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The Baltimore Herald is an inde pendent paper politically, and a sap porter of the war policy of the ad ministration, although not an ap prover of all its methods. Comment ing' upon an editorial in a recent is sue of the Xew Orleans Picayune it says: "Referring to an assertion made at Washington that the slowness of en listments in the South a result of opposition to the war in the Philip pines, the New Orleans Picayune en ters a positive denial of the utterance, and then says: " 'The real trouble is that Southern ers are disgusted at the lack of recog nition shown the Southern troops du ring the war with Spain, at the studied efforts of the Administration to keep Southerners in the background, and at thjtj-lact that so few Southern regi ments succeeded in seeing any service at all. These experiences have thor oughly disgusted Southerners with army management, and nothing short of a threatened attack by some foreign power could induce them to feel any enthusiasm for army life.' "This expression will probably strike a sympathetic chord in the hearts of many members of the Maryland Na tional Guard, because the Fifth regi ment was one of the first regiments td respond to the call for troops. Yet it spent in camp the entire period of active hostilities against Spain, drill ing and idling away the time, notwith standing the prevalence of a general desire among officers and men to go to the front They saw other soldiers from Northern and Western States hurried to Cuba and Porto Rico, but demands that the Fifth be sent into active service were ignored, although it was one of the crack- militia organi zations of the country. Practically every member returned home dis gusted. "But the Picayune calls attention to another matter quite as much in point Notwithstanding the fact that it was expected two regiments for the Philippines would be raised in the South, scarcely half a dozen commis sions haye been given to Southerners. and most of these are of low ran fa- fought and won by our soldiers? The country was wild with enthusi asm over Dewey's victory in Manila bay, and over the surrender of Ma nila, what the people took to be practically the end of the war, never anticipating a war with the people who were onr allies in the war against Spain, but since then there has been no popular demonstration of enthusiasm. Would this be so if tho hearts of the peoplewere in this war, or if they approved of it? Would the men who were in the service be glad to get out of it, and would enlistments be so tardy when calls were made for troops? He would be a blind man, indeed, who does not see the difference, how cold the people are on this war compared with the ardor with which, they en tered upon the war for -Cuba, which suffered no abatmcnt until the Spanish flag came down and Cuba's fight was won. The American sense -nrf justice does not approve of the virtual vio lation of our pledge given to the world when hostilities began with Spain, and American chivalry can see no glory in warring upon a peo ple whom we so much outclass, and American humanity is shocked at the indiscriminate slaughter of those people and the relentless de molition of their towns appar ently without any other incentive than a wanton spirit of destruction. In his levity the untutored, rude soldier, not-remarkable for the finer feelings, and made ruder by ordeals that harden him, may talk about chasing "jack-rabbits, but men, the right kind of men, do not be lieve in unnecessary slaughter, nor in any slaughter, unless there be some good reason for it,' aside from the mere desire to thin out the peo ple we are fighting against by kill ing as many of them as possible. This seems to be the principle on which this war has been waged, and in conducting it they have spared neither the enemy nor our own men, who have been, through bung ling mismanagement, subjected to ordeals that would test flesh of iron and nerves of steel. The war will be fought to the end, the army will be supported, but it will never be a popular war in the South nor in the North. for tho farmers of Granville county, but wht else is to be expected when they center their thoughts and their efforts on tobacco and depend so largely on imported food supplier, which must be paid for out of the tobacco crop, much of which brings little more than the cost of produc tion? G. D. P. advises them to quit that, to "stop raising tobacco to buy fertilizer," and raise something to eat, and a surplus to sell, which is level-headed advice. TWINKLINGS. FOR THE FARMER. CONFESSION BY CONSPIRACY. There is not a shadow of doubt that the attempted assassination of Labori, Dreyfus' faithful counsel, was in pursuance of a conspiracy formed for that purpose. The man ; who did the shooting and the men who rifled the pockets of their vic tim were simply tools of others, who may and probably will escape detec tion. But whether they do or not this attempt at the assassination of Labori is a confession Of a lost cause, and of the desperation of the anti Dreyfusites who would resort to murder in the hope of preventing the acquittal of the man they hate by removing his zealous defender and tho man who is the com plete master of the facts which will show his innocence. The probabilities arc that this conspiracy was tho result of the utter failure of ex-War Minister Mercier to crush Dreyfus with his testimony as they expected him to do, and boasted in advance that he would do, and being disappointed in this thing they