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At this rate SO v will pay for a simple announce ment or HarrlAue or ueatn. Adver . reents Inserted once a week In Dally vrlll bee: Ted $1.00 per square for each Inser tion. Ev-rv other day. three-fourths of dally rate. T-.vi -ea week, two-thirds of daily rate. Contract advertisers will not be allowed to exceed tiisir space or advertise anything foreign to their regular business without extra charge at transi-r.t rates. Advertisements kept under the head of "New Advertisements" will oe charged fifty per cent, extra. Advertisements to follow reading matter, or to occupv any special place, will be charged extra accord ;mf to the position desired. 5Y WILLIAM H. BERNARD. WILMINGTON. JN C. Tuesday Morxtxg, August 29. THE BOOM IN IRON. Among a largo number of inter esting letters from iron manufac turers f this and other countries, published in la3t week's Manufac tures Record, is a notable one from J. Stephen Jeans, Secretary of the British Iron Trade Association, on the iron making industry of the world, present and prospecti ve. As showing why this country is coming to the front in the iron trade, and why it bids fair to go farther to the front and remain there, he gi ves the comparative cost of making iron in this and other representative coun tries in the the conclusion of his letter, which i3 as follows: "At the moment of writing: I should be disposed to place the cost of manu facturing hematite iron in the three principal centers of the trader West Cumberland for England, Pittsburg for the United States nd Westphalia for Germany at the following ap proximate figures: England. Pittsburg. Wphalia. Iron ore t'l 14 0 s o i n s UOKe 13 6 0 7 6 Limestone 0 -i o 0 1 11 Labor 0 3 6 0 2 6 Repairs o 1 6 o 1 6 Othercusts 0 10 0 10 o o 3 o i b 1 o Totals. .1 4 6 1 19 5 3 3 0 "These figures will, of course, vary according to the situation and circum stances of the work, and in a large number of eases the cost will be much leis where manufacturers have their owa supplies of material. It is prob able that in the United States, where events move rapidly, the average market quotations would give higher figures than thoso here quoted, but whatever those figures may be, they are not likely to be high enough to create any apprehen sion on the part of Ameri can makers that their onwn markets are in danger from outside competi tion. It is true that some orders for plates and other products have lately been placed on this side for American consumers, but in Europe we have at present enough todo in attending to our own business, and high as American prices now are, they will not, in my opinion, invite any material competition from outside countries for at any rate some months to come, and not at all so long as the existing relative range of values and costs is maintained. In short, the American market is assured to American makes, so that if present prices are not maintained in the United States it will not be because of anything that Europe is likely to do. or. indeed, can do, to the contrary. "In all this, as it seems to me, there is very much hop9 and encouragement for the South. No district in Europe, nor indeed anywhere else, that I know or, can make iron on a large scale so cheaply. Ia Europs the tendency is to increase the cost of making iron. In the Southern States the tendency is in opposite direction. Lu only district in Europe in which pig can bsmadeon a relatively cheaD scale and Luxembourg fnnnHrv ifm ' day at 77s per ton. I do not think this price can be maintained over a very long period, but so long as it exists Alabama, West Virginia and Tennes see should reap a golden harvest if they make the most of their opportu nities." According to these figures, which we take to be substantially correct, iron can be manufactured at Pitts burg for about two-thirds the cost in England or Germany. When it cornea to selling in Europe we do not know what the C03t of transporta tion ia and how much that may come to the relief of the manufac turers on the other side of the sea, but it is not high enough to prevent our manufacturers from successfully competing with them in their own markets, which is fully shown by our increased exports of manufactured articles covering the entire range from the railway locomotive to the surgeon's lance. Our exports of manufactures tho past figcal year were over 28 per cent, of our total exports, and the bulk of these were article of iron or steel, wholly or part. This shows the progress made in our exports of these metals and givea proof of the ability to com pete with foreign rival a. Of course to do that we must be able to produce iron cheaper than they can and sufficiently so to offset the cost of transportation across three thousand miles of sea. If our iron manufacturers have been able to make so much progress in the first years of competition, ia there any reason to suppose that they can not keep it up and forge further to the front? About the only thing that could operate seriously against them would be an ore famine that wnnld rmt nrices un very high, but r- x that would also operate more or less acrainst the European manufac- o - turera, for our manufacturers would then begin to draw on Europe for ores and tbut would put prices up over there, so that there is no reason to suppose that our manufacturers cannot continue to hold their rela tive position at the front. In drawing his comparison of the cost of making iron Mr. Jeana takes Pittsburg as representative of the United States, which is doubtless correct as to the North, but it is well known that iron can be made for considerably less in the South than at Pittsburg, and at some points in the South at