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aite Standard JOHN D. BARRIER & SOKJn -' Editors and Proprietors. JAS. P. COOK, i Editorial Correspondent. OFFICE IN BRICK ROW. The Standard is.: published everyday (Sunday excepted) and delivered by carriers. - RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: One year .'.$4.00 Six months. .... . . : . . . 200 Thiee mon ths........... 100 One month 35 Single coDy J. .... .05 The Weekly Standard is a four-page, eigbt-column. paper. It has a larger circulation in Cabarrus than any other paper. Price S.1 .00 per annum, in advance. advertising rates : . , Term3 for regular advertisements made known on application. Address all ommunicatibh'4 to THE STANDARD Concord, N. C. CONCORD. FEB. U 1897. TJLS MONRO E JDlIXSOX n XOCEM ? No little feeling seems to prevail that Monroe Johnson,' may. have been irmoc at. ThU has the nar - row btise of Johnson's i owav won on the scaffold, nd thatonlyv A. most thoroiin. ajidu exauive, operation of the -court.' functions eaavmced twejve jurors that he y?as guilty. This too when charged to give ihe defendant the, benefit, of. every reasonable doubt ' If it is taid that XoHnsoh would' not have died with a lie on his lip?, s4 ask you, reader, to study thebeat portrait of depraved human nature . in the world contained in the Book ; of Romans and the. latter half of the first chapter. Johnson w "evidently, a man cf a criminal heart, and the God-fearing people of our land canaot well real iz:e the lack of a just appreciation o death tud eternity in one led by the enemy of all good. ' The prisoner's cell with its gloomy bodmce, alternated with hone - of es- - u ; ince, is a very poor, place toi catch and nurture a loving; penitence, un felt before, and without which all tli3 hop8 that criminals usually ex press on the gallows are but, vain imd empty hallucinations. ProbabLy nothing in! the world is move unreliable than the professions distressed and harassed mind in the face of death when the life has been one constant drift away from trie God whom it would row gladly liave to save it because of fear rather ttf.n love. "Devils fear.but. do not love' .4 : I . While lynching is a , that takes its growth from a general ccmplaint of the slow and uncer ta?.n operation of jthe law let none hecomo over-Bentimenf"i;l and find fault with the law for removing a - man bee ..use he professed . innoi ence to the la?' To let such escape the penalty of the 'hw would be: tD practically ex puLT penalties from cur code of . make our courlo a farce. Any criminal, would , profess inho cciuce rather than plunge into an abyss of eternity rom - which his natural instincte recoil. If Johnson died wit- 'lne pro, f ess ions all would have to say his doom was just. The same lips that churned ionvce ico claimed prepara lion for eternal happiness. If this " is true he is none the worse . byf his fate and the courts, God's own'ap pointed mode of protecting the in no ceat an 3 of meting ou, t justice to growing1 evil th we whom the highest earthly tri bunal say are guilty are defended lit the exercise Of legitimate powers. ! Welwodjnot withhold our pity fromthe' helpless and innc 3nt con vict any more than we would turn a deaf ear to the frantic cries of effem inacy in its struggles to maintain life and puri y or withhold a hel p ing hand Irom r im who would rush to the, defense .f those under his parentalvcare iu-. i lent hours of the night-wlien the law presumes to boyer over every household and siy to every intruder, "Thou StuH Not.'' Some xf 1 Ly m'in J GageV friends intimated 'to,' bim. the other day that they would like to give him a pubU lie dinner before he went to VVsii" ton'. "You ' muit excuse me,'' .' was his reply. I want no demonstra tion. lhmy, honor row. If, after four ) ears of service as a member of the Cbiuet, my iir tvhb jrs think 1 h ive served my coa j 1 1 v so faithfully than tbeyldeaire to ?sho v tneir appre- citioni a : dinner w u Id be all right. I prefer,, however,; to enter my .country 'a strvics without heralding. L-jt, myf record" iu. (dll ;e; speak for me." Greens boro li cord. . riiis doe nut. ring like the ai'odern iSje hunrnr Uoni' MtiriuQ 15 a; ler hasn't eppe jhx enoughnii his vocabulary nor in the unabridged lexicon he uses to ex. . . - , , " -1 " i - press hia contempt for the fellows who scaled his fence to get a pull at the crib. op thp other side; but Hon. Marion' should be charitable if not considerate, and remember the time not so far on as, to be dimmed by distance when he too ws very hun gry,; would haye climbed a very high fence,; and turned a summerset from tha rider to?gei ont the s'de where the provender protruded. Hon. Marion struck aJ good fat corner, good for four years more, on tp which hft proposes to hold for. many years; - unless somebody about the size and build'' of Harry Skinner jumps on him and breaks