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. CQNCOM). TIMES, Has Twice the Cornea Twice Every Week and thaPrlo la Only One Dollar ! a Tear. " Circulation of any Paper iver PubUgiedln John B. Sherrill, Editor aad Owner. 0 PUBLISHED TWICE WEEK. $1.00 a Tear, in Advance. the County. Volume Concord, N. c, April 21, 1905. Number 86. V THE rat CORN FIELDS ARE GOLD FIELDS to the farmer who under stands how to feed his crops. Fertilizers for Corn must contain at .least 7 per cent actual Potash Send for our books Ihey tell why Potash is as necessary to plant life as sun and rain; ent free, if you ask. Wnte to-day. . GERMAN KALI W0RK4 New York -03 Nassau Street, or Atlanta, Gs.-mX South Broao at. The Mutal Benefit Life Insurance Company OF NEWARK, N. J. The ' Leading Annual Dividend Company of the World. it hgs 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 Jdo. K. Patterson, Agent. CONCORD, N. C. H. I. W00DH0U8B. President, a W. 8 WINK. Cashier. MARTIN BOO BR, Vice-President. W. H. GIBSON. Teller. Concord, H. C. Branch at Albemarle, It. 0. Capital, ' 50,000.00 Surplus and Undivided Pronto 80,000.00 Deposits 850,000.00 Total Resources 485,000.00 Our past success, as Indicated .dots by ratuying-, ana we wisn 1 and customers of our ai figures, is quite gratifying-, and we wish to our menus ana customers or our tp- their patronage and cordially assure our Irlen nreclatlon e Invite a continuance of the same. Should be S leased to serve a large number of new cos mera. holding ourselves ready to serve you In any way consistent with sound banking. DIBBCTOB8. J. W. Cannon, Robert S. Tonne;, L. J. Foil, Jos. F. Goodson, M. J. CorLJno. S. B0rd,J. It. Morrow, T. C. Ingram. I JEWELRY DIAMONDS WATCHES . and complete line of the GENUINE Iflflfll 1 11847 Rogers Bros." I Knives, Forks, . Spoons, etc Eves csrefully ersmlned and properly fitted to thtbest grade rzr f3"0 Rapalrlnf . V. - S W.C.CORRELL,Jeweer Safe Prompt Liberal THB ::cord ii Capital Stock, . . - $100,000 otocKbolders' liability, 100,000 Surplus and undivided profits, 85,000 Assets, .... 850,000 V$ar Business Solicited percent. It terest paid on I line certificates i M. ODBLL, Presldens. W. H LILLY, Vice l-resldent O. R. (V,TKA1K. UestiW L. D. iVsLTRANE. Asst Cashier. in. HBWPKIX Booh-heeper. eHICHCBVIM'S CNttLiaM AH JOURS LBTTBB. tipvaay5k.e!.5 K-C7fkK Aiiti mice 14 toe. urn rf n I - H It II IV. I r. r n Anuean ISV AlWliS l Ml HUb XN-iX SW V 1 - SaeMSll.ttee S Ia.Ua. Of . Syj f rr "r"V"r y tara BJ.U. te.eoer.Ml Tost. n immt, bj Fa TeeUa..!.!. SeMkf Baala Saaafe. mil Euxii ,.tfAtftLsf?Tisr"r 1 1 Conga Brrup. Taste. Good. Use I I In time. "ld by drmnrlrta. J i Atlanta Journal, I have been hard at work in evangel- iitio meetings here in Memphis since the 6.h of April, and while I am hard at work in the large auditorium of the First Methodist Church, the racetrack, with all of its concomitants, is here hard at it at Montgomery park, and all ot the forces are at work and they are getting in their work. I know of nothing more demoralizing or hurtful than the race track. We have not had room for our crowd, though the First church seats about three thousand. I do not know whether the grand stand at the race track is crowded or not. I am trying to down these evils. A fellow can hardly get a bed at a hotel or boarding house in this city, and on the streets, in the saloons, and all around they are selling "tips" and making beta. Of course the poker game and all kinds ot games are running, down to the colored brother's kindergarten, the crap game, and no doubt are running in full blast. Though they arrest the latter by the scores. If I were called upon to give my can did opinion on the subject of race tracks I would say that the Louisiana lottery and all other hurtful influences that I have known, I would pass by them all and say that the race track is indeed the devil's university, out of which he could turn out more wrecked lives and ruined manhood than any influence that I have ever been up against. The good people of Memphis organ ized and went to the legislature now in session, and fought the thing to a fin ish. The legislature passed an act abolishing race tracks in Tennessee, and the only mistake they made was in allowing them to run until the close of this spring season. The race track gang claimed that there was invested $1,000,000 in Ten nessee in this business and they wanted a little time to get their money out, in other words, it meant, "let us alone, let us alone, let us run through one more race and we will shear the lambs and maybe get wool enough to pull even." Woe be to Atlanta when the "race track is established there, or any city. For it debauches publio sentiment and a debauched public sentiment is the richest soil the devil ever found in which to scatter seeds of damnation and ruin. Wherever you find a