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R .T o IMESr JohnB. Sherrill, Editor smd Owner. f - - a c PUBLISEID TWl'CE A. WHiEK. - 4M.00 Far, -A rancmT YOLUME XXIII. CONCORD, N. C., JULY 7, 10O5. . NUMBER 2. Prompt THB Liberal illy Capital Stock, - 100,000 Stockholders' Uability, a. 100,000 Surplus and undivided profit, 85,000 Asset, - - . 850,000 Your Business Solicited 4 per cent. Interest paid on time oerUflcates J M. ODBLL, President. f W. H LILLY, Vice Presldeut. II. R. OOLTUAKR. Oaablar L. D. COITltANR, Ant Cashier. ' J. M. HBNOKIX Book-keeper. 25 Pounds of good, clean RICE for. $1.00 Arbuckle Coffee, 15c per pound. All other Groceries Dry Goods and Shoes - tdsuit the trade. Highest Cash and Barter Frioes'paid for Country Pro duce. Sec us before selling your pro duce. 1 y H. I WOODHOU8B. ' President 0 W. 8 WINK. Cashier. MARTIN BOG IB, Vloe-Presldant W. H. GIBSON, Teller. Concord, N. C, Branch at Albemarle, K. C. Capital, $ 60,000.00 Surplus and Undivided ProBta 80,000.00 Deposits 850,000.00 Total Resources 436,000.00 Our psst success, as Indicated above by figures, is quite gratifying, and w. wish to assure our friends snd customers of our ap- fireolatlon e their patronage and cordlallT nvlte a continuance of the same. Should be pleased to serve a large number of new cus tomers, holding ourselves ready to serve you in any way consistent witn so una uaaKiug. DIRECTORS. J. W. Cannon, Robert S. Young, L. J. Foil, Jos. F. Goodman, M. J. Corl, Jno. 8. Bflrd, J M. Morrow. T. C. Ingram. Portland, Oregon, Exposition. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. -- LOS ANGELES, CAL. DENVER, COL. Epworth League Convention July 5-9. DENVER, COL. G. A. R. Encampment, Sep tember. Yery Low Round Trip Rates via Illinois Central R. R. CHOICE OF ROUTES Two trains daily, Atlanta to St. Lou is in connection with W. & A. R. B. The only through morning sleeping car Atlanta to St. Jurats. For full information, dates of sale, rates, tickets and descriptive circulars, Address, F. D. MILLER, Trav. Pass. Ar. 17 Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga. l JEWELRY DIAMONDS WATCHES and a complete line of the GENUINE 1847 ; Rogers Bros." Knives, Forks, Spoons, etc Eye. carefully examined and properly attdtoHjyJt grada I VY.C.6bRRELL, Jeweler, MIIIIII Pr sale One beautiful residence lot, about 50x150 feet in Wadsworth Ad dition fronting on Allison street, oppo site D. J. Bast & Do's store, $150. Jno. K. Patterson &p. Safe IRIAN tHlecar Li Ban Cough Bjrup. Tm4 WII I 1 In tiro Sold by rtrniraiwta. J 1 rmi ooiiorr again. Oh Here tank Isss t, riaa the North Pm NevFYork, July 4. "Mr disoofery of the pole means additional prestige tor my country and should an Ameri can be the first to plant the Stars and Stripes at the summit of the frozen North, well, it may be that 70,000,000 of my countrymen would feel one thrill of pride worth all the hardships and all the sufferingmy trip is going to cost," Thus spoke Lieutenant Bobert E Peary, United States, navy, just before he set out from New York harbor to day to make one more dash' for the North Pole, which he has tried on two other occasions to reach. Lieutenant Peary it accompanied by Mrs. Peary and their daughter on the perilous trip. The first and only stop will be at St. Johns, N. F., where hit supplies will be replenished and his orew of Esquimaux will be taken on. Lieutenant Peary tois time goes to search for the pole better equipped than ever before. Xbe Koosevell, the new steamer which he had construoed es pecially for the expedition, is an ioe crushing, ioe-defying vessel,1 the best equipped and strongest in which an Arctic explorer ever set sail. The Roosevelt's displacement is 1,500 tons. She carries a crew of 70 and her en gines can, if necoessary, develop 1,000 hr Me-power, enabling her to attain a speed of 12 knots an hour. She is 182 feet over all. The route from St. John will be directly through the Uulf of St. Lawrence to the Labrador coast. From there he will proceed to the west coast of Greenland as far ' as Cape York. There sledge dogs will be taken on and the Roosevelt