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All matter not inserted is destroyed. ' STEVENS &-FARRELL. Editors and Proprietors SOUTIIPOUT. Brunswick Co..N. 0. Socthpoitt, N C, May 11, 1803. ONLY THE PRECURSOR. The excitement in the Stock Ex change in New York during the past few days, causedby the practical col lapse of values in what are known as "Industrial Stocks," while it should not cause anything but a temporary depression in financial circles yet it is a warning which ought not'to remain unheeded by those who can effect such legislation as will make an end to all future disturbances in the monetary -affairs of this countiy. . ' The tumble in prices o: the "Indus trial Stocks" cannot 'be wholly unexpected, as said to be the support i given them was entirely speculative and they have had no value as colla teral at the New York banks for some time, therefore with all artificial means exhausted for their support, once their prices started downward, there could be nothing less than what has occurred the ruin of those who owned them. , It is fortunate that the country, is so well prepared to meetjhis first finan- cial shock. The gradual payment of debts, lessening of credits and caution in business which has been going on for two years, precludes the possibility of any immediate financial crisis which such a state of affairs as the past week or two in New York might start. ..The situation on the Sherman law, which two years ago caused foreigners to call in their loans placed in this country and stop buying American securities, lor fear that the Govern 'ment might be unable to make gold payments, is to-day a meiiance to this country and makes it not impossible -.but simply a question of time, .unless the purchase of silver is stopped, when the trouble which has begun in purely speculative securities will extend into other quarters and bring ruin to s nind properties. The criticism upon the action of the New York banks in keeping a fair gold balance on hand instead of emptying their vaults of their gold to be shipped out of the country is hardly worthy of notice, as no intelligent rea soiling would justify pursuing a course of that kind. There is nothing in the present situation which would dictate that the .banks either East or West ought to let the Government have their gold, unless they were desirous of " go ing out of business. The process of liquidation already started in the speculative securities most continue. The purchases from abroad of our securities last week pre- vented any gold shipments. This, while it gives temporary relief infinan cial circles is not the cure or what is demanded by the country to insure future prosperity. The Government, compelled by the Sherman Silver Purchase act. is monthly accumulating great quantities 'of silver, buying it at a loss and stor ing it away, knowing that it can never sell it again except at a price lower than paid for it. There can be no feeling of security ! iiu financial circles while such a law is' in force. , There can be no investments in new enterprises, and the South cannot in duce capital, no matter what it may offer, while this infamous act remains in force. President Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle have the confidence of the peo- pie, and their assurances regarding the preserving of the .National credit are believed, but this cannot give the certain and assured confidence which the repeal of the Sherman Silver Pur- chase act is bound to do. Let an extra session of Congress be called at once and the country given -relief from the burden of silver buy- ing which is slowly but certainly de stroying business and the prosperity of the country. ine danger is iraminen., tne rem- edy is sure and can be applied at once. Repeal the Sherman Silver Purchase act. MODERN WAR SHIPS. The present occasion is practically the first on wh'ch Americans at home have had the opportunity" of seeing for" themselves, by an accumulation of examples from many nations, what a modern war ship is like. The types ot battle ship, protected ct uisei, coast defender, and commerce destro'er are all represented by .typical examples. We have got far away, . even in the mercantile marine, from the pictures- . . queness, and grace of merchant vessels of a generation ago. It was a genera - . - L tion ago or a little more that there was evolved, in the Amercan clipper ; ship, by far the most beautful of all human constructions that have been devised to float and "carry riches and commodities from place to place, and consociate the most remote regions in participation of their fruits." Tn hull and in canvass, the clipper was the model of what a sailing ship ought to be, ami its model and its rig were alike evolved not from a striving after beauty, but from a consideration of utility, by men who would have made dreadful work if they nad -imagined themselves to bo artists and made aesthetic sacrifice of practical qualities. Countless generations had been spent in bringing the sailing vessel to this perfection, toward which the rude but highly-picturesque caravels of Colum bus, of