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NO HOMESTEAD LAW.
The man that will not pay his debts, '
But boats from store to store.
May drrt his bark where Homestead laws.
Will wax and wane no more.
They beat and mote, and mors to beat.
For rations and for rent;
They drag around from plaos to place.
Until their Urea are ent.
The messenger of death will some,
To each and every one;
To summon them, with their accounts, 1
Before the righteous One.
They to the judgment hall will so.
From there they will retreat;
They'll claim that Jesus paid It all,
But they'll hare no Just receipt.
The Devil then will call his own,
Down to eternal awe;
To dweU with all the dead beats where
They have no Homestead law.
"Boiom" ot North Carolina.
AS TO WITH It S FIBS.
Raleigh Post-
Here are some things suggested by
the Rockingham Anglo-Saxon that
have long been a just cause for com
plaint, showing the need of some legis
lation as a matter of common justice
to the citizens of the state. The Anglo
Saxon says:
A witness summoned before a grand
jury gets no pay, where a true bill is
not found. Defendant's witnesses get
nothing when a defendant is acquitted
and the State, or rather the county is
taxed with the coat.
This looks like a hardship upon wit
nesses who are summoned because
they were supposed to know something
of a matter it being presumed they
have had opportunity to know some
thing. "
A certain liquor dealer was supposed
to have sold whiskey on Sunday, was
presented before a grand jury. Two
young men who sometimes drank whis
key, were summoned before that jury.
They came Monday, spent four days at
a hotel at the court house waiting to be
called before that jury. They may
have believed that the man sold whisky
on Sunday, but they did not know it,
and a true bill was not returned to the
oourt; they received no pay. And the
clerk allowed them to throw away ten
cents each in proving his attendance.
If a defendant has you summoned
and he comes clear, you are sure out
your time and hotel bill. The solicitor
and the State's witnesses get half fees.
This doesn't look altogether right, but
it is law.
The reason this is so fixed is because
so many take advantage of the court's,
unprincipled hangers-on around the
oourt houses, who are looking for fees.
But the county officers should know
who are all right and who are not, and
good, honest citizens should not be
thus imposed upon.
It is manifestly unfair and unjust to
require a man, under pain of penalty,
to attend court, sacrifice his business
interests, pay bis own expenses, for
nobody knows how long, and he told
when it is all over that his witness
tickets and milesge strips are not worth
a cent. We have in mind now a poor
man who spent more than one hundred
dollars cash, to say nothing of lost time,
in attending court as a witness for the
defendant in a murder trial in which he
cannot get a cent back. It is a rank
outrage for the law to make such a
demand of a citizen.
For the Olber Fellatr, Whoever He
Waa.
Washington Post
"My friend, Colonel Finley, of Ken
tucky, tells this one on himself," said
Mr. George C. Cobham, of Chicago.
"It seems that years ago they had a
system of viva voce voting in all elec
tions in the blue grass country, My
friend Finley was sitting in the room
where the judges and clerks of the elec
tion were. They were his personal
friends and wanted to see him win, -
' "During the progress of the voting
an old country came np and called out
his candidates from governor down to
constable, but omitted to vote f of legis
lator.
"Hold on,' said one of the judges as
the old fellow had turned to leave,
"don't you want to vote for member
of the legislature ?"
"Wall, yes, I guess I do; who's tun
ning'? "Why, Finley and another fellow.'
"Is that so f Then vote me for the
other fellow.' "
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Children are notoriously eager to
acquire facts. The following question
was ssked by a lad of seven, after he
had ridden upon his uncle's knee:
"Say, Uncle WilL what becomes of
your lap when you stand up?"
AH J ONE OH COTTON AMD FRO
HIHITION.
Atlanta Journal.
