BT WIIiltXAM H. ISKIf ARO
WILMINOTUJS. A. C.
Thubsday jJioRHiHe. Diet 5.
CULTIVATING OUR HBIGRB0B.8.
General James H. Wilson, who
comanded in the provinces of Santa
Clara and Matanias, Cuba, in 1899
and 1900, seems to give some atten
tion to economio as well as military
matters. He has some good ideas,
too. In an address recently before
the American Free Trade League of
Boston speaking of the development
of our trade with Cuba and the Re
publics south of us, he said:
They are clearly under the Ameri
can hegemony, and, if the Monroe
doctrine is to be maintained, they are
clearly within the American system of
public law. Under this aspect of our
relations with them, why should the
United States not say frankly to all
the States of North America, at least,
we will agree to absolute and recipro
cal free trade in natural and manufac
tured products, between our country
and all Its dependencies, wherever
situated, on the one hand, and all the
immediately neighboring countries on
the other, under a uniform tariff to be
agree upon by the parties to the ar
rangement, and to be carried into ef
fect as against all other countries?
This practically means the exten
sion of our inter state traffic to our
Southern neighbors on' the North
American continent. There is little
doubt that the establishment of
reciprocal, or in other, words free
trade, (for that is what Gen. Wilson
meanB) would stimulate trade be
tween those respective countries and
this country and prove inestimably
beneficial to both. It would be a
practically safe proposition even
from a protection standpoint, for
those countries produce or manu
facture very little that could come
into serious competition with any
thing wo produce or manufacture,
while? thfey' produce many things for
which we have much and profitable
use. He would begin with the neigh
bors nearest to us in the Southern
end of the continent, and eventually
reach out and take in the South
American ' countries. Speaking ' of
the countries nearest us with which
he ' advocates adopting this policy,
he thus forecast the effect:
The immediate effect would be to
unite the countries acceding to it into
a commercial union or sollyerein,
with an aggregate population of some
thing; like 100.000,000 of people, about
34.00,000,000 of whom, now living
outside of the United States, would
henceforth sell their raw materials
and natural productions to us and buv
most of their manufactured roods and
provisions from us.r IMihia arrange
ment were at the same time connected
with a stipulation on our part that the
United States would respect the politi
cal independence and the territorial
integrity of the States entering into
commercial union with us, would it
not also end 5 their apprehension of
conquest and benevolent assimilation
and to mankind at large amount to a
solemn dedication of the entire conti
nent forever to the cause of peace.
It takes two or more to make a
bargain. Whether our Southern
neighbors would reciprocate if a
proposition, like this were made
can't be told until the effort is made.
It might depend probably on what
their sources of revenue are, and
whether they could get along on a
free trade basisj-and if - they could
not whether they could be persuad
! products among their people. We
cannot expect that the British
colonies in the Western Hemis
phere will forever purchase sixty per
cent of their importations from the
United States with little correspond'
ins; buying on our part from them.
We must keep and foster this vast
commerce by liberal recognition, for
British America bought from us in 1900
$117,101,803, as against $88,843,130
from Mexico and all the Central and
South American republics, and $26,
934,521 from Cuba, or more ' than all
North and South America and the
islands of the sea combined. The baU
a ace of trade to our favor with Can
ada last year was $63,588,807, while
the balance ''against us with South
America was $61,468,683.
"Of the three great owners of the
Americas, Great Britain has three
hundred thousand more square miles
than the United States, and the Span
ish speaking peoples nearly twice the
area of our territory, including Alaska
and Porto Rico. The population of
this vast section of the earth is twenty
millions leas than that of this republic
It is capable of comfortably sustain
ing hundreds of millions of inhabi
tants. The genius of the twentieth
century will build highways through
and bring out the productive powers of
these wildernesses. The ever crow
ing wants of increasing settlements
will call for the steel and iron and
.wood and textile manufactures in
which we are supreme."
, He asked the question why we
didn't have more trade with those
countries and answered by saying
that it was because we didn't have
ships of our own. Without dis
puting the assertion that ships help
commerce and become aids in the
extension of a country's commerce,
that is not the cause of our small
trade in the Latin countries on both
continents. The real cause is in
the protective tariff and in the fail
ure of our traders to make system
atic efforts to build up a trade or to
compete in prices with European
manufacturers. Perhaps feeling
handicapped by the tariff adopted
for their benefit they didn't con
sider it worth while to try. But
there is a good field there for ex
ploiting by the hustling American
and Gen. Wilson suggests a good
way to inaugurate the exploiting.
GOT A BIG C0HTRACT. -
A brief dispatch published yester
day states that -vf Sit Christopher
Furness, who has been in this coun
try for some time, had left New
York for England ""vith contracts
for the building of twelve freight
carrying steamers, of from six to
ten thousand tons each, the cost of
which, nearly $4,000,000, will be
paid by Americans.
Thifr ir significant item just at
the time when there is so -much
talk about subsidizing American
ships, and when " President Roosevelt-is
appealing to Congress to take
some other which means to vote
subsidies to establish an American
merchant marine. It has been said
as an argument for subsidies that
Americans would hot put capital in
ships and run them in competition
with foreign' ships. " But Americans
have been doing that, although they
have been running their ships under
foreign flags because they were de
nied the privilege of running them
under their own flag, if the ships
were not built in this country. As
these twelve steamers, which are
probably to be built for some rail
road companies, will be built in
British yards they, of comae will
sail under the British flag unless
some enabling act be passed Con
gress authorizing them to carry the
American flag.
