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Sunday Morning. Oct. 27. 1895
CONCENTRATED WEALTH.
One of the serious problems that
who contemplates the rapid concen
tration of wealth in this country is,
what is going to be the result of it?
We are credited by statisticians with
being the wealthiest nation in the
world, and still adding to this wealth
with steady and remarkable rapid
ity. This would be a cause for con
gratulation if this wealth were so
distributed as to contribute to the
bettermenffof the condition of the
masses, but there is little cause for
congratulation in it when the
thought occurs that much of this
wealth is the outgrowth of methods
questionable in their character and
when not absolutely corrupt ap
proaching honesty only as closely as
legalized plunder could. The differ
ence between it, in many cases, and
and the larceny that Is punished by
! penal servitude is that it was com
mitted under sanction of the law,
and was aided and abetted in their
official capacity by men delegated to
make the laws.
There are to-day about 4,000 mil
lionaires in this country, the major
ity of whose millions have been
made within the past few decades,
and nearly all within the past half
century. But few of these great
fortunes were made in a strictly
honest way, although, perhaps, in a
legal way, for most of them were
cornerstoned on legislation which
was of doubtful honesty or moral
ity, if not absolutely corrupt. I Since
1860 the Congresses of the United
States have donated to railroads
and other corporations land out of
a. 1 1 a .
ine puDiic domain equal in area to
five or six moderate sized States.
This was ostensihlv tn pnrrniraorA
and aid in the building of these
railroads. Make a rough estimate
C . 1 1 : , i , r .
ui we vdiuc iu aouars oi sucn a
vast territory and we can begin to
understand how some of the wealthy
men of this country known as rail
road magnates acquired their great
wealth, and we can understand, too,
how some statesmen who served
their constituents for the modest
salary of five thousand dollars a
year could live in splendor and ac
cumulate great fortunes, as some
who have died and some who are
living did.
Immense fortunes were made by
some of the protected manufacturers
through the protective tariff, which
was substantially nothing but a sys
tem of legalized plunder based on
fraud and maintained by hypocrisy
and cheek. The . effect of that was
foi nearly thirty years to plunder the
people of the agricultural sections,
who were kept poor while the money
squeezed out of them went to add to
the wealth of the manufacturing
States, where the wealth of the coun
try was centering. Speaking of this
concentration of wealth a writer in
the New Orleans Picayune draws the
following true picture of the country
as it was less than half a century ago:
"Before the civil war there were few
rich peop'e in the United States and few
very poor. The paupers were maintained
in public institutions, and they were al
ways persons who were disabled or other
wise helpless, so that thev could not earn
a support. There was, perhaps, not a
tramp-in all the Southern States, and few,
if any. in any part of the Union. Except
occasionally, when the business and in
dustries of the COUAtrv WffrA rtrlnn.H Wn
- - - - - 1 - - uiivii uj
some period ical financial convulson, there
were few unemployed people and no
over-suDolv of labor.
"As for the rich people, millionaires
were so few in number that they
were rcgaraea curiosities, ana these,
it was understood, had inherited
their wealth or had accumulated
by long; lives of thrift and
industry. Between the extremes of the
very ricn ana the very poor there was
Vast Class, COmnnsintr th srt hn
- 1 - f WUU, Jl
tne population, and composed of people
in good cireiimstanrM mhn 1
ed the homes in which they lived and
w"e engaged in trades or professions
iii I a Ia,r mannance
ft a PeoPte we reasonably satis
ned, and there was no desoersfte trm.
gle to become rich. Honesty and fair
dealing were so much the rule that even
...Miurmiei in public office was
tf-T Lari In commercial and
nanciai business a
. . . - - - o nuiu was as
nunc iu neany every case
were truitworthy."
all
Then we had no tramps, we had
no anarchists and we had no colonies
of American embezzlers in Canada
nor in Honduras. Compared with
the population we had few very
wealthy men and few paupers. Qne
class was not struggling to become
very rich and the other to keep out
of the poor house, and the laws were
not so framed as to make the rapid
accumulation of wealth easier for
some and the reaching of the poor
house or the prison easier for others.
Then men were content to become
rich, as rich was considered in those
days, by patient, industrious, honest
effort, for that, was before the 'Government-fostering,
stock-jobbing,
future-gambling '.era set in three
potent causes of almost universal de
moralization, which, while they have
enriched some, have made the lives
of thousands miserable, have im
poverished thousands and sent other
thousands into exile, to prison or to
hell; the greed of wealth, the blight
ing curse of the age, which has done
more to bring unrest and misery to
the land, to honeycomb society with
the virus of rottenness and decay,
and to destroy the sturdy manhood
of our people, than all the other
causes combined.
Over 4,000 people own a million
dollars or more each, some of them
many millions. Thirty thousand
people own one half of the $65,000,'
000,000 of national wealth. All this
concentration , of wealth within an
ordinary life time. If this thing goes
on what is to be the result of this ab
sorbing of the substance of the many
by the few? How long are the many
going to patiently be the hewers of
wood and drawers of water for the
few, who count their wealth by the
million ? That's the problem that
presents itself to the thoughtful
American who is not solely en
grossed with the pursuit of dollars,
and that's the problem that will con
front the economist, the sociologist
and the statesman of the near future,
who will have to grapple with
it if this concentration of wealth
goes on.
ttlHOBT MENTION.
