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i t k- a a . BY WTTilifftW H. JBBKNARD WlLMLNttlUH. A c. Thuksday jaoKinara. J an. 9. FSEB SO GAB. Most of the opposition to recip rocity with Cuba providing for un taxed sugar from that island comes from the beet sugar manufacturers and their representatives who al lege that free sugar from Cuba or anywhere else' would ruin the beet sugar industry of this country. Mr. Oxnard, who is largely interested in that industry and speaks for it, says it must have protection for at least ten years longer, by which time he thinks there will be beet sugar enough produced in this conntrv to sundv the demand for W af home consumption which means 2,000,000 tons more than is now produced, (including cane sugar produced) not to speak of the in crease of consumption with the in crease of population. J This is a sort of three Bided fight. There is the Sugar Trust which wants free raw sugar, but in sists that the tax be retained on refined sugars. The beet sugar manufacturers, sneaking for them selves and the beet growers, are op posed to free sugar in any form, And the consumers generally, who are not interested in the Sugar Trust nor in the growing or man ufacturing of beet sugar, want tax free raw and refined sugar, be cause that would mean cheaper sugar, more of it and increased trade with the countries the sugar cornea from. ; With perhaps a few exceptions, these being representations of the cane growing districts in the South, the Democrats in Congress are solid for free sugar, and what is some what remarkable some of the lead ing Benublican organs in the North are strongly advocating it, at least as far as reciprocity with Cuba goes, and they are protection organs.jtoo. Ona of these is the New York Trib une, a recent issue of which con tained an editorial on the cpnten tion of the beet sugar manufactur ers, which is bo much to the point and so clearly shows how little there is in it that we quote it entire, aB follows: ! "Since the chief opposition to reci procity with Cuba comes from the beet sugar industry of the United States it will be fitting to consider what will be fthe legitimate effect upon that industry of abolishing or reducing tne tariff upon Cuban sugar, and also what will be the effect upon the beet growing farmers who supply' the beet sugar factories with their raw material. The impression has somehow got abroad that conces sions to uuoan sugar win so militate against the beet sugar factories of the United States as to cause them to close, and thus to deprive the farmers of their market, or at least to compel them greatly to reduce the price paid to the farmers for the beets; and on this ground some sentiment against reciprocity with Cuba seems to have been worked up amone the farmers. Such ground and such sentimentmust be regarded as altogether mistaken. Elsewhere in to-day's Tribune we print an instructive letter upon this subject 'from Mr. Albert Q. Robinson, show ing that the average price now paid to farmers for beets is but $4.90 a ton. According to a reputable authority cited by Mr. Robinson, the average ; production of beets is less than six tons to the acre. That would give gross returns to the farmer of a fraction more than $29 fr 3m an acre. The cost of cultivation appears to range from $14 to $27 an acre, I which, deducted from the returns, 1 leaves a painfully narrow margin of i profit, and suggests the query whether ; it will . pay farmers to go on raising beets. That,' however, is ap it from I the present issue, which is the effect of !a reduction of the tariff upon Cuban 'sugar its effect upon the farmer who ; grows sugar beets and upon the manu factur who transforms the beet into : marketable sugar. Upon this ques i tion authoritative information is not f lacking. 'The letter issued two years ago by j two leading directors of the American j Beet Sugar Company, to which Mr ! Robinson refers, sets forth that in fl891-'93 '93. when there was no ; tariff on raw sugar, the average price I of granulated sugar in th s country f was more than four cents a pound, and that that price might, therefore, be j taken as the one to be expected if w i should return to free trade in sugar ! with all the world. It also reckoned ; 250 pounds of sugar as the product of ; a ton of beets. That gave $10 as the ' gross amount real sed and relizable, in the face of free trade competition . in sugar from a ton of beets. Against : this sum it then seta the costs of manu facture. These were $4 a ton paid to ' the farmers for the beets, and $3 a ton as the expense of transforming tbe beets in a marketable granulated su gar worth four cents a pound. - The total cost. $7, deducted from the pro ceeds, $10, thus lfi $3 net profits to the manufacturers on every ton of ; beets. It was shown, moreover, that this was a most conservative estimate, since four cents a. pound was the minimum price of sugar in 1891 it was 4.04 cents; in 1892. 