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The Philippine question is an in teresting one because it has put this pnninT.rv rm a TiPW rJATWvrt.nrfi Titterlv at Variance with her traditions, her heretofore established policy, and wih , the fundamental principles .. upon which this Republic was based. It is not so much a question whether jwe can rule colonies, for that is only ja matter of force and brains, but it is a question whether we can rule colo- traditions and principles. No kind of subterfuge can get around this or give i justification for this revolu tionary departure. Simmer the ar guments in defence of it down and at last thev amount to simnlv this. those islands will be valuable acqui sitions and this justifies holding them and resorting to anything to hold them. The fact is there was no thought of holding them until it : ' was discovered that j. they aDounaea in vaiuaoie minerals, timber, etc., and were susceptible , of much "improvement, and could be .made much more productive .than they are now or were ' when they were at peace. In a word, they are too valuable to give up, and must therefore be held regard less jof the : methods1 ot acquiring them or of the methods adopted to hold them. jTaking it for granted that what . Admiral Dewey says in reference to holding them would be unquestion able! authority, the expansion organs are publishing with much gusto the following from a reported interview with a newspaper correspondent : "I ope to see America's Oriental possessions the key of Oriental com merce and civilization. The brains of our great country will develop the un told natural and mineral richness of the islands. We must never sell them ; such action would bring: on another great war. The proposition is impos sible. We never will part with them. The insurrection sis broken. There will be no more hard battles. Agui naldo and his generals must be cap tured. Many island provinces once warlike are anxious for peace as soon as the Tagalos of Luzon are whip ped but dare not treat while Aguinaldo has power to confiscate property- or punish. The end is not far off. If we push right after them, concentrate the troops and follow vigorously the cam nnim. i-m T Al CI i-1 1 , Southern islands line. I hope for will quickly fall in the end soon." f V We have great admiration for Ad miral Pewey as a brave, able, re sourceful and well-balanced com mander, equal to any emergency by which he might be confronted, but the probabilities are that in this he is talking more as the sea-soldier who J recognizing the fact that his Government had resolved on a cer tain course, loyally supports it and does his .best to furnish the argu ments to justify it, just as Gen. Wheeler, who achieved fame fight ing for the freedom of his own sec Mon and added to it by fighting :for fthe freedom of Cuba, now iustifies depriving the Filipinos of their freedom and appears to be anxious toJhelp -do it. Time has given' us ijwo Joe Wheelers in one and less time gave us two Admiral Dewevs '! rm -m . one. ; xne iact is the Admiral an change his views as easilv as ther men and does change them ometimes in a marvellously j short ime, which is proof conclusive that e is not infallible. A wriW in ff pi-lire's Magazine, who has a very reat admiration for him, describing cnaracierisucs, says: ; i ' ' ' ' I "HO does not jumi) at cnnc.liicrinna and there are times when ha in jdeliberate. He reasons to his deter mination, and, whatever his personal ;can dissociate' them entirely from his woric tua logic machine is absolute ly sound and in the finest order. . It turns out conclusions with mathemat ical precision. The sharpest critic he nas can hardly find one point in the long record made in Manila Bay waef he can put down his finger and fayThere Dewey made a mistake.' ?.Admufal has a peculiar trick of thinking out loud, and sometimes 2?denn Bome subject he .will .argue with any man whom chance sends along. On such occasions he will advance as his definite conclusion whatever side of the questions hap pens to be uppermost in his mind, and stand ready to defend it with consider able warmth. On the morning of my first interview with him in Manila Bay he spent several minutes demonstrat ing to me that the Filipinos were "forty times more capable of govern ing themselves than . the Cubans. In less than a week he gave me an ar gument upon exactly the opposite side, ignoring the first talk as completely as if it had never occurred.. Each time his assertions were of the most positive character, and the apparent contradic tion puzzled me greatly until L came to understand better his mental atti tude. Finally he reached the con clusion about the Filipinos which all the world knows, and instantly his course of action was shaped to conform to his belief. This conversation, mup.t have oc curred after the question of the fit ness of the Filipinos for self-government was" sprung, and that was not sprung until the idea of expansion had taken possession of some of our American statesmen and American newspapers. If the Admiral be such a correct reasoner it would be interesting to learn how he could have so completely reversed his views within such a short time, for cer tainly if the Filipinos