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TIMES. Ccgie Twioe Every Weak and c the Frio to Only 0 OH Dollar John B. SherriU, Editor una Owner. $1.00 & Fear, in Advance. a Year. VOLUME XXII. n CONCORD, N. C. PRIL 4. 1905. Number 81. " THE Cm" theC-rr; . J '( 3 ... ,- . Garden Truck 3r It MB aPUaVXIC BOiDI QUESTION IK W NORTH CAROLINA. -.n he raised profiubly only in foil containing plenty of Potash. All vegetables require a fertilizer con taining at least 10 per cent, actual Potash ' Without Potash no fertilizer Is com plete, and failure will follow its use. E Terr farmer nhoaM baveourvataablebooke on fertilisation thojf re Bot"iKlertUun utter booming any special fertiliser, mil book of autb.orit.tlro information that mean. Ureesreltatotluitarnuin. bout free) lor the CEBMA K4XI fMH Hew Ttrk-H NaMaa Street, " Atlanta, Oa. BJ Boats Broad Street, , 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 tbem. If you want the best poli cy on the market, call on Jdo. K. Patterson, Agent CONCORD, N. C. H. I. W00DH0TJ8H, ' President, a W. 8 WINK. Cashier. MARTIN BOGKR. Vice-President W. H. GIBSON, Teller. Concord, N. C, Branch at Albemarle, IT. C Capital, 60,000.00 Surplus and Undivided Profits 80,000.00 Deposits 850,000.00 Total Resource 435,000.00 Our part success, as Indicated a bore by figures, is quite gratifying, and we wish to assure our friends and customers of our ap- Ereclatlon 0 their patronage and cordially 1 vlte a continuance of the same. Should be pleased to serve a large number ot new cus tomers, holding ourselves ready to serve you si may war oonewteni wren souna Dancing. DIBBCTOES. 3. W. Cannon, Robert S. Young, L. J. Foil, ios. f. Good son, M. 1. CorLJuo. B. Eflrd, J I. Morrow, T. C. Ingram. I JEWELRY DIAMONDS WATCHES and a complete line of the GENUINE iyj, pim I II I Repairing 1847 Rogers Bros." Knives, Forks, ipooaa, etc Kres carefully examined and Inronerlv fitted to the heat andt of glasses. --f W.C,COaRELL.Jeweer.j Safe Prompt Liberal THE nnnn iiiTim-u nmi W I I j I II I Til Uflll Capital Stock, - $100,000 ttocKnoicierr iiaDUiry, 100,000 orpins and undivided profits, 25,000 Assets, .... 850,000 your Business Solicited 4 per cent, lb tenet paid on time certificates 1 M. ODBLL, President. W. H. LII.LV, Vice President. TX B. OOI.TKAWIt. Out) lor. L. D. UoLTKANB. Asst Cashier. J. M. HBNOR1X, Book-keeper. WANTED. SALESMEN and BALKHLADIB3 In this and adJolnln territory, to represent and ad vertise the Wholesale Department of an old established commercial house ot solid finan cial standing. Staple line. Salary tsm per day, paid weekly, with expenses advanced direct from headquarter. Horse and buggy furnished when necessary. We furnish ev eryuiing. Position permanent. Address, Tsi Columbia Hoosa, jsonon Bldg. hloago. 1U. Jan 7 U. J. W. COLLETT, WATCHMAKER AXO JEWELER. DEALER IN Watches. Keys and Chains, Clock Material, etc Repairing ot all kinds. CONOOBD.N.C. . Boat touah By run, TaueeUooo. Caal I In lime. -"..kl !v drnrvwa. J I The following interesting facts are the result of In investigation recently made by the North Carolina Geological Surrey as to the public roads conditions in the State : All but 2 or 8 of the counties in North Carolina are still working the public roads under what is known as the "Old 8:Ae Law," which requires ail male cit izens between the ages of 1&W45 years to work the publie roads on an average of 6 days during each year, or pay an amount of money sufficient to provide a substitute for doing this work. Forty five of these counties, in addition to having this "Old State Law" have a provision for a special road tax, which is on an average for Bute 16) cents on the $100 property . valuation, and 62 cents on the poll. The total amount of money spent on the public roads during the past year was $401,882 00, including the money spent for permanent roads, repairing, grading and all ather purposes. This amount seems surprisingly large when we consider the wretched condition of some of the roach in the State. How ever, one county alone (Mecklenburg) spent more than $45,000. And Guil ford county recently authorized an issue of $3QO,000 in bonds for road building and is spending several thousands of it each year. Thirty-six counties in the State are using convicts in working the