No more anomalous condition ever
obtained than now existing in the cot
ton world. The wisest philosopher and
the biggest fool, each have as much
data or basis on which to stand and
reason as the other. I keep saying it,
every fellow is some sort of a fool and
there are millions of cotton fools, and
they are the most teachless, hard
headed, unmanageable of all the fools
that come down the pike. I see how
you oan corral and manage a thousand
fools or two thousand fools or even
three thousand, but how in the name
of sense can you corral five million
fools ? I am too old to be fooled with
old tricks. You will have to get up a
new trick, gentlemen, to fool me, and
there's nothing new about that idea of
decreasing the acreage. That things
been going on for nearly forty years,
and yet our last year's crop was the
largest in the history of the world.
The average farmer in the South when
he learns that his neighbor is decreas
ing his crop, is going to double bis.
When Georgia cotton growers learn
that Texas has cut off Ler acreage S3
per cent., the Georgia farmers will add
33 per cent to theirs. If the lamp of
experience and observation is to be a
guide I don't believe the trick's going
to work this time any better than it has
worked in the past, and yet I am per
fectly candid when I say that the reso
lutions proposed at the New Orleans
cotton convention are all sensible and
sound and feasible; but the sounder
and more logical a thing is the harder
it is to get fools to take hold of it, and
I want to say right now that I don't
mean the cotton growers of the South
are fools about anything except making
cotton, and they are going to make all
they can, and I say kindly to them,
the only short crops they have ever had
was where Providence intervened and
cut down the yield per acre so that
they couldn't make it. I have no
sympathy with Theodore H. Price,
Wall street or cotton speculation in
any way. My sympathy is with the
cotton growers, and if it is true that
the South can get more for a ten mil
lion bale crop than she can for a four
teen million bale orop, then am I not
right when I say that nobody but a set
of fools would raise a fourteen million
bale crop t And the fourteen million
bale orop of 1904 was grown and picked
out by the very crowd who have sent
their representatives to New Orleans
and unless I am mistaken, almost
criminally mistaken, that same crowd
will raise 14,000,000 bales next year if
Providence don't intervene. If the
cotton growers of the South will dis
prove what I have said and bring to
naught the prophecy I make, I'll be
glad to know that I have misjudged
them and misstated what I thought
was the facts. I grant that there is a
temporary let-up in the sale of cotton
and that the farmers are now holding
on to what they have, but how long
they will hold deponents sayeth not, or
whether they will get sny better"price
by holding it, deponents sayeth not.
Their only hope is to wait until the
crop of 1905 is planted and let facts and
figures show that the acreage has been
cut 83 per cent., then, not till then,
are they in position to command 10
cents for the present crop and 15 cents
for the next -crop, I. never bought a
bale of cotton in speculation in my
life. I would no moye dabble in bucket
shops than I would dabble in poker or
shoot craps. I wish cotton would stay
at 15 cents a pound and the only thing
that will keep it below 15 cents is the
crowd that grows the crop. Don't for
get that fact, gentlemen.
I notice that the powers that be in
the municipal government of Atlanta
are split up and divided. The lie has
been passed, and things are not run
ning smoothly down in that neck of
the woods. - Some of the Atlanta
officials want a wide open town and less
arrests made by the police force. I
understand that the arrests are already
falling off much. I said to two of the
Atlanta policemen the other day, "I
understand you have been making too
many arrests." They said, "Yes, we
think so ourselves." I said, "How is
that? What do you mean by saying
yen have made too many arrests?"
They rep'ied, "We arrest a man for
being diunk on the streets, take him
up before tb-a recorder, and his poor
little wife or mother is there and pays
the fine, and the drunken rascal is
arrested next day and brought up be
fore the recorder, Qerhapsr and the
same little woman, begging and crying,
footing the bill." They said it is a
shame for innocence to be punished in
that way. The drunken dog don't
care, but bis poor little wife or poor old
mother suffers and pays, and pays and
suffers. I know there are less arrests
made in Atlanta. I am sure that I saw
more drunken men staggering an the
streets of Atlanta last Saturday than I
ever saw in a month's time in that city
before. The dirty, low-down saloons of
Atlanta wilt fill them np, and what to
do with them after they are tanked up
is the real question. .It does seem like
a shame to punish the poor little wife
and mother, and let the rascal who
drinks the liquor and the dirty devils
who sell it to them go unwhipped and
unpunished. I am in favor of the
whipping post for drunkards; then the
real rascals will suffer. Tie him to a
post, gentlemen, when he is drunk and
give him a hundred lashes. Then turn
him loose, and he will do the crying in
the place of his wife, and there will be
no money extorted from the family.
