THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, FEBRUARY 24 1906.
Great Teperance Sermon
"Obey Law" says Dr. Hardin
rjr. M. D. Hardin last Sunday deliv-j
prod a strikingly eloquent temperance
Sermon which is given below.
hot every soul be subject to the
hi'hor powers. For there is no power
nit of God. The powers that be are
ordained of God. Whosoever resisteth
,i,i rower resisteth the ordanance of
Odd. Romans 1.1--.
For the past three months there has
liccn a series of sermons produced in
the cliurehas of our city, upon the gen
eral idea of law enforcement -and obe
dience to law. According to appoint
ments made tonight is the time set
aside for our consideration of this sub
icct. In attempting to deal with this sub
ject 1 wish to begin by stating certain
facts which are universally admitted
amon;4 our people.
There is no one among us who would
seriously maintain that our physical
world is a mere choas a mindless, or
pss conglomeration of mutually de-
c'riictive forces unreliable as to the I
manner in which they are going to act.
We know that there is no such thing
hs anarchy in the physical order of
thinss- We know that nature always
follows certain courses which we have
termed the laws of nature. We know
that water will always become hard
,n, solid at 32 degrees. We know that
it. always boils and goes off into a j
viscous state at a temperature of two
liandied and twelve. We know that
every solid where unsupported falls to
the earth.
AVe know that fire will burn. That
water will drown. We know that the
seasons come and go in regular suc
cession in a word. Nature is orderly,
nnd always fulfills, the laws of its
wins It is reliable and is never fret
ful erratic and uncertain. Upon this
orderliness in nature all our arts and
sciences are blinded. Were there not
laws of nature which can be found out
and obeyed there could be no life, no
progress in knowledge. Experience
would teach us nothing. But the ex
perience of the race for thousands of
years has taught men to rely upon
nature, has taught them the ways and
mind and will of nature, and it is
through cur conformity of life to na
tures ways, or laws that we keep our
lifp. AA'hen we put ourselves into con-,
formity with nature we are repaid by
having nature supply us richly with
the thousand rewards that minister to
our wants. AA'hen we disregard the
order of nature we are penalized. The
cold freezes us, the water drowns us,
the lire burns us, the lack of food
starves its.
Those things are facts, denied by no
one. The men who in practice forget
them are not here to tell their tale.
But while virtually all acknowledge
the laws of nature, there are some men
who would forget that there is an eter
nal moral order of things which is as
insuperable in its workings as the
laws of nature.
Natures laws govern our bodies, but
man is more than a physical organism.
He possesses a mind and - soul, life
which rise heaven high above his more
physical beinfj. It is inconceivable to a
thoroughly rational mind that the
physical iife should be subject to na-
i " i J A! 1 1 - . . ,1 .1
lures oruer ana conuuuany icwaiucu )
or punished by it while man's highest ;
life, his mind and soul should be a law
nntio itself and subject to no order or
law.
But the fact of nature's laws is net
more potent than the fact that there is
a moral order in the universe that the
soul cf man must obey if he would
live in freedom. Fire does not burn
with any greater certainty than that
one line of conduct brings misery and
suffering to the heart of man, while
another line of conduct brings peace
and freedom and joy. There is a law
for the soul as well as for the body,
and that tew is the will' of God and
those men who have known most of
God's eternal and immutable will and
have obeqed it most, absolutely are the
ones who have had the largest and
most blessed life.
Just as there are vast differences in
the knowledge that men have of the
laws of nature and consequently vast
differences in what they get out of na
ture, so there are vast differences in
men as to their knowledge of God's
v. ill, for the soul and in the rewards of
obedience to the higher laws of life.
Through our sciences, which are simply
applied, knowledge of natures laws, we
have a wealth, a power and freedom
with and in nature, which is miracu
lous to the mind of the African savage.
How much more do we get out of the
world than the wretched Hottentot!
and is the difference not entirely due
to our wider knowledge and obedience
to nature? In the realms of moral life
there are differences in knowledge of
God and His ways as vast as the gulf
that separates a Newton and Darwin
end an African Pigmie in their knowl
edge of nature and there are vast dif
ferences in the rewards of obedience
to God's moral order.
