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jmrrrn wrrriYTiMni ; : ; . -..,..,... . - : f II ""VTF TTT? --" I THE TIMES tePaperisSectloD I (fflT0fTQ HPT TV 1TTR C S B00 lM AND ESTABLISHED CIRCULATION. 1L Jj jj .1L AjUl UM J W li Weona. Wa.f L.lini.,.,.: . N.JA" L -IL-i-VJLJJ JKJ0 - LETTER HEADS, NOTE HEADS," STAtE- ZTZZ TTnaTTr " "' ' ' ments, bill heads, envel- , i ii 1 1 liiii i 1 1 1 ill iij TOef' . "BE TOBg ffi beau mw $100 a Year in Advance OPES, TAGS, VISITING CARDS, WED- thcjKopic knowit. Volume XVII . , ' ' ding invitations, etc, etc. ' . Concord, N. C, Thursday, October 28.1889. nitmrfp it zzrr. The 'Best is the Cheapest tt Experience teaches that gcdJ clothes ivear longest, good food gives Best nutrition, and, a f &ood medicine that cures disease is naturally the best and cheapest Hood's S3.rsa.p3.rUla is the best medi cine money can buy, because it curesvhen all others fail. Poor Health "llad poor health for yi-.. pains in. shoulders, back and hips, nOi! constant headache, nervousness and no appetite. 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V I'liitto iuui in: ail liuC L All C in iiniA. rvMfl ny urnnKiru. 111 ! Biliousness CANDY (( TZJr CATHARTIO a Cure WHEN 1 AM DEAD I " 1 """."" un.io IliJ I do not want a Rapine crowd. To come 'With lamentations loud When life has fled: Nor would I have my words or ways Kehearsed perhaps 'mid tardy praise, Vi hen I am dead. I do not want strange, curious eyes To scan my face when still it lies vt . Tn silence dread; Nor do 1 want them if they would, To tell my deeds were ill or good, hen I am dead. - I only want the "very few" W ho stood through good and evil, too, T 'True friendship' test : 8i :?ey who soiSht to find the good, And then, as only true friends could. Forgive the rest. They who, with sympathetic heart, Bought hope and comfort to impart, xt . , When there was lif e ; m keeping all the tears and sighs Jul wearv, worn-out nature dies, Mulj tUe itulfe. 'd hae them come, the "friendly few," And drop, perhaps, a tear or two, By kindness led; ot many tears I'd have them shed, Nor do I want much sung or said, - When I am dead. To have them each come in alone, And call me in the old, sweet tone, Would suit me best ; And then, without a sob or moan, Go softly out and leave alone . The dead to rest. .lust as I've lived, almost unknown, A life unmarked, obscure snd lone. So let me die; Just one who lived, and loved, and died, A mouud of earth and naught beside, There let me lie. He Did Ilia Owe Marrying. John Q. Thoraa8on. 72 veara of ace. of Summerville. South Hamlin ia probably the first and only man who has officiated at hia own marriage ser vice. Mr. Thomason recognizes that he has done somethiug remarkable and worthy of notice. He was not phased in the slightest. He said he wanted a wife and he im mediately began to try o get one. He found several girls whom he thought he could love and finally he centered all his affections upon one, Miss Emily Alice Lamb, who resided about seven miles from Summerville. She agreed to marry him and arrangements for the marriage were immediately began. Mr. lhomason said Lae magistrates and ministers had frequently expressed their sympathies for him and their willingness to officiate when he got a girl who would be willing to marry him, but when he finally produced her they all flunked and would not perform the ceremony. Mr. Thomason was not again to be outdone, bo he decided to officiate at his own marriage. He se cured a number of witnesses for the appointed tim, which was on the after noon of April 23. Miss Lamb was pres ent and when the time came, he said he called her and told her to Btand on his left. He then read the service, and at the proper place took her hand. He made his own response, and at the con clusion he told the gathering that he and Miss Lamb were now Mr. and Mrs. Thomason, and they were congratu lated. Mr. Thomason said that he had been marrying people tor twenty-nve years and he saw no reason why he should not marry himself. He said that he had discarded his former wife who de serted him last summer, and he lives happily with his present wife, who, by the way, is the third woman to whom he has been married. Mrs. Thomason is 32 years of age. Typhoid Close s School. Richmond, Va., Oct 17. Gen. Scott Shipp, Superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington, today dismissed the entire corps of cadets for thirty days on account of the epidemic of typhoid fever there. The corps num bers 250 young men. Dr. Tauleus Irv- . y . t - 1.1 mg, 01 tne state uoara 01 neaun, was at Lexington on Saturday examining the water used at the Institute and the sanitary conditions. After considering the conditions and the fact that naif a dozen or more cadets had the disease, which seemed to be