She SSleekbi jRat. A FARING SONQ. O tired little mariner! Teo-bot Yeo-hol Unto the strand of alumberlansl A-MiUng we mart go. This is the time when children fare IWIT from Vinmo Bo well seek the good ship Afar to roam. Oh. yeo-hol A sleepy little voyager I Yeo-hol Ynn-linl The pleasant breese of drowsiness '. .Beginning is to blow , And now the Isles of Nidnod are AU aafalv nut I sow, o'er dreamland ' slutf bosfbar , we're safe at Inst, Oh, yeo-ho! -Portland1 PLASTER CASTS. Need Mot Be a Ores Arttet to Bo Able to Tnke a Making a plaster oast of the hand is a simple and easy process, and one which requires only care and! a little patience to attain a perfect result The hand or other object to be casM thoroughly greased. Vaseline is the beat for this purpose, as it is a little gummy and sticks we 1L Plaster of paris is mixed to a batter consistency and a little color added (indigo will do), the object laid in position and the batter poured over it and allowed to harden. When the matrix or mold is set the hand is wriggled out, plain white plas ter batter poured in, after the mold has been thoroughly greased, and when this white filling is hardened the mold is broken away, the difference in color as sisting one to see what must come off. As to the manner of making oasts : Do not take a hand flat and stiff. Grease a cloth, push it up into graceful folds, lay the hand upon it in an easy posi tion, disposing the fabric under any bent knuckle so that there will be as little as possible of what the carvers call "under cutting," which would make the mold hard to get off. ' Casts, however, need not be limited to hands. A daring amateur may at tempt a life mask if she can find a cour ageous subject willing to submit to her experiments. Ttl this RAW the evehrnwa and Ixflhoa must be thoroughly greased, as well as the skin of the face, and the hair cov ered, so that no plaster can possibly reach and adhere to it The subject is laid upon her back, a couple of goose quills fixed in the nos trils for her to breathe through, and she is told to relax her features to a calm expression and keep perfectly still until the mold hardens. These casts have to be finished and touched up a little after they are taken with a sharp knife or chisel, and any roughness there may be smoothed away with fine sandpaper. Then, mounted on a square of dark red or old blue plushf they are handsome wall ornaments, as well as the most faithful of all por traits. Chicago Inter Ocean. The Industrious Yellow Hammer. William R. O'Neill of the Pacific vinegar factory noticed a yellow hammer industriously at wprk one day on the siding of the factory building. Mr. O'Neill watched the bird for some time, and inside of an hour it had cut a round hole two or three inches in di ameter through the inch planking. Mr. O'Neill is not a mean man and if the bird cared to make its home in his vine gar factory why, it was all right Next day, however, he noticed that the yel low hammer was engaged on another hole. "It's for a back door, " thought the owner of the building. But after it had finished the back door it cheerfully went to work on the other holes, prob ably for windows; By the time there were 15 holes in the side of the factory Mr. O'Neill concluded that the yellow hammer was taking, liberties with his property. So he obtained permission from the chief of police to shoot it For a whole day the office boy. and Mr. O'Neill's brother banged away without feazing the little bird, and it was final' ly necessary to employ an expert marks man to bring it down. The marksman charged 50 cents for his services, and Mr. O'Neill also lost the best part of a day nailing boards over the holes in the plan king. Portland Oregonian. I Silenced. A man who certainly must have tip ped the beam at 240 and who looked as if he could have handled Sandow With ease stood on a street corner the other afternoon with a scrawny, brow beaten, pale little woman about 4 feet 9 in stat ure and not above 80 pounds in avoirdu pois. A gentleman who was waiting for a car at the same corner heard the giant say to his pygmy : "Gimme 10 cents, Mattie. " "See here, Bill Morrison," was the icy reply, "I've- told you over an over ag'in sence we left home that I wouldn't give you 10 cents to fool away on this trip, an if you say ' 10 cents' to me just once more you'll wish you hadn't! I ab'd think you'd been married to me long enough to know that when I say a thing I mean it. Now, you give me any more trouble an we'll take the next car forhorqe, you tormentin thing!" De troit Frfe Press. . Bow Kate Field Died. Mrs. Mabel Loomis Todd, the astro nomical writer, was the last person to talk with Kate Field before her death. Mrs. Todd was on her way to Japan with her husband, David C. Todd, pro fessor of astronomy at Amherst college, to see the total eclipse of the sun in August Mrs. Todd's introductory essay for the poems of her friend, Emily Dick inson, made her name well known. Her writings on astronomical subjects are popular, accurate and entertaining. It was a difficult task given Mrs. Todd by the physician at Honolulu to tell Miss Field of her approaching death and to take down the addresses of friends to whom she wished letters sent And it is very characteristic of the thirsting, eager mind of Kate Field that she showed her interest, even at that mo ment, in the object of the journey of the Todds, and that after asking again the name of their expedition, looked up brightly and, repeating Mrs. Todd's an swer, said, "The Amherst eclipse ex pedition," and these words were her last Woman's' Journal. Clnb Gowns. Pretty soon some, enterprising dress maker will put on her cards, ' 'Special attention given to the making of club gowns. " According to one of them the dressmakejf, not the gown a toilet de signed to fbe worn at a club meeting where its fearer will present