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Times; THE John B. Sherrill, Editor and Owner PUBLISHED TWICE A. WEEK. 9 $1.00 a Yea in Advance. Volume XXII. Concord, N. C., February lO. 1905. Number 66, CONCORD r Potash is necessary forgotten to produce high yields and SJod fibre. Write for our valuable books on fertilisation: they contain informa tion that means dollars to the farmers. Sent free on request. Write now while you think of it to the QERMAN KALI WORKS New York Ailanu, 0. The Mutal Benefit Life Insurance Company OF NEWARK, N. J. The Leading Annual Dividend Company of the World. It has an unrivalled rec ord in the history ot Life" Insurance, and gives its Policy Holders a Dollar's worth for every dollar of cost to them. If you want the best poli cy on the market, call on Jno. K. Patterson, Agent, CONCORD, N. C. H. I. WO0DHOOTH. MARTIN ROGER, President. Vioe-Prealdeut. a W. SWINR. W. H. GIBSON. Cashier. Teller. Concord, N. C, Branch at A.b. marie, N. U. Capital, f 60,000.00 Surplus and Undivided Profits 30,000.00 Deposits 850,000.00 Total Resources 435,000.00 Our past success, as Indicated above by figures, ;s quite gratifying, and we wish to assure our friends and customers of our ap- Ereclatlon o Ithelr patrouage and conllallv lvite a continuance of the same. Should be pleased to serve a lance number of new cus tomers, holding ourselves ready to serve you In any way consistent with sound banking. DIRECTORS. J. W. Cannon, Robert S. Young, T.. ,t. Foil. Jos. F. Goodson, M. i. Corl, Jno. 8. Eflnl, J. M. Morrow, T. V. Ingram. "1847 ; Rogers Bros." Knives, Forks, Spoons, etc. , Rm csfefullv examine.! .fctl properly Sited to the yt grade Ijofglasses. . "), f W.C.CORRELL.Jeweer.j THB iMi IVW11W lllll LMIII1I. 1 Concord. N. C, Julv Mh, 1004. This bank baa Just passed the sixteenth anntnersary, and each one of them sixteen years has added to its strength, thus proving that It Is worthy the eoumience of it na trons and the general public. Paid in Capital . 390,000 aurpius ana undivided Prohts 36,0 Shareholders Liability 50,000 WsH the above as a base for conflr)enw and M anusuallv large amount of assets in proportion to liabilities as a guarantee of conservative management, we Avita your business, Interest paid as agreed. i. M. ODBLL, President, D. B. COLTKANB. Cashier. Do yon want a farm or a place in town? If so, we think we can find jnst what jou want. See the list of the propel we have for sale. Jno. EL Pat terson & Co. CU.ltS Until LL liol lAIIS. ,T Couifh Hjiup. Twte oovhI. C". Ti Id tine. Sn'it bT drwlat. t -? s-- ji.iisi i ' SCTV'f v-i "'I ! ) JEWELRY I i 1 DIAMONDS : WATCHES I j and a complete line K $ ' of the t J I - GENUINE Jff I w i mnni I i III y j Ft,.. IIMR.pnlring THB LEGISATCRB. Baleioh, Feb. 6. The legislative proceeding to day were uninteresting. Bills were introduced in the Senate to prohibit dealing in futures; to amend the charter of Concord; to provide a short form of crop lien; to allow Spen cer to establish a graded school, A resolution was adopted urging Congress to make an appropriation for the im provement of the upper Cape Fear river. Bills were introduced In the House to abolish the North Carolina geological survey; to require county surveyors to keep records of all surveys; to establish a dispensary at Hendersonville; to re' peal the law taxing agents for laborers taken from the Btae; to encourage sheep husbandry by taxing dogs. Bills were tabled to prevent the col lection of usury; increasing the jury tax to $5 in civil and criminal cases. Bills were introduced to establish a Normal College for Women for eastern North Carolina. It carries 110,000 an nual appropriation for support and $25,000 special for laboratory, 120,000 for heat, light and power plant. Ealeigii, Feb. 7. Bills were intrO' duced in the House carrying appropria tions for the State Hospitals total for the Western Hospital, $219,000, in eluding new building for males; $12,200 f or- Goldsboro, including $38,000 for new biulding; $218,053 for Raleigh, in eluding $90,000 for land for farm; Nor mal and Industrial College, $103,000, including the expenses of replacing the burned buildings, the annual support not being included in this bill. Bills were introduced in the House to extend the powers and duties of the Governor, allowing him at any time to inspect or investigate any State insti- tute, his expenses to be paid by the State. The Legislature will this week dis pose of the question as to the further existence of the distillery towns of Williams, Shore and Advance. It is believed that charters will be repealed by heavy majority. A very prominent ex Democratic chairman says: "I will bang my head in shame if this is not done." In the House an amusing petition ra presented from citizens of Wake ssking special roads to