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- I '!-. 1 " t t ( f h; 1 - - - v - . 8. . a m - - - - i ft WIL.UAM H. BERHABD. WILMINGTON, N. C Saturday Mobbing Dec. 27. DAWK OF THE FAEMEE'S DAY. Ia the Washington Times of Mon day there is an article under the aboTe caption, by Hon. John W. Brook -waiter, of Ohio, which speaks of the depression in the agricultural in dustry in this country, its causes and the end of the depression, and the reasons why the day of the far mer has come and has come to stay. While this article is interesting to farmers generally, it is of more than ordinary interest to the Southern farmer because he may gather hints from it that it will profit him to think of and act upon. Speaking of the depression in agriculture and its causes he says : This is the dawn of the farmer's day. A struggle between the urban and the rural population of the country is In initiative. In population the two ele ments are about equally divided. Willie they are half and half numeri cally, in wealth there is the widest di vergence. The total wealth of the country is estimated at $35,000,000,000. Of this, but $30,000,000,000 is in the hands of the rural population, or less tban one-fourth of the total wealth of the country. This inequality did not always exist. Prior to the civil war wealth was measurably about equally divided. The separation began with the imposition of the high tariff, and the adoption of the land grant system, which in almost one generation devel oped an area equal in productive ca pacity to that which required in the East several centures to produce. The one made the farmer buy at the highest prices, while the other made him sell at the lowest. Millions of acres of cheap land in a few years be gan furnishing the world breadstufff, and as it did so the value of every acre of Eastern farm land was corre spondingly impaired and cheapened. With- the tariff on one aide as an ene my and the cbesp lands on the other as a menace, it was sot long until money seeking investment flowed east ward. Agriculture had been rendered unprofitable. Year after year the land was rapid ly taken up. Eventually the entire supply was exhausted. With this ex haustion came a slow but gradual rise in the price of cereals.. 'Demand now follows swiftly on the heels of supply, No longer does a vast surplus stare the country in the face to fill outward bound ships. Nature is restoring the equilibrium. Tne. two causes enumerated pat agriculture for many years at a disad vantage. Low prices prevailed, and there was little or no encouragement to engage in farming. When the land west of Iadiau were opened for settlement their de velopment waa uneqaaled, by reason of the readiness and ease with which smooth, unincumbered fertile prairies and plow fields of the West could be pat in a state of cultivation. Eist of this region centuries bad been cou j sumed by felling trees, grubbing and draing to get lands in condition for renumerative harvest. West of this dividing line the farmer was able to do on the prairies lands, ready for the plow the first season, more than the farmer east of it had been able to do in decades. Immense areas of the prairie land were soon under cultiva tion. From them came a deluge of griln that poured over the old States and Europe. Prices were shattered and agriculture in the old States al- Ing the exception, r The". South U an importer of grain; There is not enough produced to meet the de mands for home consumption. And yet as a grain growing section it is superior to the grain-growing West. We can grow better wheat and corn than the West can and more to the area when the land is properly culti vated. Thirty bushels of wheat to the acrea isn't a rare thing in North Carolina, it is rare in the West, save in the new lands where the original fertility of the soil ia still retained. With the prospect of continued high prices for wheat and other grain why should not Southern farmers prepare to become grain raisers ? With the public lands exhausted, the increasing value and demand for farming lands, why shouldn't the land seeker tnrn Southward, and why should there not be a large im migration to the South ? With the prospective turning of the East to to South America instead of to Kan sas and Nebraska .for its beef, why should not the South become a good beef producer and let the East turn to it for its beef instead of to South America ? There is more forest in the South to-day than there is in any other part of the United States, on which' countless herds could find both feed and shelter. There is more feeding, uncultivated ground for cattle, sheep and hogs, than in other part of the United States; and in addition to this a better climate for stock rais ing than in any other part of the United States. Why then should not the South become the great grain growing and meat producin&section of the United States, which it is capable of becom ing if attention were earnestly turned in this direction ? These are are some of the reasons why the hints in the extracts quoted above are of especial interest to the Southern farmer and why he should take the hints and profit by them. OUR COUP AXLES. . ' The Balelgh News and Observer of I Thursday cartains a summary of the ; ; last report of the Corporation Com- mission on the assessed valuation of our railroads and other industrials, and. other facts of interest in con nection therewith, as follows: BAI1B0ADS AD OTHEB r SPIRITS TURPENTINE, There are 3,681.95 miles of railroad in the tttate, an increase of SO 83 miles over last year. There were, however. 