spreading, it seemed prudent to close the place temporarily. The editor of an exchange drove awav dun care a nan nour tue uiuer day in the production of the following pathetic tale: A humble boy with a shining pail gaily singing down the dale to where tne cow witn tne Dnnaie iau on the clover pasture did regale. A humble bee did eailv sail over the soft and shady vale to where the boy with h flhininc nail was milking the cow with the brindle tail. The bee lit dowa on cow's left ear, her heels flew through the atmosphere, and through the leaves a hfstnnt tree the bov soared to eternity. Willie, aged 5, bounded into the house one day, exclaiming, as he hung his hat on the hall rack: "This is my home! This is my home!" A lady visitor caid: "The house next door is just like this, Willie; suppose you went over there and hung your hat up in the hall that would be your home as much asthiJ, wouldn't it?" "No ma'am," .nrar1 the little fellow. "Why not?" asked the lady.- "Cause my mother doesn't live there," was the triumphant reply. '; One evening 4-year-old' Nellie failed trt mAntion her father in her prayer be- had scalded her. "You must J n.r, too. Nellie." said her I mother. "But I don't want to," re- r,i;H thfi little one. "Hat you must, said mamma. Dropping upon her knees again she added: "And, for nity's sake, bless papa, too, and let us have peace in me mum . Biimuk't Iron Nerve . . . . " - . 1! 3 the result of his spienoia health Was Indomitable will and tremendous energy are not found where Stomach, Liver, Kidneys and Bowels are out of order. 11 fhAflfl finalities and the sue- TULA TV a- thfiv brinir. use Dr. King's New Life wii niv 25 cents at Fetzer's drug X AAAOa store. -L , "I wonder," said little, "if men will ever five to be 500 or ouu yea . Tt t t. " renlied his 5-year AJE Z: T studving her Sunday rJLi " The Lord tried the ex neriment once and they got so bad that z . - i i ,i n ii i r k j iv i i - u wnvv u i vv Ml . . H UfB M a-U-n m A friend living in Arkansas me about the recent fall of a meteor near his home, and he compliments me by asking some Questions that T cannot amwer. The origin of meteors and their flight and fall is yet the un solved problem of the ages. He Bays that on the 16th of last month at 8 o'clock in the morning, when there was a clear sky and not a cloud to be seen, there Was a rumhlinr nrtunrl of thunder so weird and unnatural that it was alarming. It was like the rolling UJ evy ituckb over an uneven plat form, only Lnmenselv louder. Tt ' WAS heard in all the neiflrhborintr towns, and ll . 1 1 a 1 . - - iiiey au teiegrapn each other to know if a mill had not blown up or a maga zine exploied. Suddenly there was 113 tllA JLTlfi a. 1 a rb- cloud formed and meteoric fragments fell at different places in this vicinity. A small piece that weighed one and a half poundu fell in a field near by and was brought to town while it was yet hot. Tt was powder-blackened on the outside, but inside was a grayish color, ana its particles Bhone like gold dust. Under the microscope thev resembled quickBilver. It was a full minute from the begin ning of the rumbling thunder till the explosion came, and the course of the sound was from east to west. The event was so unexpected and so like the mythology of Jupiter tonans throw ing a bumb from Mt. Olympus that the white people were spellbound, and the negroes declared it a warning and went to prayer. Philosophers and astronomers have been studying these phenomena for 2,500 years, and have not yet agreed upon a solution. The archives of the Chinese empire record the fall of six teen great aerolites from 800 to 600 years before Christ. The Greeks and Komans record a number", and Aristotle and Diogenes commented upon them. So did Livy, Plutarch and Pliny. They nave been seen bo largo that the estimated weight of the fragments after the explosion was 30,000 pounds, and the light was so bright as to pale the sun by day and obscure the moon by i night. There is now in the Yale college cabinet a fragment that weighs 1,635 pounds. ThiB came from near the Red river in Arkansas. Many of the western states have furnished specimens for the museums of colleges, and all of them are composed of the same mineral ingredients principally iron and include copper, tin, sulphur, carbon and other metals known to our own earth. Not a single new substance has ever been discovered, and for this reason the theory obtained that they were thrown up from our own vol canoes with such force as to wander for a time in the outer atmosphere of the earth, and to revolve with the earth. But this theory has long since been abandoned, for they seem to have an orbit of their own from west to east. Then came a theory that they came from the moon, and were of volcanic origin, and were thrown out with such