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1:1 THE STANDARD. the stiidhd. HE T AND ARB. "largest paper PUBLISHED IN CONCORD.- W'lu DO ALL KINDS OP COXTAIXS MOKE HEADING MATTER THAN ANY OTHER PAPER IN THIS SECTION. DRUGS, HDICM, PAINTS, OILS, CIGARS, TOBACCO, SOAP, HAIR, TOOTH, NAIL AND PAINT BEUSHES, COME, SEE, BUY FROM D. D. JOHNSON, DRUGGIST. AnOld FaceinaewPlace -)0(- Ilaving moved into the com modious building lately occupied by W. C. J. Caton, onCaton's corner. CHAS. A. COOH is now prepared to furnish GROCERIES AT VERY LOW PRICES. MY STOCK IS FRESH AND NEW I and the trade WILL FIND IT TO THEIR ADVANTAGE to call and see me before buy ing anywhere else. Very respectfully, CHAS. A. COOK. E' E! Have now opened up IN THE NEW BRICK STORE recently built on lot a complete, new stock of Furnitur! and they offer to sell at FOR CASH or on THE INSTALMENT PLAN I Bed Steads from $1.25 to $10; Bureaus from $0.50 to $20 ; Baby Cradles from $1.25 up ; Baby Cribs, swinging and folding ; Baby Carriages all styles ; Chamber Suites, Parlor Suites, Extra Wash stands, Chiffonieres, Desks, Centre Tables, Work Tables, Bed Lounges, Canvas Cots, Woven Wire Cots, Woven Wire Mattresses, Husk and Cotton Mattresses, Marble Top Walnut Tables, Marble Top Imitation Walnut Ta bles, Dining Tables, Falling Leaf and Extension Top, Side Boards, Safes and Cup boards, Lounges, Sofas, plain and cushioned Chairs, Arm and Rocker Chairs, Baby Chairs, Dining Chairs, Cor ner Brackets, Wall Pockets, Curtain Poles, Window Shades, and all kinds of House Furnishing Goods. Come and see us, and we will try to please you in goods and prices. au 23 IT T ami k LOW PRICES VOL. II. NO. 35. POETRY. READY TO BE MAKRIED. I am ready to be married ; I can make a loaf of bread ; I can cook as nice a dinner As my mother, so she said ; I can keep a room in order, Sweep the house and make a bed ; Mother says a irirl may marry Who can make a loaf of bread. I am ready to be married ; I can cut and make a dress ; Mark the linen with the cross stitch ; Mend the lace, that's hardly less Fine and dainty than a cobweb ; So I dare to tell him " Yes Mother says a girl may marry Who can cut and make a dress. I am ready to be married ; I can knit a stocking well, I can make and I can darn it, And a " bargain " I can tell ; I can shop and go to market, And I'm not a ball-room belle ; Mother says a girl may marry Who can knit a stocking well. I am ready to be married ; And I have a lover true, Just the handsomest and dearest Lad that ever came to woo ; Never maiden loved her lover Half so dearly as I do ; Mother says a girl may marry When she has a lover true. The WiBftrd of Menlo Park. MR. EDISON TALKS OF LIFE IN HIS LABORATORY. New York Star. I met Thomas A. Edison, the Wiz ard of Menlo Park, just before he sailed for Paris a few days ago. Speaking of his seemingly never ceasing investigations he said: " When I think I am on some new line of discovery I keep at it night and day, sleeping but a few hours on a lounge, with my clothing on. I have gone for weeks at a time with but three and four hours' sleep each day. If I were to remove my cloth ing I would get up feeling out of shape and with all desire lost for continuing my labors. My train of thought would be lost. I have got a complete little den where I work, which I have christened 'No. C It is hardlv a little room either, as it takes about half of one floor and is supplied with every known invention in the line of electricity. I enjoy life there more than anywhere else, and am never easy until I get back, and I am surrounded by as fine a lot of men as any one could wish to be associated with. The greatest source of enjoyment to me is, when I have hit upon a new idea, to call in some of the fellows and give them a sur prise. I remember well when I had about perfected the phonograph. had the instrument placed near the table in my den. While I was absent at dinner two or three of the men became engaged in conversation near the door. One fellow com plained of the trouble he had had in his family, of how he had lost two children, and the difficulty he had in getting along. The phonograph re ceived the conversation, the melaii' choly statements of the man and the comments of the others, and when I returned and turned the crank the whole thing was repeated. I sum moned the sad workmau to my den and told him to take a chair. touched the crank and out rolled the whole talk. You never saw a more surprised man in all your life. He sat there