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Sunday Morning, Sep. 9, 1894
. THE BURDEN OF TAXATION
The expenses of this Governtfient
-amount in round iigures-tosouu.uuu,-
000 annually. This amount of money
must be raised. and it must be raised
by taxation of some kind. For years
the expenses of ,Qoveenment have
been increasing out of all proportion
to the increase of-population, and
the people have becorrie so .accus
tomed to thts extravagance that irj
all probability the.y will nevr get
back to the econqrny that, untrl this
generation, prevailed, in our Govern
mental affairs. It is -much easier to
slip into .a rut than, to get out of it,
and whatever the effort may bje,
however 'honestly made or we'll di
rected, we will never get out of this
rut of extravagance, .and iqcre'asing
extravagance, in which we have bee.a
jrunnin for thirty odd years; We
bay reduce these $500,000,000 ex
penditures a-few millions, but the re
duction will be a trifle irj comparison
with the "amount- that must still be
raised. . ! -v
With economy - and stopping the
frauds in pensions, which may de
crease from year to year, there will
be a saving, but in the meantime
there' qi!r: be increases for other pur-;
poses, sa that we may calculate on
this roanby$500,000,000-expenditure
for years to come.
With all its honest effort's at re
trenchment the Democratic adminis
tration have reduced expenditures
this year about 14,000,000 net, and
this was done bv savins about S28.-
J ' O "V 7
000,000 in pensions. If there had
been no lopping off of the pension
frauds, the appropriations, with all;
the economy, would have been about
$14,000,000 more than last year, and
we would have gone over the billion
dollar mark for this Congress. If
all the mnnpv aclfH frr hrH hpon
J ...... V. V. , J .
appropriated we would have gone
very far above it.
But the fact is that while we write
about economy and talk about it,
and scold Congress for not cutting
down the bills more, the people
themselves are responsible for the
burdens put upon them or which they
put upon themselves. By a sort of
common consent and common usage
jrown strong by years of indulgence
he United States Treasury has come
to be regarded as a fund from
which all have a right to draw, and
rom which all are trying to draw as
nuch as they can and each trying to
jet more than the other. Going for
'the flag and an appropriation" has
aeen the order of the day, and gene
rally speaking a Congressman's
utility and efficiency are measured by
the amount of money he can squeeze
out of the Treasury for some object
in which his constituents may be in
terested. j The Representatives of the Sea
board cities want millions for the
improvement of rivers and harbors.
They want millions more for fortin
tions for those cities, and millions
more for warships and floating for
tresses. The Representatives from
trie interior want millions to improve
the navigation of the lakes, millions
more to cut canals to connect lakes
and rivers, millions more to make
reservoirs to water the arid plains,
aid' millions more for great national
parks among the crags and peaks
and geysers and tumbling waters of
the towering mountains. If they
were all of one mind and the selfish
ness of one didn't offer a barrier to
tlje selfishness of the other, there is
no telling what figures the appropria
tions would reach.
And then comes the statesman
with a theory, or the crank with a
hobby who wants not millions only
for some job or scheme, some useful
or useless purpose, but tens, hun
dreds and thousands of millions to
carry out some crank idea that he
bias been nursing In his disordered
brain. And thus it goes. They are
raiding the Treasury, from the
man with his pocket full of little
private pension bills to the man with
his bill for' hundreds of millions to
improve the public higyways to give
the Coxey gangs work, or feed the
idlers at the public expense, and
every one of these has a constituency
behind him, ready to applaud him
and to keep on electing him while he
is pulling for them, provided they
have votes enough to elect him.
They either forget or ignore the
fact that every dollar, tor whatever
purpose, that comes out of the
Treasury ot the United States comes
out of the pockets of the people and
at last out of the pockets of the
working man and the poor, for in the
final process nearly all if not all tax
ation trick es through to him. Con
gress ievies import duties lor reve
nue. The importer pays the duty to
the Government and the purchaser
of the goods pays the duty back to
him. Congress levies excise taxes
and the consumer of the liquors, to
bacco, cigars and other things taxed
pays the taxes. Congress puts a
protective duty on sugar or other
things grown or produced or manu
factured in this country and the peo
ple who use. them pay the protective
duty. ; And thus it goes on every
thing. Taxes are levied and the
few, however large the burden may
be, shift it on to the shoulders of the
masses, and the masses are poor.
And yet the rich and the protected
howl ten times as much when the
protection is reduced as the poor,
struggling masses do who bear the
whole burden. The masses are get
ting mighty tired of that thing and
some day they will give the howlers
more reason for howling.
MINOR MENTION.
Since Marion Butler has gone into
co-partnership- with the Republican
bosses, he is not oniy palling with
them, but imitating their methods.
