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Volume XXII I.
Concord, N. C September 12. 1905.
Number 21.
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township In Caharrus county
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RAW JONKSIN CHAHLOTTE.
Charlotte observer, 'tli.
Sam Jones was at the Chautauqua
yesterday, and nnce the speaker was
Sam Jones it would be redundant to
say there waa a large crowd. Hereto
fore the speakers have stood on the
platform at one end of the tloral hall.
But Sam J ones stood on the rostrum
in the midst, his audience all around
him.
He waa in hie very best trim. That
gleam and glitter in his eyes, that
smirk that heralded every funny
thought, the droll, deliberate method
of delivery would have made the lec
ture worth the money to a deaf man.
His white vest waa buttoned at top and
bottom and sprawled open between.
His stubborn, grayish hair, the crop-
p d-off moustache, the broad, square
face and head were in perfect harmony
with the character of hij thinking.
What difference if you had heard him
say the same things btfort? You would
like to hear him say them again to-day,
and they would make the tears of
laughter ll jw as freely as ever.
"Are you going to hear Ham Jonet?g'
aiked one man of another in a barber
shop.
"No, I ma httle busy, and I'll jaBt
admit that I'm a flop eared hound and
stay in my store."
Sam did call them dogs and devils,
she-devils, and other things; but his
epithets were no more offensive than
love words. Since Mark Twain's de
c'lae, he is the foremost humorist on
the platform.
"A good sister," said he, "asked me
why my hair was eray and my mous
tache black.
" 'Sister,' Baid I, 'my hair is Oytars
older than my moustache
The three pegs on which he hung his
stories and witticisms were the three
needs c f social, intellectual and mora
uplift. If he had reversed the order
of oreaentment it would have done as
a
well.
"Know somep n was his nrst ex
hortation. Ignorance, he Baid, is bad
enough, but igno rance the accent on
the ranee is ten times worse. To
cure a man who has igno-rance you
must bore him for the hollow-head and
bleed him in the frog of the foot.
"If I wanted my dog instructed I
wouldVt let him go to a North Caro
lina politician. He would fill my dog
with devilment and nonsense. I have
respect for my dog. I d rather have a
fool dog than a dog full of partisan
lies."
Nor does he like preachers who use
manuscripts. "I won't go out of the
church while he is reading, for I have
got too much religion. But when it's
over and I sto home. 1 feel lust like a
babv had slobbered iu my ear. A
preacher ought to be like a beer keg;
he ought to run anywhere you tap
him."
Then, condoling with the preachers,
he told them that they had a right bad
lot to work on.
"But if you shoot in the hole they're
in they'll come out a humpin' and
swear they wa'n't in there but they're
full of shot, you know."
Once he heard a preacher preach an
hour and not say anything. He mis
took perspiration for inspiration. The
last five minutes of it wa9 intensely in-
Of a
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MT. PLEASANT. N. C.
Course of study embraces five years' work
xlvlnn young men thorough foundational
training, and tits them for business, teach
in g, or prepares then? for regular entrance
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(Jives special attention to diseases of the
It., aurl Fjir. Fittine Glasses and to
Klectric Treatment of Chronic Diseases
Cancers and Skin Diseases treated by
the X-Ray. Office room 15, in Morris
liuikling. 'Phone 181a.
at Rock Bottom Trices
in the most reliable com
panies, and big bargains
in
REAL ESTATE
SEE
JNO. K. PATTERSON,
Office uo stairs at Postofike.
see if he would land without saying
anything.
Turn'.ne his eun on the denomina-
tiohs, he would not dwell on the Epis
copalians, having been taught never to
speak ill of the dead. The Baptists
know nothing except a word "baptizo
which word was gotten up by Melchis
eidick.
"Can you read writin"" one Baptist
asked another.
"No, 'y granny! I can't read read-
in'
you
vou
JEWELRY
DIAMONDS
WATCHES
and a
complete line
of the
GENUINE
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ruut.ii WHtHt All list (Alls.
Beat CouBh 8jrrup. Term Gok1. Ua
In ttmn. Sold by drinnnns.
t
Stlur
jj Plat.
$ kr"ar J
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"184 7
Rogers Bros."
Knives, Forks,
Spoons, etc.
flft Eyes carefully examined and
I I properly fitted to thehest grade
, if ' of glasses. TV
Fine
Uepblrlog.
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W.C.CORRELL.Jeweier.;
or Sale One of the most desirable
F
stri
cottages in concora, ou ouwuK
street. Price only f 2,300. Jno. is., rai-
And the Presbyterians say if
RAftk- religion vou can't find it, if
find it you haven't got it, if you've got
it you can't lose it, and if you lose it
you nevtr had it.