very much less than it can be at Pittsburg, at Birmingham, for instance, for about three dollars a ton less, and the bot tom hasn't been reached yet. With the iron boom come to stay for sometime what does this mean? Simply this: that the United States will continue to rule the iron trade of the world, and make prices for the world, and that the South will in the near future control the iron trade of the United States, make prices for the United States, and that means for the world. To some extent the South is doing that now, and yet the iron indus try is almost in its infancy, in this section of the country where the iron fields have as yet been scarce ly scratched. The closing para graph in Mr. Jeans' letter in which he notes the fact of the cheap pro duction in the South and refers to the opportunity to "reap a golden harvest" shows what he thinks about it, and gives substantially his opinion of the South as the coming iron manufacturing center. Iron making is an industry which does not grow rapidlv because the plants are costly and the business requires large capital, and hereto fore the capital which could be commanded has been principally in vested in other industries which re quired less and which our people understood better. But those of them who have given their atten tion to iron-making have mastered it pretty well and shown their capac lty to manage that as well as cotton manufacturing and other things of which they have taken hold. If this boom in iron continues, of which there is every indication, for some years, increased production will become a necessity and consid erable capital will seek investment in that industry in this section. NORTH CAEOLINA A3 A WOOL GROWING STATE. The Wool Record, organ of the sheep-growing industry of this coun try, in an article on wool growing ing in the South, cites the fact that "the blue ribbon and gold medal at the World's Columbian Exposition for the best wool was awarded to Maj. R. S. Tucker, of North Caro lina," and remarks that in view of the little prominence the State has attained as a wool-producing sec tion this award is "somewhat sur prising." It then comments on the peculiar advantages possessed by the Piedmont section of the South, and North Carolina in particular, for the wool-growing industries and concludes thus: "North Carolina enjoys a home field for her mutton products, has easy ac cess to Washington, Baltimore, Phila delphia, New York, Cincinnati, Louis ville and numerous smaller cities, all of which are within easy reach of the field production, and would consume large quantities of her mutton, if it could be supplied promptly in good condition when most needed. "The wool side of sheep husbandry is too frequently passed over with in difference by farmers in these days. Wool has been on the under side in this fight for so long that mutton has been allowed to obscure its importance to the sheep farmer. The new wool tariff, small foreign supplies, the in adequacy of stock on hand, the insuf ficiency of the present clip, the unsus- auy large aemanas ror woollens, the Prosperity of the people and the steady .uU uatiuu, are an iactors contributing towards high pricss for wool and towards a large wool con sumption in the nation. Those sec tions which increase their flocks most rapidly, enlarge their wool products most appreciably, and pay most atten tion to sheep husbandry, will gather most quickly the largest returns from this prosperity. "North Carolina is so well adapted to cheap-breeding that it cannot be more than a few years before wool growing will be one of her leading live-stock industries, and she will be reaping benefits from her wool and mutton. Her natural advantages physical and climatic, entitle her to a prominent position as a wool-growing State. She enjoys a spscial advantage in her steamer lines, which place her principal seaport, Wilmington, with in sixty hours by sea of New York, thus giving her the advantage of the very best latest and most improved methods of selling wool either at pnvate or auction sale, which are afforded by the Wool Exchange The Record does not seem to con template the manufacture of the wool at home, but thinks the growers would find fair profit on shipping to Northern markets, which they probably would, but there are seven woollen mills in North Carolina now, which import a large part of the wuojr uuosume. 11 tnere were more wool growers there would be more mill8 and enough to conBume all the wool produced, tlfeugh the production were multiplied many time8. The "dossier" and "bordereau" are figuring quite conspicuously in the Dreyfus trial and in print all over the world. The -"dossier" is a packet or file of papers, and the "bordereau," memoranda written upon strips of paper, clipped"from the "borders" of official paper, used for Buch purpose. WHY THEY DENOUNCED HIM. Booker T. Washington is not in good favor with the negro politicians and agitators in this country because he refuses to wear their collar ntnl let them do the thinking for him. He does hi3 own thinking, forms his own opinions, and has the courage to tell the negroes what he thinks is the best for them as individuals and as a race, and in this he runs counter to the agitators and politicians, white and black, who have been and are using the negroes for the pro motion of their own interests. In a recent interview on the proposed constitutional amendment in this State he is quoted as follows: "Is there any reason why the negro in the South should oppose the South- ... ft TT ern man iu pontics r unconsciously we seem to have gotten the idea into our blood, and bones that we are only acting in a manly way when we op pose Southern white men witn our votes In some