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I) YOU EVER STOP TO THINK!
-.'many opportunities tbat a 'banking
, ,,,, tioii puts within your reach?
your money.
h von money without delay or red
i- vou advice and assistance free of
, i - yuu a place of safe deposit for even
unw which, if persistently saved,
,11 eventually develop into a snug bal-
ij.-sist you in placing your money
iv it will be safely and profitably in-
'-landing with the bank establishes
,ur credit in the community.
These
Things
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Worth
About!
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We Have Just Received
from the Potteries in Ohio the finest line of
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i the people-of Concord and vicinity have ever
had the opportunity of seeing.
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The Prices Axe Right !
I it will pay you to see us if you need any of the
lowing
1M:iW -Bowls. Teas. Oblong Dishes, FlatDishes,
Milk Pitchers, Round Dishes, Ewers, and Ba
sins.
Yours truly,
The D. J. Bost Go
The Farmers National Union met
in annual convention in- Little Rock, j
Ark., last week, adjourning Thurs
day night. The total membership of
about 1.500.000 was represented by
300 delegates or more, most of these
attending from the South or bouth
west. .
- The absorbing topic was the fixing
of minimum prices for crops, espe
cially of cotton. Of tobacco but lit
tle was said, ad the tobacco growers
have1 not yet come into the Union in
sufficient numbers to be able to con-
l trol the price of their product.
The btate Business Agents after a
careful and long examination of the
reports of correspondents from every
cotton erowins: cotton, recommend
ed 15 cents as the minimum price for
j the present crop, and the report was
! adopted without a dissenting vote.
Following is their report:
we, the committee appointed to
fix the minimum price for cotton, re
port that the basis for middling shall
be fifteen cents in September, with
an added one-fourth of a cent for
each month, beginning October
I first."
This means that the price in Octo
ber will be 15!c, November 15ic,
December laic, and January 16c,
and that if the farmers by co-opera-
Ition and by warehousing maintain
I this price they will add from $200,-
900,000 to $250,000,000 to the wealth
of the South over and above the
i usual receipts of the crop.
The Committee on Marketing and
Warehousing reported a plan to es
tablish warehouses all over the cot
ton belt and sell direct to spinners,
and the Committee on Education,
with more study and more knowledge
as the keynote to its report, urged
the teaching of agriculture in the
public schools and greater educa
tional advantages for the rural com
munities.
The minimum price on grain were
fixed as follows : No. . 2 wheat, $1 ,
corn, bOc. ; barley, buc. ; rye, $i ;
pats, 35c.
Thursday just before adjournment
the Union took up the matter of cot
ton seed and fixed the price for this
season at a minimum of $20 a ton.
Not a Confiding Nature.
Mr. Lucas I don' like Farmer
Jones. He's too 'spicious.
Mr. Rastus What's he done now ?
Mr. LucaacHe's crone and DUt a
six-foot bahbwiah fence aroun' his
hen coop. .
Mamie-"! believe in -woman's
rights." . .
Gertie Then you think every
woman should have a vote?"
Mamie "No, but I think every
woman should have a voter."
Its Methods Hit the Dead Beat Hard and
Causes Kim to Cough Violently.
SUtetrllle Landmark.
The Bad Debt Collection Agency
is causing more or less of a stir in
Statesville and those .who have been
in the habit of paying when they got
ready, and too f reauently not paying
at all, are much perturbed. They.
complain bitterly aeainst this new
and unusual method which is disposed
to make a man pay his just debts.
whether he wants to or not. or stand
exposed in the community. The
mental aniruish on account of this
new and unusual method of doing
business is sufficient for several dam
age suits.
It is all right to eat a man's rations,
wear his clothes, take his medicine,
iead his newspaper, or otherwise use
the product of the brains and labor
of the other fellow for your comfort
and convenience and let him suffer
if anybody is to suffer. He may have
to scrimp and economize to pay hit
own bills, if he is honest, while you
o are him, but that's all right. It
doesn't break your rest. He may
buy goods on 30 days' time, but if
you pay him 12 months or five years
he ought to be thankful for your
business. He may have to pay his
bills whenever they are due, pay his
labor at the end of every week, but
you can owe him for years and nev
er give a moment's thought to how
strained he may be for money. You
can tell him a dozen lies about the
payment, but if finally, in despera
tion, he puts the screws on you you
feel outraged. Your honor (7) is
impugned and if you can do the man
any harm you re going to do it
Why ? Because he is trying to get
what belongs to him and you have
compelled him to force it out of
you.
The - whine abou t forcing people
who have been unfortunate, etc.. is
but a cloak. Not one business man
in 100 will oppress a debtor who is
really unfortunate. Ninety-nine per
cent, of those who obtain credit
usually get more consideration than
they deserve. The method is for
those who show no disposition to pay
and make no effort to do it. Lvery
body knows that and the talk about
oppressing people deceives nobody.
