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Volume XYIL
Breathes there the 1TIR.11 wltri aniil on iQml
- - - dv'ma ou ut,au
W ho never to himself hath um
This is my own, my native land 1
u nose neari nam ne'er within him burned,
As home his footsteps he hath turned
From wandering on a foreign strand 1
If such there breathe,. go, mark him well;
For hinno minstrel raptures swell ;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth, as wish can claim,
Despite those titles, nower and ru.lf
Tae wretch, concentrated all in self.
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And uoublv dvinp-. shall m dnwn
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
l,"" l"i uuuuuureu anu unsung.
Sir Walter 8cott.
HUMOROUS.
The negro sexton of St. Peter's church
has a very stylish mulatto wife. Ask
ing for a bigger salary, he gave as a
reason: "It's.mighty hard to keeD a
sealskin wife oh a muskrat salary." ,
A busy minister bethought himself
of a device to remind visitors at his
tudy not to trench unduly upon his
time. He had this Scripture text, in
large plain letters, framed and sus
pended in a conspicuous place: "The
Lord shall preserve thy going out"
A clergyman preached a rather long
sermon from the text, "Thou art weighed
the balance and found wanting."
After the congregation had listened
about an hour, some began to get weary
and went out; others soon followed,
greatly to the annoyance of the minis
ter. Another person started, .where
upon the parson stop"ped in his sermon
and said: "That'ia right, gentlemen;
as fast as you are weighed pass out !"
He continued his sermon sometime
after that, but no one disturbed him by
eavmg.
A Scotch minister was christening a
baby and took occasion to peak on the
possible future of the infant
This child, he said, "may grow to
be the Archbishop of Canterbury. It
may become a great politician and
shine in the house of commons, or even
be prime minister of the realm., -It
may become a great soldier like the
Duke of Wellington, or a sailor like
Lord Nelson. ,This child" then turn
ing to the mother "what did you say
the chuds name was ?" ,
"Mary Jane," replied the mother.
A Baptist minister was asked how it
was that he consented to the marriage
of his daughter to a Presbyterian.
" ell, my dear friend," he replied,
as far as I have been able to -discover,
Cupid never studied theology."
, Victor Hago on Immortality.
I feel in myself the future life. I am
like a forest once cut down; the new
shoots are stronger and livelier than
ever. 1 am nsing, l know, toward tne
sky. The sunshine is on my head. The
earth gives me its generous Bap, but
heaven lights me with the reflections of.
unknown worlds. You say the b ul is
nothing but the resultant of the bodily
powers. Why, then, is my soul more
luminous when my bodily powers begin
to tail? Winter is on my head, but
eternal spring is in my heart. There I
breathe at this hour the fragrance ot
the lilacs, the violets and the roses, as
at-twenty years. The nearer I ap
proach the end, . the plainer I hear
around me the immortal symphonies of
the worlds which invite me. It is mar-
velouB, yet simple. It ib a fairy tale;
and it is hiBtory. For half a century I
have been writing my thoughts i i prose
and in verse; history, philosophy.
drama, romance, tradition, satire, uu
and song I have tried all. .But l Leei
that I have not said tne tnouBanotn
part of what is in me. When I go down
to the grave I can say, like so many
others, "I have nniBhed my day s
work." But I cannot say, "i nave
finished my life." My day'- work will
begin again in the morning. The tomb
is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare.
t closes on the twilight; it opens witn
the dawn.
A Worldly Mension.
Near Whitsett, this State, some of
the colored brethren had a discussion,
in the meeting house, as to whether or
nnt rlA wnrl' tu'r roun'." mere was
nnnDMihlA "eontendin' ' for and
LVUOlUVt wv
gainst, but the testimony of an old col
ored deacon was conclusive. He said:
KiWa n. aich t'nz ez de won
tu'nin' oyer no Bicn i iuk, x
Ef dat wuz de case, wouion t an ue
water in de sea git upside aowm
Answer me dat . now: an, iuu
dermo' could you hoi' yo' balance ez
hit tu'ned over?" . .
