THE CONCORD' TIMES,
John B. Sherrill, Editor and Owner.
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VOLUME XXII.
Cojtcord, N. c, February 14. 19Q5.
Number 66.
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A POEM BV OKR OF RALEIGH'S
COTTON BBOKEBI,
Balelgb Post. )
One of Raleigh's moat affable and
successful cotton buyers, one who is a
fend to the farmer and delights in a
bullish market, has taken Bp his pen
and given expression in remarkable
verse to his oiiaion of "cotton sharks"
and the dilemma they are in. Here
it is: 4
Some time ago some cotton shark
Winked at one another.
And said, we'll do these easy marks.
They cannot hold together.
We have often hea d them awear before
They would not sell a bale
While the price remain so low,
It 1 the same old tale.
They say they'll cut the average short.
And hold back half their crop;
But we know they'll only fuss and snort,
They're bound to sell or stop.
Bo we will go ahead and sell
Without regard at all.
And sea the farmer sunk In hell
Before another fall.
We'il send broadcast throughout the land
Reports and circulars.
We'll bear the price to beat the band
And male7 them Just see start.
A sad mistake these sharks have made.
At last tber have found out
That it take two to make a trade.
They're stuck and ean't get out.
The Next Big; Fair.
The enterprising folks of the great
Northwest are booming another world's
fair, to be known as the "Lewis-Clark
Centennial and Oriental Fair." It will
be held at Portland, Oreg., and will
oover four and one half months, begin'
ning on June 1, 1905. It is to com
memorate the exploration of the North
west Territory to the Pacific in 1805,
It will be the first international exhibi
tion held west of the Rockies,
The expedition which explored this
vast tract, thst was then "no man's
land," was sent out under the leader
ship of Captains Meriwether Lewis and
William Clark by President Jefferson in
1803, and it arrived at the mouth of
the Columbia River in 1805. The
perilous journey, sbme three thousand
miles overland, was accomplished under
most trying circumstances. The expe
dition was composed of thirty-three
men. Lewis and Clark were first Amer
icans who reached the Pacific coast
overland, and it is the centenary of
this achievement that will be celebrated
at Portland.
Dreamed That Ha Was Robbed mm
It all Came True.
Wabhikgton, N. C, Feb. 10. A
queer but true story emanates from Au
rora, Washington's prosperous neighbor.
Mr. F. F. Cherry, one of the leading
merchants there, dreamed recently that
his store was broken into and robbed.
The dream was a very realistic one,
even the identity of the thief being
discovered to him. The morning after
be went to the store with the spell of
the dream still strong on him and to
bis utter amaze found his dream a real
ization. A number of articles had
been taken, including several watches
and a suit of clothes. So strongly im
pressed wss he by the vision that he
got out a search warrant which was
served on the man of whom he had
dreamed. The suspect protested but
his trunk was searched and therein
were found the stolen articles. This
udusual story is properly vouched for.
Helping; Rim Oat.
"I pr want to get a suitable pres
ent for a a young lady," said the in
experienced youth, as he approached
the Qoor-walker ia a big department
store, "butI er hardly know what
to select."
"I see," said the floor walker. "Is
she very young."
"Yes; ef about 18 still at boarding
school you know," answered the youth.
"Oh, all right," sair the floor pedes
trian. "Take the elevator to the
'steenth floor, please. You'll find the
pickle counter in the first aisle to your
left."
It is plessant now and then to be
able to say a good word for Arkansas'
The legislature of that state has done
well in passing a law that makes the
wearing of a stuffed bird on hat an
offense punishable by a fine of from
25 to $50. . ,
Had a Kick. Coming.
Short Hello, Loig! Where are you
goingf
Long I'nRn my way over to the
poetoffice to register a kick agaisntte
miserable delivery service.
Bhort that's the trouble.
Long Why, that check you prom
ised to mail me ten days ago- hasn't
reached me yell
Many a society woman who is a
ohrooio invalid prides herself on her
lovely indisposition.
You can make a man real weary by
mentioning the weather every time yon
meet him.
' A girl like to listen to soft nothings
if they mean something.
AHI JONEMI LETTER.
Atlanta Journal. j
I have just returned from a short'
trip up into Illinois, Iowa and Missouri.
It is not much colder up in Yankee
Doodle than it is down in Dixie, but
those people are so much better pre
pared for cold weather than we are that
sometimes I think we suffer more on
account of cold weather in the south
than they do north, although the cold
is so much more extreme up there.
The coaches and Pullman cars on the
train, the hotels, the depots and public
places stand at about 70, even though
the thermometeraon the outBide will
show up or show down far below zero.