resolved upon the assassination of Labori as their only hope. Nothing short of utter des peration and madness could have suggested and attempted to carry out8noli a plot as that, effect of which will be to strengthen tho popular belief in the innocence of Dreyfus, and to remove any doubts that may have existed as to his being the victim of an organized conspiracy in his first trial and con viction, a conspiracy in which Eater hazy and Da Paty de Clam were merely catspaws of bigger men. This last assassination conspiracy is further proof of that. "Pinkey Miller, has a good scheme-." "What is it?" "She car ries her luncheon to the office done up in a candy box." "He told hia audience that he was wholly unprepared." "Do you helieve it?" "Yes, he had his speech in nis pocicet bat he hadn't learned it." According to Prof. Proctor, ''the sun is 1,200,000 times as. large as the earth." They must have an aw ful time hunting for their North pole u p there. Tit-Bits. "The lynotype machine has revolutionized the printing business." "Indeed it has. Typographical errors, which were impossible ten years ago are quite common now." Detroit Journal. A Desperate Case: Bramble "I wonder what makes the Filipinos fight so desperately." Thome "I presume they are afraid that if the be come civilized their wives will want expensive clothes." "I've come to tell you, sir, that the photographs you took of us the other day are not at all satisfactory. Why, my husband looks like an ape!" "Well, madam, you should have thought of that before you had him taken." Tit Bits. . Always in Stock "You haven't any smokeless tobacco, have you?" asked the smart young man. "Lot of it," said the matter of fact person be hind the counter, producing a bladder of snuff. "How much do you want?" Chicago Tribune. "How do you intend to vote at the next election?" asked a Salt Lake citizen. "I dunno yet," answered tho neighbor, who was hanging placidly on the front gate. "My wives are in the parlor holding a caucus now." Washington star. "The lynx is putting on in sufferable airs these days," said the Lion to the Bear. "What has he to base his cjaceit on?" asked the latter. "Well, he says h6's the on!y animal in the jungle that has the remotest con nection with goifing." Harper's Ba zar. "I can't help thinking about the emptiness of the world," sighed the misanthrope. "You should have been with me iu Hawaii," answered the traveller. "You wouldn't think it was so empty if you had seen that eruption of Mauna Loa." Washing ton Star. CURRENT COMMENT. Advantages of Variety In Paatnrafffl. Hoes and Hig-her Prloea For Corn, Oxsn aai Hul.es. Some of the pleasant surprises in con nection with the breeding and feeding of farm stock occnr on holdings which give the animals a fresh range of pas turage, says the London Live Stock Journal. It is possible to overdo almost cny sets of pasture land with one class of stock. The ground may not be tram pled and eaten till it gets foul, but it may easily come to want that crisp rel ish which itTdesirable. Sir Walter Gil bey is right in holding that horses ought to have a wide feeding area when they ne in the open, me immediate pro genitors of the horse did undoubtedly roam over extensive tracts of land in search of fare. It can scarcely be ques tioned that the horse as we know him bas a great notion of being free in the widest sense of the term once he comes to feel perfectly comfortable under the npen sky. He falls quite easily into a vagabond kind of existence,' taking here a little there a little on his way. Still if he has a suspicion that he may at any time be hunted off a specially good t)it of pasturage, how diligent he is to make the most of his opportunity I Beware of Imitations! PERSONALITIES. Consumers should beware of the cheap and inferior washing powders said to be just as good as AMERICAN ENTERPRISE. The following, which we clip from the Philadelphia Record, shows how American enterprise is pushing to the front on the other side of the sea3: "The largest crop of railway mate rial that has ever gone from an Ameri can port was cleared from Philadelphia on Saturday last aboard the British steamer Puritan. It consisted of fortv locomotives and eighteen steel bridges for the Chinese Eastern Railway, now in course of construction under the su pervision of the Russian authorities with the financial aid of the Russo Chinese Bank. A similar cargo is now loading here destined for Russian Black Sea ports. The disappointed British manufacturers who endeavored recently to belittle their American rivals when the latter had secured the contract for the Atbara bridge in the Sudan will have to sing another tune when monuments of American skill shall span the rivers of the Russian steppes and of far Manchuria, as well as of Equatorial Africa, and the puffing of American locomotives shall be heard in every quarter of those distant conti nents." The significant thing in this is umc us ui iuw mult. I jii .. , ,. , , . Therefore, the probability that they I tnat lt haa been accomplished in competition with the iron and steel .manufacturers of the world not only as to price, but as to time of Cotton planters in the vicinity of Charleston are alarmed at the ap pearance of a pest, a sort of fungus, which attacks the roots of the cotton stalk and destroys it. This pest first made its appearance in the cotton fields of the South several years ago and has been spreading. The U. S. Department of Agiculture has sent a,n expert to investigate it, and see if some m.ean3 cannot be devised