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WILMINGTON. X. C.
S.vtcedat Mobjtikg, Jtjly 22.
TAEHT-PEOTECTED TBUST8-
The following editorial, which we
clip from the Philadelphia Record,
bears on two of the principal trusts,
but incidentally bears upon all:
"One of the latest trusts is the Na
tional Tube Company, which was or
ganized on June 12 with a capitaliza
tion of 130,000,000, one-half of which
is represented by 7 per cent, cumula
tire preferred stock and one-half by
common stock:. It is the usual cus
tom in these modern combinations to
divide the shares equally into pre
ferred and common stock, and it is
generally understood that the pre
ferred stock represents the full market
able value of the plants, while
the common stock represents water.
This is not always correct, however,
because in many instances the ap
praised value of the properties absorbed
has been excessive. The ' National
Tube Company claims in its official
statement that the annual savings in
expenses to result from the combina
tion will equal or exceed the entire
dividend on the preferred stock, leav
ing the net earnings over and above
these savings for the holders of the
common stock. The 7 per cent cumu
lative dividend on $40,000,000 will
amount to $2,800,000, and it is stated
that "the net earnings of the current
year will amout to between 5,000,000
and $7,000,000, while the annual sav
ing? in transportation and other ex
penses are assured at between $2,000,
000 and $3,000,000 in addition."
"Over ninety per cent, of the stock
holders in the old companies elected to
take the new stock, and less than ten
per cent, (mostly scattered hoi dine in
IotsHtook cash in preference.
small
The list of directors WtH i lAnr)
and includes twenty-one names all
but one (the counsel) having been se
lected from the management of the
concerns absorbed by the Trust. From
this list eight executive officers were
chosen, with official and financial
headquarters at New York and manu
facturing headquarters at Pittsburg.
The formation of this Trust is not un
like that of the American Tinplate
Company,- which, according to the
semi-annual compilation of active tin
plate works recently published in the
Metal Worker, includes 272 out of a
total of 288 mills, or nearly 98 per
cent, of all the active plants in the
United States.
"There is good reason to believe that
excessive valuations were placed on
some if not all of the tinplate mills
absorbed by the American Tinplate
Comnanv. and in anm fav
where the owners would not agree to I 'Te tariff should go,
fcwmo iKtruiers in me com Dine, the
plants were bought for cash. Several
of these plants, in Baltimore, Brooklyn
and elsewhere, are now being disman
tled, and it is said that there are four
teen such mills from which the ma
chinery is now being removed. It is
reported in The Iron Age (July 13)
that the producing capacity of all the
mills in the United States is over ID -000,000
boxes. Since the formation of
the American Tinplate Combine the
price of tinplate has been increased so
largely that, in spite of the high duty,
importations from Wales have been
resumed. Apparently the American
Hn-Plate Company did not take into
consideration the fact that during the
past few years Welsh manufacturers
nave been importing American ma
chinery, and have been learning how
to reduce the cost of raanufacture.
They have also learned to imitate
their sharp Yankee competitors in
some tricks of the trade, such as giv
ing larger discounts for export than
for home consumption.
. PPen that the price of tin
plate will be maintained in the future
(so long as the demand shall continue
good) at a figure iust hlnw th
ger line of importations ; and thus it is
also evident that the high tariff prac
Ste." reuUtes 0x6 Price of tin-
which permit the . manufacturers of
other countries to pat . their goods
upon the English market in compe
tition with the goods of English
"trusts.". While this is so the trusts
can never dominate the English
market as American trusts do our
market.
The goods of American trusts are
sold in England in competition with
the goods of English trusts and sold
for less money than American pur
chasers have to pay for the same
goods. If the English manufacturers
were protected against ' American
goods by a protective tariff Amer
ican manufacturers couldn't do that,
and if our ports were open to the
goods 0 foreign countries the Amer
ican trnst could not put up its goods
on the -American purchasers, for
they would come into competition
with foreign goods and thus be com
pelled to put prices down to com
pete with them. But having a pro
tective tariff to stand between them
and the foreign manufacturers they
make their own prices for the home
purchasers, but having competition
abroad they make prices in other
countries to meet the competition
they have to face. With these facts
in view (and they are facts) should
it require any argument to prove
that a high protective tariff fosters
trusts?
It not only fosters trusts but it
fosters fraud (and is a fraud itself)
because nine-tenths of the trusts are
based on fraud, on fraudulent valua
tions and fraudulent representations
as to profits. They are largely based
on fraudulent valuations for the
purpose of fleecing the confiding
public who may buy their stock, the
promoters of the trusts themselves
holding the actual values in prefer
red stock and turning the watered
stock on the innocent buyers as
common stock, nine-tenths of which
will never yield a dollar of profit.
They are based upon fraud again
because these promoters aay that
one of the objects in organizing them
is to promote economy of produc
tion, thus cheapening the articles
produced and sold, while making a
fair profit to the producer by the
large sales and economic methods.
Whether they reduce the cost of
production or not it is not true that
the consumers get cheaper goods,
for trust-made goods have all been
increased in price, some of them
almost double, as in the case of
American tin-plate, which is protec
ted by the tariff, and which keeps
just inside of foreign prices, with
the tariff added. Take off the tariff
and it would be compelled to come
down to foreign prices.
But the tariff advocates say that
would ruin and close up our tin
plate factories. Would it? Are
not Welsh tin-plate makers now im- I
porting American plate-making ma
chinery to enable them to turn out
goods as rapidly and cheaply as our
tin-plate makers do? Are we not
making steel more cheaply in this
country than it can now be made in
any country in the world and under
selling European steel makers in
their own markets? With better
machinery and cheaper steel why
should American tin-plate makers,
or any other metal manufacturers,
fear foreign competition, and why
should the fraudulent protective
tariff be perpetuated to enable the
fraudulent trusts to practice extor
tion on American purchasers. The
trusts should go and to expedite
their going the fraudulent protec-
SPIRITS TURPENTINE.
