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'A i t. it f 't V 11 y p. I' : l r 1 r HA.Y StftNOARD J03N D.- B?AEfeiER Aiys6' Editors and Fropr-6UrR. 1HE ST-NDARD is published every ar- (Bunday excepted) and delivered by "ritf. Bates of Subscript a : r-k-.v i . $4.00 ' SirtiontnV 2.00 ' Three nidhths. .......... l.QP Otoe" mon til..? .'. 35 Single cony. . . . ,0 lltE WEEKLY ST AND A D ii vj.r-i.W3, e:ght-colaain paper. It has Targer circulation in Cabarrus than any cfher paper. Price $1.00 per annum in Advance. Advertising Rates : Terms for regular advertisement? aade known on application. Address all communications to THE STANDARD, Concord, N. C. j , . r t ELEPtiONE NO. 71. CorcoW N. C, Dec 31, -1900, LOOKLNtt BAOKVVAllD. We are now spending tlfo last day of the last' year of the great est century in fche wcrldV h; tory. The progress alohg a? most all lines has been so great as to be confusing, bewildering. There isscarcely a record off the little manufacture of fabrics in America a hundred yefcrfclago. . The card, the s"pmh!ngheel) und the home made loom: w(re1 essentials in the thrifty. h'3ute hold. Whitney's" cotton gih Was just- being, introfluced before which the lint wapifcked-off by the fingers and'a-shoe'fuU as an after supperc task! There isa record of 70 spindles in America in 1790. In 1890 there were14 188,109. . They are little short of 20,000,000 now.J Then the price of cotton yarn v -as $1.03 to $1.36 cents per pound. Now it is 13.tb! 18J- cnts per poutid. Cloth' has; dil tarnished in price accordingly, 4at woudorful to Say the vages of operatives has more than doub led. , ,;....,. Look into our shoe stores and think about it that at the begin nmg of the century every pair of -tfhoes was made by the local shoe maker. You made the order arid waited for the shoemaker to-get them doneand a pair aday was good work. Today one'man with a machine makes them' by the hundred per day. The writer re members when "the fair s&x wore bought slioes of grade altogether too common for now-a-days dmd tliey were so precieus that the fair lasses would wrari' themin their1 handkerchiefs and- wane barefoot for miles to "preaching, putting them on1 when they ar rived in sight of the church?. Don't turn up ydui nbsej these very girls became the mother's of as line type of' manhood arid womanhood as the world can boast oday J.t the well-to-do man waited a house built the carpenter with his broad axe went to the woods and hewed out all the framing timber. No cne expected to get into h'm new house wTthin less than about two years. Now a much more pretentious house is finished up in less than two months. Think of the schoohouses then aud m,v. The old time house was of logs with the chinks mor ;tred shut. Pegs stue& info1 the chinks oFpdib''toin the log itf lknih'g p'diMon held a w'ide" platfk which served as a de'sk for those to write on who were big enough. The seat was a slab with peg leg When1 you were through writing a few lines h the foolsjap copy book ydui stuck your5 goose tuill enintb the crack of . tHeVhewh bg and turned your back aga$ist the writing b'oardj faced the toucher and getj your Jesson;- If a Kip Van Wincle having gone to sleep then wer& to wake-up and limp into a well equipped school room today he would1 be bewildered fand dazed indeed. The' -sickle1 was barely dis appearing and the harvester wTas delighte'd atth'e' improvement of a leaping cradle. It was a frolic to swing it and have his best gSHincF the Avheat; Now the cradle almost as 'antiquated as jtlie siclIeVa! then. " Thiriki'tOoi'the old- s&ythe was Wade fchtetj by beiit bairiltfered oat -on the steol-f hfeesd7' stkl&f at?d tiife' meadow had"" Hist5 -champion gras cutter, the envy of all the ret! ' The mowing machine 'of today has cured the-backache of 100 years ago. The ' kids scat tered the grass and -thJ girls helped to rake up tJie liayC The horse rake oi today con trasts strongly with trie Sodden hand rake of that day. ' Wheat was 'tramped out by horses moving in a -circle. or it was beaten ont by flail. Now . we have come to the gigantic machine drawn by 40 horses over the l,000-acre fields of Cali fornia, reaping, threshing, win nowing and sacking the golden graini Travel' was by. stage coach, slow1 arid wearisome, and dur legislators 'lefti their homW on horseback for the capital. Now a business nfah does a -full day's work, taTres sleeper arid gets up huudreds of miles away re- trelblied'atid'reaay' as if hVhad' beenat-hdme. Unless you had a death of ' a fire you' dicj not think of writing to a'friena some distance away. ; Thetelegraph &nd teleplione, jtobj seem -td'hring our friends' to us -and'we speak UP them-hundreds ol miles, away as if we Uvere(': sitting; in the same log cabin. Tbe wortd is full of labor saving machines and ye1- they seem to make moie labor. One hundred years ago we were about 5,000,000 people, 'now it is estimated that there are nearly 7,000,000 