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steAm book and job office - ' - If t teeu on hand'a fall stock of lTTR HEADS .NOTE HEADS; ..STATE MENTS, BILL HEADS, ENVEL OPES. TAGS, VISITING CARDS WED DING INVITATIONS, ETC ETC. ' TOE . CONCORD TIMES. THE C0SC0ROf VEBCLY "TIKES (tTAIUtHtOmtlTI. GOOI'l'klXTIXG ALWAYS PAYS gieopfessneoo I, akin to mnu . ,,; as -she Many a woman re- lies awake hour by ? tilling the darkness with phan- at the creaking of the bed toms, or the rustle of the bedclothes. Such symp toms in general point to disease of the delicate womanly or gans, and a con stant drain of the vital and nervous forces. This condition cannot be over come by sleep ing powders. The diseased condition must be cured before Hie C6n se quences of dis ease are re moved. - Dr. Pierce Favorite Pre scription cures the womanly diseases which cause nervous ness and sleep lessness:' It is the best of tonics and in jrr.iiit!S,' nourishing the nerves, en coura'in the appetite and inducing Rtrtsliing sleep. Irregularity,, weaken ing drains, inflammation, ulceration and female weakness are perfectly cured by " Favorite Prescription.'' i . - u wU: was sick for over eight year," write Albt h H Fulte, Esq., of Altamont, Grundy Co., Tcuit "She had uterine disease and was treated ; l,v l pliysicans and got no relief. At last I r:i l iilat Dr. Pierce's medicines and we de ciil i! t trv his ""Favorite Prescription.'. I sent tu Vhcirui; tore and got one bottle and the first ! save case ana sleep. tne naa not slept any - -f,,r thr. c irnrhts. Being sure inat it would cure hT I cut tor five more bottles and when she hl t.ikcu the sixth bottle she was sound and Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets should be uscl with " Favorite Prescription " when ever a laxative is required., '-i ' JjROFESSIGtfAL CARDS. . DRV H. C. HERRING. Dentist, Is nu on the ground floor of the JUtaker Building-, C0-TC0O, XT. o. D. W, C. HOUSTON Snrgeon GiLX Dentist, " CONCORD, C. j 1 prepared to do all kinds ot dental work In rlie most approved manner., Otlice over Johnson's Drug 8tore. i Kesitleiice 'Phone 11. Office 'Phone 43. i L. TV HARTSELL, Attorney-at-Lai, ; CONCORD, WORTH CABOLINA. Prompt attention si yen to all business, Orfii-e iu Morris building, opposite the court Drs. Lilly & Walker, offer their professional services to the citi zens of Concord and surrounding count; ry. uans promptly attended aay or mguz. V. J.;M0NTOOMKBT. . L0OWT 1 MONTGOMERY & CROWELL, Attorneys and Counselors-at-Law, CONOOBD, N. O. As partners, will practice law In Cabarrus, tai!!vqnd adjoining counties. In the Supe rior ami Supreme Courts o I the State and In the Federal Courts. Office In court house. i'arties desiring to lend money can leave it with us or place it In Concord National Bank (t us. and we will lend. lt on good real es tate security free of charge to tne depositor, i We make thorough examination of title to lands offered as security for loans. -I Morttranes foreclosed without expense to owners of same. ' The Tourist Season Opens with the Month of June, , i AND THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY announces the sale of Summer Eicnrsion Tickets from All Southern To the delightful Resorts located on and reached via Its lines.. These tickets bear final limit October 31, 1902. That section of North Carolina . known as the "Tin- LAND OF THE SKY,' AND THE 'SAPPHIRE COUNTRY," particularly attractive to those in search ''f iii.,iiiir.iiiii rt-Birr,s. where the air is ever ?j-!l and invigorating, and where acoommo 'iaii.n.s can be had either at the comfortable ari'i u-ii-k:ept boarding houses or the more f xi'i n'sive and up-to-date hotels. ADDITIONAL. SLEEPING CAUS. i'.aced In Service from Various Points n Principal Kesorts, thua affording .' If EATLY IMPROVED FACILITIES For reaching those Points. I ar i ;iikir attention is directed to the ele gant Dining Car Service on principal through trains S,,;,thi.rn lfutlwnv hua lUBt Issued ItS hand 5"i!.a- Uesoi t Folder, descriptive of the many ' I' hlf nl ra.irt.a Hlrvntr the line or ITS nu 'i i.if foxier also gives the names of proprie i s c.Vtuitola and hnnnllTier houses and nUHT ' -r , tu&sts5;hev can- accommodate. Copy f- iiati upon application to any Southern juuiway Agent. W A. TrHK- : RH. HARDW1CK. . I'ifss. Traffic MaT. . Gei.'l Pass, Agent. Washington D.C . AGENTS WANTEDv I M F. of T. DEWITT " 'ALM AGE, by hia S'n. iii-v Vrant TWWlt.t TilmaM and asso- t iu M-ditorsof Christian Herald. Only book - fciiorsed by Talmage family. Jinormoua rr'itii for agents who act quickly. Ontnt ten Write immediately Clark & Co., 4 th St.. PhiladelDhla. Pa. Mention this l ;n-r. ChRi-S WHtHf All RKi f AILS. Ihst tiiigh 8yrup. Tastes Good. in time. Kin riy arafnnstn. if j I - NORTH CAROLINA f """" " : I ' ' ' ' " . ' : rouiio PRAPt -guaru mm. lie