looking at me apparently thrilled with wonderment I ex tended my sympathy and aid of course, but his trouble was lost in his surprise. " I remember well when we began to work on the incandescent light. About fifty men remained up all night with me, and, to keep us awake, I hired a German band to play lively airs. About midnight we had our lunch served. The nov elty of the work and the idea of a band playing in the laboratory kept the men awake until about 1 o'clock, when, under various pretexts, they would go to some other parts of the building. Invariably they found some hiding place where they could sleep. I had several skirmishers looking up the drowsy ones, and they were all brought back to their tables and forced to keep awake. After that they worked all night with me without any trouble." I asked Mr. Edison if he had any new invention in course of develop ment. He said, with a faint smile: "I think we may find something new in a short while." The New Western Game. A new social game has been introduced in the West. One of the girls in the room takes a bite of onion and a young man must discover the fair biter by kissing all the young ladies present. The yonng man enjoys it immensely until he strikes the girl who bit the onion, and then he looks around for his hat and says he pro mised to be home at half-past nine o'clock. NORTH CAROLINA pMiUjyjliiiiiyjliiHiuiHihH Mt. We present to our readers this session for lSS9-'90 of which began Kot Aibnmed to Work. Mr. George Wr. Childs, of Phila delphia, is not a child, but a man, a very wealthy and successful pub lisher, the proprietor of the Ledger, and a public-spirited man, known all over the country for his patriot ism and benevolence. But Mr. Childs was a child once a poor boy, and a boy not afraid nor ashamed to work. This is what he says about it himself in the Lippincott Magazine, and it ought to be a lesson to boys and perhaps to grown up children never to be ashamed to do any work that is honorable : " I was self-supporting at a very early age. In my twelth year, when school was dismissed for the summer, I took the place of errand-boy in a bookstore in Baltimore, at a salary of two dollars a week and spent the vacation in hard work. And I en joyed it. I have neer been out of employment; always found some thing to do, and always eager to do it, and I think I earned every cent of my first money. When first at work iu Philadelphia I would get up very early in the morning, go down to the store, and wash the pavement and put things in order before break fast, and in the winter time would make the fire and sweep out the store. In the same spirit, when books were bought at night at auc tion, I would early next morning go for them with a wheelbarrow. And I have never outgrown this wholesome habit of doing things directly and in order. I would to-day as lief carry a bundle up Chestnut street from the Ledger office as I would then. As a matter of fact, I carry bundles very often. But I under stand that certain young men of the period would scorn to do as much. The Drummer's Base. A short time ago a drummer from abroad called at a neighboring livery stable and wanted a double team for a ten days' trip into the country, and the stable man refused to let him have one on the ground that he was a stranger. There was much discussion over the matter, and final ly the drummer said : "What is your team worth ?" "Four hundred and fifty dollars," was the reply. "If I pay you that sum for it, will you pay it back again when I return," asked the customer, and upon receiving the affirmative reply, he promptly put up the cash. Ten days later he returned, and driving into the stable he alighted and en tered the office, saying, "Well, here is your team, and now I want my money back." The sum was passed to him and he turned and was leaving the place when the livery man called out, "Look here, aren't you going to set tle for that team ?" "For what team?" asked the drummer in a surprised tone. "For the one you just brought back." 