public roads; and the total average number of convicts thus employed during the year was 826. However, in not more than a dozen counties of the State is this convict work on the public roads done econom ically and satisfactorially. . The best system probably exists in Mecklenburg county ,-where about one hundred 'con victt in two separate camps are worked constantly on the public roads. The average cost there of feeding, clothing and guarding the convicts and providing sleeping quarters, medical attention and all other necessaries averages 23 cents per day per convict These valu able results are obtained through in telligent management and business-like methods. So far as we are able to determine the good roads question in North Caro lina is more alive than ever before, and the Geological Survey is constantly re ceiving requests from all sections of the State for advice and practical assistance in publio road improvement. - Our Good Boads Engineer, Mr. W. L. Spoon, spends the greater part of his his time in visiting the different coun ting the different counties of the State to assist the county authorities in the practical questions of road improve ment: and this is done without cost to the county for his services. The North Carolina Good Boads As sociation has also recently done some effective educational work ' for good roads; and the formation of county organizations most of the counties, under the general State Association, bas stimulated the movement in a large degree; and the indications are that the good roads movement will continue its steady and gradual growth during the present year. ViM Iff SCHOOLS VOTED IN REW YORK. DOWN The Patient Darky. The Hon, John Sharp Williams, leader of the minority in" the house of representatives, says that one day while leisurely driving down a road near his home town in Mississippi, he observed a darky reclining under a tree near the road side. The negro was gazing lazily up through the branches of the tree, and a hoe lay beside him. In the corn. field adjoining the road there could be seen, Mr. Williams states, many weeds impeding the growth of the grain. 'What are you doing there, Sam 7" asked Mr. Williams. "I'se heah to hoe dat corn, sab," was the answer. "Then what are you doing under the tree resting?" 'Not exactly, sah. I ain't hardly realm , cause I ain't tired. I'm waitin' fo de sun to go down, so I can quit work." Wsslel Klwgdoas. Joel Chandler Harris, the author of Tar Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus," Wjse recently approached by an old negro, who said: "Boas, dey tell me dat youse wrote a book about us all. Am dat a fac' V "I did," replied the author solemnly. Well, den, boes, Ah wants to know how much kingdom we gets for lettin' ourselves be put ip de book, hub' 'Kingdom T' repeated the author, puzzled.' "I'm afraid you won't get a kingdom for that Just yet." The old negro shuffled away, grum bling in a dissatisfied manner, and it did not dawn" on Mr. Harris till some time later that he had been trying to collect a royalty in behalf of his race, who furnished the material for the book. New IwVk World, March 30th. The Board cf Education yesterday resolved to tear all the Maxwell "fads" out in the elementarycourse in the New York publio schools. The vote was de cisive 22 to 12. Beginning next September, when the reform goes into effect, the period of instruction in the lowest primary grade will be reduced from five to three and a half hours a day. The little pupils will not do any more sewing nor under go those "bygenic" games in exercises. Some of the physiology, also, some of the music. Only the plain, old-fashioned essentials are to be taught, with out any frills. Supt. Maxwell was literally stunned by the action of the board. For ten years he had been the autocrat of that body, dictating every phase of its pol icy, and pay little attention to publio criticism. Commissioner Lummis said: "To keep such young children at study in the class-rooms five hours a day is to affect their development. They need air, freedom and slow teaching. There is no longer individual teaching in our publio schools. The children are push ed in masses from one course into the ntxt. Under the present system 10 per cent, of the pupils are reported 'back