I have been very much interested in
the sayings and doing of Missouri's new
reform governor, Joseph W. Folk. His
latest obita dictu was the announcement
that all the policemen of St. Louis who
held their position simply because they
had a club and a pull, no longer had
any pull, and they could pass in their
clubs and be policemen no more for
ever during his term as governor. He
notified all lobbyists coming into Jeffer
son City during the legislature to report
immediately upon their arrival to bim
and let him know their business in
the city. Also to make full reports to
the newspaper reporters what their
business was. The truth of the busi
ness is Joseph W. Folk is the first gov
ernor in the United States who bas pro
posed to govern. The governor of
Georgia governs the governor's man
sion, and his porter and maybe biB
secretary, but if he governs anything
else, deponents sayeth not. I believe
he has offered a few rewards for fellows
after the deviltry was done and the
devils had run away. But, like other
states, we must have a governor whether
he governs anything or not. Yes, I
forgot. Our governor did pardon a
gambler the other day, at the recom
mendation of the prison commissioners.
By the way, that is a pretty "kettle of
fish," these prison commissioners, or
board of pardon, or whatever you call
them. After all the gambling that has
been done in Savannah, and all the
young men that have been ruined in
Savannah by the gambling fraternity,
this was one chance to atop it. But
that poor gambler wis going to die, I
understand, if he was put in jail. Just
such as that is what makes me say
what I say. If I had been our governor,
after "Little Billie" said what he said
about him, I would have died before I
would have pardoned "Little Billie's"
gambler; but our governor don't bear
any malice. He is a good-natured
fellow. His stock of trade is mostly
good nature. I haven't seen a bulletin
giving the physical condition of the
gambler since he was pardoned. They
came thick and fast, however, before
he was pardoned.
Dr. Jordan, the pastor of the First
Baptist Church of Savannah, said in
hit Hat Sunday's sermon that they
were so disappointed; they had been
waiting and waiting for the funeral, but
no tidings nor tolling of bells bad been
heard. A wheel in a wheel; a "nigger"
in woodpile; 2:40 on a shell road, and
E pluribus unum. All honor to the
judge that sentenced the gambler to
pay a fine of $1,000 and serve the sen
tence in jail! Go it, judge; do your
duty without reference to what the
solicitor general or governor or prison
boards do after you have done your
duty. '
There isn't a leading gambler in the
country that isn't willing to pay s
thousand dollars a year in the way of a
fine or a license if they will let him do
business. - It is better one gambler
should die in jail than that the young
men in the city shall he ruined by hit
gambling hells. I wish the whole history
of that pardon and that illness and the
hole inside of that thing could be
turned out and let it be seen. Jot
Folk, governor of Missouri, believes In
publicity; and Roosevelt ' believes in
publicity; and I beliveve in a fair deal
all round. If I mistake not, that prison
board draws $7,500 a year as salaries
and I supprss they give about ten day
a year of service all told. Yours, with
nothing special again anybody.
8am P. Jones.
BJeadUk gaCerlsi
is often cansed by aorea. nicer ami can
cers, thatVat away your skin. Wm.
Bedell, of Flat Rock, Mich., saj-s : "I
have used Backlen's Arnica Salve, for
Ulcern.Soreg and Cancers. It is the
best lEeuing dressing I ever found."
Soothes and heals cot, burns and scalds.
25c at all druggist ; guaranteed.
A Cleveland, O., dispatch says that
while it is understood, unofficially, that
Mrs Chadwick's debts will aggregate
nearly $2,000,000, the claims thus far
presented to tbe receiver amount to but
$53,310. Many loses are apparently un
willing to reveal themselves for the sake
of the one and a half mill on the dollar
which it is said the receiver will be able
to pay. Charlotte Observer.
AT MABHT.
Sandwich.
A green boy without a dollar, present
or prospective, sparking a girl regularly
and talking about marrying ia a spec
tacle for gods and men.. He should be
reasoned with, and if he will not quit it
until he is able to support a wife and so
know he loves and the difference be
tween love and passion, he should be
quarantined, or put in a convent erected
on purpose for such cases. Nine- tenths
of Jhe unhappy marriages are the result
of green human calves being allowed to
run at large in the society pasture with
out any yoke on them. They marry
and have children before they do must
aches, they are fathers of twins before
they are proprietors of pants, and the
little girls they marry are old women
before they are twenty. Occasionally
one of these gosling marriages turns
out very well, but it ia a clear case of
accident.
