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PUBUSHEB'S AffJTOTOCEHHfT,, r 3THE MOUSING STAB, the oldest dally news paper in North Carolina, Is published dally ex cept Monday, 15.00 year, S3.W for six months, 11.25 lor three months, 50 cents for one month to mall subscribers. Delivered to city sub scribers at the rate of 45 cents per month for any period from one month to one year. ADVERTISING KATE8JDAILY) One sqnare one day. si.oo; two days, .75; three days, 12.50; four days, f-i.OO; nve davs, $3.50: one week, S4.00; two weeks, 6.50: three weeks, $8.50: one month, $10,000: two months, $17.00; three months, $34.00; six months, $40.00; twelve month, $60.00. Ten lines of solid Nonparlel type make one square. THE WEEKLY STAR 13 published every Fri day mornlnff at $1.00 per year, 60 cents for six months, 30 cents for three months. All announcements of Fairs. 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Advertisements to follow reading matter, or to occupy any special place, will be charged extra according to the position desired. t BY WILLIAM H. BERNARD. WILMINGTON. N. O. Saturday Moxitcng, May 13. AFRAID OF THE TRUSTS. Yesterday we published an edi torial from the New York Tribune on the hoisting of prices" by the trusts, which coming from one of the leading Republican papers of the country and one of the strong est advocates and defenders of protection, is significant. In addi tion to being significant it is an ad mission that the protective tariff is a fosterer of trusts, for it says that some of the trusts recently formed have been favored by that protection. To be consistent, then, if that edi torial was honest the paper which published it must henceforth favor such.a modification of the protec tive feature of the tariff as to give less i any encouragement to trusts. I If utterances such a3 those which wp quoted from the Tribime were confined to that paper or appeared in but few Republican papers so much importance might not attach to it, but even more vigorous ar ticles, some of them quite denuncia tory, have appeared in other Re publican organs and. among them some of the ablest in the country. They are outspoken in the demand for the repeal or modification of those features of the present tariff as give encouragement to the organiza tion of trusts by keeping out foreign competition. , Not only' the Republican organs have become alarmed at the progress of trust organizations, but the com mercial and financial papers are raising a warning voice against them, which is quite as significant as' the criticisms of the party papers, for these represent the cool-headed, conservative element of the popula tion which does little talking but i Very effective voting when the time comes. Some of the New York papers have recently published lists of . trusts formed within the past year which repre sent an aggregate capital of over 6,000,000,000 and yet the work of or ganization goes on without apparent diminution, two of the latest being a copper trust, with a capitalized stock of $200,000,000, and an iron and steel trust, with a capital stock of $800,C00,000. The scope of both of these is to embrace all the copper mines and plants, and iron mines and iron and steel plants in the country, giving each an . abso lute monopoly of the copper and iron and steel trade. Of course the protection given by the Dingley tariff favors both of these trusts for copper, iron and steel are all protected by the practi cally prohibitory tariff. The result, as might have been anticipated of these trusts, is that the price of copper and of iron and steel manu factures have advanced under trust manipulation, on copper about 42 per cent, and on iron and steel from 45 to 100 per cent, on some articles The Tribune sees a dav of reckon- inp" COminc- tenri rA.flAa if a narninr C3 o " ,1 ..A UlUg voice : "There is coming a time when such advances in price will publicly dis cussed as evidence that the national policy has nlaced consumers at the mercy of all sense of regard for the public welfare. That is a charge which will surely be made, and will have some weight, however unfair in its application it may be, and the people wno are Hastening to screw all they can out of the country's business at this time, when much denends maintaining its foreign trade, are not acting as friends of American indus tries: In fact, they are the worst Ann. mies those industries can have, and it is poor consolation that they are inteiy to prove ineir own worst ene mies." The trusts, as the Tribune sees it, are, in their greed, killing the goose that lays the golden egg, and must ere long pay the penalty of their folly. They are not only working against themselves, but they are fur nishing arguments, illustrated, for -the destruction of the tariff system under which the trust system grew up and robbed the people. It will not be an easy , matter to convince the people that this system is a good one, while , they see the articles which they consume , advanced in 111 ' 1 1 111 1 : : price higher than hare been for somo years, while at the same time those same articles are, shipped to other countries and sold at from thirty to fifty per cent, less and yet yield a profit to the manufacturers large enough : to ; induce .them to use extra diligence in extending their trade into other countries. Every contract made now by our manufacturers who compete with the manufacturers of other coun tries is an argument against the trusts and against the protective tariff which encourages them, and hardly a day passes now that annouce ment is not made of some such con tracts some of which are of yery large proportions aggregating mil lions of dollars. One of these re cently concluded calls for 70,0 00 tons of steel rails to be delivered