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THE MAW WITH THE HOE, S2hl7i.the we'KQtcenturies he leans t21 ""J106 an2 aze8 on th ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, Wh mMkburden world. a5m!& lmJdead to "P10 despair, Tf8 nw0t ndthat never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother, to the ox! ho loosened and let down this brutal jaw? bfowT hMld 'Uuited tbto WbtaJnTtb bkW Ut toe Ugbt ,thIn 0,8 Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave To have dominion over sea and land ; lo trace the stars and seareh the heavens for power, . To feel the passion of Eternity! mm 6 He dreame wh0 shaped the And pillaried the blue Armament with light! Down all the stretch of dell to its last gulf There Is no shape more terrible than this More tongued with censure of the world's blind greed Mor" with -signs and portents for the More fraught with menace to the universe. V hat gulfs between him and the seraphim ! Jlave of the wheel of labor, what to him Are Plato and the swing of the Pleiades! 5?at,!nenS caches of the peaks of song! The rift of dawn, the reddening of the roies! look- dread shape the suffering ages Time's tragedy is in that aching stoop; Through this dread shape humanity betrayed. Plundered, profaned, and disinherited, Cries protest to the Judges of the World, A protest that is also-prophecy. O masters, lords and rulers in all lands, Is this the handiwork you give God, This monstrous thing distorted and soul quenched ! How will you ever straighten up this shape; -Touch it again with Immortality ; Give back the upward looking and the light ; Rebuild in it the music and the dream ; Make right the immemorial infamies, Perfidious wrongs, immedicable woes! O masters, lords and rulers in all lands, How will the Future reckon with this Man! How answer his brute questions in that hour When whirlwinds of rebellion shake the world! How will it be with kingdoms and with kings VV ith those who shaped him to the thing he is WhenHhis dumb Terror shall reply to God, After the silence of the centuries I Edward Markham. THIS WOMAN DMDEK THE HEEL OF THE MAM WITH THE HOE. "Down all the stretch of Hell to its last gulf There is no shape more terrible than this," From "The Man with the Hoe." Look into that "last gulf," 6 Poet! I pray thee, Down, down, where its nether cave leans, And find there God help us ! a "shape" to gainsay thee, A shape that aftrighteth the fiends. And listen, O listen t For through all the thunder A voice crieth heavy with woe "I, I am the woman, the woman that's under The heel of 'The Man with the Hoe.' " She is the begotten of derelict ages, Of systems senescent the flaw ; She is the forgotten of singers and sages The creature of lust and of law. The tale of -she "Terror" the ox's brute brother, Can never be told overmuch, But she Is the vassal, and she is the mother, The thrice-accursed mother oi such.' Look up from that last gulf, thou newest evangel, ' . Thou builder of ladders for men, Look up to the pleading, pale face of the angel . That wooeth a Prince of the Pen, And sometimes, a little, tho' half the world wonder, '. And critics cry high and cry low Sing out for the woman the woman that's - voder ? ": The heel of "The Man with the noe." - Hester A. Benedict. OKI. GOMEZ TO WRITE A BOOK. Havana, Nov. 3. Gen. Maximo Gomez said to-day that be had a very large quaoity of manuscript treating of the warfare in Cuba from 18S6 to the date of American occupation. This he KMrarHa as his rrfatft tmilRlirn. Of lata 1 1 , e; , - aDout a nttie meat v e can report me he haa been goirg carefully tnrough his cafJe to headqaarter8 and if we are or papers, collecting all data bearing on dered we t it irj) j the subject, with a view of writing history of the revolution, as he has known it internally and externally. Now that peace has arrived," he aai? 'it nmvtm tn ha exactly what I t . - had expected, with all its sadness and meanness. I do not care what people may say about me, though many are trying . to injure me and telling lies about my motives and conduct, ah that is immaterial. It does not disturb me, for I have known the inB and outs of the revolutionaiy movement better than any one else, and there is no use in) trying to-falsify hiBtory. I have known all who fought in the war. 1 i n v.inoH .ft the 1 adt minute in the struggle and who watched it from a safe distance like a spectator at a bull fight "One curious trait of character in tne Cubans has impressed me. The more courage a Cuban showed in fighting the Spaniards, the less he has done for Cuba in times or peace, x et ujb mauia .. i for peace has impelled many a uiDn to threaten the