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rHE CONCORD feLY TIMES JT 1 . ! 'II '"'!' - The most T,i Jely circulated paper .ver published in . ; Cabarrus, Richmond - - Rovyan, Montgomery," Davidson, Randolph, : Stanly, Anson and '!' Union Counties. HERE. IS. MOD EH ATE A Skin Disease In a Terrible Condition - Scrofula Sores with Took Hood's Sarsapai i!!a" and 13 ' Better jtharyforlo Years. "I bad a skin disease which was very troublesome. I . took a great deal of strong medicine which did not do me any good and I wasat lti3t obliged to give up. I was in a sort o'f stupor eomeof iha time. Scrofula sorea broke, out and I J could get nothing to do meany good. My daughter ! told ine of a wonnin vho was ativeted as I was and who found re lief in Hood's Sarsaparilla.-I concluded to try this medicine. At that time 1 w3 - In-a terriblfc condition with sores on n? head and body. The first few doses ct Hood's Sarsaparilla seemed to givo ne "relief, and in a short time the sores fce- ?;an to heal. 51y appetite improved and I elt like a new. -man.. I am now in better health than for 10 years." g. M. Ginka Wihnsboro, Fairfield Co., Little Uiver. South Carolina. . . -Renieniixr Hopd's Sarsnparlf! is the oest in ract the One True r.lcoj f Sold by all druggists, jl ; six t6f'$x True T.ico. ;iii -5,;vk'r :t.':.....virf. Hood's Pills cure Sick i-J fir?1 ftsew i subject to peculiar ilia. 'The right remedy . for babies' Ills especia'.ly J worms and stomaca disorders is r Frey's Vermifuge ) hf js cured children for 50 years. Send fur IIIua, book about the ills and Uio tv;ACl! V. On Kttinl!Ki for 35 cents. K. S. Fil-I, Baltimore, Hd. CABARRUS SAVINGS BANK. " . Capital Stock, $50,000. 'Collect ions a Specialty. Prompt Remittances Guarateed. We want your busir&ss howeTer email qr lafre. Interest paid on I time tlepoMts. jAs.c.gibson, Cashier. 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In tumps (or Mrtiealan, taUmMUaU u4 Relief for IadlM," Utur. by Fctura Vivi.lTS JnLiI(V.H4 Place. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM rjleaixes . sad beautifies th hale, . lnxuriftnt -STOWtA. Mever Fails to Bestore- Gray Hair to its Youtniui yoior. : ITU a hair UUioo. tne.andtWOat Prugglrtl j LUKtS VrKikt &i HSf Fill R. Best Couuh BrruD. Tatea Good. TJ? In time. PuUl br druciriKts. : , j 1 r I ID Volume XV. J . Sad memoriefl iorne over ua iatout this time.; The tocein of impending war j carries ua back thirty-seveu years, when j Georgia and the south everywhere was in a Btate of feverish excitement when the roll of drum and the thrilline; notes 01 me fife were heard in cities and towns and recruiting camps (and men. women anu cuiiaren an seemed to be wild with patriotic enthusiasm. Only "the aged men ana women were serious and sol emn and silently smothered their appre- L ' a. . . . uensions. Alter- trie state had seceded it was hardly safe for a man to talk f . r the union. .Here and there could t Jheard a bold, defiant roice'like that of retligrew, the great lawyer, who, when asked by a countryman the road that would leaa him to the lunatic assylum, exclaimed: "Anyroad, sir, every road, sir; all the roads, sir. Tne whole state is, one vast lunatic asylum." The war fever ia as coutagioua as the smallpox, and is ah epidemid for which there-is no cure but blood. April ia a historic .month. In April the first guns of the war were fired and Fort Sutoter fell nnd surrendered. In April President Lincoln called for 75,000 men to Suppress the rebellion. In April Virginia" seceded from the uuion, and General Robert E. Lee se ceded from bis allegiance to the United States armv and tendered bis sword to his state and the confederacy. In April President Davis telegraphed Gov ernor Brown . for three companies to march immediately to Norfolk, and in twentyfour hours a battalion was on the enrs and arrived there before the V ir- gima troops did. ; And, last of all, in April Lee and Johnston both surrender ed their, armies and the war was over. There is a world pi history, sad, thrilling and glorious history between the begin ning and the end. Who that was in it can furget u? It grows brighter and grander as the years roll on." No won der the surviving veterans wish to meet once more. For thirty years their glo rious deeds have been 'tossed about as treason and rebellion and a crime, but these old soldiers have never surrender ed their convictions nor felt ashamed of their sacrifice. Andjso let them gather in Atlanta in July and have oue more embrace and confederate again in mem ories of battles lost and battles won and hardships innumerable, aud at the last a sad but sweet return to home and iudred a home desoltted and a kin dred thinned by death- ! Every train brings news now news of kn pending war but we are- not ex-T cited like we were then. We remember j when there was j no telegraph wire to Rome and the daily signal came with the daily train frbru Kinston. If Wiley Harbin, the old: engineer, gave three long, loud, cheering whistles on his ap proach to town everybody waked up for good news and, exchanged greetings. 