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FUBLISEEB'S AOTOUSCEMMT. THi uOKSTSa STAB, tMOIdert dally nowe- n 2 for firii montoTBO nt for one month S'5 aScriberT Delivered to city .b Srlbere :Urete of 45 centa per mouttt lr SrAort from one mouth to one yew. &)BTISiNO RATES (DAILY) One square onTaayTjio two days, Ji-TS; three days, js.50; four days. 3-: Ave dvs. $3.50: one week, $4.00; two weekH. KS.50; three weeks. 18.50: one moiitt, H8.000; two months. $17.00; dree montM00; six months, $40.00; twelve month, $w).00. Ten Unee of solid Noopariel type make one square. THE WEEKLY BT AH la published every m day morning at $1.00 per year, 60 centa for sis inonUia. 30 cents for ee months Eom Mcnlca, Society Meetings, UU meet 4cTw3 be charged regular advertising Adrtoeiiienta n.t?nfn? contracted for has expired, charged transient Colons oammunloaUons or otherwise, will be charged ms advertisements. . Payments for transient advertisements must be made In advance. 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Contract advertisers will not be allowed to exceed t heir'spaceor advertise anything foreign to their iv juiar business without extra charge at transient rates. . . , . Advertisements kept aeder the head of "New Advertisements" will be charged fifty per cent, extra. Advertisements to follow reading matter, or to cccupv any special place, will be charged extra according to the position desired. BY "W I L. Iil AM H. BERNARD. WiLMINGTOX. N. I: Wednesday M.o eking, July 26. AMESICAIT SHIPPING. Argument to show the necessity of an American merchant marine is no longer necessary, for it is generally conceded. The question is, how are we to get it? whether by the efforts of capitalists who have money to in vest or by Government bounties and subsidies aiding capitalists? If we are ever to have a merchant marine we must have it independent of Go v ernment pampering, for while this might stimulate the building of some vessels by railroad companies and others who have need of them the number would be small in com parison with the number needed. But the probabilities are that when our ship builders abandon the idea of bounties and subsidies they will take hold of the business themselves and. start a merchant marine that will grow from year to year. Either that or our legislators will get some tense into their heads and repeal the laws that prevent Americans from buying ships abroad and sailing them under the American flag. Ameri can ship building has received a considerable stimulus since the war with Spain, and the indications are that this will continue for some time, which is also an indication that our hip builders have resolved to act independently of any prospective Government pampering. Wm. E. Curtis, one of the best known newspaper correspondents in the country, in a recent letter dis cusses this question and presents some facts and figures which show the necessity of merchant ships to meet the requirements of our grow ing commerce, and also some facts and figures showing the obstacles that confront American ship3 and ship builders. "We quote this on account of its apparent honesty and because it is one of the most plausi ble statements in favor of Govern ment aid to American ships. He says: "The confidence of ship builders in future business is indicated by tat ex tensive improvements they are mak ing. At Newport News the Hunting ton Company is expending 13,000,000 in the enlargement of its facilities; a new $3,000,000 plant is being estab lished on the Delaware, and another with capital of $1,000,000 in the same locality. The Maryland Steel Coxn- Sny, at Sparrow's Point, near itimore, is laying a marine plant that will accommodate seven s Warners, and the locomotive works of the William R. Trijrg Company, at xucnmona, are Ming transformed into a shipyard. The American shipbuild ing trust on the lakes has business in hand amounting to $5,000,000, and in stead of closing any of the yards as ex pected, is running them all on full time. The Great Northern Railroad Company is looking for a location for a shipyard on Puget Sound, and, in case the shipping bill which is pending before Congress is passed, James J. Hill intends to build a fleet for China trade that will surpass in speed and tonnage and in every other particular the steamers of the Canadian Pacific Line. "Mr. Hill recently declared that he had to refuse 20,000 tons of cotton and 70,000 tons of steel and iron for Japan last year and a corresponding amount of flour because he could not get the vessels to carry it. m "Last year," said Mr. Hill, "we ear ned over 10,000 tons of manufac tured cotton from North and South Carolina in our Puget Sound boats to Asia, and more than 35,000,000 pounds of raw cotton from Texas. No ship ever sailed from our docks for China ana Japan that -did not leave behind freight which it had no room to carry. The same ship which was offered 1,600 barrels of flour could only carry 300. At first the Japanese steamship people carried flour for $3 a barrel. Since P.toej hare put the price up to $ because the people of the Orient are acquiring the white-bread habit, and they call for it faster than it can be carried there. Our exports last y ear to China and Japan were big ger than they ever were before, al though we couldn't find ships enough to carry them. Our total trade with Asia in 1898 was $131,532,729, but only 10.87 per cent., of it was carried 'in American Teasels. Our trade with Japan last rear amounted to $42,380, 497. but only 18.15;per cent, of it was cr Tried in American vessels. Our ex- $28,203,658, but only 15.71 percent, of r- - , . . nwu caraea in American tcsbis. ' "Ths enormous inerMM in our Jana DM! ind wu rhiad !n osittnn iron and flour. Our exports jumped from $4,634,000 In 1895 to $20,033,975 in 1898, and the increase in the China trade was anite as ranid. 