Had bled bo much. I hill ABrs LtrrriB. Andrew HiKer mn ttae Bar Doe. H.Tompsonin Biblical Hecorder. The wonderful esar rin. a.a. and almost miraculous feat accomplish ed by out Revolutionary fathers, make, even at this day, our pulses thrill with pnue ana enthusiasm, as we read their oiury. Anere is scarcely a neihhr. m all central! North Carolina, 18 not rich in hiatnrin such things and these have long waited for some one to bring them forth to the light of these later days. The story of Andrew Hunter is one which has been oiien torn, but is so full of adventure and culminates with such a daring deed that it deserves to be retold to each succeeding generation. uavid banning, the notorious tory eader. had a great aversion to Hunter who lived in the southern Dart of th present county of - Randolph. Hunter was a bold, brave man and not always judicious, especially in his speech. He was not afraid of Fanninz nor of any other tory, hence was often giving lueiu irouDie ana tnwarti nor thorn their plans. Fanning" determined to put him to death should he ever fall into the hands of the tories. Hunter and a neighbor, named Latham, were on their way to market on on oc casion, with their cart loaded with flax seed, beeswax and other farm products, when they eay Fanning approaching with his company of tories. It was to ate for Hunter to escape and as Latham had nothing, to fear from Fanning, he sara to Hunter: ; J "You get back into the wagon and cover up in the horse's feed and I will do the best I can fqr you. They haye not seen you yet as you are already -in the cart. It is impossible for you to escape as the pines are too thinly ecat- tprprl in t.Viia wnnHo tr Kiita nnn " Following this advice. Hunter crept back farther into the cart and hid him self amone the market stuff, while Latham drove quietly on until he met the tories. It was a desperate chance and neither of the two men hardly ex- pected that Hunter .would escape. As Latham came up ning called out: r p the Tories, Fan- Hold on thereJ old man. What have you in that cart?" "I have some beeswax, flaxseed and other stuff which-1 1 am carrying to ruaket down on Fee Dee river to get salt and other necessaries," replied Latham. 1 Have you anything to eat?" he again asked. - "I have a little," said Latham, "but hope you wont take it away from me, as I shall need all 1 have before 1 get home again." j Fanning swore that he did not care for Latham's needs, as he and his men were hungry and. must have food. Dis mounting and leaving his mare stand ing., ne entered tnej wagon and in a mo ment he uncovered Hunter. As he did so he exclaimed: I 'Oh, yes, you infernal scoundrel, I've gotjrou now. Come out of there and go ! to saying your; prayers, for you have only a . few ; minutes to live." j " ; . Thtre was nothing else for Hunter to do except to obey. In a minute or two Fanning brought out the provisions and then said: "Bring me that rope; I intend to bane this rebel before we eat our dinner." .. 'Colonel." remarked one of the men, "we are very nungry, ana tne oia 1 1 . i i man's yittles smell too good to wait. Let ua eait oiir dinner, and that will eive the poor devil a little more time to prepare for death." . All neht, if the men say so," re plied Fanning, and as the rest agreed he threw the rope at Hunter's feet, say ing: "Pray fast, jfor you have just fif teen minutes to live." - Hunter tried to pray, but he could not. for thinking of tome way by which to escape. Fanning had taken care to Ve&n him between the cart and his men. Hunter thought of the guns but Fanning seemed to hayethe same thine in mind, for he said: &tana Dy your guns, or mat rascai win get uue and kill some of us." The guns had " !. 1 ?11 JL . been stacked ' against a tree and were out ot reach of the prisoner, while this remark had out them on their guard Hunter's next thought was to seize and mount- Bay Doe," Fanmng's famous blooded . mare, which stood near Dy. Wo ri; not dare.to look in that direc Hon for fear thev would suspect his de sign. If he could only get upon her back he felt sure there would be at least a probability of escape. He had not matured his plan when one oi me pany nmpd Small.' having nmsneu nis re nasi-.: arose with his gun in his hand, and Hunter began to beg him to inter- . ... -r . n-vAM V? Tii cede wun panning w opmo mo Small said to him: "Hunter, it is useless ior you w say anvthing about that, tor you are a con demned man and have only a few mo menta to-live, aad had lust as wen pre- .i t rnu. . nr. 11 ' V A rro -.ova npi.ii . i lit. v mu iro vv r.in Hinnor liTA lime WliliC. uu ixic;u t . 