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Volume XXXIV.
CONCORD, N. 0, TUESDAY. OCTOBER I, 1907.
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OF CONCORD, N. C.
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o Tiv HKS: A. Jones Yorke. President; H. L. Parks, Vice Pres-
, : t Chas. Ii. Wagoner, Cashier; John Fox, Asst Cashier.
! i CTokS: C. O. Gillon, Geo. L. Patterson, Y. A. Bost, PfTnl
; t;i'lint,'S Ii. L. Umberer, W. W. Morrison, N. P. Yorke,
' m. I., Marsh, A. Jones Yorke. A. N. James, ll. L. Parks,
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J). not forget the Corrugated Point ! Stays sharp
longer, wears better, plows hard ground easier,
nmi costs no more than a plain point.
When buying a Plow consider QUALITY
I JRST, PRICE SECOND.
The D. J. Bost Go.
Agents.
The Concord National Bank
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Capital $100,000
Surplus and Undivided Profits $29,000
"Your Business Solicited. Every Accommodation Exten
ded Consistent with Sound Banking.
IU; COLTRANE, President.
h. D. COLTRANE, Cashier.
JNO. P. ALLISON, Vice Pres.
I. A. Wiseiier, of the Columbus laboratories 103
'tutc' -t !'t ft, Chicago, III. i "We submitted a jug of coca-
oi i i nvhasod in onen marKei 10 a, vm wiciU1 -
ior c,
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inc and alcohol, and we failed to find any trace of
-tat.-.
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. William M. Dehn, of the. University of Illinois,
ii. r analysis, that coca-cola does not contain any
rr other powerful alkaloids, and that physologi
. loos not diller much from tea, coffee and such
state chemist of Alabama, in reply to a request
lysis from the state board of health,; declared that
in voi.e contained no sunsiance uwbwiww w v .
(; " A-C( )LA relieves headache, refreshes and invigoratest
" The biggest seller in tne worm.
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o Bottled and sold by the
Carolina Bottling Works j
Concord, N. 0.
BINGHAM
SCHOOL
1908
FOR 115 YEARS boy. ba g .by , jjjjjc JjSftgg on
have bn trained to be MEN f .rBi6YMd"eontnl and carriage,
PRESIDENT SMITH'S OPINION.
future Quotations Depressed Simply for
Speculative Purposes.
Columbia, S. C.. Sept. 26. Mr..
L.- D. Smith, president of the South
Carolina Cotton Association and or
ganizer of the general association,
has returned from a tour of the
West, and several days spent in New
Orleans and cotton centres.
"The most interesting contest in
the history of cotton is now on be
tween the farmers and the New
York speculators," said he, in an
swer to a question from your corre
spondent as to the falling off in the
price of spot cotton. "The price of
the manufactured goods is now based
on a price of 15 cents or more for the
raw material, and the demand for
the cloth is unprecedented. The
mills, a few weeks ago, were paying
14 to 14 J cents without a murmur.
The crop is unquestionably short, far
below the- needs of the trade, while
the trade conditions of the world are
excellent, and the money situation is
easy.
"Now, what has caused the de
cline? Certainly no lack of demand
for cotton. There is no oversupply
in sight. No strikes or other cur
tailment of spindles.. Every mill is
running on full time. There is no
financial stringency or rumor of in
ternational complications.
""Therefore, the low price of cotton
means simply that the sneculators
entrenched behind a lot of low grade
cotton held in their warehouses.
putting the future quotations down
for nurelv speculative mirooses. And
it is a clean-cut fight between them
and the farmer, merchant and
banker of the South as to who will
win.
"If the people of the South simply
refuse to sell below 15 cents the
fight is won. If they put their cot
ton on the market at the absurd ca
price of the gambler then all the
wo qf the different organizations
gfri for nothing."
Mr. Smith says with the exception
of South Carolina and Georgia and
parts of North Carolina, where the
mills are located, not half as much
cotton har been sold for future de
livery as was sold in the same manner
last year. The South Carolina as
sociation has received a report that
in York connty alone 8,000 bales has
been sold for future delivery.
"It is the weak cotton that breaks
the back of the strong," said Mr.
Smith. The great bulk of cotton
that would be held for the minimum
price is forced on the market by con
ditions brought about by the weak
fellows going on the market. I am
going to call a meeting of the South
Carolina county presidents in a day
or so to see what can be done to put
our holding schemes into practice.
These holding concerns are being op
erated with success in other parts in
parts of the South, and I have re
ports from several South Carolina!
county organizations that the money
is available. If we can hold this
weak cotton off the market the fight
is won, as the strong win stay on it
self then."
arejsary.