But they see a girl who looks cunning
and they are afraid there are not going
to be enough girls to go round and they
begin to get in their work real spry,
and before they are aware 6f the mar
riage relation they are hitched for life,
and befora they own a cook stove or a
bedstead they have to get up in the
night and go after the doctor, so fright
ened that they run themselves out of
breath, and then abuse the doctor be
cause he does not rub too, and when
the doctor gels there he finds there is
not enough linen to wrap a doll baby
in. About this time he realizes that he
has been a colloesal fool, and as he flies
around to heat the water and bring the
bath tub, goes whooping after bis
mother or her mother, he turns pale
around the gills, bis hair turns red in
single night and he calls high heaven
to witness that if he lives till morning,
which be seriously doubts, he will turn
over a new leaf and never get married
sgain until he is older. And the next
morning the young father ia around
before the drug store ia open with no
collar on, his hair sticking every way,
his eyea blood shot and his frame ner
viuus, wailing fur the clerk to open tbe
door so be can get some saffron to make
tea of.
Tried to Train a Hawk..
Denver Republican.
A csptive chicken hawk has caused
Lee Kowen, of 2534 Larimer street,
great trouble and physical pain.
The hawk was captured by Rowen
a few weeks ago and he under
took to train it. Of all fowls of the
air the chicken hawk ia perhaps tbe
most unmanageable. Rowen conceiv
ed tbe idea, however, that he could
teach the bird to perform tricks. In
tbe presence of several friends last
evening Rowen took the bird from the
cage and announced that it waa about
to perform some email trick which he
had taught it. The hawk soon showed
the witnesses what was doing. Its
beak and talons were imbedded in
Rowen's arm and Rowen screamed.
The hawk was busily engaged in goug
ing the arm of its owner when the lat
ter, in desperation, Caught the fowl
by the neck with his free hand. Rowen
wrung tile neck of his pet, but bad a
hard time in doing it, for the vicious
bird waa possessed of considerable
itrength. Finally, however, Rowen
broke the hawk's neck. He went to
nolice headquarters and was turned
over to Dr. McGilvray, who cauterized
the wounda upon his arm. There ia
irrave danger of blood poisoning, and
the surgeon remarmed that Rowen
would pesaibly Buffer severe if not fatnl
illness on account of his adventure.
Learning A Boy' Age.
While the agent waa Belling farm ma
chinery of the house, the frieDd at the
gate held his horse, and a conversation
took place with the small boy ol the
family.
With grave incredulity, he was say
ing: "Are you sure you are only 9 years
old T I think there must be some mis
take." Tbe boy was positive, but to make
sure, "Ma !" he called, "aig't I just 9
years old?"
"Yes, son."
After a time he ventured: "Say, mis
ter, what made you think I waa more
than 9 yeara old T"
"Why," said the stranger, "I could
net understand how yon could get so
dirty in nine years."
Peculiar Disappear".
J. D. Runyan, of Bntlerville, O., laid
,the peculiar "disappearance of his pain
i nmntonu. of indigestion and bili
ousness to Dr. King's New Life Pills,
tr. .. - "Thev are a perfect remedy
for dirsines. soar stomach, headache,
constipation, etc." Guaranteed at all
drag stores, price oo.
In one of the Argentine States a
graded tax on bachelors is provided to
drive men to matrimony, ir, nowever,
a man can prove that he bas been three
times rejected he is exempt.
YOUNG FOOLS
THE riHTOL HABIT.
Atlanta Journal
Gov. Folk, of Missouri, will try to
stop the revolver habit in his state.
He has prepared special message to
the legislature asking that body to pas
a law making the carrying of firearms a
felony and punishable by a heavy fine or
penitentiary sentence.
Too severe t
Let us see what the governor aaya
about this gun habit. He has heen the
prosecuting attorney at St. Louis and
his official connection with the criminal
court has taught bim a great deal con
cerning the cause of crime. He aaya
three-fourtha of the crime in St. Louis
last year was traceable to the pistol car
rying habit. And he also says the state
ofMisaouri would save 1100,000 a year
in criminal court costs alone if a statute
such as he suggests were passed.
Not long ago Jerome, the well-known
district attorney of New York city, earn'
estly advocated the passage of a law in
his state against the revolver habit.
Many eminent lawyers and criminolo
gists might be quoted along thia same
line.
The handy pistol makes handy crime
The man behind the gun in time of
peace ia a misnomer. There is no ex
cuse for his carrying artillery. The
mere knowledge that he has a gun on
his person makes him pugnacious and
quick to resent a fancied insult or to
enforce bis opinion.
Civilization has gotten beyond the
need of the pistol pocket.
Every state ought to f olio v Missouri'
lead in this r spect.
Don't Walt too Long.
Osborne, O , Farmer.
