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r THE .CONCORD TIMES, John B. Sherrill, Editor and OwneQ PUBLISHED 5?WICE flrVEElP. $1.00 a Tear, In Advance. Volume XXII. Closmg Out Cash Sale In order t? convert our entire stock Of goods into the cash we will sell A.T COST from now until our stock of goods is entirely dis posed of. We have a good line of Concord, N. .. October 18? 1904. Number 32. also a general line of HeaYj and Fane; Groceries. Store fixtures included in this sale. Now is your chance to get some rare bargains. Everything ... Strictly Cash on Delivery ... If you you owe us anything please let as have it at once. Respectfully, ( Biggers Brothers. Oct. 7-lra. joo BUSHELS SEED RY 01.00 Per BUSHEL... 20 Bushels Seed ray Viroinia Oats 65 Cents per Bushel B. HcKINNE Dr. Davis' lill Killer Vorietfnal Chill Killer pr. Davis is guaran 1 to kill chills or mon efunded. not an eTperiment, but a :y. At least a hundred tims in and around Con eople you know) have red As a ionic nothing larket is superior. Try it 'an Drug Store FARMERS 1 nt to buy your produce eive vou t dozen for eggs. 25c for chickens. iO cents for Irish Pota- 3 cents for sweet pota- I per pound for cab- , per pound for butter. ) per bushel for apples. : for Onions, recently added a line Kds and Notions and au most anything vou ichange for your pro- OB IIBE ALL Will DEAD. relaas atorr Is Tol4 fey a Gentleman f Balilasore. Baltimore Herald. Burial alive has been the theme of many startling taleejQnd the idea is even Othis day often found embodied hi day )t oTpla in the plot oTplay and story Probably every one at some time or other come across this weird thought expressed in some form or written or spoken narra tive. There are people who shudder at the suggestion of such a possibility, while cths, notably medical men and those who fancy the bizarre and the startling, like to let the imagination play with the horrible details of such a condition. A gentleman in northeast Baltimore told a curious story of this sort the other day.' The story was told him by his grandfather, who, he said, knew it to be a fact. . Years ago an old man living in an out-of-the way place in the country got hold of a newspaper which contained a story aDoui a man wno aiea ana was buried in the usual way, that is, lying in the coffin face up. Some time after ward occasion demanded that the grave should be opened. To the consterna tion and horror of all the body was found face down and the limbs in such a position as to indicate that a terrible struggle to be free had taken place. The inference was, of course, that the man was not dead when put in the ground, and that he recovered from an extreme state of coma after the last rites had been administered over the supposed corpse. The story made a deep impression upon the old man.- He was unable to rid bis mind of the horrible thought it suggested, and bis one great dread came to be that he might meet with a simi lar fate. He was afflicted with a mild form of mental aberration, and one of the symptoms of his trouble was a ten dency to drop off into long and dream less peroida of deep slumber. This affliction strengthened his dreadful foreboding. At length, haunted by the thought until he was almost crazy, he called his eldest son to him and told him the story and what effect it had upon him self. And then he horrified the young man by making the request that when in time the physicians pronounced him dead he would take a long knife and secretly jab it into bis heart. The son had to promise, and kept his wcrd. When the father died and arrangements were being made for the funeral he quietly stole into the room where he lay and plunged a sharp knife into the heart. The young man, the story goes, be came very morbid and never recovered from the spell his father's condition and unusual last request seemed to have upon him. He lived to be an old man mself and as each member of the family died he performed the same deed to their bodies as he had done in the case of bis father. He had a hor ror, it is said, of being buried alive even more violent than his father a. When he came to die ha expressed a wish to speak alone with one of bis sisters. To her be related the whole story, beginning with the beginning, when his father asked him to plunge the knife into bis breast, and ending with the last time he had done a like deed for bis youngest brother. He bad kept the secret well and not a word of it had gotten out until