Americans, who are an extremely difficult people to move in .1 l hmlnminv in much mora lunb w j . iivui"vj - expeditious in dealing with the Amer icans. xr.ro nf thnsa jrho now occupy nnhlic. noaitions in Cuba are convinced : .. i : t, tVtAD 1U ail gOOu cuuvueuuo vui are serving the interests of the island, but i miatalrAn I hfiV are really serving the cause of intervention. wnicn tnougu acwrpiWf nun o -..v. u ka fnnnii difficult to termi- H . r nate on conditions that will enable them to transfer their services to tne ouDan republic. They should bear in mind . i a. a i taVan an ruifri- IDU IUCT . . "The nonoraDie vuou ouuuiu k,w0 himanlf the ideal df the republic, remembering that every day on which cn Bofa until the establishment of the republic is an injury to the Cubans. Th Cat of Politics. a...om Tirm Maii&zme. Baltimore. tJV uyv. Tv,n nnat of an average campaign has become so great that the average man cannot u ary-dependent The salary he deserves is not sufficient to meet his bills and to make him a living at the same time. The people who pay the exaggerated KJiia rV.nn made, "outside of the cities, are in a great measure the farmers, who not only suffer that ill, but who are liable to drawbacks arising from legislation concocted in vindictiveness or tomfoolerv by men seeking to make fortunes at officeholding. The respon sibility for the reduction of the crop rests upon the farmers largely, and it is hoped that the day is not far distant when they will cease to allow the office seeker to throw sand in ther eyes, The waiter girl knew a thing or two about table etiquette so she sniffed scornfully as she. said : ''It'" not our custom to serve a knife with pie. "No?" remarked the patron in sur prise, "then bring me an axe."- H and Owner. BlUi ARPg UBTTEK. ' A- friend writes me from Florida that bacon will not keep well ia that climate, and that the old settlers say it always gets rancid. He wants to know if there ia any remedy for this. Yes, I think so, unless hogs fattened on pinders are different from those fattened on corn. This reminds me of a war story. In 1864 my wife and half a dozen little children found refuge froin the foul invader at her father's plantation on the upper Chattahooche river. There was no white man there or near there save her old father, Judge Hutchins. There were about a hundred negroes, more than half of them too old or too young to work. Food for our soldiers was getting scarcer every day and or ders came that every farmer should be tithed that is to say, he should give up to the government agents a portion of his corn and meat and beef cattle. A mounted detail from the home guard was sent out with wagons to enforce the order and gather in the supplies. There was nobody to resist them, for everybody, was in Ihe army save old men and invalids and women and chil dren. Late one evening a company of thirty men came to Judge Hutchins' house and rudely informed him that they came for bacon and beef cattle. The judge vry calmly told them he had none to spare. For awhile they parleyed with him, bat finally demand ed the key to the smokehouse. My wife and children and two other little grandchildren listened in fear and anxiety. They knew that the jadg was a fearless man, but there was so many well armed men against him, the odds were fearful, and when he refused to give ud the kev thev said thev would arrest him and break down the door. lben he pleaded with them in a trembling voice and said to the captain : "Here is my daughter and her little helpless children and here are two oth ers whose mother is dead and their father is in the army. I have but four sons and they are in the army. My two sons-in-law are there. Here on this place are fifty or sixty negroes who are too young or too old to work, and it is a struggle for us all to live. I am alone and getting old. I have done my share for the Confederacy and can not do moie. Now I . know that you can overpower me or kill me and take away the little meat I have saved for taese helpless ones, but let me tell you, Captain, the first man who goes to that door to break it down will be a dead man before he can do it." His black eyes flashed as if lit up by sparks of fire and his voice no longer trembled. He was desperate. Lightly he ascended the stairs, where he had two double- barreled guns well loaded, and planting mmseir oy tne winaow mat overlooked the smokehouse, he Said : "Now break that door if you dare to," and the per cussion wen,t click, click. The captain looked at the door and then at the jrtAga Tlum tmm .rnL-ailSCe for ; a few moments. My wife and children k..4 nil on4 tumkllul R-v.no nf the negroes had