were fit for self-government when he expressed the first opinion they couldn't have changed and become unfit within a week. AH this shows that while Admiral Dewey is unquestionably a level-headed mau on general prin ciples he lacks ar good deal of being infallible. :h He feels arid talks like a fighter for the flag whose business and duty it is to carry out policies and not to question them. We do not say this in a spirit of criticism, but simply because that is the only way by which we can account for his radical change of views within a week. There are others who rise above the argument, of value as a justifi cation of conquest, and go higher and make it a question involving onr faith, honor and justice. No one will question ex-Senator Sherman's Americanism, or his loyalty to the Republican party, which he helped to make. ' Speaking on this subject, in a recent interview in. Pittsburg, he said: '! "The war that is being waged by this government against the Filipinos is as cruel as it is unnecessary. We 'promised them independence and in stead gave them merciless and devas tating strife. "The Filipinos helped us when we needed help. They furnished every comfort in their power when Dewey's fleet was lying Isolated before the Spanish guns at Manila. They gave us plans with which to prosecute the campaign against the Spaniards and. on the battle line were our steadfast allies. They fought with us because they saw an oppor tunity to .throw off the yoke which had burdened them for a hundred years, and believed that we would enable them, to set up a government of their own. We, being looked upon as the champions of freedom, they naturally expected every act of clem ency from us. "The United States should have withdrawn from the islands the mo ment peace with Spain was assured. When the Filipinos had looked for ward toward the same independence which our own forefathers had won, their subsequent action in taking tup arms against their former allies is not unusual or unprecedented. History is full of such examples." Mr. Sherman does not' stoop to take a mercenary view of the ques tion, but views it from the higher plane, uninfluenced by the consider ation of territorial or commercial gain, and that's the view, that every American, at least every civilian, ought to take of it; and there isn't a word he says that isn't true. We may take them and hold them, but instead of proving the bonanza that Admiral Dewey is quoted as saying they will, they are much more likely to prove in the long ran a veritable Pandora's box. CONTRADICTORY REPORTS. It is pretty safe in forming opin ions as to the situation and the out look in the Philippines to - wait sev eral days until you can consider the dispatches that come from day to day as a whole and then form opin ions; From time to time we have been confidently assured that the DacKDone . or tne re Demon was broken, . the army rapidly waning and Aguinaldo practically a refugee. . Our victorious troops . had fought I 1 l a tneir way irom town to town, cap turing the strongholds of the enemy and putting him to flight. The dis heartened "rebels were suing for peace, and doing it so plaintively that Gen. Otis turned ' his back on the peace commission and : declared that the only way they could have peace was by "unconditional surren der," which it seems they have de clined to comply with, and now the dispatches tell us that Gen. Otis is asking the volunteers to re-enlist for six months, right on the heels of an announcement . from Washington that the last one of them would be home early in July if hot sooner. All this contradictory mixture suggests the inquiry, do the war managers in Washington know what is going on in Luzon, and if they do are they fooling the American people and keeping the truth from them r We know that there is a strict, censorship -exercised over that goes out from Manila, and that the newspapers get very little what the military censor's bine pen cil has not marked, and even the private soldiers who have written too freely to indiscreet friends, who have permitted their letters to be published, have been, made to feel the displeasure of . commanding officers. , jlo sum.it an up there is verv little to indicate the near . approach of peace, but much to indicate a prolonged war, unless there be more concert of action between our civil and military representatives over there, and a good deal better man agement by the Government itself than we have had. A S3.000.000 PASCE. " No man ever tried harder to get rid of $3,000,000 than Gen. Brooke has tried to get rid of that $3,000, 000 sent him to distribute among the late so-called Cuban soldiers. After long palavering with Gen. -Gomez and others, and finally agreeing upon the conditions on which the money was to be distributed, "the number entitled to it, &c., when Gen. Brooke pulled the stuff: out nobody but a few camp followerers and ex convicts seemed to want it, an(L thereupon the Cuban officers "ex changed winks, grinned and smiled at the farce. V Has Gomez been playing Brooke, or has Brooke been fooling himself? Doesn't all this palaver about the giving up of their arms, where they should be deposited, &c, look as if Gen. Brooke " was afraid of .this