Why Men Don't Go to Church.
'What we want is more virility
and less effeminacy," said Bishop
W. A. Candler before the assembled
Mpthoffisfc ministers of Atlanta at the
regular conference Monday.
We ve got to De-more vigonous.
We have a big work to perform and
we want to show that we mean
business." '
Bishop Candler was talking of the
aymen's missionary movement and
the recent meeting at Knoxville,
'enn.. and said he had noted the
tendency in the men to drop away
from the Church.
'They are leaving things to the
women, he continued. ihis is
not hard to account for. Pretty
little curled up speeches and curled
i mi
nn wnrns non t n raw men. inev
draw men away. It's plain, straight
talk and hard words and business
actions that attract the kind of peo
ple we are after. We need virility.
The men must be fed with something
meaty, not choked to death with
adjectives, beminary stun won t
do." . -
reason-
LIQUOR SOLD IN 34 COUNTIES.
List of Counties and Towns Where
Liquor May be Sold Legally.
The following statement, prepared
by the Rev. R. L. Davis, state
organizer of the Anti-Saloon League,
shows the present state of liquor in
North Carolina. AH the counties
are dry except the following thirty-
four, and liquor is sold in them as
indicated :
Alamance Graham ; dispensary.
Anson Wades boro (dry after Jan
uary 1, 1908) ; saloons.
Beaufort Washington, saloons;
Edwards, dispensary.
Bertie' Windsor and Coleraine;
dispensary.
Buncombe Asheville; saloons.
Caswell Milton, saloons; Yance
ville, dispensary.
Chowan Edenton (dry after Jan
uary 1, 1908); saloons.
Craven Vanceboro; dispensary.
Edgecombe Every town has saj
loons.
Forsyth Winston-Salem; saloons.
Franklin Louisburg; dispensary.
Granville Oxford and Creedmore;
dispensary.
Greene -Snow Hill and Jason; sa
loons. Halifax Weldon, Enfield, Halifax
and Tillery saloons; Roanoke Rapids
dispensary.
Harnett Dunn; dispensary..
Haywood Waynesville; dispen
sary. Hertford Harrellsville ; dispen-
Johnston Pine Level; dispensary.
Jones Trenton ; dispensary.
Lenoir Kinston, dispensary; La
Grange, saloons. --
McDowell Marion (dry after Jan
uary 1, 1908); saloons.
Martin Wiiliamston, Hamilton,
Everett, Hassell.Parmele, Gold Point
and Robersonville; saloons:
Nash Rocky Mount and Battle
boro, saloons.
New Hanover Wilmington, sa
loons. Person Roxboro; dispensary.
Pitt Greenville, Bethel, Ayden
Grifton and Falkland, dispensaries;
Farmville, Oakley, Stokes, Pactolus,
Grimesland and Fountain, saloons.
Rockinerham Mayodan. dispen
sary; Madison, Reidsville and Went-
worth, saloons.
Rowan Salisbury; saloons.
Transylvania Toxaway hotel; sa
loon. Vance Henderson; dispensary.
Wake Raleigh dispensary.
Warren Warrenton (dry after
January 1, 1908); dispensary. '
Wayne-FikeVilIe, Fremont and
Eureka; dispensaries.
Wilson Wilson, Elm City and Lu-
cama, dispensaries; Saratoga, uiacK
Creek, Wilbanks and Bndgers, sa
loons. The above shows that thirty-four
counties still license the sale of
whiskey. But four of these, Anson
Chowan, McDowell and Warren,
have won battles that will put them
in dry list after January 1, 1908.
Thirty-one towns operate the dis
pensary and thirty-nine, plus all the
towns in Edgecombe, operate saloons.
Twenty-three of these counties are
east of Durham. -
A Rule All NewspaperslShould Adopt
Lexington Dispatch.
The Statesville Landmark states
that in the future it will make a
charge for all cards of thanks, reso
lutions of respect, obituaries, etc.
This is right and proper, and all
newspapers should adopt the same
rule, especially since everything in
the newspaper line has increased in
price. The Dispatch long ago adopt
ed this plan and is mildly surprised
at the esteemed Landmark for not
having done so before now. There
is no reason at all why a newspaper
should give space to matters of -the
kind noted. Few people outside the
immediate family of a decreased
person find interest in an obituary,
and as for cards of thanks there is
nothing whatever to them.
