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EBPW gtue gaming jaa&. BY EU HJaKlfrARD. WI1jH..XUTUA. JM. C. SUNOXV BiOKNlXG Apbil 28. COMMERCIALISM B C NNIN O RIOT We have had onr ages of gold, sil ver, iron, brass, etc., and now we have what might be called the com mercial age, -when commercialism is, as Poulteney Bigelow says, "running riot,"' not only in this, but in other countries.' There isn't a leading na tion on this earth to-day which is not more or less influenced by the spirit of grab, and commercialism is behind that. Where they have the power they do the grabbing. The grabbing is not for grab's sake sim ply, but becanse it may give some commercial advantage and prove commercially profitable. This country was the last of the great powers to be carried away by the lust for grab and gain, but we are in it now about as deeply and apparently as hopelessly as any of them. For a century we went along in the even tenor of our way, pro gressing and growing strong, rich and powerful without any aggres sions upon others, without arousing any antagonism or getting into any tangling alliances. We were content with acknowledged supremacy in the Western hemisphere, and did not aspire to be a "world power" as that is now defined and understood. But we were a world power, and recog nized as such, without any great navy or army to assert it, a world power in the moral sense, which the nations respected because they knew that while we did not go out hunting provocation for disputes, we had the courage and resources to maintain the position we took in the event of differences with other powers or at tempts at aggression upon upon us, or upon those of whom we became the voluntary protectors. We were world power enough to have the na tions of the earth accept and recog nize the Monroe doctrine, in which there was no commercialism, but the broad spirit of true Republicanism, which thus declared that this hemis phere was dedicated to freedom and that no monarch's flag should float upon it. In those days the dollar or dollar- pursuing waa not, in the estimation of the men who shaped national policies, the chief end of man, nor the prime object in -national legisla tion. The man was thought more of than the dollar, and principle was too much respected to have a price put upon it. .Not so now, for everything is measured by the gauge of the dollar and the question is asked, as Sena tor Carter said, when speaking of the McKinley policy of expansion, ("Will it pay?" If it pays we'll adopt it; if not, we will drop it. The commercialism that stands upon and succeeds by honest effort is all right. That kind of com mercialism at one time sent our ships to the four corners of the earth and made ns the second maritime nation on the globe, with out encroaching upon the rights of a single human being or robbing any people of a foot of territory. There was nothing sordid, nothing disreputable in that. It was honest. -There was no 'false pretence, no ? 1 . 3 J A nypocriBy m it. .a. amerenc com mercialism rules this day, different in itself and different in its results. Mr. Foulteney Bigelow may be some what extreme in his view of the effects of this commercialism, but he isn't very wide of the mark when he says: "Commercialish is running .riot in me unitea estates, xne xanKees are coining their ideas and energies into money. The trust builders are doing the rest. These money kings necea sarily exercise a blighting influence on the morals of public servants; they create all manner of temptations and breed all manner of jobbery, "In Washington I found cynical contempt for the constitution. Cor ruption stalks through the govern ment. It disgraces the balls of con gress, which are little more than a, brokerage shop for the sale of author ity to fleece the people. Legislators, department officials and petty public servants of all kinds neglect no op portunity to turn their official pre rogatives to profit "I learned many specific instances of flagrant jobbery, especially in con nection with the Philippine war. There are a thousand officials who owe it stealings rangiDg from very small to very large amounts. They don't want the struggle to come to an end. They would much prefer to see it indefinitely prolonged. "President Hadley, I see, denies that he said that a continuance of present tendencies would land an em peror in Washington in twenty five years, I don't see why he should de sire to deny such a statement. We would better have an emperor some one to-take a firm stand against the rising tide of official immorality than to have rulers who have no in terest in the .government beyond the outcome of the next election. "Commercialism running riot," - A. - Z A. 1 or sne spins oigrao rampant. Trusts, combines, corporations robbing the people, and the men who as legisla tors and administrators of the law help them rob the "people, robbing other helpless people lor the com mercial gain it may bring to us. At the bottom of all the nretences