rag-tag and bob-tail remainder of an army of - bushwhackers who haven't done anything since the Americans landed on the island but loaf and eat the rations furnished by our quartermasters? From the insistence upon surrendering - their arms the officers at least, and prob ably the rank and file, have got an idea into their heads that, this Gov ernment is afraid of them and that makes them saucy, strut and put on airs. .. P." .. They agreed sometime ago to dis band, not to please this Government but simply because they found it in convenient to be lounging around doing nothing and finding some thing to eat. If Gen. Brooke had simply announced that the money would be paid out at a certain time and place to those who could show that they were entitled to it that would have been the end of it. If they came, all right. If they didn't, he could have boxed his money up and shipped it back to Washington and then there would have been no such farce as' we have been witness ing. A Honolulu paper, called TJie Volcano, got into a violent state of eruption at the presence of Com missary General Eagan in that town, and after belching up a lot of sulphurous Honolulu talk finally ejected him from its columns, where no reference to him should hence forth appear. It may be incident ally remarked that when it comes to hot talk Eagan is somewhat of a volcano himself. The customs officials in New Or leans are in a bad way. The crowd are troubled with snakes. They have a lot of them on hand, imported snakes, which they demand duties on, but which the snake men refnse to pay, claiming that the snakes are exempt as "tools." In the mean time the New Orleans officials are trying to get out of the snake tan gle by referring it to Washington to have it unravelled. CURRENT COMMENT. . in tracing his family name from that of the Asterga family of bpain, Mr. Waldorf Astor omits tcf state that .his Spanish ancestors have usually doubled the S in their name in abreviating it. But it sounds loud enough in his voice. Norfolk Virgmian-Jrilot, Dem. - The talk that the Bepublcan party is opposed to trusts will count for absolutely 'nothing as long as the. .Republican party, with full control of the legislative and executive branches of the Government, does nothing to check trusts. If the Democrats are favorable to the big silver trusts, the Republicans are favorable to legislation which will establish a gigantic- steamship trust. TjOwsviUe Courier Journal, Dem. ' i - i "The proposition," says the Macon News, "that the Southern people can' have no mail facilities unless they accept negro postmast ers and carriers is contrary to every principle of just government." Who is talking about "just government?" ; j ; wr,i,;4- j party is m power in Washington and is running pnings m tne Antilles ana the irhilippmesf Just government indeed. Charleston News and Courier Dem. j - Negroes who take pride in the acknowledged ability and valu able work of Fred Douglass and Booker Washington should not for get that their fathers were white men. Do . certain papers seek to obscure such facts when they give photographs of the Alabama teacher which exaggerate the s African cast of his features and omit all mention of the mixed blood in his veins? His face is distinctly Caucasian in type, and his color far from black. "Jacksonville Txmes-Unxon and Citizen, Dem. When two egotists fall to talk ing about themselves, it's usuallv a case of an I for an I. We give no rewards, an offer of this kind is the meanest of deceptions. Our plan is to give every one a chance to try the merit of Ely's Cream Balm the Original Balm for the cure of Catarrh, Hay Fever and Cold in the Mead, by mailing for 10 cents a trial size to test its curative powers. We mail the. 50 cent size also and the drug gist keeps it. Test it and you are sure to continue the treatment. Belief is immediate and a cure follows. Ely Brothers. 56 Warren street. New York. ".- w-;-' - tror over Flftr Years. Mrs. Winslow' SoorHura Syrup has been used for over fifty years by mil lions of mothers for then children while teething, with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for Diarrhoea. It will relieve the poor little sufferer imme diately. Sold by Druggists in every part or the world. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Window's Soothing Syrup," and take noouier. . t SPIRITS TURPENTINE. r Goldsboro Argus'. The death of Mrs. Olivia Epps, widow of the late Mr. Peter ' Epps, occurred Saturday morning at 5 o'clock, at her home in WebbtQwn, in the 69th : year of her age - ( - t Lincoln Journal: The Long Shoals Cotton Mills have ordered 2.000 additional spindles for their mills near town. This will give them 7,280 spindles. - The new machinery will be in place by September 1st. i Sanford Express'. After a thorough test, the Express is pleased to state that the artesian well has proven a success. - The pump has been in operation for more than a week. . It started up Monday and 150,000 gallons of water was pumped out of the well before a stop was made. It is thought that the well will more than supply the needs of the town and the rail roads. : ;y-:'-f. . A .'V'Vi 1 Stanly Enterprise'. Perhaps the smallest deed that ever passed to realty in