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'' ''-',",- - . - ' - - " . . ' . ;" , ' ' ' ' - ' " ' ' : " i' ' " s . - . ;. ' . ).''-' . .!,".'" ' "' ... . T' . K ....... f. . ' . ' ' J -w Wl THE CONCORD W !S nI - ' ' " " " ' ' ' ; - - - ":' ,;' ' ' M Cafonus- One Dojlar John B. Sherriu, Editor and Publlaher. J PUBLISHED TWICE A WEEK. t J OO a Yrah i, IM ADVAWCiT 1 IJVc the : :iYaf.. . . . . ' . ' . ' " . ' - ' , - t w . l VOLUME XXXIII. CONCORD, N. C.FRIDAY. MARCH I, 1907. NUMBER TQ 111" J I i ' if if A i. -ry.r rr rrv r- . . r. . "ii y xittix orxs STAsymo. As Well as I' large ones are welcome here you I need not wait uutil your business has as j sinned 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 To the Farmers ! We have bought a large lot of .. TOBACCO .. and will make vou a wholesale : price by the box. Buffalo Bill at $2.75 per box. Tagless - at $2.75 per box. This Tobacco is worth $4.00 per I box in a retail way. ' We also have a large lot of FRESH IY1ACKEREL 100 Mackerel in aNtub, which we will sell in a tub at $3.25 a tub. Call and sep us and bring your produce. The D. if , - : - - Why a NATIONAL l. A National Bank is under the supervision of the United States Government. 2 Laws governing National Banks are very strict 3. Jhey are required to submit to the government a sworn detailejd statement FIVE TIMES a year. 4 The stockholders are held responsible for DOUBLE the amount of their stock This is for the benefit of the depositors. ' . 5. 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 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. The Concord National Bank Capital $100,000 Surplus and Undivided Profits $26,000 No large amount required to start an account. t Do You Know What It Does? - ." s' The It relievesa yers? n of all desire for strong drink or drugs, restores his nervous sys tem to its normal coudition, and rein states a man to his home and business. Keeley Cure - For full particulars, address, THE KEELEY INSTITUTE, . GREENSBORO, N C. I 11 1 Soo JNO. K. PATTEESON 5s COMPANY, The Live Real Estate Agents, Concord, N. C. J. BostCo. i . BANK is Best Sell Your Farm, 35ny n Farm, Buy ft, City Xot, ELirrowing Pictures of the Suffering Chil dren In Chinese Eetnge Cempe. . E. Johnstone. To every American, native or nat uralized, rich or poor, the suffering i little children appeals strongly, here are millions of children in Northern China sufferinjr--8ufferinsr terribly, more than can be imagined from the pangs of hunger. Thou sands have died from starvation: hundreds of thousands will die unless help comes from outside. As in most notable famines, "outside" means America. To appreciate conditions in the famine district, known in Shanghai and thereabouts as Kianpeh, or the Kegion North of the River Yang- ti," a few broad facts must be known. The district embraces about 40.000 sq aare miles an area equal to that of the btate of Pennsylvania. It has a population of 10.000.000. with 5,000,000 more or less depend ent non-residents. The great bulk of the population is of the peasant class honest, hard working, poor in the best of times peasants to whom an acre or less of ground, a cow, a donkey and a goat mean wealth. rfciS - The climate is that of ourTMiddle and Middle Western States very warm in summer, very cold in win- Ny t Y-y : At Chinklang Relief Station ter, very variable; the climate, m fact, of the north temperate zone as we know it. - The land is flat and, much of it, ower than the Grand Canal or the Yangste Kiang River that, travers ing the area, provide its principal means of transportation. The houses of the masses (huts we would call them) are made of wattles and mud and are easily destroyed by water. The principal food products of the region are rice, millet, wheat, maize and potatoes. There is little timber, and fuel is scarce and costly. Upon the country thus peopled and thus constituted as to topo graphy and climate, floods de scended. Last fall, for forty days and forty nights, rains poured al most unceasingly. Crops, harvested or unharvested, were destroyed, or practically ruined f ors food. Suffer ing was instant. The masses of the population have no surplus, upon which to draw; no storage for sur plus food if they had it. You know the rest; how, late m December, the situation of the hun gry, homeless, harassed noraes above the Yangtse challenged the sympa thy of Christendom; how all who could get out of the devastated land fled to the cjties; how thousands died upon the way and thousands have died since in camps of refuge that to-day show a total population ex ceeding a million. In the refuge camps which are un der the direction of the Chinese of- MimiL CURED The Circulation Stimulated ana me wuscies ana oomrs lubricated by using Address FINE FARMING AND TIMBER LANDS NEAR CONCORD. 