justifying the policy of the so-called jxoaaniey expansion is commercial ism. Invariably where this policy ia attempted to be justified and de fended,' we find commercialism figur ing. It - is asserted that it "will - P&y" and therefore it is a good thing to do and we should all be- in favor .of it, leaving wh"at should be the .ts;s4nfion,a; : right or wrong? enrelyjont, of : considera- tfon. That is a kind of commercial ism that sacrifices national honor and national faith and is too dearly purchased whatever the commercial ism might bring. That kind of commercialism not only hurts our reputation as a just and upright people, but it is demoralizing, for it begets a widespread spirit of greed that seeks wealth without being scrupulous as to the means of ac quiring it, and it demoralizes legis lators who make the laws and makes them the agents or the purchased tools of the interests seeking their services. As a result we have class legisla tion, favoring combines and schem ers who study plans for enriching themselves at the expense of others through the legislation which they inspire, dictate or buy. As an illus tration, we have class-favoring tariff legislation, the expansion policy, which is for the benefit of the men who seek concessions and fiud fields for investment in the territory ap propriated, and we have bo'unty and subsidy schemes to put millions in the pockets of a few men under pretence of helping our commerce along. And the result of all this is that the people are plundered for the few, and the few combined and acting together, drawn together by the cohesi power of the dollar, rule the many with despotic power, and exact tribute that would revolu tionize a kiogdom. Verily, "com mercialism is running riot." HOT SETTLED YET. There are some people who fancy that taking the oath of allegiance by Aguinaldo, and his apparently Bin core efforts to bring peace to the Philippines will settle the problem But this, even if Aguinaldo's influ ence should briOg about the laying down of arms, will not be all, for there are other new and troublsome questions to be solved, after the shooting ceases. The" Washington Post is an expansion paper, it holds that we are in the Philippines and and are there to stay; that we can t get out of their honorably if we would, but it dosen't take the rosy view of the f utnre that some of the rainbow chasers do, on which it thus comments: The Post is not disposed to minimize any factor which may tend to that happy consummation. But is there really any ground on which to ba&e the belief that we are close up to any "satisfactory solution of the Philip pine problem?' Aguinaldo was he leader of one faction, comprising but a small minority of the total popula tion of the Philippine and Sulu is lands. It is conceded by all author ities that the world presents no more difficult governmental problem or problems than we took off the incapable hands of Spain in acquir injj sovereignty of that archipelago We have and we shall hold that sov ereigoity. Ithaa cost us great sac rifiie of life Git treasure, and it will continue that draft on our resource even if entire pacification is effected in the immediate future. But if we were willing or desirous to withdraw after so great a sacrifice, there is no honorable exit. We must stay. There fore it is best to face the facts of the situation and not run the risk of bitier disappointment by accepting Aguin aido's proclamation for more than its value. It will doubtless have a favor able influence upon some of his fol lowers, but it were vaiu to hope that it will usher in an era of good feeling toward the United States among all the ten millions of the most heteroge neous and antagonistic races, . tribes. and religions that exist anywhere on earth. ''Aguinaldo has not decided what relations must exist between the Phil ippines and the United otates, and that, we imagine, has much to do with the "solution of the Philippine prob lem. Uur nag is there; our authority is there; but is the Constitution in its entirety there? Tnat is "the para mount issue," as the Republic will probably admit. The administration and Congress are acting on the as sumption that this question admits only of a negative answer. They know, and we all know, that millions of the Filipinos are as unfit to govern themselves as are our Sioux, and Co manche Indians. But, supposing the Supreme Court should say that the Filipinos, one and all, are under the Constitution and cannot be denied any of its guarantees? Toat is wfat all Democrats and many Republicans. including statesmen and juasts, ex pect the court to say. BiAif such a decision as that breaks inYiiDon the programme of the legislatiUb and ex ecutive ! departments of our govern ment. where will thatf"earlv and satifactory solution" finctftself ? "The problem of the rfriars has not been settled ; only put off for a time. It is as full of difficulty as any question our government has ever been called upon 'to consider. We are bound by treaty