66.63 miles of new roads built, but 85.81 miles of road were abandoned. The three large systems the Atlantic Coast Line, the 8eabosrd Air line and the Southern railway companies con trol more than three-fourths of the mileage in the 8tate. The Atlantic Coast Line has 94a 77 miles; the Sea hoard Air Line, 61183 miles; tha Southern Railway, 1,289 36 miles total of the three systems, 2,849 55. Miscellaneous roads, 633.40 miles and total mileage of the Bute, 3 68195 miles. The total assessed valuation of these and other properties assessed by the commission as follow: VALUATIONS FOB TAXATION. Atlantic Coast Line. . . . $13,978 440.50 Southern Hallway 35,825,677 59 Seaboard Air Line 8,713,728.63 Miscellaneous Railroads.. 4,110,414.86 Total $13,637,261.57 Telephone Companies.. ..$ 388.984 50 Steamboat, canal and fer ries 249,950.00 8treet rail ways 1,199,690.00 Electric Light and Gas Companies 268,350 00 Water Companies 260,985.00 Telegraph Companies..... 904,140.00 Sleeping Car Companies.. 180,305,30 Express Companies 325,770.00 Grand Total.. $(6,305,236 37 The counties to whioh the largest apportionment of railroad property is made are as follows: Cumberland $1,3:3,498 Guilford 1,804 430 - Halifax 1,760,936 Johnston 1,520,710 Mecklenburg 1,460,448 Pender 1,008,694 Robeson 1,715,333 Wake 1,794,659 Wayne 1,179,737 The following gives the number SWART FLATS BUTLER. Hon. H. E. Ewart, of Hender sonville, ex-Judge of the Federal Court and ex-Congressman, is not one of the "Lily White" Kepubli cans, and he isn't very ceremonious in saying so. He hasn't heretofore had much to say on that movement, but when he read that ex-Senator Marion Butler had called on Post master General Payne for the pur pose of downing the negro postmas ter Vick, at'WiUon, and running in one of his own crowd, a small cali bre Populist, whom Pritchafd has pitted against Vick, it was too much for his equanimity, and he broke his silence by writing an epistle to the Postmaster General, in which he thus pays his respect? to Butler: 3 most ruined. But once more prices are reaching their old level. There are practically no more public lands to fall back upon. Grain will remain high. The farmer will take the place in the world for which he was destined and once did occupy. John W. Book waiter is a man of culture, of thought, of observation, a political economist, a manufac turer, a man of extensive travel and an entertaining writer who has given us one of the most interesting and instructive books on Siberia and its possibilities-ever published. The news of such a man are worth considering. Speaking of the turn in the tide he says: The period of depression has passed. Recently J. J. Hill, president of the Great Northern Railway Company, declared that the supply of public lands waa practically exhausted, and that there was need for reforming the tariff. He realized the truth, as the whole country must at an early day. The price of agricultural products will never again fall to a low level. Capitalist, aware of the situation, are now reaching out to buy farm lands. They know there Is no safer or better investment Dear 8ir In the Washington Post of the 21st instant, I notice the follow ing paragraph: "Former Senator But ler yesterday gave Postmaster General Payne a number of papers relative to the Vick case. Among the letters filed was one -written by Dr. H. F. Free man, a Populist of some prominence, who made statements tending to con firm Senator Pritchard's allegation concerning Vlcks alleged disloyalty to the Republican party." I presume the Butler referred to in this paragraph, ia the same Butler who recently misrepresented this State in the Senate of the United Bute. The same Butler whose name in this State is synonymous with scoundrelism, treachery,- and knavery. The same scurry and ungrateful wretch who In in 1895 was elected to a seat in the v i a a n uuwa Duties oenaie oy members or a General Assembly who represented 100,000 negro voters, and but for whose votes, there would not have been a baker's dozen of Republican representatives in that body. The same Butler whose seat was scarcely warm in that body, before he was scheming and plotting to defeat his colleague J. C. Pritchard, to whose re election he was bound by every tie of honor and good faith. , The aame Butler in 1897 resorted to the most treacherous and despicable methods to defeat Pritchard, and would most certainly hare accomplished his purpose but for the fact that a minority of his fol lowers rebelled againat his notorious and infamous course. The same But ler whose treacherous conduct in that matter so incensed the decent people of men employed in our midst: Atlantic Coast Line 3,654 Seaboard Air Line 3,614 Southern Railway 4,528 Miscellaneous Roads 1,605 r Total employees , 11,401 The following shows the wages paid per day by the respective roads and the total paid by all. ATLANTIC COAST LIKE. Engineers $4.20 per day. Firemen 1.38 per day. Conductors 3 90 per day. Machinists. 