But why is it that an English ship
builder got these contracts? Couldn't
ti
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CURRENT CUMV1ENT.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE.
General Kitchener is captur
ing 100 Boers a week. As there
are said to be 10,000 in the field two
more years will be .required to com
plete the job. Atlanta Journal,
Bern.
A Westerner who knows
what he is talking about is advising
young men in the overcrowded East
to "go South." There's a great op
portunity in the South for quick.
active, energetic young
men with
these ships be built in this country? 1 80me capital - and ability enough to
He got them IdonhtlftM Wah.. I now. n?w t0 n8 " properly. The
ja v. " 'm , v I aontn " n Place, however, for
j nuiuu wo av
SURPRISED AT ITS MODERATION
The leading English papers were
agreeably surprised at the modera
tion of President Roosevelt's mes
sage, and while it caused a "mild
thrill" (whatever that is) in Ger
many, even the German Bourse
soon recovered from the "mild
thrill" and trust stocks went up a
little, while steamship stocks went
down a little. Having read so much
about the "Bough Bider" and
Roosevelt's strenonsness, they per
haps concluded that when he threw
himself into writing a message there
would be some rough hewing and
mjo uucume&i wouia do a nne ex
ample of what a stalwart muscle and
a vigorous brain could do when it
came to fulminating a message, and
consequently they were agreeably
disappointed when he didn't unfurl
his battle flag and hid defiance to
"the nations of mankind."
English papers pronounce it one
of the most characteristic and re
markable messages ever sent to
Congress characteristic because it
is written in Mr. Roosevelt's easy,
f nil of work that they do pot care
to compete with foreign builders on
ocean-carrying ships. They get their
own prices for buildinir lake and
coasting vessels and the boom in
these is such that they do not care
to build ocean ships at less profit,
which they would have to do to com
pete with foreign yards.
And yet one of the pretences in
advocating subsidies is to encourage
the home ship-building industry, as if
it were languishing and had a hard
time to get along. As American
ocean ship owners have to compete
with foreign ships they cannot
afford to pay from twenty-five to
thirty per cent, more for their
ships than the foreigner has to toy
and a good many Americans do not
like to buy foreign ships and sail
them under foreign flags. But if
they could buy their ships abroad
and sail them under their own flag
they -would take to the sea much
more than they do now, there would
be a greater demand for ships, and
seeing this, our ship builders would
equip themselves to build them as
cheaply as they are built abroad.
young men who don't know how to
work. We don't need anv vonnir
men ior street corner adornment.
Chattanooga Times, Ind.
T m a .
-oecause angel heads are
carved on the capitals and bases of
the columns of a tralmt imported
for a Brooklyn church, the cus
toms appraisers have admitted
those parts of the DulDit free of
duty as "works of
art," while
the
pillars they adorn must Dav dntv as
ii . , - . . . ,
sue worK ox artisans. Hereafter.
course, carezni church author
ities will have angel heads carved
on all pulpit columns ordered from
auruau. meanwniie tnev ran n.
joy studying the remarkable vaga
ries of a high protective tariff law
and the men who interpret it.
Hew York Herald, Ind.
The German sugar refiners
Charlotte News: Beverly Huen,
a negro lineman for the Bell Telephone
Company, was shot and it is thought
fatally wounded Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. J os. F. 8hannon, the head lineman,
did the shooting and he will claim that
he acted in self-defence.
Wadesboro Courier: Last Fri
day County Coroner E. F. Fenton
was called upon to hold an inquest
over the dead body of Allie May Beago
an infant of about four months old.
whose mother is Annie Seago, an un
married girl living near the depot
This is the second child this c-irl ha
given birth to and both have met the
same fate. After an inquiry into the
facts of the case, came to the conclus
ion that the child came to its death by
suffocation or asphixia.
Lumberton Argus: Mr. J. L.
Townsend, of McDonald, had the mis
fortune to 4ose his entire cotton gin
plant last Sunday night: It is not
known how the fire originated. Whan
first seen it was bursting through the
top of the building and it was impos
Sible to Control it. The Inn ia ahnnt
$1,500, and was insured for $700. In
addition to the gin and fixtures there
was a considerable amonnt of
and cotton seed burned.
Monroe Journal: Mrs. "R. m
G tiffin died at her hom hn ).
last Wednesdav mominv Hh
been sick but two or three diva and
the announcement of her death
the first intimation that many had of
uer iiiness. hib Kate (lahni-n
a daughter of Mrs. L. C. Osborne, of
Union viile, died Monday nurht of eon.
sumption. She was about 30 yens old
TQuoted officially at tbe dosing toy ti Produce
KxooameJ r:, .J ;
STAB OFFIOJfi. December 4. , .
SPIRITS TUBPENTINB Nothing i
doing .. !
ROSIN Marke -firm at flScr per bar--1
rel for strained and $1.00 per barrei for
good strained.
TAR Market stead vat tl.20 per bar-4
rel of 280 lbs.
CRUDE TURPENTINE Market
steady at $1.10 per. barrel for hard,
$2.00 for dip, and for virgin.