4 3.4, and in 1893, 4.85 and 250 pounds i from the ton of beets was the mini mum yield at some of the factories considerably more was actually pro duced and in none less&while $3 a ton was the maximum of working ex penses ithe actual figures in factories showing an average of only $3.50. And al this, be it observed, without the slightest reference to the McKinley bounty of two cents a pound on beet sugar, which, we may fairly infer from this authorative letter, was, or if continued would have been and would be, fust so much clear profit to the manufacturers in addition to the already generous profits of $3 or mote on each ton of beets. The beet growing farmers may be assured, then, upon the authority of the beet sugar .'manufacturers them selves, that the granting of the most liberal concessions to Cuban sugar would not necessitate or justify the slightest reduction in the price of beets. The manufacturers have declared, ctegoricaiiy and in detail, that even if Soal Cuban but also German, and an5?ft ?Pd Austrian and all other f SKrtSPi1 dmitted this country vesS'o cording to their own fiJuS. th 5 do without the aid WBJg whatever. It Is gratifying to record this as an indication of the prosperous acd profits bio status of the beet sugar manufactories. An industrv that in a dosen years can thus outgrow all need or bounty or protection is one to oe en vied for its rapid and robust growth. The same record also contains an indu bitable assurance to the farmers tbat they have uothin? to fear from con cessions to Cuban sugar. They have the word and in some cases the writ ten contract of tbe sugar refiners for it that the price of beets will not be lowered. . In that view of toe case me farmers' opposition to Cuban reciproc ity must vanish while logically, ac cording to their own showing, that of the beet sugar manuiacuircra o- not be maintained." We reproduce this because it is an intelligent discussion of the ques tion, not by ar anti-protection pa per, which might be suspected of partisan bias, bat by a leading Re publican organ, an advocate of pro tection, speaking for the section in which the beet sugar industry is carried on. There is a great deal of conten tion over this simply for the reason that the sugar beet is grown in the North and West, none being pro duced in South, and hence this may be regarded as a Northern industry. If it were simply a question of pro tecting the Southern sugar makers and cane growers there would be no discussion of it, and reciprocity with Cuba, as far at least as free raw susrar sroes. would be foregone con clusion, although the Sugar Trust, being a strong factor in politics, when it comes to contributing to campaign funds, might manage to have a duty retained on refined sugars, as it did in the Wilson-Gor man, so-called "free trade" tariff. TROUBLESOME, BUT IT PAY8 We have read of some pretty good yields from tobacco crops this year in this section, which7 however, has been an exceptional year on account of the high price paid, bnt the fol lowing, which we clip from the Charleston News and Courier, puts Mr. Goodson (who must also be a good farmer) at the front as ay anker of profit out of tobacco: "Mr. W. M. Good son, who farms near Hartsville, in Darlington county, it is reported from Cheraw. cleared, above all exDenses. last year $1,440 on two and a half acres of tobacco. 'To bacco,' it is added, Is a little more troublesome to make than cotton, but the difference in price is going to make Chesterfield farmers plant tobacco the coming year instead of cotton.' 'Their determination is not surpris ing in view of the results obtained by Mr. Goodson. among - other experi menters, with the new crop. It will be noted, of course, that the statement is not that he made $1,440 worth of to bacco on two acres and a half, but that he 'cleared' that sum. 'above all ex penses.' That is, tbat his tobacco patch paid him a net profit of $576 per acre. or the equivalent of the gross value of fourteen , bales- of 8 cent cotton, or of the net profit at $10 eacn on fifty seven bales. "Tobacco, as the dispatch very just ly notes. is a little more troublesome to make than cotton,' but " This doesn't say anything about Mr. Good son's method of manipu lating his tobacco so as to make a profit of $576 an acre on it in a sec tion where the growing of tobacco is comparatively a .new industry, but he evidently understands his business and pays attention to it. That's the kind of a man who gets handsome returns from tobacco where ther growers get poor re turns and sometimes not enough to pay the guano bills. There is a good deal more in the curing, handling, assorting and put ting the tobacco on the market in good, attractive shape than there is in the growing of the crop, for with some attention from the grower nature will attend to that, but the curing, handling", assorting and marketing most be done by the man nature doesn't come in here, but sense and skill do. We have known tobacco growers who made well handled, than others did out of four times as many acres, who man aged in a careless, slip-shod way. FOB DELAY In his speech in the House of Representatives, Tuesday, on the Nicaragua canal bill, Mr. Hepburn, chairman of the Interstate and For eign Commerce Committee, struck the kernel of the proposition of the Panama canal men to sell to this country for $40,000,000, when he said the motive behind, the offer was to delay action on the Nica ragua canal. That onght to be ap parent to every one. The sudden drop from $109,000,000 to $40,000, uoo can be accounted lor in no other way. These Panama traders were either trying to bunco this Government when they demanded $109,000,000 for their property ,or they are try ing to banco ; it ' nowi .when - they have come down to the compara tively low price of $40,000,000. They concluded, when they did this that it would re-open the question of routes in Congress, as there have been all along some Senators and Representatives who preferred, the Panama route, and they knew these would make a fight and throw ob stacles in the way of a final - deci sion in favor of the Nicaragua route and thus, if they could, put off in definitely beginning that work, and the object of the Panama managers, backed, no doubt, by the Pacific railway interests, would be. accom plished. ' If the Panama route is the better route that should have been known before this, with all the committees that have been appointed to inves tigate and report. There is much said in favor of that which . has