227 acres fronting on Southern Rail road, 3 miles southwest of court house, on Rocky River road, 60 acres of timber and a lot of splendid granite. Very de siral le property, having one of best ma cadamized roads in the county. Will sell as a whole, or in lots to suit pur chaser if whole is sold. This is what is known as the D. L. Parish farm. Within one-eighth, of a mile of church and one of the best schools in the county. Jno. K. Patterson & Co. Feb. 21, 1907. ficials the sufferings are insistently horrible. Yet they are not to be compared with those in the interior. For the interior help is possible onlv through foreign aid your aid and that of your friends and neigh bors. Here, little does much. It takes 18 of the Chinese coins, called "cash," to make a penny of our money, and it has been found that a cent and a-half , or about 30 cash ier diem, can save a starving man or woman from death. A little less can save a child. If you have a spare dollar you can save the lives of a family of five for one week. Think of it! A five dol lar bill in U.' S. currency feeds six for a month; ten dollars is likely to tide a family of five over the next few months, or untiL new crops are available. If you and yours will do some collecting and insisting and will raise $100. for the Chinese Fam ine Relief Fund, that hundred will save a small community from de struction and death. The power of the mighty dollar is inconceivable in oriental famines. : Tales from the stricken land grow more grewsome with each mail. Correspondents and missionaries write that i they have never seen, never conceived of, such suffering. They tell of suicides, sales of chil dren, cannibalism, raving madness, dull despair. President Roosevelt and. Secretary Root, in sending liberal checks to 1 i 1 - Ir." Sufferers Clamoring for Food The Christian Herald, emphasized the need and the urgency for relief. The Christian Herald has sent $35, 000 already,' and promised $200,000 more. Your contribution, if sen.' to the Chinese Famine Relief Fund, 105 Bible House, New York City, will be sped on its way by cable without de lay, will be used to the best advan tage, and will accomplish more than you can possibly imagine. Are Millionaires as Independent Farmers ? As Farmers have the advantage over millionaires, according to David Grayson, who, in the American Mag- azine for March, repeats an argu ment he had lately with John Stark- wether, a very rich man. Here is a little of the plain talk which Farmer Grayson gave to Millionaire Stark- wether : "We dig and plant and produce and having eaten at the first table we pass what is left to the banker and millionaires. Did you ever think, stranger, that most of the wars of the world have been fought for the control of this farmer's second ta ble? We farmers sit comfortably after dinner and joke with our wives and play with our babies, and let all the rest of you fight for the crumbs that fall from our abundant tables ?" How times change A few years ago a business man would take his pen in hand, now he takes his type writer in his arms. 'ft;. 1 I rl I Price 25c 50c & $1.00 Sold by &II Dealers "Sloans Treatise On The Horse"Sent Free Dr. Earl S.S!oan,Boston,Mass. Trustee's Sale. By Virtue of authority ves ed in me b7 a deed in trustor nKrtKafe executed by E. C. Lefler and Geo. Lefler and wife. Betiie Lefler. on the isth day of January, 1904, which mortgage or deed in trust is duly recorded in Regis ex's office for Ca barrus countv. N. Cin Book No. 16. Dares 22 and 23, 1 will sell at public auction at the court house floor in concord, m. tj., on tne isrn aay 01 inarcn 1907, to the highest bidder for cash : One undivided one-seventh in the Henry C Lefller trartof land on the waters of Coddle creek in No. I township, adjoining the G. W. Patterson Manufacturine Co.. W. J. McLaughlin and others, containing about 144 acres. The boundaries of said tract are stated in a deed from J. R. Pharrto H. C. Lefler and registeredja Book 50, page. 535, of Register's office of Cabarrus county. Title to said property is supposed to be good but the purchaser only takes sucn title as I am auinor- fzed to convey under said mortgage. This 14th day of Februarv, 1907. JOHN M. HENDRIX. Trustee " By W. J. Montgomery, Trustee. The following is a nart of one of the late Bill Arp's letters, containing: the sermon of an old-time preacher. I have had an , occasional reouest to reproduce and save from oblivion a sermon that wejnt the rounds of the Southern press some fifty years ago, and waa known as the "Harp of a housand Strimrsi." Not lonsr aero I ?uoted a paragraph from it, and a riend writes me from East Felicia na, La., and says that the author of that quaint old sermon lived and died in that parish, and his daughters and grand children live there now. and are his near neighbors." v vV hen the lie v. J. T. Lewis wrote this sermon it was not uncommon for amateur preachers to perform up and down the western rivers and thus advertise their business-, which was principally flat boating and ped dling their produce. Lorenzo Dow took continental jurneys from Maine to Texas, but he was a pretty good orthodox preacher. These flat boat preachers were a rough and tumble set and tangled up the Scripture awfully but they