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-PUBLISHED IN CONCORD.
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MATTER THAN ANY QT1IER
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DRUGS, HUE,
PAINTS, OILS,
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TOBACCO,
SOAP,
HAIR,
TOOTH,
NAIL
AND
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COME,
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FROM
I). D. JOHNSON,
DRUGGIST.
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Having moved into the com
modious building lately
occupied by W. C. J.
Caton, onCaton's
corner,
GHAS. A. COOK
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
t t all and see me before buy
in anywhere else.
Very respectfully,
CHAS. A. COOK.
nsriEJ-w
E!
Have now opened up
IN THE NEW BRICK STORE
recently built on lot
a complete, new stock of
f URNITUR
and they offer to sell at
M - LOW - PRICES
FOR CASH
or on
THE INSTALMENT PLAN !
Bed Steads from $1.25 to $10 ;
Bureaus from $G.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 AValnut 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
Lhairs, 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
FURNITURE
T
k fit
an l prices. au 23
YOL. II. NO. 37.
POETRY.
HOME.
Oh! what is home? that sweet compan
ionship, Of life the better part ;
The happy smile of welcome on the lip
Upspringing from the heart.
It is the eager clasp of kindly hands,
The long-remembered tone,
The ready sympathy which understands
All feeling by its own.
The rosy cheek of little children pressed
To ours in loving glee ;
The presence of our dearest, and our best,
No matter where we be.
And, failing this, a prince may homeless
live,
Though palace walls are nigh ;
And, having it, a desert shore may give
The joy wealth cannot buy.
Far-reaching as the earth's remotest span,
Widespread as ocean foam,
One thought is sacred in the breast of
man , ,t
It is the thought of home. -'
That little word his human fate shall blind
"With destinis above,
For there the home of his immortal mind
Is in God's wider love.
New York Observer.
The Alliance
SECRETS OF THE ORDER REVEALED
How the Member are Initialed.
Elberton Star.
Ever si nee the Farmers' Alliance
movement was inaugurated, the un
initiated and ineligible public has
been racked with curiosity to learn
the secrets of the order and their
mode of breaking in new members.
Somehow our Alliance friends have
guarded their secrets with unusual
vigilance, but it is left to the Star to
tear away the veil of mystery that
has surrounded this high and noble
order, and lay before our inquisitive
readers information never before
published in any other newspaper.
We have for months kept our best
reporters on the alert, and employed
the most experienced interviewers to
unfathom the secrets of the Alliance,
but without avail until last week,
when, by chance, the Star editor
discovered the carefully guarded se
crets. It was our good fortune, during a
recent trip to Oglethorpe county, to
spend, near the hospitable village of
Crawford, a night with a friend who
had just gone through the trying or
deal that seperates the outside world
from the Farmers' Alliance. The
friend, whom we shall designate a3
McKeever, we found the moat bat
tered wreck of humanity we have
ever met, while his usually hand
some face wore an abject look of
terror, misery and despair. We
found McKeever In sad need of sym
pathy, and by pouring a few vials of
pity and consolation on his head,
succeeded in extracting from him
the following history of his woes
but after we had applied the cork
screw of a professional interviewer,
and iworn, on a pile of patent office
reports as high as our head, that we
would never divulge the information
that he gave us.
You see before you, explained
McKeever, a newly-made, but only
half-fledged Farmers' Allianceman.
Yon know that during my checkered
career I have been a regular jiner,
and eagerly went into every secret
organization that came along. I
have ridden theJMasonic goat,climbed
the greased pole of the Odd Fellows,
been thrown down the Knights of
Honor stairsteps and fell sprawling
over the fences built in my path by
the Grangers, and actually took a
drink of water when I joined the
Good Templars ; but these initiating
programmes were as downy beds of
ease compared with the trying or
deal through which I passed yester
day at the hands of the Farmers'
Alliance. I had formed an idea that
as soon as I joined the Alliance the
mortgage against my farm, stock
and crop would moulder into ashes,
while that old long-standings store
account would disappear from the
face of the books; that I would have
the privilege of fixing my own prices
on goods, aud force the merchant to
pay me twenty cents a pound for
cotton. So I made up my mind to
join the Alliance, and yesterday,
donning my Sunday-go-to-meeting
clothes, repaired to the school-house,
where the order met, and sent in my
application by a neighbor who wa3 a
charter member. In due season the
glad tidings were conveyed to me
that I had been balloted for and ac
cepted, and boiling over with eager
gratification, followed by my conduc
tor into the wood-room adjoining
the main building. Here my guard
made our presence known by picking
up a section of a fence rail and rap-
ninor three times on the door. This
i a
gentle signal was answered by three
raps from within and the query :
"Whom comes there?"