1 !! ! V.n rrnr t.m IS UD. i As they were tailing iu-jr T . ? ; AL i.n1 At. A a 111 le .nearer i vuo standing close by. Small stoppea speaking, when, with a spring, Hunter leaped to the hack of the mare, and with his left. hand caught up the reins. At first she refused to go, but Smal firfd his gun at! Hunter, which fright .,,. w nd like a dash she was off, w,.ntAr threw himself forward on the rv,o0' ahnnlderg and lay flat upon her, while Fanning cried out . to shoot the man,' but not hurt the horse. That order saved Hunter's life, : for they .r,rl it hard work to hit the man and to be sure that they would not injure! the mare. Hunter said tne oumM whizzed by himj but he knew his only chance lay in (keeping close to the withers and let the mare carry him out of thei reach. The fifth shot hit him in the 1 shoulder, but so great w&a his excitement thatfhe did not notice it fox about a mile, hea-be became lost to them. He thep began to f eela little more eecure; add, seeing the Wood, he at tirst thougni xne TriCL but on examination uo -- - . bullet rmiki when he ar- LrS Steed, who summoned a party of men'do the right thing and make amends, v m av . mr mm . . 1 : , - - , ,. . s , . i to guard him. H had bled so much, iby the way, that m eoon aa he dis mounted he fainted, but thephyeiciins j soon dressed his shoulder and had him 1 a.-t t O .I- 1 . ; ".ui h ciusuury, wo ere me slug was taicen from the wound and he recover ed, ready for other adventures with these enemies of his country. The cruelty of Fanning was never more heartlessljr: shown than in his treatment of Hunter's wife. When he found that he could not overtake him, he ordered his men to proceed to Hun ter's house.. Here he seized the ne groes and Mis. Hunter, and carried them to Ws rendezvous in Moore county. From this place he sent Hun ter word that if he would return his mare and the brace of pistols which were attached to the saddle and which were a present to Fanning from Maior Craig,- of Wilmington, the British com mander at tthat place, he would send back his wife and the negroes. Fail ing to get his mare, Fanning deliber ately abandoned Mrs. Hunter in the deep woods, although she was in most delicate health, taking all; the slaves with him. Here she no doubt would have died had not Small returned after they had gone a short distance, and pointed out a path which led to a house some way off. From the people at this nouse sue received great kindness, and soon found her way back home. From this circumstance it was supposed that Small did not try to hit Hunter when he shot at him. - The "Bay Doe" was the means of saving Hunter's life on another occa sion, and at the same time performed one of the most daring feats ever re corded of horses or horsemen . Hunter was in the neighborhood of Buffalo Ford, near the place where Franklin ville now is, when he was sighted by some Tories, who, seeing that he was alone, determined to capture him. He felt fairlv securce as he was mounted on the fatuous mare. How ever, he soon saw that they were about to surround him; so he made for the ford, which, to his dismay, waa guarded by part Of the company. Making hia way farther tip the river, he determined to plunge in above the ford. The hill descends abruptly to the river and eaves no bottom 'land along the mar gin, llunter was on the south side of the river, and wished to reach the north side, as the Tories held him in on all sides except toward the river. He was now on top of the bluff, and aa he ap proached the point where he could go down to the river he found that place also in the hands of his enemies, while they were closing in on him from the rear. He - galloped, back half-way be tween the two parties, which held the points on the river where he noped to cross; then, bidding dennance to his pursuers, he- boldly leaped the "Bay Doe down the precipice into the wat ers of the old "Deep," and, swimming and floundering across, once more es caped the net spread for him by the wily Fanning. This cliff is fully fifty feet high, and its surface has upon it many jagged rocks projecting from it. There is nothing in all our history which excels this leap of Hunter's for daring. Both Hunter and the "Bay Doe" lived to see happier and better days come to the distracted country, and neither ever came into the hands of the Tories again. ConTlneed Her at L.mt. Yes." said the voung man, as he threw himself, at the feet of the pretty school teacher, "I love you, and would go to the world's end fbr you." "You could not go to the world 8 ena for me, George. The world, or earth, as it is called, is round, like a ball, slightly flattened at the poles. One of the first lessons in elementary geogra phy is devoted to the shape of the globe. You must have studied it wnen you were a boy. "Of course 1 did, but "And it is no longer a theory. Cir cumstances have established the fact." I know: but what I meant was that I would do anything to please you. Ah. Angelina, if you but knew the aching void. ? There is no such thing as a void, George. Nature abhors- a vacuum. But, admitting that there couia oe sucn a thing,' how could the void you speak of be a void if there was an ache in it? "I meant to saj that my life will ibe lonely without you; that you are my dailv thought and nightly dream. 