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CONCORD, N. C, iVfAY 26. 1905.
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Number 96.
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is necessary for cotton to produce
high yields and good fibre.
Write for our valuftle books on
fertilization: thev contain Informa
tion that means dollars to the
farmers. Sent free on request.
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to the
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July 5-9.
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Two ttratis daily, Atlanta to St. Lou
is in Connection witJbW. & A. R. B.
Ttife only through morning sleeping car
, Atlanta to St. ixrais.
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rates, tickets and descriptive circulars,
Address,
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FOR SALE.
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One 20 h. p. Engine, Boiler and Mill.
One 15 h. p. Engine and Boiler.
One J3 h. p. Engine.
. One 20 h. p. Engine.
' One 15 h. p. Vertical Engine.
One 80 h. p. Versical Engine. "
These are good second-hand outfits,
and will be sold cheap. Come quick.
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A1H JONES' LETTER.
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Atlanta Journal.
This has been a busy and interesting
week with me in my home town. I
have preached twice each day with one
exception, and I have heard others
preach some of the best sermons I have
ever listened to. Cartenville hu no
more valuable adjunct or a piece of
property that yields such dividend on
the investment as her tabernacle. The
tabernacle baa brought to Cartenville
for twenty yean the best pulpit talent
of this country, and an infinite variety
of preachers. Among others this week
we have heard Bishop Candler at his
best, and that means no better preach,
ing anywhere than he was doing for us.
BiBhop Candler is as strong a the
strongest in his intellectual force. He
has a great mind. Like Henry Ward
Beecher, he knows intuitively many
things that scholars have not learned.
He has a great emotional nature. The
tides of his emotional nature ebb and
flow like the tide of the Atlantic.
Coupled to these great forces there are
scintillations and sparkles of the divine
life and power that makes bim a master
in his calling.
We have heard Dr. Bradley, of At
lanta, and he is a great personality,
charming and lovable and winsome.
He is a student. In the pulpit, in the
social circle, in close personal friend
ship, in all these places he wdos and
wins you. Oar people heard bim gladly
andjwith great profit.
We have heard the blacksmith
preacher, illiterate, yet. a power. Preach
ing on raul and Silas in prison at
Phillipi, he gave evidence that he pos
sessed an imagination as vivid as John
Bun van. He drew the picture of Paul
and Silas in the prison, hands and feet
and necks in the stocks, and at mid
night, with the stillness of the move
ment of the stars, Silas spoke up and
said, "Brother Paul, are you asleep?"
"No," said Paul, "I can't sleep; every
muscle aches and every nerve is on fire."
Then said Silas, "Brother Paul, bow is
your back?" "It is very sore," said
Paul. "How many times have they
whipped you?" said Silas. "Three
times," he replied, "They have beaten
me with rods and left me once to die."
Silas then spoke up and said,' "Well,
Paul, I am honest with you ' wh( n I
say that I have not been with you long
but I have had about enough of this
for awhile." Paul replied, "Well Silas,
I would have given up long ago, but
am looking to 'the recompense of re
ward.' These light a mictions, which
are hut for a moment, will work out for
us a far more exceeding and eternal
weight of glory," he said. "Silas, we
can't sleep; let's have a prayer meet
ing." "HO," said Silas, "11 you go to
raising a rukus down here this time of
night they will whip you again
Yes," said Paul, "we may be whip
ped, but none of the things move me.'
And, he said, Paul began to sing. "
don't know what song they tang.
brethren, but if this song was in ex.
istence, maybe this was the song'" and
then the blacksmith, with his clear,
rich baritone voice, began to ling-
"Must Jesus bear the cross alone.
And all the world (to free?
No, there's a cross tor every one,
And there's a oross tor me."
And he said as under the influence
of a great earthquake, Jnstantly the
doors of theijail were thrown open, and
the shackles burst from their limbs and
they stood praising God. The Jailer,
hearing the noise and fearing lest his
prisoners had gotten away, rushed down
in their midst and said: "What is
this!" and St. Paul replied: "My
friend, do thyself no harm. We are
not trying to escape." "Well, what
is all this and what does it mean?"
said the trembling jailer. And St. Paul
said: "This is but a visit of a kind
Heavenly Father to his children when
they had more than tsrey could bear."