to respect and defend the title of the friars to the immense landed estates they acquired under Spanish rule. We cannot send the friars back without bringing on the most sanguinary strife. I We are in no condition to buv their lands. This is one of the troubles that we have in store, and it will soon demand settlement. "There is no doubt that in tafcino- ih Phillippines we got a gold brick of huge dimensions. But we cot it sum and fast enough. It is ours and we must make the best of it. Onr tm policy! is to face-all the difficulties of the situation frankly, with no excess of either pessimism or optimism. The past of this republic affords assurance tnai we snail not fail in any honest at . tempt; to do our dutj." Is there no honorable wav out? Is there anything to prevent us from recognizing the independence of those; islands after the people have agreed to refund to ua the money paid for them and to indemnify na tor the money expended in i "estab- us ning law and order and stable gevernment?" They have expressed a willingness to do that, and there l8tT1e.a8.ou wfay cannot deal with the FUipmos as we propose to deal with Cuba. The fact that we bought the; islands does not make it incum bent to hold on to. them j forever, wuatever iw may .oss. j . ... The experiment, of importing ne proes into . Hawaii is a failure. The majority of the negroes are no good. They don't like work, they don't like the "natives and . the natives ... don't like. them.' ." .. ... positive woman. A woman has a right to begpositive on matters which are matters of personal knowledge and experience. Every wom an who has used Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for diseases of the womanly organs is positive as to its wonderful curative value, and confidently rapom mends it to similar sufferers. Women who suffer from inflammation, ulceration, female weakness, or nervous diseases caused by disease of the wom anly organs will find a complete cure by the use of " FavoritPrescription." "Several yrrs ago I suffered severely from female weakness, prolapsus, and menorrtaagia, and used Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription with splendid effect," writes Fannie Shelton, of Washington, Iowa. "Glad I have not needed it for a few years past, but if I should have any return of the old trouble would surely try Fa vorite Prescription." I have recommended it to number of my lady friends. I always teU them to try a bottle, and if they are not bene fited by it I will pay for the medicine. In every case theyave spoken in praise of it." m mm MAKES WEAK WOMEN STRONG AND SICK WOMEN WELL. THE GRAB GAME IN AFRICA. Under the pretence of spreading civilization and Christianity the leading European nations have worked Africa as one open field. The following condensation of an article in the London Times by the Baltimore Sun will show how tbe civilizing, Christianizing nations of Europe have been playing the grab game: "The estimate of tbe Times of the area of Africa, exclusive of all the islands, except Madagascar, is 11,500, 000 square miles. Of this area France holds 3 804.974 square miles, including 1,892 000 square miles of the Desert of Sahara England holds 2.713 910 bquare miles, exclusive of Egypt, but iucluding the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. If Egypt and "tbe Anglo Egyptian 8oudan" be added to England's share, she has 3 723.910 square miles, or still some t bit g less taan the share of France. Germany, a comparatively late comer in the colonial field, controls 933 380 square miles; Portugal, 795,124 square miles; Spain. 169.150 square miles, and Tur key, 398,900 Bquare miles, and there are several independent, or separate States. Anions these tbe Congo Free State holds 900.000 square miles; Liberia. 52,000; Morocco, 219.000, and Abvssinia, 320.000. "Iu point of population and com mercial value, the possessions of Great Britain are infinitely the most desir able, but owing to the wars it has in volved witb the people of Africa Brit ish expansion on tbe Dark Continent has cost vastly more than tbe African expansion of any other Earopean na tion. It is Atimated tbat before the war which led to the absorption of the Transvaal and the Free State shall have end-d. it will have cost the Brit isa oyer $1,000,000,000 'Tbe Times says tbat since the scramble began, 'happily' there have been no wars over the spoils between the European grabbers True. But war has been narrowly averted on several occasions, notably between tbe Euglaud aid France Moreover, 'the peaceful aud diplomatic settle meats' of African issues between these two nations Las left heartburnings, so far as Franks is concerned, tnat may yet bring an aftermath in the way of armed confl.ct." This is but one side of the grab game, it tells what it has cost England in money, but it does not tell what .it has cost England or other grabbers in life, nor what it is has cost Africa in the butchery and massacre of her natives who at tempted to interfere with