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4 .... .j...-,-, THE SUHDHID, THE miiD&RD. TAN THE VERY BEST AHVKDTISIXG MEPiUM. Kates or Advert iNlnrt One square, one insertion, $1 00 One square, one month, I 60 terms : Une square, two mouths, c YEAR. CASrf IN ADVANCE, SIX KCKTHS, $1.23. .75 Une square, three months. 2 5,V VOLUME I. CONCORD, N. C, NOVEMBER 9, 1S88. NUMBER 44. One square, six months, 5 00 One square, one year, 9 00 I-HE BARB. LOW PEIOBS. -:0: THE FALL TRADE W ill oon open, and H. A. BKOWN, as usual, is fully pre pared to bell every thing in tlit? line of Dry Goods, Groceries, General Merchandise AT HOCK BOTTOM PBICES ;0: lir is now receiving a Full Stock of Fall and Winter Goods Mich is the people need and will have. He will not be under bid, and takes for his motto LOW PRICES. His line of Dry Joods, Hats, Boots and Shoes are no Shoddy Articles or sec mid hand purchases, but the Price will raise a regular KACKET in the Market. &B0Q1EI1S of th" very best quality for every customer. grades of FLOUR A SPECIALTY, i : i....V- lia ciiru P, ivains Country Produce of all kinds taken m exchange f.ir "i)(ls, at Cash Prices. Do not sell before you see him. nd now thanking vou for the very liberal patronage so freely i-.towed heretofore, and asking a continuance of the same. 1 am Very Respectfully, M. J. CORL'S .1 CONCOIU), N. C I have moved into the stable late ly occupied by ISrowu Bros., near the courthouse. The best accommo dation for drovtrra. Leave your ..rdeis at the stable or with .1. li Liown Porter for omnibus. Horses buJ,uulesfor,ale-M.J.CORL, Proprietor. Ii order t: closr out my stock of Hat:-. Uounets, Ribbons. Flowers. Ac. 1 will oiler gmit inducements i.MivlmaPis until the tame is dis posed of, Call ana see me I mean jut wliat X say J. M. CRSS. NOTICE!: The undersigned having taken out letters of administration on the es tale of Aaron Kitchie. dee'd, all per hons who are indebted to said entate are hf-rehy notified to come forward and settle, and all persons holding claims against the said estate will present them for payment within twelve months of this uotice, or the H.iino will be pleaded in bar of their recover. S. M. TJitciiie and hfTHF.K IIitciue, Admr's of Anion Kitchie, dee'd. Aug. 24, 1SS8. A. H. PR0PST, kWA ai i Mraclcr. Plar.r and specifications of build ius made iu any style. All con tracts for buildings faithfully car ried out. Office in Ctou's building, up stairs. 13 I). D. JOHNSON, lRUGGIST, CONCOKD, X. 0. HAS OX HAND A I I'LL LINK or l'ur Fresh and Reliable PUUGS, MKDICIXKS, PAINT AND OIL "Which Ik- will sell to vou a the lowest cash price. CC2IE, SEE ASD BUY. GREAT BARGAINS The verv best t-o mil on liim if Villi wai FUNiTURE C1IKAP FOK CASJI AT M. E. CASTOirS I) iii 1 11 1 i Rcom Uk Bureaus no KC1S, CCC. (10 V i'b 110 M A 1)K COFFINS, ALL KINDS A SPWIALI Y. I di not sell f r cost, but for a small profit. I'imie and ex-nniius my line of godi. Old furniture lepaired. 12 31. E. CASTOR. Sale of Land. By authority vested in mg as Commissioner, by a decree to sell land for partition, tiled in the office ! of t.h Clerk of the Superior Court ! r.t TV , 1... o swointi- 1l 1.. 1f.fl, .1,117 of August, 1888, in a Special P10 ceediiiir. wherein Paul Jjarnhardt imi others are Plaintiffs aid Paul Baruhardt, Guar ban, I). V. Uiy, Guardian, and others are Defend- ants, I will sell, by public auction, N. C, on Monday, the 1st day of ! October, 1HS8, a tract of land, known ; as the home piace of Daniel Barn-! hardt, deceased, in Xo. 0 township, Cabarrus county, contamins 2001 acres; the description and bounda- ! (lies whereof are fully set orth in a itoeii, i or saui traot 01 jauu, iroui Daniel Barnhardt to Eveliiie Barn hardt, recorded ir. Book Xo. 28 page 399. iu the office of the lUgister of Deeds for Cacnrrus county. 0 Ul lUlllUlU Ml Ml Terms of Sale: One fourth of the. purchase money in cash, balanec Grated chicken for sandwich pur payable twelve months after date of 0ivs s uow put up in glass jan sale, secured by note, at eight per!1 . . , , cent interest, with good snrelies and and sold to people who feai they title reserved till purchase money is mar be in a hurrv. paid in fulJ. Title to this land is peifeet. GEORGE L. PATiERSOX. Cmuiissioner August ICth., 1888. CHAMPION 1:-:1!E ) ( I still keep on hand a fdoek of Champion Mower Repairs. old customers will nnd meat the old etuud, Allison h corner. 