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JohnPB. Sherrill, Editor and Owner.
PUBLISHED TWICE WEEK.
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Volume XXII.
Concord, N. c, November 29, 1904.
Number 44.
THE : CONCORD T
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Ilillinery and Dry Goods
I have an excellent stock
of the latest w
Millinery and Dry Goods
and my prices are low. Call
to see uie before makingyour
purchases.
Mrs. Emma Blacii elder,
Not. 821 m.
At Gibson Mill.
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PRICE LIST
D. J. BOST tt CO.
Corn, 70c per bushel.
Peas, 70c per bushel.
Eggs, per dozen, 20c.
Chickens, 20 to 30 cent9. '
Butter, 12Ytc 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, 8c pef pound.
PnrtriHcrps. RUc to 10c a niece.
Rabbits. 5c to 7V:. Rabbittsl
must be cleaned and skinned,
with head and feet left on.
Will give 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 lice
of the
GENUINE
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llllRmlrtag
"1847
Rogers Bros."
Knives, Forks, -Spooas,
etc.
Byefl carefully examined nd
properly fitted to the best gnd
of glasses, .f" ,
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WHY DON'T HEN GO TO CHVBCHf
' THE
Concord National Bank.
Onnonrd, N. C. July 6th, 1904.
This bank bo Jnst passed the sixteen tta
annlnersary. and each one of these sixteen
yean has added to Its strength, thus proving
that it Is worthy the con Silence of It na
trons and the general public
Paid in Capital . $50,000
Surplus and Undivided
Profits -.... 36,000
Shareholders Liability 50,000
With the shore as a base for confidence
and an unusually large amount of assets in
proportion to liabilities as a guarantee ol
conservative management, we Invite your
business. Interest paid as agreed.
3. M. ODKLL, President,
D. tt OOLTRAKR. Cashier.
O.O. Richmond.
Thos. W. Smith.
6. 6. JUTOND & CO.
18821904.
MI OFflfiF
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Carrying all lind of business.
Companies sound after JBal
1 timore fire. O
We thank you for past favors,
and ask a continnarv of your
business. Ve
Rear room City Hall
DR. J. A. WtfiTE,
DENTIST.
Office) over Oorrell'i Jewelry Store
OUHOORU, H. C.
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Vereeful Discussion of lh,ntBrt by
Re. Or. mania It. HaralD, of
Charlotte.
Charlotte Observer.
Rev. Dr. Martin O. Hardin preached
a powerful sermon at the Presbyterian
church on the subject, "Why Do Not
Men Go To Church." A large congre
gation heard him.
Dr. Hariin first called attention to a
statement that in the last nine years
the percentage of church goers among
young men had decreased from SO per
cent, to 22 per cent. , "Ifit is true,"
said he, "that only one-fifth of the
young men of our day are interested in
churcb life, here ia a problem of vital
interest to all those who believe in or
ganized Christianity. . . . While I
readily recognize that church member
ship is not essential to salvation and
that there are many influences at work
in our age to improve men's morals,
even though they never attend religious
worship, while I recognize the enno
bling influences of nature in some cases
upon those who go to the hills and
woods and streams for spiritual conso
lation upon the Sabbath day, while I
recognize also that many in the Church
are not at heart so good as some out of
the Church, and that there is a consid
erable element of society of our high
moral and intellectual life, though en
tirely disassociated from churches, I
still feel that the Church of the Lord
Jesus Christ is an institution with a
divine mission, and that when it is
found that men are neglecting that
institution, personal religion, in
the hearts of those absenting them
selves from the Church unless the
Church has grown corrupt and actually
misrepresents the spirit of Christ, must
be at alow stage."
With a spirit of utmost fairness and
breadth of view, Dr. Hardin spoke of
character a differentiated from Chris
tianity, and of how history has had in
some cases to be re-written and science
restored, so that the most intelligent
men should find the Church abreast of
modern modes of thought. He did not
believe that anything but harm was
done by"-ministers refusing to let in
the light of new thought, if it was true.
Christianity is a life, an inner spiritual
reality, and as long as the light con
tinues to come into the hearts of men
and fill men with a sense of God, there
will be changes going on in the theo
logical system.
Dr. Hardin expressed the thought
that though consistency in the lives of
profetsed Christians and ministers
would do a great deal to bring young
men to church. The lack of consistency
by some was a cause for non-attend
ance of others: He urged that our deeds
should square with our creeds. "That
congregation which is made up of sin
oere men and women who. six days in
the week, honestly try to practice the
wise and beautiful principles of Christ,
in all life's surroundings, will be one
whose tired souls love to seek fellow
ship in the one day of worship. The
example of a man who lives the Christ
life is an example that counts and the
beauty and consistency of his character
draws others to seek the secret of his
strength. He is leading others to
Christ."