no foundation in fact. One of the assertions is that there are good harbors at both ends of the canal, whioh is not true for it hasn't a good harbor at either end. The harbor is not a good one at the At lantic end, and in the Pacific it is practically open sea with no protec tion wfcateTer. and where a Ship at low tide cannot ceme within a mile of shore. And there are other claims for which there is. donbtleBS, as little foundation. Mr. Hepburn is right when he says the object in this last offer is delay, to keep action back on the Nicaraguan route, with the hope that interest in it may wane and the Panama canal, if ever completed, have no competition. Farmer Bergstrnm, of N. Y., doesn't like bnttermilk as well as he did. A couple of evenings ago he Licked ud a bowl and drank a a . . couple of quarts of what he sup posed to be bnttermilk. He got along pretty well until the yeast (whioh he mistook for b. m.) began to "rise" and then it took about thirty yards of rope to hold, him down and together, until the doctor man arrived with his stomach pump. A Wisconsin girl who was jilted by her fellow, who had promised to marry her, has sued him for $5,000 damages. She says that in conse quence of the jilt she has not only I lost him, but thirty pounds of flesh, whioh, she values at $166.66$ a pound. From this he may form some idea of the value of the girl he didn't take, as there is about 125 pounds of her left. j CURRENT COMMENT. It is calculated that a baby boy's chance of being President of the United States is one in 30,000,- 000. I And it may be added that in most cases the chance grows beau- fully less the older the baby gets. LouMvxlM Courier-Journal uem. Recently we expressed sur- . . ' TT 1 9 J " 1 prise at uapi. noosou a rauiutu. change of sympathy from Sampson to Schley. It is now announced that he will soon leave the navy and enter politics, standing for Congress as Representative of the Sixth Ala bama district, we are no longer surprised. Charleston Post, Ind. It is the decision of the Navv Department that the news paper comments ox Uaptain Mann on the Schley case are not open to censure, as were those of General Miles. The difference is that Uap tain Mahan's expressions are in har mony with the sentiments of the de partment. Philadelphia Record, Dem. Monopoly, in whatever form, in taking from consumers by inflat ed capital more than a nominal price for commodities, is laying the foundation for a panic When it reaches the point that the people can no longer pay we uiDuie de manded, there is a stoppage, a Bhock, and demoralization felt throughout the industrial .fabric. Ifwe would avoid panics, which come at regular intervals, we must destroy their cauBe monopoly. Buffalo Courier, Dem. SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Fayetteville Observer : C. L. Parker, a negro emigrant sgent who has been in this section for several days, inducing negroes to goto certain turpentine operators in the States south of us. was arrested on Monday night and taken before Magistrate Un derwood on a charge of not having taken out an emigrant agent's license in this county, which is $25. Parker was committed to jail to await trial. : Greenville Reflector: Sunday morning Ben Dancy. an old colored man. was found dead beside the rail road track, about two miles from town One leg and one arm were broken and there was also a wound on the head When last seen alive Saturday night the old man was walking along the railroad track, and it it is supposed he was struck by the southbound train. Charlotte Observer: Sam Pow ell shot and instantly killed his negro renter near Henreitta, Rutherford county. Saturday. The difference arose about a small amount of rent which Powell claimed that tbe negro owed him. Powell went to Magistrate Barges, and asked for claim and de livery papers with which to take the negro's crop. Squire Surges, not thinking the case worthy of such pro ceeding. refused to grant Powell's re- auesL He then tried tb set Denutv Sheriff Davis to take possession of tbe crop, without the proper papers. This he refused to do. Powell became en raged and threatened to kill both the magistrate and sheriff if they did not proceed to help him take possession of tbe negro s property. The negro went to see Powell Saturday to try to make some kind of .compromise, foweii did not listen to any of the negro's propositions, but drew his gun and killed him at once. Powell has not yet been captured. Thamtamii SemS Into Kxlle. Every year a lage number of poor sufferers whose lungs are sore and racked with coughs are urged to go to another climate. But this is costly and not always sure. Don't be an exile when Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption will cure you at home. It's the most infallible medicine for Coughs, Colds, and all Throat and Lung diseases on earth. The first dose brings relief. Astounding cures result from persisent use.: Trial bottles free at B. R. Bellamy's. Price 60c and $1.00. Every bottls guarantee 3. t Bfor ovmr Sflftv Tears Mrs. WnrsLOWB Soothiko Bybup has been ; used for over fifty years by mil lions of mothers for their children while teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, soften the gums, and allays all pain; cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for diarrhoea. t 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 for 'Mrs. Winslow's Soothing 8yrup, -jsnd take no other kind. FAVOHITE DESCfflFFIOrj FORtWEAK WOMEN. TWINKLINGS. Just So "Pa, what are preju- dices?" "Other people's opinions, my son." Puck. : 4 Old Friend Was your daugh ter's marriage a success?' Hostess Oh. a great success She s travelling in Europe on the alimony." New York Weekly. His Purse Too Short: Jaggles "He