he told bis sis ter. He pleaded with her to promise to do the same for him. She promised, but, the story goes, did not kftep her word. DELECTING SEED COBS. lOST tt CO. IV'8 OFUGE uiw rood, old-fash, tdictnc that has saved ft of link children for o years. It Is a med ia J e to care. It has een known to fail. If tlld Is sick tet a bot- r VERMIFUGE :C FOR CHILDREN lake a substitute. If R7ist does not keep twenty-five cents ia to i S. FREY Jtfnore Nd. Attic will be Killed yon. ulrkly. few nervous to repre- ilsnea wholesale bouse among ana siren i. Local tern jottee. flSsalaryand expenses Expense money avlvanced trtv. Permanent eaaratrement 4f ul. Pre t ions ex pertence Knkeselfs(lireeed enrei tSunerlntendvot Travelers, 3ft Chtcatra. 111. , w All lizl UtLS. a Byrup. timgi uoua. tut uns. t r ttichmond, Va , Dispatch. So complex has the servants girl prob lem become here that a mass-meeting J of the ladies of Richmond was held 40- day in tbe basement 01 Uentenary Methodist church to devise some meth od of dealing with it The chief grievanot was that it is im possible to get a negro servant who can do tbf) work she agrees to do. It was furtheiiaverred that it became necessary several times a week to rise early in the morniog to take the place of tbe hired girl, who failed to appear. No one knew just how to deal with the question, but finally one ruggested formation i.f a society or club. Thin plan was adopted with avidity, and the foundation laid for an effort to train white girls to take the place of colored servants. The idea ia to establish a school of domestic science, mhich the poorer class of white girls may attend free of charge. It is expected that they will gradually supplant the negroes. .-a a source of satisfaction to know of a remedy that can always be re lied on in emergencies and when aooi- dents occur, each a remedy U Elliott's Emulsified Oil Liniment. It is the moat serviceable Accident and Emergency liniment erer produced, and is lost as satisfactory in all caaes where a Lini ment is required. D. D. Johnson. Southern farm Magazine. Seed oornQhould be selected in the field, and the cars should be taken from stalks of a certain type, depending on what nature of the land the corn is growing on or to be grown on in tbe future. Small and early-maturing va neties are best for light up-iands, medium-growing 'varieties for second bottoms, and strong-growing varieties for river bottoms. Corn baa a tendency to grow very tall in the South and to produce too much stalk in proportion to the grain. It is best, as a rule, there fore, to select the ears from rather short, stout stalks. The ears should be near tbe ground and the stalk upright and well rooted. By selection the num ber of ears, the size and shape, placing and the amount of leafage on the stalk can be increased or decreased in the course of time.. One must determine his own individual needs, but should never forget that selection, to be suc cessful and profitable, must be along definite lines and followed up for a pe riod of years. When the right Individ ual type of stalk has been determined on, go into the field and select the ears typical of tbe variety for seed. The ear should be from 10 to 12 inches long and have 12 to 18 rows of kernels. It should have about the same circum ference at the butt and tip, and the grains should be in straight rows and uniform in size and shape to facilitate ease and uniformity in planting. The ear should be well filled at butt and tip and the shank should be short. A large amount of husk is not essential. Do not gather the ears until fully ma tured. Vhen slip busk and put in a dry place for winter keep. Do not expose to moisture or freezing weather, as in an open crib. In the early spring take half a dozen grains from as man parts of the ear and test for germinating qualities. Select tout tbe best for seed and plant each ear in a row across the field. The land in the seed patch should be the best available, and should be cultivated and fertilized after the most approved methods. Detassel any stalks in the seed patch that are bar ren, and select the ears from the type of stalk chosen as an "ideal ' the next fall for seed. If prolificacy is sought, select the ears from stalks bearing two or more. These suggestions will enable anyone, when carefully followed out, to improve his corn. Tbe Cos! or Food. New Tork World, It cost the people of the United States, on an average $34.71 per head for food in 1897, when