in India, while about the same time American railmakers underbid all the Eurepean rail makers for 40, 000 of rails for Cecil Rhodes' road in South Africa. They did , not get the contract t0T Cecil Rhodes and his directors concluded to give' it to an English firm, out of policy, although its bid was much higher than the American bids. American steel rail makers have protection of. $7 a ton on rails while they are ship ping rails all over the world at fig ures that their European rivals can not touch. I How will Republican organs and stumpers explain that when they are called upon to do it? American steel rail makers are not making rails for export for fun, nor for the gratification of getting ahead of and exulting over their European competitors. - The Washington Post is a non partisan paper, which believes in the doctrine of protection, but it sees the danger, too, and in com menting 'upon the Tribune article adds its warning thus: '"All of that is true, and coming from such a source it may have some effect on the greed of tariff-protected combinations. The Post took occa sion some . months ago to warn these people against a day of reckoning. I YTTtfl " I A il -A 15A5 1 ' - ' T w mie 11 is true inai iiugauon as a remedy for trust extortions belong chiefly to State courts, it is a well known fact that national legislation shelters some of the . worst of them. The Tribune recognizes this as clear ly as the Post has done. And if the combinations will not halt in their "hoisting of price," if they push on until they cripple our growing export trade by inordinately increasing the cost of production, we shall confi dently expect the Tribune and every other consistent advocate of protec tion to urge on Congress the impera tive necessity of pulling down such parts of the tariff wall as furnish shel ter for monopolistic trusts." If the result of the trusts be to abolish this plundering protective feature of the tariff they will not have existed without some compen sating benefit. A CHANCE FOR ANOTHER HOWL. When Gen. Miles made his com plaints about the beef furnished the soldiers, and incidentally made some remark about "embalmed" beef, a howl was raised and it was alleged he was ruining our beef-packing in dustry by these groundless and slan derous charges. Eagan denounced him as all sorts of a liar, in consid eration of which he f Easran. was given a five, or six years leave of ab sence with full pay. Two so-called courts have sat upon these charges, and both practically reported that there was nothing in them, the lat ter emphasizing its findings by tak ing a whack at Miles for neglect of duty in not having made his charges sooner. We can very easily understand why the beef men should have howled over the statements of Miles, and why Secretary Alger should de sire to shield Eagan, because what Gen. Miles said exposed beef -pack ing methods that the beef-packers didn't want the people of this and other countries who ate their beef to know anything about, and because his exposures were a serious arraign ment of culpable inefficiency or neg ligence, to say the least, in the War Department. . But if they howled then' they have even more cause to howl now. for the testimony of ' the chemical experts who have appeared before the Senatorial Pure Food Commis sion corroborates every charge made by Gen. Miles, although this com mission has no connection whatever with his case. It does more, for it shows that chemicals for the pre servation of meats and other foods are in general use, some of them of very poisonous character, and that at least 90 per cent, of the food sold to the American people and to other people is doctored more or less with adulterants, many of which are injurious to health and some of them dangerous. . It is unfortunate for those beef men and for others that this com mission is taking evidence, and such evidence, right on the heels of the report made by that beef court, for it not only vindicates Miles, but will do our foreign trade in food stuffs much more harm than any thing he said could possibly have done, for what he said applied only to beef and to the army, but this evidence shows that beef sent to the army was not an exception as to the use oi preservatives. It is nnfor tunate for them, but it is fortunate lor the country, for with these ex posures possibly there may be some legislation to protect the people irom injurious lood. Bewatta ".glta Wirt Yw Haw Mways Bought oi A BOSTON "WHAT IS IT" . W are not personally acquainted with the Boston Record, which got off the following which we found in the Atlanta Journal: , ; "Some time ago we urged that Agui naldo (when captured) be boiled and his bones, after the English fashion, be distributed among his ; captors. Now, we have another case demand ing immediate, attention. Better, we have the miscreant where we can lay our hands on him. We refer to Bene dict Arnold Atkinson. A night's me diation on the subject satisfies us that he should be burned at the stake. We do not think his body should be muti lated before death, according to Geor gia fashion, for he is a Caucasian. Let it be done July 4th on Boston common, with Alger sitting on a throne in high state, and let B. A. A.'s cries and per haps treasonable last'Tbe drowned by the reading of tf ration of in dependence by a chw cf imperialists. That would be a fitting lessee to all treasonably disposed, and show that we have advanced in our punishment for treason since the days of Jeff Davis." - - '. ,,;!..: Our Atlanta contemporary takes this seriously ; and permits itself to become indignant at it, but what puzzles us is that we do not know whether to join in the indignation or to ' laugh, because we are in a quandary whether to take it as a Boston joke or an