The gold monometallists of this
country contend that with the rapid
increase in the production of gold
that is going on now, there will be
metallic money enough to supply the
world's demands and therefore not
only no need of more silver, but
really no need for what we already
have. While they see in this a cause
for congratulation, some of the gold
monometallists in England are be
coming troubled about it and anti
cipate a "glut" of gold that is going
to give the yellow metal a black eye.
t is remarkable how soon the money
manipulators become disturbed at a
prospective increase in any kind of
money, and how soon they go to dis
cussing plans to keep it down and
to keep the value up. As showing
what some of the money handlers on
the other side of the ocean think
about the prospective increase of
gold, and how some of them pro
pose to remedy the "glut," we quote
the following from a paper in the,
London Banker's Magazine, by Mr.
W. R. Lawson, a London Banker :
"Inflation of paper monev and over
abundance of siiver money are matters
of common knowledge,, but a possible
plethora ot gold presents itself as a novel
idea. It is, however, an idea which may
have to be reckoned with shortly.
"The right of free coinage of gold may
have to be suspended in England as the
free coinage of silver was suspended in
India and under the Latin Union. Be
hind that, again, would stand the last re
sort of all, limitation of its legal tender
power, it the gold shut out from the
mint lost value is consequence, that
would be a matter for the oroducers to
adjust, as other producers have to do.
for the evil of excessive currency there
is but one remedy, whatever the car
reccv maybe; it is restriction; and for
metallic money the onlv known methods
of restriction are, first, limited coinage;
second, limited legal tender."
When the gold output of Califor
nia and of Australia just after the
discoveries in those countries threat
ened a ''glut" of gold, there was a
proposition to demonetize it in this
country and in some European coun
tries, and it was actually demone
tized in Holland, so that this sugges
tion of Mr. Lawson, while it doesn't
look to absolute demonetization,
isn't altogether new, nor astonishing.
But we will be considerably older
than we are before there is the "glut"
of gold which some ot them Seem to
apprehend.
St
The cable is bringing us some in
teresting news in reference to the
performances of Russia in China,
and the concessions she is securing
in that empire. For some time we
have had reports as to Russian ma-
noevring with the Chipese rulers,
and the latest more than confirm
these reports and seem to have
stirred up our British cousins to a
white heat. This will give them
something to think about and to
talk about besides Venezuela. It is
particularly interesting to them be
cause it involves complications not
only with Russia, which has been
strengthening her power on the Chi
nese border for some time and been
planning to get China completely un
der her influence, but also with
France between which and Russia
there seems to be a concert of
action. The result of these compli
cations may not only imperil British
commercial interests in China, Japan
and in the South Pacific, but her pos
sessions in India, on which ' Russia
has had her eye for some time. The
outcome may be a combination of
Russia, France and China on one
side and of Great Britain, Germany
and Italy on the other, although
Italy hasn't much at stake. If these
reports be trae. 'and there is doubt
less some truth in them, England
may very well be much concerned,
for she sees before her prospectively
the roughest row of stumps she has
tackled for some time, and will prob
ably find enough to tax her states
manship and her - energy without
courting a racket in Venezuela.
We have frequently in these col
umns called attention to the value
of walnut timber, and to the fact
that it is becoming scarce and more
valuable. A short while ago we
mentioned the sale of one tree in
the western part of the State for
$ 75, add we have noted the sales of
trees fir nominal sums which, when
cut up I into timber, sold for many
hundreds of dollars. A citizen of
Watauga county, in some remarks
at the last meeting of the State
Agricultural Society about the tim
ber in his section, stated that
one walnut tree in his coun
ty, which was sold for $1.50,
sold when sawed up into
lumber for $1,400. Of course the
man who sold that tree (which meas
ured four feet in diameter) had no
idea of the value oTthe tree and was
simply swindled by the man who
bought it, although he doubtless
thought he made a good bargain.
There is plenty of unused land in
North Carolina, and thousands upon
thousands of acres the cultivation of
which has been abandoned because
the land is too poor to cultivate,
which could be make very valuable
in a few years, and its fertility at the
same time be restored, if planted in
walnut trees - There is no danger of
this business ever being' overdone,
but the men who go into it first will
be the first to reap the benefit from it.
CURRENT COMMENT
Whatever Marlborough may
think of our manners, his refusal to
pay duty on his girl's brooch shows
his opinion of our customs. rtiua
delphia Times, Ind.
The demand for iron is so
active in the South that there is no
accumulation of stocks, and capital
ists are making preparations for the
erection of new furnaces.- Last year
Southern ironmasters were trying to
nnd buyers in loreiga markets, i nis
year they cannot fully supply the
borne demand, Fhiladelphta Kecora,
Dent.
Since the exposition opened
its gates thousands of. respectable
colored people nave attended the big
show, and they have been as well
treated as their white neighbors.
This is a part of tbe programme.
Our exposition is national and inter
national in its scope, and there is no
room in it for sectional or social dis
crimination. The whites of the
South are proud of the splendid
showing made by the blacks at our
fair, and they are anxious to have
them enjoy tbe educational benefits
which are connected with these ob
ject lessons in art and industry.
Atlanta Constitution, Dem.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE.
Louisburg Times: Dr. William
Clark, one of the oldest and most high-
y respected citizens of Franklin county,
is dead; aged 71 years and 11 months.
Murfreesboro Index: Mrs. Fan
nie T, Hines, wife of Mr. A. P. Hines.of
this place, departed this life last Satur
day evening at 8 o'clock after a long and
pairlul illness.
Salisbury Truth ; A farmer
who has been attending corn-shuckings
the past two weeks tells as there is less
damaged corn this Fall than in any of
bis experience. The present
drought, said to be the longest in the his
tory of the State Weather Bureau, still
continues, and same of the weather-wise
predict snow Deiore rain.
Charlotte News: Mr. George
K. Little, who died in Wadesboro last
Friday, left an estate of 125,000. He be-
queated the sum of 12.000 to the Meth
odist Church at Wadesboro. - Mr.