All human government has been an
attempt to regulate the collective life
of men upon the will cf God the moral
ovder in the universe or the gods in
those, nations that were polytheists. As
the supreme nature was conceived, the
laws cf men have been an attempt
to conform to it. They have partaken
cf the church and will of God as it was
understood, but one thing the world
has never seen and that is any body
of men in an advanced state of life
without any human laws at all. The
lawless state never has existed and
never will exist until humanity has so
developed that each man lives so per
fectly in harmony with the will of
God, of jhe true God, that He will have
no desire to infringe upon any right Of
n's brother man. With a" whole race
f men filled with the mind and spirit
of Jesus Christ, there would be no need
of human laws for the law of each
nian's own being would compell him
to seek the welfare and happiness of
his neighbor. But it would be a lawless
ate only in one sense for the true law
oi God would be all powerful.
But this is a condition of life so far
away that it is useless to speak Ot.it
in a world where there is supreme sel
fishness and wholesale ignorance of
VlOfJ.
lu tlie world as we know it, full of
ffn animalism, full of ignorance,
tun of men in various planes of life
human law is a necessity if there is to
be any freedorn, any advancement anv
life upon a high plain-while the law
of God would always reward and pun
ish the individual, it has no power to
protect the innocent against , the en
croachments of the selfish. It cannot
take the place of human law until it
has control of all, and until that time
comes men must regulate their life by
human government.
Ul ma,intains. and truthfully
to that human law is a branch of di
vine law-that is, that God has willed
11 i?6 SCUld reSulate their collec
tive life by human laws and that in the
nr. , t lue "nPUise to organize
rr Y. " llumun anairs according to
the highest light attainable is a di
vine y implanted thing, and it must be
solutely dependant upon this process,
bo then it comes about that each man
in the world if he would be obedient to
the moral order in all things must
obey human laws. Just so long as those
laws do not demand a violation of the
divine law. If a human law is so bad,
that it demands an open breach witn
the known law of God, then it is a
man's duty to obey the higher and
give his life in the effort to repeal
wicked human enactment. But everv
time his disobedience to the human
law springs from a'mere selfish desire
. i. i . , .
a- iaw umo mmselt. Every time
he breaks the statutes of the State
from a mere unwillingness to live up
to the collective conscience of his time
and people, he has forfeited his right to
the protection of the law and is deserv
ing of punishment according to th
nature of his offense.
If human law rests upon a divine
Sanctum, if it nii"ht tr lio oWoira o
reflection of the divine will, then it
follows of necessity that those men
who know most cf the true will and
mind of God ought to be profoundly
interested in their own governments,
ought to be, from the very highest
motives, workers for righteous laws
and for their strict enforcement. They
are committing no more grievous sins
than when they neglect their political
obligations and leave the care of the
State to those whose only interest in
it can spring not from a desire to make
the laws are expression of the mind
and purpose of God but from purely
selfish motives to use the State for
their own advancement and welfare
at the expense of the people at large.
And this is precisely what we have
seen in our own country for the past
life time. There has been a neglect of
God-giving duty upon the part of Chris
tian people to such an extent that the
laws of our land have been in no small
degree administered not for the wel
fare of the whole people and for the
glory of God., but for the benefit of
corrupt men, who have worked politics
as if it were a private possession. We
have seen cities and states turned over
intn thp. rnntrni of the most consci
ence-less efancs of thieves and plunder
ers, who in private and public life ut
terly denied the moral precepts of God.
In many places the very worst have
governed.
This has continued until law nas lost
its sanctitv in the eves of multitudes
and we have endured a reign of law
lessness which will be a disgrace upon
our life for all times. '
Often times the better elements in
our society have simply wrapped their
mantles about them and said tnat tney
could not afford to soil their nanas
with the dirt, of nolitics. Oftener still,
the unwillingness to interfere with cor
rupt powers has sprung ironv a. mere
fear that business interests would be
put into jeopardy by antagonizing the
reigning rings. I well remember an
experience that we had in Minneapolis
in seeking some well known, clean
i mn who would consent to
to have his name placed at the head of
the good citizenship league of that
rifv whiMi hns since done such effi
cient service in routing crime and vice
and establishing decency in cny guv
ernment. v
The first four men who were the
choice of the committee for this place
of usefulness refused absolutely to
take it, on the ground that it, would
hurt their business. In other words,
with these men whom we inougm iu
be among the best in the community,
business was of larger imporwu
than righteousness. mey wanieu
clean city, but they wanted to be let
in tiioir mrmev-makine schemes.
