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THE CONCORD WEEKLY TIMES THE TIMES STEAM BOOK AND JOB OFFICE TIMES Paper in This Section. We keen on hand a fall stock of LETTER HEADS, NOTE HEADS, STATE MENTS, BILL HEADS, ENVEL OPES, TAGS, VISITING CARDS, WED DING INVITATIONS, ETC, ETC. GOOD PRINTING ALWAYS PAYS LARGE AND ESTABLISHED CIRCULATION. ' ESTABLISHED IN 1875. John B. Sherrill, Editor and Owner. lB!E2 JUST -AJLTID E-A-IS NOT." $1.00 a Year, in Advance. II you hn'vc anything to sell, let t lie people know it. Volume XYII. Concord, n. C, Thursday, October 19, 1899. Number 16. TF CONCORD "Strike For Your Attars and Your Fires, Patriotism is always com mcmlible, but in every breast there should be not only the desire to be a good citizen, tut to be strong, able bodied anti'vett fitted for the battle of life. To do this, pure blood is absolutely neces sary and Hood s Sarsapa rllld is the one specific ivhich cleanses the blood thorough ly. It acts equally wetl for both sexes and all ages. H umor " When I need a blood puri fier I Uke Hood' s Sa.rsa.parHLi. & cured mv humor nd is excellent as a- nerve tmic." losie EAlon, Stafford Springs. Ct. Hood's I'Uls cure ltTfr !!! the noii-lrrlftlng and oulv fathartte to take with Hood' SarparUla. HI KICK HIM AGAIN. Kick him again, He's down! "TIb true he has confessed his sin, Crying, "Unclean, unclean." 'Tls true he did not hide behind Extenuation's screen. 'Tis true his punishment has been - The torture of hell here The loss of all that goes to make Existence on earth dear, But what of that i He's down! And, being down, of course should le Bereft of hope and friends. Shall penitence and punishment In this world make amends For having shocked our righteous souls With revelations grim Of such depravity as dwells, Of course, alone in him We who are pure Must frown Upon the sinner who allows ills sin to find him out, For such examples weaken faith In all of ns, no doubt. "Be sure your sin will find you out," The ancients used to say : "Be sure your sin don't find you out," The motto Is to-day. Don't let him up when down, There are not stones enough for all The sinless ones to cast, But we can show our holy zeal And use them while they last, What rteht has he, a king dethroned, To seek again his crown Through brave endeavor, toil and tears ? Kick him again, he's down !. BILL. MIPS LETTER. "How small the part of what we all endure is umi wnicn Kings or law a can cause or cure." We made much ado over the money question, the tariff, the trusts, the com bination of capital against labor and the greed and corruption of politicians. but after all our felicity depends upon ourselves and what we choose to make of our domestic life. Compared with happiness at home all other joys are trifles, transitory pleasures that come and go and leave us at last to take re fuge in the domestic circle. A hundred years ago the poet wrote: "If solid happiness we prize ! Within our breast this jewel lies, . Krom outown selves our Jovs must come And that endearing place our home." How sadly home to the 1. t 1 lueuioeivea mj 8AL.R OP STAMPS. anvthine vou invent or improve ; also get CAVEAT.TRADE-MARK. COPYRIGHTor DESIGN PROTECTION. Bend model, sketch, or photo. , for free examination and advice. nnnir ny DATtiiTQ wo aim UUUn Uil M l lll w iee oeioro patent. , C.A.SUOV&CO. PaWnt Lawyers. WASHINGTON', D.C. Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmiuiiniiiimrimuiiw RHEUMACIDE Is rapidly taking the place of all other known remelies as a rheumatic cure, laxative, tonic and blood purifier. The reason is plain, for it ...CURES... There is no better time to treat rheumatism than during the fall months. Cure yourself before the rigors of winter are felt. RHEUMACIDB costs but (I per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Secure It and cure ., ' your RHEUMATISM 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 111 I I I III 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I I II 1 1 1 1 I I 1 1 1 1 ins are subject to peculiar ill. The right remedy for babies' Ills especially worms and stomach disorders is F rev's Vermifuge has cured children for GO years. Send fur Hlus. book about tne 111a ana un remedy. om botti uM JS . 