a paper or deliver speech "needs to be abso lutely perfect." Her reasons are that "it will bej eyed closely and for long periods of time at once by women at leisure to observe. " It is perhaps this consciousness of be ing personally and carefully scrutinized that accounts for the desire of many women to stand behind a chair or a ta ble when speaking and to dislike very much to stand out unprotected on a platform "The moral support of a lit tle table, even the slightest and frailest, is almost incalculable, " says a woman who speaks with an ease and fluency and dignity of bearing that are apparent ly unassailable. So there must be some thing in it. New Fork Times. What is grief? It is an obscure laby rinth into which God leads ' man, that he may be experienced in life, that he may remember his faults and abjure them, that he may appreciate the calm hioh virtue gives. Soheffer. A LITTLE SUFFERER Face, Hands and Arms Covered With ' Scrofulous Humors How a Cure Was Effected. "When five years old my little boy had scrofula on his face, hands and arms. It 1 was worst on his chin, although the an ! on his cheeks and bands were very bad. It appeared in tho form of red pimples which would fester, break open and run and then scab over. After disappearing they would break out strain. Thv intense etching and the little sufferer had I iu ub waicnea continually to Keep him r irom scratching the sores. We became greatly alarmed at his condition. My wife's mother had had scrofula and the only medicine which had helpd her was Hood'a Sarsaparilla. We decided to give It to our boy and we noted an improve ment in his esse very soon. After giving him four bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla the humor had all been driven out of his blood and it has never since returned." William Baetz, 416 South Williams St., South Bend, Indiana. You can buy Hood's Sarsaparilla of all druggists. Be sore to get only Hood's. I loUU rlll! eatj to operate. 25 cents. SPIRITS TURPENTINE. 1 Charlotte Observer: The store of R. A. King, corner of Brevard and Eleventh streets, was looted by rob bers and then fired Tuesday morning at 4. IS o'clock. The storekeeper shot at the incendiary robbers and was in turn fired at. His goods were burned, but the fire department saved the building. Lumberton Jtobesonian: J. P. Ward, one of the best rqen of the coun ty, died of heart failure Sunday night at his home near Mt Elim church. He was sick but a few days.- F.Lennon tells us of a very strarPge ..thing that happeded last week near Bis farm m Co lumbus county. A negro was suddenly taken with a vomiting Spell and threw up a snake that looked like a moccasin seven inches long. The snake put out his tongue, rolled around and died. The man thinks that he swallowed the snake several years ago while drinking water from a pond in Georgia. He has been in bad health ever since a short while before leav ing that State, and attributes it to the snake. Greensboro Record: Rev. Mr. Peeler died Tuesday morning at his home in Kernersville. He was about 75 years old. Deceased had been in declining health for several years. He was a member of the Western North Carolina Methodist Conference, but has been on the superanuated list for several years. - Old Frank Phipps, who is 52 years of age, was in the city this interning with a load of hay for sale. Phipps lives about five miles from Greensboro, near Alamance church. While here this morning he said he had never in all his live been out of Guilford county and had never seen any town in the world but Greensboro. Raleigh News and Observer; Within the last two weeks a large number of Mormon elders have come into North Carolina, Missionaries, they call themselves, and they always go two together, in pairs, so to speak. Al ready there were a large number of them probably a hundred but within the past two weeks a new pair has ar rived in evry town of importance in the State, and they say there are more to follow. Those who have been "laboring'' in the State have sent very encouraging reports back to. Utah, hence this new importation of "mis sionaries." Their efforts for the most part are confined to the rural districts. They go without money or baggage and depend upon the kindness and hospitalityof the people among Whom they preach to support them. Greensboro Telegram: Unde niable evidence has been found of the presence of some wild beast in the woods around Rural Hall in Forsyth county. Whatever the annual is, it attacks only dogs, harming nothing else around the yard. 1 he doer is at tacked, his throat cut and his body eaten from his heart to his hind quar ter and his bones cleaned of all meat. The animal has been seen only once. but he could not be distinguished from the dog which was being attacked and disappeared in the darkness. The depopulation of the dogs has been going on for six or seven months, but at first attracted little attention, the re- nort beiner circulated bv the bovs But an eye witness tells of the attacks the animal has made, and of the dead bodies of two dogs seen Monday morning. The only theory advanced is that there being about 6,000 acres of thickly studded woodland around Rural Hall and running almost un broken to Sauratown mountain, it must have its habitat there. Dover, N. H, Oct. 31, 1896. Messrs. Ely Bros, : The Balm reached me safely and m so short a time the effect, is surprising. My son says the first application gave decided relief. I have a shelf filled with "Ca tarrh Cures." To-morrow the stove shall receive them and Ely Cream Balm will reign supreme. Respectfully, Mrs. franklin freeman. Cream Balm is kept by all druggists Full size 50c. Trial size 10 cents. We mail it. ELY BrOS., 56 Warren St., N. Y. City. NAVAL STORES MARKETS. By Telegraph to The Morning Star. New YORK, January 19. Rosin steady. Spirits turpentine steady at 