which the reproductions are now anchored in the North River. marked a comparatively advanced stage. While all these generations had been laboring toward the goal that the American clipper attained. the perfection of the type announced its disappearance, which' has virtually been accomplished in a single gen eration, the only advance upon the clipper ship as a beautiful specimen of naval architecture that anybody would maintain had been made since has been in the modeling and rigging -of sailing yachts. Here there has been an advance, and the advance is highly significant as show ing that the sailing ship is becoming but a toy and that the work of the world on the ocean is henceforth to be done by steam,. The steamship that has superseded the clipper cannot pretend to rival it in point of beauty. it is an impressive object from its great .length, and there is grace as well as utilit3r in the modeling of its ends. But the enormously long and equal midship section is by no means beautiful, and what picturesqueness the vessel has it owes, in a great mea sure, to its retention of the spars and canvass of its predecessor, though this retention has already become a mere survival, and the typical merchant vessel of our time is evidently incap able of carrying enough canvass to enable her to take care of herself when her engines are disabled. The masts sue nas inherited are ot little more use than thev would be to a modern battle ship, where they have been frankly discarded and their places ta Ken oy military masts, wnicn are merely short towers with breastworks at the top Much as the type of the ocean grey- hound has changed, it has not changed so much as the type of the ocean bull dog. The old, high-sided ship-of-the line, with three tiers of grinning pop guns for her broadside, was an object that a painter might love to depict, as many painters have done, whether looming high above a smooth expanse of water or wallowing in a seaway The most famous representation of this old man-of-war, perhaps, is Turner's famous picture of "the fighting Tern eraire," to which a pathetic interest is given by the fact that she is repre sented as being towed by a vulgar steam tug to be broken up, and that the painter thus acknowledged that even in Ins time the day of the old type of man of-war was aone and the romance of sea fighting had departed But her shapely and stately successors are as obsolete as herself. The Kear sarge and the Hartford are i. irrele vant to the new conditions of nava warfare as the Macedonian and the Chesapeake. The modern ship of war is manifestly and merely a fighting machine, and it is evident that every thing about her has been quite ruth lessly sacrificed to ner destructiveness The gunboats and the commerces de stroyers still have some relics of. nau tical grace and shipshapeness, but in general, if a man-of-war looks like a ship, the presumption is that she is obsolete or obsolescent. Such a naval monster as the Blake, though in fact of course, a seagoing ship, does not look much more like it than our owu Miantonomoh, of which the deck is constantly awash, even in the Hudson River. There is, however, something majestic as well as formidable in the look of this great war ship. By all odds the most brutal in aspect of all the assembled men-of-war is the Jean I Bart, from wich fact it would te a fair-inference, in the absence of evi dence, that she was the most modern and the most efficient. Nothing could be more revolting than her aspect, which even in the midst of other J modern war ships makes the same impression as would the entry of a scowling "ruffian armed to the teeth ; a drawing room. Her mission in j life is most plainly not to show, the flag," or to afford a stage for interna- American Railways" by W.. M. Ac tional festivities, but to smash, sink, worth: -The Cost of Street Railway and destroy. It is difficult to look at ; Building," by T. William Harris; so manifestly murderpus a Imachine j "Professor Gray's New Telautograph." without a shudder, and her construe- j by William" Maver Jr.; "The Care of tion makes it impossible to give her j Existing Highways,'1 by W. E. Me ; any of the smart and jauntyj appear , a nee which even a modern man-ot-war may have. A flotilla of ships like 1 this making the tour of the world i would do more than anything short of actual experience to impress the nations with the horrors of war, of which the pomp and circumstance are entirely renounced. In a less degree the same may be said of all the modern war ships and with the more justice the more formidable they are. So that, after all, the modern man of war may be reckoned aesthetically success- ul, since it is the embodiment of the brutality and savagery of the dread- ul trade that men-of-war are built to ply. It is a pity that the battle ships could not be sent1 to Chicago as an object lesson for the inland Jingo in the meaning of the art of war. New York Times. EXPOSITION RAILROADS. The element of competition will enter much more largely into the pas senger business by rail to Chicago dur ing the exposition than it did to Phil adelphia in 187G The Reading and the Pennsylvania were the only two ines that entered Philadelphia, and it was very easy for them to make an arrangement, as there was more than enough for both. But even with that condition the rates were much more iberal than is now promised for the Chicago travel.