This is but a sample of his imagine.
tion and power. He is the only man I
ever saw who was seemingly proud of
his ignorance. He doesn't seem to be
proud of his power but simply and only
of his ignorance. God bless him in his
mlQlstry everywhere and give him great
success. -
Under the influences of this meeting
many have been saved and many have
been blessed. T meeting has been
from beginning up to date great in its
effect and the multitudes attending
have been great.
Every town should have its taber
nacle and every city its great auditorium.
Tigs country must have religion, what
ever else it baa or may not have. We
must oare for the moral life of men.
For after all moral men furnish the
only foundation upon which govern
ments can stand and huuA existence
is made endurable. Yours truly,
Sam P. Jones.
BVDB'B
FIGCBKS
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COTTON
A man is hardly ever so rich that he
doea't act as if the tax assessor would
drive him to the poor house.
Statlellelaa Write ta Joraai Brcrd
- ins AerMK Batlaaatea.
Washington, May 22. The alfitude
of the department of agriculture toward
the Southern uotton Association, or
ganised at New Orleans last year for the
purpose of bringing about a reduction
in this year'Axrtton acreage, has been
indicated in a letter sent to Harvie J or
dan, presidentjof the association, with
headquarters at Atlanta by J$hn Hyde,
chief of the bureau of statistics of the
department.
In a letter to Mr. Hyde, some days
ago Mr. Jordan said that the Southern
Cotton Association had -undertaken to
prepare full, complete and correct re
ports on the acreage. Bequests for
authoritative information bad been sent
to secretaries and correspondents
throughout the belt, he said, and in
many cases house to house canvass bad
been made. Bankers, merchants,
manufacturers, buyers and others, in
cluding a very large number of farmers,
had been asked to furnish facts, and
the presidents of state and territorial
divisions had been asked to . meet at
New Orleans on May SO to turn in their
reports and. have them consolidated
and published. Mr. Jordan supposed,
he says, that Mr. Hyde was busy getting
information on which to base his report,
to be issued June 25, and he impressed
on the statistician the importance of
obtaining as complete a report as pos
sible and having it as nearly correct as
possible. The association would gladly
co-operate vyth the department, , be
said, and in turn desired the depart
ment's co operation and assistance.
Farmers were going quietly ahead and
reducing their acreage, he asserted,
and he urged the statistician to get as
much of his information as possible
from the farmers themselves.
To this letter Mr. Hyde eent the fol
lowing reply:
"I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter, suggesting
the co-operation of your association
and this department in the work of
ascertaining the newly planted acreage
of the cotton in the southern states.
"You do not, however suggest any
means by which such co-operation
could be rendered effective, and I note
that the meeting of the presidents of
the several state and territorial divisions
of your association to be held at New
Orleans for the consolidation of their
reports and the preparation of the whole
report for publication has been called
for a date only three days in advance
of that set for the publication of the re
port of this department.
"I may perhaps be permitted to re
mark, however, that in the public ut
teranoes of the officers of your aesocia
tion there has been a manifest dieposi
tion to prejudge the situation that is
entirely incompatible with the spirit in
which this department conducts its in
vestigations.
"With regard to your suggestion that
this department secure as much informa
tion as possible from people who are
planting cotton, I beg leave to state
that full 90 per cent of the department's
county and township correspondents
are farmers, and I venture to express
the opinion that if notwithstanding its
most earnest endeavors, it should fail
in ascertaining the exacts relative to the
new acreage planted, whatever error is
made wj)l, as usual, be one favorable to
the farmers."
WHIT 18 DOING OR THE
iii ii a or PANAMA.
18TH.
fouth's Companion.
So many Panama Canal plans have
been diseussea that few people have a
definite idea of what it doing on the isth
mus. Mr. John F. Wallace, the chief
engineer of the new canal commission,
consequently did a public service when
he said in Chicago the other day that
the work of building the canal was going
forward under definite plant and with
satisfactory progress.
The work is conducted, he explained,
in accordance with the plan recom
mended by the first canal commission
headed by Admiral Walker, which pro
vided for a canal with locks to raise
boats thirty feet over the Culebra divide.
The cost is to be approximately one hun
dred and ninety million dollars. Un
less Congress authorizes a sea-level
canal that it, a canal without locks
or otherwise changes the plans, the
work will be carried on to completion
as at present begun.