He lias learned the art of tapping the
faithful, for contributions. Several
years ago, Chairman Eaves, of the
Republican State Committee, who
was at the late Republican Conven
tion sat upon and bounced, achieved
some notoriety by issuing his secret
Circular to his strikers to pick out a
dozerior so! "not-afraid. of-the-devil"
soft of fellows to bulldoze the regis
trars and hang around the polls on
election day to help challenged Re
publican voters to get in their votes
and intrmidate as many Democratic
yoters as they could. Eaves' game
didn't work worth a continental for
his , side, but it made Derao;
crats indignant and red hot, and
the result was a gain of several
thousand votes to the Democratic
.ticket. Marion has lately been fol
lowing the example of Eaves by urg
ing his'strikeis to send picked -dele
gations before the Boards of County
Commissioners with lists of "relia
bles" and insist that some of them
be appointed judges of election, to
represent the Populists. They ap
peared as directed in many counties
last Monday but, while they were
treated courteously, as far as we
know they were generally informed
that the Commissioners understood
the law an.d could perform their duties .
without any assistance from Marion
and his tools. Marian doesn't play
the bluff game- with half the cow
bow dash that Ea'ves did. . He isn't
built that way and Jit shouldn't at
tempt it.
".
The Populist Senators and Rep
resentatives in the past session of
Congress made a record for dashing
financiering which has doubtless
never been equalled in any legisla
tive body past or present on the face
of the earth. There were ten bills
introduced by them calling for the
expenditure of sums ranging from
$1,000,000, the smallest, to $12,000,
000,000, the largest, aggregating
$35,507,300,000. Of course they'
didn't expect these bills or any of
them to go through. They were not
introduced for that purpose, but to
make capital with the deluded con
stituencies which these mountebanks
represented. But if they had a ma
jority in Congress and a President
to back them then they would have
got down to business instead of bun
combe and we would have had a lot
of legislation just as crude, wild
and insane as these bills, and the ap
propriations for all sorts of rattle
brain purposes would have been
passed not by millions only but by
hundreds of millions. They wouldn't
have minded the expense for they
would have set the wheels of the
Government printing presses in mo
tion and printed stacks of paper and
and put them afloat as long as
anybody could be found to take one
of them and give anything in ex
change for it. They would put the
mints to work to coin all the gold
and silver offered and with a hatful
of paper to a dollar of coin they
would say "here's your flexible vol
ume of currency." The Pop party
has some great statesmen in Con
gress and has some others equally as
great in soak.
m at
Ik
When the tariff bill was under con
sideration it was contended by the
protection advocates that putting
wool on the free list would place
American wool at the mercy of for
eign wool and ruin the wool-growing
industry in this country. This was
said in the face of the fact that under
the protective McKtnley tariff the
price of domestic wool was stead
ily declining until it had got as,, low
as ten cents a pound. In the mean
time the importations of foreign
wool continued. Now, contrary to
all these prophecies of disaster, there
is more activity in American wool
than there has been for some
time and the price instead of
going down is going up. Since the
new tariff with its free wool has gone
into effect the prices of domestic
wools have advanced about ten per
cent, while the prices of foreign
wools have declined forty per cent.
Prophecies do not always pan out,
especially when they are made from
a political standpoint, for political
purposes, and without any regard to
trade statistics or the business condi
tions. Facts and figures are one thing
and theories are another. We have
some men in this country who imag
ine themselves statesmen and insist
that the Government ownership of
the railroads would be a panacea for
many of the ills the country is suffer
ing from. Possibly the Government
might operate a tew of the railroads
successfully, when all the conditions
favored, but when it came to oper
ating about 177,000 miles of road
then it would find an elephant on its
hands than it would soon be very
anxious to trade off, and would prob
ably have to give away to get rid of.
The following which we find in the
Baltimore Sun, shows about what
the size of this elephant would be:
"The capital invested in railroads in
the United States, according to the re
cent report of the Inter-State Commerce
Commission, gets but a small return,
reckoned in percentages. The aggre
gate of share capital on June 30, 1893,
was $4,669,000,000, but of this $2,859.
000,000, or 61.24 per cent. more than
half paid no-dividends. In the previ
ous year the percentage of non-paying
stock was 60.60 per cent., and in 1890-91
it was 59 64 per cent. But in addi
tion to the large amount of stock
making no return, there were $743,
000,000 of bonds, or 14.39 per cent, of
the whole, that paid no interest. No
less than $3,602,000,000 of stocks and
bonds failed of income in the year ended
June 30. 1893. In the year just ended,
since the arrival of the panic and depres
sion, the case has doubtless been much
worse. Not only have rates fallen lower,
but gross and net earnings have gone
down together. The figures at hand
for the first six months of the calendar
year 1894 show gross earnings ol but
$357,201,483 against $427,934,491 in the
like 'period of 1893, the miies of road re
ported being 112,570 against 111,165 in
1893. A loss of $100,000,000 in six
months shows thfe intensity of the de
pressing Influences that have recently
weighed upon business.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The demand upon the Treas
ury for small notes is one of the
many indications now visible on
every, hand of the rapid .recuperation
of business. If the Republicans in
Pennsylvania in providing a $40 per
capita issue could, make it in ones
and twos they wouid confer an addi,
tional favor upon the recipients of
their generous bounty. F 'ML Record '
Dem.
