s I' "I Till STANDARD -UNTIL- JANUARY 1, 1889, 75 CXEICTTS- GREAT VICTORT Q VEE IIII PRICES! m FIRST Bid BE. 01 M TIia nndirsinpil once more comes to th to lad all competitors in the good work of saving the people money and sulp plying theai with a superior quality of GENERAL MERCHANDISE., We are ''loaded to the muzzle," and if our stock is not speedily reduced thora is danger of an explosion when we must ' stand from under," for th bottom and if anvbodv Crete caught when it falls, Open your eyes, bargain hunters, and know a go-d thing when you see it, come by buying yonr Groceries, provisions and other articles which cannot be purchasod elsewhere of Dry Goods, Hats, Boots and . Shoes,. t-. Don't sell ) our country produce, before calling on IE?. A. S:lOTVTlr. P. S. Thanking jou for past favors, I prices to merit a continuance of the same. 1381 SPRING 5i NEW SPRING Millinery.. Willi every changing season comes a change iu styles of Millinery, and already in these early Spring like days Mrs. J. M. Cross will be f ouud with the first invoice of goods of the very latest fashion, ready for both- old and new custo mers. Jaunty Hats, lovely Bonnets Corsets, Bustles, of the latest styles, just received, Ribbons, Col lars, Laces, &c. Face Veilixgs. Don't forget to see my large as- sortment of charming Face Veiling, the prettiest lot ever shown in Con cord. I also have the prettiest line of SCARFS in town, from 73c. to 85. With many thanks to the Ladies of Concord," Cabarrus and surround ing counties for their former liberal favors, let me assure you that, as in the past, you will find me at the Headquarters for Millinery Goods, every ready to please, with the la test, best and most Stylish Millinery. In the market. 'The best is the cheapest," and taking into consid eration the quality, my prices will be below competition. Very respectfully,- Mrs. J. M, CROSS- P, S. .Owing to the difficulty in J making collections and entire fail lire in a great many instances I am compelled to adopt strictly a CASH svstem. 188 The "Weekly News-Observer The WYekly News and Observer is long wavs the best paper ever pub )i hd in North Carolina. I is a cred it to the people and to. the State. The people should take a pride ia it. It should be in every family. It, is an cht pagp raper, chock full of the best t rt i( reading matter, news, market, reports, and all that. You oar:nt af ford to be without it. . Price . $12") a 3 ear. W e will furnish tho Week'y News and Observer until January 1st, 139, for HI. Send for sample copy. Ad'lress, Ntws and Observer Co Raleigh, N. C. . VOLUME L front and avows Lis determinat on fire off our big gu'. Everybody has dropped out of LOW PRICES, somebody is sure to get hurt. Now if you are close calculators and and see me if you wautto save money of home use. A specialty on flour the sama grade as cheap as Lwill sell hope bv fair dealing and reasonable It. A. B WALTER & SUIIIEHS, GROCERS, Are fully alive to the people's interest and are prepared to make things lively m the sale of heavy and fancy GROCERIES, By putting them down to bottom prices for . Cash or Barter.. Their stock durhig 1SS8 will be os the very choicest and freshest, and if bou..d to please. Don't forget the place, one door be low Cannons &.Fetzer. WALTER &, SUTHERS. 1 8m A Lars;eL Lot of FRESH GARDE SEtD, LANDRETH'S Buist's and Ferry's, JUST ARRIVED AT D. D. Johnson's DRUGSTORE Notice i hereby given that a petition has- been filed before me by- -EF W. G. Fisher, guardian of J S Fisher,- asking for the attachment of the horn stead and personal property exemption fo J S Fisher, and you .are hereby ro tified that petition of said Fwhcr's will bni.heaid at my office in 'oncordon Monday, 8th October, 1888. 13 7t J. F. YVTLLEKOUD J- P. For Sale Olisap; A SECOND HAND OMNIBUS, with a capacity for twe've passengers in good running order.. Call at th's oflke... The Standard. NOT" AS I WILE. Blindfolded and alone I, stand, With unknown thresholds on each hand, The darkness deepens as I ?rope, Afraid to fear, afraid to hope ; Yet this one thing I learn to know ach day more surely as I go, Tiaat days are openedrways are made, Burdens are lifted, or are laid, By otue great law unseen and still, TJnfathomed purpose to fulfill, "Not as IT will." Blindfolded: and' alone I wait; Lossseems too-bitter, gain too late ; Too heavy burdens in the load, And too fewhelpers on the road ; And joy-is weak and grief is strong, And years and days so long, so long Yet this one thing I learn to know Each day more snrely as I go, That I am glad the good and ill By changeless law are ordered still - "Not as I will." Not as I will ' the sound grows sweet Each time my lips the words repeat. 