And then when the saloon-keeper tanks
the fellow up, and he goes staggering
out of the saloon, then pull both drunk
ard and saloon keeper down on a log
and wallop the life out of both of them,
for I have no more respect for the
saloon-keeper who sells the liquor to
the drunkard than I have for the dirty
devil who goes staggering down the
streets to be "pulled" by the police and
the poor little wife to pay the fine.
The powers that be in Atlanta may
not know it, but they keep running up
on another prohibition fight, and when
ever they talk about a wide open town,
or extending the saloon limits, they are
running up on dynamite. I am itch
ing myself to take a hand and get even
with those liquor bells for shipping
their jugs up on as. I have no respect
for a man who sells whisky, and less
for the poor fool who drinks it, and
none at all for any dirty official that is
in favor of giving more rope to the
crowd which is banging our boys and
the husbands of good wives. 1 am a
great deal more concerned about the
morals of Atlanta and Georgia than I
am about the so-called business admin
istrations of state and cities. I had
rather have sober boys and a decent,
moral community and lees money, for
when a man or a city has nothing but
money they are getting pretty low
down in the scale of human beings.
Gentlemen, the preachers and the
moral forces, of Atlanta are not dead.
Most ot them have been asleep, but
first thing you know you'll wake them
up and there'll be a Kilkenny cat fight,
sure as you're born. Dr. Broughton
says he is in favor of a fight. I believe
that all preachers ought to "shoot,
Luke, or give up your gun."
Yours truly,
Sam P. Jones.
An Ill-Sorted Family.
Farmer Carson looked np from his
search for potato-bugs into the face of
a former neighbor who was visiting
his old friends sfter an absence of ten
years.
"How's your son, Dick, getting on?"
he asked, after a few preliminaries.
"Dick? Ob, he's getting on first
rate; he's a sort of a doctor," said the
father.
"How about Arthur?"
"Arthur? Ob, he's getting on all
right, too. He's a sort of a lawyer."
"What's Jim doing?" he continued.
"Oh, Jim, he's doing fine; he's a
sort of a preacher," said Mr. Carson,
cheerfully.
"And you keep right on here," said
the old neighbor, with evident regret.
"Well, er, for the present," said Mr.
Carson, apologetically. "You see, it
seems kind of advisable for some one
to be a sort of a farmer, and kind of
feed Dick and Arthur and Jim for an
other ten years or so, till they get a sort
of an income."
These Sbonld Not Marry.
Philadelphia Record.
The woman who expects to have
eood. easy time."
The woman who wants to re-furnish
her house every spring.
The woman who buys for the mere
nleasure of buying.
i
The woman who thinks that cook and
nurse can kern house.
The woman who would die rather
than wear last season's bat.
The woman who expects a declara
tion of love three times a day.
The woman who marries in order to
have some one topay her bills.
The woman who thinks she can get
$5,000 worth of style out of a 11,000
income.
The wosVn who proudly declares
that she cannot even hem a pocket
handkerchief and never made np a bed
in her life.
Kirk Headache.
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a disordered condition of the stomach.
All thaTis needed to efiwt a cure is a
dose or two of Chamberlain's Stomach
and liver Tablets. In fact, the attack
mT be warded off. or greatly lessened
In severity, by taking a dose of these
Tablets as soon a. the first symptom or
an attack appears. Sold by M. L. Marsh
and D. D. Johnson.
THtTLEGISLATCBB.