"A horny-handed eon of toil, grop
H
ing in darkness, and anxious to have
the light of the Alliance shed upon
him," replied my guide.
" Break down the barricade that
stands between a Brother Farmer
and light, and admit the applicant,"
spoke a sonorous voice from within.
Just at this instant the old door,
which had been removed from its
hinges, was kicked over, and strik
ing me on top of the head, raised
this lump you see here. I thought
it was an accident at that time, and
so made up my mind to grin and
bear the pain.
Two stout men stepped forth and
violently seizing me by the arm, I
was carried into the middle of the
main room. I saw that the house
was pretty well filled with specta
tors. Sitting on top of a cotton
bale was the Grand ' Mogul of the
order, as -I afterward; learned, On
his right a Bection of rail fence had
been built and astride of this was
another officer. On his left sat a
third official with a pile of guano
sacks under him, which I believe
was the Grand Secretary. I noticed
that all the officers and their assis
tance were in their shirt-sleeves, and
wore jeans pants held, up by one
suspender each. These parties, I
afterwards discovered, represented
the present poverty-stricken condi
tion of the farmers. In one corner
stood six men, arrayed in their best
store clothes and plug hats, and
each had a feather pillow rammed
into his pants to represent high liv
ing, who were to act a3 merchants.
I had scarcely time to take a hasty
glance around the room when a fel
low stepped up and dashed about a
pint of guano into my face, and be
fore I had time to wipe my eyes or
spit out the stuff, my sight was ob
scured by an old guano sack that
didn't smell by any means like the
t rose of summer being bound
over my orbs of vision. I wa3 then
led three times around the room and
halted in front of the Grand Tycoon
on the cotton bale.
" Benighted brother farmer, who
hath been groping in darkness, the
light of organized agriculturalists is
now about to break upon you "
spake the Tycoon. "You are now
within the sacred precincts of the
Farmers' Alliance, and in order to
indelibly fix upon your mind great
truths, we will proceed to carry you
through the ordeal of initiation.
That handful of guano cast into
your eyes is intended to show you
the folly of an undue use of this ex
pensive commodity. A limited use
of guano in the right place is pro
per ; but you will not, I hope, soon
forget the lesson taught you about
its abuse. Xow carry the benijhted
brother to the Grand Vice-Tycoon
for further instruction."
I was then violently turned
around, my guards released me, and
I was told to go straightforward at a
brisk trflt This I did, but soon ran
against a ten rail fence that had
been secretly built in my path, and
in the fall was skinned from head to
heels. I was soon brought up stand
ing again, the guano sack removed
from over my eyes, and I was car
ried before the fellow sitting on the
pile of sacks. Wtth a look of pity
ing contempt thi3 Vice-Tycoon spake
to me thusly :
"Benighted brother farmer, seek
ing the light of truth, we adminis
tered to you the Fence Degree, iu
order to impress upon your mind the
fact that to be a prosperous farmer
it is necessary to avoid a too close
intimacy with a fence. It is the
habit of too many farmers to sit
astride a rail and watch a nigger
work his crop. We trust that the
lesson you have just learned will not
be lost. The six well-dressed men
i .......