-When Democrats start 1 to
abusing .Populists it is well to re
member "that Populists are the same
sort of people they are: that a few
years ago they were good Democrats,
and in a few years they will, all be
Democrats again. There is-no wis
dom, therefore, in making breaches
that it will be difficult to bridge over,
and personal differences that it wilt
be hard to heal. Politics is not a
matter of prejudice, personal ism or
fanaticism; but is a question of Gov
ernmental policy and statecraft.--
Augusta, Ga., Chronicle, . Dem.
SUNDY ELECTIONS.
The man who would be strong
in mind must feed on facts. Ram's
Horn.
'i There are souls in this world
that have the gift of finding joy every
where. Faber.
Whether I speak to one or to
thousands in my audience, 1 always try
do my best. ohn.B. Gough. .
Happy is he who speaks little,
for words beget accidents, gloom and in
terior trouble. S. Henrv Suso.
There are three things in this
world which deserve no quarter hipoc
risy,; pharisaism and tyranny. F. Rob
ertson. Not only is God everywhere,
but all of God is in every point. Not
His wisdom here, and His goodness
there; the whole truth may be read, if
we had eyes, and heart, and time
enough, in the laws of a day's growth.
God s beauty. His love. His unity.
F. IV. Robertson.
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WHEN Jin WAS DEAD.
F. L. STANTON.
When Jim was dead
"Hit sarved him right," the nabors sed,
An' 'bused him for the life he'd led,
An' him a-lyin' thar at rest
With not a rose upon his breast !
Ah ! menny cruel words thev sed
Wben Jim was dead.
"Jes" killed hisselt." "Too mean ter live."
They didn't have one word ter give
Of comfort as they hovered near
An' gazed on Jim a-lyin' there !
"Thar ain't no use to talk," they sed,
"He's better dead."
But suddenly the room growed still.
While God's white sunshine seemed ter
fill.
The dark place with a gleam of life.
An' o'er the dead she bent Jim's wife !
An' with her lips close, close ter his.
As though he knew an' felt the kiss.
She sobbed a touchin' sight ter ee ?"
"Ah, Jim was always good ter me ?"
I tell you, when that cum ter light.
It kinder set the dead man right;
An' round the weepin' woman they
Throwed kindly arms of love that day.
An' mingled with her own they shed
Thetenderest tears when Jim was dead
SPIRITS TURPENTINE.
RaleighV.f : A gentleman
was in our omce this morning in his
sixty-seventh year who has never known
the taste of whiskey and has not chewed
tobacco for fifty years.
Chatham Record: On last Tues
day Mr. Henry C. Whitehead, of Hick
ory Mountain township, was accidentally
killed by the running awav of his team.
He was hauling some logs or sills for a
house and bis mules ran away, and he
was thrown from the wagon and horribly
crushed by some of the timbers falling
on him, dying almost instantly
Windsor Ledger: News was
brought to town Saturday that Capt,
lohn Williams, who resides at Clover
Grass, this county, died that morning.
Capt. Williams had been unwell for
some weeks and retired Friday night as
usua', but did not get up at the usual
time Saturday morning. On going to
his room some hours later he uai found
dead in the bed. Mr. Williams was 61
years of age
Salisbury Watchman : The
handsome high school building t Nor
wood, Stanly county, was totally des
troyed by fire Monday night. All the
school furniture, including an organ, was
burned up in the building. The loss
amounts to about $1,200, with no insur
ance. The fire was discovered shortly
after midnight, but had made such
headway that nothing could be saved.
The cause of the fire is a mystery.
Wilkesboro Chronicle : J. L.
Whittington is opening probably the
richest copper mine that has ever been
discovered in North Carolina. He has
sunk a shaft about eight feet deep, and
has thrown up more than a ton of rich
ore. By present indications this vein is
believed to be about 160 feet broad. Mr.
Whittington carried a small ladel of this
oie to his shop and melted out a bail of
pure copper as large as a partridge egg.
The mineral is in ten miles of the head
of the railroad at Wilkesboro.
Raleigh News and Observer.