1 A 8. i'UEI, Baltimore, ma. THE Concord National Bank. with the latest approved form of books, ami every facility for handling accounts, OITEBS A FIRST CLASS SERVICE TO THE PUBLIC. Capital, . ' -Profit, -Individual responsibility ft Shareholders, S50.000 22,(0 50 ,oob Uncle Sam printed just a few postage stamps during the year 1898. The number of two-cent stamps issued dur ing the year was about 2,500,000.000. Such a number, obviously, is beyond the grasp jaf the human mind, but per- .1 . naps me matter may be made mote clear by putting it otherwise. An ordinary two-cent stamp is exact ly one inch long. From this fact, by a little calculation, it is easy to discover that the number of stamps of this de nomination issued in 1808, placed end to end, would exceed a distance con siderably exceeding 39,000 miles. In other words, they would make a con tinuous strip of stamps, each one adorned with the head of the "Father of His Country," stretching in a belt more than once and a half around the equator. Of course, though the two-cent stamps are those principally used, there are others. Enough one-cent postage stamps were issued during the year 1898 to stretch from New York City, by way of Europe and Asia, to Bombay, India, if similarly arranged in one strip. All other stamps, as to production and sales, are of minor importance, com paratively speaking, but it is interest ing to know that almost exactly one mile of 1 1 stamps were manufactured for the demand of 1898. Of $5 stamps the production was equivalent to a little more than halt a furlong, or about one- fifteenth of a mile. Now, if all the postage stamps printed by the United States Government in 1898 were placed one on top of another, as neatly as might be, without putting them under pressure, how high do you suppose the pile of them would be ? There is no use guessing; you would never get it nearly right, unless you went to work to calculate it for "your self. The 3,500,000,000 stamps of all denominations printed during the cur rent year the statement, of course, is approximate would tower to an eleva tion of twentv-one miles. This is more than three times the height of the highest mountain in the world Mount Everest, in the Himalayas. If the same number of stamps were piled up in the form of the ordinary sheets of 100 in each, it follows that the stack would be over a fifth of a mile high. It appears from figures furnished by the Post Office Department that the average person in Massachusetts, in cluding men and women and children, spends $2 SO on postage stamps per an num. New York comes second, with an expenditure of $2.27; the District of Columbia third, with 2.16; Colorado is fourth, with $1.93; and Connecticut is fifth, with $1.80. The States ranking lowest in this regard are South Carolina, with 25 cents per capita; Mississippi, with 34 cents; Alabama, with 35 cento; Arkansas, with 37 cents, and North Carolina, with 41 centsu sweet is the dream of boys who have exiled a foreign land to the laughters who have followed their hus bands far away to the soldiers who lie in the trenches in the distant islands of the sea, and to the wretched con victs who toil in the mines tor lite or for a term of miserable years. I was ruminating about how much we complaining mortals have to be thankful for in this goodly land. It is well for us all to sometimes take an invoice of what we have got that neither kings nor laws can take from us. The masses of our people have homes humble homes, comfortable homes where, as William Pitt said, "The Doorest man mar bid defiance to the crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake, the wind may blow through it and the rain leak in. but the king of England cannot enter nor his forces dare to cross the threshold." The masses of our people have good health, which is the chiefest of all the poor man's blessings. In this goodly south em land we have pure air, good water, a temperate climate and a soil that re- at Keep a good, clean dog, but don't let him lie by the fire. If you can't hire a servant, then do you or the boys make the fires and milk the cow. Wo man has enough to do in nursing the little children and making their clothes and caring for them all the day and sometimes half the night. My con tempt for a man who does not help his wife has no bounds. ? The catechism asks what is the chief end of man? And the answer is, "To glorify God and eniov him forever." That is good theory, but the fact is that a man s chief business is to raise chil dren and to enjoy them. The world is working for children and our greatest pleasure and our greatest grief comes from them. What does politics or fame or money weigh compared with the death or the dishonor of a child. How does the great world shrink when af fliction invades the family circle. Th welfare of our children is the all-absorW-ing business of our life. The desire to see them well and happy in childhood and later on to be well mated and mar ried and prospering in business and ornaments to the church and the com munity is the ideal hope of parents. "To glorify God and to enjoy him for- rn a measure postponed for anotherworld. We trust the Lord and prav to Him. but our most constant devotion and anxiety is for our child ren. But why this moralizing. The poets have long since sang the sweet song of filial and paternal love. Even David sang of the rich reward to the righteous man when his children grew up like olive plants around his table. Our little orphan snrl came home yesterday as proud as