'Lee has whipped 'em again, was the watchword aud ;the"fpeople hurried to the depot to, meet thej train and get all the good of it. Two whistles from the engine was indifferent news ana one was bad and sad, but did not come of ten, for old Bob Lee and Stonewall whip ped them as often aa they got at them and would have: been whipping them yet if our boy children had grown 4ip a little faster. We almost robbed tha cra dle and the grave for soldiers, and even then got only ione for three foes. 1 shall always think they ought to have toted fair with us and fought us two to one instead of three don't you? I wouldn't have a pensfOn that took three to. one to win would your When 1 was a schoolboy1 I bad a fight with another boy and two of my friends club bed in. and f sorter helped me, ana l never felt so ashamed of anything in my ife.' . ' But old Georgia baa never discounted her gratitude to her soldiers or their wid- . . ' 1 1 owe. she is a long ways aneaa or ner eister states. Last year she paid more to them than all the other southern states combined-paid to theirs. Vir ginia paid to hers $140,000, -Alabama $116,000, North Carolina, $113,000, South GarolinaliOO.OOO. Florida $65, 000, Tennessee $68,000, Mississippi $75,000, Arkansas $42,000, Kentucky nothing and Texas $38,000, while Geor gia paid over $600,000. Now while we can boast of this, yet 1 am free to say and dare to say, for I am not a candidal for anything limited or unlimited, that . our j pension laws are not just -and heed reforming Georgia has , overdone the thing. Pensions should be -awarded to the needy, and the needy only. The grknd juries of the counties snould distribute the pen- soin iuna ana maice selection ui mc m 1 t t t i' .t llin poor soldiers and the poor .widows and be required toadd 25 per cent to the fund apportioned by the stale. txn- siGeiing the general uepreeoiuu, iue stale is paying loo much. It should be reduced at the. least joue-naii, anu lei the counties make up part of the defi ciency, wncre is ineufiice or iur propriety ,of paying a man $1UU a year vho is worlb flU.OUU or uy,uuu wuue many poor invalid soldiers who fought just as bard and endured just ns rnhch, but did not lose an arm or a Kg get nothing. I Beg that.h th Atkinson and Berut r, in their declarations, epeaK 01 lh3 rewards that were promised the sol diers. That is a mistake nothing was promised 11 of was anything expected. They fought for their couctry aud $10 a month and nard tack ana uacon or beef, and that was all they expected. The word pensions was not in their dic tionary. I know a widow whose hus band was killed at TJull Run and she d tea not need her pension and at first declined to receive it. but changed her mind and gives it all to widows who. . t:o0r1v,-- The crand juries of ths counties know who should le the bene ficiaries of the pension fund and i thev have to add 25 per cent to it tbey I.I h-n t-u refill to W& that it WHS fiOt TTUUJM ; iniaani.lied. It seems to me that h le.ik of at least $100,000 miht -to pedin this way, but as lam not a can didate, mavbe I don't know. Then there is another leak that needs stop f.intr Tne railroad commission should be reformed!. When Campbell Wallace nn Colonel Tramrnell and ham Bar nuii.iiMi 1..0W hold of it there was lots f -nrt i,i iio and it took nearly all their 'lime. But they built uf) nSe'em without having a guide or precedeent Tbey established ruleand regulations and these baye long since been recon J e.AoreA nnd readiusted. and are now i i i . - r : : : 1 ri ' . generally accepted and approved by the rauroaas ana the people. Now the commission has to meet Only once or twice a month and one competent man 00 cnairman ia all tht is needed. Col onel Tramraell. from his lone exnerienee. could run the whole business and this would saveOOO a year, besides the secretary's salary, which ia another thouBsfUdr If Colonel Trammell, or his successor needed any occasional help to ueciae new questions ho might call in tlje comptroller general and the secre tary of state, who would willingly serve ior noming pari 01 one day in a mpnth. school Commissioner Glenn has' that kind of help on his board and it costs the state nothing. Why can't we do that and save a leak of $16,000? Why not? I tell you, my longsuffering irienas, the government expenses have got to be cut down in some way, not just a little, but a good deal. "Sine -qua nons ' are bigger things now than sinecures. The people are poor. The preachers tell lis that a hungry ,man can t get religion and if he Bhould he