North Carolina Newspapers

TIMES, N Cornea H Eu Twic the Circulation of my Paper Erer Published in the County. Twic.Every WNk ncr th. Prio. to -Only One Dollar a Tear. t John B. Sherrill, Editor and Owner. PUBLISHED TWICE A. WEEK. $1.00 a Tear, in Advance. V 4 YOLIiE XXII. O Concord, N. CM November 18. 1904: ' Number 41. V i CONCORD PRICE LIST D. J. BOST CO Corn, 70c per bushel. , Peas, 70c per bushel.' Eggs, per dozen, 20c. (Sickens, 20 to 30 cents. Butter. 12Vac to 15c per pound Sweet Potatoes, 35c to 40c per bushel. Irish Potatoes, 75c to 90c per bushel. Onions 90c to $1 per bushel. Peanuts, 75c per bushel. Pork, 8oper pound. Partridges, 8V&c to 10c a piece. Rabbits. 5c to 7?4c. Rabbitts must be cleaned and skinned with-Marl ntl ieet left nn. Will gwl you the highest market price for Hides. D. J. BOST & CO 75 BUSHELS SEED RYE for sale at $1.00 per bushel Several cheap Horses Second-Hand Buggies 2 No. 23 Chattanooga Plows 2 two-horse Buggies AT A BARGAIN F. B. McKINNE Livery, Sale and Feed Stable. I JEWELRY DIAMONDS WATCHES and a complete line of the GENUINE 111 I Ml lllRmlrli "1847 Rogers Bros." Knives, Porks, Spoons, etc. Bye carefullv examined and properly fitted to the beat grade of glaaaea, , , ""N , , W.C. CORRELL,Jeweier; Here Are Some More! Six-room dwelling on North Union street, has also two large pantries and bath room, 75x256 feet lot, stable, wood honse, garden and fruit. House and lot in Mt. Pleasant, near the College, with 6-room cottage, good well, plenty of fruit. SizeV lot 800x200. Price only $700. Two lots on East side Gibson street. Price $160 each. One lot in Fairview. Trice $150 cash, or $164 in installments. Jao. Patterson Co. CONCORD, N. C. Concord National Bank. Concord, N. 0, July 5th, 1904. This tank has just passed the sixteenth anninereary, and each one of Uiese sixteen Tears has added to Its strength, thus proving triat It Is worthy the coundenoa ot Its pa- troovaaa ine general puotic Paid in Capital $50,OO0J Surplus and Undivided Profits - - 36,000 Shareholders Liability 50,000 With the afcora as base for confidence and an unusually large amount of assets in proportion to liabilities as a gsuirantee ol conservative managAient, weMbvlte your business. Interest paid as agreed. 1 ODILL, President, D. B. OOLTKAB1. Oasbler. IIC Q.Q. Richmond. Tnoa. W. Smith 6. 6. RICHMOND & CO. 1882 1904. . urnii ivniini','ir IL IMIM Carrying all lines of business. Company all sound arftr Bal timore fire. We thank yon for past favors, and ask a continuance of your business. Rear room City Hall. DR. J. A. WHITE, DENTIST. Office over Corrall's Jewelry Store CONCORD, H. C. Shirft Ail LSI Urt.3. t Uiutrta Symp. i sms "a. iota lT oniMis. TV HOLs IODB COTTON. Prrslaeat aonlharn Co no 11 Growers Proleellva Association lasaes lm Vortaat Aelelreea. Montioello, G., Nov. 10, 1904 To Southern Cotton Producers : Prompt and definite action on the part of producer and holders of spot cotton all over the cotton belt is absolutely essential at this time to break the present powerful "Bear" combinations that are so perfectly organised to d press prices. The open season has per mitted the farmers to gather and gin fully 80 per cent, of the crop by No vember 1, and enough cotton has been rushed upon the markets to largely meet all deftands of the speculators. While it is true more of the staple has been held back this year than ever before, the daily receipts at interior markets and ports are still too heavy to force an advance in prices equivalent to the true value of the staple. The producers are to be congratulated for the firm stand they have already taken to market the crop slowly, and that fact alone has prevented the price from fall ing to eight cents during the month of October. The crop is about gathered debts generally are paid and it is no longer absolutely necessary to sell the balance of the crop. The Qinners re' port recently issued from the United States Census Bureau indicated that up to October 18 'only 6,400,000 bales of cotton had been ginned. This report clearly indioates tbat this crop will not exceed 11,000,000 bales, if it reaches that figure. The spinners can well afford to pay the producers 12 cents per pound for every bale of American short staple cotton made this season and do a profitable business for the stockhold ers. The price of yarns has advanced 3 cents per pound within the past sixty days and an unprecedented demand for cotton goods exists while stocks gener ally are lower than