THE TIMES, o John B. Sherrill, Editor and Owner. sFTJBLl&IIEP TWICE .A. fcWEEK. $1.00 a Tear, in Advance. VOLUME XXI. '"CONCORb,. C.t JANUARY 26.. 1904 NUMBER 4 lT ff?TT'?!TT?T"?TfTr 1 -.. - -; I " " i " r - , f0 fCPfl sen Cas&if Backed up by over a third of a century of remarkable and uniform cures, record uch as no other remedy for the diseases and weakness peculiar to women, ever attained, the proprietors of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription now feel fully war ranted in offering- to pay $500 in legal money of the United States,, for any case of Leucorrhea, Female Weakness, Prolan aus or Falling of Womb which they can not cure. AU they ask is a fair and reason able trial of their means of cure. I used four bottle of your 'Favorite Pre scription and one of Golden Medical Discov ery'" writes Mrs. Elmer D. Shearer, of Mount hope. Lancaster Co., Pa., " and can say that I am cured of that dreaded disease, uterine trouble. ' Am in better health than ever before. Every one who knows me is surprised to see me look so well. In June I was so poor in health that - at times I could not walk. To-day I am cured. I tell everybody that Or. Pierce's medicines cured me." . Fkbb. Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Med leal Adviser is sent frtt on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Send 31 one-cent stamps forthe cloth-boundvolume. . Address Wotld's Dispensary Medical Assoc ciation, Proprietors, Buffalo, N. Y. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. DR.H. C. HERRING. DENTIST, Ia now on the ground floor of the LI taker Hulkllng. . OOMOOSD, M. 0. Dr. W. C. Houston . Surgeon 61 Dentist, CONOORD, . 0. Is prepared to do all kinds ot dental work In the most approved manner. Office over Johnson's Drug Store. . Residence 'Phone 11 office 'Phone 42. II T. HARTSELL, Attorney-at-Law, 1 cdarcoao, hohth Carolina. Prompt attention given to all business. Office in Morris building, opposite the court house. Drs. Lilly & Walker, otter their professional services to the cltl sens ot Concord and surrounding country. Calls promptly attended day or night. W t. MOMTOOMBBT. J. LMOBOWItf MOHTGOMERY 4 CROWELL, Attorneys and Connselors-at-Law , OONOOBD, N. 0. As partners, will practice law in Cabarrus, Btanlv and adjoining counties. In the Supe rior and Huprenie Courts o 1 the State and in the Federal Courts Office In court house. ' Parties desiring to lend money can leave It with us or place It lu Concord National Hank 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. Henry B. Adams. Frank Armfield. Tola D. Maness. Thot. J. Jerome. idiis, Jerome,. Arnfield & Uaness, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, concord, n. c. Practice in all the State and IT. 8. Courts. Prompt attention given to collections and general law practice. Persons Interested in . the settlement of estates, administrators, executors, and guardians are especially in vited to call on them. Continued and pain staking attention will be given, at a reason sonahle price, to all legal business. Office in Pythian Building, over Dry-Heath-Mliler & ( o.'s opposite I). P Davvault & Bros, ap-ly Fire Accident. Liability, jc.ee: d Use-and-0ccupanc7 INSURANCE, lOIIC -EXPERIENCE; Large number of Very Best Com pames represented at our Agency . on West Depot Street. Phone No. 184. , - G. G. RICHMOND & CO. "WANTED. A few acres of gftod farming land near Concord. Also h$e For Sale one building lot 50x140 feet, corner of Ninth and Myers streets, in the city of Charlotte. Will exchange same for farm ing lands if desired. Apply to K. L; CRAVEN, Dealer in Soft. Smith and Hard Coal. 31 ?! tuS 5tK fcf LsiTalLS. IBs (A t lovab Sjnip, Tames uxd. time. tnld ST drnrvws. Ao AorT)l Story ror Little PolKs Bears Good Fortune The boars bad a nice bouse which they rented, from Mr. Camel, and they ylshcd to remain there the rest of their days, for they were getting along In years and did not relish the Idea of moving. ' But you know we are not always able to have everything our own way In this world, and so It proved to be with the bears. One day Mr. Camel decided that be would like to live In BIQ TEARS STREAMED OUT OF TBEIB EYES. (hat house himself, and be sent word to the bears that they would have to move out. Mr. and Mrs. Bear were almost bro ken hearted. Tbey did not know what to do, for, look as bard as tbey could, tbey were unable to find another hous Into which to move. When the day came for the bears to pet out tbey did not know where to go. But go they bad to, and go the did. Down the road they marched aide by aide, while great big tears streamed out of their eyes. When tbey reached the top of a hill about a mile from-the bouse they had Just left they turned to take a fare well look at It. And what do you think? The bouse had disappeared! Tbey bad no more than got out of It when a big gust of wind came along and blew It down in a mass of planks and boards upon the ground. Not one piece remained attached to another. "What