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i , , 3? VTC8 bev? t i - 1 n V X ft .1 5 . ; ! r '7 r; ' '. 'j. . m ti " ii. " . t I V t 1 T7ZLLXAK H. BERHARD. ST" WILMIN UTON, N. C. Tuesday Momtoto. Jaotabt 6. THE IUMBIR INDUSTRY. The lumber industry is one of the great industries of this country, one that has been growing in the ooutn, and in our opinion growing too rap idly. As cotton manufacturing has been moying Southward to get closer to the base of supplies so the lumberman has been moving South ward, the lumber industry has grown and will probably continue to grow until our forests have been thinned if not destroyed, as they have been in some other sections of the coun try which were once royally timber ed. The following which we clip from the New York Journal of Com merce and Commercial Bulletin shows how rapidly the industry is growing in the South, and the output of other States in 1890 and 1900: ' Wisconsin hold, first Pl Union wa lumber producing State. Michfcanheld that place opto the last nsu7yar. The product of the Utter Suts for the last four census years be rinning witii 1870 wu of tbe value In Jne respective year $31,000,000, $52, 000,000, $83,000,000, and $54,000,000. Wisconsin's product was of the value Of $57,000,000 in 1800. Alabama increased its output about 60 per cent in the year' 1900 over the year 1890 and brourht the figures up a little Im than $13,000,000 in value. In 1870 the product of Alabama was worth less than 1L500, 000. Arkansas showed a atill greater increase, the fig ares for 1890 and 1900 being respective ly, $3,943,052 and $33,959,983. Flori da doubled its output in the last de cade, and produced lumber of the value of $10,000,000 in 1900. while the pro- duet or tbe year low was worm only $5,000,000. Georgia also jait about doubled the figures from $5,000,000 to $13,000,000. Kentucky produced lumber worth about $8,000,000 in 1890, and in 1900 tbe output was worth nearly $14,000, 000. -Louisiana produced a little over $1, 000,000 worth of lumber in 1870, less than $3,000,000 worth in 1880, lets than $8,000,000 in 1890 and over $17, 000,000 worth in 1900. Mississippi increased its output from $5,000,000 worth in 1890 to over $15, 000,000 worth in 1900. Tbe increase in Missouri was not quite 50 per cent, from $3,000,000 to $11,000,000 worth. In North Carolina the increase was from $5,000,000 to $14,000,000 worth, and in South Carolina from $2,000,000 to 35.000.000 worth. V Tbe product of Tennessee doubled from $9,000,000 to $18,000,000 worth. In Texas the figures were $11,000,000 and $16,000,000, respectively for the lass two census year. Virginia 1b creased its output from 5.000,000 to $13,000,000 in Talue, and West Virginia doubled its production from $5,000,000 worth in 1890 to $10, 000.000 worth in 1900. The values of the products for some of the other Slates for the last two census years were as follows : 1890. 1900. California $ 8,794,655 $13,764,647 Illinois 5.135,155 7,653.118 Indiana 20,278,025 20,613,724 Iowa. 12,056,802 8.677,058 Maine. 11,849,654 13,489,401 Massachusetts. . 5,211.607 6.56,230 Minnesota 25,075.133 43,585.161 New Hampshire 5.641,445 9,318,310 New York ..... 17,160,547 15,766,977 OMo. 15,279,843 20,790.854 Oregon ....... 6,530,757 10,353.167 Pennsylvania.. 29.087,970 35,749,965 Vermont 6.958,674 6.131,808 Washington.... 17.450,301 80,286,380 Wisconsin...: 60,966,444 57,634,816 Nearly every State herein named .shows an increase; only two a de crease. Aside from the remarkable increase of production in the South is the remarkable production in tome of the other States, in some of which there was generally sup posed to be little commercial timber and in others of which, considering the time they have been drawn upon, were supposed to be about exhausted. But there seems to be sources to draw from in every State, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, even in the so-called prairie States of the West. To some these figures showing the increase of output in the South may be looked upon as progress, an evidence of enterprise and pros perity. To tome extent they are an evidence of enterprise and pros perity, but we are just old fogy enough to wish that there were less of that kind of enterprise, and if there ' were we would be content with leas of the prosperity that comes from hewing down our forests. If this was an industry that was pur sued with discriminating judg ment and an eye to the future and to the welfare of coming gen erations', or even this generation, we might look upon it differently, but it is not, for the woodman's axe swings right and left and where it swings it "tells every tree that may be converted into money or in which there is profit in cutting. This is dollars to the lumbermen of to-day every dollar of which, if the indis criminate slaughter goes on, will 'cost coming'generations many dol lars, how many it is impossible to estimate, for damage is , done by foreaf denudation in so many differ ent ways. There is now, a bill before Con gress asking for an appropriation of $10,000,000 for forest preservation on the mountain water sheds of the South Atlantic States from which the streams flowing into the Missis sippi on one side and into the At lantic on the other side receive their main supplies. The cut in these forests, although light compared with some other sections, has shown its injuriouj.effecta in every