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Volume XXXIII.
CONCORD, N. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1907.
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need not wait until your business has as
sumed great proportions before opening an
account'; do eo to-day. ,
Our patrons regardless of the amount
of; business done, receive every courtesy in
all matters of business entrusted to us and
there is nothing in safe banking we cannot
perform.
Come in and talk it over with us.
Citizens Bank and Trust Company
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and will make you a wholesale.,
price by the box. "
Buffalo Bill at $2.75 per box.
Tagless - at 02.75 per box!
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box in a retail way. -
We also have a large lot of
FRESH
100 Mackerel in a tub, which we
will sell in a tub- at $3.25 a tub.
Call and see us and bring your produce.
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Why a NATIONAL BANK is Best
AVNational Bank 'is tinder the supervision of the
United States Government.
Laws governing National Banks are very strict.
They are required to submit to the government a
sworn detailed statement FIVE TIMES a year
The stockholders are held responsible for DOUBLE
the amount of their stock. This is for the benefit of
the depositors
The capital stock is required to be. paid in cash, and
must be held intact for the benefit of the depositors.
The Bank is required each year to add to its surplus
account before declaring dividends. This i9 tor the
further security of the depositors.
A National Bank cannot loan more than 10 per cent,
of its capital to one man or firm. ,
The Concord National Bank
Capital $100,000 Surplus and Undivided Profits $26,000
I No large amount required to start an account.
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THE KEELEY INSTITUTE,
GREENSBORO, N C.
A KING OF K0ONSHIRERS DEAD.
Believed to Eat. Sold More Contraband
Liquor Than Any One Man Who Ever
Lived in Eia Section. -
B. Oliver Jenkins died at Chase
City, Va., last week, after an illness
of about four hours. He was a na
tive of York county; S. C, and there
is little doubt of the fact that he
made and sold more contraband
whiskey than did any single indi
vidual who has ever lived in that
section. He was about 58 years of
age at the time of his death, and
was actively engaged in the making
and selling of whiskey for a period
of not less than forty years. For a
number of years after the war he
lived on a valuable farm, which he
owned near Clover,' and which now
belongs to his estate, and ma'de liquor
and sold it all over that section of
the country in defiance of the laws
of the United States. Numerous ef
forts were made by the revenue offi
ce . to catch and punish him, but
with little success.
Along about 1883 his traffic be
came unbearable to the good people
of that section, and he was waited
upon by a committee composed of
representative citizens, who informed
him that he must either discontinue
the sale and manufacture of whiskey
entirely or leave the state. Jenkins
knew the men who gave him the
ultimatum and very correctly con
cluded that they meant every word
they said,' and, .therefore, decided to
leave. He moved into Cleveland
county, N. C., and finally settled
near Grover, erecting an enormous
plant, part of which was in North
and part in South Carolina, the state
line running through his property.
This outfit was operated under the
auspices of the United States Gov
ernment, but it is said that no op
portunity to evade the law was
allowed to escape. .
He continued the business with
more or less interruption from the
Government authorities until the
passage of the Watts law in North
Carolina a few years ago, and owing
to the fact that that law forbids the
operation- of a distillery outside of
an incorporated town of less than a
certain size; and that he could not
get a site in Cherokee county that
was two or more miles distant from
a church or public school, he finally
abandoned the work in which he had
been engaged so long and attempted-
to content himself with more re-
specranie ana legitimate occiipa-
10ns, such as farming, merchandis
ing and buying and selling cotton.
About two years ago he became
interested in timber lands in Vir
ginia and as a result invested heavily
in that state and about a year ago
moved there with his family. He
was eminently successful as an ac
cumulator of property, and it is
estimated that at the time of his
death he was worth in the neighbor
hood of . $200,000.. He was twice
married, and leaves a widow and
nine children, six by his first wife
and three by his last.
Jenkins was an illiterate man, but
was looked upon as being a genius as
a money-maker by his friends and
associates, and as being strictly hon
est in all his dealings except where
he came in contact with Uncle Sam
in the manufacture of whiskey, and
then he considered it his. inalienable
right to defeat the law.
A little girl about 4 years old, was
coming with her father from the ba-
kery, where he had purchased a small
oaf of bread. When about half way
borne tne little gin looKea up ner
ather and said: "Papa. I'll carry
the bread if you'll carry me."
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Sell Your FVivui.
Buy a Frm,
Buy a City Lot.
See JNOe K. PATTERSON & COMPAQ,
The Live Real Estete Agtnts, Concord, N. C.
TEX LOIfDOJt LIBXL LAW.
