THE CONCORD TIM"S
John B. Sherrill, Editor and Owner.
PUBLISHED TWIOE WEEK.
$1.00 a Tear, in Advance.
Volume XXII.
Concord, N. C, January 6, 190S.
NUMBER 55.
The Mutal Benefit
Life Insurance Company
OF NEWARK, N. J.
NO REASON FOR A PANIC.
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:- Life
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If you want the best poli
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CONCORD, N. C.
PRICE LIST
D. J. BOST CO.
Corn, 70c per bushel.
Peas, 70c per bushel.
Eggs, per dozen, 20c.
Chickens, 20 to 30 cents.
Butter, 12Vsc to lfc per pound.
Swe,et Potatoes, 35c to 4-Oc per
bushel.
Irish Potatoes, 75c to 90c per
bushel .
Onions 90c tp $1 per bushel.
Peanuts, 75c per bushel.
PorK. Sc per pound.
Partridges, SM$c to 10c a piece.'
Rabbits, 5c to 712C. Rabbitts
must be cleaned and skinned,
with head and teet left on.
Will give you the highest market
price for Hides. .
. D. J. ijsOST & CO.
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JEWELRY
DIAMONDS
WATCHES
. and a
complete line
of the
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Knives, Forks,
Spoons, etc.
Eyes carefully examined H"d
I properly fitted to tlr Ixst xraJu
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W.C. CORRELL.Jeweter.l
The South Has Fared Worse Condi
tions He To re and Emerged Trium
phant. A special dispatch from New York to
The Manufacturers' Record Bays:
"To judge by the wild dispatches
about the South'a burning cotton and
equally wild reports that would create
the impression that the break in .cot
ton is going to cause a wreck of matter
and a crush of worlds in the South,
one would be led to imagine that? the
whole South is staggered by the cotton
slump The decline ia deplorable, and,
of course, means a heavy loss to many,
but it should not be forgotten that
about 6,000,000 bales were sold at an
average of probably 9J cents and that
if 7,000,000 bales more should average
only 7 cents, the total value of the
crop, including seed would be over
500,000,000 which haB never been ex
ceeded but a few times in the South's
history. Moreover, the great increase
iu the production of grain and other
diversified crops last year adds a gain
of over $1,000,000 to the value of the
South's diversified agricultural products
as compared with 1902 and this year's
diversified crops will be equally as great,
reaching an aggregate value of about
$1,000,000,000, or double the value of
the cotton crop.
"But there is no reason for the
South to become panicky over the cot
ton situation. It has many a time
faced far worse conditions and out of
apparent defeat, won victory. Even
13,000,000, should the crop prove that
large, and many good authorities still
doubt such a yield, are not as unduly
heavy, all things considered, as were
11250,000 bales in 1898. Then the
world was carrying a great surplus stock
accumulated through several success
ive years c f large production, and the
South was poorer, with comparatively
little surplus money in its banks and
with many of its farmers burdened
with debts. Now the world has but
little stock of cotton outside of this
crop, the increase in demand hasgone
on for six years and the South is rich,
with ample capital to finance a large
part of its cotton, while the farmers
are less in debt than e:noe the' war.
The present price is almost as unduly
low as 10 and 17 cents were unduly
high, and as The Manufacturers' Record
warned the world against such specu
lative prices, so it would warn the
South to-day against undue fright.
ua a declining marset people are
always more disposed to sell than on
advancing prices, and in this is the
danger that, frightened by the decline,
farmers will crowd their cotton to
market and cause a further break.
"Cotton is intrinsically worth more
than it is selling for, and that there
will be a reaction in price is just as
inevitable is it was that 17 cent cot
ton would decline. A staple that does
not deteriorate in quality, that, like
pig iron, is as good twenty years hence
as now when below the cost of pro-
to
THK
GHRORD
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Concord, N C. July ftth, 1904.
Tlila bank ban Just passed tho sixteenth
anulpersary, and each one of these 8lxteen
years has added to Its strength, thus proving
that it Is worthy the confidence of Its pa--trooa
and the general public.
Paid in Capital - $50,000
Surplus and Undivided
Profits - - - 30,000
Shareholders Liability 50,000
With the above as & base for confidence
and an unusually large amount of assets In
DroDOrtlon to liabilities as a guarantee ot
conservative management, we invite your
business. Interest paid as agreed.
J. M. ODELL, President,
D. B. CO ITHANK. Cashier.
O.O. Richmond.
Tnos. W. Smith
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OFFICE
G. G. RICHMOND 4 CO.
1882 1904.
GENERAL II
Carryingall lines of business.
Companies all sound alter Bal
titriore fire.
We thank you for past favors,
and ask a continnance of your
business.
Rear room Citv Hall
DR. J. A. WHITE,
DENTIST.