thous-ht his money would get him into society, but it didtO." Wag gles "No; be hadn't enougn or it." Town Topics. Papa's Little Joke: Tommy Father, why do men get bald sooner than women!" Mr. Ulgg "Because they don't wear their hair so long. will tbat satisfy your iw -mw. - Bobbins You say yon gave up your position for one tbat requires night work? 1 can't understand it. Dobbins You'd understand it if you had twins at your house. Life. Greatly Overestimated Hewitt "Half the world doesn't know how the other half lives." Jewett I think you overestimate the number of people who mind their own pusiness. -HrooKiyn LAje. Compelled to Want It: Smith My wife wants a new dress every day in the year." Jones--"She must be awfully extravagant Does she get it?" Smith "No: that is tbe reason she is compelled to want it" Tit-Bit. Father "What does your teacher say now about your exercises since I've been helping you on them?" Son "She said this morning that I'm growing more and more stupid every day." Lustige Welt. Retort Courteous "Hairs get- tin? a bit srrav. sir." remarked the barber, as the next victim settled back in the chair. "No wonder," rejoined the n. v. "Just think how long I have been waiting." Chicago Daily News. "Would von rather have some thing else than a piece of cake?" asked the kind neighbor of little Freddie, who had run an errand for her. xes. ma'am," said Freddie. "I would rather have two pieces. Txt-JSit. "I am very much afraid," said Miss Cayenne, "that I am losing my reputation as a keen observer and satirist." w hat makes you think sot "Several people yesterday said they were glad to see me as if they really meant it. Washington Star. . Accounting for it; De Sappy "I don't understand why some people re quire so much sleep. I can get along with four hours." Miss Bedbud "Tbe body doesn't require nearly so much rest as the brain." Town ana Country, His Expectation: Aunt Becky "Why, some of them fashionable women is so extravagant they won't wear the same dress more'n two or three times." Uncle Abner "You don't sayl I s'pose it'll come to be fashionable not to ride the same auto mobile more'n two or three times." Brooklyn Life. Hearts Not Trumps: Oh, dar line 1 exclaimed the vouag man, as a look of pain chased itself across his ooenfaced countenance, you have broken my Your heart? interrupt ed the maiden fair: I am so sorry No, not my heart, he rejoined, but every cigar in my vest pocket and they cost ten cents a piece, too. Zv. X. Time. ESAU BUCK AND THE BUCKSAW. ark BiekitiT, th Shuw b Book That Saw Eaa Saw. An old farmer of Arkansas, whose sons had all grown ap and left him, hired young- man of the name of Esau Buck to help him on his farm. On the evening of the first day they hauled up a small load of poles for wood and unloaded them be tween the garden and the barnyard. The next morning the old man said to the hired man, "Esau, I am going to jwn today, and while I am gone you may saw np that wood and keep the old ram out of the garden." When the old man had gone, Esau went out to saw the wood, but when he saw tbe saw he wouldn't saw it. When Esau saw the saw. he saw that he couldn't saw it with that saw. Esau looked around for another saw, but that was the only saw he saw, so he didn't saw it. When the old man came home, he says to Esau, "Esau, did you saw the wood?" Esau said, "I saw the wood, . Iiut I would n t saw it. for when 1 saw the saw I saw that I couldn't saw with that saw, so 1 didn't saw it." The old man went out to see the saw, and when he saw the saw he saw that Esau couldn't saw with that saw. When Esau saw that the old man saw that he couldn't 'saw with the saw, Esau picked up the ax and chopped up the wood and made a seesaw. Tbe next day the old man went to town and bought a new bucksaw for 'Esau Buck, and when he came home he huntc the bucksaw for Esau Buck on tbe sawbuck by the see saw. Just at this time Esau Back saw the old back in the garden eating cabbage, and when driving him from the garden to the barnyard Esau Buck saw the bucksaw on the sawbuck by the seesaw, and Esau stopped to examine the new bucksaw. Now when the old buck saw Esau Buck looking at the new bucksaw on the sawbuck by the seesaw he made a dive for Esau, missed Esau, hit the seesaw, knocked the seesaw against Esau Buck, who fell on tbe bucksaw on the sawbuck by the seesaw. Now when the old man saw the old buck dive at Esau Buck and miss Esau and hit the seesaw and knock the seesaw against Esau and Esau Buck fall on the bucksaw on tbe sawbuck by the seesaw he picked up the ax. to kill the old buck, but the buck saw him coming and dodged the blow and countered on the old man's stomach knocked the old man over the seesaw on to Esau Back, who was getting op , with the bucksaw off the sawbuck by the seesaw, crippled Esau Buck, broke the bucksaw and the sawbuck and the see-, saw. Now when the old back saw the com pleteness of his victory over the old man and Esau Buck and the bucksaw and the sawbuck and the seesaw he quietly turn ed around, went back and jumped into the garden again and ate up what was left of the old man'a cabbage. Hartford Times. Kaaata&a Like Perfumery. The Russians are very good and lucra tive customers to the makers of perfum ery, for it flows like water as a spray In their apartments and in the little orna mental fountains thst decorate their drawing rooms and state apartments, among the utmost luxury that prevails in rare flowers and plants, especially in St. Petersburg during the long winter season. A Shoot lna Trlai. He Did you shoot anything while you were np In Canada? She Yea, indeed! We went out In a boat one day and shot the loveliest rapids yon ever saw. Philadelphia Record. Tom Know VJVButt Ton Are Taking When you