this county was one given by Mr. O. D. King last week to the company establishing a bank here. Dr. King had built to within sixincnes of his line, and for a consideration of the good, but sufficient, kind, he made i a deed of the six incnes over to tne new company, hence the bank build ing will ad join the King building. I Gastonia Gazette: At a meeting of the stockholders last Friday it was decided to add to the Trenton cotton mill's "plant by building a new mill, Trenton No. 2. The capital stock of $65,000 was quickly s subscribed. It will be a spinning mill and almost a duplicate of the one now in such sue-, cessful operation. Secretary Ragan, now in Washington, will consult with the machinery makers before he re turns, j - i Greenville Reflector: Wo see that Irish potatoes are being quoted in the northern markets as low as $2.25. and $2.50 per barrel. With such. prices as this right at the beginning of the season when only a few of the earlier sections are making shipments, it looks like poor prospects when the bulk of the crop begins moving. It may turn out like the strawberry crop between Goldsboro and Wilmington,' take most of the crop to pay the rail roods for freight in reaching the markets. - i -j . I Concord Times: Messrs. Can non, McGill and Webb recently pur-; chased some 300 acres of .land, cover ing the northern, and northeastern boundaries of our town. Mr. Cannon was here awhile last week, and Mr. McGill of Philadelphia, remained over until Tuesday. The - latter has been directing a survey of the entire prop erty, having it laid off into blocks and streets, for building purposes. This will develop a pretty portion of our town. - i Danbury Reporter: t Mr. L. B. Simmons killed a large rattle snake with eight rattles about a mile south west of here, near Powell Bay's home, last Sunday. This is the second one that has been killed there this spring.' There are probably more rattle snakes right around where this one was kill ed than at any place in the county. It seems to be a regular summer resort for them. Two years ago there were fifteen or twenty killed within a mile of that place during the summer. TWINKLINGS. A bad penny is sure to turn up, But what keeps us guessing is whether it is going to turn up heads or tails. When a man refuses to pay his gas bill, and the meter is removed, he usually keeps dark about it; but some times it leaks out, Jennie Herbie, it says here another octogenarian's dead. What's an octogenarian f Herbie, well I don't just know what they are, but they must be, awfully sickly creatures. You never hear of 'em but they are dying. Judge, j j He stared at her with bulging eyes. . She had a boxing glove omher left hand, and a hammer in her right. "M-my dear," he stammered, "w-what are you going to do ?" "Idiot!" she snapped, "I'm going to drive tacks." Cleveland Plain Dealer, j - Little Clara's parent often dis cuss reincarnation, and the small maiden has acquired some of the phra seology. "Mamma," she said one day, "my kittie must have been a paper of pins in a previous state' of existence." "Why do you think so?" asked her mother. "Because" I can feel some of them on her toes yet." The Unlucky Opal "We are very happy," she whispers. "Yes, my darling!" he answers. A sigh flut ters her gentle bosom. "Do you know," she falters, : "our great happi nessf right en me? It almost makes me think the opal in my engagement ring is paste." In the clearest, bright est day the air holds the material of clouds, which at the first chill breath gather and overcast the suq. Detroit Journal. j "Alas!" sighed the broken down race horse, "what a leveler is death ! Here; I am to be made into canned corned beef along with ordi nary horses !'' Now it chanced that the packer overheard the race horse thus bemoaning his fate, and being a I humane man, he took pity on the un- h beast ..j be& ril make canned lobster out of him!" exclaimed I the Backer' and alldav loner he was buoyant with tbe consciousness of a generous deed done without especially . stultifying h mself. Detroit Journal. Where vtie Csara Are Bm-ied. It is not generally known that the remains of all the czars of Russia since Peter the Great lie in a memorial chapel built on one of the islands of the Neva. All the cenotaphs are exactly alike, each being a block of white marble, without anyj decoration whatever. The only distinction by which one is marked is the name of the deceased emperor. Men Who Wear Coraeta. More men wear corsets than is gener ally believed. A certain London corset maker states' that he makes hundreds every year .and recently had in hand one pair of pink satin decorated with nower-de-Iace and another of mle green satin adorned with lotas flowers, one of these beinir for an officer in India. QUARTERLY MEETINGS. M. E. Churcb, South, Wilmington District. Wilmington, Fifth Street, 11 A. M., June 4 ,, wummgwii, jnarKei tna-eec, nigni, June j raagnouatroviaence, juneio-ii. Bnruaw. Herrlniz's OhaneL June 17-18. Sonthoo thport, (District Conference). June 21-25. Sl-3 Brnnswlc; waccamaw. Zlon. July 15-16. wit, DiiEuiocie, uuiy e-w wmtevuie, Fair Bluff, Jul. 18. f 1. F. BUMPA8, Presiding Elder. . Belief in Six Hours. Distressing Kidnev and Bladder dis eases relieved