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Sold br droe(rtit. . ; ' ' I " " . . - ivm x .i j 1 11 iUO I A1J TV, John B. Sherrill, Editor Volume XYl. WHEW PA BEGINS TO SHAVE. When Sunday mornin' comes around My pa hangs up his strop, -And takes his razor out an' makes . . It gac'flopl c'flopl . An' then he gits his mug an brush An' yells t' me, "Behave 1" I tell y'u, things Is mighty still v When pa begins t shaven i ,Then pa he stirs his brush around- An makes the soapsuds fly ; And sometimes, when he stirs too hard, He gits some In his eye. I tell y'u, but it's funny then, To see pa stamp and rave; But y'u niust'n't git ketched lalTm' When pa begins t' shave. Tii' hired hand he dasen' talk, An' even ma's afeared, -An' y'u can hear th' razor click A-euttin' through pa's beard 1 And then my Uncle Bill he laffs ? An' says: "Gosh! John, you're brave!" An' pa he swears an' ma jest smiles When pa beglus t' shave; . When pa gits done a-shavln' of . - His face, be turns around, And Uncle Bill says : "Why John, Y'ur chin looks like ploughed ground !" An' then he laffs jest laffs and laffs, But I cot t' behave. Cos things 's apt t' happen quick When pa begins t' shave. GOV PIX CUKE'S TALK TO A SEW "Detroit was long ruled by the Dem ocratic partv, until at leDgth the leaders grew reckless. Streets were given away to car companies, to gas companies and other corporations. Yoa could not drive without paying tol', the city was half-lighted and at exorbitant rates. What little paving there was cost twice as much as it was worth. The paring riDg was powerful. Sewers built had no outlet. There were long tracts of unoccupied land in the middle of the city held by men lor speculation. The cars drawn by horses were unhealthy and uncomfortable. Parks were given away for buildings. "In eight years all this has been remedied, and today Detroit is one of the most beautiful cities in the United States. " . - "I was elected by the most influential people of the city. Directfully after I was elected I discovered that the rail roads were paying lees than their lawful taxes. X said so, and the railroad suj port was lost to me. I found the gas companies charging exorbitant rates, and I said so, thus losing their support. found bankers speculating with the city funds. I denounced them, and they said I was uneafe. I 'attacked the surface "railroads, and they called me an anarchist. I was four times elected mayor. I lost a lot of old friends, but I was elected by a larger majority each tune. It is something be proud of when the influential classes turn their bucks on me and the common people stand by me. I have oroe to lean on the common people. Xhy are. tLe real foundation of good government. "The remedy is in municipal owner ship. This will not only solve municipal questions, but will bring railroads, ex press companies, street lines, telegraph and telephone companies and other agencies into the proper subjection. . 'My experience is that those who stand foremost in the synagogue and wear long faces on Sunday, and spend the rest of the week in bribing alder men, and getting up Btock jobbing schemes to defraud widows and orphans, are most dangerous members of society. 'I say that unless the Republican party comes out and champions the average man, and unless it ceases to cater to syndicates, trusts, monopolies and their agencies, it will be buried in oblivion." ' The Plague in India. The bubonic plague has destroyed 8omehundreds of thousands of lives in India since the present outbreak began, but its ravages are believed to be some what diminished by the change of season. It is not strictly under control, since, in snite of all precautions it has extended from time to time to new areas, but it is prevented from depopulating ojty and country as it formerly did. It is largely a filthy disease, which is fav ored by insanitary conditions. The British medical authorities have been mobbed several times for trying to apply nrnner sanitary -measures in localities where the plague existed, and the con tinnance of the erademic is largely due to thft determined preference or Ori entals for absolute seclusions of women folks, even at the expensa of their lives. The natives resent the visits of medical inspectors and refuse to co-operate for the repression of the plague. Scientists have devised a special virus ior iuj cure ana mere is some eviueute w success. The TorUtown's Misfortune. The capture by the Filipinos of a boat and fifteen men of the Yorktpwn near Baler, on the east coast of Luzon, ia a most distressing incident, since it is by no means certain that the prisoners .a " e a will be humanely treated, ii is me nrsi considerable loss that the navy has suf fered in the operations consequent upon the war with Spain. The