could draw, the crowds and their whiskey was a good card. It was an orthodox product then, and preachers and the people were-as fond of it as Old Father Noah, who was a preacher of right eousness. Kev. Mr. Liewis does not give this preacher's name but his sermon has been sent me by my friend and I give it to your readers as it was given to me. When it first came forth we thought it inexpres sibly funny. It is not so funny now to the old people, but the younger generation are more easily amused than the veterans and for their sake, append it. This sermon was said to have been preached at Port Hudson, where the amateur divine had "tied up" for the double Durpose of observing the sabbath and selling whiskey, I may say to you, my brethenng, that I am not an edicated man, an' I am not one them as believe that edi cation is necessary for a Gospel min ister, for I believe the Lord edicates his preachers jest as he wants 'em to be edicated: an' although I say it that oughtn't to say it, yet in the State of Indianny, where I live, thar's no man as gets bigger congre gations nor' what I gits. Thar mav be some here todav. mv brethering, as don't know what per suasion I am uv. wen, l must not say to you, my brethering, that I'm a Hard Shell Baptist. Thar's some tZl 14 don't like the Hard Shell Baptists, but I had rather have a hard shell than no shell at all. You see me here today, my brethering, dressed up in good clothes: you mout think I was proud, but I am not proud, my brethering, and although I!m Captin of the flat heat that lies at your landing, I'm not proud my brethenng, ah. I am not gwme to tell edzactly whar my text may be found: surhce it to say it is m the leds of the Bible, and you'll find it somewhere between the first chapter of the Book of Gen erations, and the last chapter of the Book of Revolutions, and ef you will go and search the Scriptures you'll not only hnd my text thar, but a great many other texes, as will do you good to read, and my tex, when you shall find it, you shall find it to read thus, ah: ''And he played on a harp of a thousand stt ings spirits of jest men made perfick." My tex, my brethering, leads me r cruQL' fT cnarira rv vnr t ho r e o great many kinds of sperits in the world in the fuss place, thar's the spent some folks call ghosts, and thar's the spent of terpentine, and thar s the sperits as some foldk3 call liquor, and I've got as good an arti kel of them kind of sperits on my flatboat as was ever foch down the Mississippi river; but thar's a great many other kinds of sperits, for the tex says, He played on a harp of a t-h-o-u-s-and strings, sperits of jest men made perfick." And thar's a great many kinds of fire, and then there, foxfire, andicamphire, nre be fore you are ready, and fire and fall back, and many other kinds of nre, for the tex says, "He played on a harp of a thousand strings, sperits of jest men made perfick." But 1 11 tell you the kind of fire as is spoken of in the Bible, my brether ing, is hell fire! and that s jthe kind of fire as a great many of you'll come to, ef you don't do better nor what you have been doin' for "He played on a harp of a thousand strings, sperits uv jest men made perfeck." And that's the kind of fire you can't dodge my brethering, ah. for it 8 the nre that won t be quenched. You may fly to the mountains of Hepsidan, where the woodbine twineth and the lion roar- eth and the whangadoodle mourneth for its first born, but you can t hide from the unquenchable fire, for it is the fire of hell and damnation, ah! For he played on a harp of a thous and strings sperits of jest men mafWperfick. Now as there are many kinds of sperits and many kinds of fire, ah ! in the world, ah! jes so there are many kinds of "Christians. ahMn the fuss place we have the Jnscopalians, and they are a high sailin', high rbostin', hifalutin set, ah! and they may be likened unto a turkey buz zard, that flies up into the air, and he goes up. and up. and up, till it looks no bigger than your finger nail, and the fuss, thing you know, he comes down, and down, and down, and goes to fillin hisself on the car- kiss of a dead hoss by the side of the road, and "he played on the harp of a thousand strings the spents uv jest men made perfick. lAnd then thar's the Methodis, ah! they may be likened unto the iqairrel runnin up into a tree, for the Meth odis beleeves in gwine on from one degree of grace to another, and fin ally on to perfection, and the quir rel goes up, und up, and up. and up. and he jumps from limb to limb, and branch to branch; and the fust thing you know he falls, and down he comes kerflumix. and that's like the Methodis, for they is alien fallen from grace, ah! "And he played on a harp of a thousand strings, spirit uv jest men made perfick. And thar is the Presbyterians, my brethern. with their long frock coats and high shirt collars, and dis mal swamp faces, but they never cleared no new ground, nor burnt nobresh, nor deadened no timber, nor killed no bears. They always waits for us to do that, and