her Uncle Tom will be when he receives his thousand- dollar sword, for she is on the second honor roll at school and her picture will get into the papers some of these days. Another grandchild got the sec- sponds easily and surely to the laborer's d "h . another Rrade and the ton. Adam nmuu sniu iu ma wort nn the wealth Of nations that a kind Providence had so ordained that the average labor of one man would suDDort eieht persons and give tViAtn all of thn necessaries, many of the comforts and some of the luxuries of life. How nicely this tits the aver age familva man and his wife and six childreri. It there are more chil dren the older ones are able to help, and as the man grows old and feeble the younger children have grown up to take his nlace. Of course, there are exceptions, for the wife may be an in valid or the children all girls or the furm horse eet sick and die, or the hogs take cholera or the house burn up, but most all of our ills are the result of in dolence, imprudence or criminal con duct If we violate a law of nature we are sure to suffer for it. II we spend more than we make and get in debt we chain ourselves to a hard master, for, as Solomon said, "the borrower is is a servant to the lender." Frugal habits and contentment at home are cardinal virtues that insure happiness. Then there are the pleasures that affect the Kourt and t.hft emotions, the iovs of and bein? loved, the innocent sports of children or grandchildren, as thev Dlav around us; the sweet charm of music, even though it be a mother's aontr as she soothes her child to sieep From my window I see beautiful flow ers looking up to heaven of bending gracefully to the God who made them. v Flowers that weep without a woe, And blush without a crime." a A u rn lVc irollia Are fad- A .u tuC ..u "3 magaz nes and newspapers. In our ing into beauty and the forest trees are I J i i i . il . -i r i i r ia w nui u ' o taKingOn Uieirvaiicgnreuwiwo. " .1 wo di.l not ia WoHat than the autumn robes oi parents and we grand-parents are as proud as the children. We had no marks or honors when we went to school, except to get head in the Friday evening spelling class, when the whole school stood up in a semi-circle and contended for the highest place. My sweetheart generally held the fort ami if I could climb to her side and hold her hand in mine it was enough for me. But, ah ! the beautiful , books the children have now and the beautiful pictures. How we would have won dered and admired if we had had, a small portion of them. The old blue- back spelling book had hve,l thiivr, and I see the rude boy up in the apple tree now stealing apples. And we had an English reader and I remember the picture of the two farmers quarrelling "v 1 1 i l T over a cow. une naa ner oy me norus and the other by the tail and tbey were both pulling with all their might, while a lawyer was sitting on a stool milking her. How does that ht lawyers and alawcasenowr e nau a grammar and an arithmetic and I notice that three times three still make nine and the multiplication table is the same, but I don t see the rule ol three nor "tare and tret" that we used to whisper i i 11 i was enough to maKe tne aevu sweai. Our geography was a book and an atlas separate, but there were no pictures. But there is more in the boy or the girl than in the books, and either can get an education if they try to. l he best part of our education comes after we auit school and settle down to the business of life. It comes from read ing good books history, biography, WHAT NEUKOES COST, The White Man's Burden That la Borne by the South. Columbia State. The great objection urged against the proposal to deport the negroes is the cost. Undoubtedly it would take a very large sum of money, but it should be remembered that the negro costs a good deal to keep him here. The Richmond Dispatch has investigated the matter in Virginia and makes this statement: A gentleman at the capital yesterday after spending some time co isulting official figures reached the conclusion that the negroes of Virginia cost the 8tate every year about $500,000. This means that the negroes portion of criraininal expenses, the cost of keeping upJiis schools, and of taking care of the colored insane of the State aggregate a sum a half million dollars in excess of the amount of taxes paid by the race into the State treasury. - In this connection figures obtained from Colonel Moreton Mayre, auditor of public accounts, by -Mr. Frank P. Brent, secretary of the state Board of Education, for Dr. J. L. M. Curry, gen eral agent of the Peabody fund, are of timely interest. These figures show that the value of iarni lands and build ings owned by whites in the counties is $155,952,260. That owned by blackB is only $5,866,949 The value of city and town lots owned by whites in Virginia is $141,- 397,191; owned by colored, $5,554,967. The