Republican rule began at Washington. This year it costs 152.58 an increase of over 51 per cent. In other words, it takes $1.51 to buy as much food now as a dollar would buy seven years ago. A man earning a dollar a day was better off then, as far as that part of his living expenses went, than one earning $1 50 a day is now. And according to commissioner Wright, of the Department of Labor, food absorbs over 41 per cent, of the total expenditures dl the average family. The increase of 117.87 per head in tbe cost of this item represents an in crease of (89.36 in the expenditure of the ordinary family of five. Adding 118.08 for tbe enhanced cost of clothes, we find that a workman's wages have to stretch (107.44 further now on two necessary items of expense than they did in 1897. HI WORRIED SLBM IN 1884 r since. Mr. Wallow Think Bailer Is a Be Maw. Charlotte Observer. The Observer man fooled about all Thursday afternoon with Mr. Watson and his wife, and interviewed him ex haustively. Space is left to say only, however, that be has got no use for Mary Ann Butler. He said that Mary Ann was trying to get back into the camp in this campaign. "Ittjt I wired fly people that I wanted to plant, water and harvest no more crops fjr that traitor to sell, nd that if tbey let him in I would come off the ticket. I felt about him just as a Revolution ary soldier would nave ien anoui Benedict Arnold if, after his treason, be bad asked to be aUmitted again into thQAmerican army. A spy outside the lines is not dangerous; the barm comes from the spy inside the camp. Butler is entirely lacking in principle." lie flatly denounces as false the charge that his campaign is being aided by tbe Republican campaign fund. If troubled with a weak digestion try Chamberlain's Stomach and liver Tablets. They will do you good. For sale by M. L. Mann. A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience. Hum. Hew Tork World. Faesaio has a rival of Trenton's sleep legs wonder. He it Jacob Casteline, sixty-seven years oldr who says he has not slept in twenty years. Casteline's family, nehbors and physicians testify to the truth of bis statement. He has consulted physicians in Passaic, Pater son and elsewhere, but none baa been able to make him sleep. Casteline was born in Holland, but came to Passaic with his parents when a small boy. He was a strong lad, and for years worked on a farm. When he was a young man, he says, he was able to go several days without sleep. He tells of being employed about barges on tbe Hacker: sack river, and says heJ worked day and night all summer with but a few hours' sleep each day. "About that time," he continued, my wife was taken ill, and my ex penses were so heavy I. could not make living for my family and pay tbe doctors' bills. I often lay awake a good part of the night thinking about it, and wondering if I should ever be able to pay my debts. Finally I could not sleep at all. I was then forty seven years old. "1 am sixty-seven now, and I have never slept a wink since. I go to bed at night and lie awake thinking. I get up in the moruing with a headache and feel tired and sick. I dress and get out into the air as soon as I can, and after I have walked around awhile feel refreshed and am ready for breakfast My appetite is good, and I work every day." Casteline is employed as a laborer by the Acquackanonk Water Company. He was found yesterday working with pick and shovel in a ditch, and is well and strong for a man of his age. Can Flirt In Chnrcli,ao Pastor De clare. Flirting can be carried on in church to a good advantage, according to a statement issued by the Kev. M. B. Williams, chairman of the committee on Sabbath observance of the Rock River Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of Chicago. "There is ao reason why young peo ple should not cultivate each others ac quaintance from behind hymn books," declared Mr. Williams. "We are glad to have them come to church on any pretext. Flirting is as good an excuse as any." Frivolity during religious service, he said was to be expected of Americans. But that some good was accomplished even under these conditions, he declar ed, was indisputable. "Tbe expectation of seeing a young woman home, has brought many a boy to church for the first time," he said "Among the love-making there is chance for religious influence to eteal in." Heller Keep oa Ploughing- Roll. The Charlotte Observer, in speaking of some of the mission work being done in tbe mountains