'nl-tf C. li. "WHITE. For Sale Ohsap, ASE ON D HANI) OMNIBUS j with a cajiKc'ty for twe ve passer gers, Jin good ruuning order. Call at this office. XAME IN THE SAXD. Alone I walked on tho ocean stiand, A pearly shell was in my ban 1 : I stoop d and wrote upon the sand My name, t he year, the day; As onward from the spot I passed, One lingeiing look behind I cant, A wuvh came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away. And iio, methought, 'twill quickly be With every mark on earth with me; A wave of dark oblivion's saa Will sweep across the place Where I have trod the sandy shore Of time, and been to bo no more; Of tne, my day, the name I bore, To leave no track or trace. And yet with Him who counts the sands, And holds the waters in his hands, I know a lasting record stands Iuscribed against my name; Of all this mortal part has wrought. Of all this thinking soul has thought, And from these fleetiug moments caught, For glory or for shame! THE LOVE LETT Ell. It I as Old aw Mankind, and ftuould 4'ouneqaeritly 'ot Bo mdleiiled. Farm and Fireside. History i ha:.y concerning the writing of the first love letter; but inasmuch as love was included in the original outfit of the human family, it must have been talked iu Eden, and inasmuch as writing is merely talkim; at long range, it follows the conclusion we submit is inevitable that love letters passed j tion and affinity new and inexpe bet ween the first pair of lovers who j rienced housewives generally get the happened to be separated after the invention of writing. If Adam and Kve had known how to write and had known how much pleasure they cotdd tind in the new sensation, we have no doubt they would have parted from each other a few days just to indulge in epistolary commu nication. True, there was no gen eral post-office, no fast mail, no carrier system, no green stamps in their time, but they might have left their letters, as miliums of their descendants have done, in a hollow tree an apple tree, for instance or under some loose stone on the top of the garden wall. Since love let ters are written by every one who can write at all, or has some con genial second self to write for! them, whv should their publication wife ia, however, clet.rnnned that j lookmor 0ia boys in the crowd ma in courts or law or in the newsna- those secret little love-talks of ! pnted its authenticity, and a con- pers send a snicker across the con- j tinent? Why do people, old and , young, and of all sorts and condi tions, rush in crowds to the courts and almost tiavel over each other's heads to hear love letters read and then go home and laugh at them as if thev had found something unique in the way of fun? Why do grave : dismissal. men and sober women skip all the ! fkw good gibls from thk south. sensible reading in a newspaper if it j The South used to supply the happens to contain a love letter, j North with the best quality of ser and, haying read that, laugh a, it as j vants up to two or three years ago. if it was the latest and best of Gil-(since when only the riff-raff has bert's operatic jokes? Ten to one if i come. Baltimore servants, who all the old trunks in all the old , used to have a great reputation for garrets were called to give up their ! being good cooks, are now fast treasures they would convict these! losing it. The sauciest girls are orave men of just such "silliness," those of the ebony hue. Since the if they please to call it so, as that which excites their nsibles. .No man or woman was ever thoroughly in love and not to have been there, we are informed, is to have missed some happiness, at least who didn't say and do "silly" things. "Why, then, does everybody feel such an irresistable inclination to poke fun at the manuscript love making of an unfortunate yvhose 1 , u ra et into tlie conrts an, 1 papers? WhyndicUle an universal tmit? ' ' .tronoini-al Tld-BitH. Juvenile porkers with apple sauce j ,low"obtaiu"amQng a multitude It can be said that there are many ways of making green turtle soup, ! but onlv one that is correct "Gamey game," as usual, is an i alfectatiau of