xomtown had been sent, it appears, to rescue Spanish troops who were beleaguered at Baler, m accordance wun tne ODiiga- tions assumed by our government in the treaty cf peace. While officers and man of the vessel were ashore, or near th Rhore 'thev were ambushed, hred uoon and made prisoners. It is sup nosed that some aori oi parley wun me - 4 1- !iL iL. Filipinos was in progress, or was being attempted, when the capture was effflf.ted. Be this as it may, after the cantjre the natives refused tocommuni noto with the snin. so inai tue iaie ui thfl unfortunate men is unknown. ' an exchange of prisoners will be sougni and it is hoped that JUieutenant uiimore and his men will be speeauy reieaseu. Rather Particular. W. J. Brvan. after, registering at hotel where he was a stranger, addressed the clerk: . "Does the proprietor of this hote indorse the Chicago platform?" "Well. I think not." TTvfl von any cuests ia . the house who do?" " Reallv. I have never had occasion sf to innuire." k . "Will you please instruct the bead waiter not to seat any one at my table unless the person consents to indorse the I , r 11 ' " ' "' " "" ' ""Ip" "' ""' 1 ' ii i .' i't j ii. i.i. ... , .. l , , . . . CONGORD H and Owner. BILL ASP'S LETTER. Bonus, melior, optimus good, bet ter, best Malus, pejor, pessimus bd, worse, worst I remember that much Latin. Some days we are opti mists and look on the bright side and think the war is about over and the millenium will begin witb.tljj.jiw-ceQ tury. Then again the news is bad we are obliged to be pessimists until it changes. I am a pessimist right now, for everything looks dark and gloomy abroad, though the genial spring sun is shining and everything is lovely at home. What is all this about one hun dred thousand more men wanted to subdue the Filipinos and our soldiers saying they didn't enlist to fight nfe groes; and what about the Samoans ambushing our boys and cutting their heads off and parading them through the street; and what about a rupture with Germany while our nav v is all en gaged over there in those far distant islands ? If Germany is fighting mad, what better opportunity does she want than to turn her navy loose unon us right now ? and how do we know that Johnny Bull would help us? And then again there seems to be no real peace in Porto Kico, for one of their late papers says, "We observe with sorrow that the United States troops are a mass of base and shameless people, a drunken multitude who daily buffet and maltreat our suffering people. They rob our servants as they go to market; they enter our restaurants and take what they want by force and then break up the crockery; they rob the peddlers and refuse to pay the cab men and steal everything m eight; they insult our women like savages, and to complain to headquarters is like barking at the moon. ' If this is our destiny, would that we could sink this fair island in the depths of the sea.". Another paper says: "Our people are daily insulted by these ruffians, and we have not the patience of Job nor.the meekness of the Man of Cavalry to bear these things without retaliating." Another paper says: "We suffered much under the Spaniards, but our new liberators are committing greater offenses and oppressions than did our former masters, and we cannot submit quietly to this new tyranny. Never before has there occurred in Ponce such outrages as are happening today. There is safety nowhere, and our ladies are at all times exposed to the insults of drunken soldiers." How is that for the American soldier, the brave patriots whom we ' laud in song and story ? Nor do we have to go to Porto Kico to find them. Only a few days ago a New Jersey regiment was niustered out at Greenville, S. C, and immediately began their devilment, and their journey home was a reign of terror. A neera- writes.,- to- m and wants" to know wherein, the colored troops were worse than the whites. What is the matter with this genera tion, white and black? What is the matter at Pana, and why can't the two raqes work together in peace ? What is the matter at Weathersford, Corm and why won't the white people there let the negroes build a home for old and invalid negroes ? Carrie Steele, a colored good Samaritan, projected a similar home for negro orphans in At lanta and the whites bade her godspeed and subscribed liberally and helped her, and it is doing good work that is commended by all our people. Have the yankees forgotten what they fought for, or pretended to fight us for ? And besides all these things there are more fires and awful casualities and down ing and suicides and murders than ever before known in so brief a time, and it is enough to make a hopeful man almost despair of peace and good will ever returning to this afflicted land. This is why I am