34J344c. Charleston, January 19. Spirits turpentine firm at 314c; no sales. Kosin firm; no sales; quotations unchanged. Savannah, Ga., January 19. Holiday ; there were reports of bids of 31 4c for spirits turpentine. Rosin un changed. The diseases cured by Hood's Sarsa parilla are many, because most ail ments disappear as soon as the blood is enriched and purified by it. t PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS. Chadbourn Postmaster at Wilmington and Claude M. Bernard Attorney for the Eastern N. C. District By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Washington, Jan. 19. Tte Presi dent to-day nominated Claude M. Ber inard to be attorney of the United States for the Eastern District of North Carolina; also Tyre Gfenn. to be post master at Greensboro, N. C, and Wil liam H. Chadbourn postmaster at Wil mington, same State. The following fourth class postmas ters have been appointed: North Caro lina, Athlone, John Penland; Aure lian Springs, York Whitehead; Ke hukee, Jordan Parker. The Senate to-day confirmed these nominations : Charles Page Bryan, of Illinois, to be minister to Brazil ; E. H. Conger, of Iowa, to be minister to China; J. W. Elliott, of Virginia, col lector pf customs District of Newport News; J. S. Bethel, collector of cus toms, District of Richmond, Va. Wanted Position as Bookkeeper, by a young man of experience. Can write a good legible rapid -hand. Salary n object. Good references. AddresSjK., Star office. Jan 18 It Jj&w tIFE IN EASTERN BENGAL Which Bender the Profuse ITaa of Opium a Necessity. In 1867 it occurred to Dr. Palmer at Ghazipur to treat, malarial fever with anarootine derived from crude opium instead of with quinine. He was re markably successful, and the drag is now in common use as an an ti periodic. rsui we cnaractenstio ox Indian opium is the preponderance in it of precisely this element Can we, then, infer that opium is a prophylactic against audarial fever? To a certain extent we nan. far statistics show that those who take daily 46 grains and upward of opium take enough anarootine thereby to protect them absolutely against malarial ooison . while any one taking over 16 grains will be more or less fortified. It may be mentioned, also, that the morphine ele ment contributes its share as a prophy lactic. In the light of these facta, it in interesting to note that in many dis tricts opium consumotdon bean a close relation to the greater or less prevalence of TnaJaria, In Assam, for examnle. in the damn and low lying country1 an both hanks nf the Brahmaputra, the average annnal consumption per head is 357 grains, the average ior the whole province being 141, and in the Bhasalnur district of the Patna division the most malarious part has 42 per cent of the opium shops oi tne district for only 27 ner cent of the population. One of the medical wit nesses gave tne ton owing lively descrip tion of the conditions of life in eastern Bengal: "When a man wants to build a house, he first of all digs a tank, and with the earth from which he has dug tne tank he raises a mound, and on the top of that mound he places his house. 'The elevation of that mound de pends entirely upon the height to which the annual floods rise. The floods rise with fair regularity, bat sometimes they go two or three inches higher than the average, and then the' inhabitants of those houses have to live on rafts in side their houses, and their cattle are tethered up to their bellies in water. These people have generally no boats. They paddle about on rafts made of the plantain tree, and the boys go to school in what I call wash hand basins. They are earthen gum las earthenware pots. The boy sits at the bottom of the gumla and paddles to school. ' ' These poor peo ple are often five miles from their near est neighbor, and some 2,000,000 of them are dependent for qualified med ical aid on a single European doctor with one assistant What wonder that opium is their household remedy, and that when a man, disabled by malarial fever, finds that a dose of a quarter or half a grain of pure opium makes him a new man, and enables him to do the day's work without which his family would starve he takes it Chambers' Journal. Seared by a Locomotive. The Rev. A. S. Steele, editor of The Epworth Era, describes how, when 9 years old, he was scared nearly out of his wits by the sight of a locomotive. It was in the days when railroads were few, and the boy had never seen a train of cars. I first saw the cars at the p&ce where the L. and N. railroad crosses Hatchie river, a little west of Brownsville. We went there to take the train for Mem phis, t was repeatedly assured by my parents that there was no danger at all, but their assurances only partly allayed my juvenile apprehensions. We did not have long to wait The engine whistled some time before it came into sight, and that whistle set my nerves on edge. I clung to my fa ther, and when the monster appeared over the top of the grade I buried my face in his coat and screamed, in spite of his efforts to quiet me. Just as the engine came opposite us the steam began to escape with a horri ble spluttering noise. This was more than I could stand I broke from my father and started for the woods. ' A big pile of lumber was near by. I dived under that clawing and squeezing up under the planks like a fr?ghteni rabbit My father caught me by the heel and pulled me out Then, seizing me by main force, he carried me to the train, while I kicked and screamed like a savage, to the in finite amusement of the passengers. J It took my father and mother and the con ductor to get me aboard and push me into a seat My, my, how I struggled and kicked and scratched and fought and screamed! Do you suppose I wanted to be murdered straight out? I became quiet by and by, but I still dodged every time we passed a telegraph pole. Tattooing by the Maori