the grabs. European nations have not yet locked horns and gone to blood-letting over this grabbed territory, for there is yet room to operate without that, but when tire field of plunder be comes more contracted, the lines of the grabbers drawn closer to gether, and wealth is discovered and developed, that will add stimulus to cupidity and greed, then con flicting interests will result in tangles, and disputes and conflicts when the blood-letting will begin, and millions will be expended. They have not yet begun to pay the cost of this grab game. THE CIGARETTE A8 A CIV ILIZE R. Some people are not aware of the part the cigarette is pldf ing as a civilizer in pagan lands. The part it is playing in China wal thus told by a missionary in a discourse in Charlotte a few days ago: "Almost every day I hear people peak of civilizing China. The Chi nese do no want our civilization and I doubt much whether they need it. at least some parts of it. 'Oq some of the streets in China I have seen them selling Duke's cigsr ettes. . made in Durham. N. C . each package containing the picture of a nude woman, and the natives sav that that is the way women dress in America." We sympathize with the good mis sionary who undertakes to convert people who are as much wedded to their own beliefs as the Chinese are, especially when he has to combat not only paganism but the' demoraliza tion caused by these seductive, bru talizing cigarettes. It is bad enough in itself, without the nude . accom paniment, and' both together must give the average Chinaman a unique conception of this land of Christian civilization. Tliat Throbbing Headache. J J2lduipkly lve yon - if you LY3.Dr K,?' New Life Pilli Thr mli '-Bufl have proved their .;v-,;v- r..":, -. . xvnus vmt ctjbtaiw vaIjM . JOSIAH WINK. When tbe curtain drops. And the music stops, , Then the flare of the . footlights fades away; Acd the gleaming gems And the diadems Go back to the paste that they are by And the strutting mug Is a common tbiog, While lhe painted fool is a sober one ; And the noble queen, With her grace serene, Is a woman then when the play is done; And the lords and earls. And the lace and curls. And the pomp and pride are forgot ten then When tbe curtain drops, And the music stops, They must all become what they are again. It is thus with life When the mimic strife Has faded away with the mimic mirth ; When the kings baVe sighed, Ad the slav s have dit-d, Aud the querns have all gone tbe way earth. When our pride and pomp. And our strut aud rump Find their end and the prompt-book close for us And we've played our parts With our hands and hearts, Theu the matn up'i dff d, aud the show ends thus. So we should nt grieve For the mke-beli ve. For tbe mimic life we have lived for the! , . When ih curtain drops, Aud the music stops'. We will ail become what we are again. Baltimore American SUNDAY SERVICES. Services in St. John's church to dav at 7 45 and 11 A M and 5 30 P. M. Sunday school, 4 PM. First Baptist church, Rv. Calvin 8. B'Mckell, D D, pastor. 11 A M , 'M-moers Oue of Another;" 8 P. M., 'R.bboui " Christian Science services at the Masonic Temple, Rjom 10, this morn ing at 11:15 o'clock. Subject: of Bible lest on. Everlasting Punisbtaent. St. Matthew's English Lutheran church. North Fourth street above Bladen, Rev. G D. Bernheim pastor. Morning service only at 11 o'clock 8unday school at 9.45 A, M. All seats free and every person welcome. St. Paul's Lutheran church. Sixth and Market streets, Rev. A. J. Voigt. D. D , psstor General services to day at 11 A. M , English services at 8 P. M. and Sunday school at 3:30 P. 31. Everybody cordially invited. St Paul's Episcopal church, corner Fourth and Orange streets. Rev. W. H. Tomlins, rector, in charge. Holy Communion. 7:30 A. M . morning prayer and sermon, 11 A. M , evening prayer and sermon at 8 P. M. Sun day school 3:30 P. M. Strangers cor dially invited ;seats free. SUNDAY SELECTIONS, o When a church becomes a play bouse its steeple will not save it. The real character of a man is found nu' b7 his amusements. Sir Joshua Reynolds Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and y u will never want for guiding. D. M. Mulock If the impression of Christ does not remain on this intrepid and pow erful people, into whose veins all na Hons pour their mingling blond, it will be our immense calamity. Storrs. Count no duty too little no round of life too small, no work too low, if it comes in thy way. since God thinks so much of it as to send Hi ant? els to guard thee in it. Mark Guy Pearse Just as the eye, the ear, the tongu and tbe hand may be trained and their powers become exceptional. 