gathered at the cabin doors, ana oia earn aarea to exciaim in a low, husky voice, "Better not bet ter not old massa kill you kill you shore." Tneucaptain suddenly reconsidered. "Come boys," said he: "it's getting late, and there ain't no use in fighting about a little meat We can report the reckon." Without saying goodbye or farewell they left That night about midnight the judge called up old Jack and Virgil, whom b.3 knew he could trust, and had the joints of the meat and a part of the sides carried quietly down to the old blacksmith Bhop on the bank of the river. With pick and shovel the cin ders and earth in the old hearth were sooi! excavated and a chamber fash ioned that would hold and hide a thou- sand pounds. It was Dunea mere ana the hearth was covered just like it bad been. Some scattering charcoal filled in the space and some was left on top and the black old basket placed where it long had been. With shovel and wheelbarrow the surplus earth was taken down the river bank and tumbled in and then all was quiet on the Chat tahooche. The burial oi &ir jonn Moore was not more silent. . Tn Tami.nr IftfiFi T ininoi mv fiimilv XU nauuniji J J - - on the nlantation and not long after the judge furnished us a good mule team and wagon and we returned to our home in Rome. The day before we if v.Sa lmantaKlj manxinn he onened Id. JVWwr.w I . the cache and found the meat all sweet 1 1 4 . 1 and sound and we Drougni a goou por tion of it with us and it was as precious as gold. My . wire says me cuwumu purified it and kept it from tasting old or rancid. 5 Now. then. I have answered my friend's question. He must get up an other civil war and hide hiB meat in the hearth of an old blacksmith- shop. Earth and charcoal are both good dis infectants and preservers of flesh, and ifT vuin Florida I would pack my meat in charcoal, not dust, but small crushed coal. Before putting the meat down I would powder it from a pepper hsvr with ho rax. Borax is almost uni veisallv used now. It is sure death to -tinners and other vermin, and a drug gist told me that tbe sale of it had in creased a thousand per cent within the last five years. When mv family got home we found that it was not eood to live by meat alone and we had to send down the river a hundred miles for a few busneis mm and hid it near a mill in the because the outlaws and de- aortara warn natroiline the land and ot?a w " i A.t2..M AttAMThintv thflu tv.li n n nn talk lUg OTClJUUlMf, vj eood friend brought us half a bushel of meat ai muc uu ) - . . . T n ,a filv anil OZ OTA tmt ainnc. The memory of old Bow- i.nri Rrvant is still precious to us for t: i co :n Viron rl a uh nt tribulation IUUUUCDO AU iavwv , It is encouraging to know that Armour &Co. have not abolished all the smoke houses in the land, nor drawn our home made meat into their mighty trust. Qur farmers are generally raising their own meat and bring a good deal to tnmn tn ooll and D17 wife 8SV8 that fcVTT, u f - nAnntn lard ia mi re r and better than J any that comes from the packing houses of the west. ,Our home market ia moll minnlied bv our farmers with almost everything that is good to eat CONCORD "IBE JUST iLlTO Concord, n. c, Thursday, November 9, I T ... f t - Beef, pork, butter, chickens, eggs, po tatoes, turnips, cabbages, beans and apples are in great -abundance. Of course we can't have mutton, for the negroes must have dogs and the candi dates must have negro votes. I lost eight fine Merinos in one night and my neighbor, Mr. Dobbins, lost three hundred in five years, and quit the business. But with air our drawbacks, our people are on the upgrade. Seven cents cotton has helped greatly, and if our farmers will cut down the acreage still more it will 1 bring 8 cents next year and leave more land for wheat and corn. The southern farmers ought to form a mighty trust and regulate acre age and price. Our own county could regulate itself by organizing and com bining with the local banks. Our aver age crop is 10,000 bales, and at 8 cents a pound would bring $400,000. About one-half of this could be carried and held by the m re wealthy producers. The other 5,000 bales could get an ad vance of 6 cents a pound, or $30 a bale, from the banks on warehouse certifi cates. This would take only $150,000. Even $25 a bale would pay .the cost oi production and leave the margin for the producer, and this would require from the banks only $125,000. If every county was to do this a 10.000,000 bale crop would jump to 8 cents within sixty days. That's the way to meet trust with trust and defy the speculators, why can't it be done ? Bill Aep. Porto Kleo Cinder Military Rale. The report of Brigadier