1 would go anywhere to be with you. 11 von were in aarKesi Ainca or at me 1 . 1 " 4 ... - North Pole I would ,fly to you I" "Flvl It will be another century before man can fly. Even when the laws of gravitation are successfully overcome, there still remains, says late scientific authority, the difficulty fif a balance" . . "Well, at all events," exclaimed the vnntli 'T ran cet over that! I've a pretty fair balance in the bank, and want you to be my wife. There!" '"Well. George, since you put it in the light, I will." What does it profit a woman if she gains the whole world of knowledge and lose her own health? Young women students, and .school teachers, eaerer. ambitious, and full of energy. verv often neglect theii health in the struggle to gain education. They eat fficient food, and at irregular hours, they allow irregularity of the womanly functions to beiestabusneo, anu me re suit is that the become chronic in valids with all their education practi cally worthless. There is a plain road back to health for such as these, marked by the feet of thousands. -It is the use of Dr. Pierce'a Medical Dis covery for diseases of the stomach and digestive and nutritive organs, and Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for dis eases of the delicate organs of woman hood. A oure'eo certainly follows the use of these remedies that out! of hundreds of thousands who have tried the treatment, ninety-eight in every hundred have been perfectly and per manently cured. Constipation, with its calamitous consequences, which is a common ailment of students, can be entirely cured by the use of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. . ' i Every one is liable to make a mistake: too few are willing to Concord, n. C, Thursday. December 11. AtUata Constitotioo. A chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy write to me for a list of the Georgia-senators and represent lives who seceded in January, 1861, and also for a list of their succesaors in the ; confederate oongreaa. But few men can answer these questions, and indeejd the answer s hard to find in any book. But these women are after information that is worthy of preserva tion in their archives and they will soon know more about the civil war than the men. . ; Well, our state senators before the war were Kobert Toombs and Ben I till. Toombs made a withdrawal fieech which was grand and defiant. Our representatives were Martin J. Crawford, Peter E. Love, Thomas J. Hardeman, Lucius J. Gartrell, John W, II. Underwood, James Jackson, John Jones and Joshua Hill. All of these withdrew except Joshua Hill, who resigned. They are all dead. The members of the first confederate congress were Senators Ben Hill and Herschel Y. Johnson.' Toombs was elected, but had serious opposition and it irritated him so that he refused to serve and later on Johnson waa elected. Toombs said: "The manner ; in which this trust has . been con ferrdd on me relives me from any obligation to accept it." So he unsheathed his sword and went to fight ing. The representatives elected were Julian Hartridge, J. C. Munnerlyn, Hines Holt, A. H. Kenan, David W. Lewis, W. W. Clark, Robert P. Trippe, L. J. Gartrell, Hardy Strickland and Augustus R. Wright, j These are all dead. "Time cuts dqwn all, Ijotlj great and smajl." A letter from another chapter wishes to kno'w the maiden names of the wives of the presidents and the names of the mothers of the presidents. X tell you these women are in earnest. For cen turies their sex has been under the ban. You can't find a history or cyclopedia that tells anything iabout the ;wives or the mothers of great men, and yet itjs the mother whoomakes the man. George Washington's father died when he was 11 years old and his mother trained him and taught him and planted within him all those virtues that made him great-aud ytt there are but few ofour American people who know who his mother was.' I have three sets of standard cyclopedias, but only meager mention is made in them of the mothers or wives of the, presidents. Who knows anything about the mother of Webster, Clay or Camom. ? I have found the maiden names of all the wives of the presidents and the nances of all their mothers except those of Zachariah Taylor, William H- Harri son, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, R; B. Hays and Ben Harrison- Maybe they had no mothers. Well, to hegin. George Washington 8 mother was Mary Ball. His wife was widow Park Curtis, nee Martha Dandridge. John Adams' mother was Susannah Boylston. His wife was Abigail Smith. Thomas Jefferson s mother was Jane Randolph. His wife, Martha Wales. James