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TH EQI-fARLOrrE 'NEVfAUGUST 18, 1906 s Novel Erktertir EDITED BY MADAME MERR1. I" A Guessing Game. This clever little game was offered at an affair given for a recent. bride elect. The questions were written In white ink on heart-shaped cards of rose color, and the guests were told that the answers all began with the word -heart." : ; ' ' 1 n ill ' . iWhiUTssbek takes; from . us? s ,' 24l(W she 'greets us? - , .'; . . SWhere we' sit?rt ! V' ' : I 4 yhat disease threatens ? 5 Oftentimes what 1 is her con- 6 What then comes of us? 7 How do wo feel? , 8 Describe the catastrophe?. 9What flower consoles us? 10 Under its influence what then do we become? . Answers. 1 Hearts. ; '' 2 Heartily. ' 3 Hearth. 4 Heartburn. 5 Heartless. , i " " 6 Heartache. "7. Heart-sick. S Heart rending. 9 Heart's ease. 10 Heart whole. The prize was a heart-shaped box o" "Vienna" candy which is imported, and is very delicious. The Seven Ages of Woman. A series of impromptu tableaux was enacted in a hotel parlor the other night, which was worthy of a far larger audience, , although he sum realized for charity was a good one, owing to the generosity of the. appre ciative audience. Ti e pictures sbhown represented "the seven ages of wo man;" first, "Infancy" was a real live baby, hastily borrowed for the occa sion, with a real Jive angel bending over it; the second scene, "Child hood," was modeled after. Jessie Wil cox Smith's charming picture, called -The First Love." Then the"School girl" came next, with books and slate -Maidenhood" showed a young girl daintily gowned with a letter in her lap and a box containing a diamond ring; "Wifehood" and "Motherhood" were followed by "Old Age." Space forbids going into the details of each scene, but it will be easy to work the pictures out with very lit tle preparation. It is a simple mat ter to have colored lights, and they .will greatly enhance the beauty of the pictures. If music is played very softly ' during the scenes, it adds to the pleasure in a marked manner, and suitable selections may be found such as "Auld Lang Syne" or "Long, Long Ago," for "the Old 'Age", the "Wedding March" for "Wifehood," and "Hush-a-By Baby" for "Infancy." Frappe was served, and everyone was delighted with the entertainment. A "Mother Goose" Luncheon. A "Mother Goose" luncheon is in deed an affair out of the ordinary. In the invitations, which had quaint little pen and?uilc isktches .on them of "Mother Goose"" in pealted hatfand & broom, ready td . "sweep the cob webs down from the sky," the guests were requested to wear something to indicate a character in the dear old nursery rhymes. The centerpiece on the table was an enormous "pie," with a ribbon radiating to each plate, . ' Oro o 15tflo Tirnnltr ilj "-- xjr XO.LU.U .wds.utu to it. The place cards had tiny It to order around and boss free Ameri cans and bullyrag them if they-' don't obey "orders" without question. Quite a little chore. The labor trust leaders tried by threats and other measures to bully5 members of the Congress into passing some laws for the benefit of the labor; trust but not in the interest of the people at large. They were told they didn't repre sent all the people. There happen to be 78 million anti trust Americans and about 2 million labor -trust members, many of them held by force. Naturaly every gain of either money cr advantages for the members of any-; trust must be absorbed from the "com mon" persons outside of the trust. Ev ery trust must fatten by feeding off "outsiders." Think it over a moment and see Iff that's right. The beef trust raises the price of meat. ' .: Who pays the raise? ;? The labor trust raises the price of! labor and we don't object to that in reason, but who pays the raise? The oil trust tries to freeze out. a. citizftrr who starts in the independent oil bus!-'; ness. vv nv ' xrw it r-c-n t-i nt its own way and make the people out side of the oil trust "obey" and pay. toll, The labor trust tries, to force an an ti injunction bill through Congress to prevent courts from issuing restraining uiueis or injunctions, so it can be free to attack property or independent : men when the protection of the courts is withdrawn and thus terrorize ' th people and "make th.eni "obey" the trust leaders: and, prevent every Independent American tronr selling-his-4abor at all even inuag ms iarmy, mayDe StarV You are ordered to refuse any labor! but that sola by the -labor trust, and. not to Duy any article of merchandise' unless it bears the "union . label'- the trade-rii.ark of the trust. Some of the most irksome tyrannies and : outrages -are npon - citizens who believe in the old ddctrine