of western North Carolina, says: The lees mission work we have of that kind in North Carolina the better, Our po' whites, the floor squatters who travel thirty-five miles to church, and when they get there fine no benches to sit on, would better continue to dress in bear skins and subsist on locusts and wild honey, than to wear second-hand clothes from Cincinnati and ride to churches, with plush-covered pews, in automobiles which were given them It were better for them to continue to plow pulls on mountain sides during th week and go to hear the native cir cuit-rider every fourth Sunday, squat ting on the floor in the back part of the church where the poor have the Gospel preached to them, than to listen every day to the dulcet strains of second-band Mason A Hamlin organs, shipped to them from Ohio, charges prepaid. ' Far mere Want a kw to Enforce La' bor Contrails. Charlotte Chronicle. The farmers who are continually wor ried with tbe labor problem say thg a little legislation is needed along this line. Under tbe existing arrangements, tbe average man is powerless to enforce any contract he may make with a la borer orJriant. Todav a Mecklenburg farmer who had been-deserted by a tenant came to loan to see if he could not find redress in the law," but after he bad stated his case, he was told that there was no help for him. A tenant who bad corn tracted to cultivate a portion of bis farm left last week, and although tbe farmer is greatly inconvenienced, be haa no redress. The law provides Wat a laborer who, after receiving advance pay or supplies, leaves his employment before complet ing the work he has contracted to do, may be indicted for a misdemeanor, but under any other circumstances he is safe from the law. O HASN'T RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. Baltimore Sun. The opinion grows in many quarters that railroad accidents in the United States are too numerous and could be lessened if tbe owners of gie railroads and their employes woultf forrna proper conception of their duty to the public. In 1903 in the United Kingdom to each 47,793,320 passengers carried one pas senger was killed by a railroad accident, while in the United States one passen ger was killed to every 2,000,000 carried. The disproportion is exces sive, even when account is taken of the widely different circumstances under which railroads are operated in two countries. In a small country like Oreat Britain it is possible to fence in tbe right of way, abolish grade cross ings and observe the block system by which two trains are kept from being on the same stretch of track at the same time. In an old country like Great Britain it is possible also to dis cipline more efficiently what are there called "the company's servants," while here the spirit of independ ence among employes often takes the form of insubordination and defiance of rules made for the safety of all. But when all allowance is made for our thinly settled areas and Democratic spirit, it rbmains that accidents are ex cessive in number when compared with those of Great Britain. The companies have not perhaps given as much atten tion to the preventiod of accidents as they might. President Hill, of tbe Great Northern Railway, appears to think the public remiss in enforcing the law against those who are rafpon sible through criminal neglect. A strict enforcement of the law would help the companies, he thinks, to enforce stricter discipline among the train crews. But the companies themselves have an unappreciated responsibility in the matter. , Wine and Women. Charlotte Chronicle. - y That is the text. The sermon is brief and ia found in the arrest in New York a day or so ago of Edward M. Field, son of Cyrus W. Field, who, unshaved unkempt and looking like a veritable tramp, was arraigned before a magia trate on charge of stealing an overcoat "In the motley crowd of drunks am outcasts that filled the court room, says one account, "few would have recognized Field as the once prosperous business man who owned a fine home and had plenty of friends. When taken into court Field wore a dirty shirt minus a collar, which he concealed by drawing bis threadbare soiled coat about him. His eyes bad a wild, glasy stare. ' His bloated countenance told of dissipation. When arraigned Field, in a shaky voice, gave his age as 49 and bis business as a broker. When be was led across the bridge to tbe prison he said to the detective : 'Try and get bail for me if you can, but