Madison's mother, Danny Taylor. His wife, Dolly Payne, That Fanny Taylor's brother was grandfather to Zachary Taylor. i James Monroe s mother, JUiza Jones. His wife, Elizabeth Kortright. John Q. Adams had a grandmother, Quincy. No mother is named. His wife was Louise Johnson, Andrew Jackson's mother, Elizabeth Hutchinson; his wife, Rachel Donel- son. . . -' Martin Van Buren's mother, Mary Hoes; his wife, JIannah Hoes. William H. Harrison's mother, not named; wife, Anna Symmes. John Tyler's mother, Mary Arm stead; wife, Letitia Christian. James K. Polk's mother, Jane Knox; wife, Sarah Childress. ZacharyTaylors mother, not named; wife. Margaret Smith. . Millard Filmore's mother, was Phoebe Millard; he never married. Franklin Pierce's mother", not nam ed; wife, Jane Appleton. James Buchanan 8 mother, not named. He was a bachelor. Abraham Lincoln's' mother, Nancy Hanks; wife, Mary Todd.- Andrew Johnson s mother too poor and ignorant to name. His wife. Ehza McCardle, educated him. U S. Grant's mother, Hannah Simp son; his wife, Julia Dent. R. B. Hayes'! mother, not named; his wife, Lucy Ware Webb. James A. Garfield's mother was Eliza Ballou; his wifd, Lucretia Rudolph. Chester A. Arthur mother, Malvina Stone; his wife, Ellen L. Herndon. Grover Cleveland's . mother, Anne Neal; his wife, Frances Folsom. Ben Harrison's mother, not named; his wife was Miss Soott. William McKinley's mother, Nancy C. Allison; his wife, IdaSaxton. Now, of course if . a man can afford to buy the separate biographies of these men, though some have not been writ ten, no doubt he could learn more about their mothers and wives, but not very much. We know but little con cerning the mothers of Milton, Shake speare, Cowper, Pope, Gray, Johnson, Hood, Burns, Moore, Byron, Coleridge or any of the noted writers of England oi Scotland. The idea seems to have been that women as a general rule were of no consequence except to bear children and stay at home and nurse them. But that is not the idea now. Women are coming to the front and claim a more notable position in history and hioranhv, Mrs. Dr Uurt, ot Brunswick, has in press a book devoted exclusively to the mothers of the nota ble men of G-orgia, the mothers oi our governois and statesmen and ministers and military heroes, 1 and I know she will do justice to them. Some time sgo a friend of mine died and he was a man of some note,' his son, who is crowinz old. wanted to. answer Mrs. Rnrfa letter about his grandmother, and he told me he didn't know any- thing about her didn't even know her maiden name, ne emu uc u.m u f-w oV .linr! Wpn Via waa a Ban ucx, o v,;m o., ho nr hprd his father aav u t.-... w- -r-L. ..- i , v, htit it will for th elevation t nm. t. hor nroner oosition by the side of man and not beneath him, is rapidly coming oo. This federation of woman's dobs j will w it- woman's rights. This recognition of woman has gained ground rapidly since the war. Before that oar school tecbers were generally men and where are had women as assistants they woe import ed from the north. We had five in oar town. One by one they got mar ried and we sent off and got another. Our well-to-do widowers took a liking to them, for our girls wouldn't mirry a widower and our young men wouldn't marry yankee school mistress. But sinoe the war our own girls have gone to teaching and are found in every school room in the land. If they are jnore fit to teach our children than are the men, then why are they not Letter paid, and why are they not members of our school boards? I have known men to be elected on school boards who couldn't do a sum In the role of three and didn't know whether algebra was Latin or astronomy. Some of these same men are put on the committee to choose school books. School boards are not always elected for scholarahip, but for sectarian influence and because they have an ax to grind. But this is enough for one letter. I hope the young people will out it out and paste it In their scrap book and keep it for reference so that when they are married and have inquisitive child ren they can answer these questions Every young person should have a sorap book. One of our teachers was not long ago asking her scholars about Washington. "Who can . tell me something about George Washington?" and owe of the boys said : "He was born on Mount Vermont." Another boy said ''He Was named for the city of Washington." and another .aid. He was the father of all the country children," and; another said, "He cut a cherry tree down to git the cherries, and didn't tell a lie about it and his father never Jiokod him for it, but that night he bad the colic mighty bad." And here is a good kind letter of sympathy from a full-blooded Cherokee ludian, i who writes from the Indian Territory and says he was born in Mur ray county and loves Georgia and her people. He asks about the Howells, and says hia father knew the old man on the Chattahoochee and always said there was some good Indian blood in his veins. Well, they do like it. 