State whose rivers are fed. from .these mountain streams and springs. Plantations along these rivers that years ago .were never subject to overflow are in yearly danger of it and the growing of rice in some sections has had to . be abandoned. This is the result of the washing of the stripped hillsides, filling the beds of the streams with stone and dirt and sand and wood washed down by the resistless torrents. Some years the damage thus done runs up into millions, without estimating the permanent danger done to the submerged and washed lands, some of which are in a day or a night changed from fertile fields into lagged and barren wastes. It isn't only the farm and the farmer that suffer. If it was it would be bad enough, but ah the industries whose wheels are driven by water power suffer even more and are liable to still more serious injary in the future, if this indis criminate tree cutting continues. The Piedmont region of the South is recognUed to be an ideal manufacturing section, ideal be cause in addition to its genial climate, abundance of and proximity to supplies of raw materials, It furnishes an inexhausti ble supply of the cheapest and most reliable power in the hundreds of streams that have their sources in these mountains or are fed by the streams that flow from them. With the destruction of these streams which will some day be inevitable if forest denudation goes on the manu facturing industries of the Pied mont region will have to depend mainly upon steam, and the induce ments that are now presented to invest money in manufacturing can no longer be offered, since the chief inducement, cheap and inex haustible power, will be wanting. For these and other reasons, while we like to see the lumber industry prosper and those engaged in it re munerated, we would like to see it so conducted that it may grow with out destroying other and greater in dustries. AH0TKES. ELECTRIC PLANT. North Carolina is making consid erable progress in the establishment of plants to generate electric power for the use of factories. The latest movement is for a plant on the Pee Dee river, concerning which the Charlotte Observer of Sunday pub lishes the following : "Mr. Bamual T. Stowe, superintend ent of roads and bridges in this county, is organ 12 ng a stock company, to be known as the Bluitt's Falls Electrical Development Company, for the devel opment of the power at Bluitt's falls on the fee Dee river. The company baa not yet been fully organized, but charter has been granted it, and Mr. Btowe lait evening informed a re porter that he had it in such shape as to guarantee the successful outcome of the enterprise, in which it is estimated nearly $1,000,000 will be invested. The object of the company is the develop ment and transmission or electric power to the towns of Wadesboro, Rockingham, Hamlet, Laurinburg and McCbll and Bennettsville, 8. C. Tbe site of the plant will be on 'the Pee Dee river, in Richmond and An son counties, eight miles from Bock ingham three and one-half miles below the bridge of the Seaboard Air Line Bail way. It is 65 miles from this city. Mr. Stdwe, who has been working up the scheme, has gotten control of about 5,000 acres of land, lying' on either side of tbe river, for a distance of six miles. The dam will be 26) feet. The thickness of the dam at the base will be not less than 45 feet and at the crown or top 15 feet. It is esti mated that 12,000 horse power can be developed. The stockholder, for the most part. will be the manufacturers of Wades boro, Bockingham and the other towns to which the power will be transmitted. The company will give free sites for manufacturing establishments: guar antee them spur lines from the rail roads, and sell them cheap power in dependent of coal conditions. Tbe com pany hopes by these and other induce ments to build a very nourishing manu facturing town on the river. .This seems to be a sort of home enterprise, but the probabilities are that there will be some outside capi tal in it. There are already two plants in operation, one on the Yad kin, transmitting power to Winston and Salem; another in Buncombe county, transmitting power to Ashe- ville, with one or two more on the Yadkin under construction, and several others projected, which will doubtless be carried out within a few years. There is no other State in the Union which presents within the same area as many opportunities for the establishment of such plants, with towns enough, where factories are established, within a working ra dius of all of them to make invest ments in them safe and profitable. STEEL BAILS IsT C AH ASA. There is no tariff duty on steel rails going into Canada. The steel men who .want to make steel rails would like to have a mo nopoly of their market and are therefore. petitioning for a protec tive duty on rails that would keep rails from other countries out and give them the monopoly they want. This has been refused. Comment ing upon the refusal the Philadel phia Press, a protection organ, says: The Consolidated Lake Superior Company constructed a rail mill, among its other enterprises at Bault Ste. Marie, and it bad a standing con tract to deliver 25,000 tons of steel rails each year to the Canadian Gov ernment. The price was $32 a ton for the first year, and for subse quent years the price ruling in the British market The company deliv ered only 3,500 tons on the current year