in six hours by "New Great South American Kidney Cure." It is a 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 R, R. BxLfUfT, Druggist. Wilmington, N. O., corner Front and Market streets. - i PERSONALITIES. Don Carlos is accompanied every where he goes by the German boat hound which-4s bis .favorite companion. ' - General Draper. American "embassa dor to Italy has purchased a iiandsome room Jn the Borghesi palace. Rome. The purchase -includes some splendid old tapestries. ' - : : Henry L. "Higginson. the great Boston banker, who presented Soldiers' field to Harvard university, is a talented musi cian and one of the founders and patrons of the Boston Symphony orchestra. ' The Rev. Dr. William Butler of New fon Center. Mass! .'now 81 years oldis one of the most famous Methodist mis sionaries living, having labored heroic ally for many years iu India and Mexico Joseph V. Quarles. the new senator from Wisconsin, is a graduate of the University of Michigan and, being a football enthusiast, attends nearly every game played by. the eleven of " that col lege. V. - ;-' 't-'r ': '- - George Thayer, a once famous aboli tionist and the father of Samuel R. Thayer of Minneapolis, jninister to the NetherlandH nnder President Harrison, has just' celebrated his ninety-second birthday in Rochester. r-1 The late ex-Attorney General Gar land was not always solemn.: A story is told that when Be was in the senate he presented tbe venerable David Davis with some chocolate crpam drops stuffed with cotton in recognition of All Fools' day. ' VP. Russell Sage says that he has always made it a point to devote each year about a month to the study of current politics. "In no way."" he adds, "can a man gain such a useful knowledge of his fellows as he can by working in pol itics" , - Late in December last Representative and Mrs. Bland celebrated very quietly the twenty-fifth anniversary of their marriage, and when the . other day the fact was made known to the Missouri delegation Mr. Bland was presented with a large silver fruit dish. The two sons of Hallain Tennyson, grandsons of the late laureate, named Aubrey and Lionel Tennyson, have just won prizes in an original competition contest in a child's magazine. Aubrey is aged 7 years. The theme of composi tion was "My Happiest Day. ' General Wheeler and Genera Henry V. Boynton are so much alike that even mutual friends sometimes mistake them. When both were present at a re cent reception, it was -necessary for them to run a sort of clearing house of messages one had received for the other. Dr. Edward Murphy of New Har mony. Ind., has given $42,000 for the town's public library, this gift being supplementary to the presentation some years ago of a library building costing $80,000. The doctor is 86 years old and desires, he says, "to dispose of my property without the intervention of courts and juries. " "VJ, ", ". TURF TOPICS. Denver will give $40,000 for a ten day meeting in June. - Homewood park, Pittsburg, is being cut up into building lots. Providence will accept the dates as signed it in the grand circuit There are over 50 horses in training at the Pleasanton (Cal. ) track. They will try to. induce Chehalis, 2 :04&. to go without hopples this year. ' . The Dubuque (la, ) track is to have a new grand stand of very large propor tions. I' Spier works the Hubinger horses barefooted on the roads around New Haven. There is considerable talk of building a first class trotting mile track at Jack sonville, Fla. j H. B. Loose has been elected presi dent and Dr. W. B. Means secretary of the Lebanon (Pa.) Fair association. .; Ray Warner, the Michigan trainer, will probably locate at Kirk park track, Syracuse, this season and train a public stable. Only about 200 horses were entered in all the trotting and pacing events in California last season. It is thought the number will be doubled this year. Turf. Field and Farm. APHORISMS. Nothing is so infectious as example. Kingsley. i j '' 1 ' Discretion in speech is more than elo quence. Bacon. Of all vain things excuses are the vainest. Buxton. Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence. Lavater. A life spent worthily should be meas; tired oy deeds, not years. Bnenaan. j Repentance is the golden ' key that opens the palace of eternity. Milton. A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. Maria Edgeworth. The happiest, life is that which con' Btantly exercises and educates what is best in us. Hamerton. The man who builds and lacks where with to pay provides -a home from which to run away. Young. We seldom find people ungrateful as long as we are in a condition to render them services. Kocheioucauld. "Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power. Sherlock. i The darkest hour ' in the history of any young man is when he sits down to study how to get money without earn ing it Horace Greeley. Are We OainonliaslataT A new word applied to America, says the St Louis Globe-DemocrsC is "quinophagists. " indicating that they consume more quinine than any other people in the world. The total imports exceed 1.500,000,000 grains a year, an average , consumption of 20 grains to each inhabitant. Its price to importers within 55 years has fallen from $2 an ounce