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Advertisements Inserted once a week In Dally will be charged fl.OO per square for each Inser tion. Every other day, three-fourths of dally rate. Twice a week, two-thirds of dally rate. Contract advertisers will not be allowed to exceed their space or advertise anything foreign to their ivirular business without extra charge at transitu rates. Advertisements kept under the head of "New Advertisements" will oe charged fifty per cent, extra. Advertisements to follow reading matter, or to occupy any special place, will be charged extra according to the Doaitioa desired. BY WILLIAM H. BERNARD. WILMIXGT0N. . c Saturday AIoxxikq, July 29. EXPANSION SUBTERFUGE. The Philadelphia Press is one of the leading organs of the Republi can party, and one of the most zealous advocates and defenders of the policy of expansion. Its editor-in-chief is a member of President McKinley'a cabinet, Postmaster General, and therefore what appears in that paper on the subject of national policies may be regarded as a semi-official declaration of the administration's purposes, and for this reason the following forecast of the course to be pursued in the Philippines is interesting in the ab sence of anything more definite and more direct: "Nothing has disappointed the op ponents of the discharge of national duty in the Philippines more than the arrangement reached with the Sultan of the Sula Islands. "What the anti-expansionists would like to persuade this country is that it is about to enter on the "conquest," foot by foot and island by island, of allKhe archipelago. The United States has never done this with a new acquisi tion. It never will. "It was eighty years before the last of the Louisiana purchase was finally taken up. It was over thirty Tears before even the western bank of the Mississippi had been brought to order along all its course. Supremacy had sovereignty were asserted at once. Administration came later. Any In dian tnbe able to govern itself was left to do so. "The like is before us in the Philip pines. Were, as in the Sulu Islands, there is a native rule which suits the people it governs, which protects the trader and which keeps down rapine and disorder, it will be aided, directed and improved. Its efforts will be sup ported and strengthened. Its injus tice will be curbed. Time and oppor tunity will given for native develop ment. This course lay open to the Tagals. It is open to day. It was" they that attacked American troops. It was their leaders who planned massacre m Manila. It was Aguinaldo, and not General Otis, who precipitated war. When the sovereignty of the United is once admitted, the Tagals are free to organize their own government in their own way. The German and French colonial plan is to fill a colony with, colonial administration. It is not the English plan. .It has not been ours. "Why should we be wiser or try to better the most successful of coloniz ing powers and the methods of the largest of colonial enterprises? The first duty of the civilized power with the responsibilities of a region like the Philippines is not to tear down and destroy, but to preserve and give native rule the largest possible field. The one indispensable requisite is the admission of sovereignty. When that is secured native rule follows when possible. If war has come in Luzon it is because Aguinaldo attacked American troops, and believed he would be supported in his attack on" the American flag -by anti-expansionists as he was aided by those who de layed the organization of ajiew army until March." 7 and better thing than sending ships ana-men down there to shoot him and his savages into submission, as we are trying to do with the Taga los, but viewed from another stand point what obligation were we un der to assume Spain's debts to this Sulu boss? Spain was under other obligations to the inhabitants of other islands. Why not, on the same line of reasoning, assumo and carry out all these? If we were morally bound as the successor to Spain's sovereignty to assume her obligations to this Sultan, we were equally bound from a moral stand point to assume her other obliga tions. But the fact is Spain did not sur render her sovereignty, for she lost it and sold it after her title had been destroyed and she had nothing to sell, and when we bought we were simply investing in a gold brick. The title isn't worth continental, for we have to make it good with powder and shot, as we are trying to do in Luzon, or buy it again, as we are doing in Sulu. The reference to the Louisiana purchase is about as germane as a treatise on the moon would be. It took eighty years to "take up" the last of the Louisiana purchase sim ply for the reason that it was a sparsely settled territory, and it took time to people it so that.it could come into the family of States. Until the railroads converted the wilderness into populated areas, there were but few people scattered through the remote sections of this purchase, but when the people en tered it it was soon divided and in j due time these territorial divisions were admitted as sovereign States. There wa3 never any force used nor required, nor suggestion of force, save the few men necessary, not to rule and establish governments among the Indians but to protect the people or the frontiers from the Indians, while the Philippines are more densely populated than any portion of the United States save' Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Of course the expansionists have no idea of ever admitting these is lands to statehood, from which it logically follows that they are to be held in perpetual dependency, sub servient in whatever power they are permitted to exercise to a superior alien power, a thought revolting, as it should be, to any