value of personal property owned by whites in Virginia is $96,428,625; owned bv colored $3,617,389. Total value of realty and personalty owned by whites of Virginia, $.593,778, 067; by colored, $15,030,305. From a statement prepared by the auditor in 1891, and on file at the capi tol, it is learned that i-i that year the negroes of the State paid $103,565.54 in taxbs. The same year the cost of apprehending, trying and convicting ueero criminals was $204,000. This great sura does not include the appro- priatson to negro schools, nor the $80,- 000 spent in caring for the colored in sane. These figures are believed to be propoitionately correct to-day. It was qfhcially stated that the negro race every year receives from the state treasury at least a half million dollars more than it pays in. The last census reports place the white population of Virginia at 1,02Q, Jflacing VSE OF GOAT'S L.YMPII. Startling Keen Its Predicted tor a Mew Discovery. New York Evening Telegram. "T rocrard it an tViP diwovAv of the v nineteenth century and I predict that before very long it will be used in every hospital in New York." The aboye remark was made by Dr. R. W. Steger in an interview concerning the goat's lymph compound of Dr. Roberts, of Chicago, and the case of insanity it recently cured. Dr. Steger is one of two physicians in Ureater JNew xoric wuo nave oeen using the lymph in their regular prac tice. He has just been elected presi dent of the Roberts Medical Society, an organization named for the discoverer of the lymph. The society has arranged for the publication of a medical journal for the extension of the Roberts treat ment throughout the country. Dr. Frederick Holden of Brooklyn, who has been associated with Dr. Steger in the use of the lymph, has been elected secretary and Dr. Joseph R. Hawley, director of the institute in Chicago, that has perfected Dr. Roberts' lymph, has been appointed editor. The lymph is drawn from the lymph atic glandB, spleen and other organs of goats, and is injected beneath the skin of patients. Dr. Steger declares that if put into general ute it would undoubt edly cure at least- 40 per cent, of the cases of v Banity in the country. "I have been using the lymph for two months," said Dr. Steger, ''and the results I have obtained from it are simply remarkable. In fact, I hesitate to speak of many of the cures that have come under mv observation for fear that other physicians, will think I am exaggerating. The lymph, in the brst place, is designed to efftct cures in cases of chronic rheumatism, locomotor ataxia and premature old age. . "Itis designed to build up men who have lived too fast and have become old before their time. Introduced into the system the lymph invigorates the exhausted cells and restores and in creases power and strength. The lymph has even been known to cure consump tion in the early Btagea, although I have had no cases of this sort, and cannot testify as to that "The idea is that the lymph builds up the system by restoring the diseased tissue. The cells that are kept in a healthy state coming in contact with FIUHT1NQ THE INEVITABLE. l -s-r ' iitu i,iiir,Mi mi. rttr I im.i-.iiiv i . ..... rr"' It; V Ji Z -cells that have deteriorated builds up 111(3 UUOfc Ul HI- ULUttLV ouutd nuait I . , , T . . 1 . .1 pays into the treasury at $500,000, each negro in the btate is a dead loss of oo cents every year, while the proportion ate share of the expense falling upon the whites is 50 cents a year in round numbers. ! Virginia has almost twice as many whites as blacks, but in other Southern States the blacks far outnum ber the whites, and the burden on the latter is therefore so much the heavier. The population in Alabama in 1890 was 833,718 whites, 679,299 colored; in Georgia, 987,537 whites, 858,996 colored ; Louisiana, 558i345 whites, 560,192 colored; North Carolina.1,055,- 332 whiten, 262,565 colored; South the latter. Probably the most impor tant case I have had and the one that would occasion most surprise was one of locomotor ataxia. The patient had not been able to walk for two years. Control of all the muscles of the body had been lost. "I used the lymph for several weeks and there was a marked improvement. I continued its use, and the last I knew of the case the patient walked to my office. I have had 15 cases of locomotor ataxia, and every one has shown marked improvement. The lymph will cure many chronic diseases ordinarily con sidered incurable. The difficulty with rf-i a i rvr i i PDA 1 4 1 oaronoa, oz,uu0 wnue ooa the lymph8 that have been experimented ored; Mississippi, 544,851 whitea and V1"! . . ... f. n 744.749 colored. In Virginia the ne Keep Your Account with Us. Iiit.'t-Hst pahl as aareed. Liberal accomm ilntion to all our customers. . .T M ODF.LL. President, j D. li. COLTKANB, Cashier. BREATFM ' I have bcoa nstaur CAMAarrs naa mm s mild and