a pessimist today, but I live in hope and maybe I will be an ODtimist next wees, nope is a bleHsed thing. The first composition I ever heard read in school was written by a tall, freckled-faced, red-headed girl and it was on "Hope," and the first sentence was: "Hope is a good inven tion, and if it were not for hope man would die and woman would give up the ship." "Not only so, but also " said Jim Alexander, and George Lester whispered a part of his speech: "Hope for a season bade the world farewell, A .1 FMAilAm 4 oil whan ITAL.hialrn fAll 11 And Eennelv Butler quoted a line from his speech: "Hope springs eternal in the human breast" And 1 had to lift up my voice, of course, as I re peated: 'Twas ever thus In childhood's hour, I've seen my foodest hopes decay." We smart boys had a"power of fun over that red-headed composition, and it is still a proverb among us that "Hope is a good invention" And bo we will not utterly despair but live in hope. , I worked in the garden yester day, tat it was a blessed day. I have been sick. My back ached and my eft kidney was on a boom and my legs . - i were on a striice ana wouiaent carry one with alacrity, but work in the gar den got me all in a sweat of perspira tion and I feel better. My wire said would, and she knows. She has got but two laws for me. One is, I must work in the garden if I am well,' and the other is. I must be well. The war doesent bother me when I am at work, but I hoe and dig and ponder while 1 dig. I am perplexed right now about a verv mysterious lorce oi nature mat I do not understand. It is the lifting power of little tender plants. I never have understood how it is that the pea or a bean or a potato patch or an okra seed can crack the cloddy ground and lift the clods and part them and find way upward. These little tender shoots that will bend and break at the touch can lift a weight of pounds, and I am satisfied that there is some mysterious force that helps them do some electric influence that emanates from the plant some dynamic power. What farmer h88 not wondered tnat.a snooting gram f nnm fv-mlH i.riVipa.vfi and unlit asnn- IM l l L v X der a clod that he could hardly break with his horny hands.!- Alien, again what a preservative is our mother earth. How safely, it keeps the roots of vegetation from frosta and freezes and zero cold. We had sixty-six rose bushes, all of choice varieties, and have taken a world oi comiori in ineir peau tiful flowers, but this last winter they wpre all killed killed dead to the 'BE T-CTST -2T3D. :ES NOT." Concord, N. C. , Thursday, April 2 7 , 1899. ground, and I cut them down and saw no sign of life. It made us all sad and I wrote about it, and a good man,a florist, of Chambersburg, Pa., Mr. William B. Reed, read my letter, and surprised me by sending sixty-six new plants of the best varieties, and I planted, them carefully between the dead ones and they are springing up beautifullj , - and now, lo and behold, the old ones" are sending up 6trong and vigorous shoots from near the surface and. most of them are above the budded joints. So if all of them live and grow there will be a wilderness of rosesand we can take our choice. I am ready to certify that Mr. Reed is a great big hearted man.. And now Mr. R. K. Robertson, of Chickamauga, has sent me 300 strawberry plants. Lady Thompson and Louise and Gahdy va rieties. All are fine, and the Gandys are especially wanted, for they are a very late variety and bear bountifully after all other kinds have passed away for the "season. Ill bet. he is a good man, too, and my wife makes it a rule to believe that everybody is good who is good to us. f So now let the war go on. It is none of my doings. For a good while I was in hopes that McKinley fe Co.,"whp let slip the dogs of war for political pur poses, would see their mistakeand call off the dogs, but most of the preachers tell them that it is God's will and marP ifest destiny and that the doors to the heathen must be opened and be kept open. And so we common folks can't do anything. I heard preachers talk that way for war thirty-seven years ago and we thought they had the Urinl and Chummin in their breeches pockets, but they dident One thing is certain. This war has done the nation no good morally or financially, and it has low ered our respect for the array and for military aflairs in general, and army beef in particular. When our boys once get out of it they will be apt to stay out and if we have to send 100, 000 more troops.to fight niggers in the Philippines they will not go from this part of the country certain. ' Bill Arp. P. S. In my last I did not say that the Virginia editor was hypocritical. No, I would not be so disrespectful. I wrote very plainly that he was hyper critical. Your typo changed