WAS US A "TBAITOlt?"
It has become a common thing
for the supporters of the war of
"criminal aggression" in the Phil
ippines to denounce as "rebel sym
pathisers," "allies of Aguinaldo,"
"copperheads" and "traitors" those
who oppose the administration's
policy, regardless of the political
affiliations Of such men or of their
standing in public estimation. The'
average Republican ranks Abraham
"Lincoln next to George Washing
ton, while a good many of them
rank him higher than George Wash
ington, but Abraham Lincoln didn't
hesitate to criticise the administra
tion which was carrying on a war,
and as a representative in Comrress
to oppose that war. The New York
Evening Post makes the following
extract from a speech delivered by
him in Congress on the 12 th of Jan
nary, 1848 in opposition to the Mex
ican war and arraigning President
Polk:
ino- th.' vn lt idAnA t practically ruined. Mr. W. A. Dunn's
aamjaI I iai aJ-a W CS9 BtOV JIU J lilvU
moM: ofjviolin;
STAGE GLINTS.
Laurinburg Exchange: Some of
the farmers are much distressed about
the work of some sort of an inseet that
is killing their cotton. It is a small
bug scarcely visible to the naked eye.
The first appearance of its work is a
small red spot on the leaf; it then
spreads to other leaves and stalks and
kills-every, stalk as it goes. Several
farms in the neighborhood are infected.
Should it continue to spread over the
fields till cotton picking time,' whole
fields of fine cotton will be destroyed.
. Chatham Jtecordx We are.
pleased to note that our old Fusion
board of education did not again ap
point any negroes in charge of. white
schools as they did two years ago he
last election taught them -that much!
Although theVheat crop in this
county is generally bad. yet there are
a few exceptions. For instance, there
Mr. A. P. Terry sowed 17 bushels and
threshed 254 bushels, and on one and
five-eighths acres Mr. A. J. Bynum
raised 57 bushels over SO bushels to
acre. '
Scotland Neck Commonwealth:
Last Saturday afternoon a severe hail
storm passed over from the direction
of Enfield towards the Roanoke river.
Mr. J. O. Lewis' farm near Dawson's
was stru"K ana ms tooacco crop was
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ONE
FOR , WHICH FABULOUS 6UM8
' HAD BEE OFFERED;' '
whether Texas had actually
her revolution to the place where the
hostilities of the present war com
menced, let th President answer the
interrogatories I propose, or some other
similar ones. Let him answer fully,
fairly and candidly. Let him answer
with fsets and not with arguments.
Let him remember he sits where Wash
ton sat, and. so rememberings let him
answer as Washington would answer
As a nation should not, and the
Almighty will not, be evaded, so let
him attempt no evasion no equivoca
tion. And if, so answering, he can
show that the soil was ours where
the first blood of the war was shed
that it was not within an inhabited
country, or. if within such, that the
inhabitants had submitted themselves
to the civil authority of Texas or of
the United 8tates, and that the same is
true of the site of Fort Brown then I
am with him for his justification. But
if he cannot, or will not do this if on
any pretense, or no pretense, he shall
refuse or omit it then I shall be fully
convinced of what I more than sus
pect already that he is deeply con
scious of being in the wrong; that he
fegjs the blood of this war, like the
blood of Abel, is crving to heaven
against him; that originally having
some strong motive what, I will not
stop now to give my opinion concern
ingto involve the two countries in a
war, and trusting to escape scrutiny
by fixing the public gaze upon the
exceeding bightness of military
glory that attractive rainbow that
rises in showers of blood that ser
pent's eye that charms to destroy he
plunged into it, and has swept on and
on till, disappointed in his calculation
of the ease with which Mexico might
be subdued, he now finds himself he
knows not where. He is a bewildered.
confounded and miserably perplexed
man. God grant he may be able to
show there is not something about his
conscience more painful thsn all his
mental perplexity."
That was "hot stuff" compared
with the mild-mannered criticisms
by some of the opponents of the
Philippine war, which is the culmi
nation of atrocity compared with
the prosecution of the war against
Mexico. If Lincoln were living
now and talked thus would he be a
"traitor?"
somewhat, but
his damages were comparatively light.
Passing on the storm spent its greatest
force seemingly on Mr. Chas. F. Han
cock's farm, at Hill's X Roads. His
tobacco was literally beaten to pieces.
It looked like it was totally ruTfied. His
corn was also stripped until it looked
like willow bushes. Others near Spring
TT'll im i Ji
am suuereu damages, ana men me
storm seemed to lift, passing on toward
Roanoke river.
HO CARPETBAGGERS WASTED
At a meeting in New York a few
days ago, Mrs. Henry, wife of Gen.
Guy Henry, formerly Governor Gen
eral of Porto Rico, made an appeal
for the relief of the suffering Porto
Bicans,and gave some of the reasons
why the appeal was made and why
it was that there was so much dis
tress in the island, especially
among the women many of whom
formerly supported themselves by
sewing for the Spanish garrisons.
During the meeting General Henry
made some remarks in the course of
which he said:
Statesville Mascot: The drought
remains practically unbroken in cen
tral and south Iredell. While there
have been, light local showers, there
has been no rain sufficient to do much
good to the crops. In north Iredell
there have been fair rains in some
portions, but the crops are still suf
fering from drought. The crop pros
pect is rather a gloomy one. Cotton
and upland corn are badly damaged
on account of insufficient moisture.
Bottom corn is fine. The wheat crop
is a very light one in the county and
the oat crop was almost a failure.
Unless it very soon rains there will
be very sorry crops in the county.
With it all prices remains low, and
it appears that our farmers could stand
a good deal more prosperity than is
likely to be theirs next fall.