manly, self-respecting people. Xo amount of subterfuge can conceal the fact that it is the intention to hold these islands as dependencies, not for the good of their people but for our ag grandizement and benefit. That's the sum and substance of it all; "national duty" doesn't enter into it. It is a selfish and a base motive, the stain of which success can never wipe out. . FARMING OFFICES, AND SINE CURES. -The investigation of the manage ment of the Agricultural Depart ment ' now going on " in Raleigh is eliciting some interesting facts as to the squandering of money on sine cures, the bigpay for no work, the double pay for litflo work, and the general spirit of grab-and-get-all-you-can that, characterized the man agement of thai department under the past Fusion administration. The same spirit Beems to have pre vailed in other quarters, an illustra tion of which is furnished in the following which we clip from the Raleigh Post: "Judge Spencer B. Adams is one of your "lucky men.' "Last year Gov. Russell's directors of the State's, interest in the North Carolina Railroad elected the Gov ernor's friend, Mr. Sutton, of BJaden, treasurer of the company at a salary of $1,000 or $1,200, and Mr. 1L B. Worth, son of the State Treasurer, assistant treasurer and secretary at a salary of $700 or $800. Young Worth did all the work, as treasurer and sec retary, and we are told did it weLI, but Sutton signed his name a few times, stayed on the farm he wanted to lease the State and charged the State for 'expenses and board' of the committee who went to examine the farm and drew the bulk of the pay. "The new directory of his H,xcel- lency discharged both 8utton and Worth, consolidated the omces of treasurer and secretary, and elected ex-Judge Adams to fill bath at a sal ary of $3,000, with the privilege of staying at his home in Greensboro and sub-letting the work to a clerk. whom he has selected in the person of Mr. Albright, of Alamance. Mr. Al bright is to stay at the office, and do the work Judge Adams was elected to do, and the law contemplates his doing. We believe Col. Ruffin, who grew gray n the faithful service of the company as both treasurer and secretary, dis charged all the duties thereof himself, stayed at his post of duty and received less salary than is now allowed Judge Adams, who will stay at bis home and farm out the duties' and a part of the salary to another. "As Young Worth did all the work and stuck to his post of business, he should have had all the salary allowed for the work. As Albright is going to do the same, he should have all the pay assigned for such duties. Mr. Worth did his work intelligently and we take it Mr. Albright will, and they should have the pay. "It is a gift, pure and simple, to Judge Adams, as it was to Mr. Sutton, not for duties performed but as a poli tical gratuity to please Gov. Russell. "It is but another illustration of the manner in which Republicans and those allied with them administer the public affairs of the people, and it is in keeping with the deyelopements now beinjt made in another depart ment by Senator Brown's committee of investigation. "The beneficiaries of such methods may rejoice in the "luck" which has thus befallen them ; but it is entirely contrary to the good old-fashioned way of honesty which characterized the administration of North Carolina's affairs heretofore." SPIRITS TURPENTINE. TWINKLINGS. PEAftY'S LAST BAR. TAKING IN THE TIMBER LANDS. Yesterday we published some thing about the scarcity of hard woods in the West and the prospec tive demand there would shortly be in the South for these kinds of wood. For several years Northern lumber men and speculators have been exploring the South in quest of timber lands, and immense bodies have been bought by them, in some instances at almost nominal prices. The prospecting and buying are still going on. Two of the latest trans actions are mentioned in the follow ing, which we clip from the Balti more Sun: This is a specious subterfuge and on about a par with the Santiago day speech delivered by Postmaster General Smith at Omaha, when he charged the responsibility for the Philippine war on the Senators who if they hadn't been the parties who "The timber lands of the South are being rapidly purchased by Northern and Western syndicates and manufac turing companies. Two of these pur chases have been announced within the past few days. Twenty-five thou sand acres of public land in Alabama voted by Congress to Tuskegee Col lege has been sold to a syndicate headed by Mr. de Bardeleben for $5 an acre. The Pittsburg (Pa.) Lumber Company on Saturday concluded the purchase of 80,000 acres of the finest timber and marble lands in Alabama. The purchase is located in the coun ties of Bibb and Tuscaloosa. While the price is not named, it is said to have been the best sale for several years. At this rate it will not be long before all the timber lands of that sec tion will pass from the hands of local owners." Twenty-five thousand acres and eighty thousand acres are pretty fair sized patches of land. It is needless to say that they were fine tracts for opposed the ratification of the Paris treaty with the purchase clause in it. This whole article, as quoted above, is based upon and abounds in subterfuge, misstatement of facts and irrelevancy of facta quoted as applied to the Philippines. The very first clause is an apology for a double purchase. The Sulu islands are a part of the Philippine archi pelago, and were included in the 20,000,000 purchase from Spain, and yet this Government is placat ing its Mohammedan ruler by agree ing to pay him an annual stipend to quietly accept the situation and recognize our supremacy as suc cessor to Spain. The excuse is that Spain, which found it cheaper ty buy than to fight