to 16 cents. Two-thirds of the quinine comes from the Cinchona trees of Java.' planted by the intelligent Dutch governors since 1852. - ' Keeping- Tab on the "Cabbiea." The "cabbies" of St Petersburg have recently been supplied with a book of tickets by the municipal council for the purpose of providing every 't are" with the means of making a note of any com plaint he may desire to make against the "cabby. " The latter, at the request of the "fare, " is obliged to tear off one of the tickets for him. The tickets bear the number of the cab and the tariff of charges. Journal de St Petersburg. ! - Pneumatic Tlrea on Caba. The tires on the New York electric cabs are quite formidable affairs. They are nearly three-quarters of an inch thick and are five inches in diameter. They are tested up to a pressure exceed ing that used in an ordinarv locomo tive boiler. In practice 60 pounds to xne square men "floats. " as it is termed. tne can. . xne tire or each wheel costs "''.'s"Bow Queen Beaa Dined. ; . - The setting out of the dinner; of Qmm Elizabeth was a ceremonious function First came a gentleman with a rod, followed by a'gentleman carrying a tablecloth, which, after.: they had knelt reverently three times, was spread upon the table. Then came two others.. one with -a rod. the other with a salt cellar, a plate und bread They knelt three times, placed " the things on the tabla knelt again and retired. JNext came a lady in waitings followed - by a - The first ladvf dressed in white,- after kneeling" three times,- approached the table and solemnly ruDoea sue plates with the salt " P Then entered 24 yeomen of the guard, clad in scarlet and each carrying a dish of gold. These dishes were placed upon the table while the, lndy taster gave to each of the guards a taste from the dish ho hnd hrrmerht in., for fear of possiDifl nniann These retards were selected from the tallest and stoutest men to all Eng- land, ax me ciose oi iu toicmuuj a number of ; unmarried ladies - appeared and with great solemnity lifted the various dishes, and carried them to the tine Ctrl in hpr nrivate: apartments. The queen dined and supped alone, with few attendants, and it was seldom that any one was admitted at this time ana. men only at the intercession of some one in power. . VVPP; ' ' V . - She Got the Money. " i In Berlin they tell a pretty story about Fran Blumenthal. the ; popular wife of the witty playwright and director of the Leasing theater, j Herr Blumenthal, it appears, had great misgivings regard ing the success of his new piece, "Zum Weissen Roesse. " One day, when he was nearly ready to ; throw the manu script aside, his wifei who did not share his view, said to him "If I bad only 20 marks ($5) for every 1. 000 it will bring you I should be quite content '. "All right you shall have thein. " said Herr Blumenthal. V "Zuni Weissen Roesse' - (White Horse Inn) met with an immense success. Ev ery night the fran director for in Ger-. many the wife shares in her husband's titles if not in 'his tin went to the cashier and levied on her 20 marks per 1,000 On one occasion, after the piece had been running some months, bad weather caused a falling off in the re ceipts below the $1,000 marks, and con sequently Fran Blumenthal was not en titled to her "tantieme" of 20 marks. "How much have yon taken?? she asked the cashier. "Only 997 marks. '' Was the reply. "WelL give me a seat at 3 marks, then. " said Bran Blumenthal, laying down the coin ".Now yo have 1.0Q0 marks, give me my 20. " She got them. A Tough Job. "Whatia your hurry, Pat!" asked a gentleman of an Irish painter. "Haven't you all day in Which to finish the job?" v 1 "Begorra, Oi'm throyin y finish mo irVh nfnro t.hfi naint aiVes nnt, '' said Pat. Scottish Nights. CATARRH Tn nil its stages there should be cleanliness- Elv's Cream Balm cleanses, soothes and heals the diseased membrane. -It enres catarrh and drives away a cold la the head quickly. Cream Balm is placed Into the nostrils, spreads 7er the membrane and is absorbed. Belief Is im mediate and a care follows. It Is not drying-does not produce sneezing, targe Sire, 60 cents at Drug gists or by mail ; Trial Size, 10 cents by mail. ELY BROTHERS, 66 Warren Street, Kew York. WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT. W The following : Quotations represent Wholesale Prices generally.' ' In making up small orders Wither orlces nave to be charged. The quotations are always given as accurately as possible, but the 8tax will not be responsible lor any variations from the actual market price of the articles anoted. BAGGING 8 S Jute.. . Standard - WESTERN SMOKED I . a i ia e 13 6H 6H 654 6 6M 1 10 & "1 30 & 1 85 88 5 00 7 00 9 00 M 00 126a 15 20 - S3 51 55 .52 55 75 80 18 8 11 iox nyi 11 . 10H 12 18 1 10 6H . 