ward.' There wss never a time when there was so much complaint against our school system. Only one hour a day now goes to teaching the essen tials. "So far as moral teaching is con cerned, the course of study is greatly deficient. Thechildren should be taught honesty, truthfulness, nuseliishnees and an idea of duty. We treat the school children like chickens in an incubator." ' Commissioner McGowan said: "The teachers tell me that many of the little ones grow nervous at the afternoon session, or they fall asleep." "The boy who goes through our schools to day," declared Commissioner Haupt, "is not as well fitted for active lifeaas the boy was who went through our schools ten or fifteen years ago. Recently I went over the letters of one hundred and thirty applicants for a clerkship in a bank. I was ashamed of their showing. Too much time is giving to 'fads.' " Superintendent Maxwell made a long speech in favor of keeping the little children in school five hours a day. He said it would give the foreigners among the pupils a better chance to learn Eng lish. Also, he said, it helped the mothers, by relieving them of the care of the children. "For these reasons," he said, "let us preserve the school day as it has come down to as through 2,000 years." "I don't care what happened 2,000 years ago," said Commissioner Abra ham Storn. "I am concerned about the present." la After Years. "You told me once," she pensively said, when they met in after years, he being a widower and she a widow, "that you never could learn to be happy without me."" "I know it," he replied. "In those days there was an adage that I had not tested." "What was it?" 'Live and learn.' " THIS BDITOK HAD BEEN THESE. Exchange. Some of our exchanges speak of this paper at f farmer's paper. Well, we must acknowledge we have a leaning towards the farmer in facf, the editor is a fanner. We have -followed the plow and a pair of brindle mules to turn over many acres of black alluvial soil and bumble bees' nests. We have chopped off and set out hundreds of shocks of corn when the frost was on the pumpkin. We have waltzed after the scythe and cradle to tie up acres and acres of golden grain in days gone by. We have tunnelled into the potato bill and brought out bushels of the rich, luscious fruit, with the hoe and the plow handle. ' We have turned the grindstone for hours and hours, in the bright sum mer's sun, until the world seemed all a hollow mockery. We have chopped down the Jimson weed in all its glory, and saw it fall a withered mass of ruins to the earth. We have cut stove wood with a dull sxe in the bright July sun until we felt like running away from home and be coming a train robber. We have played hide and seek with the razor-back sow in the corn field for hours and hours, when the mud was on our breeches and the water in our socks. We have chased the cow with crum pled horn out of the wheat field, and watched the wobble legged calf hang on the teat like a politician to a fat office. In fact, we have done everything that is done on a farm, from engineer ing a hay rake to fighting over a line fence, and have raised everything that can be raised on a farm from an um brella ' to a deed of trust, and why shouldn't we have a fellow feeling for the farmer? New Care fer Caweer. O AH surface cancers are now known to be curable by Bocklen's Arnica Salve. Jas. Walters, of Dnffield, Va., writes : 'I had a cancer on my lip for years that seemed Incurable, till Bncklen's Arnica Salve healed it, and now it is perfactly well." Guaranteed cure for cuts and burns. Soc at all drug stores. To renounce happiness and think only of duty, to put conscience in the place of feeling this voluntary martyr dom has its nobility. The natural man in us flinches, but the better self sub mits. To hope for justice in the world is a sign of sickly sensibility ; we must be able to do without it. True manli ness consists in such independence. Amiel. Moral feeling is a force a force by which man's actions are to be restrained within certain bounds ; and no legisla tive mechanism can really increase its results. By how much this force is deficient, by so much must its work re main undone. Herbert Spencer. Do'you think of one falsity as harm less and another as slight, and another unintended? Cast