Race. Major General Rob ley is the author of a singularly curious book, ' ' Moko ; or, Maori Tattooing." The New Zea land war of 1864-6, in which the author served, gave him this opportunity of studying on the spot that .now almost extinct art The expression, a well chis seled face, meant one thing to a Chris tian sculptor and another to a Maori decorator. The work contains more than 160 illustrations of designs and tattooed heads. There is no denying the fact that the Maoris could appreciate the beauty of lines and curves. One witnessing the really striking examples of their architectural ornamentation exhibited in South Kensington cannot but regret that they did not work less upon the human skin and more upon, some other material. In General Rob ley's book, which is to be a 2 guinea quarto, beautifully printed, the history of the art is sketched and the various processes explained The second section of the book deals with preserved heads, many of which, dating from 1770, are kept in European museums. It seems there are few, if any, such heads later than 1831, "when the traffic in Maori heads ceased ' ' An illustration entitled "Preserved Heads of Maori Warriors Arrayed In Robes and Displayed Try Their Conquerors" is singularly life like. It betrays at least a rudimentary sense of statuesque drapery. London. News. '' y Woman and the Ballot Lady Henry Somerset recently ad dressed the British Women's Temper ance association. She said in part : "An effort has been made to prove that if women had the ballot there would be a labor war. But nature gives antecedent proof that this is an imag inary danger. No instance can be men tioned in the states and provinces where women have the ballot where men have combined on one side and women on. the other. The line of cleavage is along the line of temperament, personal in terest, neighborly .and family ties, but not along the line of sex. Retreating from the position that every ballot must be backed by a bayonet, some of our opponents now maintain that women will vote for wars in which they cannot: fight. Bdt whoever has thought care fully concerning the recent crisis be tween our country and America has observed that the voices of the women were for peace. " The Water Pitcher. The following simple method of keep ing ice water in a common pitches isi worth knowing: Put a layer of cotton batting between two sheets of wrapping paper three inches higher than the pitcher. Fasten the ends of the paper and batting together, forming circle: Paste a cover over one end of the bat ting and paper. This cover, when over a pitcher, must come close to tiie stand, and so exclude the, air, and. ice will, keep a long time. This paper cover will be found of great service in a sickroom-; for both milk and wapchsa BECOMING INDIANS. CLAIM THAT AMERICANS ARE DEVEL OPING ON THAT LINE. ' In Faces to the Aboriginal Type A Study of Heads, With Especial Attention to the Resi dents of Pennsylvania. It is an extraordinary question in an thropological science which has been propounded popularly of late. The in fluence of environment upon the race resident in the United States must in the course of four centuries produce oar tain marked and undeniable physical results. It is not generally acknowledg ed by American anthropologists that there is a tendency of reversion to the type indigenous to the soil. But foreign students of race, with more perspective, have offered interesting food for reflec tion. A writer in the Chicago Times Herald, commenting on the assertion, of the Fr xh authors that on this conti nent . ..aenoan white man has varied toward .ii Indian type, offers a support ing study which is curiously fascinating possibly vastly important Xirst, the familiar faces of the carica turists' creation are called in as wit- The Yankee and the southron large and loose limbed of these pictures are types, even as the stout full faced John Bull is a type found in another environment Both American favorites of the cartoonist have high cheek bones and usually excellent straight noses. These witnesses are not of course, scien tifically admissible. The faces given us by the caricature makers are impres sions, not testimony. Scientific, however, is the study of fered of the Pennsylvania Germans a happy, thrifty, frugal people, who have been subjected-to American conditions for nearly two centuries, with very lit tle intermingling with other, races, much less than the English people in New England or in Virginia. It is true that the pervasive and be guiling Irish have intermarried some what with these old Pennsylvania set tlers, but in the main it is a very exclu sive, pure blooded Palatinate stock. Data have been secured relative to a large number of school children and to adult males from 26 to 60 years of age, and many copies of portraits of original settlers. It appears that stature in creases and that other important gener alizations may be made, tentatively of ourse. The increase of finger reach is marked, and the head measures are im portant. Sj ' "The anthropologist places consider able value upon certain proportions or relations between measures, " says the student of the subject 1 ' Thus the length of the head -and the breadth of the head, when compared,, give numerical expres sion, which is called the cephalic index. To find it the length is divided into the breadth and the result multiplied by 100. A head one-half as wide as it is long would have an index of 60; one three-fourths as wide as long would have an index of 76; one as wide as it was long would have an index of 100. There is no race whose head is normally so wide as to have an index of 100 or so narrow as to have one of 60. The higher the index, of course, the broader and sounder the head; the lower the index, the longer and narrower the head. Ger mans generally are notably round head ed