you see over in tnac corner repre
sents the mercantile world, and we
will now proceed to administer to
you what is known in the Alliance
as the Ox, or Hewer of Wood, De
gree." My guide then stepped up and ty
ing a board over my eyes like they
do fence-breaking steers I was led
into the corner of the room. Soon
I heard a great eeffling at the door,
and the six fellows representing mer
chants forced into the room a little
spotted bull calf, as wild as a Texas
pony. He was brought up along
side of me, and the pair of us yoked!
together, one of the merchants hold
ing a rope tied in the ring of the
yoke. I thought I had seen , pretty
tough times, but I soon knew that
my past experience was but child's
play compared with the ordeal before
me. That little bull and I were
turned loose, and the time we made
nround that room would shame a
race horse. I knew I had to keep
up or my neck would be broke.- It
had always been a mystery to me
how a steer could turn its yoke, but
lonirer a secret. The bull
CONCORD, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27,
turned his twice and I turned mine
three times. I veiled for some one
to head us,' but the louder I hollered
the faster the little bull traveled.
Just as I gave myself up for lost we
were brought to a standstill, the yoke
removed from my bruised and bleed
ing neck, and I was again led before
the Grand Tycoon, who consolingly
addressed me thusly:
" Benighted brother, seeking wis
dom, the lesson you have just rer
ceived is to impress upon your mind
the sad truth that you are but a
beast of burden for the commercial
world. The merchant has a yoke of
servitude upon your neck, and you
can only look for relief to a far
mers' Allianceman. We will now
administer to you another. 'degree
showing the difference between cash
and credit"
-I was again taken in Tiand by two
merchants, who forcibly tied a strong
cord around each of my thumbs, and
in a twinkling I was suspended to a
ridde-pole. That I yelled with pain
and begged for mercy, it is needless
to add. One of my torturers de
manded to know how much cash I
would pay him to be released. I
offered all the money in my pocket,
which was 35 cents. He agreed to
let me down for $1 cash or $10 on
credit, secured by a mortgage., lien,
deed or gift and waiver aote on my
farm, stock, wife and children. . I
eagerly accepted, and on being re
leased stepped up to the table, and
in tne presence or. two witnesses
signed the paper. I was then led
before the officer astride the worm
fence, who explained the Thumb
Swinging degree a3 follows:
"Benighted brother, the ordeal
which you have just passed through
is administered for the purpose of
reminding you that there is a broad
difierence between buying for cash
and buying on credit. One dollar in
hand would have saved you from
all that misery; but for a lack of the
ready cash you were forced to pay
teu times the required sum. This is
the last degree we will administer to
you at this meeting. There are yet
seventeen other degrees required, il
lustrating the different trials in a
farmer's life, before you are a full
blown member of the Alliance. I
will state that they are somewhat
severer than the initiations through
which you have just passed, but you
will muster up the resolution to
bear them."
Well, continued McKeever, I am
entirely satisfied with my Alliance
experience, and I don't think there
is a log-chain in Oglethorge county
strong enough to draw me to another
meeting.
Tanning an Elephant Hide.
Pall Mall Budget.
It weighed about twelve hundred
pounds, and was about an inch and
a third thick. After being put into
a resorvoir of pure water to green it,
it was beaten for one hour every day
with an iron on a large anvil. After
being ten days in pure water it was
left for another ten days in water
with about four per cent, of salt
Then it was replaced in pure water
again lor twenty uays. unnng
those forty days it was constantly in
soak. The head and feet, weighing
about three hundred pounds, were
then removed, aud the skin hung
on Bpikes in tne drying room.
After hanging one day it was put in
a vat containing potash and a small
quantity of sulphur of sodium in
the following proportions : Water,
1;000 parts ; slaked lime, 25 parts ;
potash, 3 parts ; sulphur of sodium,
2 parts. After being two days in
this bath it was rinsed in pure water
of a temperature of twenty degrees,
when it was again placed in the
drying room. After this double
operation was repeated three times,
the skin was ready to have the hair
taken off. This operation occupied
about one day's time, and gave about
seventy-five pounds of hair. An
other day was spent in cleaning and
scraping. By this time it lost 30
per cent, of its weight. The opera
tion of its preparation lasted two
months, and it went through the
same course as cowhide, with the
difference that each phase of the
work took three times as much time.
