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THE CONCORD WFFKIY TIMES . i Leading Paper in This Section. ' LARGE AND ESTABLISHED CIRCULATION. THE TIMES - STEAM BOOK AND JOB OFFICE e keep on hand a fall stock of LETTER HEADS, NOTE HEADS, STATE MENTS, BILL HEADS, ENVEL OPES, TAGS, VISITING CARDS, WED, DING INVITATIONS, ETC, ETC. GOOD PRINTING ALWAYS PAYS riM ESTABLISHED IN 1875. John B. Sherrill, Editor and Owner. 'ibie: cr-cxsi -ftjsro eeab not. $1.00 a ' Tear, in Advance. If you have anything to sell, let! the people know it. Volume XVI. Concord, N. C, Thursday, January 12, 1899. Number 28. H i it CONCORD Case of Poisoning 1 i p Hood's Sarsapnrllla Drives tho Pol ' son ! from the System, Quiets the Nerves, Relieves Dyspepsia and Catarrh. .'. :f r " While in the army I was poisoned in-: V vardly with poison oak, and raid not got Well for 15 years. My blood became bo AA uvju v mil m rw k.. m. - v. ivm cough, and I was thought to be going , into consumption. , I took many different medicines without avail, and finally re solved to try Hood's Sareaparilla. When I had finished taking the first bottle the , pimples' began - to disappear from-rny body, and after I had taken three bottle I was well. I have also suffered with ca- " tarrh in the head and have been taking Hood's Barsaparilla for this trouble, and . it helps me. In fact I take it for all ail ments and believe it has no pfjoal a i V . - ' -ii-quids the -ncrVi?rln3' gives refreshing sleep. It has relieved me of dyspepsia and built me np." J. I. Uolliay, Wllliamston, South Carolina. Hood's Sarsapariila Is the best in fact the One-Trite IUoihI Purifier. Bold by all druftrUiU. r; six for $5. ; enre U-rer Ills: easy to Uikt-. eiisj li.;oi ale. 25c. Hood's Pill. THE BA8HFPL IOVER. Folks hung up the mistletoe I wuz stand ing Dy. An' Mary lookln' at me with a twinkle in her eye . An' when she stood right under it I felt my feelin's stir: -But when It comes ter mistletoe I dunno what it'sfer! . , ("Gome, John come John 1 : - If you wait you'll miss her ; Mary's at the mistletoe v .; And some one else' 11 kiss her!") : That's the way they hollered fer alio' them, tney Knowea . t That I'd been lovin' Mary half a year afore it snoweat That I'd writ my love in letters in a album- book fer her: But when it comes ter mistletoe I dunno what it'Bler! ("Come, John come, John! ' .If you wait you'll miss her; Mary's at the mistletoe An' some one elsc'll kiss her !") - That's the way they hollered, an' a feller from the crowd Jest took the invitation an' smacked her lips so loud That my heart it gave a flutter but 'twnz f ur awav lrom her : Fer when it comes ter mistletoe I dunno what it's fer 1 ("Shame, John t Shame, John ! Told you that you'd miss her; - Mary's left the mistletoe , An' John'll never kiss her!") BIL.I, A HP'S LETTER. 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With thelatest approved form of books. . anu every faculty ior nanaung accqunts, - OYSTERS A FIRST iGLASS SERVICE Some Cartons Facts from an Old Almanac. A curious aid almanac, published in J700, gives the following rules for prog nosticating the weather; The resounding of the sea upon the shoes, and the murmur of the winds in the woods withot apparent winds show wind is In follow. A murmur out of caves portendeth the same. " - The obscuring of the Bmallor stars is a sign of tempest. Also if the stars seem to shoot, wind will come ' from the quarter the stars come from. Ihe often changing of the wind showeth tempests. If two rainbows appear it will rain. A rainbow presently after rain denotes fair Weather. If the sky be red in the morning it is a sure token of winds or ram, or both, because those vapors which cause the redness will presently be resolved. - If the sun or moon looks pale, then look for rain; if fair and bright, expect fair weather; if red, winds will come- If a dark cloud be at sunrise in which the sun is soon after hidden, it will dissolve, and rain will follow. If there appeareth a cloud and after vapors are seen to ascend upon it, that portendeth rain. If the sun seem greater in the east than common it is a sign of rain. If in the west about Buneetting there appears a black cloud, it will rain that night or the day following because that cloud will wan t heat to dispose it. - V It mists come down from the mils or. descend from hea'vens in the valleys, it promiseth fair hot weather. Mists in the eyening show a not day on the morrow. The like when white mists arise from the waters in the evening. - The circles that appear about the sun if they be red and broken portendeth wind. If thick and dark, it shows winds, snow or ram, which are also presaged by, the circles about the moon. White and ragged clouds appearing like horses manes and tails foretelleth great winds, even aB the sailors long have said, viz: TO THE PT7BUC. Capital, -ii - - Profit, : -' Individual responsibility of Shareholders, $50,000 22,000 . 