they have been for the past twenty years. The duty of the producers is plain and simple. They have crowded the markets for the past two months, congesting every facility for handling cotton and playing into the hands of the "Bear" speculators and spinners. The thing to do now is to give the markets and shippers a rest during the next sixty days and allow present stocks of spot cotton to be gotten out of the way. Let the spinners who are living from hand to mouth run short of cotton and force them into the markets as active buyers. Let the Bear" speculators begin to feel the lash of the "Bull" operators when the latter called for the deliveries of spot cotton which the former will be nnable to deliver. . Let every holder of cotton absolutely stop selling and sit down at home and quietly contemplate results. Let each holder determine to put no more cot ton on the market until prices advance and never sell a bale on a depressed market. Port receipts are already falling off due to the resistance offered by the pro ducers, and if united concert of action is secured all along the line the fight will be whipped and Southern farmers will' demonstrate their ability to' be come important and dominant factors in fixing the price at which their staple shall be told. Let county meetings be held all' over the belt and strong and active steps be taken to defend this most valuable agricultural product from the rapacious greed of the selfish speculator. Let every man who still holds a bale of cot ton in his possession join in these county, or local meetings, and agitate the importance of this step among his neighbors to the end that success in the nearfuture will n assured. We have held our own well so far but we tan do much better and easily advance the price two or three cents by pnrsiBtently refusing to sell and lightening np pres ent receipts. We fixed our minimum at ten cents for this season and main tained the price within half a cent of that figure through October, the heav iest month. Now let the price be fixed at 12 cents for the remainder of the crop and the world will accept it at that price which will mean an additional gain of nearly fifty million dollars. I will be pleased to have reports of all county meetings and from indi vidual farmers throughout the belt en dorsing the above position taken and guaranteeing their active co operation. State Vica Presidents of the Associa tion are nrgej to push this matter ac tively in their respective States. Farm ers Union and Agricultural Clubs gen erally are earnestly requested to give their valued aid and co-operation to the movement aflu the iM Weekly Press of the 8outh is reesrc fully re quested to use the power and influeno of their columns to disseminate this circular letter and give such other aid as they may feel disposed. A farm stand will bring victory. ' Very Respectfully, Hjbvii Jobdajc. President Southern Cotton Growers Protective Aatociatioa. j PROLIFIC COTTON. oath rarollna e rawer Greatly prlxtf by. the Large field. Augusta Herald. It is quite uncommon to see cotton bolls with more than four or five Ictfffi Bolls with six locks are most uncom upon and never before this season have bolls with sevon locks been heard of, but they are to be found in many lo calities. Mr. H. H feeples, of Savannah, who is engaged in extensive cotton raisiDg in South Carolina, passed through the city en route home after a visit to his plantation in the State acioss the river, and aayt that he has found any numbed of bolls with seven locks full size, with cotton in them. The bolls are very much larger when open than the nose with the usual number of locks in them. Mr. Peeples stated that he had been living on a cotton plantation off and on all his life, and never before did he see such a phenomenon. His attention was called to several of the prodigies by one of his employes, and he had several of the curiosities with him. Mr. Peo ples has not changed the seeds he has besnjusing for the put ten years, and attributes the excessive fruitfulness of the cotton to the good season which has been prevalent. Mr. Peeples said further that many planters in South Cuolino had already finished picking their cotton, and but few fields are seen scattered about the State where the cotton has not alkbeen picked, and these in his opinion will be cleaned within ten days. "In all my experience in the cotton- raising business, I have never seen a season just like this," said Mr. Pee ples. "The