terrific force as to get beyond the moon's influence and within that of our earth. But this was discredited because these fragments have been falling, no doubt, for thousands of years on the land and on the sea, and on all countries, and would have by this time materially diminished the size and weight of the moon. La .Place and Humbolt favored this moon theory for time. But our modern astronomers, such as Professors Arago and Almsted and Bowditch declare that meteors are simply clouds or nebulae of meteoric plannets that have a motion and orbit of their 'own, and that orbit sometimes comes within range of the earth s and produces a commotion a disturbance that causes the fall of some of their own nebulae. Some of the children got too. far away from their mother, I reckon. Sometimes me tors are simply lumi nous and have no body to explode or strike the earth. These have periodic vibrations of thirty-four years. They I come in showers as thick as snowflakes, and fall as gently to within a few feet of the earth and are extinguished. They fell in 1799, 1833 and 1867, and each fall was on the loth of .November. But there have been minor displays at irregular intervals generally about the 10th of August. I am old enough to remember well the "falling of the stars" in 1833. My father held me in his arms as he stood in the portico, for was scared. Our old negro, aunt Minty, was praying and shouting so it scared all of us children. George Lester lived on the opposite side of the street, and his mother held him in . her arms. Sometimes in these later days I would get my old-time friends, Pr. Jim Alexander or his brother Tom, or Onnrae Adair, and we could boast of the wonderful era in wnicn we paa lived, and the advent of steamboats and railroads and cotton gins, and sewing machines, and telegraphs, and " ---"- . ... , j we never neglected to say, ana we saw the stars fall in 1833' Dewey never saw a night like that but I reckon the Spaniards at Manila thought they did on the 1st of May. But this is enough about the meteors. At least, it is about all that I know. .Toe Mulhattan. or Munchausen, made nn n. hie fake a few vears ago awhile I was in Texas and telegraphed the fall of a meteor near Brownwood that was as big as a meeting house and had buried itself thirty feet in the earth. I was at Brownwood a few days after and the postmaster was as mad as a hornet with Joe, for telegrams came to him from all over the United States and England wanting to know about it and wanting to buy it at any cost. Joe had to leave there and hide out for a month or two. The postmaster answered a few and then swore oft. There is one good thing about meteors. They never hurt anybody. The books say it is remarkable and perhaps provi dential that in all the earth there is no record of one having fallen on anybody or destroyed a habitation, xerresuai lightning" geta us sometimes, but celestial fires are not dangerous. And now the next inquiry is from a young farmer who wants to know if it is good farming to follow grain with erain. He does not say what kind of 6 . 1 . t ill t!m .that Aftaan grain, dui wm years ago The Courier-Journal of Ken tucky, offered a nrize of tl.000 for the best essay on pratical agriculture. Over 200 were contributed and the essay that got the prize detailed the writer's plan of farming in Kentucky. It was brief, very brief. He had laid off his corn rows seven feet apart, drilled his corn eighteen inches apart, cultivated the ground thoroughly and harrowed it; sowed wheat early and harrowed it in. When the corn was ready to gather he drove the wagon in .every sixth row and loaded from three " rows each side. After the corn were all gathered he went oyer the cornstocks crossways with a heavy roller and rolled it all down flat on the wheat. The Btocks and the blades covered it like a blanket. When the first good snow fell he sowed clover on . the snow. When it rained or thawed the clover seed fell into the ground and toolr ri)t, and so he had corn and wheat and clover following in rotation and made a fine crop of each. But in this region our farmers have learned the value of peas as a fertilizer and stock food, and the harvest of hay this year will no doubt double all pre vious records. One of my friends has a small farm near town and last year harvested a fair crop of wheat from a twenty-acre field. After thewheatwas off he sowed ten acres of .the ground in cow peas. Last fall he sowed if all down in wheat and this spring you could tell just where the line of peas came to. There was no difference in the qualtiy of the land. It was 'all level and all alike and yet he harvested this year ten bushels per acre on one half and eighteen on the other. Now, what caused this great difference? It was the shade orHhe pea vines, the shade that