a lucky thing for us!" ex claimed. Mr.' Bear Joyfully. "If we bad not got out when we did we would have been crushed to pieces." And, indeed, they would have been. They were certainly fortunate, for a little fartheV on down the ,road they found the tiger family moving out of a real nice bouse, .and the bears se cured that one and lived there until the end of their days. Chicago Trib une. A New Southern History. Announcement has been mad of the early issue of a new history of the United States by Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co., one of the best known school- book publishing houses. The work is by Mr. Waddy .Thompson, of Atlanta, who, by the way, is a son of ex-Governor Thompson, of South Carolina. Although the author necessarily takes the Southern view of things and de velops the history of the country with the purpose of giving prominence to the South, yet such peculiar fairness to all sections pervades the work that it has been strongly endorsed both by Gen. Jno. B. Gordon, whose recent death haa thrown the South into mourning, and by Gen. II. V. Boyn ton, a Federal officer of great experi ence, now the Chairman of the Chicka mauga and Chattanooga National Park Commission. Such endorsements establish for the book a unique record of fairness. Those who have seen the advance sheets are unstinted in their commen dation of the author on account of his painstaking care, his suppression of personal opinion and feeling, and in deed the eminent art which haa en abled him to produce a work thus shown to be" justo the North as wJl as to the South. The South demands nothing but the troth. - - When Cotton Was High. y. F. Dixon In Charlotte News. In the fall of 1868, being a small farmer, raising from 15 to 20 bales, I sold a part of my crop in Noy ember for 14 cents. It then went down in December to 8 and 9 Ants. About the middle of January it be gan going down, the exact dates I have not got as my papers were all burned. But, sometime in February I sold the balance of my crop for 14 cents which was all I wanted. It continued to go up from that at the rate of from 25 to 50 points a day until it went to 28 cents. There was a company of farmers who went from this county to Kington, in Lenoir county and rented a large farm from a man by the name of Wooten for 11,000 dollars a year in money. One of them was the late Cyrenus Alex ander. They made a failure that year and came back. In settling with Mr. Wooten he took their cotton at 12 cents and held it until he got 25 canU for it. T FIVB YEARS Charlotte Chronicle. Mr. O. P. Heath ia one ot the Aid ing cotton merchants of Charlotte. He is interested in cotton mills and is in touch with the cotton mill side of the question as well as the side of raw cot ton. On being asked to give an opin ion of the cotton market Mr. Heath said: "It will be a long time before we see cheap cotton again. The factories have taken thousands of families from the cotton fields. Cotton ought really to have gone up in price before it did. The supply has been scant for several years past, but the trade didn't realize it. Here at Charlotte we've built a city of thirty thousand people. - Most of these have come from farms. All over the cotton states factories have been es tablished and cities and towns haye been built. Where did the people come from to do this ? Not from the north or from Europe. They came from the the cotton farms. The present price is reasonable in view of these changes." "How long will the present standard of price last ?" was asked. 'Till conditions again change. This will take time. I can see no promise of low prices for five years to come. The manufacturing population are not going back to the farm. Where are new farmers to come from to take the places of those who have gone into the manufacturing? If they come from the north it will take time years of time to come and get settled. It they come from Europe there must be time for them to come in numbers, to learn the language and to learn how to culti vate cotton. I have no doubt we will get people ia time and that we will have a far larger production than at present in time, but I speak of high prices now and for five years to come." "But," asked the newspaper man, suppose we have a big crop per acre next year. Wouldn't the south supply the demand at lower prices?" "If we have a big crop next year prices will still be high by present stan dards. We haven't the labor to gather a big crop per acre. Leave out the boll weevil, which may be a factor, the world is needing more cotton all the time. Last year we were short. This year .we will .be short again. A big crop next year wouldn't make up the losses. Therefore a big crop will not put prices down to anything like -what we ordinarily consider very low prices." Assuming these views of Hr. Heath to be correct, the situation make a very promising outlook for the farmer and for the merchant who furnishes the farmer.. And there's the commercial fertilizer man whose