for the Sultan of Sulu concluded to bnv him bj paying him and some other subordinates to him an annuity, which she did. This isn't buying the Sultan, is it? No, of course; we wouldn't do as questionable a thing as -ihat; it is only carrying out the trade that Spain made with this gay and festive harem pro prietor a good many years ago when she found him a troublesome cus tomer to manage. Looked upon as a mere business transaction this paying the Sultan a tribute to be have himself and let. our flag float over his domain may be a cheaper bought would not have boughtthem. Five dollars an acre, the amount paid for the first purchase, is rather above the prices usually paid. In the second purchase the price is not stated, but we venture to say that it did not go above five dollars an acre, although the tract is one of the finest timber tracts in Alabama and also contains marble deposits. With the present and prospective demand for both timber and marble it is pretty safe to express the opinion that this Pittsburg Lumber Com pany has made a pretty good deal. As these transactions were down in Alabama it is none of our business. but yet we cannot help wishing it were otherwise when .we see our splendid timber lands passing for a trifle into the hands of Northern iorest-slayers or speculators, who realize ten dollars out of them to the one dollar realized by the seller, and, what's worse, destroy these forests and leave arid wastes in their place. A STORY WITH A MORAL. Magistrate Crane, in New York, has achieved some reputation for originality and for deciding cases somewhat out of the usual routine way. Some time ago a trifling fel low had his wife arrested on a charge of "cruelty," it appearing on his testimony that she "spanked" him. The magistrate heard the evi dence on both sides, decided against the husband, taxed him with the costs, and told his wife to take him home and "spank" him some more when he deserved it. A few days ago a boy was brought before him charged with stealing a camera from his employer's estab lishment. To the magistrate the boy looked like a victim of circum stances, who painfully realized his humiliation and degradation. He confessed the charge. The magis trate sympathized with him, was impressed with his story and ap pealed to the prosecutor to with draw the charge, and not send the boy to associate with criminals and thus help to make a criminal of him. The prosecutor was obdurate and insisted upon "making an exam ple of him, whereupon the magis trate related the following story: "I know what this boy has suffered. I have been through it all myself. Right here, in New York, too. I got only $2 a week for a long time. I was alone there was nobody to lend me a helping hand. My employers paid no more attention to me than if I was a dog. I know that my services were worth $50 a week, yet they paid me $3. "There were days when I had no food. There was one day I can never forget it when temptation came strongly appealing to me. They sent me to the bank those employers of mine with $2,500 in bills. I had not tasted food that day; I had not the money to pay for a meal. I con fess that on that day only the knowl edge that my mother believed me tho roughly honest restrained me from stealing. "The firm was rich ; one of the largest In the city. I was pretty neat the rock on which this young boy has struck. You can see that. Shall I now condemn him because I managed mj iMer ciear or in x on are a business man. I can understand you r position, but I am a magistrate who has passed through the hardships against which this boy is now battling for life. I nesitate as a man as a man and a magistrate to send this boy down to disgrace with the stamp of criminal upon him." This object lesson was too much for the prosecutor, who withdrew his charge and the boy was saved from prison, and possibly from a life of crime. - Goldsboro Headlight: We are sorry to learn of the death of Mrs. Thency Sasser, wife of Mr. James S. tiasser, which sad eyent occurred at her home near here Thursday at . 13 o'clock, after an illness of several days duration. 8 he was about 43 years of Durham Sun; Peaches have not been as plentiful on this market so far this season as we have seen them in seasons gone by. The peach crop throughout this section, as well as in other sections of the State, is al most a complete' failure. There are some apples, but even this crop is not as heavy as ordinary. There have been a few peaches sold on this mar ket, but prices have been pretty well up on them. Southport Standard: On Fri day evening last a mass meeting of citizens or eoutnport was called at the court house to listen to the proposition of two promoters of a railway from Marion, S. C, to this port, to pass through the three lower townships of the county. The gentlemen were President A. J. Matthewson and Sec tary J. C. Campbell, of the Marlboro, Marion and Horry County Railroad, recently chartered in South Carolina. Mr. Matthewson stated that he had a million and a half to back him in building this proposed line from Ma rion, on the condition that bonds or sufficient security be secured from the sections through which the road is to pass, which proposion he has already submitted- at other points. The sum asked for in this county is $75,000. Charlotte News: Lee Duran, the negro who was struck by John Little in a fight in Couch's bar yester day afternoon at 2 o'clock, is in a critical condition and his chances of recovery are very slim indeed. The most wonderful thing about the whole affair is that Duran is conscious when waked up, while a piece of his skull as large as one's hand has been smashed te pieces by as heavy a weapon as a wooaen leg and then has been suc cessfully removed by physicians. Tha wooden leg with which Duran was