50,000 Keep Your Account with Us. "Shagged clouds, like an old mare's tail. Make lofty ships to carry low sail." Thunder in the morning, if it be to the southward and the wind be there, denotes many times a tempestuous day; also a rainbow or water gall in the west denotes a stormy, wet day. The "sun dogs appearing in the morning or evening is a sign oi cold. wet, windy weather time. A wet summer is always followed by a frosty winter, dui it nappens occasion- ally that the cold extends no further. . Every winter with excess of west winds is followed by acold summer. Interest paid as agreed. Liberal accom mo dation to all our customers. . J. M. ODELL. President. i D. 11. COLTUANE, Cashier. 1! K' I V 4. ' ' I: . J, 'i i i n t 4 . '. : '. Take Your Watch to W. C. Gorrell, jeweler 4 ----- V: 1 s3 w. ' 8 V'- - y ; : .. . Hags Hay Prove Fatal. A special dispatch to the Philadel phia rress from rottsville, ra., says. Mrs. Charles Ducy, aged sixty-five years. residiDg at this place, lies at her home probably fatally hurt, from the hugging of several young girls Christmas after noon. The ladv is very trail and puny, She called upon some of her friends and was warmly greeted. . ine aaugnier,s oi ine iamuyp strong robust girls, wished her a . "Merry Christmas" and proceeded to' embrace her. Mrs. Ducy aeked the girls to re lease her, telling them, that they were hurting her. The young ladies, not thinking they were doing any harm kept on until the old lady collapsed A physician was called, when it was as certained that she had several ribs and her breast bone fractured, beside being bruised and injured internally. Her condition is serious. ' Htartiug Oat Right. News and Observer. The Democrats promised "economy in administration." mat uoea not mean niggardliness, but it doee meau reduction of expenses wherever they can I be safely made.' ' '' -' The Legislature began wisely when the Democratic caucus adopted a reso lution to reduce the salary !of officers from five dollars per day to four dollars per day. The members of the Legisla ture get four dollars a dayj There is no reasou why the officials should get more. Such reductions as those com mend themselves' to the tax-payers. - 1809. I was ruminating about this riddle of the 9's. 1 and 8 are 9, and that makes three 9's in a row. IS are two 9's, and- that makes four 9's in a row. The three 9's make 27, and the. 2 and 7 make 9. The four 9's make 36, and the 3 and 6 make 9. Maybe this year of the 9's is to be a mascotte, and we will have peace and prosperity in the land. Maybe the lion will lay down with the lamb, and the nations shall beat their swords into plowshares and not Jearn war any more. . - ; Maybe, 1 say. But there are some signs of peace on this side of the water, peace between the north and the South. McKinley has mada a break of it, and and if he can control his party, congress will fix up our confederate graveyards, lnen the next thing will be to pension our confederate . veterans and .vidowa just like tbey do theirs, and last of all, to apologize. I never will be satisfied until they apologize and beg our pardon Any gentleman will do that and feel better for having done it, for they know by this time that they were in the wrong though it has taken a long time for them to find it out and repent Surely we are tho most forgiving people in the world, or we wouldn't make so much ado over the offer to hx up our grave yards, for the truth is, our women have lready fixed them up and our dead are comfortable under their care. But it it sign of good will and foreshadows an pology in. the near future. Tom Eeed wants to get ahead of McKinley in the South, and I expect will introduce a biH of apology at the next session. ensions and apologies will be -his slo gan. It won t take a great deal of money, for our veterans and widows, for there are not many left, but it will cause those who are left to live longer, for "Time cuts down all. Both great and small. Except a pension soldier. They do not die, But multiply And never grow any older." An old friend told me that toe aliena tion between the north and south was owing more to diet and climate than it was to slavery or, negroes. Said he, they live on cold bread and codfish, and drink iced tea, while wo live on ham and eggs and hot rolls and beat biscuit ancLdrink coffee. Their diet is as cold and shivering as their climate, while ours is rich and warm and stimu lating like our sunshine. Hence, they are inclined to be cold-hearted and sel fish. We feasted McKinley down here on southern food, and warmed him to the heart and made him feel generous and kind, and so he made that confed erate speech and wore that veteran's badge because he felt good inside. If be had stayed down here a few weeks longer he would have spoken for pen sions and apologized. Maybe there is something in that, for I have observed that northern people wlio domicile with us for any length of time always take our side and defend us. But my candid opinion is that the classes at the north wno are most in the way of peace are editora and preachers. . lbe editors want some scandal to feed their readers on and the abuse of of the