3.98 per day. Carpenters 2.12 per day. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Engineers $4.43 per day, Firemen 1.84 per day. Conductors. 3.10 per day. Machinists 3 32 per day. Carpenters. 3 00 per day. SEABOARD AIR LUTE Engineers $4 27 per day. Firemen 163 per day. Conductor. 2.76 per day. Machinists 2.33 per day Carpenters 8.00 per day. Total amount paid all employes in the State: x TOTAL AMOUNT PAID ALL EMPLOYEES IN THE STATE Atlantic Coast Line $1,170,015 8eaboard Air Line 983,364 Southern Railway 1,973,902 auceilueouittMUU 931,719 Goldsboro Argus: The deaf and dumb negro ahot by Mr. Ad w Pike, near Pikeviile, on. Monday morning, as reported in these columns, died from his wound yesterday evening, at the county home. - Rockingham Headlight: Sev eral of the large mills have announced their intention of making 60 hours a woes' work without any reduotion of present nay rates. This is commend b'e and no doubt other mills will fol io the example. Dnrham Herald: One of the larg est hen eggs ever seen in this office wai brought here yesterday. It was sent by Mrs. J. J. Whitfield, who lives some eight miles west of the city. The egg was weighed by a Herald man and tipped the scales at four and one-quarter ounces. It was more than twice as large as the average hen egg. Wilson -Times: Will Council, who recently escaped from the chain gang of Cumberland- county, was located Thursday night in Wilson and was arrested by Messrs. Harrell and Roakenburg. Mr. Adams, who elerks for Mr. Teiser, discovered the negro and notified the police. After he had been carried to the station bouse the negro cursed and threatened the officers with all sorts of punishment if they did not release him. A knife and pistol waa found on his person. He was sent back to Fayetteville. ' Winston Sentinel: Mr. George Morris, a Confederate veteran, fireman at the Shamrock knitting mill, was held up and robbed by two negroes in the reservation back of Calvary Moravian church, about 5:45 Wednesday morn ing. Mr. Morris says he was going from his home to the mill when two ne groes rushed upon him from behind a tree. They grabbed him and one held him while the other one rifled his pockets. They found eleven dollars and a few cents which the negroes carried off. Goldsboro Argue: A white man namd Eennyan Brock, aged 45, near Ml Olive, was killed by a southbour d freight train on the Atlantic Coast Line about three miles from this city Friday at 1P.M., while in an intoxi cated condition. He was lying with bis bead on the rail and the wheels passed over his neck, severing the head from the body. Sixty-two cara of holly have been shipped from this point during the ''holly days" to the northern aud western cities and we understand the results have been pro fitable to those who gathered the branches, who jobbed in them and those who furnished the boxes. Tarboro Southerner: Lawrence Moore, colored, has been arrested his last time. Two years ago he was ar rested by a colored man. named Char ley Baker, a blacksmith at Turnage's. Tuesday he demanded to know of Baker why he arrested him. Baker informed him that he did so because he had a warrant for him and it was his duty. Moore replied that he would "fix" him, and pulled his pistol and fired. Baker seized a stick and felled the man with a tremendous blow on the head. Moore fell to the ground and soon after died. Baker's act is re garded as one of self-defence. Moore's aim was accurate. The pistol was aim ed directly at Baker's head, and he is living to-day because bis cap brim de flected the ball. Otherwise be would hare been shot in the forehead. Physicians are r"aII,rg attention to Use fact that in fin ena or grip has come to stay, la the larger cities there has been a marked increase in rKaap affecting the organs of respiration, which increase is attributed to the prevalence of influ enza. Persons who are recovering from grip or inflaenza are in a weak condition and peculiarly-liable to pulmonary dis ease. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cures coughs, bronchitis, long "trouble" and other diseases of the organs of res piration. It is the best tonic medicine for those whose strength and vitality have been exhausted by an attack of grip. It purified the blood, cleansing it of the poisonons accumulations which breed and feed disease.- It gives increased ac tivity to the blood-making glands, and so increases the supply of pure blood, rich with the red corpuscles of health. "A word for your 'Golden Medical Discov ery,' " writes Mrs. E. A. Bender, of Scene. uosnocton Co., Ohio. "We have been usins- it than four years, purifier there is family medicine for more than four mm A a cough remedy and biood - purifier there is nothina better, and after having ihr rrin rw- Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is just the right medicine for a complete bracing up." Accept no substitute for Golden Med ical Discovery." There is nothing "just as good" for diseases of the stomach, blood, and lungs. The sluggish liver is made active by the use of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. WILMINGTON DISTRICT. COMMEKCIAi WILMINGTON MARKKT a of Commerce. STAB OFFICE, December 26. 