There is an unbroken dearth of men
in North Carolina.
"You-all haven't had but one man
since the war and that was Zeb Vance.
You-all out to git his picture."
Some si8.er was thinking, "Brother
Jones is forgetting my husband." But
her huBband isn't a man; he is only an
old pair of breeches.
In due course he came to the little
ehe-devil who lets her good old mother
mnk breakfast while she lies in bed and
looks after her complexion. She wil
make somebody such a wife as the man
brl who said. '-There will be one to
mourn for me when I'm dead."
"Why, who will mourn for you?"
"The fellow who gets my widder."
He brushed the hair back from his
forehead, paced mute a while, and then
asked, "How many prescriptions was it
that Charlotte doctor gave? '
No response.
Oh vou-all Bit there innocent
enough." (Laughter).
He said he had plenty 'of respect for
any honest druggist, but none for the
bull-necked, white-aproned devil in ef
fect a bar-keeper. "If I was a doctor I
wouldn't prescribe for a, woman until
she quit talking, for then I would know
she w&9 dead."
He has got it in for whiskey, anyhow.
He is going to hit the whiekey people
as long as he has fiats, kick them while
he has feet, bite them while he has
terth, and then gum them.
"A lot of these lousy devils go around
here and say, 'There's more whiekey
sold here now that when we had sa-
oons.' Any whiskey man will lie.
You can take one of them devils and
put him in an asfc hopper and pour
water over him and be will drip lies all
night."
You say such hard things "a friend
of mine once remarked. "If a man
should hit you would you tight?"
"If he hits me twice. '
"How twice?"
Well, if he hits my right cheek,
I will turn my left. If he hits that
one, then I've got no farther instruc
tions, and I'll keep the flies off him
till the procession gits by."
Irrelevantly he observed, ''You pack
your preacher all the year in an ice
box and cuss him because he can t
sweat."
There is too much hiskey being
drunk. "But, Brother Jones,' Bays a
citizen, "I've been taking a dram for
40 years, and it's never hurt me at
all."
"Well, don't you know," Sam replies,
"that you can't hurt a hog."
He played a while on Paul's advice
to Timothv to take a little for his
atomach'a Bake. One or two ladies
fell to blushing furiously when he re
marked, "Judging from the epidemic
of prescriptions here, there's a lot of
you with a chronic case ef the belly
ache. You needn't be blushing, sis
ter. That's a good Bible word. 'Oh,'
you Bay, 'Brother Jones, if ycu 11 talk
almanac I can follow you better.' Sis
ter, if you get in the water, don't ycu
be afraid. Your head will iloat."
He took a fall out of the httle
preachers and Lttle scientists who try
to reconcile religion and science. You
can't reconcile them "no more 'n you
can mk a ysrlin' calf wait on your
table. He won't pass it- he'll spill it."
A little scientist told Sam once that
a man has no soul. "We have taken
a man and cut him up and analyzed
him, blood, bones, hair and toenails,
and we couldn't find any soul."
"You tried too big a thing," Sam
told him. "Take that ege there; it s
about your size."
He analyzed the egg and named iti
elements and said that waa all there
waa to it. "What elte is there ?"
"You haven't given me its gender,"
sad Sam. "Will it be' a ben or a
rooster?"
Sam doesn't want his mule to be
kickine such a little, bullet-headed
.scientist on the head, because it wil
hurt his mule's feet.
I'll eive arv man $10," cried the
orator, "to tell me who tne tatner oi
MelchiBeldick was!"
He asked a si6ter opce if she was
proud of her husband.
"What do you want to know for ?"
"I just wanted to know," Sam re
plied, "if you were easy made proud "
"There is some c II sister here who
will say, 'Well sir, Sani Jones is a black
guard, and there ain't anything in what
he Bays nohow. ' She's, like a fellow who
told me there wa'n't anything in
epicac. Says I, 'Will you take oO grains
of it if I give it to you?' He said 'yts,'
and took it. Next time I saw him I
said, 'Brotitr, is thfre anything in
flnic.ac.?' 'Yes.' he says. 'But there
i
ain't anything in me"
So far from having nothing in it,
his lectures, he said, are like the lutle
boy's father, who was a doctor. He
had a patient who possessed no lighta
or liver, but 3 doses of medicine gave
him a liver aa big aa a washtub and
electric lights.
But after all there are good people
in Mecklenburg. They have good blood
in them, but they ca.n't fly yet. "I
saw one woman try to" fly , and ehe hit
the sawdust. She maXle one Hop."
These people have jpever been any
where or seen anything, is the trouble
with them. An old woman went from
horp tr nstonift to see her father. It
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waa her first trip on the train.