struck weighs enough to give a fatal knock-out blow to anyone who might be struck by it even lightly, and the fact that Duran is still alive is almost an unexplainable occurrence. His vitality is very great else he would have succumbed before now. Newbern Journal: Mr. C. B. Midyette tells the correspondent of the Journal at Stonewall a story of what a predicament a snake got into who trusted too much to appearances. Mr. Midyette was at the home of Mr. T. J. Sawyer a few days ago. The women folk went to the hen house and there encountered a snake. They concluded that the snake was upon the same errand as themselves, look ing for eggs, and they judged by the appearance of the snake that he bad already helped himself. They were quite right in judging that the crea ture had "taken something." An ex amination of his snakeship was made and they discovered that it had swal lowed a white knob of a lock, and not only, the knob but the iron attach ment several inches long, to which another knob is attached when put through the door. Of course the snake had swallowed the knob be cause it was like an egg, and had been put there by Mrs. Sawyer as a nest egg. The snake must have found the door knob rather heavv. to sav nothing of the iron attachment sev eral inches long. Raleigh News and Observer: Governor Russell has pardoned Mar tin Kelly, of Guilford county. Kelly clerked in a bar-room at Greensboro and was sent up three years for rob bing his employer. He knew the com bination to the safe, it seems, and would occasionally "lift" enough of its contents to supply his immediate needs He has served onlv about a Sear of his term. It is stated that eneral R. F. Hoke and associates have bought what used to be known as the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railway; also, a logging road Lenoir to Wilson's creek, and from the latter point will connect with the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railway, which goes via the Cranberry iron mine to Johnson city Tenn , It is very important development " Reports from Eastern North Carolina are to the effect that the army worm is working havoc in the truck nelda of that section. In some places Stubb"l8 old Kranker an anti-i mperialist t" Penn Well. TI should say so. He actually ' wouldn't accept a royalty ou his inventidn." Chicago News. ' - Husband - (as wife shows him new bathing suit) "Surely you haven't got the face to wear that!" Wife (sweetly)- "Perhaps not; but rve got the figure?" Puck. - " - Insurance Clerk "Here is a woman thatw ishes her net cat insured." Manager "All right, but tell her that he'll haye to take out a policy on each of the cat's lives." Chicago News. . - Hoax "Who does the ; new baby take after you or his mother ?" Joax "I can trace a resemblance to my wife. He raises an. awful howl when I come home late of an even ing." Philadelphia Record. A Possible Reason: "I don't see why a woman is always holding up her skirts with one hand," growled Bicket. "I suppose," replied Mrs. B , "It's because she has no trousers pocket to carry her hand around in." Chicago JSetcs: "Have you ever run down a clew?" asked the . disgusted citizen. "Run down a clew 1" exclaimed the detective. "Well, I should think not. Clews are my best friends. Why should I run them down?" Chicaao Evening Post. At a recent duel the parties discharged their pistols without effect, whereupon one of the seconds inter posed, and proposed that the com batants shouIdshake hands. To this the other second objected as unneces sary. "Their hands," said he, "have been shaking for half au hour. Tit Bits The military man walked nerv ously back and forth tills his spurs jingled like sleighbells. Stopping ab ruptly before the woman who had con fronted him, he asked: "How do you know all these things about my past?" "A little bird told me." "'3 death!" he hissed. '.'Another round robin !" Washington Star. Precaution Taken to Preserve. Xta Smew Wnlte Slcla tTnaolled. : At the first glimpse' of daylight en the morning of Sept. 4 tie Hope got under way and ctcmued out for Capo Yorfc to land my faithful Eskimo ussif!tants. As we steamed out through the western pos sage between Meteorite island antfAkpudi we entered the fleet of countless bergs sweeping out of Melviilo bay, dazzling in their glittering brilliancy, and wtth the dancing" whiteeapa flashing between them in every direction. Scarcely were we well within this arc tie white squadron, threading our way . be tween the stately cruisers, when one of my quick eyed Eskimos cried out, "Nannook soah!" ' He had seen the bear for an in stant far up on. the top of a big berg, one of the tabular giants of Melville bay, peer ing over Us precipitous face, but it had quickly disappeared. As we steamed slowly round the berg he came into view again, a beautiful white animal with con trasting black nose, moving leisurely along the surface of the iceberg. The cap tain and I both chanced a shot at him at long range, and the captain's bullet grazed his hind leg, making him whirl and snap savagely at the wound. Then he galloped awkwardly away and disappeared round a pinnacle of tKe berg. Circling the berg again, we discovered him In the water swimming vigorously, and several shots were fired at him, one of which took effect, and he apparently collapsed completely, yet a few moments later he was swimming off again, and it was only after Z bad a boat lowered that ho was secured. The fur of this animal was so spotlessly white and unstained -that I gave orders not to have him lowered upon the deck, but kept him suspended from the tackle until, a few hours later, we reached Oape York, and mooring the Hope against the face of a glacier he was swung .out on to the surface of the glacier, covered with newly fallen snow, and there skinned