race track you will find every other evil work and every other evil thing. There is nothing degrading nor dis honoring before God that will not grow luxuriantly In the community where the race track flourishes. Each racing day the attendance is from ten to thirty or forty thousand. There is in the crowd a sprinkling of really respectable people, lovers of out door sporte; there is a sprinkling of more or lees reputable people directly and indirectly connected with racing. But also all of the Jungles of vice and crime have been emptied of their cow ardly beasts of prey the keepers and patrons of dives and dens, the political heelers, the thieving police officers, the most offensive elements in the city. And then there is the crowd thous ands of young and youngish men, neglecting their work, wasting their small earnings, preparing themselves for that desperate state of mind in which accounts are falsified, tills tap ped, pockets picked and the black-jack of the highwayman wielded. But this is not all, not half, not a small fraction of the scandal and the shame. - The results of each race are telegraphed to pool rooms in every city. There are several hundred of these pool rooms in New York, almost as many in Chicago, scores in uch cities as Boston, New Orleans, Cincinnati and San Fran cisco. And who are tne patrons oi places T For the most part the young men on small salaries throughout the country. And etch and every one oi these is headed straight for disgrace and ruin, Ad not a few thousand will arrive there. The pool room that is, the race track; that is, the jockey clubs; that is, the few reputable gentlemen who maintain a vile hypocrisy of re spectability the "royal sport" is respon sible for the meet of the downfalls among the class ol young men on which our future depends. The Western Union Telegraph Com- sbort time sgo bowed to public tion which happened to pene trate to some of its directors of pious repute. But as soon as the storm passed the company resumed its service to these pool rooms, these trap doors into hell. The profit about five mil lion dollars a year was too great a temptation for the company's Qious directors. Religion and morality that call for such enormous material stcri- j Sees are far too dear. I When "leading light" cititens have palms that thus itoh for dirty dollars, The W I pany a si LQigQti when other leading lights amuse their leisure by setting snares for the souls of the young, is it not amazing how mor ality and steadiness and respect for law persist? To sum upj There is not a horse that is better for any purpose but short speed bursts be cause of race tracks : there is not a ran- ftentiary anywhere that is not the fuller py from thirty to seventy per cent because of race tracks and pool rooms. There is not a man anywhere who owes or attributes any part of that in him which is honorable or reputable to racing. , Racing does not improve the breed of the thoroughbred. Its whole root is gambling; its whole flower and fruit, crime. From the "gentlemen" perjurers and violators of their oaths of office and of the laws who promote and protect it down to the bookmakers and pool room keepers and touts and tipsters and thieves who live by it, there is only difference in shading of crime. And its baneful influence, its poison, permeates everywhere into office and into home. What bloody butcheries of characters and careers to make the race tracks smiling holidays 1 The above is but some of the dyna mite which the good citizens of Mem phis used in the campaign to down the race track before the legislature oi Tennessee, and that array of facts and that bundle of logio will put any gang out of business and so the race track, like the bull fights, can live no longer incivilized God-fearing countries. A lady came to me to-day and told me her husband had lost all on the races and she now had her trunks at the depot and that she and her two little girls would go back to her father. That is not the only family put out of business by the race track in Memphis. Yours truly, Sam P. Jones. P. 8.: Next week I will give you more of this wonderful meeting. Al ready it has reached up into the mirac ulous. 