OttCOftp. N. C. FRIDAY APRIL 2.1902.
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GAXULLNU DOES XOT FAY.
The (iaiue WilUJeat You in the End
' Every (jamfler Will TeU You Tiiat. J
The following by A B Wil
liams in the Richmond Times is
equally applicable here:
"Probably the word at the
head of this will catch the eyes
of a good many young men who
do not usually read editorials,
but .to whom anything about
gambling is of more interest than
any other subject. When a man
is in that condition he needs
some talking to and it is time
for him to do some serious
thinking.
"Probably there are in Rich
'mond a number of shabby look-'
ing men, some young and some
old, who hang around the gamb
ling places and pike at faro,
.trying to take in half the lay
oat, open and coppered, with one
white chip, pitifully bogging
chips at- poker games, scraping
their pi ckets to shoot away a,
few coins at craps. There are
men who can't sleep and can't
keep away from the game even
when they have not a cent to
play with and who sit around
wistfully to pickup sleepers or
in the vague hope that somebody,
in luck will give them a few
cents or dollars. These are the
men who are tolerated for a timo
and then barred out. If they
are not in Richmond this is the
only town where there are
gambling-houses ihat lacks them.
'.'You younger, with a job or
an income, look at these wrecks
with a pitying contempt. Do
you ever think that a few years
ago they were just where you
are now beginning at the game
with jobs and prospects and
hopes ? It is just as sure that if
you stick to it you will be where
, they are, or perhaps worse.
They are comparatively lucky.
Hundreds and thousands of thoso
who are treading the rbad you
are walking in are in the .peni
tentiaries or on the road. Every
year hundreds of men who once
wore clothes a good as yours or
better, who had as much sense
and character as you have and as
good connections, are fished out
of the rivers around the big
cities orfound dead on freight
trains or picked up along the
roads and sent to die in strange
alms houses and to be buried like
o many animak, with "Un
known Tamp as their oflly
epitaphs.
"The game will beat you in
theand. Every gaiilbler wiU tell
you that. There is nj doufct
ahput it4 The difference between
good lack and tod at it U thst,
with thoweardf or the wheel or
dice running your way, you will
last a little longer. The time
must come when you must quit.
If you are lucky enough to be
able, to quit before you have
ruined yourself you wil? bo all
th money out you have lost and
many a bitter day !n t,he future
you will wish youhad it and see
where you could do much better
for yourself or somebody you
would like to help. if you had it.
"Do you eyer think of the
histories and the tragedies be
hind these old pikers and dead
beats, to say nothing of the
tramps at whom you laugh now?
All of them had women who
loved them and hoped for them,
just as you sonny, probably
have. Most of these wrecks
represent humiliations more bit
ter than can be written or told,
long heartaches and the sicken
ing, sliding away of prido and
confidence and faith, and all that
makes life beautiful and worth
living. Every man who goes to
the bad, as a rule, represents the
agony of some helpless and un
offending woman. If jou are
any kind of a man at all that is
something that you will take
into consideration.
"We aro satisfied that some
man will read this who already
has felt the .bitterness and the
horror and the sting of the dis
ease. Maybe already you are up
to your eyes in debt, or, worse
ihavo begun to dip into money
belonging to somebody else, in
tending to pay it back and fool
ing yourself with the idea that
you are honest. There is just
one way to stop and that is to
stop. Don't cling to. the idea
that some time things must turn
your way and that when you
have pulled out of the hole you
will swear off for good. The
penitentiaries and asylums are
full of men who have been right
along there. The percentage of
the game must beat you, if you
get a strictly fair showing
which you do about once in ten
times. The gamblers are not in
the business for amusement and
are not going to give you any
chance they .'can help. When
they are absolutely on the level
you hare the same chanco
against them that any amateur
has against a professional at any
other game the same chanco
you would have in a fight against
Corbett or at billiards against
ves.
'Quit and do it .now without
any reservations'about nextlime
or any period of swearing; off.
There is just the one way to stop
gambling and that is a bard one,
and you wtll find that it will tfist
all the manhood you have if you
have the disease J)adlyk Some
of you who do not ackno wlodge i
that you have it can hardly wait
for your place to close or to get
your suppers before you are
hunting up the game, and youp
think of it all day and dream of
it all night, and try to pick lucky -
hunches out Of the street num
bers. "If ycu have reached tihat
stage yoii ha'd better go dow bn
yoor knees and ask Gbd Al
mighty to help you, andoft had
better also go to somebody you
can trust, make a clean breast of
it and get .what you may need to
put you somewhere in hailing
distance of honesty. Then make
up your mind earnestly and hon
estly, stick to it and get yourself
interested in something else until
the craving and the habit are
broken.
"And you who have not yet
begun or who, are dabbling in it,
now is the time, and the one ?afe
time, to drop it."
THURSDAY THE (i It EAT DAY.'
(Jraud Parade at Dallas, 12,000 in Line
North Carolinians lliiid in Position
As Pino Ptiratle as Ho Lwr Saw,
Snjs (ion Gordon I'lactical'y Ended
With the Day.
'Thursday was thi? groat day of
the Dallas reunion.
It is estimated that 1L000 pco
plewero inthe parade, 3.000 of
whom, were Veterans, many in
full uniform and yelling to tho
tune of Dixie.
Gen. Cordon pronounced it as
nne a parade as no over saw.
The Tar Heels were third in tho
procession, Maryland and Vir
ginia preceding them. The day
was mild and tho Veterans fared
tho better from it though many
had to drop out, their days of
such endurance being past.
The closing business was done
today, but very many ended, their
part of it Thursday evening and
left for home. We look for our
Cabarrus contingent Sunday
evoniug.
Tli Most Wondeiful Eg? Yet.