Raleigh, Jan. 80. Bills were intro
duced in the Senate by Mr. Duls to
amend the charter of the Presbyterian
College; Mr. Long, of Person, to es
tablish a State laboratory of hygiene.
Bills passed to amend the act establish
ing the corporation commission by giv
ing the latter power to appeal, and for
the issue by the Superior Court judge
of peremptory mandamus at the re
quest of the com mission, the bill
being drawn at the instance of its chair
man, to give it power to enforce obedi
ence to its orders.
The Senate tabled the resolution au
thorizing the Senate and House com
mittees on claims to investigate the
claims of South Dakota against North
Carolina. This matter will be put in
the hands of a special committee, as
the greatest and most momentous be
fore this session of the Legislature.
Bills were ratified for the better govern
ment of the institution for the deaf
mutes and blind. The bill to encourage
the pure in art was tabled, the commit
tee reporting it unfavorably and say
ing it would be impossible to enforce it.
Baleiqh, Jan. 81. Scores of mill
men are here attending the hearing by
the committees of the Senate and House
of the child labor bill, increasing the
age limit from twelve to fourteen years
They express confidence in the belief
that the committee will report the bill
unfavorably.
In the Senate bills were introduced
to require fire-proof repositories for
court records; to repeal the act of 1901
regarding the defence by the State of
officers indicted in the Federal courts;
to define premeditation in murder
cases.
Bills were introduced in the House
to pay the chairman of county com
missioners of Northampton $100 an
nually and others of the board t4 per
day while serving; to provide for allot
ting homesteads for lands held in com
mon. The judiciary committee reported
unfavorably the bill to protect assign
ments of wages to merchants. Bills
were introduced to allow registers of
deeds to administer oaths on accounts;
to fix the hours of labor in factories at
ten. The discussion of the day was on
the bill to grant a new trial in criminal
oases where, there is newly-discovered
evidence.
Mr. Long, of Iredell, withdrew his
general liquor regulation bill and called
on his friends to support Mr. Ward's
bill, which he termed admirable.
The bill to grant a new trial in crim
inal cases on account of new evidence
passed, 48 to 47. The bill extending
the limits of Monroe passed the Senate,
29 to 7.
Fiendish guttering
la often caused by sores, ulcers and can
oers, that eat away your skin. Wm.
Bedell, of Flat Rock, Mich., says : "I
have nsed Bncklen's Arnica Salve, for
Ulcers, Sores and Cancers. It is the
best healing dressing I ever found."
Soothes and heals cuts, burns and scalds.
25o at all druggist ; guaranteed.
Revenue officer made a raid on
moonshiners 16 miles from Hot
Springs, tied horses and captured a
man. The night was bitter cold and
they stopped at the house to warm.
When they went out with the prisoner
they found the animals gone. There
was nothing to do but to walk 16 miles
with theirprisoner. When they return
ed to Hot Springs the horses were
found in the stables.
BUCK'S
Stoves g Ran (jes
Simply cant
weai out
GRAVEN BROS. FDRNITDRE AND UNDERTAKING COMPANY
VERT LITTLE WHISKEY EVER
NECESSARY AS A R1KD1CINE.
Stateavllle Landmark.
It all the doctors believed in the
limited use of whiskeya a medicine as
fiuch as one doctor who spoke before
the temperance convention at Raleigh
last week, the sales at the proposed
medical depository in Monroe would be
limited indeed. This doctor said that
he was both a physician and druggist.
That twelve months ago be put one
gallon of whiskey in his drug store to
prescribe against. During that time he
had prescribed whiskey for all his
patients who needed it, and, he con
cluded, "Brethren, I declare unto you
that I have half a gallon of that liquor
left yet !" Monroe Journal.
The truth is, most of the physicians
will tall you that very little liquor is
actually necessary as medicine. Some
times a patient needs a stimulant, and
it is necessary to give liquor regularly
for a time, but these are rare cases.