prospects would seem brighter than for a long time in the past. If Sahara War a Sea. French engineers have declared it is perfectly feasible to convert the desert of Sahara into a vast lake, thus opening to commerce great regions of the inter ior of Africa, which can now only be reached by long, tedious and dangerous caravan Journeys. They say that a large portion of the desert lies below the level of the Atlantic, and that by digging a canal to let in the waters of the ocean the great change could be effected easily and at a cost which would be small compared to the bene fits which would accrue. If the whole desert lay below the level of the Atlantic the flooding of it would create a sea more than four times as big as the Mediterranean; but as the Sahara is composed of elevated plateaus, mountain ranges and depressionswonly a part would be covered with water when the waves of the ocean were let in, and the new sea thus formed would be an irregular body of water, probably . i . . S . ' .1 01 bdoui me same size as me mediter ranean. Great commercial cities would at once spring up on' its shores and trade and civilization strike at once to the heart of Africa. The sea of -Sahara may never become a reality, but in any event, it is a gigantic, pleasing dream. Working; flight and Day. The busiest and mightiest little thing that ever was made is Dr. King's Tfew Life Pills. These pills change weakness into strength, listlessness into energy, brain-a into mental power. They're wonderful in building up the health. Only 25c per box. Sold by all druggists. The Wayside Missionary Why do you drink that vile stuff? Dismal Dawson Cause it's the easi est way to git it down; I can't breathe it, kin I?" Mr. Wm. S. Crane, of California, Md., suffered for years from rheumatism and lumbago. He was finally advised to try Chamberlain's Pain Balm, which he did and it effected. complete cure. For sale by M. L. Marsh. Charity uncovers a multitude of sins. Tbs Smart Bet. HIGH PRICES F Tint HOOPSK1RT IFECTBR. Fairbrotber's Everything. Paris fashion ' news suggests that hoopskirts the genuine old fashioned circus tent affairs are liable to become the style again. It may be true. When Fashion makes decree it is sterner than any human law. We have just been gaaing upon the Fashion plates as they appeared in the Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, printed in New York in 1844 and the hoopskirt looms up like a balloon in distress. John Inman, the editor of this magazine, lays great stress on his colored fashion plate and several times says : "We are con strained limply to say our fashions are perfect copies of those imported monthly by us from London and Paris (save only such modifications as are adopted in New York) and are engraved expressly for the Columbian at great expense. It is idle for any one to say they are not the latest, or the most authentic, for they certainly are." So it will be seen that even in those days envious publishers doubtless accused their competitors of faking pictures. However, if the hoopskirt is going to make our women look like those Fashion plates of those days we re sign. We do not propose to stand for it. The Columbian's pictures are per haps perfect but they remind us of the conversation of a couple of moun taineers who were going into Charlotte the other day as witnesses in the Fed eral court. They wore chin whiskers and face whiskers and neck whiskers. They were brown with sun and grease and dirt. Their teeth were yellow and they wore flannel shirts and had evi dently not changed them for many months. Altogether they looked like wild animals and a cbimpanzee could have given them odds and beaten their heads off. They gazed out the car windows and remarked that that was the first time they had, ever been on a fast train and it was a local poking along'? When station would be reached they would rubber neck out the windows . and look at the busy throng at the depot. And every time a station was reached one would say to the other: "God, Bill, but ain't they the curiouste8t people you -ever seed?" And when we looked upon the gown worn by milady in 1844 with its wealth of cloth reaching out to cover the immense hoopskirts we were reminded of what his companion said to Bill. Let us hope that there will be a war or something to stay the iron hand of Fashion if it has really decreed that the hoopskirt must come. Rome Good Catches. Woman's Rome Companion. What has two eyes and can' I see, two ears and can't hear, four legs and can't walk or run, and yet can jump as hjgh as Bunker Hill Monu ment ? Answer A dead cat. But how can a dead cat lump as high as Bunker Hill Monument?. Answer How high can Bunker Hill Monument jump? Say in an offhand way to a friend, "1 m sure you know this, so answer quickly, 'Who killed Cain?' " rune times out of ten the answer will be "Abel." A. "I can make you say 'No, I haven't !" B. "You just try it !" A. J'Well, I was traveling in Wis consin last July. It was very hot, and I