While . somebody else bore the brunt
of the battle. Private business was be
fore public righteousness and God;
private business was before public and
patriotic business, ami ueie "'J
friends is to my mind the heart of the
trnnhio with the government
and enforcement of good laws for our
land. Among a large ciass ui ""
of the better people there is such a
desire to look out tor sen auu
alone, that their patriotism is dead;
there is no willingness to wuiutc
self Were there a great nation ta make
war upon us threatening to take
away our freedom there are doubt
less many who hear the call of pa
triotism, -and be willing to die for the
defence of the nation, but what our
age must learn is that in our day the
true enemy of our liberties is not a foe
from without, but rather with
in our borders. There is no
likelihood that there will ever
again be a war of aggresion upon
our land from without, but there never
has been a time when the true free
dom and glory of the nation was m
greater need of patriotic men to fight
the elements of anarchy and. death
within our own life. Most nations ot
the world that have gone down in the
struggle for existence have . suffered
more from internal enemies than from
external. The heart, the normal life,
the resource for law, the patriotism
that shows itself in time of peace
these vital organism of strong na
tional life, have been attacked from
within and have given way and when
they lost vitality and power the state
has fallen. x ' . :
If the better elements, the true Chris
tian men, who have before God sworn
to be obedient to Him and promised to
in the whole earth, if these men can
not he made to labor for the state from
patriotic and Christian motives, it is
certain that the control of the state
will fall into the hands of the lawless
elements, whose only interest will be
not the wellfarS of all, but protection
and furtherance of their own unholy
interests and life. If the good do not
control, the bad will, and of this furth
er fact, we must be certain that those
bad elements have been permitted so
free a hand, have already enjoyed such
favor that tley are not going to sur
render control without a stubborn and
persistent fight, on which they will re
sort to every conceiveable form of
knavery in order to hold on. The dif
ficulty with reform movements has
been that the better . elements have
been so little aroused to the import
ance of their work, and that they have
always gone to it by fits and starts.
They become aroused on some con
crete issue and sweep the heedless
and the corrupt from power, and then
they all forget that there is anything
more to be done. They turn back to
their other cares and settle down -to
let politics alone until things get so
bad that they again cry out for another
reformation. But it is not so with
those who are in politics for what they
can get out of it. They never forget
their meat and bread is in it. If they
are turned out. and good men and
measures are put in, they go quietly
and systematically to work to foil
every effort, to make thenew regime
a success. They never cease talking,
they never cease working to bring
about some state of affairs which will
cast reproach upon the new order just
as far as in their power lies they defy
the law. They hire the best talent
that will prostitute itself to their low
ends to break down and evade the
law. They fight to the death, and the
only way in this world that they can
be held in subjection is to be met by
the enlightened sentiment of the whole
community with the same spirit of
fight to the death. Good legislation
and administration is not a thing of
times and seasons. It is for all times
and all seasons, and cannot be main
tained save by constant vigilance. It's
a life-time work, with no vacation days
in, for the day that is left unguarded
is the day that the sleepless enemy
springs back into power, and the last
state of that community is worse than
the first, for the demon cf lawlessness
brings back with him always some
more devils, all the more ravenous
for their period of enforced retirement.
If this world of curs is to go forward
toward a higher, cleaner, saner and
healthier life, as every good man prays
that it should do, there are to be ever
new moral conceptions of right written
into law and enforced against those
evil tendencies in human nature which
own no law of right higher than the re
bellious impulses of the internal heart,
as we come to know more of God and
what His will demands, we must, if we
be true to Him, try to put those con
ceptions into the organic laws of our
society. But it is certain that only the
most moral and spiritual are going, to
see the inherent reasonable and right
euosness of these ideals and laws.
They are bound to be resisted and
thought to be tyranical and unjust by
those ..whose plan of life will fall un
der the condemnations of the law. By
those whose lives are morally unde
veloped there will be stubborn and re
bellious hatred, but this fact should
not in the least alter the determina
tion to make the good law seem pure.
Aye, rather it shows all the more
necessity for the law. Look at these
principles as they now bear upon a
concrete issue now raised in our com
munity. . The moral sentiment of this com
munity has pronounced judgment
against the saloon, and the liquor
trafic. . Intoxicating drinks are hurtful
i i . . i- f mi l 1.
io me me oi men. i ue saiouu uas i
proven itself an anti-social, un-Chris-
tian, lawless force. It's staple makes
beasts of men. The man who drinks
has his reason and moral sense over
thrown. He commits a large part of
all our crime. What nas been accom
plished in the abolition of this evil is
due to the prayers and united efforts !
of the most enlightened and moral
elements of this city. But it is a known
fact that the liquor interests and the
politicians who pander to these inter
ests are not willing to uphold the will
of the majority in this matter.