way, by some method, we must bring the race to the point where it will cease to feel that the oulv way for it to succeed is to op pose everything suggested or put forth by the Southern white men. 1 believe there are thousands of winte Democrats in North Carolina who are 50 per cent better friends to the negro than Governor Russell, and I see no necessity iu continuing to follow Gov ernor Russell, who has no power to protect, or if he has the power, does not ex-. re:3' it. iv.!her tnan these other white men who can protect us if we cease to continually and forever op pose them. "Many negroes in North Carolina, as in everv other Southern State, have learned that their real friends, those who are most sincere in their efforts to help them forward and who are best ab.e to do so, are not the pliticians, white or black, who pose as their champions, but the substantial white citizens who are their neighbors. We expect to tee the suffrage amendment adopted in North Carolina and similar legislation resorted to in other States of the South." There isn't a line in this that isn't true and there isn't a negro who has sense enough to keep out of the fire, provided he has no political aspira tions or isn't the tool of some white boss who has, who cannot see it and will not acknowledge it. But Booker Washington isn't a politician, he be lieves there are things in which the negro is more vitally interested than he is in politics, and that's why the political gang don't like him, or what he teaches. ITS EFFECT IN EUROPE. Mr. Oswald Ottendorfer, editor of the New York Staats Zeitung, has just returned after a sojourn of sev eral months in Europe." In speak ing of public sentiment on the colonial policy adopted by the pres ent administration he says "the moral as well as political influence" of this country ha3 been seriously affected thereby, for confidence has been lost in a power which pursued a policy for over a century and then without explanation or apparent good reason suddenly adopted a policy the very reverse of that. The only way they can account for this is that it was inspired by a ravenous desire for land-grabbing, in imita- tion of the land-grabbing monarchies of Europe which the Americans had so long and so loudly denounced for this kind of robbery. They treat with proper contempt the fraudulent pleas of purchase, obligations to the world, &c, put forward as a justification of this land-grabbing. The liberalB in England and the advocates in other countries of greater liberty for the people, are distressed and embarrassed by it be cause they had been holding this country up a3 an illustration and a model of popular government, where the governing powers attended to the business for which they were chosen, avoided becoming mixed up n the affairs of other nations, and kept their hands off the property of others, and now tbey find this model government suddenly changing front reversing its time-honored policy, drifting towards imperialism am followng in the wake of the bayonet- supported monarchies of the old world; no wonder there has been a change of sentiment and that this Government has forfeited the confi dence of the friends of popular gov ernment across the seas. In England they are now making steel barrels, which are so built aa to reaemble wooden barrels. As there is no leakage in them they are pre ferred to wood for holding oils and other penetrable fluids. CURREN1 COMMENT. It is perfectly clear now. if not before, that the ring of rascals in France who stood for the flattered 'Army," accused Dreyfus, not to avoid a cause of war with Germanv. as they have alleged, but from fear of detection of their own treason. Brooklyn Citizen, Dem. The negro-loving newsnaDera of the North that have so often held up Booker Washington as a sample of what the colored brother is capa- VI. i-i r . uie ui accompiisning are now iorced to tell their readers that the emanci pated and enfranchised Afro-Ameri cans gave the country evidence of their calibre at their big now-wow at Chicago by denouncing this honor to tneir race as "a traitor" ana "a States, trimmer. " New Orleans Dem. - From a study of the nirtn of the French generals who are fighting in the Dreyfus courtmartial, as they appear in Borne of the North ern papers, one might suppose, without a great stretch of imagina tion, if they were not labelled, that they came from the rogues gallery. It is not difficult, from that point of new at least, to imagine them the wilful persecutors of an innocent man. Some of the Frencn generals may hava been maligned in theae picturesque representations, but if au that Has been said about them is true, the chanceB are against it. Savannah News, Dem. SPIRITS lURr ENTINE Alamance Gleaner: A stalk of millet thirteen feet tall, and which had not headed, is on- exhibit at J. C. Simmons' drug store. It was grown by Mr. Allen S. Dickey, of Pleasant Grove township. High Point Enterprise: Few, if any, did better than Mr. J. H. Tate with their grain crops this year. , From forty acres he got 647 bushels of wheat. Twenty seven acres of this averaged twenty bushels to the acre. Goldsboro Argus: Willis Lee, a rather notorious white man, was shot and killed Saturday morning at Saul's X Roads by Deputy Sheriff Roberts. It seems that Roberts had a warrant for the arrest of Lee for a deadly assault Friday night upon a woman and in attempting to effect the arrest committed the homicide. Charlotte News: The body of an unknown negro man was found lying beside the tracks of the Southern railway, one mile north of Harris- burg Friday morning. The head and shoulders were badly lacerated and along the Uack for some distance were found particles of the bydy. It is thought that