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-jk THE TIM E8 "STEfiM BOOK AND WfZl TflECOnCOSD WEEKLY TIIIES riM We keen - nd a "tock of ' LETTEji tADS, NOTE HEADS, STATE- LASS! AN3 CSKUTtt j MENTS, BILL HEADSV ENVEL- , opes, TAGS, VISITING CARDS, WED- CTABUHCD IN UTft. John B. Sherrill, Editor and Owner. 'BE UTTSI1 AND PEAR 5TOT.. $2.00 a reajyia -Adraccc. DM INVITATIONS, ETC.; ETC. If yea taw ftayttttfig to.tl, k the jf4eiow it. VOLUME XYII. Concord, N. C, Thursday, February 8. 1900. Number 82, I GOOI PRINTING' ALWAYS PAYS THE ES t. I- . Palpitation of the Heart. - - -W'I - ttA lever e attack of nervous prostration left my heart in a . verV weak state It wotI4 -j . . r . palpitate and. nutter at the slightest eserjtion, and " I was v unable to attend to business. I trim several remedies without i benefit, until! I began using: Dr Miles' Heart Cure which cuitd me completely. Woilney, Jacks' n, Mis. , , is pld by all druggists on guarantee ' first bottle benefits. or money back."; : Bffok on heart and nervies sent free. Pr. 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They 1 J ire a source of care, also, l I Uf ydu care for your child's I picalth, seaji for illustrated V j pook on; the' disorders to which I I Ichildreri are subject, and I 1 ; fwhich. Prey's Vermifuge. I f 1 :' Ihas cured for 50 years. I I v-J ' 0a x"U 7 m Ibr 96 oeata. J V -B,S.FREY, I I j. Baltimore, Md J tnt. ppy-Pectoral 4 i 1ST "THE MESSAGE TO UAHC1A..- letter ta Garelat Howta t ook I ha Letter, bat D(d Hoc A.W, Wkr h ir-nf llnui. ta Uarrin." Blbert Hubbard la I'hiilstlne Magailne. In all the Cqban business there if one man elands out on the horizon of my memory like Mars at periiitlion. When, war broke out between Spain and the United States, it waa very necessary to communicate quickly with the leader of insurgents. Garcia waa somewhere in the mountaitifastneesesiot Cuba no one knew where No mail nor tele graph message could reacb him. The President rnuBt secure his co-pperalion, and quickly. What to do ? Home , one said to the President: There's fellow by tjhe name of Row an will God Garcia for you, if anybody can." " f Rowan was sent for, and given a lettter to be belitered to Garcia. How "the fellow by the name of Rowan" took the letter, sealed it up in -n oil skin pouch, strapped it over bis heart, in four days landed by Dight -off the coast of Cuba from an open boat; dis appeared into the jungle, and in three weeks came out on the other side of the island, having traversed a hostile coun try on foot, and delivered his letter to Garcia, are' things I have no special desire to tell in detail. i The point I wish to make is this: McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be de livered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Where is he at?" Bv the Eternal! there is a man whose form form should be cast in deathless bronze, ! and the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not .book learning young men need, nor intruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, con centrate thsir energies; do the thing "carry a meseage to Garcia!" General Garcia is dead now, but there are other Garcias. j - No man has endeavored to carry cut an enterprise where many hands were needed, but has been well nigh appalled at times by the imbecility of the average man -the inability or unwillingness to concentrate on a thing and do it. Slipshod assistance, foolish'inattentioo, dowdy indifference and half-hearted work seem the rule; and no man suc ceed, unless by hook or crook, .or threat, he forceB or bribes other men to assist him, or mayhap, Godin His goodness performs a miracle, and sends bins an angel of light for an assistant. You are now in your office six clerks are within call. Summon one and make this request: "Please. look in the encyclopedia and make a brief mem orandum for me concerdiog the life of Correggio.'' r Will theclerk quietly say, "Yes, sir;" and go to the task? On your life-he will not. He will look at you out of a fishy eye, and . ask one or more of the following questions: Who was he? Which encyclopedia ? Where is the encyclopedia ? Was I hired for that ? - Don't you mean Bismarck? What's the matter with Charlie do ing it? Is he dead?. Is there any hurry ? Shan't I bring you the book, and let you look it up yourself ? What do you want to know for ? And I will lay you ten to one that .after you have answered the questions and explained how to find the informa tion, and why you. want it, the clerk will go off and get one of the other clerks to help him try to