Offlce over Con-ell's Jewelry Store
I CONCORD, N. C.
Notice of Election
Th.. minimi meetincr of the shareholders oHlie
Concord National Hank will lie held in the nfttee
of said bank, Tuesday, January n, jut. at ev
..'..i..Lr u m. for the ouriNKte of electing nev
an Hirui-toru to serve one vear : to consider tin
proiMMitlon to increase the Capital Htock from
ttrjiitMi to liminoi). mid for the transaction of
HiK-pother business as may legally come before
the meeting. .... ,, .
; J. M. ODELL, President,
f V. B. COLTKANE. Cashier
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PETRIFIED WO.T1AN"
WISE MEN.
FOOLED
BOY
RAN ALL. NIGHT TO KEEP
FUOn FREEZING.
TTTTT -t Wm 1 1 M jTf
CUHES HHfcKE ALL ILSE li
FAILS.
Bert Cough ttjrop. Tastes Cloud.
In time. Hold oj arwKimn.
fKl
duction, as it is to day, needs only
be held long enough to make certain
of higher figures. Just how soon the
tide win turn no man can eay, nor
can any one eay that it will not go
ower temporarily. But the South'
policy to-day should unquestionably
be not to burn cotton, not to crowd it
to market, but to etore it and hold for
the inevitable swing of the penduluT
and in the mean time to plant lef
acreage in cotton and more in diversi
fied crops. The situation is in this
way absolutely in control of the South
itself, and will have no one but the
South to blame if it does not hoid back
permanently a million or more bales
and then reduce its acreage about 10
per cent, compared with last year.
The South holds the dominating posi
tion. If it will only use its opportunity
and market its cotton on business
principles, then it will Becure a fair
price.
Outside of a few speculators nobody
wants eucjh low prices. The spinner is
no more pleased at this terrific break
than the farmer. Now let the South
pull itself together, show that it can,
and will protect its own interests and it
will receive the world's applause."
Chamberlain's ugli Remedy Abao
lately llarmlena.
The fault of giving children medicine
containing injurious substances, is some
times more disastrous than the disease
from which they are suffering. Every
mother should know that Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy is perfectly safe for chil
dren to take. It contains nothing harm
ful' and for cougs, colds and croup is
unsurpassed. For sale by M L. Marsh
and D. D. Johnson.
A notable instance of longevity was
brought to light in the death in Char-
lotto Friday of Mrs. Lucy Parmenter,
at the age of nearly 104 years. She
had been married over 80 years, nd
leaves a husband whose age is 98.
Had Mother Eve been up to date what
a fool she'd have made of that serpent!
Body of Co in rut Even muled a Wise
Profe-nor of Dartmouth Collete.
Rutland, Vt., Dispatch.
Several thousand Vermonters who
have paid their hard-earned money to
view what they supposed to be a petri
fied woman dug up in a village of
Washington, are greatly incensed to
discover that the "woman" is made of
ortland cement, and that another
Cardiff giant" hoax has been sprung.
The body was unearthed by Willard
Crough, August 1. It was found in
ground that had not been disturbed in
n many yeare, and Crough was per
fectly innocent of any hoax when he
sold it to parties who wanted it for ex
hibition purposes. Prof. Charles H.
Richardson, of the Department of Mia-
erology and Geology of Dartmouth Col
lege, made an examination and was
completely fooled. He subsequently
gave the exhibitors a certificate attest-
ng to the genuineness of the "body"
and a neat sum of money was realized
before the professor became suspicious
and demanded an arm for the purpose
of making a microscopic examination.
This he had failed to do at the outset.
n a recent report Trof. Richardson
says:
"My microscopic and chemical anal
yses reveal the material used to be neat
Portland cement. The freshly broken
surface shows fragments of piue ehav-
ngs thoroughly filled with resin and
fresh as though cut from finished lum
ber to-day; also fragments of ash, pre
sumably from the staves of the barrels
n which the cemeDt was stored. The
right arm was broken at the wrist be
fore its consignment to me, but subse
quent to its exhumation. To make the
fresh fracture appear more natural, a
coating of light yellow paint was ap
plied over the area that would have
been occupied by the normal bone.
"The surface of the body presented
many warty protuberances, perfectly
natural to long interment. These, also,
are Portland cement. The body was
manufactured by casting, modeling ana
sculpturing. The head wad never at
tached to the body; therefore, never
severed from it. The It ft arm whs
carved, and, like the body, coated over
with a wash of cement. The broken
foot, designed to show loDg continued
solution or decomposition, results easily
from moulding the plastic cement. The
most clever part of it all ia the perfect
form of the left leg.
