his daughter
on ihe success that had v met - their
scheme. -
Mabel,-however, had often great dit
ficulty in explaining away some discrep
ances which did arisein 8pite" of her
care. . ." ' ) ' '. y " "r
... Time passed, till at last but one week
remained before the date fixed for the
eventful ceremony, , Mr. Clifford" had
just been consulting Mabel as to" the
propriety of announcing the sudden in
disposition of 1 the bridegroom, - when.
Miss Worboise paid her usual morning
call."--
"Oh, Mab, darling;, you didn't tell,
me, but I knew you would like to talk
it over, so I calledin early Naughty
man ! - to combine business with pleas
ure like this ? .
l'What do you mean ?" asked Mabel,
with apprehension. - . . J,
' You know as well as I. 1 really
wonder you let him.- It's hardly re
spectable." - , . -
"What is hardly respectable ?" the
girl asked, jihorrible fear seizing her-
"Why, of cour?e, letting him lecture
here the very day before the marriage.
Didn't yon know? but of course you
did-he has promised to give an extra
lecture to supplement his course! ; ;
"Oh, yes I. know,", saidpr rather
gasped -Mabel. -"Of . course I have
rather a headache this morning, and
would you excuse me ?" - -r'
Mis3 Worboise, of course, took the
hint and left with many expressions, of j
regret, while Mabel sought her i father. 1
"Vhat shall we do ?" she panted.
"He is coming here 1 before he crosses
the Atlantic actually . here in five
days he must hear of it and I I
shall die of shame ?" -
: ; "It; is deuced awkward, " said Mr.
Clifford, r perplexed; " ,"but never mind:
I've brought you into . this mess, ana
I'll get you out. " Now, . see here. I'll
wife at opce and get him to dine and
stay the night- with us in fact, we'll
keep him entirely - to ourselves, and he
won't get a hint of it. In the 'morning
he'll leave by an early train rw6 can
say his mother has suddenly been tak
en ill. ., There tsn't that all right?!1'- .
Mabel 7 assented, doubtfully. Noth
ing could be done now except wait and
hope for the best -V - . C CC
Mr DundaSi duly invited, wired his
acceptance; and on the appointed day
was met at the station and" conveyed
home by ' Mr. Clifford. " Nabel awaited
his 'arrival , with a beating heart, and
could hardly hide her contusion on first
meeting: him". When 5 o'clock', the
hour appointed for his lecturer arrived,
she professed herself slightly ? unwell,
and Dundas found himself, to his dis
gust, -relegated to the care of her father,
who received strict, injunctions from
Mabel not to allow the lecturer to inter
change greetings with any one. t '
"They might congratulate him ,.?"
she ' said. "How very awkward that
would be!" ' '
Dinner passed off without - mishap.
Matel . was : shy , and constrained and
spoke little; but as Clifiord was in high
spirits at the success with which every
thing had passed of, and kept the" con
versation" chiefly in his own; hands, his
guest did not "notice the Unusual .preoc'
cupation of his daughter; . -
-But, alas? the best laid scheme may
fail sometimes. No sooner were , the
three established in the drawing room
than the door bell rang sharply, and a
few moments later, the servant an
nounced "Miss Worboise !" ;. -
Poor Mabel gasped and turned pale!
The had no time, however' to say any-"
thing, for Miss Worboise ran forward
exclaiming: " "Oh, Mabel, my darling
what do you think ? ; My cook has had
a fit postively a fit. I left ' her with
her head in the kitchen coal box 1 The
doctor is expecttd every minute, bat I
couldn't stay such a scene you know!
I am so upset ! Might I spend an hour
or two with yon?"
' Mabel nearly distracted managed at
last to welcome the very . unwelcome
guest, and then sat down on thorns
waiting in a kind of despair for Lwhat
she might say. ' - . -
"I knowJ? said Cynthia, archly, .