it. B. A. . . . Cfrciunstantial K vide nee. V j - . . . I - A good, story is being told about a juror who was drawn for service in the Criminal Court recently on a murder case, says the Buffalo News. He was one of those men who was willing to do his part as a good citizen, but be had a prejudice against circumstantial evi dence which was so strong he could not dispel it from his mind, and it finally mnm-ip.ii i j iorgulKlltTlfr He answered the questions put to him by the prosecuting attorney to qualify, but when the attorney for the defendant got down to where he asked him if he would xnvict a person on circumstantial evidence he hesitated. "Why do you hesitate ?" . asked the Judge. "Well, I'll be frank with you, re plied the juror., "I don't believe ia it." If the evidence was so overwhelm ing that there could be no doubt of the guilt of the prisoner, wouldn't you vote to convict? "No.' "Why?" "Judge, can I whisper to you ?" "Yes." There was a threemirrut? conversa tion between the Judge and the juror, at the conclusion of which the Judge smiled, and then he eaid: "Juror, you are excused. The att6rneys did not forget thei inci dent; and at the end of the .day a ses sion they asked the Judge- what the trouble was with Mr, , Darning the juror who was excused. The Judge 6aid the man told him he was the owner of a farm in Cheekto waga, and among his livestock was a handsome pet calf. Oae day while he was out in the barnyard chopping at a fence with an axe this calf made a break to get out of the yard. With his axe still in his band he ran after the animal and caught him by the tail Just as he was dragging it back from an opening in the fence a member of the family happened along, and, seeing him with the axe in his hand, con cluded he was suffering with an attack of senile dementia and in his fury, was trying to hack the poor beast into veal cutlets. "Judge, I was perfectly rational, and I protested that I was attempting noth ing of the kind," said the juror, "but appearances were against me, and to this day I am unable to convince my family that I was not crazy and was not trying to murder that calf. That's the reason I am against circumstantial edidence. The Christian's Arithmetic. - 1 Notation "I will put my laws into their hearts and on their minds will write them." Numeration "So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." - Addition "Add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; and to know ledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindnessf and to brotherly kindness, charity. Subtraction "Let us put off the works of darkness and let us put on the armor of light" Multiplication "Mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied." Division "Wherefore comeout from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord and I will receive you. - In almost every neighborhood there is some ono whose" life has been saved bf Chamberlain s Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, or who has been cured of chronic diarrhoea by the use of that medicine. Such persons " make a point of telling of it whenever oppor tunity offers, hoping that it may be the the means of saving other lives. For sale by M. L. Marsh & Co., Druggists. If you are going to get married don't forget that The Times can furn iah your wedding cards in tha Very la test style, and ou - the shortest possibl notice. Strict secrecy guaranteed. ODD EVENTS. Mr. Clark Hall, of Bowlnan, Ga. has a curiosity in the shape of a cross and a gobble between a guinea, a turkey chicken. It will neither cackle, nor lay an egg. J. A. Stone, of Berrien county, Geor gia, is strangely afflicted, lie has a crippled leg which causes him at inter vals of ten minuea to roar like a lion. He can be heard half a mile easily. A . bill has been introduced in the 'ennessee legislature providing that the bodies of professors and students of medical colleges shall be turned over to those institutions for dissecting purposes. At Kokomo, lad., a fire swept over three acres of a cemetery, destroying verything in its pathway, including hundreds of headstones and marble abs marking the resting places of the dead. - Near Lawrenceville, Ga., Martin Johnston, after digging a well about thirty-two feet, was being drawn out by his brother while sitting quietly on a keg. As he reached the surface the cnain broke and the keg trave way. Mr. Johnston kept his seat and in one second fell thirty-two feet Fortunately he was not hurt. On Easter Sunday at Knoxville, enn., two young men applied for sup per at the Imperial hotel. Oae of the young men waa dressed as a tramp, which caused .the proprietor to refuse them entertainment. They now bring suit for $500 damages under the law requiring hotels to admit guests of un questionable repute. little