Too many 'people keep the flowers
they have plucked for you until the day
of your funeral. Their songs of praise
are not heard until your procestion ia
passing their door. The mantle of
charity does not become public property
uotil put in ubb by tbe preacher who
conducts the "last sad rites." If a man
baa flowers for me I want them while I
am on earth aud can smell their frag
rance. They will do me no good sit
ting at the head of my coffin. The
grass that is kept green about my last
resting-place will be of little avail to me
on the other shore. Here is where I
need the flowers and the amiles and tbe
praise, not over there. If the fellow
who is going to go around to the house
after I am gone to see "if he can be of
any help" will come around to morrow
I can tell him how he can be of a whole
lot of help. It is all-fired short noir.
Carry your flowers to the living and
sing your songs of praise at the dinner
table. Don't wait for the funeral.
Hick Headacne.
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.
Silence is golden, but a woman is
willing to take somebody else's word
for it.
Afraid of Strong; medicines.
Many people suffer for years from
rjienmatio pains, and prefer to do so
rather than take the strong medicines
usually given for rheumatism, not know
ing that quick relief from pain may be
had simply by applying Chamberlain's
Pain Balm and without taking any
medicine internally. For sale by M. L.
Marsh and D. D. Johnson.
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Pianos and
Organs...
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COMING
WAIT ? There will be a first
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Concord in the near future by
W. A. Wilkinson & Go.
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and terms to suit you. Quality
and tone to please you.
If yon are desirous of purchasing an Instru
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W. A. Wilkinson & Go.
Opposite Cannon & Fetzer Co's
. Big Bargain
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TIMBER LAND
3G2 acres hing only five miles from
Watlesboro, with 3-rootn tenant house,
bnrn and stables. Tillable, 40 acres,
and 322 acres of timber. Land adapted
to cotton, corn, wheat and clover. Has
1,000 feet of old field pine suitable
for fire wood. Has 50 to 75 acres fine
creek bottom lnncU, and an equal
amount of "black haw" land. Creek is
well cannlled. Within Vi mile of White
Store road to be macadamized this year.
Will sell at a remarkably low price.
No. 219. 70V4 acres in Buford town
ship, Union county, 5 miles from Mon
roe one-half mile from 'Baptist Church
and School. Has 20 acres of small
woods, and 6 to 10 acres of branch and
creek bottom. Ha 4-room log house,
Uarn and small cotton house, and a few
bearing fruit trees. Tillable 50 acres
and 20 acres timber. Land adapted to
cotton, corn, oats, etc. Price only $500
cash, or $564, payable $100 cash, bal
ance in 5 vears.
No. 158. One lot in Harris addition.
Price $55.
No. 47. About 87H 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.
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W " J
TAX NOTICE
To the Tax Payers of Cabarrus County :
Your taxes are due anil you all know It. I
have just received a letter from the Ktate Treas
urer demanding the tax at once. Now, I can't
pay this tax until vou pay tne I am not respon
silile for the low price of cotton, but I am re
sionslble for the taxes of abarrus county.
There are lots of men who could pay their taxes
at any time If they would. Vou may make up
VOlir nillHIS W U III IS ai unw 'l nmnit
the law anil you will have to nay the costs, as I
am forced to make the settlement w ith the Slate,
which ought U have been iialil the first of .lan-
t uary. JA3. . llAKiwn, oueriu.
January 1 1905. tf.
Mow Located,
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, and we will do our best to
make your visits pleasant.
Thoa. W. Smith.
G. 6. RICHMOND & CO.
1882 1904.
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.
Special Bates to Few Orleans, La.,
Pensacola, Fla., Mobile, Ala., Ac
count of Mardi 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
points on its line to New Orleans,
La., Pensacola, Fla., and Mo
bile, Ala., and return, account
of the
Mardi 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.
Seaooard offers double dally service
with only one change of cars, which
Is made In Atlanta, tralna conslstlne:
of vestihuled day coaches, Pullman
Bleeping Cars and Cate Dining Cars.
For further Information In regard to rates,
schedules and routes, apply to your nearest
Agentor address,
CIIAS. H. GATTIS,
Trav. Pass. Agt., Raleigh, K. C.
KELL6im
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SOLD BY
Gibson Drug Store
PRICE LIST
D. J. BOST & CO.
Corn, 70c per bushel.
Peas, 70c per bushel. T
Eggs, per dozen, 20c.
Chickens, 20 to 30 cents.
Butter, I2V2C to 15c per pound.
Sweet Potatoes, 35c to 40c per
bushel.
Irfch Potatoes, 75c to 90c per
bushel.
Onions 90c to $1 per bushel.
Peanuts, 75c per bushel.J
Pork, 8c per pound.
Partridges, bYsc to 10c a piece.
Rabbits, 5c to 7Y2C. Rabbitts
must be cleaned and skinned,
with bead and feet left on.
Will give you the highest market
price lor Hides.
D. J. BOST & CO.
G.Q. Richmond.