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THE STAIIDARD. u nn AND ARB llBLISUED EVEKV FKIDAY AT COXOOKD, N. C. Kates of Advertising:: One square," one insertion, $ 06 Ouo square, one month, 1 05 One square, two months, 2 (Ml One square, three months, 2 50 One square, six months, 5 00 One square, one year, 9 00 CNE YEAR, CASH IN ADVANCE, - $1..25 SIX MONTHS, - .75, VOLUME I. CONCORD, N. C, JUNE 8, 1888. NUMBER 22. REAT VICTORY OVER 'MI PRICES! n in nor S 3? IE?. I 3sT 3- THE 1ST BIG DEAL OF THE Tho undersigned once more comes to tin1, front and avows his determinalon lo load all competitors in the poo work of saving the people money and sup plying them with a superior quality of GENERAL MERCHANDISE. We arc "loaded to the muzzle," and if our tock is not speedily re duced i here is danger of an es plosion when we fire off our big gun. Everybody must "ttand from under," for the bottom has dropped out oi LOW PRICES, and if an body got? caught when it falls, somebody is sure to get hurt. Now open your eyes, bargain hunters, and if you are close calculators and know a fo d thing when you see it, come and see me if you want to pave money bv laving your D iv km, Hals, Gr ceries, provisions and other articles of home" use. , A specialty on flour 1ir!i cannot be purchased elsewhere" of the sama grade as cheap as I will sell t. Don't sell jour country produce before calling on E. ABEOTO ; P. S. Thanking ou for past favors, I hope by fair dealing and reasonable ' kcj- to merit a continuance of the same. NEW 1 would iutoim the ladies pf Con t i.id and surronndin; country "that I Lave opeue cued a new Miilinery Store At ALLISON'S CORNER, where il. v will tiud a woll selecte.. fetock of Hats and Bonnets KILL , . x.ns, v.o tars, corsets, ensues, 1 m-l.i g, A oiling, cVc., which will be j m-.M cheap for CASH. Give rue a call Respect 'uliy, ( 3m" IVIES. MOLL IE ELLIOT. FURNITURE tUEAP FOR CASH A'f M. E. CASTOR'S ) EMI ST01 ) II, I::: Suites, Bureaus. 'in mi, UW I do not sell for cost, but for a sraall pi oik. Come and examine my line of god. Old furniture repaired. 12 M. E. CASTOR. The "Weekly News-Observer. fillLLIHERY STORE sic. m,wt The Weekly News and Observer is a long ways the best paper ever pub Ji-hed in North Carolina. R is a cred it to the people and to the State. The I eople should take a pride in it. It should be in every family. It is all t'iht page paper, chock full of the best sui t of reading matter, news, market re! oit!, and all that. You cai.m-t af f.ad to be without it. Price 1 2" a year. V e will furnish the WeeUy News and Observer until January 1st, 1S,S.. for Send for sampie copy. Addn-s-i. Nlws a"I Okskkyer Co., l'eigh, N .C. SEASOUI Boots It:e"W IN CONCORD 5 j . ? "Hf A NEW FIRM! Mors. fa a .hMii PEICBS! Come and see our beautiful stock consisting of Calicos, Dress Goods, aco. Hn Ktnrk- n motions. Jieu s rum r ,. r, , A ,n f T . d laige lot of jtnvelry. Also iin Lups, uckets ana many otner things. FELDMAN & LEVIN, Fornierlj of Baltimore. Next door to Mrs. Cross' Millinery Store.. ru ' A. H. PROPST, Architect an! Contractor. Plans and specifications of build ings made in any. style. All con tracts for buildings faithfully car ried out. Office in Cuton's building, up stairs. 13 CHAMPION s :-: ana :-: n ) ( I still keep on hand a stock of Champion Mowers and Reapers. My old customers will find me at the old stand, Allison's corner. jul-tf C. R. WHITE. Dr. F. M. Henderson Having returned from Texas, ten ders his professional services to the citizens of Concord and vicinity. All calls left at Fetzer's Drug Store, will be promptly attended to. jul-tf MOOSE'S Blood. Renovator, This valuable Remedy is. adapted to the following diseases arising from an impure blood. Eruptive and Cutan eous diseases, St. Anthony's Fire, Pim pies. Tetter, Hingworm, Rhumatism, Syphilitic, M ercurial, and all diseases of like character. It is an Alterative or Restorative o Tone and Strength to the system, it affords givat protectioa from attacks that originate in changes of c limate and season. For sale at Fetser's Drug Store mm Fine stank mm III JU HIE III VCt AC OF THE DEAD. The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo ! No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few ; On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tears are spread, And memory guards, with solemn rouud, The bivouac oi tho dead. No rumor of the foe's advance Now 8yell8 upon the wind No troubled thought at midnight haunts Of loved ones left behind No vision of to-morrow's strife The warrior's dread alarms ; No braying horn or screaming fife At dawn shall call to arms. Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead, Dear as the blood ye gave, No 'impious footsteps here shall tread The herbage of the grave ; Nor shall your glory be forgot While fame her record keeps, Or honor points the hallowed spot. Where valor proudly sleeps. TAKIXO CAKE OF THE BOY. Bollinger Finds Out How it i Himself by Taking His Wile's 11 . There was a man named Dol lingvr, faihe-r of a small boy. The small boy was three years and six months old and full of the old Harry in proportion. Now it happened in the past that the man Dollinger had sjood much with his nose up in the air and boasted how he could take care of the small boy, which Litter's name was Willie; and he had said that, his wife, mother to Willie, was not posted on taking care of childien, and that he himself could manage him without making such a fuss about it. lie laughed at her, and mocked her, and told her his mother had brought up her children differ ently and albeit much better. And likewise he added that her raised biscuits went more to the spot. So in good time it fell out that the woman would go down town for the afternoon. And before this the hired girl had jumped the ranch, ,i)ut the man said it mattered not that he would himself take care of the boy. And while the woman was going down the frvtit walk Willie whooped twice like a wild Indian and asked his father eight questions, for the boy hungered fin information. And while his mother paused at the gate looking at a woman who was riding past to see whether she had a new hat or her old one made over, little Willie asked a few more questions. And it was so that all of the boy's questions were short, but the answers to them were long and exceedingly difficult. And it was three hours before the woman returned, but Dollinger thought it was three months, for his fcrff spring made' it' hot for him. And so it happened that for the next two minntes after the woman, started the boy asked no questions, but dragged the family cat out from under the stove by the tail and yelled like a man when the re turns come right on election night. And his father told him to shut up and keep still, at which the boy obeved and sat down on the floor; and the father marked the effect of his firmness with great pride, and seated himself to read an article on the tariff question. And. he had read ten lines when the boy began yelling like a man with his hand caught in the door of a burglar proof safe; and kept it up for five minutes, howling exceedingly loud, till his father was glad to stop his reading and comfort him by gallop ing around the room with him on his head. And it pleased the boy, and he asked ten or fifteen more questions; and Dollinger fell over a cast-iron train of cars the boy had left in the middle of the room, and got up so mad that he kicked the cat over the rocking chair, which amused the boy so much that he forgot to insist on answers to his questions; howbeit, he thought of others. And during the nest half hour Dollinger had to butter three pieces of bread for Willie and get him a drink nine times, and sing four songs to him, and show how a monkey looked twelve times, and go into the next room and see what he was doing five timesr and answer thirty-eight questions. And he made but small progress with his reading, but he kicked the cat twice, and once he missed her and lamed his right foot on a chair-rocker. After this he tried to induce the boy to go to sleep, and rocked him an hour, and sang to him, in a harsh, metallic voice which needed oiling, more tnan fifty different songs, and got him a drink eighteen times, and answered a question once a minute; and at the end of the time the hoy was bright, and cheerful, and wide awake, and rose up and said: "Papa, can't you kick the cat again it's awful lots o' fun?" and it was so that he kicked it. Then the boy rode the broom stick around the house and whooped some more; and he tipped over the center-table and three chairs, and hurt himself twice, and ran the end of the broomstick into his father's left eye; and the cat having gone out of the room his father swore, and straightway the boy repeated the swear word; and his father sat down the sugar firkiu where he could reach it tO induce- him to promise never to ive the word again, for he trembled, lest the boy's mother should hear it and straight way know its source. Then the boy attf until he became possessed of a pain, and yelled so that people stopped at the sidewalk and talked of sending for a police man. So to comfort him his father got down on all-fours and took him on his back and galloped around the edge of the parlor like a horse; and kicked out backwards at the chairs, and pawed with his arms, and pre tended to put down his head and eat grass; and the boy pounded him in the ribs with his heels, and w hacked him over the head with a drumstick, and asked some ques tions; and the questions were after this manner: "Why don't you . hold up your head higher like a horse?" and, "why don't you kick with both feet? that's the . way a horse does;" and, "why dou't you winner like horses?" and, "why don't you have long ears like Harry Jones' donkey?" AH of which the man had to answer. For when he got down Lv wJshedthat the boy would nut want to ride for three-quarters of an hour; but it was so that he did. And after he got up he sank into a chair to rest, and Willie scattered his playthings around the house and threw his balL through a front win dow, and blew on his tin horn, and tore up the late newspapers, and j played