The Landmark holds no brief for
any collecting acrency : it has no ac
counts with them (but it may have),
but it is submitting some general re
marks on the general proposition
which no honest man can gainsay
And business men who have lost
hundreds and thousands by dead
beats are more or less amused and
are pleased to note the alacrity to
which people are responding to state
ments who do not as a rule pay any
attention to them.
A luminous ISustatioa of the Prosperi
ty of A Community Without Saloons.
Bibltckl Kecvnler.
It has come to be the last appeal
of the liquor ron that we need the
liquor business to give the. communi
ty prosperity. Recently we paid, a
visit to High Point, which was not
only delightful in the sweetness of
fellowship with the saints, but the
marvelous revelation of the city's
prosperity. With its sixty or more
factories, all running in full blast
and with healty prosperity, and its
12,000 people whose standard of liv
ing must equal to the best found in
any State, One lind3 a living protest
against the plea for the necessity of
the saloon to help a community or
its business. ' We found, perhaps,
the best equipped city schools in the
State. A greater per cent, of the
population live in their own homes
than in any other manufacturing
town it has been our privilege to
know. There are but few idlers to
be seen on the streets, and labor is
made profitable to the employer and
employe, because it is sober. Above
all, the most striking advantage is
the happy homes of the people which
are protected from the ravages of
the saloon. High I'omt has never
had saloons. While it can boast of
s erne of the State's leading business
men, captains of industry, not one
of them would consent for the city
to have a saloon with a view to aid
ing business. When the advocate of
the saloon as a business enterprise
for a community will bring out the
record of a single place that has
been more prosperous because of the
saloon, or an argument that reasona
bly favors it, it will be time enough
to plead that it helps business.
Cigarette fires Cost Gotham About $2,-
000,000 Each Year.
New York, Sept. 15. A yearly
chart has just been completed cover
ing 6,357 fires in Manhattan and the
Bronx, and calling attention to some
interesting facts. It is estimated
that fires started by carelessly
dropped matches and cigarette cause
New York city a loss of about S2,-
000,000 each year. The city has an
average of over 25 fires every day,
and fire losses in 12 months from all
causes aggregate something like
$10,000,000. Every time an alarm
comes -in, whether it is false or not,
the cost to the city is $50 for wear
and tear of the fire apparatus. The
city also pays out something like
$500,000 for damage done to asphalt
pavements by children s bonhresin
the streets.
The Concord National Bank
Capital $100,000
Surplus and Undivided Profits $29,000
. ur Business Solicited. Every Accommodation Exten
ded Consistent with Sound Banking.
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X. D. COLTRANE, Cashier.
JNO. P. ALLISON, Vice Pres.
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NOT IN A TRUST.
We hear a great deal tbe tlays
about home ami foreign missionary
Fork and a great deal is being- done
along these lines, which U alright
and proper. lluMhere w Kmething
radically wrong in the practical
operation of this work when a r&
like that brought out in the court
here last wvek U possible, in thi
Christian land. We refer !to the
Bristol girl who was a witness in
court and looked to be 15 or 16 year
old. She U the most pitifully ig
norant, person, of that age, we ever
saw on the witness stand. She aid
she had never heard of God, dd not
know what state or county she lives
in. does not know how old the U.
could not spell, read or even count.
had never been m a church or school
house. Yet Mrs. McLean an intel
ligent woman, testified that the girl
is not an idiot or imbecile, but did
wok about the house and farm with
ordinary intelligence.
Now that such dense ignorance
should exist in our own county is
enough to bring shame to the face
of every citizen and is evidence that
the home missionary effort ,is defec
tive in its application.
The school committeemen of every
township in the county should see to
it that such cases as this one get the
benefit of the public schools and if
they cannot secure the attendance
of such children they should report
them to missionary socities of the
different churches.
An educated Chinaman would
have just cause to criticize a religion (
that permits such a case to exist in'
as enligtened a community as Cald
well county. North Carolina.
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Falling in with -
owns - " .
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thH( .1 his bttsincftgL IfU farm'
cwruisu of urrm, and he laid he tl:irff Irvt IjiXc U an
did not care o dl at w hundred i untii rirtlrt,'
dollars an acre. lh main m.irv-v itU of strtw tr4 damn Into th
crop is mtt potaUea. He ha trust11, ffn the tntrrmin14i plat
iorrnaKg rrn lrx houM
Ban Put on Liquor Sellers.
Norfolk,-Va., Sept. 15. The
great council of the United States
Improved Order of Ked Men, in six
tieth annual session here, this after
noon adopted an amendment to the
laws of the order barring from mem
bership in the future all saloon keep
ers and bartenders. This is not re
troactive and does not affect the pres
ent status of such members of the
order. The great council rescinded
all legislation enacted at the Nigara
Falls session last year m relation to
the substitution of the "jewel" for
the "sash" and went back to the old
form of regalia in its entirety.