Here a Bomewhat learned Drotner
interuptedwith.
MFer de Lawd s base, aeawu,uuu i
you know nuttin' 'but de contraction er
graduation?"
"Ho, sun, l oon n iuuuuho"
decon. "Will you pieaso piam u-r uo
: ii at in tin contraction er
graduation;?" .
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:t0rriir.tfd him. "I did Konw
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pon a time, but ei a
ain't done
fergit!" .
A Shoclilm Tragedy.
tlt v Haves, a. merchant
of
1113 " . , i
TkAmonn residing awu unc uu
mm town, was killed by his son,
n.:n: Snnrinv niffhl aDOUt v u uu
IV line, j --o . ,.
Mr. Hayes was dnnmng, auu ipm
Home soon after supper, coming m the
diction of Thompson. About J
o'clock at night one of his sons, return
ing home, heard a peculiar noij
ine from the woods near the house. He
called his brother, Willie, telling him
to bring the gup with him, which he
did When tbey came near i..
they saw something on the ground,
which they thought to be a dog or some
wild animal, and Willie fired upon it
with the gun. It proved to be their
Sher? and he cried, "Oh, Lord, ,you
have killed me!" An inquest was held
over the body Monday morning, and
?he jury returned the following verdict:
"We, the jury, find that the deceased
came to his ' death from ,a .8not
wound, the gun being in the hands of
son, Willie, and that the evidence
fails to disclose a crime.
at the State Univer-
Bityisnow 461, which is exactlythe
same as in 1858, when it reached what
was its high water mark.
Fame is the perfume of heroic deed?,
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BUSINESS OP THB
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Atlanta Constitution.
wniletbe reading public has been
tolerably informed as to the Bize and
speed of the great ocean liners and
knows by how many feet each would
overtop the Washington monument or
now many city blocks it would fill,
there is one feature of the immensity of
these ships of which very little is known
even by the most experienced travelers.
This concerns the business management
of these vesselB, which in the case of
the largest liners has grown to be an
enterprise of vaBt proportions requiring
the services of hundreds of men.
For example, the operation of the
Oefeanic, tne largest steamer ever built,
which arrived in New York on her
maiden trip last week, involyes a multi
tude of activities and is managed on a
scale-that seems almost incredible to
the landsman. An inkling of their
proportions may be gained from the
fact that it would take a miner twenty
five years of steady work to get out the
coal required to fill the bunkers of the
Oceanic for a single trip, while the food
supplies that she demands for each
voyage would more than support the
miner and his family during the whole
of that time.
To appreciate the vastness of the
business operations connected with the
greatest ocean liner it is necessary to
rid one's mind of the idea that she is 8
ship as our fathers understood that
term. She is not manned by Bailors,
and the seamen form an inconsiderable
number in the make-up of her crew.
Nor is Bhe a floating hotel, as the maga
zine writer is fond of calling her. There
is no hotel that compares with her in
the extent and variety of its activities.
The Oceanic is an ocean city nothing
loss. When Bhe is at sea she has a popu
lation of 2,000 as great as many a
town with county seat aspiration can
claim. A score of different trades and
occupations are practiced on board her.
She Has independent lighting, htating
and refrigerating, plants, machine
shops, a printing office, a carpenter
shop, in short almost all the equipment
of an up to date community, together
with much that is peculiar to herself.
WHAT A SINGLE VOYAGE MEANS.
To all practical purposes each voyage
represents a complete business venture.
All accounts are rendered separately for
each voyage. The crew from the cap
tain down are engaged at the European
port for each round trip. They are
technically discharged at the conclusion
of the voyage and must sign new ar
ticles before they are shipped again.
As soon as the liner ties up at her
pier at the end of oae voyage the prep
arations for the succeeding one begin.