in the coal scuttle, and wiped I his hands on the wall and tidies, and Jon the album. And his father j groaned and swore to himself, but he was too tired to got up and stop im. Rut as he rested his body he exercised his mind in answering a few questions. And as time wore on, Willie slipped out of the room and became exceedingly still, bv which token his father knew he was in mischief; but he only blasphemed under his breath a little harder and sat still; for he felt now as if his back was broken front being a horse. And there was no sound in the house for the space of ten minutes, nor till Mrs. Dollinger returned and discovered Willie, and dragged him in, and spoke to papa so he would remember it; for the boy had poured the molasses and vinegar into the sugar and emptied the mixture on the lloor and rubbed the cat in it, and himself rolled in the same. And the woman made it red hot for a nian by the name of Dollinger. Chicago Tribune. Credit in t lie West There are different kinds of pluck. They don't always inspire the same respect or c'onfidence. A man in Arizona sent up to a firm iu San Francisco for some goods. They were to be furnished on credit, and he gave a reference in town. The firm called upon the reference. "Do you know this man in Ari zona ?" "Know him ? Certainly, know him well." "What kind of a man is he ?"' "He's a splendid fellow ; a good fellow." "He's in business there,. isn't he?"' "Why, yes. He's an enterprising chap ; got lots of push and pluck." 'He's written to us." "What does he want ?" "Credit." "That's all right." "Well, we'd like to know what kind of a man he is." What kind of a man he is ? Grit ! That's "what he is. He's the kind of a man who'd put ycu up 1,000 on a pair of deuces &nd never wink." "Thank you." An oeeurence in Craven county last week, shows that age and romance are not incompatible. A couple of lovtrs, each age l 7G years, run away and had themselves mar ried. It is said their crand parents objected to the match. WHO IS A (iEXTLEHAX? What a Famous Author Hayn on This Subject. The word "gentleman" as defined by Webster is of wide significance. In Great Britain every man above the rank of yeomen, comprehending noblemen, may properly be called gentlemen. In a more limited sense, however, the term applies only to men who, without a title, bear a coat of arms, and whose ancestors have been freemen. In the United States the term is applied very prop erly to men of education and good breeding, irrespective of occupation, and, in the plural, to assemblages of men, whatever may be their coudi tion or character. Taking it in it's manifold senses, it is doubtless a hardworked Avoid, and more fre quently improperly than properly applied. Robert Louis , Stevenson . makes "Gentlemen" the subject of an ex ceedingly readable article in the cur: rent number of Scribner's. The writer scoffs the "stupid belief" that all men are born "free and equal," and that it does not matter who one's father was. Freedom, he holds, is a thiug incompatible with corporate life ; that every advance in richness of existence, whether moral or ma ternal, is paid fur by a loss of liber ty, and that luxury and knowledge and virtue and love and the family affections are all so many fetteis on the naked and solitary freemen. The modern scientific theory it thut men no longer spring iuto life equal to one another, but issue fiom a race, with virtues, vices, fortitudes and frailties ready made ; the slaves of their inheritance of blood ; etern ally unequal. So that, it appears, we must use the term gentleman in referring to one fortunate in descent from brave and setf-rospecting an cestors, whether clowns or counts. But the intricacy of descent defies prediction, and the heir of a hundred sovereigns may be b an a; brute and a vulgarian. As to the qualities that . belong ,to the gentleman .current ideas vary, In oie class, not long ago ho was considered a gentleman who rodo in his gloy; he is a gentleman in; one house who does not eat peas with his knife ; in another who is not to be discountenanced by any form of butler. . It very often happens that he who serves is a far better gentle man than he who is served. The author here ventures a prophecy that not many years will have gene by before those shall be held the most "elegant" gentlemen and those the most "refined"' ladies who wait (in a dozen particulars) upon them selves. The real trial of gentility lies in some sudden and sharp charge of circumstances ; it is a common ac complishment to behave with de cency among those to whom we are accustomed. There is no more pit able sight than that of thecurrent gentleman unbending unless it be that of the current lady! Stiff necked condescension macages to convey an offense that is not for- gotton. "Not to try to spare peo ple's feelings," says Mr. Stevenson, "is so much kinder than to try in a wrong way ; and not try to be 51 gen tlfiinan at all is so much -more gen tlemanly than to try and fail 1 So that this gift, or grace, or virtue, resides not so much in conduct as in knowledge ; not so much in re