8PIRIT8 TURPENTINES-Market firm at 52c per gallon 'ROSIN Market firm at $1.85 per barrel for strained and $1.40 per barrel for good strained. TAR Market firm at $1,50 per bar rel of 280 pounds. CRUDE TURPENTINE Market firm at $1.75 per barrel for hard, $3.00 for dip. Quotations same day last year Spirits turpentine nothing doing; rosin firm at 95c$1.00;. tar stead r at $1.35; crude turpentine quiet at $1.00 3.00. - EEOKIPTS. Spirits turpentine 82 Rosin . 344 Ta;. 128 Crude turpentine 44 Receipts same dav last vear 25 casks spirits turpentine, 315 barrels rosin, 113 barrels tar, 12 barrels crude turpentine. COTTON. Market firm on a basis of 8Uc rjer pound for middlinsr. Quotations: uroinajy Good ordinarv. Low middling. . Middling Good middling oame day last year, market firm at 7c for middling. Receipts 2,529 bales; same day last year, 1,064. Augusta, steady at 8tfc net receipts bales: Charleston, quiet at 8 We, net receipts 9,323 bales. - - - PRODUCE MARKETS. ATLANTIC 7H 7 8H 8 15-16 cts. !&Tb R. B. John, P. E., Wilmington, N. C. Scott's Hill. Prospect, Dec 27, 28. Burgaw, Rocky Point, Jan. 3, 4. Southport, Jan. 11, 12. Shallotte, Concord, Jan. 13. Town Creek, Jan. 14. Waccamaw, 8hUob, Jan. 17, 18. Whiteville, Whiterille, Jan. 18, 19. Magnolia, Providence, Jan. 24, 25. Clinton, Clinton, Jan. 30 -Kenansyille, Friendship, Jan. 31. Feb 1. Bladen. Bethlehem. Feb. 7. 8. Elizabeth, Elizabethtown, Feb. 9 Caryer'a Creek, Council Station Feb. 10. Onslow, Queen's Creek, Feb. 14. 15. Jacksonville and Richlands, Half Moon, Feb. 21, 22. District Stewards will please meet in the Ladles' Parlor, Grace church, Wil mington. Tuesday Dec. 30th. at 1 o'clock. Missionary Institute will be held at Grace church Feb. 4th and 5tb, 1903. District conference will meet at Jacksonville Tuesday Mar. 17(h ai 5 o'clock P. M. and continue through the 18th and 19th, 1903. f Corrected Regularly by Wilmington Produce wiumiBMuu merciuuiuj, prices representing those paid for produce consigned to Commis sion Merchants. COUNTRY PRODUCE. PEANUTS North Carolina, firm. Prime, 60c; extra prime, 65c; fancy, 70e, per bushel of twenty-eight pounds. Virginia Prime, 60c; extra prime, 65c; fancy, 70c. Spanish (new), 6570c. CORN Firm, 6567c per bushel for white. N. C. BACON Steady ; hams 15 16c per pound: shoulders. 10rffrl2Ur- sides, 10 lie. EGGS Firm at 2122c per dozen. CHICKENS Firm. Grown. 30a 85c; springs, 1225c. TURKEYS Firm at 10ailc live. BEESWAX Firm at 25c. TALLOW Firm at 56c pound. SWEET POTATOES Dull at per bushel. for per 60c IWINKUNOS. Penman You say you like my oooasr wrignt well, I'm stuck on two of them. "Which two?' 'The two I bought." Tonkers Statesman. "Hasn't Miss Faddington any thing on exhibition t" "No. I think she has given up painting. She finds it so much easier to be a connoisseur." Puck. Total all Roads.... $4,452,590 . CURRbNT CUMMENI Land cannot barn dnwn There is no element of risk In hnlHin I Of the State that in tha eunmlra tnl it This investment has taken monev I lowing he did not dare to make anv a till l a . . speeches in certain sections of the Biaie lest ne should be covered with a coat of tar and feathers. it seems incredible that this viper Is now acting as the mouthpiece of Sen ator Pritchard with a Republican ad ministration at Washington. I know little of the merits of the Vick contro versy. This is one of the warmest pen sketches we have ever seen of But ler, and although highly colored it ia not far from being "true to life.' Mr. Ewart evidently doesn't regard treachery as legitimate politics nor ingratitude as a virtue, and he says I Rep. so in pretty strenuous English. by the millions awav from Nmw Vnk It will not return in the aame volume as heretofore. New York's financial stringency is largely explained by the fact. But not onlv New York, but Chicago is distressed. Out in Topeks, saa-. a newspaper dispatch the other y related that there is a modified stringency, such as now affects the twe large cities named, out there. Money ia going out to Kansas into farmlands. Ttjera or whilom cheap grain will iver return. The Eastern fellows. , for many years favored by class legis lation, no longer have the advantage. In time an intense feeling between the urban and the rural population may develop. The rurallst will be held responsible for prices that will be txed by natural causes, and not bv combinations, as will probably be charged. 5 - The change, the cause of the strin gency of to day, means a redistribu tion of the world's wealth. That Uken from the agriculturist by diaerimina ting legislation and acts will return to him through the operation of natural law. , The time may not be far distant .when the East will want to go to South America, Instead of Kansas and Nebraska, for Its beef.-- We have'remarked above that this article , is of especial interest to the . Southern fanner because there are poinf In it that le may prbflt. by - thinking upon. Why of especial in-- texest to the Southern fanner?. Be - cans; .they, without having that " object in tiew, tnggest.the possihUi . tie . 