While cargo is being discharged from
one side great barges are pouring coal
into her bunkers from the other. The
Owsamu naa vcuax oairyiug cajmviijr'w
3,700 tons and burns upwards of 2,000
tons on each voyage. It requires the
service of sixty men working steadily
for forty hours to coal her and the
operation costs about fl.iJOU. ine coal
itself costs about five times that amount.
In other words the coal-bill of a veesel
like the Oceanic while she is at sea
amounts to the tidy sum of 1,000 per
day.
While this operation is going on the
snip Undergoes a thorough cleaning
that makes her shine like a new dollar.
Painters, repairers and cleaners swarm
over her. Truckloads of provisions,
amounting in the aggregate to half a
hundred tons, are put on board. Every
piece of her machinery, every plate and
rivet is carefully inspected, and by the
time the cargo is shipped and passeng
ers come aboard a matter of $5,000,
aside from the cost ot coal and provis
ions, has been expended in preparing
her for her yoyage.
THE MEN WHO DO THIS MARVEL.
While the captain is of course the
supreme authority the actual manage
ment is conducted by three separate
departments. The first of these con
cerns itself with the sailing of the vessel,
and is presided over by the chief navi
gator under the directions of the cap
tain himself. The second is the engi-
rlflnartment. This is under the
direction of the chief engineer, with
whom the captain seldom interferes. It
is all important to the welfare and
progress of the ship, but the passengers
see practically nothing of its operations
The third departmeut looks after the
wanta of the passengers and is under
the direction of a chief steward.
The first of these three departments
includes the only men on Bhipboard
who can properly be called sailors
Their duties, however, are not those of
tho traditional Jack Tar. but consiBt
laro-elv of scrubbing decks and operat
ing lifts and machinery. In fact about
the only item of their work that recalls
the old time duties of the sailor is in
the drill for manning the boats, which
they are compelled to go through at
rptrnlar intervals. The men under the
,i;rw;nn of the navigators and their
nun-officers number about 100 in all
fn the engineering department fully
onn th An am emnloved. The officers
include, besides the chief engineer, t
of assistants, hydraulic engineers
refrigerator engineers, water tenders,
Btnrfikeeners and a clerk. Tnere are
sixty-five stokers, divided into three
shifts, whose duty it is to shovel into
the twelve furnaces the 350 tons of coal
ten n ired to keep the Bhip at full speed
A firmer aH twentv-four hours. As
manv more) "trimmers" pass the coal
frnm thfl hunkers to the furnace doors
a tiiirtir-fivA rre.asers look after the
a ova iuaj q
machinery of the engine rooms.
The stokers who perform the most
arduous labor it is possible to conceive
of, are paid $25 per month, while the
trimmers and greasers receive a little
less than this amount. The men are
all employed in European ports, as ltis
rvnratila tn secure them there more
cheaply than in America. Most of
. samlinnvians or Irish, while
bueui io " ,
it ...inuM rule are Scotch and
the Bailors English.
n7u;ia tho Trin rinal activities of the
Y f UUO w J'- J . . , .
K;n'a xnmntnv are comprised withi
those departments presided over by the
chief navigator, the -chief engineer and
v,a f.h,,f steward, there are numberless
A.AAV " r
nmaller enterprises that go on more
or
jinAnAndfintlv. There is
a vast
a. Kfc J "
SZtZm-. in
vast
3"crsiv; .A3Tr: pear not.
Concord, n. c, Thursday, October 12, 1899.
fact, nearly everything is done by ma
chinery on board the modern ocean
mer. The Oceanic carries Borne forty
hydraulic engines. There are engines
to open and close the furnace doors and
to open and close the partitions between
the watertight compartments; an engine
to work the fifty-three ton rudder; -.engines
to work the hawse pipes: hydraulic
lifts to convey food and dishes from
kitchen to pantry. This machinery,
together with the electric light and re
frigerator plants, requires the services
of half a hundred men.