Miss Esther Crabtree, who lives on
North Salisbury street, went out for a
walk about five o'clock yesterday after
noon and was found asleep near the
edge of the woods at the end of the
street. Near her was an empty three
once bottle which had contained lauda
num, the contents of which she bad
taken in order, to kill herself. Medical
aid was immediately summoned and it is
now believed that she will recover. It
is believed that the cause ot this rash
attempt was disappointment in a love
affair. It is certain that she and her
lover had a quarrel some time ago and
that she has since been brooding over
the matter.
TWINKl INGS.
The poorer a family the more
romantic the names given the children.
Atchison Globe.
No matter how it may be in
other lines of business, a man always
kicks when he finds things dull in a bar
ber shop. Buffalo Courier.
Dibbles Is it true that Kash
er's father kicked on your coming to his
house ?
Dudell (sadly) Er no; on my going,
Buffalo Courier.
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Mars, but the freight rates from Mars
are so high we can't expect much com
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HEART DISEASE.
Fluttering, No Appetite, Could
not Sleep, Wind on Stomach.
"For a long time I had a terrible
pain at my heart, which fluttered al
most incessantly. I had no appetite
and could not sleep. I would be
compelled to sit up in bed and belch
gas from my stomach until I thought
every minute would be my last.
There was a feeling of oppression
about my heart, and I was afraid to
draw a full breath. I could not sweep
a room without resting. My husband
induced me to try
Dr. Miles' Heart Cure
and am happy to say it has cured me.
I now have a splendid appetite and
sleep well. Its effect was truly mar
velous." MBS. HA.KBY K. STARK, PottsTiUe, Pa.
Dr. Miles Heart Core Is sold on a Dosltlvo
guarantee that the iirst bottle will Tboneflt.
JUldrnggtets sell it at II, 6 bottles for B, or
'twlU ho sent, prepaid, on receipt of price
by the Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart , Ind.
Dg. Miles' Nerve Plasters 25c. at all dmmj8f&
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THE STAR'S FASHION HINTS.
PARISIAN IDEAS.
Dresses. Hats. Cravats, Bonnets and Veils
at the Period.
Tho two choux which have boon so popu
lar a finish for tho nock bands of crope and
moussolino do fioio collars are giving place
to small bunches of artificial flowers se
lected to match those trimming tho hat,
Veils of net covered with a close pat
tern In application aro the fashion of tho
moment. They almost hldo the face from
sight and are ailmlrnbly calculated to qon
ceal tho ravages of time and tho complex
ion specialist.
Parlsianvtvomen favor white kid shoes
with yollow leather trimmings, as well aa
tho all whito ones which havo been so
much seen hero.
Guipure continues in general use and
shows no sign of a decline in public esti
mation. It is always efifectlvo and may
DONN-ET AKD CRAVAT,
be even more satisfactorily- combined with
wool and velvofc goods than with thin
fabrics, so it will probably bo ono feature
of fall toilets if not of winter ones.
Tho hat of tho period Is of amplo pro
portions. fThero aro a few close toquo
shapes consisting of flowers, jet and a bow
of ribbon,' but large hats are the rulo.
They are often made of shirred mousse
lino do solo or havo lace brims, or a round
straw shape Is trimmed with chous of
moussellno do 6oie and a flounce of tho
samo material falls over tho edge of tho
brim Uko a valance. With the addition
of a bow of changeable ribbon, this 6tylo is
considered altogether charming in Paris.
Immense whito cravats, of crepo do
chine, moussellno dc solo and Rlnfllar
fabrics aro coming In again. They aro
euro to bo well received, for they are almost
universally becoming. Everybody ac
knowledges that a man looKs better in
evening dress than at any other time, be
cause of tho largo expanse of whito near
tho face, and tho samo principle applies to
women in dark gowns. Tho big whito
scarf produces tho same effect as the broad
shirt bosom.
Tho illustration shows a reception bon
net of rosebuds, lilies of tho valley and vio
lets. It is trimmed with two jet wings
and has no strings. The cravat is of
cream moussellne do soie trimmed on the
ends with antique lace.
Artificial flowers arc more fashionable
than over, so much so that their popular
ity said to have given renewi vigor to
the'business of making them.
Jrnic ClIOLLET.
NECESSARY LUXURIES.
Relative Importance to Life of Sleep and
Food.
The term "sybarite" has come to have
a rather vague meaning In modern times
and' is generally applied to somebody
whose pet indulgence is different frony our
own. As a matter of fact, it is a question
whether it better describes the person
who makes necessities of luxuries or tho
one who makes luxuries of necessities.
One's sympathy Is naturally more engaged
by the latter individual, since as he or
she, for present purposes must havo ne
cessities, she may as well havo them of tho
best kind. Thcro is something more rca-
I'EIGXOIIt.
sonablo in the idea that a woman demands
tho very best sort of bread and butter than
that she insists that she cannot live with
out truffles and champagno every day.