He spoke of the causes for men's
no-attendanoe at church, which the
church was in 00 way responsible for.
"It used to be that the boys of a family
naturally became a part of the commu
nity in which their fathers for genera
tions had lived. They had all the pow
ers of tradition and habit to hold them
in line with the religious life of the
community, but in the lat forty yeajs
and more, young men by the millions
in this country have struck far out from
the staid life of settled communities,
and in the rapidly-growing cities and
the everchangiiig frontiers, they have
gone to live without the restraining in
fluences which would naturally bound
them. They do not mean to let religion
drop from their lives at the beginning.
"But, say what we will as to the
reasons why certain classes of young
men are out of the Church, make all
the excuses for them possible, by show
ing the shortcomings of p readers and
and the failures of Chrstians to make
their life attractive to the Godless, the
fact remarks that the vast majority of
men who stay away from church today,
do sdSbecause they do not in their
minds live God, and care for the things
of the spirit They are content to live
a Godless, material, selfish life, and do
not want to be lifted out 00 1."
The Heat LtnlnserM.
S "Ohambfriain's Pain Balm u consid
ered the best liniment on the market,"
write Post & Bliaa, of Georgia, Vt No
other will heal a cut or brniae so prompt
ly. No other affords snch qnick relief
from rheumatic pains. No other ia so
valuable for deep seated pains like lame
back and pains in the cheat. Give this
liniment trial and you will never wish
to be without it. Sold byM. L. Marsh, j
COTTON FICKlNd nACHINBM.
The Labor Froblesnr' New Confront.
Ing the CotteBGrewloa; States.
American Cotton Manufacturer.
All aorta of predictions have been
made commenting upon our future
status as supreme producer of raw cot
ton. Lack of sufficient labor to pick a
njuch enlarged crop seems to be gener
ally held as the chief drawback to our
indefinitely maintaining our present
position of acknowledged pre eminence.
The determined work initiated by the
several manufacturing natiocs of
Europe to introduce the cultivating of
the fibre in their colonial territories
presents a remote, but not by any
means impossible menace to the profit
able enlargement of our produot to
keep pace with the increasing needs of
a growing demand for cotton goods.
It must be conceded that the cotton,
growing States are confronted by a
serious labor problem, and that until
some solution is found, the resources
with which nature lias endowed the
American cotton belt cannot be even
approximately applied to the production
of cotton. Vast sums of money have
been spent by inventors and investors
in a multitude of attempts to produce a
practical cotton-picking machine. At
this time, so far as public knowledge
goes successful consummation of their
labors remains as distant as ever.
In these days of wonderful inven
tions and discoveries, .one cannot be
lieve the cotton-picking machine an
impossibility. Not even an improba
bility. Too rich a reward is in store
for the genius who first reaches the
goal.
A 10,000,000-bale crop costs approxi
mately $100,000,000 to pick, and it can
be reasonably assumed tbat before a
mechanical picker can be said to be a
commercial success, it must reduce this
annual outlay to $10,000,000. So much
for the field of effort open to' the mas
ter mechanical minds of the superla
tively mechanical people. To pick a
crop of 11,000,000 bales, at an average
of 150 pounds of seed cotton a day per
picker, means that for a picking season
of three months, consisting of twenty
working days each, somewhat over
1,830,000 people must be kept at work.
The picking machine will release over
1,500,000 people to other industries for
one-quarter of each year.'
Methods of automatically harvesting
all other important crops have been
provided, but the gathering of cotton
presents a unique difficulty. The ma
chine must possess a "power of seleo
tion," picking from the plant only, such
bolls as are ripe and open, and leaving
all others for later attention. Consid
ering that the ootton factory has many
machines so highly developed that they
almost seem to be endowed with rea
soning faculties, encourages an abiding
faith in the ultimate birth of the cot
ton-picking machine. It may be said
that almost every known force, and
mechanical principle has been tried,
but it is possible that a happy oombina'
tion of some of those will one day be
seen in every cotton field of the South.
The wonders already performed by
that unknown, and perhaps unknowa
ble force, electricity, engenders the
hope tbat it may be so harnessed as to
select the ripe bolls at the right time.
However, whenever the practical ap
paratus is produced, that day will mean
the everlasting supremacy of the Amer
ican cotton grower, for be can then
produce enough of the staple to supply
the needs of every inhabitant of this
planet, and keep pace with their in
creasing requirements, even should
they be trebled or quadrupled.