The Raleigh News and Observer:
A telephone I message from - Al
bermarle to Wadesboro tells of
an assault by a negro upon a
Miss Saunders, of that place Thursday
evening. At the request of the Al
bermarle authorities parties were dis-
Eatched to the State farm for blood
ounds and they will be carried and
placed upon the negro's trail imme
diately. The locality in which the
crime was committed is reported as
being much agitated and summary
punishment will be inflicted upon the
negro if caught Penitentiary
claims are now coming in rapidly at
the State Treasurer's office. On Wed
nesday $34,583 of warrants were re
cieved and paid, and $12,797.01 worth
were paid yesterday. Of those paid
Wednesday about $13,000 had been
changed to read "June 1. 1899." in
stead of "March 6, 1899," the other
$21,000, though made out "March 6,
1899," had attached to them an affida
vit that no part of the claim was con
tracted after January 1st, 1899.
Weldon Hews: Mr. Ashley
Wilkins, of 8outh Gastonia. writing
about the water power at that section
sajs the p-wer is four or five miles
above Gaston, and that while they eon
cede 30,000 horse power to be a very
big powe, they have been assured by
me engineers and surveyors that it is
capable of such development. But Mr.
N. D. Wilkin, who is president,
expects soon to have a hydraulic engi
neer to examine more particularly into
the matter. Deputy Collector R.
J. Lewis last week destroyed two dis
tilleries in full blast, located between
Ring wood and Enfield. Both of the
juceries were cut up. One was of 75
gallon capacity. 700 gallons of beer
were captured and 21 fermenters. Few
people had any idea that "moonshine"
was being manufactured in such a
thickly populated section of the
country, but it appears that these
illicit distilleries can flourish in almost
any locality. Some years ago they
were confined principally to the moun
tain districts.
TOO VALUABLE TO WASTE.
We clip the following floating par
agraph from one of our exchanges:
"Black walnut has became so valu
able m Indiana that those who are cut
ting timber of that kind there are ex
ercising great care and economy in the
work. Each tree is cut off at the
root, in order to save every bit of tim
ln the stump. Lumber which Vas
considered almost worthless a few
years ago is npw being worked into
costly veneers."
It isn't so many years ago since
farmers in clearing land in Indiana
cut black walnut trees and made
fence rails out of them.
President Havemeyer said in his
testimony before the Industrial
Commission at Washington that the
"protective tariff is the mother of
trusts." Some of the high tariff
organs take exception to this and
deny that the tariff fosters trusts,
asserting that trusts exist in free
iraae xjigiand as well as in this
country. But this is not true, for
the trust as we have it in this coun
trytis not known in England. The
only European country where there
is anything like it, and where trusts
have become general, is Germany,
and there they are encouraged and
fostered by a protective tariff some
what after the manner in this coun
try. In England there are no trusts
organized tor the purpose of chok
ing off competition and thus getting
a monopoly of the business, for
with free trade there that is imprac
ticable, the combinations, or, as our
trust apologists can them, "trusts,"
know that when they undertake to
put prices up they will have to face
competition from other countries,
and thus be forced to pt prices
down. Thus the people are pro
tected from extortion by free ports,
They had
no other use for them then,and they
were too abundant to have a mar
ket value. It was the same way in
other Western State and an wMIa
the demand grew with the increas
ing population, and the multipled
uses of the wood, the supply was di
minished until now there is nothing
like enough to meet the constant
demand.
We have frequently in these
columns referred to this subject,
called attention to the small supply
of and growing, demand for this
timber, and advised not only hus
banding it with care but planting
groves of it as an investment for the
future. In a section like this,
where the tree grows as well as it
does here, and with marketing
facilities so good and constantly im
proving, the man who owns more
land than he cares to cultivate
could devote it to few things that
would pay Mm and his children
more handsomely than planting it
in walnut trees, which in five or six
years would begin to yield some re
turn in nuts, and in a few years
more some return in timber, and all
this with little labor and taking no
chances.
"The only way the people of Porto
Rico can be governed is by affec
tion. They are different from us, and
do not want to become Americanized,
although they are anxious to become
Americans. If the Porto Ricans be
given proper laws they will be able to
work out their own salvation without
foisting a lot of carpet-baggers on the
people of the island."
In their wild rush for territorial
acquisition the expansionists have
never considered the differences of
race, the differences of habits and
customs, of religion and training, all
of which mean friction and antago
nisms that it will take a long time to
overcome, if they are ever overcome.
lhe differences thus resulting be
tween the Americans and the people
of the Spanish islands is about as
marked as the color line between the
white people and black people in the
United States. They want to "be
come Americans," that is to have
the benefit of the protection of this
country, but they don't want to "be
come Americanized," which in their
estimation is quite a different thing.
TWINKLINGS.
CURRENT COMMENT.
A one-armed bicyclist in New
York proposes to follow the Davis
automobile across the continent to
San Francisco, and expects to make
record breaking time. The one
legged bicyclist may soon be hop
ing in for a prolonged scoot.
A Philadelphia editor who is
hard up for a topic permits -himself
to wonder where Hon. Bourke Cock
ran will be found in next year's cam
paign. The man should be patient
and wait until the commissary de-
pal tment is organized. Washing
ton Post, Ind.
It is stated that in Pittsburtr.
last Sunday, petitions were circu
lated in most of the churches for
the expulsion from Congress of
Roberts of Utah. This may incite
Mr. Boberts to rise for an explana
tion about that $10,000 sent by the
President to the Sultan of Sulu,
who is also in the plural marriage
nrooiciyn utttzen, uem.
, There is no dearth of pa
triotism among the office-seekers,
as the files of the War Depart
ment bear ample testimony. It is
stated that there are no less than
10,000 applications (and the returns
are not all in yet) for the posts of
paymasters and quartermasters.