Secretary Taft has also recently re
moved tome misapprehensions that
prevailed concerning the railway across
the isthmus. He says that the railway
was taken over by the government, to
be used as an instrument in the con
struction of the canal. The railway
company owned three steamships that
ran between Cobn and New York.
These ships are to be operated, to pre
vent a combination among owners of
other ships to keep up the freight rate
to the isthmus. The government has
no intention of running a line of ships
from San Francisco to-Panama or from
San Francisco to New York. Such
freight rates across the isthmus by rail
are to be charged as will pay a fair re
turn on the money invested, and no
favors are to be shown to one shipper
over another.
It is likely that there will be much
further talk about the railway and the
canal tituation, but if Companion
readers will keep in mind the condi
tions as outlined above, they will be
able readily to distinguish between
what is actually to be done and what
some one, not in authority, wouia like
to have done.
Warning to Rockefeller.
Ma lone, N. Y., May 24 Placards
have appeared at different points on
the big estate of William Rockefeller
near here threatening him. Some of
them read;
"A $50,000 bullet will stop William
Rockefeller the minute he seta foot upon
this property." .
What the "150,000 bullet" means
is an enigma.
II was in this very neighborhood and
only so short a time ago at February,
1903, that Orrando P. Dexter, a wealthy
New York landholder, was shotnd
killed. Both men obtained great tracts
of land, and to protect their game and
fish preserves attempted to drive out
the native woodsmen.
Orrando Dexter was killed after a
long series of attempts to landholders
who refused to sell and to prosecute the
woodsmentpvho poached p his pre
serves, itockeieiier, it is said, has
angered the people by taking an active
interest in the search for the assassin
of Dexter.
A DtaaMrona Calaaalty.
It is a disastrous calamity, vehen yon
lose your health, because incWgestion
and constipation have sapped it away.
Prompt relief can be had in Dr. King's
New Life Pills. They build np your di
gestive organs, and core headache, diz
ziness, oolio, constipation, eto. Guaran
teed at all druggists ; 25c
When a girl is engaged you can make
her think you are almost as attractive
as he it by talking to her about him.
Jut WoulB' do Any Way at All.
Catawba County News.
Last Monday morning when the
jurors for the second week of the court
now in sesion here were called by the
clerk to be sworn, it noticed that one
gentleman did not place his hand on
the Bible. His Honor, Judge Council
called the juror to his desk and asked
bim if he objected to taking the usual
oath. He said he did and cited James
512 as his reason. He was then re
quested to raise his right hand, but be
objected to that. Judge Council read
the affirmation or oath from The Code,
but this did not move the juror one iota.
The judge informed him that it was
absolutely necessary for him to hold
up his right hand. He replied that he
waa sorry but he could not do so.
This was the climsx of a scene as novel,
perhaps, as was ever witnessed in the
Catawba court house. An intimation
to the effect that he might be sent to
jail produced no result, whereupon the
judge gave the juror a lecture and die
missed him.
m
the face of a
ONLY THE BklILDBEN BMILE
Atlanta Journal.
Lady Henryomertet reviews a re
cent book on India by Sir Frederick
Treves, the distinguished physician,
Among other statements quoted Jrom
the book is one that sticks in the mem
ory. Sneaking of the people in India,
the author says:
"A smile, except from
child, is unusual."
What a picture of miserable condi
tions. These people always exist, says
Sir Fredrick, "a little below the most
meager comfort, a little above the near
est reach of starvation." nu is one
reason why in that country only chil
dren smile.
What wonder the people are fatal.
ists? What wonder they almost court
and weloome death ? Fate cannot be
harsher in another world.
Surely half the world does not know
how the other half lives and tome-
times the first half little cares.
In this connection one is reminded
of the attack of Professor Starr, of
Chicago University, on foreign missions
and missionaries. He says it is noth
ing less than presumption on our part
to interfere with the religious beliefs of
other people.
It may be. And perhaps we can
never quite understand the Oriental
mind. But cannot we give them
glimpses of a better viewpoint? We
can give desires for better living. We
can ameliorate conditions. -
It it eay enough for a professor in
pipe and slippers to criticize foreign
missions. Some of them may not do
much good, but many of them are self
sacrificing and plucky to the verge of
heroism. Most of them are the stuff
of which martyrs are made.