twelve-months-old baby of Mr. Ed Beck, of Fitzgerald, Ga., has beea suffering for some time, and the parents were unable to ascertain the cause. Recently the mother was rub bing the baby's side and found the point of some sharp instrument. On making an examination she pulled a darning needle three inches in length from the side of the little one. The baby is improving now and will recover. Quite a freak of nature is being ex hibited at Bainbridge, Ga., in the shape a negro girl eleven years old whose face presents a wonderful deformity. Her eyes are almost on one Bide of her head, her forehead has a great lump on it composed of similarly shaped bones to those of her head, four distinct nasal passages, or two noses, and an extra set ; teeth. She sings, talks, reads and is intellectually as bright as the ordinary negro child of her age and opportuni ties. Near Cassville, Ga., Mrs. A. R. Pitt- man killed a hen for her midday meal, an axe being used to behead it . A rooster g"" VP .lo I T.qtii, , thngal raugh displeasure at the proceeding. In a few momenta Mrs. Pittman looked round and noticed the rooster lying on the ground and fluttering as if its head had been cut off. A careful examina tion failed to develop a scratch or a bruise. He was cut open and one of the larger blood vessels it his heart was found ruptured. The verdict of the jury was that death resulted from a broken heart. "A pathological curiosity," it is noted, reported from St. Louis. "It is a young woman who is dangerously ill from cerebro-spinal meningitis, which, it is asserted, she contracted aa a result reading a thrilling etory about that disease. Four doctors are attending her, and say the case is an extremely critical one, and that they are sure that she was made ill by 'sympathetic conta gion;' that her mind absorbed the dis ease from the pages of the book and transplanted it into her Bystem.' " This is a warning to people to be careful about how they read medical books, but it is something more. The testimony of the four doctors, if they are in earn est, goes far to suggest that there may be a good deal in "mind cures and 'faith cures" after all. Sympathetic cure should not be the natural corrcla tion or sympathetic contagion. i The Only Brave Man. A battalion of volunteer infantry , was drilling in a field, when a regiment of regular cavalry rode by. 7 1 The colonel of the cavalry halted his men to watcn tne volunteers, and, getting into conversation, with the colonel of the latter, he criticised their drill unfavorably, especially - their want of steadiness. The volunteer colonel was a fierce fellow, and he cried hotly : "Aly men are as steady- as any regi- ment of regulars. "I do not think so, retorted the cavalryman," and if you'll draw up your men in order to receive cavalry I prove it." The challenge was accepted, and the cayalry men charged down upon the citizen soldiers, who awaited them in the usual way. Now, regular cavalry can charge to within a few feet, or even inches, of infantry at full gallop, and then, at the word of command, pull up short, The volunteers, however, lost their nerve when thev saw the huge horses thundering down upon them and show ingno sign of stopping when a few yards off. They fled, all but one man, who remained on his knee with bayonet leveled. His colonel, enraged at the others' flight, approached the hero, and, tap ping him on the back, cried: "You're the only brave man in the regiment. You scorned to run. "Yes, sir. gasped the hero, "lnad my fut stuck in a hole, or I sbouldn have waited." The Best in the World. We ' believe "Chamberlain's , Cough Remedy is the best in the world. A few weeks ago- we suffered with a serve cold and a troublesome cough, and having read their advertisements in our own and other papers we purchased a bottle to see if it would effect us. ' It cured as before the bottle was more than half used. It is the beet medicine out for colds and coughs. The ' Herald, Andersonville, Ind. For sale by M. L. Marsh & Co., Druggists. . " The world's corn crop approximates O Don ruin nnn l.naViola nnnnallv nf which America produces 82 per cent flM INFIRMITIES OP TEMPER. Baltimore Sun. The man or woman who suffers from what is called an infirmity of temper is unhappy and may render other people miserable. The infirmityjnay take the form of continued querulousness aid fault-ff ading, or it mayie a manifesta tion of bad temper unexpectedly and without apparent reason. Although infirmities of temper may be developed as a habit, they are usually traceable to be regarded and treated as manifesta tions of disease. They seldom appear in those who have purposes in life and are kept busy in regular occupation. Such people sometimes remark face tiously that they have "no time to be