70 11 12 Hams V s Sides B . Shoulders g D. DRY SALTED Sides B Shoulders ft..... BARRELS Spirits Turpentlne- second-band, each t... New New xor-, eacn Newuwy, eacn .. BEESWAX V B ..... BRICKS Wilmington V M northern BUTTER North Carolina V B aonnern. CORN MEAL Per bashel. In sacks Virginia Meal COTTON TIES bundle...... CANDLES V Sperm.. Adamantine CHEESE V t Northern Factory...... usury uream mate...., COFFEE V Laguyra...... ............... Bio DOMESTICS Sheeting, 4-4, jl yard... Tarns. V bunch of 5 Ss .... EGGS dozen................. FISH- Mackerel, No. 1, V barrel . . . Mackerel, No. 1, $) half-bbl. Mackerel, No. 2, barrel... Mackerel, No. 8 half-bbl . . ' Mackerel No. 3, V barrel. . . Mullets, w barrel ........... Mullets, flpork barrel N. C. Roe Herring, V keg.. Dry Cod, ,..,.... " Extra..., FLOUR lb . iS, Low grade .................. Choice....... Straight.... FlrstPatent.. GLX7E V 9 GRAIN bushel Corn,from 8tore,bgs White Car-load, In bgs White... 22 00 11 00 16 00 8 00 13 00 2 50 5 00 3 00 6 4 85 80 00 15 00 18 00 9 00 14 00 400 809 S3 25 10 460 3 50 8 75 4 25 5 00 7 8X 65 60 60 45 70 1 10 9 80 45 75 75 75 400 4 50 65, oats, rrom store vow, auriwiMMM Cow Peas Black Eye Peas ....... HIDES i C5 00 & ureen saitea, ' Dry flint wry sail .... HAY 9 100 lbs . Clover Hay 60 40 OhW. , Eastern............ Western .... North River HOOP IRON, V ........... 156 7 10H I 25 UA1U, V : Northern North Carolina...... LIME. barrel......... 6 6 1 15 , . LUMBER (city sawed) Mit ts nip Btnxx, resaweu.. Rough edge Plank West India cargoes, accord 18 00 15 00 20 00 16 00 18 00 23 00 15100 6 50 8 00 10 00 10 60 25 88 lngto quality............. 13 00 Dressed Flooring, seasoned. 18 00 Scantling and Board, com'n 14 00 Common mill 6 00 Fair mill................ 6 50 Prime mill ........... ....... 8 60 Extra mill. 10 00 KOLA8SES gallon Barbadoes, in hegshead., . , . -Barbadoes, In barrels i Porto Rlco.Iin hogsheads.... Porto Rico. In barrels.. : 27 28 14 - 15 25 166 Sugar House, In hogsheads Sugar Hoase, In barrels..., Syrup, tn barrels NAILS, keg. Cut, 60d basis. . PORK, V barrel 12 14 15 60 11 00 uump... Prime. . . 10 50 ROPE, -.... . BALT, f? sack. Alum.. .......... Liverpool 10 I American. On 125 Sacks. bhing: JLES, 7-lnch, per M. Common Cynress Sana ....... SUGAR, V lb standard Gran'd standard A.......... - White Extra C. Extra C, Golden.; O, Yellow................... SOAP, Northern.... STAVES, JH M w. O. barrel.... R. O. Hogshead. TMPaSne eeth,pplns MUlJ Falr.e..'..''!!'.'.'.'!."."I ; Common Mill....,'.........,, Inferior to ordinary SHINGLES, N.C. Cypress sawed . V M 6x24 heart.............. " Sap..,., 5x24 Heart.............. Sap........... 6x34 Heart............. " Sap...... TALLOW, .............. " wuisajfix, w gauon. Northern - ,f v pauou, noruiern 1100 North Carolina i inn ool per U-Unwaahed...... w 10 00 10 22 .1 10 75 80 70 75 - 47X 6 00 8 50 160 3 25 2 50 8 60 sm 6 . 5 - 5) 6 - 5)2 ' . 4JJ 8)4 - 4 " COO 14 09 : 10 00 9 00 . 7 00 . 8 60 4 60 5100 8 00 4 00 7 50 8 60 5 00 6!09 4 60 5100 4 00 6S0 6 00 6 60: 8 00 5 60 8 00 00 u Beware of ImitdioRS ! Coiramers should beware of the cheap inferior washing powders said to be just 'good as IVasliing Powder 'They are not there, is nothing so good aa r the genuine GOLD DUST for all cleaning about the house, Ask for GOLD OUST ; and insist on getting it. . Madeonjy by , THE N. K. FilRBiNK COMPANY, CWcago St LoaU V New York v Boston COMMERCIAL. WILMINGTON MARKET. STAB OFFICE. May 29. - , SPIRITS TUEPENTINK Market steady at 59 cents per gallon, for machine-made casks and 39 'cents per gallon for country casks. . KUblJN Market nrm at au cenra per barrel for Strained and r 95 cents for Good Strained. P ' ; V TAR--Market steady at $ 1.30 per bbl of280fts. ' . CRUDE TURPENTINE. Market firm at $1.35 per barrel for Hard, $2.30 for Dip, and $2.40 for Virgin. Quotations same aay last year. Spirits t turpentine, nothing doing; rosin, nothing doing; tar steady at $1.10; crude turpentine steady at ft. 00 $1.601.70. . RECEIPTS. I . : Spirits turpentine .'. 116 Kosm . . zou Tar....... 236 Crude turpentine i ... t ... 88 Receipts same : day last year. ill casks j spirits turpentine, 384 bbls rosin, 177 bbls tar, 75 bbls crude tur pentine. . .: " i COTTON. J Market quiet on a basis of 5U cts per pound for middling. Quotations: Ordinary Good Ordinary. 3 7-16 cts m lb 4 13-16" " 5 7-16?" u 5 " Low Middling. . . . Middling. .... Good Middling1. . . isame davJast vearmiddlins bsc. Receipts 14 bales; same day last year, 106. COUNTRY PRODUCE. - PEANUTS North Carolina Extra prime, 75 to 80c per bushel of 28 pounds; fancy, 80 to 85c. Virginia Extra prime 55 to 60c; fancy, 60c; Spanish, 82J4 to 85c. CORN Firm; 50 to cents per bushel. ROUGH RICE Lowland (tide water) 90c$1.10 ; upland, 6580c.' Quotations on a basis of 45 pounds to the bushel. 1 . N. 0. BACON-Steady; hams 10 to 11c per pound; shoulders, 6 to 7c; 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; seven-inch, $5.50 to 6.50. ' TIMBER Market steady at $2. 50 to 6. 