Harvey Henderson, one of the pro
gressive farmers of Mecklenburg, says
that the farmers have about picked out
their cotton and are now at work gath
ering corn. "The "corn crop," says Mr.
Henderson, "is the largest ever raised in
this county, and the cotton crop is just
naif a crop. Tbe farmers say that they
never knew better seasons for gathering
tbe crops, and the crops, too, were never
gathered in better condition.
Sanford iktfwj: A great deal
of coal is now being mined at Cannock.
We are informed that the daily output
is something over three hundred tons.
Day and night forces are now on duty
and work in the slopes of the big black
pit does not stop. We are informed
by a gentleman who came from Southern
Pines Saturday that the building of
Pmehurst is progressing rapidlv. The
wealthy projector of this new town is
spending his money freely and will spare
no pains to make the place attractive. A
number of the new bouses have been lin-
ished, the large hotel is taking on pro
portions and by the first of January the
town will be populated with Northern
people. Tbe building of a new railroad
to Southern Pines four or five miles
away has been begun, and so Pmehurst
will soon be a town in every respect.
TWINKUNGS
What kind of a tie do you ad
mire most?" he asked as he made his
regular call.
"Tbe marriage tie," she answered
truthfully and without hesitation. De
troit Free Press.
"Does Candidate Kinx keep his
promises of reform? asked the new res
ident. ' -
"I guess he must keep 'em," replied
the well-known citizen; "we don t see
nothin' of 'em." Washington Star.
Did you ever rough it in the
west?
Oh, yes.
In the mountains or on the plains ?
. Well real'y, you know. I was in a
boarding house? Chicago Record
Social Distinction Two little
girls were chatting together on their way
to school. "My father is a general.
aid the one boastfully.
. The other replied, as she munched a
bit of nice cake: "Mine is a confec
tioner!" And the general's daughter
darted a look of envy at her little com
panion. Der Floh .
The Wise Serpent. He The
serpent knew what a woman was when
he entered tbe uarden of fcden.
She Yei, be knew woman, and man,
too. You remember the story, I see.
He Of course.
She Yes. He tempted Eve through
her reason; be tempted Adam through
nil stomach. New York Weekly.
Good humor i the health of
the sonl; sadness is us pjison. Stanis-
iant.
DISCIPLIIVKD.
J. G. MORSELL.
With earnest pleading, when we seek
Tn knnw GaA'm nerfect teflchlnc.
To fit us for our lifework here.
His guidance thus beseeching;
He gives us light to see, a heart
To feel His manifesting; . -And
strengthens Faith until we feel
Sweet peace, wnen on nim resting,
We- would be gcatefnl for each rich,
T?ah Hnr nnrl Heaven-sent blessinc:
Would worship give, with homage due
His mighty power confessing:
He quickens dull perceptions, thus -
Reveals most wondrous beauty
In earth and sky, in sea and shore,
And even in daily fluty.
We would choose Wisdom as the best
Of every earthly treasure;
He makes us hunger: thirst to drink
The fountain without measure:
He leads us by a stony path, .
The mountain steep ascending.
Where broader visions, rose crowned
heights
And harmonies are blending.
We would be His, and His alone:
Ah! here tbe heart has tainted!
He shatters idols one by one.
Our ime far them attained: '
Removes our dear ones; severs ties
By many sad negations:
Bat fills the soul with brightest hopes
And neaveniy consoiauuus.
SUNDAY SELECITONS.
Ther mav be reform without
religion, but there is no religion without
reform. Greensboro Christian Advocate.
To be happy you must forget
nnnrcolf T.Mr ii nhedieoce: it is the
only cure of a moibid temper. Buhter.
Whenever the cross becomes to
th annl what the trellis is to the vine, it
will be forever growing higher in its
reach alter tne ngnt ana warmia oi inc
sun of righteous.
Keep out of the company of vi
cious men. If men do not love Christ
and his church thev are not going to
help you to grow iu grace. They will
not tolerate your company u mcy can
not pull you down to their level.
Greensboro Christian Aavocaie.
Ac snnn as we lav ourselves en-
tirlir at Hi feet, we have enonsh light
given us to guide our own steps, as the
foot soldier, who hears notning oi tne
councils that determine tbe course of
the great battle he is in, hears plainly
enough the word of command which he
himself must obey.
Dr. McGregor met in the
great Scotch city his name and fame
adorns a little girl carrying in her arms
a baby so bonny that she fairly stag
gered under the weight. "Baby is
heavy, isn't he, dear?" said the doctor.
"No," replied the winsome being, "he
isn't heavy; he's my brother." Tbe
missionary ouraen is gone wnen tne
human brotherhood is realized. Rev.
Urijah Thomas.
If von are oersuaded in vour
own soul tbat the path of duty lies in a
given direction, follow it nntil it leads
you into tbe sunlight of troth and hap-ninr-
or nntil vnu find von were mil-
r'""-! - j
taken, and then retrace your step, own
your misiaitc ana rctiuy u, dc uravc
enough to follow your inner voice or
leadings. It will generally be right. Let
. i t . CT : - - ic.i
not policy, mat oaspring oi bciusudcss,
deter you from your duty. Ask not.
win it pay r out, -is it. ngmr inai
is the anestion of all anestiona that con
cerns you. Ejrworth News.
THE UPWARD GLANCE.
It Is Not Equally Effective In All Condi
tions of Women.
With the advent of Turkish rooms
and various oriental decorations
came also the delightful fashion of
floor cushions. Nothing gives a room
such - a cozy appearance, and surely
nothing is less difficult or expensive
to own.