will sail to the shores of Grantland, on the southern extremity of the North Polar Sea. By that time, it is expected, it will be September, the beginning of the long polar night During the period of darkness Peary will establish various depots of provi sions, of which he has enough to last two years, and when dawn comes he will start north with his Esquimaux and endeavor to cover the remaining 500 miles of nnknown land and frozen sea which lie -between the northern shore of Grantland and his final goal. It is in that territory that he expects to find an area of 8,000,000 square miles at the pole where the foot of man has never trod. . A Difference la Expression.. Kansas City Times. , On a North end corner a few nights ago was afakir selling a cure-all. To hold his crowd he promised that, after he had talked about his goods awhile, he would out off a boy's head and re place it without injury to the boy. His "decapitation act," as he called it, would be performed in full view of everybody present, he said. Two men, strangers to each other, heard the "pro fessor's" wonderful promise. With smile one of them turned and said: "I'm from Mi'souri. He'll have to show me." The other cast a sneering glance at the "professor." "I'm from Kansas," he said. "He!a a liar." Got the Dose el Oil She Wanted for Her Brother. Lexington Dispatch. A young lady who Uvea inside the in' corporate limits of the town went into a drug store in Lexington the other day and and after some hesitation asked a clerk how to take a dose of castor oil without tasting it. The clerk fooled around a little while, and then asked her if she would like a glass of lemon' ade. Of oourse she would.' Then he wanted know if she tasted oil. "Heaven, not" the exclaimed. "Did you put it in the lemonade?" He told her he had. "O, Lord!; I wanted it for my brother," she groaned, aa she began to sprint for home. The olerk is still hiding out. His ballast Another. It was an Irishman, of course, though he had shed his accent from having been in this country for two generations. "By George!" he exclaimed, looking at a well-known electrical sign on Canal Street the other day, " if I were in the center of Africa and saw that sign, I'd know at once I was in New Orleans!" Cane f-t Srsapalhy. Mabel Yes, I'm sorry for poor, dear Helen; that horrid George said she must either give him np or her lovely pug. Mary And she had to give op the dog? CabJj-No; ehe gave up Geoge, and the ragiied next day. Bay is Raw. Now is thptime to bay Chamberlain's Colio, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It is oertain to be needed sooner or later and when that time comes yon will need it badly yon will need It quickly. Bay it now. It may save life. For sale by M. L. Marsh and D. D. Johnson.' NEW YORK'S ASSESSMENT. Nkw York k, July 8. As a result of the increase i irrthe assessed valuation of real estate and personal property of the city this year over the valuation last year, the tax rate, it is estimated, will be reduced by two points. According to a statement issued to day by the Tax Commissioners, show ing the assessed valuations for 1905 in oomparison with those of 1904, the increase in real estate is $206,120, 622 and in personal property $65,493,- 048, The total real estate assessment for the city is $5,221,584,801. The total personal property assessment is $670,' 671,926. There is an increase in all the boroughs of both real and personal property assessments, with the excep tion of Eichmurfd or Staten Island, which shows a decrease of $301,250 in personal property over the assessments of 1904. In the Borough of Manhattan the real estate assessment this year is $3, 820,756,181, an increase of $143,898, 770 over that of last year. For personal property, residents of Manhattan are assessed at $568,400,790, an increase of $59,992,135. Among the highest assessment on the personal tax roll were : Andrew Carnegie, $5,000,000. J. D. Rockefeller, $2,500,000. Russell Sage, $2,000,000. Mrs. Vanderbilt, $1,000,000. W. K. Vanderbilt, $1,000,000. Joseph Pulitzer, $500,000. : Wm. E. Story, $500,000. J. P. Morgan, $400,000. Adrian