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John B. Shbrriu, Editor and Publisher.
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Volume xxxili.
CONCORD, N. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1907.
Number 03
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CONSERVATIVE
SAFE
Citizen's Bank and
Trust Company
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DIRECTORS.
C O r.ILLOX
W. D. PEMHERTOM
PAUL F. STALLINGS
B. L. UMBERGER
A JONES YORKIJ
CiiAS. Mcdonald
N. V. Y-KKB
Mi L. MARSH
GEO. L. PATTERSON
CHAS. 15. WAGONER
W. W. MORRISON
A. N. JAMES
II. L. PARKS
W. A. BQST.
J. LEE CROWELL, Attorney.8
A. JONES YORKE, ' CHAS. B. WAGONER,
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, - President.
II. L. PARKS. .
, Vice President.
Cashier
JOHN FOX, " -
Assistant Cashier.
Your business respectfully solicited. Every courtesy
and accommodation extended consistent with safe
banking.
l To
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the Farmers!
We have bought a large lot of
.. TOBACCO ..
and wijl make you a 'wholesale
v price by the box.
Buffalo Bill at $2.75 per box.
Tagless - at $2.75 per box.
This Tobacco U worth $4.00 per
lox in a retail way. '
We uho have a large lot of .
FRESH MACKEREL
KM) Mackerel in a tub, which we
Will sell in a tub at $3.25 a tub.-
Call and see us and bring your produce.
The D.J. BostCo.
Why a NATIONAL BANK is Best
1. K National Bank is under the supervision of- the
A United States Government.
2 Juaws governing National Banks are very strict. .
3.. They are required to submit to the government a
sworn detailed statement FIVE TIMES a year.
4. jThe stockholders are held responsible for DOUBLE
the amount of their stock. This is for the benefit of
. the depositors. 1
5. The capital stock is required to be paid in cash, and
must be held intact for the benefit of the depositors.
6. The Bank is required each year to add to its surplus
account before declaring dividends. This is for the
further security of the depositors.
7. A National Bank cannot loan more than 10 per cent,
of its capital to one man or firm.
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The Concord National Bank
Capital?$lOO,000 Surplus and Undivided Profits $26,000
No large amount required to start an account.
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JTJSTICK FOR TH RATXSOADS.
Charlotte Chronicle. ' T
Child labor is one great hobby of
the politicians. Railroads is another.
There seems to be an element in the
North Carolina Legislature that is
very antagonistic to the railroads of
the State. Now, living on the line
of the Southern, we happen to know
that this particular railroad has done
a great work in the development of
that section of the South through
which, its lines run. Wherever a
company wants to put up a cotton
mill, it has run in the necessary spur
tracks. More than that through
its industrial department it has built
cotton mill towns along its lines, con
verting old fields into factories and
creating industrial centres that
would have remained old fieldnor
uncalculated time but for the help
of the railroad. Columns .could be
written about this, but let us take in
the ninety miles between Charlotte
and Greensboro. To begin with, the
Southern has extended its lines north,
east, south and west of Charlotte, to
reach any sort of a manufacturing
plant that might pop up. At Con
cord it has laid a net work of spur
tracks to accommodate the manu
facturing plants there. It is now
laying tracts for the new town of
Cannopolis. Further on is the man
ufacturing town of Landis, an indus
trial centre of the Southern's own
creation, arid a mile further is China
Grove, which has .developed into a
manufacturing town mainly by the
grace of the Southern. Then comes
Salisbury, Lexington, Thomasyille,
High Point and Greensboro, a chain
of industrial towns the equal of
which i3 not to be found in the South
all served and nurtured by the
Southern the industrialism of each
of which, it might be said, was born
of the Southern Railway Company.
And it seems that this particular de
veloper of Southern industries is to
be pilloried' by the Legislature.
In a speech to the Bowdoin College
alumni, a few days ago, General
Thoma3 H. Hubbard said : "There
are no railroads in any country that
are as well and as cheaply run as our
railroads. The fault to be found
with the roads in this country is that
they kill more people than those in
other lands. This is the fault against
which crusaders should direct their
attention. If the railroads were
making more money than they are
they would be able to equip their
mes with the expensive life-saving
contrivances now used by the wealth
iest of the lines, yet the reformers
say, 'Down with the railroads' profit;
they are making too much money
already.'"