be built for au tomobiles to keep them from running into horses and people. It was re ferred to Mayor Powell, of Raleigh. The judiciary committee reported fa vorably the divorce bilL All the di vorce bills were set for a special order, Thursday at 11 o'clock. A message from the Governor was received urging the establishment of a bureau of immigration; appropriation sufficient to make a creditable showing at the Jamestown Exposition. Estab lishment of a central purchasing com mission or State purchasing agent, to buy all food and supply products by the wholesale for the various State ed ucational and charitable institutions; for a strict divorce law; for a better vagrant law, especilly one to break up the evil of loafers and idlers 'in cotton mill settlements; urging an increase of judges salaries and declaring that $3, 500 voted by the Senate is little enough. The bill to protect landlords and ten ants, which passed final reading, is very interesting. It makes it a misde meanor for the tenant" who procures ad vances from the landlord to enable him to make a crop on rented land, and then wilfully abandon the same, guilty of misdemeanor. The laudlord who wilfully fails tomake advances to the tenant contracted for, is also guilty of misdemeanor; the person employing a tenant who has violated the act to be liable to the landlord who has made the advances, and also to be guilty of misdemeanor. The act applies to forty counties, including Gaston, Mecklen burg, Rutherford, Cabarrus and Ca tawba. Bills passed allowing illegitimate children to inheajt equally from their mother; to permit county commission ers to regulate speed cf automobiles and other vehicles on public roads and bridges. ( apt are ot a Scapegoat. A certain Sunday school superinten dent was much worried by the noise of the scholars in a room next to him. At hut, unable to bear it any longer, he mounted a chair and looked over the par&i on, dividing the two rooms to see who the offeodwrs were. Seeing one boy a little taller than the otheretlking a great deal, he lent over, seized the boy by the collar, lifted him over the partition, and banged him into a chair in his room, saying: "Now be quiet." He then resumed his lesson, until about a quarter of an hour later, when he saw a small head appear round his door, and a meek little voice said: Tlease, sir, you've got our teacher 1" Gratitude is a good thing for any man to use in his busineea. CaFB HATTERAS, GRAVEYARD Or THB ATLANTIC. The recent wreck of the steamer Northeastern off Cape Uatteras adds another to the long list of ships that have left their bones on the treacherous Diamond gnosis, the graveyard of the Atlantic Ocean. . No pUoe touched by the waters of the Atlantic- Ocean is the scene of so many disasters as Cape Hatteras. Ask a mariner for the name or number of ship that have given upeiheir careen on the treacherous projection of the North Carolina Coast, and he will shrug big shoulders. The deep-sea, sailor loses recollection of the constant mis haps off Hatteras. Disasters are too frequent to stand out clearly in the memory. The greatest loss of life occurred when a French steamer, trading be tween New York and the West Indies, struck a derelict vessel at night during a gale and went down, with nearly 200 souls aboard. The British and Nor wegian tramp steamers that missed their way in rounding the promontory may be counted by the score. The Baltimore bark Priscilla went to pieces near Hatteras, when Captain Spring steen lost his wife, a son and a pas senger. Cape Hatteras is the easternmost pro jection of the Atlantic Coast into the sea. Shoals of shifting sands run fif teen miles out to sea, where is anchor ed the Diamond Shoal lightship, which has several times been swept away from her moorings and once driven ashore. If there is a gale from almost any direc tion it kicks up big seas on the shoals that sprawl out to sea. The Gulf Stream, which sweeps around the pro jection of land, adds to the confusion of the seas. It is a region of fogs, and there are landmarks on the coast which somewhat resemble Cape Hecry, often luriDg ships in on the beach when their skippers, believe they are hcadirjg for the Chesapeake. No lighthouse has ever stood the fury of the seas off Hatteras. Between 1875 and 1902 the recordB of the life Baying service show that there were ninety seven wrecks at this point, with total losses of $3,000,000 and sixty-two lives. The latest attempt to build a light house at this important point was in 1889, when a contract was given to Anderson & Barr, of Pittsburg. An enormous caesion was constructed, and preparations were made for putting it in place and filling in the masonry and concrete in the shortest possible time. In a period of calm weather an effort was male to do this, but a