Iselin, $400,000. Oliver H. Payne, $300,000. May E. Bierstadt, $300,000. Wm. Rockefeller, $300,000. Henry H. Rogers, $300,000. A. G. Vanderbilt, $250,000. F. W. Vanderbilt, $250,000. C. Vanderbilt, ISO.OOO. Hannah Elias, a n egress, waa as sessed at $71,900 and John R. Piatt, the aged man who sued her in vain for the return of nearly $380,000, which he had given her, is assessed at $100,000. The Holiday Fake. Charlotte Chronicle. . "What a bold, bold fake is a legal holiday!" remarks the Gastonia Ga zette. "And what business has a gov ernment to compel its postal employes to work every Sunday and oompel the people to do without their postoffioe and mail privileges on the Fourth of July!" There is no doubt of the fact that the country is running too much to holidays, lately. Christmas and Thanksgiving ought to be . the only ones, but of oourse people who do not like to work will not agree with us on this proposition. As an evidence of what a hold the holiday craze is get ting upon the people, take the ease of the Wall etreeters. With the biggest excitement prevailing in many years and cotton reaching for twelve cants, they are so eager to celebrate the 4 th that they go off the day before and it will take them a week, perhaps, to get themselves together again. Yes. too much holiday is not good for the conn' try. There is a considerable amount of humbug about it, anyway. meelleal Conealtailoa la China. Philadelphia Bulletin. A physician has just returned from China, heavily laden with stories of Chinese medicine, Medical consultations are carried to their extreme limit in China." he said. "There, when anyone becomes serious ly ill, a consultation of fifteen or twenty doctors is held. The doctors fill the house with their arguments. They make as much noise as a political con' vention. "But suoh consultation as that would be considered small and futile if a great man a mandarin, lay, of the third class were to be ill. To consult on his case at least 100 doctors would gather together. "A member of the royal family was taken sick while I was in China, and my Chinese host told me with a good deal of pride that the largest consulta tion known to history had been held over the sick man. No less than 816 physicians, he said, had come from every part of the kingdom to study and discuss the case. 'The royal patient, I heard after ward, died." A Grins Traaeay Is daily enacted, in thousands of homes, aa Death claims, in each one, another victim of Consumption or Pneumonia. Bat when Ooaghs and Colds are prop erly treated, the tragedy is averted. T. G. Huntley, of Oaklandon, Ind., writes : My wife had the comrumption, and three doctors gave her np. Finally she took Dr. King's New Disoovery for Con sumption, Coughs and Colds, which cored her, andjto-day she is well and strong." It kills the germs of all die- es. One dose relieves. Guaranteed at 50o and $1.00 by all druggists. , Trial bottle free. I HOW LONG, BCBflOW WELL Atlanta Journal. Judged by fie amount of attention it is attracting, one might concludeJhat the proper study of mankind is long evity. "There is no reason," say some of the longevity students, "why a man should not live to be a hundftd and fifty years old." But there is a good reason several reasons in fact why a man should not live that long. The reasons are to be found in the man himself. With rare exceptions the uan who has lived to be eighty or over does not care to live much longer. And as for living 150 years such a thought would be an appalling one to an old man. A person is so made that he gets tired of mortal life. After suffering the slings And arrows of outrageous fortune for four score years his spirit grows weary. He is like a tired child. Most of all he would fain lis down and sleep. Besides An aged man is A lonely man. His loved ones have gone on before. The friends of his manhood are no longer with him. One by one the associates who have made A part of his life have dropped by the wayaide. The stimulus of human touch is gone. And again The aged man is disillu sioned. He has seen his mirages. He