They are charming in the drawing
room, or sitting room near the open
grate fire, or on the veranda in the
sumtner twilight
If finished with large brass rings,
they are easily moved about, placed
perhaps near the great armchair,
where some one is telling a thrilling
story, or piled at the head of the
lounge, 'where a noar and dear friend
is stretched languid and weary and
looking to be fanned from just such
a vantage point
But the girl who is addicted to the
UHe of floor cushions must bewara
To use them well requires quite a
little talent and not much avoirdu
pois, and not only must she" bo agile
and lithe of form, but she must also
be one of the women who are at their
best looking up.
That women differ in their ability
to appear fascinating or even inter
esting when their ejre3 aro rolled
heavenward or even up to the sterner
sex, en route to tho celestial regions,
is one of the facts' constantly thrust
upon one in the various crowded city
conveyances, where women aro more
apt to be seated than their escorts.
A girl, to look well while talking
to some one who stoops to her, must
be able to roll her eyes upward with
out having them disappear under the
lids, showing thereby to her cavalier
only an expanse of white that i3 far
more apt to be startling than capti
vating in effect She must also pos
sess a flexible spine, so that her head
moves backward easily and graceful
ly, revealing a rounded throat and
not an unsightly display of muscles.
Very often a girl who is not at her
best looking up can 4talk well and
effectively with eyes cast down and
lashes drooping. If natural, it is a
pretty, modest pose and far more in
teresting than a shower of glances
meant to be coquettish, but failing
utterly from physical deficiencies.
Many a girl who is distinguished
in appearance and wholly captivat
ing in manner when seated on a tete-a-tete
or standing by a table or lean
ing on a chair is awkward and ill at
ease if compelled to throw her head
back and Took up while conversing.
Such a girl should avoid the enticing
charms of the floor cushions. They
are not for her.
They are for the young woman
who curls, thereon with unconscious
orientaTgrace, whoso every upward
glance is a revelation of a new witch
ery and charm, until her auditors are
forced to the conclusion that in some
previous incarnation she must have
been a dusky sultana or an Indian
princess whoso only object in life
was to loll on soft cushions. Phila
delphia Press.
What He W&nted.
Young Joblote-r-Mr. Bullion, I have
como to tell you tbat your daughter is all
tho wo rid t o mo. ,
Old LiuIiioH You'ro another of those
fellows who wunt tho earth.
"I uon't uuiloi-iitanil you, sir."
"Why, tho world ia tho earth, isn't It,
and as my daughter is ail the, world to you
doesn't it follow that you want tho earth?"
"Well, yes, if you put it that way."
New York Tribune.
Madagascar was so named by the
early explorers from the Malagasy,
or Malays, who inhabited it
"DIDN'T DO NOTHIN."
Dan, the newsboy, got off the train at
Niagara Falls and found the conductor
conversing with two women. "Oh, but
you must take her somehow," he heard
the younger of the women exclaim in a
distressed voice. . "
"You see, there ain't any other way to
fiend her, and her mother expects her sure,
and she'll bo at the station to take her off,
and she'll bo a real good girl and not trou
ble you one bit. Won't you, Bessie?"
"They'll be most crazy if she . don't
come," added the other woman, "and it
will put them out dreadful, 'cause they're
got to start right off for Colorado. "
A sharp whistle recalled the conductor,
and he put one foot on the steps of the car
and stood watch in hand ready to give the
signal. . - .
"Say, IU kinder keep an cyo on tho kid,
if that's all you want," Dan said awk
wardly to tho women. "Don't tnow much
about children, but I guess soino of the
women will tend to her. " He gave an in
quiring glanco at tho, conductor.
"All right, I'm willing. Jump aboard,
will you? We're late now." And the on
ductor waved his hand.
Dan seized tho child and placed her
lightly on the platform, and tho train bo
gan to move. Ho listened to the parting
directions of the two women and threw
back the silver half dollar one of them
tried to slip Into his hand with a toss of
his head as he shouted, "I ain't no porter,
and I'm a-doing this to 'blige you. ' '
Then ho took her into tho car and left
her to amuse herself with the rolls of loz
enges, while ho made a trip through tha
other cars. - "
By the timo he got back she had made
friends with a lady across the aisle, who
offered to share her berth with tho child,
and before tho afternoon was over she was
playing games all over the car, and to
Dan's intense amusement she insisted on
eating supper with the man who had made
the greatest fuss over his berth, but who,
Bessie insisted, looked "just like grandpa."
He slept soundly, for the day had been
a tiresome one, but after awhile he" began
to dream. He thought that Bessie had
chewed gum till she grew smallor ana
smaller, and finally was nothing but a lit
tle sugar imago, which he was about to
eat, when
Crash!
. Dan was awake now. In an instant he
was rushing toward the sleeper.
There was a second crash, and a tearing
sound, and tho end of the car was torn off,
and a cloud of steam rushed in and about
him.
The shock threw him off his feet, but he
crawled on. Ho must reach tho sleeper.
There was Bessie; ho had promised to take
care of hor. It soemed ages before ho
reached the platform. Overturned on the
track before him was tho sleeper. The
dim gray light of the early morning just
showed its outlines. Further than that ho
could not see.
He could hear cries inside, and through
one of the windows a head was thrust.
With his heels he broke the glass of the
window nearest him ; then he crawled on
to the next and next, breaking each in
turn, until finally he reached tho fourth.
This was where Bessie was.
Hero he crawled in, but there was no
one in the berth.
It was lighter now. The sun must have
come rap very quickly.
Then a smell of smoke revealed the
cause. The broken lamp at the end of the
car had set the bedding on fire.
Through tho broken windows people
were rushing, men and women, and there
were groans and shrieks on all sides.
Suddenly from beneath a pile of clothing
he saw a tiny hand thrust out, and ho
heard a stifled cry.