That, we contend, is a good point
or the legislators to consider. Be
reasonable with the railroads. Give
them a living chance. They are
not incorporated enemies of the
country, but are friends and devel
opers. They have rights "which
ought to be respected. Let the Leg
islature deal with them in a practi
cal and not a demagogical spirit, and
thus serve the interests of the pro
gressive State which it represents.
The Chronicle is not. a champion
of the corporations, but it ho'pe3 al
ways to be a champion of fair play.
General SteDhen D. Lee. command
er of the United Confederate Veter
ans, has issued his edict by which the
sponsors and maids of honor are
eliminated from future reunions.
'he reason assi cried, as has been
previously stated, is that the sponsor
business has grown to. such a degree
that the Confederate soldiers nave
in a manner been forced into second
place. .
Sell Yoirr Farm,
3Bj.y a, XDity Lot,
m JN0.' 2. PATTEESON & COMPANY,
The Liv'e Real Estate Agents, Concord, N. C.
TRACKING TEX EARTHQUATX.
St Louis Brpabtlc.
The earthquake on the Island of
Jamaica, coming in considerably less
than a year of those which shook
California and Chili, will freshly turn
investigation and discussion to the
causes of these visitations, so terri
ble when they attack populous cities.
Though something has been learn
ed of the laws of their action, their
causes are so obscure that one the
ory concerning, them is as good as
another. In one way or another,
though, they may be accounted for
by the changes in the earth's crust
as the molten mass within gradually
loses heat, V '
The one thing known for certain
about the earthquake is that it radi
ates from a definite centre of disturb
ance far down in the bowels of the
earth. Surveys and observations
made by members of the British
Royal Society of the scenes of earth
quakes in Italy enabled these men of
science to trace the radiations from
this center of disturbance in definite
curves and sometimes in complete
circles.
' The vibrations leave such distinct
traces that it has been found possi
ble to measure the angle at which
they emerge from the surface, and
in this way, it is declared, the depth
at which the original shock occurred
may be ascertained with a close ap
proximation to mathematical accu
racy. ,
The ground immediately above the
original focus of disturbance is not
shaken ; the earthquake, as it is felt
at the surface, occurs hundreds of
miles away. It was by measuring
the angles at which the vibrations of
the Charleston earthquake, twenty
years ago, came out of the ground
that seismologists in Washington
reached the conclusion that the un
derground shock which caused that
disaster occurred under the Alle
ghany mountains in Western North
Carolina.
- -The tremors which so frequently
rock our Pacific coast and the Pacific
coast of South i America . doubtless
have their origin in centers under
neath the Rocky Mountains and their
southern extension, the Andes. This
backbone of the continent was up
heaved by a breakage of the earth
as its surface contracted with cool
ing, and there still no end of under
ground trouble going on along ; that
line of cleavage. -
Possibly the Jamaica eaathquake
had its origin under the mountains
of Mexico. As the island belongs to
Great Britain, the scientific men of
that country-may yet do us the favor
to find out, if they can, where the
center of the disturbance really was.
Blow Gives Sight to Man Blind Quarter
' , ' " ' Century.
The Rev, Samuel H. Cummings, a
Methodist minister of Baltimore, and
totally blind for twenty-five years,
has had hissight partly restored by
a blow. Last Saturday he slipped
on. the icy pavement and fell face
downward. A bit of projecting ice
struck his eye with painful f5rce,
but when he got up he found jthat
the blow had shocked one eye into
seeing, although , indistinctly, j Mr.
Cummings is able to read the title on
a magazine cover. He says hi can
distinguish persons, but that-they
are out of proportion and strangely
confused.
Tou will not find beauty in rouge pot
or complexion wWfewaah. True beauty
comes to them only that take Hollister's
Rocky Mountain Tea. It is a wonder
ful tonic and beautifler. 85 cents Tea
or Tablets. , ; ' :;.
HOW TBXBGS GO.
Cfciriotte Otoer er.
Representative John M. Julian, of
Rowan, editor of The Salisbury Ev
ening Post, sends to his paper, daily,
most interesting comments on what
is going on in the Legislature and in
Raleigh, with an occasional prophecv
of what is to be. We take a few ex
tracts from his letter of the 27th:
"On all sides is heard praise of
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson's courteous
but emphatic declination to become
a pensioner of the State as provided
by the bill. The letter was in fine
form and taste and spirit and was
made a part of the Senate record."