Still, as most of these patriots must
meet with disannointment in thir
applications, what an . opportunity
will remain for them to serve their
country by enlisting in the volun
wJ fox the Philippine war!
Philadelphia Record, Derru
Viola "I've just finished a
unique sofa pillow. "It's stuffed with
old love letters." Cody "Indeed!
How very nice and soft it must be."
Diggs "So your daughter is
married, eh?" Biggs "Yes." Diggs
"And how does your new son-in-law
strike you f " Biggs "For a ' V or an
X' usually."
One View: She "What is the
meaning of making friends of the
mammon of unrighteousness ?" He
"Well a getting them to subscribe
for the benefit of the church." Pucp.
Mr. Sealove (at his seaside cot
tage) "My dear, please tell your
daughter to sing something less dole
ful." Mrs. Sealove "That is not our
daughter, my love. That is the fog
horn. n Tit-Bits.
Mr. Kiddby "Who is making
that infernal jangle on the piano I
Mrs. Kiddby "That is Constance at
her exercise." Well, for heaven's
sake, tell her to get her exercise some
other way !" Puck.
"A irnntii, OTKk-n " mtA TT 1
Eben, "kin git all de help he wants
when he's sowin' wild oats. But
hands alius seems mighty skeerce
when it comes to de nahid work o'
natives tin'." Washington Star.
"Freddie," said his mother,
severely, "didn't I tell you that you
shouldn't ride your bicycle to-day, be
cause you were naughty?" "This
isn't my bicycle," said Freddie; "it's
Tommy Jones'. We've exchanged
iust for to-day. " Harver's Bazar.
"Awfully good joke on young
Splints, isn't .it? "Didn't hear it"
Me sized up a man for appendicitis
and favored him with a hasty opera
tion." "What's the joke! Man's
dead f " "Man's dead all right enough,
but that ain't the joke. They found out
at the autopsy that he was born with
out any appendix I" Cleveland Plain
ueaier. -
Kate "There seems to be a
coolness between Harry and Hetty."
Bertha "Yes; they had a little tiff.
and she said she had about made up
her mind to enter a convent and take
the veil, and Harry said he thought it
would become her style of beauty
wonderfully. And now they won t
even look at one another." Boston
iranscrtpt.
fe U"eer DUoIosare That Was Hade
. Wheat " This Rare Old laitrameat
ad Its Owner Were CnagM la
Railroad Smash Vsw'1 "X-Vv-' ;.
Among the fallacies tenaciously clung
to by persons who fancy themselves to be
possessed .of what is called the 'artlstlo
temperament is that one which portrays
the soulful man as an Invariable scrub
when It cornea to business propositions, "
said a well known Washington violinist.
"This is an amiable delusion which X am
about flb puncture to some small extent by
relating a story of. very recent occurrence
as to Its flnalo, with the details of which I
am perfectly familiar. It's a story of a
violin and of the genuinely gifted owner
thereof.
This man is and has been for the past
80 years or so one of the finest of Ameri
can violinists. He is a Bostonlan and has
lived in Boston all of his life, except when
he has been concert touring the country,
and he gave that up some years ago. He
is a man of fine family, and he traces bis
ancestry very directly indeed back to the,
Mayflower and beyond. There has been
a violinist in his family ever since the
Mayflower got over to this side, and also a
violin. The violin brought over by the
Mayflower progenitor of the Massachusetts
family was a genuine and very valuable
Stradivarius. In fact, Is Is one of the
great violins of the world today. It was
handed down by him to his eldest son,
whom he made into a violinist and' thus
transmitted from sire to son, going always
to the son who exhibited the greatest apti
tude for the violin.
- "It fell into the hands of this Boston
violinist of whom I am speaking more
than SO years ago, when he was a young
lad. It was a beautiful instrument in fin
ish, and its tone was magnificent. It was
the one heirloom of the family regarding
which the greatest amount of space was
consumed in the many wills made by its
owners since the early days of Massachu
setts, and It has been cared for through
out its long life well, as an orchid Is
cared for during its short life. Fabulous
sums were offered for it by great European
violinists who came to the United States
early In this century. Ole Bull made an
enormous offer for it upon his first visit
to the United States, and he wrote to the
father of the Boston Violinist unceasingly
with regard to it from Europe, renewing
and amplifying his offers. A deaf ear was
turned to all of these offers. It was in
tended that the violin should always re
main with the descendants ' of the man
who brought it over in the Mayflower..
"Well, some time ago this Boston violin
ist, while traveling from Boston to New
York to take part in a concert, got Into a
railroad smash up. He was in the sleeper
at the time of the collision, with his violin
alongside of him. He was pretty badly
hurt before he got out of the mass of
wreckage, but not completely disabled.
When he found himself extricated and an
onlooker at the wrecking proceedings, he
suddenly bethought Mm of his precious
Strad. He had to be held to prevent him
from climbing back on top of the wreck
to get at his instrument. After seven or
eight hours, during which he hung about
the wreck like a crazy man, his violin was
handed to him in its leather case. The
case was crushed in. The Boston violin
ist had the heartbreak of opening the case
and of seeing bis glorious instrument
crushed in. He took it back to Boston
with him and carefully picked out the
pieces of the wrecked violin. Inside of it
up near the neck he found pasted some
writing, done very small and fine, In the
penmanship of the last century and dated
1769.
"This bit of writing was a confession.
It stated that this was not the great Strad
that had been brought over in the May
flower. The writer, who had inherited
the violin before the middle of the last
century, had been hard up for money, the
pasted note went on to say. So on one of
his European trips he had a precise dupli
cate of his glorious Strad made In Italy
by an accomplished violin counterfeiter.
The genuine Strad he had sold to a great
French violinist, and this instrument was
but a perfect duplicate a replica. With
the statement that he could not die and
hand down to posterity a perpetual fraud,
the writer of the pasted note went on to
say that he had had the top of the coun
terfeit Strad removed and had pasted the
confession within, thus to in some meas
ure salve his guilty conscience.