. Quotations same "'-'dasr-' last rear
Spirits turpentine steady at 38js38c;
rosin firm at Sl.206.1.25: tar firm at
j $1.45; crude turpentine steady at $1.40
3.40.
RSGETPTS.
Spirits turpentine 73
Rosin 206
Tar.,... 832
Crude turpentine..... .......... .77
Keceipts same day last year '49
casks spirits turpentine, 203 barrels
rosin, 178 barrels tar. 159 barrels crude
turpentine.
OOTTON.
Market firm on a basis of 7jc per
pound for middlimr. Quotations:
Ordinary. 5 1-16 cts. ft
Good ordinary 6 7-16 " "
Low middling . . 1 1-16 " "
Middling 7K " 41
Good middling 7 15-16 " "
Same day last year, market firm at
9Hc for middling.
Receipts 2,361 bales; same day last
year, 1,484.
NATIONAL CELEBRITIES
Declare Peruna to Be The Greatest Ca
idn:yu nie age.
non. m. C.
Corrected Regularly by Wilmington Produce
uommission Merchants, -prices representing
slon MerohantsJ
COUNTRY PRODtJCtE.
PEANTJTS North Carolina, firm.
Prime, 60c; extra prime, 65c; fancy,
70c, per bushel of twenty-eight pounds.
Virginia Prime, 55c; extra prime,
60c; fancy, 65c. Spanish, 5560c.
CORN--Firm. 75a77r ner hnnliAl
for white.
N. C. BACON Steady; hams. 15
16c per pound; shoulders, 1314c;
EGGS Firm at 2021o per dozen.
CHICKENS Dull. Grown, 20
25c ; springs, 1020c.
TURKEYS Dressed, firm at 10
1234c: live. 8&9c.
BEES WAX Firm at 26c
TALLOW Firm at 56c per
pound.
BWKET POTATOESFirm at 50
60c per bushel.
FINANCIAL MARKETS.
.
mm r w z. m . w ja .
R CHAMBERS, OP SAMOA, 1
11 Sayn: "I out recommend El
Peruna as one tit the very 1
1 oeet remedies torcatarrn. . I
I reenmmf'tul Pmrmtntn mt uttm I
lB1SiBaeSCE5t ill I
Governor nf .. Ll
una, in a letter
, says:
mead Peruna tor
C4
Mallory, Pensacola.Fla.
have used your exemiul
edy Peruna, and can recn
it both as a tonic
ionJ D.
dv&rtA
stomach trouble, i 'm
using your medicine .
period and I feel "
Ueved. Is indeed a Zr
medicine, and beside
tonic" ' "W
Um S, Senator q.
PnenM
your excels " I
recomJ?
tonic . 1
w a Gnl.
tarrh remedy."
Hon. William v.
bl00dt Auditor tor the 2
Writes from Washington n.l
Dr. Hartman, Columbu. n I
tallows' 4Pvn t. .
great medicine and bavtperQ
w- - Mrwm catarrh .
" ' -lGr vafogona I
he has wonderfully UnrtA
has proved all you nave eiJj
! Hon. &fus & MercuJ
C , ii
DupcnMiicHueni and
pursing Officer. V. S.
Office, Washington, kc.,
take pleasure in commendiA
of Peruna with very beaetktalJ
suits. It is recommended to &
as a very excellent catarrh cm.
have not formed a trust; oh, no; far I mnd most estimable young lady.
Kaiser Wilhelm is said to be in
dividually about the wealthiest
monarch in Europe. He inherited
a large estate from his grandfather,
another from his father and
got some wealth by his wife,
but he has added to his private es
tate by judicious
irom it. A trust is a thing to be
shunned, in any language. They
have entered into a "commnni't nf
i . . . j -
mieren ' agreement to control home
production and regulate prices, but
dub tnati8 merely a "kartell" and
not a trust," according to Privy
wuuciuor woiaDerger. This moves
the Boston Traveller to suggest that
the American combinations of capi
tal may find it convenient to adopt
the German word. There is some
thing dignified and high sounding
about "kartell" that "trust" lacks?
It is possible that those who now
pour out the vials of their wrath
against the trusts would be as meek
as lambs in the contemplation of
kartells. Savannah News, Dem.
1 WIJNKLINdS
investments and
vigorous style, and remarkable, per-1 while liberal liver, is estimated to
haps, more for what it did not sav I rth $50,000,000. But that is
than for what it did. On this side
it is regarded as remarkable, too,
for the caution he showed in discuss
ing questions on which his oartv
but little over the annual income of
Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rocke
feller and some other Americans,
who didn't inherit anything but the
ed to adopt free trade for the pro-1 ?"end8 are Jied, and the exceed-1 o accumulating millions.
ducts of this country while imposing
autiesupon the products of other
countries.
Ten years ago James G. Blaine,
who, however," did not orignate the
reciprocity idea, favored' reciprocity
practically free trade with the
countries couth of us, and if hi
3 - -
laeas naa been fully and: freely
cameaout the probabilities are we
might have been at the head of the
commercial column in those coun
tries instead of at the tail, and la
menting that we are bo far behind.