"that it is rather an inconvenient time
time to call. You most be so very busy
-such a lot of preparations as you must
have to make before to-morrow, haven't
you, Mr. Dundas ?" ' " .
T ? ' No.'? said Mr. Dundas, rather
snrnrised. . "I
really have no ,packingr
to speak of, and that's done already, as
T am "leavinar by an early train."
'An early train ? put surely -you'
won't miss the-receplion ! A
"Good eracious. thought the young
man "are! thev -cettinsr a - levete- for
me? But aloud-he only. said Well,
I'm ' afraid ' I - fihall, : unless it s very
early.'
"Which reminds ' me
said Miss
CONCORD, N. .C. THURSDAY, DECEMBER
We affi PJrnppi(i trv
horror,. She produced from hr . rmrferf
herrdainty invitation card. ;
- "Uon found that woman t' t"hir',
Clifford, - Bavagely, and then. Wtg
up,, ne exclaimed eagerly: 'See here.
iv ssflvnthla- T must V,o Vvn.'nn:n:M
-'next . oom, " and .rather against her
will, hurried out of the room' 'but not
;4ef6r h, saw" that th w,.K8
wa?
done, for Dundas had stooped politelr
to pick up the card which had ' fallen'
from Mabel8 nervous baud; an in do:
ing so could not avoid -seeing'what it
was. His name on the card arrested
his attention; ,and hq read it through,
scarcely realizing ft 's meaning,- Then,
too amazed to'speak," he looked toward
Mabel for an explanation; but seeing
her.paleTand'speechlcs, sprang toward
her, fearing she -was about" to faint:
His touch j however; 'recalled herto'her
self, andy waviug him back : with an ef
fort, she rose and faced him. : -VYou
.had'better ."know the"-whole,J'
6he said..-and then' -as calmly and cof
lectivelv'os she could, she told the hu
miliating story. " '. . V ' " t '
. JJalf an hour later Mr. Clifford re-entered
the drawing rbom a telegfam "in
his hand. . lie stood for 'a moment on
the threshold, and then, advancing,
said: ' ; L,-, - '
you all, Mr.- Dundas? ..She is not to
blame ' in the matter," butI feel I owe
you a deep apology for the unwarranta
ble liberty I have taken, with your
name. Mabel,": he continued,, turning
to Jbis daughter, '.'I canjiever reriiyyou
for the service you have rendered m&-
arid the suffering. you h a ve""undergone .
But this telegram tells me Uncle George
is ' dead,, and us Tarn his heir we can
now. at least stnd back the wedding
presents." i
"With your , permission, Bir," said
Dundas, .smiling, "Mabel and T have
decided to keep them." .
;: . Silver as a Legal Tender. ,
Atlanta Journal. - - '
; The' Journal has received the follow
insj inquiry: . - . -.
"Will , you please 6tate through the
columns of your valuable "Daner . the
amount for which the silver dollar is
legal tender, as the deciaion has been
left to' you i kindly state the limit,'"- if
any,-and that alone'." :
The . Journal has stated time and
time-again that the standard silver dol
lar i3 au unlimited legal "tender and we
are surprised that there, should be' any
contention about-this ' question j; - ; ".
'The law which fixes the value of the
present standard silver dol'ar was passed
February 2S, 1878, and reads as follows:
,: 4Be it enacted 'etc, That there shall
be coined, at the several mints of the
United States, - silver dollars of the
weight of four hundred and twelve and
a-half grains troy of standard silver; as
provided in the ; act of ' January the
eighteenth, eighteen hundred thirty-,
seven, on whichs-Ahall I be the'-devices
and sunerscrintions 'provided bv said
act; (D '. whifcli coins together with " all
silver dollars iheretbfore ' coined by the
United States, of like weight anctfine?
ness, shall be legal tender," at' their
nominal value, for all debts and dues,
public and private, . except where other
wise expressly stipulated in the con
tract." The silver-dollar is, of course; a legal
tender for any amount, except in cases
where the contract specifies otherwise,
tnough we believe thev distinguished
statesman who misrepresents this district
in congress in his speech at the . Griffin
convention spOke ofa time,.when"
this dollar would - be made' a full legal
tender. " ; " v; .T: :.''- '" ;rv!i -'
Froportlou ot Values - Between Oola ana
;': Silver Is a Mercantile Problem, -y. '
When ..our mint was .csfablished )u
1792 and was about to te opened to the
free coinage of both mc(nlsi(ne - main
.question was What hall the ratio te?