sick," but this is a literal truth. Tne nervous organization suffers less from work than from inaction. The busy man (or woman) if not overworked is kept in good condition by healthful ex ercise; it is the idler or growler whose general tone ia lowered by inactivity who suffers from hysteria and other nervous affections. Where infirmities of temper -querulousness, whimsical changes of mind, passion without adequate cause and similar manifesta tions are observed an effort should be made to remove the cause of the nerv ous disturbance if which these- phe nomena are manifestations. In the great majority of cases the victims of such infirmities of temper are men or women without any serious purpose or occupation spoiled children of well-to- do and indulgent parents. The poor are obliged to work; the very rich can support some fad that absorbs their thoughts and occupies their time. In what ha called a middle class are the well-to-do people whose daughters are kept from healthful work, partly out of sentiment, and who grow up idle and discontented. Sometimes these daugh ters become interested in music or art work, or in charitable labors, or in some occupation that keeps their minds em ployed and gives them a regular occupa tion, loo often they have no fixed ambition or purpose in life and grow up under conditions that are injurious to health. They suffer physically and and. mentally for want of exercise, their illhealth impairs the nervous or ganization and makes them fretful or perverse. The disease for it may be so regarded develops rapidly because of its reactions. The victim of an in firmity of temper is rendered unhappy and frets other members of the house hold. . In this respect the disease acts like a contagion. It is useless to try correctives intended merely to suppress manifestations of bad temper. Punish ments will only aggravate the evil. The cause of the nervous disturbance ought to be removed, and this can best be ac complished by finding some means of ronseruug me Kuer-iBw a worsrer a regular worker haying some definite purpose to attain, an ambition in life. t sometimes seems as though the surest means of attaining happiness .. is by work. The busy man is generally con tented and happy, especially if he gets a fair return for his labor. He ia alike happy, when working and when taking needed rest, for in such moments he thinks of what he has done and makes plans for in such moments he thinks of what he haB done and makes plans for the future. He has no time to become morbidly melancholy; his nervous or ganization is kept in. a - healthful state of excitement, and his temper is placid. The sufferer from infirinitiesof tem per is to be pitied rather than con demned pitied as one sick with a cur able disease. But it is a disease that becomes chronic through long indul gence, and for that reason the sufferers from it should be put under treatment as eoon as they show definite signs of the malady. What they need most of all is work, absorbing work of some kind,, something that will give them regular occupation for their thoughts if not for their hands something to take them away from themselves and put an end to their destructive broodings. Quaint Titles. The following are some of the curious titles of old English books: 1. "A Most Delectable Sweet Per fumed Nosegay for God's Saints to Smell at."; 2. "Biscuit Baked in the Oven of Charity. Carefully Conserved for the Chickens of the Church, the Sparrows of the Spirit, and the Sweet Swallows of Salvation." 3. "A Sigh of Sorrow for the Sinners of Zion Breathed Out of a Hole in the Wall of an Earthly Vessel Known Among Men by the Name of Samuel Fish" .(a 'Quaker who had been im prisoned.) 4. "Eggs of Charity LayeJ for the Chickens of the Covenant and Boiled With the Water of Divine Love. Take Ye Out and Eat." 5. "Seven Sobs of a Sorrowful Soul for Sin." 6. "The Spiritual Mustard Pot to Make the Soul Sneeze with Devotion." Most of these were published in the time of Cromwell. Good Word. A little Irish maid, fresh from her native isle, has furnished her New HJneland "mistress with many a new phrase. . V ' . "The sun has, hard work to shine this week, Nora," said the lady, to the maid. -who was dusting her room' one gloomy day. "It comes out for a few minutes, and then the clouds hide it for hours again." j "Yes, mim.'i said Nora. '. '"It's what you'd call bashful weather, mim, now isn't it?" Baekleo's Arnica Salye. . The best salve in the world for Ctlts, Braises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt" Rheum, Fe ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chil blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles or no pay re quired. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or .money refunded. Price 25 cents a box. For sale by P. B. Fetzer. Irish barrister- Your honor, I shall first aabsolutely prove to the jury that the prisoner cjuld not have committed the crime with which he is charged. If that does not convince the jary I shall show that be was insane when he com mitted it., if that fails, l shall prove ! au alibi, ES. $1.00 a Year, in Advance. Number 43. DRAWING WATER UNDER FIRE. The following breezy anecdote of the bantiago campaign is sent to the Youth's Companion by a Rough Rider. He was wounded in the blockhouse figbt, but lives to tell the story. . A fruitful source of suffering, and one of tne principal causes of the dis ease which later assaulted our ranks was the lack of good drinking water. Dur ing the lurid first of July the San Juan river, rolled and muddied by constant fording, furnished our only meanu of liquid refreshment; and indeed it con tinued to be our chief source of supply throughout those weary days spent in the trenches before the surrender of the city. - Oa the night of the first, under cover of - darkness. Spanish sham-shootera took up commanding positions in trees near all the principal fords, and made the task of filling canteens extremely dangerous. . However, we of the Rough Riders discovered a well near the blockhouse on the hill we had taken and were hold ing, and from it we drew our supply of water during the days we remained in this position. The location of the well was an exposed one, and was com manded by the fire of the Bharp-shoot-ers posted well within the Spanish lines, where it was difficult to dislodge them. Already several men had been hit while drawing water, so that when, on the morning of the third, I was ordered to take a pail and accompany a colored trooper from the Tenth Cavalry to the well, I knew I was setting out on a rather hazardous undertaking. In the army, however, orders are orders, so I took my pail and started. My companion was a big, burly fel low, black as ebony, but a brave soldier withal, as were all the men of that fa mous regiment. We walked along un der cover of the hill until we had come to a point opposite the well, when my comrade stopped me for a consultation. "Der haint no use both we-unsgwine up ther' and gittin' shot at the same time," he remarked, and I really as sented. "Well, den, I'se gwine up firs' and get my pail of watah, and den you git yours." I agreed to this-arrangement, and we both started, crawling forward on our stomachs and trying to keep the stone coping of the well between us and where we thought the Spaniards were posted. By going slowly and keeping down in the graRS, without, so far as W9 knew, exposing ourselves to view, we gained the well, i Then my companion sprang to his feet, grasped the roper lowered the pail into the well, and began drawing it up, filled. From the moment he leaped up he was exposed to the plain view of the sharp eyes across the valley, and in Nothing daunted, the brave fellow kept at his task, despite the fact that another bullet whistled by still closer to him, until he had filled his pail. Then he dropped down beside me, and my turn had come. Without waiting for the second thought which "always weakens a man under fire, I sprang to my feet and low ered away. "Z-b-s-b!" sang a Mauser, and I leaned a little lower down the well. "Z-b-s-b I" hissed another, and I was tugging at the rope like mad. With hands trembling with excitement, I filled my pail and dropped down just as the third bullet went oyer my head. We had got our water, and all that now remained for us was to crawl off with it. This was no easy task, but we accomplished it, and the men from troop D had hot coffee for breakfast that morning. The Boy and the Battle. Cleveland Plain Dealer;. - The boy had been, asked to write a composition on the naval battle of San tiago. This is the painful result "Samsun steemed upa waze an' then Gervery come out. He sed, 'I gess I'le make a run for it' So he crakt on all sale an' came a-bustin' thru the narrer place where Hobson sinkt the Merry mack, an' he steered clost to shore in hops to git away. Sly seen him a com in' an' he signuled to the other chips an' tha all went fer Cervery like a thous an' of brick. Sly swinged the Bruklyn round an' let 'em have it with both barls from the wurd go. An pretty soon all the Spanish ships went down plunk like as tho' they had holes bored in 'em Then when bly an the rest of of the captins wus wipin' thare forrids an' lettin' the guns cool off, up steems Admiral Samsun. 