Eagerly he pushed aside tho heavy blan
kets and pulled the child out. By the
light of tho flames, now rapidly nearing
them, he could f how white she looked,
and her eyes were closed.
Could ho be too late?
He tried to climb out of the window,
but the scat on which ho stood, broken by
the crash, fell beneath his weight, and he
was thrown back into the car. He struck
heavily, and thcro was a sharp pain in his
head, and little Bessie almost fell from his
arms.
Ho seized the broken bellropo that hung
from its rings, and, placing tho child on
his back, bound the cord around and
around, thus binding her tightly to him.
Then he tried a second time to gain tho
window. This timo there was a hand held
down to heli him, iind in a moment he
felt the soft grass beneath him, and there
was a sudden movement of tho little body
pressed close to him.
Then there was a terrible whining sound
in his cars, and the blackest night seemed
to settle over everything, and he became
unconscious.
Ncwsof the disaster traveled fast, and
when the train bearing the wrecked pas
sengers drew into Detroit there were hun
dreds of anxious friends inquiring for dear
ones. ' Strong men were crying and faces
wero white with horror "as they listened
to tho story of the dreadful collision.
In one corner, faint and weary, sat a sad
faced mother, whilo her husband wandered
hither and thither In vain search for their
child.
"A little girl with blue eyes?" repeated
one of the passengers after him..
"Let mo see, there was one,-but here,
porter, perhaps you can tell the gentle
man," and the passenger hastened away.
"There was one child killed, sir," tho
porter replied slowly. "I hopo it ain't
yours, I'm sure. Just step this way,
please."
-He turned to do so, with tears blinding
his eyes, but a tiny hand caught hold of
his coat, and a childish voice cried: "Don't
run away, papal Ain't you glad to see
Bessie?"
"I told the ladies I'd see she got to you
safe," Dan explained as they wero being
driven to Bessie's home.
Even now his head was dizzy, and there
were queer pains running through his
body.
"Yes," cried Bessie, with a happy laugh,
as if recalling some pleasant time.
"It was an awful funny going to sleep
in those funny boxes with curtains. Then
I woke up and was under a groat big heap
of blankets.
"Dan was real , good to me, Dan was,
and all his lovely candy got burned, up to
nothing, and I just think you ought to
give him some now, -'cause he took such
good care of me. "
Her sweet faco was upturned and her
hand was slipped into Dan's, and he has
tily swallcwed a big lump in his throat as
he muttered, "I didn't dp nothin." Bos
ton Globe.
Not "Without Season.
Minister1 And s6 yoi'say your little
prayer every night before you go to bed?
That's fight. And now tell me why do
you do that?
Little Ethel Because mamma says
'she'll spank me if I don't. SomervUle
Journal.
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Cuts, Bruises, Sores. Ulclers, Salt
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no pay required. It is guaranteed to
e;ive perfect satisfaction or money re
funded. Price 25 cents per box. For
sale bv R R Bellamy t
for Over Fifty Tears
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has
been used for over fifty years by millions
of mothers for their children while teeth
ing, with perfect success. It soothes the
child, softens the gums, allays all pain
cures wind colic, and is the bes remedy
for Diarrhoea. It will relieve .a. oo'
little suffdrer immediately, i:' bv
druggists in every part of .az o.ir
Twenty-five cents a bottle.' Be sure ar .
ask for Mrs. Winslow Soothing Syiur."
and take no other kin 1.
Cure for Headache.
As a remedy for all forms of Head-
arh T?.1-trir Rirtm-s has nrnvcrf n K.
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In cases of habitual constipation Elec
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resist the use of this medicine. . Try it
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A Squirrel and a Flute. '
A pleasing story is told by a boy who
lives at West Troy, N. Y. : "I recently
caught a squirrel," he says, "but the ani
mal was shy and seemed decidedly averse
to being tamed. In, the cage was a wheel,
sucb as one may see in most cages for
squirrels, but my squirrel would not go
near it while any person was looking. The
other day a friend came to see mo and be
gan to play on his flute near the cage. '
"Tho squirrel at once lost its shyness
and appeared in the wheel. After listening
a moment the little animal began to jump
around in the liveliest manner. It made
the wheel fairly spin and was delighted..
As soon as the music ceased the squirrel
rested. When my friend began to play
again, the squirrel repeated its antics.-'
Since that incident it has become quite
tame." Our Dumb Animals.
This is the way we wash our clothes.
We wash our clothes, we wash our clothes;
This ia the way we wash our clothes
Upon a Monday morning.
Christian Work.
An Obedient Doll.
The Christian Register prints the saying
ef a little girl whose doll's arm had come
Off, exposing the sawdust stuffing:
"You dear, good, obedient dolly! I
knew I had told you to chew your food
fclne, but I didn't think you Would chew It
so fine as that."
Tbe Discover? Saved His Life.
Mr. G. Caillouette, Druggist, Beavers
ville, 111., says: "To Dr. King's New
Discov eryl owe my life. Was taken
with La Grippe andtried all the physi
ciars :or miles about, but of no avail
and was given up and told I could not
live. Having Dr. King's New Discov
ery in mys tore I sent for a bottle and
began its use and from the first dose
began to get better, and after using
three bottles was up and about again. It
is worth its weight in gold. We won't
keep store or house without it." Get a
free trial at R. R. Bellamy's Drug
Store. t
Wholesale Prices Current.
3rThe following quotations represent Woolen
Price generally. In mating op small ordeTt highe
prices have to be charsed.
Tne quotation! are always given as accurately a
possible, but the Stab will not be responsible for an;
variations from the actual market price of the articles
quoted.
BAGGING
2-BJ Jnte...
m
atandara
WESTERN SMOKED
7M
Hams
Sides 8)
Shoulders V ft..,.