south is like regular stock in trade and is always iu demand It is a good cement for the party and keeps it.it solid, for if their readers dit fer on some politics they can always harmonize by abusing us. The lead mg New York republican paper is just as malignant since McKinley made his southern tour as it was before. Mr McKinley played on the harmonican, but The PreBS won't dance to the music. As for the preachers, my candid opinion is the majority of them have no more realjceligion than did Henry Ward Beecher. Like the editors, they rely on sensation to fill their pews and their pockets. With a few exceptions, their Thanksgiving sermons had neither love to God nor charity to man, and they went out of the -text to give fie South a slam or a Btab. - I used to have great respect arid reverence for minis ters of - the gospel. I really believed they were all ordained. of God for the sacred calling, but in my later years that reverence has weakened and it seems to me now that most of them are only ordained . of men. The pulpit both north, and south, has been degrad ed and has lost its high standard Hardly a week passes butsome preacher has committed some crime and created a sensation. Churches are torn asunder and the people divided into bitter fac tione. Sensational preaching is the order of the day, and every now and then a scandal with a woman-in the case occurs. Undignified and bitter controversies in the newspapers feed the public mind and delieht those who are outside of the pale of the. church. I was called on yesterday for charity for a poor, unfortunate family that lives a few jiniles away, and was informed that the only daughter, a girl of "seventeen, who could help the aged couple at all, had married an .old Biptist preacher of sixty, and after a few weeks he abandon ed her. and left for parts unknown. The story-is a pathetic one and he ought to be caught and sent - to Indiana and lynched. This lowering of the stand ard of morality and good old-fashioned Chtistiar? pa'storar preaching is especialy noticeable, Virii the great leading de nominations of the south. I am grati fied to say trnit the Presbyterian and Episcopal churches have not yet shock ed the public with any ministerial scan dal, though" their preachers are as a class inferior in pulpit eloquence to those of half a century ago. No minister ; of the olden times would have carrieI .his sectarianism so far as to seek td ex punge from the Presbyterian hymn book that beautiful hymn : dier boys of the late war will soon be on the pension rolls. I see that seventy two of an Ohio regiment have already applied. Ohia beats the world pn pen sions, .and has learned all the; nicks of the business. One man up tthere was recently detected in having atin three pensions for the past five years. ' Dur ing the war he was transferred three times, and so ee made three different applications in different counties, and his sore leg went through all right, and he now tells that his lawyer put him Hp to sion and lie kept opinion at Washington is that GOOD ADVICE .most UISHOP HOOD. Atlanta Constitution. By far the best advice which has yet been given the colored race comes from Bishop J. "W. Hood, of the African Methodist church". : Bishop Hood's views are especially to oe commenaea because ne lives in North Carolina, in the storm -center of the present agitation, and he is thus enabled to speak advisedly. The occa sion upon which he spoke was the au- I am general J astonished, said i he, "at how little I at least nave been discouraged or disturbed by. A CONSIDERATE MOTHER. it, and he gave the lawyer one pen- j nual conference at Carthage, m and he kept two. The general I astonished," said; he, "at hov one-half the pensions granted are frauds. ; But pension money circulates freely, and that is a good thing, and when it j gets to circulating down here 'among our boys we won't complain, j -; Well, we had a good old-fashioned Christina at our Lous 3, and were thamc- ful that no affliction or calamity had befallen us during the past year. - We had sixteen of the posterity at the festive board, and they did eat turkey and et ceteras amazing. Next March comes our golden wedding, and then all the distant boys and their wives and children are to gather at the family mansion and my wife and I will be calm and perene. I read in a life in surance paper that only one married couple in 1,000 live together fifty years. And so the event ought to be celebrated. Bill Arp. A Legalized Primary. Ashevllle Citizen. The Citizen believes that the Legis- ature should enact what, is known in Other States as the primary sj'stem, and put it m operation in North Carolina. There has been a feeling m - the minds of many of our citizens, and ordinarly it is found in the better class, that the great mass of the people those who do not hold office, or expect to hold office do not have a sufficient yoice in the naming of the candidates for the various offices they are called upon to fill from time to time. And this feeling has been very much intensified