the man was struck by No. 72, the fast north bound freight Ealeigh News and Observer: Friday, Deputy Sheriff C. W. Dunn, at Scotland Neck, arrested a man believed to be John Monroe, who killed Town Constable Thomas Atkin son at Red Springs, July 21st. The man now under arrest in every way answers the description, even scars on his fingers, his weight, height, color, &c. He says his name is Lewis Kear ney. Shelby Star: J. C. Elliott, Esq., of No. 8, was down Monday and told of a large rattlesnake .killed one day last week in No, 11 township by Elijah Waters. His snakeship was ornamented with 17 rattles. Jeff Get tos, living near Hollis in Rutherford, killed some time prior to this a rattler that sported 15 rattles. About the same time, Thos. Campbell, who lives in the same locality, killed in the big road a rattlesnake which had 8 rattles. Good snake country that. Fayetteville Observer: We are grievedto have to record the death, in her 63d year, of Miss Lou A. Under wood, which occurred Saturday morn ing at 9:30 o'clock, at the home of her brother, Capt. J. B. Underwood, which had been her residence of late. Mr. J. Hector Smith has on exhibition at the courthouse the strangest pheno mena in the growth of a pumpkin vine we have ever seen. It is a two foot section of the vine, on which there are at least twenty-five little pumpkins. The vine is in-the shape of apheumatic tire with the air out, and lying fiat is a little over five inches in width. Asheville Citizen: It i3 be lieved by some who are acquainted with the case that Rutherford county has as a resident of one the oldest people in the world. Her name is Nancy Hollyfield, and it is claimed that she is 115 years of age. This claim i be lieved by many to be founded on in disputable fact. John Kennedy, a well known citizen of the Broad river section of Rutherford, who told the Citizen the story, say he remembers that when he was a youth Nancy Hoi ly field was accounted an old person. Mr. Kennedy is 82 years of age. He saw the centenarian about two months ago. and she was apparantly enjoying good health. TWINKLINGS. Mrs. A. "But can't the dear little thing's father suggest some name?'' Mrs. B. "Yes, every night his father calls him a new name, but I'm afraid they wouldn't do." "There have been many moons," greeted the old acquaintance, "since I saw you." "Yes," giggled the woman with the season ticket to Da kota, "many honeymoons, I presume." Used to It: Photographer "Yes, I can take your picture, but it's a dark day,and it will require a con siderable exposure " Seaside Belle "Oh, I don't mind that." ChicaQO Tribune. "Is Alice worried about her broken engagement?" "No. She had part of her silver marked with the young man's name, but she says she can easily get engaged to another man named Smith." Jaggles "That theatrical man ager claimed to have expended $20,000 on the costumes." Waggles "Yet the police raided his miow because there wasn't costume enough."-Pucfc. "1 see," said the man who was reading about horses, "that President McKinley handles the ribbons like an expert." "so do I," murmured the tall youth of bargain counter. "So do I." "I thought the doctor said she ought to go to the seashore?" "He did, but the siege of sickness she had made her so thin that she said she knew she'd look like a perfect fright in a bathing suit, so she went to the mountains instead." Brooklyn Eagle. "So you want to write war news," said the enterprising exponent of emotional journalism. "Yes," said the young man. "Do you feel that you are equipped for that kind of em ployment J" "I do; I've got a map and an imagination." Washington Star. In Ireland: Native "If Oi should decide to come to New York, hw long would it be before Oi could vote?" Casey (of Tammany Hall, on a visit) "Win, ui dont tape thrack: av thim election days, but Oi think there's another wan in about four months t" Puck. There's no use talking," Baid the man who sat on the piazza looking over his hotel bill, "Rip Van Winkle failed to appreciate his luck." "Luck!" "Yes. Fancy a man's being allowed tostay twenty years in the mountains without its costing him a cent?" Washington Star. "Under our treaty with the Sultan of Sulu, his slaves can buy their freedom for $20 apiece. They seem to come high. Their price is ten times as much as we paid for the Filipinos in general, to say nothing of the costly war we have under taken, in addition. Richmond Dis patch, Dem. QUARTERLY M EETINQS. M. E. Church, South, Wilmington District. Magnolia, Centenary. September 2-3. wumlnarton, Fifth Street, September 10-11. on th port, September 17-18. White vllle, Terro Gordo, September 23-24. Waccamaw, Old Dock, September 2S. Brunswick, Zlon, September SO-October 1. Wilmington, Market Street, (at night) Oct. 1. Carver's Creek, Shlloh, October 7-8. Elizabeth, Blngletarles, October 14-15. B. F. BUM FAS, Presiding Elder. For Over Fifty Tears Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for over fifty years by millions 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 wiii relieve the poor little sufferer im mediately. Sold by druggists in every p u Pi the orld. Twenty-five- cents abottle. Be sure and ask for "Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup," nd take PROCLAIMING THE KING. f he English Ceremony the Same aa It Waa Four Hundred Yean Ago. When the time comes (which may heaven delay) for a new king of Eng land, the College of Arms will proclaim him, just ae it has proclaimed every monarch for hundreds of years past. Times change and dynasties We are less like the Englishmen of Edward I than we are like the modern Japs. We talk a different tongne, we eat different foods, ' we wear different clothes, we think i different