settle up the wilderness, and then they will slip in and go to plantin. and put on heavenly airs, and claim to be the only people that are elected ! and shore of eternal salvation and they play on a harp with a thousand strings sperits of 'jest men made perfick. And then, my brethering, thar's the Baptists, ah! and they have been likened to a possum on a simmon tree, and thunders may roll and the earth may quake, but the possum clings thar' still, ah! and you may shake one foot loose and the other's thar and you may shake all feet llse and he puts his tail around the limb, and clings, and he clings furever, ah! for "He played on a harp of a thousand stnngs, spirits uv jest men made perfick." A Painful Possibility. When the' teacher called the class far geography she noticed that Eben Wilkins, her dullest pupil, wore a particularly cheerful smile. "You look as if you knew your lesson to-day," she said, encourag ingly. : i "Yes'm, I do," he answered, briskly. "The answer to the first question is 'north,' and the next is 'Alaska,' and the next is the 'United States,' and the next is " "But that is not the way to learn your lesson, Eben," and the teacher struggled for a properly severe expression. "You must skip about. That is what I shall do in asking the questions." Eben looked as if the joy of living had departed once for- 11. "But supposing I didn't skip about just the way you do," he ; said, plaintively, "then I'd-be all mixed up." ; -. ' Implying Conceit. Many years ago Daniel Lord, Jr., as-he always signed his name, then one of the shining lights of the bar in New York, was arguing a case be fore the Court of Appeals, when a country lawyer asked Charles O'Con nor the name of the gentleman who was speaking.' - "That," said Mr. O'Connor, who was rather nettled, at something Lord had said, that, sir, is Daniel Lord. Jr.. and he Duts the 'iunior' after hi3 name so that he may not be mistaken for the Almighty. What W Eat. A-food inspector in Manchester. New Hampshire, found one lot of beef and pork in a butcher's stall that was rather questionable. He called in the owner of the place. "Look, here." he said, "what is your opinion of this meat?". The butcher looked it over. "I had forgotten all abou that," he said," he said. "It is pretty old "Well, what is your opinion of it ? "My opinion," said the butcher slowly, "is that it is unfit for human food, but it might do for sausage? Men are ashamed to have a lot of children, and women not to. OPEN PUBLICITY THE BEST 9 ' GUARANTY OP MERIT. When the maker of a medicine, sold through druggists for family use, takes hts oatiants fully into his confidence by frankly and fearlessly publishing broad cast as well as on Its bottle wrappers, a full list of all its Ingredients in plain Enaliih, this action on his part is the best possible evidence that he is not afraid to have the search light of inves tigation turned full upon his formula and that It will bear the fullest scrutiny and the most thorough investigation. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for the cure of the weaknesses, oeriodlcal pains and functional derangements of the or gans distinctly femitine, is the only medi cine put up for sale through druggists for woman s special ose, tne mater 01 wnicn Is not afraid to take his patients into his full confidence by such open and. honest wnblicitv. A glance at the Dublished Ingredients on each bottle wrapper, will show that it is made wholly irom native, American, medicinal roots, that It contains no poi sonous or habit-forming drugs, no nar cotics an4 no alcohol pore, triple-refined riveerine. of Droner strength being used instead of the commonly employed alco hol, both for extracung and preserving the active medicinal properties round tn the roots of the American forest plants employed. It is the only medicine for women's pecular diseases, sold by drug gists, that does not contain a large per centage of alcohol, which is in the Tons run so narmiui to woman s aeucate, nerv ous svstem. Now. glycerine, is perfectly harmless, and serves a valuable purpose bv possessing intrinsic value ail its own. and besides it enhances the curative effect of the other ingredients entering into the "Favorite Prescription." Some of the ablest medical writers and teachers endorse these views and Draise all the several ingredients of which Fa vorite Prescription" is composed rec ommending them for the core of the very same diseases for which this world- lamed medicine is aa vised. - jno otner medicine lor women nas any t acn pro fessional endorsement worth more than any number of ordinary testimonials. If interested, send name and address to Dr. E. V: Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y for his little book of extracts from the works of eminent medical writers and teachers, endorsing the several ingredients and telling lost what Dr. Pierce's medicines are made of. it's free for the asking. TWO LXGISXhA TUCKS. TV C ....L. r I: ' " just aJjourwd mad two hundred new laws lor the iwpfc' ox that ute, but