"Did you enjoy the trip? '
"No,' Bhe said. "I didn't see any
thing but a haystack and hit a-gwice
the other way." ;
This was the end of the lecture, but
his announcements were just as funny.
"Brother Hancon will speak on dyna
mite, and he'll tell yoij what dynamite
is. He'll inform you like the negro in
formed a man who aBked him, 'What
makes your mule limp?' 'Ca'se he's
lame.' " He announced that his wife's
i husband will speak to-day.
TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE
Family Deceived Br a Mirage
and Lost on Detert.
Washington Times.
A pathetic story of an entire family
wrecked and lost in the desert is told
by George L. Hunter, a Utah mine
owner, who contributed a wagon and
horse to assist the unfortunates in their
extremities, while other miners were
equally generous, according to the ex
tent of their possessions.
Manuel Kspulviada, hia wife and
three children, one a child of four
years, had set out from Uvada, Utah, Lprarjg up from lhe 8&nd) and) rearing
upon its hind legs, had Btarted toward
him, utteriDg a wild cry, while its fore
legs were outstretched in his direction.
hot the creature but
that the smallest child waa missing.
Distracted with grief the father set
back afoot to find it, and after wander
ing aimlessly was found by two miners
They guided Espulviada back to his
wrecked wagon, and assisted the fam
ily to camp, and were preparing to take
up the search for the missing child
when another Mexican arrived.
He waa worked to a high pitch of ex
citement and told how he had been
chased by a wild animal. He explained
that just at dusk some strange and
frightful looking object had suddenly
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
h7 C. HERRfwG. Dentist,
DR.
Is now on the trronnd floor of the Lltaker
Hulldlng.
CONCORD. XT. O.
Dr. w. C. Houston
Surgeon fifEZi Dentist,
to journey by wagon t) Searchlight
All went well until after the tamily left
Moapa. Then heavy winds and rains
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Eurrounaea mem anu in seeaing eneuer jje wouid have
they lost their road. WAa scared
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lor two days the family Bearcnea, Epulviada grew excited when he
when,- just at sunset on the second heard the story , and hardly giving the
day, their hopes arose by E pulviada other two miners time to collect their
imagining that he had just made out thoughts he had grabbed the Mexican
the outline of a train far off on the hv the arm and was drac-eme him to-
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horizon. If they could get back to the ward the desert, exclaiming: "Tell me
railroad they knew they would be Baved, where you Baw my child. Quick tell
and, assured that their dilemma was me." It was a fact that the Mexican
paBt, they urged their jaded horses, had been startled by the child, who,
calculating to reach the railroad before Beeing the man, had rushed crying
morning and find near-by shelter from toward him for succor. The Mexican
the day s heat. was aa diligent aa the others in the
Mile after mile they drove. The ob- Bearch when he realised that out there
ject Espulviada had described as 0n the deBert he had left a lost infant,
train had been swallowed up in the and his companions had to run to keep
night. He wondered why he did not up with him as he retraced his steps and
reach the rails, but only when the flush 80On had the child tight in his arms
of morning opened before him a sea of The miners took the family into
trackless sand on all Bides would he 1 1 van nan. . where Hunter met them.
and a general division of money and
provisions took place, the little family
leaving for their destination well sup
plied for the remainder of the trip and
with men who knew the road thor
admit that he had been deceived and
was in a worse plight than ever.
He found himself and family far out
on a scorching desert, the sun already
above the eastern horizon, and not a
sign of shelter in Bight. How they oughly to guide them
nnllcH tVir:-vncri that Hav. whirh was I
.B .. gtriket Hidden Horki
LK,-s-1 -. V- k Un w-t A vannvl j- -V r Sin I
tie ana nis wne encurea tne pangs oi hidden of consumption. Pneu
hunger and Buff cation without a mur- monia( etc., you are lost if yoa don't get
mur, both fearing to touch a drop of neip from Dr. King's New Discovery for
the precious tupply of water for fear Consumption. J. W. McKinnon. of
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the children might need it. Talladega Springs, Ala., writes : "I had
Late in the afternoon their hopes been very ill with Pneumonia, under the
were apain raised bv the sizht of a care ot two doctors, but was getting no
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CONCORD. N. O.
is prepared to do all kinds of dental work In
the most approved manner.
Office over Johnson's Drug Store.
Residence 'Phone 11 Office '1'hone 43.
rT. HARTSELL.
' Attorney-at-Law,
oorrcoRD, north Carolina.
Prompt attention n-lven to all h
Office In Morris building, opposite the oourt
uouBe.
DRS, LILU & Y.rLKr,
offer their professional services to the cltl
iens of Concord and surrounding country.
Calls promptly attended day or night.