to check it. This is probably the same pst that has made its appearance in fmTvicinity of Laurinburg, in this State. SPIRITS TURPENTINE would not serve under officers of their own section has caused young men to hold aloof from the recruiting offices at the South. "The dissatisfaction deserves con sideration at the seat of the govern ment. There is as much patriotism and true military spirit in the South ern States as there is in any other part of the country. But it cannot be ex pected that any great amount of sol diery enthusiasm will be developed there so long as the idea prevails that Southerners are being discriminated against in any way. Both the extract from the Pica yune and the comnient by the Herald give some of the reasons why there is no rush in the South lor military service, but there isn't delivery, in both of which the American bidders led their com petitors. These are no small achieve ments, for building locomotives and steel bridges is quite a different thing from making axes, hammers, etc. The shot) that ran turn nnt. a. locomotive complete in a day and a ponderous Eteel bridge in a time that no European plant would un dertake it gives proof that the American, manufacturer is master of the art of steel bnildi ncr. and Salisbury Sun: The Sun is gratified to learn that operations at the Union copper mine at Gold Hill are being extended and the daily output of ore increased to such an extent that increased railroad facilities are de manded. George Vandcrbilt's big hog was here this morning, being taken to Biltmore by express. The ho? weighs 800 pounds, and has weighed more. It has taken several medals. Raleigh Post: Conley Shad rack,, young white man twenty years of age, was drowned in Mitchell's pond, four miles from Rolesville, this county, Sunday afternoon. Mr. Shad rack and a party of young men from Youngsville, where they all lived, attended church near Rolesville Sunday. They' went to the pond in the afternoon to take . a plunge. Mr. Shadrack got bo yond his depth and went under. Two of his comrades went to his rescue and the drowning man grabbed one of them around the waist. After having gone under twice the comrade broke away and barely managed to save his life. Mr. Shadrack was drowned in ten feet of water. His body was re covered an hour afterwards by Mr Robert Duke, who located it at one dive. The deceased was a son of Mr Joseph Shadrack, of Youngsviile. and When Aguinaldo can collect an army of G;000 men if on the face of things the rebellion is disintegrat ing the figure doesn't show it. Philadelphia Times, Ind. The greatest gold brick tran saction of modern times was when the scheming Don beguiled Uncle bam into gay Paree and sold him Spain's alleged sovereignty in the Philippines for 920,000,000. Au gusta Chronicle, Dem, Liquid air is to be employed in Upper JNew York State for tho reduction of human bodies, in place of lire. The liquid, it is said, will reduco the body to a fine powder within a little while. By its use the prejudice against burning will be overcome, while tho results secured will be practically identical with those of cremation. Savannah News, Dem. We squabbled with Great Britain sixty-nine years over the Maine boundary, and nearly as long as that the dispute over the Oregon boundary was pending. Both would have been settled in a few years, but for the ill nature and dog-in-the-manger spirit of tho Cana dians. We would now settle the Alaskau boundary in three months if Canada were not so busy and so mean. Chattanooga Times,Dem. TROTTER AND PAcER. Hoca and Corn. From present indications the price of ; orn is going to be higher, says Live Stock. After several years of excessive ly depressed markets the great Ameri can crop promises to reach a point where its culture will prove1 very profit able to the farmer. It will be more profitable then to sell corn than to feed it to hogs. Under these circumstances tbif breeder of swine must prepare for the future. Ultimately the price of hogs would go up if corn became scarce and too high priced, provided some substi tute for corn could not be found. It is in anticipation that the farmer or breed er reaps success. The man who is load ed down with a drove of swine might suddenly find corn advanced so high that it would pay him to dispose of his hogs ,at once and sell his corn in the open market. But there would be thou sands of other breeders looking at. the question the same way, and the sudden marketing of so many hogs would un doubtedly break market prices for them. This would be disastrous to the man compelled to selLand many would be in that position. But later the prices for bogs would come around to their nor mal condition and even advance beyond the former quotations. Consequently the man who keeps his hogs at not too great expense would reap the benefit of his foresight and preparedness. Oxen and Mules. The Southern Planter tells of an Ala bama planter who owns a great deal of farm land which he rents to negroes on condition that they shall do their work with an ox instead of a mule. As a re sult, all his tenants are prosperous and pay their rent promptly. The ox is ca pable enough for all the farm work, but he is not suitable to hitch up and ride to church, cake walks and "hoedowns". j after the day s work , is done, and so both beast and master stay at home and are fit for work the next day. As we read it we wondered if there were not some white farmers in tho north who would be more prosperous if they had oxen instead of horses, for the same reason. A