take 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 less form. No cure, no pay, Price, 60c satutb I am satisfied that TKETHINA. Powders) have saved more children than tbe doctors pot together. I hays recommended TKETHINA when the doctors gave up the cnuo, ana it enrea once. LOUIS r. WAIBKL. Ml O- Druggist, BtTLonis, Mo. Beaia the TA Th" Kind Yon Haw Always Bought "For those who need a good catarrh medicine know of noth ing better znun lucrum. Bon. H. W. Ogden, Congressman from Louisiana, was . elected to the 63d, 54th and 55th Congress. In a letter written t Wnahintrton. D. C. he savs the fol lowing of Peruna, the national catarrh remedy : "I can conscientiously recommend your Peruna as a fine tonio and all round good medicine to those who are in need of a catarrh remedy. ! It has been com mended to me by people who have used It, as a remedy particularly effective in the cure of catarrh. For those who need a good catarrh medicine I know of noth ing better." Mr. Virgil Rowlee, Fulton, Oswego, county, N. writes : I am an old sol dier, and have doctored with five differ ent doctors for stomach trouble for three years. I could get no help. I took your Peruna and now feel like a new man. I can recommend it to anyone suffering with catarrh of the stomach. A great many people want to know what I took that helped me so much. I tell them it was Peruna. i One year ago I could hardly do anything and only weighed 100 pounds. Now I weigh 140 and can not say too much for your medicine, as It has done me so much eood." So many people think catarrh affects Che head only. This is a great mistake. ThA atnTTiuti: fa 11 & hi a tn r.tTTri. The kidneys are also very liable to catarrh, producing all trie symptoms ox xianey disease. Most eases of weak back are AN UNCANNY IMPULSE. The Strama Desire Mamy Pctmii Peel to Comrt Death. Much has been written concerning the almost uncontrollable impulse to jump off which many persons experience when standing on a high place. Akin to this impulse is that which seems absolutely to force people to touch a dangerous ob ject. In many cigar stores there are little automatic cutters provided for taking the tip off of the cigar by simply pressing the end into a small round opening about the size of the end of one's finger. It is sur prising how many men will poke their fingers deliberately into these cutters, al though they are perfectly aware that they will hare a piece of the flesh nipped off. Any cigar man who has one of these cut ters on his case will tell you stories of such people that will surprise you. There seems to be a strong tendency in the human race to "monkey with the buzz saw." j A phase of this subconscious idiosyn crasy as it might be called for want of a better name has been developed by the use of electricity as a mechanical' force. Many people have a desire which they hardly can control to touch electric ma chinery or wires, even when they know that the wires are charged with a deadly current and that to touch the machine means instant death. An electrical engineer in speaking of this strange impulse says: "I have known instances where electricians actually had to turn and ran from a machine to pre vent giving way to this peculiar influ ence. Not long ago a man who was em ployed to sit and watch the switchboard in one of the London dynamo shops fell a victim to the influence. As he felt the desire growing stronger he moved his chair back from the board. Instead of getting nsed to the work, he became more afraid of it. Each day the desire to walk up and touch one of those switch boards grew stronger. At the end of two weeks the young man resigned his place. He could not : stand the strain. It re quired all his will power to restrain him while on duty,' and at night his nervous system was so upset that he could not sleep. He realized that to touch any one of the switches befpre him meant instant death, and his! only safety lay in getting away from the board altogether. "I have no 1 doubt that many deaths from electric shock are brought about in this wsy. In an idle moment a person will catch sight of a switch, a wire or some other heavily charged bit of ap paratus, and a strange desire to touch it will come over him. In a moment of weakness he gives way to it and the re sult is instant death. We frequently read of accidental deaths from electric shock when there is no apparent reason why the victim should have touched a live wire. I believe that such cases are at tributable directly to this influence." New York Press. A anutlea of Nationality. It happened; at one of the Baltimore police stations. The prisoner, a long haired hobo son of Erin, lounged against the bar of Justice. The justice glared at him over his spectacles. "What's his name?" he in quired of the lieutenant. i "Michael O'Hara, squire; charged with being drunk on the street." "H'm! Foreign born," mused the jus tice. "Sprechen sie Englischen, O'Hara?" The prisoner straightened up in his soleless shoes and, with the dignity of . generations of kings said: I "Squoir, it's an American citizen I am ' from me birth, being born in Oireland. I want me case tried by an American judge an not by. a foreign dago with a spache that a Christian can't understand." "Oh, you're Irish. I thought your name had a German sound," said the squire, more humbly, t "Case dismissed, lieuten ant." Baltimore Herald. Marine Cremtmrea Tbat Catch Blrda. "One of the names of the great, clumsy, ' moon shaped, wide mouthed fisb commonly called the angler," said an old fisherman, "is gooseflsh. There is noth ing gooselike in the angler's appearance, bat somebody ; once saw an angler, big and clumsy as it is, come np unaware ; and nab a goose that had settled on the : water