'There are now seven steamship lines oetwen ine urn tea states ana ja pan and China, but only one of them, iv.P.iHi Af.il miIh under the United States flag. Two from Puget Bound a4 San Francisco, are Japanese. The remainder are Englisbt sailing in con nection with the Northern Pacific, and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. "In reply to au inquiry rec some time ago, I would say that the Tweedle line, running from San Diego, in connection with the Atch ison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad sails under the British flag, although managed by Americans. The reason for this is that steamers can be operated under a foreign flag at o t of 30 ter cent less than under the United States flag. The same difference appears in the cost of construction, because of the difference in the cost of labor. About three fifths of the cost of a ship is in wages to workingmen, and the wages paid in the shipyards on this side of the Atlantic are one half higher than in England, and as much as 75 to 80 per cent higher than those paid in the continental shipyards of Europe. For example, Mr. Griscom, president of the American Steamship company, testi fied before a congressional committee last winter that the steamships 8t. Louis and St Paul, which cost $5,000, 000 on the Delaware, could have been built in England for $4,000,000. "Mr. William P. Clyde, president of the Clyde line, gave a more detailed statement He said that the steamshi p Masconomo, of 4,200 tons burden, 370 fet long and 48 feet wide, with a speed of ten knots, was built in Eng land for $217,000. At the same time bids were invited from American ship builders. The lowest was $335,000, and the highest was $350,000. "The cost of maintaining an Amer ican ship is 20 per cent greater than an Bnglish ship, chiefly because of the wages of the officers and seamen and the better quarters and the better food required by the Seamen's union. These conditions have filled our ships with foreign sailors. For example, on the steamer which brought me here from New York, the Finance, of the Panama Railroad line, there are sixty-two men, all told, forty seven of them being seamen. Thirteen are natives of the United States. Four are naturalized citizens. Eight are citizens of Ireland, three each of Ger many, England, Scotland and Nor way, two each of Finland and Swe den, four of Austria, one of Greece and one of Jamaica. The foreigners are attracted to American ships by the increased wages. "The pay of ordinary seamen on this ship is $25 a month, coal-passers $30 and firemen $10. On an English ship of the same- tonnage the same men would receive for the same duties $12.50, $17.50 and $25, respectively. On a Norwegian ship they would re ceive about half as much. The cap tain of an American ship of this ton nage gets a salary of $2,500 a year. An English captain would get $1,000 a year and a Norwegian about $35 a month. A Norwegian sailor who makes $3 to $10 a month considers himself well peid. "A calculation was made some time ago from the actual facts, which showed that the cost of carrying a ton of freight from New York to Rio de Janeiro in an American ship was $7.50, in an English ship $5, in a Nor wegian ship $4.10. "That is the reason why the Ameri can line to Brazil is withdrawn and the business is now done by lines of Eng lish steamers. For that reason the Pennsylvania Railroad Company oper ates the Red Star line under the Bel gian flag, although 90 per cent of its stock is held in this country. For that reason money has found more profita ble investments in the United States and has left the carrying trade to the English and Norwegians. " This summed up means- that our ship builders are not going to wait for the Government to make dona tions to their ship yards, that ships can be built more cheaply in foreign yards than they can be in this coun try and that they can be more cheap ly operated under other flags than they can under our own. The dif ference in favor of the foreign ship builders seems to be in the cost of labor, but men familiar with the subject of ship building say that the cost of labor, which is lower in Europe than in this country, is more than offset by the amount and quality of work done by the more skilful and intelligent American workmen skilled in the management of labor-saving machinery. Nearly all the first class ocean vessels built now are built of steel, and as it is a fact that steel can be and is made in this country now more cheaply than in any other country wouldn't this more than offset the difference in the coat of labor provided Ameri can steel makers would sell steel to American ship builders on the same terms they do to foreign builders? But assuming that our builders can not build as cheaply aa foreign builders can, and that we cannot, therefore, expect to see a merchant marine turned out from our yards, what is there to be done? Why simply amend or repeal the laws which prevent Americans from going abroad to buy ships, and let them buy them, and sail them under our flag. That would give us a marine of foreign built ships or it would force American builders to hustle and meet the prices of the foreign builders, which they can do if they will, and will do if forced to it. Having ships it would then sim ply be the cost of manning the American ship and the foreign ship, respectively. But if we had ships and there were a corresponding de mand for seamen at the wages we pay, wouldn't waaoon so draw upon the seamen of foreign countries that they would be compelled to raise wages to hold the better class of seamen in their service? and would not this soon solve the wage ques tion and deprive the foreign ship owners of the advantage now claim ed for them? There is one thing certain, bounties and subsidies will not do it, for on the statement of facts and figures given by Mr. Curtis these muBt be kept up per petually; in other words, the Gov ernment would have to continually pay gratuities equal to the differ ence in the cost of operating Amer ican and foreign ships, a proposi which no sane person would seri ously entertain. The Chicago Chronicle says Bryan does not own the Democratic party. Mr. Bryan doesn't put in any claim of that kind, but he has a pretty tight grip on it all the same. GENEBAL