effective laxative tner s re simply won derfol. Mr daughter and I were bothered wtu nek stomach and our beM TeI "Sl.SiJfl taking a few doses olfSascarets we have ImproTfS uDUerfully. Tbey are a (treat help in the family. WILHEUUMA NAOIU 1131 Bittennoose St., Cincinnati, Ohio. It L JJ CATHARTIC y Commercial Wit. Four traveling men sat on the side walk in front of the Windson the other mVht tellintr stories. The man who smoked Btogies hd just finished a som nambulist tale. Reminds me of what the pickpocket said to his fellow prisoner," commented the man with the nasal blossom. What was that?" "I am here, gentlemen," he said, "as the result of a moment of abstraction." The pun fell with a dull, sickening thud. But the man who smoked stogies came lo the front again. "Like tne incendiary, eh7 mere is anme similarity. He was there because of his habit of making light of things the chestnut and maple and sweetgum and the intermingled green of the pines? Why not cultivate a taste for all these outside ornaments of nature, for they are not only beautiful, but the cnntemDlation of them is refining. A beautiful flower is a miracle; no human hand could fashion it and"Solomon in all his elorv was not clothed like one of these." The blessings of nature are gratuities. They cost nothing the trow, the flowers, the grass, the sun shine and the rain, the songs of birds anA lb reverential sound of distant thunder that comes, as the poet says from heaven's own organ. iri an the invoice misrht go on. Of a srood citizen will take an in terest in the laws that govern him, but he should not forget the blessings that laws cannot take away, nor should he fret himself because of evildoers. A traveled friend, on his return from Europe told me that as he jour we did not have it, but now the young people read anything and everything. If evil communications corrupt good manners, as St. raul said, then a per son's character is affected by the books he" reads. Reading all aorta of novels is as much a dissipation as gambling and I wish there was a commission in every State to decide what books were best for minors to read, lhere is a smart servant girl in my family and she is reading "Trilby" on the sly ne groes will do everv devilish thing they see the white folks do. 1 reckon that is the monkey that is in them. Bill Arp. of Money for Southern farmers. Baltimore Sun. The effect of the recent advance cotton and of the good grain crops the South will be, according to the Manufacturers' Record's estimate, to out "at least $75,000,000, possibly $100,000,000," into the pockets of the Southern Deonle over and above what neyed through Germany he saw many tfaey received for the Pame crop8 la8t j with and and many a woman ju " year. Last year Western tanners got 8enj him away. srroes are more than one-third or tne population; m Alabama the proportion is slightly! larger; in Georgia the colored population is almost one-half; in .Lou isiana it is more than half; in North Carolina it is oiae-third; in South Caro Una it is more than three-fifths, and in Mississippi it is nearly two-thirds. Virginia's white man s burden is comparatively light, and if the expense in the other States is no less proportion tionate to the ratio of population, it is not hard to see what a financial load the darkey is. The whites who are an nually paying 50 cents apiece to sup port the negroes now would doubtless be willing to contribute a good deal more than that to get rid of the black brother. ' Deportation is termed im practical; perhaps so, but were the con ditions removed, it would likewise be thought impractical for a population of superior intelligence and refinement to support a much larger population of in feriors who are practically pensioners, In Virgiuia according to the figures pre sented, the criminal class of negroes alone costs twice as much as the taxes paid by the whole race, and the amount spent for schools and asylums must to have been half a dozen times as much The pity of it is that the criminals and lunatics are not decreasing and educa tion seems to have but little effect Yet we pav dearly for keeping the ne- Bome are not willing to with heretofore is that they been made from dead tissue. That was the trouble with Dr Brown Sequard's Elixir of Life. Dr. Roberts' lymph is made from living tissue. It is well known tnat Diooa rnnsrles removed from living ' tissue can be kept animate and can be trans ferred to other tissue. In his experi ments Dr. Roberts kept the cells of the lymph alive for months after taking them from the animal. "The lymph is taken from the goat while it ia yet alive. Goats are used because they are the healthiest of ail animals and the main point ia to secure the very healthiest cells "Goats are especially bred tor tne purpose and are very carefully raised When they are about hve or six months old they are chlorof rmed