contract.. Mr. Clergue, of tbe company, then went to Ottawa to see if the Government would not favor a duty of $7 on steel rails, to correspond with the duty on oiner steei proaucu. But the Government is said to have refused, and tbe mill was closed. . . The Dominion Iron & Steel Com pany, with its extensive works at 8yd ney, Nova Scotia, enlarged its capital For itaGrippe and In fluenza use CHENEY'S EXPECTORANT. Vorsaiesvj.o. Bbeoara, BRONCHITIS We Enow is Hard to - . Control. Our Vlnol Is Waking a Won derful Record in Caring. This Dangerous Disease. CALL AND LET US TELL .YOU ABOUT IT. Here is a letter that has just come to oar attention. It will interest people nfferinir from bronchial troubles. It is from Mr. Geo. W, Brown, of So. Han over, N. EL, and reads as follows : " I have suffered with bronchial trou bles for over a year ; tried two doctors and have taken three or four kinds of medicine, none of which did me any good. At times I was so hoarse I could not speakT Then I heard of VinoI. Alter taking three bottles of it my voice has perfectly returned to me. I can see that in a short time I will be all right. When I began to take it I was very weak, but it has built me tip and given me a good appe tite." This is what Vinol always does. This is the way Vinol accomplishes its mission of doing good. Vinol, as we wish every one to know, owes its power of accomplishing the cures that it effects to the fact that it contains the most wonderful medicinai elements known to science for the cure of all wasting diseases, as well as be ing in Itself a marvelous tonic. These medicinal propertiesexistand have here tofore been found only in cod-liver oil. Vinol contains these elements. For by a scientific process the necessary cura tive properties of the cod-liver oil have been separated from the fat and grease which formerly made cod-liver oil prep? arations so objectionable. As long as Vinol does not con tain any of the vile-smelling oil, and is pre pared by combining the sought-after properties with a delicate table wine, it is a most delicious and palatable preparation. '" We know of what we speak when we recommend Vinol, and because we do know that Vlnol does all we claim, for it, we nnnesltatinrly en dorse It, and guarantee at any time to refund tne money paid for the remedy if yon are not satisfied, it will do all we claim for it. E0BT. B. BELLAMY. to build a steel rail mill and had the mill partly constructed when it aban doned the project The mill will be equipped for other uses. When it was round that no protection would be given the company concluded not to attempt to compete with German and English mills, who dispose in other countries of their surplus at whatever they can get. . The Canadian Government recently asked for bids for 35,000 tons of steel rails, and though a German bid was lower. Although there was no doty American mills regarded it useles to bid. and the Canadian mill at Sault 8te. Marie could not apparently make it profitable to sell rails at $33 while the Germans were offering to rurniao them in Canada at $37.50 a ton. It is clear from these figures that European manufacturers are willing to sell rails at prices with which American manufacturer! cannot now compete. Some time ago when it was pro posed to repeal the tariff duties on steel manufactures, including rails, which are shipped abroad and sold at lower prices than at home, Sen ator Hanna declared that this would ruin our steel industry, because the steel manufacturers of Canada would dump there manufactures on our markets and ruin our steel workers, who could not compete with them, but now we find these same Cana dian manufacturers of whom Sena- Hanna was so much afraid petition ing for protection to enable them to compete with the manufacturers of other countries. The Prese inform us that when Canadian railroad men can buy rails from Europe at $27.50 a ton our rail makers do not try to sell in that country because they cannot go under that figure, and yet our steel makers a few years ago, before the organization of the Trust, sold rails as low 'as $18.50 a ton, and we are assured that rails can be made and sold at a reasonble profit for $14 a ton. It isn't the European competition that prevents them from seeking Canada trade, but the fact that with the practical monopoly of the home market and the" activity in railroad building creating a great demand for rails they have more or ders than they can fill and are com pelled to import rails from Germany to fill their orders. Rev- Mr. Skjles, who calls him self a Christian minister, and has a sttring of deserted wives all the way from Maine to California, got along pretty well until he struck Missis sippi, woed, won and eloped with a Miss Whetstone. Ue was having a royal time in New Orleans, when a deserted wife in the State of Wash ington who. had got on his trail, ran him down and put an end to his merriment, and temporarily to his marrying. He is now in jail in Port Gibson , in Mississippi, where reports are coming in from his nu merous wives. So far eight have reported. The Kansas merchant who adver tised that "the best dressed women in town wear my shoes only" forgot that he wasn't in Chicago. .After that the "best dressed women" gave his store the go by, for they .didn't care to bj suspected of having that kind of feet. fetntli 8lfBStVS The Kind YwHawAWaft SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Troy " Examiner: Mr. Bob Howell savs he witnessed 47 pompki tkn from one vine raised by Mr. Ed. Gaddy in ninety yards of the court house in xroy . j"w ut iht of the pumpkins was more than 800 pounds. Greensboro Telegram: Col. Jno. r..inh.m of Cunningham, presi dent or the florin Carolina Tobacco Growers' Association, waa here this ..I.. Mtt.irninff- from a visit to Franklin, Warren and other counties Kaat to meet tobacco growers. He says he finds farmers greatly disturbed over tbe decline in the price oi iooscco ana that there is a growing disposition to curtail the tobacco crop another year and practice diversification of crops instead. He hopes to put speakers in the field next week , to visit precinct meetings of farmer. He thinks this the best way to get at the individual grower. Durham Sun: The remains of tbe 10-year-old son of William Fau cette. colored, who died on Friday of lockjaw, were interred last Saturday. The boy was wounded in the hand on Christmas day by a22-calibre ball from a toy pistol, and from this blood poison set in. later on being seized witn lock' j w. During the year 1903 there were issued in Durham county 325 marriage licenses, the largest number in the same length of time since the county was formed. The total num ber during December was fifty-six, and of this number thirty-rour were to white and twenty-two to colored couples. Baleigh Post! J. N. Ebbs, representative from Madi son county in the Legislature of 1900, and Republican candidate for United 8tates Senator against F. M. Simmons at the 1900 session, was arrested at Hot Springs Friday afternoon by United States Marshal Silvers on a charge of forgery, alleged to have been committed in Mississippi against the United States government. The charge is understood to be falsifying vouchers. Ebbs has been taken to Greensboro to appear before Judge Boyd, who will decide tbe question of returning him to Mississippi. Ebbs was appointed special attorney of the United States in the land claims de psrtment at the request of Senator Pritchard, and was assigned to duty in Mississippi. The trouble arose over vouchers for expense such as hotel and livery bill, etc., it is said. Greenville Reflector: Tuesday Mr. W H. Woo ten, of Greene county. came to Greenville and that night rail into the hands of thieves in a disrepu table quarter of tbe town, and was re lieved of about $300 in cash. Luther Neal, Annie Clark and Flora Baugby, three negroes who came here from Washington during the Fall, were accused of the robbery. Tbe negroes all left for Washington Wednesday morning. A warrant was sent there for them and they were arrested. Thursday Chief of Police J. T. Smith went to Washington and brought the darkies back to GreenviU He re covered something over $61 of the stolen money and also about $30 worth of goods which the negroes had bought. The negroes were given a hearing Friday morning before Justice O. D. Roan tree and bound over to Superior Court. CURRENT COMMENT George G. Green, marshal of Northern Texas, is a Lily White, and has, therefore, been marked for decapitation. Civil service reform has already been decapitated by tbe head of the present Administration and member of a recent Civil Ser vice .Commission. Louisville Courier-Journal, Dem. A month ago the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Clarke, Jr., of Futte, Montana, was an nounced, and with it the statement that the youngster would inherit a million dollars from his grand father. Senator Clarke, who had promised that amount to his first grandson. On New Year's day the young mother died. Wealth can not bring nor yet insure all happi ness. Charleston Post, Ind, Certainly there must be some thing the matter with our currency system when the Treasurer expresses his apprehension of inflation three weeks after the Secretary of the Treasurer has succeeded in curing a stringency" by stretching the law to the point of breaking. This ar bitrary tinkering with business con cerns partakes too much of pater nalism and allows too much advant age for "influence" to keep inline with American ideas. Make a law that is reasonable and right then force high and low to observe it, but the worse law is better than "fiats." Jacksonville Times-Union, Dem. Speaking at a banquet given in his honor by the citizens of Syd ney, Nova Scotia, last Tuesday, Mr. Marconi said that the cost or. estab lishing a transatlantic wireless tele graph service is but one-twentieth of the cost ox laying a transatlantic cable. The inventordded that his company is now nnaer contract to transmit messages at ten cents a word, but that with the further de velopment of the system it will not be surprising if the rate becomes a cent a word. As the young Italian hara way of doing what he says he will, this is worth remembering. Norfolk Landmark, JJem. Ponsestle Trombles. It is exceptional to find a family where there are no domestic ruptures occasionally, but these can be lessened by bavins? Dr. King's New Life Pills around. Much trouble, they save by their great work in Stomach and Liver troubles. They not only relieve you, but cure. Only 36c, at B. B, Bkiaa- my's drug store. t Avoid all drying inhalants and use that which cleanses and heals tbe membrane. Ely's Cream Balm is such a remedy and cures Catarrh easily and pleasantly. Cold in the head vanishes quickly. Price 50 cents at druggists or by mall. " - Catarrh caused difficulty in speak ing and to a great extent loss of hear ing. By the use of Ely's Cream Balm dropping of mucus has ceased, voice and hearing have greatly Improved. J. W. Davidson, Att'y at Law, Mon mouth, 111. t Cepab Bluff, Va., Nov. 13, 1903. We have sold Johnson's Chill and Fever Tonie for the past 10 years. We know it has saved hundreds of long eases of fever and heavy doctors' bills and has saved the lives of hundreds of our own people. 