find Garcia and then come back and tell you there' is no such a man. Of course, I may lose my bet, but, according to the law of average, I will not. Now, if you are wise, you will not bother to explain to your "assistant" that Correggio is indexed under the Cs, not in the Ks, but you will smile sweetly and say, "Never mind," and go look it up vourself And his incapacity for independent action, this moral stupidity, this in firmity of the will, this unwilungness to cheerfully catch hold and lift, are the things that put pure " socialism so far into the future. If men will not act for themselves what will they do when the benefit Of their effort is for all A first mate with knotted club seems necessary; and the dread of getting "the bounce" Saturday night holds many a worker to his place. Advertise for a stenographer,' and nine out Of ten who apply can neither spell nor purfctuate and do not think it necessary. Can such a one write ajetter" to Garcia? ."Ydu eee that book-keeper?" said the foreman to me in a lsrge factory. "Yes; what about him ? . "Well, he's a fine accountant: but if I'd send him uptown on an errand he mignt accomplish the errand all right, and on the other hand, might stop at four salooDs on the' way, and when he got to Main street would forget what he had been sent for." Can such a man be entrusted to carry a message to Garcia ? VVe have recently been hearing much maudlin sympathy expreeged for the down-trodden citizen of the sweat shop" and. the "homeless wanderer searching for honest employment," and with it al often, go many card words for the men in power. ; . Nothing is said about the employer who grows old before his time in a vain attempt to get frowsv ne'er-do-wells to do intelligent work; and Ms long, patient striving with "help1' that does nothing but loaf when nis back is turned, In every store and factory there is a constant weeding out process going on. The employer ia constantly sending away "help" that have shown their incapacity to further the interests of the business, and others : are , being taken on. No matter how good times are, this sorting continues; only if times are hard nd work is scarce, the sorting is done finer but out and forever out. the incompetent and unworthy ro. . It is the survival of the fittest SelMn tereBt prompts every employer to keep the best those who can carry a message to Garcia. I know one man of really brilliant parts who has not the ability to manage a business of his own, and yet who. is absolutely worthless to any on else,be- cause be carries with him constantly the insane suspicion that Lit employer is oppressing or intending to oppress' him. He cannot g:T.e orders and he will notrec! ive them. Should a mef age be given him to take to Garcia hii answer would probably be Take it yourself.".- : - r "'' ! To-night this man walks the streets looking for work, the wind wliistliog through his threadbare coat. No one who knows him dare employ him, for he is a regular fire-brand of discontent. He is imp rvious to reason, ana the only thing that can imprest. him i tbe toe of a thick-sole No. 9 boot. Of course I know that one so mortally de formed is no less to be pitied than a! physical cripple; but in our pitying, let us drop a tear, too, for tbe men who are striving tp carry on" a great enter prise, whose working hours are not limited by the whistle, and whose hair is .fast turning white ' through the struggle to hold in line dowdy indiffer ence, slipshod imbecility, and the heart less ingratitude, which, but for their enterprise, would be both hungry and homeless.; . Have I put the matter too strongly? Possibly 1 have; but wheri all the world has gone a-slumming I wish to speak; a word of sympathy for the man who succeeds the man who, against great odds, has directed the efforts of others, and having succeeded, finds' there's pothing in it, nothing but bare board and clothes. I have carried a dinner pail and worked for day's wages, and I have also been an employer of labor, and I know there is something t i be said on both sides. There is no ex cellence, per Se, in poverty; rags are no recommendation, and all employers are not rapacious and high-handed, amy more than all poor men are virtuous. My heart goes out to the man who does bis work when the 'boss" is away, as well as when he. is at home. And the man who, who when given a letter for Garcia, quietly takes the missive without asking any idiotic questions, and with no lurking intention of chuckling it into the nearest sewer, or doing aught else but deliver it, never gets "laid