"This clever fake of 1104 must now
be relegated ft the category of the Car
diff giant, carved in gypsum and buried
in New York in 1SG1; Hull's second
fake, made of clay and human bone,
baked in a furuice and buried in Colo
rado iu the early '0i Ruddook's efligy
ot cement, found in Michigan in 1S7G:
the petrified man in Balhurst, Austra,
1889, and the Rune Stone in Southern
Michigan, 1899."
Neither Prof. Richardson nor any
one else can explain how the body got
in the ground. It is certain that the
spot was not disturbed for half a cen
tury and that Mr. Crough knew noth
ing of the matter until he accidentally
ran upon an arm, in digging an ice
pond. Some one, however, buried it
there. Possibly it was later forgotten.
Not only was the Professor and gen
eral public fooled, but many astute
phyeicians as well. They came from
miles around, and one and all agreed
that the body was that of a woman
living many thousand years ago. Mary
addresses have been delivered on the
subject, and now the wise doctors seem
pained when the matter is referred to.
New York World
Half delirious, nearly frozen and
hungry, Charlejs Brantjen, ten years old,
was found by two boatmen on the
Hackeneack Meado 78, rear Secaucus,
yesterday afternoon. Tae boy, who
lives at Hudson City, had been exposed
to the cold for twenty-four hours.
Only his appreciation of his danger
saved him. Shaking off the drowsi
ness that almost overcame him, he
never ceased to trot up and down along
a path he wore through the tall meadow
grass.
Brantjen and four other boys started
Thurgday across the icy watte of the
meadows to go to the elderberry
swamps near Secaucus. The oldest boy
was guide along the intricate footways
Twice young Brantjen strayed from his
companions, and each time they found
him. When Brantjen wandered from
them the third time, the other boys
I called him, but, although they heard
hii faint halloos, they could not locate
him. They went home and notified
his father, Carl Arantjen.
He organized a searching party which
PARAGRAPHS.
The Governor of Colorado is not sure
of the governorship yet, but still claims
the Supreme Court.
DON'T SWE.tK OFF.
Springfield . Mass l"u!on.
Djn't swear off drinking, smoking,
swearing or aEy other vices unless you
feel that you are able to carry cut the
pledge. Don't prove to yourself that
you are weak; ycu probably know it
already and need no corroborative evi
dence. If you have a vice that you
can conquer, that you feel certain you
have the power to overcome, try to
accomplish that end. But don't tell
any one about your good resolution.
Just try all alone, and no one can laugh
at you if you fall.
Smoking is expensive, drinking is
often fatal and always bad and swearing
in ror.tpmnh nip If vmm t.- t.. nror.
The poor little innocent mail carriers ' come one cr aIi cf these wo wisl 'ou
It is being urged in behalf of Chauncy
Depew that New York will have to
send him back to the Senate or impose
upon the latter the necessity of buying
a joke-book.
Senator Mitchell, who ia accused of '
participating in land frauds in Oregon,
finds that juries do not respect persons
or offices.
At the present time the Czar can
take his choice between reform and
revolution. '
J ARE
f$ to the
X stands
are being severely dealt with by the
government for political activity. The
big corporations that run the govern
ment are never touched.
An Ohio parson wants dancing stop
ped; he 6ays it is merely hugging 6et
to music. The most popular way
would prcbably be to cut out the music.
The. "territories" hung up their
scouted the meadow? all Thursday 6t0cking as usual, hoping old Santa
night. Ihey abandoned the search at (Roosevelt) would drop statehood into
daybreak yesterday. .Lvery boatman f&ch one.
along the Hackensack waa then warned
to look for the bov. and soon one hun- A recent writer has accused the late
dred men were searching for him. Bob Ingersoll of being conceited
Fred Solider and Edward Mark, Probably bo, for he never rtcoguized a
boatmen, near Secaucus, found Charles, superior being
He was running Blowly ba?k and forth
in a clearmg. He said he had wan
dered about until dark, realized he was
lot, and made up bis mind that if he
did not keep moving he would freeze
to death.
Some of a Vear'n Waste.
New York World.
Men killtd iu th3 wars of the world
in ivU4 make up a waste 01 -Ru,wu
ives, according to the Chicago .tri
bune's statistical estimate.
Russia's contribution in money aloi e
xtnllfcllcti for Hallroftd and Other
Corporate Hod lex in Mortli Carolina.
The corporation commi-iion recently to the war waste of the year was $.")4,
gave out its report to Governor Aycock 01X3,000,
for the present year. The report pays Waste by fire in the United States
.hat during the year there xere 3,803 09 Canada amounted to $245 000,01)0.
miles of main line of railroad in opera- We lead the world in the production of
tion. great ash-heaps where homes and bufci-
ness blocks have previously stood.