can't enjoy it- If we don't stop the leaks the whole dam business will burst and wash away and the mill can't grind at all. I remember well when we had no pensions nor school . fund, and the people got along pretty well. The young men married the young girls and left the widows for the widowers. There was no such a word aa trousseau in the dictionary, but if there were less clothes there was more love and fewer divorces. But we will talk about these things later, when we get to the legislature. I'm not going to vote for any man who will not promise to cut down the taxes, and we will talk about this pension business when the veterans meet in July. I was ruminating about that day the anniversary of the greatest battle ever fought and the greatest victory ever won by confederate soldiers, i It was a small affair compared with Get tysburg and Shiloh and the AVilderneas, but its impression on the country and the soldiers was more profound than any other. It was like a young mother's first child uone that came after ever created so great a sensation. How vi vid are the scenes, the rapid night march from Winchester, the crossing the Shenandoah by torchlight, wading to the armpits with guns and cartridges held up. I can see Jimmy Smith, the little drummer boy of the Eighth Geor gia, and little McKosker, bobbing up and down over the deep places with wa ter running into their mouths, I, while taller soldiers behind them held them steady. I hear the shouts of stonewall Jackson's men as they came through the woods and turned the tide to victory. I see the willow glade and the little branch where Dr. Miller and his assist ants worked all night with their knives and probes and bandages, and j every lttle while said, "next, like the bar ber- to their customers. I see the dead in the pine thicket and the wonnded placed in the ambulances aod hurried to the .Lewis house for a hospital. I see the New York Zouaves in the field near the old stone house on the pike. How thick they laid upon the ground how fat they seemed next morning as the burial squads rolled them into the hallow trenches. They had swollen in form and feature during the night un til their corpses filled their loose clothes almost to bursting. But when we all meet on the zlet we will talk over the misty past and rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep. A sea of tears has al ready been shed, both north and south, but still the chalices are not empty nor the hearts ot the veterans seared over bv the iron hand of time- BillArp. now War Ravenna Will Be Raised. Raleigh Port. The first move after the declaration of war will be to "provide revenue." A bill is already prepared for this purpose which provides tor a revenue tax of $1 per keg on beer, an increase from 6 to 12 cents per pound on manufactured tobacco and snuff, $1 increase per thousand on citrars and cisrarettes: a tax oh all Btocks and transfers of cor porations, stamp tax on all checks, drafts, and all instruments of business (mortgages, loans and bouds;) on patent medicines, telegraph messages and express packages. In the bill un der consideration for the pressing needs of the government the Secretary of the Treasury is given the general power to issue certificates of indebtedness payable in one vear. and to bear not to exceed 3 per cent, interest. . The Secretary of the TreiBury is also authorized to borrow on the credit of the govern ment by popular subscription a loan of $500.000000. This loan is to be nlaced throueb the Dostoffiees e country, the sub-lreaeunes auu gov- efnmeut depositories, in low rate bonus, which are to be sold at par. , lhey are tn xar 3 nercent. interest and to be redeemable after 5 years, at the option of the government, and to be due in 20 years. The revenue features 01 tne measures. it is estimated, will raise $100,000,000 of revenue It is highly' probable a tax of 3 cents per pound on coffe, and 10 cpntA.ner nound on tea will also oe added. " French General on Stonewall Jackson Paris, April 17. The Figaro priuls . . t f ! Tt . V. an interview wun vten. viuserci, nuu won the grade of General by fighting for,tlie North against the South , in the American war 01 tne tteoeinon. uen. Cluseret admiringly praises the tenacity and couraeeof the American soldiers, whom .he places the highest in the world. ! On the other hand, he says that the sk ill of American officers is at iero, Geul Grant, he declares, was a man of dense military ignorance. The only officer on either side who had any knowledge of tactics' was "Stonewall" Jackson, but, the quality of the" soldiers oil both sides covered their leaders defects. ' The Rev. W. H. Weaver, pastor of the U. B. Church, Dillsbhrg, Pa., rec ognizes the value of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and does not hesitate to tell others