them all aside ; they may be slight and accidential, but they are ngly soot from the smoke of the pit for all that. Anvon. Cling to the farm, make much of it, put yourself into it, bestow pour heart and your brain opon it, so that it shall sar of you and radiate yourvirtue after your day's work is done. John Burroughs. Women don't know much about the possibilities of brick, stone, steel and wood, but they can take two strings, a piece of ribbon and a bit of rag and put to shame thsa creative faculty of all mankind. So you belong to alee club ?" Well," answered the youth with longish hair, "that's what we call it ; but no one setms very joyous when we sing." n If the streets were paved with gold there would still be objections raised to the dust. A Voluntary confession. " "I see a good deal about voluntary confessions these days," said Represen tative Cooper, of Texas, in the Demo cratic cloak-room, "and every time I read about one it reminds me of a story Judge MacFarland used to tell down in my country. "Judge MacFarland had a large prac tice and was a rattling good lawyer, He had a client named Henderson who was at daggers' points with his own father about some land which he had inherited from his mother. The client came to the Judge one day and told him that his father had tried to poison him. " 'What evidence have you of that?' asked the Judge. " 'My negro, old Sam, told me so, was the reply. " 'Was his story a voluntary one ?' " 'Oh, yes, entirely so. I took Sam out behind the barn and bad him hit seventy lashes, and he voluntarily belched up the truth.' " THE FAHSIEB AND THE MULE. Reason Farmers Slake Little money Is Tbat Male Fewer Ceete Toe Mecta. Monroe Journal. Mr. Lee Wolfe, who lately moved to Monroe from Mecklenburg county, has some original ideas about the mule and his relation to farnTwork. "When we were all talking about free silver and the need of more money, I laughed at it," said Mr. Wolfe. "And," he continued, "when the farmers meet to devise high prices, I say it's no good, gentlemen, in the long run ; it may give temporary relitf, but you haven't got at the permanent root of the evil. Gentlemen, the mule is the thing that is troubling us. He is at the bottom of all our woes ; he's our big enemy. Such talk surprises people, for they think the mule is tbe farmer's best friend, but he is not. I can prove that he is not. He takes up one-third ol the production of the farm. Count it .up, gentlemen ; the high price you pay for him, the comparative short time of his beat service, and the great expense of his feed, (to say nothing of accidents and drunks, in which we trade him off for nothing) and year in and year out, you'll find he comes in for a third. Now, no business that speniU athird of its receipts for motive power alone, can be profitable. The drain is too great Gentlemen, the farmer needs a cheaper motive power, and must have it before he can ever be prosperous like the men of other occupations. I have known this thing for fifteen years, having learned it by running a field thresher, and I have often thought of writing to Mr. Edison and asking him to give hit attention to this matter. If he or some other inventor will give us a cheap motor from one tp five horse power, that we can plow with, we'll get rich, but never before." not How They Lost Their Ittosne. Orison Swett Marden In Success. Through the gambling instinct. They let their insurance run out. They bought things they did need because they were cheap. They did not use good judgment or right proportion in their expenditures. They subscribed for everything they could pay for on the installment plan. Money enough went down in drink and up in smoke to have saved the home. They did not realize how easy it is to get into debt and how hard it is to get out. They tried to do what others eipected of them rather than what they could afford. They thought it small to insist on having an agreement or understanding put in writing. RheiAnalle Paine Qelekly Relieved. The excruciating pains characteristic of rheumatism and sciatica are quickly relieved by applying Chamberlain's Pain Palm. The great pain relieving power of the liniment has been the surprise and delight of thousands of sufferers. The quick relief from pain which it affords is