'I expect our Evan came sideways down from old Powhatan, Just as my wife came from Pocahontas. Hello, Cousin Evan; we are kin. ' ; Biu. Arp. Ants ad Sptdr aa Fed for Polk. In some countries the people eat ants. : In Sweden they mix them with rye and flavor the stew with brandy. They make a j dish of pressed ants and soften it with milk until it looks like our chocolate. I " 'la Africa toe children roast large white ants and eat them by the hand ful like popcorn. Travelers who have eaten them say that they taste like al mond paste, i Many, people cook and eat the locutt. They boil them in salty water, roast them in oil or fry them in butter. Sometimes they . dry and grind the locusts and make the powder into bread by adding a little water. The Mexicans are fond of roasted spiders. They also dry the eggs of a certain water fly, grind them into flour and sell it by the sack. This flour is sweet and much used for cakes. These -are j only a few of the many queer things eaten by the boys and girls of other i lands. The children of our own country .of ten eat roasted grass hoppers and; say that they taste like parched horse corn or maize. Qneer Country Capers. These items sent in by rural corre spondents of j The Whitsett Courier: "Who's afraid of hard times? We've caught fifty-five 'possums and two coons already this fall ! "Two of our worthiest citizens have been arrested for killing rattlesnakes on J Sunday. "Bud News had his other leg cut off on the railroad, Tuesday morning about 9 o clock. I "A snake with hi teen rattles and a button was found fast asleep in Zion church, Monday. Didn't know before th$t the new parson's sermons were so far-reaching.!. "Mayor Tom Zadd was bitten by. i dog on Wednesday at 10 o'clock sharp, The dog and the major are both slowly reoovering.". , ' , The Enect of a Mixed Diet. Dr. Henry Van Dyke tells a story of an Irishman who was engaged in the business of chicken-raising near Prince ton. One day a traveling man expres sed surprise at the use of so much corn meal at a feeding time, and suggested that the meal be mixed with sawdust, insisting that the hens would not know the difference. A few months later the traveling man was again in the com munitv. and he asked if the new diet had been tried and what the result bad been. "It works beautiful," was the reply. "See the old yellow hen? Well, I tried her on half and half, and she liked it so well that I changed it all to sawdust, and the last time she Latched three of the chicks had wooden legs and a fourth was a woodpecker." Th PrnoDeri Promlte. The jury brought in a verdict of "not guilty." The judge said, admonish iiitrlv. to the orisoner: "After - this ! you ought to keep away from bad com pany "Yes. your lordship. .You will not see me here! again in a hurry A frightened Horse. Running jlike mad down . the street damning the occanants. or a hundred other accidents, are every day occur rences. It behooves everybody to have 1 a reliable Salve handy and there s none 1 as good as Bncklen's Arnica Salve. Barns, Oats, Sores, Eczema and Piles, , disappear quietly under it's soothing eu.ee-. o u I ! i i., it l A man with an unusually large mouth has the habit of opening it on some occasion very wide. His dentist i the other :day administered a mua rebuke: "Not so wide, please; I prefer tci stand outside and work. 1902. LI-IB T viOTUtTM BKtB tr TKM l.lt-1-ie 1S fktttt, Charity WLjris. rcUired said to be 105 j er old, who di-d in Birmingham Ut work in a Luie tm- btedown shanty, was the mai Blind Tom, one of the rrmirvt tci. gies the tuicjj world evrr known. She was Wn in tUxrrj sod UJoejm! to the family of U-wrsi James N. Ite thone, wealthy tkorgian. who lited near Cuiumbos. Sb was the mother of twenty children, of whom the notd insnUt was originally rrgardJ as the kast worthy. " hen Tom was born hi moth-r be- onged to Colonel Wik-y Jones, of Gear. gia, and not kn after his birth the and her children were sold to Oeneral Bethune.. Tom U in Uio-t and rmi. sidered worthless was "thrown in." that is to say, in the transaction no raluation was set upon hini. v hen the child was three years old. according to the story of his mother told just before she died, he deretoped a great fondn. for music. Oen-ra! Bethune's daughters were accomplished musicians, and the chief dt-hght of the blind boy, who was allowed to crawl about the yard, wearing a single gar ment a shirt was to get under the window and listen to the young womeu playing the piano. o one lud much attention to him in those days and it was his custom to lie on .the ground for hours listening to the music which floatfd out through the windows of the Ikthune mansion. One day, when he knew the oocu- pants Were all upstairs, Tom cret in to the house, end grooing to the i4ano climUtt up on the stool and Vgsn to press the keys cautiously with hia baby fingers.' Becoming bolder, Ucue no one came to take hiru away, he Itegan to play the selection he had jumt heard. 