"The battle royal in this Legisla
ture will not be on until the meas
ures of further improvement of
service made fixing railroad rates
and kindred matters, emerge from
the committee room. In the House
Speaker Justice will lead the fight
for the bills, to which 1 have hereto
fore referred, and which stand for
rates that the railroads declare would
deplete their net earnings to the ex
tent that their credit would be wiped
out and further improvement of ser
vice made impossible. The middle
ground men - the legislator who be
lieves that rates should be reduced
and better service required, but
wedded to no particular,measure or
sentiment is having no snap in tak
ing his bearings. He is more ner
vous than would be suspected from
a superficial observation, but his
trouble just now is finding a common
ground with those who feel and view
matters as he does."
"It is apparent this early in the
game that the Legislature will not
complete its work in sixty days.
Knowing ones say that the session
will certainly continue two weeks
over-time. Unless debates upon leg
islation of local or under general im
portance is limited, a lengthy session
is inevitable."
"My prophecy of a week ago that
the reformatory measure is destined
to come upon many tribulations.
still holds good. A bill to increase
the appropriation of the Jamestown
Exposition by $20,000 has passed
and Representative Preston, of
Mecklenburg, who introduced the
House bill for a reformatory, tells
me that he fears the poverty plea
will be offered when his measure
comes up. The women of the State
are in earnest about this matter and
no day goes by that the legislators
counted as doubtful on this proposi
tion are not importuned by them to
change front."
This affords a clear insight into
the things touched upon at Raleigh.
If Representative Julian is not elect
ed to the next Legislature from
Rowan, as he should be, there is a
job for him there as newspaper cor
respondent. The Charming Woman
i. not necessarily one of perfect form
and features. Many a plain woman who
could never serve as an artist's model,
possesses those rare qualities that all the
world admires : neatness, clear eyes,
clean smooth skin and that sprightli
nees of step and action that accompany
good health. A physically weak woman
is never attractive, not even to herself.
Electric Bitters restore weak women,
give strong nerves, bright eyes, smooth,
velvety skin, beautiful complexion.
Guaranteed at all Druggists, 60o.
OUST PIXASAHT COIXXGIATZ IS-STITUTK.
U. r. M. ta Uttmi Visitor.
The spring term at the Collegiate
Institute has opened auspiciously,
there being an increase of 20 per
cent, in attendance. The Athletic
Association has perfected a schedule
for a series of games with other
school of the State, to begin the Ut
ter part of March. The Y. M. C A.
has been recently reorganized. A
good percentage of the students are
enrolled as members of the associa
tion, and there is promise of much
good work. Meetings are held every
Tuesday night, when interesting and,
neipiui programmes are rendered.'
Dr. E. G. Williams, the new pas
tor of the Reformed church, recent
ly delivered an able lecture before
the student bodies of the Imttitnt
and Mont Amoem Sminrv Ilia
subject was, "Man's Exalted Kace
m Nature. The lecture was h trh-
aDnreciated hv all whn hoard if
The speaker showed himself to be a
thinker of more than ordinary abili
ty ana a master ox English.
The literarv societies are tn w rnn.
gra tula ted upon their selection of a
commencement speaker. Dr. ii. N.
Snyder, president of ! Woflford Col
lege, has accepted the invitation
rom the societies, which fart imiumi
an address of a high order.
The Gerhardt Sociefcv will ow lt
annual public exercise on the 21st of
February. The question to be dis
cussed, "Resolved, That North Car
olina should establish a Reformatory
or youtniui criminals, is one of
ivelv interest, and the exercise
promises to be of a kind for which
the society has a reputation good.
The annual sermon before the stu
dents of the Institute, setting forth
the claims of the Gospel ministry.
was Dreached (as ner annointment
of the president of the North Caro
lina by nod; on bunday, January 27th,
bv Rev. J. E. Shenk. ' As is charac
teristic of the speaker, the sermon
was splendid in ?oncention and unu
sually persuasive in presentation.
Certainly it was as such to confirm
the convictions of, the young men
who had alreadv decided tn enter
the ministry, and to cause others to
think soberly before answering the
Question of the text. "Whom (shall I
send, and who will go for us ?'