'Well, now,' drawled the drummer, " you aren't fool enough to suppose that I would pay any one for the use of my own property, are you ?" and he shook the dust of the place from his feet A Warning. A horrible warning to habitual gum chewers is contained in the dispatch which states that a charming belle of Washington has been compelled to abjure the delights of society and go into retirement on account of an abnormal enlargement of her jaw, caused entirely by per sistent and excessive mastication of the fascinating but dangerous gum. Young ladies who do not desire to have too much jaw should take heed and govern themselves accordingly. CONCORD, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, Pleasant, morning an excellent cut of this well on September 2d. We regret that want Lr-eat Clock In America. New York Christian. - The large clock which will grace the square tower of the San Fran cisco Chronicle building has been definitely decided upon. The dials, four in number, will be the largest in the United States, the diameter of each being sixteen feet Each dial will have the outer portion, 11.6 ft in diameter, of ground glass. By day the time will be read on the copper face, and by night on the glass one. The copper face will carry gilded numerals of the cast brass, each two feet in diameter, and the hands, massive aud ornate in de sign, will be so made as to indicate the time on either portion of the di als, as required. The ground glass portion of the dial will be in seven parts, six seg ments of a ring, whose large diame ter is 11 , feet, and a circular disk within the six segments 7 feet 3 inches in diameter. On this face also the numerals will be of cast brass; but, instead of being gilded, will be black, so as to show clearly at night with the strong electric light behiud them. The segments and the centre plate will be too large to bring across the continent on the cars, and so will have to be shipped around the Horn, while the copper dial will be made in San Francisco. The pendulum of this gigantic clock will be 14 feet long, and the weight or "bob" is to weigh 500 pounds. The hands will be set on the outside by simply moving with a light crank the fingers on a small dial inside the tower. Motive power will be imparted to the mechanism by a weight of about COO pounds, and the- contractors guarantee that the time shall not vary ten seconds in a month. By an automatic contrivance the light in the tower will be turned on at night and off in the day. The clock thus promises to be one of the most remarkable ones in the country, and an addition to the loftiest and strongest building on the Pacific coast The height of the tower from the sidewalk will be 203 feet The President's Sslsrj. Fifty thousand dollars is not the sum total of the President's annual salary. Thirty-six thousand and sixty-four dollars is given him in addition to pay salaries of subordi nates and clerks. His private secre tary is paid $3,260; his assistant private secretary, $2,250 ; stenogra pher, $1,800 ; five messengers, each $1,200; a steward, $1,800; two doorkeepers, each $1,200 ; four other clerks at good salaries ; one telegraph operator; two ushers, $1,200 and $1,400; a night usher, $1,200; a watchman $900, and a man who takes care of the fires, $886 a year. In addition there is given him $8,000 for incidental expenses, such as sta tionery, carpets and for the presi dential stables. And under another heading nearly $40,000. Of this $12,500 for repairs and refurnishing the White House, $2,250 for fuel, $4,000 for green house, $15,000 is for gas, matches and the stable. Altogether the President costs the country considerably over $125,000 a year. Who wouldn't like to be right and President too. A Revolver Buys an Oklahoma Lot. An Oklahoma hack driver purchased two lot3 on the day after the opening from men who decided there would never be a city, and who were going away in disgust For one he paid $10, and for the other he traded a well worn six-shooter. One of the lots he has since sold for $1100. and he is holding the six- shooter lot for $1500. COLLEGE, N. C. - known institution of learning, the of space forbids an extended notice. High Officials Embarrassed. THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY OF STATE THE VICTIMS OF CIRCUMSTANCES. Philadelphia Inquirer. There is a story of a presidential excursion down to the eastern shore of Maryland. The party embraced Secretaries Blaine and Windom and others. They went to church and were fortunate enough to hear an excellent sermon from the venerable Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Mary land, who was there to administer the rite of confirmation. It was a rare pleasure to listen to a discourse from a clergyman who did not im prove the occasion by referring to those high in authority or by preach ing or praying at them. The Presi dent and the two Secretaries, one on either side of him, sat in quiet satis faction. But their peace