about it. "I have used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy," he savs. ami rind an-excellent mecucioe for colds, coughs ana noaiseness. does everyone who gives it a trial, by M. L. Msrsh fc Co. " . - a a ' So Sold CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 28, REV. SAM. P. JONES ON CIDER SELLERS I am about to find myself a crank on good roads and improved highways. I have been driving some lately, and it is a thing of beauty - and joy j to drive over some of our Georgia roads. The 8andbeda of south and middle) Georgia are giving way to hard cemented, clay roads. The. three-miles-an-hour gait with a good team is giving way to the eight and ten miles gait with j as little damage to the horse as formerly. . ,In north Georgia we are improving our highways and roads. Many of the counties are. using the misdemeanor convicts under an overseer and! guards. Bartow county has been using her con victs in this way ! for four years, prob ably; and a man who left this county half a dozen years ago and returns ' to day marvels ,at the great improvement in our roads. It pays a thousand times better to work these -convicts on the public highways than to pub thenK4ip in jail and feed them at the expense of tne county. The convicts themselves are better satisfied put at work. . We have one of the best bosses in the'eoun try. He ia kind and ' humane to the convicts, and yet everything works and moves along with vim and efficiency. xt is getting to be a aenght to late a drive in Battow county behind a spank ing team, and if I was driving a bull in the Bhafts with a Shuck collar and hames around bis neck and a bridle in his mouth I'd rather have these good roads a thousand times than the sort we have been having. Ranee Sellars, our boss of j the coin boss and victs in this county, is a model: model workman ia the improvement 101 our highways. Ji.ven Uartersviiie, our county town, seeing the contrast be tween the county roads and the streets of the town, ia coming to the front with improvements. We have a street bos8 in Carter8ville how who ! is doing his work well by permanently graveling the streets. I And there is j, no investment that brings greater returns than the improve ment of our road, and streets. I am a thousand . times more ' willing to pay taxes for the improvement of our streets and roadway 8 than I. am to be: taxed to keep up the office holders and pap suckers. I verilv believe that when Our roadways are put in good shape we will lock back with astonishment on $he fact that we have been such fools about our highways in the past. it is a saving on our horses ana on oiir vehicles. Now a farmer! can put five bales of cotton on his wigon jmd come rolling into town any sort: of weather. Five yeara ago he could hardly get in with one bale. It took him all day then to come and go. Now he gets back home by dinner time. jNo wonder the farmer is the laud dog in the race. He has worked atja disad vantage all along. The only trouble to him I see caused from good roads is that he jxiay come to town toq often. A farmer had belter stay" out! of tdwn.l They are laying for : him, and he can I harldlv visit the town without leaving something that is in his pocket or something that he is going to get in exchange for his toil. Some farmers; come to town every day until their; credit is gone and their farm gone with their credit. Rube Satterfield, a merchant who lived in my town, once had some very long-handled hoes in bis store. The people asked him what he ordered those long-handled hoes for. He j said that Mr. Blank, living about live miles from town, wanted hoes with handles long enough for him to be able to stay in town and cultivate his crop, and he ordered them especially forj him. I know some other farmers around id our county who ' had better j get long- handled hoes and long-handled plows to go with their long-eared mules if they expect to make a crop, j But coming back to the subject again: Atlanta never diai a netter thing for herself than when she stretched out her hundred miles, more br less, of belgian block pavement in her streets. The enterprise, growth and development of a city is largely bott tomfed on the condition of ita thorough fares. Nothing gives a city the black eye to a stranger more effectively than to see boggy streets in wet weather atnd dust six inches thick in dry weather. How differeut cities are in this matter ! We may go into one city or i town and we are astonished at how jbeautifully the streets are payed and macadamized. We go into another and the ( streets are wholly neglected. It is not so etrange, either, for towns or cities differ just as individuls differ.: Each has jits charac teristics whether it has character or hot; I believe it would have been a wise movement if the legislature of