- Of course the rail roads have a. lesson to leam, but the boast has been made they are indiffer ent to low rate excursion travel, as the indications are they will have all they can do without the added attrac tion of cheap rates. That remains to be seen. We take the liberty of doubt ing it. The exposition will have to depend for its success on drawing the million, and that means hundreds of thousands every week to whom a few dollars will make the difference of go ing or not going. Chicago has no such contiguous population to draw on as Philadelphia'had in 1876. The Gen tennial had Within a few hours' 'ride of its gates a city and country popula. tion of from seven to eight or even ten millions, from Boston on the north to Washington on the south, and ex tending westward to the western slope of the Alleghenies. Chicago has no such advantages. The city has a pop ulation relatively the same that Phil adelphia had in 1876, but aside from that, it has no near large cities or den sely populated country to depend upon. The great crowds necessary to make the exposition a success must come from a distance. There must be heavy drafts on the eighteen millions of peo ple in the New England and old Mid dle States. These drafts will not be honored unless the fares go down verv low. Whv not the same stand- ard that is fixed for national conven tions and Grand Army or Knights Templar parades? That is what the people have been looking for. Pitts burg Post. PRESS COMMENTS. The following item of news from Toronto, Canada, will prove of inter- est to many newspapers in the South, who have permitted themselves to be deceived and have given space to this kind of .journalistic bunko in their papers. Why newspapers should be contin- ually taken in by "missing "word" or "prize picture" frauds and be so eager to accept advertisements from parties taith by assuring them that the ex who make such apparent fraudulent treme view of damnation in hell is not offers must remain a mystery, equalled a necessary part of that faith. His only by the readiness of those who are so easily deceived into thinking that they can get something for noth ing. Some of the Leader's ex changes may recognize a friend (?) in the article. Toronto, Ontario, May 4. Alfred J. Parker of the defunct newsDaner Canadian Queen was committed for trial to-day on the charge of. fraud in connection with a missing-word prize advertisement in his paper. A witness testified that he had been informed that his guess was correct and that if he sent 75 cents for ex press charges and three subscriptions he would get a silver tea set. He ful filled the conditions, but got nothing. Trj i t .1 rviaence was given oy employes or the paper that many prizes, promised were never sent out and subscriptions were received long aEter the paper had ceased publication. REVIEWS. The contents of the Engineering Magazine for May are: '-The Cholera Prospect in 1893." by Dr. D. B. St. John Roosa; "Ethics of Architectural Competitions," by John M. Carrere; "Cotton as a Factor in Progress, " by D. A. Tompkins; "The Gravity Sys tem of Rapid Transit," by Major Ben- jamm S. flenning; "Progress in Steam Engineering," by Prof. Kobeit H. Thurston; The Gold Fields of Dutch j Guiana" by A. 1. Mather; "English and Clintock. The Editorial Departments are full of interesting and instructive reading. - . j The Engineering Magazino, S3. 00 a year, New York. The New England Magazine for May opens with an interesting account of the relations of Phillips Brooks to Harvard University, both as a student and religious teacher. The frontis piece of the number is a fine engraving of Phillips Brooks, as he appeared as a Harvard student.done by M. Lamont Brown. Celia Thaxter contributes a fine poem, "Maize for the Nation's Emblem,1' which will interest all who are considering the question of what shall be our .National r lower. A very attractive article is "Life and Study at the Naval Academy," by Walter G. Richardson, Ensign U. S. Navy. Lucy P. Higgins gives a description of "Old Ship-Building Days at Duxbury." Mary A. P. Stansbury has a little poem called His Last Word," based upon the dying words of Phillips Brooks, "1 am going home." Caro Atherton Dugan writes about "A Historic Doll." Irene Putnam contributes a delicate poem "Of Love." Mrs. Helen Campbell s serial "John Ballantyne, American," is continued, and the interest sustained. William Howe Downes, the art critic of the Boston Transcript, gives a re sume of theexhibit of New England Art at the World's Fair. Franklin H. Head contributes an amusing paper called "Legends of Jekyl Islantl." New England Magazine, $3 a year; Bcston, Mass. THE HAPPINESS OF HELL. i Prof. St. George Mivart, a distin guished English convert to the Roman catholics, has lecently been doing for for the laity of his church