that - Amer ica is for freemen and a "square deal" for everybody. s ; VBut this biggest of all trusts, the la bor trust, 'assumes , to itself the right to' rulethe balance 0f thq popple ;and, jnake theni pay tribute to it, for the si IBM Of "spiders" attached to them. Each guest was called upon to recite the rhyme she represented when she was correctly guessed. This was the , oc casion of much merriment. .. When the dessert , course , was brought in the hoste&s asked all to pull , their ribbon's,, and. , out of the ""pie" came all sorts of ; birds, . They had been , found at the favor counters, arid elicited.; much , comment."There is no telling what can be found until 3 ou begin tp look," said this inde fatigable hostess, who is ever on the alert for something new. The sou venirs, which were a joy to the guests, were small Japanese, teapots, bearing a chord.on which was written "Polly, put the kettle on and we'll all drink tea." A copy of "Mother .Goose" for grown folks was the prize of : the per son who guessed the most characters, It was a very jolly party that de parted, and proved without doubt that we are all only children of a larger growth. Bridal : Showers. Tht bride of today "is a very lucky individual, for, besides ; her . wedding presents, she has all sorts .of delight ful affairs . given by her " intimate friends. There are "stocking," "hand kerchief," "plate and cup and saucer," 'linen," "'hook," Vnower," "kitchen" and "novelty" .showers. Some or all of these functions, are likely . to fall to the lot of. a girl who announces her. engagement, and . who gives her friends, this opportunity to show their good will. Great care should be taken that only one's nearest and dearest friends are asked to parties of this kind ; strangers or mere calling ac quaintances should . not be asked to contribute, for it would be embarrass ing both to the giver and the recip ient; this is one of the instances where a hostess must be sure pf twho the bride-elect would like to be pres ent. Remember that, the "gift with out the giver is bare." One of the very latest fads is a "turnover collar shower." Each guest is asked to bring material for a turnover and her thimble, and at the conclusion of an afternoon the fair (we take it for granted that adject ive applies, as it seems to be the prerogative of a bride to be termed thusly) bride-to-be will have a number of these useful accessories to her trousseau. The "book shower" must be ar ranged by a person who can find out what volumes the recipient does not possess, so there will not be dupli cates. The name of the donor with an inscription will greatly enhance the value of -the gift, and it is safe to say that this collection will be be more than prized when placed placed upon the book shelves of the new home. The handkerchief and linen showers. are both pretty. Each article can be thrown at the bride until,, she is fairly buried under the white offering. . :- - ; '- - f The "china" shower Is always a fa vorite, and a unique way was devised for the stocking shower by having , a large "shoe" candy' box in the' center of the luncheon table with a ribbon going to each place; when the rib bons were pulled all drew out favors except the honored guest, who drew . ... u V. , I . aa, u - . .. out a numDer ot white packages, all rolled tight in white tissue paper further - fattening, principally of the leaders and incidentally of the humbler members., So, .having .been restrained by Con gress,, the; labor leaders now propose to. go into politics: and elect labor trust members and; rule, the balance of us. Such '.massing: of class or trust' nnwpr in the hands of a few hien is exceeding ly dangerous for the safety 'of the common people. There is but one safe procedure. Eject, men who do not represent .any trust but stand steadfast for thecitizens, the 100 per cent., the whole people and not the few trust members who seek to feed off the many. What could be expected of a labor trust city council, Legislature or Con gress but to enact strict ; labor trust laws. .We need anti-trust representatives in this country' to . protect the people at large. Don' fail to questionvyour candidates. "Do you stand for the trusts, either of labor or capital or will .you' repre sent the best interests of, the people." -Don't permit any cowardly excuses but demand to know." '' ; ';"-.. This is a trust burdened age, but the people's prosecuting Officers are trying to protect the people and will no doubt soon turn their attention to prosecuion of; labor rust leaders for their many conspiracies and overt acts against the. citizens. '.