A proposition to admit past sach
ems into memoersnip , oi me great
council was defeated by a vote of 126
to 68 and only past great sachems as
at present will be eligible in the fu
ture. -' '
To Eat Horse in Montreal.
Choice equine steaks, colt veal.
horse Hamburger with onions and
similar delicacies may soon be served
at Montreal cafes, if present plans
for the erection of a special abattoir
for the slaughtering of horses are
put into execution. Dr. Laberge.
municipal health officer, favors the
! project, and declares there is no rea
son wtiy-norse meat snouia not De
placed on the market, especially
since the price of beef is now so high
Horse flesh is now universally used
in France, and it is believed that the
large French population in Montreal
would serve to make the project suc
icessful. If established this will be
first horse abattoir in America.
Southern lands.
Southern r'arm Matiaiue. - ,
That a number of men of means
have not established themselves
upon estates in the South has been
due principally to a lack of acquain
tance with the advantages there in
the shape of cheap but fertile lands.
equable climates and opportunities
for beautiful development. These,
however, are beginning to be proper
ly appreciated, but it will be a long
pay before there could be anything
like a crowding out of a small farmer
by great land owners. Still, the
possibility is not one to be viewed
lghtly. It 13 a fact that the most
prosperous and happy communities
are those of the small but independ
ent farmer. The growing worthless
ness of the negro as a farm laborer
in the South, and his many drawbacks
as a tenant or owner of land, are
bringing it to pass that .a greater
and greater number of Southern
armers are obliged to depend upon
their own resources in working their
and. Deserted to the negroes, the
and of the South would steadily de
generate. To maintain the white
armers of that section in their place
of independence and to bring the
soil up to its full capabilities a large
increase must take place in the body
of white immigration, and the fact
must be kept to -the front that $10.-
000 invested in productive farmine
is worth more to the South than
$100,000 invested in land to be occu
pied salely for pleasure.
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Difficult.
A teacher in a certain Eastern
school asked her class to draw a pic
tufe of that-which they wished to be
when they grew up. The pupils
went diligently to work with paper
and pencil, some drawing pictures of
soldiers; policemen and hne Jadies
etc They all worked hard but one
little girl, who ' sat quietly holding
her pad and pencil m hand.
rne teacher, ooserving ner, asKea ;
"Don't you know what you want
to be when you grow up, Anna?"
"Yes, I know," replied the little
firl. ''J know I want to be married,
ut I don't know how to draw it."
- A Charmed life.
Dunne a certain battle the colonel
of an Irish regiment noticed that one
of the men was extremely devoted to
him and followed him everywhere.
At length he remarked : "Well, my
man, you have stuck by me well to
day." !
it was me mother said to me, says
she, 'Just you stick to the colonel.
Patrick, me bohoy. and you'll De an
roight Them colonels never gets
hurted."
Matrimony makes a man awfully
restless a little while before the f pr
! ever alter.
How a Dog Keeps Cool.
Youth's Compaulon.
Prof. E. L. Trouessart. of the
Paris Museum of Natural History,
in a recent lecture on animal heat,
remariced that the dog. whose re
spirations in repose number only 25
minute, may in running acquire
m -
a rate ox respiration as nign as Bo or
50 a minute. The effect of this
acceleration favors the dissipation of
animal heat by evaporation from the
pulmonary vesicles. ine dogi per
spires very little, or not at.all, by the
skin, pulmonary taking the place of
cutaneous transpiration, it is tms
fact which enables the dog to pursue
its game so long and persistently.
Animals of the cat family, on the
other hand, do not possess this pe
culiarity, and for that reason tigers.
panthers and lions lie in wait for
their prey, but do not pursue it over
long distances, lhe bird possesses
pulmonary transpiration in a very
high degree.
Japan Won't Try IL .
Washington, Sept. 14. That Ja
pan will not make war upon the
United States is an opinion of Tsao,
editor of the South China Daily Jour
nal. He said the Japanese states
men are quite clever and know Ja
pan could not carry on the struggle
with the American nation. Japan is
a poverty stricken country a3 com
pared with the United States. She
might seize the Phillippines ma
hasty struggle but in the end the
outcome would be victory tor the
United States.
ear rieven arret in rUt, and
hopes to net fl.t) on the cron
From two to three hundred dollar it
raircnp. and the rric avrrarr
fifty-five cc nti a buhei. The uota-
oes are not carted off to town arv!
thrown on the local market, but are
ept until retSruary. rarcfu vrrtl
and shipped to iKnnts North an.)