OTIS DEJSIES. As might have been expected Gen. Otis denies the truth of the statement in the "round robin" re cently issued by a dozen or so news paper correspondents in Luzon, that he would not permit thej;rnth to be told about the situation there, and that he sent misleading reports. It was to bo expected that he would make Borne denial of that kind, but there is plenty of corroborating evi dence, some of the strongest of which comes from returning soldiers who served in Luzon and know what they are talking about. Fred B. Hinchman is a citizen of Brooklyn, N. Y., to which he has just returned from Manila. He be longed to the Engineering corps, is a well known man in Brooklyn, and a man of more than ordinary intelli gence, too. In an interview with a reporter of the Eagle, among other things he said: "It is difficult to realize that practi cally the entire American people have been kept in ignoranoe of the true state of affairs in the Philippines for the last ten months, or since General Otis has been in command there. This, however, is the actual factTas all who have recently returned from Manila see only too clearly. The failure to understand the situation seems to ex tend to the administration at Washing ton, and if Secretary Alger's assertion that all the information received has been made public is true, the adminis tration should be relieved from much of the blame which is now falling upon it." Speaking of Gen. Otis and the "round robin," he said: "Not only have the reports pub lished as having been received from Gen. Otis been quite incomplete, but in many important points, such as the health of the troops and the willing ness of volunteers to remain, been ab solutely and deliberately false. The protest signed by the various repre sentatives of the press in Manila is gospel truth, but only a part of it They only put the case mildly, well knowing, no doubt, that to state the facts fully and in detail would put a sudden end to their activities as jour nalists in the Philippine islands.'' According to Mr. Ilinchman the correspondents put it mildly, for half the truth has not been told. Here is more testimony as to the deplorable condition of many of the soldiers as told by Gorman Towle, a member of the First Nebraska Regi ment, just after his arrival at San Francisco: "Nebraska has paid her share. How much people at home will never know until their warrior sons come back. Many have given their lives; many escaped with lives which will burden their days until the last hour comes, and not a man but has sacrificed years that outraged nature will deduct with compound interest from his declining age. "The welcome orders came in provi dential season. The sick report in creased appallingly, doctors were in despair. Nearly every man in the regiment was afflicted malaria, dysen tery, typhoid, acute indigestion, itch, tropical ulcers and plant poisoning added their burden to spirits on the ebb and constitutions ran down. Doc tors, when they dared to speak, charged the deplorable condition to the weeks of campaigning with no change of clothes, overwork, - bad food or no food." "Among officers and privates one may find a spirit of general disgust at the manner in which the campaign has been conducted. They say that UDon these lines the war may drag along for ten yean, with nothing to show for it at the end of that time but a stretch of devastated fields, with attacking troops more thoroughly knocked out than the insurgents. General' Otis may bo a well mean ing man, and may be doing the best he can, but what will his denial amount to in the face of such con tradictory evidence as this, sup porting the testimony of the news paper correspondents, who could have had no motive in misrepresent ing General Otis or the situation in Luzon? Verily half the truth has not been told about this horrid tragedy. THE STATE'S FINANCES. For the information of prospective bidders on the $00,000 bonds to be issued for the purchase of the Cale donia farms, State Treasurer Worth has given the following statement, showing the present condition of the. State's finances: THE STATE'S DEBT. Four per cent Consolidated Bonds, due 1910 $3,370,850 Six per cent N. C. R. R. Con struction Bonds, due 1919 . . 2,720,000 Non - interest bearing out standing Old Bonds, con vertible into four per cent. Consolidated Bonds - 240.920 Four per cent Penitentiary Debt Bonds, issued May, 1899 110.000 Total debt $6,441,770 the state's investments. 30,002 shares of stock N. C. K. R. Co., now worth $4,800,320 12,668 shares of stock A. & N. C. R. R. Co.. now worth 316.650 $136,750 of four per cent. BUte N. U. Consolidated Bonds, now worth 147,700 Present value of State's investments $5,264,670 "This estimate is upon N. C. Rail road stock at 160 and A. & N. C. Rail road stock at $25 per share and N. C. four per cent bonds at 108. "The interest on the four per cent consolidated bonds is amply provided for out of taxes for the purpose. The interest on the six per cent construc tion bonds is paid out of the divi dends on the State's stock in the N. C. Railroad, which by the terms of the lease to the Southern Railway Com pany is now $195,013, and is to $210, 014 per year after 1901, for ninety-four years. "The real and personal property of the State in 1898 was assessed at $265, 867,198, which is not more than two thirds its real value. The State col lects a one-fourth of one per cent tax on this assessed valuation. This ad valorem tax, together with the special privilege, license and other incomes, brought into the treasury in 1898 a to tal of $1,337,552.40, while for the same time the actual disbursements were $254,593.09 for all purposes, showing receipts in excess of disbursements of $82,960.31 for the year. "From the above statement it will be seen that the entire State debt is less than $1,200,000. The issue of $60, 000 of four per cent State bonds to be awarded August 16th, 1899, like all North Carolina bonds, being exempt from all taxation, will make this issue a very desirable investment" SPIRITS TURPENTINE. High Point Enterprise: The farmers of western Randolph- tell the Enterprise that the corn crop is the best in that section that they have ever had. Concord Times: The drought in this section is getting to be a very for weeks, and unless whe have some 1 soon the crops will be utter failures. Charlotte News: Nearly 200 cars of melons passed through Char lotte Saturday.