and the beautiful pelt rolled up and packed away still unsullied. This was our last bear. Lieutenant Peary in St. Nicholas. Beware of Imitations j Consumers should beware of the cheap and Inferior washing powders said to be just as good as . . s They are not there is nothing so good as the genuine QOLD DUST for all cleaning about the house. Ask for GOLD DUST and insist on getting it. Made only by THE N. L FAIRB1NK COMPANY, Chicago St Lotus New York Bostoa mm m mm WasMnpwdeE COMMERCIAL. WILMINGTON MARKET. MR. VIRGIL'S BIG NUGGET. Welshed Xlnety-rlebt Pounds aad Waa Worth More Than f ll.OOO. A single chunk of gold weighing 98 pounds and worth $11,750! This was the size and value of tho nuesret that . H. Virgil of East Portland found in French Gulch, near Gold Hill, Columbia county, Cal., in 1857. "I tell you," remarked Mr. Virgil as his eyes lighted up with the recollection of that famous find, "that was the event of a lifetime and caused much excitement all over the country. Up to that time it was tho largest nugget that had ever been un covered in California. It was a mere ac cident, and some one else might have been the lncky one. ' ' "I had a partner named West, and we had been mining at French Gulch, but were not doing much, and we decided to go over to tho Frascr river, and we sold out the very claim whero I afterward found the big chunk of gold. Well, I went up north, but that did not pan out very well, and I decided to return. West and I actually went back and bought back our old claim. Wo went to work again on the old ground. One day I was working away with my pick, taking-out pieces of dull red stone that was so light arid porous that it would float in water. While I was digging in the stuff my pick 6truck some thing hard. I worked away and finally the lump was exposed. My pick had creased one side, exposing the color of gold. I could not believe my eyes. I took' off my hat and threw it on the ground and then tried to lift tho chunk, but it was too heavy. It seemed fast to the earth. I cut my finger severely. I called to West, and as he came I thought I could hang my coat on his eyes. Miners gathered from all directions. "It was a custom for a miner when he found a big nugget to sit down on it and with a dish of beans wait till he could make a safo disposition of it. In this case we formed a procession and took the chunk to tle express office, where the amazement of the officials was great indeed. The chunk of gold hud some quartz in it, but I received $1 1,750 for it. I suppose it must have been thrown where I found It from some distance. I and others had passed over the place many times, but never dreamed that it was underneath. We sold out the claim, but it never paid very much afterward." Portland Oregonian. THEY WENT TO THE CIRCUS. The Merry Snowflake. "Where shall I light ?" said a snowflake ..small. Floating' over the garden wall Floating- near to the old well's edge. Floating over the barberry hedge, Floating, whirling round and round, Nearer and nearer to the ground. On the doorstep. Doris, snug and warm. In cloak and tippet was watching the storm. The gay little flake was so starry white That she watched its motions with de light. "Oh, it's coming, it's eoming'right straight to me!" Baby Doris cried Joyfully; And the snowflake finished Its merry trip By melting on Doris' rosy lip. Mary F. Butts in Youth's Companion. TongTie Twisters. She stood at the door of Mrs. Smith's Gsh sauce shop welcoming him in. Swan swam over the sea ; swim, Bwan, swim. Swan swam back again: well swum, swan. A haddock, a haddock, a black spot led haddock, a black spot on the black back of a black spotted haddock. Snean shineth shoes and socks : socks rod shoes shines Susan. She ceaseth mining shoes and socks, for shoes and locks shock Snsan. WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT. W The Wholesale Prices represent king following quotations Tlcea eenerallv. In maxim? nn small orders lusher nrices have to be charged. Tne quotations are always given as accurately as poBsioie, dui tne wiam wui not oe i for any variations from the astoal marl of the articles Quoted. mstble ret price STAR OFFICE. July 28. SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Market steady at 41 cents per gallon for machine-made casks and 0 cents per gallon for country casks.. 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 day last year. Spirits turpentine nothing doing rosin steady at 924974c; tar quiet at $1.10; crude turpentine steady at $1.001.50. RECEIPTS. Spirits Turpentine 197 Rosin 530 Tar 103 Crude Turpentine 52 Receipts same day last year. 205 cpsks spirits turpentine, 304 bbls rosin, 200 bbls tar, 75 bbls crude tur pentine. COTTON. j Market steady on a basis of 5c per pound for middling, Quotations: Ordinary 3 7-16 cts. f lb Good Ordinary 4 13-16 " " LoMiddling 5 7-16 " " MiddDnA 5 " " Good Middling 6M ." " Same day last year middling 5c. Receipts 0 bales; same day last year, 6. COUNTRY PRODUCE. PEANUTS North Carolina Extra prime, $1.001.10 per bushel of 28 pounds; fancy, $L10l.e2. Virginia Extra prime, 7580c; fancy, 95c. CORN Firm; 52 to 52 cents per bushel. ROUGH RICE Lowland (tide water) 90c $1.10; upland 6580c. Quotations on a basis of 45 pounds to the bushel. N. C. BACON steady ; hams 10 to 11c per pound; shoulders, 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, $5.50 to 6.50. TIMBER Market steady at $2.50 to $6.50 per M. FINANCIAL MARKETS. phia, quiet at 6Kc, receipts 99 bales: Wilmiti- at 5?4c, net receipts bale. pl-rty ' - "auei- It steady at 5M, net receint 7r ui?let N Uit : i - .... v-,u uue bile, nominal at 5 11 16C net r 3 bales; Memphis, stead v at say. ceiPt ceipts 84 bales; Augusta; steady net receipts 17 bales; Charleston and nominal, net receiDts - baUs' PRODUCE MARKETS. By Telotr.iph to the Morning star New York, juy 28 .F. firmer at the close and fairly S as spring patent and low trade ffi , Wheat-Spot steady; Ko. 2 red li' options opened weak at &c aLv' because of bearish cables aBd"1 weather in th Wni w.. . ... acd .1 T.hA CPCCinn lhair .. ul it me session mey were barely steady under Oilt inactive and a.t, Uui liear me close suddenly roused into activity and strongth a alarmed of shorts, attributed to bufi reports by Snow and the Miller; . the close was firm al c net advance; July closed 7i!i' ; . tember closed 76c: 78c. Corn Spot steady: No 9 I lc.l octioiis onened tasvnt lz,.' 