4 Not as I will !' The darkness feels Mbre safe than light when this thought steals- Lake whispered voice to cairn ana bless All unrest and all loneliness. " Not as I will," because th One Who loved us first and best has gone Berore uson the road, and still For us must all his love fulfill, "Not as I will." A MOTHER'S VANITY My brother bolomon s wile is a fool ! There ! I've thought so ever since he married her, twenty years or more ago, but I've never said. so till now. Now Harry's wife is different. But there ! There's no need of my troubling you with all this. . I'll tell you the story and" then yon can see yourself. But what under the sun Solomon Pinfeather ever saw in Jennie Sen kins,. I've failed, to find out! But there I go again. But she is a fool, it's past denying, and" if I hadn't said it after what's happened I think I should have burst. But I feel bet ter now, and I guess I caD tell the story pretty straight. About a month aero I got a letter from Jane, Solomon's wife, telling j me that Penelope (that's my name- i sake) was going to be married,, and would I come up and stay with 'em aud help 'em get ready for the wed ding.. Now, I don't love Jane but I do love, little Penelope, and as there was a nice little note from the blessed 1 child, as " kind, dear Aunt Pen," if she wouldn't come, and as she asked it very prettily, I determined to go and help the dear child have a pleas ant send-off. Well, after a ride of fifty miles in the cars and two in Solomon's car riage (for the train. I. took. was an express and I didn't stop at their village), I f6und myself, at the old homestead. I hadn't been there in ten years, but I was prepared for all the changes by the letters little Penelope- used to write to me every two weeks, but what I wasn't prepared for was the change in Penelope since I had had a visit from her ut my own house six mouths before. She looked about as little like a prospec tive bride as anything I ever saw, and . yet I. knew the man she was to marry was well worthy of my Pene lope, and that is saying a great deal. I was struck so with that girl's ap pearance I was dumb. Pale and thin and hollow-eyed, with erreat deep circles under her. eyes, she just looked tired nearly to death. . " That girl's going to be sick," I said to myself ; " I guess I've come to her . funeral instead of her wed ding." " For the land's sake, Jane, what ever ails Penelope ?" I exclaimed as soon as I had her alone. "Why?" "'Why?' Don't vou see how she looks ?" " "0, 1 see she looks kind of pale, but then she's in love, you know, and girls always get pale then," and she laughed her easy laugh, that I hate so; yes, under some circumstances I fairly hate that laugh of hers, and rfhis was one of those circumstances. It showed so plainly how blind she was. So I didn't say anything more. I saw-it wasn't any use. But I made up my mind that ' I'd find out what was the matter with Penelope and mend it, if an "old maid aunt," who isn't supposed to know anything about affairs of the heart," could be of any use... " Well, Penelope," "said I, the next day; right after breakfast, " now I'm alL. ready thimble, scissors, needle and everything to help in making those wedding clothes." ; You see I knew that Jane was full of all sorts of nonsenical vanity, and I felt sure of wedding finery and pipery there would be enough and to spare. "Oh, she's all done," "said Jane, " she's been done two months or more. She hurried up so as-to have plenty of time to make her veil. You ought to see her things. Pen, show your Aunt.. Penelope--your things," she said, pride in every tone of her voice. " Sliej got six white wrap pers," telling-" them off on her fin gers, "one dozen white skirts," etc., CONCORD, N. C, MAY 11, (I shan't tell you? all she had ; you'd get as tired of listening? as I did ;) ending triumphantly: "And, Pene- ope, her wedding clothes cost a hun dred dollars more than Col. Thomp son s daugqter s did, and he s the richest man iu town. And she was married in a plain veil, too. Just wait till you see Penelope's." She turned to go to the kitchen, while Pen led the way up stairs, very wearily, I thought. j . . However, we went through the ceremony of examining the things, and I praised' all