Georgia had put every convict in the state ou thefroadways for ten years, iising them only for the purpose of improving our highways, macadamizing all the kliit roads and leveling the gradeW j If the commissioners in each county in Georgia who are still neglecting their roadways will visit the other counties which have used the convijets for j the imnrovement' Of the roads!, thty will comeback home and put their con- victs to work if thev have any county pride or public spirit. Just as a rail way bed ia for the engines and ears, just-eo our county roads are for; our horses .and vehicle?. I never have known a prospeious railroad or a ! first class railroad management that did not labor for a good roadbed and a good rail over which to run their engines and cars. Aud so we must see i thai wis;lom and, ; sense all sgrfe that the money and ltibor expended upon our countv roads will yield the bet returns in the end. Oar old system of road working call ing the neighborhood along the line of road to work three days in; me year-r-was a ioke on creation. It was a throe day frolick and .two hours of work:; and what little thev did really do. made at worse. But now. when system aijd nimmoD sense have taken charge, we see advancement.' I dare j say that in north Georgia the county commissioners and road bosses must see that no dirt ridinour section of the country i is nermanont.j Our hills are full of rocks, our valleys full of gravel. and the mmipv exrjended in macadamizing and graveling the roads is the best invest mnt of h.11. Of course, in! the southern Jl till.. v . i" 1 "l l l" ... VJ- w.... and middle parts of Ueorgia they; nave . J ., . ( i. u u V 1 1 v . j - ha nav tinner tne aanu. wuiun vvueu I 'II II - -WiHM mixed with sand, becomes a cement and makes a most splendid roadbed, seemingly impervious to water, and as hard as asphalt. I Rtick to it, it is the best investment, for the county treasury; it is the best money spent bv the town treasury that of improvement of the roadway and in the end the most economical. By way of parenthesis, I wa'nt to ad4 that we have some merchants in Caters ville selling cider. That is the name of the stuff, but from all I can hear, it gets up a mighty mean, fussy, stinking, puk ing drunk. No gentleman wil Isell that sortof atuff, and a vagabond ought to be in the chaingang for selling it. If there are anv blind tigers in our town sailing whisky, we don't know it, but some of our merchants are selling cider, Tatick to it. if thev know that stuff is getting our boys oa these drunks, they ought to be in the chaingang. If some of them don't know it,?they ought to be in the asylum. If I were,mayor of the city of Catersville, I'd go to the bottom of these facts. If I was judge of the court, I'd go to the bottom of that cider busines. If either the mayor or judge of the court or the grand jury want any proof on this line, just let them call on your bumble' servant. I don't know anything, but I can prove some .things by witnesses that do know. I believe Judge Fite will do his duty, and I want the thing sifted to the bottom. If the law is violated, I want these fellows to hit the chaingang for twelve months for each offense. . Cartersville is not the only town in rihis country that is cursed by this cider stuff. When a man gets drunk in Cartersville, I want to know that it is Rome or Atlanta or Chattanooga rotguit that is doing him up, and not some stuff that is being sold right here in vio lation of law. I respectfully call the attention of all parties interested to the foregoing, and if any of them object to anything I have said on this subject, let them qiiit selling cider, and until they do, they can get 110 row out of me. I have some choice about who I row with. Sam P. Joses. The Caucasian Thinks the Democratic Top Convention Will Fuse. The Caucasian last week says that if the Democratic and Populist conven tions are representative of the masses of the two forces. , In the editorial the paper says: "A large majority of the committee favor co-operation of all who are 'op posed to the gold standard aud the elec tion of au anti-monoply J-egislature. There was, however, a difference of opinion among those favoring co-opera tion as to the day ou which the con vention Bhould be held. The Caucasian thinks it might have been best'to have held the convention on May 25th. If the convention had been held ou that date, then there could have been no misunderstanding among the peopie as to who was sincere and who was insiu cere, and as to who was responsible for a failure to co-operate, if there should be a failure. But if all sides are sin- . 