BY WTT.-TM H. tsxiKNARD.
WIliMiNOTUJS. JS. C.
Wednesday Mobbing. Apbil 10-
COTTON AND IMPERIALISM-
borne time ago the English cotton
mills reduced their output because
there was not a demand for all the
goods they made. Some time after
ward some of the Southern mills did
the same for the same reason and
some time after that some of the
New England mills did likewise for
the same reason. Remarking upon
the curtailment of production by the
New England mills the Boston Even
ing Record propounds the following
inquiries:
44 What is wrong? The storehouses
jof t4! Fall River co'toti milis ara full
' of unsold goods, 20 cotton mills are
closed, and 8,000 cotton operatives are
idle! 'Overproduction?' Perhaps. But
is there an 'overproduction' Of cotton
goods (or anything else) in the homes
of those 8,000 idle men, women and
i children? What is wrong?"
The Boston Commercial Bulletin
quotes this and proceeds to answer
as follows:
"Now tha product of these mills is
in oart yarns and in part twenty eignt
inch print cloths now selling at 2 c a
yard. Any Fall Jsiver mill operative
can earn enough in one day to provide
a family with all such cotton cloth it
can use in a year it may sareiy oe
assumed that no Fall Kiver mill worn
e is unable to buy cotton cloth even
to-dav.
4There are, however, people who
cannot buy cotton cloth, and it is be
cause of their failure to ouy mat cot
ton cloth, and it i? because of their
failure to buy that cotton goods gen -
erally have been piled up and cotton
machinery run on short time.
"Between 1898 and 1900 the cotton
soindles of the United States increased
from 19.410.555 to 23,153.926, the cot
ton looms from '453.281 to 509,183.
This enormous increase in production
of the cleanest form of textiles was
not matched by anything like such an
increase in our population. The rapid
increasing product, employing more
men and women, bringing greater
prosperity daily to a larger and larger
number of people, was a direct result
of our expanding foreign marfctts.
"In the fiscal year 1890 our total ex
ports of cotton manufactures amount
ed in value to $9,999,277; in 1898. to
17. 024.092: in 1900. to $33,980,001
We have more than doubled our sales
of American cotton manufactures in
a decade and have inci eased our plant
accordingly.
"The largest item of export is un
colored aud colored cotton cloths.
"We were selling annually ten mil
lion yards of unbleached and about a
hundred thousand yards of colored
cioth to Madagascar. France decided
she wanted Madagascar. We said we
were not interested. France took
Madagascar without a protest. Our
and the Amerfcan looms that supplied
those natives are idle.
"Of all our customers the most
promising was China. The follow
ing table is of interest:
EXPORTS OP AMERICAN COTTON CLOTHS
Fiscal Years Ending June 30th.
. Yards.
t-90 1893 1900
China 19 369 356 115.49i:97 18i068t
Hong Koag..... 18373! 30i 654 3.2,435
"Our best market in Northern Caina,
just the portion from which Russia
wishes to exclude us. In the seven
months ending February 29th, 190 1, we
exported but 26,028,080 yards of cloths
to all China, against 133,349,440 yards
for the same months in the previous
year.
"It is extraordinary that mills are
curtailing their product ?
"Oh, no ! We have no foreign in-
tetests that need protection by diplo
macy or arms ! It is of no importance
to the United States if France takes
Madagascar or Russia Manchuria or
Germany Cuba. Go to, friend ! it is
less expensive to trust to luck, stay at
home and let the world slip.
4 'Less expensive for to day, perhaps.
but the reckoning for to morrow would
be heavy.
This no doubt accounts in part
for the decreased demand for Ameri
can cotton goods, but we don't see
where the ''imperialism" comes in.
The answer is headed, "Anti-lm
perialism Brought Home." We
lost the sale of cotton goods in
Madagascar because the French put
their clamps on Madagascar and cut
ns out of that market. But how
could we keep the French out of
Madagascar? They probably had as
good grounds for pouncing upon
Madagascar as we have for pouncing-
upon tbe Philippines, and the
French have just as much grounds
for protesting against our taking
possession of those islands as we had
to protest against their taking pos
session of Madagascar.
If trade is at the bottom of these
grabbing schemes, we can crowd the
French trader out of the Philippines
just as the French have crowded the
American trader out of Madagascar.
But when grab is the order of the
day, what are we going to do about
it or how are we going to prevent it?
We are losing the sale of cotton
goods in China because the Russian
bear has put his paw on Manchuria.
That's so, and we will lose more of
it. Russia has, with her railroad to
Pert Arthur, the back door entrance,
which is much shorter than the
front door ocean routes that we must
take with our goods. And in addi
tion to that Russia is becoming a
cotton grower and manufacturer
and will not only stock Manchuria
with cotton goods, but will reach
out and become a formidable com
petitor in the cotton markets of
other provinces of China.
But "while protesting against Rus
sian domination oyer Manchuria
Why not protest against seizures,
under forms of concession, by other
European Powers? We. have as
logical a right and trade reasons
also to protest in one case as the
other, although there may be less
trade at present involved in these
than there is in Manchuria. But
how are we going to stop the grab
bing? Are we to .become a world
4efier and. fighter and give notice
that we are entitled to trade rights
all over this earth and that no
.it..- . . - .- -
nation must venture ; to put
its claws on any patch of ground
where wo may have present or pros
pective trade, without incurring our
high displeasure and running the
risk of being thumped by us? If
that's the way it must be done then
this government will have its hands
full and may be always on the look
out for scrimmages, and pretty
lively .ones, too.