- This is the best day's record of the season. So far, the shipments this year are about 400 cars ahead of the same season last year. Alleghany Star: The road along which S. M. Fulton and son brought a lot of diseased cattle several months ago from Florida has been quarantined from where they crossed Blue Ridge to Mr. Fulton's home, at Summerfield, Va. No cattle are al lowed to cross their trail. Oxford Ledger: There was a severe storm in the vicinity of Fayette ville July 15th. As the storm was almost over Mr. W. A. Massey, a far mer living about a quarter of a mile from the station, went out into his yard to set up a bee hive, which had been blown over by the wind, and was struck and killed by lightning. Hendersonville Times: Some of the counties west of Asheville, through which run the Ducktown di vision of the Western North Carolina, are making weekly shipments of from one two carloads of chickens; Madison county, and those counties lying northeast of Asheville, are also con tributing largely to the supply of a demand in this respect, which has never been fully met by our people. From the little town of Hickory, on the Western road, last season, was shipped, dressed and undressed, poul try to the amount of $20,000. ' Salisbury Sun: Saturday even ing the negro who attempteg to assault the white girl at Albemarle was brought to Salisbury through the country. He was turned over to Sheriff Monroe and by him was taken to Charlotte Saturday night for safe keep ing. The negro confessed that be had attempted to assault, and there was danger of his being lynched Saturday night had he remained in Albemarle. A crowd gathered there and, we learn, crowds were also being made up at Gold Hill and Concord to join the Albemarle crowd. Newton Enterprise: Mr. El kana Hunsucker, who lives near Simpson .bridge on the South Fork, says he is seventy-three years old, but he never before last week saw such a snake as he killed on Friday in his old kitchen or plunder house. It was a black snake, six feet long and as big around as his leg at the ankle. The snake was seen in the same house at threshing time last year and the thresher men wanted to kill it, but he pleaded for the snake and saved its life, as he wanted it to clean up the rats. It flourished and grew big on rat -meat But recently Mrs. Hun sucker turned prosecutor, and alleged that the snake was eating ber eggs and young chickens. This is where the snake made a bad mistake. Uncle Kany had given him full permission to "go ahead with his rat killing," but be could not stand Mrs. Hunsucker's pleading for her chickens and eggs. So the next time the snake came out for an airing, he fell upon him with a club. He says the snake had doubled its size in twelve months. CURRENT COMMENT. If Mr. McKinley's certificate of character for Alger is valid, then the contemptuous dismissal of that "faithful" servant is a disgrace. If Mr. McKinley's certificate is invalid, then what sort of President is Mr. McKinley. JV. Y. World, Dem. Gold, they say, is a good thing for a creditor nation and a bad thing for a debtor nation. It has been repeatedly asserted of late that the United States is becoming a creditor nation, with Great Britain as our debtor. Shall we witness the transfer of the free silver agitation from the United States to England? The Bank of England bought $900, 000 in gold in New York the other day, and paid a premium for it. Savannah Nems Dem. During the first twenty days of July, according to a dispatch from General Otis, forty-one inches of rain fell at Manila. The troops on outpost duty have suffered, and com munication has been interrupted; but, adds the Military Governor, it is not so serious. Not at all! Not at all! To create a serious situation from the Otis point of view would require a Noachian flood clear to the mountian tops. Philadelphia Re cord, Dem. "The number of Indians in this country, instead of decreasing," it is noted, "i8 slowly, but surely, growing larger. The records how show that there are 250,000 Indians in the Western States alone: and several thousand more dwell in other parts of the country. A prominent census bureau official estimates that the next census wiil include upward of 300,000 aborigines." How to stop their marvellous increase in. the problem. Perhaps it might be as well to send some of them to take the place of striking coal miners in Illinois. Charleston News and Courier, Dem. QUARTERLY MEETINGS. M. E. Church, Sooth, Wilmington District. Elizabeth, Bladen Springs, July 23-30. Scott's Hill, Acorn Branch, August 6-7. Jacksonville and Rlchlanda, Jacksonville, An gust 18-13. Onslow, Queen' Creek, August IS. KenansvlUe, Warsaw, August 10-30. Clinton, Goshen, August J. B. V. BUM PAS, Presiding Elder. A War to Wraith. Upon one occasion the late Earl Pou lett, who, by the way, was a great spend thrift, was paying his physician, and, on handing: the medical gentleman 400 guin eas in gold, asked him if he knew how to grow rich. Tho doctor replied in the neg ative, and the earl advised him never to pay an account by check, but always in coin, "for," he added, "the more you look at your money the less Inclined you will be to part with it " Toole Profits. "There goes a man who made $200,000 out of a simple little invention. " "What did he invent?" "He didn't Invent anything. He was he promoter." Ohio State Journal. for over Fifty Tear. Mrs. Winslow' Soothing Steup 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, 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 of the world. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup," and take no other. t TWINKLINGS. " "It'a'simply impossible for mo to una oreaa ior my iaxuuj, j loafer, "aame wny nere, - wmw the grocer. "1 have to worsior is. ShA "TTava von sent anv of your poems to the magazines?" He "Voo Kill mAM.lv aa ft. fMl&r&ntV-- of good faith and not necessarily for pub Jication. . Rxaftt: Her Acanaintance "TTnw nlri ia Mias Passe, anvhow Her Nearest Friend "Forty two, marked down to twenty-nine." oo merville (Mass.) Journal. The Wife "My husband has ceased to love me." xne xaaia now vAii Irnnv The Wife "It is im possible for me to make him misera ble anv more." Mew xotk worm, Mamma "Ethel, what do you mean by shouting; in that disgraceful fmhinnl Rm haw auiet Willie is." Ethel -Of course he's quiet; that's our game. He s papa comma; iiumo iaie and I'm you." 1 he Kivai. Prnf. Orav "Bv thewav.Prof Saee, what day of the month is itf To save my lire l can t ininK. jrrui, Sage "It is the 20th. And that re minds me, what month is itf" Al banv Press and Knickerbocker. Aunt Jane "That is a very decorous and modest batmng suit Toi.icn onH T nnilfl nnnrove of it.' Louise "I am glad you think it so proper, aunty, but it is my mcycie sun, you know." Leslie's Weekly. "Thfirft's no estimating the amount of misery entailed by this loose system of divorce, saia me AAinAnt. man "No. sir!" cried the -.nA 'Mftriv a divorced man marries again." Philadelphia North American. - "That new ladies' magazine nrntrArl a rnmnlftte failure." "Did it! What tliA rftuset" ,,Whv it was called 'The Age of Women,' and of cmirsn that's sometmmr tne women don't want to come out." Philadel phia Bulletin.. Her Perfume lad. Thoroi.s a little woman whom I know who has jnst had a most trying experi ence. She has been reading a great deal about perfumes and how delightful and wholly proper it was to spread abroad a delicate fragrance wherever you went, and she thought tfrat she wonld try it. The articles that she consulted sug gested sachet pads stuck in drawers and closets or even pinned upon clothes. and the little woman set about trying it Among the pads she manufactured was one long, slender arrangement, cov ered, for lack of better material, with gaudy calico on one side and a piece of blue denim on the other. "As no one will ever see it, it makes no difference as to its covering,," she thought, and then went and pinned the thing on the back cf her sealskin coat The next day was Saturday, and about noon she received a note from her husband to the effect that if she would hurry down he would take her out to lunch and then to the matinee. Hnrry! She had not hurried for weeks as she did then and was down two whole minutes ahead of time. Her husband nodded, with a smile, and they prepared to go ont once more. when he stopped, with a little cry of amazement "My dear,' he exclaimed, "what have you got on your back?" His wife turned white as her collar and then went red again as she beheld. aloft in his hand, her gaudy sachet bag In her hurry she had quite forgotten its existence and had worn it all the way down to her husband's office. She sank down in a chair with a moan of absolute pain. Then 6he reached over, grabbed the offending thing and threw it as far aa her strength permitted. She has not tried to start the perfume process since. Pittsburg Dispatch. A w Fad Id Letter Writing:. The girls have found u new wrinkle in letter writing which is intended principally to "simplify matters in cor responding with men." as one of them puts it concisely. They have grown weary of beginning their letters in the old fashioned way, because it s too formal in some cases and not formal enough in others. The problem used to be, "Shall I address him as 'My dear Mr. Rocks' or 'Dear Mr. Rocks?' " And in instances where the girl wrote to one of her sex it used to strike her this way: "She isn't my dearrMrs. Roaster. So why should I call her so?" Some dainty dilettante has found a way ont of the difficulty, and her sis ters all over the country have been quick to act on her hint Once her method of inviting a friend to run an errand for her was worded in the hack neyed style thus Mr Diar Mr. Ctahidb Will you kindly get me the time tables of all the railroads running out of New York 1 Now she starts right in with the first stroke of the pen and writes icily in this manner WlU you kindly get me the time tables, Mr. Cyanide, of all the railroads, etc? This new style may save the writei from occasional embarrassment or help her to dodge a fine point now and then, but it strikes a chill to the marrow of the man who receives a letter opening in tho manner described. A friend in good standing, for instance, does not like to be addressed in a way that may b construed as frigidly concise or infer entially flippant, as the case may be. It makes no difference whether he is Mr. Brown to the girl or just Tom. Th effect is the same. If the girls persist in adopting the new departure, the men will have to get used to it. But it will be like taking medicine to some of them. New York Press. Helyfal Jeirlih Women. A little club of Jewish women finan ciers in Chicago has successfully con ducted a loan association which has been able to afford relief in cases of necessity without the beneficiaries feel ing the stigma of charity recipients. This Jewish women's loan association is one of the most novel among wom en '4 organizations of the country and has only been in operation during the present winter. The women have placed over $1,000 in small loans, and they have yet to suffer a loss. The loan association itself Is composed of 50 women of the Seventh ward, with a largo number of passive, members, or contributors, who give the association sums ranging from 5 cents upward weekly. The association has over 40 men and women on its books at present Ten dollars is the largest sum which the association will place at one time. It has never had to close its doors, even in the event of unusually large demands upon its cash. In such cases the directors borrow small sums from the business men of the neighbor hood and continue its loans. The association enables the. small peddler to increase his stock when an increase means more profits, and he has not the money to invest He can take out $5 and make the additions to his stock that he cares to. Payment is on the installment plan and commences immediately, 25 cents a week for $5 and 50 cents for $10. When he has paid up the loan, he can take out another and make more additions to his stock in trade. Security is required, and the guarantors are carefully investigated. No interest is charged. St Louis Globe-Democrat .rlu the Circle. i j t u-.