Defalcations, embezzlements, forg
eries and bank wrtckiugs in this coua
over lat year's try ia 1.904 led to the waste of $4 -
742.507.
Waste of life by violent caubes other
than war such as the Slocum norror,
various railroad accidents, explosions,
etc. approximated 20,000. There
.. T.
were more than .o00 homicides in"tae
United States and eighty-seven lynch
ings
The amount of human activity in
the aggregate that goes for nothing and
wor3e than nothing is astonding.
Trie groa earnings were $20,387,940;
operating expenses, $12,48,920: net
income for operation $7,530,011; net
increase $1,05J137
operations.
The railroads employed 15,205 per
sons. One hundred and twenty persons
were killed iu the movement of trains;
of these, eighty one were passengers
and thirty-nine employees; 4,930,095
passengers were transported; 335 com
plaints were made to the commisuon,
uearly all of which were disposed of
North Carolina is the only state in
which railways are required to furnish
tiret-ciasg and second class fares for
passengers, and if the law were so
amended as to require only one fare
it is thought the rate could be made
lower than the present first class fare of
3J cents.
The average rate per passenger mile
on the leading roada in the state was
aiout 23 cents.
The number of banks has increased
from 155 to lt'2. Four banks were put
in receivers' hands.
success. But there is one vice that we
all have that is greater than all of these
It is the disposition to berate others, to
believe te foul stories and doubt the
good ones.
If every man and woman will swear
off gossiping, will decide to doubt the
ttad reports and believe the good ones,
we can hnve a heaven rit;ht in this sec
lion. The one thing that causes the
greatest worry and the most lasting
sorrow is tne circulation of reports that
injure.
Incidentally, we shall all do well to
determine to try to so live that bad re
ports of us must be false ones.
Mnmacli Trouble and ( onuli patlon.
"Chamberlain'" Stomach and Liver
Tablets are the best thin for stomach
troubles and constipation I have ever
soul," says J. R. Cullman, a druggist of
Pottervillc, Mich. "They are easy to take
ami always i;ive satisfaction. I tell my
customers to try th' m and if not sat is
factory to come back and get their
mo!iey,but have never had a complaint.'
Nor sale by M. L. Marsh and D. D.
Johnson.
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must contain at least 7
per cent, actual
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We now have for sale one of tho best
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Will trade it for real estate or sell on
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Texas to Take rare of All Ilie Surplus
Collou.
New Okleaxs, Jan. 3. E. Sj. Peters,
president of the Texas Cotton (irowera'
Association, who arrived here to-day,
says that Texaa is prepared to take
care of every bale of her surplus cotton.
This was done on a basis of 5 per cent,
interest, declared Mr. Peters. "An ad
vance of $2o per bale will be made and
evry bale of Burplus cotton in Texas
and the Territories will be taken on
this basis, no matter what the price
goes to. This has been arranged for
by a syndicate capitalized for that pur
pose." Mr. Peters issued a note of
warning to cotton-growers to hold on
to their surplus stocks, which he eaid
that the Bpinner, were now trying to
acquire.
llrutallf Torlored.
A case came to light that for persit-tent
and unmerciful torture has perhaps
never been equaled. Joe Golobick, of
Colosa, Calif, writes, "For 15 years I
endured insufferable pain from Rheu
matism and nothing relieved me though
I tried everything known, I came across
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Waller George 'evmau to the Front
Again.
Salisbury Cor., CbarlotU- observer.
Mr. Walter George Newman is again
in the city and has stayed the execution
under whuh the Uold 111 II miniDg
nroiertv was to have been sold. He
was in the bc-tt of spirits, having settled
more than 40,000 in claims against
his corporation. He said to-day: "1
am making settlements of every just
claim against the company and it is
my purpose to resume active operations
at the mine next Tuesday morning
I have doposited in a local bank eurh
cient money to meet all expenses in
volved in the work now contemplated
I still regard this as one of the most
valuable mining properties in the
country ana it win be worked with a
profit to all interested in it during the
next year." While here Mr. Newman
ii visiting the mine. He has purchased
a large lot of mules to begin working
about the place.
No Pity shown.
"For years fate was after me con
tinuously," writes F. A. Culledge, Ver
bena, Ala. "I had a terrible case of
Piles causiutr 24 tumors. When all failed
Backlen's Arnica Salve cured me.
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The crews of three life-saving sta
tions in the vicinity of Hatteras, on
the North Carolina coast, did magnifi
cent work Thursday in rescuing the
crew of an oil steamer which had ran
into the deadly sands of Diamond
Shoals.
The stranded steamer Northeastern,
hound from Port Arthur, Texas, to
New York, which went ashore on Dia
mond Stioale, and from which the crew
were rescued with great difficulty, broke
completely in two Saturday and the
cargo of Texaa oil ran into the ocan-
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