1 . ti cere, the date lor noiaing tne conven tion is all right. But the fact that the Populist convention meets one week ahead of the Democratic convention makes it necessary for the proposition to co-operate to be so fair and just that no honest man in any party can object to it. If the masses of the People's party are properly represented in the People's Party State Convention, and if the masses of the Democratic party are properly represented in the Democratic convention, there will bo a fair and honorable co-operation that will not only equitably arrange the places of trust between the parties, but will aleo make a great triumph for the principles of good government. For twenty years the State Legislatures of North Caro lina have been dominated to a greater or less extent by corporations and mo nopolies. If corporation attorneys and the ageuU-of. monopoly, and men who would barter the welfare of the State for an office', control the cpnvcntiocs, then there will be no co-operation and the monopolists will win." A gain Jt Fusion. Salisbury World. At the meeting of the Democratic ex ecutive committee of Rowan county. Saturdny, the committeemen exchanged views on the fusion question. Every committeeman present, of whom there were twelve, expressed himself as unqualifiedly opposed to State, congressional or county fusiou. The sentiment .of the executive com mittee is, of course, not binding on the convention, which meets here May zist, but it reflects the sentiment of nice ten ttis of the Democrats of the county. O.10 of the committeemen remarked that it settled .any dtaire he might have had for fusion . when he read that the proposed plan would necessitate his voting for Shu ford. (suspicions Character .& Atlanta. Ga , April 13. Consider ble anxiety is manifested here by tne military officials over the actions of three men, supposed to be Snuiiards, who for nearly twd weeks have dogged the militia and Federal tro'S 10 their militarr movements. The State volun teers, under emergency orders from the government, have increased their weekly drills of late, and these men have open out on each occasion. Particular a tten tion hiis beeu paid by them to the evo lutions of the signal corps. . Has Cnb Bceu Given Freedom. Washington, April 17. Throng! one of the legations here there comes a storv of startling import. This is that through the mediation of the Pope the insurgents have come to terms with Soain and that war in Uiba is at an end. This story declares that Goniz has gone to -Madrid under ussurancis tnat he can carry back to his people the freedom for which they have been fighting. 1 :A circular addressed to all the ticket agents, baggage masters and conductors of the Southern Railway tias be n issued by W. A. Turk, general passenger agent, stating that it has been reported to him that the excess bags ige rules are not being enforced by all agents as required. The circular sUtes that any failure to r.arrv -nnt. t.h instructions governing vcw.t - . excess baggage win can ior mtvevereoi i i a k i.L-on 4 aisciDiine uuu uu wmo "v". . 1698. FACTS A BOOT THE NAVY. jjue uuueu ouj.ies 10 iub' una navai povrer in the world. The navies of vreai linuan, trance, ltussia and Italy many and the United States are about tied. Ojur present effective fighting force conpi3fs of four battle ships of "the first classone battle ehipof the second class, two! armored cruisers, eighteen cruisers, fifteen gunboats, six double turreted monitors, one ram, one dynamite gun boait, one dispatch boat, one transport anc eight torpedo beats. Tbe powder used is brown. A charge for jthe biggest guna500 pounds, and ia hoilsted to the breech by a derrick, the powder being sewed up in burisp bags. Armor plates are te&ted by firing steel projectiles weighing from 100 to 1,500 pounds at them from guns charged with 500j pounds of powder and at a distance of about a city block. Our battle ships have a speed at from fafteen to- sreveiteen knots au hour. Crufsers make nineteen to twehly-four kndts, while the monitors can travel about twelve knots. i(he biggest guns m the navy are fortkr-nine .feet long, .big enough for a man to crawl inlo; fouV feet in diameter at their largest part, and weigh 135,500 poujnds, or thereabouts; JIhere are six rear-admirals in active st njice. lhe olhces of vice-admiral and adnairal are unfilled, so there is no head of tlhe nay excepting Secretary Long The fastest vessels in the navy are the torpedo boats Porter and Dupont, each of which can travel 27.5 knots an hour. Battle ships cost from $2,500,000 trri $3,750,000, arid cruisers from $600,000 to $3,000,000. A good torpedo boat C03ts over $100,000. attle ships are for the heavy work; cruisers are commerce destroyers; moni tors are useful only for coast defense. The Indiana could lie outside Sandy Hook and throw 1,200-pounds shots into Nei York at the rate of four a minute. Those artistB who show smoke in their picljures of naval battle are wholly wrijng. Smokeless powder is