off," nor has to go on a strike for higher wages. Civilization is one long, anxious Bearch for just such individuals. -Any-, thing such a man asks shall be granted ; his kind is so rare that no employer can afford to let him go. He is wanted in every city, town and village -in every otDce, shop, store and factory. The world criea out for such; he is needed, and needed badly the man who can carry a message to Garcia: A Boy'i Fatal Throw. : ' - - 1 Washington, N. C, Jan. 31. A terrible tragedy occurred in this town this morning, and as a result one of our most promising young men is dead.! John Williams, 15 years of age, went to the Old Dominion wharf to sample cotton. While m the act of perform ing this duty John L, Corden, 18 years of age, passed and slapped him on the back at a point where Williams was suffering from a boil. Williams imme diately turned and threw the knife! he had in his hand and it struck Corden just behind the left kne1, severing the popuetial artery, with the result that he died this afternoon, j Both of these young men are, from our best families and unusual regret is expressed at this sad affair and sym pathy for the relatives. - ; Telepathy Between Twins. . 'I : i Chicago, Jan. 31. JPred Roe Pratt, attorney, and one of the well-known Pratt twin brothers, (of No. 3229 Prai rie avenue, died in Manila a few days ago.. Instinctive knowledge of j his death flashed quicker than the "cable message to the mind of Frank Fay Pratt, the surviving brother. To-day a cablegram came, confirming the premonition. " "The news of Fred's death," said Frank Pratt,, "was what we had awaited three days before it 'came Four days ago the thought came sud denly upon me that Fred was gone I spoke to mother. . t ".'We are separated," said I: 'Fred Was gone.' "This so-called telepathy has, ex4 isted since we were babies. It made no ainerenee whether we were sepa rated by ten feet or 10,000 miles. '! .Jailed (or Kefualug to be Vaccinated, Winston-Salem, Feb. 1. Mr! A Savery, a bussiness man of Winston was tried the second time this after! noon before the mayor for refusing to comply with, the compulsory vaccinal tion .ordinance. He was fined $50. His counsel gave notice of appeal.but the defendant declined to give $250 bond, - and W as committed to jaiL' There are several reporta current; one that Savery has a certificate excusing him from vaccination, and another that he will bring suit against! the city. '.; ' -.. ;-- . ' 1 ; .' Lala Ma. j A i school teacher, in the North of England, having instructed a pupil to buy a grammar, the next day received a note thus worded, from the child's mother : "I do not desire for L.ula shall ingage in Grammar, a'a I prefer her ingage in y useful studies, and can learn her how to spoke and rite prop erly myself. I have went through two grammars, .and can't sayas they did me no good. I, prefer her ingage in Ger man and drawing and vokal music on th3 pinq, iano."; ' i"- ! A Frlghtfal Blander Will often cause a horrible Burn, Scald Cut or Bruise. Bncklen's Arnica Salve will kill the pain and promptly heal it, Cures fever Sores, Ulcers, Boils, Corns and all Skin Fruptipns. Best Pjle cure on earth. Only 25c. a box. Cure guar' anteed. Sold at Fetzer'" drug store. Bishon Joseph S. Key, t of Sherman Tex., who presided over the last session of the Western North Carolina Confer ence, of the M. E. Church. South, has appointed Rev. W. L. Grissom, repre- pentidk of this Conference in tbe Ecumenical Mission Conference, which will convene in New York the latter part of April. Ttis body embraces representatives from the Protestant churches of the entire world. ' - f COSTLY "FCSEfLaX. Bill An IVrttMAtfrMt lha KtrTa Bolomon M t: "A living dog is bet ter than a dead Uoo. That may beo i worldly sense, but the dead hon costs the most money. I was just read ing an itemized statement of bow much coat to bury Senator Morrui. ur couse be was buried at the government expense, but it seems to me be cooJd have been put away for leas money. he sum total foots up $3,442. The casket cost $400, cedar shipping caw $90, embalming $60, carriages $108, pecial train from Washington o 8pringfield $792, Springfield to Mont- peher $117, fares for attendants from Troy to Washington $347, Pullman cars $300, commissaries $78. ( These are the largest items. There is a page foil 01 smaller ones, men there is decoration of the senate cham ber $100 and crtpe and gloves and re galia and flowers $2S0, advertising pro gramme $113, music $40, etc. But the largeBt item is $o,000, a year s salary after he died. : This