sudden storm carried the work away. As in the famous cases of the Minot's Lec'ge and Eddystone lights, it has been seriously doubted if a permanent lighthouse can ever be built at the dan gerous spots off Cape Hatteras. Ever since the twenties, however, a lightship has been maintained there. This lightship, though held in place by mushroom anchors weighing 5,000 pounds, has repeatedly been driven away from ber moorings in storms. On one occasion in 1900 the lightship was adrift for three days, while on April 5 of the same year she was dragged two miles from her proper station. As the light is located only five and three- fourths miles from the nearest Bhoal, such a displacement is a very serious matter. A modern Family. "Where's Edy the f" "She's up in ber studio band-paintin' a snow shovel." "Where's Gladys ?" "In the library writin' po'try." -"Where's Clarice T" "She's in the parlor play in the pl anner." "Where's Gwendoline T" "Up in her boudoir curlin hef hair." "And where'g ma f" "Maw? Oh, maw's down in the kitchen gettin' dinner for the bunch." Sick Headacbe. This distressing ailment results from a disordered condition of the stomach All that is needed to effect a cure is a dose or two of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. In fact, the attack may be warded off, or greatly lessened in severity, by taking a dose of these Tablets as soon, as the first symptom of an attack appears. Sold by M. L. Marsh and D. D. Johnson. Young Husband Bertha, did you atk the grocer to show you some seed less beans I was telling you about this morning T Young wife Yes, and if you want youaylippera warmed before you put them on you can warm themvoureelf, sir; I won't. Sure, on at I wus connected wid da stage. Aw, how wux dat? I wus hired by de year by a actress ter steal her diamonds. JOH.1 L SULLIVAN'S SEBlSoft John L. Sullivan, the ex-pugilistic champion has gone on to the lecture platform, and was greeted with a large audience in Chicago. While there be gave the following talk to a messenger boy, whom he oticed smoking a ci garette: "Smoking cigarettes, eh? Don do it. That's my advice. Cigarettes never did anyone any good and they've done a lot of people a lot of harm. I don't believe in lecturing boys but take my advice and stop drinking and smoking cigarettes. When you get older and must smoke why, smoke a good cigar or a pipe. No one has to smoke any thing or drink anything, but it's been my experience that no bey ever lived next door to an orchard that didn't jump the fence and swipe apples once in a while. I don't know that I'd ctre much for 'em if they didn't try the ap ples, anyhow, but this rum business won't do you any good. I ought to know what I am talking about, boy. I have owned forty or fifty saloons in my time, and was glad to get out of that business. I know as much about drink ing rum as any one. I've drunk a lot of it in my day. I never was a drunk ard, but I've drunk too much, lots too much, and smoked too much. About the only thing I brag about is that I never smoked a cigarette in my life. I'm an advocate of temperance in all things, and especially in smoking, driuk'ng and eating. I used to be a great eater, but I am not now. I only eat two meals a day and I'm better off for it. "Now, lad, I'm not posing to you as a horrible example or anything like that. I'm simply telling you what I've learned by experience. I would bave been champion of the world for years longer and pre bably never would have been whipped had it not been for in temperance in living in eating and in drinking and smoking. I didn't drink much in training and the smoking I did did not hurt me materially, bat at that I did too much of it, and when I met Corbett you could have whipped me if you had made me run after you long enough. "There's Muldoon. He's the great est trainer that ever lived. He won't let any one who smoke cigarettes come near him. He permits those under him to smoke a cigar once in a while, but if they smoke one of those coffin nails they go through the ropes and out. But cigars and pipes don't come near cigarettes for hurting a fellow. They hurt even a powerful man and what they do to kids like you is suffi cient. "Drinking rum takes a lot out of an athlete; smoking dries him up inside and cuts his wind. If you're thinking of ever being any kind of an athlete don't touch tobacco or rum unless the the doctors tell you to and they never will. In all my experience with doo tors they never prescribed but a couple of spoonfuls of whiskey and two bottles of ale for me. I'd never bave been able to lecture from experience on what they gave me." Farmer.' Organizations. Southern Farm Magazine. But the error should not be made of trying to organize all classes of farmers into one organization. Each special in terest should