used. All of the cruisers are named m honor of cities, and the battle ships, except the Kefrsage, lii honor of States. A big battle ship has on board an electric plant capsble of lighting a town of p.OOO inhabitants. The boilers of the Iowa have a heating surhice 01 eight acres ana noia thirty tone of water. Great Britain has 294 torpedos and t0rnedo-boat destroyers; Ur-cle Sam has only eight. Five hundred and forty-six men aud foriiy officers are required to man the cruiser JNew lork. 4-t present the total enlisted force of the naval militia is 3',870 officers and men. . a) Behind the heavy armor there is a paddling of either corn pith or cocoa husks. It costs $500 every tinia one 0? the big guns on board a ship is fired. The Brooklyn and the New York are our! armored cruisers. Sailors are paid from $9.50 to $12.50 per montn and poara. 1 An act of Congress in lb i Z abolished flogging in the navy. f The American navy has practically all beep built since 1SS3. A captain in the navy ranks with a colibnel in the army." The oldest iron vessel i3 the Michigau, bui t in 184. Fjive battle ships are now under con struction. We have the only ram the Katah- din Statistics Imported From Spain, Atlanta Constitution. As pertinent to the existing crisis we quote some interesting figures puonsneci recently in one of the commercial mag azines of Barcelona showing that Spain is ip-prepared for war with the ' United States. The aggregate population of tffe king- dorp: is placed at only 18,000,000, agaSnst ,75,000,000, the aggregate pop ulation pf the United btafes. Sot less than 8,727,51? Spaniards are without either trade or prdf essiou . Only G, 104,470, or barely more than one third of the aggregate population, can reaU and write. Some 4,861,922 Span iards are engaged in agricultural pur suits. .There are43,528 priests, friars aril church dignitaries. qpaiii's aggregate school attendance ambunts to onlv 1,728,920. She 'has 97,o7 office holders and 91,224 pro fessional beggars. . These figures can safely be relied T . mi i 1 upan as accurate. xney nave oeea compiled from the official records by on of ' the country s leadjug publica tions, without reference to th? existing crisis and for commercial purposes ex clufeively. In addition to, lhe weakness wbic! these figures represent there is - serious domestic strife in Spain at this. time, under such conqitions, can spam witn any connaence, expect, to vi; success. n . ... - fully with the Unit ed States, whose ixp ulaltion aggregates some four -linns that of hers, one whose strength is edfend Gibraltar-like? undivid- two years ago R. 4. Warren, a drug gist at fleasant tsrook, is. x., bought a 8mwll supply . of Chamberlain a Cough Remedy. He sums up the result as follows: "At that time the -goods were unknown in this section; to-day Cham beiQain's Cough Remedy is a househoid word." It is the same iff hundreds pf cortnmuftities. Wherever . the good qualities of Chamtierlaiu'a Cough R srh edy become known the people will have uohiug else l(or sale, by M. L. Matreh & Co. . Bncklen's Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, Sorbs, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chipped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles or bo pay required. It U guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Priee 25 acnts a box. For sale by P. B. Fetzer. Shakespeare make a man on astorm smttteti ship exclaim. "Now would I givn a thtnisand furlongs of sea for an acijo of barren ground!" Modernized anil amended, this cry may take the form of the exclamation, "Now would I givje a thousand square miles of Alaska ton tne rocaiett acre ou a ew .cugiauu t . r , - - , . T7-, - rr .vriihl fnmrrt-omiae on a half-acre. t-i- ' Number 43. I11S WIFE WAS PECULIAR. ; : just, at nigniiaii the-colonel came : along to a pioneer's dugout on the wide prairie, with the pioneer himself sitting by the roadside with a pipe in his mouth, and after the UBual salutations the colonel asked if he could be lodged tor the night. "Wall, that depends on my wife," was the reply. "I'm fur takin' every body who comes alope, but she's rayther pertickler. . Ar you a married man?" "I am," replied the traveler, "That's bad. to begin with. We've got a gal twenty y'ara, old; and my wife is lookin fur somebody to come along and marry her. Ar' you the guv'ner of the state of any other big man?" "No, bir; I am only a humble citizen." i "Tuen yonr humbleness will be bad fur, you. The old woman would be proud to hev a big man stop with us, so she could crow about it, but she wouldn't care to make a f usa over a humble' man. Jot some" tort o' re ligion, I 'spose?" "No, I haven't," replied the colonel. "Then that'a more agin ye. The old woman's, got three different kinds, and if you don't belong to one of 'em she'll tell you