some young men at 1 the club whose nights are passed t swallowing sodunnnt tablets. I "Well,' he exclaimed pushing away ! the "Indian pudding" at table d'hote, j "if they eat that I don't wonder they j Are dying off." j Lobster salad, prepared by an in i experienced person who does not ' know what to exclude, is almost 3 dangerous a an unloaded gun iu ; tue hands of a full grown idiot! : 0 ' Wild turkey, blue wing duck and 'other game luxuries .will soon be in 'supply from the far west. The I rapidity of transportation in these dtjs preveuts "unpleasantness." Usually people who write to naws- papers to ask if they may eat small game with their fingers are the ones who never have au opportunity to masticate the iirds m any Btyle, LOTS OF OREEX CURLS. The Yunuar Wlf Gets Kearly All tho 1 , , , .Kr u"aaf Pma ecom Good servant girls are becoming! scarce, and this scarcity is ecpecially j felt in the outskirts of the city, j where there is so much reluctance on the part of the servants to go. This reluctance arises from the ; location of the houses, and the fact that 30 many newly married couples without household experieuce, live iu them. Servnnt girls have an iu tense dislike for the outskirts of the city, and almost totally ostracise the region above . Columbia avenue. They invariably prefer the central sections, and many old families on Walnut, Chestnut, Pine, Spruce and Arch streets hare had in their em ploy for years domestics who never thin of uttering a complaint. They are near their friends and close by their churches and societies. As a consequence, what good girl's there are in the market irenerallv seek this section. YOUNG WIVES GET THE OttEKX GIKLS. 1 he housekeepers in the central navtnf the ritv are apiwrullv older ;w;111j tivm th.,;J"W''e yourself in a simi'ar posi- more experienced than those 1 1 j ic outer and newer sections.!1 and iu th Servants detest working for young housekeepers and the complaint is returned from the other side. In telligence office agents say that by sou-e unaccountable law of attrac- poorest and dirtiest girls, and the young wives and raw servant girls keep up an iucessant warfare, each complaining bitterly of the other, and with cause. The servants growl about the great distance from their friends, the quality of food j sriven them, and of sreneral poor treatment. They are compelled to spend a great amount of money for car fare if they wish to see their parents or friends iu the city. It is also a well-known fait that young wives detest seeing the beaux of the servant girls come to their houses, and prohibit such visits with all the vehemence and energy of Ian guage common to newly married women daring their rarly -xii..rin(v in housekeeping. The young house- Hridget with her beau shall cease, Bridget soon finds that not enough bedclothes arc put on the bed to keep her warm, and that food is ordered only for the first table, while the second one must take care of itself. Then begins a war of words, which result in Bridget's passing of the Fifteenth amendment it has been a struggle between lre- land and Africa for superionority in line of lip, and Nature has been re markably impartial in making the art of sauciness in perfect ratio with the size of -lip, wherein the negro stands without a peer Good Irish girls are now the most desirable and ire in constant de mand. French girls are most polite, but are generally distasteful to housekeepers on account of their too critical examination of dress, which invariably results in a quiet appropriation of soma showy article for their own use. Colored girls with large kissing protuberances generally remain about two to four weeks in a place. German girls sire very satisfactory and suit better the longer they stay, yvhich depends, however, on the amount of work re quired. Where one girl i3 com pelled to do all the household work in a large family the stay is sure to be of short duration. The market is overflowing with green help, the supply being three times as great as the demand, but they are objectionable to the old housekeepers and a continual source of much trouble to th new. Between 13,000 and 14,000 girls are supplied by tho intelli gence agencies of thiseity annually. The average number of ajplicants