was quite thirsty when I reached Eau Claire. So I stepped into a res taurant, and asked the waiter to bring me the most refreshing beverage he had. He looked somewhat puzzled, but presently brought in a tray con taining a glass of iced milk, a glass of iced tea and a cup of hot coffee. Now tell me, ( which would you " have chosen?" B. (cautiously) "Coffee." A. (in apparent consternation) "Oh, you've heard it before-!" B. (indinnantly) "No, I haven't !"' Fennel n rare for Indigestion. I use Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets for indigestion and find that they suit my case better than any dyspepsia remedy I have eve$ tried and I have used many different remedies. I am nearly fifty-one years of age and have suffered a great deal from indiges tion. I can eat almost anything I want to now. Geo. W. Emory, Bock Mills, Ala. For sale by M. L. Marsh. Ella: "Bella told me that jViu told, her that secret I told you not to tell bee" Stelly: "She's a mean thing I told her not to tell you I told her." Ella:. "Well I told her I wouldn't tell you she' told me so don't tell her I did." When bilious try a dose of Chamber lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and realize, for once how anicklr a first-class up-to-date medicine will correct the dis- p order. For sale by M. L. Marsh. DIVTIRBER AND DESTROY ICR. Charlotte Observer. Mr. W. J. Bryan's Bpeech at the dol lar cfinner at Lincoln, Neb., Monday night, was unmistakenble notice to the country of what is to be expected of him this year, and, judging from the newspaper press of the'bountry, nobody has misinterpreted him. His demand that there be no concessions to the con servatives and that the a Kansas City platform be re-affirmed in its entirety can mean but one thing, for he is not a fool and he knows what he is doing. That platform and the candidate on it having been defeated in 1896, and the same candidate on the same platform having been still worsedefeated in 1900, anybody has sense enough to know that if the Democratic party goes before the country this year presenting the same discredited, shop-worn, dead and bur ied issues it will not only be defeated again but annihilated. Ninety one hundredths of the Democrats of the United States who have given the sub ject a thought and entertain a prefer- ence for a candidate are for Cleveland, Parker, Gorman, Olney or Gray. Mr. Bryan has publicly declared his opposi tion to every one of these. He follows the declaration of this opposition to all the favorite candidates with the dollar dinner speech Monday night, proposing again a defeated and odious platform, thus making it perfectly clear that he intends to beat the party if he can. After his second defeat, in 1900, he de clared that he would never give in to the "re-organizers," and was quoted at the same lime as saying in effect that so locg as he was alive no Democratic candidate for the presidency should be elected. His utterances at this time establish that he has not changed his purpose but proposes to make it good by eliminating all of the men that the party wants and giving it, in a plat form, a load under which ithasa'ready twice'stood and which it is now more than ever impossible for it to carry: Mr. Bryan's role this year, as he has himself made plain, is to be that of a diBturber and a destroyer. No argu ment is needed on this point he has himself furnished the proof. It is for the party to say whether it will listen to him, try to placate him-, and thus walk as he wants it to, with its eyes open, to certain -defeat, or 'vhether it will ignore him, select its candidate and frame its platform with reference to his wishes, but regarding only the desires and interests of the people, and grasp the victory which is within reach. Immigration to Tbe South. Hie work 01 the last decade in in ducing immigration to the Southern States by the land and industrial dcpait ment of the Southern Railway, assisted by the residents and the various indus trial organizations of the South, is bear ing results that surpass expectations. Large parties pass through Washington almost daily on their way to the South to take up new homes. Special atten tion is being paid to the farmer immi grants. They are being attracted from Canada and Europe. Representatives of a party of 200 prospective German immigrats of the Northern States and the Fatherland, accompanied by officials of the railway company, passed through Washington one night recently to make a tour of in spection of the South. They are de sirous of getting an option on 10,000 acres of land, and will visit the more productive States to find a suitable loca tion. The land will be selected with a view td its fertility, advantages and the healthfulness of thetommunity. Attempt at Train-Wrecking. Greensdoro, Jan. 2i. A bold at tempt was made to wreck the Florida special, No. 29, at the north end of the yards in this city tonight. Some party, or parlies, unknown placed two large new cross-ties directly across