-ar.aA tr Iw lnnklnt? at a pamphlet on the value ot Pi, pays X7r. John Tiske In The Atlantic, and should any of my readers, ask what fat might mean I should answer that PI is the Greek letter which geometers usel to dpnote the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Its value, expressed in figures, is 8.1416986638 and so on in a endless fraotlon. Is it not hard to see wjhat there can be in such an innocent decimal to irri tate human beings and Destroy their peace of mind? I , , Yet so it is. Many a human life has been wrecked upon Pi. To a certain class of our fellow creatures its existence is maddening. It interferes with tpe success of a little scheme upon which jthy have set their hearts nothing less than to con struct a square which shall be" exactly equivalent in dimensions to a gijen circle. Nobody has ever done such a thing, for it cannot bo done. But when mathemati cians tell these poor people that such is the case they howl witn rage anqi, uipping flialv nonfi i T, 'call WritO l)(Mlk after DOOC bristling with figures to prove j that they have "squared the circle." Our Llp. riv A Rlnfih. the French anthronolosrist. attacks the theory that thick lips are a de notement of sensuality, while 1 thin and delicate lips denote spirituality firmness and elevated character. In a recent paper the scientist claims that the Shape, size and color of the lips are purely irace char-' actettstics, and that in the hybrid peoples of Eurone and America, where! there has been such a general intermingling of races, n. nhild mav well Inherit from riot very re mote ancestors lip forms that completely belie the actual chaaacter of, the child, t 4nriiftAt.nl hv the lin theory. Dr. Bloch Investigations satisfy him that really thick lips In the wnite races are aiways anoma lies or freaks of nature. j Too Deep For Mamma. "I want to ask one more question," 6ald little Frank as he was being put to bed. "Well." acquiesced the tired mamma. "When holes come in stockings, what becomes of tho piece of stocking that was there before tiM hole came? ! When the condi tions arc right the light leap of a Chamois may start an avalanche which will bury a village alive. It takes but a little thing when the conditions are right to prostrate a healthy looking man. Hastily eaten meals, ill dieested f I- food, means a body ill nourished, a nerv ous system on starvation rations and the blood sluggish and corrupt. ! There is no protection against the ava lanche. There is protection against dis ease. When the nerves are j unstrung, the minor is writable, the stomach weak and distressed after eating, the brain dull 'and stupid, the conditions are ripe for serious illness. This may be averted and the system restored to sound j health by the use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It cleanses the blood, strengthens the stomach and organs of digestion and nutrition, nourishes the nerves, and produces sound and vigorous health. j ' Six years ago last AugTist," writes Mr. Daniel A. Carter, of Yost, Rowan Co., Ni C, " I was attacked with malarial fever ; was (in bed nine days, and then taken with chills. Bad this six months. My spleen became enlarged, and I was in bed off and on for four years. I went to the doctors and some of them said I had dys pepsia, others said I had liver trouble. So I paid out money and nothing did me any good. Last August two years ago, I commenced taking Dr. Pierce's medicines, and used ten bottles, and now I can do as big a day's work as any man. I am 32 years old. I now weigh 180 pounds." The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser has been aptly termed "the Bible of the Body." It is sent free on receipt of stamps to defray expense of mailing oniy. Send $1 one-cent stamps for the p a p ej r covered book, or 31 stamos for the cloth i bound. Address, Doctor R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT. MT The following quotations represent Wholesale Prices generally. In making up small orders hinher d rices have to be charged. Tne quotations are always given as accurately as possioie, Dut tne dtak win not do responsioio for any variations from the actual market pries or tne arucies auoiea. BAQOHTO i t Jute Standard WESTERN 8MOKEl - Hams ft Sides Shoulders 9 a DRY SALTED Bldee 1 Shoulders V BARRELS 8olrit8 Turoentlne 1 i-n via O IK O 7 o m & 6M 1 25 C 1 35 & 1 40 & 1 40 & 22 5 00 Q 7 00 9 00 & 14 00 15 18 20 SO 47 47)4 47 47 90 18 25 8 11 Second-hand, each 1 New New xork, eacn New City, each BEESWAX V K BBICKS Wilmington V M wortnern , BUTTER North Carolina V ft... Northern CORN MEAL Per bushel, in sacks . . , Virginia Heal COTTON TIE y bundle CANDLES V Sperm Adamantine CHEESE V Northern Factory , 10H 12 7H 10 11 13 10 IS 19 5 70 11 Dairy cream. Btate COFFEE V Laffnyra..... Rio DOMESTICS Sheeting, 4-4, $1 yard Yarns, w bunch of 5 lbs . EGOS V dozen rum Mackerel, No. 1, Mackerel, No. 1, Mackerel, No. 2, Mackerel. No. 2 Mackerel, No. 8, 1 barrel... 23 00 half-bbl. 11 00 ' barrel... 18 00 half-bbl.. i8 00 barrel... 13 00 30 00 15 00 18 00 9 00 14 00 3 CO 4 00 iS 00 8 00 3 00 3 25 5 10 4 85 4 60 3 09 8 60 4 00 4 25 4 50 5 00 11 13 52 63H 62t 38 40 45 05 75 ' m 9 85 90 40 eo 80 85 80 85 80 85 m 6 7 6 10 1 15 1 25 N. C Roe Herring, V keg. . Dry Cod, V Extra FLOUR f Low grade Choice Straight First Patent GLUE B GRAIN bushel (jorn,rrom store, 02a white Car-load, In bgs white... Oats, from store Oats, Rust Proof Cow Peas HIDES 9 ureen saitea Dry flint Drv salt HAYJBlOOfts Clover Hay , Rice Straw Eastern Western North River HOOP IRON, V 1) LARD, ib- Northern , North Carolina LIME, barrel LUMBER (city sawed) V M ft emp Bios, resawea Rough edge Plank 18 00 15 00 20 00 18 00 18 00 23 00 15i00 0 50 & 8 00 10 00 10 50 West India cargoes, accord lnarto aualltv.... lis 00 Dressed Flooring, seasoned. 