produces nitrogen, and nitrogen is the best of all plant food. The denser the shade the more nitrogen goes down into the soil. A canebrake, a briar patch, a clover covering, an- old house in a field remove it and plant the ground that was under it and see how luxariant vegetation grows. Plant a grape vine near your house and the roots will all run under the house to feed to feed on nitrogen. My wife hasja wisteria vine at , the end of the veranda, and three years' time its roots had traveled underneath the floor and sent up sprouts twenty feet away, and for a time we did not know where they came from. A good farmer will shade everything he can. He will field with wheat Btraw. There is ro virtue in wheat straw, but it makes shade, and that makes nitrogen. There is no virtue in a stone or in rocks, but they make shade, and notice how plants will grow near to rock wall. My long lamented friend, Dr. Berchman, fold me that "rocks were God s blessing to ! the land," and he purchased ten acres ! of very stony land for his vineyard and his flower garden. It rejoices me to see how our middle Georgia farmers are looming up 00 wheat culture. Forty bushels to the acre. Ten years ago it would have been declared impossible. This re minds me of my old English neighbor, John Allan, who asserted that his father was never content in old Hengland with less than sixty bushels of wheat to the acre, and sometimes he made seventy. "Sow wheat in dust and rye in mortar," wa9 his motto. Good old John Allan. I shot his cow in m cornfield, for it was her third offense, and the old man was grieved. He never got mad, but only said : "I know me coow worried ye, but but major, I wouldent have shot your coow. I love you too well for that" How true it is that "kind words take away wrath." Bill Akp. El ere lie. Next to bodily cleanliness exercise may, I think, be reckoned as the great est aid to beauty. In fact, exercise is almost necessary to cleanliness, for it is a great incentive to perspiration, which is Nature's way of throwing out the im purities of the body to the surface of the ekin, which are then removed by the use of soan and water. Ooen air exercise Bhould be taken every day, but according to strengtn. Une enouia re turn home after walking or ridine or cycling with a sense of beingpleasant- ly fatigued, but witnout any ieeung 01 exhaustion. Exercise should be taken remlarlv. and if DOBSible dumb bells - - af M should be used night and morning; the corset snouia not ne worn wnne exer cising with dumb bells. Skipping is an excellent exercise for the figure; it is one of which our grandmothers were fond, and I have known certain old ladies who preserved quite youthful figures by their habit of skipping It is usual with children to-throw the rope forward when skipping, but it is far bet ter to throw it backward, for it expands the chest much better. Not Her Favorite Preachtr. A parson who occasionally preaches in South London arrived to take the place of the yicar, who had been called away on account of some family be reavement, and found an old and rather asthmatic lady struggling up the steps which led to the front door. He cour teously gave her his wm to assist her; and when they reached the top the dame asked him if he knew who was going to preach. r ' "Mr. So-and-So," replied the parson, giving his own name. "Oh. dear me," exclaimed the old lady, "help me down again, if you please! I'd rather listen to the groaning and creaking of a sawmill tnan sit un der him." and she prepared to descend The parson gently assisted her down stairs, aud sighfully remarked, as he bade her good-by, "I wouldn't go in either if I weren't the preacher. Robbed the Grave. A startling incident is narrated by John Oliver, of Philadelphia, as follows : "I was in an awful condition. My skin 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 Electric 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 one should fail to try them. - Only 1 50c., guaranteed, at Fetzer's drug store. I J, , . 1 OVATION FOR MR. BRYAN. Hebratkan't Tour of Kentucky Was a Great Personal and Democratic Tri umph. Lexington, Ky., October 18. The speeches of William Jennings Bryan in the Blue Grass region of Kentucky yes terday afternoon created great enthusi asm. The Democratic leader seemed to be at his best and he made some telling points in favor of Goebel and the regu lar Democratic ticket He was given an ovation at nearly every town, and de spite a great storm and heavy downpour of rain all the afternoon great crowds waited at the depots to get a glimpse at the Nebraskan. The reception, which was of the most enthusiastic character, continued every where the party stopped during the day. Mr. Br jan was introdviced as the mu wnO "cTrre with Trrrweage of warning and advice to the Democracy