went to his son. hat is the rule. If a member dies while in office his salary goes n for a year, jsui Vermont, was not so very far away. If a member from Califor nia or Oregon dies the cost of transpor tation for the remains and the escort! runs up into the thousands. Ah, my country ! - Where the carcass is the eagles will be gathered together. That is the reason I reckon why tbe eagle is our national emblem for the treasury is the carcass;. I was ruminating about this grand parade oyer the burial of. public men the expense of it the glitter and galore and. show of it, for at the last it is a unket, a frolic that members of con gress like and they scheme to get on the grand excursion. Booker Wash ington says that the negro is never happier than when going to a funeral. White folks set them the example, es pecially in the towns and cities. The truth is that a common man who bare- y supports his family and is struggling along to educate bis children can't af ford to die, for the feneral expenses take all he has left and leaves the fami ly penniless. Poor Tom Brumby hid no wife or children, but for years bad been supporting a poor old mother and educating an orphan niece. He had when he died $700 rn bank and it took that the last dollar to bury him. I msgine that if he could haveepoken in his last moments ho would have said: Give it to mother. Oh! give it to my mother. A $400 casket will do me no good." The very last letter that he wrote her from Manila saia : "If I dp not live to get bick there are $700 in bank for you." Well, maybe congress will grant the old lady a pension. May bet so, but I reckon she, will die before she gets it, and as for that prize money I see that the government is fighting it and- that means its non-payment. Dewey s vic tory is an old song now. I 'wonder if they would bury him at public expense. It Beems to me that the cost of fun erals should be proportioned to the con dition of the family. As for me, I feel ike a metal casket that would keep out the water and the worms and a plain marble tombstone would be enough. No monument and but a line of epi taph. Some grass and flowers that my unchained Bpirit would like to see when it hovers over the place where its prison- house- was buried. Neglected graves are a sign of inhumanity. Costly ones a sign of vanity. But monuments to heroes or to great and noble men are always moper. Not that they are of any consequence to the dead, but they point a moral to the living. Let us build .that monument t3 tbe modest and gallant Brumby and place it on the capitol grounds where it can be seen and where it will speak in silence to the people as they pass. Let the tribute be one of love, honor and admiration from the old and the young. Our little grand child who was his niece and loved him will open her little-iron bank when it gets full and send the $0 to tbe com mittee. Every little school girl and bov should have a dime or a nickel in that monument, for besides bis courage and patriotism he was loving and kind to his aged mother. He deserves a mon ument for that. Several times of late I have read the talks of Carnegie and Rockefeller to the young men in a Bible class, and their ideas about giving and helping do not please me. Of course,, everybody hon ors them for their large bounties to col leges and libraries, but they say that chanties to the poor do no lasting good and that 00 per cent of it is wasted, but that rich men should help poor young men who are struggling to climb up in the world. My observation is that those struggling young men will get up any how lust like Carnegie and Rockefeller. I had rather see a hundred poor people relieved from distress than a dozen young man helped on the way to for tune and success. There i too much prejudice againet the poor. Most of them are women and children who are helpless and, can't get a start. There is no work for them and so they have to beg or starve. The other day iAopped a quarter in the tin cup of a poor old woman who was crouched, 0.0 the side walk of Marietta street, and ber look of thankf ulnS8 paid me. The winter wind was blowing and the paving e tones were cold, but she sat there and watched for charity. She waa old and pale and piti?' ful and the .skin stuck close to her bony bands. I crossed the street ana stood and watched for, many minutes and never saw anybody else put any money in her cup. bae may be a fraud- imposter, but I am sure that she ia not impoverishing the millionaires or any bodv else. My idea is that a good 8a maritan would stop and investigate that