now that the better element of our citizenship feels that in the fu ture the colored vote will not play the prominent part in politics that it has in the past. Herealter the most impor tant part of politics in North Carolina will be the nomination of candidates, The candidates "nominated by the white people will be the ones elected, and iu naming theni the white people be given a chance torparticipate. JNow a primary that has no more significance than mere party policy is hot what is wanted. There Bhould be system of primaries adopted 'having about it all the legal safeguards that ordinarily attach to elections,'. Then the conflicts will be .for nominations and th'e people will express themselves at the point where the ereatest care should be taken. It'- is impossible to have bad officials if none but the best men are nominated. The time is near at hand in North Carolina when it will not do to make nominations by manipulating meet ings and conventions and then expect the nominees to be elected whether fit or unfit. If Democracy is fit to rule North Carolina it must show that fitness the events which have brought sadness, gloom and sorrow to so many hearts." Looking for a cause of the friction be tween the races,! he found it in the ignorance of his own people, in their weakness in accepting the leadership Of bad men, and in the fact that they so easily allow themselves to be led into opposition to their white neigh bors, who . are, after, all, their best friends. To show that sensible conduct pn part of colored men secures for them the respect and protection of their white neighbors, the bishop cites his own town. He says: "It has seemed to me that the white people there have taken extraordinary pains to be pleasant, notwithstanding every man voted as he chose and had his vote counted as cast The condi- tibtCbf things in the state at large is the about me rfwniioinn.fi leaaeramn . ) The alliance with populism the bishop regarded as an effort to seek enemies, : because! there was nothing else in it to attract colored men who are naturaHv Republicans. The climax of folly was their support of Governor Bussell in 1896. This leads to the dec laration that "the Onlv surprise on my part is that the strife which we have had recently did not occur two years ago in connection with that campaign and Governor Russell's administration has not tended to i the promotion ot a better feeling." It is in the following paragraph that the bishop sums up the whole cause of trouble: So lar aa we are concerned our selves, the root of the evil is the in satiate desire fori office, reeardless of fitness. We are plagued both iffchurch and state by office seekers. Everybody Realised She Was In No Position to Give Matrimonial Advice. Washington Star. I had taken a very toothsome but not highly finished dinner at the mountain farmhouse, and when I started on my way at 1 o'clock in the afternoon the daughter, who had looked after my wants at the table, informed me that if I had no objections she would "ride a piece" with me. As she was a good-look ing, ruddy mountain maid, unlike the majority of her kind, I gave an imme diate and unanimous consent, and we were presently jogging along toward the Cumberland river, which we could see lying like a silver thread across the green valley far below us. "I presume, " T said, bowing with as much gallantry as the circumstances would permit, "that if any of your beaus should see us riding together my life would scarcely be safe frbm their jealous rage. "Oh, I reckon 'tam't so bad's that, all to once,' she laughed in response. "I'm sure they are not bo indifferent as you would lead me to think. Pretty girls are not bo plenty in the moun tains, ' I smiled, and she blushed. . "Well, I b pose ef Jim wuz here, ' she hesitated, "it mightn't be sich a picnic as it looks, for Jim's mighty bad That s why he ain't here Why?" I asked with considerably more interest and not nearly so much bow and palaver. "He shot a hole through the last fel ler I rid with; and had to take to the woods till he gits well." This was not altogether as pleasing as it might have been, but I couldn't run' away from the lady, bo I remained. Well, I said in a tone of strong disapproval, "do you intend to marry a man like that?" ' 'Tain't safe to marry any other not fer him, ner me neither, even ef I wanted to, which I don't. Jim's plenty suitable fer me." Does your mother approve of your marrying him?" I asked, hopiog some body might be found who would come to the rescue. "No," she responded easjly, "maw ain't talkin one way ner t'other. She's seems to want an office, and7 many do 1 been married four. times, and has made not bkd to imnK wnemer iney nave "''" "i""" " ' fitness for othce or hot 1 was once offered the position of collector of cus toms at Wilmington. Of course I did not accept it, for what do I know about a collector's business ? All my train ing and study have been in a different direction. I am sure I am called to preach, and Ithink I know something about that. I am at home in