for household work is about 800 a day. Gieen help is increasing, good help is diminishing, and poor housekeepers outnumber thts good ones t wen tyf old Mothers are having their daugh ters learn to bxker pies, iron 6hirts and plunge their handsome arms in dough at cooking classes. A revo- hUioii in housekeeping is anxkuish anticipated by husbands whereby a final adjustment may be made be tween servant girls and mistresses. "lor KOW I LOVE YOIV IIiiHbnnlH Appeal for Sympathy Fail to .Move Ilia Wife'a Heart ii V 1... T 1 1-1 - 1 -joumiow j iove vou. rreiaa: was the answer r .,. x- i of August isku- chen, of Third and York street at the Central Police Station yesterday, after his wife had told Magistrate Smith that he tlkl ,lot s"Pl'rt her and had threatened to shoot her. besides having once said that he would hang himself. The woman lived on Amber street above Otis. Continuing, August said: "Judge, Frtida left me a year ago. She is jealous of me, and if it wasn't for the love she ha- for me I wouldn't be here. .Isn't that true, Fi-eida? Tell the Magistrate vou love me; ! tell the truth and don't let vour ! jealous passion send me to l,ll!ion- lhe Magistrate asked the wife how manv children 1 1 iii J nau. None, sir, whatever,' resp mded j bl,e' we mne mu 11 uuu- Aa lue ily a the spectators in the i.eanng-room i laughed at her answer, the husbanu , broke out with : "This is too serious a n,:4tter to la,,Sh Ilt' gentlemen; l T T 1 11 1 11 1 1 lie saiu ne nan niaue tne tnreats li'lutrjjed against him onlv in jest, and said he would go through ' tir? for his wife. "Freida, I think s much of u)ii and the baby that I'.: promise anything to go hack home." said August in atone thai caused as they can not very well do li; wife to crv. Notwithstanding ! the begging themselves, they that she was greatlv overcome she ! engage professional beggars to swore that Hie was afraid her bus-! whom. rant Pnissicm . , 1 1 1 1 1-11 1 to solicit alms on their prem- land would uo her biuiiv harm, and 1 . i i j. ' I lses, and who 111 return pay he was bound over to keep the j them one.half oi rhe (lail y re IK':lce leeipts. The above advertise- j ment has reference to an ar- Th ConfMlracy Half Hollar, j rangemeilt of till S kllld. j New Yo,k Graphic ' Observer." j Over on Kighth avenue the other i night the Observer stood in a crowd j of green looking people who were listening to a lightning lipped ! auctioneer dilating on the value of j some curious coins he offered for j le. One of those he held up to ! the admiration of the assembled j numismatists "va3 said to be a silver -half dollar coined by the Soutnern j -ontoU-racy. une or tne learneu troversy arose which soon drowned the voice of the auctioneer and turned the place into a veritable debating club. Some of the facts brought out in the discussion are well worth preserving It has been generally understood that the Confederate treasury never coined any silver money, but the truth is that there were four silver half dollars coined in the mouth of April, 1SG1, as sample pieces, but the difficulty of obtaining bullion for" the mint was very promptly realized, and on April 3.0, ISfJl, the attempt to coin silver money was given up and the mint was closed. Thus the only coin ever made by the Confederacy were these four half dollars, and the connoisseurs in such things have been hunting for the pieces ever since. Two of them are known to be in Xew Orleans in the possession of Professor 1'iddle, of the Louisiana University, but the others have never been traced. The one offered by the Eighth avenue auctioneer was a copy of one of the pieces. Had it beeu one of the originals it would have been.. worth a couple of thousand dollars. Wnntcof Urn In Power. What a waste of brain power there is in swindling. The swindler has all the forces of law and order ar rayed against him. He is sure to be tripped up sooner or latir. The cost of a mistake is bound to come. The ingenuity he expends in his methods if applied in a lawful direc tion is almost sure to net him a larger return in cash than it does when put to a crooked use. The swindled per son generally deserves little pity. He usually expectes to take advan tage of somebody, and he gets taken in himself. Cupidity is at