All agreed that it must be-the commer
cial ratio.. -Hamilton, in his celebrated
report on the establi&Lmeat of the mint,'
Said," There can hardly be a better rnlo
in any country for the ' legal than the
market proportion" Thomas Jefferson
said:- 'Jnst principles will lead tis to
disregard legal ;proportions altogether ;
to inquire into market prices of gold in
the several countries with which we
Bhall be connected in commerce, and to
take advantage of them. The proportion
between the values of gold and silver is
a mercantile problem altogether.." And
so they made the mint ratio 15 to 1 ,
which at that time was the commercial
.ratio. Besides, certain powerful commer
cial nations,' among them England and
France, were atiliat. time coining both
tmetals free at practically the same ratio.
How different the situation now when
the commercial ratio is 82 to 1, and the
mints of all the commercial nations are
closed against the free coinage of silver.
- Ct-rtainly there is no precedent of any
country, cr of any combination of conn
tries, by mere acts of legislation dou
bling the value -of the world's entire
stock of silver bullion and.coin.- Yet to
raise the ratio from 82 to 1 to 16 to 1
would bo. to double the value of the
world's entire silver stock, for the price
of,silver is-fixed in the markets of the
world and is practically the same in all
countries. Firman Smith in New Or
leans Eicaytme. - - - - -
' - r
"Mr. Ilawbaw," began the landlady
severely, "it is - ray earnest desire . to
keep my . boarders as' long as I can,
butU" "But ha f ha I Mrs. Hash-
ley' chuckled the humorous boarder,
"von do not reaHv ; keen them' long-r
you keep them, so thin that they look
much longer than they actually are.
Te-hee " "That will do; Mr. Haw-
haw," interrupted the landlady sternly,
f 'Time-and again I have kept silent and
permitted what you fondly imagined to
b9 witticism' to go unrebuked, but after
you have gone so far as you dicL this
myntnra. in InnITtf ronHOBtinfl. triA Rpr-
ant to-, Dring yoa 8ome capsules in
which to take" the butter, you must
either pay one dollar more per week for
your, board or hunt another roof. 'That
is. my ultimatum, Mr. Hawhaw--gov-ern
yourself accordingly." ,.. t . .
Nearlv everyone needs a good tonic
lat this season.' Hood's SarsapartUa is
1 the one true tonic and purifier.
'MONEY AJfli BANKING.
aa jcxeeiieni iToatise on tbe seaeM9b
- Money by Horace White. - - t.