of the State and natkn." He said: "I would not deserve your confidence if I stayed in Nebraska and allowed bolting Democrats to play on my name. If bolting Democrats want to vote for Republicans, Or for a Democrat put up in opposition to the regular nominee of the party, let them do it, but let them come out boldly and State their real ob ject and not claim that they are doing it to save me. "I know something of bolters. There were some in 1896. (Laughter). Only the bolters of 1896 eaid they bolted be cause of a principle, and a bolt against a principle is higher than a yote against a person. I regard a principle as infi nitely more important than a person. What did the bolter do in 1896? He helped to elect the president, and every thing that Republican president has done that bolter who helped to elect him is responsible for. ''Your governor signs the credentials of the electors who repre ent the people of this State in the electorial college, and sometimes the election is close. It was close in 1896, if I am not mistaken (Uughter). I have my suspicions that it was closer on the count than it was on the vote. (Laughter and applause. ) I have heard it said that General Har din was defeated in 1895 because a great many men who had a right to vote did not put their votes into the ballot box, and I have a suspicion that we lost Kentucky in 1896 because a great many votes were put into the bal lot box that had no individuals entitled to vote behind them. (Applausee.) "I know that the contest in which we were engaged was a great contest, a contest where victory was so important to the aggregation of, wealth that they contributed to a campaign fund the most magnificent ever used in any cam paign in the United States. Victory was so important to them that they raised a fund which I think I may say was larger than all the campaign funds used by the Republican party from the day that Fremont ran down to the day when Hanna took charge of the organi zation. "Men who feel that victory is so im portant to them financially will bring to bear all the influence they can to control the action of the people, and I am afraid that in a very close place they might be able to manufacture votes if necessary. (Applause.) When such pressure is brought to bear upon those who stand in authority I would rather have a Democratic governor to certify to elections than a Republican governor. "It has been suggested to me that this boltiDg convention endorsed me for the presidency. I appreciate the good will and confidence thus expressed, but, my friends, I would be unworthy the confidence expressed by those boltiDg Democrats if I did not place the prin ciple involved above a personal compli ment. (Applause.) t "I have a right to believe that the Democrats in this Slate will vote in 1900 for any Democrat whom they please, that they will want a Democrat who is true to the principles in which they believe and one who can advance the cause to which they are wedded. I am interested in the triumph of these principles. I have talked for them be fore they were written in the Chicago platform. In this very building m June or July 1895, a year before there was a Chicago platform, I stood upon this floor and defended the free and un limited coinage of gold and silver at the ratid of 16 to 1. I stand today where 1 stood then. "If there are reasons in this State that make it necessary for you to elect a Republican governor and a Republi can' senator, then give these reasons and don't put it on the ground that you ae trying to save the cause of free sil ver. I know these men who have been fighting for free silver. I have come in contact with them. I know their char acter and zeal, and I know what they have done for Democracy, and I would rather trust the judgment of such men as Stone and Jones and Wetmore and JohnBon as to what is best for Demo cracy than the judgment of the rail roads. The railroads have been in politics before. We have them in Ne braska, and I know in 189b nearly every railroad iri this nation was haul ing: men to Canton, U., to uphold tne nation's financial policy. (Applause.) 'fl am not willing to believe that they are'8pecially interested in the triumph of the Chicago platform, which declared in favor of arbitration of differences be tween labor and capital, and opposed goyernment by injunction. I want to leave you with the suggestion that while every citizen has a right to vote as he pleases, while every citizen owes it to himself, his country ana nis uoa to Voto according to his conscience, yet every intelligent citizen is responsible for the consequences of his act. If every candidate on the bolting ticket was my brother I would not advise any one to vote the ticket and thus aid in the election of a Republican governor. (Applause). On the 10th of rJeceinber. 