The skin should be stretched in the
pit, and placed in the middle of cow
hides. Six layers of powder are
then thrown in ; two first, two sec
ond, and two third layers. Alto
gether the tanning takes three year.
The partition- of time is thus : Be
coming green, 40 days ; worked, 15
days; preparation, 50 days; repeti
tion, 60 days ; first pit (double) 200
days ; second pit (double), 300 days ;
third pit (double), 400 days. .
One shot from Elias Miller, of
Manheim,' York county, Pa., brought
down forty sparrows.
TANBARB.
Florence Marryat.
Florence Marryat, the celebrated
English writer, is the daughter of
the late Capt Marryat, of the Brit
ish Navy, whose delightful eea
stories have been enjoyed by all
American schoolboys. She was ed
ucated at her patents home and, her
case goes far to prove that hereditary
genius is no myth, for at the early
age of eleven she wrote childish
stories, the manuscripts of which
her fond mother most carefully pre
served, but which, of course, she did
not allow to see printer's ink. She
was only in her teens when she com
menced to contribute to periodicals
and the bent of her mind was turned
wholly in that direction, which has
since led to her brilliant career in
the field of fiction. Miss Marryat's
nrst novel, "Love s Conflict," on its
appearauce in 1865 gained her fame
in addition to that of being her f ath
er's daughter. Since then nearly
fifty successful novels have appeared
from her industrious and popular
pen. "Faced the Footlights" and
"How lney .Loved llim are among
her best She visited this country a
few years ago on a lecture tour,
and charmed all who heard her, as
6he is a splendid elocutionist Since
1872 she has also been editor of that
well-known monthly, "London So
ciety," which she has conducted with
marked ability. She is married to
Col. lioss-Church, and has a large
family. Mrs. Iloss-Church is a lady
of fine appearance and presence with
a magnificent figure. Her novels
wre been translated into all civil
ized languages.
John L. as a Committeeman.
Chicago Tribune.
Chairman of Congressional Com
mittee I take it for granted, gentle
men, that we shall report favorably
on this bill that has been referred
to us, defining the barbarous practice
of holding boxing contests with skin
tight gloves in the district of Co
lumbia as a felony, and prescribing
a penalty of not less than one year
in. the penitentiary
Enter Committeeman Sullivan
the honorable member from Bos
ton. The Chairman (resuming) Er
Mr. Sullivan, we were ah consid
ering this bill in relation to sparing
exhibitions. What is your opinion
of it?
Congressman Sullivan It's a
bloody shame to bring in such a
bill as that I kin lick any feller
that's in favor of it, blank my eyes,
an' I'm wilfin' to do it right here if
necessary
The chairman (with alacrity)
Mr. Sullivan's judgment, gentlemen,
is that of an expert. I take it for
granted, gentlemen, that we shall
report unanimously against this in
famous bill.
Calling Hogs. Taking a stroll,
late one evening recently, on the
outskirts of Washington, we heard,
away on a distant farm, a sound once
familiar to the Southern ear. A
farmer calling up his hogs.
The sign of the sound was a good
one. it indicated tnat tne tanners
are getting back into their old bear
ings, when they were able to live at
home on home raised meat and bread.
But we did not like it altogether.
We must remember that things can
never be in the South like they once
were. The glorious days of old will
gradually sink deeper and deeper in
to the past, until at last only as tra
dition they may remain, but they,
nor any like them can ever return.
And, in thinking of our changed re
lations, we are driven to conclude
that large farms must also pass away,
and give place to the small system
of husbandry. Small farms require
only small expense, three or four
hogs raised annually around the
house, one or two head of cattle, a
horse or two, a few sheep, this is the
farm of the future. Chronicle.
Paolo, Kan., has "rented its city
park to a carpet renovator.
A dog down in Piedmont, W. Va.,
has two tails, and he wags them in
different directions.
1889.
Wheat and Corn.
Cor. News and Courier.