Bread and butter aro-necessitles and truf
fles and champagne are not.
But tho tending of these remarks, la
meant to be toward the subject of beds.
Beds are a necessity, and too ofton a stern
necessity, unyielding as fate. An aston
ishing number of housekeepers wear pretty
clothes, set their table with pretty -dishes
and arrange an agreeable bill of faro for
their guests, but condemn them to" sleep
on a mattress stuffed with Iron filings and
pillows liko a dry meal poultice. Thehed
linen being fresh and an allowance- of tcx
tra coverings being provided, everything
is supposed to bo satisfactory.
But it is bottor tohavethejguest's conch
an uncomfortable ono than that of a mem
ber of tho family, which Is occupiedjDvcry
night. Tho more tiresome and'tryfng
one's daylight hours arc, .the moroheTo
quires Complete rest and relaxation at
night on a- bed that will not keep one
aVjake with aching bones, and with pil-laa-
that are thoroughly substantial. Wo
tvlknow that sleep is. moroimportanClo
the ; preservation of life and -health JSu
is uerton food. Bettor. Is a dinner of ih Tb$
tvlth a w-.fbed to retire to afterward,tjlia,u
a.' stalled ox that -must be digested Jon t
V. M L n,i . , . . - - .A -
are a .worker of any . sort, with braln or
hand, indulge yourself with ft.goWBpr
bed and hair mattress even if you bin"'
go wit in iu t rvo new gowns to
them, for you need alHtho case
hight in order that nature" may o
her recuperative powers.
The sketch shows a peignoir of whito
percale trimmed with white embroidery
frills. A band of beading threaded with
lavender ribbon heads the ruffles.
Jupjo CBpyjiT.
ShantTtown Real Estate Movement.
Murphy (who has just awakened)
Groat heavens, Biddy, that robber Mo
Glnnis has foreclosed tho mortgage
f whilst we were rfMBfcM Truth.
J. H. HARDiNand T- Hicks Bunt
ing. Druggists, will tell you that John
son's Magnetic Oil always gives satisfac
tion and is the cheapest. $1.00 size 60
cents; 50 cents size 25 cents. 1
A Household Treasure.
D. W. Fuller, of Canajoharie, N. Y..
ays that he always keeps Dr. King's
New Discovery in the house and his
family has always found the very best
results to follow its use: that he would
not be without if procurable. G. A. Dyke
man, Druggist, Catakill, says that Dr.
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it in his family for eight years, and it has
never failed to do all that is claimed for
it. Why not try a remedy so long tried
and tested. Trial bottles at R. R. Bel
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A TREE WITH A TEMPER.
rt Grow. In Arizona With Another That
Give. Light Like an Electric Lamp.
"There are more queer things to. the
aero in Arizona than in any other part
of this wide land," said ColonelBrace
Dion of Honck's Tank, Apacho county,
"and, according to my idea, and I know
pretty near what queer things are, tho
queerest thing in all Arizona is tho
tree that has a temper worse than a
blond comio opera prima donna's and
gets its dander up with just as small
provocation. They tell me out there
that this treo belongs to tho coniferous
species. It grows to bo something liko
25 feet high and then stops. Its leaves
are long, slender and pointed, like por
cupine quills. When this treo is In a
good humor, these leaves lie close to tho
branches, and it spreads a pleasant aro
matic odor all around. But when it is
angry every loaf on tho treo rises up ou
ehd, and tho aspect of that particular
piece of timber is about as fierce and
threatening as anything you would caro
to look at Th6 pleasant resinous odor
tho treo sent forth in its peaceful mood
gives way to an odor that will put wings,
on your feet to place as much distance
as you con between the offensive tree
and yourself.
"This tree is very touchy on the sub
ject of dogw, and the coming of a canine
anywhere near it will instantly make
it furioua Yet a wolf, a grizzly bear
or a mountain lion never ruffles tho tem
per of this tree if those animals do not
presume on too great familiarity with
it. They may lie around it as long as
they care to, but if ono of thorn so far
forgets itself as to rub or scratch tho
trunk of tho treo tho hot tempered thing
will fly into ono of its tantrums in
stantly, and the way Mr. Boar, Wolf or
Lion will make himself scarce in those
parts is a wholo eirens to sec. Nothing
will work this tree up to concert pitch,
though, so quick and effectually as
throwing stones at it. Then it will ac
tually rip and tear, and no living thing
Yrould think of going within gunshot of
it'Rome folks out at Houck's Tank call
this tree the porcupine tree, and some
say its right name is skunk tree. I call
it the holy terror tree. But, no matter
what you call it, it is a queer job of
nature, iuul Arizona claims it as her
own.