60 per M. ' P NAVAL STORES MARKETS. By Telegraph to the Mornmut Star. , New York, May 29. Rosin steady ; strained common to good $1 401 42. Charleston, May 29. Spirits tur pentine firm at 38c; sales -30 casks. Rosin firm and unchanged ; ho sales. Savannah. May 29. Spirits tur pentine steady at 40c; sales 395 casks; receipts 1,956 casks, liosm quiet and firm; sales 98 barrels; receipts 3,437 barrels; the closing quotations were: A, B, C, D 95c, E $1 00, F $1 10,G $115, H $1 20, I $1 40, K $1 50, M $1 95, N $2 20, window glass $2 45, water white $2 70. p -; COTTON MARKETS. ' By Telegraph to the Mornlns star. New York,' May 29. The leading feature of interest in to day's cotton market was a marked widening of the difference between the May and Au gust: prices. This was due to light liquidation of the former by disgrun tled longs and a spurt of covering by August shorts. The market opened quiet, with prices one to two points higher on scattering demand from shorts and the foreign contingent, in spired by good sales of spot cotton at Liverpool and bullish reports from the world's cotton goods markets. The market further improved as the ses sion wore on, and the close was quiet and steady; May two points lower, otner montns tnree to four points higher. In the way of weather news, the official chart recorded, fair rains in the central belt, with Iclear,. mild con ditions elsewhere. New York, May 29. Cotton steady ; middling uplands 6 c. futures closed quiet and steady; May 5.84c, June 5.87c, July 5.90c,-August 5.91c, September 5.88c, October 5.92c, November 5. 94c, December 5.98c, January 6.01c, February 6.04c, March 6.08c; April 6.11c Spot cotton 1 closed steady and un changed; middling uplands 6ic; mid- aims gun ofcc;saies765 bales. Net receipts 907 bales ; gross re ceipts 3,742 bales; sales 765 bales; exports to Great Britain 1,411 bales; exports to the Continent 1,367 bales; stock 172,079 bales. I Total -to-day Net receipts 7,126 bales; exports to Great Britain 1,411 bales; exports to the Continent 3,588 bales; stock 1,367 bales. ! Consolidated Net receipts 10,873 bales; exports to Great "Britain 17,405 bales; exports to France 300 bales; exports to the Continent 12,772 bales Total since September 1st Net re ceipts 8,092,050 bales; exports to Great Britain 3,327,638 bales; exports-to France 718,300 bales; exports to the Continent 2,596,512 bales. . May 29 Galveston, steady at 5 15 16, net receipts 76 bales; Norfolk, steady at 5c, net receipts 443 bales; Balti more, nominal at 6Xc net receipts bales; Boston, steady , at 6X5, net receipts 421 bales; Wilmington, quiet at m, net receipts 14 bales; Phil adelphia, quiet at 6 c, net receipts 189 bales; Savannah, easy at 5 He,1 net receipts 216 bales: New nria steady aiS&c, net receipts 3,127 bales: Mobile, dull, at 5 ll-16c, net receipts 628 bales; Memphis, quiet at 53c, net receipts 436 bales; Augusta, steady at 65, net receipts 104 bales; Charles ton, quiet at 5 9-16cJ net receipts 1,105 bales. . . . PRODUCE MARKETS. By Telegraph to the Morning star. ; v New York, May 29.'- Potatoes Market onifit- Naw Vmlr 11 nna-i n. Jersey sweets $1 002 00., Rice firm. jjuiter strong western creamery 15 xi 18c ; State dairy 14K17c. Cheese Steadv: larcA xphitA Rir. nw. steady at $1 502 75 per barrel crsXe peanuts nrm; lancy hand-picked A4 5cj other domestic 44Xc. Freights to Lavernool nnttm w .fMn m.. Coffee-Spot Rio dull: irdld mt Molasses firm. - ' Chicago. Mv q mJ au auvituce w ito a bushel to-day. I July - closed at 77i771. Com closed . unchanged and oats ic higher. Pork nd as miinofl tin ant 1Trl 9.Xo PiW. i , unchanged. j Chicago, May 29. Cash quotations Flour market steady. Wheat N() 2 spring 7475c; No. 3 spring ?'o 74Kc ; No! 2 red 76 77Kc. Corn ' No. 2 32c. Oats-No. 2, 24 25ic; No. 2 white, free onboard, 27ft 28c; No. 3 white, do., 2627c. Pork - per bbl, 8 108 15. Lard, per loo fts, $5 005 02. Short rib side- 1 A 4 rn a on T - i , .' luuso, ukjij ou. irjr sajiu snonl- ' ders, $437K 62 Short clear sides boxed, $4 955 05. Whiskej-DistiU lore' finished goods, per gallon. $1 26T The leading futures ranged as fol lows opening, highest,, lowest and closing: Wheat No. 2, May 75, 7tU 74, 76c;July 7575, 778, 75;!' 76Kc;September75X75, 7e;g,758 7676. Corn May 32, 32 32, 32M, 3232Mc; Jul . 32,, 32H, 32K32, 32. 32c; Septem ber 32, 32, 32, 33c. OatsN 2 May 24, 24, 24, 24c; Juy 22 H 22X, 2222M. 22&c; September 19, 20, 19, 20&C. Pork, per bbl- TW T7IZ R 9K a ItiZ a On. o... tember $8 30, 8 40, 8 30, 8 35, Lard per 100 tts-July $5 05, 5 07, 5 (15' 505; September $5 17, 5 20, 5 17' '5 17c. Ribs, per 100 lbs Jul j 4 67' 4 70, 4 67J,. 4 68 ; September $4 So 4 82, 4 80, 4 80. Baltimore, May 29. Flour steady; western super $2.253.40. Wlit stroDg Spot 7777c; month 77 77Xc; June 77X77c; July 78 78c. Southern wheat by sample t!i 78c. Corn steady Spotmonthand June, 3636Kc; Juljf i 3737Hc. Southern white corn 4323c. Oats dull and easy No. 2 white 32 Me. Lettuce steady at 50c per bushel box. FOREIGN MARKET. By Cable to the Morntnii St nr. Liverpool, May 29, 4 P. M. Cot ton Spot in fair demand; prices steady. American middling 3d. The $ales of the day were 12,000 bales, of which 1,000 were for speculation and export and included 11,300 bales American. Receipts 14,000 bales, in eluding 9,800 bales American. Futures opened quiet with a mode rate demand and closed quiet but steady. American middling (1. ra.- c.) May 3 20-64d seller; May aitd Jime 3 20 643 21-64d seller: June and July 3 20-643 21-64d buyer; July arid Au, gust 3 21-64d buyer; August arid Sep tembers 21-64d buyer; September and October 3 21-64d seller; October and November 3 22-64d bu ver : November and December 3 19-643 20-64d buyer; December and January 3 19 643 2p-64d buyer; January and February 3 19-643 20-64d buyer; February ai d March 3 20 643 21-64d seller; March and April 3 22 64d buyer. 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