First, then, of wheat I have
already intimated that our's is not
a wheat country, still we raise it,
and much more profitable than we
do, with a little more care and wis
dom, especially in the upper section
of the State. It mav be nossihlp
y
that in the lower counties it may be
a failure. A much higher latitude
than ours is its home. Whenever
and wherever the average reaches 70
Fahrenheit before the wheat reaches
muturity, then and there it fails.
Hence in its cultivation our effort
should be to bring it in early before
the days get so long and the nights
so hot This is to be done by early
sowing and generous manuring. It
was once a custom in my section to
sow it as the corn was being laid by,
but the depredations ef the Hessian
fly put a stop to the practice .
I have heard that my father once
raised a crop of thirty bushels per
acre on a twenty-five acre field. In
my earlier days a field of corn in
which peas had been planted was
gathered as early as possible and the
wheat sown with the result gener
ally of a good yield. On late years
cotton has been the absorbing crop.
and from November 15 to January
15 has been the time of sowing, the
result being still further diminished
yields. If I had to indicate a time
for sowing, I would say from the
20th of September to the 15th of
October would most likely produce
the best results.
An old gentleman, a neighbor of
mine, died a few years ago, who was
a remarkably successful wheat grow
er. . The last year of his life he
said that he had raised thirty-six
crops of wheat in succession, and
not one had been a failure. He at
tnbuted his success to the fact that
he always sowed his seed by the 15th
of October and as I have indicated,
My scheme provides for wheat after
corn, and the reason is because corn
is the only crop we can get off the
ground in time. Really wheat grows
better after cotton, but the cotton
can't be got out in time.
The cow pea of the corn fields is
a fine manure for it Cotton seed
was generally applied at the rate of
fifteen or twenty bushels per acre;
but these have become so valuable
mac we must look to its meal or
some other nitrogenous compound
When threshed the straw should be
carefully preserved, which, with a
little cotton seed or cotton seed meal
will put the dry cattle through the
winter when the other forage gives
out When milled, besides the flour
there are some valuable forage prod
ucts left as shorts, middlings and
bran. The bran is one of the best
foods for milch cows I know of,
When I commenced my wedded life
my mother in-law wanted to know
upon what I fed my milch cows.
replied, wheat bran principlv. She
made fun of me, but upon my say
so she tried it and was deligt
Her husband had a mill where a
great deal of wheat was ground, and
she struck a bonanza.
Wheat will not grow after wheat,
oats, crab grass or weeds. The sum
and substance, then, of successful
wheat growing consists in early sow
ing in corn fields, well tilled, upon
which peas have been sown and
generous manuring. If you do this
I will guarantee that you will not
buy flour and that you will have
some valuable forage products.
The most valuable forage product
that we can raise is Indian corn. It
is adapted by its nature to every
part of our State, and yields well
when properly cultivated, though
the average production here is not
more than eight or ten bushels per
acre. Outside of poor work, I be
lieve more failures occur from leav
ing it too thick than from any other
cause. You will see a man plant
his corn in rows four and one-half
to five feet wide and leave it from
two and one-half to three feet in
the drill, and harvest from five to
fifteen bushels per acre. Now, if
every stalk produces a good ear and
every hundred ears make its bushel,
he ought to have made from thirty
to forty bushels per acre. What
was the matter? The cultivation
was good, but with a long dry spell
it failed for want of room.
Every stalk of corn should have
at least twenty-one square feet of
surface ; twenty-four feet would be
better. The rows should be seven
feet wide, three feet in the drill, or
six feet wide and four feet in the
drill. These distances gives 5,100
and 1,837 stalks per acre respec
tively. If the ground be rich or
well manured and the seasons pro
pitious, nearly every stalk will have
two ears. I had an experience once
tnat convinced me on distance in
corn. I had a horse tenant who
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persisted in planting in narrow rows
and thick in the drill, with a yield
of five to ten bushels per acre. I
tried him several years, or until he
had about worn out the land, and
then turned him off and put another
fellow there, with orders to lay off
rows seven feet wide, a la David
Dickson. He followed directions
for a while, but soon got his rows
up to eight or nine feet wide. The
rows were so wide we planted finally
row of peas down the middle.