form an association for it self, but in certain matters all these or ganizations might work in harmony. The cotton planters should organize; the tobacco growers should organize; the fruit and vegetable growers should form an association to protect them selves, and so should the stock grower, The necessity for these organizations is forced upon the great agricultural inter ests, because without them they would be robbed in detail. The agriculturists of the country have a greater concern in raie preservation of peace and in the es tablishment of prosperity and good Gov ernment than any other class. They are anchored, so to speak, to the soil. But laws and heavy taxes effect them more surely, because their business is ultimate and all other classes may throw their burdens bsck on the farmers. . Fiendish SuflerlDg nanonl iV mMI. nlcpTS SJld CAT1- Ul VI IVU l .. i. . . ecru, that e. away your skin. Wm. Bedell, of Flat Rock, Mich., says : "I have used Backlen's Arnica Salve, for TTlrers. Sores and Cancers. It is the best healing dressing I ever fonndj" Soothes and heals cats, bums and scalds. 25c at all druggist ; guaranteed. A thing that puzzles a good many wo- ma ; how a man's handwriting- has Aanged when she gets a telegram from him. Peculiar IMsappearaaee, J. D. Ranvan. of Bntlerville, A., laid the peculiar disaearance of his pain ful svniDtoins, of indigestion and bili ousness to Dr. King's New Life Pills. He says : "They are a perfect remedy for dizziness, soar ttoaach, headache. constipation, etc." Guaranteed at all drag stores, price ioo. LiqrjOB FLOATED DOWN PEE DEE. Unique method of Getting North Carolina moonshine Whiskey Into Bonih Carolina. Columbia State. ' Eleven barrels of illicit corn whiskey arrived in Columbia yesterday, and their arrival forms the last chapter in an interesting and clever piece of work done by the dispensary constables of this and the Sumter districts. Information came to Division Chief Osborne of this city several days ago that 12 barrels of North Carolina corn whiskey were being floated down the great Pee Dee river into this State. Constables Pegues and Hearing, of this division, and Division Chief Grady and Ogg, of Sumter, went to Cberaw last Saturday to intercept and seize it. They found that the barrels, which had been roped together in tandem, had become lodged in a fishery built in the river about two miles above Cheraw and that seven of the barrels had broken loose and floated on down to the town, where they were taken out, and held by the sheriff's constable. Nt trace of the remaining five bar rels could be found but the dispensary constables felt ture that they were some where in the river. They accordingly hired a number of negroes and sent them into the river on Sunday after noon near the place where they had been lodged in the fishery. The dark ies, aftar wading and diving, located four of the barrels under the water. They had been drawn down under the inclined portion of the structure and held there by the force of the current. All of the four were brought ashore but the fifth and last could not be found. All of the stuff is contraband and is unstamped. Each of the barrels con tains about 30 galloihs and will be seized by the internal revenue department. The total amount seized is about 330 gallons.. Although there are no marks on the barrels to indicate who the owner is, Chief Osborne is satisfied that the owner is a well-known blind tiger keeper whom the constables always watch out of the corner of their eyes. The barrels were attached by a rope driven through staples driven in each end of each barrel, thus keeping them in a line. They were put in the river at a point in North Carolina and floated down, being carried only by the current of the stream. This improvised flotilla was convoyed by persons in canoes, who guarded and guided the treasure. Tramps Shovel Know on Promise to "Open Bottle." Philadelphia, Feb. 8. Expecting whiskey and receiving water, was too much for human nature, and there was a riot in the tramp cellar of the Cam den City Hall to-night. Shovels were placed in the hands of the tramps early in the evening by James Brown, superintendent of the City Hall, and the hoboes were told to shovel snow. As one man all declared they would rather freeze than work. Then Super intendent Brown said he would open a bottle when they came back. None was so skeptical as to think of any thing else than whiskey. When the shivering tramps returned to the cellar they were handed a bottle which looked like whiskey, but it was water. Enraged, they yelled, smashed in a door, broke a bench and swore they would shovel the snow back on the pavement. A sqaud of police was called and the tramps were forced to leave. We Are In our new quarters next door to the Gibson Drug Store, and