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BY WILLIAM H. HilRNARD,
WLLJaTNUTUIX. JN. C.
Sunday Mo&jrur, November 25,
A GREAT CSOP.
It used to be said that "cotton is
king. " This baa been disputed lately,
for the low price which cotton had
reached when it got down to five
cents or leas per pound, which barely
paid the cost of production, de
prived it of its royalty; bat it is
picking up and recovering its pres
tige. Whether it will continue to be
a royal crop will depend much upon
the men who make it. They can
keep it where it will pay them well
and bring wealth to the South, or
they can pull it down to where it will
be a drudge crop, which will bring
them loss instead of profit, and re
tard the prosperity of their section
instead of promoting it.
Properly handled and utilized
there are unbounded possibilities in
the cotton crop, possibilities which
are increasing every year. As show
ing these possibilities The Manufac
turers Record, of Baltimore, makes
the following exhibit of the value of
the crop this year:
The South 's cotton crop this year
II be worth from $450,000,000 to
$500,000,000, against an average of
$300,000,000 of late yean, an ineaease
or from s,iso,oou,ooo to $200,000,000.
Including the teed, the value of the
cotton crop will exceed $600,000,000.
Southern mills will consume prob
ably 1,750,000 bales, against 1,500,000
bales last year. Thj cotton, which
will cost Southern mills about $75,
000,000 to $80,000,000, will, in its man
ufactured shape, be worth more than
$225,000,000, thus adding $150, 000, 000 in
the process or manufacture. To this add
an estimate of $100,000,000, as the
value of cotton seed olil, hulls, etc,,
and is found that the colon crop this
year will yield up the South the fol
owing: Cotton and seed $500,000,000
Added value of cotton
manufactured in the South 150.000.000
Value of oil and hulls,
etc, for feeding, 100,000,000
Total, $750,000,000
"This is one of ihe many stores
this one being worth $750,000,000
farming the ifoundations for the
Souths business structure. "
This gives the actual value to the
South of the present crop without
taking into account what others make
out of the portion of the crop which
they handle. The South now man
ufactures about one-sixth of her
crop which increases the valnue of
that one-sixth $150,000,000. If the
whole crop were manufactured in the
South, $900,000,000 would be added
to its value and instead of bringing
in to the Sooth $450,000,000 or
$500,000,000 it would bring $1,350, -000,000
or $1,400,000,000, and this
iaon the basis of the ordinary, com
mon grades of goods now made in
Southern mills, and does not take
into consideration the possibilities
in the finer grades which would
multiply many times the value of
the cotton used. The cotton which
is trebled in value by being manu
factured into coarse grade goods
may be made five, six or seven times
as valuable by being converted into
fine grades. Of course the whole
crop could not be worked up into
fine grade goods, because there
would be no market for them, and
all the cotton produced is not suita
ble for fine grades, bnt if as much
attention were given to fine grades,
which can be made as well in the
South as anywhere, many millions
would be added to the value of the
Southern cotton crop.
It Is said that European mills
Snake $2,000,000,000 a year on the
manufacture Of ihe cotton they im
port from the Sooth. These look
like pretty large figures, but many
of the European mills make a spe
cialty of fine goods, for which they
get big prices,. ten times as much as
the cost of the raw cotton. This
country imported last year about
$20,000,000- worth of that kind of
goods, notwithstanding the fact that
many of the New England mills
make a specialty of fine goods.
Whether these imported goods are
finer ox better than the qualities
manufactured by the Northern mills
we do not know, hot there must be
some reason-for giving them a prefer
ence over the home-made goods,
which are cheaper, because these im
ported goods all hare the tariff du
ties added to the original cost.
The probabilities are that a con
siderable portion of these foreign
made goods find a market in the
South, which also supplies a market
for. largo quantities of the finer goods
madOOfth, which are not yet man
ufactured in the South, but which
could be and wjll before many years
be made in the South, adding that
muoh more to the value of the crop.
But there are possibilities in the
seed and fat the stalk that hare not
..f 1 inn mnasnrftd . As a food ma
terial it has been demonstrated that
bushel for bushel cotton seed is
worth mow than corn, tM in not
very iar iwi" wmw t
iments demonstrate that whoa folly
utilized the value of the seed alone
is as muoh as the ordinary crop of
cotton was a few years ago, so that
it would be possible without aoya
manufacturing into goods to make I
the cotton crop of this year yield I
$700,000,000 or $800,000000. Add to
this the increased valuo from menu
facturing into such ordinary goods
as are now turned out by Southern
mills and we would have a cotton
crop worth $1, '600, 000, 000 or $1,
700,000,000.
But there are other .possibilities
in the cotton seed which may make
an unlimited demand for it and add
immensely to its value. As an illus
tration: It is said that a process
has been discovered by which fine
white paper may be made from cot
ton seed hulls. It was discovered
twenty years ago or more that pa
per could be made from these hulls,
but only a coarse quality, and the
process of working the seed was so
costly that it didn't pay for that
kind of paper. But this new dis
covery seems to utilize the hulls
for the manufacture of fine-paper,
which gives them larger value. There
is so much confidence in it that it
is announced by telegraph that ten
or more paper mills are to be im
mediately erected in the cotton pro
ducing States, reaching from Texas
to North Carolina. The result of
this will be to create an extraordi
nary demand for cotton seed hulls
and add much to their value.