the pul pit, but in the custom house I should have been like a cat in a strange garret, as the saying is. And yet there are many seeking such orhces who are no more fit for them than I am." These views all sustain the position of the constitution, that there is no real problem between the races, "so long as they continue in i the performance of the duties incumbent upon citizenship. It is only the agitators and the disturb ers who create trouble. The sooner the colored race learns to drop the anxious politicians and half-educated such a dratted muss uv it every time that she says she: ain't a fittin' person to give advice on the marryin ques tion, nohow, even ef 1 wuza t old enough to do my own pickin' an' choos- m," which seemed to be such an un answerable argument that I retired from the field over de New Yea's r , , ... .1.1.. r Dlace-hunters. the better it will be for it men wnu are Known io ue cuuaum ui i T. .. . , . , , matWcrrwvlnffirMrJ. Drop the politicians, and go to work! Georgia Philosophy. Atlanta Constitution. Hit's mighty hard ter tu'n - m 1 new leaf, kaze some er oese books comes uncut. .; Folks' dat8 always Iookin' fer a bushel er happiness never stops ter think dey mout er been happy wid apintmeasure. De won is gittin' better ; but human natur is still wid us, err hit won't pay de gas bill 'twell de last day er grace. Dis orter be de bes financial year in de history er dis country. Lots en cords er mens is got dey legs shot off en drawin' big pensions. HOW HE KNEW HE WASNT DEAD. Topeka Journal. Thomas H, Grisham, President of the Board of managers of the Dodge City BOiaiers' tiome, told a Journal reporter last week a story about an old soldier named John Clark, who came near be ing buired alive. He had been ill a long time with typhoid fever, and at last lipsedtinto-a comatose state and was pronounced dead. Burial robes were placed upon him and he was ten derly placed in a casket to await inter ment, on the following day. During the night Clark regained his senses and rose up in his narrow prison. He upeet the coma and he was sent sprawling on the floor. In consternation one atten dant rushed into the room and retreated, declaring he had seen a ghost. Then other attendants came. Stimulants were quickly applied, , the , limbs and body of Clark rubbed with alcohol. He soon opened his eyes. After care ful attention and nursing he recovered entirely, and . today tells the story of his narrow escape from being buried alive. Mr. Gmham has talked with Clark about this strange experience. Tell me," said Grisham to Clark one day since the dead man came to life, 'how did you feel when you died and how did you hrst know that yoa were alive?' "When I appeared to myself," said Ulark, "to be dying, the experience was a very pleasant one. I seemed to be entirely free from trouble and to be passing into a new realm. When I began to recover consciousness I found myself in what seemed to be a coffin, but I at pnee knew that I was not dead because my feet were cold and 1 was hungry." 'I don t understand what you mean, said Grisham. 'I knew," replied Clark, "that if I were in heaven I would not be hungry, and if I were in hell my feet would not be cold." Unfounded Fears of Appendicitis. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Dr. ri. R. Lemen, of Alton, 111., says: 1 often meet people who have such a wholesome fear of appendicitis that they do not eat grapes, tomatoes, figs or fruit containing little seeds, because of a fear that these seeds will lodge in the appendix and cause appendicitis. Whenever I hear a person say he denies himself fruit because of this fear I take occasion to assure him that it is useless to take any such precautions. If you like fruit, eat it, for appendicitis, seven in ten instances, is due to other things than seeds. Little particles of food of any kind can lodge in the appendix and produce appendicitis, even a crumb being capable of it. In addition, a great many cases are caused by some- rr Four Brothers Marry Sisters. s f!wT. TVweti f . .Ta.ntifl.rv 3-i A most remarkable wedding has just taken place at the small village called Trail, ten miles north of here, four brothers being married to four sisters. The four knots were tied at the home of the four sister brides, who are the daughters of a prosperous farmer named James Hocbstetter. Their ages range from eighteen to twenty-eight and the aeres of their respective husbands vary only slightly. The grooms are the Jour sons of John Summers and are energetic young men of good habits and some means. The ceremony of marrying the four couples occupied almost an hour, the same clergyman performing all. ine lour brothers and their wives will live within a stone's throw, of each other. j EZj : CIS UUKtS WtltKt ALL tLSt rAHS. Bent CouKh Byrup. TaaUat Good. Fe I In tiniA HIA hv Hmirirlata ' A Fitting Honor, i - - .