of mind was suddenly and rudely dispelled. The offertory was sung. At the familiar words, Let your light so shine among men, etc., the President and the Secretaries each quietly dropped a hand into a pocket Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth. Windom drew forth a crisp $1 note and held it up between thumb and forefinger, ready for the ap proaching plate. The President and Mr. Blaine went a little deeper into their pockets. One brought up a nickel and the other a dime. Their faces flushed. It would never do to make such a small contribution. He that soweth a little shall reap little, and he that soweth plenteously shall reap plenteously. God loveth a cheer ful giver. The President went to his pocket book and the Secretary of State ex plored his vest pocket with nervous fingers. Zaccheus stood forth and said unto the Lord : Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor, and If I have done wrong to any man I restore fourfold. The plate was only four pews away. What the President found in his pocketbook was one fifty-dollar note and a ten-dollar greenback nothing smaller. What Mr. Blaine found was two ten-dollar notes no thing smaller. To put in a nickel or dime only wa3 not to be thought of. To give ten dollars was more than either cared to do ; besides, how ostentatious it would look! Each looked at Windom, sitting there calmly, the richest cf the party, with his dollar note iu his hand. He shook his head. Charge them who are rich in this world, that they he ready to give and glad to distribute. There was no time for further pocket exploration or consideration. With a smile of commiseration at each other, and something like ghoulish glee on Windom's placid countenance, the President and Sec retary of State each planked down his $10 note for "the poor of this congregation." And the worst of it is, said one of the party afterward, that the Lord would probably give them credit only for the dollar or two which they had intended to give. Charles D. Graham, of Suspension Bridge, made his fourth trip through the whirlpool rapids at Niagra Falls in his barrel-shaped contrivance last week. The purpose was to test it before essaying the Horseshoe Falls. The barrel was kept straight by heavy weights, and went through the whirlpool and down the river to Lewiston, seven miles, in twenty-five minutes. Graham was badly shaken up, and says he was never so glad to get out of any place in his life. 1889. Miss Virginia McTnvlsb. Miss Virginia McTavish, of Balti more, Md., is the daughter of the late Charles Carroll McTavish, a descendant of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a descendant of a noble English family and one of the sign ers of the Declaration of Independ ence. Her mother was a daughter of Gen. Winfield Scott, who, on the breaking out of the late Civil War, rendered important services by se curing to the government the posses sion of Washington City and the safe inauguration of President Lin coln. Miss McTavish is a very rich and highly learned lady and thor oughly familiar with the sphere of life in which as the Duchess of Nor folk she will be called to move. She has spent a great deal of her life abroad. She belongs to the Koman Catholic church, and is, like her two sisters, who have both retired to convents, extremely devout. She is tall and blonde and has an attractive and interesting face. It has been a question of deep interest among her friends and admirers whether she would not ere long follow the exam ple of her sisters and bury her youth and beauty in religious retirement The Force of ICtbit. Speaking of force of habit re minds me of a story that might bear repeating, says a writer. In most colleges it is the custom for one member of the faculty, usually the president, to have the supervison of all absent and dilatory stndents, and to him every such one must go to explain the cause of his absenc or tardiness. In one of these was a very kind and indulgent guardian of the college discipline. Every stu dent knew well his stereotyped way of saying, "Well, I'll excuse you this time, but don't let it happen again.." Although not in accord ance with the nsual rule, a married man had been admitted to pursue the studies of the regular course. One day he was absent ; on the next, appearing with his class in the doc tor's room, he explained with great embarrasment that the arrival of an heir had been the cause of his deten tion. Without looking up from his table, and apparently without a