It is not among the impossibili
ties that the day may come when it
will pay to cultivate cotton for the
seed alone, when the seed may be
worth mere than the lint. Whether
it is tpbe-king or not cotton is be
coming a greater crop than it ever
was, and one that the South can al
ways depend upon, if she doesn't
depend upon it too much.
AND H ANN A GRINNED
After the election the boss Bepub
licans celebrated with a big banquet
at the Union League Club in New
York. Hanna was there, Senator
Piatt was there, Ex-Secretary Alger
was there and a number of others
more or less distinguished. They
felt good and when speech time came
one of the gentlemen who was called
upon for some remarks was General
Greene, of New York; what hap
pened when he spoke is thus told by
a Boston correspondent of the New
York Sun who got it from a Senator,
who was present, who thought it too
good a thing to keep, although it
occurred at a private dinner, and
therefore he gave it to the Sun's cor
respondent. The Su7i, which is a
Republican paper, seems also to have
considered it too good a thing to
keep and therefore published it, after
remarking that it might look like
trifling with the properties to report
for publication what happened at
private dinners the Senator said:
"Still, it is a good story, in my esti
mation, and, of course, the Sun is en
titled to it. Well, here goes. It came
time for Gen. Greene to speak. He
was in his best mood. He is a fine
looking, soldierly fellow. He was very
happy because Emperor Dick Crokers
estimate of 80,000 for Bryan in the
borough of Manhattan had been cut
down to less than 28,000. Gen. Greene
said some very handsome things of
Senator Hanna, the guest of the even
ing. Turning to Mr. Hanna, Gen.
Greene said: 'To you, sir, I owe my
army appointment, my selection as a
brigadier general, and my assignment
to the Philippines. "
" 'Hold on there,' interrupted Gen.
Alger, rising from his chair. Where
was I. Gen. Greene, during all that
time ? Was I not Secretary of War !'
" 'Certainly you were, sir,' suavely
replied Gen. Greene, 'but you merely
made the appointments recommended
by my friend Senator Hanna.'
"Gen. Alger was still on his feet
He was nettled.
" 'Let me say to you, Gen. Greene,'
rasped back Gen. Alger, 'that very ap-
ointment yon received during the
panish war was recommended by my
dear old friend who sits on my right,
SenatorPlatt, and that without his en
dorsement you would not have been
anywhere, for the reason that you, as
a New . York Republican, was com
pelled to receive his endorsement be
fore either the President or his Secre
tary of War would act'
"Senator Hannagrinned, everybody
else at the table smiled, and it was an
interesting bit of the evening.
And Hanna grinned, and they all
smiled except Alger. And the reader
might inquire "who runs the admin
istration, McKinley, or the Senators
who have a pull?"
Helen Gould receives on an aver
age weekly about 1,000 begging let
ters, aggregating in amounts asked
for about $1,500,000. 'She has a
printed circular which she sends out
in reply. The requests range all the
way from $5 to $1,000,000.
a if scat or
Awful anxietv was felt for the
widow of the brave General Burn ham ,
of Machias. Me., when the doctors said
she could not live till morning," writes
Mrs. 8. EL Lincoln, who attended her
that fearful night "All thought she
must soon die from Pneumonia, but
she begged for Dr. King's New Dis
covery, saying it had mora than once
saved her life, and had cured her of
Consumption. After three small
doses she slept easily all night, and its
farther use completely cured her."
This marvelous medicine is guaranteed
to cure all Throat, Chest and Lung
Diseases. Only 50c and $L00. Trial
bottles, 10c at R. R. Bellamy's drug
store. t
a TAin all drrinc inhalants and use
that which which cleanses and heals
the membrane. Ely's Cream Balm is
such a remedy and cures uatarrn easny
and measantly. Cold in the head
vanishes quickly . Price 60 cents at
1 or by maU.
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By the use of Ely's Cream Balm drop-
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hearing have greatly improved.
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SOW s0t THE BIO ARMY
The probabilities are that when
Congress convenes one of the first
things that it will be called upon to
consider wirl be the bill for tb in
crease of the army to 100,000 men.
whioh is the number that the Presi
dent has fixed upon. As the Repub
licans are in the majority and this
increase was practically endorsed by
the voters who voted for the re-election
of McKinley, the bill will
doubtless go through with a rush.
They can't lose much time on it be
cause the time of enlistment of
about 25,000 volunteers now in the
Philippines will expire June 1st
next, when they must be disbanded,
and therefore there must be hustling
to get men to put in their places
The indications are that the ad
ministration will endeavor to enlist
as many natives as they can, and
thus get' up a Philippine army, a
large portion of which will consist
of Filipinos, which would be a good
thing for them to do if they can,
for it will not be easy to pick up
25,000 men to go into the regular
army for service in the Philippines
Another advantage in this would be
that it would save the cost of trans
portation, and the natives can stand
the climate better and are more im
mune from the diseases which have
proved so troublesome and fatal to
American soldiers.