seasons have not only been ideal for the growth of cotton, but have kept down the grass and have in no way interfered with the gathering of the crop. When the 'cotton season is over there will be less cotton kft in the fields in this section to rot, I ven ture to say, than ever before. Tle class of staple it the best and the coloi are excellent, all of the cotton having been bleached perfectly. "In this sec'ion the planters have been most successful, and it is a notice able fact tbat the negroes have bene fited much by the high price of cotton They have received good wages for their services, and are now in a more prosperous condition1 than for years. Many planters are paying CO cents for picking, and when the last is done it will probably amount to an average of 75 cents, and the average hand can pick 300 to 500 pounds per day." Mr. Peeples said that on his Caro lina plantation there was no trouble in securing enough labor and that, de spite that the early and late crops opened about the same time, he had no trouble in getting it picked. BALLOT tJOX STUFFING IN PHIL ADELPHIA. 9 Kleptomania aa4 Stealing. MarshvUle Home. The Monroe Enquirer scores a good point when it tells about, how the Charlotte papers failed to make a news item complete last week woen they re fused to give the name of a young lady who stole lot of goods "there during the fair. The reason they refused to give the name was because the young lady belonged to a very prominent family and the was therefore pro nounced a victim of Kleptomania, which it a new fangled disease thatas said to affect the minds of rich people who steal. It never affects poor peo ple. As the Enquirer tays, "If that woman who such a light fingered thief wat nothing more than an ordinary cotton picker whose father was some body's cropper, the name would be the first thing giverj." Certainly it would, and she would have been sent to jail and you would have heard nothing about "Kleptomania," either. This is another instance that shows how being prominent and wealthy covers up some awfully bad tins, for it puta a person up when medicfh science has discovered difBAse that vtill apply in such cases without calling it stealing. SS Per Ccdl Divided. Richmond, Va., Nov. 15. The stock holders of the Atlanfc Coast Line met here to-day. The action of th direc tors in purchasing the Jacksonville A Southwestern was approved. A divi dend f 25 per cent, on the coxpmon stock was declared, 20 per cent, in cash and 5 per cent, on certificate or in debtedness, payable in January. The old officers were elected by the direc tors. The capital stock wat increased to $50,000,000. The Best Llalaaeat. Chamberlain's Pain Balm- is consid ered the best liniment on the market," write Post & Bliss, of Georgia, Vt. No ot her will heal a cnt or bruise so prompt ly No other affords such quick relief from rheumatic paA. No other is ao valuable for deep seated paint like lame back and pains in tne ches. Give this liniment a trial and yon will never wish t be without it. Sold by M. L, RilHmAM S,.n Pennsylvania baa the ffory of rolling up the biggest plurality for President Roosevelt. At last accounts the Presi dent wat 490,000 votea "to the good" in the Keystone State, with possibilities that the half million mark might be reached before all the returns are in ifwould appear from an editorial in the Philadelphia Publio Ledger Tues day that pluralities in Pennsylvania do not mean ahat all the ballots cast were honest ones. According to our con temporary there wat "riotous debauoh Tuesday of billot stuffing, violence andi crime." The plurality in the Quaker City was 180,000, of which, according to the Ledger, 50,000 were fraudulent votes. "The police were the active agents of a flagrant crime against free- government. They led repeaters to the polls, drove houest voters away, and exercised a terrorism that turned a far cical election into a tragedy of crime. No other city in the land baa been so shamed." It is the custom of most of our Philadelphia contemporaries to harp upon the wickedness of Tarn many in New York and to close their eyes to what is going on in their own city. There is no place in the United States, according to the Ledger, in which the debauchery of the ballot is practiced at shamelessly at in the City of Brotherly Love. They stuff the bal lot boxes over there when nothing is to be gained by it, when the legitimate plurality it in excess of the total vote of the opposition. Philadelphia