- . Now s and Observer. " ' ; The selection of Senator R. L. Smith, of Stanly, as President pro -tern ,of the Senate, was a fitting honor to one of the best men in a body of strong -and able men. and also a compliment to the fnnnlv nf Strfnlvl which in all tha mil-' j , tations of politics has never elected, a Republican to office. . x- Mr. Smith served with conspieous credit in the House in 1895 and was an influential member of the minority that finttrafl awA that nrorm i r a f iil !n Ilia tyrant 1 victory last November. "There Is a fountain filled with blood Drawn from Immanuel's veins.; ; And sinners plunged beneath that .flood. Lose all their guilty stains." This hymn was composed by William Cowper, the poet, and is embalmed in the sweetest memories of our childhood. But this preacher wishes to have it ex punged because he says the third line smacks of baptism by immersion. Ob, my country ! And some of our Atlanta and Nashville preachers are ventilating their political opinions About the war and the Philippines in their pulpits, to the disgust of every heaVer who' differs with them.lThey forget that the pulpit is not theirs, and the call wa? to preach the gospel not politics. Well, I suppose that some of our sol- New One Dollar Note. Washington. Dec. 80. Samples of the new 1889 issue of the $1 -certificate were shown at the Treasury Department to-day. They are printed from entirely new designs, and are practically free frpin the defects of the old issues. The numerals are very large, and thus the danger of being raised is materially re duced. The distinguishing feature of the face of the notes is spread eagle with a United States Capitol in the dis tance. Miniature portraits of Lincoln and ; Grant, surrounded by laurel wreaths, are placed on the lower line of the face of the note, and one large numeral and the. seal are printed in blue. Tbe back of the note is printed in green, and on .both face and back there is more uncovered white paper showing than on any other note hitherto nnnted. this being in accordance witn the ideas of experienced Treasury of. ficials. Some of the new issue - will- be shipped to the gubtreasuries. to-morrow Mr. C M. Dixon, a well known mer chant . i of ; Pleasant Ridge, Fulton Co., Pa., has a little girl who is frequently threatened with croup, but when the first symptoms appear, his wife gives her Chamberlain s, Cough , Remedy, which always affords prqmpt irelief. The 25 and 50 cent sizes for sale by M. L. Marsh & Co. " . -' . - t ' v "Mary, I A&m the baker kiss you today. I think I shall go down and take the bread in myself in future." " 'Twouldn't be no use, ma'am; he wouldn't kiss you, 'cos he promised he'd never kiss anybody else but me." A Contrast. A man once said to Sam Jones : "Jones, the church is putting my assessment too high. Jones asked, "How much do you pay?" "Five dol lars a year," was the reply. Well, said Jones, "how long have you been converted ?" , About four years, was the answer Well, what did you do betore you were converted ? "I was a drunkard "How much did you spend for drink?" "About $250 a year." "How much were you worth?" "I rented land and plowed a steer "What have you got now?" "I have a good plantation and a pair of horses "Well," said Sam Jones, "you paid the devil $250 a year for the privilege of plowing a steer oh rented land, and now you don t want to give God, who saved you, five dollars a year Jbr the privilege of plowing horses on your own plantation. You are a rascal from the crown of your head to the sole ot your foot.' The following paragraph is going the rounds of the press, credited to "Exchange:" " We live in a land ot high moun tains and high taxes, low valleys and low Wages, big crooked rivers and big crooked statesmen, big lakes, big strikes, big drunks, big pumpkins, big men with big pumpkin heads, silver streams that gambol in the mountains and pious politicians who gamble in the night, roaring.cataracts and roaring orators, fast trains, fast horses, fast young men and girls fast, fastest, sharp How a Town Is Populated. Every town has a liar or two; a smart aleck; some pretty grrls; more loafers than it needs: a woman or two that tattles: an old foggy that the town would be better off without; men who stand on the street corners and make remarks about the women: a man who laughs an idiotic laugh every time he says anything; scores ot men witn tne caboose of their trousers worn smooth as glass: men who can tell you about how the war question should be settled the weather, andliow to run other peo ple's business, but who have made dismal failure of their own. Baking Powder Made from pure cream of tartar. Safeguards the food against alum Alum baking powders are the greatest menacers to health of the present day. . BQVAt BAKING POWOeS 00., NEW VOOK. T X a . n. irum cxmvry to rtr , $1.75 Buys this White -Enameled Steel Bed , in either 5, 48, 4a or ' T6in. widths. Length 1 finches. It has one, inch Dlllarsand in. filler. Guaranteed the i strongest bed made. Cur irrcat i6oiaee catalogue ttll f thntw sands of bargains in Furniture, Clothing. Bed- ' umg, v-rotKcry, suverware, sewing Machines-, Clocks, Upholstery Goods, Baby Carriages, Refrigerators, Pictures, Mirrors, Tin Ware, Stoves, etc., and in buying from us, you save from; 40 to 60 per, cent, on everything don't forget this. designs 1 painted colors selections can be made as sti- , tactorily as though you were here at the mill. , Here's rhe celebrated Hines Sewing Machine none better made. Guar anteed for 30 years. Cata- logue tells y.uallaboutit. I rnce (3 Urawer btyle), I $13.25 Why have we customers in every part of the Uni ted States, in Canada. Mexico, Bermuda, Cuba, Pnrtn Rii-n far as Australia and South c tnaikt allftyle AfricaT Send for our Free of Machines.. Catalogues. They will tell you. Address this way i Julius Hines & Son, BALTIMORE, WD. Dept. 909. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. D. O. CALDWELL, M. D. If. L. STKVKNB, H. D DRS. GALDWELL & STEVENS, Office In former Postofflce Building on Main street. Telephone No. 37. DR. H. C. HERRING. DENTIST, Physician and Surgeon. Is again at his old place over Torke's Jewelry - store, COJffCOBD, K. C. thine ontirfW nntairlo ' lh nnnAnrliT. I something causing inflammation, ToI)R. L.N. BURLEYS0N. ..ii t -ii in. l 1 Mt . 1 - tut a win Day; uu autsau auu eaii nuy thing you like, for all precautions you may take are not going to save you from appendicitis if you are going to have it' The inexplicable thing to which the majority of cases are attributable cannot be guarded against, and it is useless to fight the minority." cltl- Kevised Geography. A Torrespondent reports an occur rence which took place at night school. "Williams," asked the instructor, "which is the largest island in the world?" "It's either Asia or Africa," replied the young man to whom the question was addressed. "I am speaking of islands, Williams. Those are continents. "I think not, Bir," drawled Williams. "When the Sueeze Canal was cut, it made islands of both of 'em, sir. Gome to think of it, sir, th? largest isj Asia and Europe. It's all one piece of ground." Offers his professional services to the zens or ixncorci ana vicinity. umce over Marsn s arug store. Telephone No. 86 Residence, corner Depot and Fetzer Streets. Dr. W. c. Houston. Surgeon firJH Dentist, . COffCOHD, N. C. Is prepared to do ail kinds of dental work in the mostn.pproyed manner. v.uwv w T UUUU0VU a A I A lU 1 VI . L. TV HARTSELL, , Attorney-at-Law, CONCORD, NORTEC CAXLOXjINjO,. Prompt Office in house. attention given to all business Morris building, opposite court 1a. montgomkbv, m. i Not t Matter of Health. Patient You are worried about my case, doctor: l can see it in your iace Doctor No-o; not exactly. Patient Tell me the truth, doctor I want to know just what you think Doctor Well to be quite candid with you, 1 was worrying aooui your dui You haven't paid me a cent in two years. . Defending His Profession. "Now," said the attorney for the de fense, "let us take up the bill presented by the plaintiff in this case for alleged services rendered to my client, l say alleged services, gentlemen of the jury, because these ligures show every indi cation of having been doctored." "Would it not be better to say law- yered f ' asked art' indignant physician who was serving as one of the jurors.. Saved His Time. "I ve come to see your husband in the interes,t of the Knights of Labor, Mrs. Keagan," said a bland, elderly man, as (the mistress of the Reagan household answered his ring. "He aint to home," said Mrs, Rea gan, with arms akimbo; 'but ,i car promise you one thing, sorr, and that is, you'll ge niver a night o' labor out av Tim Reagan, and it's no use try in' 1 Sure and nt'd knock off work in the daytime, if it wasn't for me keepin at him till I m that wore out there s no stren'th lift in me!" North Carolina Crops. The North Carolina labor commis sioner has prepared a statement Bbowing the average Dofit per acre of .seventeen young men anans last fastest, snarp the principal crops grown in theState. lawyers, sharp financiers and sharp- Tne are. 15.90 wheat $1.97, corn $3.53, tobacco $20.97, sweet toed shoes, noisy children, fertile plains that lie like a sheet of Water, and thou sands of newspapers 4 that - lie like thunder, and these thousands of news papers have thousands of delinquent subscribers who lie like blazos and won't pay a cent !" potatoes $29.56, Irish potatoes $28.37, peanuts f5J3.ua, sorghum iy fco, nay $14.98, rice $12.25, beans $9.80, barley $9.64, peas $5.67, broom corn $3.60, flax $3.15, rye $2,93, oats $2 .fjl. After hearing some friends continually praising Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, Curtis Fleck, of Anaheim, California, purchased a bottle of it for his own use and is now as enthu siastic over its wonderful work as any one can be. ' The 25 and 50 cent sizes for sale by M. L. Marsh & Co. HuslnesH. Goodly What is grander than a man you can trust? - ; Cynjcus One who will trust you. . Henry Ward Beecher, jn his famous speech at Manchester, England, 111 which he talked for an hour against a howling mob of rebel sympathizers be fore he gamed their attention, was in terrupted bv a man in the audience, who shouted:' "Why didn't