From their standpoint the law is of
necessity a bad law, bedause it inter
feres with their perverted conceptions
of right. They will . evade the law -if
they can. They will make it odious if
they can. They will repeal 1t the very
first moment they find it in their pow
er to do so. The questions that come
up to us who have booked this law,
and who see its inherent desireable
ness are these are we going to see
the fruits of this victory stolen from
us? Are we going to quit just at a
time when it is all important that we
be doubly vigilant? Or are we going
to rally arounu the men whom we have
put into office and uphold their hands?
And just here I am going to take oc
casion to add my praise of the cour
aere. the inteeritv and the manifest de
sire to uphold the dignity of the law as
shown by the leading officers of this
city. I feel that virtually our whole
administrative force has shown a vigi
lence and sincerity in office which de
serves the hearty appreciation anxl
commendation of all good citizens.
They have honored the law by keeping
their sacred oaths of office. . And the
man or men who criticize them for
their vigilence in doing simply what
their oaths required instead of assum
ing to thefhselves legislative functions
by quietly relaxing in their adminis
trations, are enemies to1 the most
sacred principle in our organic life.
No administrative officer has the right
to change the letter of the law. His
whole duty is to uphold the law as it
has been enacted by the will of the
majority, no matter haw unpopular its
demands may be to the minority.
Lawlessness is today one of the su
preme curses of our land. That law
lessness which is shown in officers
who swear that they will enforce the
statutes, while they knowingly and de
liberately neglect their sworn duty,
has begotten in the minds of multi
tudes of our people a disrespect for
law, which, to my mind, constitutes
one of the supreme evils of our coun
try. We are degenerating from our or
ganized state into a mob when among
officers and people these is a growing
tendency to follow individual caprice,
no matter what may be the letter of
the expressed will of the majority and
our country as a whole is in need of
no reform so much as tightening of
the grip upon law and its administra
tion. Let public judges and jurors do
their full duty in finding out and pun
ishing the guilty and in vindicating the
innocent according to the expressed
will of . the people in their laws, and
crime will rapidly diminish among us,
and prosperity, freedom and happiness
will be the state of all 'who strive earn
estly to live according to the highest
principles of right. More and more let
our human laws manifest the true will
of the just and merciful God.
More and more let the people feel
that their governments are not arbi
trary evils, nor meaningless formal!
ties, but the ordinances of God which
must be enforced and obeyed unless
the state is to fall with chaos and
there will come to the largest number
possible safety and freedom, progress
ana prosperity, nuuur auu peace.
A woman of unusual beauty of face
and character, keenly interested in
music and literature., herself a widely
known writer, a rarely sympathetic
and helpful friend and soverign, this
is Queene Pauline Elizabeth Ottilie
Louise of Rumania, better known by
her pen name, Carmen Sylva. Born
in Germany in 1843, she married, in
1869, Prince Charles of Rumania.
Twelve years later Rumania was de
clared a kingdom, and prince and prin
cess became king and queen. In the
March Century is published a timely
article from Carmen Sylva's pen, in
which, under the title of "The Jews
in Rumania," the queen explains why
her country has seemed inhospitable
to foreigners, and pleads for a wider
understanding of the sad conditions
in her little kingdom.,
The
Square Deal" and the
Modern
Husband.
We have heard much of the square
deal ever since President Roosevelt
started the cry. It is gbod gospel and
the modern husband is a subscriber to
the creed. What he misses most in
his life today is the proper relation of
his home to his business. The fault
may rest as much wffh himself as with
his wife, but as with many things
that need reforrn the - remedy must
come through her larger ision and ini
tiative. She must see, as he knows
only too well, that in all the employ
ments in which the modern husband
does his part, system becomes every
day more tyrannical. The world of
efforts is running on stricter sched
ules. "AH the cogs in its wheels must
turn properly: The plea of a late
breakfast, or a laggard alarm clock, or
a badly managed domestic establish-
ment, does not satisfy the machine
The sins of the home are visited upon
the husband by the damage they do to
his standing with his work, and if in his
home he has not a square deal to fit
him in body and temperament for the
strain of the strenuous day,' he is not
going to measure up to his opportuni
ties. And as a man stands with his
work so his family must stand with the
world. A square deal for the modern
husband makes him want to get home
from his work and that means a gen
tler system in the house than he meets
in his working place; just as much sys
tem, of course, but the indefinable
something added to it. A few flowers
add nothing to the substantial qualities
of the meal, and system without tact is
still practical and useful, but system
with tact is even more productive of
smiles, that cost nothing and which
are beyond price, than the meal with
flowers. From the March Delineator.