thoughts. Nothing is the same, except the columns on Stone henge and the College of Arms. The college abides, varying by not so much as a detail of procedure or a button on a unifcrm. What is; is good and cannot be improved. Therefore the business of proclamation will be the same in the twentieth century as it was in the fifteenth. When the time unhappily comes for a new king to reign, the privy council will meet and declare the throne to have devolved on the Prince of Wales. Orders will at- once be given to the earl marshal and the officers of the College of Arms to proclaim bim. The firet proclamation will be made in the court yard of St. James' palace, where the guard is changed. Garter King, the chief officer of the college, will make the proclamation in solemn form, with the earl marshal, the kings, the heralds and the pursui vants in full uniform and mounted hard by. At this proclamation the monarch is present, sitting at the window where all his predecessors have sat. That is the chief est of the proclama tions, but the news has to be carried far and wide to the distant city, the rank of the proclaiming officer descend ing as the business proceeds. The sec ond pronouncement is made at Charing Cross and the third at the corner of Chancery l;:ne.- At this proclamation there will be a modification of the ancient form, ow ing to the disappearance of Temple Bar.! Within the city of London the lord mayor and sheriffs preserve their ancient sovereignty and allow no ruler within their gates except after permis sion asked and granted. The old form was for the junior pur suivant to rap atjhe gate and show his warrant for proclamation. Then the lord mayor ordered the gate to be cpened and joined in the stately proces sion. Tbe ceremony will doubtless remain. barring the knock at the gate, which does not exist. The last proclamation is made either at the corner of Wood street, Cheapside, or beside tbe Royal Exchange. In the provinces the procla mations are made by the local mayors. Being proclaimed and crowned, the king has to offer to fight for his throne. In the olden times, when a king reigned by the power of his right arm, this waa a necessary formality, and because it was necessary once it is done still. But the king no longer does his own fight ing. He has a champion, the hereditary champion of England, whose business it is to do battle with all comers for tbe crown. The champion is always a member of tbe Dymoke family. When the king is crowned, he rides into Westminster hall mounted and in full armor, just as the champion was U00 years ago. He is accompanied by tbe earl marshal and the lord great chamberlain, also on horseback. Tbe ball is crowded with ticketed sightseers. A proclamation is read by one of the heralds, challenging anybody who dis putes the right of the sovereign to com bat in an open space. Tho champion throws down his gauntlet as a guaran tee of good faith, and then the hearts of all the ladies flutter in anticipation of a fight. But it is all a disappointing sham. If some enterprising person were to take up the challenge and the gauntlet, be would probably be run in by tbe police for creating a disturbance! The herald takes np tbe glove and hands it back to the champion, and then the king is firmly seated on bis thrcne. London Mail. A Hero of tbe Rail. A Jim Blndso of tbe rail has just gone to "take his chances" in tbe here after. He was Jinl Clark, a railway en gineer of Blair, Tex. Clark's train was running into Weatherford just ahead of a limited express. He was seized with a violent hemorrhage of the lungs when a few miles out of Weatherford, and to stop his train would have cost many lives. He held tbe throttle lever until he worked his train on to a siding. In a few minutes the express thundered by. Jim Clark was dead, however, clinging to the throttle as though it were a crosa Kansas City Journal. Killed by Muaic. Music caused the death of a beautiful 3-year-old filly at Florence, Ala., the other day. A farmer drove the valuable young mare into town, and as he was driving up the principal street a brass band suddenly struck up its blatant music. The mare had never heard any sound like that before, and so startled was she that she dropped dead in the shafts of the trap. A veterinary surgeon who examined the carcass declared that the mare had died of heart failure, due to excitement caused by the sound of the unaccustomed music of a brass band. American Speech. The faults of American speech, ac cording to an authority on the subject, originate in the primary school. The child is not taught the melodic value of his phrase. He is allowed to use the throat instead of the tongue, and the flow of speech becomes, therefore, halt ing and guttural. "Educate your alphabet and you will find your language as mellow as any of the family of Latium," is the advice given. "Your i's are throaty, your m's are too labial, your s's are too hissing, your c's are not soft enough. When you can train your scholars to emit these and tbe other consonants within the pitch, using the tongue instead of the throat for their emission, then you will see that for rhythm and sonority your English language may he compared with the Tuscan, the Roman, the Spanish and the Provencal. " Tbe Cocaine Habit. A well known chemist states that a surprising number of well to do young ladies have taken to buying the various forms of doctored up coca extracts (co caine) in large quantities, also phs nacetine and various bromides, becauso "they make one feel so nice and hap py." It is needless to say that su;ch practices are exceedingly risky. Per haps, however, they are preferable to another extremely foolish trick that of sniffing chloroform dropped