illustration - of Boston savagery. If a joke then the galoot who invented it . should have j bo labelled it to relieve us of our doubts, but if a specimen of savagery then it is an illustration of j base ingratitude to a man who has spent a considerable portion of the past twelve years experimenting with a cooking machine and teach-j ing the people of Boston how to; cook, save subsistence expenses and doctors bills. - THE EARTH'S POPULATION. An effort is now being made to have a census taken of the popula tion of the earth, that we may have something approximating definite in-! formation on that. This is not an!, easy thing to do for much of the earth is as yet but little known, and much of it that is known under such government as to mke the collec- ion of statistics of any kind a diffi cult matter, and therefore if this universal census be taken the most can do is to approximate the figures, and make them lesa a mat tor of mere speculation than they now are. ! Estimates of the population now range between 1,500,000,000 and 1,700,0000,000, subdivided as fol- ows: The British Empire, includ ing its posessions in Africa, 450,- 000,000; China comes next and Rus sia third. Religiously they are divided into Christians, 448,000,000; non- Chris tians, lj004,000,000; and denomina tionally into Protestants, 137,000,- 000; Roman Catholics, 226,000,000; Greek, Armenian, and Abyssinian Churches, 95,000,000. The non- Christians are divided into Buddihists and Brahmins, 672,- 000,0001 Mohammedans, 200,000, 000; . Jews, 7000,000 and other creeds 1 25,000,000. TWINKLINGS. Angry Mother Now, Bobby, aon t let me i speak to you again. Bobby (helplessly) How can I pre vent you, mamma ? Life. j He "Then I go and forever!" She (with remarkable composure) 'Very Well t But don't call to-morrow evening! for I shan't be in." Tit-Bits. Irate .Father "I wonder what makes my razor so dull?" Angel child "Dull, papa? Why. it was beautiful -and sharp when I made my boat with it yesterday. : Rich Uncle Are you always so quiet, Willie? Willie No; but ma said she'd give me a quarter if I oehaved and didn't say anythme about your bald head. Judge. j The Doctor "Let the little fellow yell all he wants to. Crying causes a baby's lungs to expand." The i!ather-j-"Then, by gum, I'm an anti expansionist." Chicago News. I "I'll make a fortune out of my new music box. You put a penny in the slot and" "And the thing plays a popular air?" "No. It stops playing one.' ' Han Francisco Examiner. Crags Did yon tell Simpers you thought l was a man without any balance ? Butts Well, I naturally inferred that if you had a balance you 1 J J A ' A"! A wuum uraw on 11 ior ine amount you owe me, Mother "Did you meet many strangers at the reception?" Daugh ter "Only one, a sea captain, and he made me very tired." Mother "Did he talk shop?" Daughter "No; he talked jship." .iVeifl York Weekly. rvvny did you tell those men wno were sent up to clean up your omce that you were always busiest from 3 top in the. afternoons?" "So they wouldn t come around bothering me in) the ' early part of the day." Chicago News. j eacner jn o, jn enje, i am sure your mother would not want you to say ! such things. " Nellie "But you don't know my mother as well asido. xou never saw her ex cept in company." Boston Tran script, Let! me say I have used Ely's Cream Balm for catarrh and can thoroughly 3 JA. 1 A JA 1 rauumiiiKiiu IL 111! Wl HL II. I' 111 1IIIH Very truly, (Rev.) H. W, Hathaway," I Tried Ely's Cream Balm, and to all annearances am cured nf catArrli The terrible headaches from which I Jong suffered are gone. W. J. Hitch cock, late Major U. a VoL and A. A. Gen.. I Buffalo. N. Y. A 10c. trial size or the 50c size of Ely's Cream vBalm will be mailed J Kept by druggists. Ely Brothers, 56 vrarrenDt., JM. X. or over FlTtr Tears. Mbs. Winslow' Soothing Syrup has been used for over fifty years by mil lions of mothers for their children while teething, with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, aiiays ail pain, cures wind colic, and is the i best remedy for Diarrhoea. It will relieve the poor little sufferer imme diately. Sold by Druggists in every part of the world. -Twenty-five cents Jpttle.Be urrand ask for "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup," and take i . i- 'I : r SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Dunn Union: We hear some of the farmers say that flea-bugs are eating the young tobacco plants that, have been planted out A good deaj of tobacco has been planted this week and last. Chatham Record: Mr. John W. Goldston, - of f .Oakland township, bought eight I young Jersey cattle about three weeks ago. and turned them into a pasture on Deep river, and in a few days five of them died. It is supposed that they at some poisonous weeds. i ". --'.i- - Wadesboro Messenger-Intelligencer: Dr. John W. Bennett died at his home in this place at 3:30 o'clock last Saturday morning, the 6th inst. Dr. Bennett had been in failing health for some years, he having given up the practice of medicine some five years ago on this account. I Red Springs Record: B. W. Townsend's safe at Pembroke - was robbed last Sunday evening, but the thief took nothing but a gold watch.: The business papers were scattered about and the safe somewhat dam aged, but there was no money in it then. No clue to the one who did it. Maxton Scottish Chief: Mr. James Stuart, an aged and highly re spected citizen of John's Station, died Sunday morning. Had he lived until next October he would have reached his 85th mile post. We hear that a severe ram and rain storm struck the Lumber nieht. The Bridge section Monday Presbyterian church at that place, just completed,, was blown down and several out houses . in the neighborhood destroyed. f Enquirer: Mrs. Lot Monroe tie Bishop, wife of Mr. Jack Bishop, died at the home of her brother-in-law,. Mr. Joseph Bishop, of i Monroe, on May 9th, 1899, after lingering between life and death for a long while with consumption. Deceased; was twenty one years old. She was a daughter of the late A. L. Osborne and is the sixth of.her family to die within a little over two yeai-s.; - j ,. Greensboro , Teleqranr, The new one thousand horsepower engine for the ! Empire Steel and Iron fur nace has arrived and it is a monster. As stated some time ago it will be placed beside the engine now used and together the mighty machinery will furnish nineteen hundred horse power. New boilers will also be put in soon. Tha furnace is no w making number 1 and number 9 foundry iron, the former the finest grade of pig iron manufactured. ! Four ! blasts were made yesterday and Manager Noble expects to make that : number daily from now onj The new furnace will be constructed and put into blast in about four months.- j " ! Monroie Journal: Miss Mary Pate died t the home of her brother, Mr. Jas. A. Pate, in Monroe, last Mon day, after anl illness of about one year. six months of which she was helpless. This a snake story right, but un like most shake stories, this is true one, for a reputable man, Mr. A. M. Hargett, of ! Faulk vicinity, vouches for it. Mr. Hargett's son was plough ing a I few days ago and upturned a small green snake, which to his utter surprise, had two heads, one on each end. The head at the tail end of his snakeship wis a little bit smaller than the other one, but just as perfect, with eyes, moutc and all. , And what s more, both heads were "licking out" tongues. ' I Newbetn Journal: Prof. W.E. Massey of the N. C. Experiment Sta tion, arrivedj here last night, and in company with Mr. W. C. WilletL at once went out to the Oaks, to look into the matter of what kind of an in sect was working destruction in the pea crop in! this vicinity. With his microicope, Prof. Massey made an ex amination of some of the insects, and pronounced them Alp his Rosae an in sect as its name indicates, arose louse, which it seems transferred its work from the rose to the pea vine. Prof. Massey said that the wet weather gave great impetus to the propagation, and increase of this insect, ! and that a few dry, hot days would destroy the in sect to a great extent, but that at this stage of the 'pea crop where the insect had full sway it would be hard to ut terly kill the Alphis Rosae, but that the cure was in the crop planting next year, i ' ! , : Value of a Comma. , A Prussian school inspector appeared at the office of the burgomaster of a lit tle town to 'ask him to accompany him on a tour of inspection through the SChoOls. : ;l I' : ; The burgomaster was out of sorts, and was heard to mutter to himself : "What is- this donkey here again fbrT'f - - P I . j-.. . The inspector said nothing, but wait ed his time, and with the' unwilling burgomaster eet out on his tour. At the first school he announced his wish to see how well punctuation was taught. : j ' I , . ; - .. "Oh, never mind that," grnmbled the burgomaster. "We don't care for commas ahd such trifles. " But the! inspector sent a boy to the blackboard! and ordered him to. write: "The burgomaster of R. says, the in spector is a donkey." j Then he. ordered him to transpose the comma, placing it after R., and to in sert another! one after inspector, and the boy wrote: j "The burgomaster of R., says the in spector, is donkey.'" It is probable that the refractory offi cial ' gained a new idea of the value of "commas and such trifles. "London Tit-Bits. j . Men's Dreas In London. In London the female make up has no significance whatever. All kinds of men ranking anywhere above "lower class," however, have their frock coats and tall hats. A tailor made frock coat is not a luxury in London. Take it in the United States, and a man wishes to attire himself in the ex treme of what the British call "after noon wear,' must be willing to spend money. Compare the prices of a Sun day outfit: i : ! i- -: Frock coat end waistcoat. Trousers...!..; Silk hat.. ..I.. England. ..'IS 00, .. 4 00 .. 4 00 100 .. 60 u. a 150 00 10 00 00 1 75 1 00 Uloves Stick i.. ....... Totals......!.. ....;...... 124 B0 (68 75 Xotl cal buy a bunch of violets on a London sheet corner for 4 cents. It costs sixpence to have a silk hat ironed. When it comes to the mere making of a personal front on a small income, no other city can offer such advantages as London. jchicago Record. ; QUARTERLY MEETINGS. M. E. Church, South, Wilmington District.: Onslow, at Swansboro, May 13-14. j I Jacksonville and Blchlands, at Haw Branch, il?"!"0 C'rcnlt, at Charity, May 20-21. Scott's Hill, at Prospect, May 27. ; Wilmington, Fifth street, 11 A. M., June 4. Wilmington, Market Street, night, June 4. Burgawjaerring'a Ohapel, June 17-18. Boutnport, (District Conference), June 21-25. KFnnmHAl. anAAAA t 1 ma Whltevllle, Fair Bluff, July 18. 