politi cians furnish an example of depravity never equaled by Tammany or other political organization. The municipal administration is no better than the politicians, if the police are allowed to bring repeaters to the polls to csst fraudulent. votes, while honest voters are driven away. Truly the Quaker City has a nice set of policemen and officials. "Mayor Weaver," says the Ledger, "knew of the criminal' activity of the polio" and not only allowed it, but protected it." What is the nation coming to when such things happen in the moral city of Philadelphia and are applauded by the ninjority of the voters there? An Editor Disappear. Special to Charlotte Observer. Statesviixe, Nov. 15. Mr. J. C. Lin ney, who has for some months been editing The Mascot here, left town Saturday morning, taking with bim b lO-months old baby. Attorneys for Mr. Linney made application to Judge Cooke, now holding court here, for writ of habeas corpus for the child and the writ was granted. Deputy Sheriff Ward started out after Mr. Lin ney, but returned last evening without finding hit man. It is just another sad story of do mestio trouble. Mrs. Linney was Miss Martin, sister of Mr. H. C. Mar Un, of Lenoir, who formerly lived in Stateeville. The couple have only one child, the little nursing baby which Linney carried away. They have not lived happily 4ogther. There were differences last week which were street talk Friday and Saturday. The sepa ration of the motl.er and babe, and the further fact tbat the child isteing carried about the country in severe weather, is a distressing story, aside from the other features of the case. Linney had boarded while in States- ville and was at Mrs. Alexander's onJ Center street, when the separation occurred. A 8artllng Teat. To save a life, Dr. T. G, Merritt, of No. Mehoopany, Pa., made a startling test resulting in a wonderful core. He writes "a pal Put was attacked with violent hemorrhages, caused by ulcera tion of the stomach. I had often fonnd Electric Bitters excellent for acute stomach and liver troubles so I prescrib ed them. The patient gained from the first, and has not had an attack in 14 months." Electric Bitters are positively gaarauted f9t Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Constipations) nd Kidney troubles. Try them. Only 50c at all druggists. AN ANCIENT WALL IN ROWAN. Tried le Kill Mister aa mother Slew CnlrKcn ArrLETON, Wis.fNov. 1G Two little sons of Wallaim Krausch, of Center, have tried to cut their baby sister's healoff after seeing their mother cut the heads off several chickens. The little fellows laid the baby't bead on a block anifthe oldest boy lifted an ax and struck at the baby's nk. He failed to touch her, and as he raisethe thel ax to singe me secoqa time ue was topped by a farmer, do happened to drive bynd raw what the childreSJ were going. A Guaranteed Care for files. Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Qbtruding Piles. Druggists ref and money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any case, no matter of how long standing, in 6 to 14 days. First application gives ease and rest. 60c If yoor druggist hasn't it send flbo in stamps and it will be for warded post-paid by Paris Medicine Co , "P D" ''. 'TKiT' Harsh it. Louis, Mo. ' Muls, will snng iaierestiug details. . Another Extract Proas aa Ola Ceog- rapay-Beniarkable Burlea Anti quarian Remains Bale) to Exist or to Have Existea Ten 111 Ilea Prom Hallsliary. f) Charlotts Observer. To the editor of The Observer: An article in last Sunday's Observer giving quotations from some of the old geog raphies caused me to copy the enclosed from Mbrse't Geography, publishecftn 1802. Does any one know anything s bout the wall nowf L. Harrilt, Statesville, N. C. In the county of Rowan, about 10 miles southwest from Salisbury, 200 from the tea, and 70 from the moun- tains, is a remarkable subterraneous wall. It stands on uneven ground, near a small brook. The stonet of the wall are all of one kind and contain iron ore. They are of various tizea, but generally weigh about four pounds. All are of a long figure, commonly si ven inches in length, sometimes 12. The end of the stones form the tides of the wall. Some of these ends 1 square, others nearly of the form of parallelogram triangle rhombus, or rhomboides; but most of them are irre gular. Some preserve their dimensions through the whole length; others ter minate like a wedge. The alternate portion of great and little ends aid in keeping