and drag it under; hence the name. "But then, as far as that's concerned, yon wouldn't expect seals to be bird catchers, would you? As a matter of fact tbe harbor seal does occasionally get a bird, such as a duck, which it might so chance apon as to be able to capture it." ' A Bar to Uarrlaae. Daughter (coaxing) Papa, do have a little mercy aad let Charles and me be happy together. Papa (mathematical professor) What? You want ' to : think of marriage when you don't even know where to find the ,hypothenuse of a right angled triangle? New York Times.' Foeel Cfeucid to Poison. : Putrefying food in the intestines produces effects like those of arsenic, but Dr. King's New Life Pills expel the poisons from clogeed bowels, gent ly, easily but surely, curing Constipa tion, Biliousness, Sick Headache, Fe vers, all Liver, Kidney and Bowel troubles. Only 88c. at B. B. Bxlla ht's drug store. f I i ! : - Hits Kind Yoa I Han Always BooeM Congressman Henry W. Ogden, of Lou isiana. . j J due to catarrh of the kidneys. I Catarrh of the bladder is a common disease, and is rapidly becoming more and more .mmnn. Tt Tiredness the host of dis tressing symptoms which f ollow bladder disease. In shor all urinary and pelvic organs are subject to catarrh,! and ca tarrh is more frequently me pausa o disease of these organs than all oilier causes combined j g -c t iMm.nl OTfl1fa.mo.of Lab&non 0.,Box 438, was cured of systemic ca tarrh by Peruna. Systemic caiarrn;u that condition in which catarrh has per meated the whole system. Mr. William says : " I took Peruna for acute catarr of the entire membranous process. " suffered every conceivable eyi that can accompany chronic, cstatrl In its most aggravated form. coughed Incessantly. My stomcc! refused to do its duty at all. The Lr testlnes became inflamed, thd kiJnej were paralyzed, the bladdct lost 'it tonicity. I began with Peruna, an realized a steady improvement froe the first until 1 was entirely cured. ' Dr.Hartman.thediscovererof Pernijr has written a book on the differer phases and stages of catarrh . This boo: contains tbe doctor's opinion! as to th treatment of catarrh from an experieac of over forty years. Address The Perr Medicine Co., Columbus, O., tot a f re copy of this book. j f THE BEEHIVE. A good supply of empty combs is half the battle in beekeeping, Arrange the hives so tbat all dampness can be kept away from them, j j Submitting combs to the fumes of burn ing sulphur will; rid them of moths. Worker bees are dwarfed female bees, so small that they never become impreg nated and lay no eggs. Good sealed honey and that gathered daring the first; of the season1 is always best for winter feeding. j. Bees do not like to be hastily handled and will repel all quick motions. There fore move quietly in handling them, j While bees will live with very little at tention or expense, yet to make them profitable they must have good care. Many bees are lost by not being able to reach the entrances of hives that are set up some distance from the ground. There Is a great difference in stocks of bees, so much so that it is almost im possible to find two stocks exactly alike. Comb building ceases at the winding tip of the honey flow at any season of the year. Bees are not known jto secrete wax and build comb at any time other than when they are gathering! honey or being fed. - j f A Tease Imbroglio The train had just recommenced its journey toward Bed ale. j ; "What did the porter say was the next station?" asked one passenger of another. "Excuse me," said passenger No. 2, "you mean what is the next station. It's still a station, you know." "You're wrong. What it was, wasn't it? Is is was, but was is not necessarily is." i j- f - "Now you're ; getting ridiculous," said the second speaker irritably. "What was is, and what is is. Is was is, or is is was?" t "Don't be foolish! What may be is, but is is not was. Is was was, but if was was is, then It isn't is, or was wasn't was. If was is, was Is was, isn't it? But if is is was, then" ; "Listen. Is is, was was. and is was, and was is; therefore Is was is, and was was. and is is was. "Shut up, will youf I've gone by my station already r' And there was a silence fori awhile. London Answers. - r Resourceful. "There was one occasion.' said ! the train robber who was exchanging remin iscences with his companions "when I came pretty near letting a chance go by." "But your presence of mind saved you?" i - "Exactly. I had boarded a train land discovered that I had carelessly left all my firearms behind me. But jthe Black Raven Ranger was not to be daunted. I took the porter's white jacket land whisk broom. It was a little slow, but I got all there was before I quit." Washington Star. He Was Hopeful. Fruit Dealer The peachy crop is almost a total failure this year, i The "undertaker Well; I hope nothing will happen to Wry the crop. Chicago News. MARINE DIRECTORY. fclst of Veasala la the Fori of Wil- aaiaatosw . January 9. I STEAMSHIPd. Gymeric, (Br) 2,598 tons, Thomson, Alexander Bprunt At son. SCHOONERS. Wm F Campbell, 169 tons, T Riley & Co. Btrout, J Chas O Lane, 243 tons, Kelly, George Uamss. Bon & Co. Ida C Schoolcraft, 304 tons, Robinson, uteorpe Hamss, Son or CoJ JnoW Dana, 478 tons, Fassett, George Harriss, Son & Co. j Lottie R Russell, 263 tons, Sharp, George Harriss, Son & Co. i ; BY RIVER AND RAIL. Receipts of Naval Stores and Cotton Yesterday. W. & W. Railroad 120 bales cotton. W. a & A. Railroad 313 bales cot ton, 3 casks spirits turpentine, 36 bar rels tar, 18 barrels crude turpentine. O. C. Railroad 4 bales cotton. - A. &Y. Railroad 64 bales cotton, 9 casks spirits turpentine. 300 barrels rosin, 28 barrels tar, 2 barrels crude turpentine. j W. & N. Railroad -9 bales cotton.' Steamer E. A Hawes 2 bales cot ton, 2 casks spirits turpentine, 129 bar rels rosin, . 