Another phase of the situation as it
will then exist should not be overlook
ed. Every step which is taken in the
direction Of making the growing, pick
ing and preparation of cotton for the
factory, more mechanical and, there
fore, more complex, will be a stride
towards rendering nugatory the efforts
of the European to compete with us,
hampered at he will be, with semi-
barbarous and altogether unintelligent
laborers.
son! THINGS Wl WANT TO
PRINT.
About Things that Men Do thai Are
Worth While.
Monroe Journal.
The week before last we published a
racy story of two successful Iredell
farmers which we are sure our readers
enjoyed. The Statesville Landmark,
from which it was copied, says it went
the rounds of a good many papers.
And The Lndmaikks its readers to
send it other stories of the people of the
county who have done or are doing
worthy things in whatever line. That
is what The Journal wants to print.
We don't care much about six-legged
calves and ten-toed pigs little freaks of
nature that often occur and with which
men have nothing to do. But we like
tc publish the news of the butchering
of an exceptionally fine hog, because
that tells of the skill of the owner in
breeding and feeding. Likewise, a fine
field of corn or a very big yield of po
tatoes mean that skill, knowledge, in
dustry and pride have been exercised
by the owner. The publication of what
he has done leads others to think and
to act and to improve upon what they
have been doing. This is one way tbat
a newspaper helps its community, by
publishing the worthy things which
stimulate the doing of other things
worth while. Any reasonable man
knows that a newspaper is published
primarily for the sake of the mouey
that it brings the publisher, but if a
publisher has no other motive than
that, he might as well be in any other
line of business, better be, in fact, be
cause there are hundreds of others in
which he can make more money. The
fact is, a newspaper is a publio institu
tion, though owned by private hands,
and from the nature of the case has
certain public duties to perform. So
we will appreciate anything from our
readers that shows skill, industry, ex
cellence and worth, whether from field,
shop, office or store. There's as much,
so far as the worker is concerned, in
making a fine field of corn as in preach
ing a fine sermon. And then don't
wait till you have something to report
yourself, but report your neighbor first
if you have a chance.
A Start II nc Teat.
To save a life, Dr. T. G. Merritt, of
No. Mehoopany, Pa,, made a startling
test resulting in a wonderful cure. He
writes "a patient was attacked with
violent hemorrhages, caused by ulcera
tion of the stomach. I had often found
Electrio Bitters ejllent 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
guaranted for Dyspepsia, Indigestion,
Constipation and Kidney troubles. Try
them. Only 60c at all druggists.
Either a man's wife finds fault with
him of never kissing her any more, or
if he does, of smelling of tobacco
smoke.
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets aie becoming a favorite for
stomach trouble and constipation. For
sal by M. L. If asah.
specimens of the Roll Weevil Free
Mr. Franklin Sherman, Jr., entomo
logist of the State Department of Agri
culture at Raleigh, has received Beveral
hundred dead specimens of the cotton
boll weevil from Texas. Thesewere sent
by experts of the national government in
Texas, and are being placed in small
glass vials with cotton batting for die
ribution among the cotton farmers of
North Caolina. Although the boll
weevU is not yet in this State it is al
most oertain to reach us in time though
it will probaby be several years yet,
By securing these dead specimens from
Mr. Sherman, our -farmers may fam
iliarize themselves with the pest in ad'
vance. l'erson desiring to secure spec
imens should write to Mr. Sherman at
Raleigh enclosing four cents in stamps
not stuck to the paper, to pay for pots-
sge, package, etc. Two specimens of the
weevil wilt be sent to esch applicant
' MB, UAlUBLEY'a WORK..
Charlotte Chronicle.
The development of the Yadkin
water power, described in this paper
Saturday, means a great deal for this
country. It all means that there if go
ing to ne woric lor tnose wno want work,
profitable employment for those who
will appreciate fair returns for honest
labor.. It means that wages may be
saved to make the capital to go into
an independent business in a modest
way. It means that a family may hire
power to operate a few looms and that
these may be increased and tbat there
will be a charfee here in the Old North
State to make fortunes from small be
ginnings. It all means that this State
is not now standing still, but that she
is coming to her own again. She onoe
occupied third place in the Union in
wealth, population, manufactures and
commerce. Virginia and Pennsylvania
alone led her. Our population is of the
same race and blood as that of Penn
sylvania. Working on the same lines
the Scotch-Irish of North Carolina
ought to be able to do as muoh as the
Scotch-Irish of Pittsburg and the Ger
mans of North Carolina ought to be
able to do as much as the Pennsylva
nia Germans, and henceforth they will.