Topinard gives for some people of Lorraine the index of 86.8. The average index of 100 Pennsylvania Germans is 81.9, which is notably less and nar rower. The heads of our northern and eastern Indians are still longer and nar rower. We cannot at present make a further comparison with profit What we have already said may prove erro neous when we learn the actual Palati nate type. We assume now that the Palatinate Germans were of medium stature, light haired, blue or light eyed, round headed, with a finger reach of 1.048. We find that the Pennsylvania German children are dark in hair and eyes, that the men are probably of in creased stature, that heads appear to be lengthening, that arm reach appears to be increasing. In all these respects the Pennsylvania German varies from the assumed Palatinate type and in the di rection of the Indian. If our assumption proves valid, we may claim that our evidence shows change, which, if con- tinned, may form an Tndian type from the German. " All this, it must be noted, is abso lutely distinct from any of the reasons for discussing the tendency of Americans to revert to original types from the in filtration of the red Indian blood itself in the veins of the white race. From the days of the old French and Indian wars fireside tales of New England intermix ture of that sort have been common enough. A recent novel has expressed the country knowledge in New Engl and that there is an occasional V streak from ancestry that approached New England from the west as well as that which approached it from the east across the Atlantic. In the western states and territories the great numbers of half breeds whose descendants find their way into the life of cities brings to bear a curious and unreckoned force in the de velopment of the fiber and sinew of the race in North America. Boston Tran script Delicate Complexions Again Fashionable. At the moment it seems pertain that nolor is "off. " A fiat has gone forth to the effect that the exquisitely subtle shades approved by the omnipotent bowers who arangre such matters de mand skins of cream unmingled with rose, or, at any rate, with any color deeper than the heart of an opening blush rose bud. It is generally safe to accent the statement that m summer less rouge is necessary than in winter, for. with delicately tinted muslins and fragile silks, a fall color is suggestive of bucolic tendencies, and there is always a fear that a fatal increase of red might accrue beneath the too pressing atten tion of King Sol, but this season it has come to be regarded as little short of a crime to walk abroad with cheeks clad in the flame of poppies or blood red roses. A complexion of pure cream, with faintest fliokerings of pink on cheeks and chin, and lips of liquid crimson these are ordained adornments for ordinary wear, but in each individ ual case a hundred and one- variations will he found necessarv, for many of the newest veilings demand a percepti ble amount of rouge, and, of course, for special occasions it may he found ex- radiant to add to or take from the gen eral ingredients mentioned. Pall Mall Gazette. .. ,1 : Warm Weather Neckwear, The warm days are bringing oat no end of lovely collars in muslin, crape, silk or chiffon, plain or elaborately dec orated Worn over gowns of soft, neu tral tints, they are especially effective and cool looking. These fancy collar ettes are a wonderful aid where one must economize in the matter of gowns, comments a fashion authority. The addition of one of these smart collars, vest, etc., changes the entire appear ance of the gown. Dainty ones are made up of thin white mull, beautifully tucked and decorated with delicate lace. The sailor collar is the preferred shape, cut in many odd, fanciful ways or brought into broad revers at the front Grass linen sailor collars are very much in vogue in spite of their having been worn all last season. They are appropri ately worn with outing suits and may be as elaborate as one may wish, with heavy embroidery done in grass linen colors. ? ft. ' 8 MEDICAL TREATMENT Oil TRIAL To Any Reliable Man. Marrelotu nnll.nn mil nn, mnnlli'inmi of rare power will be sent on trial, wiiKout any rivarux payment, 07 the foremost company in the world In the treatment of men weak. Broken, dis couraged: arm effeou of excesses, worry, over, work. to. Happy marriage secured, complete res toration or dereloproent of all robust con diuona. The time of this offer ts limited. No C. O. D. ; noaeoeption : no exposure. Address 04 NIAOAKA 5T., .BUFFALO. N.Y. my 20 D&W tf th su tu COMMERCIAL. WILMINGTON MARKET. STAR OFFICF, January 13. SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Market dull at at 324c per gallon for machine made casks and 32c per gallon for country casks; sales later at 32c and 314c ROSIN Market firm at $1.15 per bblfor Straihed-and $1.20 for Good Strained. TAR Market firm at $1.05 per bbl of 280 gallons. CRUDE TURPENTINE Market steady ; $1. 40 per barrel for Hard, $1. 90 for Dip and 1.90 for. Virgin. (Quotations same day last year. Spirits turpentine, steady, 25c, 244c; rosin firm; $1.40 to 145; tar steady. 95c; crude turpentine firm. 41.30. 1.80. RECEIPTS. Spirits turpentine 145 Rosin , 561 Tar , ....... 148 Crude turpentin 15 Receipts same day last year 99 casks spirits turpentine. 708 bbls rosin, 286 bbls tar, 00 bbls crude tur pentine. COTTON. Market steady on a basis of 5 7-16c. per pound for middling. Quotations : Ordinary : 3 cts. " lb Good Ordinary 4 5-16 " " " LowMiddKng. 5 " " f Middling 6 7-16 " " " viooa jmaaiiug o ii-ju Same day last year, middling 64c. Receipts 641 bales; same day last year, b7. COUNTRY PRODUCE. PEANUTS North Carolina-Prime. 40 to 45 cer bushel of 28 pouuds ; Ex tra Prime, 50c ; Fancy, 55c. Virginia Jwetra .crime, 45c; Fancy, 50c. UOKJN Firm; 47 to 50 cents per bushel. KUUtxtt xtlUxi. if 1. 