One ofhe most complete worke of its
kind ever-pTrblisbed-iu this country is"
'Money sand Banking, " by Horace
White. , It is both historical and philo
sophical, and because ot logical arrange-
ment ci - subjects and topics, incidental J
definilions and explanations of, word3
and . terms" used, and wide fcope eiiir
bracing discussions of nearly. every kind
of money and banking -system tried or
proposed--it is .as well adapted, for the
use of college stnden.ta and general read
ers interested -in economic Subjects as
for professors and experts, on financial
questions. A.qnatatfon",f rom Mr. White's
preface will give an idea of tb latest
and very timely work on money:
'Or) the,2oth of: February, 18C3, the
government of the United States made
its paper evidences of deb legal tender
between individuals.- The nation was
thus sent" upon the wrqDg road, and has
been tojIing in a wilderness ever since
In "addition to the injustice which it
wrought, the le?alteuder act filled the
public mind -with misconceptions and
delusions on the subject of money. So it
came to pass -that although we adopted
irredeemable paper. with tbagreateet re
luctance we wero-wiliing to flonnder in
it44 years af ier the supposed necessity
for it had passed away. Then, partly by
design, "partly :. by chance, we resnmed
specie payments, but thepeopli Bad to
a large extent lost - sight of -the funda
mental principles of money. The mis
conceptions, and delusions remained, the
most dangerous and widely prevalent
being the- notion that mere quantity in
a desirable '.thing, and; that the govern
mientcan produce quantity and ought toV
. 'It is the "aim of this work to recall
attention tb first principles. For this
purpose it has been deemed best to be
gin af the beginning of civilized life on
this continent and to treat the subject
Historically The science of. money is
much inueed of something td enliven
it. . If anything can make it attractive
it must be the story of. the struggles of
our ancestors with the-same problems
that vex us.' The" reader will find an,
abundance') of tbe.se in the,- following
pages."! Indeed a complete and correct
theory of mcney might be constructed
from the events ad experiences jhat
have taken ;p!ace on-the American con
tinent, oven if we had.no other sonrces
of knowledge. This may.be said Of the
science cf bunking also. All the wisdom
and all the;folly"cf the ages, as to these
two relate subjects, have been exploit
ed on our thcres withirrthe space of lees
than S00 years."
. Mr White-believes that it was a great
mistake for the government to engage
in the banking, business and that the
normal and proper business of the treas
ury is the cjollecting and disbursing of
public revenue. He sees but little pros
pect ef . banking .ind other reforms or
even' for - elear thinking on currency
questions nntil we retire .and cancel
the legal tender notes and restrict the
treasury ta the' duties for -which it was
originally and solely designed. . -'"
Sain Houston's Busy Day.
Knoxville Journal. ' ,
In the days of General Sam Houston
dueling was much more common than
now.
After removing t' Texas General
Houston happeaed-to give off ense 16- a
political opponent, who felt . his honor
disfigured, to-such- an " extent ; that" he
sent a challenge to Houston. The bearer
of : the challenge was . received with
courtly civility. -He handed the written
challenge j to General Houston, who
read it, and . taking , up -his pen . wrote
something, across the back of tne folded
paper" anq placed it in a pigeonhole of
tusaesk. file then went on to enter
tain 4he bearer of the challenge with
the pleasant conversation" for which he
was ; notea. Atter a time the iman
began to grow impatient, and remind
ing the General of the challenge, asked
him u he wa3 going to reply. '. .
."Oh,yc8,".8aid Houston 'Tm going
to reply.'
- "Well, are you going to accept ; the
challenge of my fnend V
-"Certainly I will accept it.", . - .
"Will you fix- the date for to-morrow?"
1 , "
. "No, not to-morrow." ': ,
' "Next day?" ' I- , 4 , -.
"No, nor the next day, either."
V Well, will you fix a date ?"
"No, I jam not able-to fix a date.
You 6aw me number your fnend's'note:
it is No. 49 .--There are forty -eight other
blanked scoundrels ahead of your friend
and I must take them in turn. As
soon as I have killed th&n off I will at
tend to yqur friencJ, but hewill.have to
wait until! his tun) comes. "V-
, The bearer of the challenge bowed
himself out, but of course his friend's
turn nevefr came4 and it is not probable
that be was anxious for it to come.
A' great manufacturing company- in
Massachusetts recently paid . their work
men on Saturday evening seven hundred
ten dollan bills, each bill being marked.
By the following Tuesday, four hundred
and ten of -, these marked bills were de
posited in the bank by the saloon keep
ers of the town,v- Four thousand and
one hundred dollars , had passed from
the -hands of workmen on Saturday
night and Sunday, and left them noth
ing., to . show for this - great sum - but
headaches and poverty in their homes.
Well might these men cry out to the
State: "Save us from ourselves !" and
their helpless wives and phildren: "Save
us from our husbands and fathers on
the Lortl's Day at least." Father Mc-
Sweene, in Catholic World. - -
Make Yourself Strong.