the pretty robes about me. " I know just what you think, Aunt Pen,.andi I don't blame you a bit" What do I" think,, litle Pen ?" "You think there is a great deal too much " . , . "Yes, I do." ' " So do I. I didn't want all these things, and it was dreadful to- sit here stitch; stitch, stitching all these long, hot days just for the sake of saying 1 had the most things. But mother gave them all to me, and she seemed to have the matter so much at heart it seemed ungrateful in me to make any objection. And she seemed so set on it. She said she only had one daughter, and there would only be oi family, And seemed. to take it so much to heart that 1 couldn't resist. lou know what mother is." " Yes, I know what your mother is,'.' I answered, grimly ; while I said to myself, " She's a fool, that's what your mother is." " Well, now, Pen, dear, you have a month to rest. We 11 have some long talks and long walks, and just get ready quietly for the finale." "0, indeed. I haven't time for anything of that kind, Aunt Pen.'" " Why not ? What is there left to do? I thought everything was doe." " So everything is d6ne-but' my veil." " Well, child, who ever heard of it taking a month to make a wedding veil ?" ' Well, I've been at mine every spare minute for two months, and it isn't nearly finished yet. I'm almost afraid that another month won't finish it unless I work at uisrhts, and it tries my eyes. Besides, James comes in the evenings, and I'm not going to put him aside for all the finery in the world." "Let me see this veil," I said sol emnly; so we went into the next room) and there in a frame1 was the lovely, filmy lace thing on which this lear girl had been expending her time, nay, her life, for the past two months. " Is this some of vour mother's work?" " No," she answered, innocently, " it is every stitch mine, but mother insisted on" it. She said I knew how to make such lovely lace things, and that now was tHe time, and she seemed . so set on the lace veil as a part of the ' show, ' that I have-done it. It is lovely isn't it?" The child had not understood my question, but she had answered me. I said nothing aloud, but I groaned inwardly. Here was all I wanted to know. I made irj my mind I would not say one word then. The whole thing" seemed too preposterous for words. But I likewise made up my mind that the first chance I got I'd take an old maid's privilege of tell ing Solomon a thing or two, and I'd likewise sav a thing, in season to mv prospective nephew I'd have the thing stopped if I had to go to the city and buy my namesake a laceveil to gratify her mother's vanity. However, Penelope took matters in her own hands and finished the bu siness up by fainting dead away. The doctor was sent for, and the case proved to be typhoid fever. As soon as James found out what it was he insisted. on being married at once and sharing in our work. Jane was so worked up, for she really loves Penelope (but I thinV she loves finery aud displays more), that she consented before she knew it, and for the . past month all four of us, .beside the doctor, good old soul, have been fighting with death for that precious girl. She was pro nounced out of danger last night, and so I came home today. When I came away Jane threw her arms around me, and cried : "Oh,. Pen," she sobbed, "I don't know how I can ever thank vou for all you have done." "I don't want any thanks, Jane," I said. " Suppose we had lost her, Pene lope suppose the dear child had died ?" "Oh, wrell, if she had died, Jane," I said, "you'd have had the lace veil. It wa3 nearly finished." Jane gave me one awful look and turned on her heel. She'll hate me now till her dying day. It was the only thing I said about that veil, but it was an awful mean one I'll allow. If Penelo1.3 had died I suppose the town would' have called it "a dis pensation of Providence," and the funeral notice would have read : "Penelope, daughter of Solomon and Jane Pinfeather, cf typhoid fever.'" But. it-should have read:' " Penelope, daughter of Solomon and Jane Pinfeather, of her mothers vanity." 