General Geo. W. Davis, commanding the department of Porto Rico, has been made public by the War Department. It contains a large amount of interesting material on the social, commercial and political conditions' nn the islands. Gen. Davis incloses a copy of a circu lar insued to the inhabitants of Porto Rico, outlining the General's scheme of military government. He calls atten tion to tbe fact that be has retrained from making anything that might be construed as a promise of what ultimate action would be taken by Congress for the government of the island, but he says that his aim has been to promote the well-being of the people under ex isting conditions. This he seems to have accomplished, from tbe fact that a general contentment reigns through out the department Gen. Davis closes his report with a brief statement as to the &reat hurri cane of 189U, and extends his thanks to the War Department for the prompt aid tendered him in caring for the destitute. Accomauying the report is an interest ing discussion on the government of Porto Rico, by Major W. A. Glasaford. Among the suggestions for reform of fered by Maj. Glassford is one that a market for sugar, coffee and tobacco is indispensable for the well-being of the island. He says that a reduction of duties on Porto Rican products entering the United states, and also on some American ptuuuuw euwriiug x Kjtj ifcUAj, would facilitate the development of trade relations between the two countries. He suggests that a removal of the duty on Porto Rican sugar would double the output, and that the same increase would doubtless take place on coffee and tobacco. He say a that it would also be advantageous to remove the existing duty on such machinery and its repair parts as are used in the production of these crops. Lumber is also an article of prime necessity, together with build ing material. , Regarding the financial conditions, he says that about one-half of the 5,929, 000 pesos in circulation is at present in the hands of the individuals, and the other half in the banks. He recom mends the withdrawals of. this currency and the substitution for it of United States money. Oar National Finance. Hon. Lyman J. Gage, in Frank Ieslle's Pop ular Monthly for November. Columns of figures are seldom inter esting, yet I fancy the two which regis ter the receipts and expenditures of the United States year bv year from 1791 to the present time will, without illumination, stimulate the curiosity even of those ordinarily indifferent to statistics. If some modern Rip Van Winkle were to be handed this table, which annually appears in the report of the Secretary "of the Treasury to Congress, he would know at a glance that in one instance, at least, some great and tremendous event had hap pened in his country s history, be ginning with gross receipts, which in cludes revenues and loans, of $4,771, 000 in 1791, he would notice steady growth, until they rerched $83,371,640 in 1801. ixext year, iboz, tney were $581,680,000 an increase in a twelve month of nearly half a billion of dol lars; in 18G3, $889,379,652; in 18G4, $1,393,461,000; in 1865,. $1,805,939,345; and for three years thereafter receipts in incees of one billion dollars annual ly. From then until this day he would see, also, that the Government's ordi nary revenues have been counted an nually in the hundreds of millions. If, after seeing such a picture, one were to tell him that this country, a genera tion ago, suffered four years of strife such as the world had never seen. it ought to occasion in his mind no sur prise. The plain cold figures are suf ficiently graphic to tell the story of the magnitude of the Civil War. , "There's nothing like farmin on a hillside." said the man with the faded hair, during a cause in the conversa tirn. 'if von nick outa eood location." "Do vou mean to say;" they asked him, "that you ever worked on a hill aidfl farm or an v where else ?" "Who said anything about workin'?" hA retained. "1 said hillside farmin was all neht if vou picked out a good location right down below a forty acre farm where a feller iut in one wnoie summer raisin' melons an Dunkins. When they got ripe they broke off f 'm ihp vine an' rolled down on to my land. It was a good deal of bother to gether 'era up, but I done it. Made a pretty eood thinor out of it. too. It wae a narrow escape and nearly coat him his reputation as the laziest man in the crowd. Gentleman: "You can't work on ac count of paralysis I Norsense, you look as 8trone as I do. Tmmn: "Well, vou see. Boss, it's paralysis of dewill dat I'm troubled wit." WHAT GOOD RKPIITATION STANDS FUR. Baltimore Sun. In a recent criminal trial, the