W I, MONTOOMKBI. J. LKBOBOWKLl
MONTGOMERY A CROWELL,
Attorneys and Connselors-at-Lai,
CONCORD, N. O.
As partners, will practice law In Cabarrus.
8tanly and adjoining counties. In the 8uie-
rior ano supreme courts o l tne state and in
the Federal Courts. Office In court house.
Parties desiring to lend money can leave It
with us or place It In Concord National llmik
tor us. and we will lend It on Kood real es
tate security free of charge to the depositor.
We make thorough examination of title to
lands offered as security for loans.
Mortgages fo -eclosed without expense to
owners or samf ...
Henry B. Adams.
Thos. J. Jerome.
Frank Armfleld.
Tola D. M aliens.
Adams, Jerome, imfieli i Ibess,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law,
CONCORD, N. C.
Practice In all the State and U. 8. Courts.
Prompt attention given to collections and
general law practice. Persons Interested In
the settlement of estates, administrators,
executors, and guardians are especially In
vited to call on us. as we represent one of the
largest bonding companies In America; In
fact we will go any kind of a bond cheaper
than any one else.
Parties desiring to lend money oan leave
It with us or deposit It In C oncord National
Bank, and we will lend It on approved secu
rity free of charge to the lender.
Continued and painstaking attention will
be given, at a reasonable price, to all lega
business.
Office In new Morris Building opposite
clump cf trees and a lake. They could
see the surface of the blue sheet of
water lutlling beneath the breath of
wind, and it almost seemed that they
could feel the cool breezes.
For fear that they were deceived, he
held the 4-year-old child in his arm,
and, pointing toward the picture,
asked: "What is that over there?"
"Water," was the reply. But
peaceful lake was too ethereal to last,
and had soon faded away in rolling
billows of heat, which a few minutes
afterward looked much like an im
mense drove of sheep, and Espulviada,
in horror, realized that these fascinat
ing pictures before them were but the
better when I began to take Dr. King's
New Discovery. The first dose gave re
lief, and one bottle cured me." Sure
cure for sore throat, bronchitis, coughs
and oolds. Guaranteed at all Druggists,
price 60c and $1 00. Trial bottle free.
Mrs. Chugwater ThiB paper says the
passengers escaped on a raft. How
could they make at raft at sea?
Mr. Chugwater They could use the
the ship's log, couldn't they ? Why don t
you UBe your own reasoning faculties
once in a while ?
A Remedy Without a Peer.
'I find Chamberlain's Stomach and
Liver Tablets more beneficial than any
other remedy I ever used for stomach
trouble," says J. P. Klote, of Edina,
Mn For anv disorder of the stomach.
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deceptive wont oi me neat, anu mat bUiouaneg8 or con9ti patiorii theee Tablets
probably the train wUicn fcaa lea without a Deer. For sale bv M. L
him bo far was of this same char- Marsh and D. D. Johnson
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Handout tiarry i wuz onct engagea
That night they were again caught
in a violent storm, which soaked them brewer.
through, but replenished their water
supply, and undoubtedly saved them
from perishing of thirst. Next day
they kept the children wrapped in
rain-soaked blankets as a protection
against heat, and that afternoon an
other electric storm arose, and when at
its height the horses became frenzied
with fear, and, running away, wrecked
their wagon.
ter be married to de daughter of a rich
Tiepass Tedpy W'y didn't yer marry
her?
Handout Harry De brewery burned
down, an' de ol' man Bwore he'd never
build it up again.
Cored of Lame Back After la i ears
of Suffering.
"I had been troubled with lame back
for fifteen years and I found a complete
recoverv in tne use oi unamDenain s
Pain Balm," says John G. Bisher, Gil
Oaly when the wagon was upset and iam lad. This liniment is also without
hrnkn and one horse had been so an eanal for BDrains and bruises. It is
badly injured that it was useless did the for sale by M. L. Marsh and D D. John
runaways stop, and then it waa found son.
iriniiU
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Is the same good, old-fashioned
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the lives ot little chilJren for
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vour child is sick get a bot
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FREY'S VERMIFUGE
A FINE TONIC FOR CHILDREN
Do not take a substitute. If
your druggist does not keep
It, send twenty-hve cents In
stamps to
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and a bottle will be mailed you.
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Young
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Why Furniture
Pieces Make the
Best of Gifts.
The reasons why Furniture Pieces make the best gifts are
numerous. A Morris or Leather Chair is used more and is a
more pleasant ieminder than most anything yon can buy for a
man. Likewise a nice Dresser for a woman and so ou. There
isn't a member of the family that you can't find a most useful
gift for here. Bear this in mind the next time you have occa
sion to buy gifts.
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Our Picture Framing
Department is
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We want to show you some new things in Pictures.
As welcome to look as to buy.
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