fraining from the wrong as in know ing the precisely right. A quality of exquisite aptitude marks out the gentlemently act ; without an ele ment of wit we can be only gentle men by negatives." The life of our fathers was highly ceremonial ; a man's steps were counted ; his acts, his gestures pre scribed ; he was ruled in all things by conventionalities, and the con ventionalities were performed by rule Life was a rehearsed piece which only those who had been well drilled could decently perform. From this standard has descended the name of a gentleman. So much of the. old sense of the word still clings to it that it still points to the man who in every circumstance of life knows what to do and how to do it gracefully ; but grace aud knowl edge are no longer considered val uable iu practical affairs,, and the wurd has been extended so as to im ply loyalty in word and act. The decay of the ceremonial element has cost the gentleman' some of his prestige, and yet his part is moie difficult to play. It is easy to be a gentleraau in a stiff society where one's action is prescribed ; it is a more difficult matter in a free so ciety where every word and act must come by inspiration. The re hearsed piece is at an eud ; we are now floundering through an im promptu charade. Much of life comes up for the firsb time, unre hearsed, and must be acted upon the instant. The man must invent an attitude, he must be inspired with speech, and the most perfect gen tleman is he who, in tlese trir.ls,. acts and speaks with most fitness. To recapitulate: A gentleman is i not necessarily bred from a long line of illustrious ancestors ; he is not necessarily the man who rides in his can iage or observes the little nice ties of etiquette ; he is not the man who condescends to chat with his inferior in wealth and position and conveys an unspoken sight with every word and gesture. But he is the man who, however plain and un ostentatious, is observant of the feelings of others j who knows how to say the right thing ; and when to say it ; who is not only at eae but makes others feel at ease ; whose tact takes the place of knowledge; who is loyal, and true in word and act, and who has at the foundation sincere kindliness of heart. A Xew Method of Washing. The ill effects of soda on linen make interesting a knowledge of a mode of washing said to be in favor in Germany and Belguim, where the excellence of laundresses is prover bial. The operation consists in dis solving two pounds of soap in about three gallons of water as hot as : the hand can bear, and adding to this one tablespoonful of turpentine and three of liquid ammonia. The mix ture must then bd well stirred, and the linen steeped in it for two or three hours, taking care to cover up the vessel containing them as near!' hermetically as possible. The soap and water may be reheated and used a second time, lut iu that case half a tablespoonful of turpentine and a tablespoonful of ammouia must be added. The process is sai l to cause a great economy of time, la bor aud fuel. "Yes, sir," wont on Professor X to a genthman to whom he had re cently been introduced, "I have giv en some attention to the atudy of hu man nature, and I rarely fail to read a face correctly. Now, there, a lady," he continued, pointing across the room, "the lines are as clear as type. The chin shows firmness of itisposnion, amounring tooustinacy, the sharp, pointed nose a vicious' temperament, the large mouth, vol- ubility, the eyes a dryness of soul the " ' "Wonderful, Professor, wonder, fill." " Ycu know something of the lady, then?" said the professor. "Yes, a little; she's my wife. "My good man," said the worthy lady who had given the tramp a large plateful of victuals, "pardon rue for making the suggestion, but would you not enjoy your repast fully as well, if not better, if you should fol low the custom that has always pre vailed in this household, and invoke a blessing on your food before jou begin ?" ' "Madam," replied the hungry tourist, with his mouth full, "me and Obancey Depew always does our best talkin' afte we've ctt." ' Samples. Wife I just received such a nice letter from sister Sue. Husband That so ? What color's her new dress ? Wife Here's a sample she sent. Husband And didn't she have a new Easter bonnet 2 Wife Yes, here's a piece of the trimming. Husband And hasn't John got a new wig ? Wife jres, here's a handful of his hair she enclosed. Fashionable Women, Whims. The extent to which mouev is wasted on a fashionable woman s 1 1illed with a Iinssy?vtn0AV jonquil... whim was illustrated to me the i Sonie sucl lirr.mgemt.ut is possible other day. I was in the shop of ato tvery xv-ewife, if it be oi.lv a well-known florist on Broadway . ow bo of ?la?s or china fn,f ()f when a lady came in from a private cut ffowpl.3 .iuli th5s hy ono or coach. She purchased three huge Uvo ou she1 or tray slial,'e(l roses, for which she paid $5, aud , (ishe3 file(1 whh tne beautifully carried them daintily away by their colom preserves, and the table will long stems. An hour later, going j tc.npt eye aml api)etite al;ke iviicn to Delmonico's, I saw mr lady of , flowers cannot )K. procured, hand the roses lunching at one of the ! gome fn,itapples, oranges, grapes windows with a companion of her I (jr w1;lt(.V(T call be got provide the own sex. Fifteen minutes after- m.