Hon. James Hinton Baker and
Miss Baker, of Fernandina, Florida,
uro in Salisbury on a visit the first
that Mr. Baker has made since leav
ing there in 1860.
f ARMER SAFE, If HE HOLD RRM.
S gled and realize that the man who
e!U'what he does not i-ossrs b not
Atlanta journal s m respect in his position, be will con-
Pv,M.n'i. mu.,v jtinue to stand firm. Even the cotton
nr t:t it ho has .w -uturv-
K'Z;: I must eventually become. purrhar
fZZil ZZ'ZIT' .uT; ! That the farmer of the South will
Zr'A7"rZr:Z tand like . rock wall against the-
uktbSrf tZ rAmhle hi: ?ht P?n their property and
. i rrui p ivinf? rruM t
j present reason to doubt.
They have learned the lessons ox
already been seen in the depressed
price ox futures figures which it
lies within the power of the cotton
grower to make absolutely meaning
less. Now comes one of the greatest
known cotton bears, Theodore 11
Price, who has circulated by mail a
signed card which presents strong
evidence of another prospective bear
raid if the farmers will submit to
raiding. Here is what Mr. Price
says in his circular, which seems to
be a sort of preparation for his ex
pected, "I told you so," later on in
the game :
"While I have estimated the Amer
ican crop at 12.500,0000 bales, I think
it quite possible it may be 13,500,000
or more, and, in that case with the
manifest contraction in trade. I shall
not be surprised to see cotton sell at
8 cents a pound or lower. It is be
cause 1 venture the suggestion of
this possibility at a time when nearly
everyone is bullish that I ask those
who receive this card, to preserve it,
that if I am wrong it may be a mat
ter of record."
What a tempting bit of bait to lurej
tne larmer to part witn nis cotton at
present prices !
This circular appears to have been
ingeniously distributed in the rural
districts, among the growers of cot
ton, no doubt in the hope they will
swallow the hook, sinker and all.
The Farmers' Union, when it met
inLittle Rock and fixed the mini
mum price of cotton at 15 cents,
knew just as much about the situa
tion as Mr. Price, and perhaps a lit
tle bit more.
That minimum was not based on
the world's supply alone. It was
based upon the world's increased de
mand. . : ' "V
With a supply of cotton practically
the same as that of last season, and
a known demand of far greater pro
portions, it is unquestioned that cot
ton is worth more than then. It was
worth more then than it brought,
and the farmers would have gotten
it if they had stood firm, as they will
get their price now, if they refuse
to fall into these traps which they
will frequently find set their way
with the gathering of the new crop.
Mr. Price cannot hope to cajole
the farmers into selling by juggling
with theupply figures and dealing
in generalities about the "manifest
contraction in trade," when several
million new spindles are waiting,
hungry for the staple.
The Southern cotton grower is the
master of the cotton situation. The
man who holds the raw cotton and
who refuses to give it up until he re
ceives his price will continue to oc
cupy the role of dictator. No power
can overthrow him so long' as he
stands firm. He is the collossus of
the cotton world.
His effort to secure a just and
equitable price for his property is
right and reasonable. In his fight to
protect the product of his toil, he
has, with insignificant exception, the
sympathy of the whole world. If he
yields ; if he is intimidated or bullied
or coerced into relinquishing his
property : if he agrees to accept for
it a lower price than its worth, he
has only himself to blame.
If the farmers who hold cotton de
cline to sell at the price the man who
owns no cotton quotes to a purchaser
on the cotton exchange,the exchange
gambler and the world will have to
come to the farmer's price.
When the farmer sells, he has the
goods to deliver. When the specu
lator sells, he hopes to be able to buy
cotton at a lower price than the one
he quotes in order to complete his
trade. .
-All must come at last to actual
producer the cotton farmer. He
holds the: key of the situation. He
possesses the gootis which the world
demands. If he) will recognize the
futility exchangelmade prices, refuse
to be bound bythem, learn how the
prices of his commodities are jug-
expenence and
profit by them.
they are going to
Haunted by His Wife's Ghost
York Kun.
Explaining that for two years be
had been haunted by hi wife's ghost
John Crane, a laborer of 1$1 East
Seventy-first street yesterday appeal
ed to Coroner Harburger to assist
him. His wife committed suicide in
1905 by jumping into East river.
When the body was recovered
Crane was sent for, and he denied
knowing the women. He told Colonel
Harburger that he had refused to
make the identification owing to the
gossip of his neighbors, who had
said he was really glad to get rid of
her because he wanted to marry a
younger woman. -
'That was whv I let Bridget go to
the potter's field. God forgive me,"
he said. "But I've had no peace of
mind ever since, nor sleep. Night
after night she comes to me and re
bukes me for letting her lie there
with the unknown dead. She was a
decent woman and I did wrong
Please let me dig her up and put her
to rest in consecrated ground."