ac cused persons being men of high stand ing in the community, counsel for the defense ostentatiously called high pub lic officials to testify to their good reputations. There was scarcely any limit to the number of men who could have been called to thus testify, for without any doubt the defendants had borne a good reputation before they were accused of this particular crime. The testimony respecting good reputa tion had no effect upon the jury be cause there was positive evidence of guilt, and in the face of such evidence good reputation only adds to the offense committed. Where, however, there is only circumstantial evidence of guilt, or there is doubt arising from any cir cumstance, good reputation has great weight and may turn the scales of judgment. This is the real value of a good reputation. It shields one from the suspicion of wrong-doing, and it must be broken down by positive and unquestioned testimony before its pos sessor is deprived of its benefits. It is because reputation usually corresponds with character that it is accepted as an answer to unproved accusations of wrong-doing; it is because it does not necessarily correspond with character that it is accorded little if any weight as against direct testimony showing it to be a false reputation or one that has been sacrificed. Reputations are built up slowly, and a man is tried in many ; ways and for a long time before his fel low men feel fully assured that he is to be trusted, that he is in fact what lie seems to be. His credit having been established, it cannot be swept away by mere suspicion. It is not easy to , es tablish a false reputation in the smaller circles of one's iutimate associates, nor can a false reputation be long main tained before the general public after its character has become known to the few. Gossip soon destroys it. But a good reputation honestly earned may be sacrificed by one criminal or dis honorable act That good name which haa been built up by years of probity and fair dealing may be swept away in an instant by a single act of iinhonesty. Sometimes, also, aman of good reputa tion may maintain it for a long time after his character has changed, through concealment of his crimes; but the moment they become known his good reputation vanishes. Although it may be so easily lost or sacrificed, good reputation is a most valuable posses sion, and every man should aim to build it up on the sure foundation of good character. Reputation is seldom highly vlaued until its loss is threat ened. Cassio 'had probably never thought anything about his until, in a moment of weakness, he suflered mili tary disgrace, and then he felt that he riVeeVPoYSrIer whoare"so careless of their good name that they fail to establish a good reputation. They do no evil, but their associations are of a character to make men suspicious of them. The young more especially should take care not only that they live upright lives, justifying a good reputation, but that they avoid the ap pearance of evil. They should not be hypocritical, but should be careful of appearances so that their characetrs and reputations may alike be good. A Speaker With a Backbone. Texas Correspondent of The Voice. Judee Sherrill. present Speaker of the House of Representatives of Texas, allows no liquor of any kind in the house or other portions of tbe capitol under control of the Speaker and fer-geant-at-arms. While there has never been any liquor sold in the Texas cap itol, yet this fact did not debar mem bers from drinking or keeping it for use. Often in other days, the Speak er's room and also the room occupied by the sergeant-at-arms are' reputed to have been the places where beer has been kept on tap, or where bottles and jugs of stronger beverages have been stored for the use of the members, who were wont to resort hither to play poker. This is the order of the present Speaker:. "There shall be no drinking in any of the rooms under the control of the Speaker or sergeant-at-arms, nor shall any intoxicating liquors be kept 1U UI aLruub DMU vsjiiia. Eleven pages were appointed under control oi tne opeairer. mey accepteu their positions with the distinct under standing that any one of them known to smoke cigarettes would be dis charged. Eleven colored porters were appointed, under control oi the Speaker. They accepted their positions, all agree ing that drunkenness, or even drink ing intoxicating liquors, would be cause for their removal Brief. From BtllvlUe. Billville has a society for the preven tion of cruelty to authors. Some of the farmers in this section plow them from sun to sun, and then - make 'em chop wood by moonlight The Billville regiment