woman's condition and lift her up from the cold sidewalk and see her to a warm, comforable home, and buy her a pair of blankets' and some coal and speak a few kind words and comfort the children if ehe has any. City people get hardened to such things and pass by and say why does she not go to the poorhouse. "Where is the poorhouse and who will take her there, and would not she be separated from those she loves! know a man I whose charities are more to be com mended than all the munificent gifts of the millionaires. He is not rich nor old, nor young, nor childless, but he i always beiptog- some poor youog mia or woman or orjhan children. IMp- ? tog them not only with money, but i with bope and good cheer, liftioc there op iput of despair and Ranting thm 00 a rood foandatioo. If has befriniied 1 hundred io th j quiet, unostentatious i way and it u not buuouei to the world nor heralded in the pres dispatchea. What he has done ia now his greatest comfort in his declining yvmra, for he has without exception the love and gratitude and lot alty of them all. There jano system to bis chanties tor efery case sttnds for lteeif I knew him on one occasion to send a check to a poor young eirl with which to ourchaw btr wedding apparel, the dearest thin ou earth to a bride, for all her earoirK had been expended in support ot a wi-iowed mother and some small children. Well, that was thoughtfuland gecercus, lut: who else would have dne it? I with that I was rich so thai could do as they say tbe good Prince Rupert did: go around in disguise and ind out wb were , needy and deserving and help them in secret. I would take note of the poor girls who helped their mothers and the younger men who wrote kind loving letters home and I would net : them up and make them up. Yes, I would like that sort Of fun, wpulden't you ? It would btat libraries and col- eges. all to pieces But P. like Carnegie and Rockefeller, too, though they dout see through my spectacles. It is hard for a millionaire to realize that the money is not his--that he is only a trustee with the .privilege of using it for the good 01 pi fellow creatures. ; It has been said by philosophers that ; no man ever earned a million honestly that if he found a gold mine and it paid 1-"L I ll i 1 '' 01m a mousana uoitars a day he was entitled only to a good living out i t a, and tbe lest wa G id's and was tMit there for bis ftilow men. Dr. Hdley toild a good story about a Persian who bought a piece of land for a small sum and when plowing it found a rich vtin Of gold, lie carefully saved all that came in sight and look it to tbe. rriau from whom he bought the land; saving that be did not buy the gold he bopght only the lard. The man refused -to re ceive it and their dispute over it got so warm they went before the cadi to bave it decided. The cadi knew them very well and knew that one of them had a son just-grown and the other bad a pretty, daughUr a little younger, and thev were good, industrious children. So 'be had them brought before him and married them and gave them tbe gold. Whether true or not, this is a pretty, story for the children. Every girl fknow will say, "I wish it was I." Bill Arp. Seven Times as. Big a 11U Wife. Willie Stout, the Texas fat boy, is the biggest man in town, and he claims to be, and probably is the heaviest man in tbe world. Willie is Only 21 years old, says he weighs 712 pounds. His meas urements are as follows: Height, 6 feet; thigh, 39 inches; girth 84 inches;; bi ceps, z7 inches. He wears Jo. b shoes, No. "8 glove and a No. 71 hat. j He was born on a farm in Denieon, Tex. At birth he weighed 10 pounds When he was 6 months old he weighed 45 pounds, and wnen 10 years old he weighed 330 pounds. He has been in creasing in weight constantly, and if he keeps on gaming flesh as rapidly as he has in the last two years he will soon weigh a thousand pounds. When asked - how be accounted for his great weight, he said that he at tributed it to his good nature. Willie's father weighed 280 pounds, but bis mother never weighed more than i 100 pounds in her life. Like most fat men, lllie has a small wife. Mrs. Stout is not stout, but a petite woman weighing only 110 pounds. Willie said that he was about seven times as heavy as his wife and about seven times as good-na tured. Jawbone Flew to Pieces, . Uniontown, Pa., Dispatch.; Jacob Liston committed suicide to day as the result of a remarkable acci dent of which he waa the victim while sitting with his family in his home, in Stewart township, one day six month a ago. That lay he jumped to bis