Liquor, properly used, is a good'medi
cine on occasion, but the point is that
it is absolutely necessary in very few
cases. A Statesville druggist one wh'o
has had long experience in the drug
business says that the average drug
gist, supplying only the legitimate de
mands of his trade for liquor, would
not sell $10 worth a year. It is by no
means always the fault of the druggist
if the sale ot liquor in his place is
abused. He may sell strictly on pre
scription, and prescriptions may be
easily obtained. It is the conscientious
physician who would suffer most in
such cases. He could not always refuse
the requests of friends or good custom
ers for liquor, and many a time he
would give a prescription when be
would ' know the liquor was not nec
essary. Did Not Advertise.
The story is told of an old bachelor
who bought a pair of socks and found
attached to one a paper with these
words: "I am a young lady of twenty
and would .like to correspond with a
bachelor with a view to matrimony."
The name and address were given. The
bachelor wrote and in a few days got
this report: "Mamma was married
twenty years sgo. Evidently the mer
chant whom you bought those socks of
did not advertise, or he would have
sold them long ago. My mother
handed me your letter and said possibly
I might suit. I am eighteen."
The World's Large.! Diamond.
The largest diamond ever discovered,
weighing 8,032 carats and valued at
from $3,500,000 to $4,000,000, has just
been found near Pretoria. Before this
discovery a stone weighing 971 carats,
or nearly half a pound, sent to London
from the JagersfoDtein mines in South
Africa in 1893, was regarded ss the
largest. This atone is still in process of
being cut in Amsterdam.
m Peculiar Disappearance.
J. D. Runyau, of Bntlerville, O., laid
the peculiar disappearance of his pain
ful symptoms, of indigestion and bili
ousness to Dr. Bong's New Life Pills.
He saya : "They are a perfect remedy
for dizziness, sonr stomach, headache,
constipation, etc." Guaranteed at all
drug stores, price 25c.
In the last issue of bis paper Cy Lyle
ssys whenever we get a line of credit at
a saloon we take all what they is.
'Taint so. We leave the gas bill and
the bar fixtures Hardeman Free
Press.
DOLLAR DOLLAR
That's exactly what
you get with every
Bucks Stove
and Range-
Dollar for Dc!lar, in fact you get more for your dollar
when buying a Buck's than any other make. This is
proven, admitted factP
PRICE LIST
D. J. BOST U CO.
Corn, 70c per bushel.
Peas, 70c per bushel.
Eggs, per dozen, 20c.
Chickens, 20 to 30 cents.
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 per pound.
Partridges, 8V6c to 10c a piece.
Rabbits, 5c to IYjc. Rabbitts
must be cleaned and skinned,
with head and feet left on.
Will give you the highest market
price for Hides.
D. J. BOST & CO.
TWO BARGAINS !
About 65 acres fresh land 8 miles north
of Concord, nearly level, sloping a little
totne south, at the small sum ot $11.00
per acre. We reeard this as one of onr
very best offers in real estate; 50 acres of
this land is nearly ready for the plow;
15 acres forest timber, with branch run
ning through it. We include enough
lumber on the land to build a fair tene
ment house.
Two houses and lots and two vacant
lots, on the beautiful knoll north of the
Cemetery, fronting on the Salisbury
road, at a bargain.
Jno. K. Patterson & Co.
CONCORD, N. C.
KELLan
SURE CURE
FOR
INDIGESTION !
THAT'S
ALI
SOLD BY
Gibson Drag Store
Q.O. Richmond.
ThOi. W. Smith.
6. G. RICHMOND & CO.
-1904.
OfFICE.
Carrying all lines of business.
Companies all sound after Bal
timore fire.
We thank you for past favors.
and ask a continnance of your
business.
Rear room City Hall.
TWO MORE BARGAINS.
One 5-room dwellinor. new well-bouse.
barn and young fruit trees. On Kerr
street. Size of lot 120xU0. Price
$1,400, one-half cash, and balance in
twelve monihs.
One good 5-room house on St. Mary's
street, Concord, price only $750 cash.