reports that General Otis is not making much head wav in the Philippines. But no man can make headway without a Ijead. We are getting ready for Christmas in this neighborhood, and are daily ac cepting turkeys, cows and 'possums on subscription. For one turkey you get the paper six months; for five 'possums vou receive it one year, ana lor a gooa fat cow it goes to you during yopr life time; but we no longer give the paper in exchange for wood, as lightning struck five trees near our office and split them into fine kindling, stove length which is another evidence of the fact that the Lord will provide. TJsed By Brltian Soldiers In Africa. ' Capt C. G. Dennison is well known all 'over Africa as commander of the forces that captured the famous rebel Galishe. Under date of Nov. 4, 1897, from Vryburg, Bechuanaland, he writes Before starting on the last campaign bought a quantity of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which I used myself when troubled with bowel complaint, and had given to my men, and in every case u proven mot, beneficial. For sale by M. L. Marsh & Co., Druggists. TIMES. 1899. HOW BILL JONES ACTED RORSE. Donoho, S. C, October 31 There died not long ago. in' the Donoho com munity Bill Jones, a one-armed man. Bill made himself famous by pulling a plow one year, while his two boys held onto the plow handles by "spells." That was when Bill was in his prime. Bill owned a small farm, and his family as large and expensive. Then just before breaking the soil for planting one spring, Bill's only horse up and died; and Bill could not buy another horse in all the country around. The people who had horses to sell told Bill they were sorry for him; that he would certainly have to let his famil starve. There was no encouragement or as sistance that he could get from his neighbors. So poor Bill, who was an industrious man and a good father and faithful husband, determined upon a novel plan for making the crop. He told his two boys that he would pull the plow if they would do the plowing. The boys ridiculed the idea and tried to disparage their father. Then Bill Jones hitched himself up to a) plow and the boys "spelled" one another as their father pranced up and down the field, pulling a heavy turning plow to break the soil. The neighbors came by and looked on in amazement. Bill would not stop to talk to them; but the neigh bors got m a word every time he reached them on his rounds and predicted that he would not be able to pull the plow all the spring and summer, and that the crop, would never be made and the family would starve. But Bill proved himself equal to the any horse or any six-horses in the county, and pulled the plow every week day till the crop was laid by. When the crop was harvested and marketed Bill paid himself out of debt, paid cash for a horse, bought winter clothing for his family, laid in a supply of provisions, and still had $100 in cash on hand. When Bill Jones died he was the rich man of the Donoho community and his family lived in comfort and the !oyB and girls are married off better than their neighbors. A Boy's Composition, A bov's subject was "In School," and this is the result of his efforts: "The schoolroom consists of the black-board, the benches, the inkstands, the ruler aud the teacher. Most of the things in the schoolroom are old, but the ruler is new ! Who comes to school ater than the teacher is the laziest one of all and is punished by him. On the map the rivers are marked for us to earn by heart. The teacher has made i hole into Palestine. With the globe he makes the eclipse of the sun. In the singing lesson the teacher plays the riddle, and be beats the time until we can sing. We smg 'do to la; SQme of us can go higher still ; the teacher can go down to the lowest, but he can't "Tfiere is also a thermometer in the schoolroom, with which they make it hot in summer until vacation com mences. The teacher looks at it so long Until there are 80 degrees. In fifteen minutes we eat our lunch for half an hour. Sometimes we play foot ball, and the teacher can kick best. The teacher makes good men and wo men of us, for early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. If you steal anyone e apple you are put down two. Now the teacher is sick, and we don t know if he will be well again, but we hope for the best. Tne Farmer's Mainstay. - Southern Farm Magazine, Baltimore. The man at the plow thinks that he has been working hard all day in the furrows, and he has a right to think so But there Js another worker on the farm, the real head of the family. She is not only occupied with the care of children, combining in herself tbe dressmaker, tailor, nurse and school teacher, but she must attend to the chickens and to the young lambs res cued from the sudden return of winter. She has her dairy to keep sweet and clean, or ougtht to have it. She must be preserving for wiuter, and, in the meantime prepare, or be bothered by the oversight-of servants in the prepa ration of food for the family aud for the hands. She deserves pleasure, and her husband will find pleasure in de voting a little time to beautifying her surroundings and lightening the labors of her culinary department. 