50 barrels tar, 2 barrels crude turpentine. Steamer Croesus 200 barrels rosin, 1 barrel tar, 2 barrels crude turpentine. Steamer Oompton 20 bales cotton, 14 casks spirits turpentine, 61 barrels rosin.-- ; Total 532 bales cotton, 28 casks spirits turpentine, 690 barrels rosin, 115; barrels tar, 24 barrels crude tur pentine.' i- I'or 7hoopingr Cough use CHEIJEY'S EX- PEOTOBANT, For sale by Hardin's Palace Pharmacy WILMINGTON MARK K.'! (Quoted officially at the closing by the Produce STAR OFFICE. January 8. SPIRITS TURPENTINE Market quiet at 37c per gallon for machine made casks and 36c 'per gallon for country casks. ROSm Market steady at $l.uu per barrel for strained and $1.05 per barrel for good strained. TAR Market firm at f 1.25 per bar rel of 280 lbs. CRUDE TURPENTINE Market quiet at $1.10 per barrel for hard, $2.00 for dip, and for virgin. Quotations same day last year Spirits turpentine steady at 36S5H; rosin steady at $1.20L25; tar firm at $1.30; crude turpentine quiet at $1.30 2.30. RK0KIPT8. Spirits turpentine 28 Rosin 690 Tar 115 Crude turpentine 24 Receipts same day last year 39 casks spirits turpentine, 218 barrels rosin, 255 barrels tar, 75 barrels crude turpentine. COTTON. Market steady on a basis of 7c per pound for middling. Quotations: Ordinary 5 ctsptt Good ordinary ...... 6 Lowjooiddliiig 7 MiddHnir 1.. 7 Good middling. 8 3-16 " 4 Same dav last year, market firm at 9 'Ac tor middling. Receipts 532 bales; same day last year, 504. r Corrected Regularly by Wilmington Produce Commission Merchants, prices representing those paid f or produce consigned to Commis sion nercnanis j COUNTRY PRODUCE. , PEANUTS North Carolina, firm. Prime, 65c; extra prime, 70c; fancy, 75c, per bushel of twenty-eight pounds. Virginia Prime, 55c; extra prime, CORN Firm, 8285c per bushel for wnite. N. C. BACON Steady j hams 15 16c per pound; shoulders, 1314c; sides, 1314c. EGGS Firm at 2022c per dozen. CHICKENS Dull. Grown, 20 22c: springs. 1020c TURKEYS Dressed, firm at 15 17Xc; live, 1012c. BEESWAX Firm at 26c. TALLOW Firm at 56c per pound. SWEET POTATOES Firm at 50 60c per bushel. FINANCIAL MARKETS. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. New York. Jan. 8. Money on call vras firm at 57 per cent, the market closing, bid and asked, 56per cent. Frime mercantile paper &o6 per cent. Sterling exchange steady. wilh actual business in bankers' bills at 487H&487& for demand and 484V for sixty days. Posted rates were 485 and 488. . Commercial bills 483M483. Bar silver 5 Mexican dollars 44U. Government bonds steady. State bonds in active. Railroad bonds irregular. U. a refunding 2's, registered, 108H; U. 8 refunding 2's. coupon,108K ;U.S. 3 registered, 107 f; do. coupon, 108; C. S.4's,new registered, 1S9J4; do. cou pon 139 U. S. 4's, old regis tered, 111 ; do. coupon, 111; U. S. 5's registered, 107 do. coupon, 107; Southern Railway, 5's, 120M. Stocks: Baltimore & Ohio 105; Chesapeake & Ohio 47j; Manhat tan L 136K; New York Central 166; Reading 57 J$ ; -do. 1st preferred 81J4; do.. 2nd preferred 64; St. Paul 165; da prefd, 187; Southern R'way 33; do. prefd 94; Amalga mated Copper 71 V ; Am'n Tobacco ; People's Gas 103 ; Sugar 124; Ten nessee Coal and Iron 64; O. S. Leather 11; do. prefd, 81V; Western Union 91 ; U. S. Steel 44X ; do. pre ferred 95; Mexican National 15; American Locomotive ; do. pre ferred ; Standard Oil 680 690; Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co., 61; do. preferred. 122. Baltimore, Jan. 8. Seaboard Air Line, common, 2626; do. prefer red, 49; do 4s 85X85. NAVAL STORES MARKETS By Telegraph to the Morning star. vBw York, Jan. 8. Rosin steady. Spirits turpentine steady. Charleston, Jan. 8. Spirits tur pentine and rosin unchanged. &AVASBAB, Jan. 8. Spirits turpen tine firm at 37c; receipts 421 casks; sales 151 barrels; exports 231 casks. Rosin firm; receipts 4,069 barrels; sales 5,510 barrels; exports 4,123 bar rels .Quote: A, B, C, D, $1 07tf; E, $1 12; F, $1 17; G, $1 22; H, $1 40; I, $170; K,$2 25; M, $2 65; N, $3- 25 ; W G, $3 60;W W. $3 85. COTTON MARKETS. By Telegraph to the Momlns Star New York, Jan. 8. The cotton market opened firm with near months one to five points lower, and far months two to four points higher, after which the course of the market was generally upward on support from Wall street bulls and fitful covering by local shorts. When the call started the cables were decidedly against a rally and receipts favored still lower prices than were recorded yes terday. January broke to 7.70 and everything seemed to indicate a bear market for the rest of the day. March sold off to 7.81 and May to 7.92. But ss the late months were reached, substantial buying orders came to light while offerings were much small er than in near months. Shorts be came nervous and local bulls picked up courage, with the result tbat the trading level immediately after the call was five to six points over last night's bids. Toward mid day there was a slight set back under profit-taking by small er longs, but when the noon hour arrived the market showed a de cidedly firm undertone with prices at the best figures of the morning, shortly after the noon hour a few Southern buying orders made, their appearance and started covering by ring shorts. This demand found the market almost bare of offerings and sent prices up in sensational form, May advancing from 7.98 to 8.09 in as many minutes. Light esti mates for to-morrow's New Orleans and Houston receipts, together with Wall street buying orders kept the market . steady during the rest of the afternoon, though there were oc casional slight set backs under sales for profits by longs. Bears were troubled