what Canon Farrar did for the laity of the English church some 15 years ago, by way of correcting a' popular notion about what is the authoritive teaching of the church On the doctrine of eternal pun ishment. If belief in the eternity of future life in hell is not a part of the demand of Christianity on the human mind, it is of the utmost consequence that the world should know it, because it is the overwhelming testimony of the clergy that the modern revolt of reason against faith turns more upon this point than any other one. The modern conscience flatly re fuses to be held to a theory of a future which holds a human soul to be a life of torture, without mitigation, contin uous, unending, without hope and without the hope of hope. Most per sons in the church and all persons in the world think this doctrine substan tially as stated to be an inseparable Part-f the christian faith. Thinking tuus- tDey turn away and abandon all desire for a salvation which rests upon what they deem to be a fiction of the mind. It is not the newly acquired habit of scientific modes of thought, but the revolt against the "orthodox hell" which has done so much recently for religious skepticism. Only so far as the modern views of material things are logically associable with this rebellion of the conscience can science be. chargeable with more than a small portion of the church's failure to hold the masses of men. This fact is very clearly brought out by George Mivart, who testifies in the last number of the Nineteenth Century Magazine that he has been able to hold certain of his friends to the catholic position has roused the controversial spirit of Fr. Clarke, a Jesuit priest. and the case between the two is quite similar to the controversy provoked in the English church by Canon Far- wr's hnnl- ontitlo i'F.fornal TTnno " w w v -v s ti tibial Mm w a a - v which provoked a reply from the more anctoro nr PnM,r The fact seems to be that Christianity as an historical faith does not deune the punishment of the future, either as to its specific character or its dura tion. The common notion that it does so define it is based upon the declara tions made from time to time by iso lated sects and on the strength of in dividual interpretation of the scrip tural language made by theologians and preachers. It is true that these priVatn expressions have been so ex- tfeme and copious as to lead to the opinion that thev are the expression of the church itself. But this is a irreat mistake. What effect this open confession will have on the moral allegiance of christians, many of the clergy will shake the head in doubt. To remove or to mitigate the one terrible sanction of the moral law would be thought to be equivalent to remanding the world back to the license of paganism. To relax the awful penalty of eternity by the infusion of a single hope would be the abandonment of thp whole position of Christianity a the revelation of the divine wrath acrainst sin. It isascer tain as anything i j in human movements is certain that th b church will have to i i i make some sort of adjustment of its teaching of future punishment to con sciences which us own doctrine of di vine love has rendered too sensitive to hold longer to o d theories. I I i It is inconceivable that the con- i i sciousness should everj depart from the human heart of thj exceeding sin fulness of sin. Must the! church shock and wound the juniversal con- Ttl . Li !i . science in order to ' Keep; auve me knowledge of what sin is? jMusl hell be crowded intq a moral contradiction in order that the great fact of its exis tence may oe kept in the conscience? Hell is a great fact of human life, just as heaven is. I - is the- fruit of sin, just as heaven is the fruit of holiness. Both hell and h ?aven lie in all human lives in varying proportions. Is there not enough in all this common experi ence with which to illustrate the un- utterable bitterness of sin? Must the preacher essay an impossible exagger ation and ask its victims to think of it an unthinkale thing? No life was ever changed by thinking the doctrine of eternal damnation true, for no mind is capable of thinking it untrue. The notion , itself transcends human thouerht. Fear has its moral uses, and if endless damnation ever affected a life for good it was not because it was taken into thought and assent! to as a thing crpdible, but was vaguely feared as a thing inexplicable. Eternal life is thinkable as a state or condition because it is an attribute of humanity not in the sense that the mind can project itself forward along) the eter nal lines, but in the sense that joy and blessedness and the heaven in one's life are foreveij imperishable. There is no moral power in man to think of sin and wretchedness as imperishable, though they are experiences which! 