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 50c., guaranteed, at Fetzer's drug store. . Teacher: "Bobbie, did you look up the story of the prodigal son, as I told you?" Bobbie: "No'm. Ma woulden't let me take the Bible. She's pressin' an tamo leaves in it." Baking Powder Made from pure cream of tartar. Safeguards the food against alum Alum baking powders are the greatest menacers to health of tbe present day. norm, amino powocn ea, new towk. $1.00 a Tear, in Advance. Number 19. 8TORV OF A GAMBLER. "Two friends of mine." Baid the old gambler, "were broke and pretty hungry. One was an indefaticahlA gambler, the other a man who thought of his stomach before anythingelse in the world. .Thev stood in front nf a Sixth-ayenue beanery, looking hungrily as a pot oi poric and beans from which a waiter was taking some for a custo mer. Thev hadn't a cent between them bu"; pretty soon a friend of mv cam a friend came along and passed out a $2 bill on request. Thank heavens, we can have some of those beans now,' said the hungry one. " 'We can. eh?' said the other. 'Well, wait awhile and we'll see.' "My mend made a bee linn for n gambling house, followed by the hungry one, who pleaded with him eloonentlv to get something to eat first. He was inflexible, however, and a few minutes later was seated in front of a layout with $2 worth of checks before him. He won a little and then he lost a little. and every two minutes the hungry one would whisper to him to quit and get some beans. He drew fascinating pictures of that smoking bean pot they had been looking at, but the other was game to the core. He finally had about $20 ia front of him, and then began to plunge. The hungry one gasped for breath and finally implored him to give him a quarter check to put aside for beans in case ihey went broke. " 'Not a cent,' said the ather, 'and if you don't shut up I'll kick you out of the place." "The threat was useless, for the other was too far gone in hunger to fear vio lence. He kept nagging and naggine at the player, who finally got up and threw him bodily across the room. But tne hungry one crept back, aud his first remark was about beans. With an exclamation of rage the gambler jumped up, cashed in $300 worth of checks. grabbed his friend by the coat collar, dragged him down two flights of stairs to the street, and fairly hurled him through the swinging doors of the beanery. '"'Give this blanketv-blanked idiot $300 worth of beans,' he roared, 'and make him eat every one of them.' "Then he stood over the hungry one and made him eat beans for an hour. He wouldn't let him have anything to drink, not even water, and the hungry one's pleadings for bread and butter were in vain. He wanted to quit on bis third plate of beans, but tbe other wouldn't let him. He made him eat beans until he could eat no more, and then he gave him a $50 bill and left bim." ' Tne Slsbtown Bazoo. St. Louis Republic. We don't mind receiving wood at this office inexchangfoLthpgegfy than money to understand that we do not call pine knots and worm-eaten fence rails wood. If this hits anyone in particular let them holler.. The pie-faced jay who runs a mil dewed sheet in this town and calls it a newspaper may jump on us legitimately but he might as well know it now as not that we object to his wife talking about the wife of the editor of this pa per at the meetings of the sewing circle. Let him paste this in his slouch. The Up-to-Date Debating Society will meet at the courthouse to-morrow night and discuss the question, "Was Gen. George Washington Justified in Crossing the Delaware ?" Miss Birdie McGuffin is .visiting the home of 'Squire Squilsby. Miss Mc Guffin is from the city and sings like a lark, her fayorite selection being that popular ballad, "When the Surging TideletsTide." While Deacon Hemlock was attend ing class meeting last lnursoay some one entered his house : and stole his large hair satchel. The deacon ttays he does not mind the loss of the satchel, but that it was filled with a new kind of green paper, which he intended to mate experiments with in this country. He says he bought the