good horse and carriage is often sufficient excuse for trips to the village, daytime as well as evening, when it would be mere profitable to re main at home. Oxen are not very rapid, but they are businesslike all day and do not get into bad company as often as fast trotters do. any rush anywhere that we have I can give bis Enpean competitors a ell-liked and bright young man oeen able to discover. Possibly there might be more disposition among Southern men to enlist in the war against the Filipinos if Southern soldiers had been shown any decent consideration in the war for Cuba, but whatever the Picayune or any one else may say, the South ern people do not take much stock in the war against the Philippines and u is to their credit that they do not pointers ana still have some to spare. At the present rate of in crease the day is not far distant when the American locomotive and the American steel bridge will be as common a sight in the old world as they were rare ten years ago. Greensboro Telearam: Thn Empire Steel and Iron Works will soon be prepared to work on full ca pacity again. A large force of hands is at work at Ore Hill and this will soon be materially increased so that ore can be gotten out and shipped here in much larger quantities Besides this, the new mines are being opened near Chapel Hill and a good supply can be had form these. The company ia receiving coke from Virginia in enormous quantities. Fifty two car loads have been deliyered at Walnut kayb by the Norfolk and Western, and the Southern has found the small engines of the Atlantic and Yadkin inadequate. The Southern's big one of the best tobarM counties in the State. But the to bacco growers there are not per plexed as to how they may invest their earnings. They are not Buf fering from a surplus of prosperity, aawe are told the farmers of the West ar- (This is a little joke that some Treasury story writer got heavier on this nart of thn Atlantic and Yadkin than m many years. Thirsty Lady "Is there any water aboard?" Captain (excursion boat) "Only 'bout four feet, mum; but please don't tell anybody." New York Weekly. QUARTERLY MEETINQS. TOO MUCH TOBACCO. In the cotton belt too much de pendence is placed On cotton: in lb .They were enthusiastic in the war I tobacco belt too much on tobacco for Cuba and eager to take part in I an the result is that the average it, but they were kept out of it he- I cotton grower and the freight engines are now beinp run h cause the war managers at Washing- bacco grewer are on the ragged edge haXnsolfd ton didn't want the South to reap and stay there. GranvUle county is &"p JSAWd toS auj giory out oi that war. But there is a vast difference be tween fighting to liberate a people held in bondage and fighting to de prive people of the right of self government If it were put to a vote of the Southern people, eight out of ten of them would in our opinion be found to be opposed to the war in the Philippines and in off to explain the scarcity of paper favor of getting out as soon as we money in that country, the farm could do it without sacrifice of na- ers having it and holding on to it.) tional honor or prestige. The only It seems there is some discussion interest they take in it, and the Granville on the levying of an only encouragement they feel like additional tax for the improvement giving it is on account of our sol- of the roads, in reference to which diers now there who they believe a farmer who signs his commnnica- ought to be supported and protected tion G. D. P. writing for himself irom saennce. xney do sympathize with the men who are arrayed against the Filipinos, although they do not sympathize with the motives or the policy which brought on the war in those islands. And that feeling is not confined to the South for it prevails over the whole country. As a proof of it where has there been since this war on the Filipinos started any public rejoicing over the battles A pneumatic horse collar is a new tiling made in Chicago It i.s said that in London and suburbs there are abont 750.000 horses in use. The guidelc-s wonder Gold Ring re cently went a mile in 2 :2C at LiverpooL Jack Schitler, Reading, has sold his fast pacer Colonel S to J. W. Tyson, same city, for $400 The American gelding Fred S is driven on the road in Manchester. Eng land, by A Horrocka. J. B. Chandler, the Kansas trainer, has had the cancerous growth which threatened to destroy the sight of his right eye successfully removed. In 1898 the United States imported 2,286 horses, valued at about $200,000, and exported over 61,000, valued at 16.000.000. Of the latter Great Britain took more than one-half. The management of Charter Oak park, Hartford, has announced a 410.- 000 trotting futurity for foals of 1899, to be trotted m 1903. The name chosen is the Hartford Futurity. One hundred feet have been added to the length of the steel grand stand for tne Empire City Trctting park, making me enure lengtn 4UU reet. The struc ture will cost over $140,000. An English correspondent says that so mncn better horses are now beinc taken to England that the record will soon stand at 2 :15 Trotters and pacers compete on an equality in the tight lit tle isle. The nomination of Nancy Hanks. 2 :04. for the $20. 