00 to 1.05 per bushel. N. C. BACON. Steady ; hams, 8 to 9c per pound; shoulders, 6 to 7c; sides, 7 to 8c. , v SHINGLES. Per thousand, five inch, hearts and saps, $1.60 to 2,25; six-six, $2.25 to 3.25; even-inch; $5.50 to 6.50. TIMBER Market steady at $8.00 to 8.50 per M. STAR OFFICE. January 14. SPIRITS TURENTINE. Market steady at 32c per gallon for machine made casks and 61c for country casks. , VV KUSUN. Market firm at $1.15 per bbl for strained and $1.20 for good , strained. TAR. Market firm at $1.05 per bbl of 280 lbs. gM CRUDE JRPENTINE Market steady; $1.40 per barrel for hard, $1.90 1 J . w. . ior cup ana i.w ior virgin. Quotations same day last year : Spirits turpentine at opening of mar ket steady at zoi, 24 Jc ; later steady at 25, 25c; rosin firm, $1.40. 1.45, later $1.45, 1.50; tar steady, 95c; crude tur pentine firm, $1.30, 1.80. RECEIPTS. Spirits turpentine 101 Kosin 643 Tar...... 334 Crude turpentine 12 Receipts same day last year. 100 casks spirits turpentine, 406 bbls rosm, 215 bbls tar, 2 bbls crude turpentine COTTON. Market steady on a basis of 5 7-16c per pound for middling. Quotations Good Ordinary 3 cts U lb Good Ordinary 4 5-16 " ' Low Middling, 5 " " Middling 5 7-16 " ' GoodMiddling... ... 5 11-16 " " Same day last year, middling 6fc Receipts 397 bales ; same day last year, 610. COUNTRY PRODUCE PEANUTS North Carolina Prime. 35 to 40c per bushel of 28 pounds : extra prime, 45c ; fancy, 50c Virginia Extra prime, 45c; fancy, 50c. CORN Firm; 474 to 50 cents per bushel. KOUOM rUCE $1.00 to 105 per bushel. N. C. BACON Steady: hams 8 to 9c per pound; shoulders, 6 to 7c; sides, 7 to oc. SHINGLES Per thousand, five inch hearts and saps, $1.60 to 2.25; six-inch, $2.25 to 3.25; seven-mch, 5. 50 to 6.50. TIMBER Market steady at $8.00 to 8.50 perM. STAR OFFICE, January 15. SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Market firm at 32 cents per gallon for ma chine-made casks and 31i cents for country casks. Sales at 32J and 31Jc. ROSIN. Market firm at $1.51 per bbl for Strained and $1.20 for Good Strained. TAR. Market firm at $1.05 per bbl of 280 lbs. CRUDE TURPENTINE. Market steady; $1.40 per barrel for Hard, $1.90 ior .uip ana i.w. ior virgin. Quotations same day last year. spirits turpentine firm, 25$, 25c; rosin firm. l.4U. 1.40; xar sieaay, 95c0; crude turpentine firm, $1.40, $1.30, $1.80. RECEIPTS. Spirits Turpentine 80 Rosin... 189 Tar 224 Crud Turpentine 22 Receipts same day last year. 46 casks snirits turpentine. 243 bbls rosin. 228 bbls tar, 00 bbls crude tur pentine. COTTON. Market firm on a basis of 5c. tier nound for middling. Quotations : Ordinary 2 1516 cts. ft G-ood .Ordinary 4 Low Middling 5 15-16 " ' Middling 5 " ' (joou jyiiaaiing Same rlav last year, middling 64c. Receipts 1,060 bales; same day last year, l,04d. COUNTRY PRODUCE. PEANUTS North Carolina-Prime, 3540c per bushel of 28 pounds ; Extra Prime, 45c; Fancy, 50d. Virginia- Extra Prime, 45c; Fancy, oc. CORN. Firm; 4750 cents per per 8to bushel. . ROUGH RICE. $1.001.05 bushel. N. C. BACON. Steady; hams, 9c per pound; shoulders, b to 7c; sides, 7 to 8c. SHIN G-Lilflo. trer tnousanu. five inch, hearts and saps, $1.60 to $2.25; six inch, $55.25 to $3.ZB; seven men, $5.50 to $6.50. TTMBEK. Market steady at h.uo to $8.50 per M. STAR OFFICE, January 17. SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Market quiet at 32i cents per gallon for machine-made casks and 31$ cents for country casks. ROSIN. Market firm at bbl for Strained and $1.30 pa.15 per for Good Strained. TAR. Market'firni at $1.05 per bbl of 280 fts. CRUDE TURPENTINE. Market steady ; $1.40 per barrels for Hard, $1.90 for Dip and 1.90 for Virgin. Quotations same day last year. Spirits turpentine, firm, 25$, 25c; rosin firm, $1.45, $1.5b; tar steady, 95c; crude turpentine firm, $1.90, $1.80. RECEIPTS. Spirits Turpentine 159 Rosin 126 Tar 300 Crude Turpentine 30 .ttecemts same day hist year. 99 casks spirits turpentine, 764 bbls rosin. 318 bbls tar, 12 bbls crude turpentine. COTTON. Market firm on a basis of 54c per pound for middling. Quotations : Oirdinary 4 15-16 cts. $ lb. Good Uwunary.... 4 " " Low Middling 5 15-16 " " Middling 54 " " Good Middling. ... 5f " " came day last year, middling 64c. Receipts 680 bales; same day last year, 711. COUNTRY PRODUiE. 3540c per bushel of 28 pounds ; Extra rnuiBj oe ; r ancy, ou. v lrgrnia mctra Prime, 45c; Fancy. 50c. CORN Firm: 47i(&50 cents ner bushel. ROUGH RICEi-$1.00(ai.05 per bushel. 1 N. G. BACON steady : hams 8 to 9c per pound; shoulders, 6 to 7c; sides, 7 to tsc. .. - : SHINGLES Per thousand. five $2.25; inch, inch, hearts and saps, $1.60 to six inch, $2.25 to 3.25; seven $5.50 to 6.50. f . " TIMBER Market steady at $8 to 8.50 per M. STAR OFFICE, January 18. SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Market steady at 32 cents per gallon for machine-made casks and 311 cents for country casks. . ROSIN. Market firm at $1.15 per bbl for Strained and $1.20 for Good Strained. TAR. Market firm at $1.05 per bbl of 280 fts. CRUDE TURPENTINE. Market steady at $1.40 per barrel for Hard. $1.90 for Dip and $1.90 for Virgin. "V i. X! 1 1 I ' : quotations same oay last year. Spirits turpentine quiet, 25& 25c; rosin firm, $1.45. $1.50: tar steady. 90c; crude turpentine firm, $1.30. $1.80. RECEIPTS. Spirits Turpentine. 119 Rosin 655 Tar 376 Crude Turpentine 1 Receipts same day last year. 79 casks spirits turpentine. 251 bbls rosin, 567 bbls tar, 11 bbls crude tur pentine. COTTON. Market firm on a basis of 54c per pound for middling. Quotations: uroinary 4 .15-16 cts. ID Good. Ordinary 4i Low Middling 5 15-16 " " Middling 54 " " Good Middling 54 " " Same day last year, middling 64c. Receipts 481 bales; same day last year, 961. I COUNTRY PRODUCE. PEANUTS-North Carolina -Prime, 3540c per bushel of 28 pounds ; Extra f rune, 45c; Fancy, 50c. Virginia Extra Prime, 45c ; Fancy, 50c. uukjn. Firm; 4750 cents per bushel. KUUirfi KiUl:. $L001.05 per busnei. N. C. BACON. Steady; nams, 8 to 9c per pound; shoulders, 6 to 7c; sides, 7 to 8c. SHINGLES. Per thousand, five inch, hearts and saps, $1.60 to $2.25; six inch. $2.25 to $3.25; seven inch, $5.50 to $6. 