In thus enlisting Filipinos the
administration is taking the cue
from Great Britain's method in In
dia, where she hires Indians to keep
Indians in subjection. The admin
istration may not be so successful in
this in the Philippines as Great
Britain is in India, but whether or
not it is going to be a costly busi
DOSS.
KRUGER IN FRANCE.
President Kruger is receiving a
very cordial reception in France,
which is doubtless gratifying to him
and to his people, but there should
be no special significance attached
to this. The French people who
are throwing their chapeaus up in
the air and making the welkin ring
with their huzzas for the doughty
old Afrikander have very little in
terest in him, his people or the Re
publics, but they hate England and
this gives them a chance to give ut
terance to their sentiments. It may
be observed, however, that the Gov
ernment is not only keeping strik
ingly aloof from these performances,
but is taking special precautions to
prevent anything that might lead to
complications with Great Britain,
and will look on passively whilo the
populace exercise their lungs shout
ing for Kruger and the municipal
authorities content themselves with
extending him courtesies and pre
senting him with medals, and so
will Great Britain, which is fully
aware of the feeling of the French
people and how harmless such de
monstrations are.
Even if France took an interest in
the South American Republics she
is in no condition to lock horns with
John Bull, and therefore she will
not lock. If there were any pros
pect of securing the co-operation of
Russia or Germany, it might be dif
ferent, but both of these and France,
too, will have all they can attend, to
in China for some time to come. As
we see it the visit of Mr. Kruger to
Europe will amount to about as much
as the visit of the Boer delegation to
this country did. There will be car
dial receptions, municipal courtesies,
friendly speeches, warm popular
demonstrations, and that will be the
end of it. And all this will not be
worth a continental to the Boers.
BOOK NOTICES.
"Elsie's Young Folks" is the title of
an interesting story, by Martha Fin
ley, published by Dodd, Meade &
Co., New York city. It is a story
founded on the Spanish war, making
a book of 285 pages, clearly printed
and neatly bound. Price $1.25
We are indebted to Messrs. Dodd,
Meade & Co., publishers, New York
city, for a copy of "Idle Idyls," by
Carolyn Wells, a neatly published,
handsomely bound little volume of
poems, illustrated, which the reader
of poetry will enjoy. It is a book of
153 pages, with about as many poems.
Price $1.50.
The Christmas number of St. Nich
olas is already out and is a beautiful
and interesting one. It is handsomely
illustrated and filled with interesting
stories' and other matter which the
young readers will find not only en
tertaining but instructive. In addi
tion to the usual matter there is
special matter appropriate to the Christ
mas time. Published by The Century
Company, Union Square, New York.
A man in Baltimore laid up with
rheumatism which proved too much
for the doctors had it scared out of
him by a nocturnal visit from a bur
glar man. The rheumatism left the
same time the burglar did, and
neither came back. He says he
prayed to the Lord to be cured and
had faith. It is a pretty strong
faith that combines the Lord and the
burglar to answer supplications of
that kind and to effect cures.
I. N. Marks, a preacher in Geneva,
Wisconsin, has made his mark with
the male membeis ef his congrega
tion, by saying, in a sermon, that if
men cannot find time to fish on
week days, if they go to church
on Sunday, there is no harm in go
ing fishing. If he was angling for
popularity ho struck it, and also
gave Sunday fishing a boom.
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"I took your medicine nz months and I feel
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A New Orleans man is said to
have discovered a process by which
cotton seed oil can be used as a
substitute for linseed oil, of which
about $250,000,000 worth is used
annually. The substitute can be
sold for about one-third the price
of the linseed oil. Cotton seed is
coming right along.
AS YE WOULD.
EDITH V. BBADT.
If I should see
A brother languishing in sore distress,
And I should turn and leave him com
fortlesss,
When I might be
A messenger of home and happiness-
How could I ask to have what I denied
In my own hour of bitterness supplied ?
If I might share
A brother's load alone the dusty way.
And I should turn and walk alone that
day
How could I dare
When in the evening watch I knelt to
Dray.
Toaskfor help to bear my pain and
loss,
If I had heeded not my brother's cross f
If I might sing
A little song to cheer a fainting heart,
And I should seallmy lips and sit apart
When I might bring
A bit of sunshine for life's ache and
smart
How could I hope to have my grief
relieved,
If I kept silent when my brother
grieved ?
And so I know
That day is lost wherein I fail to lend
A helping hand to some wayiaring
friend;
But if it show
A burden lightened by the cheer I
sent.
Then do I hold the golden hours well
spent.
And lsy me down in sweet content.
Nashville Christian Advocate.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE.
Smithfield Herald: Owen Whit
ley, living on the lands of Mr. J. H.
Pou, three miles from Smithfield, sold
tobacco at the Farmers' Warehouse
from three acres of land for the nice
sum of $106.73.
Mount Olive Advertiser. Peo
ple who imagined that all the cotton
in this territory had been sold, realized
their error when they saw the immense
quantity that came to town this week
in response to an increase price.
Lumber ton Robesonian: Mr. Z.
R. Prevatt has sold his crop of tobacco
raised on four acres of land for $546.46,
an average of $136.51 per acre. Still
some people say there is no money
in raising tobacco and prefer raising
cotton, the proceeds of which, even at
ten cents per pound, cannot equal
such returns as above.