18 00 Scantling and Board, coni'n 14 00 Common mill : 5 00 Fair mill... : 6 50 Prime mill 8 60 Extra mill m no MOLASSES V gallon Barbadoes, In hogshead. . . . . Bar badoes, In barrels ' Porto Rico, In hogsheads....! 33 Porto Rico, In barrels 25 Sugar House, In hogsheads . 12 Sugar Boase, in barrels. ... 14 25 28 30 30 14 15 25 2 10 Syrup, in barrels 15 NAILS. kes. Cut. 60d basis... 200 PORK. V barrel- city Mess 9 50 10 00 9 50 Kump Prime ROPE. lb in 9 00 22 SALT, V sack. Alum 1 10 80 jjiverpooi , 75 American. '. 70 On 125 Sacks 1j 75 47X 6 60 8 25 8 60 m 5 SHINGLES, 7-inch, per M j 5 00 Common. 1 60 Cypress Sara 2 60 5ft 5 5 SUGAR, V Standard Gran'd Standard A , White Extra C , Extra C, Golden , 5 m , 4 14109 10 00 SOAP. Northern .! STAVES, M W. O. barrel.. 3 00 TIMBER, r M reethippl'ng.'. O t OS mui, numa MUL Fair 7 00 6 60 5100 Common Mill 4 50 SHINGLES, N.C. CypresrsSwed 8 03 4 00 V a oxx neart ; " Sap i 5x84 Heart I 4 Ssp.nr. L 7 60 5 00 4 60 4 CO 6 00 5 00 1100 1100 IS 8 50 s;oo 5j00 5; 50 6 60 5 60 6 2 00 00 17 " Ban... jl n iii Tt , m m k. whiskey, gallon. tlSKEY. y gallon, Northera North Carolina wool, ner Unwashed... COMMERCIAL. WILMINGTON MARKET. I " , STAR OFFICE. July 25. ' SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Market firm at 39 cents, per gallon bid for machine-made casks and 39 cents per gallon bid for country casks. .Sales at 40X39 cents. ROSIN Market steady at 90 cents per barrel for Strained and 95 cents for Good Strained. TAR Market firm at 1.50 per bbl of 280 lbs. CRUDE TURPENTINE. Market firm at $1.35 per barrel for Hard, $2.10 for Dip and $2.20 for Virgin. Quotations same dav last vear. Spirits turpentine steady at 2525c; rosin quiet at 9297jc; tar quiet at $1.10; crude turpentine steady at $1.001.50. RECEIPTS. Spirits Turpentine 64 Rosin 415 Tar '. 7o Crude Turpentine. ...... .. 30 Receipts same dry last year. 110 casks spirits turpentine, 125 bbls rosin, 135 bbls tar, 37 bbls crude tur pentine. ; COTTON. Market steady on a basis of. 5Jgc per porjid for middling. Quotations Ordinsry 3 7-16,cts. $ lb L.ood Ordinary 4 13-16 Low Middling. .... . 5 7-16 " 41 Middling 5 " " Good Middling .... . 6M " " Same day last year middling 5 He. Receipts 0 bales; same day last year, 0. COUNTRY PRODUCE. PEANUTS North Carolina-Extra prime, $1.00&1.10 per bushel of 28 pounds ; fancy, $1. 10 1. e2 . Virginia Hixtra prime, 7580c; fancy, 95c. CORN Firm; 52 to 52 cents, per bushel. ROUGH 1 RICE Lowland (tide water) 90c1.10: upland 65 80c, Quotations on a basis of 45 pounds to tne Dusnel. N. C. BACON steady ; hams 10 to 11c per pound; shoulders, 6 to 7c; 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, f5. 5U to CoU TIMBER Market steady at $2.50 to $6.50 per M. FINANCIAL MARKETS. By Telezraph to the Mornlne Star. New York, July 25. Money on call i-easier at 34 per cent., the last loan being at 6yi per cent. Jrrime mercan tile paper 345 per cent. Sterling exchange easier; actual business in bankers' bills at 487X487 for de mand, 484484J for sixty days. Posted rates 485485 and488- Commercial bills 484484. Silver certificates 60 61. Bar silver 60. Mexican dollars 48. Government bonds weak. State bonds inactive. Railroad bonds irregular, U. S. 2's, registered, 100; U. S. 3's, registered, 1U8M ; do. coupon, 109 : U. S. uew4's, registered, 129; do. coupon, 130; U. S. old4's, registered, 112M; do coupon, 113 j; U. S. 5's, . registered, 111?; do. coupon, 112 X; N.C. 6's 127 ;do.4's, 104; Southern Railway 5's 109X- Stocks: Baltimore & Ohio 48; Chesapeake & Ohio 2Si; Manhattan L.118; N. Y. Central 140; Reading 20& ; do. 1st preferred 59 ; St. Paul 132 yi; do. preferred 173; Southern Railway 11 U; do. preferred 51 ;Ajner ican Tobacco. 97J4 ; do. preferred 141 ; People's (ias 118; Sugar 157; do. preferred 117; T. C. & Iron 69 X ; U. S Leather 6X; do. preferred 72 J ; West ern Union 90. NAVAL STORES MARKETS. By Telegraph to the Moruinz Star. New York, July 25. Rosin steady, Spirits turpentine firm. J Charleston, July 25. Spirits tur pendre steady at 39c; sales casks. Rosin firm and unchanged ; no sales. Savannah, July 25. Spirits turpen tine firm at 404c; sales 110 casks; re ceipts 2,207 casks. Rosin firm and unchanged sales 1,489 bales; receipts 6,184 barrels. COTTON MARKETS. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. New York, July 25. Speculation on the cotton exchange to dav was not over active, nor did the scope of speculation call forth much comment. Whether nf rmlliiJi rrr Iworitd holiaF traders were cautious, influence being of a singularly conflicting turn. v The r.nll develnnod a. KtAnrlv tnno witli prices one point higher to one point 1 "vr xt j . , luwcr. wear 1,113 euu 01 me session firices went off several points on iouidation. The market close barn ly steady at a net loss of three to seven points. NEW TOBK .Tnlv 25 Cnitnn n.l.t . middling uplands 6c. 1 Cotton futures closed barely steady ; July 5.45c, August 5.45, September 5.50c, October 5.65c, November 5.70c, December 5.74c, January 5.79c, Feb ruary 5.82c, March 5.86c, April 5.90c, May 5.93c Snot COtton closed nnipf. anrl 1.1 fir. lower; middling uplands 6c; mid dling gulf 6c; sales 232 bales. Net receipts bales; gross receipts 2,688 bales; exports to Great Britain 629 bales; exports to the Continent 1,850 bales; stock, 147,984 bales. jLoiai to-aay jxet receipts 990 bales: BXDOrtS to fjTftftt "Rritain f90 bales; exports to the Continent 1,850 bales; stock 403,730 bales. uonsolidated Net receipts 5,613 bales: exrjorts tr Rwot TtiMaiv, 1 ooo bales exports .to France 200 bales; exports to tne continent 4,405 bales. Total since Sentembar 1st. Ttft . ceints 8.300.708 hnl Great Britain 3.469.436 baJs; pt ports to France 788,851 bales; exports to the Continent 2,798,433 bales. July 25. Galveston, easy at 5c, net receipts bales; Norfolk, steady at 5 15-16c.net reeAinta.Ritiiloa. P.m. more, nominal at 6&c, net receipts 1 jvwii, 4mcii cll o o- toe, net receipts 46 bales: Wilmin , ' -few, u tvau r at oZi. net rw.Ainta halao. Tv.;ii x" , uuauci phia, dull at 65sfc. net receipts S9. bales; Savannah, steady at 5c, net receipts 28 bales; New Orleans, dull at 5c, net receipts 564 bales; Mo bile, nominal nt K6n not bales ;Memphis,sterdy at 5c,net re- ""P" ies: Augusta, quiet at 6Mc, net receipts 141 bales ;Charleston,quiet, cuciuw xv (Miles. PRODUCE MARKETS. By Telegraph to the Mornln star. NEW Ywor T,,l ocr mi v a., uuij u,- ctuur was mnnp.T'fitAlvattinA j xi r v o twit juirixier lur spring patents; Minnesota patents $3 753 90 ' wi, j-ltlu ; no. 2 rea 77c: nm.inns i 3 -, -r upcucu Bwsauy on smaller Northwest nminlc. 