Thus there are some three hundred
men employed in the actual work of
sailing a great ocean monster like the
Oceanic. The remaining two hundred
are required to look after the comfort
of the passengers.
FEEDING THE PASSENGERS.,
The culinary operations of the Oce
anic dwarf those of even the largest
hotels. No less than twenty-four meals
are served on Bhipboard every dav.
here are four each for the first and
second cabin passengers, the engineers,
stewards and sailors. Each of these
seven big families has its own Btaff of
cooks, numbering between thirty and
forty altogether. There are about
seventy dining room stewards waiters
they would be called oa shore and
about the same number of bedroom
stewards or chamberlains.
The yast responsibility for supplying
food to the steamship community rests
principally upon the chief steward.
Every afternoon he retires to his cabiu
and plans out the menus for the follow
ing day a separate one for each of his
numerous families from the elaborate
course dinners of the first cabin folks to
the comparatively simple fare of steerage
and crew.
These menus are then printed by the
ship's printer and distributed to the
chiefs of the various divisions. They
estimate the amount of various food
materials that they will require and
submit theee estimates to the steward for
his approval.
The next step is to make requisition
on the storekeepers for the various
meats, vegetables and other articles
necessary to satisfy the sea appetites of
,000 persons. The extent of this
appetite may be conjectured from the
facti that the Oceanic ships tor each
trip some ten tons of beef, three tonH of
such other meats as mutton and veal,
two tons of chickens and nearly two
tons of ducks, turkeys and such game
birds as may be in season.
The6e are merely the fresh meats
which are stored in one big refrigerating
room down in the depths of the ship.
he vessel carries also two tons of
smoked and dried meats, 2,000 dozen
oysters, with fish, green vegetables and
fruits in proportion. Of groceries and
such commodities as will keen indefi
nitely the provision stores are kept filled.
8n?paH$?um - Wtoiifi?
,000 dozen eggs and 3,000 quarts of
milk and cream. Another item not
to be overlooked is 3,000 quarts of ice
cream.
These figures give a ready basis for
computing the amounts of these various
commodities used each day on ship
board. In addition it may be said that
fifty pounds of coffee and over thirty
pounds of tea are required daily. Four
dozen bottles of Worcestershire are re
quired to last out a voyage with other
condiments in proportion.
Naturally a vast number of dishes
are required, ihere are l.ouu silver
spoons, forks and knives, and 2,500 of
each vanety of plates, cups and saucers
necessary to meet ail requirements.
The broken dishes accumulated on each
voyage fill several casks, and the cost of
these is aBBessed equally on the whole
body of stewards.
ENOUGH LINEN TO STOCK A SHOP.
To wash all these dishes is no light
task. For the most part it is done by
machinery. Big baskets of soile i dishes
are lowered into tanks of boiling water
which cleanses them-thoroughly. Then
thfey are dried by hand. The silver
and finer china is washed by hand, and
this work keeps a force of twenty men
busy.
Of table and other limn the Oceanic
req lires enough to stock a shop to last
out a voyage. There are 1,000 table
cloths, 15,000 napkins and the same
number of towels. Unlike most of its
household operations the ship's laundry
work is done on Bhore at the end of
each trip in a plant maintained by the
company for that purpose.
The cooks are among the best paid
of the ship s laborers. Chief cooks
receive from $50 to $75 per month
according to the skill required of them.
On the other band the stewards receiye
the least of any class, their wages being
only about $15 per month. For the
most substantial part of their income
thev must rely upon the tips of the
passengers.
While none of the snip'B employees
from the captain down receive rates of
pay that are at all munificent, the great
number of men empl yed manes the
salary list amount up to a heavy sum
On the Oceanic about $15,000 per.mon th
is paid in salaries alone.