8. P. J. HuDtersvllle Farmer Breda His Owa Warehouse. Charlotte Observer. Mr. W. J. Banson, of Huntersville, and one of the most enterprising and prosperous farmers of upper Mecklen burg, was in the city yesterday after noon. Mr. Banson raises much cotton and at the same time grows all needed supplies at home. Because of this fact he is able to hold his cotton for higher prices. At present he has on hand 162 bales of cotton, and he is prepared to hold it until the price goes up. Being unable to find sufficient warehouse room in which to store his cotton," Mr. Banson went to work and erected a warehouse for his own use, and here he has stored his cotton, and expects to keep it stored until the price goes up. Telephe.e laKaeb Pew. Chicago Dispatch. With the aid of a new device eight pew-holders in the First Baptist Church heard the sermon of the pastor to-day over a little telephone wire. The mechanism so magnifies the voice of the speaker that even persons partially deaf can hear every syllable uttered. The device consists of, a receiver much larger than that of the ordinary telephone, wires down the church floor to the pews, with connections and ear pieces in the seats and a battery be neath the floor. The receiver is 18x8 inches in diameter. It rests on the pulpit and is not seen by the con gregation. Letter la K. 97. F assart. Dear Sir : It's the same everywhere ; can't guess little enough. Mr. C. O. Brown, Columbia, 8. C, emoyed , an experienced painter to paint his house. The painter on see ing the quantity tent to the house De voe said -there wasn't enough. There were ten gallons left, when the job was done. It's the common experience. - Yours truly, r. W. Devoe & Co. Yorke, Wadsworth Co. sell our paint. Trie t. CI oar Tee F.r Spile. Richmond, Va., April 19. At Morel risville today Mrs Julia Haymaker sent her 12 year-old son to get someiwood. The biy wished to go fishing, and.An gry at being balked, he determined to spite his mother by cutting offcbis little toe with an ax. Burgeons Say save the toe. A Durham man went home the oth er day and found that his wifs and, daughter had permitted an organ to be installed in the house during his ab sence, lie was ivy fond oi music, evi dently, for he kicked the organ into the street and broke it, and the compa ny owning the organ had him haled to court for damaging their property. FOB TORINO COTTON. nr. Jordan Disc. sees in. Warehouse Proposition. The question of proper warehouse facilities for the purpose of marketing the cotton crop of the South is attract ing a great deal of attention now, and in a number of places the proper ware houses are being constructed so thai the cotton can be safely held indefi nitely. President Harvey Jordan, of the Southern Cotton Association, who has made a careful study of the ware house matter, has written an article for the press bureau in which he expresses his ideas on the question and gives some sound, advice. Mr. Jordan says: "Daring the recent extensive cotton holding movement the attention of the entire South has been directed to the importance of devising better facilities for handling the cotton crop. Just now the bankers, farmers, merchants, cot ton manufacturers and cotton factors are particularly interested in the con struction of a system of modern up-to-date warehouses which will better facili tate the handling and caring for the future cotton crops to be grown throughout the entire cotton belt. "The want of proper storage quar ters to protect the several million bales of cotton which have been held since the heavy depression in the price on December 8d, has proven conclusively to the South that in order to market our great staple crop slowly, it is abso lutely essential that a better system be provided. Hundreds of thousands of bales of cotton have been marketed during the past two months because the staple was being injured by expos ure to the rain, sunshine and wind. Most of this cotton, which has gone forward to the markets of the country at a price hardly representing its cost of production,would have still been in the hands of the owners if proper storage quarters had been provided. "In the southwest especially cotton is stored in what is known as cotton yards, a few acres being fenced off and the cotton simply laid out on the ground in -many instances with no provision made to keep the bales from coming directly in contact with the moisture ot the earth. In a great many cases such cotton when sold is in a badly damaged condition and has to be picked by the buyers at heavy loss to the owners. The losses sustained on cotton stored in this way without any provision for shelter have been suffi cient to have provided splendid ware house facilities in a great many sec tions. "In addition to the loss sustained by damage or rot of the staple, insurance can only be had at a very high rate of from 2) to 4 per cent., which in itself is prohibitive. In addition to such losses and expenses, the rate of interest on borrowed money carries with it a risk which forces the buyer to secure loans at a heavy charge upon his col lateral by the banks. Suoh a system is primitive in its nature in this day of 20th century methods of doing busi ness. "It is a well established fact that the South cannot handle the cotton crop properly without a first-class system of properly constructed warehouses. This is an essential feature in moving the cotton crop slowly so as to restrict the supply to the legitimate demand of the mills for consumption. Unless