alone worth many times its oost. For sale by M.L, Marsh and D. D. Johnson. Widow "Do you understand tbe language of flowers, Doctor Crusty ?" Doctor Crusty "No, ma'am." Widow "Yon don't know if yellow means jealousy f" Doctor Crusty "No ma'am; yellow means biliousness." Plane le Get Stick are often frustrated by sudden break down, due to dyspepsia or oonstipation. Brace np and take Dr. King's New Life Pills. They take out the materials which are clogging your energies, and give yon new start. Care headache and dizzi ness too. At all drug stores, 2oo ; tfuar- anteed. Matariaresulta yre but the tardy sign of invisible activities. The bullet has started long before the noise of the report has reached as. The decisive events of the world take place in the intellect. Amiel. The pen-and-ink artist may be artist ! may be classed among those who draw I the color line. How to Blay l'ouug. Milwaukee Journal' How old are you ? The adage says that women are as old as they look and men as they feel. That wrong. A man and woman are as old as they take themselves to be. Growirg old is largely a habit cf the mind. "As a man thinketh in his heart so he is." if he begins shortly after middle age to imagine bimeelf growing old he will be old. To keep one's self from decrepitude is somewhat a matter of will power. The fates are kind to the man who hangs on to life with both hands. He who lets go will go. ' Death is slow only to tackle (he tena cious. Ponce de Leon searched in the wrong place for tbe fountain of youth. It is in one's self. One must keep one's self young inside. So that while "the outer man perisheth the inner man is renew ed day by day." When the human mind ceases to ex. en itself, when there is no longer an active interest in the aaffairs of life, when the human stops reading and thinking and doing, the man, like blasted tree, begins to die at the top. You are as old as you think you are. Keep the harness on. The job is not done. The Buffalo gnat, which has been reported at Grand Coteau and other points at Louisiana, are now very com mon around Vickeburg, Utica and Yazoo (City, Miss., and have killed and rendered sick a large number of cattle and mules. Tbe pest is interfering very seriously in farm work. FR&Y'S VERMIFUGE Is the same food, old-fash loned medicine that has saved the lives of little children for the past 6o years. It is a med icine nade to cure. It has never been known to fall. If your child Is sick get a bot tle of FREY'S VERMIFUGE A FINE TONIC FOR CHILDREN Po not take a tubstltut. If your drueelst does aot keep It, send twenty-five cents la stamps to 33. ct3 S. '-t3D"X" Baltimore;. Met. fc snd a bottle will be Balled yoe. PLASTIGO economical material for tinting and decorating walls, superior to kalso mine and wall paper, and much cheaper than point PLASTICQ combin6a m riH.HJU too good fea. tures of other wall coat ings, and none of their disadvantages. Packed in dry powder form, in vmite and tints, ready for use by adding cold water. Full directions on iackage. Any one can apply Sample card of beautiful tints for tbe asking. ft? Antl-Kalsomlne Co. MID BAPIDS, MICH. Fr sale in Concord by the Torke k Wadsworth Co. mm m O. O. Blchmoud. Thot. W. Smith. G, G. RICHMOND & GO. 1882 1905. Fire, Life, Accident, Health, Em ployers' Liability, Plate Glass, etc. Penn Mutual Life, Phila., South era Life and Trust, Greensboro. For Life Contract, see Thos. W. Smith. Thanks for past favors. Rear room City Hall. Next to the old stand we have been in lor the past seven years, we have opened up a nice, new and select stock of Staple and Fancy Groceries, and in connection with these we are opening a select line of Dry Goods, Shoes and Hats. We invite our old lriendstocome and inspect our stock and give us such a share of their patron age as they may see is to their interest. We hope to make many new acquaintances and merit some of the patronage of ot.au. We pay the highest market prices for Country Produce and make a specialty of handling same. Country people will find nice accommodations at our store and we invite them to make it headquarters while in town. mm 1 Ci?ht-room dwelling for iale, on St. as Mary's street, including a store house. Has frontage of 80 feet, and is loO foet deep. Property rents for $11 a month. Price only f50 cash. Jno. K. Patterson & Oo. ENJOYS BIG DIKIZ. THEN DIEQ. You read in the papers daily of apparently healthy and even ro bust jnen being suddenly attack ed by acute indigestion after en joying a hearty meal(and of their dying in many cases before a physician could be called in. This should be a warning to you who suffer with regular or periodical attacks of indigestion. KLL6lt SURE CURE .FOR.. IHDIGESTIOII! that's all. Sold on a $5 guaran- antee. 