It will be seen from these figures that
the cost of operating a great ocean liner
is very large, for the vessel that has
been described it is between $40,000
and $50,000 per month. The extreme
earning capacity of the Oceanic is about
$90,000 per month. When the cost
of repairs, insurance and the deteriora
tion in the value of the ship itself are
taken into account the profit remaining
represents only a fair return on the
investment of $4,000,000, which this
latest triumph of the shipbuilder's skill
represents.
tiontbern Supremacy.
Wilmington star.
The State of North
Carolina alone
manufactures more cotton now than
was manufactured in the whole .South
in 1885. The utilization of a motive
power in operating cotton mills, will
still further reduce the cost of produc-
1 1 J 1 4.
tion in the south ana win stimulate
mill building, thus hastening the su
premacy which this section is destined
tn InavA in that industry, and the time
when , the South will be the world's John Thrasher and the confederate vet
notton manufacturing centre, with the erans generally. But George was the.
sceptre wrested from both Old Eng-
jland and New England.
BILL ARPS LETTER.
"Friend after friend departs.
Who has not lost a friend?"
I don't know what word the next
mail will bring, but I expect that mv
old friend is dead. For more than fifty
years George Adair and I have been
friends good friends. He was always
glad to .meet me and held my hand
tight and long, and smiled a pleasant
greeting. Of late years we have drawn
closer together, for we knew that we
were approaching the goal, and that
but few of us were left. The memories
of old men are sweet, but they are sad,
and it was a comfort to George and me
to get close together as oft as I visited
Atlanta and commune about old times
and the old people who have passed
away. He was never gloomy nor did
he ever bring a cloud to darken the
sunshine of our meeting. Where shall
I go now for comfort when I visit the
Gate City? Where will Evan Howell
go?
Yes, I was a college boy when
George Adair was conducting the first
tram that ever ran into Atlanta. I
traveled with him sometimes, and
since then our warm friendshiD has
been unbroken. Hia warm Scotch
blood beat more kindly to his friends
as the years rolled on. He was as
frank as he was genial. He had opin
ions and convictions, and did not sup
press them to curry favor with any
body. His life was an open book, and
everybody who knew him at all knew
him well. A stranger would diagnose
him in half an hour's conversation.
Sincerity was his most striking charac
teristic; Scotchmen are always sincere;
they never dodge responsibility. 1
dou't know whether George carried any
Indian blood or not, but his uncles did.
The Adairs of Cherokee were close akin
to him; and th y were half-breeds or
quadroons, and all weut west with the
tribe in 183(3. Their descendants are
out there now. for. I take an Indian
paper and see their names among the
leaders. It is singular how those
Scotchmen mated with the Indian
maidens early in this century, and
every one of them wanted a chiefs
daughter, and generally got her. When
the old chiefs died these Scotchmen
just stepped into their places and
groomed the tribes, and so did their
sons after them. There was no English
or Irish or French in it; the Scotch
alone had secured the Indians' respect
and confidence. There was Boss and
Ridge and Mcintosh and McGillvray
and Barnard and Vann and many
others who became chiefs or sub-chiefs
and governed all or a division of the
tribe. Osceola was the son of a Scotch
trader. I suspect that George Adair
had a strain of. Cherokee blood in his
veins, and it made a good cross my
wife thinks it does, and is proud to
trace her Indian blood back to Poca-
and Randolphs; wherever you find it it
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dominant; 1 can prove that by my
self and my son-in law '"Woman rules
here is what the rooster says when he
crows in this family, but she rules well.
told Uncle Sam yesterday to clean
out the pit when he got through cut-
tingwood. When I got back from
town it was almost night, and he was
raking all around the back yard and
burning up the accumulated litter and
trash. "Uncle Sam," said I, "I told
you to clean out the pit, for I must
put some of the flowers in there. I'm
afraid it will frost tonight" The old
man raked on and said: "She tole me
to do dis," and he never got to the pit
at all. But my wife came out and ex
plained, and said the back yard looked
so dreadful bad and she knew that the
pit could wait a day or two and it
wasent going to frost no how, and so
forth, ,and- of course I surrendered I
always do. but I've got to clean out
that pit myself.