to walk on. Kin you play on a mouth organ or sing?;" "I'm afraid not." f - "That's too bal. The old Woman does on a mouth "organ, and she goes around singin' from mornin' till night. I'd like to obleege you, stranger, but I i i . i. . . i ii kuow now lacunar tne oiu woman is. Ilev you eyer bin iu Yurup?" "I never have," sighed the colonel, as he remembered that,, it was four miles to the next shanty. "That's wuss and wus8," said the man as hi3 face expressed real anxiety. "The old woman is dead crazy about Yurup, and she'd be sure to ask you a lot of questions. If you was a purtv good liar, now, you might make her think you had bin iu Yurup." "11 don't think I'd like to lie about it." "Wall, jest as you please, but I want you to see that' I'm willin' to obleege you. What s yer politics? ' "I m a Republican." , "Woosh!" exclaimed the settler "that settles you fur good and all ! The o'd woman is a Democrat from head ta heel and sorter runs this hull country. If she kuowed you was out here Bhe'd be loadin' the shotgun. Everything seems again- you, but thar a jest one lettle chance that you might squeeze in. Km you make up poetry? "Alas! no! groaned the wayfarer. ".Can't you make up a single verse?" "Not even two lines." ;f "Then your goose ia cooked and you had better be gittin' along. The old woman is a poet and loves poetry, and even before you got down: to the supper table she'd be aekin' you to make up a verse on V enus or Mars, and if ycu couldn't dp it she'd give you the skip. Stranger, I'm a kind-hearted man and feel sorry fur you, but you see bow it is. 1 own this ranch and do most of the bossin', but there ar' days when I hev to lay hid in the grass because I hain't got to be resident of the United States and don't wear gold in my front teeth!" Ltryan imposed upon. Sanford Express. We seo it stated that Mr. W.: J. Dry- au has written a letter a "prominent Democrat" practically endorsing But-i ler and urging the Democratic press to cease their critieismsof and to fuse with him. We dont believe Mr, Bryan ever wrote such a letter. If he did it he was imposed upon and made to be lieve that Butler was unjustly criticized and persecuted by the Democratic press of the State. We must believe that Mr. Bryan knows very little about the man or he would not ask the Democrats to fuse with him. We have reason to be lieve that there are two or three office- seeking Democrats iu the State' who have kept up a correFpondence with Mr. Bryan for the purpose of making him believe that the only- way for the Demo crats to carrv North Carolina this fall is to fuse with Butler and his crowd. These men think that if some, kind of a fusion arrangement can be carried out they will be among the first to get their fingers iu the pie. They are after office and are willing to lick Marion Butler's feet to get it. , The Alliance shoe factory at Hillsboro has shut down until the fiist of Szp tember. ' How Do I Look ? " flow frequently a woman asks this question! How much thought and study she devotes to it! It'is natural. A woman hates to think that s1e is growing- ;day by day charming afld attractive and'youthful to her husband's eyes than in the days of courtship. A woman may always retain her charms and the vivacity and freshness of youth if she will take the proper care of her health. A tremendous per-centage of ill-health in women is dtfe to weakness and disease of the distinctly feminine organism. Dr., fierce s ravonie rresmpxion is an UDUur ing remedy for all disorders of this nature. It allays inflammation, hals ulceration, stops debilitating drains and soothes and tones the nerves. It preserves in a woman all the charm of healthy youth. Thou sands of women have testified to its mar velous merits. " Favorite Prescription " is sold by all re spectable dealers in medicines. Deal only where you are honestly treated. Any store keeper who tries to give you a -substitute for what you demand is inot treating you honestly and you should; take your trade elsewhere. " For nine years I have suffered with falling of internal organs," writes Mrs. Mary Williams, of Raleigh, Wake Co., N. C,(Box 196). -'I was troubled with bearing down pains. I had indi gestion and female weakness and nervousness, I could not sleep at night. 1 was constipated and had urinal trouble. The doctor here said that no medicine would reach my disease. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, ' Golden Medi cal Discovery and ' Pleasant ' Pellets have cured me." . An every-day necessity in the "home. A good home medical work.' Send 21 one cent stamps, to cover mailing only, to the World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y., for a paper-covered copy of Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Ad viser. 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