'We keep it In our households. -,- Ckdab Bluff Wools Co. Agency of this wonderful medicine will be placed with good men. Ad dress A. B. - Girardeau, Ba'yannan, Ga. ' The Kind You Hare Always OS3 BtU , .A r TheVorld's Greatest . Skin Soap The Standard of Every nation of the Earth. Sals Greater TlianlGWs Prctoct of Other Sim Soaps. Sold Wherever Civilization Has Penetrate! Millions of " the world's best people use Cuticura Soap, assisted by Cuticura Ointment, for' preserving, purifying and beautifying the skin, for cleansing the scalp of crusts, scales and dandruff, add the stopping of falling hair, for softening, whitening and soothing red, rough and sore hands, for baby rashes, itchings and chafings, in the form of baths for annoying irritations and in flammations, or too free or offensive perspiration, in the form of washes for ulcerative weaknesses, and many sana tive, antiseptic purposes which readily suggest themselves to women, espe cially mothers, as well as for all the purposes of the toilet, .bath and nur sery. ! Cuticura Soap combines delicate emollient properties derived from Cuti cura. the great skin cure, with the pur- 'est of cleansing ingredients and the most rer resnmgoi nowerooours. jno other medicated soap ever compounded is to be compared with it for preserv ing, purifying and beautifying the skin, scalp, hair and hands. No other for eign or domestic toilet so&p, however expensive, is to be compared with it for all the purposes of the toilet, bath and nursery. Thus it combines in one soap at one price the best skin and complexion soap and the best toilet and baby soap ever compounded, Sale greater than the world's product of all other skin soaps, i Sold in every part of the civilized world. TWINKLINOS. Of the New Year's resolution Brother Dickey says: "It comes onee a year, but it don't stay wid us longer dan de fust week. Atlanta Constitu tion. "I see Newlvwed at the conn- try club quite often since bis baby came. I thought he was firmly an chored to a borne life." "He was, but at tbe first rqaall he began to drag his anchor." jrucx. "Do tell us what Mrs. Boun cer is like." "Well, she's a woman o' 60 who looks B0, thinks she's 40, dsses like 30 and acts like 20." Judge. "So he's in the diplomatic corps, eht Well, he's m-neutly fitted for it" "How so!" "Ue ustd to be stage manager for an smateur dra matic c'u!." (Sfroy Stories. "1 thank you, sir, lor your kind permission to call on your daugh ter." K-member that I turn out the gas at 10 o'clock." "All rieht, r. I'll not come before that lime Punch Maude Crying about your pug nose again, Clara f Wny, now foolisbl A queen herself needn't be ashamed of that nos. Clara O of course not; the qftn doso't have to wear it. i Co. Jiuwalo MJxprese. Yon might save yourselves a good deal of irritation and annoyance if you would remember that the weath er is perfectly indifferent to what you say about U.lnatanapoita New. Mrs. Beacon "In the eood old days, it waa plain living aitd high thinking." . Mrs. Lennox "Now, tbank Heaven, it is high living and no thinking." Ztfe. "Yes. he's given up the politi cat job he bsd." "The ides I Why, I understood it was a regular little sine cure." "Bo it was, but alter the last election it became a little insecure." Washington Star. "Whose voice did he like best, oars or mine f asked Miss Kreecb. "I'm not quite sure." replied Miss Bird. "His remarks were a bit am biguous." i "Why, what did he say f" "lie said he liked mv voice, but yours was better still'" PhUa. Press. WILMINGTON DISTRICT. B. B. Sows, P. EL, Wilmington, N. C. Southport, Jan. 11, 12. Shallotte, Concord, Jan. 13. Town Creek, Jan. 14. Waccamaw, 8hilob, Jan. 17, 18. WbiteviUe, Whiteville, Jan. 18, 19. Magnolia, Providence, Jan. 24, 25. Clinton, Clinton, Jan. 30. Kenansville, Friendship, Jan. 31, Feb 1. - Bladen, Bethlehem, Feb. 7, 8. Elizabeth, Elizabetbtown, Feb. 9. Carver's Creek, Council Station Feb. 10. Onslow, Queen's Creek, Feb. 14. 15. Jacksonville and Bichlands, Half Moon, Feb 21, 22. District Stewards will please meet in the Ladies' Parlor, Grace church, Wil mington, j 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. 17th at 5 o'clock P. M. and continue through the 18ih and 19ln, 1903. ARfarvelous Invention. Wonders never cease. A machine has been invented that will cut, paste and hang wall psper. The field of in ventions and discoveries seem to be unlimited. Notable among great dis coveries is Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, it has done a world of good for weak lungs and has saved many a life. Thousand have used it and conquered Grip, Bronchitis, Pneu monia and Consumption. Tbeir gen eral verdict is; "It's the best and most reliable medicine for Throat and Lung troubles." Every 50e and SI. 00 bottle is guaranteed by B. B. Bellamy, drag gist. Trial bottles free. . t Wr over Sfxtv Tears Msa. WihsloWb Boothibq Strop has been used for over sixtv years bv 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. It will relieve the poor little sufferer Immediately. Sola bv druggists In every part of the world. Twenty-five eenta a bottle.