paper in thefcity Reflections of a Bachelor . New York Press. ' When a girl can't think of any ex cuse to tell you why she did a thing shesays she "had her reasons." A woman always considers other wo men's romances as "love affairs, and her own love affairs as "romances." Appearances are deceitful. Some times the girl you see in the streetcar with a music roll really owns a piano, The time a woman puts in before Bhe gets married in looking ior a man she puts in afterward in watching bim The reason that women always have the last word ia probably the same why moths always eat a man's coat right where it will show the most. Ethical Ideas of the Rain. Tommy Pop, the rain falls alike upon the just and the unjust.doesn't it? . Tommy's Pop Yes, yes; don't ask sillv Questions. Tommv And it isn't iust to steal another man's umbrella, is it? Tommv's Poo Certainly not. II von nsk anv more j . j . Tommv But, Pop, the rain ooesn t fall unon the man that steals the um brella, and it does upon the man who bad his stolen. Funny, ain't it, Pop? Blsmarl&'s Iron-Nerve Wm fViA result of his solendid health. Indomitable will and tremendous energy are not found where Stomach, Liver, Kidnevs and Bowels are out of order. If vnn want these Qualities and tne suc cess thev bring, use Dr. King's New Life Pills. Only 25 cents at. Fetzer's drug store. Candidate (explaining away his de feat): "Yes, gentlemen, l have been rWentpd. hut how have I been defeat- fid?" Voice in the crowd: "You didn't get enough votes." Tit-Bita. "I guess there will be a great deal of war talk in this part of the couritry," said the affable foreigner. "I don't know whether there is to be any war talk or not," answered Oom Paul. "But there's liable to be some fighting." Washington Star. THE CONCORD WEEKLY TIMES Leading Paper in This Section. LARGE AND ESTABLISHEDCIRCULATION ESTABLISHED IN 1875. If you have anything to sell, let the people know it. HAD CONSUMPTION and I am afraid I have in herited it. I do not feel well; I have a cough; my lungs are sore; am losing flesh. What shall I do? Your doctor says take care of yourself and take plain cod-liver oil, but you can't take It. Only the strong, healthy person can" take it, and they can't take it long. It is so rich it upsets the stomach. But you can take SCOFF'S EMULSION It is very palatable and easily digested. If you will take plenty of fresh air, and exercise, and SCOTT'S EMULSION steadily, there is very little doubt about your recovery. There are hypophosphites in it ; they give strength and tone up the nervous system while the cod-liver oil feeds and nourishes. Vc and $1.00, all druggists. cOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. D. O. CALDWELL, M. D. M. L. 8TKYKN8.M. D DRS. CALDWELL & STEYENS, fflee In f ormer Postoffice Building on Mara Street. -Telephone No. 31. DR. H. C. HERRING. DENTIST, Is again at hispid place over Yorke's Jewelry Store, OOfTCOnP, XT. o. Dr. W. C. Houston. Snrgeon Dentist, CONCORD, H. C. Is prepared to do all kinds of dental work in the most approved manner. umce over Johnson's Drug Store. T. HARTSELLf . Attoraey-at-Law, COZrCOHD, NORTH CABOUHA. Pmmnt ntfontinn iHvan t.i oil hnatnaoa Office in Morris building, opposite the court house. W. H. LILLY, M. D. S. L. MONTSOMBBr, M. D DRS. LILLY & zens of Concord and vicinity. All calls promptly attended day or night. Office and residence on East Oepot street opposite Presbyterian church. W. J. MONTGOMEBY. J. LKBOBOWEIi MONTGOMERY & CROWELL, Attorneys and Counselors-at-Lai, CONCOBD, N. 0. As partners, will practice law In Cabarrus, Ptanlv 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 Bank for us, and we will lend it on good real es tate security free of charge to the depositor. . We make thorough examination of title to lands offered as security for loans. Mortgages foreclosed without expense to owners of same. MORRISON H. CALDWELL. U. B. STICK LKY CALDWELL & ST1CKLEY, Attorneys at Law, 'CONCORD, N. C. Office, next door to Morris House. Telephone, 73a. ALWAYS KEEP OR HABO THERE IS HO KIND OF PAIR OR 1 ACHE. IBJTERSJ.L OR EITERI1L THAT PAIR-KILLER WILL NOT RE LIEVE. LOOK OUT FOR IMITATIONS AND SUB-- STITUTES. THE GENUINE BOTTLE BEARS THE NAME, PERRY DAVIS & 80N. BUYS AN Si? 1 Eight Day Clock, 4 Walnut or Oak, Fully 1 Warranted, "7 FOR 12 MONTHS, 8 4 .AT i I J I W. G. CORRELL'S. TH k 117 a t Jtttnr aalr Mtlr 17 rf art tv riUO IlalliuHUfA aliu Liigral 4 I ing a Specialty. Marry Cheaply ! We don't mean marry a cheap, no account man, but to let us print your Invitations at tnO for first fifty and ll 25 for additional J fifty ' Includes outside and Inside envelopes. THE TIMES, CONOORD, N- C- GRANDMA