DRY SALTED
Sides
Shoulders ft..
BARRELS Spirits Turpentine
Second-hand, each
New New York, each....
- New City, each
BEESWAX 9 ft
BRICKS
Wilmington, 9 M. ...... ......
Northern
BUTTER .
North Carolina, 9 ft.,.....,,.
Northern
CORN MEAL
Per bushel, in sacks
Virginia Meal
COTTON TIES V bundle
CANDLES 9
Sperm
Adamantine
CHEESE 9 ft
Northern Factory .............
isua 14
7
6 O
6
5Xra
a i io
& 1 40
1 40
& 27
7 00
& 11 00
1 35
86
8 50
9 00
Wash Day.
15
23
47H
55 50
85
18 25
9 10
10 11
11 12
.... 10
27 28
20 23
15 2)
6 I6ii
18 20
10 1-3
Dairy, cream.
State
COFFEE V ft..
i .
Laguyra.,,,..
Rio
DOMESTICS
Sheeting, 4-4, 1
Yarns, 9 band
EGGS 9 dozen..
yard..
fish
Mackerel. No. 1, 9 barrel
Mackerel, No. I, 9 half-barrel
- Mackerel, No. 2 9 barrel
Mackerel, No, 8 half-barrel
Mackerel, No. S, 9 barrel ....
Mullets, 9 barrel .
Mallets, 9 Ptk barrel ....... .
N. C. Roe Herring 9 keg
Diy Cod, 9 ft
-22 00
11 00
IS 00
8 00
13 00
8 25
e oo
3 50
5
8 25
SO 00
15 00
18 00
900
14 P
3 50
S 50
3 75
10
3 50
3 00
3 00
3 75
4 35
10
Extra
FLOUR 9 barrel-
Low grade
Choice,
Straight
First Patent. " ,
GLUE 9 ft
GRAIN 9 bushel
Corn, from store, bags White.
Corn, cargo, In balk White. . ,
Corn, cargo, in bags White...
Oats, from store.,,,....,
Oats, Rust Proof
Cow Peas
HIDES, 9 ft
Green
2 75
3 65
70
...
...
o
2
50
50
E0
85
45
75
6
8
1 00
90
85
3J4
Dry
HAY, 9 100 fts
Eastern...
Western
North River
HOOP IRON, 9 ft
LARD, 9 ft
Northern
North Carolina , . , . ,
LIME, 9 barrel
LUMBER(city sawed) 9 M feet
Ship Staff, resawed
Rough-Edge Plank
West India cargoes, according
to quality
Dressed Flooring, seasoned....
Scantling and Board, common . ,
MOLASSES, 9 gallon
New Crop Cuba, in hhds ......
" " inbbls
Porto Rico, in hhds..
" " labbls,
Sagar-Hocse. in hhds.
'? " in bbb
Syrup, inbbls
NAILS, 9 keg- Cut.B0d basi
PORK, 9 bairel
City Mess..,,
Rumi.
Prin-e .:
ROPE, sp ft
SALT m sack Alum
1 iverpool. ,.
Lisbon
A .erjca,"'"
on 185 9 Sacks
SHlNGLkB 7-inch, 9 M
Common .......... .
Cypress Sapr
Cypres! Hearts
SUGAR. 9 ft Standard Granu'd
8
1 25
18 00
15 00
20 00
IS 00
IS 00 18 00
18 00 22 00
14 00 15 00
25
SS
U
....
18
14 00
standard A .... ,
White Ex. C
ExtraC, Golden
C, Yellow
SOAPHB t-Northern
STAVES, 9 M-W. O. Barrel ....
R. O. Hogshead.. ...
TIMBER, a U teet Shipping...
Mill, Prime ...7....
Mill, Fall
Common Mill
Inferioi to Ordmarv
TALLOW, aft
WHISKEY, ft gallon Northern! .
North Carolina
WOOL, ft ft Washed
Clear of burs......
. 3Me
8 00
COMMERCIAL.
WILMINGTON MARK P.
STAR OFFICE. Oct. 26.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Steady
at 24 cents per gallon for country and
25 cents for machine-made casks.
ROSIN. Market firm at $ 1 20 per
bbi for Strained and $1 25 for Good
Strained.
TAR. Market, steady at $1 40 per
bbl of 280 lbs.
CRUDE TURPENTINE. Market
quote) on 'Change steady at $1 10 for
Hard, $1 50 for Yellow Dip and $1 60
for Virgin. Inspectors quote Hard,
$1 20; Virgin and Yello Dip, (1 60
COTTON Market firm on a basis
cf 8c for Middling. Quotaticnr:
Ordinary 5 cts ft
Good Ordinary....... t " "
Low Middling........ 7 13-16 " "
Middling- 8 - "
Good Middling....... 8 9-16
BKCKIPTIi.
Cotton
Spirits Turpentine
Roiia
Tar..
CraAs Turoentine.
799 Dales
155 casks
642 bbls
485
45
bbls
obis
DOMESTIC MARKETS.
St Telegraph to the Moramn itr
FINANCIAL.
New York. October 28 -Evening-Money
on call was easy at 22J
per cent. Prime mercantile paper was
5Jtf6 per cent. Sterling exchange was
steady; actual business , bankers' bills
at 487i487H for s:y days and 488
488) for demand- Com mercial bills
486J487. Government bonds steady;
United States coupon . fours 111H;
United States twos 97. State bonds
dull; North Carolina fours 104; North
Carolina sizes 123. Railroad bonds
were Higher.
Silver at the Stock Exchange to-day
was 67S68.
COMMERCIAL.
Mew York October 26 Evening
Cotton quiet; middling gulf 8c; mid
dling 8c. Sales 336 bales.