and the glands are removed. Then this lymph is made according to the formula Known to Dr. Roberts, Atlanta Journal. The white people of North Carolina are so nearly unanimous in support of the proposed suffrage Amendment to the constitution of that state that it is rather surprising to see ex-Congressman Pearson, of the Asheville district, come out in a f uri jus atiack upon it. Mr. Pearson says that when North Carolina was readmitted to the Union it was upon "the fundemental condi tion that her constitution should never be changed so as to deprive any citizen or class of citizens of the right to vote conferred by the constitution." This is a ridiculous statement. It is a silly begging of the question. Of course no state law or constitution which in its restrictions of the suffrage conflicts with the constitution of the United States can stand. But it ia also true that the federal constitution permits a Btate to fix any qualification for the suffrage which do not disfranchise per sons on account of race, color or previ ous condition of servitude. Massachusetts requires that persons who would vote must be able to read and write. For many years in Rhode Island the possession of about $150 in real estate was a prerequisite to the right to vote In Connecticut now no person can vote who is not able to read the consti tution of the state in English. The proposed amendment to the con stitution of North Carolina hxea an alternative educational or property qualification to the right of suffrage. It excludes whites as well as blacks who cannot comply with its conditions. There seems to be nothing in it which contravenes any provision of foe United States or any amendment thereto. The North Carolina amendment is directly in line with the suffrage provision ,of the new constitutions of Mississippi, Louisiana and South Carolina. It is not denied that the aim and intent of the amendment is to disfranchise the bulk of the negro vote, but it will be disfranchised, not because it is a negro vote, but because it is atl ignorant vote. Every state has an unquestionable right to protect itself from a vote wnicn it i fair to presume is incapable of appre ciating the responsibilities of the suffrage, The intelligence and virtue of a com munity will rule. Following the dictates of self-preservation the white people of the south have often resorted to expe dients which may not be commendable in tbeorv. but which the superior race anywhere would resort to if it became necessary to place and noia tne govern ment in its hands. The disfranchisement of a vote that would prove fatal to the welfare of a community had better be accomplished by legal than by lawless methods. It is the realization of this fact mat has driven the three southern states, which have negro majorities, to adopt constitutions which will exclude tne greater part of the negro vote. North Carolina has not a negro majority, but its intelligent and property-holding citi zens have determined to impose a- suf frage qualification which will ehraiihate the worst and most mischievous element in the state from participating in its government. This can be done leeaiiy, ana ex-Mjn- gressman Pearson will haye to stand it. NO TRYING I can't take plain cod-liver' oil. Doctor says, try it He might as well tell me to melti lard or butter and try to take 1 them. It is too rich and! will upset the stomach. Butt you can take milk or cream, so you can take Scott's Emulsion: It is like cream ; but will i feed and nourish when cream ' will not Babies and chil dren will thrive and growi fat on it when their ordinary' food does not nourish them. , Persons have been known to gain 1 a pound a day when taking an I ounce of Scott's Emulsion. It gets 1 the digestive machinery in working ' order so that the ordinary food is; properly digested and assimilated. Soc. and tx.oo, all druggists. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. D. O. CALDWELL, M. D. M. L. BTBVICNH, M . t DRS. GALDWELL & STEVENS Office in former Postofflee Building on Main Street. Telephone No. 37. DR. H. C. HERRING. DentistT Is again at his old place over Torke's Jewelry , Store, CONCORD, N. C. Dr. W. C. Houston. Surgeon 55m Den'list' CONCORD, N. C. Is prepared to do all kinds of dental work in the most approved manner. Olllee over Johnson's Drug Store. L. T. HARTSELL, Attorney-at-Law, CONCORD, NORTH CAKOLINA. Prompt attention Riven to all business. Office In Morris buildluir, opposite the court house. W. H. LILLY, ML D. 8. L. MONTOOUKBV, If. D k w St wmnn offer their professional services to the citi zens of Concord and vicinity. All calif promptly attended day or night. Office and residence on East Depot street, opposite Presbyterian church. j W. I. MONTGOMERY. 1. LEKOBOWEL Good, Nerer Blcken. Weaken, or Gripe. Me. ttc. 60c. ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... SfrtiM Umj tifT, Cfcleac. mtrntmi, Tut. 1 n, Dyspepsia cow or a steer pulling a piow inrougn the toueh soil, and hundreds of women market half bent burden of wicker baskets piled up with oaii wood or vegetables. The white Qr,a Knrfifin is nothing compared The blossomy man refused to be silent .., tQ wnite woman's burden among the peasantry ol tnat country, vcij young man owes military service to th trovernment and is obliged to go - - . Ttnt did vou near aoout tneiorgert Hft was there on Recount of a simple desire to make a name for himself." the! when his time comes, dui nere every man is a king or a sovereign and can go or not, as he pleases. The truth is that our common people are the most :jn,lT,l. mmmon neonle in the IUUC"wvu- A Cure Digests what you eat. Itartlficlally digests the food and aids Nature In strengthening and recon structing the exhausted digestive or tf'ins. It is the latest discovered dlgeet ant and tonic. No other preparation can approach It In efficiency. It in stantly relieves and permanently cures 'yspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn, flatulence, Sour Stomach. Nausea, Sick IIeadache,Ga8tralgia,Cramp8,and Hi 1 other results of Imperfect digestion. Prepared by E. C. De Witt A Co.. Chicago. J. P. GIBSON. A New Story. It chanced that the Miser and ... . 1 - A lU va SrndthntttooK snip io . A n wht to be erateful to God Kn vovaere me oueuuiunm o- ; table. ... .nil rn :U V. millinnairfiS who have kSTJ ! m? 1001167 mo7e care'and anxiety than we have; ntlyJorm arose and the ship whose childrenj .row up in ped whose tendered, and they were all cast into days are consu l -f the water, and tne Miser, navm mo gold in a belt around his waist, sank to the bottom. , . "A fool and his money, ODeervwi the Spendthrift, sadly, for he was a gen erous bouI, "don't always part ! .5 I t'MUK WUtUi All HSf (IIS. Heat CouKb Hyrup. Tte Good. Ue In i ... . u . . i k. rfmirirltrtjL The PmiS r op"m Washington Star. their riches, whose nights are restless with dreams of gold, and whose health and appetite require constant nursing. The law of compensation is as fixed as fate and itis entirely possible in this ion nf libertv for .a poor man to be a v,onnr nn n. rich one. But we must all work and be diligent in business. It -. Kottnr liia cnnrli- , n Anarv mull H II II L V .7Vj v. . - ia ' J " , i-i Pi must iuac uw good prices for their grain and meat, while Southern farmers had to lace a fall of the price of their cotton. This vear both the West and South will be "in clover." ' OL course $75,000,000 will make a laree difference in the DroBDeritv of Dixie. The mining, man ufacturing and railroad interests of that section have ereatly improved in re cent years, with incidental benefit to the agricultural interests. It is highly gratifying to know that the latter inter est is now to benent airectiy Dy tne en hancement of the price of its product- Robbed the Grave. A startling incident is narrated by John Oliver, of Philadelphia, as follows : "I was in an awful condition. My skui was almost yellow, eyes sunken, tongue coated, pain continually in back and sides, no appetite, growing weaker day by day. Three physicians had given me up. Then I was advised to . use TSlw.trifi Bitters: to my great joy, the first bottle made a decided improvement I continued their use for three weeks, and am now a well man. I know they robbed the grave of another victim. No oneshould fail to try them. Only 60c.. guaranteed, at Fetzer's drug store, Lincoln's Proverbs. New York Times. An autograph letter which I should like to own was shown me a few days ago. "A. Lincoln" was boldly signed at the end of it, and this wisdom was there paragraphed in this wise: "Do not worry. "Eat three square meals a day. "Say your prayers, "Think of your wife. "Be courteous to your creditors. "Keep your digestion good. "Steer clear of biliousness, "Exercise. "Go slow and easy. "Maybe there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but, my friend, these, l reckon, will give you a good lilt. Blsmark'e Iron Nerve Was the result of his splendid health Indomitable will and tremendous energy are not found where Stomach, Liver, Kidnevs and Bowels are out of order. If you want tnese qualities ana me suc cess they bring, use Dr. King's New Life Pills, Only 25 cents at If etzer's drug store. Diversified Crops. News and Observer. The Smithfield Herald says that the farmers of Johnson county, North Caro lina, are more prosperous than in sev eral years. 