the track f the main line, which were discovered by a colored fireman of one of the in- dustrial plants of the city, who was going home after finishing" his day's work. It was evidently quite an, exer tion for him to lift the heavy ties, for he was of small stature, but he got them off and came breathless with per spiration streaming down his face and his voice quivering with excitement to the trainmaster's office and matte a re port of what he bad found and done. Had this obstruction been allowed a remain on the track an hour longer tbe Florida special wotfd doubtless have run into it with a dreadful osash and many lives have been lost. No Pur Shown. "For years fate was after me contijsH- onsly," writes F. A. Gulledge, Verbtin, Ala. "I bad a terrible case of Piles caaang 24 rumors. hem all failed, Bucklen's Arnica Salve cored me. Equally good for boras and all aches nd pains. Only 25c at all drag stores. Love's dreams go by contraries. WHY HE WAS NOT PROMOTED. Orison Sweet Marten, In "Success." He watched the clock. He was always grumbling. He was always behind-hand He was not willing, but unlisted. He didn't believe in himself. He asked too many questions. His stock excuse was "I forgot." He wasn't ready for the next step. He did not put bis heart in his work. He learned nothing from liis blun ders. He felt that he was, above his posi tion. He chose his friends among his in feriors. He was content to be a second-rate man. He ruined his ability by half doing things. He never dared to act on .his own judgment. He did not think it worth while to learn how. He tried to make "bluff" to take the place of ability. He thought he must take amusement every evening. Familiarity with ship-shod methods paralyzed his ideal. He thought it clever to use coarse and profane language. He was ashamed of his parents be cause they were old-fashioned. He imitated the habits of men who could stand more than he could. He did not learn that the best part of his salary was not in his pay envelope. Women as Well as Men Are Made Miserable by Kidney Trouble. Kidney trouble preys upon the mind, dis courages and lessens ambition; beauty, vigor and cheerfulness soon disappear when the kid neys are out of order or diseased. ' Kidney trouble has become $o" prevalent that it is not uncommon for a child to be born f3 afflicted with weak kid- - neys. If the child urin T ates too often, if the urine scalds the flesh or if, when the child reaches an age when, it should be able to control the passage, it is yet afflicted with bed-wetting, depend upon it, the cause of the difficulty is kidney trouble, and the first step should be towards the treatment of these important organs. This unpleasant trouble Is due to a diseased condition of the kidneys and bladder and not to a habit as most people suppose Women as well as men are made mis erable with kidney and bladder trouble, and both need the same great remedy. The mild and the immediate effect of Swamp-Root is soon realized. It Is sold by druggists, in fifty cent and one dollar sizes. You may have a sample bottle by mail free, also pamphlet tell- Rome of Swamp-Root. ine all about it, including many of the thousands of testimonial letters received from sufferers cured. In writing Dr. Kilmer fit Co.. Binehamton. N. Y.. be sure and mention this paper. Cabarrus Sayings Bank. Concord and Albemarle, N. C. CAPITAL, $50,000.00 Surplus and undivided pro II is, - f2tt,OO0.00. Resources Over $300,000. General Banking Business Transacted. Ac counts of Individual, Arms and corporations solicited. We cordially Invite Every Man, Woman and Child who wishes to "lay by something for a rainy day," to open a Savings Account with us. 4 per cent. Interest paid on savings deposits and time certificates. OFFICERS. D. F. CANNON, H. I. WOODHOTTSE. President. Cashier MABTIN BOUKK, -C. W.SW1NK, Vk-e-rresldent. Teller. When a lady -wants a watch, she .wants onef' that will keep time aa weir as look pretty. 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By the use of three or four doses a week your, horse or mule will not be subject to colic or any dis ease of the stomach and bowels. "I had an old horse that was in very bad condition generally. He was thin and had a blood disease that was causing the hair to come off. I gave the horse three doses of Ash cratt's Condition Powders a day for seven days and fed him liberally. The appetite improved from the first few doses and the animal gained flfty-two pounds in flesh during the week I gave It three doses a day. The general health of the animal was greatly improved by the use of the powders and he was made almost a new horse. I most heartily recommend Ashcraffs Condition Powders, as I know they are a splen did tonio and appetizer. C. C. 81KES, Livery man, Monroe, N. C.M Ask for Ashcraffs Condition Powders. Package 25c. Sold by M.L.MARSH you taking advantage of the great slaughter in prices on STOVES 7 If not it is your own fault. 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