'Hello,' sez Sly plesently, 'where you bin all this while?' But; Samsun wuz out of sorts. It looks te me,' he sez bitterly, 'as if you think you wuz the hole thing.' But SJy he only lafei 'Oh, I don't kno he sez, an wiuks at the captins, 'I gess there s clone enuff to go round.' But Samsun wuz orful bilyus, 'If you'd obayed or ders,' he sez, 'this disgniysful thing wouldn't hav' happened Then Sly dident say no more coz he saw how bil yus Samson wuz. Au' the Cervery ships bein' sunk for good an' all tha coodn't try it oyer agin, an' that's all I kno' about it up to the present writin'." Professional Weepers. ' N. Y. Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch. The "professional weeper" and adu lator at funerals does a large business' here, but it is very hard to discover them without consulting an undertaker, who thf-in when occasion demands. j This class are hired to atte.id funerals for the sole purpose of shedding tears, and they "weep" just according to the amount of their fee.- lhere is a large number of them in the business, and the most peculiar feature of it is that they reap the greater part of their in comes from the wealthiest families. One was in court who had refused to pay alimony to his wife. When ordered to be locked up by Magistrate Went worth he tried by his professional ability to be let off, but the magistrate knew what a kind of a citizen he bad before him. Consequently the man of tears is in jail. -. " - Hot Realistic. - Penelope Do you . remember that striped shirt waist you woretthe bach last summer f : Patrice Yes. , Pene lope Well, I saw it in a. field to-day being utilized as a Bcarecrow. Patrice Did it look natural ? Penelope No; there wvsn't any arm around it. - THE TIMES STEAM BOOK AND JOB OFFICE We 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.- Powder Made from pure cream of tartar. - , - Safeguards the food against alum - Alum baking powders arc the greatest menac to health of the present day. BOVl SAK1W9 POWQEH eg, hew YQWH. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. D. G. CALDWKLL, K. D. ST. L. tTIVZKS, K. D DRS. CALDWELL & STEVENS. Office in former Postofflce Building on Main Dfcreet. Telephone No. 37. DR. H. C. HERRING. DENTIST, Is again at his old place over Yorke's Jewelry COXTCO&D, IT. O. - DR. L. N. BURLEYS0N, Physician and Surgeon. ' Offers his professional servtaM tn tha if.i. zens of Concord and vicinity. umce over Marsh's drug store. TeleDhone No. 86 Residence, corner Depot and Fetzer Streets. Dr. W. C. Houston. Surgeon figj Dentist, CONCORD, H. O. Is prepared to do all kinds of dental work In the most approved manner. umce over-Johnson's Drag Store. ;. 4 , L. T HARTSELL, " Attorney-at-Law, C02TCOBD, NORTH OABOUtTsV Prompt attention riven ti all hnnlneiM. Office In Morris building, opposite the court uuuse. . . W. H. WLLY, K. D. Das.; LILLY & Jm MONTOOMlBr, M. 1 offer their professional services to the citi zens or vincora ana vicinity, au cam promptly attended day or night. Office and residence on East Depot street, opposite Presbyterian church. W J. MONTGOMBBT, - t.m rmnxrgT. . MOHTGOMERY & CROWELL, Attorneys and Connselors-at-L&Wr ' CONOOKD, K. O. ' As partners, will practice law In Cabarrus, Stanly and adjoining counties,. In the Supe rior and Supreme Courts of the State and In the Federal Courts. Office on Depot street. Parties desiring to lend money can leave It with us or place It In Concord National Bank for us, and we will lend It on good real es tate security tree of charge to the depositor. We make thorough examination of title to lands offered as security for loans. Mortgages foreclosed without expense to owners of same. - ... Paying Double Prices'! for everything is not oleasant. is ft? But that's what - yoa axe doing, if yoa don't buy here. Did yoa think ft possible to buy a $50.00 Bicycle for 118.75! Cat Inviia No. xa tells all Price, 118.75. about Bicycles, Sewing Machine. Omns and Pianos. ? What do you think of a fine T suit of Clothing, made-to-your-f measure, guaranteed to fit and - Y expreu paid to your station Y for $4.50? Catalogue No. 57 Y shows 33 samples of clothing ' j and shows many bargains in Y Shoes, Hats and Furnishings. Y Lithographed Catalogue No. 47 shows Carpets, Rugs, Por- Y tieres and Lace Curtains, in y hand-painted colors. - W paw Y Fritf fit, sew carpets free, and Y tuiaisa lining witnout caarge. : : What do yoa 111 think of st Solid Oak. Dry-air Fam ily "Refrigera tor for $3.95? It is but one of over 8000 bar gains contained ia our Gen eral Catalogue of Furniture and Household Goods. WesaV you from 40 to So per cent, on every thing. Why jv' ofttsf Which catalogue do I. Price, $3.95. yoawantt Address this way. Julius nines & son, Baltimore, Md. Dspton.? 2 . . BUYS AN I b I 'A Eight Day Clock, Walnut or Oak, Fully ; Warranted, FOR 12 MONTHS, I I S I AT W. G. Fine Watchiork and EngraY - M a Specialty. .' ... PT?TMTIWr. AT WA VC PA VC Baking &i if- al 1 Chicago platform? ' - . -
The Concord Times (Concord, N.C.)
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