The result astonished me. Fifteen
acres made three hundred bushels
of corn, or twenty bushels per acre,
and a magnificent crop of peas and
this without manure.
You will observe I follow cotton
with corn. The cotton should have
been well fertilized ; if so, and the
corn be planted in every alternate
row, say six to eight wide, planted
early and well worked, I will also
guarantee that you will not have
corn to buy another year, and you
will have almost fodder enough to
keep the mule that made the crop.
I do not think it pays very much
to pull fodder, but it comes at
time when you are not very busy,
and the blades make the best fora
I know and is in such a convenient
shape for feeding a horse or mule.
The Slses of Books.
Headers are often at a loss to know
what the publisher means when he
gives the size of a book in technical
terms. The following is a very com
plete explanation of the terms :
The standard size of paper for the
printing of books is twenty-five
inches by thirty-eight ; but the names
by which the various sizes of books
are commonly known are derived
from a half sheet, that is, 19x25.
A book formed of such sheets
folded once, making two leaves, and
four pages, is a folio.
If the sheet be folded twice, mak
ing four leaves, and eight pages, the
book is a quarto.
Folding the quarto once, forming
eight leaves, or sixteen pages, makes
the book an octavo. All these, and
other multiples of eight, by an even
number, are regular sizes, which can
be made without cutting the sheet.
In other sizes (twelve leaves, eigh
teen leaves, etc.,) the printer can ar
range the pases so that all can be
printed regularly, but the binder has
to cut the sheet apart in folding,
and put one portion within the
other.
Of these, the most frequently used
is the duodecimo, or 12mo., although
the 18mo. is occasionally resorted to
for some special purpose.
When other than the regular size
of paper i3 used, the book formed
therefrom is named by prefixing the
name of the paper, a3 "Crown oc
tavo," etc.
The printer affixes to the page
that will be first, on each of the sev
eral sheets required to make up a
book, a letter or figure, which the
reader will observe following the last
line. When the binder comes to put
together the sheets, he i3 guided by
this sign, which is called the "signa
ture." So the sheets themselves are
sometimes called "signatures," and
a book is said to be made up of a
certain number of "signatures."
A Modebn Fable. There was
once a Long-Headed Man, who in
vented a Houshold Utensil of such
general Utility that instead of giving
it a Name, setting forth an Intel
ligible Idea of its Character, he called
it simply a Good Thing. So Proud was
he of his Good Thing he would not
make its Existance know in the Press.
" If People will not come in and
ask for the Good Thing," he would
say, "I don't Propose to go to the
Trouble of Telling Them about It
If People don't Know It when they
see it, they must suffer the Conse
quences of their Blindness." When
a Mortgage was Foreclosed on him a
Little Later, the Successful Bidder
Advertised the Good Thing in Sev
eral Papers, and he had Difficulty
in Employing a Sufficient number
of men to Fill the Red Wagons that
Backed Up at his Door. The Moral
of this Fable is in the Possession of
our Advertising Agent, who will
Disclose it in all its Variegated
Beauty to all inquirers on receipt of
Stamp fer Return Postage. Puck.
A cat that will drink beer is one
of the curiosities of Calamet, O.
"The piano taught moderate" is a
sign on a house in London.
A three-legged alligator was shot
near Albany, Ga. There was no
trace whatever of the fourth leg.
Under the laws of China the adult
who loses his temper in a discussion
is sent to jail five days to cool off.
A mare at Pleasant Valley, Cal.,
has adopted a calf two months old
and cares for it a3 if it were Ker own
progeny.
THE STANDARD.
WE DO ALL KINDS OF
JOB WOEK
IN THE
WE A TES T MA NNER
AND AT
THE LOWEST BATES.
W. 3. MOSTGOilEB ST.
J. LEE CKOWEIX.
Montgomery & dwell,
Attorneys and Counsellors
at law,
Concord, NG,
As partners, will practice
law in Cabarrus, Stanly and
adjoining counties, in the Su
perior and Supreme .Court of
tne Mate, and m the Federal
Court.