- Be sure and ask for 'Mrs. Winslow's Soothing 8yrup,n and take no other kind. . , dr.pierce:s MEDICAL r FOR THE EflTOOD. LI VER.LU NCS. i . - ------ - M..rL 1 1 si mi ii Hi i im . 1 1 niii i Martin Armstrong, station agent on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe road at, Kenny, Tex., has invented an appli ance by which any person may send a telegraphic message without knowing anything about telegraphy, says , the Chicago Inter Ocean. The apparatus is intended primarily for use in educating people to be telegraphers, and with it they can, without a teacher, master the secret of dots and dashes that go to make up each letter of the alphabet according to the Morse system. The outfit, which can be carried in the band, consists of a sounder key, DEYICB FOB TEACHING TELEGRAPHY. such as is used in all telegraphic work, a small dry battery, a transmitter, sty lus and the wires that connect the vari ous parts. It is the transmitter that is the wonderful thing about the whole apparatus. This is simply a piece of wood about twelve inches long and eight wide. Extending along one side of the board are all the letters of the alphabet, followed by the numerals 1 to 0, and the punctuation characters. Un der each one of these characters there Is a little hole or depression in the wood. Below these holes again there is a geometrical pattern formed by strips of metal set into the wood, with a mi nute groove leading from each charac ter through the metaj strips and the wood that at intervals breaks their continuity. The stylus, which looks like an or dinary pencil, and all the other yarts of the apparatus are connected with the battery by wires. The novice sets the apparatus on a table before him and takes the stylus in his hand. In serting its point in the groove running from the letter he wishes to make, he draws it toward him. As it moves the sounder clicks the letter. This is done by the stylus passing over the metal strips and forming an electrical con nection, which is broken for longer or shorter intervals necessary to make a letter by the intervening spaces of wood between the metal strips. A few weeks of practice on this instrument and tbe novice knows the sound of ev ery letter, and it is only then a matter of practice to receive and transmit in the usual manner. The sounder gives him his opportunity to practice this. and if he is ever in doubt as to his cor rectness he can verify his work by pro ducing the letter with the stylus. TAILOR HINTS. Tbe Basque Coat Coming: la Pedes trian Skirts. The basque coat is coming in with the shorter skirt much strapped and stitched. Collars andrevers are once again braided, and new braids will be used as winter advances. The lace cravat is a pretty finish to a tailor made frock, while the old fash ioned jabot must of necessity be in vogue with anything approaching the swallowtail or cutaway jacket There is no doubt that on all prac tical costumes the skirts will be much shorter, but the really. short skirt to show the ankles should be kept exclu- A CSEFUli GOWN. dvely for country-: wear. For town wear the skirt is cut to escape the ground barely all the way around. There is no doubt that some women never look well without a wide collar; consequently they must not be deluded by new fashions in this respect. Some' or the very latest coats are made with out the-sailor collar and with the little upstanding military affair, but In all such matters individuality must be considered. A very useful gown Is the one shown in the cut. It is of dark red rough goods trimmed with gold and white braid. JTJPIO CHOLLE3T. .Labelllte. " An artificial rubber, called labelllte, is the invention of a -Salt Lake City man. It is made from various hydro carbons combined .with crude petro-" ieum and is said to cost only 1 cents per potmeV , gSplraa gg-Brfl m B ?!gy a Erg ggTnsa'Edsa 3QKiiiir Sg jLI B " ?l-fsss II gfTgirlElr scT"8' s COMMERCIAlJ. WILMINGTON MAEKKT Quoted officially at the closing by the Chamber oi.uommercei j STAB OFFICE, January 5. SPIRITS TURPENTINE Market firm at 53c per gallon. ROSIN Market firm at $1.35 per Darrei ior su-awea and f l.4U per. bar rel for pond atrainml TAB Market firm at $1.60 per bar rel or zov pounds. ! CRUDE TURPENTINE Market firm at $1.75 per barrel for hard,, $3.00 ior oip. - Quotations same day . last year Spirits . turpentine nothing doing; rosin steadv at tl.0Oiai.0S; ta stead v at $1.20; crude turpentine quiet at SJEOEIPTS. Spirits turpentine 13 Rosin ...i 278 Tar 280 Crude turpentine . ' i 107 Receipts same day last year 30 casks spirits turpentine, 136 barrels rosm, iua oarreiavsar, w Darreis cruqe OOTTON . Market firm on a basis of 8c per pouna ior miaaung. Uuotations: Ordinary. 5 cts. B woou ordinary 7 Low middling 7 " " Middling S " " Good middling. ... ; . 