on a handkerchief, with the object of pre ducing a pleasant, dreamy languor. New York Telegram. Injured Innocence. "That, sir,'" exclaimed the indignant merchant, "is what I call a gratuitous falsehood." "It's nothing of the kind," replied the unscrupulous salesman. "I get a salary and a commission for telling that . falsehood. "Washington Star. L'ENVOI. Tho smoke upon your altar dies. The flowers decay, J-t The goddess of your sacrifice Has flown away. What profit, then, to slug or slay ' The sacrifice from day to dayf "Wo know the shrine is void," they said. "The goddes3 flown Yet wreaths are on the altar laid The altar stono Is black with fumes of sacrifice, Albeit ehe had fled oar eyes. "For it may be, ifstill we eing And tend the shrine. Some deity on wandering wing Hay there incline, And finding all in order meet Stay while we worship at her feet." Eudyard Kipling. WHEN FIRE BREAKS OUT. Keep Cool and Remember and Fol low These Instructions. In case of fire, if tbe burning articles are at once splashed and eprayed with a solution of salt and nitrate of am monia an incombustible coating ia formed. This is a preparation which can be made at home at a trifling cost and should be kept on band. Dissolve 20 pounds of common salt and ten pounds of nitrate of ammonia in seven gallons of water. Pour this into quart bottles of thin glass and fire grenades are at band ready for use. These bot tles must be tightly corked and sealed to prevent evaxoration. and in case of fire they must ir- thrown near the flames, so as .to brw.I; and liberate the gas contained. At bust two dozen of these bottles- should be rer.dy for an emergency. In tbis connection it is well ' to re member that water on burning oil scat ters tbe flame, but that flom- will ex tinguish it. Salt thrown upon a fire if tin? chimney is burning will help to de::, ti the blaze. If a fire enco gets under hjadwav au;i i-r-injipt t be comes a necessity, a 'sill: handkerchief dipped in wjstcr and wrapped ;;bont the month rail1, nostrils will prevent suffoca tion from smoke; failing thin, apiece of wet flannel will answer. Should siiioke fill the room, recall your physics remember that smoke goes first to the top of. the room and last to the floor. Wrap a blanket or woolen garment abont yon, with tbe wet cloth over yov.r face, drop on your hands and knees and crawl to tbe win dew. Bear in mind that there is no more danger in getting down from a three story window than from the first floor if yon keep a firm hold of the rope or ladder. Do not slide, but go hand over hand. New York Tribune. Too Well Imitated. It is no easy matter for a violin maker to rival the famons Stradivarius instru ments, but this an American maker did and did so effectually that experts pro nounced his violin a genuine Stradi varius. The successful man was the late George Gemunder, a famous violin mak er of New York. His remarkable ability as a preparer of violins was known to many a distinguished player, such as Ole Bull, Remenyi and Wilhelmj. But be made, so runs the story, his greatest success at the Paris exposition of Eiffel tower fame. To that exhibition he sent an imitation Stradivarius, and to test its merits had it placed on exhibi tion as the genuine article. A committee of experts carefully ex amined the instrument and pronounced it a Stradivarius. So far Mr. Gemun der's triumph was complete. But now came a difficulty. When he claimed that it was not an old violin, but a new one made by himself, the committee would not believe him. They declared he never made the instrument and pro nounced him an imposter. He had done his work too well. Youth's Compan ion. WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT. EW The following quotations represent Wholesale Prices generally. Iu maKii LKlllIc up small orders hlizher prices have to be ch-irued. Tne quotations are always given as accurat ely as possible, bat the Stab will not be responsible for any variations from tbe artua! marset price of the articles Quoted. BAGGING 2 tt Jute Standard WE8TERN SMOKED J4 12 6H 79i 6 5H 35 40 40 24 Hams p t . Sides V B . . . 8noulders V DHY SALTED Bides w Shoulders BARRELS Spirits Turpentine Second-hand, each 1 25 New New York, each New City, each BEESWAX V S BRICKS Wilmington yM 5 00 Northern 9 00 BUTTER North Carolina 15 Northern 25 CORN MEAL & 7 00 14 00 18 0 Per bushel, In sacks uoi 4i ouvao AT 47 47 1 25 Vlrelnia HeaL 47 COTTON TIES Dandle & e CANDLES 9 Bperm 18 Adamantine 8 CHEESE V lb- 25 11 UH 13 10 12 8 '5 70 11 Northern Factory 10H& Dairy Cream State a COFFEE V Lagrayra 10 Rio ? DOMESTICS Sheetmg, 4-4, V yard Tarns. V bonch or 5 lbs ... . EGKJS V dozen 9 nsH Mackerel, No. 1, V barrel. . . 22 00 Mackerel, No. 1, half -bbl. 11 00 Mackerel, No. 2, $ barrel... 16 00 Mackerel, No. 2 half -bbl. . 8 00 Mackerel, No. 3, v barrel... 13 00 Mullets, V barrel 3 00 & 30 00 & 15 00 18 00 a 9 00 14 00 4 00 8 00 3 25 10 4 50 3 00 3 50 4 25 5 00 nonets, v pors Darrei s uu N. C. Roe Herring, V kear. 3 00 5 4 35 & Dry Cod. lb " Extra.... FLOUR 9 V Low grade Choice Straight 4 CO First Patent; 4 60 QLUE V V GRAIN S bushel Corn,from store.bgs White Car-load, In bgs White... Oats, from store Oats, Rust Proof Cow Peas HIDES ft lb Green salted. Dry flint Dry salt HAY V 100 lbs 11 & 13 53 S2J4 & 52 38 40 45 65 75 6 10 12 9 85 90 40 50 80 85 80 85 80 85 2 uiover nay Rice Straw Eastern Western North River HOOP IRON, ft LARD, V - Northern North Carolina.... 53a 7 7 8 25 LIME, W barrel 1 15 LUMBER (city sawed) V M ft Ship Stuff, resawed 18 00 20 00 16 00 18.00 22 00 15(00 6 50 8 00 10 00 10 50 ftougn eage ianE is 00 West India cargoes, accord lng to quality 13 00 Dressed Flooring, seasoned. 