We do not know whaf Gen. Wil
son's politics are, or whether he has
any poltics, but from a business
. standpoint politicians would do well
to give serious consideration to his
scheme for cultivating our neigh
bors; and drawing them nearer to
nsj5; We have talked about the trade
we ought to have in the countries
South of us, have gone on talking
and fooling until other countries
across the sea got a foothold where
we might have anticipated them.
They now control the bulk of the
trade, leaving us only an insignificant
percentage of it. The fact is that
by some incomprehensible blunder
ing we seem to have almost over
looked the possibilities of buildingL
i itwe iu me countries we refer
to and have been taxing our efforts
to build up trade on the other side
of the earth, turning from the
ing care with which he ventured
upon the trust ground, the tariff
question, etc. The construction
put upon this abroad is that the
trusts are in no immediate daDger
of being meddled with, and there-;
fore there need be no hesitating in
putting money in trust stocks.
Mr. Roosevelt is a young man,
impciuuus, aoBcruTe; out be it a
sagacious man who realizes the re
sponsibilities of his position and he Is
also a politician with an eye to the'
future, all of which will account for
the conservatism of this message and
for the consummate skill shown in
advocating reforms without antago
nizing the interests that would be
affected by the reforms.
BOOK F0TICES.
The Cosmopolitan Maoazin fa.
December is a very attractive and In
teresting number, and handsome with
Its fine engravings. Among the
numerous articles is one on the Boer
War, Illustrated, up-to-date: Oar Old
Sea Fighters, also Illustrated, and
Early Opera in America, illustrated,
all of which will be read with inter
est These are but a few articles of a
ery attractive list of content. Ad-
areas ae (Joamonalit&n Tw
New York.
The Review of Reviews v for Decem
ber presents a splendid list of contents,
varied in character, and embracing a
number of tonics attracting attMf:
in this and other countries, also "The I ,x .p 8even- Brooklyn Eagle.
Girls: Isabel I've a lovely com
pliment for you, Irnoa. Irma Oh.
whatiaitf Iabel 8omebody said I
look like you. Judge.
Suggestion Promntlv a
CanTatter -"Don't let m disturb you,'
sir" Busy Merchant-"! won't
Vii.umn, inow gentleman out"
Chtcago Tribune.
describing the Bargain Sale:
And thn, said the girl who reads the
football news, she went through the
line for a gain of fie yards of slight
ly damaged ailk. CThwinn ti
Herald. a
"I wonder why the baby cries
so much," said the you nor mother.
-rhat'a essy," replied the bachelor
uncle. "Why is it!" demanded the
mother. "Because it is a baby," re
plied the uncle. Puck.
Curious Daughter "W ill mn
get wings when you go to heaven?"
asked little Elsie of her father, who is
L uoj pui teauiers on your
head, too, papa t" she persisted. Ohio
State Journal.
Mr. Newlvwed fraoli niton alvl
how do you get along with the butch
er, lore? Mrs. Hewlywed Oh, splen
didly. He is such a generous man,
Mortimer. When I order a four-pound
roast be always sends me one wei?h-
Tarboro Southerner: More defi
nite reports concerning the killing of
Wm. Henry Pratt by Wm. Whitehead
puts a more serious aspect upon
Whitehead's fatal act of laat Rnnt.
Willie Harriss, who witnesse . the
homicide, save that Pratt wu atnHin.
in the door when Whitehead told him
to take his head out of the door, or he
would shoot out of him. at the
same time pulling a pistol out of his
pocket and firine. Pratt fell
on his face. Whitehead asked him If
he was hurt to which Pratt responded
PTatt wa 8track in the neck, the
ball cutting the jugular vein, and he
bled to death. Mary Whitehead, the
mother of the slayer, sava that the tn
men were the best of friends hut , I
uoraoo u not DTIffnt. JAhn Rm'
says he saw them Saturday night; that
he came from Pinetops with them, and
up to 11 o'clock when he left they were
perfectly friendly. Dr. S N. Harrell,
the coroner. M ondav hM in..
The jury found a verdict in accordance
with the facts given above and the cor
oner committed Whitehead to jail
By Telegraph to the Morning star.
Narw Yobx. Deo. 4. Money on call
was firm at 4 per cent, last
loan 4 per cent, ruling rate per
cent Prime mercantile paper 4tf
5 per cent Sterling exchange firmer.
witn actual business in bankers' bills
at 487 for demand and 484V
484X for sixty days. The posted
rteLi,weJe, 485 anf Com
mercial bills 483X484. Bar sil
ver 545f. Mexican dollars 43. Gov
ernment bonds strong. State bonds
inactive. Railroad bonds were irregu
lar, u. 8. refunding 2's, registered.
108; U. a refunding 2'sVSupon:
1083;?o3"w reg'dtlS9V;do. cou
f?" lS5i--U. a 7s, old reg'd,
m; L uPO 113: U. 8. 5's, do.
reg d,t 107K ; coupon, 107 : Southern
y 5' 12?X. Stocks: Baltimore
&r,01"o 104X; Chesapeake & Ohio
LY;.Jnhttan L148H; N. Y. Cen-
KtrallTO; Reading BOX; do. 1st
sfd 80; do. 2nd prerd 60: St
ull7V; dp. prefd, 189; Southern
Bwa7S45 do- prefd 93 1 Amalga
mated Copper 74 H; American Tobacco
Z : People's Gas 100 ; 8ugar 123X ;
n888 Coal and Iron 64; U. S.