(.(lflil touch of color when taste ward, returning by the same way, I fulh. lip iu a auh or noted that the table where they sat p0re0luiii basket in the center of tin; was vacant. Three bare rose stems j tabe lay amid' the dishes, which were) buried in rose, leaves. Theladvofj One day, during the pedagogical the roses had plucked 5 worth of I "'' f h eccentric Tom Wright . a poor little ragged urchin entered lowers to pieces in a few minutes . . ' ... 1 . , the complaint that some of the lar idle conversation after her luncheon, j er boys h;l(1 got hi(. kuifV ,,ut wllich Neither their cost nor their beauty j olje ie was miHble to state. Dilli had any value in her eyes. j gent inquiry was made, but all to no Speaking of flowers this same purpose. The teacher then gave florist informed me that at a dinner them abound 1-cture on the wick given in the citv less than a month 1 ?, hieving con -., . . c , , . eluding by stating tnat a big fly wa.-i ago the supply or roses for the table .. , . , 5 11 - j now crawling over the nose of tho alone cost the host a round -T-W very lad who bad stolen the knife. Quite a neat sum to put out on the Quick as a uasb mie cf tb0 member. partial and immaterial decoration of 'clasped his hand to the place indi a feast in a town where there have eated.. "Now. young men." said to be one-cent coffee stands to keep . licle To "dissrorge." The knife people willing to work for a living from dy-ing of starvation, is it not? New York News. Th Winston Twin-City Daily of i th 2',th says: Today a1out noon a shoe'; was feit by a number of citi- door, and the first catch was a mm zens of this p' ace, which the initiated ; who was courting her. Hehad pack say was undoubtedly that of the ed up 100 pounds of bacon to carry i earthquake order. A Cat Home. One of the most unique of Phila delphia's institutions is the Refuge for Lost and Suffering Animals, more commonly called the "Cat Home," at No. 1242 Lombard street. The "refuge" does an extensive business iu providing easy mortuary honors for old, decrepit and vagrant felines, who are daily dispatched by the fumes of charcoal. It is a fea ture of the woman's branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, aud is in charge of Superintendent John West. Superintendent West's report for 1887 shows that 11,331 cats met :t painless death, together with 2,159 dogs, 4 rats, 3 rabbits, .3 canary I birds and 2 chickens. All the latter were killed at the request of their owners. Boarders are also, often taken in the shape of pet cats, whose owners leave the city, or who desire that they should have good care in their declining days. The ehr." e per week is 50 cents, and the v. '.u consists of milk, fish and bre:: I twice each day. They are !. .-pt in a latticed inclosure, and, tarrli-g the occasional differences that arise be tween them, they seem to enjoy their quarters. When an animal is re ceived as a boarder, its name, if it, has one, is registered, as is that of its owner, and all the personal marks and peculiarities it may pos sess. No responsibility, however, h assumed in case of sickness or death of the animal in charge. Any one; having a cat they wish mercifully put to death has but to send word to the refuge, and "Frank" Ryan" who rejoices in the title of "cat messen ger," will call and remove the cat, carrying it away in, a large hiskot, j 1,1 vuim witnm oy partitions cacii J large enough for one animal. Phila- I el p hia Enquirer. A iiKKAT NKXSATIO.X In a Chicago Court of Justice. Chicago,. Juno 1. A tremendous sensation occurred in Judge Jami son's Court, shortly after 10 o'clock this morning while the docket was being called. Mrs. Meckie L. R uv eon was impatiently waiting for (ho divorce case of her husband, Banker Rawson, to be called. Col. H. C. Whitney, her . husband's attorney, was sitting at a side-table writing when fhe court was suddenly startled to hear a pistol shot and Col. Whitney at once disappeared under the table. The shot was fol lowed by four more in rapid succes sion and Mrs. Rawson was seen pui suing Whitney with a Smith & Wesson 3S-calibre revolver. Mrs. Rawson succeeded in emptying her revolver at Whitney before she could be captured. Two of the balls hit the lawyer, one taking effect below the groin and the other in tho left leg. The wound near the right groin will probably prove fatal. Judge Jamison at once ordered Mrs. Rawson's arrest and she was imme diately taken to jail. TIip ( en t-r of the Oimicr Tnblo. At a fashionable spring dinner the central ornamentation was an oblong of amber colored satin, on which ! was placed a rare bow r of "vd blue." imme.uatejy returned to its ngiitlul owner,, the thief took his thrashing like a little man, an 1 the matter wis dismissed. i A Maryland widow named Hallets , set a bear ti an at her smoke-house j off",.