Wbjr Buffer from Kbeamatlam T
Do you know that rheumatic pains can
be relieved ? If you doubt this just try
one application or U ham ber Iain's ram
Balm. It will make rest and sleep pot-
eibl, and that certainly means a great
deal to any one afflicted with rheumu-
tism. For sale-by all druggists, Con
cord, and A. W. Moose. Mt. Pleasant.
The Douglass bill to regulate
"soft drinks" at soda fountains was
defeated by a big majority by the
House of Representatives last week.
Since they eouldn't down coca cola
there will probably be no effort dur
ing this session to prohibit the sale
of snuff and tobacco. Our Home.
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'Roysters
Fertifeers
TRADE MARK
REGISTERED
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have been the standard
because they are made
from honest materials,
See that the trade mark
is on every bag, -"' None
genuine without it.
F. S. ROYSTER GUANO CO., Norfolk, Va.
HIFUGE
is tbe same good, old-fh-ionetl
medicine that hm Mvtd
the lire of lif.lc children for
the past 6o year. It it a med
icine made to cure. . It jhaa
never been known to fall.
If your child is aick get a
bottle of .
FREY'S VERBIFUQE
A FIXE TONIC FOR CHILDREN
Do not take a substitute. If
f our druggist does not keep
t, send twenty-five cents ia
stamps to
Baltimore, Md.
and a bottle will be mailed yon.
DR. L. N.BURLEY30N,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
CONCORD. M- O.
Office : Rooms Nos. ia and 14 new Morris Building,
DR. W. C. HOUSTON.
k. QyENTIST.
Office over Johnson's Drug Store.
Residence 'Phone it.
Office 'Pboa 4,
DR. H. C. HERRING, DENTIST,
is now over the atora of White-Morrison-Ftaws
Company.
OONOORO N. O.
W. J. MONTO0MERY.
4 ICS CROWEU.
sauri cs&xxvAjrcx.
CaasMta (itsiir.
The ministerial union of Daarilk.
Va., has presented to the mayor of
that town resolutions rtqucctiaf him
to stop the publication and mh of
Sunday paper there. At a mcent
Sunday Observance Convection at
Greensboro. N. C. ei-Judg haw
made an address in which he propo.
ed that the law aupprrM Suaday
papers and stop the running of Sun
day trains, :
If Sunday papers wens auppreased
some scores of newspaper workers
would enjoy what Its called "a much
needed rest." Whether their rest!
en would eaually enjoy the freedom
from the distraction which theae
publications f urntah. U another maU
ter. If Monday papers were sun
pressed - all the wirk on them is done
on Sunday, while bnly three or four
hours of Sunday j work ia done on
Sunday papers, and this by not til
the force connected with them a
much more needed rest would be en
jayedby a class, for seven nighta
work a week is strenuous; a wide de
parture from the; simple life. The
Monday paper ia the real offender
and it is no argument in its favor, so
far as the morality of the matter is
concerned, to say jthat it is almost
uniformly the most interesting paper
of the week. , Wa cannot entertain
the Argument against the Sunday pa
per that it keeps people from church
for this pre-eupposes that it is more
entertaining than the minister, which
we are not prepared to admit.
If Sunday trains are to be discon
tinued, street cars must be discon
tinued also and liifery stable shut up.
Again it is no argument to say that
one should be shut down and the
other1 not, for the reason that street
cars carry many people to church,
while the livery stable carriages do
not It is true that the street cars
carry people to church and the car
riages none, but on summer evenings
the cars carry men, women and chil
dren to the park.! which is worldly,
while in the afternoons the carriages
take them into the air and scenery of
the country, which is equally an
offence.
And if the newspaper workers
"soldiers of the day and night"
newspaper readers, railroad people,
postoffice employes and the others
mentioned are to be given legally
much-needed rest at reduced pay,
of course the telegraph offices must
be closed, the hello girl relieved, and
when the men who operate the elec
tric lights which furnish part of the
illumination for the Sunday night ser
vices are paid off Saturday afternoon
they must be told to knock off at
MONTGOMERY & CROWELL
Attorney and Cnansslaes at Law,
CONCORD. N. C j
As partners will practice law in Cabarrus, Stan))
ana adjoining coannes, tn tne superior and sa
preme Courts of the. State and ia the Federa
Courts. Office in court house.