'The Light of Asia," so praised by
Arnold, is but a dull gleam in a fog. It
lights up no face save that of a child.
Is it not possible that we may do for
Asia what we bave done for Japan ?
Open the shutters and let the light
stream in.
Familiar.
Harper's Weekly.
.A Mobile man tells the following story
on an old character in that town who
for many years has done a thriving
business in hauling ashes. One day,
sayt the Mobile man, he chanced to be
in the rear of hit house when the darky
in question was preparing to depart
with the customary load. "I've seen
you haul away a many a load of ashes,"
said the owner of the house, "but, my
good man, during all these years I've
never had the least idea of your name J
What is it?"
Mah name is George Wafhin'ton,
sab," replied the old man, with a duck
of his head.
"George Washington eh 1" reiterated
the questioner. "It seems to me," he
he added, with a smile, "that I've heard
that name before."
"Beckon you have, tab," came aVe
answer in all seriousness, " 'cause Ise
been haulih 'away ashes from yo'
house for more'n tenears."
Hl Tkaak tae Lord!'
Kried Hannah Plant, of Little Rock,
Ark., "for the relief 7 got from Buck
len's Arnica Salve. It cured my fearful
running sores, which nothing else
would heal, and from which I had suf
feredCorByeara." It is a marabous
healer far cuts, burns and wounds.
Guaranteed at all druggists ; 25o.
There is a lot of difference between
being married in your honeymoon to
the girl you love and all the rest of
your life to her family.
The more favors
will be granted.
you
ask the fewer
When a man can support his family
it is a sign he it no genius.
Cow's Sneezing- Sign or Bain.
There was an old negro slave on my
uncle's farm down in Tennessee who
was a peculiar chap, and of whom the
youngster aoout the place white as
well as black stood in fear," said Sen
ator Carmack in conversation with a
group of friends.
'This aged Senegambian, Uncle Tom
by name, could give all the modern
weather sharps cards and spades and
beat them, for he could prediot with
almost ' unerring accuracy what the
element would be doing. One day I
was standing out in the cow pen beside
the old man, when he suddenly ex
claimed 'Did you hear that?'
" 'Hear what, Uncle Tom ?'
" 'Hear that speckled cow squeeze,
Sho' as you am libin', boy, it agwine
ter rain befo' morning, kase wheneber
you hear a cow sneeze dat means rain.'
'Sure enough, it poured down from
the. skies, as Tom foretold. Prior to
that I had never taken note of a cow's
sneezing, and there may be skeptical
folks who would doubt that this was a
bovine habit, but my own belief in it it
firmely established and I am equally
sure that old Tom had good cause to
establish a connection between it and
wet weather.".
25 Pounds
of good, clean
EZ0E for $1.00
Arbuckk Coffee, 15c
per pSund. A11 other
Groceries
Dry Goods
and Shoes
to suit the trade.
Highest Cash and
Barter Frioes paid
for Country Produce.
Sec us before selling your produce.
If
illMll
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For sale One McOorinick Reaper and
Binder, price $25. One dUo plow.
pnoe f .
$12.00.
One Farmers' Corn Mill, price
Jno. K. Patterson & Oo.
Life
Fire
Health
Accident
. , Plate Glass
a Insurance
Surety
x Bonds
at Rock Bottom Prices
in the most reliable com
panies, and big bargains
in
REAL ESTATE
SEE
JNO. K. PATTERSON,
Office up stairs at Postoffice.
H. L WOODHOU8K.
President.
O. W. BWlftK.
Cashier.
MARTIN BOOHt,
Vloe-Fraatdent.
W. H. GIBSON.
Taller.
II IB BO,
Concord, N. C Branch at Albemarle, M. C
Capital, $ 50,000.00
Surplus and Undivided Profits 80,000.00
Deposits 850,000.00
Total Resources 485,000.00"
Our part success, as Indicated above by
flxures. is aulte trratlfvlnar. and we wlah ta
assure our friends and customer of oiar ap
preciation a tneir patronage and cordially
Invite a continuance of the same. Should ba
pleased to serve a large number of new cus
tomers, holding ourselves ready to serve you
In any way consistent with sound banking.