the work iquare. The surface of tome it plain, of some concave, of others convex. Where the ttones are not firm they are curiously wedged with others. The most irregular are thrown into the middle of the wall. Every ttone it covered with cement, which, next to the stone, hat the ap pearance of iron rust. Where it is thin the rust has penetrated through. Some times the cement it an inch thick, and where wet has the fine, soft, oily feel- mg of putty. Tue thickness of the wall is uniformly 22 inches, the length yet discovered is about 300 feet,, and the height 12 or 14. Both sides of the wall are plastered with the subetance on which the stonet are laid. The top of the wall appears to run nearly par allel with the top of the ground, being generally about a foot below the sur face. In one place it it several feet. There is a bend or curve of 6 feet or more, after which it proceeds in its former direction. The whole appears to be formed in the most skillful manner, but when or for what purpose is left entirely to con jecture. MILL HANDS SCAttCB. mill Owners Final It DlfBeall to Gel Help. Charlotte News. The scarcity of mill labor in this sec tion and Mecklenburg county has be come quite a problem with the mill men of this section at the present time and it it said that unless there it some change in conditions, there will be no telling what the final outcome will be, although the mills believe that they will be able to keep fairly well supplied with held during the coming winter montht. The exodut of the employees from the mills began last spring when the onv ootton season was j usf opening, the mill people going back to their farms or to secure employment on farms. wnere tney thought there was more money to be made on account of the prosperous condition of the farmers resulting from the high price of cotton, There hat been a continual dropping oft of the mill employes during the summer until at the beginning of fall a large number had left the mills for the fields. There was hope among the mill own ers that with the closing of the cotton picking season the mill employes who had left would return to their placet in the mills but to far little hat been real ized in this line and tome of the mills in the Carolina! are really fearing that a crisis is approaching them. Several prominent mill men have al ready made public statements about the existing conditions and are predict ing that there will be a continuation of the scarcity of labor in the mills until relief in some shape comes but from what source this relief will come, the mfll men are unable to say with any certainty at this time. The situation at this time it an inter esting one and the results of the un usual conditions facing the mills will be watched pith interest. GBMTJIMB PERUVIAN As toon as a girl gets married she begins to acquire a supplementary edu cation. ' Boll Weevil Taming Tbla Way DHKEvEPORT, ov. it me execu tive committee of the National Cotton Boli Weevil Convention, which assem bles in this city December 15 to 16, in elusive, to day issued an address to the cotton growers of the South, The eom mission states that the flight of the weevil during the summer of 1004 has been fully 50 miles, and north and east, into -territory heretofore uninfested and indicates a habit that is beyond the power of control. The division of opinion and interest in a campaign against the weevil will bring disaster and defeat. Haa Sloon fbe Teat tS Years The old original GROVE'S Tasteless Chill Tonic. You know what yon are taking. It is iron and quinine in tastiest form. No cure, no pay. 50c. 'When a person's wool-gathering that means he's lazy, doesn't it, pa V "Not necessfrily, my son. He may be gathering the wool off the lambs in Wall street." To Tare a Cold In One Day Take LAXATIVE EROMO QUININE Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fAjils to cure. E. W. Grove's signa ture is on each box. 25o. . Hie man who wants to prove every thing he says advertises the fact that his word isn't to be credited. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets ate becoming a favorite for stomach troohks and constipation. F, r Dale by M, L. Marsh. It is human nature to detire to be equal to your superioit and tuperiqj to your equals. First-Class Accommodations to FaUidioas People. The In.! le Ian Cater to Swelldom as Wellli fh Great nfteoerary The favored few to whom money Is no ollct. but who want the tst o( evfrytiiiiiff and wish to ty the World"- Fair uiAr the most ftdvant jaaVHis condition, find lWr wutts admirably vatervd to hy tr.e nmnaKfinent ol in is la i nous hostelry- ttwrioiM room with bath, well fur iHnea, an excellent cuisine, prompt nervioe mm Wm Dotudnle attention can be enjoyed, white thJT-onvenicnce of being nght at home after a tirhiff afternoon In the grounds, dressing fui ner and then returiimtt to the festivities orlhe evening without any tiresome journey, has been eclated hy every truest. suite of tne enormous number of visitor who have availed themselves of thecomforts and convenience of the Inside Inn, the big hotel haa successfully entertained all who have apptt d for Its bosoitcilitv. without overcrowdimr or dis comfort. A lie raten varv from fl .) to -VV ner davon the European plan, and from 3 00 to $T.ud on ioe American plan- neservanons can ne manr FOR FINE AND UP-TO-DATE PHOTOGRAPHS V , Oo to O. V. FOUST fading Photographer Remember the holidays are ap proaching Tnd you will do well to sit for Photos at an early day as the more time to make pictures the better the finish. Halve on Hand a New and Up-to-Date Line of Cards. Also a beautiful h'ne of BROOCH of the best quality. Remember we make all sizes of Crayon, Pastel, Water Color, Sepia, and Oil Portraits. Come and let us see if we can supply 1 your wants in the art. Remember the place. O. V. FOUST, Opposite Court House, Concord. Nov-. WW. 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 land no PERMANENT GOOD For additional information, write to SMITH-DAVIS CO., IMPORTERS WILMINGTON, N. C. FOR SALE BY t CA2T1T0N & FETZER CO., Concord, IT. 0. During: these times of high prices on feed stuffs is easily the best and cheapest. Analysis of the State Chemist, of Pro tein 12.37 per cent, and Fat 13.44 per cent , stamps it the best meat-building and fat-producing article on the market to-day. When buying Klce Meal Insist upon being furnished with tax tag or tne stale or norm i, are always packed In uniform welulit 100-pound oods bearing the rollna with Klce Meal ana manufacturers' irior substitutes wltuouc tags, our roods and If your dealer bags. cannot supply wbat you need, send Uis name and write for quotations to the manufacturers, CAROLINA RICE MILLS, G0LDSB0R0, N. C, OR CONCORD WHOLESALE GROCERY CO., ' DISTRIBUTORS, Concord, N. C. Oct 21- a.a.a.a A A AAAA A A A A A AA A A A A A A A a AAA A AAA Parlor Suits and Chairs... Our prices are like our ad. below the others. BY BELL & HARRIS FURNITURE COMFY This Furniture of the lest tempered Steel Spring supported by steel bar, making it impossible for the spring to sway. Price from $5 to $16C.OO. Call and see this Furniture before it is all sold. We have about four Parlor Suits and fifteen Parlor Chairs. Yours to please, Bell & Harris Furniture Co. Residence 'Phone 90. StoreThone 12. TTTTTTTTTVTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT TTTTTTTTTT1 .SIGNS OF FALL Car Load of Buck's Stoves and Ranges. There are many good reasons why you should buy a Buck Stove this Fall. Every house-keep- ,er wants not only a stove that is handsome in appearaUce, but also one economi :al with fuel. Buck's Stoves are not only handsome in appear ance, but are constructed so they savlf fuel. 58 rears of stove experience have bieea brought to bear to make them in every way perfect. Don't be a slave to rour ranpe. Range Blavurax- is house hold drudgery. It's nerve-destroying, health-breaking; it's killing. If your old range is making your lite a bur den throWt out and get a Buck's Steel Range. A trew Buck range will cost less than a new set of nerves. A Bnck range is easy to run robs the kitchen work of half its labors, it robs it of ail the worry, it cooks on time, it cooks economically, it uses alt the heat fi cooking and not for making a hot kitchen. Come in and let us show you one. Buck's Ranges are easily distinguished from other makes by their many superior points of construction. Tbey are heavily nickeled and are handsome in appearaece. The oven door and oven rack are white enam- eled, thereby making the oeu the cleanest possible. Buck's ranges don't cost money they save m4sV Through the many devices used in their construction the fuel is spared, every stick of wood or piece of cool is consumed to the best advantage. This year we have made preparations for the largest sale of Buck's ranges ever. If your friends are using a Buck range they will tell you why you should get one. : CRAVEN BROTHERS FURNITURE AND UNDERTAKING CO.! ? &