we beg to say to our friends and customers that we are better pre pared to serve you than ever before. We extend you a cordial invitation to come to see us often, andve will do our best to make your visits pleasant. a m a i ereaafteiereftivevesee A Gloomy OatlookElther Way. Youth's Companion The New York "Times" tells a story of a white man who was arraigned be fore a colored justice of the peace dur ing reconstruction times for killing s man and stealing his mule, The com parative enormity of such crimes varied with the soil upon which they were committed. In this caee the deed was done in Arkansas, near the Texas bor der. There was some rivalry between states, but the colored justice tried to preserve an impartial frame of mind, "We's got too kinds ob law in die yere co't," he said, "Texas law an' Arkansas law. Which will you hab?" The prisoner thought a minute, and then said he guessed be would take Ar kansas law. "Den I discharge you fo' stcalin' de mule, an'(hang you fo' killiu' de man." "Hold on a minute, judge!" called the prisoner. "I would rather have the Texas law." "All right. Under de law ob Texas I fine you fo killin' de man, an' hang you fo stealin' de mule." Afraid of Strong medicine. Many people suffer for years from rheumatic pains, and prefer to do so rather than take the strong medicines usually given forrheumatism, not know ing that qnick relief from pain may be had simply by applying Chamberlain's Pain Balm and witbont taking any medicine internally. For sale by M. L. Marsh and D. D. Johnson. A blessing in disguise usually has s barn time proving its identity. Big Bargain IN TIMBER LAND 362 acres hi"g only five m'Jc-s from Wadesboro, with 3-room tenant house, barn and stables. Tillable, 40 acres. and 322 acres of timber. Lnnd adapted to cotton, corn, wheat and clover. Has 1,000 teet of old field pine suitable for fire wood. Has 50 to 75 acres fine creek bottom lands, and an equal amount ot black haw land. Lreck is well canalkd. Within Va mile of White Store road to be macadamized this year. Will sell at a remarkably low price. No. 219. 70is acres in liuford town ship. Union county, 5 miles from Mon roe one-half mile from Baptist Church and School, lias 20 acres of small woods, and 6 to 10 acres of branch and creek bottom. lias 4-room log house. barn and small cotton house, and a tew bearing frnit trees. Tillable 50 acres, and 20 acres timber. Land adapted to cotton, corn, oats, etc. Price only $500 cash, or f o64, payable $100 cash, bal ance tn 5 years. No. 158. One lot in Harris addition. Price $55. No. 47. About 87Vi acres in No. 11 township, with one tenant house. Till able 25 acres. Good gold prospects. Land adapted to cotton and grain. Price only $ 1,500. Jno. K. Patterson & Co., Real Estate Agents, Concord, N. C. FREY' VERMIFUGE It the tame good, old-fashioned medicine that has saved the lives of little children for the past 6o years. It Is a med icine made to cure. It has never been known to fail. If your child Is sick net a bot tle of , FREY'S VERMIFUGE A FINE TONIC FOR CHILDREN Do not take a substitute. If your druggist does not keep It, send twenty-live cents In stamps to 33. c3 S. JPTI.X1Y UalUniore, Md. and a bottle will be mailed you. Wow Located Thos. W. Smith. 6. 6. RICHMOND & CO. 1882 1904. I Carrying all lines of business. Companies all sound after Bal timore fire. We thank you for past favors, and ask a continuance of your business. Rear room City Hall. Spcc'al Bates to Hew Orleans, La., PensHola, Fla., Mobile, Ala., Ac- ... count of Hardi Gras Celebration at Above Points March 2nd to 7th by S. A. L. Railway. The Seaboard announces a rate of one fare plus 25 cents from all Eoints on its line to New Orleans, -a., Pensacola, Fla., and Mo bile, Ala., and return, account of the Hardi Gras Celebration at these points, March 2nd to 7th. Tickets will be sold March 1st to 6th, inclusive, with final limit to leave all three points not later than March 11th, ex cept on payment of fee of 50 cents and an extension of limit can be obtained until March 25. Seaboard offers double dally service with only one change of cars, which Is made in Atlanta, trains consisting of veBtlbuled day coaches, Pullman Sleeping Cars and Cale Dining Cars. For further Information In regard to rates, schedules and routes, applv to your nearest Agent or add ress, CHAS. H. GATTIS, Trav. Pass. Agt., Raleigh, N. C. KELL6li SURE CURE .FOR. INOIGESIION! THAT'S ALI SOLD BY Gibson Drag Store FEICE LIST D. J. BOST CO. Corn, 70c per bushel. Peas, i Oc per bushel. EffSfs, per dozen, 20c. Chickens, 20 to 30 cents. Butter, 12Vc 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 7V2C. Rabbitts must be cleaned and skinned, with head and feet left on. Will give you the highest market price lor Hides. D. J. BOST & CO. O.O. Richmond.