"This was a bard blow to the Boston
violinist, as you may well believe. He
went secretly to work to trace the. original
Strad that had been brought over by bis
ancestor in the Mayflower, and It did not
take him long to ascertain that the Strad
is now the cherished and priceless posses
sion of an aged German violinist Then
the Boston violinist had his broken coun
terfeit Strad patched up by an expert, and
when it was put together again it was
found not to have lost a particle of Its for
mer glorious tone. The Boston violinist
put himself in correspondence with one of
the violin collectors who had yearned for
his instrument, stating frankly that the
violin's outer appearance had been dam
aged in the railroad accident, but that Its
tone was uninjured, and offering it for
sale at a slightly reduced figure a matter
still of several thousands of dollars. Of
course the Boston violinist had carefully
removed the pasted confession from the
inside of the counterfeit Strad before hav
ing it patched up.
"The collector came on to Boston and
took the Instrument at the Boston violin
ist's figure, and it Is now the collector's
most highly prized instrument. The
beauty of the story is that it's true down
to the very last detail, ust as I have told it.
"Wherefore I guess the artlstlo temper
ament is able to take care of "itself, even
when It gets mixed up In matters of busi
ness. "Washington Star.
' The latest" French farce is called
The Whooping Congiu'rSf
It is reported, that ; Delia Fox is in
poor health and will soon -retire. J"'.
r- Reginald de Koven will coulposelhree
musical numbers for "The Man In the
Moon."
i. John E. Henshaw is engaged for the
new Casino prodnction. "in j tiay
Paree." ' ' j ' "
y Nat C Goodwin is said to be study
ing Macbeth, Othello, King Lear and
other tragic characters.
William Gillette has the reputation
of being the "richest of the new genera
tion of .actor playwrights in this coun
try. ' ' .
From London . comes the news that
Olga Nethersole has inherited from a
relative in this country a legacy of $20,
000. .. r ;
Preparations are being made at Paris
for the celebration of the two hundredth
anniversary of Racine's .death, which
falls on-April 26V
Otis Harlan will star- next season in
the farce "M7 Innocent Boy, " which
has succeeded in London. The tour will
be managed by Frank ilcKee. .
Anna Held makes a practice of enter-
lning her friends in her private car
while doing the one night towns. The
car serves as a good advertisement
A balloon ascension takes the place
of the buzzsaw and water tank in the
new melodrama, "The Great Ruby,'
now running at Daly's., in New Yosk.
John Blair, the leading actor of Julia
Marlowe's company, is announced to
etar next season in a new American
play. He" will have a strong financial
backing, so it is said.
There is a yng girl in the Wilbur
Opera company who is likely to be
heard from in the near future. Her,
name is Anna Laughlin. and she comes
from California. She is described as "a
pocket edition of Lotta. "
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CHICAGO
W YORK
sr.
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COMMERCIAL.
WILMINGTON MARKET.
A Boy's Adventure.
When Benjamin Franklin was a boy,
he and his comrades used to fish from
the banks of . a small pond The banks'
became very wet and soggy after awhile
from so much tramping, and the boys
generally went home with wet feet.
Franklin proposed that they build a
wharf, and one day he saw a pile of
stones intended for the foundation of a
new house. After school he told his
companions of bis find, and when the
workmen had gone home the boys set
to work and carried all the stones,
sometimes two and three . to a stone,
down to the pond and built their wharf.
The next morning, when the workmen
came, they found no stones, and upon
inquiry they fouud the culprits and had
them all punished. A. M. Lamberton
in Brooklyn Eagle
STAR OFFICE, July 21.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Market
firm at 40 -cents per gallon for
machine-made .casks and 39 X cents
per gallon for country casks.
ROSIN Market steady at 90 cents
per bbl for strained and 95c for
good strained.
TAR Market firm at $1.40 per
bbl of 280 lbs.
CRUDE TURPENTINE. Market
firm at $1.35 per barrel for "hard,
$2.00 for Dip and $2.10 for Virgin.
Quotations same day last year.
Spirits turpentine firm at 25)25c;
rosin dull at 95c$1.00; tar quiet at
$1.10; crude turpentine steady at $1.00
1.50.
RECEIPTS.
Spirits Turpentine 138
Rosin.' 806
Tar. 80
Crude Turpentine 23
Receipts same day last year. 194
casks spirits turpentine, 430 bbls
rosin, 162 bbls tar, 50 bbls crude tur
pentine. COTTON.
Market steady on a basis of 5 cts per
pound tor middling. (Quotations:
urainary .
Good Ordinary. .
Low Middling
Middling. .'.
Good Middling
oame day last year
net receipts 105 baW pi,i..7"
and nominal, net rinf. rf,0n,Wiet
New York. Julv 21 tu. . '
ing are the total net receintr low
at all ports since SepterX tC
Galveston, 2,299,733 bales- N
Ua.. Ci nnrk Ann .
icaua, ,,e,)6,wi Mobile. Pfin roo
rton. 289.680- w'n
1 --.
vannah, 1.080,435; Charleston, jt
3 7-16 cts lb
4 13-16 " "
5 7-16 . "
SJi ". "
6X " "
middling 5 40.
WHOLESALE PRICES CUB1EIT.
JPT following quotations represent
wooiesais moes generally. In making up
8mll orders higher Drioes have to be charged.
xne quotations are always eiven as accurately
as possible, but the 8ta will not be responsible
for any variations from the actual market price
BAGGING
a Jute
8tandard
WESTERN SMOKED
Hams 1
Sides 9
Shoulders .......
DRY SALTED
Receipts; 19 bales; same day last
year, 0.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
PEANUTS North Carolina
Extra prime, $1.00 to $1.10 per bushel
of 28 pounds; fancy, $1.10 to $1 12.
