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r Twice Each Week and Price is Only ..'Si 5 : ' f Till TlMD Corrre CoiKoixl , Cabarru Like the Dew. John B.-ShkrrilI, Editor and Fubliher. PUDLIOHCO TWICE A WEEK. 1 T0 Ykah, Dot im Advahci 4 Volume XXXIII. CONCORD, N. C. FRIDAY. APRIL 12, 1907. Number 82 V CONCORD TEVfB'v "I vi . - . . are subjected to all kinds of danger if kept In trunks, closets or drawers. Why don't you bring them to us and let us put them fn our fire and burglar proof vault where they are safe from harm ? Think it will cost too much ? We will be glad to accommodate you entirely FREE OF CHARGE I So bring your deeds, contracts, mort- i gages, notes, etc., and have them placed in our vault. I WHV IVOT make tllis Bank your V y i I I l j i business headquarters... v and transact allyour business through it? We will accord vou la heartv welcome and render i ou every service consistent with good, safe ; DanKing. ORGANIZING COTTON GROWERS. Deering Disc Harrow.- This is one of the best Har rows ever put on the market. It is equipped with reversible discs, and is one of the handi est tools that a farmer can purchase. We are making a run on this' implement, and ask that you come in and let us show you its good points. " We also carry a full line of Farm Tools and Implements and our prices and terms are made to suit the purchaser Why a NATIONAL BANK is Best i. A National Bank is tinder the supervision of the ! United Stale 3 Government. 2 Laws governing National Banks are very'strict. 3. They are required to submit to the government a sworn detailed 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: 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. The Concord National Bank Capital $100,000 Surplus and Undivided Profits $26,000 No large amount required to start an account. The Keeley Do You Know What It Does? It relieves a. person of all desire for strong drink or drugs, restores his nervous sys tem to its normal condition, and rein states a man to his home and business. Mr. B. D. Smith Sayt Small Producers Cannot Handle the Situa tion Alone. Cor. Charleston News and Courier. President E. D. Smith, of the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Associa tion, has just returned from Georgia and upper Carolina and reports that the work of organization is getting along very finely, and that he and all the officers of the Association are very much encouraged. Mr. Smith says the farmers are now realizing the force and useful ness of business organization. t He gave out the following inter view with regard to the present work in hand: "Since the Birmingham Conven tion I have been busily engaged in organizing the work of the Southern Cotton Association. I have just com pleted a tour through Alabama and Georgia. The work has been the most successful of any yet accom pli? hed, committees have been ap pointed to solicit subscrip'ions to or ganize warehouse and holding com panies for the purpose of locally fi nancing the cotton crop and main taining a profitable price to the grower. At every place visited the plan adopted by the Birmingham Convention for organizing companies for building warehouses, negotiating oans and concentrating the cotton in the hands of a business committee has met with uniform approval. It is manifest to every business man that cotton is the basis of our credit and is wholly our circulating medium. It is absurd to expect the negro, and the poor and dependent white producer to be able to main tain the proper value for this article, upon which every interest in the South is dependent, when those who buy it from them, up to now, have fixed the price, repesented the organ ized brain and capital of the world, and whose business it is to get the article as cheaply as possible. The North, British America and Europe consume about 85 per cent, of our cotton crop. Hence 85 per cent, of our buyers represent foreign capital. Now is it not an absurd proposition to leave to the poor debt-ridden, dis organized producer of cotton to go up against the representative of Northern, Canadian and European capitalists, with unlimited resources, perfect organization and expect them, the poor disorganized, to win and bring into the South, in conflict with the world's richest and shrewd est, anything like the full value of the cotton crop, upon which we all are dependent? There is not a bank, mercantile establishment or any busi ness vocation or avocation in the South that is not dependent directly on the currency brought into circul ation by the sale of the cotton crop. Now it is manifestly the height of oily from a business standpoint leave the poor and disorganiz ed producer to determine in a con- lct with the shrewdest foreign buy er he amount of money that shall be put into circulation in the South, to determine the deposits in our banks, thejiinount of goods to .be sold by our merchants, the comforts and con veniences of our homes, the educa tion of the boys and girls of the South, and the development of our resources, the establishment of our manufacturing plants, to manufac ture the raw material in the bouth, so as to obtain not only the profit on the raw material, but the greater profit on the finished article, to de velop our water power, so as to light our cities, run our factories and con nect our roads. , When all of those could be easily within our reach if the capitalists m every county in the South were to join forces with the producers of our cotton, and on wise, conservative business lines formulate a simple co-operative plan, by which a uniform price could be fixed