1888, The Wealth of "Sons. - It is not so much what you for mally teach your children as what you sing to them. A hymn has wings and can fly everywhere. One hundred and fifty years after you are dead, and " Old- Mortality ' has worn out his chisel- in- cutting out your name on the tombstone your great-grandchildren will be singing the song which this afternoon you sing to your knee. Oh, if mothers only knew the power oi this sacred spell, how much oitener wouia the little one be gathered, and all our homes would chime with the songs of Jesus. We want some counteracting influence upon our chidrem- Tho very mo ment your child steps into the street he step into the path of temptation There- are foul-mouthed children who would like to befoul your little ones, it win not ao to Keep your boys and girls in the house to make them house plants ;the-y must have fresh air anL recreation. God save yoifr children, from- the scathing, blasting, damning influence of the streets! We know- ofr no counter acting influence but the power of christian culture and- example. Hold before your little ones the pure life of" Jesus; let that name- be. the- word that shall exercise evil, from their hearts. Give to your instruc tion all the fascination of music morning, noon and night ; let" it be Jesus, the cradle song. This is important if your chil dren grow up; but perhaps they may not. 1 heir pathway may be short, Jesus may be wanting that child, Then there will be a soundless step in the dwelling, and the youthfu pulse will begin to flutter and the little hands will be lifted for help, xou cannot tell. And a great agony will pinch at your heart, and the cradle will be empty, and your soul will be empty. No- little- feet standing on the stairs.- No toys scattered on the carpet. No strange and wondering questions. No up turned face, with laughing blue eyes, come for a kiss, but only a grave, a wreatbJ of white blossoms on the top of it. The Heavenly Shep herd will take that lamb safely any how, whether you have-been faithful or unfaithful, bit would it not have been pleasanter if' you could have heard from those lips the praises of Christ? We never read anything more beautiful about a child's de parture: "She folded her hands, kissed her mother good-bye, sang her hymn, turned her face to the wall, said her little prayer, and then died." Songs in the night! Songs in the night! For the sick, who have no one to turn the hot pillow, no one to put the taper on the stand, no one to put ice on the temple, or pour out the soothing anodyne, or utter one cheerful word yet, sonjrs in the night ! For the poor, who freeze in the winter's cold and swelter in the summer's heat, and munch the hard crust that bleed the sore gums, and shiver under blankets that cannot any longer be patched, and tremble because rent day is come and they may be set out on the sidewalk. Christ in the everlasting song. The very best singers sometimes gei tired; the strongest throats some times get weary, and many who sang very sweetly do not sing now, but we hope bv the srrace oi uod we will, after a while go up and sing he praises of Christ where we will never be weary. You know that there are some songs that are es pecially appropriate for the home circle. They stir the soul, 7they start the tears, they turn the heart in on itself and keep sounding after the tune has stopped, like some ca- thredal bell which, long afterthe tap of the brazen tongue has ceased, keeps throbbing on the air. Well, it will be a home song in heaven, all the sweeter because those who sanir with us in the domestic circle earth shall join that great harmony above where all is peace and all - is love. Wilson Mirror. Where Bald Men Succeed 'Oh, Fergy, you are getting bald.' remarked Mrs. Montgomery last night in her sweet, impulsive -wtiy, as she ran her hands' through her husband's hair. 'Ugh, I know it,' grunted Mr. Montgomery. 'Been married some time you know, 'he added -with feeble grin. Mrs. Montgomery eyed him for a minute suspiciously, pression changed to child-like innocence. Then her ex one of sweet ' But never mind, dear. I noticed that bald headed men are usually successful. You have, eh?' 'Yes, they always get to the front when-' there is a ballet-" iri the play. ' Then Mr. Montgomery made mild search through his pockets to see if a note he had received last week was missing. Av Afflicted Alu. "Yju look hard today, Bingley." ''I feel hard. Didn't get a wink of sleep all night." "How was that ?" "Had the toothache." . "I was awake all night, too. A fellow in the next room was playing a iewsharp." "Great Scott! I imagined J hat I suffered." Nebraska State Journal. NUMBER 18. Wanted a. Thumper. A farmer about fifty years old stopped a number of people on libn- roe avenue to lnanire his way to a gymnasium, and he was finally sked it he was going to take lessons in boxing. "No, not exacb," he replied, but want to see a thumper." He was directed to the right place and after looking' the establishment over he said to t he proprietor: 1 live out here about' fourteen miles. I've cot a hired man who has gotfso sassy that I can hardly live with him.