Now Mr. R C Blackwelder re
turns with his big egg and tells
the story which is absolutely
true, because ho tells it, but
would bo pronounced 'false if
told by any man who does not
pay his debts. lie broke the
egg last Sunday morning expect- j
ing to find two yolks. Tho two
were there all right but beside '
these there was a whole, well J
matured egg of normal size with
in aiso. i nus it was . an e
-rr
within an egg with a double egg
between the two ; lit lis.
It reminds .us of a n3w kind
corn (which we :u"e going to fur
nish our subscribers just as soon
. aswe can fijid the .iocd). The
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sau 1S anu vimy 'nu 1C
has an car t0 cvory jIul
i , m -r .
ic is
mere
with
also very large ana is a
sheU with the mside filled
shjtlled corn.
ha
And now a poultry trust
been formed. The trusts will
finally force us to a diet of corn
bread and sow bossom. Durham
Herald.
IFLi3L Tills Space.
Back of these words are facts. Couldn't afford to mis
representyou wbuld fad us out. We are building for the
future. This is Concord's last" growing store. Tomorrow
will be larger than today, because good tidings travel fast.
This large store can accommodate a great many people.
Neighbor tolls neighbor and the news -of superior values
travel. Makes no difference what you-want goto Parks
and sa've both time and money. This special sale will allow
you to test the strength of this store. Below we give you
a short list of a few specialties added for tomorrow.
17.
The popular dfiuad now ia i'or
-ibbons for eveiy pi;' pose. Tho
v .61- buyer act) quickly.
No. 10 Sat'n Liberty, real value
;55 yd, special 15o
No. 40 Wah fcilic Ribbons lOo
Spool Kibbons, all color, per
yard lo
All colors in No. 5 Teffetta 5e
All colors in Satin back Velvet
Rib bone moderate!- priefcd.
Ileal bnrtrair h
Str;;w SitiLrs.
in children's
2,000 yards of plain
L.twn, Fp.'ciul !ilo price
White
2jc
Colored Lawn, Dimities and
Hatinte, xh w v .dues, 5c, Tie,.
10a, 15c up to 'i.'io
Heady to wear Wi uppers, w e.l
made, pot feet fituiu;, liht mid
dark color.", 8ize ;)2 to 12, at snee-
H ial prices-c0o, 70 i to, 88 eta. VS eta
fi3 and 12C
It will, pay you to onvcHtijruto
our offerinj-'H in black Silk and
black Wool SkiitiuxB.
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TARTLING
One-third of your life is spot
iortaoie. we nave
SILVEE im, SOLID COMFOET, THE VICTOS, THE imill
and last but not least the
Butler Portable Bed Sprir g.
Springs for the Old, Middle Age and Young. The BUT
LEU is semething new under the sun. The agent will bo at
your house and explain. Matrosses to match all ..nd
Prices from a
Common Straw to the Royal he it.
Take Life tasy Equip your beds with a Spring and mat-
ress from the
Bell & Harris Furniture Co's Store
and Dream Sweet Dreams.
33ell cfcj IXcxiris Pur. Oo.
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FOR OVER SIXTY EARS
Lira. Win'jjow'fl Sootnii.' Hvrup hufc
bee: ueed for over fcixh years by rnil
liorn of mothers Iji Uieir children
wi"..e4eethins;. with perfcjet auccee Tt
Boot'atB the child, Boftens the puma,
allays all pain, cures wind colic, end ia
the bcf :t remedy fof Diarrhoea. It will
rietfotho jioor little sufftrer imtiodi
atjly. Sold by druperihts in evty iart
of the world. IVeut:- csct-s a bot
fclr3.. Be nm ttQ'l k ior 'Mr . Vto-
s. own Hot.thinc Hyrup," siJ take cot
loatcd Talcum l'owdr.
Tjo popular favorites ap for
sale at FetzerAs Drug Store.
Colgate's Violet Talcum,- Spieh
ler's Violet Talcum, Fetzer's
Borated Talaum, R & G Poudre
deRiz, all absolutely pure and
harmles. 10 to 25 cents.
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Matchless Values in Emtiroiflerie;
and Laces.
Choico Embroidery np to
inches, special price ,'!jc
llarulnirss and Jrisertinpf. ubu
al price 7j find 8 J vi.tr, in I
price . j.j
Swiss aud Oaruprio Ed-''!-' -,
real value 15c, new patte-us. mt
price UHo
The :S5 and 40 !fuird i-.-- -irn
reduced to, per.un 1 25o
Woo.Uuiry'.i I: i
everywhere, new !
II u tt'r j inT L or ,.
Ofiycerim-, the bctt
Toilet S Np per box of
t. f.-ent- '
kllutt'l "c
BlcochV .8th, bipe nt'( k, ody 5c
' i
JiabU'h' Jjleeeli c L-.,S).k i..)V,
bi values at 25e, b"o im.l 10.1
Liheml showi'ttr f V .;,iit T"i
derwear, -veJl iiji.de, i iucdernto
prices.
81.00 Kil Gl'ov. tvust in
lingers, all colors aud sizes 6'.)c
iEVELATIOH 1
- t in bed Why not be com- 3
in stoeir tne iamous
Kew. York Lifs Insurance Company
OLDEST AND LARGEST COMfANY
IN THJ; WORLD.
Assets
$390,000,000.
(to $1,000, 000, 00 J ofliisor
in farce.
CASH SUKKFNDKR ANT) PAID UV
VAl!UBS AFTKK TWO fEKS.
utely incontest
able from date of issue.
I also handle Old Line Fire, Ac
cideut, Health and Sick Ben;lit
Insurance.
Call on or address
Tiios. J. "White.
Room 415 Wtfct Ljioi &trei.
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