Yes, I remember when George Adair
and J. Henly Smith started a newspa
per in Atlanta, called The Southern
Confederacy. I wrote for it sometimes
just to give our boys some comfort and
our enemies some sass. When the
foul invader ran my numerous wife
and offspring out of Rome I wrote of
it on the wing, or the fly and told how
we passed "Big John on the way, and
he was driving a Bteer with the steer s
tail drawn through a hole in the dash
board and the end tied up in a . knot
I indited a small poem to his memory,
and gave the mournful elegy to my
friend Smith, and he published it;
Geprge had got all fired up belore this
and joined General .tor rest s cavalry.
He proved to be a great lavonte with
Forrest, and as J,he admiration was
mutual he named his next boy after
the general, and it sticks to him yet.
told George some time ago that in Ap
pleton's biography of Forrest, "which
was said to be written by Colonel Jor
dan, his adjutant general; , it was re
corded that he was very illiterate, and
that hia dispatch announcing the fall
of Fort Pillow was still preserved at
Washington and read as follows :
"We busted the fort at ninerclock
and skatered the niggers. My men is
still a ceHanem in the woods, Them as
was cotched with spoons and brestpins
and sich we kilt The rest wan payrold
and told to git,"
George was indignant when I showed
him a copy of it and declared that it
was some devilish lie that was made up
on him. "I know," said he, "that
Forrest was no scholar, but he never
spelled that had. X have letters from
him that I know he wrote, and while
he misspelled some words, they were
fairly well written. I don't believe that
Colonel Jordan wrote any uch thing
about ForreBt Some of the biograph
ere are just like some newspaper re
porters. If they can't hear a lie they
scratch their heads and make one just
for a sensation
I If George dieB from this stroke, and
t reckon he will, where will 1 go to
while away an hour with a friend. His
Office in the Kimball was so convenient
and his chairs so comfortable and hia.
welcome so cordial that I will feel lost
when I visit Atlanta. The boys wont
have time or inclination to talk to me,
Jt was the rendezvous of other valued
friends like Dr. Alexander and Evan
Howell and J. Henly Smith and Cousin
nk;r oiimxlmn thA rAntflr nf snar.e
He was a friend ia need and a friend j
indeed. He granted his favors with
cheerfulness and a willing heart. Some
times I wanted an indorser on a bank
note for a few dollars and he always said:
"Yes, yes, my friend, of course I will.,'
If I shall ever need one again I will
not know where to go, I have a thou
sand good friends in Atlanta, but they
are not of that kind.
1 was ruminating about the differ
ence between his domestic surround
ings and my own. He dies at home
with wife and all his children at his
bedside. His eyes can look upon them
all, and perhaps his ears can hear their
loving voices.
But my wife and I are living out our
days in sad apprehension of the com
ing stroke, for four of our dear boys
are far away too far to reach us even
at the call by telegraph one in New
York, one in Texas, one in Florida and
the baby boy, as his fond mother calls
him, is 8,000 miles away in Mexico.
This is the hardest part of life-these
scattered children. Suppose that one
of the unmarried ones Bhould approach
the door of death and his earnest tele
gram should be for his mother to come
to his bedside and soothe his last mo
ments, what could she do but stay at
home and weep? Oh, for another life
in another world where all is love with
out affliction or grief or separation.
arewell, good friend, i would that
you might be spared to us yet awhile-
pared to read your own epitaphs and
to realize what a noble life is worth to
man. Would that the rising genera
tions might learn a lesson from your
example. The approach of our disso
lution is very stealthy. When last I
saw my friend he was as bright and
genial as a bov and showed no sign of
failing health. I thought that he would
outlive me, for nowadays I get tired
and when the nie-ht comes I am the
first to seek my bed. Yesterday I was
busy planting out strawberry plants.
and it was bending work and ever and
anon I had to straighten up slowly and
careiuily lor fear something would
break or hitch or give way, and then I
would try it again. I can't hold out
like I used to. What'sthe matter with
me, anyhow? Why should I wear out?