Virginia Extra prime, ?5 to 80c;
CORN Firm: 52 to 52 cents per
bushel for white,
ROUGH RICE Lowland (tide
water) 90c$l. 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
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
6.50 per M
Lfft
648; Balti
1 Ft I Wl 111. B-Pn.4.
News.- 22.244: Hi WX!':
Brunswick, 250,499; Port Arth, i5;
976; Pensacola. 222,616; P f oVV
20,865. Total, 8,90;095. Ho?al.
PRODUCE MARKETS
By Telegraph to the Moruinu Star
. New York, July 21 - Fir,.,..
weak and a shade lower; Min'!"
patents $3 753 85. Wheat-S?oS
No 2 red 76c; options opened S
and experienced a sharp rise on S
vorable crop rumors, reported desC
toon of the Chih crop and coveS
subsequently, however, a growiS!"
position to unload weakened the ma
ket and the advance was lost; cWh
weak at c net decline; July H
closed 77c. Corn SDot weak- ntoT
options opened steady and 'advancd
on covering and less favorable crop
talk ; later it broke with wheat, indue
iiiK nuuiuauon ciosea wpntot
net decline: Julv closer! S7uX. o?
tember closed 37c; December closed
36Xc Oats-Spot dull ; No. 2 29LV
nnt.innu rmiar. T.avrl cto..,i. ttt '
ctT- 1 r. , j : western
.ju, uumiuai; reunea steady.
& ieaa y ; w esiern
is
Sides ft.
Shoulders V ft.
90
BARRELS Spirits Turpentine
Becona-hand, each 1 25 O 1 85
New Now York, each O 1 40
New City, each a 1 40
BEESWAX ft a 88
BRICKS
Wilmington it :. 5 oo 7 oo
Northern ,4 00 14 00
BUTTER
North Carolina ft is 18
Northern so so
WKH BJUL
Per bushel. In sacks
Virginia Meal.
OOTTOX TLEf bundle
CANDLES
Sperm
Adamantine
CHEESE ft
Northern Factory. . . J.
Dalrv Cream
State A
COFFEE ft
(JMruyra is
Bio na
DOMESTICS
Sheeting, -, yard
Yarns. bunch of Sfts....
EGOS down io
Mackerel, No. 1, barrel... 88 00
Mackerel, Ha 1, hair-bbl. 11 00
10KO
Mackerel, No. 8.
macKerei, no. z
MackereL No. 8,
JMuieps,
I -barrel.
ihaU-bbl..
i barrel...
Mullets, pork barrel
n. c. Boe Heroma-.
FLOUR ft
Low grade
keg..
80 00
15 00
18 00
0 00
1100
4100
seo
sss
10
4 60
Straight.
First Pat
tent.
ni.TTv ma w
GRAIN bushel
Corn,from store, btfa White
Car-load, in bgs White...
Oats, from store
Oats, Bast Proof
Cow Peas
HIDES ft
Green salted
Dry nint
Drv salt
HAT 100 fts
Clover Hay
BJoe Straw
Eastern
Western
North River.
40
65
JiOOP IRON, ft
,-
Northern .
North Carolina
Be Accepted the Apoloary.
A prominent New York lawyer la noted
for bis ready answers and skill in repartee.
When a young practitioner he appeared
before a pompons old judge who took
offense at a remark the lawyer made criti
cising his decision.
"If you do not instantly apologize for
that remark, Mr. Blank," said the judge,
"I shall commit yon for contempt of
court."
"Upon reflection, your honor," Instant
ly replied Mr. Blank, "I find that your
honor was right and I was wrong, as your
honor always Is.
The judgo looked dubious, but finally
said that he would accept the apology.
New York Times.
LIME, barrel
LUMBER
fcltv sawed! m M ft
eoip dhu, resawea....,
Rough edge Plank
Their Standing;.
It is said that 250,000,000 microbes can
stand on a postage stamp without crowd
ing. The name of the man who counted
them la not given. Cleveland Leader.
ror wvar Virtv Tear.
Mes. Winblow' Soothing Syrup has
been used for over fifty years by mil
lions of mothers for their children
white teething:, with perfect success.
It soothes the child, aoftmia th
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
pan of the world. Twenty-five cents
a DOttle. Ba but and aa fra "Wm
Winsiow's Soothing Syrup," and take
no other. t
Sclentlfle Breadmaklngr.
The following conversation, in which a
young lady attending a science school tells
how bread is made, is a striking commen
tary upon a correspondence which has re
cently appeared m the columns of The 8t.
James Gazette on the subject of British
cooks. -
"Bread!" she exclaims. "Well, I should
say I can make bread. We studied that in
f bur first year. You see, the yeast ferments,
and the gas thus formed permeates every
where, and transforms the plastio material
Into a clearly obvious atomio structure,
and then"
"But what Is the plastio materiaTyou
speak of?"
"Oh, that is commonly called the
sponge."
"But how do you make the sponger"
"Why, you don't make It the cook al
ways attends to that. Then we test the
sponge with the thermometer and hydrom
eter and a lot of other Instruments, the
names , of whioh I don't remember, and'
then hand it back to the cook, and I don't
know what she does with it then, but
when it comes on the table It is just splen
did." St. James Gazette.
18 oo
in m
West India cargoes, accord
ingto Quality la oo
Dressed Flooring, seasoned. 18 00
Scantling and Board, com'n 14 00
Common mill 5 oo
Fair mill g so
Prime mill g so
Extra mill 10 00
MOLASSES gallon
farbadoea. In hegshead.....