'may be very persistent. The will! persist until they are shaken off. Why cannotjthe pulpit say this and ston here? There is truth enough in this to apnall .the most defiant hearts if properly presented, i With the me taphys'csof hell, the church has wisely had nothing to do officially With the great fact f f hell the church has had much to do from the day it began its work in the world. Detroit News. State of Ohio, .City of Toledo, ) Lucas County: f Fkank J Cheney makes! oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney k Co., doing business in the City of Toiedo. County and Slate aforesaid, andjthat said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL LARS for each and every case ot Catarrh that cknnot be cured by the use of Halls (Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and pubscribed in my presence this Gth day of De- cember, A. D. 188(5 j seal A. W. Gleason, Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter, nally and acts directly on j the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, j freej F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. ;(SrSold by Druggists, 75c. ;: WILMINGTON ADVERTISEMENTS. New S tore. Hew Goods. - i I : DAVIS & ZOELLER Enterprise Cash Store. Corner FRONT ANI PIUNCESS at fetreet Car Junction. DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, GENT'S FURN1S HNGS. NEW DRESS GOODS Some exclusive novelties from French, German jand English Looms in pattern suits with no two alike, at prices beyond com petition, j This department is in charge of Jlr. Davis himself, (assisted by our Mr. Piatt. both ot whom will be pleased to see their old friends, and you will receive the very best treatment at their hands Don't give us the go by when ever in our city, for il you do you will always regret lit. j SLOCUM'S. iirn of the BIG BOOT. 1 r No. 120 MARKET STREET, WILMINGTON. X. C. Call and examine his: fine stock of Boots and Shoes. . They Always Give Satisfaction NEW LEE, j NEW PATRON .1 aiul SEMINOLE COOK STOVES. S11 by J. L. BRliCKliNRIDGE. "2 15 South Front Street. CAROLINA PLOWS. CAROLINA SHOVELS and SPADES. CAROLINA AXES. We especially ask our Southport friends to ex amine our line' of COOK STOVES. Satisfaction guaranteed. j ALDERMAN HARDWARE CO. WILMINGTON, N. C. TO THE PEOPLE OF SODTHPORT And Vicinity. You are invited to inspect our Immense stock of Furniture. -o- For the next f2v weeks we intend to sell at unheard of prices, the biggest stock we ever had is now displayed. Call and see us, we guarantee to please. MATTRESSES! MATTRESSES! All kinds made and renovated. Send us your orders. SNEED & CO., jWILMINGTON, N. C The Cheapest Furniture House in North Carolina. LOST AND CAN'T BE FOUND ALL HIGH PRICES. For the Next 90 Days ny entire STOCK AT COST. We extend a cordial in vitation to the patrons to come and investigate. 1. 40. BUY ELSEWHERE, C. E. GORDON, N. E. Cor. Front and Market Streets. WILMINGTON, N. C. He'd rick's Old Stand. THE BIG RACKET STORE OF WILMINGTON. A big line of new goods just received in the shape of New Spring Millinery, we have sold a big lot of these goods this Spring, and wu have again filled up with all the new shapes and styles of hatp. A new patent leather hat for 50 cents. A feather weight sailor hat for 75 cents. A nice line of leghorn hats from 50 cents up to $1.25 each. A big stock of new flowers and laces. A large stock of cheap trimmed hats, good shapes, a bunch of flowers and good ribbon, trimmed in good style, for 38 cents each, fully worth 75 cents. Shoes ami. Slippers. We have been able to buy a big stock of these goods far below their actual value and will sell them very cheap. Carpet slippers for ladies 40c. men 50c. Ladies dress slippers, patent tip 65 to 85c Ladies kid liued slippers, all solid leather $1.25 to $1.50 A big drive in men's and dots' shoes. Matting, good quality, 10 cents per yard Utter 12i, 15, 19 and .35 cents. BR ADDY & GAYL0RD, OPPOSITE MAKKET, Front Street, Wilmington, N. 0. WM. GOODMAN No. 8 Market Street, WILMINGTON, NY C, Ready-Made CLOTHE. DRY POODS, FANCY ARTICLES. BOOTS' AND SHOES. HATS AND CAPS. Brunswick County People Should Make My Store Their Headquarters, While in Wil mington. WM. GOODMAN. HOUSEKEEPERS Cannot Fail to Find what they want at our store. Pure Creamery Butter, from dairy farm inNew York. PAROLE FLOUR, guaranteed to be the best made. GROCERIES of the best grades always in stock. Fresh goods In all lines of staple and fancy goods, arriving daily. i ' ' . . . -),; . We invite inspection of our gro ceries and feel certain of pleasing. PRICKS LOW? ! GOODS FIRST-CLASS. The John L. BoatwrigM Co. THE PURCELL WILMINGTON, N. C. Under New Management. UOOMSFIRST CLASS THE TOURISTS HOME. CUISINE UNEXCELLED Rate - - $2.00 Per Day. C. T. BENNETT, Manager. W. If. CAPELU Chief C!rk. A. M. HUBBARD, Night Clerj WILMINGTON g ! MARBLE YARD, JOHN MAUNDKU, Proprietor. WILMINGTON, N. O. - i North Front Street. ;o: j Mom c mi: nts and Gbavi Stokes Made to Order. ANNOUNCEMENT ! About May 15th, the season of 1893 will begin at CAROLINA BEACH Cottages or Booms at the Hotel can now be engaged. SURF BATHING FISHING, MUSIC. o:- fl THE ROCKS." Hotel Fisher will be ready about May 1st, for all who wish to en joy the - well-known and famous fishing grounds near the Books. r or terms and further particu lars, apply to v JOHN W. HAEPEB , Wilmington, N. C.
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