9 " " 8ame day last year, market 'firm at 7c for middling. Receipts 921 bales; same day last year, 657. f Corrected Regularly by Wilmington Produce Commission Merchants, prices representing tnoee paid for produce consigned to Commie sionMerchanta.1 COUNTRY PRODUCE. PEANUTS North Carolina, firm. Prime, 60c; extra prime, 65c; fancy, 70c, 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, 10l2c; sides, 10 11c. . EGGS Firm at 2182c per dozen. CHICKENS Firm. Grown, i 30 35c; springs, 12 25c. TURKEYS Firm at 10llc for live. , BEESWAX Firm at 25c. TALLOW Firm at 5K6jc per pound. SWEET POTATOES Dull at 60c per bushel.. FINANCIAL MARKETS Bv TelesrsDh to the Mornlaz Star. Nsrw TOBZ, Jan. 5. Money on call steady at 59 per cent., last loan at 5)6, closing at 56 per .cent ; time money easier 60 days and 90 days, 55 per cent. ; six months 5 5J per cent. Prime mercantile paper 6 per cent. Sterling exchange steady at advance, with tbe actual business in bankers' bills at 486.60 for demand and 483.50 for sixty days. The pos' ed rates were 484 and 487X. Coir- mercial bills 482483K. Bar silver 48. Mexican dollars 38 . Govern ment bonds strong. State bonds no report. Railroad bonds firm. U. P. refunding 2's, coupon, 108 Ji; U. P. funding 2's, registered, 10SJ; U. 8 3's, registered, 106; do. coupon, 108, U. S. 4's, new registered, 135 Ji; do. coupon, 1355i ; U. 8. 4's, old, i regis tered, 109X ; do. coupon, 109 ; U. S. 5'r, registered, 103j ; do. coupon. 10331; Southern Railway, 6'i, 117. Stocks: Baltimore & Ohio 101. Chesapeake & Ohio 49; Manhat tan Li 149 i; New York Central 152; Reading 68; do. 1st preferred 87; do. 2nd preferred 79 V :Sv Paul 179X ; do. pref'd, 192 J ; Southern Rail way S5M; da .pref'd 9434; Amal gamated Copper 65X: People's Gas 10SH; Sugar 129 Hi Tennessee Coal and Iron 63&; U. S. Leather 13; do pref'd.89K; Westeri. Union 88 j ;U. 8 Steel 37; do. pref'd 88; Virginia Carolina Chemical 64; do. preferred, 120. Standard Oil, 747750. Baltimore, Jan. 5. Seaboard Air Line, common, 27 ; do. preferred, bonds. 44H ; fours, S3. NAVAL STORES MARKETS Bv Telegraph to the Morning Star. Nsw Yobk, Jan. 5. Rosin steady. Strained common to good $1 801 95. Spirits turpentine firm at 6656c. ' Charleston, Jan. 5. Spirits tur pentine and rosin unchanged. Sayabhab. Jan 5. Snirits turpen tine was firm at 53c: receipts 367 casks; sales 117 casks; exports 2,880 casks, uosin nrm; receipts 4,057 bar rels; sales 1,871 barrels; exports 5,484 barrels. Quote: A, B. O. D. $1 4754. E. $152; F, $1675. ;G, $170; H,$2 00; L, f2 35 ; K. f3 85 ; M, (3 35; N, fS 55 W G, $3 80: W W. S4 20. COTTON MARKETS. By TeleRTSDb to the Morning star New York, Jan. 5. The cotton market opened unsettled at a decline of six to fourteen points. After the first sales a few of the more active months declined a point or two furth er. The early weakness was due to active liquidation of long accounts and to active selling for short account", following a statement by tbe former leader of the bull faction indicat ing a., change of front with reasons given for lower prices. All tbe cotton thus offered, however, was soon absorbed and with decided, recu peration at Liverpool where the market had declined rapidly under the same pressure; and with the weather in tbe South and with tbe receipts small tbe local market made a quick recovery of five to ten points, which was the basis of trading at noon when the Census Bureau issued a statement indicating tbat to and including December 13 b 9 311.835 bales of cotton bad been ginned and that 1,057 771 bales remain ed to be ginned, trgether 10,369,606 Tbe details of the report showed that a lar?e oroDortion of round bales re- i educed the actual number of regula tion bales to sometbug under 10,000, 000 bales, ss some figure it, bu, whle tbe statistical pobii-on of cot ton remains strong, ar.d notwiib standing tbe bullisb cbsrscur of the census showing, a verj active sell ing movement set .in during the afternoon, largely for sbort account, on tbe ground tbat ait bullish factors bad been discounted in tbe late ad vance. The market was finally bare ly steady at a net decline of nine to fifteen points, the final figures being the lowest of the session. Total sales estimated at 600,000 bales. Nw Yobk, Jan. 5. Cotton quiet at 8 90c; net receipts 166 bales; gross receipts 9, 577 bales; stock 164,881 bales. Spot closed quletand 10 points lower; middling uplands 8.90c: middling gulf 9.15c: sales 4,200 bales. Uotton futures closed barely steady : January 8.58, February 8.59, March 8.63, April 8.63, May 8.63, June 8.63, July & 65, August 8 51, September 8.20. Total to-dav. at all seaports Met re ceipts 46,527 bales ; exports to Great Britain 238 bales; exports to France 4,881 bales; exports to the Continent 17,200 bales: stock 1,065,213 bales. Consolidated, at all seaports Net receipts 94,424 bales; exports to' Great Britain 22,073 Dales: exports to irrance 4.881 bales; exports to the Continent 85,441 bales. ' I Total since September nt, at all seaports Net receipts 5,044,135 bales; exports to Great Britain 1,547,088 bal. exposes to France 425,704 bales ;exrxri. to the Continent 1.565.791 bales ; Jan. 5. Galveston, quiet at 8 ins. net receipts 8. 838 balm. steady at 8c net receipts 5,491 bale,'. Baltimore, nominal at 8c, net re.' ceipts bales; Boston, quiet at 9 no net receipts 453 bales; Wilmington' firm at 8& net receipts 921 baJe ; Phif adelphia, quiet at 9.15c, nelfceipti 462 bales; Savannah, quiet at Sftc, net re ceipts 7,950 bales; New Orleans, quiet at 8 9-16c, net receipts 19,160 bales Mobile, quiet at 8 9 16c, net receipti 8,319 bales; Memphis, steady at 8e, net receipts 1,849 bales; Augusta, stead at 8 ll-16c, net receipts 823 baletj Charleston, firm at 8Hc, net receipt! 281 bales. 