Coroner Harburger said that all he
could do was to accept Crane's
identification as the official one and
he would gladly do that if it gave
him any comfort. But it was up to
the health department, he isaid to
give permission to disinter the body.
"The blessing of God upon all,"
said Crane as he left for the health
department.
Modern Style Cuts Out Hips.
Curves will be unfashionable and
hips impossible in winter style for
women according to Miss Elizabeth
A. C. White, president of the Dress
Makers' Protective Association of
America.
"The stylish figure." Miss White.
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ueuareu, win irc uue wiuiuui nips,
a straight figure. It is all in the
correct."
Nor will there be any fleshy, wo
men, at least none that are well
dressed. Miss White declares there
is no neeed of any woman appearing
fat unless she is lazy and wants to so
appear.
Miss White told a man who sought
authoritative information, that well
dressed women on winter afternoons
this coming season, will wear demi
tailored skirts of grey lavender, red
dish-purple and light blue; black
coats; waists of net embroidered in
the color of the skirt; and partly
mushroom hats trimmed with orchids
morning glories and roses.
The Red Death.
New York Times. '
It will be remembered that Edgar
Allen Poe, in his "Masque of the
Red Death," describes a plague, the
main symptom of which was a bleed
ing from the pores of the body.
In Central America the Red Death
is personified in the Blook Snake, or,
a3 the Spaniards call it. Vivora
Sangre. This snake is of a red-
tinged black on the back, while un
derneath it is of a bright vermilion.
Its deadly work is easily recognizable
in the condition of the victim. An
Indian cattleman, find in cr a cow
bleeding at the nose, eyes and ears,
and perspiring blood at every pore,
does not hesitate to blame it on
Vivora Sangre. Unfortunately the
effect upon the human being is the
same, and our Indian friend quite
realized it when he lights a cheroot,
gathers his blanket around him, and
stoically sita down to await the meet
ing with his forefathers.
SAIiORS Ull Of DtSASItR
1
Wrciled m Beak l&ad Ikry VT
Coorado Die Treat Muafrr nd (ip
sort U Stcru.
The Unr of the reck of the
American bark I'm! rn HW
S la ten blind. Terra IWl FuegJ. "Tne
iana oi lire." nwiUy is thnlUnjr
one.
Six of the crew have U--n In.L!
her by the steamer from MonWt kLxi.
rour penihed and three are in a
hospital at lunta Arena. The
Prussia was owned in San VYiv-nrv
and sailed from Norfolk. Va.. March
27, with a cargo of coal for San Fran-cweo.
On the night of June 1 hlch Was
stormy and - bitterly eol.f thiu
Captain Johnson was trying to make
went ashore and aoon broke un
Eleven of the thirteen in th -r.
succeeded in reaching a strip of and
sheltered somewhat iv overhanging
rocks. At dawn it wax d iiMVrmi
that Sbala. the Japanese cook, ami
Harry Hammond, a tailor, were miss
ing. The stnn of gand w nrr,.
and huae cliffs barred
across the island.
Captain Johnson soon A'ui tf v
ha us ton and was buried in ihe tand.
The survivors had a few provisions
and Subsisted on tho. Meantime
a boat was laboriously built from the
wreckage. But fear that the
provisisona would not last led to t n
of the men, S. Porthin and Jowph
HostethMo trv to work across th
mountains to obtain help. Porthian
crawled back a few days later with
his hands and feet badlv froren
Hosteth. he reported, had died from
the cold. Food cave but and the
men lived on shell ihh. Eventually,
after much daniror. Mate John
Hunter. Carpenter Carl Stark an,!
Seaman Heine reached New Year'
island, in the frail boat, a distance of
30 miles.
Lieutenant Delirade. in charee at
the light house there, reamed the
suffering men on Staten Island after
mUch peril and delay. Thpv uir
kindly nursed at the light house and
then taken to runta Arenas.
The Law and the Profits.