Office jon Depot Street.
The Travelers'
Accident Insurance Company, only
iwenty-nve cents a day lor $3,000,
in event of death by accident with
815-00 weeklv indemnity for wVmllv
disabling injury.
J. W. BURKHEAD, Agt.
Fire, Life and Accident Insurance,
Concord, N. C.
VOICE
from Ohio. Mere It a
portrait of Mr. Garri
an. at finUm. I khi a
jftltO a month : 1 now havo an aavnrv
He Writes: "Wn at workon a farm f.-
'or E. C. Alleii A Co s albums aud mi hit.
Hons and often make$24 a day."
oiKUCQI nr. tt.UAKKMOV.
' ill ism Kiln. HarrUburjr, Pa.,
writes: "I have never known
anything to soli like vwr aibnm.
Yesterday I took orders enough to
piy roe ov(T)fi.V' W.J.El
more, Banfror, ale., write: "I
take an order for your album at
iok overy jtonso l vtait. My
profit it often a inarhas SVO
il'or a sin a-la day's work.'
Otberaeredoinir auite a well:
we have nut space to rive
one who takes bold ofthisfrrand business piles upirrand pro fits.
Shall we start YOU in this business,
reader? Write toot and team all t boot it fi.r Yourself. "'
arottartlns? many; we will start you if you don't delay nitU
anot her srets ahead ef you iu y oar part of thaconntnr. Ifron
take hold you will be able to pik up gohi fat. stead
On account of a forced manufacturer's sale 1 $.'tOOO ten
dollar Photocrnph Album areto besoid to the
people for each. Buund in I toy I Crimson Silk Velvet
IMuh. Charminsrly decorated inside. UHndfttmieM albums m ths
world. Larre&t Size. Urt-ateat harfrnin ever known. Agents
wanted. Liberal terms, hip money for a (rents. Any one can
become a successful apent. 6e Us itself on sifcht little or no
talking necessary. iVh-rever shown, everr mie wants to pur
chase. Agents take thousands of orders with rapidity never
before known. Great pro tits await every worker. A rents are
snaking fortunes. Lad ins make as much as men. You, reader,
can do as well as any one. Full information and terms fre
to i hone who write for snme, with particular and terms for our
Family UtMes, Books and Periodicals. After you know all,
should yon conclude to go tin further, why no harm ts done.
Address E. C. ALLLN & CU.t A L (it ST A, MaiMS.
Hraeta from th-(r
F
FALL SESSION OPEXS AUG. 20, 1889.
A Evil Corps of Able and
Experienced Ttachcr.
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 $5) per month.
Thankful for past patronage, a contin
uance is respectfully solicited.
Apply to or address
Misses BESSENT & FETZER,
Principals,
aug 16-Cm Concord, N. C.
TO
My Deak 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 barking on moonlight
nights. My family there !
please don' t give me away ! If
the fair sex on your little
planet once find 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 stirrinsr, thrifty,
wide-awake little city as Con
cord, anyhow. Even your cats
sleep with one eye open I and
the burglars, after visiting
forty-one houses and finding
everybody on the premise?, 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 inter. est
I do in your affairs, let .'.me
suggest that you .utilize at
once, your water -route tohe
seaboard. Put on. a line of
first-class steamers toVVilming
ton, to run up Kocky Biver
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. Riob
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 uplands you can,
with your abundant supply of
fish, have an ample stock of
meat Raise rice, fish, ducks,
' possums, blackberries and
persimmons, and cut looseirom
corn, cotton, razortback. hogs
and chattel mortgages. Send
me a pound. or two of. -Bromide
of Potash, ' aud qbjige, . s s
Your friend
The Ma in the Moon.
Comment on the "above is
unnecessary. My fiiehd evi
dently understands the agri-
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. Kow
is the time to buy Fruit pow
ders, Turnip Seeds and Qui
nine. Call and see my stock
or you will regret it. .
my 10-ly J. P. GIBSON
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cir.alo
Academy
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