-. Tbink over . this trust ouestion arid "let the little Light of Reason burn:" Give ; the public a clear analysis of facts and they will do the rest. : ' C. W. POST; : N. B. This announcement is paid tor. by. the maker of. rPostum and Grae Nuts from , money. still left - to him after about-3 years' of boycott of the labor-1 unions in their attempts to ruin the business.' z sUoi ' ' '.! .. - j- It is an offering to the cause of hu man liberty' and the right of : the com mon man. He offers an honest sym pathy to every workman; both in and out of the union.' Many an honorable man is held like a slave and forced.' io do what his inherent manhood rebels at. ' v ;'. Let every man -steadily defend bis own personal liberty and vote .and act against coercion and tyranny of any .trjust; including thewide-snreajWabor trust. .."',. urn a pair of silks hose from each guest present. ' A flower shower is the very pret tiest of all, and should be given the day before the wedding. Each guest brings a. bunch of flowers, and the bride is .literally showered with, blos soms from a . huge floral ball suspend ed in a doorway. "Have a large ball made of wire," cover, with moss, and fill closely with flowers; carnations make a perfect .sphere. The ball, is made in-, halves andvflllfd with , rose petals.' ' tVhen . farewells - are being said the hostess pulls a ribbon .which separate the two halves, releasing the petals! IwhlclKfall! npoh; the young woman who is about to; leave the realm of single blessedness for the new "and unknown way. vThis scat tering rose leaves on the pathway of a bride is a very old custom. A correspondent signing the ini tials "M. B." asks replies to the fol lowing questions: When one is entertaining a sister and a cousin, and wishea to give a luncheon in their honor, will the visi ting card of the hostess be proper to use for invitations, writing "given for Mrs. Blank and Mrs. Jones" on it, with tho day and date? Where should these guests be seated at the table?' In returning the call of a young lady whom you know, and have enter tained, should a card be left for her mother ' whom you do not know, or should just your card be left without the husband's card? Information on these subjects will be much appreciated. The visiting card is perfectly prop er to use with the names of your guests "upon ' it, arid your ister may be seated at your right, the cousin on your left at the table. If you -wish to call on the young lady's mother, it will be right to do so, asking for her. and leaving a card; on the other hand, you will be cor rect in simply asking for your friend and leaving your own card for her. A . Game for Children. Form a circle and cast lots or take a vote as to who shall be the "hunts man." When chosen, the hunter pro ceeds to give a name to each person one becomes his coat, another his hat, gun, belt, shoe, etc. The hunts man then walks around oh the out side of the circle, and calls for each article in turn. As they are called each person arises and takes hold of the person in front of hih, the first person having attached himself to the hunter's coat tails. When all are going at a rather rapid pace, the hunter suddenly calls "bang!" then all, including -the hunter, rush for a seat, and the one left must become the. hunter.. Questions on any subject pertaining to this department will cheerfully be answered. A reply will be sent by mail if : stamped and adnJp en velope is enclosed; otherwise, answers will appear in this column l. Address Madame Merri, The News?' What Makes Land Vajues. (Tom Watson! an Ms Magazine?) 1 What a narrow, shallow view it is to pretend that any city .makes her own values! I am what I am because of my re lation to all other men and all other things. How can you disconnecjme from the system in whieh T1 live i and move and have-my being? A The city is but a group of Individ uals; you cannot consider it as a thing apart. The city is what it is because of its relation to all other cities and all other things. ' What made Chicago? The lakes in iront and the fertile plains . DeBInd.v - ' What made' San uFra.ncisco origi nally? 