8 the conscience, the moral nature, may be trained, developed, by the operation of the Divine Spirit. Rev Edmund Duckworth. In America, with its vast, abounding wealth, its crand expanse of prairie, its reach of rivsr and its exuberant productiveness, there is danger tbat our riches will draw us away from God and fasten us to the earth. Storrs. To get back to Christ is to get away from tbe speculations of men and back to a personal faith in the Christ of the Scriptures, to a thorough study of bis teachings and to a complete fol lowing of his instructions. Rev. Dr. D. R Dungan. God has not given ns vast learning to solve all the problems, or unfailing wisdom to direct all the wanderings of our brothers' lives, but He has given to every one of us the power to be spiritual, and by our spirituality to lift and enlarge and en lighten the Uvea we touch. Philip Brooks CURRENT COMMENT. Now they say Pierpont Mor gan is seeking to form a cotton mill trust. Why don't he try his hand on the raw material if he wants to prove his Napoleonic ability. Any body can combine manufacturers. I Try the farmers, Mr. Morgan, if yon S i. - l i.L.1 Jit V 't wit ub a juu tnai win best yuur acu ity . Augusta Chronicle, Dem. Now that the Steel Trust is in control, it is proposed to raise the price of rails $2 a ton, not be cause the supply could not be made equal to tbe aemaod at $26, the present price, but becanse the sup ply can be cut down below the demand whenever it wants to raise the price. This applies to every thing in steel goods, and it fully illustrates the power of the Trusts and the helplessness of the people under a tariff that shuts out foreign competition. Brooklyn N. Y. Citi zen, Dem. A poor man in New York who had a wife and children, and strength to do, but no employment, hit npon the plan of trying a placard npon his breast with the inscription upon it: "I Want Work," He stood at the crossings of thronged streets until the attention of the passers by was attracted, and as a result got himself a situation. - He had been begging for work for months,' but until he made this mute appeal to the eyes of the mass he had met with failure. At last he fathomed the secret of success advertising. He artfully brought his want and his ware into the market. Philadelphia Record, Dem. Y (ESCDEtriDTERl AN ACCOMBUSH ED CUBAN Eulogizes Peruna as an Efficacious Catarrh Cure. BsaSMSlBSSMBiiasBSBBsaBjM I nrAnlrnno naWA innravs ai iVHM Gonzalo De Quesada, Secretary SenorQuesd a, Secretary of the born. In an article in The Outlook Quesada speak at the Este ban Theatre, Matanzas, Cuba, he said: "I have seen many audiences under the spell of eloquent speech and in the grip of strong emo tional excitement, but I have rarely witnessed such a scene as at the close of Quesada's eulogy upon the dead patriot, Marti." In a letter to The Peruna Medi cine Company, written from Washington, D. C, Senor Quesada says : s "Peruna I can recommend as a very good medicine, it is an excellent strengthening tonic, and it is also an efficacious cure for the catarrh." Peruna does not operate upon the tem as the usual remedy does. It is SPIRITS TURPENTINE Mount Olive Advertiser'. At the gradt-d school election in Enfield 218 votes were cast for the school and only three votes against th same. Carthage Blade: We are in formed that the peach crop about Southern Pines bids fair to be heavy this year. This means a great deal for that vicinity. Columbus Netos: Will Bardin, colored, of Fair Bluff, was found dead in the woods one mile east of Fair Bluff, near Mr. Ras Meare's residence, on Tuesday morning last. We were unable to learn further particulars. Salisbury Sun; Mr. J. Henry Goodman showed us yesterday a col lection of twelve eggs laid by a large Plymouth Bock hen belonging to Mr. Jack Goodman, of Cleveland. None of tbe eggs were larger than a par tridge egg and the dzen of them only weighed five ounces. GoldsborA Headlight : Court came to a close Saturday evening after disposing of some sixty criminal caes and about a dozen civil aclns. It is noteworthy that in so many criminal cases, not a single convict was sent to the penitentiary. Those who could not pa-, fines and costs were sentenced to road service. Tarboro Southerner: Mr. Webb, a switchman nu tne bhifting engine, was caught Fr.day moraine between a car and tbe cotton yard platform. Sev eral times his body was turned and probably some ribs broken, but this C'uld not be ascertained, as he was taken to tbe depot, where he was soon carried to Rocky M junt to tbe A. C L. hospital there. t Elizabeth City Economist: Mrs. & F. Wniton, rehci o! Rev. Samuel Whitson. deceased, depaited this 1 fo on Tuesday, April 23rd, in the 69 h year of her age. To all who knew Mr Thomas, bis death by paralysis, on Friday, fell as a bereavement, and he was one of our oldest and best citizens and everybody e&Wmed and loved bim. He was in bis 75th year and til the indications of health promised him many years of robust and active life Hardy Gaskins, BenUncd to be hanged at the last -up-n-r C urt for burglary, has had his sentence commuted to life impris on ment by Governor Ay cock in the penitentiary. Wade8boro Messenger-Intelligencer: Jenny Kir by, wife of Kit Kir by. colored, of Lilesville township, was tbe victim o' a fatal accident Tues day afternoon. The woman's husband was running