"While this tree Is the only real,
genuine vegetable kingdom crank we've,
got in Arizona, wo point with porno
more pride to another tree that only
Arizona soil has tho talent to produce.
This one is tho electric light tree. This
tree is not as abundant as the holy ter
ror tree and is a dwarf, seldom having
tho courage to get more than 12 feet
high. Its foliage is very dense, and at
night it gleams like an arc light. Tho
light that shines from this trs is so
strong that one may sit 20 feet away
and read fine print. The queerest point
this tree is that its light begins to
grow dim with tho coming of the new
moon and steadily loses brilliancy until
tho moon is full. Then tho treo is as
dark as a mine. When the moon begins
to wane, the tree's luminosity is gradu
ally renewed, and by the time the moon
has disappeared the treo is shining again
as brightly as ever. Sometimes the light
on this queer treo becomes faint oven
in tho dark of tho moon. Then wo havt
to do a queer thing to restore it. We
drench it with a bucketful or two of
water, and instantly tho effulgent glow
will return in all its brilliancy. "-p-Ncw
York Sun.
Where the Money Is Found.
Englishmen aro the milk cows of the
world. They are the groat lenders from
whom all other nations borrow. For
generations they have been rich and
saving nntil at last their annual accu
mulations havo become greater than the
annual openings for legitimate invest
ment So severe has the pressure be
come that latterly tho money lender has
been forcing his money into every kind
of undertaking, in all ports of tho world,
creating, by his own eagerness to lend,
the vorre'sponding desire to borrow.
It is the weight of uninvested money
which stimulates borrowing, not tho
cupidity of the impecunious. Borrowing
has not produced lending, but lending
borrowing. Interest has continued to
fall because thcro aro moro lenders than
borrowers. If Englishmen think, then
that any communities havo dipped too
deep into the English purse, they can
easily apply the corrective by a little
self control. They should abstain from
further lending. This may seem a he
roio remedy, but it is the only remedy.
Contemporary Review.
She l'ut Illm to th Test.
"Yes, darling," ho said in tones of
deep tenderness, "I would do anything
to show my love for you. ' '
"Ah," sighed the gentle maiden.
"that's what all men say when they
are striving to win a woman's heart "
"Put mo to the proof, "ho said in
wild, passionate tones, ' 'put me to the
proof. Test mo and sec if I fail. Set mq
any test witnin tho bonnds of possibih
ty, and it shall be performed. "
"Ah," she murmured, "if I could
only beliovo you!"
"Put mo to the tost Say to mo, 'Do
this or that, ' and it shall bo done.
"Yes, " she murmured slowly, "thero
is one thing I should like yon to do,
if"
"Oh, tell me, and let me do it! Now
you shall behold tho height, tho depth.
tho length, the breadth, the circumfer
ence of my love for yon," he cried ex
ultantly. The maiden dropped her
lashes, a smile dimpled the corners of
her mouth as sho gently murmured,
"Marry some other girl. " London Tit
Bits. IIo Might.
There is a man in Chicago who has
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word in praiso of Chicago or in dispar
agement of New York. It is thought
that if ho were not deaf and dumb h
might mak a few remarks. Now York
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WILMINGTON MARKET.
STAR OFFICE. Sept. 8.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE Firm at
25 cents per gallon bid; 2fi cents
asked. No sales.
ROSIN Market firm at 85 cents
per bbl. for Srained. and 90 cents for
Good Strained.
TAR. Market firm at $1 10 per
bbl. of 280 lbs.
CRUDE TURPENTINE. Market
steady at $1 00 for Hard, $1 60 for
Yellow Dip and $1 90 for Virgin.
COTTON. Nominal. Nothing doing.
n KCKirrx.
Cotton.
318 bales
213 casks
G18 bbls
132 bbls
49 hbls
Spirts Turpentine
R(i,-!!n.
Tar
Crvrtr Turpentine.
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r!y:pt! .-tiu Mori-nt -n
Financial.
New York, September 8 -Evening .
Money on call easy at 1 percent. Prime
mercantile paper 4i4 per cent iter-
lng exchange steady: acr.ua; business
nbar.rf.crs bills at 4e.j&fH5iZ !oi sixlv
days4854864 ltjr demand. Commer
cial mils 484484. Governme.it
bonds s'.eady; United Stales coupon fours
lift; United Mtcs twos 9fi. S'ate
bontis dull, N'orth Carolina fours. 99,
Nonh Carolina sixes 123. Railroad
bonds itrculr.
Silver at the Stork Exchange in-day
UJi bid.
Commti cttiM
New Yckx. September 8- Evenns
Cotton quiet; middling gulf. 7 J 10c,
middling uplands (j 15-1 6c.