1 ' The gold mines ,of the, interior and the waterway to. the outer world. What mado New York? Those natural advantages which were worthless to the aborigines, but which, grappled by the white man, enabled him to use the entire out side world for his benefit. Pittsburg make the value of that citv lot which Brother Bigelow se- l.lects for illustration? "Tho city made the value?" Bosh! The city itself was made by ten thou sand foreign influences co-operating with its own energies and capacities. If Brother Bigelow insists upon confiscating the land value which the individual owner did not put into the lot, then his process of distribution will be complicated. Take this ,lanT value away from the individual owner and give it back to those who put it into the lot, and you must yield a part of it to the rail roads, a part to the steamboats, a part to the owners of . coal and iron mines, & part to the farmers of the South and ; the West, a part -to the heirs-at-law of a thousand, inventors, a part to the authorities of the state, and a part to Uncle Sain. Nor must you forget the Tariff. If ever there was a town which illus trates how the law, granting Special Privilege to the few, can rob a na tion to build a city, it is Pittsburg. The fortune of Carnegie rests on Privilege. The Tariff confiscated a part of the wealth of every citizen in this Union and gave it to Carnegie. The millions of Henry Flick rest upon Privilege. So do those of Corey and all the . rest of the Protested Capitalists of Pittsburg, whose inter ests are so keenly watched in . Con gress by such men as John Dalzell. Yes, Pittsburg is a Tariff -built town, to a very large -extent. There tore1' when Brother1 Bigelow resolves back ' into 'its -original -elements- the Vroino vAf 'i that iiv? '. whrloTp: seems to 'rankle itf his-iriilraV He 'must lay aside a 'goodly '' pbftidtt; ' as 1 -( the snare ot Uncle'-'SaWi; ' and;; his yhlessed Tariff. ; - Mrs. Summer-Boarder (in a gossipy mood) "Now", "there's 'our little Har old; he isn't p. bit like his father has neither his looks nor his disposition. There's no accounting for some child ren." ; ' " '' ' Mrs. Tartleigh "No, indeed not without embarrassment!" .Septem per Young's Magazine. If rain cost money, the days would all be' sunshiny-.-' ' ' ' ; '" '" ' N e w X) i sco ve ry . Best Cure For CATARRH. RHEUMATISM, INDIGESTION, NERVOUSNESS, KIDNEY, LIVER ' AND BL00O DISEASES. $1.00. I ,'A:.!.i.'Di!r Bast far all ACHES and PAINS-Prlco 25e. - PAYNE'S MEDICATED SOAP 10c. 8QLD BY W. L. Hand & Go. Frequent Changes of Residence incurs Wasteful Expenditures Purchase Household 'Supplies in Very Small Quantities Don't Stint on Fuel Economize in Matter of Dressing El imipateSoda Water and Cigars. BY MARGARET . E. SANGSTER. (Copyright, 1906, by Jos. B. Bowles.) It all depends on your idea of the meaning of the adjective small as ap plied to an income. I have known a. couple who started in life with what their friends thought flying - colors. The man had a busi ness berth .with a salary of $8,000 a year. The man's wife went to house keeping with him in jj, beautiful house furnished completely from roof to basement by her liberal father. Her mother agreed to give her all her clothes just as? when she had been a girl at home. At the end of a year these two people came to their re spective parents, and with tears and protestations declared that they could not live in toyn on the meager pittance of ! the husband's salary. Either they must have twice as much maney of else the must emigrate to some cheap country place. Parents proving inexprtable, the establishment in town was broken up and messieur and madame betook, themselves to a rural ' environment. What became of them I never learned, or whether they discovered Utopia in a cheap village, if such a village there be under- the blue canopy that stretches over our heads. ' : Extravagant people can run through iriimense sums1 f without iriuch trouble. It is only necessary to want every thing one sees, buy everything one wants,-take no: cure of anything, Jd nothing one's self and be wasteful 'fir improvident generally, to achieve'br liant success lit? this direction. ' All over thfs country there are p pie who havdn61ved the problem of living f cbmfdWable'i m lnotite s' that rangge from $800 or $900 to $3,000 a year. ' . : u :". " : The first ttirrig"to bo . thought of is shelter. A place' to 'protect one from 4 1. ...Jl. .. -i Ll J i. JJA I'w -1- ily with the outside shell of Thfe, sweet intangibte thing we call homier. is. ihe initial requisite. 'The home be- ing selected, its furnishing conies next; this may',be: simple or elabor ate costly or ..inexpensive. It may be and often is, fully as artistic and fully as refined and beautiful when its cost has been trifling as when largge sums have been absorbed in the item of up holstery, pf. jchaivs1, -tables, wall paper and decorations. , ; If .it be -practicable, to bnild and own one's home,' it Jsin the. long run an economical procedure, . as in a- few years rent eats up in actual cash a sufficient 'amount to buy' and wholly pay for' a comfortable home. It is not an unwise thing to have a mortgage on the home to begin with, if there is enough forethought and self denial to" make payments and reduce it an nually, until the house is altogether one's own. A great deal