14.- I . . .1 . ' l . . ue uiemuers tu me jamuy-on the second floor heard some one at Um piano and supposed it was one of the neighbors who had dropped in to call. But at length Tom. the little negro was discovered, his remarkable musical talent was immediately recognized. lie was asked to play over the various familiar airs he had been accustomed to hear around the house. The aston ishment of those present was great hen he reproduced them uote tor note, and showed bis ability to jJay the most complicated selections 1 once he had heard them. Thus was his musical geu:us made known, and while still a child he was introduced to the musical world. It was said of him in those days that nature had music for hini, and that even the patter of the raindrops on the roof were to him sweeter than the greatest man-made music. . Blind Tom's birth raises an interest ing question in psychology, and has been the subject of comment in the ectures of some of the most emi nent men of science in the country. Just before his birth there were sevetal young women at the home of his mother s owner, all musicians. They played on the piano in the evenings, and frequently had Tom's -mother to dance for them, a duty which fell ightly on the shoulders of the negress, who violently loved not only . the danc ing but the music. She took advan tage of every opportunity to hear the piano, and seemed enchanted with its melodies. She had a good memory, and learned many of the selections. though not able to play herself. This is believed by many scientific men to account largely if not wholly for the wonderful talent of her son. In her declining years the old woman delighted to tell stories illustrating the peculiar and remarkable accomplish ments of her blind offspring. She al ways denied that he had only intelli gence in music, and she resented the idea that his gift of music was purely mechanical. When Blind Tom was at the height of his fame some years ago, having won renown in this country and Eu rope, he invited his mother to go to New York and be his comiianion. She went and for five years had every com- iort of life, but she was supremely un happy because she was removed from her old surroundings and associates. Accordingly she returned to the tittle two-room cabin which General Bethune before his death had built far her" on bis old Georgia plantation. There kbe and two of her daughters remained un til last April, when her daughters, re moved to Birmingham. The old wo man came with them, and the trio, on account of illness and natural infirmi ties, became poverty stricken. The mother of the musician took her bed in July and never arose again. : Suit Against Colonel Carr. . Colonel Robert L, Abernathyt who for several years haa had charge of one of Colonel Julian S. Cart's large farms, has brought suit against Colonel Carr, in Uaston county, to recover money that he claims is due him on a salary contract that he made with Colonel Carr at the time he took charge of the farm. The bringing of this suit has caused much interest there and at other points in the state. It is said that Col onel Abernathy has ' been induced to bring this suit in order to -injure Col onel Carr's chances of being selected by the : next legislature as the successor of Senator Pritehard. A Ceatly Mistake. Blunders are sometimes very expen sive. Occasionally life itself is the price of a mistake, bat you'll never be wrong if yon take Dr. King's New" Life Pills for Dyspepsia, Dizziness, Headache, Liver or. Bowel troubles. They are gentle yet thorough. 25c. at Fetzer's drag store. It begins to look as if vindication awaits the late Bishop Lyman, of the diocese of North Carolina. A number of years ago he gave it out that pea nuts, with sweet milk, just before re tiring,' were an infallible cure for in somnia. Skeptic scoffed and ' even some of the good bishop's female par ishioners snickered behind their fans; but now comes a Philadelphia man who deposes and says that he cared himself of insomnia by eating fifty roasted, salted peanuts just before going to bed and could sleep now if there were a Mont Pelee in his back yard. Char lotte Observer. ' Number 28. !.. mn rsLITirtl j ' Rtrnsii, - It seems that IV. KUfu't rcwMOtu cattoa in the Western Cfcrwuaa Ad&. cats ha cai down lit TUi eeruinj church in Orvresfewt. This sertns to be Ue s!y cbarch tUsl h espnpwd offiLwtUaci to said commuiu. cuqo4 IV, Kilgo is one of the flat 'Utti" mQ and mart eminent d vinm, tl in UttJlecL and know)!, at least, a d-xrd in advance of his tr dicml lie may not U enurWy free from the