Leather 1?; da prefd. 82: West-
ern Union 91XUU. S. Steel 42M; da
preferred 92 ; Mexican National 14Jg ;
American Locomotive ; do. pre
red; Standard Oil 696700; Virginia-Carolina
Chemical Ca, 62U: do.
preferred, mtf.
Britain 1.282.865 bales; exports to
France 333,800 bales; exports to the
Continent 1,018,569 bales.
December 4. Galveston, firm at
7c, net receipts 7,879 bales; Nor
fo firm at 72c net receipts 3,935
bales; Baltimore, nominal at Rr- nt
receipts bales ;Boston, quiet at 8 5-16,
net receipts 2.287 bales; Wilming
ton, firm at 7Xc net receipts 2,361
bales; Philadelphia, firm at 8 t
receipts 102 bales: Savannah oh. .
7c, net receipts 8.177 bales; New Or-
"y at i9-ieo.net receipts 25,
958 bales: Mobile, nominal at 2
rweipu x Daies-.ittemphis, irregular at
7 fie, net receints 4.066 - balea a n.
5rf 7? M 7 18"16c net receipts 2,327
. ' . y"?ri'Xiln, nrm at 7Mc, net re
ceipts 195 bales.
Senor Prleto. a SnsniiiM vhn
venfed machines used snccessfnllv for
extracting the fiber of the henequen
plant or sisal grass. In Yucatan, ha
Just perfected a machine which prom
lses to solve the long pending problem
of getting ont the fiber of the
plant, which yields pnlqne and grows
on the Mexican tablelands In enormous
Quantities. Preliminary trials of this
machine have been remarkably satis
factory, and specimens of the fiber sent
to Europe are pronounced equal to hen
equen. German Importers say that all
the maguey fiber Mexico can nrndnna
will be taken at good prices. This
means the building up of a large fiber
export trade and the utilization of a
plant which after yielding pulque has
had little or no commercial value. Aft.
er the leaves have been stripped of the
fiber the residue makes an excellent
food for cattle.
.Baltimore. Dec.
Line, common. 27
red, 5151; do 4s
4, Seaboard Air
bid : do. prefer
86 asked.
PRODUCE MARKETS.
By Telegranh to the Morning Star.
-Nkw Yoek, Dec. 4. Flour market
more active and held higher; winter
straights $3 453 55; Minnesota patents
$3 804 10. Wheat spot market
strong; No. 2 red 85Kc. Options were
active ana unaer Dull control all day
The large volume of outside buying
together with the strength of corn?
smaller Northwest receipts, dry
weather, English cables, foreign buy
ing and scarcity for sale, combined to
make one of the strongest markets-in
weeks. Closed strong? and i k-
net higher: March closed 85 We;
May closed 84c; December 83c.
Un-n spot market strong ; No.2,70e;
options were also very strong, touch
ing record prices for the
w uuvenug, a gOOU
returning outside
ana small
Cotton: Spot, fair demand; mU
uuiui iMiu iiiiiiii nnn fn.. iJ
32d; good middling 4 81-32d; S
4 9-16d; low middling 415-32d -J
ui iiie nay were 10 flfln t
of which 500 bales7 were K
won ana export and included!
muw American. Keceipts 22,3001
tux American.
Futures opened firm and
urm at a net aavance of ten tot
December 4 29-644 30-64d bujecd
""or ana January 4 Z8-64d
January and February 4 26-64
oaa seller; February and Muclid
zo-o4a ouyer; March andi
425-64d buyer: Aoril and Wan
4 25-64d buyer; May and June(S
3 zo-om seller; June and Ji
4 2344 24-64d seller; July andi
KUBi a 2a-o4a ouyer; August nds
temoer 4 lti-oad buyer.
cash demand.
trade, higher cables
COUntrv nfTarinm
A . - . - "fe -
upuuus marxet closed strong at lHc
net advance. Sales included: May
1?"' ?a h 50c5 Ptton8 broad
at the West and much stronger on
heavy general buying. Lard firm;
Western steamed $9 909 95; refined
firm. Coffee Spot Rio quiet; No. 7 in
voice 6Vc:mild nnit-nwl
frrRa,wJteadJ'5 ,air fining SWc;
FOREIGN.
- .LBPOOi-Br steamship WasdM
,oat naies cotton, 7,077,479 po
valued at ieoi snn.
- aicauy ; lur ranninir .hum i VH,sv
centrifugal 96 test,3c; refined steadv' 7 'Alexander Sprunt & Son.
ium UU1L nutter tipm
creamery 1625c: Ststta h..,- ua
Cheese firm: late maH host
About the meanest man in the5
United States recently turned up
dead in West Virginia. He was
worth in property $10,000. He had
a wife and nine children, to whom
he bequeathed $1 each, directing
that the remainder be expended in
"Kging him up a water-tight vault
for his body 'and for a monument
to his memory. It should have
been a fire-proof vault. If the
courts have rational methods over
there they will put a big puncture
in that will.
Samuel Hogan, of a Minnesota
town, got an idea into nis head that
young and growing countries, with I i; was hia mission to exterminate at
n ... . . . "
r-rogress or the World", and "Record
oruurrent Events," interesting and
valuable features of this publication.