But where does the anti-imperialism
come home to this country? Must
we branch out in imperialism be
cause other imperialistic nations
pursue that course? If they grab
must we grab to keep even and hold
our own? The inference from all
this is that we must grab because if
we don't some other nation will; we
must steal because if we don't some
big and strong thief will. We must
hold the Philippines for if we don't
some other power might grab them,
and we must get a clamp on Cuba
for if we don't Germany or some
other power may, although neither
Germany nor any other power has
ever hinted at that; and there is not
one of them on top of tbe earth
which would attempt it. It isn't plain,
therefore, where the anti-imperial
ism isbrought home" but as on ar
gument for imperialism it points out
a pretty rough way to travel and a
very expensive one, one that in a few
years would .cost inestimably more
than all - ttb trade profits would
amount to in a life time.
OBSTACLES IN THE WAY.
M. Paul Leroy Beaulieu, the
French statistician, has been urg
ing a combination - of European
nations to protect themselves from
the effects of American competi
tion in European markets' and in
the other markets which European
nations have heretofore controlled.
There has fecen noro or less agita
tion in nearly every European
country which has felt the effects
of American competition, and they
would gladly find some way to
check it if they could, but the pro
posed combination is not one of
the ways, because there are insur
mountable obstacles in that. Some
of the foreign papers realize this,
among them the London Economist
whose views are thus presented by
the Baltimore Sun:
''Referring to the. fact that Ameri
can sg'iculture long ago nearlv ruin
ed European agriculture atd that
American manufacturers now propose
to oust Europe from her position in
industry and commerce, the Liondon
Economist discusses the proposal,
mooted in ' France. Austria and Ger
many, to form a grand European
combination against the trade en
croachments of the United States
Tear by year America captures new
lines of business and aspires to lead in
all. Combined resistance, tbe tUcon
omist thinks, is impracticable, 4 be
causa there .is no commun ty of inter
ests between different parts of Europe,
and because there is as great a
rivalry betwav tbe iron industries
and coal 1 mrafa of France and
those of Germany. as there is with
those of Pennsylvania. What com
mon interests, it is asked, have French
and German vine growers against
those of California, six thousand miles
away ? How can the German and
Russian agriculturists, who bate each
other, be combined against the farmers
of Minnesota and Kansas? What does
it matter to the Russian railway ad
ministration whether its locomotives
are made in Philadelphia or Munich ?
Presumably they will be ordered from
.the place where they will be made with
tbe greatest efficiency and economy.'
''Europe is hopelessly weighted by
the burdens she has assumed. We
have a huge pension burden, a large
public debt and an expensive army and
navy ; yet even so, we are lightly hob
bled if the extent of . our resources be
considered. As the ' Economist puts
it: 'The potential, agricultural and
mineral wealth of North America is
'vastly greater than that of Europe, and
even were Europe a moral unit her
statesmen would have to reckon with
that natural fact. But when Europe,
so far from being a moral unit, has
spent the main part of her energies
during the century now ending in
creating separate and rival interests,
mighty rival armaments and formid
able rival tariffs, it is surely absurd to
imagine that out of these naturally
hostile facts you can evolve a common
Europe to face a rival America. Che
European problem is serious, butlit is
not to be solved by such means."
They may try the effect of pro
hibitive tariffs and perhana Trusts
to fight Trusts, which wiSr not be
as difficult to work as international
combination, which wouli have to
dispose of too many conflicting in
terests. Here is another illustration of the
saying that there is no use in. crying
over spilled milk. Mr. Hamer, a
rich merchant of an Ohio town,
took dinner in a hotel in a Pennsyl
vania town. The waitress, a pretty
girl, accidentally spilled a glass of
milk on his clothes. She was so
sorry, so embarrassed, and looked so
nice when she apologized that he not
only accepted the apology at once
but asked her to marry him, and she
accepted. With these" mutnal ac
ceptances they were married and he
took home with him a Pennsylvania
wife.
A captain on the Australian coast,
whose ship ran on a reef, struck a
happy thought and utilized some
pigs he had on board as life savers.
He had no rockets to send lines
ashore, so he just tied some to the
pigs, dropped them overboard and
let them tow the lines, which they
did, and every soul on board got
ashore by these lines. That captain
will probably adopt the pig as his
mascot.
The ' London Spectator thinks
there should be no foolishness over
there about the control of the Nicar
agua canal, butfchat when construct
ed it should be controlled that this
country as the Suez canal is by Eng
land. Sensible view to take of it
by an Englishman.
GOOD FOE GEORGIA.
A telegram published yesterday
announced that a Western syndicate
had purchased - fifty-one thousand
acres of land near Dupont, Ga., and
had options on one hundred and
seventeen thousand more in the same
section, the object being to make
sugar and raise cattle. We like that
better than the announcement that
some lumber syndicate had pur
chased a hundred thousand acres,
more or less, of timber lands, for the
former practically means the inau
guration of two new industries, to
add wealth to the State, and not the
cutting down of the forests and de
stroying a source of future wealth.
Some time ago we published a
statement about the organization of
a company to build a number of
sugar mills in Georgia and other
Southern States to work on sugar
cane and afterwards on corn stalks,
which are said to yield more sugar
than some of the Louisiana cane.
Whether this id the intention of this
Western syndicate or not we do not
know, but whether or not we think
Georgia is to be congratulated on
the enterpiise, for if successful, of
which there seems to be no doubt, it
mean 8 the establishment of not only
one, but of two industries for that
State both of which have large pos
sibilities in them. If the sugar cane
can be profitably cultivated in Geor
gia so can it be in much of the tide
water South Atlantic region outside
of Georgia so that the cane grow
ing industry may become widespread
thronghout this section, especially
since the mills will not be entirely
dependent upon sugar cane but can
also work corn stalks profitably.
Cattle raising is another interest
ing feature of this movement and in
our ' opinion more important than
sugar making, for if it be thus
demonstrated that such an industry
will pay others will go into it and
that industry, a very important one
outside of the dollars the cattle
bring, will grow. Cattle raising
ought to be a great business in tbe
South which is naturally better
adapted to it than any other sec
tion of the country.