Xews and Obaerw.
The attempt to repeal or amend
the London libel law ought not to
succeed. The law was passed by
the unanimous vote of both branches
of the General Assembly 6ix years
ago, after it had been discussed and
carefully .considered for two whole
years by the public. It has not
caused any man injured by any pub
lication to be denied full redress and
gives no special privilege to any
newspaper. As construed by the
Supreme Court in the case of Osborne
vs. Leach the law does not deny both
actual damages and damages due to
mental anguish caused by the pub
lication. It is a moderate and iust
measure of protection to editors who
in the hurry of printing the news
may be imposed upon, but even then
it is ho protection from actual dam
ages incurred, including mental an
guish. It merely opens the way for
an honest editor to make correction
and to be free from vindictive dam
ages. A full hearing on the pending
bill to repeal or amend the law was
given by Judge Winbone.'s Judiciary
Committee last week and after hear
ing the argument pro and con, an
unfavorable report was made upon
the bill, the vote standing 6 or 7 for
an unfavorable report to 2 for a
favorable report. That ought really
to settle the matter, for the commit
tee heard full argument and their
unfavorable report is a righteous re
port, worthy of full endorsement at
the hands of the House.
At a meeting of the executive com
mittee of the North Carolina Press
Association held in Raleigh yester
day it was unanimously resolved to
be the sense of the meeting that no
legislation amending or repealing
the London libel law ought to be
enacted. That action is entitled and
will no doubt receive the considera
tion that it deserves by the members
of the General Assembly. It is not
only the editors who are interested
in preserving the very moderate libel
law on our statute but it is a law in
the interest of the public for a free
press that is not at the mercy, of a
vindictive person who will accept no
ample and retractive apology for an
unintentional error. -
The London libel law should stand
untouched. .
UHSATISPACTORY CROP.
Thaw Killed White When Hypnotized! So
Valet Says.
Ixndon, February 22. The South
Wales Echo, of Cardiff, publishes a
remarkable story told by a man who
asserts that for five years until Oc
tober; 1905, he was valet and confi
dential servant of -Harry Thaw. The
man's name is James Morley, and he
is a Scandinavian by birth.
He asserts that he is in possession
of evidence which, if given before
the court, would have the effect of
obtaining Mr. Thaw's acquittal. His
employer was, he says, on friendly
terms with a certain Frenchman,
who used to hypnotize Mr. Thaw, at
first for diversion and afterwards for
set purposes. Ultimately the French
man had complete and unbounded
hypnotic power over Mr. Thaw.
Stanford White, the murdered
architect, quarreled with the French
man over an actress. Mr. White
accused the Frenchman of being an
impostor, masquerading under a bo
gus title. This aroused the French
man's bitter hate, and Morley says
that he holds letters proving the
murderous passion which the for
eigner harbored against Mr. White.
Morley declares that Thaw was the
unconscious tool of the Frenchman,
and committed the murder of Mr.
White under hypnotic influence. .
Conditions Warrant Planters in Holding
Beat Grade for a Good Price.
The closing days of harvesting the
cotton crop of liM)6-7 reveal unusual
conditions. The crop U admitted to
be next to the largest ever gathered,
but the scarcity of- desirable grades
is giving no end of trouble to the
broker who sold to the manufacturer
for monthly delivery.
Coupled with this scarcity is the
disposition of the grower to hold
back such choice grades as the brok
ers would much rather see come for
ward. The combinationjs develop
ing a condition that is not at all sat
isfactory to the manufacturer.
The 1906-7 crop is the , most unsat
isfactory crop ever grown unsatis
factory to the producer because of
such poor quality he could not real
ize above 9 cents per' pound for the
bulk of the crop ; unsatisfactory to
he broker because he cannot get the
grades he contracted to deliver ; un
satisfactory to the manufacturer be
cause the cotton delivered to him
will not measure up to the standard
of the requirements of his mill.-
And now the broker is begging to
be released from his contract, saying
the storm is the cause of it all.
These same brokers sold contracts
last spring believing that the farmer
would be compelled to sell the crop
around 8 cent basis middling. So
Mr. Broker et his pegs to make a
big profit off the farmer. Now he
should take his medicine like a man.
In fret he will have to do so. because
the farmers who now hold the good
grade cotton have no notion of turn
ing loose.
North Carolina farmers are urged
to study the cotton situation, hold
stiff what is on hand until you are
offered your price, reduce the acre
age 10 per cent, from last year, and
if any broker comes around trying
to buy your 1907 crop before you
have it gathered, sick your dog on
him and run him out of your county.