'of the - South ag'-'a profitable Y fanning section and Jhe bright pros-- pects of the ; Southern fanner if he r ; "take i time Ibjj the, f oretocky", "and put timielf In a position to reap the - ad vantages that -wfTl K ami Avsn now within his reach. Diversified ' For XaOripp6 and In- farming U bnt little practiced in the I flllOnza USO OHEIIEY'ff I south, where the J one crop: ijrtem I EXPEOTOEANT. Quay has expressed himself in favor of the proposition to cut down the representation of the South in Republican National Con ventions. The fewer delegates the South has the less expensive will be the acquisition and control of them by the Quays. Louisville Courier Journal, Dem. If the German and English warships which are blockading Venezuelan ports continue to cap ture only ships containing cargoes belonging to English and Oerman residents of Venezuela, the world will be treated to an elaborate illus tration of the principle of lifting one's self over the fence by one's own bootstraps. Norfolk Land- martc, uem, . The pure food bill is nothing like the olemargarine bill. There was no decent pretense of the special in terest which formulated the latter measure; that it was fighting for the destruction of a deleterious food material, nothing of the kind. It was merely an outrageous abnse of the power of the government to protect an industry against le gitimate competition. Chattanooqa Times t Ind. The Standard Oil Company is credited with explaining that the increase of nearly 5 cents a gallon in the price of petroleum is due to the increased demand for oil far heating pnrpoges. That furnishes no reason, excepting the desire of the company to Increase its enor mous profits. But it cannot be charged to the tariff. This is one trust that owe nothing to a pro. tective tariff. Philadelphia Press, Mrs. Kelly Does your hus band get good pay, Mrs. Roonej? Mrs. Rooney Well, he would. Mrs. Kellv. ef ut wasn't fer shtriking so often fer better pay. Puck. Tom Harkaway Alice, can you tell me why it is cruel to dock horses tails. Alice Ryder Yes, in deed. Because what Qod has joined together, let no man put asunder. Puck. "I hope you do not descend to malicious gossip," said the woman with serious ideals. "No," answered Miss Cayenne. "No one that I know gossips malicious!?. They do it merely for fun." Philadelphia Press. "Do you keep late hours, young man ?" asked the blue-nosed woman of the clerk in the music store. "We've got "The Clock in the 8 tee pie Strikes One,' ma'am, if that's what you want V'Yonker'a Statesman, "what kind of a man was Na poleon t" asked the little boy. "He was one of the men whose mistakes made them famous," answered his cynical parent. "He undertook to control the world by organizing a trust. " Wah. Star. Mr. Crimionbeak I see a Brooklyn woman has discovered a way of preventing her losing her hair. Mrs. Crimsonbeak Indeed I And what does she dot Mr. CHm on beak Locks It in the ude.New York-Times. " Yea, it'a true," said Miss De Skreemer. "The death of a rich rela tive has relieved me of the necessity of making my living by singing in public." "I'm so glad I" impulsively exclaimed the other girL Chicaoo Tribune. Jfew Bllla For Old On". Not every one Is aware of just what the United States subtreasury will do for a person with soiled currency. If any one has such bills, In no matter how small quantity, and wishes to get brand new bills, all he has to do is to go down to the subtreasury and hand the old currency over the counter. The government will hand him In return new bills of any desired denomination. Perhaps under a strict Interpretation of the law the government clerk might refuse certain bills on the plea that they were still fit for circulation, bvt in practice the government is inclined to be very obliging, and, unless the sup ply of clean money on hand should happen to be temporarily short, the clerk will without hesitation hand over perfectly new and unfolded bills in re turn for money which has been folded possibly only a very few times. As a matter of fact a vast amount of money is turned in which could not have circulated among more than half a dozen hands. Bnt it is all redeemed and the new currency issued in ex change. The subtreasury supplies the new cash, too, without any expense, no matter if millions are to be ex changed. New York Times. FINANCIAL MARKETS By Teleeranh to the Morning star. ew Yobx, Dec. 25. Money oa can Market nrm at 615 per cent., closing offered at 8 per cent ; time money firm 60 days and 90 days, 6 per cent. ; six months 54 per cent. Prime mercantile paper 6 per cent. Sterling exchange firm with the actual business ia bank ers' bills at 486. 75486 80 for dem&nd and 483.25 for sixty days. The posted rates were 484 and 487. Com mercial bills 482483. Bar silver 47. Mexican dollars 38. Goverii ment bonds strong. State bonds were steady. Railroad bonds i. regular. U r5 funding 2's, registered, 108; U. 8 refunding 2's, coupon, 108; U. S 3, registered, 107h ; do. coupon. 108 U. 8. 4's, new reentered, 185; dc. coupon, 1354 U. 8 4's. old, regis tered, 109; do. coupon, 110; D. 8. a , registered, ivay& ; eo. coupon. 103 j; Southern Railway, 5's, 120 8tocks: Baltimore & Ohio 99 Chesapeake & Ohio 47H; Manhat tan L 147; New York Centra! 151?; Reading 65$$; do. 1st preferred 86 ; da 2nd preferred 77H ; 8t. Paul 178&; do. pref'd, 192; Southern Bail way 32; do. pref'd 92; Amal gamated Copper ex dividend 59; People's Gas 104 ; Sugar 129 V: Ten nessee Coal and Iron 57; U. 8. Leather 12tf ; do. pref'd,88; Western Union 88Ji; U. 8. Steel S5; do. pref'd 8434; Virginia-Carolina Chemi cal ei ; do. preferred, 122. Baltimore Dec. 24. Seaboard Air Line, common, 25 ; do. preferred, bonds, 42H; fours. 