1 8 , oei Sic; under favorable weather news, Eft Bat Thcia It growing hay and corn crops are being mowea down oy tne worms, which, moving iu vast numbers, eat the fal len vegetation, leaving the fields here in their patb. In Virginia they are even worse. The Norfolk Landmark say the crops are ruined and that in some instances farmers have ploughed up their ground in the hope of rawing a second crop. CURRENT COMMENT. In Luzon "insurgents." they are "rebels" and In the other islands they are banditg" and "robbers." By the way, the "bandits" and "rob bers" seem to be quite numerous and on the increase. "The successor of Gen. Al ger in tho War Department," it is noted, "is Elihu Root, of New York, a lawyer of very sure judg ment and real acumen." Thav ust be going to try a mandamus or an injunction on the rebels. Charleston News and Courier, Dem. Senator Proctor, of Vermont, asserts that "Gen. Alger had no re sponsibility at all for some of the policies or acts for which he has been criticised." All right, senator; but you ought not stop there. Who "had responsibility" for the camp scandals, ration scandals, appoint ment scandals? Alger can't be de fended in generalizations. Cliat- tanooga Times, Dem. This is the four hundred and forty seventh day since Oberlin M. Carter was found guilty of stealing and aiding in the stealing of $1,600, 000 of the people's money and was sentenced to dismissal from the army, five years' imprisonment, &c. Hetas still free, still wearing his uniform, Btill drawing his pay. Mr. McKinley is still trying to find a plausible excuse for letting him off. Neio York World, Dem. ; Modern engineering is be coming as certain as the processes of the stars. The engineers who proposed to replace the old draw over the Passaic river with a new one twice as heavy predicted that the work would delav traffip. for only a few hours, and so it did. In less than five hours the old structure was out and the new one in, and trains passed as usual. It was a great feat, but one that is becom ming common. Philadelphia Ledg er, ma. QUARTERLY MEETINGS. General Lee Took Waa All Rlg-nt.- G eneral Kobeit K. Lee, the famous Con federate commander, was as kind hearted and simple mannered as he was brave and able. While president of Washington and Leo university, Virginia, in tho latter years of his life, he was greatly beloved by the children, whom ho loved in return. It was his delight to give the little ones pleas ure. Professor Nelson's two little girls were RreatNavorites. The general would turn and ride with them when thev met. encourage them to talk of their dolls and playthings and then escort them home with as much . gallantry as if they ware young ladies. He would alight and, help ing them down from the gentle old horse they both rode, he would part with a kiss' from each. Once the strict Presbyterian rule of the Nelson household was rudely shocked by the general. A circus was coming to town and as Professor and Mrs. Nelson left for a visit of several days they charged the children on no account to go. So the two little girls hung over the fence, listened to the music and envied tho children that passed on their way to that tented para dise, but they never once hoped to go. Presently a larger crowd of children than ever came along and in their midst was General Lee keenly enjoying tho happiness of his little proteges. The little Nelson girls joined the party without a word when he asked them to como along with him. Soon they wore all in the tent and when the performance began all wore giv en reserved seats by tho owner of the cir cus "Mother, we went to the-circus!" was the greeting of tho children on their par ents' return. "Why, children, didn't I tell you you must not go?" said their mother. "But General Lee took us." "Oh, well," said their mother, "if Gen eral Lee took you, that's all right!" After that going to tho circus was a le gitimate amusement for children. Troy Times. Danish Method ft Oaring Cheese. Denmark and Holland ore the largest exporters of dairy products in Europe. In both of these countries the most intelligent thought is given to the perfecting of all processes in that branch of agriculture. A Danish method to prevent the generation of mites in cheese is said to be entirely effective. The process consists in contlnn. ally whitewashing the rooms in which the cheeses are cured until the mites are de stroyed, the cheeses before being placed in these apartments being steeped in brine for a whole day. During their stay of a fortnight in the curing room they are care fully scraped and wiped daily. Finally they are washed In limewater and are then stored on thorouehlv clean nhnWoa Unfortunately for a thorough test of this process Danish cheeses are not so subject to the generation of mites as are French and Italian sorts. If these could be freed from the attack of mites through the use of the Danish process, its value would be inestimable. New York Sun. BAGonra 8 Jute Standard WESTERN BMOKEL' Hams B B .u .. 