7 . PRODUCE MARKETS. By TeiezraDb to tbe Momma a tar. New Yobk, Jan. 5. Flour w steady but quiet. Rye flour was dull Wheat Spot dull; No. 3 red 78c. Options The first course of wheat prices to day was downward, reflecting liquidation and short selling. With the small visible supply increase, however, coupled with export rumors, higher French markets, corn' strength and foreign buying and a scare of shorts, which rallied the market and closed, it firm at a partial Jtfo net advance: Utj closed 79ic ; J uly closed 77c. Com Spot easy; No. 258c. Options market was generally firm all day, stimuUtrd by big clearances, tbe dtcreased visible supply, local covering.wet weather and poor grading. Closed firm at Heue net advance; January closed 54Xc: Mtrch closed c; May closed 48 Uoz Julv closed 47c. Oats Snot dull: No. 2. S8Xc. Options market ruled fairly active and firmer with corn: Mar Hosed 39c. Lard easy : Western steam $10 30; refined easy: compound 7U& 7c. Rice quiet. Butter was steady ; extra creamery 29c: State dairv ZUZ6X. (Jbeese nrm; new State ful niu, BUin suiurcv. 1HUCV II made 14c: small white, fall made. 14 jonee pot tio steady: xvo. 7 invon. 5X; Jmild steady; Cordova 7U. Suffar Raw ' BtAndv Ptnni steady; fancy band picked 4j44c; oinerdomestic34J4 Cabbages btrad v ; Domestic, per luo, white to red 2 00 4 50; Norfolk 75c$l 00. Molasses quiet. Tallow dull. Freitbts to Livernool cotton bv itAim 19. V.ooa nrm; state and Pennsylvania aver age best 28c. Potatoes steady ; Long Island $2 00225;Soutb Jersey sweets $3503 75; Jerseys $1 752 00; New York and Western per 180 lbs., $1 50. Z 00. Fork easy: family SI800: short clear $19 5021 40; mess $18 25 18 75. Uotton seed oil was arm and higher on human nBifrnm Ihtflnmh Onnisil. . . . . V .UV UVW-U W.WM. Prime crude , here nominal; prin e crude f. o. b. mills 8132c: prime summer yellow 3839Xc; off sum mer yellow 8838.tfc; prime whilf 44; nrime winter yellow 4244c: prime meal $27 0027 50. nominal. Chicago, Jan 5. There was nQly moderate trade on the Board of Trdes to-day and the wheat market was rat r quiet, but ifee close was fiim wth Mv Js higher. May corn cioscd f J-rnth er, while oats were up $.. M ruvs ions closed from 5o higher to 10c. lower. CHICAGO, Jan. 5. Cash price-: Flour quiet and easier. Wheat No. 2 spring c: No. 3 spring 70c: No. 2 red 7071c: Corn No. 2 45Kc; No. 2 yellow 45&c. Oat No. 2 81 ; No. 2 white c; No. 3 white 32 32 c Mess pork, per barrel, $17 50. Lard, per 10G fibs , $9 759.85. Short rib sides. loos cl6sft8 25 9 50. Dry salted shoulder--, boxeo, 8 25 8 50. Short clear side, boxeu, 19 009 12. Whiskey Basis of high wines, $1 31. The leading futures ranged as foi lows opening, highest, lowest, an closincr: Wheat No. 2 January 71. 71H. 70tf , 71Hc May 7475X f76tf 75H, 74M, 75Xc; Jolv 7272. Ti 72tf, 72M, 7272c. Corn No. 2 January 4444, 46, 44. 45c; May 42M&43 43H. 43, 42X42c; July 4242tf, 4242, 42, 42 c Oats No 2 May 33MS3. S4K, 33& 3481c; July 31, 31, 3lX31?6, 31. c. Mess pork, per bbl January $17 15, 18 20, 17 15, 17 20; May $16 00, 16 05, 15 85, 15 95. Lard, per 100 0s Janua y $9 75, 9 85, 9 67& 9 80; May $9 30, 9 35, 9 25, 9 30; July 9 S15, 9 15, 9 10, 9 15. 8hort ribs, per 100 tb Jau uary $882, 8 35. 8 32, 8 35; May $8 62, 8 67, 8 52, 8 67. F0REI6N MAKKE BV Cable to the Morninn im , Liverpool, Jan. 5. Cotton: Spot in moderate demand, prices two to four points lower; American middling fair 5.82d;good middling 4.88d; middling 4.70d; low middling 4.58d; good ordi nary 4. 46d; ordinary 4.34d. Tbe sates of tbe day were 8,000 bales, of wh eb 500 bales were for speculation and ex port and included 7,700 bales Amer ican. Receipts 10,000 bales, all Amer ican. Futures opened easy and closeo steady; American middling (g o c) January 4.681; January and Febru ary 4. 674.68d; February and March 4674.68d; March and April 4.67 4.68d; April and May 4.684.b9d; May and June 4.694.70d; Juuc and July 4.694.70d; July aod August 4.694.70d; August and September 4.624.63d; September and October 4.50d; October and November 4.39. ; ARRIVED. Steamer Highlander, Bradshaw, Fayetteville, TDLove. British steamship City of Gloucester, 1,573 tons, Milburn, Savannah, Alexan der Sprunt & Sod. CLEARED. Steamer Highlander, Bradsbaw, Favetteville, TDLove. British steamshipTo'gorm.Hallads-, Ghent, Belgium, Alexander Sprunt & Son. . " EXPORTS. " FOREIGN. fRicvT British ateamshfnTorirorm. 6,471 bales cotton, 2,688,470 pounds, i .nan vwi . i . vaiueu at cargo ana vesBei by Alexander Sprunt & Bon, MARINE DIRECTORY List of Vessels In tits Port of Wilmlng. ton, R. C, January 6. STEAMSHlPo. City of Gloucester, (Br) 1,573 ton?, Mil- burn, Alexander Snrunt & Ron. Vers, (Br) 1,854 tons, Bennett, Alex ander eprunt cc fcJon; Zeeburg, (Dutch) 1,958 tons, Stasse, tieide 3c uo. SCHOONERS. Foster Rice, (Br) 179 tons, Brinton, George llamas, Bon ox uo. ' Cbas O Lister, 267 tons, Moore, George Harris?, Son & Co. Venus, 194 tons, Foxwell, George Harris, Son & Co. -Lady Shes, (Br) 151 tons, Munro, George Harriss, Son & CosteP BASQUES. S v.. Nellie Troop, (Br) 1,317 tons, Nobles, Heide&Co. Argo, (Nor) 687 tons, Addison, Heide & Co. .betjiei Military Academy, 1865.1003. Located! In Fanaaler vq., Virginia. Region nsurpasFea.j Full corps Ins tractors. Prepares for bualnee, coileire, and U. 8. ml ltary academies. For catalogue, ad dress THE PBINOIPALS, BBTHEL ACADEMY 0 Virginia. sa tu th l v-
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