18 00 Scantling and Board, coru'n 14 00 Common mill 5 00 Fair mill 6 so Prime mill 8 50 Extra mill 10 00 MOLASSES m gallon Barbadoes, In hogshead. Bar Dadoes. In barrels 25 28 30 30 14 15 25 2 10 Porto Rico, In hogsheads. . . . Porto Rico, 1b barrels Sugar House, In hogsheads. Sugar HOHse, In barrels. . . . 8yrup-ln barrels NAILS, STteg, Cut, 60d basis. . . 83 25 12 14 15 2 00 ruitii, v parrei v CltvMess , 950 Rump Prime BOPK, Jt 10 SALT, 9 sack. Alum 10 00 9 50 9 00 22 1 10 80 75 47X 6 50 9 25 3 50 eh Liiverpooi 75 - AiUPriUHQ. , On 125 Sacks 70 SHINGLES, 7-lnch, per M 5 00 Common. 1 60 a Cypress Saps SUGAR, V lb Standard Gran'd Standard A .- White Extra C, Extra C, Golden C, Yellow SOAP. B Northern ' 2 50 5 o 5 STAVES, M-W. O. barrel.... R. O. Hogshead raMraU.rMpplnsr" Mill, Fair Common Mill Inferior to ordinary 8HINGLE8 N C. Cypress sawed V M 6x24 heart flan 6 00 14 09 10 00 9 00 7 00 6 50 6100 4 00 4 50 3 00 7 50 8250 6106 5100 (50 6 50 5 50 5x24 Heart:::::::::::;:; i S 00 Dli.i, 4 (V) 6X24 Heart b 00 TT'-iap 8 00 WOOL per Unwashed::::" 15 8 1? CREATES HAPPINESS A little woman can do a big lot with little effort with Gold Dust. the labor :f cleaning more than saves both time and money. ms it Washing Powder is a bringer of brightness, comfort and health to every housewife who uses it. Don't waste vour enertrv in crntKKinJ hard and rubbing hard with soap in the old-fashioned Dust makes hard-cleaning easy. r w greatest economy buy our large package THE n:K. FAIRBANK COMPANY s . COMMERCIAL. WILMINGTON MARKET. STAR OFFICE. Aug. 28. SPIRIT3 TURPENTINE. Market quiet at 41 cents per gallon for ma chine made casks and 434 cents per gallon for country casks. ROSIN Market firm at 90 cents per barrel for Strained and 95 cents for Good Strained. TAR Market eteady at $1.30 per bbl of 280 lbs. CRUDE TURPENTINE. Market firm at per barrel for Hard, $2.70 for Dip and $2.70 for Virgin. Sales at $2.602.60. Quotations same day last year. Spirits turpentine firm at 2626c; rosin firm at $1.001.05; tar steady at $1.20; crude turpentine firm at $1.101.60. RECEIPTS. Spirits Turpentine 103 Rosin 300 Tar , 249 Crude Turpentine 27 Receipts same day last year. 77 casks spirits turpentine, 196 bbls rosm, 176 bbls tar, 8 bbls crude tur pentine. COTTON. Market steady on a basis of 5c per pound for middling. Quotations: Ordinary 3 7-16 cts. $ lb Good Ordinary 4 13-16 " Lo w Middling 5 7-16 " " Middling 5 Good Middling . 6 " " Same day last year middling 5c. Receipts 137 bales ; same day last year, 18. COUNTRY PRODUCE. PEANUTS North Carolina-Extra prime, $1.001.10 per bushel of 28 pounds; fancy, $1.10l.e2. Virginia Extra prime, 75 80c; 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 lO DC. r 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 Morning Star. New York, August 28. Money on call steady at 2 3 per cent., last loan beiDg at 3 per cent. Prime mercan tile paper 4X5 per cent. Sterling exchange steady ; actual business in bankers' bills at 486486 forde mand and 483483 for sixty days. Posted rates were 484 and 487X Commercial bills 482. Silver cer tificates 6060K. Bar silver 59 9-16. Mexican dollars 43. Government bonds firm. State bonds inactive Railroad bonds were strong. C S. 2's, registered, 100; U. S. 3's. registered, 108; do. coupon, 108 ; U.S. new 4's,regist'd, 1306; do.coupon, 130 ; U. S. old4's, regist'd, 112; do. coupon, 113; U. S. 5's, registered, U1H; do. coupon, 111; N. C. 6's 128; do. 4's, 104; Southern Railway 5's 110. Stocks: Baltimore & Ohio 55; Chesapeake & Ohio 29; Manhattan L114; N. Y. Central 138j ; Reading 22 ; do. 1st preferred 61 ; St. Paul 134 M ; do. preferred 175 ; Southern Railway 12 ; do. preferred 55 ; Amer ican Tobacco, 131 ; do. preferred 143 ; People's Gas 120; Sugar 154J6; do. preferred 11 9 ;T. C. &Iron 96&; U. S. Leather 10; do. preferred 76 6; West ern Union 88- NAVAL STORES MARKETS. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. New York, August 28. Rosin quiet. Spirits turpentine easy at 47a 47&c. Charleston, August 28. -Spirits tur pontine quiet at 43c; no sales. Rosin firm and unchanged ; no sales. Savannah, August 28. Spirits tur pentine firm at 4245c; sales 1,400 casks; receipts 99 casks. Rosin firm; sales 2,997 barrels; receipts 3,988 bar rels ; quotations were : A, B. C. D E , x i. ov; m, ii bi; JN, $2 00: WG, $2 40; WW. $2 70. ' COTTON MARKETS. .Bv.Telegraph to the Mornlmi Star. New York, Aug. 28. The market ior cotton futures after opening easy at a decline of five points worked witbiri a narrow range of changes. The weakness was increased by claims -vrrT i am u ine ooutnwefct Official forecasts failed to indicate any general break in the South west drought while the weather statistics confined tbe actual rainfall in Texas to a little more than one inch at Houston and Long View, and scattering showers elsewhere. Following these indica tions ine mamet made rallies, but the uFwaru movement was held in check by the unusually large receipts in the fctouth. A steadier feeling prevailed in the afternoon on a scattered demand which came chiefly from local shorts, lhe last few minutes witnessed a sharp upturn on a sudden scramble of less reliant shorts to cover, started bv mT '"if a use nee 01 offerings. The close was firm with prices two to three points net lower. TT J?- ' uust 28.