Washington Gazette: The ven
erable Col. Creasy, of the Elizabeth
City Economist, recommends the far
mer to go into the culture of the sun
flower. It produces the finest oil and
the seed make excellent nut food, and
remarks: "No doubt Hon. John Small
would take great pleasure in supply -
ng his constituents with seed from the
Agricultural Department."
Murfree8boro Index: On Mon
day night the new store of Mr. L. J.
Wiggins at Mapleton was robbed.
goods, money and checks being car
ried off. An entrance was made
through a second story window by
means of a ladder. Murf reesboso and
Conway was notified of the robbery
by 'phone and a reward of $50 offered
for the capture of the robbers. Two
negro men were arrested at Uonwav
by Messrs Lassiter and Draper, a
check attesting their guilt being founn
on the person of one of them. They
are now lodged in iail at Winton.
Louiaburc Times'. Mr. B. L.
Wester, who is a truthful man, and
vouches for what we are about to re
late, informs us that a few days ago
whiJe digging a well he found a hick
ory nut 19 feet and 7 inches under the
top of the ground. It was a little de
cayed on one side. Now the question
is, how did that nut get there? Mr.
wester is positive that it did not fall
into the well, as it was dug from un
der a rock. Mr. Wester also has quite
curiosity in the way of a sevthe
blade. He knows positively that it
Was bought 121 years ago by his an
cestors, and it has been handed down
through several generations.
Cold Steel or Death .
"There is bnt one small rh&n
save your life, and that is thmu trh an
operation," was the awful prospect set
1 mar w w-s . 2 -
oeiore jus. 1. jts. aunt, of Lame
Ridge, Wis., by her doctor after vainly
trvinsr to cure her of a frightful (
of stomach trouble and yellow jaun
dice. He did not count on the marvel
ous power of Electric Bitters to cure
Stomach and Liver tronhW hut .h.
heard of it, took seven bottles, was
wholly cured, avoided surgeon's knife,
now weighs more and feels better than
ever. It's positively guaranteed to
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SUNDAY SERVICES.
St The
Church: first mass.
7 A. M. : b
msB and sermon, 10:30
A.M. V
a, 7:45 P. M. j
Christian Science service this morn
ing at the Masonic Temple, room 10,
at 11 o'clock. Subject of Bible lesson :
God the Only Cause and Creator.
Fir s t Baptist Church : Rev. Walter
P. Hines will sneak 11 A. M., and 7:30
P. M. He -will also conduct mass
meeting for children at 4 P. M He
will sing at all the services.
St Paul's Lutheran church, Sixth
and Market streets, Rev. A. G. Voigt
pastor. German services to-day at 11
A. M. English services at 7:30 P. M.
Sunday school at 3:80 P. M.
St James', Sunday next before Ad
vent 11 A. M. : Morning prayer;
anti communion ; sermon. 5P.lL:
Evening prayer. Sunday school at
3:45 P. M Public cordially invited.
SUNDAY SELECTIONS.
Good humor is the health of
the soul -, sadness its poison. Stanis
laus. Many indeed think of being
happy with God in heaven ; but the
being happy in God on earth never
enters their thoughts. John Wesley.
It should be the constant aim
of each one of us to be what God
wants us to be and to do what God
wants us to do. This means an active
as well as a pure Christian.
Our blessed Saviour estimates
the value of one soul above the wealth
of the whole world. And if through
our humble efforts only one soul is
raved, won t we be richly rewarded?
He is commonly the wisest,
and always the happiest, who receives
simply and without envious question
, . , . jm ,
wnaiever gqou is onrerea mm, wa
thanks to the immediate giver.
I know of po kingly soul which
has not been trained for sovereignty
in long and lonely hours. Moses, Paul
and John had their meditative years,
It is God's way of schooling for gran
deur. Anna Robertson Brown.
What blessings we have! Let
us work in return for them not un
der the enslaving sense of paying off
an in unite debt, but with the delight
of gratitude, glorying that we are
Goa's debtors. Charles Kingley.
If you are true to your Master,
he will succor you when tempted ; the
victory that overcometh is your faith
not in yourselves, but in the omnipot
ent Son of God, whose you are and
whom you serve. Triumphs over
temptation will strengthen you.
Uuyler.
Look into these details of daily
duty these difficulties, these self-denialsand
you will find that every
one of these lesser crosses, if faithfully
"er.-dured," faithfully taken up and
carried, not only helps to bring the
crown of life, but itself changes
insensibly from a cross to a crown.
Brooke Her ford.
I WINKLINQS.
"Jones, you never get done
taik ing." "Well, somebody is al
ways interrupting me." Indianapolis
journal.
Clara "Evidently Mr. Sweet
ser is head over heels in love with
you. Edith." Edith "Nonsense !"
Clara "Oh, but It's a fact. He act
uallv said he delivhted to hear -ven
sing." Boston Transcript.
At the Clothes -Horse Show:
Her Best Friend 1 suppose May will
have a row with the indues if shft
doesn't get a prize." Her Next Best
"No; she'll have it, with her tailor. She
says she left all to him. Puck.
As She Remembered Him Mr.