82&. By TelesrsDh to the Horning star ' mw Sobx Dec. 26. Flour was quiet with a moderate trade. - Bye flour steady.. Wheat Spot rsteady ; No. 2 red 84c Options had a slow, unevent ful day but maintained? steady and firm tone. A cold wave menaced the un protected winter ; wheat- plant, re ceipts were light, export demand fair and the late corn market a help. The market closed &c net higher : -May closed 81 tfc; July 78 c; Decem ber closed 84Jic. - Corn Spot firm; No. 2 63c. Options December closed He net higher and May ic up: Jan uary closed 64jc ; March closed Sljfc; May closed 48Kc; July closed ; De cember closed 64s. Oats Spot firm; No. 2, S838Xc. Options: December closed 39Kc Tallow quiet. Rice quiet. Lard steady ;Western steam $11 Torre- fined quiet; continent $10 90: South American $11 50; compound 7X7jc. Pork steady. Molasses quiet. Butter steady; extra creamery 28c; State dairy 2026. Cheese firm ; new State full cream, small colored fancy, Sep tember 14c; small white September 14c; lata 13c. . Peanuts were steady; fancy hand-picked 4X4c; other domestic S4c Cabbages steady; domestic, per 100, white $2 004 00; red $2 50Q400. Coffee Spot Rio nomi nal. Sugar quiet. Freights to Liverpool cotton by steam 12. Eegs steady; State and Pennsylvania average best 28c. Potatoes quoted firm; Long Island $2 00225;8outh Jersey sweets $2503 75; Jerseys $1 752 00; New York and Western per 180 lbs., $1 50 2 15. Cotton seed oil was quiefand not so strong on spot although still well sustained in the absence of mucu selling pressure. The prices closed: Prime crude here nominal; prime crude f. o. b. mills 31c bid: prime summer yellow 3839X ; off summer yellow 38c; prime white 4i42c; prime winter yellow 42c ; prime mel $27 0027 50. nominal. Chicago, Dec. 26 Trading on the board of trade to-day was extremely dull, but wheat neid about steady, May closing a shade higher. May corn was also up a fraction while oats were $clc higher. May provisions closed 7ic10c to 273 higher. - HIOAGO, Dec. 26. Cash prices: Flour dull but steady. Wheat No. 2 spring 7375ic; No. 3 spring 69c; No. 2 red 74K 75&c. Corn No. 2 45 f c ; No. 2 yellow 48c. Oat No 2 32 32 c; No.2 white ; No. 3 wont- 3iH 34c. Mess pork, per barrel, $17 00 17 10. Lard, per lot Bs., $10 1510 So. Shon rib sides, loos, closed 18 50 8 75. Dry Baited shoulder, boxu. $8 258 50. Short clear side.-, boxeu, 8 87J9 00 Whiskey Basis of high wines, $1 31. The leading futures ranged as fol lowsopening, highest, lowest an closing : Wheat No. 2 December 74 H. 77,77X77Hc; Jaly 74, 74. 74 74t,.74Jic. Corn No. 2 Decern 45Js 47, 45 45tfe; January 4444X, 45, 44, 44&c; May 43ji43. 43 3&, 43M, 3c. Oats-No 2 Decem oer, new, 82, 32, 32. 32i; May 33 33, 34,3333,34. Messpovk, per bbl December $16 70, 17 25, 16 70, 17 02H; May $16 30, 16 60, 16 30, 16 27. Lard, per 100 lbs Decern Dtr $10 15,10 30, 10,15, 10 SO; January $9 82. 9 97tf, 9 82, 9 92: May $947, 9 57K, 9 42 9 52 Short ribs, per 100 tts Januarv 18 47U. 8KK 8 47 J 8 52 ;May $8 65, 8 72, 8 62, COAST LIKE. LOW ROUND TRIP Rates From Wilmington Sixth Annual Exhibition, Charlotte Poultry Association, Charlotte, N C January 12th-15tb, 1903. Dates of sail January 11th to 14tb, inclusive. Final limn January iew. Kate, $6.30 Meeting North Carolina Association Acsdemiei, Raleigh, N. C, Dec. 26th 27tb, 1902. Dates of sale Dec. 24ih td 27tb, inclusive. Final limit Dec 3lfit Rate, $6.65. , Christmas Holiday Rates. On Dec. 23, 24. 25, 80, 31 and Jan. 1, the Atlantic Coast Line will sell tickets to all points in territory of the Southeastern Passenger .Assrciation at rate of a fare and a third for the round trip, limited Jan. 3 Upon pre sentation and surrender of certificates signed by superinte dents, principals or presidents of schools or colleges tickets at this rate will be sold to teachers and student, Dec. 16 to 22 inclusive; limited Jan 8th. W. J. CRAIG, Approved : Gen'l Passenger Agen t H. M. EM BR ON, Traffic Manager. nov 15 tf CASH PAID FOR Beeswax V. If you have some to sell ship it to us and will allow you 27 l-2c Per lb. ARRIVED. British schooner FosUr Rice, 179 tons, BrintOD, Suguala Q:a;ie, Cuba, j i. rtuey oc jo. CLEARED. British schooner Havalrak Renrv Puerto Piatt, Santo Domingo, J T Riley & Co. Steamer Compton, Sanders, Cala bash and Little River, 8 C, Stone, iVUUTK (X, KJO. Didn't Fear Hfa Dead Patients. There Is a doctor of the old school In One of. the New England villages near Randolph, Mass., whose house Is sur rounded by a cemetery. The cemetery is behind the house and comes up flush with the road on either side, running off to east and west for an eighth of a mile. Some people might And such a house lot doleful, and surely the neigh bors are not lively. , But that thought never troubled the villagers so much as the prospect of going home at night In the country towns of New England the graveyard at night is still a thing of terror, an inherited terror. There are etlll towns where all the graves are dog on a line running due east and west, with the footstones toward the east so tfiat the dead may rise face to face with the Judge on the last day. So the doctor is often asked the question, "Are you not afraid to go home some times at night V And his answer is always the same: "No. My neighbors will never trouble me. They all owe me money." New York Tribune. . NAVAL STORES MARKETS By Telezrapb to the Morning Star. Nbjw Yobx, Dec. 26. Rosin firm. Spirits turpentine dull. Charleston, Dec. 26. Spirits tur pentine and rosin unchanged. 