the bot tom of ooth sides of swindle-Detroit Free Press. John Randolph. During some period of Mr. Kan- dolph's political career, he had the ill-fortune to offend a coxcombish young fellow, who -determined to avenge himself " by . insulting the Roanoke orator on tho first oppor tunity that occurred, At length the opportunity presented' itself, when -the .young sprig, meeting Randolph on the pavement, walked n 10 mm vurv iiiuiuueuiiv. iiiiu , 1; 1 1.i i t " Y s.ud. "I never give the way to damned rascal,' immediately ptillingjoff his hat and j making the gentleman a low bow, j replied, ' Well, sir, I always do," and I gave him the pavement, J pnEJdiHFADUAm i The Exfraordinnry semioveekiy SiewNpaper Supported by Them .,- n,.f,.,.,.,ii ;v . V A Y ;v Pnns. the Journal Des Men- 7 , 7 i juieants deserves special men- , . ,i . tion. 1 his exceedingly well-! managea paper appears twice a week, it aeais neitner m politics nor literature, but de votes the whole of its attention exclusively to the practical interests of its readers. It contains advertisements to the following eflect : "To-morrow at noon the funeral ser vices of a very wealthy man will be held at the Madeleine." . r.e o'clock a fashionable veu.ln:e at the JU"l" "Wanted to the Trinite .,. . 1'imtlt fnr :i kpiishIp rMsnrr. In. t't a 11 -. , ,, rril . , . ueposn required. 1111s insi 1. 1. i anv means to be regarded as a At the seaside the hoax. plundering of the visitors is 4 rid to extremes with genu ine French refinement. They are robbed by the excessive hotel charges, high fees to "rel liarges, lngli lees to rorterSi etc ani the ittle ,.mllinif lnu.Hin t)m M!iti8 gambling booths in the casions liut this is not all. The pro prietors of hotels and lodging houses assume quite correctly vat the visitors would be dis ced to give alms if an oppor tunity were afforded them, and ISuabian Mercnrv. An ElAKtir Roadbed. Thomas C. Keifer, president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, in his annual address recently before the convention gave the following piece of information regarding a division of the Canadian Pacific: "There is au ' inter esting ex-ample of vnl ei-pep-mg on a lngniy elastic roadbed on this division, where the line crosses a 'muskeg,' the Indian name for bog. The roadbed here yields about six inches to every passing train. With a consolidation engine hauling thirty-five ears the track crept twenty-six inches in the direction in" which the train was moving. The rails creep for about one-hatf of a mile wtst of a small bridge at the foot of a grade in both di rections. They creep with every train, and in warm upiitlipr will oftn run twelve inches under an ordinary train. Cinder ballast keeps the track in fair line and surface, but does not in the least prevent the creeping of the rails. Spikes must be left out each side of the angle plates, other wise the creeping rail would carry the ties witli it. The whole muskeg, when a train is passing, shows a series of short waves five or six inches deep. The general superin tendent of the Western di vision, Mr. Whyte, proposes to use twelve-foot ties, forty inch angle bars, and cut a slot in alternate sides of the rail at every tie." Globe Demo crat. Th End of "Grent Men." Happening to cast mv eves upon a printed page of minia- ture portraits, I perceived that the four personages who occu - pied the four most conspic - nous nlaces. were Alexander. Hannibal, Ca.sar, and Bona parte. I had seen the same unnumbered times before, but -x ' ' : never did the same senstitious arise in mv bosom, as my mind l.nctilir frl.. rw.iwl tvrui' tbll - several histories. j and in some parts during the to watch the security of these Alexander, after having first qnarter of the present orte, j centipedes as they he and sleep, climbed the dizzy heights of (despite the nursery rhyme as- while their arch, enemies, the tar of his ambition, and with his j sociating it with " the robin, jantuhv, are looking over the garden temples bound with chaplets j held as a foe, and cruelly j walls, so to speak, trying to get at dipped in the blood of count-i stoned on certain days much j them. I have seen the tarantulas less nations, looked down upon j after the fashion in which the 1 nose arolui for