000 Kentucky Futurity arouses unusual interest among horse men, as she is earrymg a foal by the great thoroughbred stallion imp. Med dler. Nancy is the first mare so mated ever nominated in this Btake. Horseman. Pea For Family Use. It is necessary to make several.plant- ingsof peas to have a succession for the table during the season. Of course the earliest will be planted first, and the very earliest of all should not be one of the sweeter wrinkled varieties, as these will often rot in cold, wet soil from the amount of water that they will absorb. But the wrinkled varieties when they come are so much sweeter and better that they spoil the others for use. The peas not wrinkled should be used while they are small and tender. When .they attain full size, it will be impossible to cook them soft. One of the early and one later variety of wrinkled peas should be planted about the same time when the ground gets warm enough. The planting may be kept up till nearly June, though later planted peas are apt to mildew, and .st the time they are ripe there is such variety of otherege tables and fruits that we do not care so much for the peas. Boston Cultivator. Governor Pingree of Michigan is an expert horseman and detests bicycles. Ex - President Casimir - Perier of France is said to be contemplating a trip to this country. Admiral Schley is said to be a de tcendant of the family of which Nathan Hale was a member. Charles E. Hyde, Republican, enjoys the unusual honor of having been elect ed mayor of Bath, Me., by a unanimous vote. President McKinley frequently does his afternoon's work in the White House library, which is now used as Mrs. McKinley's sitting room. - Governor Roosevelt has always been a great smoker, but has recently had to give up this luxury for the time being owing to some slight throat trouble. The lord chief justice of England, Baron Russell of Killowen, has been appointed to succeed the late Lord Herschell on the Anglo-American joint high commission. M. L. Uayvvard. the newly elected L'nited Statea senator . from Nebraska, bas had little exiiciience in officehold in?.one year on the district bench be ing hta only service The south of England has lost in the Kev William Av.dry of Ludgershall, Wiltshire, its most famous sporting pnrson Mr. Awdry waa a great fox liiiiiter and a sport:!i;.ii in many fields. TL;' Lalande prize of the French Academy of Science 1j:is been :-id-red n;on Professor A C Chandler of Cam bridge. Mass.. in recognition of "the splendor, the importance and the vari ety of his astronomical work Dr Samuel Kohn. the chief rabbi of Budapest for the last years, has been made a member of the Hungarian house of magnates, being thj first rabbi ever appointed to the upper house of parlia ment in the Austria-Hungarian empire. Mr and Mrs lieury M. Stanley have adopted a baby boy. and now they have bought a country place so that the baby can have the benefits of out of door life. Auiung the Stanleys new neigh bors in Surrey are Grant Allen. Conan Doyle and Richard Le Gallianne Samnel Ryan, the oldest editor in Wisconsin, recently celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday. He started in news paper work in 1841 on the Green Bay Republican. A dozen years later he started the Appleton Crescent, which paper he has conducted ever since. Speaker Reed was once at a dinner party when Joseph Choate. who was present, said he had never ridden on a railroad pass. "I wish I could say as much," remarked a congressman who was among the guests. "Well, why didn't you say it?" asked Mr. Reed. "Choate did. " A Xew Firearm. What seems to bo a very formidable rival to the revolver is the light auto matic carbine or pistol, which has re cently been put upon the market in three patterns, two of which come from Germany and the other from Belgium. The new weapon is only half the weight of a rifle, it is sighted to 500 yards, it will come in half for packing, and its cost is under 10. Ten cartridges can be inserted in one second, and as many as 80 shots per minute have been fired from this compact weapon. The ammu nition used ia of the smokeless variety, and the cartridges are' very light in weight. The weapon will doubtless prove of great use for sporting as well as fur more serious purposes. Cham- WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT. ST Washing Powder They are not there is nothing so good as the genuine GOLD DUST for all cleaning about the house. Ask for GOLD DUST and insist on getting it. Made only by THE N. X FiERBANK CdMPANY, Chicago St Louis New York Boston COMMERCIAL. WILMINGTON MARKET. STAR OFFICE, Aug. 16. SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Market steady at 49 cents per gallon for ma chine made casks and 48 cents per gallon for country casks. ROSIN Market firm at 90 cents per bbl for strained and 95c for eood strained. TAR Market firm at $1.80 per bbl of 280 lbs. CRUDE TURPENTINE. Market firm at per barrel for hard, $2.60 for Dip and $2.60 for Virgin. Quotations- same dav last vear. Spirits turpentine, nothing doing; rosin, nothing doing; tar firm at $1.20; crude turpentine firm at $1.001.60. RECEIPTS. Spirits Turpentine , 113 Rosin 278 Tar 244 Crude Turpentine , . 73 Receipts same day last year. 128 casks spirits turpentine, 588 bbls rosin, 113 bbls tar, 44 bbls crude turpentine. COTTON. Market steady on a basis of cts per pouud for middling. Quotations: Ordinary 3 7-16 cts $R Good Ordinary 4 13-16 " Low Middling 5 7-16 " " Middling. . " " T Good Middling..... . 