18 Bides f Shoulders t) DRY SALTED Sides 5X Shoulders S BARRELS Spirits Turpentine Second-hand, each 1 25 New New York, each ' New City, each BEESWAX V S BRICKS Wilmington IK s 00 Northern 9 00 BUTTER North Carolina f 15 xoormern CORN HEAL Per bushel, In sacks Virginia Meal COTTON TIEn m bundle... CANDLES y Ik Sperm Adamantine CHEESE V t Northern Factory Dairy Cream State OOFFEE-i-V t Laguyra Bio..' DOMESTICS . Sheeting, 4-4, y yard Yarns, ff bunch of 5 ts . 008 y dozen IBM Mackerel, No. 1, m barrel. . . 83 00 Mackerel, No. 1, half-bU. 11 00 Mackerel, No. 8, barrel... 16 00 Mackerel, No. 8 half -bbl. . 8 00 nacsereL. no. a, barrel... IS 00 & 7 00 & 14 00 18 is a so 47 O 4TH 47 47 & 90 w is as 8 11 10M UK 13 10 10 li4 7 8 5K 70 8 9 Mullets, barrel g 00 1 keg. Mullets, Vpork barrel 5 00 c. v. Koe Herring, v Dry Cod, ft ...7. - mxra fLOUR Low grade Choice Straight First Patent GLUE t GRAIN bushel Corn, from store, bes White Car-load, in bgs White... .Oats, from store Oats, Bust Proof Cow Peas HIDES V l - Green salted Dry flint j. Dry salt HAY 100 ts Clover Hav Bice Straw... Eastern....... Western North Biver so Northern 5 , North Carolina LTME, JB barrel 115 LUMBER (city sawed) fi M ft Ship Stuff, resawed 18 00 Rough edge Plank 15 00 West India cargoes, accord In to quality is 00 pressed Flooring, seasoned, is 00 Scantling and Board, coni'n 14 00 Common mill 5 no f au llllll..... It M SSW - 8 60 SO 00 IS 00 18 00 9 00 14 00 4 00 8 00 3 25 10 460 By Telegraph to the Morning Star. New Yobk, July 28. Money on call was 3i4 per cent, the last loan being at 3j per cent. Prime mercan tile paper 3K4J per cent. Sterling exchange weak; actual business in bankers' bills at 486sa487 for de mand and 483 for sixty days. Posted rates 484485K and 488488. Commercial bills 4830484. 8ilver certificates 6061. Bar silver 60U- Mexican dollars 48. Government bonds firm. State bonds inactive. Railroad bonds quoted strong. U. S. 2's, registered, 100M; U. S. 3's, registered, j.iks ; do. coupon, 1082 ; U. S. new4's, registered, 129; do. coupon, 130; U. S. old4's, registered, 112 U; do. coupon, 113; U. S. 5's, registered, 111; do. coupon, 112K; N. C. 6's 127 li ;do.4's, 104: Southern Railwav 5's 109 Ji. Stocks: Baltimore & Ohio 48 Js ; Chesapeake & Ohio 28; Manhattan L.1I8J4; N. Y. Central 140; Beading 20; do. 1st preferred 60; St Paul 132?s; do. pmerred 174j; Southern Railway 11 5 : do. Dref erred 52U- A mpr- ican Tobacco. 99 ; do. preferred 141; People's Gas 119; Sugar 160; do. preferred 118 ; T.C. & Iron 70? ;U.S. Leather 6V: do. nreferred723. wet.. e?n Union 90 J. was subsequently strengthened wneat and a demand from shorl? closed firm at a partial ysC netadvanc July closed 36c; September cWd' 36c ; December closed 36c Oat Spot quiet ; No.2 28c ; options quiet aw nominal. Lard firm : "WWe ,,. " $5 70; refined firm. Cotton ed Z firm; prime crude 2ljf. Rice b Butter steady; Westfrn creamer, 15 18c ; State dairy 1317. Cheese firm large white 9c. Potatoes ere quiei '' fair to prime U 001 JO; fai,cy fif0 2 25; Southern sweets $3 50 4 00 Cabbage steady; Long Island f3 5 00 per hundred. Freights to Liver pool cotton by steam 1JC, Dominai Petroleum firm. Coffee Spot Rio dull but steady; mild quiet. Sugar-Raw steady to firm ; good demand ; fair refi, -ing 3 15-16c; centrifugal 4c; molaacs sugar 3 13 16c; refined firm and active Chicago, July 28. Cash ..tv, Flour easy. Wheat No. 2 prin( ; No. 3 spring 67&b'8c: .No 2 red71a Corn No.2 3232Kc CU No.22325Xc; No.2 w hit," 2SM 26Xc;No. 3 while 2225 34TC. IV. per bbl, $8 058 80. Lard, pe:- ij. vvv wy. UUUlh 1 LU alUfs lOiX $5 055 25.Dry salted shoulders, fa 37& j 5 50. Short clear sides, boxed, $5 35 5 40. Wliiskey Distillers' ficish-d goods, per gallon, $1 26 The leading futures ranged as f .' lows opening, highest, iowett ai . closing: Wheat iNo. t July 69s 70 , 69, 70 ; September 70ii70ft.' 71H, 70K, 71!6c;December72K8$?2X, 73, 7272, 73c. Corn-No. 2 July 31, 313-, 31M, 3l3sc; September 3li NAVAL STORES MARKETS. By Telegraph to the Morning 8tar. Nkw York, July 28. Rosin steady. Spirits turpentine steady. Charleston. Julv 28 Snirita t,i- Pen tine firm at 39c; sales casks. Rosin firm and unchanged; no sales. Savannah. Julv 28 tine firm at 4141c; sales 664 casks; receipts 1.474 casks. Rosin firm and unnangea; sales 989 baJes; receipts 2,905 barrels. 31 31, 31?a'c: December 29K29, 30H, 29,'3UXc;Mav308 31, 31, 30, 31X31. Oats-No. 2 July 23, 23, 23, 23?8'c; September 19&, 19K19&, 1919M, 19; De cember 19, 19, 19. I9c; Msy 21, 21, 21, 21c. Pork, perbW September $882, 8 92, 8 80, 8 80; October 8 82, 8 95, 8 82, 8 95. Lard, per 100 lbs September 1537, 5 45, 5 37, 5 45; October $5 iZ'A, 55u, 5 52K, 5 50. Short ribs, per W) Ik September $5 10, 5 20, 5 JO, 5 20; Octo ber $5 17, 5 25, 5 15, o 25c Baltimoke. July 28. - Flour dull and unchanged Wheal .dull-No. 2 red spot and month 70-IJ'7(i34c; Au gust 7070c; September 72'M 72&C Southern wheat bj sample 6471c. Corn easier Mixed, p-t 3636c: July 3636i.4C; August 35 36c; September 3636ic South ern white corn 4041c. Oats dull and easy No. 2 white SOc asked. The Melon Market. New York, July 28. Muskmelous nlentv and favorine- the buver. Wa ter melons lower and dull. Musk melons, Jersey, per half-barrel crate, 60c$l 00; do., Baltimore, per bushel. 5075c; do., Marvland Rocky Ford Seed per crate, $1001 50; do.. Fr carrier f 1 001 50; do:, Jenny iaw, per carrier, 75c$100; Southern-, rr barrel, 50c$l 00; do., per carrier. 30 50c. Watermelons, per car load, $85150; do. per 100, $8 0016 00. FOREIGN MARKET. 10 00 9 SO 10 Extra mill MOLASSES V gallon Bar badoes, In hogshead. Barbadoes, to barrels POrtO RICO. In hncrahoolo Porto Rico, to barrels. Sugar House, to hogsheads. City Mess Romp Prime BOPS, a SALT, ft sack. Alum....".".'.'.."" tuverpooi 7K American. is On 125 V Sacks common an " w .,r-" ,T . owmuaru uran'a Standard a , White Extra n . Extra C, Golden " " C, Yellow.... fOAI Northern Mill, Fair .".""""" Common Mill tm Inferior to oitftoary.. " m BHGN,0re88'sawed r m 6x34 heart ? v "jap :: s So 8x94 Heart ' 450 " Sap .. 