upon cotton, which price would include the cost of production and proht to the grower, and profit to the com panv financing it plus the necessary carrying charges. As it is now, and has been for years, the merchant and banker and business men of the South, who furnish the goods and capital to the producer of cotton, Cure For full particulars, address, THE KEELEY INSTITUTE, GREENSBORO, N. C. I MILL GIVE THIS. BEAUTIFUL, PICTURE. : v M tsoMpmoaintaefcMUMwrhood. Krerjbodj ho uim thla adrartiMaMBt tb. Snt Um he or ih. MM H will (M thebeeatiful pMun tweby retain mil. Tb beautiful picture it celled "FtuiM ud Flower. " The rich trait re eo u tarsi that it Ma M if you aoold Mt thna ud yon cm Idiom null their refreshing eo.nt. Tb. picture if U by IncbM in 14 hrmin.rinf colon, joit rif lit iot fnuninf . iplcndid onuunent for uj dining room. KTUr FIBeTtowriM. Bern amey. Jon n I DC I In A 1 iw.r thil viT.rtiMtn.Qt tba first jiuv. yon M it and I will Mad yea tb. picture by retara mail pre paid. AFTEH I ban Mnt tb. pietor. 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Tenn. have actually contributed to the de pression of the price of cotton by de manding from the producer a settle ment of their accounts without re gard to the price that cotton may be bringing at the time that these accounts fall due, while those who are making the price are keenly alive to the fact that these accounts are being pressed, and that the hold er or owner of the cotton has no oth er means of meeting these obliga tions save his cotton. Hence, by de pressing the price just at the time thai these accounts are due, and by the holders of these accounts press ing for their payment, the whole amount has actually contributed to the depression of the very article up on which the commercial expansion of the South is dependent. It is to relieve this very situation that the Southern Cotton Association was formed; and it is fighting to bring all the interests in the South to real ize the necessity for mutual co-operation. ... ; i "The demand for cotton products has advanced in the last few years far beyond the advance in production, j The amount of goods consumed to- j day is limited by the spmdle capacity of the world. The spindles of the world running full time are not able j to meet the demand for cotton goods. The prices paid to-day for manufac tured cotton goods are higher than they have been since the war period. Mills could easily pay a much higher price for the raw mateirial than is now paid and still clear a greater proht per bale than the producer is now obtaining. As an evidence of the demand for cotton goods and the profits that is in its manufacture, in Lancashire district, in England, alone, new mills, representing new companies aggre gating 10,000,000 spindles, have been organized and constructed in seven years, or since 1900. A like increase is indicated in other European mill districts. In the Northern and South ern districts of America and in Can ada, as one mill president expressed it when asked why the mills of the world, in view of the unprecedented profit being made by them, did not pay more for the raw material, re plied: 'We don't have to.' It is up to the South to combine her business interests to make them have to. The Southern Cotton Association does not propose nor does it desire to become a predatory power, but sim ply to preserve the intrinsic and com petitive Value of cotton, her practi cal monopoly of the world's necessi ty. The purchasing world organizes its exchanges, sends out its buyers into every market, concentrates all its en ergy and capital in systematizing and concentrating its power for the pur pose of controlling the market for its best interest. The South, or the producer of cotton, and those dependent, upon him, building no ware houses, employ no sellers, organize no exchanges, do not systematize or concentrate their capi tal, but leaves to the individual to dispose of his , property as best he may, and the net result is the South's poverty. "Our plan for organizing is to build warehouses, elect a board of directors and a business manager, and, as cotton is practically money, allow the individual to hypothecate his cotton to these companies and receive a loan sufficient to meet his pressing obligations; these com panies to concentrate their holdings and sell to the purchaser at a price representing, as said already, a legitimate profit to the producer and a legitimate profit to the financier, plus the necessary cost of warehous ing, insuring and storing. The modern facilities for transportation and communication makes the organization of the cotton interest of the South easily -.practical and wonderfully remounerative. "I beg the business men and the newspapers of the' South to study the problem and help me in my earnest effort to solve it. TBS WARMXJtS AS WILL POSTED. Re- E. H- WMtAkw to Hcwt a4 OUrm. And I have about come to the con clusion that the old farmers in these days of rural deliveries, are the best posted of any people in politics, as well as in cfrarch affairs, and that the young buck who goes out to make speeches 6r preach sermons, had better not rely too much on the fact that he was raised in town. I know from my intercourse with the country people they get more out of a newspaper than town people who seemingly have better advant ages. Long ago I learned to move very cautiously when stopping at a farmer's home. Instead of going ahead and telling the news ex plaining the whys and the where fores -and giving my opinion of matters I have found it to be the safer thing to do to let the