It is. as usually, well illustrated. Pub
lished by The' Review of Reviews
Company, 13 Astor Place, New York.
The December number, of The
Smart Set is smart and sprightly, in
teresting throughout The list is full
and varied, and has merit enough in
it to be attractive without pictures.
ru binned by the Ess Ess Company,
publishers, 1135 Broadway, New York.
Frank Leslie's Monthly tor Decem
ber is a beautiful and interesting num
ber with fine fllstrations and a list of
contents that anyone may read with
pleasure. Address the Frank Leslie
Publishing Company, 141-147 Fifth
avenue, New York.
in
mighty possibUities in them, to the
old, moth-eaten nations of the earth
which for ages have been on the de
cay. In his speech at the opening of
the Charleston Exposition, Monday,
Senator Depew spoke somewhat on
wen. Wilson's idea that when
discussing reciprocity he said:
. 'Remprocity has been a popular
but undefined: idea in American not
itics.. Its-possibilities have cajtud
pur imagination. Itsf practical and
wJit.-!iaTe never en!
reeled. Where it brings the highly
organized industries and cheap labor
of other countries in competition in
our markets with our own. the scheme
wiu not be, adopted. Bargains are
U!T 1ne-,ldd among shrewd deal
5d, iW and in detail red
-V.6".1. Indu islands and moat if t
ca3d,Cntral AmedS
dnw iA " foo, u is our plain
S7?"!"" tvanSge.
i,- i wuwwoH . aa win
us and give u. V re-'
better noaltion JLa J?
um
them
turn
to
the
least one anarchist. He asked a
man if he was an anarchist, and the
man mistaking the word fororran-
i . o
m repuea that he was whereupon1
ixogan snot him; but not 'fatally.
xne man was laid up for a little
while and Hogan was sent no for
three years to the penitentiary.
When Li Hung Chang visited
New York he put up at the Waldorf
Astoria and was so taken with it
that he asked the manager if he
wouldn't go to China and "build him
a house just like it. The reason W
like that he could have hot water5
whenever he wanted it withoni now-'
ing Waldorf prices for it.
For Whooplrifi: Ooiih
use CHENEY'S -Ei-PEOTOBANT.
For sale by Hardin's Palace Pnarmacy.
A Poor BIlIIJeBalre
J Lately starved in London because
he could not digest his food. Early
use of DrKin'a N T.if- t.ii- ..d
Tlff.S tten the
. r. wiMon,- promote as
similate and imnrove annt t.
f?5tat: H?nJP back no satisfied.
Sold by R. R. Bxllavt, druggist t
. ; Aii who usb Atomjzxrs in treating
nasal catarrwill get the best result
from icly's Liquid Cream Balm. Price,
Including spraying tube, T5 cents. Sold
br druggists ormalled by Ely Bros.. 56
Warren Str.N.S. J Dram?9
WeJ Orleans, Sept 1900.
- JUC88BS. JSiY BEOS. : I aold two
bottles of your Liquid Cream Balm to
ioiwiunw ok., iibw Lnrieans; he has
used the two bottles, giving him won-i
derful and most satisfactory results.
ueo. w . nKJuvrv, Pharmacist
Bride fdiscussinr
oouiou kuuin io inere was a Slight
hitch while we were takim?
tions at the chancel. Groom Possi
bly; but it was nothing compared with
the hitch that followed. Town and
Country.
Patience He mnst havA a unit.
spot in his heart for me. Patrice-
Why so? Patience He says he ia
aiwaya wmaing or me. Patrice But
you anow a man doesn't think with
his heart. The soft place must be in his
head. FonJfcers Statesman.
.nTT Plucked from 4A Burning:
"This new revivalist that is working
with such singular success didn't
you say he used to be a prizefighter
or something of the kind?" "Worse
nan nai. tie used to be a bear on
'Change." Chtcago Tribune.
.l,":8!?168"1 8ay Henderson, I
think I've got a mash on that pretty
young woman over at the other table
Blamed if she didn't kiss, me with her
eyes just before you came in. Hen-
aerson i can go yon one better than
that my boy. aha has kissed mn with
her lips. She's my wife, you know,
Boston Transcript,
Discretion the Better Parti
Miss Oushington But were you never
frightened, captain, when you saw the
enemy advancing? Capt Kandor
No; I felt safe so long as I had a
couple of life preservers with me.
Miss aushington Life preservers!
ontiHMMfTx ana l imes.
American Kcroien Ib Korea.
The largest single Item of trade be
tween the United States and Korea Is
kerosene, which for the year 1900
amounted to 1,797,630 yen ($895,220).
The Standard Oil company maintains
extensive warehouses at Chemulpo
and fa now erecting others at Fcsan.
The trade is growing rapidly.
Coamae lmnstrr of Malaaa,
The rapid development of the cognao
Industry of Malaga la attracting con
siderable attention. For the first time,
jt is asserted, tne zamons French co
gnac of commerce has much to fear in
this competition. That the Malaga
cognac has many advantages is readily
admitted. According to expert opin
ion, it is what the French cosrnae nsed
to be before the great demand for that
famous article resulted, as is alleged,
in the practice of blending and conse
quent deterioration of quality. The
growth of the Malaga cognac industry
is due to the absolute purity claimed
for the product.