NOT MUCH OF A BLOW.
Some of the English papers are
crowing over what they call a blow
at Russia's prestige because of her
apparent back down in Manchuria
and disclaimer of any intention to
seize Chinese territory. But if Rus
sia never receives any worse blows
than that she can stand it without
being much hurt. She is simply
playing a cunning game of diplomacy,
taking her cue, perhaps, from Mr.
McEinley's "benevolent assimila
tion" and biding her time to show
her mailed Q) and and reap tbe
fruits of her planning She doesn't
propose to shut her eyes and grap
ple with the universe when she can
go slow and secure all she wants
without much grappling. She has
a little incipient trouble at home,
which a good many Russians think
English money is at the bottom of,
and when she gets that straightened
out she can attel better to outside
matters.
Coincident with the apparently
changed attitude of Russia, .the
more humiliating' according to
the English papers, because little
Japan figured so largely in it, comes
the announcement of a rebellion in
Mongolia, instigated bv Prince
Tuan. Prince Tuan has been stand
ing in with Russia in the Man
churia business, and hence it
wouldn't be doing violence to the
probabilities to suspect that Russia
may have been doing some whisper
ing to or winking at Prince Tuan,
who has been invited by the so-
called Government to drop his head
into the basket to please the Powers
that have been looking for heads.
The more we see of it the more in
teresting the Chinese puzzle be
comes, and the more knotty.
Presidios Elder's Appolatments, W liming
ton District.
Zion, Summerville, April 13, 14.
Bladen 8treet, April 14.
Burgaw. Burgaw Creek, April 2(
2L-
Southport, April 28, 29.
Clinton, Kendall's, May 4, 5.
Scott's Hill, Bethany, May 11, 12.
Fifth Street, May 12.
Magnolia, Magnolia. May 1 19.
Ei-zbeib, Purdie's, Ma; 25, 26
Bladen, Deem s Capel, May 26, 27.
Kenansville, Warsaw, June 1, 2.
Grace, June 2. 3.
OobIow. , June 7.
Jacksonville and Kichlands, Jack
sonville, June 8, 9.
Waccamaw, Zion, June 15, 16.
Whiteville, Cerro Gordo, June 17.
Market 8treet, June 23, 24.
a. JQHN.
-Brave Hen Fall
Victims to stomach, liver and kid
ney troubles as well as women, and
all feel the results in loss of appetite.
poisons In the blood, backache, nerv
ousness headache and tired, listless.
run-down feeling. But there is no
need to feel like that. Listen to J W .
Gardner of Idaville, Jod. He says:
"Electric Bitters are just the thing for
a man when he is all run down, and
don't care whether he lives or dies. It
did more to give me new strength and
good appetite than anything I could
take. I can now eat anything and
have a new lease on life ". Only 50
cents at B R. Bellamy's drug
store. Every bottle guaranteed, t
WorklBS Hlclit and Dar
The busiest and mightiest little thing
that' ever was made is Dr. King's New
Life Pills. Every pill is a sugar coated
globule of health, that changes weak
nss into strength, - listlessness into
energy, brain fag into mental power.
They're wonderful in building up the
neaitn. unly 25 cents per box. Bold
by B. E. Bellamy. - f
Tbe Kind Yaa Ban Always Bought
Signatoro S;
SPIRITS TURPENTINE.
Goldsboro Argus: The body
of the young man Martin Lilndsay,
who was drowned some days ago Dy
falline overboard from the steam
boat Goldsboro, ' was found Sunday
about six miles below KUMon, quite
a distance from where he ws drowned.
Fayetteville Observer: Dallas
and James Williams. 16 and 18 years
old. respectively, were placed in nail
Fndav to await trial on complaint Dy
their father, who lives in Carver's
Greek.' charred with breaking iuto bis
barn and stealing a part of a parrel or
kraut. "
Tarboro Southerner: Will
Lawrence, the colored man who, three
weeks ags was struck over the neaa
bv Z k Harris with a piece of light-
wood died Sunday evening, after
lingering in a semi conscious condi
tion. An operation was performed on
his bead, but with only temporary
beneficial results. Harris since the
dav after the rencountre has been in
lail awaiting tbe result of Lawrence's
injuries.
Oxford Ledger: During the
past w.ek a large number of our peo
pie visited the cyclone swept portion
of Brassfield and Dutch ville town-
bhipa. and all with one accord say they
cannot describe what met tbeir eyes, as
it laid waste everything in its path.
Families had hairbreadth escapes:
clothing, bed clothing and feather beds
landed in tops of trees one leather
bed was blown two miles. Toe cyclone
struck this county near Fish Dam and
was about 150 yards wide, and de
stroyed everything in its path between
there and Wilton, a distance oi id
m Its. Between 70 and 80 buildings
in ail were dostroyed, rendering many
people homeless and without food,
furniture or chance of clothing
When the cvclone struck Wilton
some of the shingles, lumber and pa
prs from Mr Harris' store fell in tbe
streets of Kittrell, 10 miles away.
Stanley Enterprise: At the
March term of our superior court
David B Rodman and his wife were
divorced. Since then the legal sepa-
tion has weighed heavily upon them
and love that had grown cold began
to wax warm and reassert itself until
David could no longer stana me
strain. The seauel occurred last Bun-
'tav at this place when 'Squire J. W
Bostain rebound the chord and re-tit-d
the knot that .had been cut a . littie
over three weeks before by the cruel
hand of law. The wife was originally
a Miss Mattie Hill, and several years
ago she was married to one John Kel-
tt-y in Randolph county. Several
children blessed this union, when they
were divorced. . David itoaman was
tbe next victim to the woman s
charms, and tbe balance of the story
is now b-fore you. Tbe woman car
ries the record of having married three
times, having only two misbands, and
all of them living.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Aguinaldo "is allowed to see
any one he desires with the excep
tion of newspaper men," whatever
that may signify. The present au
thorities in the Philippines have al
ways had a great dread of news
paper men, for some reason.