1897. Rev S A Tlnnahne. nastor M. E. Ohureh. South, Pt. Pleasant, W. Va.r contracted a Bovere cold which was attended from the beginning by violent coughing. He says : "Alter resorting to a numoer 01 so-called 'specifics,' usually kept in the house, to no purpose, 1 purcnasea a Dot tle! of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, which acted like a cnarm. I most cheer fully reccommend it to the public For sale by M. L. Marsh, Druggist. THK PRKSIDKNI'S MESSAGE. Forecast of lta Most Important Re commendation. j Washington, Oct. 19. With the return of President McKinley and his Cabinet to-day will commence the preparation of what promises to be an unusally important message to Con gress, lae message, it is believed, will contain the following recommendations: Philippines Sovereignty to be estab lished by all the force that may be needed and to be maintained perman ently. Civil government to follow the military at the earliest possible moment, and wide latitude to be allowed the natives in local self-government. Tke recommendations for the specific form of civil government to be established in the islands to be based on the conclu sions of the Philippine commissions. VvUba Military occupation to be con tinued until some substantial progress has been made, through the medium of suffrage, toward the establishment of an independent form of government Puerto liico Civil government to im mediately replace the present military government. Hawaii Immediate legislation to put in effect a territorial form of govern ment. Financial The maintenance of the present gold standard. Currency and banking recommendation to be based upon the conclusions of the Republican caucus committee of the House and Republican members of the Finance Committee of the Senate. Foreign Affairs The outcome of The Hague conference to be pointed to with satisfaction, and a statement made that the treaty agreed to at this conference will be submitted at once to the Senate. Gratification will be expressed at the final settlement of the Venezuelan boundary controversy. The statement is to be made that ne gotiations are in progress for a final so lution of the Samoan question, and that a treaty providing tor a new plan of government will probablv be sub mitted soon. A new executive department, with a Cabinet officer at its head, to have charge of all matters relating to inter state, colonial and foreign commerce, wnicn are now divided among the sev eral different departments, will be strongly urged. TruBts Regulation of trusts and great commercial combinations so as to prevent the stifling of competition and the levying of tribute upon consumers by the inordinate advances in prices, but without hampering the development of American manufacturing and com merce. Inter-Ocean Canal Emphasis to be giyen to the importance of early action by congres for the construction of an inter-oceanic canal. Shipping The passage of a ship sub sidy bill to be urged. Army Recommendations for the prompt reorganization of the army to be delayed until after the close of -the war in the Philippines. ISO reference will probably be made to the nominations of Rear-Admiral Sampson and Schley and other officers participating in the Santiago campaign, which failed of action at the last session of Congress, but later in the session something will probably be done by the Administration toward rewarding these officers. An A vrlul Affair. Repwood Falls, Minn., Oct. 18. Frank E. Babcock, a farmer, residing near this city, murdered his wife and three sons on his farm to-day. The murder was committed in a fit of in sanity. Babcock loaded his gun and went to where his two little boys were playing near the house and shot both of them, blowing their brains out. His wife saw the deed and ran to the barn for safety. Babcock went into the house and wrote a note to his brother- in-law, Frank Mason, saying he went out to kill a rooster and shpt his son Theodore, and could not face the crime. Then he searched for and found his wife in the barn and shot her through the head. From the barn he walked a mile south to where his oldest son was at work, and at close range fired a shot that blew out the brains of hia son. Then reloading he placed the muzzle to his mouth and fired off one barrel, killing himself instantly. He fell over on the gun which still had one barrel cocked and ready for action. Statistics regarding the penitentiary show that for the ten years ending with 1886 and the ten years ending with 1896 there were: Convicts received 4,953 and 5,990; discharged 2,599 and 3,999, escaped 945 and 564; recaptured 368 and 288; pardoned 369 and 271; died 769 and 565; killed while attempting to escape 47 and 26; killed in other ways 29 and 18. The figures in each pair are for the