If you can't, never mind; the three meals I will get in the prison will be a godsend.' " Wine and women is the text. Tbe pitiable plight of a man who started out in early life as a "high flyer," the sermon. Trpbold Fever. The Bulletin of tbe North. Carolina Board of Health for September dis cussed typhoid fever. The main coo elusions are: (1) The disease is preventive. (2) It is caused mostly by oontarai nated drinking water. (3) Drinking water may be practi cally freed from the germ by propw alteration. (4) It is largely a country - disease because of the use of well or spring water unfiltered. (5) The. way to prevent it is to burn an matter wnicn comes trom tbe room of a typhoid patient and not throw it out where it can contaminate water or where flies can get at it and convey the germs to food or other matter. - Seller Than Pllle. The question has been asked in-what way are Uhamberlain 's Stomach and liver liver Tablets superior to the ordi nary cathartic and liver pills? Our an swer is they are easier and more pleas ant to take and their effect is bo gentle and so agreeable that one hardly realizes that it is produced by a medicine. Then they not only move the bowels but im prove the appetite and aid the digestion. For sale atfp cents per bottle at M. L. Marsh. m It is given out that, despite reports to the contrary, ex President Cleveland will make a speech ia New York dur ing the campaign, acting as presiding officer at a meeting of be held on the 21st, when John G. Carlisle will make the principal address. President Roosevelt has appointed Robert J. Wynne Postmaster General to hold the place until Chairman Cor- telyou finishes his campaign work ""uiuriiAniunuiJiMiriuu I GENUINE 1 PERUVIAN 3 : : is highly recommended by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture Every ton of PERUVIAN contains more than SIX HUNDRED POUNDS OF PLANT FOOD If you use PERUVIAN once, you will want no more manufactured chemical fertilizers, which do your laud no PERMANENT GOOD For additional information, write to SMITH-DAVIS CO., IMPORTERS WILMINGTON, N. C. g , FOR SALB BY -CA1T2T0N & FETZER CO., Concord, IT. C. 1 41.1 ru I Kl I l in I I I I I i l l i t in 1 1 m 1.1 1 j i n t j i sti ti 1:1 J 1 1 1 1 1 M 1 1 1 J i t-i i i lh i u:i:i i:i 1 1 1 1 1:1:1:1 ij:i:i:u i f 1 I tl lllitumuu COOK STOVES It Saves ! and that's but one of the great features about a BUCK'S STOVE It saves time an hour a day. It saves labor. It saves fuel, to say nothing of the worry and annoyance it saves. See our big line of Buck's Stoves and Ranges, Get our Prices .... Craven Brothers FURNITURE AID UHDER TAKIlfG COMPAMY DO YOU WAIT THE WORTH OF YOUR :CALL AT THE: BELL & HARRIS Furniture Store... We have the completest line of Heaters and Cook Stoves ever shown in Concord. Heaters $1.50 to $20.00. Ranges and Cook Stoves $7.50 to $00.00. Take a look and be convinced. ' Yours to please, Bell & Harris Furniture Co. Store 'Phone 12. Residence 'Phone 90. Chesapeake Sf Ohio (Railway.' WORLD'S FAIR 8CENIC ROUTE TO 8AINT LOUIS. MO. Shortest, Qickrat.and Beat Route. Vestibulcd. Electric-Lighted Trains with Pullman Sleepers andThninR Cars. Through tickers trom North Carolina witn direct connections, special rates for Season, Sixty oi Fifteen Day Tickets. Fifteen day tickets trom Uoncord, IX. I., Sleeping car accommodations engaged upon application. SPECIAL COACH EXCURSIONS on authorized dates, ticketa good for ten days atgate of $18.15. Special accommodations arranged tor parties, correspondingly low rates trom other stations. Stop-OTexs permitted within limit at C. & O. celebrated mountain resorts. W T'se the C. & O. Route and purchase your ticket, accordingly. For coach excursion date, reset-rations and other information, address W. O. "WARTHEN, D. P. A., C. & O. R'y, Richmond, Va. Ladies Wanted. A brfaTht enervHIc woman worn nn work Permanent position. Old odtabllsbed busi ness bus of solid financial standing; Salary $ It to $i weekly, mitt, expenses, paid eacn Monday direct from headquarters. Expense Advanced. W furnlob everything. Address. Oparar MO Unrnm Dlvk PkLiaan 111 Wanted Ppectfwvpmmtatlv. In ml. county and adjoining irrltortsa, to represent and ad vertise an old established business house of solid Unsocial standing. 8lsry S21 weekly, with expenses advanced eacn Jtondsy nr check direct from headquarters. Horse sod buniry furnished when necessary : position permanent Address Blew Bros. A Co , Dspa. A, Moaoa Bid--, Chkaso, 111. e i 1