8a vasts ah, Dec. 26. Holiday; no markets. EXPORTS, FOREIGN. PdEBTO PlxATA, SANTO DOMINGO British schooner Haveiock. 19R4KK t . i , , . . 1 ieei lumDer. vaiuea at zz.653.S5; doors, blinds, mouldings, etc., valued at oo.eu total value, 13,318.15; cargo oy master; vessel oy J T K ley & Co. MARINE DIRECTORY COTTON MARKETS. Bvltttlon ImaaUaeatt. Since Marconi has demonstrated the practicablility of wireless tele-, graph oyer long distances and over oceans, a number of claimants have come to the front who say the j made that discovery before Marconi." Maybe they did, but they didn't hare the genius to develop, utilize and make it practicable as he has. done. Whenever any useful dis covery is announced there is always some fellow to bob up and RlAitn to have discovered that long ago. Edison has spent thousands upon thousands of dollars defending his discoveries and inventions. I ..The city" of New : York - pays $800,000 a year in office rent, -but that "doesn't compare with - what . it pays to office-holders. ; . : j ;" A sure sif n of aDDroaehln Mvnlt iand serious trouble in your system is nervousness,, sleeplessness or stomach upsets. Electric Bitten will nnlrtiv dismember the troublesome causes, it never xaiia to tone the stomach, regu late the Kidneys and Bowels, stimu late the Ldver and clarify the blood. Bun down svstema benefit nrttonlm- ly, and all the usual attending aches vanish under Its aearehinr and thor ough effectiveness. Electric Bitters is only so cents, and that la retnraMi If it don't give perfect satisfaction. Guaranteed by R, R. Bsxlajct, drug gist. ' - t rr trrar Stxtv Tears Hsa. WnrsLoWB BooTHnta Bybup has been used for over aixtv ymm far mil. lions of mothers for their children wnixe 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. It will reliever the poor little sufferer immediately. - Sold - by drurrlsts In every part of the world. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for "Airs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup," inn un do nuar nBO. In 1905: Miss Smyth I sup pose you find many cases of extreme want during your visits among the poort Miss Charity Worker Yes, I visited a family to-day and actually they hadn't a drop of gasoline for their automobile. Judge. A c astir mistake. Blunders are sometimes vrv urmn. sive. Occasionally like itself is the price of a mistake, but you will never be wrong if you take Dr. King's New LifePilU for Dyspepsia, Dizziness, , . w WTTS UWUVUM. Tie7 rKOntIe 7et thorough. 25c, at R. R. Bellaxy'b drug store. t EI nipLY to inquiries we have easure in announcing that Ely's Iquid Cream Balm is like the solid preparation of that admirable remedy in that it cleanses and heals mem branes affected by nasal catarrh. There is no drying or sneezing. The Liquid Cream Balm is adapted to use by pa tients who have trouble in inhaling through the nose and prefer spraying. The price. Including spraying tube, is 75 cents. Sold by druggists or mailed 00 Warren Street, The Obedient Child, There was once a little girl who found it very hard to wash her bands just before dinner. She meant to be clean for the table, but there was so many things to think of that It was Impossible to remember. . Her mother reproved her very severely one dav. and she promised to do better. That day 'at dinner her mother asked the usual question, "Have you washed your hands, dear?" "Yes," came the satisfied reply. liler mpther looked smilingly down at -the little one's hands, and then she ot tered an exclamation, for there was no sign that soap or water had been used on them. "Vny, your hands are black,", she said. "Didn't you say you washed them?," . . "' , "Well, I Just did, mammav but I was afraid I'd foreet so I w&Rhed thpm right after " breakfast." New, York Press. by Ely Brothers, new xork. Qcdab Blubt, Va., Nov. 12, 1902. we nave sold Johnson's Chill and Fever Tonie for the past 10 years. We know it has .saved hundreds of long cases of fever and heavy doctors' bills and has sated the lives of hundreds of pur own people. We keep It in our households. - " t Czdab Blvyt Woolen Co. Agency of this wonderful medicine will be placed with good men. Ad dress A. B. Girardeau, Savannah, BantU -j? S3TC The Kind Yoa Haw Always 8oufti STOniA. Tin Kind Yoa Haw Always BougK I Gold Pen. . . The first gold pens made in this coun try were all manufactured by hand, : the gold being cut from strips of the ; metal by scissors-and every subsequent j operation being . performed by band. ; These handmade gold pens cost from .;$5 to $20 and were far inferior to the machine made article of the present day. . . '. Cnrvlnaj, ' ' . : , ' A genteel carver always sits when ha carves, says a work n etiquette. Per. haps he does, but it is pretty eerta in that there are times when be yearnful ly yearns to put one foot on the table and the other on the bird while strug gling with the fowl-London Answers AlTBBta dljrTmiTTon from tha in lmr w.iu fa either sex in 48 boara. . -It Is superior to Copaiba, Cnbel or