first decade, the latter figures for the decade ended in 1896. For 1897 and 1898 the figures in total are : Received 843; discharged 725; escaped 87; died 40; pardoned 84; killed while attempting to escape 1. In prohibition Maine, where it is said prohibition "is no good," there were last year behind the prison bars 841 persons, a total of thirteen for every 10,000 people, while in Massachusetts, the best enforced license law State, there were 7,451 prisoners, or tnirty-three for every 10,000 of population. Baking Powder Made from pure cream of tartar. Safeguards the food against alum Alum baking powders are the greatest menacers to health of the present day. HOY At BAKING POW0ER CO., NEW YORK. I - ' " - PLAYING WITH FIRE. Baltimore Sun. The downfall of many good men of seemingly good principles may be traced to tneir ventures in playing with fire. Knowing evil, they have coquetted with 11 instead 01 avoiding it. Christians pray, with good reason, to be delivered from temptations, for the flesh is weak. and it is by avoiding temptations that some men preserve their virtue and honor. Those who seek temptations have to be strongly armed if they would resist them. The true ted clerk or agent who goes wrong does not begin by com mitting a recognized crime. He first plays with fire in the shape of tempta tions. Some form of gambling it may be legitimate stock-buying first tempts him. He uses at first his . own money (nobody can object to that, he argues), and by the time he has lost more than he can afford he has become infatuated and sees an opportunity to recover Then he "borrows" from his employer without mentioning the fact, and whether in this venture he succeeds or tails his doom is sealed. ..The ice once broken, he goes on until at last he has lost all Bense of honor, has stifled his conscience and is ready to embezzle any amount or to betray any trust to satisfy his consuming greed for gambling profits or to protect his unearned public reputation. This is no fancy picture. It is the story of the downfall of scores of defaulters and embezzlers who might have lived honest lives but for the first false step they made in playing with fire. Men who sacrifice their honor in other ways begin in a small way gener ally, uunosity, it may be, leads them into bad company. They do not intend to commit any wrong, but they, want to see something of "life," as it is called, and they venture into low pjces them become drunkards, though able at first to control their appetites for liquor and being thus led into a false sense of security; others are tempted into a life of vice, though they think they can control their passions and have begun dangerous associations with no other intention than to look on at others. It is a dangerous business. however, to thus play with fire. Safety for the besfr-ef us is to be found in the avoidance of temptations, and young men especially, Bhould, therefore, be careful of the company they keep. It is just as easy to become interested in literature, science or art as in games of skill or chance, the difference being that in the one pursuit the associations are good; in the other companions are sure to be found who will lead one into temptations. Nor is the enjoyment to be found in useful- studies one whit less real and substantial than that which comes, from frivolous games or those that embody the gambling element. No one can afford to play with fire or to expose himself to temptations to wrongdoing. Humanity in its best estate is weak, and experience tells us that men who have had the best of training may be led astray if they allow themselves to be exposed to temptations. A Coming Meteoric Spectacle- Baltimore Sun. On the 14th or 15th of November next a magnificient display of meteors is to be expected by persons who watch the eky at night especially late at night, ' toward sunrise. Meteors are small solid bodies shooting through space at a yelocity averaging 25 miles a second. The fragments of wrecked comets, they travel in orbits more or less regular. Owing to the perturbing influences of other heavenlv bodies, they no longer all travel together, but are scattered along the whole length of their orbits, being thicker at some places than at others. As their orbits approach very nearly that of the earth, they can be seen at all times of the year, but particularly in November, when we encounter an unusually large group. Such as pass through our at mosphere are heated ly the friction of the particles of air to a white heat and become visible. Their velocity is checked and they sometimes fall to the earth, either in masses known as meteoric stones, or more frequently as a fane powder produced by the anvil-like re sistance of the air. As a single obser ver can see, upon anaverage, five me teors au hour