old hay seeder lead out and on; and I have generally found it to be the case that, on all the topics of the day, he was better posted than I was. When an old farmer reads his paper he takes the time (so to speak) to chew it well, so that," when swallowed, digestion is easy. In other words he will not pass anything until he un derstands all the if s and ands, the whys and wherefores sees what s in the bag, what the bag is made of, and the kind of thread used in mak ing it. Some years ago when the Dreyfus trial was going on in France, I con tented myself with reading the head ings of the articles which were pub lished daily, and thought I was keep ing up pretty well with the matter well enough, at ny rate, to discuss it in conversation. One Saturday I went to the home of a farmer, near my Sunday appointment, to spend the night, borne time, along in the evening, conversing with the far mer s wife, the Dreyfus trial was al luded to, and, of course, I was ready to discuss it. But I soon discovered that I didn't know anything about the matter. At her tongue's end, the farmer's wife had every incident of the triair'from its beginning to the date of our conversation, and, in addition, was conversant with every character, connected in any way with the trial. I tried to look wise and seem to be read up; but, I expect she must have seen that I didn't know anything of the matter. At the supper table that night, when the old farmer was present, some allusion was made by him to the Dreyfus case, but as soon as I could do so, I side-tracked it, and began to talk about the sunday-school and other church matters. No, young fellows even young limbs of the law had better not try to show otf around an old farmer. WILLUMSOIfS PLXH OP COSH CCL- TURZ. Nawn aixi IKMHrrrrr. matter affecting agriculture No Twenty Cent Cotton. Tarboro Southerner. John F. Shackleford has sold in Charleston two bales of cotton for twenty cents a pound. It is of the variety known as Flor ida." He made last year about ten bales of this variety but was able to gather only two bales, 946 pounds. before the storm. The other eight bales netted him 11 cents. The selling factor in this cotton is the length of the staple about an inch and a half against three-fourths of an inch of the common. Other farmers have planted "Florida" cotton, but have not been able to obtain quite so much. Mr. Shackle- ford probably accounts for thi3. proximity-toother varieties. He says that this variety should be grown separate and apart 'from all others, that unless it is but little superior to our common grades. He gives it as his opinion that it should be at least 100 or 150 yards distant from any other cotton. Charleston is the chief long staple market in this country. Hence, it was that this cotton was shipped to that port. Former President Jose Lizandro Barrillas. of Guatemala, was assassi nated in Mexico City, April 7 at the House of Commons by a young Guate malan named Cabrera, 18 years old WE ARE INDEPENDENT. There never was a time 'when public opinion was so outspoken in regard to trust made goods The confidence of the people has been shaken Buy Bailey Bros tobaccos. It is the' kind that you don't find fault with. BAILEY EROTKERS, (Incorporated) . . Wintcn-Sr.kir!, N. C. Qc hotter tctcco mne'e than those minnftc- R turd by D.V1LE.Y BRO-i. NOT IN A TRUST. U has been more generally dbcuwed of late than the Williamson plan of corn culture, a long account of which was recently printed in these col umns, without knowing much about it, the letter of Mr. Williamson, detailing hU experience impresivd most people that it was a method of corn culture that means great things for Southern agriculture. About the time we were settling down to the conclusion that it was all right. here comes along our old friend I'rof. W. F. Massey, editor of the Practical t armer, who calls it a Jack-o-lantern method." His opinion is entitled to serious consideration. Writing to Mr. A. B. Heavener, of Lincolnton, Prof. Massey says: Since writing you to 1 have receiv ed the paper you sent. It is a good illustration of how easily farmers jump to conclusions without careful investigations. I know Mr. William son and know that he is perfectly sincere, and believes that his success is due to the stunting of the corn, when in fact it is due to the lavish way he fertilizes it. You will note that he advises 200 pounds of cotton seed meal, 200 pounds of acid of phosphate and 400 pounds of kainit, and to this 800 pounds he adds 125 pounds of nitrate of soda per acre. These at present price would cost $12. 50. Then to make 100 bushels per acre he doubles the mixture and uses 300 pounds of nitrate of soda, all of which would cost $22.50 per -acre. On land where the rst named mixture would make a yield of 50 bushels per acre I am sure that the land would make at least 25 bushels without the fertilizer, and the extra 25 bushels will cost 50 cents a bushel or the fertilizer alone. Then it is proposed to leave all the stover and eed on the land as manure, which is a waste of feed, since the food value of the fodder is lost, and he could get the feeding value and recover most of the mammal value in the droppings. Then you will note that none of the men who claim such great results from the Willliamson method have ever tested it alongside of the same method without the fer tilizer, or with the ordinary method of culivation alongside without ertilizer. "At the Alabama station they found that the increase in corn did not near pay for the fertilizer. The whole thing is a good illustration of how ready farmers are to fly ott on a fad in the South, instead of adopt ing a regular system of farming for the improvement of their land, but are everlastingly playing into the hands of the fertilizer trust. "You understand that the land about Darlington where Mr. William son lives is a sandy, piney woods tion, much of it very deep sand, and the deep planting there could not be adopted on the red clay uplands of North Carolina. 