COTTON MARKETS.
Seven Years in Bed.
Will wonders ever cease?" in
quire the friends of Mrs. L. Pease, of
Lawrence Kas. They knew she had
been unable to leave her bed in seven
years on account of kidney and liver
trouble, nervous prostration and gen-
orai i ueouiiy; out, "Three bottles of
ecwio outers enabled me to walk,',
she writes, "and in three months i
felt like a new person." Women suf
ferine from RAriaia tj-i u
Nervousness, Sleeplessness, Melan
choly, Fainting and Diwy Spells will
pncelea. blessing. Try it
Satisfaction is guaranteed by R. R.
Bellamy, druggist Only 50c. t
NAVAL STORES MARKETS.
Bv.TeJegrraph to the Morning Star,
a Nw York, Dec 4. Rosin steady.
w.aaiM feUt7(VlUIlQ quieC I
Uhablkstoit, Dec. 4. Spirits tur
pentine firm atS4c; sales casks.
xmmiu nrm ana unchanged; sales
Bavahnah, Dec 4. Spirits turpen
tine firm at Z7Z
cassa; sales 797 casks; exports 137 I fr?TnXa eer. UTm; late mde best
, M; lnflrm ;ceipts 4,485 barrels; ZRul v ,M8 made 1,681 sma11 10
salei 11,933 barrels exports 1,251 barrels. a ' E?s -teady: State
Quote: A,B, C, D, $1 10; EL $1 10-F and Pensyama 2627c; Southern
V'O,$1207H,,tl45;r$iro;,K: ?LrkT 202c- Potatocs--Market'
215j M, $3 65; N, $3 85; W G. 13 60 ; lLl f 1 501 76? New York
W W. $3 80. ' ' 1 W8 12K; Long Island S2 002 25-
fteady; Long Island Flaf Dutch, ner
100, $2 003 00. Peanuts steady;
fancy hand picked 44c; other do
VJS23- Fre to Lirert
pool-cotton by steam 13. Cotton
seed oil was firm, with an advancing
" xuuuencea oy light
offerings and the strength of lard.
SKP"?685 Prime crude in bar
flSi 5 pnme 8ummA' yellow 86W
SJKn?.? ?6c; prfme
t7n Zlai pnme winter yellow
3940c; prime meal $25 60.
.Norfolk, Va., December 4. Pea-
nLmaotetdull.; ,ancy 2; 8t"ctly
prime 2c prime 22j,c; Spanish
-c; machine-picked -c. Tew pea
nuts, fancy 2Mc; strictly prime 2J
2Kc; prime 2c; Spanish 5557Xc
Chicago, December 4. Specula
tion on the Board of Ti-bHa ...u
as to recall the great transactions of
Hutchinson, Dudahy, Kent Barnes
and the other giants who ruled the pits
and swung prices for fortunes every
"8fsloKn Bull enthusiasm such as has
not been seen often in late years
?? P le8Slon of the mrkts and in
?t f 3Vy seIlin for Pfit ever?
f.K?ttron- December and Ma?
"uo" """u Pioseu if lie up De
ffwriJ "tte M?ycor
Provismns closed 10 to 22ic advafced
FW ff S r notations:
5r I firm- wheat No. 2 sprinir
-No. 2 45c; ITalSJ
No. 3 white 4747jSc mST IpSk
per barrel, $15 4015 50. LardVnS
JSLIb,S" WC9 Wtf. Short ??b
!8 JO. Dry salted
"7" . j wcu, m za&7 so. Short
h-rE-V wines, ll 32.
, " - "iiu& mgnest, lowest an.
closing: Wheat-NTo, 2December74U
ARRIVED.
Schr Abbie a CinU inna
new xorg, ueorge Harriss, 5
Stmr ComDton. Kandnrs
and Little River, S O, Stone,
Co.
Clyde steam shin Altrnmnin H
rons, Uhichester, Boston, vis M
xorsr, a u- smallbones.
CLEARED.
Btea?' Driver, Bradshaw, 1
vrcea, j. xJ UOVQ.
Stmr A J Johnson, Robinson, I
Run. W J Meredith.
British steamship Wand by, Peiml
AT rP01 Alexander Bprunt&S
vijruo sieamsnip Algonquin,
vucBwrj Ajaarieston, t a Bmallb
EXPORTS.
MARINE DIRECTORS
Br Telearaph to tne Mornine star.
New York, December 4 The cot
ton market opened firm at an advance
of six to twelve points and for a time
was strong on another bad scare of
shorts and on general outside buying
prompted by great strength in Liver
pool, where prices were up fifteen to
fifteen and one-half points. Specu
lation was very heavy for a time
with commission hnnsAa i
of cotton purchased before yester
day s sensational advance occurred
Room scalpers sold on the early ad
vance. When the first alarm of shorts
subsided the market eased off
HU.ua.ijr, January selling down to
eight cents. Bat the decline was
not of long standing, for another
wave of foreign and Southern buying
in connection with brisk room support
swept everything before it and sent
f.boT opening basis,
rrom this time until nm. i
the market displayed pronounced
strength, and late months were bought
with confidence in every slight set
back. Just before the close, a big
L tu operator sold
uui ,w oaies or more of Janu
ary, believed to be for profits
The market eased off feVerai
points and was barely steady at the
K-te' th2? net foup to eib Points
" ,was very active and
general with the bear leaders worried
by the action of the market. Private
cables from Liverpool and dispatches
from Southern epot markets were very
Dullish, while commission houses re
ported a growing interest among in
:f!?l0"h!rn. !' were
rom ume to time
chiefly near months. Receipts for th4
day were large but estimates for to
morrow's movement indicated a sharp
falling off in arrivals. -um
Nw York, Dec 4.-Cotton oniat
Klaa-tosK w. )., December 5, 1N1
STEAMSHIPb.
upennymore, (Br) 1,749 tons, Natol
aoiue oc jo.