has seen the riven of fanoy lose their runnels. And as for the world whose progress he hoped to keenly and hap pily note well, it is like the swirlling eddy, forth and back again. The golden age, like his boyhood's rainbow, is as for away as ever. Tired, lonely, disillusioned is why men do not live the century. They have lost desire to live. One ought to live as long as he can live usefully. But Is it not better to study how to study how to live well while we live? Is it not better to study how to touoh other lives in uplift to do this while it is day? so that when the shadows lenthen and the day is done we can lie down to pleasant dreams f Bold Deed of BlockaSera. Durham, July 4. News has reached here of a bold and desperate attempt made by blockders to coerce and stifle thse who would stop the ellicit manu facture of whiskey in the country dis tricts of this county. Sunday night several men fired a number of shots into the home of Mr. Thomas J. Hoi loway, ex-treasurer of Durham county, who lives near Holloway station. No one was hurt in the fusilade of shots fired, but window glass in the home of Mr. Halloway were broken and shot peppered into the rooms. From the number of tracks left, it seems that there were some three or four men in the party. They left eight empty shells, such as are used in shot gun, on the ground, near the home of Mr. Hol loway. From open threats that have been made it is clear that the qhooting was done by those who either engaged in or oouotenanoe the illegal manufacture of whiskey and that Mr. Holloway was singled out because he is one of two or three men in that immediate section who are against the blockading of whiskey. Little Too Precocious. New Tort Tribune. Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., the secre. tarv of the Yale Corporation, takes a profound interest in children. Talking with an undergraduate, he said : Children should be modest, shy, quiet That type of child is apt to turn out better in the end than the clever, talkative, prooocious type. It is apt to have a broader, nobler mind. The talkative and precocious type is apt to be shallow. "For mv Dart. I should hesitate to promise much for the future of so pre cocious a youngster as one in Quincy Adams that I heard of last week. "This Quiiby Adams child, a little - .. u girl of 7 or years, stooa one spay m ton a closed gate. Asrentleman passed slowly. The little girl turned and saidKo him: " 'Will you please open this gate for met "The nnueman did eo. Then he id, kindly: " 'Why, my child, couldn't you open the gate yourself V " 'Because,' said the little girl, 'the paint's not dry yet. Look at your hands.' " 9 ad far atosnneh Traahle and Cea- atlpellan. 'Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets have done me a great deal of good," says O. Towns, of Rat Portage Ontario, Canada. "Being a mild physic tne after effects are not unpleasant, and I oan recommend them to all who suffer from stomach disorder." For sale by M. L. Marsh and D. D. Johnson. No man climbs to heaven by tall talk. VANCB ON TIOH. SIPERSTI- Washington Post "Now as to superstition, my impres sion is, it is a part of every man's makeup, Ad every woman's, but the common idea is it prevails more in the South than elsewhere, and possibly this is true," said Mr. Chas. N. Vance, at the Colonial, recently. "This reminds me of a little incident that happened during the last visit my father paid to bis mountain home in in North Carolina before his death. accompanied him, and after being there several days he suffered a most severe attack of rheumatism. Being some distance from Asheville and several miles from the telegraph, I had great difficulty in getting a physician. Fi nally, after nearly two days the doctor came, and after getting relief my fattier insisted on returning at once to Wash ington, though it was doubtful if he oould stand the long ride of seven miles over a rough country road to the rail road. We got ready though, and started in a vehicle with two seats, my self sitting on the front seat and driving as carefully as I oould, and the gov