Cotton futures market closed steady;
September 6.676 C9c; October G71&
7.72c; November 6.766.78c; Dcn-mbc-
6.826 83c; January 6.8856 89c; Feb:u
ary 6 910 9nc; March 7 017 Oic; Apr ;
7.147.15c; June 7.21 7. '.-.2c.
Net receipts bales; gross receipts
2.770 bales; exports to Great Britain
874 balesto the Continent J.838 bales;for
warded 1,102 bales; sale 177 bales all m
spinels, stock 91,251 bales
Total to-day Net receipts 9 394 bales;
export: to Great Britain 874, bales, ex-
pors to France Dales; exports to the
Continent 1.838 bales;stock 199,037 bales.
Total so far this week-Net receipts 9.-
384 bales; exports to Great Britain 874
bales; to France bales; to the
Continent 1 838 bales; to the Channel
bales
Total since September 1 Net re
ceipts 47,5 1 9 bales; exports to Great
Britain 14.345 bales; experts to France
bales; exports to the Continent 2.751
bales; to the Channel bales.
Flour dull and weak; demand light.
wider wheat. low graces $1 85
24 0; lair to fancy grades $3 402 90.
patents $2 55 3 10; Minnesota clear
$2 25&2 y,5; patents 3 40&3 75;
low extras 1 852 50. Southern flour
dull and weak; common to fair extrr.
2 10&3 00, good to choice do. 3 00
50 Wheat dull and firmer; No. 2 red
in store and at elevator 58c; afloat 59
59c; options were dull and firm at j
c advance; September 58c; De
cember 61sgC May 66?c. Corn dull;
mixed nominally sc up and firm; No. 2
at elevatot 84,c; afloat 6565c; op
tions quiet rind firm at 14C advance;
September 63c; October 633c; De
cember 60Mc, May 59c. Oats quiet
and firm; options dull and nrmer. Sep
tember 34c;October 35L;November 36);
December 37c; spot No, 2 3434c;
No 2 white 37c: mixed Western 34
35; white do. 3641c. Hay dull, weak,
large supply; shipping 4550c, good to
choice 6575c. Wool was quiet and
steady; domestic fleece 1824c. pulled
15A15MC Beef dull out steady; family
$10 0012 00; extra mess $8 008 50,
beef hams quiet at $22 00, tierced
beef quoted quiet and firm; city extrt
India mess $17 50. Cut meats markea
dull and firm; pickled bellies 9Ric;
pickled shoulders 774c; pickled hams
lllliJ. Middles nominal. Lard quiet
and firm; Western steam $9 05. city
$8 624. September $9 10; January $8 60,
nominal; retined lard firmer, Continent
; South America $9 75; compound
$7 007 12L. Pork firm and quiet;
mess $15 50$15 75; extra prime $13 50
14 00. Butter quiet and fancy firm;
State dairy 1422Lc; do. creamery 18
23c; Western dairy 13l7c; do.
creamery 1524c; Elgins 24c. Cotton
seed oil quiet and firm; crude 30c; yellow
c. Rice firm; demand good at quota
tions; domestic, fair to extra 44
5c; )apan 443. Molasses foreign
nominal; New Orleans. open kettle, good
to choice, dull, steady at 2736c. Pea
nuts quiet. Coffee options steady and
unchanged to 15 points up; September
$13 6013 70; December $12 55; March
$12 25; spot Rio dull and nominal; No. 7,
$15 75. Sugar raw firm and quiet;
fair refining 3c; refined quiet and
steadv; off A 4 7-1643c; standard A
4 13-165c; cut-leaf 5?$5 9 16c;
crushed 55 9-16c; granulated 4 1316
5irc. Freights to Liverpool dull and
irregular; cotton, per steamer. 3 32d;
gram, per steamer lljd
Chicago, September 8 Cash quou.-ticr-s:
Flour dull but steady, with prices
unchanged. Wheat No. 2 spring 54?
55c; No.2 red 5253. Coin No a.
not reported. Oats- No. 2, 80c. Mess
pork, bbl, $14 2014 25. Larn pet ICO
lbs., 8 72V8 75. Short rib sides, lcose
per .100 lbs. $7 707 80. Dry salted
shouldeis, boxed per 100 lbs $6 80
G 90. Short clear sides, boxed - per 100
lbs., $8 108 25. Whiskey $1 33.
The leading tutures ranged as lollow
Opening, highest lowest ana closing:
Wheat No. 2 September 54, 54, 53,
54 Lc; December 5757. 57J657K.57,
57c; May 62, 62. 62. 62j62?i
Corn No. 2 September 56, 57,
56Vt. 57;October 56 57Jf . 56, 56c; May
5455. 55, 54, 54c, Oats No.