1 ' it. jr. BumrAH, . -! . Presiding Elder. ! lhft Kitirt Ymi Havn Alwavs RmmM CURRENT COMMENT. : Th hfief tvmtroversv is end- people of-the united States willcon- i At- : t-Ua laer tne matter m uuuuuuwe m uo whole later on. Philadelphia Rec ord, Bern. ' : The President will doubtless An " n.11 ha can to aid Alfirer in his quest of a Senatorship from Michi (rftTi as theinnlv wav to rid himself of the burden of Alger as Secretary of War. If JM.cM.Ulan, wno stanas in the wav. -cannot he put down, perhaps he- can be lifted up. -r-Brooklyn Citizen, Dem. Anronos of the Grant-Can- .tacuzene engagement, an exchange Rftva that nrinces are as common in Enssia as are colonels in Kentncy. This is a mean misrepresentation. The truth is that princes are as nnmmon in 1 Russia as colonels are numerous in Kentucky. There are no common Jentucisy coioneis. Louisville Dispatch, Dem. ;f ' i Whatever else mav bo said of Mr. McKinlev's policies and pro- cedures, they are certainly winning tho, nd miration and nnaualified sup port of every man who believes' that government means rnie ana not merely administration, and that freedom of discussion must be su pervised by "wise and benevolent rules lest the "ignorant masses db persuaded to do themselves harm. If. Y. World: Dem. GAIL HAMILTON. Soma Interesting Anecdotes of Her Rax Conversational Gifts. It is seldom that a woman is found who combines intellect, charm of manner and womanly fascination, but Miss Dodge (Gail Hamilton) seems to have been thus universally gifted. On one occasion, while she was spending the winter in Wash ington with Mrs. Blaine, a striking instance of this was shown. Among the season's visitors to the capital was a western clergyman of more culture, reading and thought than knowledge of the world. He desired to make the most of his first holiday and first sight of the great city. He wanted to see all there was to be seen, to hear, all there was to be heard, but most of al did he desire to meet and have a word with Gail Hamilton; indeed, he confided to a friend that he would consider such a privilege well worth his journey: jto the east, did that journey bring him nothing else. It took him several days to summon up his courage, but at last he boldly presented himself at the Blaines' door and asked for Miss "Hamil ton. " About three hours later the friend met him descending the steps of the house, one-broad smile of de light and satisfaction. "Ah," exclaimed the confidant, "I congratulate you. So you have met your dear Gail Hamilton. lean 6ee it in your face." That face fell, grew remorseful. "N-no," he stammered, "I didn't meet her; she didn't come down, and, the fact is, I forgot to ask for her.".: (. j- "Forgot to ask for herl" ' Ohr I sent up my card, of course, but a lady came down, a Miss Dodge, and, my dear fellow, you never saw such a woman in your life. I suppose that Miss Hamilton must have been out. She didn't mention her, but she began to talk to me, and in two minutes I forgot what I had gone for. I never could have believed that any person, man or woman, could know so much. I believe' we talked on every subject in the world, and she knew every thing about every one of the sub jects. I was never so surprised as when a lot of people came in and I found how long I had been there, and I didn't want to come away one bit then, I can tell you, and, till you spoke, I'd forgotten all about Miss Hamilton. I don't believe she can touch Miss Dodge anyhow." His astonishment and delight when he found that he had enter tained or been entertained by his angel unawares were very pleasant to see. -'j: , . ' la telling the story the narrator added: "I don't know what it is about Miss Dodge. I can never tell how she does it. I heard her tell the funniest story I ever heard in my life, about a drive she took in the country, when her horse had on a harness that; practically. fell to pieces. There; was a room full of people, nnd every.one laughed him self sore over it, and yet when I came to think it over there was real ly nothing to j it, nothing to tell it was a thing that might have happen ed to any one j and not have borne talking about Yet she had enter tained 20 people for half an evening with it. Only last week a lady who was there asked mo if I remember ed that excruciatingly funny story that Miss Dodge told about the har ness, and at this late date we laugh ed over it until the tears were in our eyes. 1 ' New York Tribune. . The Italian Baby. No Infant-receives a warmer welcome to the world or is more .happily born than the Italian baby. No infant is the object of more caresses or is more fondly admired. Indeed, no matter-how poor the mother and father may be, no matter how large the family, they have very merry times when another son or daughter comes to them. The neighbors are Invited in, a feast is prepared, gallon or two of cheap wine is prooured, and the merriment some times lasts several days. ' . The Italian considers there are only three great events "in the life of man namely, his birth, marriage and death. These three events never pass without a gorgeous and elaborate celebration. : In this simple way they strive to carry out the tender life lesson. "When you were born, you wept while those around you smiled. So live that when you die you alone may smjle and those around you weep." And so they laegh and drink wine and sing, for they believe it will have an effect upon the life of the quiver ing form soon to take its place among them. New York Timea . . Flayed It on the Judge. -. ' That eccentric but kind hearted judge, Sir James Allan Parke, acquired, among other Inconvenient habits, a triok of think ing aloud. One day when trying an old woman for stealing faggots he uncon sciously ejaculated, "Why, one faggot is as like another faggot as one egg is like another egg." The counsel defending the prisoner caught the aside and naturally made a strong point of it in his defense. "Stop, stop!" cried the judge. "It is an Intervention of Providence. This was the very thought that passed through my own mind. Gentlemen, acquit the prisoner." Pearson's Weekly. When Hannibal's army descended from the Alps Into the valley of Lombardy, the whole" force was well nigh routed by a plague of mosquitoes, which drove men WOTUtlmals alinost wild with pain. Just a mtUo of the Gravy. - An ex-Confederato soldier cf South Carolina telle. this Btcry to a writer in the Detroit Journal: "I bad a friend who was d chaplain-sin our army a good man,' as such men should be,;..Sev-. eral of his own church memlfers were in the same rtgimcaiiHo, kept a sharp eye on us, arid tried tdjjtrain us in the way; we should vc, "And, when we were rather short for rations, ebme of the boys brought in a -Hue young porker. Now, boysithat's; wrong said ho. 