Uur cotton association is. gjrowing
fast. Are you helping it to grow?
1 C. C. MOORE, .
Pres. N. C. Div. S. C. A.
Charlotte, N. C, Feb. 20, 1907.
Two Years of Litigation Over a Hound Val
ued at Five Dollars.
. After a legal battle extending oyer
two and a half years the ownership
of a speckled hound dog was settled
by a jury in the Superior Court at
Wadesboro last week. , The fight
was between Mr. Henderson Davis
and D. B. Dunn, a well known col
ored man, both of Burnsville town
ship. The dog is hardly worth $oat the
outside, but Dunn, by the time he
pays his lawyers and the cost of the
several proceedings will probably be
out considerably more than a hun
dred dollars. ,
Prooi of Merit.
Plasters during
is unimpeacha-
superiority and
most skeptical
The proof of the merits of a plas
ter is the cure it effects, and the vol
untary, testimonials of those who
have used Allcock's
the past sixty years
ble evidence of their
should convince the
Self-praise is no recommendation,
but certificates from those who have
used them are.
Allcock's are the original and gen
uine porous plasters and have never
been equaled by those who have
sought to trade upon their reputa
tion by making plasters with holes
in them. Avoid substitutes as you
would counterfeit money,
Time will tell but gossips manage
to tell it first.
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TO GUARD "SHIPS against the unseen dangers at tea,
the United States Government maintarns lighthouses.
To guard your home against the un
seen dangers of food products, the Govern
ment has enacted a pure food law. The '
law compels the manufacturers of baking
jxjwder to print th ingredients on the
label of each can. :
The Government has rtiade the label your protection
so that you can avyi aaj- iead. it carefully, if it does not
say pure cream of wfar ..vux' ft back and
Sap pfauniy,
P017DER
ROYAL is a pure, creasl i of txtar baking powder a pure
product of grapes aids the -esuon adds to the health-
fulness of food. .
XVC8T CHILD SgQCU) WORK.
A Cotton Mul Mas Thinks TVst IU Wave
I SMtisBeaUhaaa AbMt Cteld
Labor Scattac4. A
CbarSvtte Otorvr.
Yesterday a cotton mill man of
this city was shown the article hich
is printed below, from The Chicago
Inter-Ocean, on the subject of child
labor. He read the story with much
interest und said it began to look as
though the wave of sentiment that
has been going over the country
against child labor had reached its
maximum, and would soon begin to
recede. "In the recewdon back
ward." he continued, "it may go
further than it ought to go. Hap
pily, however, the cotton mill men
themselves were conducting move
ments of betterment before this wave
set in and these have been going on
throughout the agitation. Happily
also the cotton milt- men will not
abate in any degree this work of
betterment after the professional re
formers have expended their ener
gies."' L;
The article from The Chicago Inter-Ocean
reads as follows:
"I am in favor of child, labor!
Every child ought to work everyday
in his life. Child idleness is worse
than child labor. When the boy is
given no chance to accomplish any
thing is it any wonder that he takes
to the reading of blood and thunder
stories and attempts to practice the
acts of villainy he reads about? Is it
any wonder that we are a nation of
grafters? Four hours of school and j
four hours of work alternating will !
make every child self-sustaining af
ter the age of 10."
-With this declaration William E.
Watt, principal of the Graham school,
yesterday afternoon delivered an ad
dress at the meeting of the Rouse
Woman's Club, formerly the Anna
B. Holmes club, in the clubrooms at
Thirty-first street and Fifth avenue,
in which he declared that child idle
ness is one of the greatest curses of
the nation. - !
"With a peculiarly devilish intelli
gence society and the laws have pre
vented the boys from getting work
that really is work," he said J "He
may run messages and sit on a bench
with a crowd of vitiated youths
larger than himself. He soon absorbs
their vices and quits work. It is a
miracle that all of them do not go
down to perdition right there. But
there is such good stuff in our boys
that they have, in spite of the follv
of their elders, a real desire to be
come reputable citizens. This strong
desire saves some. Others go to
ruin. .-.-!
"Those who have legislated against
child labor have done a great thing.
ihey nave saved some thousands of
children from degradation and decay
Dy tne operation of their laws, but
they have permitted many thousands
more to come up m enforced idleness
where their bodies have been permit
ted to rest and grow, but where
their minds and souls have been pois
oned to a degree that makes the
wrong to the laboring children pale
into insignihcance by the contrast
hiVery child ought to work every
aayoi nis me. ne is born into a
world which requires work, and he
ought not to be permitted t6 form
habits of idleness and shirking
Child idleness is worse than child la
bor. !