Gallia, (Dan) 1,183 tons, Nielsen, I
fur, neiae oc kjo.
SCHOONERS.
Abbie G Cole, 232 tons, fCole, Geaf
Harnss, Son & Co.
Chas C Lister, 267 tons, Moore, GwT
Harriss. Ban Ar. rn
D J Sawyer, 267 tons, Kelly, Qm
oon oc uo. i
W L Maxwell, 260 tons. Bowi
ueorge Harriss, Son & Co.
tnwr U Snrague, 260 tons, Hirpel
ueorge Harriss, Son & Co.
Lowell Leeds, 893 tons. Bateosl
ueorge Harriss. Son & Co.
iumilj F Northam. 316 tons, PeBi'l
wen, ueorge Harriss, Son & W
BARQUES.
Albatross, (Nor) 491 tons, Rasmus!
iiome oc uo.
BY RIVER AND RAIL
Receipts of
Naval Stores and t1
Yesterday.
TonKBOwWUl Tcn Are Taklna
When you Uke Grove's Tasteless Chill
Tonic, because the formula is plainly
Erinted on every bottle, showing that it
i simply iron and quinine in a taste-
ww lorm. o cure, no pay, Price.
SQo- satuth
i w i
n i sw losx. iAft. a. rw. - -- . .r -7
vw. ..mr mr,iT Tun I o. : . vunuu aiiifii i auv id mx i 7a 1
MBS. Wrww'BBooTHriraSTBTjP has IxaiLWSS grOM DecembVr
been used for over fifty years hv mil- I aZi lU , J25 bales 63j, 62, 63!ia63. iir- 72!
iMiUBdYflflBawtoratstogtt
lElSCE'S
FAVORITE
RESCRIPTS
ruHWtn WOMEN.
It soothes the child. Boftan tW ZXT
an1 atlov. .11 . , . H'"t
- - " iiui cures wina COllC.
vfiin th'berttmedy for diarrhoea!
It will relieve the poor UtUe sufferer
immediately. Sold by druggists in
every part of the world. Twenty-five
cents a bottle. Be mm and . 1-
" t inaiow s oootning
and take no other kind. .
Syrup,
Kind Yoo Haw Always BoagM
dling gulf fiT.IQnnu",1
Cotton futures closed barAl .t.. .
tember ugusi 7.85, Hep-
haSTNet receipt. 64.700
iurH u-reai untain 30.100
balesj exports to the Continent 17 419
tW OAi,DaieS. ;
Consolidated Net receipts 231,395
bales: exnorta a o.t p.!.
bales : exports to BVan m si ksk h.VL .
Total SinCA Rntamk.. 1m xtIT
ceipt. 3,699,142 bales; exports to Grgit
Ya, . : wra-December 43 w
MH, 40Hc."ileM wrVrgr ltf i
ii arc 1 It our -1 a Ti iT5' P?r Dl Jan-.
M'ttMauT.ia'Wi? lS May
1UU Ids Decern ha a rr n
w 2f
Lard, per
50, 9 60,
5g Hi W.ata2t 88h8T
FOREIGtLJJARKET
Bv Oawe to the Momma Btar.
"SJBWJOL, Dec. 4, 4:30 P.
W. & W. Railroad 508 bales coltf
W. C. & A. Railroad-1,320
cotton, 4 casks spirits turpentine.
wureis rosio, 67 barrels tar, iu w
cruue turpentine.
. O. O. RallroadT-25 bales cottos,
barrels tar.
A. & Y.'Railman' 39ft hales COtt
14 casks spirits turpentine, 18 bar
tar.
W. & N. Railroad -92 bales eottj
16 casks spirits turpentine, 67 dii
crude turpentine.
Steamer Compton 53 bales cotton
80 barrels rosin, 6 barrels tar. . -
OHHIDBF )riv fill hnrreiS rui "
barrels tar. . .
Steamer Croesus-7 tasks sp"?
turpentine, 100 barrels rosin, 6 barf"
tar. , .
Steamer A. J. Jobnson-H M'2
cotton, 83 casks spirits turpentine, v
barrels tar. - . (
wuuoaar rgyie i naies
cask, spirite turpentine, 14 barrels
Total 2,361 bales cotlon, 7S c
spirits turpentine, 206 barrels row
832 barrels tar: 77 barrels crude v
pontine.
FOB XTiTAS
BTJYBB&
r ... ... '' - Kn JlSl
X Will until Hatnrdav. Uecew"' ;
percent, discount and euarsnw-
livery before December 25tb.
HVF. PABKEB,
RrrnftiiTe and Furniture NoreW
' in Market SB?"..
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