Skimmerhorn fas thn sarffaisss ta in
the debate become personal) I was a
tnuoaering 1001 when 1 asked you to
marry me ! Mrs. Skimmerhorn Well,
you looked it, dear. Chicago Tribune
Warwick "Mohammed's idea
was that the church should advance
y means of warfare." Warwire
'Oh ! he'd have the choir and mi nistnr
auarrelinc all thn timo wnnld H?"
Judge.
"Yes," said Miss Cayenne,
"he is undoubted! v a. ovnifv" "What
is your idea of a cynic?" "He is a
person who keens von continnnllv in
doubt whether he is unusually clever
or unusually disagreeable." Wash-
ingzon scar.
And do it first- Aalcit "What
is your understanding of the Golden
Rule? Does it mean. 'Da unto othAm
as you would 'like' to be done by?' "
Biznes "No; my interpretation is:
uo unto others as you would 'be
likelv' to be done hv.' "rhilnAjlnh'n
Press.
A Parting Stab: "Sarah." naiil
the lady of the house, breaking the
noora (V.ntlw t a ikM . 1
kwuiuj kU kUO HOW BBTTSIU gin,
"we shall have to tret alnnc without
your services after the first of the
month. " 4 Yes. mum. " replied Sarah
"I'm sorrv thn mgitsv'o affai-a t
such bad shape, mum." Philadelphia
TW H xxmencan.
"I SUDDOSe VOU wnnlrl rather
play Hamlet than eat" said the ad
miring young woman, who was given
to colloquialisms. "Well," answered
Mr. Stormine-ton R.irnst "T
it just that way; but your remedy
suggests me alternative that usually
presents itself. " Washington Star.
"Reallv er " stammnreri tb
gossip, who had been caught red-
1 3 3 IkTI m m a
uituueu. -im airaia you over
heard what I said about you. Per
haps er I was a bit too severe'
"Ob, no," replied the other woman,
"you weren't nearly as severe as you
WOUld hftVfl hnnn if von Irnsv whof T
think of you." Philadelphia Press.
CURREENT COMMNT.
It is renortAd f.hnf.Tho Am.;
i vuv
can bird of frAodom i,i,j
has abandoned Galveston island since
the storm. The buzzard colony was
washed and blown awav. and no
8UCCeSS0rS have com A. PrnhaKlTr tt.o
rest of the tribe have decided to boy
cott the island as unsafe for buzzard
habitation. Mobile Register, Dem.
Ifl view of the conduct of
Russell B. Harrison during his
father's incnmhanAv nt tv,A p-:
- J .us X. i col-
dency, there is probably nobody but
Russell B. himself who will not be
lieve that he has been dismissed
from the volunteer service in Porto
Rico for good cause. If his bumps
were examined by a phrenologist, his
chart would give "bumptiousness"
as his distinguishing characteristic.
Brooklyn Citizen, Dem.
Although a riAHt. Violo nf
a X vjl iw-
low fever for three hundred years
uuuer opamsn mie, Santiago de
Cuba enjoys this year the marked
distinction Of hfiinor immnma
attacks of the plague. The city has
been cleared and cleaned up, and
kept cleanthat's all. A similar
course of sanitary treatment would
unquestionably render pest-ridden
HOVOtla m -f! M ii a .
oaJ-w irom attacks 01
ifellOW .Tart" M wonU K
American r.itv within t ha s,i 1
fever belt. Philadelphia Record,
igh
HAVE YOU
5CIESCE CALLS EC CATARRH OF TBJS STOMACH.I
gillie fefefr.-- ----'mmm
MISS DADE STEGEMAN, OF CHICAGO.
Miss Dade Stegeman, Superintendent
of the Chicago North Side Woman's
Club, of Chicago, in a recent letter to Dr.
Hartman, speaks of Pe-rn-na as follows:
" Pe-rn-na has often been used by the
members of our club in cases of stomach
trouble and general debility also re
cently in cases of la grippe, and always
with' the most beneficial results. I think
a great deal of Pe-rn-na often recom
mend It to my friends, and am glad to
say all who have tried it speak a good
word for it."
Mrs. Emily S. Carson, Austerlitz,
Mich., says :
Dr. S. B. Hartman Dear Sir: I had
been troubled with dyspepsia and indi
gestion for many years, and was very
much reduced in flesh. I could not eat
I anything with
out the greatest
distress after
wards. My food
would come up
and my stom
ach became
very weak from
fasting, as I
preferred to go
without food
rather than suf
fer the conse
quences. I could get no rest by day nor
sleep by night. I tried every remedy
advertised for the cure of dyspepsia
without the least benefit. At last I got
a bottle of Pe-ru-na. I confess I had no
faith in it, as I had been so often disap
pointed ; but in a day or so I felt much
improved. Food did not distress me as
before, d I continued its use, and, after
using a dozen bottles, I was a well
woman. I can eat anything without the
COMMERCIAL.
WILMINGTON MARKET.
TQuoted officially at the closing by the Produca
Exchange.
STAR OFFICE, November 24
SPIRITS TURPENTINE Nothing
doing.
ROSIN Market steady at $1.20 per
barrel for strained and $1.25 for good
gtrained.
TAR Market steady at $1.55 pei bbl
of 280 lbs.