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off a cheap and dangerous substitute.
Insist on having Burnett's.
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if she thinks it ought to be.
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like this:
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Remember the name Doan's and
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THE WEATHER
For Charlotte and its vicinity: Rain
and warmer tonight. Sunday rain and
colder. . -
For North Carolina: Fair in east
ern portion, rain in western portion
tonight; warmer. Sunday rain; warm
er on the coast, colder in western por
tion. Fresh soutn to southwest winds.
For South Carloina: Rain, warmer
tonight. Sunday rain; colder in wes
tern portion. Fresh south to south
west winds. '
8 TAIAV'e i
I ..MARKETS I
COT TON
New Orleans Times-Democrat Sum-
' - mary of Cotton.
(Furnished by Gibert & Clay, of New
Orleans, La.)
New Orleans, La., Feb. 24. Yester
day's cotton market opened the eyes
of the bulls and bears. The March
tenders bugaboo petered out simply
because holders of hedged cotton
were the most sought after people in
the cotton trade. The rings were eager
and the talent generally played for a
reaction all along the line. But as has
been the case for weeks speculative
support was almost wholly lacking
and the speculative buoyancy sprang
from the encouraging firmness of af
fairs in the actual cotton division.
There was ample evidence that many
a spot dealer needs good grades of cot
ton that he does not possess, that pos
ibilities in this connection lie with the
hedged holders of spot cotton; that the
weal or woe of the actual cotton short
will be traceable to the attitude .dur
ing the next 30 days of such hedged
long. Meanwhile the fear of unde
sirable tenders appears to have abated
somewhat, the story having come out.
that spot owners hedged in March
have almost to a man transferred
their hedges to May. Thus a brighter,
aspect has been acqired by a previous
ly very unsatisfactory situation with
out, however, restoring the confidence
of hard-hit bull. Boom times cannot
return in the absence of potential spe
culative support. Thus far neither
professionals nor the public have indi
cated an intention of supplying such
backing in the very near future.
New York Sun Cotton Summary.
(Furnished by Gibert & Clay, of New
Orleans, La.)
New York, Feb. 24. Spot houses,
Liverpool, the continent, shorts and
operators for a rise bought cotton be
cause they thought the liquidation of
March contracts had come practically
to an end. The crop movement w?s
still large, save for a rather moder? ' 5
estimate of the receipts at Houstor,
day. But this had compartively : e
effect. What men had their eyr jn
principally was the March liquidation,
and as it seemed to have come nearly
if hot quite to an end they were mind
ed to buy, and did buy on such a scale
that with the large European buying
prices were in the afternoon easily ad
vanced. The peculiar spectacle is wit
nessed at the present time of Eutope
playing the "bull" and the South the
"bear" on, the great . staple. Recently
the South1 had been badly worsted on
the bull side; and if the bulls .re right
it now has the not very enviable pros
pect after having gone "short" of be
ing whip-sawed. That remains to be
seen. Spot houses were buying May
and selling July. The exports were
liberal and Liverpool is doing a good
spot. business, and the New Orleans
March notices amounted to only 10,000
bales. Many covered and there was
more disposition to take the long side
at least for a turn. .
New
York
High
Cotton.
"Cow Close
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
1023 1024
10231024
10351037
10461047
10561058
10641065
10581059
10321034
10221023
1025(6)1027
10281023
Spots 1080; sales 100; market' tone
quiet, futures closed barely steady.
New Orleans Cotton.
.High Low Close
Feb .
Mch
Apr ,
May
June
July
Aug
Oct .
Dec ,
1037
10371038
10471049
10551056
10611063
10721073
10541056
10111012
1048. 1036
1067 1055
1085
1063
1020
1021
1072
1055
1011
1014
10141015
Futures closed steady; spots 10 9-16;
sales 2150; market tone quiet.