hours before giving a conquered world, and wept j Shrovetide cock was tortured j Jt Wheu the Caetu8 js fl gure that there was not another to death'. Home Journal. Iw w.r v An thv Loma n-mdd frv Mm tn Piiiinncr. set a dt m fire ami aicd in a ,,,0 if ritlmnfh Hannibal, after having, to the astonishment and conster nation of Home, passed the VIbs after having Put to flight tho armies of this "mis tress of the world," and strip red "three bushels' of golden 1 I liiun iiuiii un nuii,j ngns trom the nngers her is augntereaKmpmSjanumauejOianeiguuei, waen? B,lc","Mrrftftiei..n(,Biy Qf NDeg ' hr a , . c - i, 1 1 0i,fl n .nt 3a" OI lllt- lu"nnis 01 Pies ur : , . , , . v . -i 1.. Mr. Kandoipn,lfl f - hi conntrv being hated bv those wuo once ex. , ultingly united his name to to that of their god and called j bini Hann; Baal and died at' lastly poison administered by his own hands, iinlamented and unwept, in a foreign land, C?esar, after having " ' ; . .-0 con- I ana uiea nis garmenrs in tne h.i i oiuuuui une uuuioii oi Ills f,. . ff,. , ., i xvjtrn , unci iiaun iiuiMifu m ,i niaili,r,irnii,'i..i. earth, was miserably assassi nated by those he considered as his nearest friends,, and in that very place, the attain ment of which had been his greatest ambition. Bonaparte, whose mandate kings and popes obeyed, after having filled the earth with the terror of his name after having deluged Europe with tears and blood, and clothed the world in sackcloth closed his days in lonely banishment, almost literally exiled from the world, yet where he could sometimes see his country's banner waving over the deep, but which would not, or could not bring him aid ! Thus those four men, who, from the peculiar situation of theii portraits, seemed to stand as the representatives of all those whom the world calls great those four, who each in turn made the "earth tremble to its very centre by their simple tread, severally died one by intoxication, or, as some suppose, by poison mingled in his wine one a suicide one murdered by. his friends and one a lonely ex ile ! "How are the mightv f alien " Birds of III Or. on. An old Scotch saying has it that "Whistlin' maidens an' crawing liens are nea lucky about ony man's touns." Tints the ordinary barn yard fowl may be a feathered.forerunrxer of evil. Birds, from perhaps antediluvian periods, have been looked upon as feathered fortune tellers. The swarfcy Italians, who, with their cages of trained birds, stand at the street corners in our large cities and ask passers by to allow the little feathered ones to read their fortune, are the Nirngglllt JHHIlUIIWDLll HWv. army of superstitious souls. In some parts of England even in our day the note of the swallow means the reception of some evil tidings ; but to kill that bird is a certain way of bringing down unlimited evil on the destroyer. Th white owl in France is univer sally held as a foreteller of death, and its "screech'' is not much liked by English peasants. But in America, among tlte negro population, the brown owl, if uttering its hoot on the right, foretells !g"d luck, but the "opposite if on the left. In France and Belgium the cry of the white owl is supposed to foretell all sorts of misfortunes. How ever, the counteracting remedy is not far to seek it simply consists in throwing a pinch of salt into the fire when the sound is heard. The crows, in some parts of Scotland, are considered very ominous of ill. The cuckoo's note is everywhere held as a sign of duplex meaning, the explanation whereof lies, not with the bird's note but with the auditor's pocket. If the cuckoo be heard when the pockets are empty a very im pecunious year and (specially) the need of borrowing from friends (or trying so to do) is implied. But if, on the other j hand, the cuckoo's note be ; heard for the first time when ; the pocket contains cash, a 1 prosperous and moneyed year ' is foretold. Another sigli of good fortune is found in the robin perching on the roof aad singing. Curiously enough the smallest of popular birus, the golden crested wren, was, 'fill tllUPTwl (f tllP IflSit CfUtlirV. Battling wiln a C at. 1.:.. r.. v..,,. ir.,i order, killed a chicken .. on Monday which belonged to a ; flock owned bv Mrs." Stewart, - Ion Second street, . Chester, - j The lady witnessed the affair, I and gave chase to the cat.