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CONCORD, N. C. PRIL 4. 1905.
Number 81.
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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.
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J. M. HBNOR1X, Book-keeper.
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and adJolnln territory, to represent and ad
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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."
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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."
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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.
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Antl-Kalsomlne Co.
MID BAPIDS, MICH.
Fr sale in Concord by the Torke k
Wadsworth Co.
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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.
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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
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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. ''
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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.
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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
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