6 5 " ' Same day last year middling 5c lap WashingRiwte Mobile nominal at 5c, netrecehrf 6c,. net receipts 23 bafes; Cha&at quiet and nominal fiet receipt s tt' PRODUCE MARKETS. By Teleerapu to the Morninz star New York. Au oust. 1 eh- mi, 'At qyiH .t..p :!l,",,.'loft " " . . j i wun bids uuuer iu HaKlug ' prices niuii. rm1 v r, v .....I . opened steady at jc advance SnS ing steadier cables, but ease I V through liberal short selling and crop news; a Western bull raid in t'l afternoon aroused an active movement, which closed prices fi s lc net advance: sales S Wheat". No. 2 red September w5 cember closed 78c nrima.riUe- No. 2 S8e; option opened $?Z eased off through fine crop prosper, to recover finally on bi oVaram.V and the jump in wheat; closed firm m a partial net advance; closed 37c; September closed Ms-" December closed 34c Oas -itl firmer; No. 2 white. 27c ; option, qJ,f 4? Sl yV Wtern steam cl. s,',! $5 50; August closed $5 47, nomii. -i refined steady. Pork steady. Cottt seed oil easy; prime crude noruin- ,' yellow 2626Xc Butter strono-uC ern creamery 1721c; State dairy u'e 18Kc. Cheese quiet; large white xvu;j arm. .roiaioes ouiet- f; it- r lo T0?T,f0Jn kw. prime $1501 75: fanev ? nnao to Liverpool dull ; cotton by steam 25c" Cabbage steady; Long Island $3 00 4 CO per 100. Coffee-Spot Rio dull and nominal; mild quiet and about steady. Sugar Raw steadier ; fair re fining 4c; centrifugal 96 test 4e- mo lasses sugar 3 Jc ; refined steadier an.i more active. year, l COUNTRY PRODUCE. PEANUTS North Carolina Extra prime, $1.00 to $1.10 per bushel of 28 pounds; fancy, $1.10 to $1.12. Virginia Extra prime, 75 to 80c; fancy, 95c. ' CORN Firm: 52 to 52 cents per bushel for white. ROUGH RICE Lowland (tide water) 90c$1.10; upland, 6580c. Quotations on a basis of 45 pounds to the bushel. N. C. BACON Steady; hams 10 to 11c per pound; shoulders, 7 to 8c; sides, 7 to 8c. 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. By Telegraph to the MornlDg Star. New York, August 16. Money on call easier at 23 per cent., last loan j goods, per gallon, 9l 26 Chicago, August 16. Unexpected firm markets and indications of revival in the cash demand,! advanced prices here for wheat i to to dav. Com closed unchanged to Jc higher. Oau advanced ic. Provisions closed irre gular, 5c lower to five 'cents higher. Chicago, Aug. 16. Cash quotation Flour market steady. Wheat-Nit 2 spring ; No. 3 spring ,6870kc No.2red7272. Corn-No 231Kc Oats No. 2 2021Kc; x,,. 2 white 2323c; No. 3 white 21K23;c Pork, per bbl, 7 05 8 25. Ur-i per 100 lbs, 5 055 07. Short rib sides, ,loo;e $4 S05 10. Dry salted shoulders, 5 505 62'. Short clear side-, boxed, f3 40 5 60. Whiskey Distillers' iinish! represent iy. m maslng c nave to be char ire: APHORISMS. and many larmera " sava in last week's Oxford Ledger-. My former communication was dic- uggeated by one of the tated and M. E. Church, South, Wilmington District. Kenansvllle. Warsaw, August l-ao. Ciintoa, Goehea, August aa. Burgaw, Burgaw, August 96-27. MagooUa, Centenary. September 8-S. Wilmington, Fifth Street, September 10-11. Bontbport. September 17-18. WnitevlUe, Terro Gordo, September 83-84. Waccama, Old Dock, September 86. Brunswick, Zlon, September 80-October I. Wilmington, Market Street, (at night) Oct. 1. Carver's creek, Shiloh, October 7-i. Elizabeth, Blngletarles, October 14-15. B. F. BUM PAS, Presiding Elder. For Over Fifty Tear MRS. WlNStOW's RooTTrrwa Avbttd Indolence is the mother of misery. Burton. Absence makes the heart grow fond r. J. H Bailey There is nothing that costs less than civility. Cervantes. . Affection is the broadest basis of a good life George Eliot. He overcomes a stout enemy who over comes his owh anger. Chilo. That which we acquire with most difficulty we retain the longest. Col 'on. Mischief lurks in the beginning; a good beginning is half the task. Eurip ides. The wise and the active conquer diffi culties by daring to attempt them. Rowe. The greatest affliction that can befall a man is the unkindness of a friend. Fielding . , ijr vug oi me I ' ' tt o cwiuixiu OYKUP largest Ilrmnn in n.:ii. . I hu Kaon hh , , - viikuvujb county, I - uou lur over miy years oy aT he can guarantee that to millions of mothers for their children Drug a clean balance aheet f n I while teeth i no- with 2Srl t ii J?nal PPty would It soothes the child, softens the gums, JwTi76 'rme at of debt in U Pin, cures wind colic! and rTo l J? . buhel of wheat ".the best remedy for Diarrhoea. It 4 il 2Li. f ?J there are relieve the poor little sufferer im- two barrels of flour shipped into it and mediately. Sold by druggists in every sold. There is also more corn shipped Pt of the world. Twenty-five cenU in than raised here." bottle. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. This isn't a very captivating story no'oSerT ""k Syrop," and take Brave Colonel Egbert. Colonel Harry C. Egbert, recently killed at the head of his regiment noar Manila, was twice taken a prisoner dur ing the war of the rebellion, once to become the hero of a daring escape. At ban Juan he was shot through the lungs. He had served 40 years. General Miles said of him: "He weighs only about 125 "pounds, and 120 of that's pure grit. Not send him to the Philip pines? Why, he'll demand a court of inquiry if yoa don't" Grasses For Pasture. The best time to sow all grasses. is when the seed is ripe, says the St. Louis Republic, That is nature's method. But we are mindful that at that time there may be a "dry spell" and the seeds, even if they germinated, would perish. All the grasses named may be sown in the spring or about this time. We can not give proportions because there is such difference of opinions. For a meadow we would bow about 12 quarts each of timothy and clover or orchard grass and clover per acre. Somefarmers use less of the clover, but our advice is to put in plenty of seed. Blue grass is very light, say about . 