among the more important, aa summarized by the Charkton New andCourier. it killed the Stat Dispen wiry; provided an acceptable plan, in the rimimstance. for the rvsmlaUon of the Ikiuor traJfwr in South I AnJin- sustained the !epartment of Immi gration by making a rraonal4J appropriation for its support; created i ppoeiai commission ior tne In 'estimation of the railroad in th State; re-elected II. )L Tillman for term of tux years in the United States Senate. But as The News and Courier says: "This Legislature that killed the dispensary. It has always been regarded aa a mark nf iif m. tion that this, that or. the other man was h member of the Wallace Hu which assisted in the redemption of South Carolina from the corruption the carpet-bag regime; It will be mark of distinction that a man belonged to the Legislature which rescued South Carolina from th corrupt and corrupting domination of the Dispensary. So of the members of the North' Carolina Legislature of 1907. it may be said tnat tneir distinction in fu ture generations will be that they voted half a million dollars to enlarge the accommodations at the State hos pitals, so as to insure the proper treatment and care of all the unfor tunate people of the State. Long Mr tbm King! s the popular cry throughout Koicpean countries ; while la America, the cry of the present day is "Umg live Dr. Kinr't New Diaoovery.- King of Throat and Lang Remedies !" of which airs. J alia Ryder Paine, Tmro, Maaa., says: "It never fails to give immediate relief and to quickly cure a cough or cold." Mr. Paine'i opinion is shared by a' majority of the inhabitants of this country. New Discovery cures weak longs and sore throats after all other remedies have failed ; and for coughs and colds it's the only sore cure. Guaranteed by all Druggist. 60c and fl.OO. Trial bottle free. Pittsburg has the largest pay roll for labor in the world. For every week day in the year skilled labor is paid a million dollars. To make up this payroll employes of one hundred and twenty banking institutions, and over four thousands seven hundred time-keepers and paymasters are kept busy every working day in the year. olobc-wcrtiKkwLottibmaltor) TIASTIC" D52KCASE AND DESK Ths only combination little book space as wanted and additions to that space as desired. The Desk Unit can be' combined with any number of Book Units in unlimited variety of arrangement. For home library or professional office it's unequalled for utility, convenience and beauty. Call and see it, ' for catalogue No. 103 containing full information. Professors, Lawyers, Doctors, Preacheri and ' Scholars, ho.w do yoa like the combiTjationJ? "The Store that Satisfies)" wonld like to reason the case with you. Come in and we will do jou good. L X tn UCCULAICKC. IUujuh. Feb. Th joint Sen ate and House rmmittr-a tK af trmoon reported favrar on t.v committee WH, rprpriaitrff .:.,. OtD annually for the ai jrt if the Agricultural and Mcvhamcal IWjmv a ajtrcial $.0,m far tmiklmjs and iuippin p" vr beaUrjt and c Jv- trie punt, vv ior twticr ..equip . ptng Ux mechanic!, astK-uHaral and textile department aul f J3,iu) for repairing and painting by;klir The llouae eommitUx un ediK-. tion reported unanimous f avwb!jr the Senate bill fof . r tattling a school of technology at Spray, The finance -committee retried favorably lioystcr'a bill to nocur taxation of solvent credit, by requir ing register of dteds u !keep re cord, of all aolvent credit recorded, and canceled, and furr.Kh a Jut f same each year to the lit liken of each township, j The House committee on cHics and towns to-night,1 by a -vole of li to 7 reported favorably bill establishing Le county, subject to a vote of the territory embraced In the luve of the new county. The Ikjuor committee, after a heat ed session and argument on t ill abol ishing the Waynoavi'le dift.wnary agreed on a compromise bill mbmlt ting the question of prohibition or djsnenaary to a vote, of the people. The house today panned the reve nue act on second reading, after adopting the recommendation of the finance committee to take ojT the tax on state bank altogether ami in sert instead a section taxing bottling establish men UJ There were otltcr changes sf a more or lens minur na ture in the revenue act. One waa' . the putting of a ta on skating rinks, IULFJOII, Feb. 2.- The eompuW ry education bill parted. with 47 counties excepted in Die House. Murphy introduced a bill to etablih a recorder's court at Salisbury! The reformatory bill i made a special order for Thursday, that to regulate salaries of State officers to morrow. !... .. "Suppose, doctor, this operation don't succeed?" "My dear fellow, if it dn't you'll never know it." No woman ever think her dress U becoming if she know it cot less than her next-door neighbor's. It is currently retorted that Spen cer Blackburn made his - appearance on the floor , of the house one day this week, for the first time in many weeks, : i- . permitting much or as or cut this out; and send HiRIS FUIIIURE COHPnliY. O, XEI - ' -''