of wasteful expenditure is incurred by those who have the too prevalent American habit of frequently-changing their residence. At times this tendancy almost indicates a morbid and diseased social restless ness. People move apparently only to try another house cn another street, when there is not the least advantage gained . by . the change and considerable money and. strength are lost in the needless removal. People who make a study of it and who have very small incomes on which to draw, have assured me that they can live best by purchasing household supplies in very small quantity. In Paris, where frugality is reduced to its lowest terms, the house holder buvs a tinv nat. of hiittor n I single chop or a single egg at need. In America a great, deal is thrown away for the . reason that too much was originally bought. ; A house keeper who tided Tier' family over a particularly difficult crisis in its af fairs, told , me that she knew precisely how many potatoes to cook for a fam ily of four, how many spoonfuls of coffee should be used in a week, and how many lumps of sugar. It must have been rather a strain to calculate so closely as she did, but her husband and children had enough to eat and made a good appearance when they went respectively to business and. to school, and they got over th.eir trouble's and ..swept, ' trumphantly ' for ward Into 'financial ;easel A family in the fi neighborhood t?witlr'! three their5 income, 'but1 none p their riian- agement, were aiways on' th& msrtroH edge of distress and were at last sold out bv the sheriff. - - "'"'' . : Fuel is always expensive and is the one feature that resists the careful manager. In winter we cannot freeze and in most .parts of .tjils country we have plenty ,of cold weather. It is the provoking, nature of fire to bum fierce ly on a bpt day and to . smoulder or give out inly little heat on a cold'dav ivxaiijr a me neaas or the house feels as if the shovels of coal Uhat Lr.aitl?d into the furnace in winter are HOW 10 LIVE WELL OKA SMALL INCOME menacing their very life., since coal is never cheap and burns away like mad once the match and the kindling wood have set it going. . Gas is scarcely an economy, because being in the control of heartless monopolies', the house holders is almost certain to be pre sented with a bill that surprises him by its size and extent, and against the payment of which it is vain to protest. On . the whole,, the stinting, paring and scraping . must be, applied somewhere else. T,p live. at all one, must haye.,fire yith', wh'ch p. ooKpod Jand to keep spmexpt.ler.pont:, i;i5i j;i ,XW9 cautions maAybe given,, people who wquj(d ,.JyrjU'l im,f fcj&&X--'An: come. Economize in the ,iatcr,.o the wardrobe. A great . deal o.piohey, is needlessly frittered away, pn dress. It is by no means essential to , be aiways at the height of the fashion. A good cut of dress or coat should last . two or three seasons instead, of. one. , They who understand, economy and who pay cash often do well by shopping a lit tle out of season. Women are by no means the only transgressors in this way. Men are often as extravagant as their wives, when the affair of ex penditure concerning clothing. Cut down the feminine folly of wasting money on soda water and chocolate creams, cut down, too, the masculine folly pf cigars and cigar ettes. Put the .money spent .for these indulgences in the savings' bank and you will soon h.avp a, margin for the rainy day. . ; r - Avoid running accounts. They are perfectly safe and a very great con venience if one's income is fixed arid large. If it be on the other . hand, small and uncertain, there is no sense in buying what one cannot at the mo ment pay for. Trades-people charge percentage for . the privilege of cred it. The customer .would be amazed should he stop to compute , the inter est he pays , for ttie accomodation given him by the butcher or the baker who civilly waits 60 or 90 days for the . settlement of a-bill that . would better have .been paid, .at the least, each Saturday night. Everything depends after all on the standard of livirig. One person may live well and save on what is impos sible. to another because the other has not .thought it worth while to regard the homely virtue of good manage ment and . the practice of wise econ omy as prudent and desirable. LANDSLIDE LIFTED MO RGACjiE. Nature Took a Hand in Paying Raf ferty's Debts and Made Him Rich. - Lesueur (Minn.) Cor. St. Louis Repub lic. Out in Gradeling township, three miles from Miceker, the farms cf Jonas Rafferty and Gunder O'Reilley lie side by side, the line between them extend ing for 85 rods along the middle of the southern slope of the rather steep hill running up from Freshet creek, which tfStil' lately cut through the middle of PRSfferty's farm till it nearly reached the5 " eastern side, and then, turning rslrarply to the northward O'Reilley's land pitched pver a twenty-foot bank &.nd' .made' -au- "-excellent n water !i power1 of i great 'value ' to' its .owner.