14 pounds per bushel. Be careful and cover grass seeds very lightly, if at alL Do not harrow the land. If the land is in fine, condi tion, a light brush harrow may be-used. tSW The following Quotations Wholesale Prices general!;. In makl Bmau oraere mgner prices The quotations are always given as accurately as possible, but the Star will not be responsible for any variations from the actual market price of the articles auoted. SAGGING 2 S Jute , Q Standard 7 WESTERN SMOKED Hams 9 B 13 13V Sides $Tk 6 Shoulders K a DRY SALTED Sides B 5KQ &H Shoulders t O 5)4 BARRELS Spirits Turpentine-Second-hand, each 1 25 1 35 New New York, each 1 40 New City, each : 1 40 i BEESWAX V 84 Wilmington m M 5 00 7 00 Northern 9 00 14 00 BUTTER North Carolina 9 15 - Northern 25 CORN HEAL Per bushel. In sacks 47 Virginia Meal 47 OOTTON TIEs y bundle CANDLES Sperm 18 Adamantine 8 CHEESE lb- Northern Factory Dairy Cream State COFFEE V Laguyra Rio 7 DOMES! ICS Sheeting, 4-4, 9 yard Yarns. V bunch of 5 Ss .... EGGS dozen 8 FISH Mackerel, No. 1, 9 barrel... 23 00 Mackerel, Na 1, V half-bbl. 11 00 Mackerel, No. 2, barrel... 16 00 . Mackerel, No. 2 9 half-bbl. . 8 00 Mackerel, No. S, V barrel... 13 00 Mullets, 9 barrel 3 CO mm lets, v pork narrei 5 oo N. C. Roe Herring, 9 keg. . 3 00 & & 10M & & 10 . 18 SO 1 00 25 11 n 13 10 8 70 9 Condensed 2111k. The Dairy World says that 2,000,00 cases of condensed milk were put up in this country during the last year, and that more than half of this was con sumed in this country. The rest was exported, mostly to Japan, China and India. The demand for American con densed milk is steadily on the increase. Dry Cod, 9 Tt . " Extra FLOOR 9 Low grade .... Choice Straight First Patent... GLUE 9 5 4 35 30 00 15 00 18 00 9 00 14 00 4 00 & 8 00 8 85 10 4 50 GRAIN 9 bushel 4 oo 4 50 ' 11- ITEMS OF INTEREST. Climate affects billiard balls. They last best in Spain. According to recent poor law statis tics in England, the total amount spent in caring for the poor of England and Wales for six months was over $13,220,-000. An English guidebook makes the cu rious assertion that a large proportion of those who have made the ascent of Mont Blanc have been persons of un sound mind. Important deposits of sulphur have lately been discovered in Asiatic Rus sia. In the i erghana district there is one which will yield about 10.000 pounds of pure sulphur yearly. The wine cellar of the old Chaldean king, Argastes II, has been discovered near Lake Van in Asia Minor. It was filled with colossal earthenware vessels, some of which have been sent to the Berlin museum. TJnder the column in the Soman forum marking the spot where Caesar's body was burned some ashes have been found. Accordine to the London twi Mail, they are believed to be the re mains of his funeral pyre. The Pennsylvania commanderv of th Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States has voted to present to Rear Admiral Dewey the eold insisrnia of the order, which the United States government permits officers of the army and navy to wear. Corn,from store,bgs Wnlte 52 car-load, in bgs White... Oats, from store , 38 Oats, Rust Proof v Cow Peas 65 HIDES 9 lb Green salted Dry flint 10 Drvsalt HAY 9 100 lbs Clover Hay 85 Rice Straw 40 Eastern 80 Western 80 North River 80 HOOP IRON, V ..; LARD, 9 Northern , ' s North Carolina 7 LIME. 9 barrel l 15 LUMBER (city sawed) 9 M ft Ship Stuff, resawed 18 00 Rough edge Plank 15 00 West India cargoes, accord ing to quality 13 00 Dressed Flooring, seasoned. 18 00 Scantling and Board, com 'n 14 00 Common mill k on Fair mill e 50 & & & & & 3 03 3 50 4 25 5 00 13 52 40 45 75 6 im 9 90 50 85 85 85 6S 8 being at 24 pex cent. Prime mercan tile paper 4X5 per cent. Sterling exenange nrm; actual business in bankers' bills at 486 ja 486 J forde maud and 482483 for sixty days. Posted rates 483J4484 and 487487j. Commercial bills 481482. Silver certificates 60K61M. Bar silver 60. Mexican dollars 48. Government bonds strong. State bonds inactive. Railroad, bonds .were irregular. LT. S. 2's, registered, 100K; U. S. 3s, registered, 108 y2 ; do. coupon, 1083; u.. new 4's,regist'd,l30j ; do.coupon, 130& ;U. S. old 4's, regist'd. 112 do. coupon, 113; U. S. 5's, registered, 111K; do. coupon, 111K; N. C. 6's 128; do. 4's, 104; Southern Railwav 5's 109f. Stocks: Baltimore & Ohio" 49; Chesapeake & Ohio 27 ; Manhattan L 116; N. Y. Central 1385: Reading 21; do. 1st preferred 60 J; St. Paul 131; do. preferred 174; Southern Railway 11; do. preferred 53; Amer ican Tobacco. 122: do. preferred 141; People's Gas 120; Sugar 158 U : do. preferred 120; T. C. & Iron 89; U.S. Leather 10 lA : do. preferred 74 ; W est ern Union 87X-. NAVAL STORES MARKETS. By Telegraph to the Morning star New York. Aueust 16. Rosin firm. Spirits turpentine firm at 52 Charleston, August 16.Spirits tur pentine firm at 48c: sales 10 casts Rosin firm and unchanged ; sales 300 barrels. Savannah, August 16. Smrits tur pentine firm at 49 ; sales 270 casks ; re ceipts 1,451 casks. Rosin firm and unchanged ; sales barrels; receipts 3,894 barrels. COTTON MARKETS. Bv Telegraph to the Morning star. New York August 16. The cotton market opened at a decline of five to seven points, continued to break until there was a decline of fourteen to fif teen points, representing a loss of about forty points for the week or two-thirds of the total gain of last week. The direct cause of the decline to-day was the more dr less general oreaKiDg up or tde drought, so lone mi r . me ieauing iuiures rauged as ! lows openinsr. hishest. lowest .in closing: Wheat No. -2 Septemlvr 70K70, 7171H, 7070, 7o'i 77c; December 7273, 7Zy2,72. 