tnlea ooiivsod free from all bod small ar ouas SANTALMIDYto!tt i uofue. c mu im S Jitfrri Tirttfroitt itJ poni u Tin 1 ia bUckU'UUI J POD. mt gtfalUJM. By TeiesraDn to tne Morning Star New Yoek, Dec 26. To-day's cot ton market opened dull at a decline of one point to an advance of one point. It rallied to a net rise of one to four points and eased off with the close quiet and steady at a decline of three points to a net advance of one point. As was to be expected in advance of a local holiday, and with the Liver pool market and the New Orleans market closed for the' day and both to remain closed until Mon day, business in cotton was of moderate proportions, with the situ ation featureless. The total transac tions, however, were increased bv some special trading in January and Blarcb, popularly attributed , to "hedges," the net result of which was, an alleged reduction in the Janu ary long interest following a mate rial increase in the New York stocks, on which the running count is 147,740 bales,gainst 86,599 De cember first, with the warehouse stock 112,153 bales, against 82 263 December first, including a certified stock of 108,203 against 65,908 December 1st. This material increase in the local stock is said to be in anticipation of large deliveries to be made next Mon day in January contracts. Total sales "mo w,wu uaies. me general un dertone of the market was quite firm on a disappointing movement and bullish week end statistics. Nw YOBX. Dec. 26. Cotton quiet at 8 75o; net receipts 150 bales; eross receipts 1,189 bales; stock 147,740 bales. Spot closed quiet; middling uplands 8.75c; middling gulf 9.00c; sales 3,800 bales. Futures - closed oaf t nH . . December 8.45, January 8.49, February 8.80. March a34, April 8.34, May 8 34, - ", w ttijr o.o, August a. iv, Sep tember 7.90. to!!, t all seaports-Net re ceipts 22,859 bales; exports to Great Britain 17,258 bales; exports to France bales ;exports to the Continent 12,755 bales: stock 1,084.268 bales. Consolidated, at all seaports Net receipts 285,273 bales ; exports to Great Britain 83,463 bales; exports to France 65,608 bales; exports to the Continent 66,698 bales. - Total since September 1st, at all seaports Net re.eipts 4,703,695 bales; exports to Great Britain 1,452,210 bales ; exports to France 403,147 bales ;exports w uv vuttunem i oaiea . ' " Dec. 26, Galveston, holiday, net receipts 4,370 bales; Norfolk, quiet at 8 5-16C, net receipts 1,383 bales; Baltimore, nominal at ; 8Hc net re ceipts bales; - Boston, holidav, net receipts -i bales; Wilmington, holi day, net receipts 2 629 bales; Philadel phia, quiet at 9.00c, net receipts 26 bales; Savannah, holiday, net receipts bales u New Orleans, a holiday net receipts 3,649 bales; ; Mobile, nominal at 8Hc.net receipts 239 hales iMAmnhi. steady at 8X&, net receipts 1,968 bales': Blat f TuhIi In tn of "Jmctoai, C December 97, STEAMSHIPo. Vera, (Br) 1,854 tons, Bennett, Alex ander Srunt & Son. Zeeburg, (Dutch) 1,958 tons, 8tasse, Heide & Co. Riverton, (Br) 2,236 ton, Williams, aiemnutr opruai 3C son. SCHOONERS. Foster Rice, (Br) 179 tons, Brinton, J T Riley & Co. Venus, 194 tons, Fox well, George Harris?, Son & Co. Lady Shea, (Br) 151 tour, MuDro, i George Harriss, Bon & Co. Mabel Darling, (Br) 111 ionr. Sweet- f mg, J A Sprinter & Co. 1 BARQUES. Nellie Troop, (Br) 1,317 tone, Nobles, Heide &Ou. BY RIVER AND RAIL. F. 0. B. Wilmington. ! WilliamsYille fflfg Co , Williamsville, Mass. sep 21 3m su we fr New Goods, FIRST PAT. FLOUR, Second Pat. Flour, Straight Flour. RICE, SUGAR, COFFEE, CANNED GOODS, SOAP. STARCH, e. Ac. Special attention to consignments. s. t: P. McNAIR C'MU Receipts ef Nava! Stsres jnd Yesterday. C. O. Railroad 198 biles cotton. cot- tur- w. & W. Kauroaa 763 bals ton, 2 barrels tar, 1 barrel crude pentme. W., C. & A. Railroad 1,405 bales cotton, 4 casks spirits turpentine, 66 oarreis rosin, 105 barrels tar. 83 barrels crude turpentine. ; A. & Y. Railroad 164 bales mttn 28 casks spirits turpentine, 278 barrels rosin, 21 barrels tar, 11 barrels crude turpentine. Total 3,629 bales ootton, 82 casks spirits turpentine, 344 barrels rosin, 218 barrels tar, 41 barrels crude tur pentine. We Will Bond Ym The Unfed Fidelity and Guarantee Com pany. Home office, Baltimore, d Paid Up Capital, $1,500,000 8urety Bonds Fidelity Contract Jndlc 1, Judicial B ids executed wltbo ' de'ay. Stat" and county offlc al odtd. Burglar Insurance (X Banks, Rtores, Beslleaceti Insured a a Inst burglar ' or i neft. OorrespTOdence solicited. C. D. WEEKS. 5nera Au-nt, ocMtm Wl.mtnifton, N r OLD HEWSPAPEEf. DR.PIERCES EDILII2)E:l$J rUM THE BLOOD, LIVER.LUNGS. You Can Buv Old HewsDaDer? in Quantities to Suit at the STAB OFFICE Bethel Military Academy, 1865-1902. Located tn Fauquier Co., Virginia. - Begum unsurpassed. Full corps Instructors. Prepares for bustasaa, college, ana v. im uwr acaaemies. For catalogue, ad dress THK PRINCIPALS. BETHEL ACADEMY P., Virginia. - - Batata, - - I "THE FAVORITE." Suitable for Wraupin&r "The Farortte- Barber Shop la now more at tractive than ever. Recent Improvements mae it more pleasing to tb eye; wnlle it sua maintains Us old reputation for the very best service to Its patrons. - - ' , - oioii s-'nAvw nosur r T Boatn rjontBt; - Paner and Excellent for 6 Placino'-Under Caroet - r - '4 . - iS