-:?; ; The 25 acres of Rafferty's land up along the slope of the hill, between the creek and O'Reilley's line, was little better than a bed of clay, only a nar- dwf strip along the boundary being any 4od at all; while some thirty acres 'on !0'Reilley;g side was the most val uable land in the neighborhood, being covered with a fine growth of gigantic sugar maples. Fifteen years ago O'Reilley became filled with lust to possess Rafferty's land, and he has been scheming to get hold of it ever since and a month ago seemed to be In a fair way to suc ceed, for he is grasping and prosper ous, and; Rafferty generous, careless, and impractical. O'Reilley succeeded in getting hold of a mortgage on his neighbor's land for about a third of its value, and im mediately foreclosed it. Raeffrty, labor ing on a long run of hard luck, was in no shape to borrow money anywhere elese to take up the mortgage, and seemed to be'in a fair way to lose his property. The year for redemp tion would be un in two months and things looked very dark for Rafferty. But at this crisis fate took a strenuous hand in the gariae. Tho phenomenally heavy, almost tor rential rains that had prevailed .for a long time had soaked all the earth to an unprecedented depth with, water, overflowing all the lakes and marshes and turning Freshet creek;, as well as the other small streams, into veritable rivers. A month ago last Tuesday O'Reilley, whose house is on top of , the hill north of the sugar gorve, noticed , with much wonder that there was a huge crack in the ground along the crest of the hill, a crack that in a very few hours became a ditch, and then a litle valley, and then fully thirty acres of valuable hard maple timber, stripped from the hillside, and ; from twenty to thirty feet depth, sailed majestically over. Rafferty's sterile acres and across the creek, making -him in. a . short, time the owner of the best 30 acre tract in the township and so damming up . the swollen stream jthat it cut out ajnew path to the southward . over a . low ridge and made a new. bed through a coulee on Rafferty's land, incidental ly transfering the valuable waterpower to a stony bank across the middle of the coulee. - - - , . Fortunately Rafferty could and im mediately did borrow plenty, of money now on his providentially, .improved farm, and paid off his debts to. a neigh bor who, with- his.-.legsngling over onA f..ra, severed fiootpatn thus irsedfto leeeclrdown-finto the .best su gar -grove, in.-firadeli did ; little else v.or, Ewc.r,.all day. Iong -day, after day, about tlie'urious.ima)cf nature that had bereft him of his property. . But he gets no sympathy from any one. N 'Neath the Harvest Moon. "How would you like," asked the ar dent lover, to lie in my arms forever and ever?" 4 . She gave him a quick.lopk, then an swered: "I should ;like, nothing better. "Ah, darling, then " : "But evading his embrace, phe broke In ''. "T caM T. r.hoil Id liko nothing bet- ter. September Young's Magazine. ; fi f )t.i;m:iM;ini!Mt"pu,"mrnmiui'"t n" :''-'i'M;rn- 1 Is. nil . A&CctaWe PfCpacationFocAs I similatir.g the Food andttcgula ling the Stomachs andBowels of. Promotes Digcstion.ChecrFuH ness and Rest.Cofllains neither Opiura.Morpliine norIinexal. Tox NAr c o xi c . V2 ipe ofOkinrSAItUELPtrCimil Jmtpkm Seed" Mx.Senwt Onhelie SettS- fofermine - . "Cfotfted .fhgnr Whtciytmen. Flavon A perfect Remedy forConslipa Uon , Sour Stomach.Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions .Feverish ness andluOss OF SLEEP. Facsimile Signature of NEW YORK. 1 . j.zJ-'W li'ifi it rr n iiiiiniiriwM'r ii. EXACT COPY OF.WBAPPER. 3 florsc and We have a large stock to select from and our prices are right Single Driving Harness : from $ 6.2 5 up Riding Saddles from .......$ 1 . 