7373Mc; May 78. 7676)i 75 76, 76Kc. Corn No. 2 September 30K30, 305i,30,, 30i4c; December 28H2SH, 28, 28y8, 28tfc; MavMjf, 2d)4, 29,29)4. Oats-September 19 19, 19.19. 19KW5X. 19X 19; December 19, 1919, 19& 1919c; Mav 2121tf, 21 21 21, 21J2U6c. Pork, per bbl September $8 25, 8 25, 8 12, 8 20; October $8 R2, 8 32 'A, 8 20, S 27; January $9 $5. 9 37K. 9 30, 9 37.Lard, per 100 lbs-September 5 15. 517& 510, 5 17J; October $5 22 'A, 5 22'A, 5 17, 5 22'2; January $5 35, 5 4n, 5 Z24, 5 40. 'Short ribs, per 100 lbs September $5 00, 5 4 95. 5 02; October $5 05, 5 05, 5 00, 5 05; Jatnary i 82, 4 87K, 4 82;4, 4 87 Baltimore, 4"ust 16. Flour dull and unchanged Wheat firmer Spot and month 7i7i.J4c; September 71M72c: October 73it73Wc; l cember 76c. Southern wheat by sample 6372c. Corn dull and lowtr Mixed, spot 35435c: September and October 35ic; November and De cember, 32X32c; January 32 32c Southern white corn 3940c. Oats quiet No. 2 white, 26'27c FOREIGN V ? C t' ' Bv Cable to the Morninsz Sim . Liverpool, August 16, 4 P. M. Cotton -Spot in limited demand ; prices lo wer. American middling fair 3 13-32d; good middling 3 23-32d; mid dling 3 15-32d ; low middling 3 9 32d; good ordinary 3 3-32d; ordinary 3 29-32d. The sales of the day were 6,000 bales, of which 500 were for speculation and export and included 5,500 bales American. Receipts 2,000 bales, including 1,700 American. Futures opened easy and closfd quiet. 'Ajnerican middling (1. c-) August 3 23-643 24-6!d seller; Au- i gust and September 3 22 -64d buyer; , September and October 3 21-61d seller; October and November 3 19-64P 20 64d seller; November and Decem ber 3 18-643 19-64d seller; December and .Tannarv 3 18-6403 19-64d buyer; oreaKiutr un or in rirnimht c-, 1 , : . " - ,.i i..ru' IX&Z the coUoalS. But the ffittSSlKa of weakness These reflected a disposi- I buyer; May and Jun and- July oaDles er .also a positive elemeot buier" torch and April i'MM Prime mill Extra mill HOLA8SES 9 gallon Barbadoes, in hogshead Barbadoes, In barrels Porto Rico, in hogsheads. . . . rurwj kico, in oarreis Sugar Honse, in hogsheads. Sugar Boase, in barrels. . . . Syrup, in barrels NAILS, j keg, Cut, 60d basis... PORK, 9 barrel Cltv Mess Romp , Prime ROPE, 9 B BALT, 9 sack. Alum Liverpool American On 12s Raks SHINGLES, 7-lncn, per M . . . '. ' .' .' 5 00 8 50 10 00 23 25 18 14 15 S 00 9 SO 1 25 & 20 00 & 18 00 18 00 & 22 00 & 15100 & 6 50 8 00 10 00 10 50 & 25 mg to a possible 12.000.onn halo The principal factor in to day's break was the rainfall in the South. Selline u Ti- - j J UJa8SB 01 operators, but liquidation was the principal fea ture. The market was finally easy at a net loss of thirteen points. New York. August in rw quiet; middling uplands 6 3 16c. Cotton futures markat rinanA at quotations: August 5.62, September 5.52, October 5.71, November 5.75 December 5.81, January 5.85, Feb ar7 5.88 March Ma; -April 5.95, May 5.99, June 6.01. , . r Spot COtton close! !jji. -1 uo- buyer; June 22 64d seller. MARINE. CLEAEED. baraue Bianca Italian Paoletta, Azua, San Harriss, Son & Co. Aspacia, Domingo, ur EXPORTS. COASTWISE. New York Steamship New York- 872 casks spirits, 165 bbls rosin 30 30 14 15 25 2 10 10 Common Cypress Saps SUGAR, 9 Standard Qran'd Standard A White Extra C Extra C, Golden C, Yellow SOAP. 9 lb Northern STAVES, 9 M w. o. barrel.. . . R. O. Hogshead. ulfpX.fMppIns:" Mill, Fair Common Mill . Inferior to ordinary SHINGLES, N.C. Cypress sawed 9 M 6x24 heart sap l 60 a 2 50 554 5 & 5 & 6 00 4 50 8 00 10 00 9 50 & :9 00 & 22 1 10 & 60 75 mi 6 50 2 25 8 60 5J4 & 14'09 & 10 00 O 9 00 7 00 ft 660 O 5100 & 4 00 'r nnt ten chne; middling ; uplands 6 3 16c? mid- Lbbls. tar-A0. ,bb1?. ? ru?' J,Z Jton uiijuir gun 0 y-iec; sales 1,085 bales lumoer, za ddis pucn, pb- -- l3 Net receipts bales; gross receinta goods, 4 bbls tallow, 32 pkgs mdse, x 100 bales; exports to 'tfiTocSuSSt Pks io' 30 cases ba,ndieS' ?n bl 395 bales; stock 144,326 bales seed, 62 bags shuttle blocks 51T M Total to-dftT7 NTa I sheeting. 8 bbrs beeswax, 2i bales bales; exports to Great Britain 3 283 ?n&ue, 36 pkgs dry goods. Nesse bales; exports fo the Continent 3' 32K I H Q Small bones. FOREIGN. hQ laa . ofnnl. OP1 fit I , 1 consolidated Net receipts 11 532 bales; exports to Great Britain 5772 bales; exports to France 50 bales exports to the Continent 9,593 bales' Total since September 1st Net re ceipts 8,338,608 bales; exporte to GratBtain 3.498,321 bales; ex- a XX . Aod Dales. 1 a t. 1. 1 Ri'oimea 03 .azuA iianan Darquc , u,r pasia 137,103 feet pitch pine Jumj B valued at $2,032.28; cargo by -Vicini&Co., New York. P"J,ff H Chadbourn, agent. MARINE DIRECT 0RY. .uK. j.0. uajveston, steady at 6 1-16 na affi8 1'!17.bafes'; Norfolk noS nal at 6 Jc, net recernts 4.4. KniaC ti receipts 44 bales; Balti Lis of Veaaela In tbe.Py' mlng-ton, N. C. Aug. !? SCHOONERS- 1S99- TALLOW, 9 B 7 50 5X24HK:::::::::::; i Sf 4 00 gt 6 00 & P 5 00 a 8150 60S 5100 6250 6 50 5 50 6 more, nominal at 6 &c net roir BUlUUJNxuo- j, baJes; Boston, Sfi? at SmSSE? loyd, 435 tons, Nelson, fl ox Dates; Wilmington, steadv . . Geo at oyi, net receipts bales- Philadei- MBhall, 152 tons, Phia, very dull at 6 7-16c. net receinfa, ks Harriss, Son & Co. wues; Savannah, quiet at 5c, net BAEGES. KdSlS' Nr ea4 qui" Maria Dolores, 610 tons, Borl and steady at 5r, net receipts439 bales ; ' Powers, Gibbs & Co.
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