UharlfstmS? flexes and Courier, Vem
It is now clearly established
that Adjutant-General Corbm op:
posed the promotion of H unston to
a .Brigadier uenerai-snip, because
he was "making Lieutenants of
better stuff than Funston every day."
The country has already had abun
dant evidence of the. soit of "stuff"
that Corbm deems available for fill
ing lieutenancies. Philadelphia
lelegraph, uem.
Kitchener is being referred to
now as the "Sherman of bonth
Africa." He has been pursuing a
policy of bnrmng and destroying the
houses and farms of the Boers, as
Sherman did the houses and farms
of the Southern people during his
famous and infamous "march to the.
sea." There is not much to be
proud of in being called "the
Sherman" of any place. Savannah
News, Bern.
Census Bureau statistics of
petroleum refining shows a total
product for 1899 of 42,234,664 bar
rels, valued at $ 123,929,384. As re
ports of refined oil during that year
were about 20,000,000 barrels, worth
nearly $60,000,000, it is evident
that the broad field of domestic
consumption still absorbs the larger
8 hare of the country's vast output
of mineral oil. Instead of a world
wide restriction of product, which
but a few years ago seemed inevi
table, the indications now point to
a largely increased international out
tmt of petroleum and its products.
Nature seems to abhor a monoply
of its treasures, as scientists of old
taught with regard to a vacuum.-
Philadelphia Record, Dem.
TWINKLINGS.
Young Hnsband "Yes, dear,
you look nice in that dress, but it cost
me a lot of money." Young Wife
"Dick, dear, what do 1 care for money
when it's a question of pleasing you ?"
J. If J3lt8.
Lottie (aged five) "I wonder
why oh Dies is always born in de night
time Lottie (aged seven, a little
wiser) "Don't you know? It's 'cos
they wants to make sure of findm their
mothers at home." Harlem Life.
Missis -"Isn't that the post
man, Mary? Who's gone to the door?"
Diary "fiease, ma'am, cook has."
Missis "Well, what's she such a long
time for?" Mary ''Please, ma'am, I
think it must be a post card." ck-
MeTJp.
"After all," suggested the
cheerful pne, "it may be a blessing
in disguise." "If so,1' returned the
disgruntled one, "J may say that I
never saw a more perfect disguise."
Chicago Post.
Force of Habit: Mr. Haist
"I want a couple of eggs, boiled three
and a balf minutes, and hurry up
wu IV, aw a. w a.wv w wwu
Waiter "All right, sir. They'll be
ready in a minute." Philadelphia
Press
'I was just talking to Capt.
Britton, who recently arrived hre
from 8outh Africa. He says ail the
British officers look upon De Wet as
a great joke.? "Ah, perhaps that's
the reason they're unable to catch on
to him"
Magazine Editor: But, my
dear madame, I have merely attempted
to give you, in the Kindliest spirit, a
few hints on meter and construction.
WelL I wouldn't have such a mean
disposition as you have for a thousand
dollars I Life.
Sure Proof: v "This won't do."
exclaimed Mr. Phamlimao. ' H- re
it's after midnight and that young
man and Maude are still in the
parlor. " "How do you know ? In -
quired Mrs. Phamlimao. "B cause I
don't hear a sound down there."
Phildelphia Press. ,
iVEftTED A SMASH UP
HIS SCHEME WAS SIMPLE AND THOR
;;; OUGHUr EFFECTIVE.
A Saf Plan, Not Patented, That May
Be Followed by Railroad Telegraph
Ooerators Who Mut Oo to Sleep
WaUe on Doty.
"However tired or overworked he
may be the railroad operator who al
lows trains to smash Into .each other
while he pounds his ear is a brainless
Idiot." said William James, an old
timer. "When I was a youngster
was In i. charge of a station down in
Pennsylvania. 1 went to sleep on duty
Jjecause I couldn't keep awake. Trains
met there every hour or so, and I was
the only person to run the business at
that point.- I went to sleep and slept
six hours, and there wasn't any smash
up or the slightest possibility of one bo
far as my station was concerned. .
"I was 15 years old when I applied
for a Job to Superintendent Pitcaim of
the Philadelphia and Erie. He tooK
me on Immediately and sent me out to
Kane. That was the place where Dr.
Kane, the Arctic explorer, once lived,
and It was named for him. Kane is on
top of a mountain, with Wilcox at the
bottom on one side and vyetmore on
the other. Oil is the great product
there now, but in 1866 the traffic was
In general freight. Big trains met at
Kane, and for a small place the traffic
was considerable.
"I was met at the station by a big,
wild eyed man, who said that he guess
ed I was the kid that was going to re
lieve him. He said he was glad ff set
out, but he guessed I'd like the work
"Tou'll have the night trick,' said
he, "and you'll only have to be here
from 6 p. m. to 7 a. m.'
"I looked up with dismay, but he
was striding ahead Into the station,
He instructed me in my duties, told me
of a country tavern about two miles
away and then swung on to the train
that had been waiting 20 minutes for
lunch and was gone.
"When the day man relieved me the
next morning, I put for tbe hotel and
found It after tramping about for two
hours and made arrangements to stay
there. The proprietor's wife seemed
to take a motherly interest in me, and
that afternoon when I started for work
she had a bang up lunch of fried chick
en and jam and things.
"Well, that night about 11 o'clock I
got hungry for that chicken and hauled
out my lunch basket. I had just got
things nicely spread put on the instru
ment table when in come a fat en pi
-neer.