by predictions -for a much higher Liverpool market to-morrow and gave attention almost entirely to closing up accounts wherever oppor tunity offered. Trading was quite ac tive though business for investment account kept within comparatively narrow bounds. The close was steady with prices net nine to thirteen points higher. JXkw York, Jan. 8. Cotton quiet at 8 3-16o ; net receipts 2,656 bales; gross 10,164 bales; stock 125,715 bales. Spot cotton closed quiet; middling uplands 8 S-16c; middling gulf 8 7-16c; sales 5,256 bales. - Cotton futures market closed steady: January 7.84, February 7.90, March 7.97, April 7.02, May 8.65, June 8.06, July 8.08, August 7.92, September 7.71, October 7.60. Total to-day NtT exports to the Continem 5? b stock 1,001,877 bale?6 1 2 5fc . Consolidated-Net ..... : bales; exports to Great SSSS JHh exports t,Tthe CoXZSS Total sinoft Ha-ZT,ut.63,54; uuies : HinnrTo . xn. -ui lift-.- ceipts S.OSllTare Britain 1,911,969 bab to Fran 4KfiftiR x?' eXta.1 utnes : i. continent 1,393,783 bah B toU January a. Galveston , net receipts ' 6RR . k.' etat? 1 quiet at 7c, net LL ales ; Baltimore, nominalTt M 8 3-16C, net receipts 931biJUi6t! mington,8teady at7c netH i net receipts 199 bales ; SaTaL u l at7c, net receipts' S ff' Orleans, firm at 7, 21,606 bales ; Mobile, eas net receipts 1,517 bales- u 7i tMdv nt. 7 11.1ft,. s Mem? J . - 1U k L.I.. . A i WhiCo , ceipts : rc, PRODUCE MARKETS, By TelegraDh to the Motuinx 8t NEW Tork, Jan. 8 -ffi.. was fairly active and firm d?S firm. Wheat-Spot firm-A11 91 Jc. Options at first were 1 1 higher on better cables than . a fair outside demand and dr in the Southwest- and sm.ii Under subsequent bear n..:. -'M ever, prices broke shai advancing sharply on a scaSf They closed firm at 3AT.of!S vance, Quoted: MarchcML May closed 88Mc: Julv Corn Spot. steady; N0.2 7oT tions opened firm with whea sieauier cauies. Dtit aftei. way under increased count 5 ings and local liquidation iL. ' the last half hour on adwuSr shorts; however, they closed " low,er- ,8al!si Juarv 7 usc; may ciosea 71C; JUT. 70Mc Oats-Spot fiw; .Na idS Ontinns nprn firm bqJ. I I July shorts , at Chicago, but S yielded to depression in other m2 J , " aiCttm 111) If I 10 15 ; refined steady ; continent tin s 8Xc. Pork quiet. EicesteXI ter firm; creamery Km. o?l dairy 1523c. Eggs ,W S and Pennsylvania 3334c; &aCI iumue 4 ou(gw 4U; New Vnil jersey sweets z 753 50. CibL steady; Long Island Flat Dutch i 100, $3 004 00. Peanuts fancy hand-picked 44Xc; other L luoBtiv ttgiiu. ureignis to Lim. pool uonon Dy steam 12c. Coffa Spot Rio easy ; No. 7 invoice 6& mild quiet; Cordova 7Jilk Sups xvaw easy; lair renning 31-ltic- ml I iruugai o ies.1,, d -ioc; renned stenit Ootton seed oil continues strnn U with lessening demand as foreign will not meet the higher prices. Oa tations: Prime crude in barrels not nai; prime summer yellow mm off summer .yellow 43c; prime whikl 4dc; prime wmier yellow prime meal $27 5028. UHICAH9, Jan. nervous, lil ing ana railing wneat mamt seemitj ly tried to follow the antics of the k eign market led the grain pits a- 1 A 4 1 I 1 1 1 i I . uajr. .a. i mo ciuse may woeai Mil net gain of flc, May corn renniisl unchanged and May oats werei fic. Provisions, closed a shade 1 1 five cents higher. Chicago, Jan. 8. Uash ouotatiofc I Flour firm at 10c advance for sUndtnl brands. Wheat No. 2 sprine m 82c; No. 3 spring 78'Ac; No. 2 red& 89c Uora No. 2 c: No. 21 c. Oat? No. 2 4747c; Ko, ! white 49 50c; No. 3 white 1 49mc. Mess pork, per btmil $16 8516 90. Lard, per 1&' t, $9 85a9 95. Short rib sides, low quoted at $8 408 50. Dry nlfcl shoulders. boxed,f7 377 50. Sta clear sides boxed. 18 858 95. Will key Basis of high wines, $132 The leading futures ramrea&sl , r ' 1 1 1 1 I lows opening, mgaesi, iuwo1 i closing: Wheat No. 2 JanuarjTSJ 80. 79 80c: Mav 83 83, 84Jc; July 83, 83, EJttl 83, 83Mc Corn No. 2 Januuj-, , , 63c; May 67M67fr ffl 66M, 67Hc; July 66?b66, 66 66fSc Oats May 46 47, 47,, 46&a47c: Julv 41a41&. 41& 41H41Mc: September 3 m 83H, 33c. Mess pork, per bDl-fl uary $16 80, 16 82'A, 16 80, Its Afv17 20 17 17 20. 17 m July $17 25, 17 30, 17 22& 17 25.UR per 100 bs- January $9 80, 9 82 9 80. 9 -80; May 19 90, 9 95, U 9 9S? .Tnlv A 97U. 10 00, 9 W 10 00. Short ribs, per 100 ks-Wl $8a7; May $8 75, 8 80. .8 n. o FOREIGN MARKET m Bv Cable to tee Mormtii d Hvkbpool, Jan. 8.-Cotton: m . , i" 1.1 fid hK, rair aemana; prices American middling fair 4 25-32d; middling 417-32d; middling 4D low middling 4 5-16d; gori Xi 4 5-16d; ordinary 4 3-16d. The jJ the" dav were 10.000 bales, of 500 bales were for speculation tm port and included 9,600 balw -r. ao rnn halo: inClP'i can. rseceipis o,yuu 38,4UU Dales amenwu. M Futures opened easy .and cm firm: American middling January 4 23-64d buyer; January February 4 22-644 za-wi -FebruaJ and March .Igff g Marcn ana Apm '""-,wd April and May 4 22-644 ler; may ana juuo oauiW June ana July 4 22-644 2 er; July and August 4 w7$ buyer; August and September! u-ou uuyvr. MARINE. . tTTTT1'T Clyde steamship Oneida, w York, H G Smallbones. 9 shV Wm F Campbell, i Strput. Barbados, & Btmr uompiowt Koni and Little RiverS C, Stone, w Co. n a 1-kY7fT Stmr A J Johnson, Robinson. Bun, WJ Meredith - F, Htmr K A Hawes, 1 ville, James Madden. wi,efieId, - Schr M C Haskell, WKft Pierre. George Harriss. w m Clyde, steamship QWJ Georgetown, SC, fG Smau Stmr Compton, Sanders, i and Ldttle Kiver, d , Co. EXPORTS. - ST PlERBE-Scbr MOgjW 505 feet lumner, "elWB byKidderLumberCo;sei . Harriss, Son New YOBK-Uiyae l8l w ni,d 23 bales cotton, -1 spirits, 37 barrels josib. fM tar, 175 barrels crude, Wfa, , J ber, 4 barrels pitch, U M$ gooaa, hi B ous consignors; ves -bones.
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