thought as to the nature of the ex cuse so long as there was one, the doctor graciously remarked: "Well, I'll excuse you this time, but don't let it happen again." How Chinamen "Sweat" Gold Coin. Washington Post. The Chinamen have become very troublesome offenders against the legal tenders of the United States, but they are not expert counterfeit, era. They are "sweaters," and the cheapness of Chinese labor, even in crime, is exemplified in their opera tions. A Chinaman will put $500 in gold in a gunny sack and twist and tumble and toss that sack full of money up and down and around and about all day long, and in the even ing he will empty out the coin, burn the sack, and from the ashes care fully extract $5 worth of gold dust which has been rubbed off the coin. The returns are small, but the risk is not great, since nobody but an expert could ever tell that any thing had been done to the coins, and even the expert wonld have to weigh them to detect the difference. This process is what is called "sweating," and the Chinese do it very cleverly. The chief offense of Chinamen, however, is against the custom laws. They are natural smugglers. The Paper Trade. What be comes of all the paper? asks the New York Tribune. There are 1000 pulp and paper mills at work the year round. But the newspapers and magazines consume vast quani- ties of it lhe Century Company take nearly 200 tons a month for i i it tneir puoncauons, ana ineir paper bill amounts to $300,000 yearly. Harper & Brothers take 25,000 reams, Robert Bonner 10,000 reams at a time. Two cheap literary firms buy $500,000 worth of paper a year. One medicine firm buys $300,000 worth of paper every year. Ip WHOLE NO. 87. ODDS AND ENDS. Sprenger computes that during the Christian era no fewer than nine million witches were immolated. A Selma (Ala.) paper says there are "222 girls, 222 boys, and one Chinese boy" in that school district. Quartz is said to be very useful as an insulator in electrostatic appara tus, as the troublesome sulphuric acid can then be dispensed with. George Shank, a Philadelphia has spent $6000 trying to find a way to preserve watermelons the year through, and he hasn't struck it yet. Another portion of the old city wall by which London was sur rounded has just been brought to light in the neighborhood of Lud- gate Hill. A boy twelve years of age has been sentenced to one month's im prisonment at Miltown, Ireland, for inciting the people to boycott a sale of cattle. A Canadian paper figures that in the event of a war between England and the United States it would last at least five years, and that 1,500,000 men would be killed. The Boston school-teachers have slapped, slashed and pounded until the parents of pupils are rising up in indignation and demanding that the practice be stopped. Petroleum, which has been used for some time in connection with raising steam, is now rapidly coming into vogue for heating, melting and the working of metals. Maxing's gun fires 700 shots per minute. It wa3 offered to the American Government but was de clined. Now the British Govern' ment has control of it. The English service journals state that satisfactory experiments have been made in the application of volatile hydra carbons in place of water for producing power. Sea lions are so plentiful on the coast of California this year as to be a nuisance, especially to fisher men, while their barking aggravates the farmers for two miles inland. It has been found that the best thing to disperse a mob is cold water. Get out an engine and put on a full stream, and your mob is no sooner wet down than it scatters to dry up. Every book drawn from a public library should be disinfected when returned. If bank bills can carry and spread epidemics public books are surely unsafe unless disin fected. The fastest regular express trains in the United States run between Philadelphia and Washington. They maintain an average speed of forty five miles an hour during the entire distance. Little No Heart is the name of a Sioux Indian at Cheyenne Agency who always wears tailor-made suits, and is said to be as dudish as the Little No Brains tribe found in the larger cities. Three hundred and twenty-two sheep were killed in one county in Tennessee in one week by dogs, but the owners had to make the best of it The dogs were there before the sheep came. A grocer at Lexington, Ky., had a picture of the prettiest girl in town painted on the cover of his delivery wagon, and her brother shot it off with a