Barbadoee, In barrels
Porto Rico, In hogsheads 83
Porto Rico, in barrels 85
8ugar House, In hogsheads. 18
Sugar House, In barrels. . . . m
Byrup, in carrels 15
Poi&ba?360dba8lfl--- 203
City Mess a 50
Bump
Prime
ROPE, ft 10
SALT, sack. Alum
Liverpool 75
American. 70
On 125 Sacks
BHTNGLES, 7-lnch, per M.. 500
Common , 1 go
Cypress Saps rg so
SUGAR, ft Standard Gran'd 5
Standard A 5
White Extra 0 5
Extra C, Golden
C. Yellow
SOAP, ft Northern
STAyiES, J M w. O. barrel..
J.XBLB.
80 00
16 00
18.00
23 00
15100
G 60
8 00
10 00
10 50
FINANCIAL MARKETS.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
New York, July 21. Money on call
steady at2X4 per cent, the last loan
being at Z per cent. Prime mercan
tile paper 3$4 per cent. Sterling ex
change easier; actual business in
bankers' bills at 487487 for de
mand, 484&484)for 60days. Posted
rates 485486 and 488 488 Commer
cial bills 483. Silver certificates 60
oi. tsar silver bUj. - Mexican dollars
48. Government bonds irregular. State
bonds inactive. Railroad bonds firm.
U. 8. 2's, registered, 100JS: U. 8.3's.
registered, 108X; do. coupon, 109; U.
8. new4's, registered, 129; do. coupon,
J.3U; u. H. old 4's, registered, do.
coupon, 113; U. S. 5's, registered,
111; do. coupon, 112K; N.-C. 6'S
135; do. 4's, 109; Southern Railway 5's
109 Stocks: Baltimore & Ohio 47 :
Chesapeake & Ohio 28 X ; Manhattan
It 118 ; N. Y. Central 139& ; Reading
203; do. 1st preferred 60; St. Paul
132; do. preferred 173; Southern
Railway 11 i ; do. preferred 51g ; Amer
ican Tobacco, 97M; do. preferred 143;
reopies vtas ma; ougar 157 Jg; do.
preferred 118; T. C. & Iron 69 ; U. S.
Leather 6; do. preferred 73; West
ern Union 90M
NAVAL STORES MARKETS.
By Telegraph to the Morning Btar.
New York. Julv 21. Rosin atmn op
strained common to good $1 30 '
Spirits turpentine firm.
Charleston. Julv 21. S mmta tur
pentine steady at 39c; sales casks.
Rosin firm and unchanged; no sales.
' SAVANKAH. Julv 21. Snirita
ft . in. -.rr Z
uw iur ux ttb saxes 023 cases; re-'I
CeiPIS J-.34D CaSKS. Knain firm of on
advance on pales ;receipts 5,800 barrels ;
sales 1,755 barrels; A, B, C "D. tl 00
E, $1 05: F. tl 10: Gk tl 20-' w'sS o.'
T 1 On. TT- l -r -V ,i 1-
t7 - m, fi 00: IN. K 25:
VA fi J r . TTT TTT aama ' ' '
10 00
O 9 60
t;0 00
28
1 10
80
t75
560
2 85
8 60
5 6
It 3
5
a 4
8 00 14!0
10 00
mail, rair..... S 50
Common MH1..... 4 60 moo
Inferior to ordinary. 8 03 4 oo
SHINGLES N O. Cyprus eawd . J 4 00
M6XJM heart 7 60 J 50
H&--!8tt8
6x84 Heart 8 oo
San S5S
miTTvar n i. '" w w
A OIJUV TT. W JD.... .........
WHISKEY, gallon, Northern
WOOL per Unwashed
1100
1100
15
QUARTERLY MEETINGS.
M. E, Church, Sooth, Wilmlogton District.
JtuySS-M.
- wflmlni
EUzabet
Scott's!
' Jacksonville
a.mrastis-18.
laden Sprtnirs. Julv sa-ao.
Aoorn Branch, Ausrast s-7.
WUI
MARINE DIRECTORY.
List or Teasels In.tk Port r wu
Balnaton, If. C. July 22. 1899.
SCHOONERS.
Lina C Kaminski, 421 tons, Ray, New
xou xxarnss, Don oc Uo
Samuel B HubWd. 833 tons, Ma
heflfey, New York, Geo Hawiss,
Son & Co. '
Syanara(Br) 299 tons, Verner, Geo
Harnss. Son & Co. '
GP1' 684 tons, Foss, Geo Harms, Son
oc Co-. .
BARQUES. I
(Nor), 592 tons, Hawlan.
9
COTTON MARKETS.
.By Telegraph to the Mornimz Star.
New YoBJuIy 21. The market
for cotton futures showed more or
less irrecularitv . to-dav. an1 urhila
prices at one time were lower than
yesterday's closing figures by 2 to 4
points, the market in the main reflec
ted the favorable effects of continued
uujmgjor investment accounts led bv
substantial Wall street houses, who
vo, iur beverai aays past, been con-
auu persistent ouyers. The
market was finally steady at unchantr
ed prices to an advance of three points.
Just before the close the market was
bulled on the exnectatinn nf a kiui.
report to-morrow by the Chronicle.
New York, J uly 21.-Cotton steady ;
middling uplands 6 3-16c.
Cotton futures market closed steady;
K'nlSS;67' September
Slc, October 5.74c, November 5.78c.
January 5.87c, Feb
W ni ' MP0h B-91c April 5.98c,
A Spot cotton closed steady; middling
aeit?'middun6
w ll?6061?8 ,235 06168 ? Kress receipts
377 bes; stock, 148,796 bales:
.tal to-day Net ..receipts 1,945
bales ; exports to Great.Britain 3 535
bales; exports to the Continent 2 700
)"wiw,ei (Hues.
Consolidated Net receipts 15,259
bales; exports to Great Britain 13,254
bales; exports to -France 500 bales
exports to the .Continent 20,768 bales.'