feet in great pain, and exclaimed; ''Did you see that awful lightmug " He clasped his hands to. his jaw and said : ''My God I my jawbone haB been broken into a thousand pieces." The family are positive that there wes no lightning or thunder, but Jiieton ap peared to be blinded and deafened by it. His jaws Were bleeding, and a doc tor removed 3,3 pieces of shattered bone in dressing the wound. . : I Five years ago Liston pad been b'Hy poisoned by an anaesth'tio while hav ing teeth pulled, and suffered from it for a long time. He was full of halluci nations ; after he lost his jiw, and, to day,-when, alone, be blew the top of his head off with a shot gun. ' UiTnM Water from III Stilt. StatesvDle Landmark- ; A somewhat unusual case was ! tried in Durham Superior court last week F. C' Geer brought suit against the Durham Water Company for damages, alleging that the water company, iq taking water from Eoo river, had di verted a Sufficient aruouut to impair the operation of bis mil(; in other words tbe water company had taken so much of the river water to eupply the town of Durham that not enough waa left to operate GeerV mill- . The case-, was tried before J udge Moore and was j warmly contested. Tbe jury awarded Geer $Ao0. 'ipermanent" daraagfs and the sum of $100 per annum from De-j ceraber 8, 1894, makicga total of about ; $1,650..! The water company appealed.' Working Might and Day. ; H The busiest and mightiest little j thing -.that ever was made is Dr. King's New life Pills. These pills change weaknesa Into strength, listlesaness : into energy, brain-fag into mental power. They're wonderful n building up the health. Qnly 25e. per box. Sold at Fetzer'B drag store. Henderson saloon keepers, are com- plaining because the aldermen require them to close at 10 p. m. and open at 5 a. m. Do they want the earth ? make more than a good living and JtUUk tt!w Ox tHR AMKafMSKf T. . . it. a - Taai t oa u fa-nttai ah rat. U a r. wrbu, kt The editor of the Star h had the pleasure of meeting hi, frtod, Ju4 ii. II. Brown again afW i t .'yrr at. snce. The judge -U prwuding tft court here and ia at the Orton, In the course of a cft vratiori the constitutional amendment came up. We deem Judge Brown tie and suggestions of much imjKrtancn and to the pre and pople of tue Ptat. J udge Brown mud la dub- stance "It goes without heartily in favor of aying that I am the amendment I preferred a cormilutkma! eunteri- tion and at ill think it the rrtof i- dom to have called one. ItU uaelesa to discuss the constitutionality of the amendment as a w hole. ' It is the da lioerate act of the General i Aamyiibly pawed after mature consideration. VVe must aanume that it U constitu tional and make our fight upon its imperative necessity. The stump i not a very good forum from which to make constitutional argument. "There is only one real ground of attack by which our opponent hope to defeat the amendment. I gather this from Pritchard's and Butler" ut terances. That is to the effect that section 5, the so-called grandfather; clause, will be declared unconrtitu- tional, and section 4, containing all the restrictions and limitation upon the right to vote, will be left standing alone. I see the talented young Con gressman Kitchen ha ipnblished a very fine legal argument ' combating Pritchard's and Butler position. Every candid and well-informed law yer is convinced that the amendment will stand, or fall, a a whole, but I am not so sure that we can make that so plain to the thousands of good, honest white citizens who are not lawyers. : They cannot so readily comprehend the force of legal argu ments. We do not propose to dis franchise any white citizen, who is not a convict, if we know it. We can put that question beyond doubt and we should do it. The people can then see that we are sincere. "When the Legislature "meets in adjourned session in June let a bill be at once passed amending the pres ent constitutional amendment bill now before the people by adding an other section to this effect : , ' "'Sec. 6. This act shall be con strued and taken as a whole, and if any of its clauses, sections 'and pro visions shall for any reason become or declared inoperative and invalid, the whole. of this amendment and every part and section thereof shall become null and void and of no effect.' "This method of convincing the people of our real purpose will be far more potent than legal arguments. It will be a knock-down argument, and Butler, Pritchard & Co. can say nothing more. i" We ought not be deterred?"' from doing this because Butler fc Co. will