CRUDE TURPENTINE. Market
firm at $1.40 per barrel for hard,
$2.40 for dip and for virgin.
Quotations same day last year.
Spirits turpentine steady at 47
47c; rosin firm at fl.02J41.07J4 ; tar
firm at $1.40; crude turpentine quiet
at $1.50$2.80.
RECEIPTS.
Spirits turpentine 46
Kosm. 231
Tar 268
Crude turpentine 118
Receipts same day last year. 61
casks spirits turpentine, 339 bbls
rosin, 141 bbls tar, 27 bbls crude tur
pentine. COTTON.
Market firm on a basis of 9$c ter
pound for middling. Quotations:
Ordinary' 7 3-16 cts lb
Good ordinary 8 9-16 " "
Low middling 9 3-16 " "
Middling 9 " "
Good middling 9 16-16 " "
Same day last year middling steady
at 7Mc
Recemts 267 hales: same day last
year, 821.
Corrected Regularly by Wilmington Produce
UUUU1UBMUU moICUKUL&J
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
PEANUTS North Carolina.
Prime, 70c; extra prime, 75c per
bushel of 28 pounds; fancy, 80c.
Virginia Prime, 60c; extra prime,
ooc; iancy, sue
CORN Firm: 58 tn 60 eents nr
bushel for white.
ROUGH RICE Lowland (tide
water) 85 cents; upland 50 60c.
Quotations on a basis of 45 nounds to
the bushel.
N. C. BACON stead v? hams 13 in
15c ner nound: shoulders. 10 to tie:
sides, 8 to 9c.
EGGS Firm at 1920 cents per
dozen.
CHICKENS Verv dull, ftrown
2225 cents: snrincrs. 12(20
cents.
BEESWAX Firm at 25 cents.
TALLOW Firm at 5X8i6l4 cents
per pound.
TURKEYS Live, dull at. 9n- drpss
ed, ll12c.
BWJflha: POTATOES Dull at 40c.
FINANCIAL MARKETS.
By Telegraph to the Moraine 8tar.
New York. Nov. 24 Umv oii
was steady at 4 ner fp.nt Prima mer
cantile paper 45 per cent. Ster
ling exchange nominal ; actual busi
ness in bankers' hills at ASSTaKi r
demand and 481Jf481 for 60 days.
J.UBKJU rows os ana 4oo. Com
mercial bills 480 V??UK(W hjitto,
tifieates 64tf65. Bar silver 63.
Mexican dollars 50. Government
ds weak. State bonds inactive.
Railroad bonds firm. U. a ref und
ine 2' s res'd. 105- TT fi.ov
coupon, 105 ;U. S. 2's, reg'd, ; Tj. 8.
S. new. t reg'd, 137; do. cou
pon. 137:U. 8. 4's. old rWH nw.
do. .coupon, 115M; U. 8. 6's, regU
--.va xa.kj. wufHju, xio : Douinern Kail
7 K nsOtocks: BalSorf i
Jnbattan L 110; N. Y. Central
St. JW.188K ; do. pref'd, 175 outh-'
ern Rail wav 1 k nrA coax. :
can Tobacco, 109; da prefd 135;
PeOUln's Cla QQ1Z . O,,-.. hoi, j-'
T7t wmsw uo.
least distress, sleep well, and, instead
of the living skeleton I was, 1 am now
a healthy, fleshy woman. This was in
1889, -and I have continued well ever
since. I have not been without your
remedy in the house since my recovery.
I advise all sufferers to do as I did and
be cured.
Mr. John P Schmidt says: "Pe-ru-na
has saved my life. For five years the
best doctors had pronounced me Incur
able. I suffered
with a complica
tion of diseases
palpitation of the
heart, nervousness,
weakness and dys
pepsia. A lev
bottles of Pe-ru-na
and Man-a-lin
cured me. Pe-ru-na
cannot be
beaten. I give
vonr medicine to
Mr. Jno. F. Schmidt,
Carthage, Ohio.
my children for the various little ail
ments which annoy little ones, and the
result is that they are never sick, but
always strong and healthy. I have
gained forty pounds since taking
Pe-ru-na."
So many people have what is called
rlvsrtnnsla. without havincr the slightest
jr x " - .
suspicion that catarrh of the stomach is
the cause. Such people take pepsin and
a thousand other things, vainly hoping
to get well. But the catarrh remains,
and of course the dyspepsia remains,
Pe-ru-na cures these cases permanently
by removing the cause, which is catarrh.
Pe-ru-na has cured more cases of dys
pepsia than any other remedy in the
world: Address Dr. Hartman, Colum
bus, Ohio, for a free book.
prefd 116; T. C.
Leather 14 ; do.
ern Union 84.
& Iron 71K; U. a
preferred 76; West-
NAVAL STORES MARKETS
iv Telesrr irh to the Moraine Star.
Nbtw York. Nov. 24. Rosin steady.
Strained common to good $1 60. Spirits
turpentine quiet at 42 'A4.dc.
Charleston, Nov. 24. Spirits tur
pen tine firm at 38c; sales casks.
Rosin firm and unchanged.
Savannah. Nov. 24. Spirits turpen
tine firm 39c; sales 868 casks; receipts
1,590 casks; exports 63 casks, ttosin
firm and unchanged ; sales 1,928 bar
rels; receipts 2,296 barreis; exports
964 barrels.