ernor occupying the middle of the rear seat, with both hands holding to the back, to make it as easy as possible. I knew he was in great pain and was very careful. "About two miles from the station we passed a com field in which there stood a scarecrow. I lifted my bat and bowed very low. My father noticed the action and asked me what I meant, I replied: 'I am bowing to the scare crow.' " 'It's the worst kind of luck not to do so.' He said that was a new one to him. About a mile farther on we came to another Bern and another scarecrow. I heard a movement be hind me and glanced back, when I saw the governor remove one hand from the back of the seat he was hold- ung, doff ms big slouch bat, and bow, remarking almost under his breath: 'Good day, Mr. Scarecrow.' "I have little use for people without some superstition. I never knew any one without It that amounted to much." John Wealey'a Wife. John Wesley married a widow, Mrs Vizelle, who grew tired of his restlessly laborious life and complained. He paid no attention, and from complaint she went on to jealously, thence to fury. He rebuked her sternly: "Dj not any longer contend for mastery, for power, money or praise. Be content to be a private insignificant person. Of what importance is your character to man kind? If you were buried just now or had never lived, what loss would it be to the cause of God?" She left him, taking with her a large number of his private papers, and he diemits?d the subjeot by writing in his journal : "I did not forsake her, I did not dismiss her. I shall not call her back." Himself a Victim. A Harvard sophomore was reciting a memorized oration in one of the classes in public speaking. After the first two sentences his memory failed, and a look of blank despair came over his face. He began as follows: "Ladies and Gentlemen: Washing ton is dead, Lincoln is dead" then, forgetting, he hesitated a moment and continued, "atfd I I am beginning to feel sick myself." I rTrfcrWrtft& VHABLB DOLLAE FOE DOLLAE that's what you get when you buy furniture here, and you get more for your dollar here than anywhere ele. This is a proven, admitted fact. Here a little seasonable news of pricing: No. 8 Stove and Utensils, $16.00. Buck's Stove, 7 tid 8, $12.50 to $25 50 Oak Beds, $2 50 each. See us for your furniture wants. imvmvmrmvmrmymvmrmrmvmrMmir-1 "NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO BLEEP." Vance' Tribute to the Prayer Whoa Anthor la Unknown. Monroe Enquirer. A Woman's Club in Chicago a tew days f go in solemn session assembled took a fiing at that beautiful prayer which unnumbered thousands of chil aren nave been taugnt that prayer beginning, "Now I lay me." The Chicago women said that prayer fright ened children, that its reference to dying during the night gave them a creepy, frightened feeling and should be cut out. That's what the women of the Windy City said about it. Those chin workers must have been out of anything to say. That child's prayer, untui those Chicago women jumped onto it, was supposed to be the one unassailed treasure of childhood. In the year 1S67 Zab Vance delivered an address in Raleigh and here is what he said about that prayer: "Caesar and Cicero are known to scholars; Luther and Wesley are known to and govern all classes and conditions of men; Shakespeare is read and admired by millions of men; but John Buayan is loved and admired by hundreds of millions of human souls. The sublime song of the 'Paradise Lost' may perish, and the Elegy in a County Churchyard be forgotten; but the North Star ceasing to guide the pilots of the sea shall, fol lowing the track of the Constellation of the Cross, disappear from the gaze of men beyond the everlasting ices of the Pole, and the Bedouin of the desert shall halt his camels upon the disinte grated dust of the loftiest pyramid, ere little children in every part of the wide earth shall oease to respect, before go ing to rest, that simple prayer of some forgotten Christian poet, 'Now I lay riie down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.' " "The best things are not bought and sold;" they