-He s got too bis: to- lick with a-gad, and I've got to cuff him up to a peak. I want to take a lesson with1 the gloves, and when I go home I'll astonish John Henry witla bit of science.'' One of the boxerfe about the'place said he'd give a lesson ffcf a! dollar. and the old man pealed down to his undershirt and put on the glove. He was shown how to pose and how to hold his guard,.and tlieii warned' to look out for himself. "You play you are John Henry the hired man," he said. "All right." 'You've been fooling your time away and I've called you a- lazy coyote." "Exactly.'-' "You have sassed me back and go for you like this and this!" And the old man struck right and left and run the boxer around the ring. He was doing noble woyk when something shot over bis guaid and hit his chin, and he went over like a log and laid there until they threw water on him. Then he sat up look ing about in a dazed way.-and feebly inquired : "What was it?" John Henry hit you. "He did eh! Then that settles it! Here's your dollar, young man, and here's the gloves. If I'm liable to get such a lick as that I'm going home t j tell the hired man he can boss the whole ranch and be hanged to him!" Free Press. Salt For Cattle. This is a rule that is generally ob served, but the-re&sort for it is not so well understood, except that it makes stock healthy, writes Mr. C. F. Clarkson. But why does it make them healthy? Rich food, especial ly that of a succulent" character, when taken in large or small quan tities, by the warmth of the stomach is frequently caused to terment be fore disgestion takes place. This formentation causes derangements, sours the food, generates gas, bloat scours, etc. A proper amount of salt prevents the food -from ferment ing, aud acting with the sliva or pepsin, aids in- rapid digestion. Vhiletoo much salt acts as a poison aud inflames the stomach and bow els, especially if free access to water is not allowed, a proper amount given frequently checks a tendency, to aci dity and fermentation in the stom ach, and allows the digestive organs full, free, , and early action. Salt also divests 'the animals of -worms, and tha infinitesimal animalculaj whiclv-ficientists now claim to be the cause of nearly;- all diseases. Salt should be provided for all clases of domestic animals, where they can get&t it any time, and the demands of nature will safely, teach them not to eat 'too little or toonmch.'- The Moon" and the Weather. Su perstitions concerning the effect (f thie moon on the earth are very com mon, but are wholly without founda tion in reality, The relation of the moon to the earth is. simply that of a satellite, whose attraction has an impmtarjt- influence onJ the motion in its orbit, and on the shifting level of its oceans causing the tides. It might be supposed that if the moon can attract the water on the surface of the earth she can also attract its atmosphere.and thus, through move ment of the air currents, have a per ceptible influence upon the weather. But investififation showes that as the aerial mass is in no way confined in estuaries or gulfs, its tide by externa attractions must be1 slight. Su far as can de indicated by the barometer it is too small to be worth reckoning, b in"? .001 of an inch The - Ninth Commandmejst.- Wl-iaf ia tVio ninth fntnmnnflmftuf. said a teacher to aboy iu a Sunday school. " 'Thou shalt 'not bear false wit ness against thy. neighbor.' " " What is ' bearing false witness against your neighbor ?' ' "It is" telling falsehoods." " That is partly true ; and yet it iff not exactly the right answer be cause you may tell a falsehood about yourself." A very little girl then said : ' " It is when nobody did anything and somebody went and told of it." " That will do," said the teacher, with a smile. The little girl had given a curious answer, but underneath her odd lan guage there was a pretty clear per ception of the true meaning.. The first - case of Evesdropping ithat we can call to mind at the mo ment was when Eve was dropped from the list of animals in the gar den. Epoch. - THE STANMRK UNTIL JANUARY 1, 1889, 75 CEEETTS. I nrentrollftble Forres. Every now and then we get a re- mindei of the" existence of -uncoil- trollable eleniahts before which man is helpless and against which no in vention can ever secure safety. We have disastidtis tempests on the high seas.