Total since September 1st Net re-
Kr. StSS"w exports to
'"M UIT1UUX1 AllrC ha
Tl ..
cream p.rv iio.
btate dairy 13K17c. Cotton seed . ji
dull ; prime crude 21 K . Cheese firm
large white 8. Freights to Liverpool
cotton by steam 15c, nominal. Pork
firm. Petroleum strong Potato.
steady; Southern firsts $1 252 00- do
seconds 95c$l 25; Lone: Island $125
2 25. Rice firm. Cabbage firm
flat Dutch $6 507 00. Coffee-Spot
Rio dull and easy; mild quiet. Sugar
Raw firm; fair refining 3c; cen
trifugal 4 7-16c: molasses surar urn.
refined steady but quiet.
CHICAGO, July 21. Wheat declintd
a full cent to day and closed at the
bottom. Large shipments irom Argen
tine caused the slump, which carried
September under 70c for the first timr.
Corn and oats lost Jc and Divis
ions closed unchanged to 2Jc higher,
the latter in pork.
Chicago, July 21. Cash quotation :
Flour easy. Wheat No. 2 spring -;
No. 3 spring 6669jc; No. 2 ml
71c. Corn No. 2 3233. Oats
No. 2 24c; No. 2 white -; No. 3
white 2427c. Pork, ptr bbl,
$8 059 10. Lard, per 10u lbs, (5 37
5 50. Short rib sides. loon 5 lit
5 30. Dry salted skouiders, f5 SVA
5 50. Short clear sides, boxed, $5 ill
5 45. Whiskey Distillers' finish-!
goods, per gallon, $1 28.
The leading futures ranged -as M
lows opening, highest, lowest auu
closing: Wheat No. 2 July 70,
70, 69i, 693; September 70,71K,
6970, 6970c; December 72
73, 71c. Corn-No. 2 July
32., 3232, 32, 32c;Septem
ber 3232K, j 32K32, 3131,
3142c; December 30. 31, 30&
30Vc. Oats No.2 July 2lH.2i7A,2lh,
2iX ; September 20, 20H, 19 Ji, 19?ac;
May 22, 22ji22M, 21, 21c. Pork,
per bbl-September $9 20, 9 27,9 17,
920; October $9 27i, 9 27, 9 20, 920. j
Lard, per 100 fts September 5 55,
5 60T5 55, 5 55; October $5 65, 5 65,
5 60, 5 60. Short ribs, per 100 lbs
September $5 22, 5 27. 5 20, 5 20;
October $5 30, 5 30, 5 22 'A, 5 25c.
BALTIMORE, July 21. Flour quiet;
unchanged Wheat easier Spot 70&'
70Hc; July 70M70Jic: August
71JC71c; September 7272c.
Southern wheat by sample 6572c.
Corn firm Spot 36X36c; July
36X36c; Aueust 36M36c; Sep
tember 36K36Mc Southern white
corn 41c asked. Oats dull and easy
No. 2 white 3031e
The Melon Market. .
New York, July 21. Muskmelons
largely inferior and such offered at
very low prices. Watermelons firm
for desirable stock; the bulk of the
supply is tied up in Jersey city await
ing delivery. Muskmelons, Maryland
and Washington, per crate, 50c$150;
do., Maryland, per carrier, 50c$l25;
do. per basket, $50cl 00; do., Virginia
and North Carolina, per barrel, own
1 50; do., per carrier, 507oc; do., per
crate. 5075e: do. . Der basket, m
60c; do., Charleston, per basket, 50c
$100; do., per crate, 50c$l 50; do.,
Georgia, per crate, 50c$l 00; do,
Florida 50c$l 00. Watermelons, per
carload, $125200; do., per 100, $3 00
12 50.
, FOREIGN MARKET.
By Cahie to the Moraine Star.
Liverpool, July 21, 4 P. M.-Col-ton
Spot quiet; prices favor buyer
American middling 3d. The sales
of the day were 10,000 bales, of wnica
1.000 were for sneculation and expo"
and included 9,600 bales American.
Receipts none. ,
Futures opened easy and closed du
American middling (1. m. c.) Juiy-18-643
19-64d buyer; July and Au
gust 8 18-643 19-64d seller; Aueu
and September3 17-643 18-64d seller.
September and October 3 lb-Mg
!7-64d seller; October and NoveoWJ
3 15-643 16-64d seller; November ana
December 8 14-643 15 64d seller; w
cember and January 3 14 -643 15W
seller; January and February 3 J7
315-64d seller; February and Mart"
315-643 16-64d seller; MarcB
April aio-64d value; April and JW '
16-643 17-64d buyer; May andJu"6
3. 17r643 18-64d seller.
MARINE.
Shallot
Faye'"'
Richlands, Jacksonville,
Warsaw, An
onsiow, onsen's Creek. Aturost 15.
Clinton, Goshen, August
ugust lo-ao.
sa. fc
& f . BTJMPAS,
Presiding Elder.
Guldaas
Heide & Co.
BARGES.
Carrie L Tyler,K538 tons,
Navssa Guano Co.
Maria Dolores, .610 tons,
Navassa Guano Co.
Jones Na
Bonneau,
ARRIVED.
Stmr Seabricht. Sanders,
Stone, Rourk & Co.
Stmr A P Hurt, Robeson
etteville, James Madden. .
Harare Maria Dolores, 610 tons, w
1 - -T r.n i -T IJU
ports to France 788. Mi ?.eau Onarleston, H U, xwu -
to the Continent 2,794,3621 &ea! ' Vomwnj.
-uijrj.. uaiveston, steady at 5a
!8 es;Wofk, steady
at 5 15-16c.net receinfa 2si gzix
hffi n1 at 6M etreip32
!fABVqet .at 6 316c: net
receipts 458 baieswUmMgton steadv
receints l hl. xr
at 6kc riZ y.
eemfeiRR yillr''l' ai ;c,net re
ceipts 85 bales; Augusta, quiet at 6c,
CLEAKED.
Stmr A P Hurt, Robeson,
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