The Southern people have had a long
siege of poverty and become in a de
gree doubters. Doubt makes discour
agement and discouragement' makes
failure. The movement forward has
now got too much force and swing for
the backward doubters to arrest or hin
der it. Even if Mr. Hambley Bhould
die to-morrow be will have done mag
nificent work in the confidence he has
shown in the resources of the counties
in which he is working. Even if the
money of the Hambleys, Whitneys and
Stepbensons should give out the value
of co-ordinated and corelated resources
has been fully shown and somebody
would carry out the plans which are
well conceived, well formulated and
based upon genuine values.
If love would only make a man's in
come go round he wouldn't care any
thing about the gyration of the world.
JuBt after a girl's clothes lengthen at
knees they begin to shorten at the waist.
GENUINE
PERUVIAN
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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.
FOB SALE BY
CANNON & FETZER CO., Concord, N. C.
During these times of high prices on feed stuffs is easily the t
best and cheaoest. Analysis of the State Chemist, of Pro-
i tein 12.37 per cent, and Fat 13.44 per cent , stamps it the i
best meat-building and tat-producing article on tne marnet 4
to-day.
When buying Rice Meal insist upon being furnished with goods bearing the
tax tag of the State of North Carolina with Klce Meal and manufacturers'
name on the baok, refusing Inferior substitutes without tags. Our goods
are always packed in uniform weight 100-pound bags, and If your dealer
cannot supply what you need, send his name and write for quotations to the
manufacturers.
I CAROLINA RICE MILLS, G0LDSB0R0, N. C, I
OR CONCORD WHOLESALE GROCERY CO.,
Oct. Sl mos.
DISTRIBUTORS, Concord, N. C.
1804 and 1904.
Only a abort span when measured by
the lifeVf nations, and yet, what mar
vels have been wrought within the
time! .The wildnees has grown into
cities and the country is spanned by
great steel highways, which daily bind
the cities into closer union. Chief
among these "ties that bind" stands the
Lake Shore Railway, whose magnifi
cent roadbed, modern rolling stock and
safety appliances have done so much
toward bringing about the wonderful
transportation facilities of 1904.
FOR FINE AND UP-TO-DATE
PHOTOGRAPHS
Go to O. V. FOUST
Leading: Photographer
Remember the holidays are ap
proaching and you will do well
to sit for Photos at an early
day as the more time to make
pictures the better the finish.
I Have on Hand a New
and Up-to-Date Line
of Cards.
Also a beautiful line of
BROOCHES
of the best quality.
Remember we make all sizes of
Ukayon, Pastel, Water Color,
bepia, and Oil fortraits. Come
and let us see if we can supply
your wants in the art.
Remember the place.
O. V. FOUST,
Opposite Court House, Concord.
Nov. 4. WW.
Sou lb African 8ea Island rotloa Has
Greatly Deteriorated.
Some South African cotton was on
exhibition at the Savannah cotton ex
change recently. The staple is pro
nounced iuferkir by Savannah experts,
though the ootton was grown from seed
of sea island cotton sent from tbat
place.
The experts think Africa will never
become a rival ot this section in tne
culture of a sea island cotton, since just
one crop shows such great deterioration.
Next year the crop would not be even
so good as this.
The Hand on the J"hrottIe
must be governed by a clear head, iron
nerves and long experience. These are
the qualities demanded by the Lake
Shore Railway in all of its engineers,
and the same high standard of abili'y
is maintained among all the other em
ployees of this famous trunk line. To
this care in the selection of the right
man for the right place attribute much
of their immunity from accident and
the large measure of public confidence
which they enjoy.
i
'Henpeck, what do you think of s
man who marries for money t"
'Think he earns every asat hs gsts." ,
WE ARE
THE
BOOMERS
OF THIS
TOWN
FUN for the BOYS.
We are selling the celebrated
jBRIST BOOMERANG
Yes sir. eive us a look boys, and we will sell you. We
are selling the Furniture to the grown people.
Yours to please,
Bell & Harris
Furniture Co.
Residence 'Phone 90. Store 'Phone 12.
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Advance Holiday!
News
You can't get better
valines than we offe
Gift Goods.
Pictures, Easels,
Statuary, Jardinieres,
Toilet Sets,
Odd Chairs.
An "Ideal" Gift
For mother would be a Ifcick's Range.
For sister, a Lamp, Dressing Table or
Writing Table.
For brother, a leather chair.
For father, a lounge'or couch. ?
1 GRAVEN BROTHERS FURNITURE AND UNDERTAKING CO.
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