the engine at the mill of Mr. B F. Covington, of Lilesville township, on the day jpi question, and she carried his dinner to him. After giving him the dinner she started to return home, and while stepping across the shafting from the engine to the mill her dress was caught by it, and she was jerked down, whirled over and over and instantly killed, her neck being broken. John Lily Ingram, colored, who lives at Biscoe, Montgomery county, shot and killed hja wife Monday morning. The couple hkd a fuss, and the wife, to escape the fury of her . husband, . ran into the house and closed the door. The man fired at her through the door with a double barrel shotgun, and the load of large shot took effect in her groin. The woman bled to death in a short time. Ingram has not been arrested. Both the negroes were from the Pow- elton neighborhood, in Richmond county. Bobbed tne Grave. - A startling incident, of which Mr. John Oliver, of Philadelphia, was tbe subject, is narrated by bim as follows: I was in a most dreadful condition. My skin 'was almost yellow, eyes sunken, tongue coated, pain continu ally in back and sides, no appetite gradually growing weaker day by day. Three physicians had given me up. Fortunately, a friend -advised trying 'Electric Bitters;' and to my great joy and surprise, the first bottle made a decided improvement. I continued their use for three weeks, and am now a well man . I know they saved my life, and robbed the grave of another victim." No one should fail to try them Only 60 cents, guaranteed, at R. R Bellamy's Drug Store. For over Finv ra Mbs. Wjsslow's SooTHnra Syeup has been used for over fifty- years by mil lions of mothers - for their children while 1 teething with perfect success It soothes tbe child, soften the gums, and allays all pain: cures wind colic. and is the best remedy for diarrhoea. It will relieve the poor little sufferer immediately. " Sola by druggists in every part of the world. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure and- ask -tor "Mrs. Winslow'a Soothing Syrup," and take no other kind. . O Bearatht The Kind You Have Always Bought ' 6ignatuv -of of the Cuban Legation in Washington. Cuban Legation in Washington, is an orator for July, 1899, by George Kennan, who heard almost universal complaint of Gonzalo De Quesada. sy6 - j a local treatment. It operates as a sys not 1 temic remedy. It gives tone to the TWINKLINOS. Suffering Language "It is dreadful how people misuse tbe words 'awfully' and 'dreadfullv.' " "Yes; isn't it awful?" Chicago Her aid. Hewitt "Are yon a believer in vaccination?" Jewett "Most cer tainly ; it keeps my daughter from play inff ihe piano for nearly a week.'' Town Topics. Rev. Mr. Arlington "You should always be particular about de tails, Miss Truelove. It is little thiogs that teil." Nellie "I know that I have three 6mall sisters " Tit Bits. She "You 6av he is very for mal?" He -'I should say so. Why, if he saw a man walking off with his umbrella, I don't think he'd speak to him without an introduction. Yonk er8 Statesman "My gracious, Willie!" ex claimed Airs. Skookili, "how did you get all that mud on your clothes? ' "Why, I was drinkin' a glass of watcr. and I spilled some of it." Philadelphia Press. Presiding Flyer's Appointments, Wllming. ton District. South port, April 28, 29. Clinton, Kendall's, Mav 4, 5. Scott's Hill. Bethauv, May 11, 12. Fifth Street, May 12. Mwg-iolia, Magnolia. May 18 12 El zbtftb, Purdi'a, May 25. 26 Bladen, Deem's Capel. May 26 27. Kenansville, Warsaw, June 1, 2. Grace, June 2 3 Onslow, , June 7. Jacksonville and Ricblands, Jack sonville. June 8, 9 Waccamaw, Zion, June 15, 16. Whiteville, Cerro Gordo, June 17. Market Street, June 23. 24. R B. John. BY RIVER AND RAIL. Receipts of Naval Stores and Cotton Yesterday. W. &W. Railroad 30 bales cotton, 2 casks spirits turpentine, 4 barrels tar. 8 barrels crude turpentine. W. O. & A.. Railrqad 17 balfs cotton, 11 casks spirits turpentine, 24 barrels rosin, 20 barrels tar, 13 barrels crude turpentine. A. & Y. Railroad 5 casks spirits turpentine, 25 barrels rosin, 13 barrels tar. C. C. Railroad 10 bales cotton, 2 casks spirits turpentine, 36 barrels rosin, 54 barrels tar. Steamer Compton 1 cask spirits turpentine, 6 barrels rosio, 12 barrels tar 8teamer C. M. Whitlock 24 bar rels tar, 10 barrels crude turpentine. Drivers' Flat 272 barrels rosin, 80 barrels tar, 12 kjarrels crude turpen tine. Steamer A. P. Hurt 65 barrels tar. Total Cotton, 57 bales; spirits tur pentine, 21 casks; rosin, 363 barrels; tar, 282 barrels; crude turpentine, 43 barrel 8. MARINE. ARRIVED. Stmr A P Hurt, Robeson, Fayette ville, James Madden. CLEARED. Stmr A P Hurt, Robeson, Fayette- vi ne, james madden. Clyde steamship Saginaw, Hale, iNew x or ir, JtL amallbones. 