Why shouldent a healthy man live on
aud on? If he has trot to die. whv dont
he die all over at once and turn to dust
like the one-horse shay? Why should
the heart get sick when all the rest is
well? I reckon we will all know by
waiting.
This morning I we&t out early to pe
ruse my new strawberry patch and
sure enough there had been a dozen
dogs in there last night, and they held
a carnival and a circus and played base
and tag and inaddog all over my pret
ty beds, and tore up a lot of my plants,
and now I am not calm and serene,
and my wife wont let me put out
trychnine, for she says it isent fair nor
neighborly and so I have got to stretch
about forty dogs within easy reach of
my house and they are no account
For in this town more dogs are found.
Than ever you did see,
Both mongrel, puppv, whelp and hound.
And dogs of low degree.
Confound 'em doggon 'em.
Bill Arp.
A Dream of John Wesley's.
John Wesley once, in a crisis of the
night found himself, as he thought,
at the gates of hell. He knocked and
asked who were within. "Are there
any Protestants here?" he asked.
Yes, was the anBwer; "a great
many, ' "Any Koman Catholics?
Yes, a great many. "Any Church
of England men?" "Yes, a great
many." "Any Presbyterians?" "Yes,
, great many. "Any Wesleyans? "
'Yes a great many."
Disappointed and discouraged, espe
cially at the last reply, he traced his
steps upwards, and found himself at the
gates of Paradise, and he repeated, the
same questions. "Any Wesleyans
here?" "No," "Any Presbyterians?"
No.
"Any Church of England men?"
"Any Roman Catholics?"
"Whom have you, then here?"
No.
'No.
he asked in astonishment' "We know
nothing here," was the reply, "of any
of the names of which you have men
tioned. The only name of which we
know anything here ia 'Christians.'
We are all Christiana here, and of those
we have great multitude, which no
man can number, of all nations, and
kindreds, and peoples, and tongues."
On the 10th of December, 1897, Rev.
S. A. Donahoe, pastor M. E. Church,
South, Pt. Pleasant, W. Va., contracted
a severe cold which was attended' from
the beginning by violent coughing. He
says : "After resorting to a number of
so-called 'specifics,' usually kept in the
house, to no purpose, I purchased a bot
tle of Chaniberlaih's OoHgh Remedy,
which acted like a charm. I most cheer
fully reccommend it to the public
For sale by M. Lw. Marsh, Druggist.
This Ktlltor Don't Know a. Bargain
When He Sees One.
Greensboro Cor. Charlotte Observer.
I am informed that a libel suit for
$20,000 has been instituted against a
North Carolina daily paper. The suit
was brought by a Republican, who ran
last fall for clerk of the court in one of
our counties. I understood last week
that the plaintiff offered to nol. pros
the suit for $5,000, but the editor of the
paper positively refused to accept a com
promise on that basis.
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THE BUND TO SEE.
Dr.
Peter Btlems Claims to Have Made
a Wonderful Invention.
New York Herald.
Mention was made in cables from
London last week of an invention by
which Dr. Peter Steins, . a Russian
scientist, claims to be able to make the
blind see. According to several of the
English papers to hand yesterday, Dr.
Steins has applied his invention to a
number of blind persons, who have
thereby been able to see light and the
shape of objects around them.
"Understand me clearly," said the
inventor to a correspondent of the
Daily News. "I do not claim and I do
not attempt to 'restore' sight as restora
tion is usually understood. I give
artificial sight, and it makes no differ
ence whether the person was born
without eyes, whether the eyes have
wholly ,.or partially been destroyed
since birth, or how the sight has gone.