If you would resist pneumonia, bronchitis,-
typhoid ; fever, 1 and persisted
coughs ana olds. These ills attack the
weak- and run down system. -They can
find no footholds where the blood in
kept pure,- rich and full of vitality, the
appetite good - and digestion vigorous,
with Hood's Sarsaprilla, ? the one true
blood purifier." , . - ." - .
. The Atlanta boarding-house keeper
now has an excellent opportunity to get
even for the fence-rails that were burned
and the hen-roosts that were raided
bacjs ia the sixties. ,-'
5, 1895..
TOOTBAIX"
'St it'
Nashville Christian Advocate. . .
It iB often the fact that when relieious
papers alone raise an outcry against any
particular epott or pastime the - reply -is
made that they are guilty of narrowness
and Phariseeism. "X In the case of foot
ball, however,: Nothing of this sort is
possible.: -The" game -has been con
demned mnre vigorously by -the leading
secular journals than: by ?. the religions
press. The New - York - Evening Post,
which' represents ; the I broadest intelli
gence and the best cultivation .-. of the
country has led a regular campaign
against it. - The advocates of the eame
were long ago put: upon the defensive.
in view of the brutalities ' which Tiave
accompanied it they . have 'found it
necessary to explain add" tor apologize.
Time and again they have assured the
public that such an alteration had been
effected in the rules as to do away with
the most objectionable features of the
sport. Our own observation, leads us to
the contrary conclusion. Not longer
ago than last week a match game was
held between two of the leading uni
versities of the South; As it went for
ward it became manifest, so thepress
dispatches -say," that it would - be
necessary to disable one of the leading
players, in order to defeat his team.
And this was actully attempted with the
most reckless savagery.- The player - in
question was "slugged!.' right and left,
and was . finally kicked in the face:
Whether there is anything manly or
noble in a game which tolerates n in
famy of this sort, we leave our readers to
aay. The secular papers inform us that
one of the . teams alluded to went
home' on Sunday evening afier having
traveled the greater portion of the day,
and that it wa met af the.raUroad sta
tion 300, feUbw-students whose voices by
made the air of - the f holy day; reson
ant with ' incessant . repetitions of ! the
"collegeyell." In perfect kindliness, of
spirit, wevbeg the authorities of our
colleges and universities to put a stop to
these tMngp.;That the resultirf Jthem
wfll be permanently :deleterisus cannot
be doubted for moment,-. It. is not
worth while to tell us tnat scholarship
ana character can be promoted by ucb
performances." 3Ve profess to know
something about ,the students life,: and
we. are sure thatno :- young, man who
spends a large pait ef his'ltime in athr
letic8 can do the workwhich is necessary
to be done in folly mastering an- exten
sive curriculum. This "statement would
be true, even if nothing'' were to be said
against ihe character of the. athletics;
it is much more true when " the whole
drift and tendency of them is in the
wrong direction. ..-', "
'-:, Coiey's K3od Bod" Scheme.
- General Jacob S, Coxey of the late
army of weary walkers was- the badly
defeated Populist candidate for .gov
ernor of Ohia His : platform." was
"Greenbacks and Good Roads," and
he would have been, contest .with a
modest $500,000,000 of fiat enrrencyjfor
a starter; themoney' to be expended in
building good roads' throughout the
country. z j. ;
Has Statesman Coxey reflected on the
certain result of better joads? Will nut
improved facilities for getting to mar
ket mean cheaper transportation? Will
that not mean cheaper farm products?