you whip the Confederates m sixty days, as you said you would?"; "Because,", replied Beecher. "We found we had Ameri cans to fight instead of Englishmen, - " : ilacklea's Aratc Salve. . The best salve in tie vortu for cnts,bruiscB, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,.Feyer Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give nerfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents a box. For sale by P. B. Fetzer. Faith In the Doctor. An exchange quotes a story said to have been told at a "charity dinner." A man was brought into the accident hospital who was thought to be dead If is wife was with him. Une or tne doctors said. "He is dead," but the manraised his head and said, "No; T'm not dead vet:" whereupon his wife admonished him, saying, "Be quiet. the doctor ought to know best' Colonel Robert O. Ingersoll says that Captain Philip, of the Texas, Bhould have thanked hia men ana not uoa, ior the victory; whereupon The .Advance bavb: "Cantain Philip knew what was due to God .better than Ingersoll did, for he was nearer the euns and nearer God." If you are going to get married, don't foreet that The Times can furn ish your wedding cards in tha very la- j test style, and on . the shortest possible notice. Strict secrecy guaranteea. Mr. Benham It is said that a child gets its growth when it is asleep. ; Benham. Then it's no wonder our baby doesn't grow any. that When death has laid its cold and re lentless hand t)pon a kind and loving husband, the wife cannot be blamed for ask ing herself if all her tears of de votion and work and helpfulness were worth the while, when it comes so soon to this traeic end. If men would only take the most com mon sense precautions against the en croachments of ill-health there would be fewer houses of mournine. and fewer women left alone almost helpless before the battle of life is halfover. A man's liver and stomach are twin .machines that njnrV tmrptlicr either to make ot unmake. If thev work wrong, "they deplete and noisofi hia blood. Imoure and impover ished blood mean sicknessand death. If their wort ricrht thev oarifv and enrich the blood. A. man whose Wood is rich and pure, and whose liver is active cannot well be unhealthy. Headaches, biliousness, in digestion and costivenesa, which men gen erally disregard, are Nature's warnings that the twin mechanism, stomach and liver, is working against, instead of for faitn. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov ery is the best medicine to use under these circumstances. It creates appetite, cor rects all disorders of the digestion, invigor ates the liver and fills the arteries with rich. red. healthv blood. As an invigorat ing, restorative tonic, it is far. superior to all the malt extracts. It is the (Treat blood- maker and flesh-builder. It does not build sickly, flabby fat as cod liver oil does, but the hrm. muscular tissues ot neaitn. "For the fcjst nine years," writes William Miller, Esq.. pf 651 Mulberry Street. Reading, Pa.. " I have been -verv ooor In health. I suf fered with running sore leg. I tried many kinds of different medicines, and doctors with out relief. Then I used three bottles of Golden Medical Discovery ' and can say that I am en tirely cured. I can now do as good a day's work as the next man." Unfailable Dr. Pierce'a Pleasant Pellet for constipation and biliousness. W. K. LILLY. U. D. nns T.TT.T.7 & tfiktfi mimm i W liMMiMiiiiaitl) ... , m offer their professional services to the citi zens or Lncora ana vicinity, ah cans promptly attended day or night. Office and residence on East Depot street, opposite Presbyterian church. '.'A . W 3. MONTOOMEBY. ' J. IiKB CBOWBIi . MOHTGOMERY & CROWELL, Attorneys and Connselors-at-law, . CONOOBP, N. 0. As partners, will practice law in -Cabarrus, Stanly and adjoining counties. In the Supe rior and Supreme Courts of tbe State and In the Federal Courts. Oilice on Depot street. 1 Parties desiring to lend money can leave It with us or place it In Concord atlonal Bank for us, and we will lend it on good real es tate security free of charge to the depositor. we make tnorougn examination ot titio to lands Ottered as security for loans. Mortgages foreclosed without expense to owners of same. BLUME&BRO, Machine Works, CONCORD, C. Getieral Machinists and Machine Dealers. do heavy machine work; liler work especially. Pipe threading done to 10 inches inclusive. We do heavy and boiler work esi also engine Pipe cutting and ilusive. - All or ders have our prompt and careful attention, and prices as low as consistent with first-class workmanship and materials. When in need of anything in our line give us a call. , oniceana worKS. coroin di. Tcinv ivrnui? aihome Can make t2T per week. Either sex. m start you In the mail order business day or evening. No peddling. M. Young, 3C3Henry St., Brooklyn, N. Y. I These Glasses are famous for their Super and are sold by United States. In t iorilj (te All iold by over 11,000 dealers ates. The Marsh Drug Co. has a complete assortment and EXCLUSIVE SALE IN CONCORD.