C0TTQN MARKETS.
Bv TelegraDh to the Horning Star
New York, November 24. The
cotton market opened steady with
prices one to seven points higher,
and while inactive much of the session
maintained a bullish undertone and
held well up to the initial figures. The
customary week-end liquidation was
in force, but the needs of shorts proved
sufficient to absorb these offerings. The
influences at work were encouraging
to friends of the staple, to say the
least Liverpool Bent better cables
than expected, futures there closing
one and one-half to two points higher
and spotjone-sixteenth higher. This in
formation was accompanied' by foreign
buying orders, the latter understood
to be hedges against inability to secure
the spot cotton needed from Southern
markets. Telegrams from the belt
again declared that holders were stand
ing to their ten per cent, proposition
with offers below tnat level refused.
The market closed quiet with prices
net three points higher to six points
lower.
Nsjw York, Nov. 24. Cotton quiet;
middling uplands lOc.
Cotton futures market closed quiet:
November 10.11, December 9.91, Janu
ary 8.89, February 9.86, March 9.83,
April 9.82, May 9.80, June 9.79, July
9.76, August 9.62, September 8.90.
Spot cotton closed quiet; middling
uplands lOjc; middling gulf 10c;
sales 20 bales.
Net receipts 1,343 bales ; gross receipts
3,512 bales; exports to the Continent
403 bales; stock 41,505 bales.
Total today Net receipts 29,601
bales; exports to Great Britain 12,984
bales exports to the Continent 11,612
bales; stock 790,251 bales.
Consolidated Net receipts 39,601
bales ; exports to Great Britain 12,984
bales; exports to the Continent 11,621
bales. , ,
Total since September 1st Net re
ceipts 3,107,162 bales; exports to Great
Britain 1,168,457 bales; exports to
France 223,701 bales; export to the
Continent 763,698 bales.
November 24. Galveston, steady at
9c, net receipts 16.971 bales; Nor
folk, steady at 9 13 16c, net receipts
1,739 bales; Baltimore, steady at
lOJc, net receipts bales; Bos
ton, steady at 10c, net receipts 1,289
bales Wilmington, firm at 9c, net
receipts 267 bales; Philadelphia, quiet
at 10), net receipts 149 bales; Savan
nah, firm at 9&c, net receipts 1,316
bales; New Orleans, quiet at 9c,
net receipts 7,814 bales; Mobile,
steady at 9, net receipts 719 bales;
Memphis, firm at 9 13-16, net receipts
3,748 bales; Augusta, firm at 10c, net
receipts 2,123 bales; Charleston, steady
at 9 11 16c, net receipts 550 bales.
PRODUCE MARKETS.
By TelesrraDh to the Morninz Star.
New York, Nov. 24. Flour was
moderately active and a little steadier
on strength in wheat Minnesota pat
ents $3 904 25; winter patents $3 60
390. Wheat Spot firm; No. 2 red
78c. Options opened steady and ex
perienced lter firmnejaon ?tkg
Sble-rZa absence o JWJgi
e&'&f DeeloiSc'
advanced moderately' on prospects for
threatening "jo u,u,v'"" r r.
NovemberSosed-c; cember ed
44 Oats Spot steady; No 3 26 c
.aV. i;nn"tf75: South America
t840mpound I WW Pouiet;
familvslo owguow, auw- -17W;mess
$12 00(XJi
Western creamery
xr. r,;r. Stats and irenn -
sylvania 2437o at mark, for average
lots; Western regular packing 20
ro.A tj..., nniat - .Tersevs S 1 00
1 37 ; New xorx ei .T.'.TTw;
Island $1 50 1 75; Jerseys iww-i
2 75 - Cabbage steady ; Long Island,
ner 100, 3 004 60. Peanuts steady;
fancy hand picked 45c; other do
mestic 4c Rice steady ; donoestic. fair
to extra 46c. Tallow firm ; city
($2 per package) 5c; country (packages
free) 4&5c. Petroleum dull; re
fined IBS York $7 25; Phfladeipbia
and Baltimore $7 20; do. in bulk $4 65.
Cheese quiet; large iSeptenaber fancy
103c; small September fancy He
Freights to Liverpool Cotton by
steam 20c. Cotton seed oil was barely
steady. Quotations: Prime crude in
barrels,2929c,nominal; prime sum
mer yellow 32X33c; off summer yeT
low 32c; prime winter yellow 3
9Q. ,'m whitfl Sfia37c: prime
meal $26 0026 0. Coffee Spot Rio
quiet; No. 7 invoice 7c; mild quiet j
Cordova 913. Sugar-Raw steady ;
fair refining Sc; centrifugal 9b
test 4c; molasses sugar 3c; refined
standard A $5 40; confectioners' A
$5 40; mould A $5 85; cut loaf $6 00;
crushed $6 00; powdered $5 70; gran
ulated $5 60; cubes 5 75. Aiaraei easy.
Norfolk, Va., November 24, Pea
nuts firm; fancy 3c; strictly prime
2c; prime 2 common
Spanish, new 76c.