And can ; it be possible ' that any , true
Populist favors a -scheme which will
make things cheaper? , - :
" It must be a mistake. What the late
general really wants to. do is to tear up
all the roads now existing. :?s. This will
make things scarce and dear. Everything
will go up.- Even the chickens - will
roost high when the army of the com
monwealth is on the march.- The idea
that Coxey wants things cheap must be
a goldbug slander, for the burden of his
plea for free silver and greenbacks is
the complaint that prices are, now too
low.;
v North Carolina's MUisi
'iRAiiiGHANC.,iNovember28
liaieign m ews ana UDserver today issued
a. North, Carolina; mill edition. -The
data gathered shows North Carolina has
in operation 184 mills, 989,093 spindles,
24,642 looms,24, 825 operatives' and
M AAA a.
spinning azzzu rjaies - 01 cotton per
annum. It has invested in the cotton
mm lnauBtry io,iiu,bUU, ninety per
cent," (?f which is the capital of its own
citizens. . :-' . J- , 1 -
The annual consumption of cotton ex
ceeds the year's production of the state
by 40," 000 balra.- , , ""- , -"
The new mills now being erected, and
that will be in operation in 1896 will
run the number of spindles beyond one
rnillon, and the consumption next year
will exceed by more than , 40,000 bales
the production of the state. 5 " "
.The lecturer inquired dramatically,
"Can anyone in this room tell me of a
perfect man?',' - There was . a dead
silence.. Has anyone,'he continued,
"heard of a perfect woman?" Then a
patient-looking little woman in a black
dress rose up at the back of the audito
rium and answered: r "Therewas one.
I've often heard of her, but .she's dead
now. t She was my husba ad's - first
wife." " f " ' - k
' ' Certainly. "What more ' should
woman want?" be asked. "Is not tbe
world at her feet now V . "Of course
it - is," replied the sparp-nosed girl.
'You do not expect her to walk on her
hands, do you?'' j- - i - .. -:- .
u. - S v ,. .!; J,f :&::
. Dr. Thirdly : "When you go to bed
do you say the beautiful "hymn about
'If I should die before-I wake?" Little
Hypatia(f Boston): "O, no; ita verbal
inaccuracies i grate - upon - me. If ' I
Should die during sleep, how.' could I
wake?", - - ' - ! ...
' Tar Soy Won't Uvea Hoiiiii.
So Mr. Oilman Brown, of 34 Mill St,
South Gardner, Mass., was told by the
doctors. His son had lung trouble, fol
lowing Typhoid Malaria, and he spent
three hundred and seventy-five dollars,
who finally gave him up, saying:: "Your
boy won't live a month," He tried Dr.
King's New Discovery and a few bottles
restored him to health and enabled him
to go to work a perfectly well man. He
says he owes his present good health to
ihe use of Dr. King's New Discovery;
and knows it to.be the best in the world
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l4'GEKOCS rrVANClERLNa."
ft Coiaar of Stiver Wo Bid Brinff Cbaot
- J , to the Commercial eWorld , ;
If Substantial advantages were certain
to attend the establishment of the Silver
standard .in this'; country,-the damage
inseparable from' making" the change
would deter all prudent men from a step
potj unlike committing suicide as a
remedy for Illness. A gradual financial
changemight possibly be effected with
out damage, but a sudden and radical
change cannot, be made without enor
mous harm.'; The free coinage of silver
would banish the gold standard almost
immediately, and the dollar would drop
in ; few weeks, or" at the most a few
months, to about one-half of its present
value. So sudden a change would bring
the commercial world "-into a state of
chaos. '
- yet that very change is sought as an
unspeakable blessing by the silver men,
to whom the commercial world is an ag
gregate of a multitude of debtors and a
small number of creditors. A reduction
of the money unit would" scale down
debts, and- according to these theorists
would' afford , debtors a I happy release
and only injure a small number of men,
who would remain rich ; after the sums
due them bad been cut in twa " '
jEvery reflecting business man knows
what a caricature such a picture is. ; Al-
mcst all business is done on a greater or
less basis of credit, end very much of it
could hot survive anything more than a.
momentary suspension of credit. Any
financial change, or even i threat of it;
which would ' draw deposits, from the
banks would deprive them of the ability
to; extend credit and would bring no
small amount of business to anNabsolute
stop. It is only 2 years since we saw
this thing' happen. But in addition to
this ' the certainty that the value of the
dollar was to be ; at once redueed one
half would dry up every stream Of credit
Who would lend $1,000 to be repaid in.
a thousand half . dollars?-- Who would
lend $1,000 on the sold standard to be
repaid in $1,000 on the silver standard?