2 September 29. 30g, 29. SOJrf; Oc
tober 30S30, 3116, 30?405, 31
31 Vic; May S5tf. 35, 35. 36c.
Mess pork, per bbl. September $14 15,
14 20, 14 15, 4 20; fanuary $14 00, 14 10,
14 00, 14 05. Lard, per 100 lbs Septem
ber $8 70. 8 77, 8 70, 8 77; October
$8 72. 8 80. 8 72. 8 80; January
$8 15, 8 22, 8 12, 8 20. Short nbs,per
100 lbs September $7 67. 7 70, 7 67,
7 67. October $7 70, 7 72, 7 65,7 70;
January $7 15, 7 22, 7 15, 7 20.
Baltimore, Sept. 8 Flour dull
and unchanged. Wheat firm; No. 2 red
spot and September 5555Jc; Oc
tober 5656c; December 59
53c; May 6464c; steamer. No. 2
54j54c; milling wheat, by sample,
5656Jc. Corn quiet; mixed spot and
September 59c bid; year 56Jfc bid;
Southern white corn by sample 61c bid;
do yellow 6263c. Oats weak; No. 2
white Western 35c asked; No. 2 mixed
do 33&34 cents.
COTTON MARKcTb
Bv Telegraph to the Morn me Sui
Sept. 8 Gal vestor., very steady at ftc
net receipts 3.174 babs, Norfolk, nomi
nal at 6c net receipts 173 bales;
Baltimore, nominal at 7tc net re
ceipts bales.Boston, quiet at 6 15 lftc
net receipts bales; Wilmington, dull
nominal, with no business doing
net receipts 318 bales; Philadelphia,
steady at 7 5-lfic net receipts 88
bales; Savannah, seady at SJc net re
ceipts 2,473 bales; New Orleans, steady
at c nerreceipts 1,280 bales; Mobile,
quiet at 7-16c.iet receipts 467 bales;
Memphis, steady at 6 9-16c net receipts
13 bales; Augusta, steady at 6 5 16c
net receipts 741 bales; Charleston,
quiet at 6c net receipts 1,492 bales;
Cincinnati, quiet at 7c net receipts 63
bales; Louisville, firm at 6c; St. Louis,
steady at 6c net receipts 21 bales;
Houston, auiet at 6Kc net receipts
FOREIGN MARKETS
t Cable to the Momiiu s-
Liverpool, Sept. 8. 12 so P m -
Cotton quiet, free supply offerine and
prices unchanged. American mirMin
3 29-32d; sales 10,000 bales, or S
9,200 were American; speculation -lnri
export 500 bales. Receipts 200 bales ,n
of which were American.
Futures steady and demand modn ,ie
September delivery 3 49-64d, September
and October delivery 3 47-643 4.s6td
October and November delivery 3 6l
64d; November and December :i 17 -,4 h
Decembe-r and fanuary delivery ;', 47 m
3 48 64d; January and Februatv rio
livery 3 49-64d; February and March do
hvery 3 50-C43 51-64d; March and
April delivery 3 52-64d.
1 P M. American middling i.,,
4 9 32d,good middling 3 31-32d; m;.'
d!int3d; low middling 3 25 32d; go..,,
ordinary 3 2t-32d; ordinary 3 15 32d
American middling 3Jd; spots lown'
September 3 49 643 50-64d; Septem
berand October 3 4s.64d. seller; Octotu-r
and Novf-n.t-.er :i 47-64d, buyer; Novem
ber and Deccn ber :; 47-643 48-64D
December . anu;.ry 3 48 64d. valu ;
January and Fr-oru iy 3 49-643 50-fil.
February and Match 3 51 64d huy ,
March and Ap-il 3 53-64d,eller. ip..i
and May 3 55-H4d, buyer. Future s d
steady.
Port Alnanai - Septem l r !i
Sun Risrs -. r, :;7
Sun S-t . . .... h 1; , - -
Day's Length. vt v. ';;;,
High Water at Soul!' .
High Water at Wi; i-m : 5 22 A
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Steamship Croatan. Hanser, ,,5
York. H G Smallbones.
Stmr City of Si. Auusu'infe. G.s.
Jacksonville, Fla. Geo Hr.rris. Son A (
Br scbr Bertha H, Le Cain, M n,
Chnsto. S D, Geo Harris. Son (.
caigoby S & W H Northrop.
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New YORk 5teamshi;i Cn.-irr i - rn
pkes mdse. 10 cords pino. w.xid, 130 (Kit
shingles. 100 hlid.s molasses, 25fi bbii
fp'rits. 4fi7 d rosin. 677 do tar, 288 li
tir, ir.-r. 1 u'..:, 35 do pitch. IS Sv.lr.
cotton "10 Or.gs pe.inul2.
FOREIGN.
Monte Christo Schr Ben ha H
121 000 '.ret iumber, 20 000 -hinges
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