, Liverpool Cotton.
Jan.-Feb 560
Feb-Mch ..560
Mch-Apr 561
Anr-May 564
May-June 567
June-July .570
July-Aug .... . . ..... . . 572
Aug-Sept , 569
Sept-Oct . . 555
Oct-Nov .. ..552
Nov-Dec 551
Futures opened steady, closed stea
dy; receipts 4000; American 3100;
sales 8,000, American 6300; spec. 500;
middling today 575, yesterday 573;
tone spots steady. ; :
Comparative Port Receipts.'
To- Last
j Day
Galveston ........ .... 4737
New Orleans : .7625
Mobile.. 497
Savannah 927
Charleston ' 316
Wilmington 269
Norfolk, 869
Boston .... .. 140
Port Arthur .... .. ....
Year
3381
5367
698
5089
49
304
1604
138
7393
Total
Not in
1032 1030
1035 1022
.... 1037 1037
.... .... 1057 1046
.... 1074 1061
1061 .1058
. .. . 1026 1020
'. 1030 1025
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Made from Vure Grape Cream of Tartar
In baking powder Royal is the standard, the
pow'der of highest reputation; found by the
United States Government tests of greatest
strength and purity.
It renders the food more healthful and palat
able and is most economical in practical use.
Housekeepers are sometimes importuned to
buy alum powders because they are 'ccheap.,..
Yet some t of the cheapest made powders are sold
Io consumers at the highest price. -
Housekeepers should stop and think. Is it
not better to buy the Royal and take no chances -the
powder whose goodness and honesty are never
questioned ?
Is it economy to spoil your digestion by an
alum-phosphate or other adultered powder to
save a few pennies ?
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STOCKS
New York Sun Stock Summary.
X Furnished by Gibert & Clay, of New
Orleans, La.)
New York, Feb. 24. What influenc
ed the stock market more than any
thing at the opening of business was a
higher range of quotations for our
stocks in London, and a decided im
provement of feeling manifested not
only there, but upon all the European
financial exchanges regarding the Mo
roccan situation and other matters
that have recently more or less cloud
ed the financial outlook. Foreign pur
chases of stocks here were not large.
nor according to all testimony was lo
cal commission houses' business ma
terially augmented. The hardest tone,
however, that was visible in the mar
ket on Tuesday afternoon and that un
doubtedly would have served to bring
about higher prices at that time had
it not been for the utterances or sup
posed utterances of the leader of the
coal miners on the strike question was
again in force - today. Professional
speculators were, as a rule, inclined to
retire their commitments, for the de
cilne and to buy stocks for the advance
and it was this shift of their position
that the considerable net advances in
values shown ;at the close yesterday
was due..
Anchiaun .
Atchison Pfd .......... -.
Baltimore "& 0'no
Canadian Pacific ....
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chicago & Alton . . ,
Chicago & Great Western
Erie . . . ... ....
Erie Pfd
Lock Island, .. . ....
fLmois Central .....
Loui-jmie & Nashville . ....
M vr.h ttan
Sfexican Central
Missouri Pacific
Missouri Kansas & T ....
New York Central '
Norfolk & Western
Ontario & Western
Pennsylvania . ......
Beading....
Reading1 Pfd ........ .
St. Paul ' . .......
Southern Pacific
8 athern Railway ....
Sothern Railway Preferred
Texas A Pacific .
O mon Pacific
Wabash
Wabash Pfd
Amalgamated Copper
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Colorado Fuel & Iron ........
Con Gas . . . , .
Peoples Gas ,
Sugar.
Sloss Iron & Steel
Tennessee Coal & Iroc ..... s
JnitcdStetes Leather ....
Jnited States Steel
90
..102
10
1704
. 30 !
, 21
43
78'
.. 25 y.
,172
U6
158 14
.. 25M
..lOOJtf
34
-148
.- son
, 138'
. 93
'l-79'A
.. CO
. 38
.. 99
341
.-151
.. 48J6
83M
63
96
I" U
83M
150
14
42
106
49M
114
i !V.Rt.rTi rTnion
Virginia Carolina ChemJca .
Va. Carolina Chemical Pfd
Chicago Grain and Produce.
High Low Coles
.... 81 80 81
....81 81 81
Sept ....
July
May
CORN
July
Sept ....
May
OATS
Sept . . . .
July
May ....
PORK
May
July . .-. .
LARD
May, ....