'It' is simply stealing . You ousht not to doit.' ' ' " 'Well, onr consciences don't trouble !s, ci:tl yours won't trouble you When we get this meat cooked. You will want some of it too. ' - i . 'No, I won't eat it I'd as soon eat stolen meat. ' ( "But we divided it up "among the boys and proceeded to cook.al.tun in the best possible style.' S6 smell cf it fairly made our teeth water, and when it was cooked we were m6re than ready for it. " 'There's a fine piece. Cut that off for the chaplain, said one. ' : "Noi I thank you, ' said he. .'I said I wouldn't eat if,! and I won't, but' passing up his plate 'I'll take a little of the gravy.'" j- " As Bad as This? : "Who shall persuade coming ages,''" asks a writer in thb Chicago Times-Herald, "that the busiest city in the world harbors women who pursue whist as the chief duty of -life;; j who screw up their household finances,; to the tightest possi ble point in order! !to pay an expert $3 an hour for instruction in its sacred code; who meet oyer card tables at 9 o'clock in the morning, hurry up their marketing and hush up their children in order to attend whist luncheons at 1, come-&me again with vexed and wea-: ried brains to sit silent at dinner, absorb ed in regrets for leads unreturned and signals unanswered, and wind up the nnregenerate day; by lingering over a whist tablo until midnight?" m " . ".. Belief In Six Honrs. Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis eases relieved in six hours by "New Great South American Kidney Cure." It isa great surprise on account of its exceeding promptness in relieving pain in bladder, kidneys and back, in male or female. Believes retension of water almost immediately. If you want quick relief and cure this is the remedy. Sold by B. R. (Bellamy, Druggist, Wilmington, corner Front and Market streets. i! i r "tad Ysa Hate Always Bougi? WHOLESALE fRICES CJJRBEMf. JST" The following quotations represent wholesale Prices generally. In making up mall orders higher prices have to be chareed. The quotations are always given as accurately as possible, but the 8tak will not be responsible for any variations from the actual market price of the articles ouotecL BAGGING j 8B Jute..'...;...!.. Standard. ....... j... ....... Hams Bides ,U Shoulders tt.il. DRY SALTED if Bides .I... Shoulders .., BAKHEIaS Spirits Turpentine-Second-hand, each New New York, each....... New City, each ............. BEICSAVAJC V ft BRICKS Wilmington Mi.... Northern ......it...... BUTTER H North Carolina V 1. ........ Northern.......; CORN HEAL ' Per bushel, In sacks ........ Virginia Meal.... COTTON TH58 bundle CANDLES fi Sperm i Adamantine ...,,.. CHKE8E Northern Factory. .......... Dairy Cream... State., COFFEE ft . Laguyra.. Rio..' DOMESTICS i Sheeting, 4-4, yard Varna fit nnh rt K ft,m 12 O 6 & 8 CM CM Betttlis 1 10 1 30 & 1 35 S Si 00 7 00 9 00 14 00 12& 15 50 23 51 55 S3 55 75 80 18 25 8 11 10M 11K 11 - 10X 13 IS . 7M 10 BM 70 10 11 ACMUO. VUUVU V. WO EGGS dozen....;. rutu Mackerel. No. 1. barrel. 22 00 30 00 15 00 , 18 00 9 00 14 00 4 00 8 00 8 85- Mackerel. No. l. half-bbl. 11 00 Mackerel, No. 2, barrel... 16 00 Mackerel, No. 8 half-bbl. , 8 00 Mackerel, No. a, barrel... Mullets, barrel .". Mullets, Wpork barrel N. C. Roe Herring, keg.. Dry Cod, jBft... u , Extra. i... ......... FLOUR ft j Low grade Choice Straight Blrst Patent GLUE ft GRAIN bushel Corn,from store,bgs White Car-load, in bgs White... Oats, from store Oats, Rust Proof. 13 00 2 SO 5 00 3 00 5 4 35 10 4 50 3 50 3 75 4 25 5 00 m 4 00 4 50 "rH& 53 40 60 1 00 E5 50 50 45 65 I 10 - 10 9 80 45 tS . 75 75 m uowreas. v Black Eye Peas HIDES V ft i Green salted... .4, Dry flint Dry salt HAY 100 fts Clover Hay......;...... GO Rice Straw....... 40 Eastern. Western North River. . r - HOOP IRON, ft LARD, ft 4 Northern - 5 North Carolina.. ; 6 LIME, barrel ................. 1 15 LUMBER (city Bawed) M ft Ship Stuff, resawed 18 00 ' Rough edge Plank 15 00 West India cargoes, accord ing to quality,.... 13 00 Dressed Flooring, seasoned. 18 00 Scantling and Board, coni'n 14 00 Common mill ..j....... ...... 6 00 Fair mill........!............ 6 50 Primemill .......... 8 50 Extra mill ;.. 10 00 MOLASSES gallon Barbadoes, Inhegshead..... - Barbadoes, In barrels Porto Rico, In hogsheads.... Porto Rico, In barrels Sugar House, In hogsheads. 18 Sugar House, in barrels. ... 14 Syrup, in barrels 15 NAILS, keg, Cut 60d basis... 1 CO 7 10M 1 85 80 00 16 00 18 00 23 00 15100 6 50 8 00 10 00 10 50 25 28 27 88 14 15 25 1 65 ruiui, v uarrei ) i CltvMess:.....Ll.. Rump..........-'... Prime ..;.. ROPE, ft.... ....ii... SALT, Back, Alum.. 11 00 10 so 10 00 10 22 1 10 75 80 70 75 476 5 00 S 50 1 60 2 25 8 50 3 50 5M 6 BH 5 5)3 6 4 8)4 4 6100 14 09 10 00 9 09 7 00 6 50 i 60 5100 S 03 4 00 ljiverpooi , American. On 125 Sacks: SHINGLES, 7-lnch, per M. . . . . . Common...... j. Cypress Saps.j.'. SUGAR, lb Standard Oran'd Standard A....v White Extra C.;- Extra C, Golden. C, Yellow 4. SOAP, ft Northern STAVES, M w. O. barrel.... R. O. Hogshead. ' TmBERrM feet-Shlpptng.. Mlifc Fair "n"-I"""; Common Mill. Inferior to ordinary. ........ SHINGLES, N.C. Cypress sawed V u ejus neaix, . " Sap.;;. 6x84 Hearts 7 50 5 00 4 60 4 00 6 00 5 00 1100 1100 10 8 50 60S 5100 530 6 50 6 60 - 6 ; 8 00 8S0O 1 6x84 Heart. TALLOW, ft...';.... ; WHISKEY, gallon, Northern. North Carolina "voor. ner ft Unwashed MARINE DIRECTORY. ' i ' - Mat of Vessel In the (Port r VU ml 11 art on, N.C, May 13, 1899. SOHOONEBtJ. ; B I Hazard, 373 tons, Blatchford, Geo Harriss. Son & Co. Lavinia M Snow, 315 "tons, Hinkley. J T Biley & Co. J' Chas D Hali,i329 tons, Falkenhure - Geo Harriss. Son & Co. STEAMSHIPS. Venetia (Br) 333 tons, MacCouealV Heide&Co, K ' BASQUES. Victor (Nor. p'14 tons, Ostvik, Heide & Co. I; Norden gwe4). 