4V.a. ,.l broke under liquidation and disappoint ing latft FrfiTtnh aili W.. - -1 1 , - - , . . "" uumiy re covered; chief among the stimulating influences wapa email , - - yM. xiucur v receipts : the close was strong at H3c net ad- tember closed 76Hc; December closed 78Kc. Corn Spot steady ; No. 2 38k ; options opened steady,, and after a sharp break under liquidation recov ered with wheat and less favorabTe crop news and r.lmeH f), i . P"ce5?:Jaly closed 37c; September closed 37&c; December closed 36 Xc ?trfVl weaker: NaS 28 ; options ClUlfit 1 .arrl aaatr. TXTt 'a wusru steam o oo; refined easy Cotton seed oil quiet. RlCB firm Rut l j 4w . ern creamery 1518c- StafoV55 17. Cheose firmria4eed8 tatoes quiet; prime $1 ooail p $2 002 20; Southern s3ofa 4 00. Cabbage steady8! Liverpool cotton by steam u8bu to nal Coffee-Spot Rio . dfeBofi mild quiet. Sugar-Raw n-d 7 steady; refined steady qUlei but Chicago, July 25 Un light receipts and further rf1? damage from the Northwest ts rally in wheat to-day L. closed at an advance oM,? ' and oats rose each V Goi'i suffered from liquidation pV,1sS 12ic, lard 5 to 7& and Pbs2ic k lost Chicago, July 25. Cash n Flour quiet an5 easvE 2 red 32tfc. per Dbl, $8 808 85. ,i i , r" $5 355 45. Short rifc it i 1' Per V , . 7 ' - " " lc '2 irfiVKo n . 5 05. Drv salted .fcM-J?"?-! 5 50., Short clear sides boxLt The leading futures ranged - , lows-opening, highest, lowest !" closmg: Wheai-Noi 2 Jul' a"J 70M, 69,7070; Septemfi 7n7,0' 70, 71,70U, 71X7SbDj03i ber 78Hre , 7SX73J, 72 Corn No. 2 July 32 1? 31,32c; September 31 JSSfy 31Sl,-32c; December 29&? 30K,29M 80X30Kc off July 24J, 25, 2HC 21; sto1V December WM, -19. 19. lffi-C: -September $9 00, 9 05, 8 80 9 5 October $9 07, 9 07, 8 82 8 9$ Lard, per 100 lbs-September te?7 5 50, 5 37, 5 42; OctoW f ' 5 50, 5 45.5 47K. Short ribs. pe W fts-September $5 122, sW 5 5 15; October $5 20, 5 22, 55 5g Baltimore, July 25.-Fiour qui and unchanged Wheat HniiJoi and month 71H71c; August?! 71c; September 7273i ssonT ern wheat by sample 6572c : southern on grade 6872c. Cora dull-Mi, spot, 3636Sc; July 3636ifc- A? gust 3636ic ; September 36i36Uc Southern white corn 404lc dull and easy No. 2 white 30K(s3i" The Melon Market. New York, July 25.-Mu8kmeloM are without further change; far South ern stock rarely worth expenses. Wa termelons were easier. Muskm4ji. Jersey, per half -barrel crate, 75Cft $1 00; do., Baltimore, and other Man kind per bushel, 75c$l 00; do L carrier, 75c$l 25; do , Virginia' L carreir,2575c; do., per basket 25 75c; do., per barrel, 50c$l 25. Wa termelons, per car load. $100200-dc per 100, $10 0025 00. ' ' FOREIGN fSABKi! Br Oanle to the Morn!.-:.,- Liverpool, July 25, 4 P. a. Oo; ton Spot in fair demand; prices un changed. American middling 3J.jd. The sales of the day were 10.000 baiesi of which 500 were for speculation aiiii export and included 9,400 bVk s Ameri can. Receipts 6,000 bale?, iuclucin 3,000 American. Futures opened quiet ar..! clovj quiet but steady at tho . advane-. American middling (1. rn. r ; Jnh :) 19 64d buyer; July and August 3 18 04 3 19-64d buyer; Ausrust and Sepiem ber 3 17-643 18-64d buyer; Septet.; ber and October 3 35-643 16-64d buver: October and Norembpr 315 ii 3 16-4d buyer; November and De cember 3 14-643 15 Ui buyer; De cember and January 3 14-613 15 644 buyer ; January and February 314 64 3 15-64d buyer; February and March 3 15-643 16-64d seller; March a,-,l April 3 16-64d buyer ; April and Mav 3 17-643 18-64d seller; May and June 3 17-643 18-64d buyer. VI A ST"N -. ARRIVED. i , Stmr A P Hurt, RobesoD Fav etteville, James Madden. CLEARED. Stmr E A Hawes, Black, Clear Run, James Madden. MARINE D1RHCHM, Lilt of Vessels is, ilts P:r I Ui; mlnston 5. July 2G. I stO. STEAMSHIPS. Morgan, 537 tons, Anthony, Navassi Guano Go. SCHOONERS Xina C KamiDski, 421 tons, Bay, New York-, Geo Harriss, Son K Lo. Gem, 584 tons, Foss, Geo Harriss, Son &Co. BARQUES. Guldaas (Nor), 592 tons, Hawlan, Heide & Co. BARGES. Maria Dolores, 610 tons, Bonntau, Navassa Guano Co. 1831 Sixty-Ninth Tear. Jg()() THE Country Gentleman, Thp flNT.Y nirrinnltnrfll NEWSlSf xuu U11JJ1 illiiuuiiuiui INDISPENSABLE TO All Hnnntpv Residents -mii vvuiiii j w WHO WISH TO KEEP UP WITH THE TIMES Single Subscription, $2; Two Subscriptions, &3. 50; Four Subscriptions, W- SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS TO 1"' a Ilia TCRS OW LARGER fl""1. Write for Particular on tui oitU Free Till Jannary 1 to : New Subscribers for xi, win De seen mat uiouiiio..; .hatoio"1" cost of tho Country Gentleman amvm t agricultural weeklies (none of wum 0f t tempts to cover the agricultural '"g e Dp small Club, to . loco Than r P.pnt i W1 Does such a difference as inai J""" user v contenting yourself with some otner t stead of having the best ? SEND FOR SPECIMEN COPIES' Which will be mailed Free, and com with any other rural weekly; It wi tong o see tne ainerenco. LUTHER TUCKER & S0J- OC2I tf The llmvorcifu nf N fifth Cafl ' . - ..n0ct. eaiuPPThrti Widest 4a l1atvY 1VO ""vwij mree it ana in Splendid "Maries, Labow need Classes open pH w. Board. 18 a month. JhoHZ A Ave nnad 900 a year; v iwhjvu the needy. DUUW1 Tnr teachers. Twenty-four 147 8tl Bt.TtAtkTltSl For catalogue, Buurco .r.nEB?Vl PRESIDE j Hill"'- . ri uorcujr oieauy ; west 1e20Sw
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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