8chr Mark Gray, Sawyer, Port au Prince, Hayti, George Harriss, Son & Co. EXPORTS. - FOREIGN. Port-au Prince Schr Mark Gray, 41,292 feet wbite pine lumber, 240,911 feet pitch pine lumber. . valued at $4 -426.89; cargo by 8 & W H Northrop; vessel by George Harriss, Son &Co. " Determining-the character and financial responsibility of your Broker, is as im portant as the selection of right stocks." tiAIGHT & E REESE Established 1S90. BRANCHES WITH PRIVATE , WIRES. " fill 53BBOADWAV," llfJi Few York. ; M State Street, Boatoa. 401 Walnnt Street, Philadelphia. S3 Forath ATenne, Pittsburg. S4 lUIn Street, Worcester. 1 F. St., N. W., Weeblngtoa. wrdisB Tnat Bide, Baltimore. Commission orders solicited for lance or small accounts, for cash or moderate) We wul be nleaseif tn "GUIDE TO mall free, on application, onr handsome cloth bound 400 page. Illustrated INVESTORS." It Is the most comprehensive and trustworthy work vi iu una ever Detare piiDittiwa. unr DAILY WARXET LETTER will also be mailed free upon receipt of request. We frlve special attention to the accounts . sn non-resident en stomers. Service unex. pelted. Write ns to-day. HAIGHT FREES E CO., 9? BROADWAY, NEW YORK. apsswt" .so. tutu" weakened, nerve centers, and thus gives tone to the mucous membranes that line the various organs of the body. Catarrh is always located in some mu cous membrane. Catarrh is a flabbv condition of the blood vessels of thes. membranes . Peruna gives tone to thes-. vessels and restores them to their natu ral elasticity. " Miss Martha Wittkopp writes from Greenville,Mich, the following :"When I began your treatment 1 had catarrh of the head, nose, throat, stomach and pel vic organs. I was troubled with hawk ing and epitting,caught cold very easily, had almost constant headache. My stomach was all out of order, I did not sleep well, and was more tired in the morning than when I retired. I had backache and was very nervous, in fact, the catarrh had permeated my entire system, and I almost despaired "of getting well. " I wrote you for advice and you ad vised Peruna. I began to gain right along, and am now well. My parents praise Peruna very much. As for my self, I can't speak well enough of it. I am well and happy and enjoy my life as I never have before. I cannot remem ber when I have felt as well as I do now." Congressman J. H. Bankhead, of Ala bama, one of the most influential mem bers of the House of Representatives, in a letter written from Washing ton, D. C, gives his endorsement to the great ca- I t a r r h remedy, Peruna, in the following words: "Your Peruna is one of the best medicines I ever tried, and no fam ily should be without your re-4 remarkable rem edy. As a tonic and a catarrh cure I know of noth in g better." Address The Peruna Medicine Co. , Co lumbus, O., for a free copy of " Summer Catarrh." This book treats exclusively of diseases peculiar to hot weather, is profusely illustrated and should be in the hands of every person suffering with any form of summer catarrh. COMMERCIAL. WILMINGTON MARKET TQuoted officially at the closing by the Produce STAR OFFICE. April 27. SPIRITS TURPENTINE Nothing doing. ROSIN Market steady at $1.05 per barrel for strained and $1.10 per bar rel for erood strained. TAR Market firm at $1.20 per bbl of 280 lbs. CRUDE TURPENTINE. Market firm at $1.10 per barrel for hard, $2.10 for dip, and for virgin. Quotations same day last year Spirits turpentine nothifig doisg; rosin notbine doirjg: tar steady at $130; crude turpentine firm at $1.85 315. - RECEIPTS. Spirits turpentine . . . 21 Rosin : 363 Tar 282 Crude turpentine 43 Receipts same day last year 20 casks spirits turpentine. 120 bbl rosin, 53 bbls tar, 82 bbls crude tur pentine. ' - OOTTON. ' , Market nrm pna basis of 7Jic per pound for middling. Quotations: Ordinary 5 7 16 ctslb Good ordinary 6 13 16 44 41 Low middling 7 716 " ' Middling.... 7 " " Good middling 8 3 16 44 ; " Same day last year middling steady at Mc. Receipts 57 bales: same day last year, 40. Corrected Regularly be Wl mlngton irofluce COUNTRY PRODUCE. PEANUTS North Carolina, dull ir nine, ooc. HJctra prime, 7Uc per bushel of 28 pounds; fancy, 77J4C Virginia Prime 50c; extra prime. ooc; fancy, 60c; Spanish. 85c. CORN Firm, 60 to 62c per bushel for white. N. C. BACON Steady; hams 12 to loc per pound; shoulders, 8 to 10c; sides, 8 to 10c. EGGS Steady at 11 to 12c per dozen. CHICKENS Firm. Grown, 25 to dOc; springs. 15a25c. ' TURKEYS Live, dull at 9 to 10c; dressed, 10 to 12c. BEESWAX Firm at 25c. TALLOW Firm at 5$$6c per pound. SWEET POTATOES -Firm at 70c. FINANCIAL MARKETS. By Telegraph to tbe Morning Star. Nnw York, April 27. Prime mer cantile paper 4&4J per cent Ster ling exchange nominal, with actual business in bankers' bills at 488 488V for demand and 485485 for sixty days. Posted rates were 485J486 and 489. Commercial bills 484if484. Silver certificates were eu. Bar silver Mexi can dollars 48 j. Baltimore, April 27. Seaboard Air Lime, common, 26 27; do. prefer red, 46X346 c. Bonds 4's 81 H 81. NAVAL STORES MARKETS Bv Telegraph to the Morning Star. Nbw York. April 27 Rosin dull. Strained common to good $1 60. Spirits turpentine nrm at 36i37c. Charleston, April 27. Spirits tur pentine firm at 82Kc; sales