his grip. It is real' unltihd in him to be say ing .unyiasnVand spiiefn' things abut nis late, party, associa , who happen to bhunryj andiupbraiding them withravweaknesa for pap while he'Is getting 1 fat'4 and' saucy on the 'soft1 snap that' he captured. Morn ing Star, t The old story of Pro metheuB is a parable. Prometheus was oil terms of intimacy with the! gods. From them he'stolefire and gave it to rnen. For this sin he was bound f) the Tocfe:ot;; Mount CaucasBue, and vultures were set' upon him. They only, ate his liver; This grew again , as fast. as. it was pecked away Are Ma sufferings to be imagined ? Take a modern , interpretation of the parableV There is no cooking without'fire. In cooking and eati ing the mischief lies. The stomach is; overfeed, the bowels become cjogged, they innot dispose of the food that is given them. The im purities back-up on the liver. Then come the yultures-r-tbe torments of a diseased liver. Dr. Pierce's Gold en Medical Discovery is more than equal to the vultures of dyspepsia and its kindred' diseases. " There is no more need of suffering from dys pepsia than1 there is of hanging one's self.: Sold by all medicine dealersthe world oyer. Mr. Furga3on presented a bill Mondr in the House making it a misdemeanor to give or sell intoxi- ate to any habitual drunkard. Bacaaen's Arnica aarre, , The Best Salve in the world ' for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers1, Salt A bill to require seats for female clerks was tablea in ine oeuic terday. A petition from bicyclers asks tbat tbeir wheels jbs made baggage o i r;jilroai8. ! 1 .ir(.,---)jr, I Cherry ; j i costs more than other xnedi- j But then it cures more than other medicines Most of tile cheap cough1 medicines m e rely palliate; they afford local and tempo rary relief. Ayer's Cherry s i Pectoral does not patch, up or t palliate. It cures. J Asthma, Bronchitis, Croup, Whooping Cough, and every other cough, will, when other remedies fail, yield to jj-Ayers.- Cherryf Pectoral It has a ; record of 60 x; years of cures. Send for the "Curebook v J( 0. Ayer Coi, Lowell) Mass. c SCHEDULE IN EFFECT! JAN. 18, 1897. : JChis oondensod; schedule is pub liebed as ioformatioD, and is subn ject to change without notice to thfe public : . j-p -'v TEA'NS IA.VEx)"COKD, N. C. 9:27 p. m. No. 85, daily for A'an ta acd Charlotte Air Line division, ana all points South and Southwest: Carr i? b t h r c ii zh Pullman drawing" room." buffet e'eepfecs between New York, Washington Atlantaj Birms ingham, Galveston, Savannah and Jacksonville, Also fUllman sleeoer Charlotte to Augusta. . 8:18 a. m. No. 37, daily, Washings ton and Southwestern, vestibuled limite r for Atlanta', Birminghamr Memphis, Montgomery, Mobile an4 Nw Orleans, and all points South and Southwest. Through Pullman sleeper New York to New Orleens and New York to Memphis. Dinr ing car, vestibuled coach, between Washington and j!Atlantar Pullman tourist car for San Francisco, Sundays- 9:02 p m No. 9i daily, from RichW mond, Washington, Goidsboro.Nor folk, Selma Balign, Greensboro, Kuoviiie and AsheviUe to Char- Jotte, N. C. II ' . 10:30 a- m. No. 11, daily, for At lanta and all points South. Solid train, Bichmond to Atlanta Pull man Bleeping car,) Richmond- to Greensboro :j 10:07 a. :m. No. 36; daiiy,v for' Washington,' Richmond, . deigh and all pbints'North.; Carries:JEull man drawing-room buffet - sleepeiv Galveston: to New York; : Jackson-; ville to-NeW' York ;Birminshami to New": York.' Pullman tourist ? cars from San FraT cisco TJ hus. lays- i 9:02 m. No. 38, daily,-, Washings ton: and Southwestern ; vestibuled; limited, for Washington and ' all point- North. Through Pullman car, Memphis to New York; New Orleans to ew York ; Tampa to New York; Also carries vertibuled v coach . and dining car. - r . 7;22 p. m. No. 12, daily; f or Richv mond, Asheville, i Chattanooga,l Ral eight; Goldsboro and; N all points North. , Carries Pullmatni sleeping car. from Greensboro to Richmond, Connects at Greensboro with s. train I carrying Pullman 1car for Raieieh J G.17 a. m. No. 10, daily; for Rich--ond ; connects at Greensboro tor Raleigu auu: Norfo.k ; at Danvide for. Washington . and : points North. ; at :. Salisbury fori AsUvillo,". Knox ville- and points West! Ail freight trams carry passengers. John M. Culp, u W- A Tuek. Hands- Chilblains, Corns and al Hn'i snr!t,m,t-b - ni- .... I " . "tv-u"wu' ' daiu jurupuouB, ana posuivejy cures Pile, or .no pay , requi-ed.' It is guaranteed to ' give statisf action or monev refunded. Price 5 cept3 per box For sale at P B Fetzer's Drug store" ! Washington: D S. H. Haed wick; Ass' t Gen'i P.Ag'i , & . Atlanta,. Ga W. H; Taylos, As Vt Genl P. Agt, n LouisvillerKyv Go wan DusENBSfiv, LccaljAg't, Concord,1 NyC: RACKET 4 JW ,.j,uip"Il 9 DP 00 Q CD CD O CD Kii mi .in ii 1 . . 1 4 I-'-.'-..- I mm
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