claim that they forced us to do it. l hat is laise pride, uur position is already taken, that the amendment will stand or fall as a whole. There fore, it is right; and manly that we put it in the bill so that the matter will be beyond dispute. "This course will silence the heav iest guns of our enemy, and will allay the fears of many honest but illiterate white citizens who will hot be willing to jeopardize their right to vote. inese people nave inherited a ca pacity for self-government, and are as capable of exercising the elective franchise as you and I are. They are a part of the bone and; sinew of the State. Many are old Confederate veterans. "Let ua satisly this! class or our w hite citizens fully that their right to vote is not being put in jeopardy by the proposed amendment. "Argumentation may not do it. The Legislature can, and I hope will doit. If it is done I am confident the amendment will be ratified by large majority." Negro Want's $.5,000 Damages. PiTTrBURO, Feb. 1. Walter E Bil lows, a colored attorney of this City, en tered suit today against Wm. H. Mo Cartby, prominent restaurant man, for $5,000 damages, for refusing to serve Congressman George IL White, of North Carolina, and himself, with din ner. Billows claims that McCarthy of fered to serve them elsewhere' than in the general dining room, but they de manded an equal footing with white persons and ?ft the place. '; '.I think I would go crazy with pain were it not for Chamberlain's pain Balm," writes Mr. W. H. Stapleton Hermine, Pa. "I have been afflicted with rheumatism for several year and have tried remedies withont nnmber bnt Pain Balm -is the best medicine have got hold of.'.' One application re lieves the pain. Tor sale by M. L. Marsh, Druggist. Rev. R G. Pearson has reached Char lotte and is conducting a revival in that city. m Baking Powder . j Made from pure cream of tartar Safeguards the food against alum , . i ' f- AJum baking powder are die grealdi menacers to health; of the present day. t.oroTtt i or loiav.. "Pr ihm svrat thy fac b-t !kJ earn thy btmSJ ' ' ; Many regard tail 4cirtiatt M Almighty to JUtxa a nm, tot t Srtj0a . &d frprity tt kt4 le hH, they are twin bnihrf acMi vy thick vita cwcli ether. TW ti 4 has fi(4 it op ia tmtnaa tat ttf faU rational ewpbymeot It twal oc'y atiat to goe4 tiuuwftrt, Utt 3Mm meat attd hap4aM eaa oaly W Ulnedio harmony with this law. A vagabotMt b a wthlr Mktw a wth U Mkiw U eee a ho (codooc ayothi f, maaea Douueg, earn, nothinr. lie w conumer of that which other make. whthr he be a ouilHoar or a tJio old buna. If h doe nothing b t nu log. for what the man doe U tbe mm of what the man U. I oeo did notfc in, uola it was, aooMi cay aoojhln. a now tnert is do Liitti or uarful- oea cooDecird with uch a lift. I have Ui a biy fellow for S3 rear. loo buy to ft lato any dev.lroent, too titr at work to worry, and I have had about as much genuine fu: and real enjoyment ia the hut quarter of a ceo tury as any man .with equal cipacity with me, t have oUrttwl tnt fact not onlr io Uentgia but io all the UU ofthis Union, and away up ia Canada, bd that tae uutv man was Ue nseful man, the useful man was lha happy man. A doctor who doe not practice. lawyer who has no client, a farmer who spends hi time in town, a woman who neglects ber home for societr and club, a boy who boards with hi daddy or a "aonofagua" who Is living with bi daddy-ln-IawUke the whole gang and there ia not enough contentment and happiness io the crowd to make a fl. a ump up and crack hit heels together and crow. My boys are 21 and pat. they board ed with their daddy With their dadur until aftr thuv "were 21, and if (hey were, good for any .nL .n 1 rlUouU "fx 1 umu m wuia, uuv rrrry uaj, in sun doesn't rice soon enough nor set ate enough for them. In former time they could not go to sleep at nighty they said, until ! or 2 o'clock, they were restless. and never could get up to break. fast. Now they hit tbe rooat pole at 8 o'clock and are up when tbe chickens begin to crow, j They tell roe now that they know what contentment it. It if as true about girls at it is of boys lh girl who is busy with her book,- busy in the barnyard, busy down with the calves in the lot, busy in the kitchen. busy in tbe house work, a girl who can play as exqieitely on the cook stove a she can on the piano, these girl are happy. It it a thing of beauty and a Joy to sit around and look at their roty cheeks nd listen to their merry laughter. This rale even goes to the borsd in the lot I horse stands up ami doe nothing for : a while he get too big