Chicago, Nov. fl24. Wheat held
steady on the cables to day, December
p.lnsinff aic overiyesterdsy. Decem
ber corn closed and November ic
higher. Oats closed unchanged and
provisions unchanged to 7z higher.
Chicago, Nov.24. Cash quotations:
Flour dull; winter patents $3 708 90.
winter straights $3 103 60; winter
clears $2 903 40; spring specials
$4 30; do. patents $3 50 3 90; bakers'
$2 20 2 75; straights $3 004 00.
Wheat No. 3 spring 6672e;No. 2
red 7274c Corn No. 2, 4344e.
Oats No. 2 22Kc; No. 2 white 26 ;
No. 3 white 24&26c. Pork, per
barrel, $10 8711 00. Lard, per
100 fts, $7 157 175. Short rib
sides, loose, (6 757 75. Dry salted
shoulders, $5 876 12. Short
clear sides, boxed $6 80 6 90.
Whiskey Distillers' finished gootb.,
pex gallon, CI 27.
The leading futures ranged as fo
lows opening, highest, lowest an i
closing: Wheat No. 2 November 71,
71. 71, 71c; December 7070.
71, 70. 71c; January 7171,
71JS, 71H. 70c Corn November
44. 45 Ji, 435K, 45c; December 36
36, 36. 35. 36o; May 36, 36
36& 36&, 36gc. Oats November
21. 21. 21. 21c; December 21.
2122. 213i21, 21.c; May 24
24. 2424, 2424c. Pork, p-r
bbl November $11 00; Jan'y $11 92J,
12 20, 11 92. 12 073 ; May $11 90,
12 02,11 90, 11 97. Lard, per 100 lbs.
November $7 20. 7 22. 7 15, 7 15;
December $7 05, 7 i0. 7 05. 7 10; Jan
uary $6 90, 6 92, 87, 6 90; May
6 90, 6 92, 6 90, Short rib.
per 100 Ebs NovwlBrr? 75; January
$6 32, 6 40, 6 321IV6 35; May $6 37 ,
6 40, 6 35, 6 37
FOREIGN MARKET.
Bv Cable to the Morning Star.
Liverpool, November 24, 2 P. M.
Cotton Spot moderate business, prices
l-16d higher; American middling fair
6 3 32d; good middling 5 25 33d; mid
dling 5 11 - 16d ; low middling 5d ; good
ordinary 54d; ordinary 5d. The sales
of the day were 7,000 bales, of which
500 bales were for speculation and ex
port and included 6,400 bales Amer
ican. Receipts 53,000 bales, including
52,100 American.
Futures opened quiet and steady and
closed steady at an advance. American
middling (L m. c.) November 5 37-64
5 38 64d buyer ; November and Decem
ber 5 34 645 35 64d seller; December
and January 5 32 64d seller; January
and February 5 30-64d buyer; Febru
ary and March 5 28 64d buyer; March
and April 5 26 64 5 27 64d value ; April
and May 5 25 64d seller; May and June
5 23-645 24-64d seller; June and July
5 21-645 22 64d seller; July and Au
gust 5 19 64 5 20 64d seller; August
and September 5 9-645 10 64d seller.
MARINE.
ARRIVED.
Stmr Seabright, Price, Shallotte,
Stone, Rourk & Co.
Stmr Compton, Sanders, Calabash
and Little River, S C, Stone, Rourk &
Co.
CLEARED.
Br steamship Eastry, Carr, Bremen,
Alexander Sprunt & Son.
Clyde steamship Saginaw, Hale,
New York, H G Smallbones.
Schr N H Skinner, Wheatley, New
York, George Harries, Son & Co.
EXPORTS.
COASTWISE.
New York Schr N H Skinner,
260,000 feet lumber; cargo by Cape
Fear Lumber Company; vessel by
George Harriss, Son & Co.
FOREIGN.
Bremen Br steamship Eastry, 10,
530 bales cotton, 5,115,358 pounds;
valued at $537,000; cargo and vessel
by Alexander Sorunt & Son.
BY RIVER AND RAIL,.
Receipts of Naval Stores sod Cotton
Yesterday.
W. & W. Railroad 9 barrels crude
turpentine.
W. C. Sc A. Railroad 11 casks
spirits turpentine, 25 barrels rosin, 58
barrels tar, 91 barrels crude turpen
tine. .
A. & Y. Railroad 204 bales cotton,
5 casks spirits turpentine, 88 barrels
rosin, 79 barrels tar.
C. C. Railroad 31 bales cotton, 7
casks spirits turpentine, 83 barrels tar,
18 barrels crude turpentine.
Steamer W. T. Daggett 5 casks
spirits turpentine, 48 barrels rosin, 5
barrels tar.
Steamer E. A Hawes 1 bale cot
ton. Schooner Victor C. 16 bales cot
ton, 12 casks spirits turpentine, .28
barrels rosin.
Schooner Minnie Ward 15 bales
cotton, 6 casks spaijrpentine, 42
barrels rosin, 43 W-WrTt&r.
Total Cotton, 267 bales; spirits
turpentine, 46 casks; rosin, 231 bar
rels; tar, 268 barrels; crude turpen
tine, 118 barrels.
For LaGrippe and In
fluenza use CHENEY'S
EXPECTORANT.