Cotton futures closed barely steady;
October 8 88, November 8 88. Decem
ber 8 43, January 8 50, February 8 56,
March 8 61; April 8 66,. May 8 72, June
8 77, July 8 82. Sales 141,300 bales..
Cotton net receipts bales; gross
5,910 bales; exports to Great Britain
ba!es;to France bales; to Conti
nent bales; forwarded 412 bales;
sales bales, sales to spinners 336
bales; stock (actual) 165.744 bales.
Total to-day-Net receipts 47,327 bales;
exports to Great Britain 10,164 bales;
to France 9,748 bales; to the Continent
14.045 bales; stock 880,724.
Total since September 1 Net re
ceipts 1 894,958 bales; exports to Great
Britain 297,124 bales; exports to France
52.862 bales; exports to the Continent
254,864 bales.
New York, Oct. 26.-Evening. Flour
unchanged and dull but stead?; winter
wheat.low grades $2 252 60;fair to fancy
ft2 803 45;patents 3 503 75;Minnesota
dear 82 753 25;: patents $3 354 20;
low extra $2 252 60; citv mills $3 85
4 00; do patents $4 204 45; Southern
quiet, firm, common to fair extra $2 10
2 80; good to choice $2 903 30.
Wheat spot was firmer and dull; No.
2 red in store and at elevator 71Vc;
afloat 72 c; free on board 71 $$c; No
1 Northern 68&c; options opened at
c advance, closing steady at c over
yesteday; No. 2 red October 67cj De
cember 6Sjc; February 70.Vc; March
715c; May 7lkc Corn spot quiet and
steady; No, 2 at elevator 89(c; afloat
40c; options opened steady with wheat,
but free realizing caused weakness and
the close was easy at c decline;
October 88c: November 88c; December
86c; May 35, c. Oats spot dull but
steady; options dull and easier; October
24c; November 23c; December 24c;
May 25$c; spot prices No. 2, 24c; No.
2 white 25c; mixed Western 2425c.
Hay moderately active; spring 7577c;
good to choice 8592Vc Wool quiet;
domestic fleece 1622c; pulled 1534c.
Beef was steady but dull; family $9 00
12 00; extra .mess $7 50 8 00; beef
hams quiet at $15 DO; tierced beef
dull and fi m; city extra India mess
$16 C017 00; cut meats were quiet;
pickled bellies 6Jc; shoulders 66Jtfc;
hams 89c; 'middles were nominal.
Lard quiet and steady; Westers steam
closed at 5 95 asked; city $5 60; October
$5 95, nominal; refined dull; Continent
$6 40; South America (6 75; compound
$4 604 87K- Pork was quiet and
steady; mess 9 7510 25. Butter
quiet and unchanged; Stale dairy 12
21c; do creamery 2223c; Western
dairy 1015c; Elgins 23c. Eggs quiet
and easy; State and Pennsylvania 20
21c; ice bouse c; do per case ; West
ern fresh 1820c; do per case ; limed
1616. Tallow easy; city 4 3 16c; coun
try 44c. Cotton seed oil was
quiet; crude 24c; yellow prime old
andnew27C, do off grade 26J$27Lc.
Rice steady; domestic, fcir to extra 8$
6c; Japan 332c. Molasses foreign
nominal; New Orleans, open kettle good
to choice 2632c, scarce and firm.
Peanuts quiet. Coffee quiet and steady
and 5 20 points up; December $14 70;
Jauuary $14 4514 65; March $14 25
14 85; May $13 80; spot Rio dull but
steady; No. 7 $15 62f. Sugar raw
dull but steady; fair refining 3c; re
fined dull but steady; off A 4 8-164c;
standard A 4; granulated 4f4J$c;
cut-loaf 5)c; crushed 5&cc Freights to
Liverpool grain firm; cotton quiet: cot
ton per steamer 7-64d; grain per steamer
3Kd. 15
Chicago. October 26 Casn quota
tions: Flour quiet, steady. Wheat No. 2
spring 59f 60;: No. 2 red 60H63k.
Corn No. ,2 8082c. Oats No. 2
18jc Mess pork, per 100 bbls, $8 12$
8 15. Lard, per 100 lbs, $5 57 5 60.
Short rib sides, per 100 lbs $4 52j4 55.
Dry salted shoulders boxes per 100 lbs
$5 255 37. Short clear sides, boxed,
per 100 lbs. $4 87H4 88. Whiskey per
gallon $1 22.
The leading futures ranged as follows
opening, highest, lowest ana closingi
Wheat No. 2 October 6060, 60 j,
59, 59Jc; December 6161U, 61M.
60K60&, 60K60c; May 65J. 65V
65M- 64. 64f5c. Corn October 31,
31Jg, 80J. 8076c; November 30X. 80,
29. 29Jgc; December 28$28M. 283.
27, 2728c; May 89&. 29:29.
29c Oats-No. 2 October 18W, 18M.
18&c; December 182. 18.18M.
18c; May 20. 20. 20. 20. 20Jc.
Mess pork per bbl, October $8 05, 8 05,
8 05. 8 05; January $9 12. 9 15. 9,10,
9 12&; May 9 45. 9 45, 9 42. 9 42.
Lard, per 100 lbs, October $5 55, 5 65,
5 55. 5 55; January $5 67. 5 67. 5 85.
5 67; May $5 85, 5 85. 5 85,5 85. Short
ribs, per 103 lbs. October $4 55. 4 67.
4 524 62; January $4 57. 4 60,
4 57. 4 60; May $4 80. 4 80. 4 77. 4'80.
Baltimore, Oct. 26. Flour firm.