any night of the year, it has been calculated that if the whole 'earth were covered with observers the number visible daily would be from fif teen to twenty millions. Adding those too faint to be Been with-the unassisted eye, it is estimated that 100,000,000 meteors traverse our atmosphere daily. The number on November 14 or 15" if the astronomer's prediction is verified will. far exceed the average of 15,000,- 000 or 20,000,000, approaching, per haps, billions. Texas Drought Since July Broken. JJJLLLJU, IBS , i Iho tiro luu that could be called general that has fallen in Texas since early in July set in to-day and continues tonight with no indications of stopping. Telegrams from as far west as San Angelo, south ward to the Gulf, southwestward to and beyond Austin, and from all over north western and northeastern lexas mdi cate a steady downpour. The most severe drought experienced in a dozen years is at last broken. The grain gr wing and cattle-raising districts will be greatly benefitted and threatened water famine in Dallas and other Texas cities averted. Mrs. John R. McLean, wife of the Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio, will, according to a Washington correspondent of a New York paper. travel through Ohio during the cam paign-in her husband a private car, ac companied by a number of beautiful girls from Virginia, Washington and Maryland. These ladies will not make speeches, bujk they will electioneer. nevertheless. Whether they will adopt the English method of offering kisses to the voters the correspondent is too discreet to pay. Dying in Thoaiandi. Taooma, Wash., Oct. 16. A terrible epidemic of dy sentry is Bweeping oyer Japan with fatal results. Official statis tics show that out of '50,000 persons at tacked up to September 14, nearly 12, 000 have died. The authorities esti mate that 100,000 will be recorded by the end of October. 9 i need not lose flesh in summer if you use the proper means to prevent it You think a you can't take SCOTT'S 5 EMULSION in hot weather, J but you can take it and di- $ gest it as well in summer as J in winter. It is not like the 5 plain cod-liver oil, which is J difficult to take at any time. if you are losing flesh, j you are" losing ground and 5 you need J 1 Onntt'n Cm..!.., 5 ana must nave it to Keep up 5 your flesh and strength. If C vou have been taking it and 1 j ... . a. j prospering on it, don't fail to 5 continue until you are thor- 5 9 OU.hlv strnntf anrl wll k w 5c. and fi.oo, all druggists. -SCOTT & BOWNE, Owmists. New York. X 1 fe.5Vv,a. -i&OM-uJt PROFESSIONAL CARDS. D. G. CALDWELL, M. D. at. L. STEVENS, at. D DRS. CALDWELL & STEVENS, Office in former Postoffice Building on Main otreei. Telephone No. 37.' DR. H. C. HERRING. DENTIST, Is again at his old place over Yorke's Jewelry outre, COITCORX), nr. c. DrW.C. Houston. Surgeon Dentist, CONCORD, N. C. 13 prepared to do all kinds of dental work in vmiicw over jonnson'8 JJrug Store. L. T. HARTSELL. Attomey-at-Law, CONCORD, XTORTH CAROLINA. Prnmnr tfAnflnri trlxran t oil Imalnoaa Office in Morris building, opposite the court UUUSt). W. H. LILLY, M. D. 8. L. MONTOOIIIBr, M. D M. LILLl St offer their professional services to the citi zens of Concord and vicinity. All calls prompiiy aiienaea aay or nieiic otnee and residence on East Depot street, opposite Presbyterian church. W. J. MONTGOMBBT. t. LKBOBOWEL MONTGOMERY & CROWELL, Attorneys and Counselors-at-Law, CONOOBD, N. O. As partners, will practice law in Caharriia. Stanly and adjoining counties. In the Supe rior and Supreme Courts of the State and in the Federal Courts. Office on Depot street. Parties desiring to lend money can leave It with us or place It in Concord National Hank for us, and wewill lend it ion good real es tate security free of chargeto the depositor. uiuKe iiurougn examination 01 title to lands offered as security for loans. Mortgages foreclosed without expense to owners of same. , MORRISON H. CALDWELL. H. B. STICKLKV CALDWELL & STICKLEY, Attorneys at Law, CONCORD, N. C. Office, ntxt door to Morris House. Telephone, 73a. THERE IS RO KIRD OF PAIR OR ACHE, INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL, THAT PAIR-KILLER WILL ROT RE- 1 LIEVE. LOOK OUT FOR IMITATIONS AND SUB STITUTES. THE GENUINE BOTTLE BEARS THE NAME, PERRY DAVIS & SON. aa m a 11 s BUYS AN 1 Eight Day Clock, s t I ! 1 4. ' I Walnut or Oak, Fully Warranted. FOR 12 MONTHS. AT I W. C. CORRELL'S. fli-a m. TI7a 4 laTTT AwV Anil I7vf HrlTT s fa riliU naiwinura ouu uiisrai- Ing a Specialty. A. & Marry Cheaply! We don't mean marry a cheap, no account man, but to let us print your invitations at 2.30 for first rirty and fl.25 for additional fifty. Includes outside and Inside envelopes. THE TIMES, CONCORD. N C. ALWAYS KEEP 0 HAND 4 II JjW he just had to drown them. V o