- She followed it to the house , ' uui. . 1.1 nered it. and as i to pick it up the cat . attacked her and bit W several times who ied for throwiu dynamite, on the arm and face. Mrs.jWibs and killing member! iof the Emma Hewitt came to Mrs. j police and other citizens in that city Stewart's assistance, and as two or three years ago, she endeavored to draw the eat off she was also bitten in ithe hand Hie woman finally escaped to the street after locking the catin the house. Two policemen were summon and thereat was shot. c-ot r Uiiuufr t Man. It doesn't cost so very much to kill men in the west. Of course you cannot cut or shoot a man down with impunity, and murder is some times as severely punished there as it is anywhere else; but what I mean to say is that it doesn't Cost much to kill a man by accident. You frequently hear of cave-ins iu mines or fractured skulls bv fallinjr down winzes or slufts, and tho thought that conies to you naturally is that the mine owners have to pay $5,000 or $10,000 damages. That isn't so. A short while ago four men were killed iu a mine :near Leadville. They were Italians, aud the widows or families of the men were more than delighted to receive $1,000 and the funeral expenses. In . the same mine more than ten men have been killed, and never more than $1,000 has been paid. The plan iu the yvesr, yvhen a man is killed in a mine and the company is somewhat to blame, is to go right to the heirs and make a settlement. Most of the laborers are Italians, and their people take $1,000 as it is offered. Iniprovrmeut-'orthe Rare. A writer in Nineteenth Century, taking the cue of the new impulse to discuss human culture, makes sonia suggestions uuder the heading "Ilomiculture." He believes a good deal could be done by directing pub lic attention to the laws that under lie improvement of stock. He also urges that before a marriage permit is allowed parties shculd be con pelled to submit to a medical exam ination, to show that they are not laboring uuder hereditary . diseases. Beyond this he would have the ab solute prohibition of habitual crim inals from propagating their lind. Tlfese suggestions have been to going. nvn, ..,ti-n kl- Tl.lnLU 1-' they are timely. Xo question is of more importance than the improve ment of humanity. We have traced our ills to heredity. Our remedies must correspond- Probably all sug gestions at present will bo crude and premature; but it is nonsense to suppose an evil exists without a possible cure. Glode-Deniocrat. KansM Advertiser's Trick. Ingenion Chicago News. It is possible to coat wood surfaces with preparations of oil and other liquids so that auy painting that i3 put on afterward will either refuse -to take hold or will readily wear off. An ingenious Kansas advertiser re cently took advantage of this faot. He bribed a painter who had con tracted to touch up a number of rather pretentions residences to paint his business card in huge letters with a colorless preparation which takes paint about as readily as a red hot iron before putting on the paint. At the expiration of two weeks when there had been a number of severe rains, every one'of the houses bore an enormous placard recounting tho virtues of a well known patent med icine, to the discomfiture of the oc cupants and the joy of the patent medicine man. A Centipede's Prepnrntlon for Sleep- A contioede is afraid of a taran tula, and when he lies down to sleep he always takes the piecatitlon tc build a cactus fence about hini, A tarantula will never crawl over cactus; and thus, securely hedged in his own corral, the centipede knows he may sleep as long as he wants to, and his enemy can't get at him It is laiurhablc out on the MoJave deS satisfied there is a. complete barrier they go awav, and cease to thirst for I the 2ore of the centipede. The lat- ' ter, however, always takes a careful look around before he removes tne j cactus and ventures forth. G. W. j Dunn, in San Francisco Examiner, : Thr niiiirnliista of Chicago are i ; n t . . . : , . nnnivp - 1
The Standard (Concord, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Nov. 9, 1888, edition 1
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