Wheat firm; No. 2 red spot and
October 6766 Jc; December 68
68c; May 72$c bid; Steamer No. 2 red
6464Jfc. Southern by sample 6768c;
do on grade 6467c Corn steady;
mixed spot and October 88V389c;
November 8585c; year 84
843c; January 84J$34c; February
84 35c; Southern white 8537c:
do yellow 8738c. Oats easy No. 2
white Western 2526c; No. 2 mixed
do 232c.
COTTOrT MARKETS.
Bv Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Oct. 26. Galveston, steady at 8Vc
net receipts 8.998 bales; Norfolk, firm
at 8jc. net receipts 8,087 bales; Balti
more.quiet 88&. net receipts-bales;
Boston.quietat 8 9-16c.net receipts 1,265
bales; Wilmington, firm at 8 Vc, net re
ceipts 799 bales; Philadelphia, firm at
8c net receipts . 188 bales; Savannah
steady at $c net receipts 6,294 bales
New Orleans, firm at 8 5-16.net recei.
21,246 bales; Mobile, quiet at8Kc.net
receipts 8,197 bales; Memphis, steady
at 8 5-16C, net receipts 5,810 bales; Au.
gusta, steady at 8&c, net receipts 1,286
bales; Charleston, quiet at 8c. net re
ceipts 1,796 bales. ;
FOREIGN MARKETS,
a? Cable to tilt Moraine Su.
Liverpool, Oct. 26. 12.30 P. m
Cotton, market quiet and prices
firm. American middling 4d. Sal's
8.0i0 bale?, of which 7,600 er
-American; speculation and export 500
Receipts 1,000 bales, of which 700
were American. Futures opened Etearty
and demand moderate. American m.
dhng (1 m c) November and December
4 86-644 85 64d; December and J-oU
ary 4 S6-64d: January and Februarv
4 87-64. 4 86 64 4 37-64, 4 36-644 35
64d; February and March 4 88 64
4 86-64d; March and April 4 39 64
4 38 644 87 64d; April and Mav 4 0
64d; June and July 4 43-64d. Future
steady.,
IP M Cotton American mid!t-t
4d; October 4 34 644 35 64d; Oc--ber
and 'November 4d; November a -J
December 4.f34-b3d seller: Decprob. .
and Januarv 4 34-644 85 64d sePer;
January and February 4 85 64d seT -
February and March 4 86 64d btyer;
March and April 4 37-644 38 64d'
April and May 4 88-44 89 64d bmer;
May and June 4 40-64d seller; Jui.tr
and July 4 41-64d buyer; July and Au
gust 4 42 644 4 3-64 d seller. Futures
closed quiet.
MARINE.
ARR1V11U.
Stmr W T Daggett. Ward, Point Cas
well.
Steamship Oneida, Chichester. New
York, H G Smallbones.
Stmr A P Hurt, Robeson, Fayette
ville. James Madden.
CLEARED.
Stmr W T Daggett, Ward. Point Cas
well, master.
BARQUES.
Argo (Nor), tons, Arentsen, Heide &
Co.
MARINE DIRECTORS
Lint of Vessels In ua fort or Vt -slnston,
N. C, Oct. 27, 1895.
STEAMSHIPS.
Eastry (Br). 1924 tons. Wattiey. Alex
Sprunt & Son.
Gloucester City, 1409 tons. Dwyer. Alex
Sprunt & Son. 1
Arion (Br), 1,823 tens, Sargent. A'ex
Sprunt & Son.
SCHOONERS.
Thos Clyde, 304 tons, Calhoun. Ge
Harriss, Son & Co. .
Jas E Bayles. 393 tens. Darling, Geo
Harriss, Son & Co.
Thos W Stone, 375 tons, Newcomb, Geo
Harriss.'Son & Co.
BRIGS
M C Haskell, 334 tens. Winfield, G-u
Hamas, Son & Cm
J. . NORWOOD, W.J. TOOMER
President. Cashier.
W. C. COKES, Jr, Ass't Cashier.
Atlantic National Bank,
Wilmington, N. Ov
Literal Loans Hade on Appyefl Se
curity at Lowest Rates.
KO INTEREST PAID ON DEPOSITS.
AU Cash Collections remitted for
on day of receipt. Accounts of in
dividuals, firms, banks and other cor
porations solicited. Promptness,
accuracy and safety guaranteed.
Sept. 28, Sept. 28, Sept. 28'
18:-3. IBM. 1896.
Surplus and Net Profits.. $18,2C0 $30,100 $45,000
Premiums on U. S. Bonds, 4,250 None. None
Banking House, &c 15,600 15,600 12,500
Dividends paid past two years, 6
per cent, per annum.
Last installment of capital paid in
October, 1892.
J. W. NORWOOD, H. WALTERS, G. SLOAN
Piesident. Vice President. Ca liier.
Wilmington Sayings
and Trust Company.
CamtaL $25,000. Suilus. $4,000.
Loans made on any good security.
Interest paid at rate of 4 per cent,
per annum. oct 22 tf
W. E. SPRINGER & CO.,
Pnrcell Building,
Wilmington, N. C, are now showing
a very desirable.line of
COOKING STftVRS
-way,
-9
Oil Heaters
of several kinds, styles and sizes.
They will certainly give you as
low, prices for first quality goods as
any house can nnscihiw H
m w-wa V4V HUU 1 V
successful. They realize the com
petition that confronts them, but
the heavier tbe load the harder they
must pull. oct)3 tf
D. O'Connor,
RBAL ESTATE AGENT, W1L-
I- ... a . vju.k. i . . 11.
IBSl ntinotvm M r C. r.er- . f
II I III r Dwellinn far rnt un-.u I t ...
t. le on easy terms. Rents, uses
. , , - uuincc anenaea to prompur;
Cash leaned on imp o d city real estate. aep6tl