"Knowing this, we brinor our chil
dren up in enforced idleness. We fill
our houses with furniture and f rang
ibie things that the children must
not get against nor handle. We
leave no work in the house which
they can do. We force them to feel
mat tney are oi no present use in
the world, but a great source of an
noyance. They must be dressed by
othersf their hair must receive slavish
attention. It is grown long and
viciously curled if possible. Their
dresses are made to button in the
back to prevent any child's helping
himself into his clothes.
"Coming up in idleness, the child
is compelled to seek unnatural and
secret means of gratifying the de
sire to accomplish something. So
lying and cheating are carried on in
and out oi school, cruelty is prac
ticed, depredations are committed
against life and property in the
streets near home, peddlers are as
saulted, helpless animals are tortured
and in most neighborhoods the adults
admit to you with lamentations that
the children about there are as f ul
of the very devil as they can stick.
Is it any wonder that we are a nation
of grafters? We have been subject
ed to years of training in the devil's
shop, where these things are con
cocted." i - -
Loaff Jy tb King!
is the popular cry throughout Eaiopean
conn trie s ; while In America, the cry of
the present day ia "Long lire Dr. Kin?'
New Dwoovery, King of Throat and
Lung Remedies I"; of which Mn. Jul
Ryder Paine, Truro, Maas., says: ''It
never fail to give immediate relief and
to quickly cure a cough or cold." Mra
Paine a opinion ia ahaxed by a majority
of the inhabitants of this country. New
Discovery cores weak lungs and sore
throats after U other remedies have
failed ; and for coughs and colds it's the
only sore core. I Guaranteed by all
Druggists. 50o and $1.00. Trial bottle
free... .-"i'
The state legislature of "Oregon
has passed a compulsory pass bill
which makes it obligatory on the
part of the railroads to furnish free
transportation to state and district
J officers and ; to county judges and
sheriffs. The bill has gone to the
governor for signature but what his
action will be is problematical.
TBI CHILD LABOR E1LL
So well doc th rtropaaed child
labor law recently agree! upon fill
the requirements of tabor conditions
in this State that the few agitator
who are yet urtKatun! art hard put
to it for argument. Nobody has th
interests of mil! childnrn more at
heart than Mr. J. W. Iluy. editor
of The Biblical Jcorder. and Mr.
Clan-nee II. I'oe, editor of The. Iro
pessive Farmer. We havo copird
Mr. I Ui ley's endorsement of the bill.
In this week's iu of The Progres
sive Farmer, Mr. Foe says:
"A splendid result of the spirit of
goodwill and co-operation is shown in
lito agrwment concluded between
the organized manufacturers of the
State and th North Carolina Antt
Child Labor Committee This agree
ment contemplate the exclusion
from the mill of children under
thirteen years of age. provides that
no child under fourteen shall work
ater than 10 o'clock at night, and
also include a compulsory school
aw for children under fourteen
years of age. A feature of the com
pulsory school law proposal which is
calculated to give it great practical
working value is. that mills should
not be allowed to employ any child
over thirteen years of age who has
not attended school at least four
months during the preceding
twelve."
The opposition to the bill is nar-
rowfd dun to a una! I eVriet:! that
would W atfsl .th rtotHng -S t
of a law that would iwrv?uiy cr.r ?
the hated nuU .cwrtr: TV
proposed bt is entirv-l Is t.t h i
to th children and the ru'l onttr
to suit themj but U'wiil rae lH rn
dorwmcnt tt all the c'r.rr r
minded ropf In the Sta'.e.
SWSf"SJ. IT r".-.ri... nU
r4al AUfaM"Law i ft t
The atrkt cwrwtructun that h&
been placed upon the artU-pa&a J rx
vUion of the railrua) rate law y thf
interstate commem? cmmiun em
tinue a uroc of vimp!aml irt:
Thany quarter. The ctmm4n hat
been bombarded from U aide.
One correspondent of the nmmi.
ion, who did not ien himr(f. drxp
ped Into rhjnx.' fashioning h: t tul.
ution after a well ' known rg, a
follows :
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hU Hiul mi r-rB.
Thd Idlcman man does not-know
what It U to enjov ret. for he vx
not earned it, Ilard work, more
over, tend t only to gi u rest
for ths body; but, what U even more
Important, peace to the rnlnd. If
we have done our bet wo can rct
In peace.Lord AfVctury. '
I Many a deaf person has sound
opinions.
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