Parties desiring to lend aaoney can leave it with
us or Dlace H ia anr of the Concord Banks for .as
and we will lend it oa good real estate security
free of charge to the depositor.
We make thorough examination of title to lands
offered as security for loans. '
Morgages foreclosed without expense to uwueis
01 same. ,
Henry B. Adams.
inoaij.jc
Frank Armfieki.
Tola D. Maiiaam,
.ffsis, irzisli & Kurs,
Attorneys 1 Counselors tt Lav,
OONOORO, N. O.
Practice is all the State and U. S. Courts
Prompt attention given to collect ions and general,
law Practice. Persons interested in the settle
ment of estates, administrators, executors, and
guardians are especially invited to call oa as, as
we represent one of the largest bonding cool
panics in America ; ia tact we will go any kmd
01 a Dona coeaper wan any one etse.
Parties desiring to lend money can leave H
with ns or deposit it in the Concord Nattoa
Bank, and we will lend H oa approved security
free of charge to the lender.
Continued and painstaking attention wttl be
given, at a reasonable price, to all legal basine
Office ia new Morris Building opposite Court
Mouse.
DR. J. S. LAFFERTX
17 North Union Street. !
Opposite St. doad-Nonaaady Hole).
COHCOBD, IT. O.
. Practice limited to Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Office Hoars: 8 a. tn. to 11 m.
1 p.'ss to s p. ss.
midnight aM not rrprt ar;n for.
dstyuntd llonday.
If we are rotng to da this Khxr.g at
a!!, krtVdo it rlifcL
;
XU .Urrrw al TU Vallta,
Mr. Arthur Pa, of New York.
spent yeatrrday ia the citr with
friend. Mr. ta is crjraxrM tn mv
curing maUrial far a vpmal artkle
which be ts to write far uw Southern
number World's Work, to b issued In
April. He has Jut returned front a
Wait to th bif hydrorWvtrk irvrU.p
meet of the W hitney I Uxl action tm.
pany t th Narrows of the Yadkin. .
near Salisbury. l cannot tell you
of the stag of the work.' M r.
remarked to an Olwafrwr mrtcr
fwtcrdav, "for this U my ftrt trip.
They tell me over there. feoWver.
that tho wheels will be turn bur in
the power home? by the nrt of neu
year. The Place, well atykxl the
Narrows of the adkin, U in klul
alt for a great electric develoiitnent.
If It were In New York It ouM
have been in operation years aito and
would now rank with Niagara a a
factor In trwustriaJ prcm. lVd-.
moot Carolina is a section rich ia
water powers. The work of tin
Whitney Company and the Southern
Tower Company Is jut Uirinnlng to
bo regtuxed In tho North. -I w a
deeply unnreaard with the oVvrlop
ment at hltney. The rm cr there is
destined to play no inoxmspicuou
part tn the industrial progrvwi of
hedmont Carolina."
Tata Mas Is Always Coll
Caaloa, OttK impale.
Among the latest arrivals here this
week was Frank M. Ik-mi, traveling
man for a Michigan furniture huu.
Hernia Is to be pitied, for he U start
ed with a strange diacaae which the
doctors are unable to cure, and
which renders it impuaibltf ' for him
to keep warm, even during the hot
teat days of the summer.
The year around he , is obliged to
wear five suits of underclothing, a
heavy overcoat, a large pair of boot,
and several pairs of sticks. lWr.Ha
all of this, he Is always cold.! He
rarely contracts a cold and pt!es
a heavy appetite. He sleep j under
eight blankets, a numler of quilti,
and does not take off hU clothes.
Notwithstanding this, he i none too
warm. While at home HU gas bill U
in the neighborhood of K) a month.
lie has been at a number of renort
to obtain relief for his strange dis
ease, but received ho help whatever,
l'hymicians are unable to dctenninf
the cause of his condition.
A GOOD
YEAR
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"The Store That Sat
isfies" is prepared for
the "Extra Crop." 60
Go-Carts just in, and
100 more on the way.
All stylesjand prices.
There is Music in the Air !
and if
we can't help you one way we can another.
PHONOGRAPHS !
The Edison, "Victor and Colombia are at jour con
mand New records every week.
Solid car of Bed Springs bought before the rise. ;. 1,000 pairs
of all grades and prices, wholesale and re rail. Come and get
prices. - h r ; v .
Bell & Harris Furniture Co.
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