the supply is put upon the market within a short period of time when there is no legitimate demands by the mills, and the prioe is regulated entirely by specu lation. Any produce, the price of which is permitted to be regulated by speculation, is ruinous, not only to the producer, but to the consumer. "This fact is at last becoming firmly fixed upon the minds of the farmers and the business interests of the South which are directly interested in hand ling our great staple crop. The bankers are especially interested in the proper solution of this problem, because in any great holding movement among the farmers the bankers are first called upon to finance tne etspie. union .u.ut linn miA enH JnaiiKit ranreewnta the most gilt edge collateral which can be passed over the counter of any bank. "Cotton not properly housed and left to the devastating influence of climatio disturbances carries with it a risk and thereby increases the cost of interest on tbrrowed money where it is used as a collateral to secure loans. This prob lem could be solved in a small way if each farmer, under the guiding hand of proper diversification, should made his farm self sustaining and store bis cotton upon his own farm under well sheltered buildings. "The cotton so protected will keep in a perfect state of preservation for a long number of years, but when left exposed to the weather and in contract with the soil it will begin to damage iu less than thirty days. When a bale of cotton once begins to absorb moisture and damage, the process continues, no mat ter how thoroughly it may be picked, until the bands are finally cut and the staple is woven up in the factory. Buyers know this by hard experience and in purchasing cotton so damaged they always knock off a considerable amount for prospective reclamations to oome back upon them from the spin ner, and the owner of the cotton, who is responsible for the damage sustains in advance the prospective losss that is likely tt ensue to the purchaser at a later day. "It therefore makes the hardship doubly hard to bear by the producer. Yet he alone is responsible for this con dition ot affairs and has no right to complain at the demand made by the buyers. This is perhaps the principal reason why cotton in the southwest is to-day selling fur at least sixty points per bale less than cotton io the old States where better warehousing facilties have been in use for several years." Hand 210 Feet Deep. Raleigh Post. "I have recently found out something I have wanted to know for twenty years, remarked Congressman It. JN. Page, while waiting for the train Mon day afternoon, "the question in my mind has been, how deep is the sand territory extending through Moore county. It has now been solved. In sinking an artesian well at Pinehurst the workmen bored through 210 feet of sand and then struck a formation of slate." Rheumatic Palna Quickly 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 affords is alone worth many times its cost. For sale by M. L. Marsh and D. D. Johnson. Not Entitled to Consideration. Durham Herald, The man who violates the prohibi tion law does it knowingly, wilfully and often in the hope of bringing the law into disrepute, and is therefore en titled to neither the sympathy of the publio nor the mercy of the court. New Cure for Cancer. All surface cancers are now known to be curable by Bucklen's Arnica Salve, Jas. Walters, of Duffleld, Va., writes: I had a cancer on my lip for years that seemed incurable, till Bucklen's Arnica Salve healed it, and now it is perfectly well," Guaranteed cure for cuts and burns. 25o at all drag stores. A. W. Bigscerstaff, a Lincoln county farmer, widower, aged 61, and Mrs. Anna B. Chapman, of Saginaw, Mich aged 58, were married in Charlotte last week. The marriage was brought about by an advertisement, which Biggerstaff inserted in a matrimonial journal. Af ter correspondence and an exchange ot photographs the couple met in Char lotte and were married. O. O. Blohmond. s. W. Smith 6. 6. RLCHMOND & CO. 1882 1905. Insurance Fire, Life, Accident, Health, Em ployere' Liability, Plate Glass, etc. Penn Mutual Life, Phila., South ern Life and Trust, Greensboro. For Life Contract, see Thos. W. Smith. Thanks for past favors. Rear rf)om City Hall. REV'S EfiUIFIiG ts the same food, old-fashioned medicine that has laved the lives of little chllJren for the past Co years. It Is a med icine made to cure. It has never been known to fail. If your child is sick Uet bot tle of FREY'S VERKIFUGE 1 A FINE TONIC FOR CHILDREN Do not talc, s substitute If I your druggist does not keep It, sen4 twfinty-fivs cents in I sumps to 33. tats tS. X'"Xt3I!3r I Ilr.lUuiorc, Md. nJ s bo'tlswlll be nill4 you. ENJOYS BIG DINNER THEN DIES. You read in the papers daily of apparently healthy and even ro bust men being suddenly attack ed by acute indigestion after en joying a hert'y meal, and of their dying in many cases before a physician could be called in. This should be a warnine to you who suffer with regular or periodical attacks oi indigestion. KELLam SURE CURE .FOR.. INDIGESTION ! that's all. Sold on a $5 guaran- antee. 