1 do not think that he farmer in your section who farms right and grows hay and feeds stock need ever buy a cent s worth of fer tilizer for corn, and if he grows plen ty of peas he need never buy any complete fertilizer for anything, but can keep his land improving with only the liberal use of acid phosphate and potash, and most of that on the peas. The above letter appeared in last week's Lincoln County News and in a postscript Mr. Massey says he . has written fully because he does not wish farmers "to be led astray after a Jack-o-lantern method." Farmers should investigate the matter for themselves. Had to Saw Churn in Two. North WUkesboro Hustler. In the barber shop last Saturday morning Charlie Finley was telling about a nove occurrence which hap pened at Stanton postoffice the other day. Un the porch of the home of Mr. Uriah Bumgarner the children were playing. A little daughter had in her hands an old-fashioned churn. big at the bottom and little at the ton. and was holding it up-side-down playfully placing it on a little fellow's head, who was about two years old and seated upon the floor. She eventually dropped the churn ac cidentally down over the little fel Iow shead. 1 he child turn his chin upward and the churn could not be removed. Ihis created a great ex citement together with the yells of the little fellow. Mr. Bumgarner and about 15 men from the Stanton tannery ran to give help. The large end of the churn had to be sawed off and then great difficulty was ex perienced in getting the first stave knocked out without injuring the child seriously. 3,000 Tons of Floor For Famine Victim Washington, April 5. Com missary General Sharpe, of the army, who is superintending the shipment to China of the food supplies con tributed by Louis Klopsch, of the Christian Herald, today received sixty thousand dollars from Mr, Klopsch, in addition to a previous contribution of hf ty thousand dollars. The fund of $110,000 thus available will be used for the purchase of 3,000 tons of flour which will be shipped to China on the United States army transport Buford, sailing from San Francisco on the 30th instant. H. L. Vanstory, chief clerk at the Central hotel at Charlotte, for a term of years," will leave Charlotte soon to take charge for the summer season. DO YOU KNOW That Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription ll the only medicine sold through drug gnu lor woman wealtiMtases and peculiar ail ments that doea not contain large quanti ties of alcohol? It is also the only medicine. especially prepared for the cure of the delicate diseases peculiar to women, the maker of which is not afraid to taxe ms fiatlents Into his full confluence, by prlnt nc urxn each bottle wrapper all the ingre dients entering into the medicine. Ask your druggist if this is not true. " Favorite Prescription," too, is the only medicine for women, all the ingredients of which have the nnanallfled endorse ment of the leading medical writers of the several schools of practice, recommend ing them for the cure of the diseases for which the "Prescription" Is advised. Write to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y., for a free booklet, and read the numer ous fa tracts from standard medical au thorities praising the several ingredient of which Dr. Pierce's medicines are made, and don't forget that no other medicine) Dut un for sale through druggists for do mestic use can show any such vroettUmal endorsement. 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It is sent post paid, on receipt of sufficient In one-cent stamps to pay cost of mailing only, or 21 cents for a copy In flexible paper covers, or 31 eenta for a cloth-bound copy. Address Dr. R. V. fierce as a bore. Dr. Pierce's Pellets regnlate and Invig orate stomach, liver and bowels. One a laxative, two or three cathartic. FREE.! it's trip ; , to irour. See his Machine and hear it play. Sample Machine by ICxprea Mnpinent on the way. Free with Every $50.00 "Worth of Cash. Business. p 1 We have arranged with the Standard Phonoharn Co. to rive orje of those splendid Machined five. Vou buy nothing but the necoras ana you don t have to buy the IteconK i ou tlorf t have to buy titty dollars worth at a time or in one da v. week. month or year. We give you coupon with every dollar you ay us ..until you nave the desired amount, fcx-el Jta pint as cany to own one of those splendid Mnehinra an falling ofl'n loir. The Store that Satisfies is tahind it. Come and sec. 1 ! Oil HI 111V on nn on M t H nn nn nn m T nn nn nn ft The Cash Store Has on Sale a Line of ' J : i Dress Goods ! hard to match in quality and style. The PRICE Does Its Talking A-Splendid linel of Laces and Embroideries. Our Dry Goods Department full to the brim. - 4 We are Showing a Line of Men's, Boys' and Children's Spring Suits that would be a credit to a much larger town than this. We are fully convinced that Cash Huyitig and Selling will win. THE DAY VAULT COMPANY. P. S. 20 Care of Guano. 1 Car Red C Oil Oil tint makes light 1 Car Mill Feed. 1 Car Imperial Flour. Farmers stand in their own lightwho fail to see us before buying-Guanov nn i H nn M nn. nn no nn nn nn nn nn : n m i i i : i a V .....