are stolen and kept. WOOD'S Seed Potatoes IN COLD STORAGE For Late Planting. Planted in June and July, these yield large crops of fine potatoes ready for digging just before cold weather comes on, carrying through the winter in first-class condition for either home use or market. By our methods of carry ing these Late Seed Potatoes in cold Btorage, we are enabled to supply them nnsprouted and In first-class, sound condition, just when they are required for late planting. Book your orders early so as to set the jtlndt you want, but don't order shipment until you are ready to plant, aa the potatoes commenoe to sprout very soon after being taken out of oold itor age, Prices quoted on request. We are headquarters for Cow Pose, 8oj. Bean.. Millet Seed, Sorshuma, eto. Heawonable Price-list telling all about Seeds far Summer planting, mailed on request, T.W.Wood &Sons, Seedsmen, RICHMOND, VIRimiA. am, CHICHESTER S ENQLIBH Pennyroyal pills ""V ri!nTiil Only UcMBla. HA PR. reliable. L.4Il ask DrufffM tor C;Hi('HKNTKK'b Heroa Mk.UttlM. mm IsmltUv lien. Buy of your Orviggtat, at Mas 4c la sttakiupa for FftrilpMlstr, TMttBMftlelJa ftad "Kll0rfarIdl(M,"te Uum, hj rm. tan Mall. 1 O.OOO TtstimoolaOa. BoUlk with blueribban. Tnke ttis U Drn leu. 1'hlehsMter ChelMl C. 444 MUtM llauv, rHlaU rU PARKER'S Vr, ...... i a n loit riant kTTOWth. danvAw Tntla fen Ratnr Orta Hair to iw zouuuui y"or. -i Cum r.ip diswuef fchir ftllujf. r,an.ll.UJal DrugUrti " If st The best suit oi Oak furniture for $25.00 in the country. You would think it worth;$35.00. a V-1 JS GOOD POTATOES "4, I BUNG FANCY PRICES J To srowa larrr crop of rood potatoes, tha soil must contain plenty ot Pola.h. Tomatoes, melons, cabbare, turnips, lettnee T"la tact, all vegetables remove lanta auaaLb. Iks of Potash trom the soil. SupphJ Potash Bnenllr by the nsa of fertilisers containing not Un than 10 per cent, actual Potash. follow. ' ' ' " -" Our pamphlets are not advertising- circulars DOnmina SDecial fertil,ira h.i, able iniormation to farmers. Sent tree tor the . .is now. GERMAN ltKll OADira Nw York-! Nassau Street, or Atlanta, Ga.-a, South Broad St. EXTREMELY LOW RATES Announced, Via , SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Extremely low rates ar annntinMri via th Southern hallway from points on Its lines tor Lite xouowuig speouu occasions i Athena, Ga. Summer School, June tt-July 98, Charlottesville, V a. Virginia Summer School of meiooas, jnne an-AUgusi . lwo. Hot Springs, Vs. Southern Hardware Jobbers' Association ana American Hardware Manu facturers' AtuuM.lat.inn. .TunA S.Q. l!ttV Knoxville. Xenn, Summer School, June SO-July as, ims. Monteagle, Tenn. Monteagle Bible Training Bcnoot, jury s-August la, lvoo. Monteagle, Tenn Monteagle Sunday School In stitute, jtuy l.-Autnisi 6, lime, mtcagle, Tenn. Woman's Congress, August 1- Naahville, Tenn. Peabody College, Summer bcuoois; vanderbilt lilbilcal Institute, June 14 Auinist . iuK. Oxford, Miss. Summer School, University of Mississippi, Juue 14 July 26, 1006. Richmond, Va Farmers' national Congress, SeDt. is i. iimia " Tuscaloosa, Ala. Summer School for Teachers. June 16-July 98, 1905. Rates for the above oecaalona nnen rai that public. Tickets will be sold to these points from all stations on the Southern Railway. Detailed Information can be had upon applica tion to any Ticket Agent of the Southern Rail way, or Agents of connecting lines, or by ad dressing the undersigned i R. h. VKRNON, T. P.A. J. H. WOOD, D. P. A. Asheville, N. C. Charlotte, IN, (J. 8. H. HARIWIOK, W. H. TAYLOR, rasa, i runic Manager, uen'l Pass, Agent, WASHINGTON. O. C. Lite Fire Health Accident Plate Glass Insurance Surety Bonds at Rock Bottom Prices If in the most reliable com panies, and big bargains in REAL ESTATE SEE JNO. K. PATTERSON, r Office up stairs at Postoffice. Two Farms in No. 4 Township. We offer for sale a farm of 80 acres in No. 4, with one tenant house and barn. Price $1200, one-half cash, balance on three years time. Also 52 acres in No. 4, with house and barn. Price $520. Both are bargains. Jno. S. Patterson & Co. e e : , - :J I?