"Hello, kid!' said he. 'That's too
good a feed for you. If 11 give you bel
lyache, sure's the world.'
"Whereupon he put me on a bench,
sat on my legs and ate my supper.
Then he got up, sucking his teeth, and
said:
. " 'See tbem'fwoods over there?" point
ing across the track. There wasn't
anything else In sight. 'Well, them
woods is 40 miles long an 15 miles
wide an chuck full o' berries. Go't eat
y'uself f death.'
"He walked leisurely out to his en
gine, and I went to the lunch shanty
just below the station and ate up two
days' salary before I discovered how
determined the keeper was to have
plenty of money to support his old
age:
"The next day I didn't go to the ho
tel, but staid near the station and
plotted revenge. It was the custom to
telegraph up from Wilcox the number
of passengers wiQwanted meals at the
liane luncn shanty, and when I got the
first message that night after vainly
scheming all day an Idea stAick me.
The message read. 'Six suppers on 27.'
I made it read 26 and carried it to the
lunch keeper, who fairly danced with
glee at the unexpected rush. He un
doubtedly saw a Fifth avenue mansion
for his old age. Just as 27 pulled In I
rushed into the shanty with a message
purporting to have come from Wilcox
saying that at the last moment 20 pas
sengers haQ decided to stay there over
night to take part In a local political
celebration. Flynn was furious and
went to the conductor for corrobora
tion. The latter heard with a grin the
story of the 26 prepared suppers and,
remembering his own experiences with
Flynn 8 prices. on two or three occa
sions, simply shrugged his shoulders
and said:
" 'How c'n I help It?'
"Well, the loss of sleep that day and
the excitement did me up, and about 11
o'clock I found I couldn't keep my eyes
open. I took the red lantern and nail
ed the tin bottom to a tie In the middle
of the "rack and went to the edge of
the woods and lay down. Whep I
awoke, the day operator, who had been
dragged out of bed two hours ahead of
time, was getting the Philadelphia and
Erie railroad system into operation
again after a six hour suspension of
service.
"But there wasn't any smash up, and
no lives had been lost, and I got a job
two days afterward at Titusvllle."
New York Sun.
Wliy Site Was Right.
Haydn had a peculiar jyay of deter
mining the time In whreh a piece of
music should be sung. On one occa
sion a female singer in high esteem at
Court had been, appointed to sing one
of Haydn's compositions. At the re
hearsal she and the conductor differed
as to the time of the music. be mat
ter was to be settled by referring it to
Haydn himself. When called on to
decide, be asked the conductor If the
singer was handsome.
"Very," was the reply, "and a spe
cial favorite with the prince."
"Then she is right," replied Haydn.
Nosebleed.
To stop "bleeding at the nose, cut
some blotting paper about an inch
square, roll It about tbe size of a lead
pencil and put it up the nostril that is
bleed Intr. The hollow in it will allow
the sufferer o breathe. The blood will
fill the space between the tube and
the nose and will very soon coagulate
and cease to flow.
A Contractor.
Knlcker You say your soi Is a con
tractor. What is "his special line? -
Bocker Debts.
A man who Inadvertently steps upon
a banana. peel has doubts about the
sustaining power of the fruit. St.
ixrais star.
English archers In battle nsed the
longbow, French archers the .cross
bow. The longbow was certainly the
better.
For Orer Fifty Yean
Mrs. Winslow's Soothihg Sybup has
been used for over fifty years by mil
lions of mothers for their children
while teething1 with perfect success.
It soothes the child, soften the mi ma.
and allays all, pain; cures wind colic,
and is the best remedy for diarrbqea.
It will relieve the poor little sufferer
immediately. Sold by druggists in
every part of the world. Twenty-five
cents a bottle. Be sure and ask fo
"Mrs. Winslow's Soothine Syrup.?
and take no other kind.
STC
i lht Kind Yon Hats Always Bonglf
Seems easy to a man, but there is a
... Jml f Mftincr anrl 'reachinsr to do :
kicuuw o. . . '
a great many trips up and down stairs to
make in tne course vs. av uuuk wui..
It's hard where a .woman is well. For
a woman suffering .with some form of
"female trouble" it i
is daily torment, j
There are thousands
of such, women
struggling along, day
Dy day, in increasing
misery. There" are
other thousands who
have found a com-
Slete cure of their
lBease in the use of
Dr. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription. It
stops debilitating
drains, cures uxcgu
larity, heals inflam
mation and ulcera
tion, nourishes the
nerves, and gives
t . . i j :
Vitality ana vijjur.
It makes "weak
wnrneii stroncr and
sick women well. It
contains no ODlum.
cocaine nor other
narcotic.
"For a number of
months I ufferrd witn
female trouble." writes
Misa Agues McGowne,
of 1212 Bank St., Wash
ington, D. C. T tried j
Tarious cunuici, Liu.
1 4 n A n n.r nrtiianr.r crvin
none bccuicu w w. t - p
The doctors said it was the worst case of inter
nal trouble they ever naa. x aeaaeu to wnn
to you for help. I received a very encouraging
anA mmmMirl treatment at once. I
had 'not used your 'Favorite Prescription' a
continued, my health gradually improved. It is
improving every day."
Dr. Pierce's Gammon Sense Medical
Adviser is sent free on receipt of stamps
to pay cost of mailing only. Send 21
one -cent stamps for a book in paper
. A i.i, -re
covers, Or 31 Slumps "i uuui, v. j-..
A Kins' Fear of Woman's Beanty.
Charles XII of Sweden feared only
one power in the world, the power of
beauty; only a handsome woman could
boast of making him quail she put
him to flight. He said: "So many he
roes have succumbed to the attractions
of a beautiful face! Did not Alexan
der, my pet, burn a town to please a
ridiculous adventuress? I want my
life to be free from such weakness;
history must not find such a stain upon
it."