50c and $1 a bottle at Gibson Drag Store Pr-.sVrXilK'S ,w, HA uALSAM VA',76V, and bttutifiee the hafr. .USlI YrUtm Prumutea a luxuriant Browth. Hever fans to uestore urayi SJ xiair 10 v jo'itDim 10 ior, TjlfVfra icaln (ii -eases A hair failinc ,?,n SI tJit Inifc'g:irti IAN Next to the old stand we ha been in for 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 friends to come 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 of all. 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. If IlflRIl 1 1 Plan, to Uet Rich are often frustrated by sudden break dovtn,ue to dyspepsia or constipation. Brace np and take Dr. King's New life Pills They take out the materials which are clogging your energies, and give yoiil a new start. Core headache and dizzi ness too. At all dUlg stores, 25c ; guar anteed. W m9 WyEN YOU HAVE LOST 0 uAiin a-k n s n w IUUK luKir en the affairs of lifofciv. tout bmtlnsjws gwni dull nd jour V ITS are dull take from 8 to 6 Hj U1Vb Liver Tableta. one at a time, aa hour aoart. and THi will be siirprised the next morninr to see bow orUrht and dear e-rvtiimir will be. You will begin your day's work V much added Tim and Tifror that you will natuir Increase your busi ! eucoene oy ine i to tain.' &rht of perannality you will be ah la into every detail. The formula of Rydale'e If LieeT la Wets te one of she mnsi efTPCtire c nations Known to modern mroical srttwe.- Put your liver In (rood working onW, and nine-tenths of Tour other ailments win nisapneer. inu-n. anas yon think to be dTspetxia, heart trouble, or chronic enoxtipation Is merely one of the tdioKyn- all OTr. and it m lisvoieto mantt crew, of a dopey lirer. v, hen TiHir IWer gti dopey, you feel dopey st itself in a multitude of wars, till yon .marine you Have a lilt le Q erery dlaeaae iroinsr. Don't wait till you iret in this condition, bulTS ke K relate e I.lwr Tablets the first time you fel dull and disinclined to frranpleegh the routine duties Of life. Ft taking a stiteh (tahWlln time yi M save both worry and tablets and avoid ill health. Rrdale's Liver Tablets are eauy to take. pleasant in effect, always satisfactory in results. 60 rhooftiato-ooano tablets in aeonTenient box, IB cents. M'f 'd by the RADICAL REMEDY CO., Hickory, N X. X. 70SNB0W C. CAtlFOlHEA Do you want to live where the climate is mild the year round where labor is never oppressed by stress of weather, and where animal vitality is never lost by mere conflict with cold? Do you want to live in a region where the resources are more varied than in any other equal area in the world, where the division of great ranches affords a fine opportunity to get a small farm that will assure you a competence? Do you want to live where, with a minimum of labor, you can grow profitable crops of grapes and small fruit, oranges, lemons, olives, prunes and almonds, alfalfa and grain, where crops are sure, business is good and capital easily finds profitable investment? Then go to California, where both health and opportunity await your coming. The Chicago, Union Pacific and Worth -Western Line is the most direct route to the Pacific Coast, and there are two fast through trains daily via this line, over the famous double-track railway between Chicago and the Missouri River. One-way Colonist tickets are on sale daily, March x to May 15, at the rate of $33.00 from Chicago, with corre spondingly low rates from all points, give you an unusual chance to make the trip. These tickets are good on daily and personally conducted excursions, on which a double berth in a Pullman tourist sleeping car from Chicago costs only $7.00. Round-trip tickets are always on sale from all points at reduced rates via the Chicago fi North-Western, Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Railways. FILL IN THIS COUPON AND MAIL IT TO-OAY. HW4S4 W. B. KNISKERN, P. T. M. C ft N.-W. Ry., Chicago, III. Please mail free to my address, California booklets, maps snd full particulars concerning rates and train servicce 0g.SSe?qKPfrS An Opportunity! To Get Furniture Cheap We have purchaf ed the entire stock of Furniture of the late J. T. Pounds. In this lot were a hun dred splendid Oak Bed Steads, and and while they last we have con cluded to put a price on them that will move them out in a hum-, and you will have to hurry too, if you want some of the bargains. We are very proud of all our New Sprij Stocks of Furniture and House Fuiftiishings. 'f)ur prices are so fair that our trade is growing larger every day. Let us get better acquainted mis year. v nai say you r ti ' i-?e9eqeaeqer,ere9arge