DI HECTORS.
3. W. Cannon, Robert S. Tonne;, L. J. Fotl,
Jos. P. Goodman, M. J. Corl, Jno. S. Eflrd, J.
M. Morrow, T. C. Ingram.
For sale One beautiful residence lot
on South Union street, at Fairview.
about 60x185 feet. Lot graded and in
grass, $325, payable $125 cash. $100 first
Jauuary, 1900, and $100 first January,
av. j no. is.. Patterson ec uo.
For sale One beautiful residence lot,
about 50x150 feet in Wadsworth Ad
dition frouting on Allison street, oppo
site D. J. Host & Oo's store, $150. Jno.
K. Patterson & Oo.
...TOBACCO...
Do you use Tobacco ? If
so you want the best. I
keep no other kind.
REMEMBER
when you come to town with
your produce that I am in the
market, and pay cash or trade.
All goods sold at the least pos
sible price, and my fine line
will surprise you. Be sure and
see me with your grocery
wants.
JOHN C. SMITH
The Grocer.
The Book "moat In Demand.1
London Chronicle.
What book has the largest eirealation
in the world ? Our most popular novel
ists will be annoyed to hear that the
most popular book is not a novel at all,
In the course of a talk with a writer in
The Book Monthly, Mr. Henry Frowde
of the Oxford University Press says
"So far as I can calculate, the whole
output of English Bibles in the course
of a year is about 2,000,000 copies
Moreover, the Bible differs from novels
in having a steadily aacreasing sale,
Just thirty years ago the Oxford Uni
versity press alone sent out 600,000
copies. By 1896 the sale had doubled
And the demand for large type Copies
suggests that people buy the book to
read it, and are anxious to save tleir
eyes as well as their souls.
How Ward ST old Age.
The most successful way of warding
off the approach of old age is to main
tain a vigorous digestion. This can be
done by eating only food suited to your
age and occupation, and when any dis
order of the stomach appers take a dose
of Chamberstm's Stomach and Liver
Tablets to correct it. If yon have a
weak stomach or are troubled with indi
gestion, yon will find these Tahts to be
just what yon what you need. For sale
by M. L. Marsh and D. D. Johnson.
To save his life a man can't help
feeling there would be trouble at home
if his wife kneaj he was in an upper
berth over some other woman in a
sleeping car.
Same men are to lucky that when
they lose their purses there waa never
anything in them.
The
WTT3' 4 ELS : fl
irorce m n lerpicioie.
Even the first application of Newbro's Herpicide SM KUl8 the
shows the hair-saving and satisfying "force" that is in in it. The "force"
is the sum of two characteristics that are united in no other hair remedy.
- Herpicide aas the ABILITY to destroy the dandruff microbe, and the
QUALITY to delight those who wish a dainty hair dressing. It holds the
secret of popularity and pleases every one who is discriminating enough to
have a preference. It is not sticky. It will not stain the hair.
The curative effect of Herpicide is something little short of marvelous,
for after the dandruff germ is destroyed, and kept out of the scalp, the
hair is bound to grow as nature intended. It stops itching of the scalp
almost instantly.
"NOTHING DOES AS HU H GOOD AS HERPICIDE."
Nothing seems to do as much good as Herpicide. It has certainly
saved me from a bald head. (signed.)
Pungoteague, Va.
"LEAVES SCALP IN HEALTH V CONpX
I must confess that of all remedies used by r ,
dandruff, I have never used anything that gav7 .oh complete satis
faction as your wonderful Herpicide. It aootb .ne scalp, stops itching
and drives away dandruff leaving the scalp . a healthy condition.
Jones, Va. (signed) Mrs. Rev. P. Boiey.
I. Dandriqe.
ON.'
for eradicating
A Haalthy Hair.
M. L. MARSH, Special Agent.
MM
An Unhealthy Hair;
Everytfiing
to Furnish
a Home. . .
If It's a Question of Money, Buy
the New Furniture Here. . . .
a
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And if its a question of quality, biy it here.
We've been unusually fortunate this yearf
buying at close figures several fqniture stocks
that's why we can afford to sell at the mon-
ey-making prices we are now quoting.
Dawrattifra)rtoftflB ,