443 tons, Hamher, t BARGE. Carrie LTylerj Jones, B38 tons, Na vassa Guano Co. UGinmisiiicon, 'y Cobwebs about a house are usually the sign that the housewife has more than she can do, the way she goes about It; that all her tune and strength are utilized in doing heavy work; that she uses soap .in her cleaning.. : Ir she : would only use .;;:- ... j J " 'r MM wasMBg iFowiier heavy workf would be so lightened-that the little things needn't bo neglected. Cold Dust gives, a woman time to rest, time to visit tiili to read, andltime to sew. It is much better and cheaper than soan fc -it ;rrl Vnr crrfatpst economv buv our lartrn narl, i luf THE N. K. CHICAGO ST. COMMERCIAL. WILMINGTON MARKET. f v STAR OFFICE May 12. ' SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Market quiet at 37 cents per jsrallon f or ma -chine-made casks and 37 1 cents per gallon for country casks. - . ROSIN Market firm at 95 cents per hbl for strained and $1.00 for erood strained. i , TAR Market firm at $1.25 per bhl of 280 lbs. ' ; CRUDE TURPENTINE. Market steady at $1.35 per barrel for hard, $2.40 for Dip and $2.50 for Virgin. '! Quotations same day . last year. Spirits turpentine firm at 27427c; rosin dull at 95c$1.00; tar firm. $1.10; crude turpentine firm at $1.25, $1.80 1.90. . --. - ' . RECEIPTS. : Spirits Turpentine ....... .1 . . . 4 Rosin 298 Tar.. 63 Crude Turpentine !. . . . 23 Receipts same day last-year. 108 casks spirits, turpentine,! 135 bbls rosin, 169 bbls tar, 29 bbls I crude tur pentine, i - ; : COTTON. : ' Market quiet on a basis of 5 Jg ctsper pound for middling.. Quotations: Ordinary ; 3 7-16 cts $ lb Good Ordinary...... 4 13-16 " ' Low Middling. . ... . . 5 7-16 " " Middling,..:........ 5 " " Good MiddUng 6 3-16" " , Same day last year middling 6c. Receipts 24 bales; same day last year, 358. ! . j COUNTRY PRODUCE. PEANUTS North Carolina Extra prime, 75 to 80c per bushel of 28 pounds; fancy, 80 to 85c. f Virginia Extra prime 55 to 60c; ffancy, 60c; Spanish, 82 to 85c. '. i; CORN Firm : 50 -to 52 cents per bushel, i If ROUGH RICE Lowland (tide water) 90c$1.10; upland, 6580c. Quotations on a basis of 45 pounds to the bushel. - ! N. C. BACON Steady hams 10 to. 11c per pound; shoulders, 7 to 8c; sides; 7 to 8c. I SHINGLES Per thousand, five inch hearts and saps, ' $2,25 'to 3.25 ; six-inch. $4.00 to 5.00: 1 seven-inch, $5.50 to 6.50. I Si - - TIMBER Market steady at $2.50 to 6.50 per M 1 M ' " ' ; ' FINANCIAL MARKETS. Bv Telegraph to the Moraine Star. ' New York.. May 12.4-Money on call was steady at 34 per cent, the last loan being at Zyi per cent Prime mercantile paper 3XH per 'cent. Sterling exchange steady, with actual business in bankers' bills at 486 487 for demand and 48iK485 for sixty days. Posted rates i85J486X and 487488K- Commercial bills 484. Silver certificates 6162. Bar silver Mexican dollars 48i Government :- bonds strong. State bonds inactive. Railroad bonds firm. U. S. 2's. iwistftrftd. 99 14 - TT Fl 3'a registered, 108; do. coupon, 108), U.S. new 4's, registered, 129 do. cou- pon, ; u. a. oia 4 s, registered, 112f,; do.coupon,113K; U.S. 5's, regis- tered.H2U:drtrniiTv.n -I.U-M n fi'a 122 ; do. 4's, 104 ; Southern Railway 5's 110 T. Stocks: Baltimore & Ohio 69ji ; Chesapeake & Ohio 25M ; Man hattan L HIM; N. Y. Central 133; Reading 20J4 -Ho 1 s. Tivf pkwm, KftlA'.Sf Paul 124; do. preferred 169: South ern x&auway Lzyt ao. preierrea oxi ; American Tobacco 100JS ; do. pre- fAI-rAfl 141 Ponnla'a flaa 1 1SV Rnirar 154 ; do. preferred 116i ; T. C. '& Iron 6; u. . Jjeatner 6; d,o. preferred 70; Western Union 91. J NAVAL STORES sIaRKETS. -. i - s . j - By Telegraph to the Horning- Star. NEW YORK. Mav 12. linsin stead it Spirits turpentine easy at a242j c. Savannah. Mav 12 mrits tur pentine firm at 38c; sales 385 casks; receiDts 1.013 casks. RnsHn firm an A uncfaauged; sales 3,930 barrels. . . . Charleston. Mav 12.--SDirits tur- pentine quiet at 37c; safes 15 casks. Rosin firm: sales 200 barrels.: nun'ta- tions:A, B 90c, C, D 95cjE $1 00, F 1 15, G $1 20, H $1 30, 1 $1 35, K $1 45, M $1 70, N $1 90, , window glass $2 20, water white $2 45. i cotton markets; By Telegraph to the Monjlnsr SUr. New York, May 12.4-Business on the Cotton Ezchailra i tnHsv smaller than that of the gast few dayp, w wpe oi price cnanges oeing nar- aiavyci . jluo uiarjcBt star iea steady in tone, with i prices oft one to three points, in sympathy with a reaction in futures at Liverpool.- From this basis there was little divergence dur ing the rest of the session, the market at the close being steady at a net de cline of one to three points. Buying orders for the Summer months from Europe were on hand at -the opening, but after these had been! executed the market became listless and showed very little energy during the balance of the session. This apathy was due almost entirely to imperfect and con flicting ideas to the real condition of e growing crop. Dispatches from the belt were few and fa$ between and at best indefinite. , - New -York, May 12.-Cotton quiet; middling uplands- 6 c. Cotton futures market closed steady ; May 5.82c, June 5.85c, July 5.85c, Au f?la S.90c, September 5.87c, October 5.80c, November 5.81c,December 5.95c January 5. 98c, Februaryle.OlC, March 6.05c; April 6.08c. S - Spot cotton closed quiet; middling a6Kcimiddlihg gulf 6Kc; sales Net receipts 594 bales; gross re ceipts 1,622 bales; sales 200 bales exports to Great Britain 962 bales exports to the Continent 2,539 bales' stock 170,509 bales. R ' , Total to-day Net .' ileceipts 9,600 bales; exports to Greai Brftain 5,938 bales; exports to Frantse 128 bales exports to the Continent 4,521 bales' stock 748,164 bales. 