400 6x84 Heart SOO TiT.TJVnr V ' 0 w & 20 00 16 00 18 00 & 2-2 00 15 00 & 6 60 8 00 & 10 00 & 10 60 5 & 10 00 9 60 .9 00 22 1 10 80 75 47H 2 25 3 60 6 & 49 i& 4 109 10 00 9 00 .7 00 6 60 600 4 00 8.60 .BIOS '5100 5.60 0 60 5 60 xxr-vY- 1IW KB m """jtwr-umnsiiM i Some dogs are tough. A SLLouig man had one, a favorite, which show ed ijmptoma of rabies, for which rea son he was chloroformed and buried. But he wouldn't stay chloroformed or buried for about a week after wards he came waddling in and wag ging his tail as if nothing had happened. For Ow Fifty Tears Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for over fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while teething1 with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain.-cures wind enli. anrl is the best remedv for Diarrhrpa. Tt will relieve the poor little sufferer im mediately. Sold by druggists in every part of the world. TMtv.flva mni a bottle. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup," and take no other. . . M. E. Chorcb, Sooth, Wilmlnrton District. -Elizabeth, Bladen Springs, July 29-90 urai ranch. Awrnst 6-7. Rlchlands, Jacksonville, Scott's Hfll, Acorn acKBonvuie ana An smst ls-ia. Onslow, Queen's Creek. August 15. KenansTlUe, Warsaw, August 19-90. Clinton, Goshen, August 22. B, F. BTJMPA8, Presiding Elder. Not in a Hurry: Stranger "This town is going ahead, isn't it!" Native "Yes; but I don't think it'll ver be arrested for scorchinir." Puck. Scottish Impartiality. Color sergeant ot highland company (in which were one or two English) calling Angus Mackayl" No reply. (Louder): -a-ngus xaacKayr- Still no reply. (Sotto voce): "I kenye're there; yer aye at yer Jooty, decent mon, but ye're ower modest to speak before soe mony folk. I see ye fine." (Marks him down in the roll ) "John Jones!" Squeaky voioe replies: '"Ere." Sergeant: "On, aye, ye're here, or say ye re here, but ye're sic a innckle leear I oanna DeUeve a word that comes cot o yer mooth, sae I'll jist mark ye doon as ab sent!" Answers MARINE DIRECTORY. r w 1- Iilst of Tesaela 1b tfc pcr: tfnston, N.IC, July 29, 1899. . STEAMSHIPS. MaSSocS't0nS, Antbony' Navassa SCHOONERtJ. L Vo Sf' .1 tons, Ray, New York, Geo Harnss, Son & Co. , BARGES. Maria Dolores. 610 tons, Bonneau, Navassa Guano Co. "uf COTTON MARKETS. By Telegraph to the Morning star. New York, July 28The excite ment and activity coincident with the issuance of a large number of August notices yesterday, was followed to-day r. "H"" na almost lnsig niheant fluctuations. Th mab..t opened quiet at unchanged prices to a decline of two points and for a time showed no particular leaning one way or the other. small lines of weakly held long stuff came out ana sent prices off a point or two, but business failed to materially improve. For the rest of the season scalpers were largely in control atd operated in a straggling fashion on both sides of the sec unt. The ideas of the ltaders of the market' seemed to 'rw a vuiiUY ot npnTraiit-n- t: the appearance of some radically new factor on which to base fresh conclu sions. The cables from Liverpool were unchaneed and crop information " while generally favorable, had been discounted. After a brief 'spurt of sc tivity during tbe last fw m " .1 . market closed steady, net unchanged to two points lower. Naw York. Jul v 9 . middling urIands6Kc. Cotton futui-Aa mimW 1 J i , i nZ 4I Auffust 5 47 September DrrSfe8-6 Noaber 5.73c, December 5.77c. J&rmn it R9 vu MyK5Q85Cr' April 5:92c," May 5.96, June 5.99c. Spot COtton dnsArl SBtefc.608 Wgulf 6Kc5ale! Net receints 100 KnlAo . - 194 bales: 'einortTinX 2,446 bales: stock l45;065baleI""U,!ai , . ' - -Mvav XJli Lain 55 J2o hales: exports to EYnnoa ft xv u-S stock 395;412 bales. T 5 consolidated Net receipts 7.063 bales: exTJorts in rfl rr bales; exports to France 200 baJes exports to the Continent 128 bales' Total since SentemW xrirrr & !'W580bale: exporte to Great Britain 3.471 ira v i" 7 ports to France 788,851 bale T exports to the nnnt.iy.A,4. n vrt MPra t,.i "o .,o oaies. J aiveston, Bteady at5&c t B t?48 ? bal?s5 Norfoi, steady t 5 15-16c.net iwnmh ? vi T.il . , ,3 " utu.es , joaia- Bv CaMe to the Slorqinii SW) Liverpool, July 28, 4 I', il. ton Spot in fair demand; priced easier. American - middling 3?gd The sales of the day were 10.000 bales, of which 1,000 were for speculi'in and export and included 9,900 baits American. Receipts noDe. Futures opened and closed qui" American middling- (1. m. c.) July f 19 64d sfillAr- Julv and Auffustalo-" 3 19 64d buTer; August and Septem ber 3 17-64 3 18 64d buyer; Septem ber and Ocober 3 a6 643 17 buyer; October and November 3 15 3 16-64d seller; November andiwe". fcii. a iA RtK' is mi spIW? Decern"" ,1 t o 11 i-jas m fiirl selle'l January and February 3 UMft 15 64d seller; February sod MartM 15-64d buyer; March and Apnl3 -MJ seller; April and May 3 16-6431JJ seller. - MARIN V , ARRIVED. Stmr EAHawes, Black, Clear Kuo, James Madden. CLEARED. Stmr' E A Hawes, Black, fl Run. James Madden. Nor barn n fluldaas. Vooli Castle on Tyne, Heide & Co. ochr Ge.m, Foss, Harriss, Son & Co. aland, Ne l- New York, Ge0 EXPORTS, r.n STWTSE. . New YORK-Schr Gem-jW feet lumber, cargo by Cape a ear ber Co. vessel by Geo Harriss, & Co. . FOREIGN. New Castle on TyNE-Nor m uuiaaas e.Ufcw ddis roiu, mi!t tvnst is. k. Patterson. ing & Co, vessel by Heide&; moro,aonat6Kc,netreeiPU147 I I SANTAL-MIDY bales; Boston, quiet at Qyil net J ftRft&SSS? Arrests (Uncharges from the urinary In either box in 48 hours. . orm) K fa roperlor to Copalta, O nana, and rrce irom un humnnMilmpM JIP ... iiiU T7-.UI w M-h hu the nam 'n mZT "m,nn hidi none 2 -j f
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