My experiments" are not completed. I
have yet much to do, but the results
are all that I have 'anticipated so far.
Greater things will come, but the sight
is already given."
Mr. Stiens' principle is that he
supplies a substitute for the lens of the
eye by the aid of electricity immediate
ly his apparatus is brought into contact
with the body of the individual.
"My apparatus will," he said, "as in
the camera, focus the rays oflight from
the object to the brain, and sight is
given, the objects being clearly seen,
not inverted, but in their proper form.
My apparatus constitutes a substitute
for the lens."
Mr. Stiens asked the reporter whether
he would like to test his apparatus.
Naturally the answer was "Yes," and
this is what followed : The reporter
was taken by the inventor into a small
room, and then blindfolded effectually.
"I could," he writes, "see absolutely
nothing. Matches and candles were
lighted before me, but I could not see
them. Then I was connected with his
apparatus. I felt a slight sensation of
electrical current passing through my
body. Then quickly the darkness
passed away, a dull gray took its place
and was succeeded by a light, clear and
bright. I saw figures held up before
me, and a disc that looked like a coin.
And when I was disconnected from the
apparatus I found I was standing just
where I was when my eyes were
bandaged.
Mr. Stiens had been by my side all the
time, and there was no one else pres
ent Mr. Stiens appeared to be as
delighted as I was surprised at the
result.
"Let it be borne in mind that my
eyesight is perfect. At any rate, I be
lieve so. But my eyes had been com
pletely blind-folded, and all was abso
lute blackness till the connection with
the apparatus took place.
to exam fnefhe "apparatus, , pafents Tor
which have not yet been applied for.
Neither would Mr. Steins explain the
precise character of his invention or the
means employed to achieve such re
sults. 'Here is my invention,' said Mr.
Steins. 'It does not matter what I have
done in the past, and I need not now
describe the electrical inventions of
mine which are now being used largely,
especially in Germany, Russia and
other Continental countries. I say, I
can do what I assert. The thing is,
can I do it or not? 1 make my claim,
and it is for me to giye the proof. You
can judge from what you have seen to
day something of the nature of my as
sertions.
In reply to questions, Mr. Steins said
the complete apparatus would be made
in such form as to make it easy for a
person to carry it about so as to place
this artificially given Bight at the indi
vidual's disposition for the ordinary
practical purposes of life. Spectacles,
he added, would be quite unnecessary.
So long as the receiving part the
brain is there, my apparatus," he
smiling added, "will do the rest. The
rays of light strike my apparatus in
stead of the eyes, and pass thence to
the brain, the real camera. And the
apparatus will be effective carried any
where, so long as it is connected with
the body, the nearer the brain the bet
ter.
Fram Tree to Printed Page.
People whose business takes them to
the stock yards delight in telling how
rapidly a live hog is converted intos
bacon, sausage and tooth brush, but
the most improbable stories they tell do
not equal the exploit of the employees ot
paper mill not far from unicago.
Quite recently three trees standling near
the mill were felled at 7.35 a. m. and
hurried to the manufactory, where they
were sawn into pieces anoui one iooi
long, which were further decorticated
and split. Tbey were then conveyed
by the-elevator to five defibrators to do
their worst with, and the wood pulp
which resulted from the contact of the
chips with the defibrators was run into
a mat, mixed with the not altogether
harmless but necessary chemicals and
the process finished. The liquid pulp
was sent to the paper machine, which
at 9:34 turned out the first com pie tee
sheet of paper, one hour and fifty-nine
minutes after the first tree was felled.
The'manufacturers, accompanied by a
notary public, who timed anr? watched
the work throughout, then took the
paper to a printing establishment two
miles away, and by 10 o'clock, or in
two hours and twenty-five minutes,' the
trees bad been converted into news
papers ready for delivery.
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Servant girls are so scarce in Chicago
that employment agencies are ransack
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it some touts spent as mucn time in
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tilings about them, they would make a
better business of life.
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