Wjere sues a change in the money unit
imminent there would be a hoarding of
money in every quarter, and loans would
only be affected on suicidal terms, which
would protect the lender from loss by
the change. - . . - -
Were there such, advantages in the
silver standard as its devotees imagine
itiis impossible for us to reach it with
out eausing a financial panic and a long
prostration of business beyond anything
wjehave" ever experienced, because the
business of the modern world cannot be
done without assuming obligations for
the future. Credit is absolutely essen
tial, and it is impossible without a con-;
spicuous : degree .of steadiness1. "fn; the
njonetaryjunit," the comrhon denonrf
nator of values, the measure of deferred
payments. Changes in prices can be es
timated, though even these ate some
times disastrous. A change in the value
of money from decade to decade, or even
from year to year, "within narrow limits
can be provided against, but a change
of one-half or even" one-fourth in the
value of money within a few months,
or perhaps a few weeks, is more than
business can adapt itself to. It means
ruin. Iron Age.- -.' - -
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Druggists. - - . " . '
j -"What is your name?" asked a teach
er of a boy. "My name is Jule," was
fiie reply: whereunon the .. teacher 1m
pressively said: "You should have-said
'Julius, sir.' And now, my lad," turnr
ing to another' boy, "what is your
name?" "Bilious," sir.""
The new Republican sheriff of Balti
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Will not consider an application-from
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. Mr. C. Hirhrod, of Lancaster, Ohio,
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Be sure that you get it. Always look for
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PROFESSIONAL CARQsX x-
W . UbLY It. ..-
offer their professional services W' the -''.".
citizens of Conoord and vicinity. - All
oaUs promptly attended day "or higbt.
Office and residence on Eas! Depot :
street, opposite Preebvterian church. - '
iJr.w. c. flpstoii, SHrEeoaDiuin
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Is prepared to do-all kind of' Dnta
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9fficeijer Johnson's Vraz Store. "
1. ',;..V -v. ' "- ':-'-'7-'v '
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Attorneys" and ConnsWiors at Lai-:
; CONCORD, N. C j. "
As pjutnersi will practice lawin Cabar.
rus,8tanly and adjoining eounties, - .
the Superior and Supreme Courts of the
State and in the Federal Courts. Office
on uepot tstraet . -, . . . . . - ,-
Parties desiriuff to lend monev put?
eave it with US er Dlace. it . in t InnnnTd
National Bank for us. . and we will lend
it on good real estate inrit,ir frp nf
charge to the depositor.
we .make thorough exaniination of
title to lands offered as secnlilv for
oans. r : ; i -
Mortgages foreclosed without exnense
to owners of same. ' . - -
MORRISON fl, CALDWELL.
"r-- Attorney at L& w, ' .
. - ? CONCOKD, N. C. -
Office in Morris
building, opposite
Juiv4 tf
court house. ?
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CONCORD N. C.
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rier's store. - : " ..
D;G;CALDWELL;M.D- ;
Offers his "professional servicee'to the
people of Concord and" vicinity.. Office -
in TeaiTof bank, Nirht call should be
eft at Mrs. Dr, Henderson's.'--. - '
Office Hours, 7 to 8 a. m..l to 2. and"-
7 to 8 p. m. Telephone call, No. 67. . -
Sept. 20,'94.-ly.': : ,
DR. M. HDLDEN.
w-'.'-X
- eclectic Physician,
COKCOBl. N. C, ' ' 1
Offers his piofesssonal service s to the
citizens of Concord, and vicinity in the
treatment of acute and chronic diseases.
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