-Ootton quiet; middling uplands 6Xc motion futures closed firm at quotations: August 5.83, September 6.88, October 6.04, November 6.09, December 6.15, January 6.23, Feb- vo6;2' March 6-3, AP"1 6.30, May 6.34. June 6 3fi ' Spot cotton closed quiet; middling Efi fcli 0c;middl"iK Kulf 6Kc; sales Net receipts 31 hnl i 1,418 bales; stock 146,462 bales Total to-day Net receipts 12,981 bales; exports to Great Britain 4 750 c-.purw 10 u ranee 50 bales -stock 369,183 bales. ' Consolidated Net receipts 2,454 bales; exports to Great Britain 5,432 bales; exports to France 50 bales; rh l 1 ununeni 4,17a bales. Total since September 1st. Net re- oS? IH?2.'289 bales: exporte to ritmn 3,513,204 bales; ex ti66'880 bales; exports lhe ont"ient 2,853,306 bales. Aug. 28. Galveston, steady at 6Mc, net receipts 5,613 bales; Norfolk, stefdy at sue, net recerots 181 hnlee. Raitl. more, nominal at 6Kc, net receipts bales; Boston, steady at fll. - ceipts 11 hales ; Wilnndngton, steady I at 5H, net receipts 137 bales; Philadef- of cleaning It lightens half and way. Gold iajuis NEW YORK BOSTON at Rij koloc.SJo. "Iv 'I.' HPt - I a,a.uui, sieauyat 5 13 16e receinta 9. R41 Kol .1st" , " iul-."ei mal at 515-16c.net reini s m l"m Mobile quiet at SHo, net receiptslS bale; Memphis steady at 5 15 16c 2 of ktZ. j. UK.US3- stead, Yv,, udi receipts 1,329 i i vuariesioni nrm at 5 ll-l6c ceints 888 bales. PR0DUCE MARKETS. By Tel T&;.h to taa Morniuz Star ' New York, August 28. - Fiour was Tln aD- lnctlve, Vth sPrine Patents 510c in buyers' favor; MinnesoM patents $3 854 00. Wheat-Sno. mk.V??- Vd75c: ptions 0Pened firm at Kc advance on higher cables then subsequent weakness and active declines were influenced by Leaw- r uu reports thai new wheat was arriving freely at Du luth; the close was easy iu spite ..f heavy export rumors at U de chne; May closed 80c; Septemler closed 74Mc; December closed 77ic Corn Spot weak; No. 2 39c- up tions opened steady and unchanged and eased off with wheat durin the day, being influenced as well by "bear ish crop news; closed easy at a part 1 Me netdecline; May closed 35c- Au gust closed 38Xc; September closet 37c Oats Spot quiet ; No.2 26c ; No white 28c; options quiet.. Lard firme--Western steam closed at $5 60; reuVd' firmer. Pork dull but firm. Batter dull but8teady;imitation creamery 142lf State dairy 1519c. Cheese quiti' large white 70c. CottoD seed oil easy' Potatoes dull; fair to prime $1 -' 1 25; fancy white $1 401 ' Southern sweets $1 001 25; Jersey sweets $2 C02 50. Rice quiet. Cai bage quiet; Long Island $3 004 on per 100. Coffee Spot Rio dull and nominal; mild quiet but about steady. Sugar Raw steadier with London and an increased demand; fair refining 3 15-1 6c; centrifugal 96 tet.t 4c; m.j lasses sugar 3 13 16; refined quiet and easy. Chicago, August 28. A heavj i crease in the arrivals of new wheat n, the Northwest was taken advantage of by the elevator people and profe. sional bears to-day to force wbn.t down, and the market closed weak ai about ia decline. September com was weak on renewed liquidiiii.i but closed fc lower. More distant fulims closed about ic lower. Oats deciii.ed Jc for December and closed unchanged for September. Provisions closed uu changed to 7ic higher. Chicago Aug. 2a Cash qu -huin. -Flour steady. Wheat No. ' ptin. 6769c; No.3 spriDg73c: L-2-d 7272X- Corn No. 2 32U3i Oats No 2 2121c; No. 2 wh'i-223ef2ar- TsTr A whit. 9 ii Pork, per bbl, $7 558 30. L. j per 100 fts 5 075 20. h..-. rib sides, loose $4 955 25 D, . salted shoulders, $5 505 C2'A Short clear sided, boxed, 5 " 50 5 60. WJiiskev Distil leis' i;ih.i goods, per gallon, $1 26. The leading futures ranged ;.s (i', lows opening, highest, iowwi an closing: Wheat No. 2 Septembtr 70, 70Jg, 70,70c; December 72& 73, 73, 71, 72; May 75fc75, 75Ji 74, 75. Corn No. 2 September 31 tf. 3131, 3031, 3lc; December 2828, 2828, 28, 28tf; May 29K29, 29,29X29i Oats September 20, 20, 20, 2020Hc; December 19, 19, 19;f19. 19)c; May 21, 21, 21H, 21,c P-.vlc. per bbl September $825, 8 30 8 25, 8 25, October $8 35, 8 37, 8 Si'A, 8 35; January $9 55, 9 62, 9 55. 9 60. Lard. per 100 lbs September $5 17. 5 27H. 5 17 J. 5 25; October 5 25. 5 Z2A. 525, 5 Z2 ; January $5 42, 5 47, 5 42. 5 47. Short ribs, per 100 lbs Septem ber 5 15, 5' 20, 5 15. 5 20; October $5 17, 5 25, 5 17, 5 25; January $4 95, 5 12K, 4 95, 5 02. Baltimore, August 28.-Kl..r quiet and unchanged. Wheat weak ana lower Spot and month 69M 69C; September 69X69c; Octobtr 71M71c; December 74c. Southern wheat by sample 6371c. Corn easy ' Mixed spot and month,3G36fac: September and Octpber 3536c; November and December, new or old 3333ic; January 3233. South ern white corn 40c. Oats firm No. 2 white 2727 a. FOREIGN MARKET Bv Cable to the Mornlug a ia . Liverpool, August 28, 4 1'. ?. Cotton Spot in limited duns rid; prices favor buyers. American n id diing 3 9-16d. The sales of the day were 6,000 -bales, of which 500 veie for speculation and export and includHj 5,400 bales. Receipts 1,400 bales, fll American, Futures opened steady and closed quiet at the decline. American mid dling (1. m. c.) August 3 30 643 31-64d buyer; August and September 3 29-643 30-64d buyer; September and October 3 27 643 28-64d buyer; . October and November 3 26 64d buyer; November and December 3 25 64d buyer; December and January 3 25-64d buyer; January and February 3 25-6W buyer; February and March 3 25 64, 3 26 64d buyer; March and April 26-64d buyer; April and May 3 2 7 64d seller; May and June 327 643 28-b4d seller; June and July 3 28-64d buyer MARINE. ARRIVED. Schr C C Lister. 267 tons. Robnson. New York, Geo Harriss, Son & Co. CLEARED. Stmr Seabright, Sanders, Shallotte and Little River, S C, Stone, Hour Schr Nellie Flpjd, Neilsen, New York, Heide & Co. MARINE DIRECTORY. Mat of Teasels In the For' mlncton. N. C. Aug. 29. of W"' 1899. STEAMSHIPS. Sapphire (Br) 1.3S4 tons, Tonkin, Peschau & Co. SCHOONElts CC Lister, 267 tons, Robinson, Harriss, Son & Co. Frank S Hall, 152 tens, Mcore, Harriss, Son & Co. Geo BARQUES. Eliezer (Nor) 560 tons, Andreasseo. Heide & Co. BARGES. Carrie L Tyler, 538 tons, Jones yassa Guano Co. f MUIO. LI Till
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