50. TIMBER. Market steady at $8.00 to $8.50 per JM- ST AR OFFICE, January 19. Holiday ; no transactions. IBaBBaBSBaSBBBBSSBBkBSP , Cotton and Naval Stores. WEEKLY STATEMENT. RECEIPTS. For the week ended January 14, 1898. Cotton. Svirits. Rosin. Tar. Crude 4.885 411 4.683 1,332 44 RECEIPTS. For the week ended January 15, 1887. Cotton. Spirit. Rosin. Tar. Citfda 4,18? 481 4,201 1.050 8! EXPORTS. For the week ended January 14, 1896. Cotton. Spirits. Rosin? Tor. CntAe. Domestic 808 444 221 928 135 Foreign 8,063 000 000 000 000 8,371 444 221 928 135 EXPORTS. For the week ended January 15, 1897. Cotton. Svirits. Rosin. Tar. Crude. Domestic 1.000 425 280 440 79 Foreign 000 1 7,916 31 000 1,000 426 8,146 471 79 STOCKS. Ashore and Afloat January 14, 1898. Ashore. Afloat. 11,102 184 4,155 11 000 Total. Cotton 10,944 22,046 3,255 38,802 Spirits 3.U71 Rosin 84,147 Tar: 5,438 Crude 809 5.444 209 STOCKS. Ashore and Afloat January IS, 1897. Cotton. Spirit. Rosin. Tar. Crude. 21,864 1,892 36,413 7,881 310 PITCHER'S CASTORIA THE KUTD YOU HAVE ALWAYS BOUGHT Euthc fjgntus MARINE. ARRIVED. Nor. barque Jotun, 525 tons, Bent- sen, Last London, Africa, iraterson, Downing dt Co. Schr Dora Allison. 6Z6 tons, ooy. Lewes ,'Del, Geo Warriss, Son & Co. Schr Kobert F Bratton, 68 tons, Harris. Georgetown. Geo Harriss. Son&TJo. Br steamship Lucina, 1689 tons. Creese, Rio Janeiro, Alex Sprunt & Son. Schr Nettie Shipman, 288 tons, Raynor, New York, Geo Harriss, Son & Co. , Steamship Oneida, 1091 tons, Staples, New York, H Small bones. Schr Mattie A Franklin, 489 tons, McDonald, New York, Geo Harriss, Son & Co. ' Schr Harold J McCarty. 297 tons. Hawley, Boston, Geo Harriss, Son & Cp. ARRIVED AT SOUTHPORT. Schr Edna and Emma. 174 tons, Richardson, Jacksonville, Geo Harriss, Son & Co. Schr Emma S, 63 tons, Cahoon, Charleston, Geo Harriss. Son & Co !. CLEARED. Swedish barque Solid, 506 tons, Wodin. Bristol. James T. Riley & Co Steamship Croatan, 826 tons, McKee, New York. H G Smallbones. Schr Fred B Balano, 215 tons, Saw yer, Port au Prince, Geo Harriss, Son v. (V Schr Ella G Eells. 230 tons, Cush man, San Domingo City, Geo Harriss, Son & Co. Steamship 0ieda. 1091 tons, Staples, Oeorffetown. H G Smallbones. Schr Clara, 248 tons, Hatch, Port of Opam, 1TUUUUU, W liarnao, &Co. Br steamship Morven, 2360 tons, Ellis," Bremen, Alex Sprunt & Son. AVege table Preparation for As similating uKrood and Regula ting the Stomachs and Bowels of Promotes tigcstion.Cheerful ness and Hest.Con tains neither Opium. Morphine nor Mineral. Not Narcotic. EeafcerOldlk-SAMVELEmmB Assess Sd jOx.Sennm JSSSm Uft- Arv rr. Sett SSSSstajusv' td JufST A Derfecf Remedy for Constipa tion, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, WornsQMivulsions .fevensh ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Tac Simile Signature of NEW YORK. I EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. COTTON MARKETS. By Telegraph toThe Morning Star. New York. January 19. The eren- eral phases of to-day's market for cot ton were rather better. The English cables were quite as good as expected as to public accounts while private cables reported less liquidation pressure ana some investment demand, with the Liverpool short interest inclined to take profits. Local shorts were buyers from the start to-day. Opening steady with prices one point lower to one point higher, the market steadily im proved and closed at practically the top prices of the session ; steady at a net gain of 3 to 5 points. To-day's im provement was largely due to indi cations of moderating receipts at the ports. There were no further develop ments in New England as to: the strike situation, except such as might help ratner tnan nurt tne cotton market. The market continues to be a narrow one with the local contingent in con trol. ': New York. Januarv 19. Cotton steady : middling 5c. Uotton the futures market closed steady, with sales to-day of 123,200 bales; January 5.66c, .February 5.65c., March 5.68c., April 5.72c., May 5.75c., June 5.79c., July 5.82c, August 5.85c, September 5.86c, October 5.88c, No vember 5.90c. Soot cotton closed dull but steady ; middling uplands 5c; middling gulf bc ; sales bales. PRODUCE MARKETS. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. New York. January 19. Flour was steadily held but buyers holding off for concessions; ! city mill patents $5 55 5 75. Wheat Spot firm ; No. 2 red $1 02; options opened easy under disappointing cables, but rallied and were firm all day on fair clearancee, a good export demand, strong cash posi tion and firmer late continental markets, closing ic net higher ; No. 2 red January closed $1 01 J ; May closed 93c. Corn Spot Steady ; No. 2 34ic; options opened steady and ad vanced slightly on clearances, sympa my wren wneat ana gooa export in quiry, closing unchanged; January closed 33ic; May closed 331c Oats Spot firm; No. 2 28i28ic ; options dull but fairly steady, closing un changed ; May closed 28Jc Lard steady ; Western steam 5 00. Pork firm: mess $9 50; short clear $9 7511 75; family $10 00 10 50. Butter steady ; Western creamery 14i20c ; do. factory XI 15c ; Elgins 20c ; imitation creamery 13 17e ; State dairy 13loc ; do. cream ery 1419c. Cheese quiet ; large white September 8c Cotton seed oilsteady ; prime crude 1919ic ; prune crude yel low 23c. Petroleum dull. Rice quiet. Molasses quiet. Coffee Spot Rio held higher; No 7 invoice 6Jc; jobbing bjc; mild quiet; (Jordova 815c Sugar raw steady ; fair refining 3c ; centrifugal, 9b test, 44c; refined steady Chicago, Jan. 19. Support from the Leiter crowd which started cover ing by