He was told one day that a young
girl had come to sue for justice ou be
half of a blind octogenarian father
maltreated by soldiers. The first in
clination of the king, a strict disciplina
rian, was to rush straight to the plain
tiff, to' hear the details of the misde
meanor for himself, but suddenly stop
ping he asked, "Is -she good looking?'
And being assured that she was both
very young and unusually lovely, he
sent word that she must wear a veil,
otherwise he would not listen to- her.
Countess Potocka's Memoir.
WHOLESALE PRICES HURBEIf.
Tne quotations are always given as accurately
as possible, but the Stab will not be responsible
for any variations from tbe antual market price
01 we arncies auosaa
BAQOIWCJ
2 Jute
Standard..
Burlaps
WX8TEKN SMOKKD
Hams
Sides jT
Bbonldere
DBT SALTED
Bides V.
Shoulders V
BARBELS 8plrit3 Torpentlne
Second-band, each
Second-band machine
New New York, each
New City, each
BBICKB
8MO
O
6 O
11
O
ma
8H
8 c
1 35
o
1 40
1 40
1 45
1 45
mil
IS
U
III lM
1 m
. i l?gm
7 00 7 50
9 00 14 00
is a 30
25 a 38
3 O 55
53 55
1 30
IS 5
9 11
13 15
UKQ U
10 12H
U C UH
8e 10
5H
70
BUTT KB
North Carolina fi ft
Northern
COBN HEAL
Per bushel, In sacks
Virginia ileal
OOTTON TIEa fi handle....
CANDLES V
Sperm
Adamantine ...... .......
OHEE8E
Northern Factory.
Dairy Cream
Half cream
COFFEE
Lag uyra,,...
Blo.T.
DOMESTICS
Sheeting, 4-4, V yard......
Tarns. V bunch of 5 s ..
rtsH
Mackerel, No. 1, barrel.. . a 00
Mackerel, No. 1, 9 balf-bbl. 11 00
Mackerel, No. 8, 9 barrel... 16 00
Mackerel, No S haU-bbl. . 8 00
MackereL No. 8, 9 barrel... 13 00
Mullets, 9 barrel 3 SO
Mullets, V pork barrel 7 00
N. O. Boe Herring, 9 keg., a 00
DryOod,l 5
H Extra 4 IS
30 00
15 00
13 00
9 00
14 00
8 75
7 50
8 85
10
4 50
rLOTJB
Low grade 3 25
Choice
8 60
3 75
4 00
4 75
10
68
63
5t
40
45
1 10
6
11
10
1 03
50
95
95
90
Straight
First patent
4 50
9
9LUE 9 ..
O
aiui-f ousnei
corn, from store,bgs Wtute
Mixed Corn
Car-load, In bgs White...
Oats, from store
oats. Bust Proof
Cow Peas
5?K
56
37Ha
90
HIDES 9
ureensaitea.....
6Q
Dry flint..
10
MSI V OCUb .......
9
SAY 100 9S
no 1 Timothy
Bice Straw......
Eastern ,
Western
North Blver
15
10
10
10
2XO
HOOP IBON, 9 -..
LARD, 9
Northern
North Carolina
7
9
15
9
10
20
LIME. barrel
LUMBER (citv sawed) M ft
1
rsnip Bran, reeawea is 00
Bough edge Plank 15 00
west India cargoes, accord
ing to quality 13 00
Dressed Flooring, seasoned. 18 00
8cantllnz and BoarA. com'n 14 00
20 00
16 00
18 00
88 00
15 00
MOLASSES gallon-
Bar badoea. In hogshead. ....
Barbadoes, in barrels
Porto Bico, in hogsheads.... 88
Porto Bico, In barrels 88
Sugar House, In hogsheads. 13
Sugar Hoase, in barrels.... 14
8 vruu. in barrels... is
NAILS, 9 keg. Cut, 60d basis...
PORK. 9 barrel
citv uess
aomp..
Prime
BOPE. ......
SALT. 9 sack. Alum
Liverpool .
Ame;
nertcao..
rtn 1QK B.nV.
buuak. v to standard Oran'd
stanaara a
w mte Kxtra u. .
Extra C, Golden
u Y6UOW
SOAP. to Northern
STAVES, 9 a w. o. barrel....
6 00
a. u. uozsneaa.
TIMBER, 9 M feet Shipping.. 8 00
Fair mill 6 50
Prime mill 750
Extra mill s m
BuHuiB,H.u.uypre8B sawed
n oxx neair...,
M Bap..
5x90 Heart
8&Da a ft & a
4 85
3 00
8 85
1 60
1 00
WHISKEY, gallon Nortbnj
BY RIVER AND RAIL.
Receipts of Naval Stores and Cotton
Yesterday.
W. 0-& A. Railroad 93 bales not
ton, 3 casks spirits turpentine, 19 bar
rels rosin, 6 barejs tor, I barrel crude
turpentine.
A. & Y. Railroad 19 bales cotton,
r0 barrels rosin, 10 barrels tar.
O. G. Railroad 5 bales tt 1
cask spirits turpentine. 12 barrels tar.
ecnooner Argyie 24 oarreis tar.
Kil patrick'8 raft 500 barrels rosin.
Total Cotton. 110 bales ? nirit tur
pentine, 4 casksf rosin,' 589 barrels;
tarr 59 barrels; crude turpentine, 1
oarrei.
HIK.PIERCES
(OdDUDDERI
- - ? MEDICAL,- -
Bi.OOaXllVERTLIJKCi$ J
COMMERCIAL.
WILMINGTON MARKET
Quoted officially at the closing by the Produce
STAR OFFICE, April 9
SPIRITS TURPENTINE Nothinc-
COlOf.