shot-gun. The grocer drop ped to the hint. The door-knob has improved 200 per cent, in looks in the last ten years, and it now stands American geniu3 in hand to bring the gate hiuges to the front and make it a thing of beauty. The proceedings of the Japanese Parliament are reported verbatim by means of a stenographic system original to Japan. The characters are written in perpendicular rows from right to left. An improved headlight for loco motives has been designed. It ha3 an adjustment which makes it possi ble for the engineer to conveniently direct the light, as he may desire, to various points of the line. A foreign paragraph announces the establishment of a "subscrip tion" bar in Europe, where a man by payment of a fee of $150 per annum can obtain all he wishes to drink without further cost A Mussulman woman has just died in Meean Meer, India, credited with 150 years of age. She was blind, deaf and dumb, and almost inanimate. She died in the house of a grandson, who is over eighty. A well of so-called electrical water has been tapped at Fort Scott, Kansas. To place both hands in the water at the same time is utterly im possible. The shock is so forcible that it throws one aside with vigor, i IX the ,XEA TES T MA NNER -AND AT THE LOWEST BATES. V. J. MOXTGOHERV. J. LEE CROWELL. Montgomery & Crowell, Attorneys and Counsellors at laivt Concord, N-C-t As partners, will practice law in Cabarrus, Stanly and adjoining counties, in the Su perior and Supreme Court of the Slate, and in the Federal Court. Office on Depot Street. MOUNT PLEASANT FEMALE SEMINARY, MT. PLEASANT, N. C. Buildings recently enlarged and improved ; teachers competent and experienced ; climate healthful, and TERMS MODERATE. Entire ex pense for session of 40 weeks $100 to 145. For catalogue apply to J. A. LINN. ju 19-2m Principal. onccrd Female Academy. FALL SESSION OPENS AUG. 20, 1889. I Full Corps of Able and Experienced Teacher. Classes: Primary, Preparatory, Classi cal, including Music and Art. Tuition low for a school of its stan dard. Pupils boarded with principals at from $5 to $!) per month. Thankful for past patronage, a contin uance is respectfully solicited. Apply to or address .Misses BESSENT & FETZER, Principals, aug 10-Gm Concord, N. C. My Beau Doctor : I drop you a line to let you know that I am well and hear ty ; but I am still troubled with insomnia can't sleep at night, your dogs keep up such a balking on moonlight nights. My family there ! please don't give me away ! If the fair sex on your little planet once lind out I am a married man I would thence forth lose all attraction for them. I take great interest in Cabarrus people, but as you have for the past few weeks been "under a cloud," I have not seen much of you ; but of course you are all driving ahead as usual. There never was, since the scaffolding was taken down from the Tower of Babel, such a stirring, thrifty, wide-awake little city as Con cord, anyhow. Even your cats sleep with one eye open! and the burglars, after visiting forty-one houses and finding everybody on the premises, in the deadest hours of the night, wide-awake, have concluded you are not to be caught nap ping and have given you up as a bad lot. Taking the interest I do in your affairs, let me suggest that you utilize, at once, your water route to the seaboard. Put on a line of first-class steamers to Wilming ton, to run up Rocky River and thence up Buffalo to the railroad depot. This will give you what you so badly need a competing line with the Richmond and Danville. I regret to see that you are still TRYING to raise corn and cotton in your county. Rice is the crop for you. This will answer for "the staff of life," and by instituting Duck farms on the low lands and 'Possum farms on the up lands you can, with your abundant supply of fish, have an ample stock of meat liaise rice, fish, ducks, 'possums, blackberries and persimmons, and cut loose from corn, cotton, razor-back hogs and chattel mortgages. Send me a pound or t wo of Bromide of Potash, and oblige, Your friend, The Man in the Moon. Comment on the above is unnecessary. My fiiend evi-. dently understands the agris cultural situation, but forgets to tell you that I have the largest and cheapest lot of Paints, Oils, Drugs, Tobacco, Cigars, Picture Frames, Fancy Goods and Toys in town. Now is the time to buy Fruit Pow ders, Turnip Seeds and Qui nine. Call and see my stock or-you will regret it. mv 10-ly J. P- GIBSON FOK SALE BY Cannons & Fetzer. Ill I . INDIES fK