- We have destructive blizzarns like' those in Dakota. Ve have occasional warnings of danger from the slumbering earth -qhake;- We have extraordinary snow' storms which stopthe"whe9ls of traf tic and'ihterrupt our industries. - We 'have the litfhtnifcg'th'at threatens.- We haVe the times of baleful weather, and solar Sies-that are al- most consuming Wd'are as helpless in the presence of these elemental forces as were the men who lived when firstf the hurrah' race took up its parable. And the men who live in 'the last days of the earth will be just as helpless. But this fact need not prevent us from enjoying the halcyon yeais, with their varyinseasens during the whole course "of which mankind have felt reasonably secure against the menacing agencies which they can notcontrol. New York Sun. A Venerable' Pair of Pistols. Mr. D. T. Sheriff of Prince Georg e's county,. Mary and, has sent to the Baltimore American office? an interesting pair of flint-lock pistols manufactured by Moore of London about 1769. They are perfectly pres erved. They were formerly the property of Baltimore county and were used by some of his ancesters iu the revolutienary war." They are. about six inches long - with brass breeches. In order to fire them a duplex. slide on top is pulled back, releasing the pan cover and allowing room to cock the hammer, the cock ing of which discovers the trigger, which lies concealed until prepared to fire. When the trigger is pulled, the hammer holding a piece of - flint ston about one half of an inch sqftftre and one eighth thick; tapered to a wedge shaped pdint, comes in con taet with the perpendicular portion of the pan cover, throws ,ifc forward and the sparks are directed by the impetus of the hammer into the powder pan below' and ignites" thti charge. Shot Each Other Dead. Jackson Miss., May 2. Gen. Wirt Adams and JohnW. Martin, prominent citizens of this city, met on the street yester day and shot each other dead. This is the result of a qilarrar over poli tics and prohibition, directly and indirectly, over 'the Gambrill Hamil ton shooting, which occurred some time ago. A witness to 'yesterday's tragedj-, who was with Gen. Adams at the time.says: : "Gen. Adams ac costed Martin saying: 'You rascal. have stoob enough from you !' Mar tin replied: :'If you douu't like it ' aud simultaneously with the remark he drew a pistol, fired and got behind a tree half a foot in diameter. Gene ral Adams also fired -about the same time." Bnt though not certain he he thinks that Martin shot first. Martin was editor of the New Mis sissippian, and was a brilliant and promising young man. Gen. Adams was 69 years oM and postmaster of Jackson. He was a prominent -officer in the confederate army." A Favorite Flower. - The verbena is one of the oldest and dearest favorites of the lovers of flowers. As a matter of course, all gardens should, and most do have them. - Theirprofuso blooming qual ities, bright and many hues coupled with their long and tireless bloom- Ling, covering the greater pait of sum mer and fall make them 'a beauty 1 spot in any garden. By pinching them back once or twice they spread wonderfully, cov ering a circ.e three feet in diameter, and where thickly studed with large clusters of bloom they are without a rival. For years past they have beeu favorites, but not until the last few years has there been any great advances or'im pro vement in the char acter of the flowers Forest, Field and Stockman. A little six-year old girl in Cincin nati named Emma Byers has a uair of eyes that are the wonder of all the people of that city, if the En quirer is to be believed. That paper says: "In her right eye is a perfect form of a doll baby, handsomely ' dressed and with beautiful features In her left eye is a miniature cres cent. In spite of this her sight is ex cellent. Thechild is altogether very pretty '-and the parents expect, in time, to make a fortune by exhibit ing her. A well known Cincinnati -oculist sayS the figurers in little Emma's eyes are simply due to an error in the developmet of the in les. " Past Mend In jf. - Bjones That fellow Galey. tried to borrow five hundred dollars of me this morning. Smythe Five hundred. He mu3t be cracked! Bjones No, he's not cracked. He's broke. Life.-

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