1 ' Consolidated Net receipts 62 575 bales; exports to Great, J Britain 23! 362 bales; exports to France 5,555 bales- eef Axpoie Continent 225,365 bales. May 12.-Galveston.gteady at 5 15 16 V61123 Norfolk, steady at 5ci net receipts 1,040 bales; Balti- FAIRBANK COMPANY LOUS NEW YORK BOSlon more, quiet at 6Xc, net receipts 306 bales; Wilmington au,v at 5c, net receipts, 24 bales-' PW adelphia, quiet at 6Kc, net r'eceil 18 bales; Savannah, quiet at 5 5, Z, receipts 1 079 bales; New. Oriff easy at 5c, net receipts 4,913 W Mobile, dull at 5 1516c, net rec; 190 bales; Memphis, steady at5?? receipts 897 bales; Augusta, steaa 6M, net receipts 227 bales; Chark ton, quiet at 5K. net receipts 2 bales -.New York, April 28.-The folW. mg are the total net receipts of cottnn at all ports since September 1st irqs Galveston, 2,269,550 bales;' New(V leans, 2,114,362; Mobile, 256,811. Z vannah, 1,047,874; Charleston, Wilmington, 290,625 ; Norfolk W 451; Baltimore, 44,242; New i?3,893; Boston, 29631; Kewfai mews, xo,Y2i;, rmiauelphia. 46 124. TJmnticnn'nlr OKI. OQ. Ti ' ai. '' ?U 765; Pensacola, 185,261; Port liovai" on cck Tol rrno4 i.no -'vjii, AyV7, UU1, A. J LA.A, f , 70", UUO. PRODUCE MARKETS! . By Telegraph to tho Mormni: star, i , New York. May 12.- Flou. . was neglected again and nomiually steady Minnesota patents $3 804 00. Wheat spot steady; No. 2 red 82c;. option openea sieaay on xoreign ouying auj after a forenoon setback under moder ate liquidation and fine weather, sri J vanced sharply in the last hour; thej bulls found short interests heavy, and wiin tne strengtn in com experifeiicul little difficulty in driving them 1 cover; tne close, was hrm at ?gjad net aavance ; xno.z reu May closed TT'i T 1 1 J -rp- . ct.a l . .juiy ciuscu tonc, oepiemoer closed 74J4C Corn Spot firm; No. 2, iVM options opened -and advanced on lieh offerings, ruled strong all day, sup poneu oj covering, mgner cauies aui export demand; closed strong at 6c net advance; May, closed 39:; July closed 38 c; September clostil 39c. Oats Spot steady; No. 2 31c; options dull. Lard - steady ; refked steady; compound 44c. Porj; quiet and easy. Butter firm.; Westerii creamery 1418c; State dairy 13 17c. Cheese old easy; large while llc; new firm ; large 9'9. V .Cot ton seed oil dull; prime yellow 25;.c. Petroleum dull. Rice firm. Freights to Liverpool Cotton by steam 12),. Potatoes steady; NewYo'rk $1 251 7; Jersey sweets $1 002 00. Cabbage steady at $1 503 75 per barrel crafe Coljee Spot Rio dull ; mild quiei. Sugar Raw dull and barely stead refined quiet: Chicago, May 12. Wheat ruled strong to-day on reports.of damage to wheat by hessian flies and prediction of frosts. July closed with a gain of i to fc. Corn advanced c and oats Jc. Pork and lard advanced 2Jc -a and ribs 5c. Chicago, May 12. Cashquotaiioiis: Flour quiet. Wheat No. 2 spring 70c; No. 3 do. 69c; No. 2 red 7274c. Corn No. 2. 33X33Xc Oats-Ijio. 2, 26c; No. 2 white, free on botM, 30c; No. 3 white 28M29c. Pok, per bbL $8 208 25. Lard, jcr im lbs,$4 924 95. Short rib site, loose, $4 45 4 70. Dry salted shdai ders, $4 254 50. Short clear sides boxed. $4 854 95. Wliiskey-lbis tillers' finished goods, per gallon, $126. The leading futures ranged as to! lows opening, highest, lowest iiiul closing: Wheat No. 2,May 69, C9fi, 68M, 69; July 70tf, 7, 69. 70kc; September 69, 70X,69M, 70. Corn May 33M. 33, 33, 33Mc; July 33 34, 33&, 33c; September 34 H, 84H, 34, 35Mc Oats-No. 2 May 25)1,' 26K, 25H, 26c; July23M, 23, 2331, 235c .September 21, 21M, 21 21. Pork, per bbl July $8 27, 8 3f , 825, 8 30; September $8 47, 8 52& 8. 42, 8 45. Lard, per 100 lbs-Julj $4 95, 5 05, 4 95, 5 00;Septeinber $5 Of 5s, 5 12X, 5 07, 5 12. Ribs, pei: lOd lbs July $4 65, 4 65, 4 60, 4 65; September $475,4.80, 475, 4 8a j Baltimore, May 12. Flour low er; western sunerfine $2.15a2.30. Wheat dull and lower Spot 1 7272Kc; xuuuku tfrmtw, June a8; July 7373Xc Southern wheat by sample 6873c. Corn steady Spot oibooc; manmdMoc; June ai oooc ; j uiy 3c. aoutnern wlute com ii i. j , , n. i -rim ic. vaissieauy; xmo. z wnite ; 0iMc: No. 2 tti.ya 5H3iSHp l 13 si tuce quiet at 3040cper bushel box FOREIGN BIA8KLT. Bv Cable to the HornloK St j LiVERPOOIa. Afav 12 I P. M - (Tot ton Spot, good business done; piicfs Unchanged. AmAriratTi m 13-32d. The sales of the day were 12.000 bales, of which 1,000 were speculation and export and inclu 11.600 bales Amnriran 'RnneinLs 4. balp.S. ino! ll Hi n of ROf. knloe Amp.ridau Futures ODened auiet but stekdj with a moderate demand and closed quiet at the decline. American nw dling (1. m. c.) May 3 20-643 21W colls.. u. i t o of atA cMer: June and July 3 21-64d seller; Jw and August 3 21-643 ' 22-64d seller: A.ugusi ana September a zi-o" 22-64d seller; September and October a ZL-nm seller; Uctober ana imovcui oer 3 zvnia buyer; JN ovemoer anu w cember 3 19-643 20-64d seller; R w.nnV.A. n . t o in l ( m '? fUd bll-VA" .TdTHinnrnriJ VuhniarT 3 206-JU seller; February and March 320-64, 3 21-64d seller; March and :Apf -6i 04tt ouyer. MARINE. ; CLEARED. V;! : Stmr Frank Sessoms, Ward, C T.. T r -, -i est uu, uames mauaen. i.. Stmr A P Hurt, Robeson, Fayette pool, Heide&Co. EXPORTS. - FOREIGN. LiverpooIa Nor barque irar; 4,231 bbls tar, 1,458 bbls rosin, va at $9,000, cargo by Alexander ;Spru"j vaiae oc Don, vessel by Jieiae tx GAMTAL-miDY Arrarts dbehargres from the vsOJT m eiUier aex m 48 bonrs. t . tait It la superior to Copaiba, Cube tkHu, and free from all bad wneU buoDTBnlences, . ' S SANTAL-MIDYr. VI Cfeetnlai, Uek bear the nama in rny-y: jr fc. An-a. wttnout WBtea none jgass
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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