50c and $1 a bottle at Gibson Dr u-g Stor r nfiii FOR SALE. One 85 h. p. Engine, Boiler and One 15 h. p. Engine and Boiler,' One 12 h. p. Engine. One 20 h. p. Engine. ' One 15 h. p. Vertical Eng J. One 30 h. p. Versical Engl tu. These are (rood second-? and outfits, and will be sold cheap. C "me quick. Concord Foundry and M chine Works. W9 e nave lor sale ano ner excellent cottage on Spring sbu ' with bath room, etc. Price 93,415. r . 0 Jno. H. Patterson & Oo. '' M ake Money In California If you are industrious and capable you can make money there. The big ranches are breaking up into small farms that need more workers to care for the increased product. The towns and cities are prosperous because the country is prosperous. There are great valleys of the richest soil in America waiting for you. If you have a little capital you can own one of these small farms yourself, or you can rent one on shares and pay for it out of the product in a few years. We will send you descriptive booklets and folders giving full information about the money making opportunities for every member of the family. You want to see what the country is really like; you can go there, work a few months, enjoy the delightful climate, the flowers, fruit and scenery, and earn enough to pay your expenses both Ways by taking advantage of the $ Bargain Every Day March 1 to May 15 From $ Chicago Rates onon From St. Louis For one-way colonist tickets. Correspondingly reduced rates from almost any point East . Th trip is easily and comfortably made via the Rock Island. Two routes one through New Mexico, the other through Colorado. Through tourist cars hours quicker than any other line. Double daily tourist service via El Paso tri-weekly via Colorado. Dining-car service and free reclining chair cars, both routes. The Rock Island has representatives throughout the United States) they are travel experts and can save you money. You can have their assistance in arranging the California trip for the asking. Consult your home ticket agent or write to the undersigned for our California book and complete folder "Across the Continent in a Tourist Sleeper." Remember the Rock 'aland run. mora tourist car. to California than any other route. Many of them are of the latest pattern, with wide window, and lavatory and toilet rooms for both men and women, unusually larse and complete in their appointments Cut out this advertisement, fill In .paces below, sod mail to JOHN SEBASTIAN, Passenger Traffic Manacer, Rock Island Svttam, CHICAGO. Pleaaa aend me rate, of fare to California and time table. also your illustrated California book, and full information about your new service. I expect to leave for California and would like information Name UUMX UCTI0K) Address. Gty -State- eaeewKewtoesw)!efte rWS ims s Chairs users of morphine. C PAINLESS I ft mm V,3 AMD VWhisket Cure audanum. xl rot opium, eo- iopium. elixir or opt caJneor whiskey, a larire book of Par ticulars on faomeor sanatorium treat ment. I'M re, I'f. B. M. WOOM.EX, liatala. n.r.J P. O. BOX 'aV7. mil&MiJ UUiti, Atlanta, Georgia. Engraved Cards i and Monogram Stationery .fer Misery loves company, perhaps, but society at large does not reciprocate the affection. We have an attractive line and special rjrioea. Let us show you the latest things out. THE TIMES PRINTING HOrSE. t rvi - . t aWU Now that Spring is here, you'll have time to think o? fixings up the home and making it attractive and comfortable. You can well afford to supply your every need here. We've a splendid stock of Furniture? to select from, and our prices have been gtaatly reduced on our entire stock. Come in and let's talk it over. Pr Sale or Rent Two well-built, six room cottages, on South Sprint street. Wainscoted and plastered throughout. Keasonabie terms. 19 avr . .uc If '4 .r e , A