iafirnuuv ttM-iJ'et kt ho inanity, but his taasl in the aua! of true! manhood; ts not urt with every day. Vhst be has done for Trinity Cutkire is eouugh to immoruhse turn. ir. KMgo does Dot rd any chro mium from our pen but we believe to rendering unto CWtar the thiegt whkh are Caesar's, and. we do not brliete in censuring a minitr of tod for crying ont against the sins of church, sUte individual. Truth is truth, whether it commends,: or condemns, and a fw more Kilgos, Just at this time, might be, of grral smrice to the ChrUUsn church in all its bmnches, and to px4i tics in all parties. i llrdrorU! HiuUw. lh Kilgo, president of Trinity CoJ lege, i agan the subject of some quite interesting discussion because of a con tribution he made, to lbs Western. Christian Advocate,' just Ufore the eu-clion, on modern politic. Probably worth while to quote his letter tn full. which U as follows : ; There is more truth than poetry in a good deal of what Dr. Kilgo has to say in the above. Latter day politics it wanting, very, much, in decency and uattce. The tmbho conscience needs luiprovcmeut all along lttial Jim. We need to go back to primary prin ciples and begin over sgsia. Our forefathers would hsve shuddered , at the thought of bribery and iulimtda tion at elections, as iirscticed in this day and limeJ The patriots who fol lowed George Washington through st-veu long yigars of thst memorable struggle tor freedom and the hope of establishing free homes and free tin stitutions for their posterity, would be astounded, yea ashamed, to witness the damnable schemes of modern poli ticians calling themselves statesmen. Of cowrse Dr. Kilgo means only to condemn some of the evils in polities and not the entire system or all of the Ieople who tarticipate in political af fairs. Otherwise his criticism would be unjust. The fault is not so much in the system as in the unscrupulous demagogues wio forge their wsy to the front by questionable methods. The evils of which Dr. Kilgo -speaks exist to so extent in all political, par ties, but the party in power in Amer ica today has gained its vantage by the most infamous tactics ever devised by subjects of any country, province or principality, lit now holds sway by a system of bribery and hypocrisy which is as corrupt ft it is possible to im agine, uur people have bad some ex perience with the new and proselyting methods of carrying on elections dur ing the recent campaign in the tenth congresrional district and decent men have had enough to last them a life time, i f Continued Vail of ftllvcr. Ualtimors Snr. i - The continued fall of idlfer to a price under 50 cents an ounce makes the "standard" silver dollar worth intrinsi cally 38.66 cents and approximstes it the more as a virtual "promise-to-psy" to the greenback. Before the decline of silver began an ounce of silver was worth fl.2. ; its fall to 50 cents beces sarily effect greatly the ffosincss of nations like Mexico that continue on the silver basis. As the price fluctu ates, with a continued downward tend ency, governments whose revenues are in silver find it difficult to make expenditure and revenue bat, a nee, especially where interest hss to be paid abroad in gold. Merchants hsve like difficulty and often find an expected tfiat profit turned into a loss by the decline of silver. The United States has recently lost a million dollars in the Philippines, it is stated, by hav- iug the currency there still on a silver basis." The British have till how con tinued to coin silver dollars for use in the Straits Settlement, the Malay states . - - ? ts a and the . r ar rast generally, out r. Chamlerlain has just taken steps to discontinue its use on the ground that it injured the business of the local mer chants. China's loss from the decline of silver in connection with the indent nity payable to the European t powers raises important diplomatic questions. The causes of the decline are still in operation, and it is thought not Un likely; that within five years silver will sell at 40 cents ah ounce or lower. Under such circumstances silver tm time may lose Its plsce as a "precious metal and come to be classed with cop-i per. A compensation will perhaps be found in the wider use of this beautiful metal for domestic utensils and all sorts of fancy articles. i HcvoJntlea lnlit. j A sore sign of approaching revolt and Serious troable. In your system is ; ner vousness, sleeplessness, or stomach up sets. Electris Bitters will qoickly dis member the troublesome xannes, . It never fails to tone the stomach, regn late the kidneys and Bowels, stimulate the liver, and clarify the blood. 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The Concord Times (Concord, N.C.)
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Dec. 11, 1902, edition 1
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