July
Sept
RIBS
May . . .
July . . .
. .... 82 82 82
44 43 43.
44 43 44
43 43 43
.28 28 28
29 29 39
30 30 30
1562 1537 1542
1520 1505 1507
782 . 775
787 777
775
777
787
815
817
825
827
812
815.
- Bank Statement.
Reserve, Dec .... 664,200
Less U. S., Dec 656,325
Loans, Dec .... .... ...... 3,078,800
Specie, 2,872,700
Legals, Inc .. .... ..... .. 624,900
Deposits, Dec J... 6,334.400
Circulation,-Dec. 189,000
Journal of Commerce Dry Goods Sum
mary.1 (Furnished by Gibert & Clay, of New
Orleans, La.)
New York, Feb. .'24. tJndoubtedly
the declines in raw material have had
a depressing effect upon buyers .in
their operations with a consequence
that except for immediate needs pur
chasing is of very small volume. Buy
ers appreciate the possibility of still
further advances and realize the
strong statistical position of many
lines. But in spite of this fact they
cling to the belief that in the possibil
ity of a further declines in raw ma
terial new price levels may be seen
in the piece goods market. Under these
circumstances they feel as though it
were unwise for them to proceed ex
cept in the most cautious manner and
they are determined to buy only as
they see cause fpr so doing. .. Jobbers
are still doing a very satisfactory busi
ness, and although the effect of the
hrVlirlav wso n nna irTi t vht fho number
of customers in local stores is en
couraging for a continuance of a satis
factory business, while the advices re
ceived from various sections through
out the country indicate that good
niisineac ia nnt-alnno fnn fin cxA tn cor1.
ond hands in the local market. .
. -
Charlotte Cotton Mairtet.
(Corrected by Sanders, Orr & Co.)
Good Middling ............. 1100
Strict Middling . . 10
Middling 10
Tinges and Stains .... .... 910
Interior Receiots.
To- Last
Day Year
1250
... .. 545
.... .2955 2290
" 321
. .. ...... 2795 3912
Memphis . . .
Augusta . . .
St. Louis .'.,
Cincinnati .'.
Houston . . . ,
Estimates.
To- Last
morrow Year
New Orleans .... .. 55006500 6165
Houston 40004500 8468
Galveston 60007000 8433
PECULIAR DISAPPEARANCE.
J. D. Runyan, of Butlerville, O., laid
the peculiar disappearance of his pain
ful symptoms, of indigestion and bil
iousness, to Dr. King's New Life Pills.
He says: "They are a 'perfect remedy,
for dizziness, sour stomach, headache,
constipation, etc." Guaranteed at Wood
all f- Sheppad'a drug store, price 25c
In every clime its colors ore unfurled
Its fame has spread from sea to sea:
Be not surprised if in the other world.
You hear of Rocky Mountain Tea.
R. H. Jordan & Co. - - -
ThiA ti.. r i ....
rest in 48 sours wifnoacaJi
nconyeniencn, anecuonai nil IT I
in which Xtpmibfu t'n-V"1 J
jbeba nnd Injection fail. V1
COMMISSIONER'S SALE.
Under and . by virtue of - a de
cree of the Superior . Court of
Mecklenburg County fn the special pro
ceeding entitled "E. J. Holton and wife
Plaintiffs, vs. Hattie C. Holton and oth
ers. Defendants," the. undersigned will
sell for cash at public auction at the
County Court House door in-the City
of Charlotte, N. C, at 12 o'clock M.,
on Monday, the 26th day ; of March,
1096, that certain lot of land in Ward
No. 1 J3f the City of Charlotte, front
ing on the north side of East Avenue,
adjoining the lands of J. Arthur Hen
derson, Sarah R. Deaton and others,
and bounded as follows: Beginning
at the south corner of said Henderson
lot on East Avenue, and running, with
the line of said Avenue eastwardly
forty-three (43) feet; thence a line at
right angles with said Avenue and par
allel with Brevard street,, three hun
dred and ninety-one feet and three
inches to Fifth street; thence with
Fifth street forty-three (43) feet west
wardly to the corner of Sarah R. Dea
ton's lot; thence with her line and the
line of J. Arthur Henderson three hun
dred and ninety-one feet and three
inches to the. beginning corner.
This February 24th, 1906.
CHASE BRENIZER, -CHAS.
H. DULS, .
- 2-24-tds ; Commissioners.
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