casks. Rosin firm and unchanged. Savannah April 27. Spirits turpen tine firm at S2Mc; receipts 2.771 casks; sales 1.143 casks; exports 2 069 casks. Rosin Market firm : receipts 5.252 bar reis; sales 1.389 barrels; exports 2,069 barrels. UuotatioDS: A. is. U. Si 20. D, $1 25; E, $1 30; F, $1 35; G, $1 40; H, fl 45; 1, 1 Co; J, 1 85; M.S2 20. JN. $2 30; W fZ 40: W W, 2 65. COTTON MARKETS. By Telegraph to tbe Horning Star. New York, April 27 The cotton market opened quiet, with prices one point above tne closing of last nieht. Operations during the first hour were' tbe smallest in 'many days and con sisted entire! v of professional week-end settlements. . A -pessimistic review of the week on plantations by the Chronicle and better Liverpool cables than expected induced pit aborts to cover soon after tne call. Prices were very sensitive to this buv ing inasmuch as offerings were scarce ana tne near Taction was unaggressive. May advanced to 814, July to 8 11 and October to 7 32. Thereafter variations were sluggish acd without special significance. The weath-r amp was less favorable than of late. Receiptsvwt-re 'quite as large as pre dicted. Tbe cbief feature of steadi ness abroad was the spot situation Continued good demand from spinne'S for spot cotton at full former prices was regarded as a reflection of im proving good" tAde Private cables stated that Earopean speculative in- OCfl I Congressman Bank- I head, of Alabama. I tionsbESrtheSj New Yoitk e,J4h Future. ciosTd :0- 1U. Ma ft ii Janu&rv 7 v tale 31 Kau- .ica. et receipts 56 k cenn 1,691 bai V b Total 8 bales; exPrPtsJto "toJ bales: exporutoK N u, ineUontir. 'I tock 652393 bXem28l ba es; exports to &Jfr bales; exports to F! H exports to ihe (WDC81 Total sino, SeuS'i gritan, 2 61 133 baUH France 649 73? k ti Contmer. 2.W e,H Apni 27-,iHlv;sl; net recHpu 2 fiKi jtross rceiiLs Kai;MLU 1.8 5 16c, oet kZ'E& million, flrm at 7, 653 M receipu 35 bas V,," 11 8H. tort recem.s 9H ;.qultt8ieadJslS? O.HU 01-; Mobil, si receip.s 25 bales; 8116c UhiW.T;3' Ctlar...stou:tirnU:i PRODUCE MARK By Telegraph to the So,tlM New Yokk, Apni 27 t lainy acuve ana hld Q winter Date nts 45 ."""l patect!s$l0l'43u WhJJ -.Cu o c oplIOnf father on bullish cables I in Prance, outside buyJ from shorts and continue ,' nes. JiObed strong ail(i y ClOSed fiUUfi! Rnntannk.. I Corn Snot firm- W tions were fairly active J wuvciiuK, tuts sireEgthof cables; eased off under mi closed partly c net him, May closed 53c; July oepiemDer cio.-ea -c q steady: Wo. 2 31Urv rm with other grain matkd steady; Westeriis!eHmli8i dull: continent 8 () K,,. $9 50; compound 6c. Po, family $16 0U16 SO; shortdi &17 00: mess 15 mmti weak; State and PwmsjlJ i.4c; csouinern 12J5l3c steady: fancy Jaree whim iJ do. small whi llMllk was steady but lower crai 19c; State dairy 1518c. II esy ,New York $75U;PnilacJ baltiniore $7 45, du. m tal Potatoes siead.v. Jers83Sl IMew lork $1 25&1 75; Hit &5 00: Jersey swerbil Sid nuts quiet: fancv hand-DiciJ otner domestic ihtmiu steady; State $12 UU&161 ereignts to Liivtrpool-u steam Ida K ce quiet; dun to extra 3&8Mc; hmi Tallow firna;cii 4e;coui.W Uulree bpot K o tadj;lw 614c: mild auieK .... Jrdovi S1 buteur raw nrm; fairn-ti'iu x -j j vr centrifugal, 9B test 43 16li steady ; standa 0 A $5 25 cm $5 25; cut loaf $5 95; cm: mould A $5 80. Duwui-reiti ulated $5 45; cubes $5 75 C; oil dull atid about stead crude barrels Jj3j; priusmi low 35c; iff sU'uiijeryrlloa white 394; prime winlrsji prirue m-ai $25 OU. Chicago AdmI 27. Thd broad, stroi g nmmi fr wiia a tid jly closed lfc ovrrs Com. which cl.-aed mil lic hikhe--. was rmbtrrqH n.k market sfi"-d H Mk liif visions were dull, closing ii to a shade lower , mmm Anril 27-OaslW Flour Mirket steady ; wH S ROrfftH 90: winter straw S7f)- nrinter rlfars 22 specials 4 004 10;o...psi 6 Id; straignis a w& -$2 20S2 50 Wheat-toM 72c; No. 2 red 747K No. 2 48c; No. 2 yeuoJ No 2 2714c: No 2 e2i Nn 8 rl.iffi 27tiMW til K(14 55. Ltf fts. 8 75(&8 85. anon loose, 8 10S su. yrjl ders, boxed, 16 87M&7J1 J - : r -i clear siae, noxeu o -"tih kev Distillers' finisiieu W The leading futures m I hiorhML Wl lOWS uueiiuig, "is-":- i closing : vv neat, - - ...... TTTl. IV n V. Mil 73U, 7373Mc;J'y "V 47c; May 478 Julv 45t.45, 45ft- Uats iNo. z may wrj 26, 2627c;JU.j"2; 14 50,14 S5.-14 60;JaljJ"3 a -ia 7 Lard, n mtiv fv i. i Ohm 1W ids may o - . o am. T,.1t. 7 95 8 Wi' FCREIbN Bv Cable to the Monut2s a 27. ton apot Jirowu - of the day were 5, 300 bales were for specp port and included 4 7W ican. Receipts 1,000 w1 futures opened and cjjj 4 34-64d seller; Apn , 64d seller; May D ""jji ler; June and JuIjjJJ Uuly and August irust and September 3 September 4 26 6 71 o. c) 4 8 644 WjMjJ and ovemc. - btf, November and ctUi 64d buyer. MARINE list of ,B alnctou. - .. T.i.-i.sHt?!i.J! Qeoree Harriss, 8 : J Mecosta, 243 tons, o i riss, Son a Notataii.VVl "But be .-Yet yOUsaytobimrt ne . t am e itol opinion - l8kes riht unl-ss be " 13W. " " . Bears the Signature of 1 MIR 1 iln I t. v - v..- -: .