ROSIN Nothing doinar
TAR Market firm at U.20 per bbl
of 280 lbs. v .
CRUDE TURPENTINE Market
suady at fl.10 per barrel for hard,
$2.10 for dip and for virgin.
(Quotations same dav last year
8pirits turpentine firm at 5353c:
rosin" nothing doing; tar firm at
$1.20; crude turpentine very quiet at
fZ.UU3 Zb.
RECEIPTS.
Spirits turpentine. 4
Rosin 589
Tar. 52
Crude turpentine
Receipts same day- last year 5
casks spirits turpentine, 167 bbls
rosin, 66 i bbls tar, 5 bbls crude tur
peutme.
OOTTON.
Market firm on a basis of 7c pe.
pound for middling. Quotations:
Ordinary 5 7 16 cts. $ Tb
(iood ordinary 6 13 16 " "
Low middling 7 7 16 " 41
Middling 7 " "
Good middling 8 3 16 " ' "
Same day last year middling steady
at Mc.
Receipts 110 bales; same day last
year, 554.
Corrected Regularly by Wilmington Produce
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
PEANUTS North Carolina
Prime 70c. Extra prime, 75c per
busnel 01 28 pounds; fancy, 80c
Virginia Prime. 50c: extra nrime.
55c; fancy, 60c; Spanish 80c.
UUKJM Jnrm: 58 to 60c per bushel
for wLite.
N. C. BACON Steady ; hams 12 to
13c per pound: shoulders. 8 to 10c :
sides, 8 to 10c.
KGHJS Steady at 9S10c per dozen.
CHICKENS Firm. Grown, 22H
28 j: springs, 1020c.
TURKEYS Live, dull at 9 to 10c:
dressed, 10 to 12c. ,
BEESWAX Firm at 25c.
TALLOW Firm at 5K6Kc per
pound
SWEET POTATOES Firm at 70c.
FINANCIAL MARKETS.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
New .Yobk. April 9. Money on
call firm at 3)5 per cent., last loan
and ruling rate 4" per cent. Prime
mercantile paper 3J44 per cent
Sterling, exenange steady, with actual
business m oankers bills at 4836
for demand, 484X484 for 60 davs
, Posted rates 485i and 489. Commercial
bills 483484X. Silver certificate-
-. Bar silver- 59. Mexican dol
lars 48. Government bonds firmer.
State bonds stead y. Railroad bonds i r
regular. U.S. refunding 2's reg'd. 106;
U. S. refund'g 3's, coupon, 106H U. b
2's, reg'd, ; U. S. 3's, reg'd, 110;
do. counon. 111J4: u. s. 4 s. aev
reg'd. 138M; do. coupon, 188; U. 8
4's, old reg'd, 113X: do. coupon, ,113 j ;
U. 8. 5's, reg'd, Ul4; do. coupon.
111K; Southern K'y 5's 117. Stocks
Baltimore & Ohio, 92 ; Chesapeake
& Ohio 46 Hi Manhattan L 128; N. Y
Central 150; Reading 35.; do 1st
preFd75; St. Paul, 153; do. prefd,
189; Southern Railway 28f; prefd
79: American Tobacco. 147h4; do
prefd 144: People's Gas 110 : Sugar
142 ; do. prefd 121; T.C. ct iron 63 ;
U. 8. Leather 12 ; do. preferred 75 ;
Western Union 92H: U. 8. Steel 47;
U. S. Steel, prefd 94; Consolidated
G&3 216H ; Standard Oil 800805.
Baltimore, April 9. Seaboard Air
Line, common, 24M243i:do. prt-fer
red 4747M- Bonds -4's 82M82.
NAVAL STORES MARKETS
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
ISkw York, April 9 Rosin firm.
Strained common to good $1 60. Spirits
turpentine dull.
Charleston, April 9. Spirits, tur
pontine firm at 33c; sales casks
Rosin firm; prices unchanged.
Savannah, April 9. Spirits tur
pen tine firm at 31c: receipts 989
casks; sales 1,042 casks; exports 519
casks. Rosin firm ; receipts 6,057 bar
rels; sales 1,297 barrels; exports 501
barrels. Quotations: A, B, C, $130;
1), 1 35; E, $1 40; t $ 1 45; G, ft 50;
H, SI 50; 1,1 65; K, SI 89: M, SI 95
N, $1 95; W G, $2 00; W W, $2 25.
COTTON MARKETS.
By Telegraph to tbe Morning Star.
New York, April 9. Cotton prices
followed an erratic course pretty
much all day and speculation was
spasmodically active with nearly all
orancnes 01 tne trace represented.
The Liverpool news was bearish at
the time of the opening, and news
from the crop center also averag d up
in favor of a lower market. The
South sent selling orders in the Sum
mer months and busiaess from abroad
went most exclusively to the bear
side. Xetinthe race of this bearish
situation the market opened steady
with prices two points lower
to one point higher. Soon after the
call tbe market exhibited a disposition
to work upward and before the ad
vance culminated May reached 7 85
and July 7 86 Liverpool rallied sev
eral points in sympathy and eventu
ally contributed several impor
tant buying orders, cut the South
doggedly sold on the rise and sent
bearish information concerning the
state of spot cotton trade and values.
With tbe close of the first hour
the upward movement gave way to a
reaction which carried prices down
to a net loss of one and two
points by tbe noon hour. Predictions
for increased ports receipts and pesi
mistic accounts from spinning cen
ters did much to inspire bear coiih-
dence. Pronounced weakness set in
early in the afternoon and under
active general selling led bv shorts
may fell to 7.70 and July to 7 77. Then
came a sharp rise of ten pou ts
on nervous support from well knowu
export houses. Shorts took fright and
covered with a rush. In the la t hour
the market was firm and active, clos
ing steady and net unchanged to three
points higher.