South. Including the ahrinkajr arvl
the loss by rotting, thi farmer loe
about 'Si per cent. The potatue are
not put in hills but in a hou auit.
bly ventilated, where they can be
ept without trouble. In addition
to potatoes, this farmer rawe a lit
tle cotton. ome corn (not for the
market but for use), pea and hav.
crop of broom corn w raided, arid
small broom factory is run. Mer
chants in Hickory gladly take the
output of the factory, which U not
so large as to interfere with the
other work on the farm1. Consider
able attention is paid to cantaloup
and watermelons, and a neat um is
realtzetTfrom these. I-aatjtprinjr. on
00 hills of tomatoes. $i;X) was real.
ized. This patch of tomatoes barrlv
occupied an eighth of an acre. The
secret of successful farming, this
gentleman told us, liesno in making
oig money on one crop, out in mak
ing little money on many little ones.
t this particular time, while he
weather, is dry. ho in busv makimr
rick, which he will sell at a good
rofit when he feels like it. He nuvs
that everybody is busy all the time
on his farm. There are no vacations.
no "layinjr-by" times on that nlaec.
Ie works long hours - as long as a
merchant or a manufacturer. He
makes every moment count and ev
ery edge cut. His head is bothered
precious little about who is going to
be governor ; there is no money in
that question to him. He is a far
mer right, and if you want to know
more about the matter write to J. L.
ngold. Hickory. N. C. and when it
rains he will answer you.
Didn't See Nothin'.
Three tired citizens a lawver. a
doctor and a newspaper man sat in
a back room recently in the light of
the early dawn. On the table were
many empty bottles and. a couple of
packs of cards. As thev sat in si-
ence a rat scurried across the hearth
in the darkness beyond. The three
men shifted their feet and looked at
each other uneasily. After a lonir
pause, the lawyer spoke :
"I know what you fellows are
thinking," he said, "you think I
thought 1 saw a rat, but I didnV
art? (MiuatcJ. The water b quit
hallow at ftmt and you find a rare
enjt)nrnt for a time in wrunrUn
your tr about In the ml that
forma in the bottom in pliot of ae.
cuttorrl wrnd. Vo ar oUIfvd to
wade t-ut for some dlatatxw before
you experience the peculiar buoy an.
cy of the lake, ttnrt. you feci your
fret trying to wim out from under
you. Vou find it mare and mort
difficult to walk. You begin to float
in pit of yourself. Then vou re
h you are non-ainkable. ou can't
sink ir you want to. Throw your
self on your back or sit down or try
to switrund you bob about like a
nwkuu chair in a frehet. You feci
a though you hail been turned to
cork. You can't help looking at the
phenomenon subjectively. You don't
see that there is anything and fels
like ary other bathing wateruntil
you get some it In your eye or In
your mouth. Then you wish you
hadn't come. Wan water U sweet
in corririson. In fact the chemist
tell u it is eight time lea salty.
You can't drown in the lake by
inking, hut you can t suffocated to
death, which is iust about as uncom
fortable and undesirable. We found
signs everywhere warning o against
Ijeing too talkative or too frolicsome
in the water. ,
When we came out we brought
with us large deport of salt on our
skin. As the water evaporated we
found ourselves covered with white
crystal. Only a strong shower-bath
of frchh water or a good clothe
brush cap put you into lit condition
to dress. '
A Beast of a Husband.
A dispatch from Madison, WU,
says : After servings 1(5 year In the
state's prison. Mr. W llhefmina Baehr
is at liberty to-day by pardon of tho
tlovernor. At the age of sixteen she
married a widower named liachr be
cause her parents told her to. Haehr
is thirty years her senior, and the
girl became, a household drudge.
One night a lrveler, Michael Sell,
stopped at the Haehr home for the
night. Haehr, who wa a graining
man, resolved to put Sell out of the
way, and told Wilhelmina to pftlnon
the food, and she did so, Sells dying
the next day. Confronted with ar
rest, Haehr blamed hi wife, and
she was accused of the crime and
pleaded guilty on the husband' ad
vice and received a life sentence.
Soon after he entered the penitenti
ary her! husband killed himself,
1 riven to it by remorse for the act.
REMEMBER
For want of a nail the shoe was lost,
For the want of a shoe the horse was lost.
Li. i Li-1
You know the balances
Saw Nothing That Equals Blowing Rock.
Lenoir Topic.
Mr. Moses H. Cone, who recently
returned to his home at Blowing
Rock from a trip around the world
savs that in point of beauty oi seen
erv he has not found a place that
equals Blowing Rock. He said that
the only locality that approachedjjur
mountains was in Switzerland and
these do not come up to the beauty
and grandeur of the Blowing Rock
region. What a noted summer re
sort Blowing Rock will become when
the macadam road is opened up !
"I have nothing but praise for our
new minister."
"Yes, so it seemed when the plate
went aroumd' -
"The Store That Satisfies
for fear that for the want
of a book that was lost
for the want of the test
book-case ever sold to the
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showing them artistically
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