for hit breeches and he waou to walk on two feet, and sometimes be doe not rare which two feet he is walking on, but the faithful 01a fellow that goes every day, eats op bis corn and fodder at night, lies down to rest, and next morn Ing ia in his place faithful and true. My dog seems to think more of him self when bird time comes, roaming the nelds in search of game, and when be stands with one fore foot uplifted hi tail on a level with his body, and bis nose On the birds, it is a real tonic to 00k on nit happiness and appreciate his good character. The dog that lies around all day and eat and sleeps, and men oaras at notning ail nigh 1 a nuisance that ought to be abated. ' If parents everywhere could see these facts there would be no idle bovs. 1 believe it it common sense and philoso phy to spend ; money and time and thought in providing tome work for the idle one to do. I'd rather do some thing for nothing than to do nothing for nothing. When I am doing aome for nothing I am at least developing muscle and acquiring tbe habit of in d us try, but to do nothing for nothing while I am at it manhood ia petering out, muscles getting more flabby and the habit of indolence fixing itself upon me. These fact are all as true in the moral world as they are in the physical. The reason our churches are so inefficient and tbe conquest of the world going on so slowly 11 because there are to many of tbe dear old brethren "juit a trust ing in tbe Lord, nothing more. I d rather be a plain sinner than to be a professor of religion and do as little for Christ as a plain tinner would do. I am like the old negro preacher when he aid, "I se gwme to preach tbe go pel to de bench members today, I shall have no reference to de officious mem bers of my church in dit discourse." Tell me a man can be a Christian and never go to prarer meeting any more than a billy goat you bad as well tell me that a man can dead beat hi way at a widowed mother's table and then be respectable. I respect any man who work; I do not respect any man or boy who won't work. All work and no play fisy make Jack a dull boy, ibut all play and no work win put Jack in tbe chain gang if be get hi desert. . hat u a clock , worth that won't run and run right ? I bad at soon cairy a trade dol lar in 'my pocket with a watch chain hung to it at my watch if my watch didn't run and keep tbe time. From stars to cloud t, from angel to infants, this role works God curse is. upon idleness. God Land man honor indus trious, diligent mtu'. It - some father who it fostering hit boys in their idleness, and some moth- en whose daughters are a constant care to her, if tome boys and girl t who have never done anything useful, happen to glance over these line I bave written add put this philosophy to the teat,, 1 shall not have written this letter in vain It ia a true at heaven thai netful and L ration 1 employment it as eaten tial to character, manhood, womanhood, hap pines and contentment, at that rain and jtahobine are essential to tbe grow ing fields of corn and wheat. 8am r. joss; P. 8 I am off now 00 a tour of Mississippi. Louisiana, Oklahoma Terri tory, etc. Will reach home again about the 10th of February, nd March lit oar meeting begin in Nashville. , 8. P. J . It it a blessed fact that it always takes at least two people to make a quarrel. DO YOU GET UP WITO A LrlHE BACK ? etrWjf el tew fca u ir4 tkn ksWr y . 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R..C. t prrrM to do tl kind ttf 4toli mvt la, in rniat itnrt rmmt. U T. HARTSELL. iiiorE8HiUft COMCOID.WOITH CAlOUHa. Itomrt altntVm - alt KaatrM urhrb in Mom tmudtn. vfilt Uta ruttrt tMtUM. ofTrr Unir profMionl nrk t) Ui eiu- ts ut t'HHSri ana u tnity. All mu roniHly iiB.lidr at wis tit. Oftltaatxf rMldoiKMI Oft KMt lltMI lUttl. OttMMtM Ireabvtrtaa etiurva. ' W, 1. MOaTOOM tIT. I. VMM CaOWM, , HOITGylERI l CEOWELL, : ittoniejs Cflcnst!ors-it-Lif , As rrtnm. nil) hrmrtw law in rabarras. HUnlr and diolnin nouatlM. Io th nana. rl-ir and lturtni Courts of th lllata and ta lb rJrl tiiMirt IIIImwi iMnwt traa' fartle dMiiln to lnd Bo ran War It wiln us or llr it ta (mrt Vatfamal I tank for ua, and r will In4 It on m4 rl tat svmritv fm at rnaraa Io tn arfmmttsr, W una UHjruasb r aitilnatUM ot tU to land "(Itrtvl aa awurlt v for iraaaa. . MortKaM fr.-lrl t ititvut tpeaa to owners of aawi. Hoaiu a.wiDviu. m. a natu CALDWELL & STICKLEY, - . Attorneys at Law, comi-omu, a. e. 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The Concord Times (Concord, N.C.)
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