shorts made a strong July wheat market to-day, that option clos ing fc higher. May, on the contrary, was weak and showed a closing de cline of i to Jc. Bearish foreign news influenced the latter option. Corn was weak early, but closed steady at a shade better price. Oats showed no change at the close. Provisions were irregular, closing lie lower to 2$ to 5c higher. Chicago, January 19. Cash quota tions : Flour steadier. Wheat No. 2 spring 8787iC; No. 3 spring 8689i; JNo. Z red y293c uorn sso. z, zic. Oats No. 2, 23c; No. 2 white, f. o. b., :; No. 3 whiter f. o. ft., JJ4555c Rye No. 2, 44ic .Mess pork, per barrel, $9 409 45T Lard, per 100 lbs., $4 624 65. Short rib sides (loose) S4 5Zt5 zi. Dry salted shoulders (boxed) $4 755 00. Short clear sides (boxed) $4 755 00. Whis key, distillers' finished goods, per gal Ion, $119. The leading futures ranged as fol lows, opening, highest, lowest and closing: Wheat No. 2, January 91$, 92. 91f, 91; May 91L 91i, 91. 91ic ; July 811, 83, 81, 82Jc Corn January ,264.264, 264. 264c; May 28, 29, 284, 284c f July 29, 30, 294, 293c Oats- May 23 234, 234, 234c; July 22, 224, , 224c Mess pork, per barrel, Janu arv $9 45, 9 45, 9 40, 9 40 ; May $9 474, 9 60, 9 45, 9 50. Lard, per 100 lbs. Jan uary (4 65, 4 65, 4 624, 4 624 ! May 14 75, 4 80, 4 724, 4 724; July, $4 85, 4 87t, 4 824. 4 824. Short ribs, per 100 lb: January closed at $4 65 ; May $4 75, 4 80, 4 75, 4 75. Baltimore. Januarv 19. Flour quiet and unchanged. Wheat strong ; spot, month and February 974 to 974c; May 934 to 934c; steamer No. 2 red 934 to 934c; Southern wheat by sam ole 93 to 984c : do on grade 94 to 98c Corn steady ; spot, month and Febru ary 32 to 324c,; steamer mixed 304 to 304c ; Southern white corn 29 to 294c ; do yellow 28 to 33c. Oats firm ; No. 2 white ;Westem 294 to 30c; mixed do 28c No. 2 Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Shin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give penect satist action or money rerunaea. rrice 25-cents per box, For sale by R. R. Bellamy f CASTORIA The Kind Ton Have Always Bonght, Bears the Fao-simile Signature ON THE WRAPPER j OF EVERY , BOTTLE. THE KIND YOUHAYE I ALWAYS BOUGHT. THE CENTAU R COKMIK. HSW TOK CITY. EXPORTS FOB THE WEEK. FOREIGN. Bristol Swedish barque Solid 4,650 bbls rosin, valued at $6,687.25. Vessel by Jas. T" Riley & Co.: cargo by S. P. Shotter, per Matt J. Hyer. San Domingo City Schr Ella G Eells 130,000 feet lumber, valued at $1,300. Vessel by Geo Harriss, Son & Co ; cargo by Markt & Co, of New York, by B F Cushman. Port atj Prince Fred B Balano 166,910 feet lumber, 6 bbls pine tar and 6 casks spirits turpentine, valued at $2,000.79. Vessel by Geo Harriss. Son & Co; cargo by Green, Knaebel flu . T A 1 i r CI oc ksv, ui duskju, uy j j oawyer, agent. COASTWISE. New Yohk Steamship Croatan 63 bales cotton, 446 bbls spirits, 434 do tar, 15 do pitch, 38 cases cotton flan nels, 14b pkgs mdse, 85,732 feet of lumber. Port of Spain Schr Clara 198,353 feet lumber, valued at $2,905. Vessel by Geo Harriss, Son & Co , cargo by Kidder Lumber Company. Bremen Br steamship Morven i2,388 bales, 6,107,193 pounds of cot ton, valued at $366,431. Vessel and cargo by Alex Sprunt & Son. Wholesale Prices Cprrent. The Quotations are always anven as accurately as possible, but the star will not be responsible for any variations from the actual market price of the articles quoted. xne r oi 10 w ing quotations represent v noie Prices . generally. In making up small orders higher prices have to be charged. BAGGING 2 n Jute 6n Standard & 7 WESTERN SMOKED Hams w ID 12 a 14 Sides Tb 6 Shoulders V ft 0 PRY SALTED Sides V 9 5 Shoulders 9 5 BARRELS-SptlttS Turpentine secona-nana, eacn i uu New New Mork, each New City, each BEESWAX $1 B BRICKS Wilmington $f m 5 ou Northern 9 00 BUTTER North Carolina n ....... . IB Northern .18 CORN MEAL Per bushel, in sacks 44 Virginia Meal 44 COTTON TIES bundle CANDLES-- Sperm 18 Adamantine . 8 CHEE8E V ft Nortnern Factory ... iu Dairy, uream.' State '. 10 COFFEE W ft ijiguyra w Rio 8 POMESTIC8 Sheeting, 44, yard Yarns. K bunch 18 EGGS dozen Mackerel, No. 1, barrel. . . 22 00 Mackerel, No. 1, half -bbl. 11 00 Mackerel, No. 8, barrel.. 1C 00 Mackerel, No. 2 half -bbl. 8 00 Mackerel, No. 8, barrel.. 18 00 Mullets, barrel 8 00 Mullets, pork barjel N. C. Roe Herring, keg. . 8 00 DryCod, ft... 5. Extra 4 35 FLOUR ft ' , low graae Choice Straight First Patent 5 26 GLUE ft ty GRAINB bushel (jorsrrrom store, ogs White Car load, in Dags White. . . Oats, from store Oats, Rust Proof Cow Peas HIDES ft ureen i Drst ...I. ........ J HAY, 100 fts f Clover Hay .. 80 Rice 8traw Eastern Western North River t HOOP IRON, ft 1J( LARD, ft .Northern sjh North Carolina 6 LIME, barrel 1 e LUMBER (city sawed) M ft- s nip stun, resawea r is ou Rough-edge Plank 15 00 West India cargoes, accord ing to quality 18 00 Dressed Floormsr. seasoned 18 00 SO 00 16 00 i 18 00 22 00 . IS 00 Scantling and Board, com'n 14 00 molasses, gallon- aarrjaaoes, in nogsneaa . . . Barbadoesln barrels Porto Rico, in hogsheads. . . Porto Rico, In barrels Sugar-House, In hogsheads. IS Sugar-House, in barrels.... 14 SvruD. in barrels IS NAILS, keg, Cut. 00d basis. . PORK, barrel uiiy Mess v oo Rump i ' Prime ROPE, ft 10 SALT, sack Alum. Liverpool Lisbon.; American 40 On 125 Sacks SHINGLES, 7-lnch, M S 00 6 BO s as 8 BA common l o .Cypress Saps s BO SUGAR, lb-Standard Qran'd Standard A White Extra C Extra C, Golden C. Yellow SOAP. ft Northern STAVES, MW. O. barrel... 6 00 14 00 10 00 R. O. Hogshead TIMBER, M feet-Shipping.. Mill, Prime Mill. Fair... 50 Common Mill 4 oo Inferior to Ordinary . SHINGLES, N. C. Cypress sawed m ox84 neart 7 bo " Sap 5 00 6x84 Heart 4 80 " Bap 400 6x24 Heart.... S SO " San : a sa 8 50 6 00 BOO 50 660 TALLOW, ft.?: ...?.. WHISKEY. gallon-Northern, 100 North Carolina........ l 00 WOOL ft Unwashed 8 thstas- CASTORIA.