5 0 up Our Repair Department is in charge of an expert. Highest Cash Prices. Paid for Hides :RNCtLD :.M. SHAW 32 East Trade Street. Charlotte, N. C. i 4 OF UNITED STATES Trade of the United States with its noncontiguous territories amounted tc in rounds terms 120 million dollars ir, the fiscal year just ended, or to be more accurate, $119,304,511. The shipments to oncontiguous ter ritories amounted to 53 2-3- million del lars, against 43 1-2 millions in the lis cal year 1905, this growth of about 20 per cent occurring inshipments tc AlaskaJ Hawaii, and Porto Rico, but especially Porto Rico; while to the Philippine Islands there was a reduc tion of about three-quarters of a mil lion dollars. - The shipments to noncontiguous ter- noncontiguous territories of the Unit tP- oouppd to 67 2-3 million flollars, &gainst75 1-4 millions in the leuing year, tnis fall occurring al most exclusively in the shipments from the Hawaiian Island, and being due chefly to the. decrease in the value of sugar, which formed theb ulk-o the 27 million dollars' worth of merchan dise sent last year from those islands to. the United States. The quantity of raw sugar sent from the Hawaiian Is lands to the United States in the fis cal year 1906 was 712 million pounds, against 511 millions in the preceding year; but the value in 1906 was but 24 million dollars, against 34 millions in the preceding year, the average val ue per pound in 1905 being 4.2 cents and in 1906 3.3 cents, thus accounting for-tiie fall of nearly 10 million dol lars in the value pf the sugar ship ments, to the United . States. . From Alaska the shipments to the United States also show a sligh re duction, this being due to a decrease" in the quantity of canned salmon shipped to the United States, which fell from 92 1-2 million pounds in 1905 to 86 1-2 millions in 1906, the value in 1906 being about 2 million dollars less than in 1905. . . From Porto Rico the shipments to the United States are 3 1-2 million dol lars greater than in 1905, being in 1906 over 19 million dollars, against 15 1-2 millions in 1905. This increase occurs chiefly in sugar and cigars, the value of sugar sent from Porto Rico to the United-States having been in 1906 14 1-2 million dollars, against a little over 12 million dollars in 1905; and of. cigars, 3 million dollars in. 1906, against a little. oyer 2. miUions in 190., The figures show 'Van ; ine'regike, in shipments ItP: all Qfj'tH, eripncpnqguM territories .except ,the,( P,hilinyftfe Ijs-, lands. The 'shipmerits tq 'Alaska 'areV for -:tb-e fisci..,yea'r. 'I906.,;,i umiriidn dollars, against ll 1-2 millions in 1905; to Porto Rico, 19 .millions in 1906; against 14 millions In 1905; to Hawaii, 12 millions in 1906, against 11 3-4 mil lions in 1905; and to the Philippine Islands, 5 1-2 million in 1906, against about 6 1-4 millions in 1905. The ship ments from the Philippine Islands to the United . States, also' show a slight decrease," being, $12,337,927 in 1906, against .$12,657,904 in 1905. , . The .movements from gold from Alaska are also interesting. ' The value of gold of domestic production shipped mm ERGIAL FACTS For Infants and ChildnL The Kind You Have i "f'f ill' i . Lfl t-,i; ''!; .Ki.iii : Bears-the Signature of Mule Jeweln ft G ifrom,:. Alaska ".to the . United States in 1906, was 12 i-2'inillion 'dollars, ;ip,aiii: t 9 millions in the preceding ycur, juhI of foreign gold, 7 1-2 millions in 1K against 10 3-4 millions in 190,"., this "foreign" gold being in the product )f mines in the adjacent Iiiitiili lerri- orv shinned to tlio united lanj.; ;hrough Alaska. . The shipments to the noncontiguous territories which, as above indicate!, amounted in the fiscal year, .)M, i' 31 2-3 million dollars, against 1-2 millions in the preceding year, wore orincipaliy manufacturers and l'onl ituffs in a prepared or partial iy pre pared state. The merchandise li i j .j d from the tropical territories was cliM- ly sugar, hemp and tobacco, in M' shipments to Torto Rico, wliich au'Kie ?ated 19. million dollars in the li:ca; t ?. 1-1 niillious manufactures of iron and sleH; -millions manufactures of cotton, a In - tie less than 2 millions proisions. ;ui' ; 3 1-3 millions rice grown in Cic ' '-','''tlf States. In the shipments to I la wan. iron and steel manufactures aniu .u -amounted last rear to 1 1-3 million H lars; mineral oils, chiefly in a n;ii i t.A miilinns. breads) ii U:-! ' 1 - millinno onrl nrnvisionS a I'llU J"11 11 , dollars. "What in the world i? ,tbc m j with you? Are you crazy: dcnun the mother. "No'm." was the answer "I'm V lo fliof vnn floll't spec mo to t;u: iU giau ntuo - - c,.nti''I;. no baths never any inoi U. bcr Young's Magazine. Wash Washed i Washing ,., .i,iv ' wash" to nf oenu ma ..i-"-.- e and have it washed by n ; -cial Household Flan. u ing is different bon. ;( nary kind in more ; ,;. one. Its .t'Y' , tl,;u clean and returned in i (. ''half the usual time. weckJ;'1 i"-';'('.! i. ; , Laundry LAUNDERERS. DYE5' CLEANEBS 219 smth Tryon Street. -""IT" wv at the Moum, 29 S. 'iru" vfi- ' imr iiii atit 1 ft iF For Over 'llHt!l II Thirty aars i ' TH OENTAUn lOMMttTi NEW VOWH CITY. fTf'iiil Hi liliii ill P ywili".f'Ii t i
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Aug. 18, 1906, edition 1
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