"It is alwAVH refreshing " cava
Cleveland lawyer, "tq hear of an at
torney who will not undertake a
ShanV CUM. I know of ut laat tn
such, a lawyer in Toledo.
ii i . . . . ...
ai one time a chap in business in
that town known to be nmrtirtmr
questionable methods sought to re
tain the Toledo lawyer, and was
smoothing over his crooked conduct
as wen as ne Knew now, wncn me at
torney astonished him by exclaim-
I think Von hnve nrtvl 1iLv on
infernal scoundrel, sir!'
opinion ? asked the man, as he rose '
to go. i
" 'Yes, sir: five dollars!' "
rtifx r.t 4;wuft are al4
by Mr. Ih.ijr Sartk-r, of Shty
.a. ai rt fprth in Vrx Crtnut's
Mciir fur t Vu4rr.
' had'rt tired tvf Kb
I want trt know who cairn
fviftrt take hu r'v. I ant to know
ho'n a ir ir for to kal l th
rrrr'l culncM tat e nj all
AThit u Who't amainc for to
-itrar.sle the jvkled tnuU an lb
treaked rai!ri, an' who gwtne
for to wrtlle the hoodlum- question
lhAs's done gne an' unified to Japan,
the land of ihe bran new moon!
It one thinjr for to lie tkerred be
fore the fthootia betrin ? an quit
another for to be urpnxl f lha
nhootin begin. They aj that Taft
has been tiptd off a Teddy' ue
eeinr. an' ef thar arnt nothin' for
to do but to net on thing, he'll come
mighty nigh cumin' urnler the tring
not more'n ten length behind the
Ust pa.t r that kin be brung agin
htm. He' wilhn for to do anything
except run. or trwt, or walk fajt,
for to get the job. So fur a I'm.
concerned. 1 don't fee! rlht eaiy in
my mind not that I keer a drunk
ard' dream alwut the iirpubtican
party. What I do keer about ia the
whole country, more especially our
own pine-barren ; ' an' blackjack
thicket."
Mwrt Protfttorv
Many persona are pu?..letJ to know
why policemen wear tleir batlgea )
low on tlieir cat inteal of on the
Ilap made fur that purpone. Aa a
matter of far t. the badge or atar, aa
he calU it, of many a . policemen ia
right next to hi heart. Some of Hie
bluecoatscan thank their "atam" for
being alive. Thia little metal ahield
has deflected the bullet of burglar
or high way im'n. and at titnen, too.
ha slopped the knife thrutof would
le aHKansina. During the lat twenty
or tiiirty years tlere are manyTaaea
on reconl showing that the little
batlge hal Uvn a life aaver. Km
bullets firtsl at clone range.aaa rule,
cannot jenetrate the shield. That's
why a bluecoat always feci safer In
keeping the tr at a vital spot.
When off duty aome policemen wear
their stars on their ve?t but always
directly over their heart. They are
so acrustomod to the little protector
that they feel uneasy without it.
A modern dude with narrow atri
ped clothes saddle colored ahoea. a
louI necktie, hair iarted over hi
none, and tmioking a cigarette,
addressed his tot girl Uiua; "If
you was me and I waa you, what
would you do?" She heaitatinly said
with a smile: "I would take off that
hideous tie, put that cigarette In the
stove, part my hair on the side, then
pray to Cod for brains."
When a girl's breath auggest co
logne water it is ahign that a certain
young man i due to call on her.
Find a man better than yourself.
If you can't find one, stand by your
self, although you may be with the
biggest rascal in town.
OF GOOB
TOBACCO o
And when chewers see
they understand that an unUmited
euarantee accompanies every plug.
No grit no stemsbut simply a sound sweet
chew of pure . tobacco.
No better tobaccos made than those
Manufactured by Baiijy Bbothem,
Winston-Salem, N. C
NOT IN A TRUST.
What Everybody Says Is True
Must Be So.
Soof of the Puddisg Is Chswi&g the lag.
THE FAVORITE STOYE & RANGE CO","
of Piqua, OHio,
We Would Be Glaa 'i f. Kivr . , , ,
- UOOKing CifllDll
When you wish to buy any kl
of a Stove or Kango to have
you carefully u -
COMPARE
at
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and will do jnorc and'. better'
work with wooI or coal than,
than any Itange on the market,
all we wk U come and rce, and
tatfte the delicious bimuitii made
from Port-elin atent Hour and
drinkthe fitrcngth-giving nw
tnr as drawn by Aunt Rachel
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With any other make
We feel your decision will
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and Honse-Fnrnisbings.
Therefore ve court careful
comparison. Vc know they
are not r.'t:sli."2.
Bell & Harris Furniture Comp'y.
Free concert during the week by the .celebrated Soiwa,' Gil
mote and Marine Bands. Haden'u (Quartette will also be with
us. JSo pain3 will be spared to give you a good time. Come.