hands employed in manufacturing alone and a great many of these are making aiabor saving machines. f Think of a sailboat at the be- ginning of the nineteenth cen tury taking two months to con vey an important diplomatic message across the Atlantic, when it is flashed along at the bottom of the oe'eari now and arrives there before the swiftest sailor then could' set his sails to start. ' Probably in-no line has there been 'rribre progress made than thatrof 'priritirig W th$ general1 dissfeminatiori1' of knowledge;' The type Was alY set njr HahS and printed on screaky hand presses, making issue's" of gfeat cariosity today No visionary! Ldrean3NWr' conceived 'of .the lmo type and the modern press that "from ah' immense' roll of paper runs' off the news of the world oh sheets printed oil both sides, atM cut, passed and folded' at a rate too fast' for' the eye to follow the. process and the papers are run out by the ton. But while wV write and think bf the crudeness of that day we iirereroirided that the generation of ' a century hence will lbdk back at us as curiously as we do at the works of our grand-sires. It seems eminently ther proper thing to do tdnight in keeping watch' a;s the -old year and cen tury pass away and V new an nual and century p'eriod is . en ifed ripon. It is- needless to say that to' all appearances the night will' be-just the same as other nights but man is a 'being pf mindp of soul. He is en larged4 by contemplation. He eoes' th future by. sein the past; He - niade great' by viewing -greatness. He is made happy- by meditations on things butsideilof, beyond arid greater that himself.- ! What can' be mofe appropriate than spending the dosing hbiirs ' of ; the dying period in this exercise? China takes her medicine. The Emporor has directed his minis ters to sign the note of the pdw- ers; A plea will be entered to malie as few army posts as pos sible and not to destroy the forts but disarm them. It seems there should be some headway made-ndw toward letting China imprbtf e" on the1 hard lesson she haslearned.' We're sorry for CMarlotte but PeaTsong; MagaJiiri'e ' say: the 20tb century will f make its start at Antipodes Islands.' : Col. John S Cunningham did the graceful thing of presenting Gov-elect Aycock a gold, headed cane for; a Christmas present. In view of the fact that Mr. Cun ningham wasan aspirant to the place that Aycock got this is es- pecially pleasin it Ter j Acceptable. United States Senator Francis E Warren, of Wyoming, received by mail Monday the mosj flatter ing Christmas gift bestowed upon any one ih Washington. It was1 in the form of a'ietterMrohi 53 of the 58Baembdrslbf the Wyoming Legislature, assuring ,him that ' t.Viia ci (more ' Tirrnlrl falra rryJn VUW UAUVAU II WMXU. kUUW ACUW pleasure in re-electing him United States Senator in Januarys Daily Record. Editor Sees Wonders. Editor W V Barry, of Lexinsrton Tenn., in exploring Mammoth, Cave, contracted a seyere ease ' of piles.' His quick cure through using Eucklen'a Ar nica Salye oonyinoed him it is another world's wonder. Cures piles, injuries, inflammation .sd all bodily eruptions. Only 25c. at 3'etzer's du'g atcra. THE We are now showiiij? the- Largest Stock" of Holiday Goods to be Found in Concord . . . . ... One entire floor containing 1,564 square feet for Dolls ieirid Toys albne, wfiile' the larger part of our riiam1 flbb'r is burdened with China ware, Fancy Boxes, BooVs, and . . . . .. - a general line of goods suitable for Gifts. l WZiZMG.TaJUUSl'.l $3.-25: t'o$15 (per set.- 25c up. DOLL Auesc iiamc xoarus jiav 25c up. 'crokinol nn ro 1 3ik$z tmm?tM it We haven't space or time to give you a full account of our stock. Come on vwe . save you money. Respectfully, . JUST A REMINDER FOR THE AUTUMN AND WINTER SUIT JACOB READ'S .SONS OF PHILADELPHIA INVITE' YOU TO EXAMINE THEIR BEAUTIFUL NW COLLEc'- TION OF FABRICS n6"W Gk. PArfTElfe0K, 1 CONCORD, U. A" O o Suits trom $12.50 upwardr! Itousers from $4.00 upwards. Overcoats froni $16.00wards. o -o All carefully cut to! mea sure, ' h andsomely trimmed and tailored. D Q.l 21 -J IWT -lT.! TOOL SETS 5e upr. Toys Witb- ofaBHnfc lo. td $ 1.98. tree candles 15c -indivf' GAtvlEs pei box 'hatve what' ydir wknt and 1 ;.'" . as J. Bostian.. y& CONCORD MARKETS." COTTON MARKET. Corrected by Cannon & Fet2r Jompany. Good middling;. .. .. . liddlinsr. ...... ...... 9 25 945 905 8"85 Low middli Stains i PRODUCE MARKET. f Correctdy .PdV F WlkiEe. ELacon. ......... ; f 30 ougar-cured hams. . . . .. ' 15 1 Bulk meat sides......:.' 10 Beeswax...:..;;.;...:. 20 Butter... ; . 15 Chickens ....;:;;;:.: ;-. : io'ton20 CJorn. .;,.... ........... 75 Eggs.-.v. 15 Lard ...: ; ; ; ; ; ; . . ; .10 Flour (N. c.) :. ::rM&oo Meal".-. ;.-..' 70 Oats. ...;........ ;.:..ii( 50 Tallow..: . ..-;;;' 7 o 'it 11. ...inI ni'i H j 1 N -r- : ' T7 J 1 A 1 J.r 1 V 'r - 9 in . . . . ? I'u.-WJU '.-1 i.. .
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