New York, April 9. uottou quiet:
middling uplands 8 5 16c.
(Jotton futures closed steady. April
7.88, May 7 92, June 7 84, July 7 85
August 7.52, September 7.36, October
7 25, November 7.23, December 7. 81,
January 7.81.
spot cotton closed quiet and 1 16c
lower; middling upland 85 16c; mid
ling gulf 8 9 16c; sale 615 bales.
Net receipts 600 bales; gross receipt
14.964 bales; exports to Great Britain
4 994 bales; stock 146,014 bales.
Total to-day Net receipts 19.082
hales; exports to Great Britain 17,551
bales: exports 10 France 6,358 bales;
exports to the Continent 700 bales;
stock 728,659 bales.
Consolidated Net receipts 50.151
bales; exports to Great Britain 27,010
bales; exports.to France 6 358 bales:
exports to the Continent 46,848 bales.
Total since September 1st. Net re
ceipts 6,516,797 bales; exports to Great
Britain 8.515.532 bales: exports to
France 596,201 bales; exports to the
Continent 1,991.397 bales.
April 9 -Galveaton.quiet at 8lic.net
receipts 7.481 bales: Norfolk, dull
at 8j4a net receipts 735 bales; Bal
timore, nominal at Bfte, net' re-
firm aZ-J.'? m Kall
1,748 bales- u Bjfc Hj
D n r .
nuuuGE
BvTa,... . nM
.r.:?1 to,:.v
nouueed moo,:"ion8 dtJI
' 1 UULirtrt-. :-wm
todayundand
filing. heavinesS
oepiember closed',,
steady; No. aiOc-th6, V
slowly but suSy Q
declme for a tia f
mooerate unloading "JS
estimated rtceints h 1
"'jr 78U net loss, n l
eluded: May ewLVi
September 48c Oat u 1 H
a8Xc; option, dull
em steam is cr' "Otil
uiarKPin t . .
oooUaent ta n,.'ISNa
I9 60; compoun?6y
State and Pcnnsyivani, H
-aaV Buueraro X j
Cheese steady: tJ.C
llMc;do.Sma i
quiet Potatoes M
Island $1501 75; JeM
5l8 00nU3 TM
steady; city 5c; countrj 2
hltle less active l?1
cl.Ann r. I I
oy a reaction iu lard .
ings aiso were somei.
Quoted: Prime crud- i 3
summer yellow 34Kc;pJJ
40c; prime winter jelbi J
meal $25 00. CoffeeXS
dull; No. 7 invoice 6Hc-5
Cordova 810. sJLn
fair refining 3 17 32c: eeSI
fcooi. x aoc; ieauea firm f
standard A $5 is
$5 15; cut loaf $5 85; enj
uiuuiu a. $a u; powderejilj
ulated $5 35; cubes $5 60.
Chicago, April 9.-M
wueai, aue partly to thsd
of a bearish eovemm, J
fluenced the other cereakloJ
iney were less wAktbuy
May wheat closed lcMijI
may oats ni provisinij
lower. j
Chicago, April9. -Casin
Flour easy. Wheat-No M
71c; No. 2 red 69X?2cJ(jl
2 43ic; No 2 yellow 43)fcM
2 26 He; No. 2 while ty!
3 wtiite 2829c. I'oi
rel. $14 25(6114 30. hii
lbs, 18 258 27U. Short rid
$8 008 20. Dry salted
boxed. 16 75ft6 87tf. ?J
sides, boxed $) 25 8 37$ 1
.Distillers nnished goods, e
$1 27.
The leadiii? futures nw
lows opening:, hiehest. M
closing: Wneat ro. 2
7134. 71. 69'$,. 70c: Ui
a April 43s; May 41S.i
43. 43G5j44e: July
44. 42H. 43c. Oats Mi
25XW2H. U. 242i;J
2525,24M.242!c!
bbl Mav 14 30. 11 451!
July $14 35. 14 45. 14 l
W 1 -Art W 0 1l
Lara. rvr mu ms Mavrcii
8 15, 8 15; JulyfS 10,812ji.
September f8 1U, 8 15, 8 1
Shori. rihs ner 100 fts-Mil
8 10,8 02, 8 07; Juljfi
7 87, 7 90; September y
785,787.
FOREIGN tf.ARld
3v Cab!-; to t!)f MornKt
I.ivKBpnm. Anril 9. 4f
American middlitg fairiit
miuuimg o 6o oau ,
4 5 32d; ordinary 3 29 33d.
nf tVo Act- moiw 7(H)0 biift1
Ul bUU UAJ " Ll 1 .
500 bales were for spew
export and included' 6,7(10 '
ican. Receipts sites
000 bales, all American.!
Futures opened quiet a
closed quiet, but iwyjl
jjji: n n Ann i
ttuiu --v
june anu ouij
ier; juij uu o- d
August and September 1
64d buyer; September 41
bm i . 0.itihei If.
(e. o. c.) 4 4 644 5 64d
vember and December m
buyer.
MA BIN t
ARRIVE
Mmr A P Hurt, Kobe
ville, James Madden.
Clyde steamsnip gz
New York, HGSmallbf
Qfm. A V Hurt, Kobe
ville, James Madden. :
Dirt
MARINE
List Of lYal- W
oalntfton.
SCHOONER
C C Lane, 306 .tons,
Geo E Dudley, '
- 833 tons, Wfi
Uarriss. dou :..
Henry n L-W'Z r '
Harriss, Son & W
tiarriss. - 9qo p
City of Baltimore,
Georee Harris?, , bo
Massachusetts. W"""
nrfar CNor)
FUftri. (KUS)
At Go.
M C Haskell, f '
George mr-.
Harrie L TJ'i. CMl
Virginia
pany.
PorLaOriPj
JSSS8?8&f
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