'Diversification of crops has brought thu about in Johnson county," adds the Herald. It is be coming clearer every year that the only hope of better times on the farm lies in diversifying the crops. The day of all cotton or all tobacco has ended with wide awake farmers. They are plant ing for big crops of hog and hominy, and mean to live at home and board at the same place. That's the road that leads to better conditions. Plant hog and hominy, sow peas and grow cab bages, raise chickens and turkeys and sell eggs add theie and other like thines to cotton and tobacco and the Some Big Things from Kansas. Some big things raised in Kansas this vear: The biggest corn crop ever raised on an equal area of the world 8 Burface in all time. Cornstalks from 15 to 17 feet high in thousands of fields. Cornstalks with more ears on them than were ever grown in any land. An ear of corn raised by J. L. Holmes, of Atchison county, containing twenty eight rows, or over 1300 grains. An ear of corn raised by D. B. Boyer, Brown county, weighing two pounds. A pumpkin raised by W. D. Nay lor, of Doniphan county, weighing 81 J pounds. A watermelon raised near Clinton weighing 104 pounds. A 6qu sh raised by Thomas Taylor, of Smith county, 3 feet feet long and weighing 35 pounds. A radish raised in Doniphan county weighing 5J pounds. Tomatoes in McFherson county weighing over a pound and measuring 5 inches. A pea vine raised by Doctor A. G. Lewis, of Girard, .8 feet long. MONTGOMERY & CROW ELL, Attorneys and Connselors-at-Law, CONOOKD, N, O. As partners, will practice law In Cabarrus, Stanly and adjoining counties, in the Supe rior and Supreme Courts of the State and in the Federal Courts. Olliee on Depot street. Parties desiring to lend money can leave it with us or place It In Concord National Hank for us, and we will lend it on jrood real es tate security free of charge to the doposltor. We make thorough examination of title to lands offered as security for loans. Mortgages foreclosed, without expense to owners of same. MOHRISON H. CALDWELL. U. B. BTIfKLKV CALDWELL & STICKLEY, Attorneys at Law. CONCORD, N. C. Office, ntxt door to Morris House. Telephone, 73a. editions in the west mere i,,mw. are comoelled to .Antmnii in the west mere uw, practically the same statement as to the th Pnmiliat Darty. In Kansas it has all but disappeared. The divis : . k. am train under the name of o old narties. In Idaho, Wyom- ing, c aA Hancrhtrs are compeneu w WHO o . . . i . j live there and they like comforts and ornaments. It is the nature of woman. The roof should not leak nor the wind in at a broken window pane. The 1 j .AnnU shut easily and the front the two Dakotas. even m wasning- oll itg If you can't buy a carpet, you can make one of bagging that will be a comfort m winter. Beg a few rose bushes and vines from your neighbors and plant them. Bring some goldenrod from the fields and place it somewhere to look and the Demo- . ka KAmiriiirxa cratic seceders have in large numbers ..nH thAir old associations, uniy in Nebraska, are the Populists now flrrl thorn itirv uuuo the Democrats, and are at head oi opposition to the Republicans. the A Political Pointer. "Henry." she said to her troubled husband, "you know I have joined that new Progressive Club' and I mean to take some intelligent part in its discus sions. What do you think would be the quickest and surest way of purify ing politics in Michigan and the entire country 7 "My dear, I should most certainly urge the propriety of a second deluge." Courage without conscience is ' little better than cowardice. : Between Two Fires. Aunt Clara Why, Nellie, what's the matter? ( You look worried. Nellie Oh, auntie, I don't know what to do. Jack says he 11 take, to drink if I don't marry him aDd Tom says he'll stop drinking if I become his wife. On the 10th of December, 1897, Rev. S. A. Dbnahoe, pastor M. Ji. Unurch, South, Pt. Pleasant, W. Va., contracted . - 1-1 il 3 .3 9 a severe coki wiiii.ii w ivi aimuucu uum the beiiining 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 Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, which acted like a charm. I most cheer fully reccommend it to the public." For sale by M. L. 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Lawyer: "You say you made an ex amination of the premises, what did youhnd?" Witness: "UQ, noining oi tuueo- quence; a beggarly account oi euipy boxes, as Shakespeare says. .v Lawyer: "Never mind what BnaKe Bpeare Bays. He will ne Eummoneu can testify for himseii u ne now uj thing about the case.' U- ; -' The Keon Why. . , , Youe man Is it : true, doctor, that smoking cigarettes tends to . ften the brain 7 V v; Phvsician There j' a belief to that . . . ertect, but with all our boasted modern scientific appliances, it can neyer be verified. Young Man Why not, doctor ? Pysician Because nobody with brains ever smokes them. Rather Kmbarraeetng. Beth (whose elder sisters have just returned from abroad, at her devotions) : Please let papa and mamma live al ways and, God, if you want to be happy you'll never have Minerva and Martha die.for they'd make you awfully ashamed in heaven, comparing things there with what they saw in Europe. h . BUYS AN jEP .Day Clock? j i. 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