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Entered according toiota! rciilatiomut the jKWtottice at Southiort, X. C,as second cIush matter. . - JKRN OK SUHSt'RIFTIOX. niKKE month; - - -2-i Cents. SIX MONTHS Cents -NK YEAK $ 1 0 Sent by Mail: Payable in advanee. Give postoffiee address in full, including county and State. Itemit by draft, postoftlce order,-or re mistered letter, at our risk. ;: tST Advertising rates furnished on appli cation No communication will be printed in the Lkadkh without the name of the writer being knowji.to the editors. j Obituary or death notices, of five lines, subject to editorial revision, free. Longer noticed, subject to approval, to, be paid for in advance ! The Leaukk cannot return rejected mnnnflrnt a nn rfiiuttoF laliut tltfiir 'litiror ter may be. unlers accompanied by stamps. To this rule no' exception will le made with regard to either letters or inclosures. Nor will the editor enter into any corres pondence respecting such communications. All matter not inserted is dest roved. CbAX. L. Stewa. Percy J. Farrell, Walter II. Steven.. ElITOK8 AND I'KOPKIKTOKS. SOUTHPORT. RrunHwik Co..N. C. SocTHfOKT. N. C. Skitkmber 0, 1894 TOO MIX'H ECONOMY- It may not be -good Democracy' to complain of economy put into actual effect, but the faith of the Democracy of this section has been severely tested during the present Adminis tration by what might be claimed to bj '-practical savings," but which ap pear entirely different to those upon whom their effects fall. For a year past the people of the lower Cape Fear have been experienc in? a series of economic measures put into effect by the (iovernment. in and around Southport, saving the National rn i. i . . . ireaBury pernaps a tew Hundred uol lars a month, but injuring the com mercial interests of the Port of Wilmington more in thousands of dollars than the (Jovernment saves in hundreds, besides the injury done the commercial reputation of th Port. ' During the Octoler storm of last year, a number of ptake lights in the Cape Fear river were swept away, amont; them was the light marking the point of Battery Island shoal in this harbor. The other stake lights were soon replaced by the Government, but nothing has ever been done towards replaycing the light at Battery Island. . The course around this shoal is a blind one, and while the pilots find no trouble in following the channel around it, the course as it now is, unmarked, remains an unnecessary menace to navigation. Is it a safe or wise economy to let Battery Island shoal remain without a stake light? , The discontinuance of the Oak Island light house is another piece of Government frugality, saving a few hundred dollars, and injuring the Port of Wilmington. - - Oak Island light has always been a most important light to mariners. Coming from the-South around the Frying Pan Shoal, it marked the sea buoy at the Cape Kear bar, from the West it was the only light on the island and a necessary one to all small craft. The Clyde steamships entering this Pnrt . v vuuu bUO ilUb KJl Yltal imDOrt&nce - pnahlinrr tlirr. r J enter and make the run up the river at night instead of remaining off the bar until daylight. , Was it not false economy to dis continue Dak Island light, leaving the Cape Fear bar with no distinguishing light to mark its entrance? Does the trifling amount saved by the National Government equal the injury done the commercial interests of the Port of Wilmington? The telegraph line between Wil mington and Southport has been owned and operated by the Govern ment, putting it in close communica tion with the Weather Bureau at this place, the Life Saving Service Stations on Smith and Oak Islands and the Lightship on Frying Pan Shoals. The Department of the Interior finding that this line involved the Government in a loss of several hundied dollars a year, has sold it, preferring to pay its telegraph tolls to others and therebv save the few lum dreds for the National Treasury." What real, practical economy bas the Government accomplished by the nasty sale of this line? Absolutely none. The sale of the line does away with aniraportant Weather Bureau Station, render the Government communica tion with its Life Saving Service un. certain, ani , until the people of Wil mington and Southport can take up the business, throws into confusion the marine interests of the Port. While the Leader does not favor Government ownership of teledhaph lines, it does think that the action in selling the telegraph here has been in ; considerate and hasty, and might have j been done without unsettling the , existing interests of this ToTt. j j As it 13 now done, however, noth- J ing remain except for , th'f business J interests of the Tort t take prompt j action in the matter and run the line ; to the best advantage. 1 The Lkadkk presents the above facts for the .thoughtful consideration of the roiitical economist, i I ! AS A HEALTH KESOKT. All previous claims for Bouthport as a Sum met Resort, a place where high tern jeratu res during the summer months are unknown and where every one enjoys perfect health, -'have been fully maintained tins year.l the hun dreds of persons who have visited here during June, July and August bearing testimony to the unrivalled Southport weather. j While the past summer has not been marked by extraordinary high ranges of temperature, yet there have been a number of hot periods wht n the thermometer indicated; from 95 to 100 degrees, and evcn.jhigber, in various places, North and South, and after August 1st there was a perfect exodus from northern cities to the vanous resorts on the lakes and at the seashore by every one who could afford the luxury of taking an 'out ing.' ; ; ;.j The Lkaukk does not reiiiember of ever hearing a visitor in Southport inquiring about the temperature or asking how high the thermometer was. the fact being that the weather is always so pleasant heie, the ocean breeze so refreshing that the visitor forgets the heated places left in the interior of the State, and rests satis fied and contented when undr South port skies enjoying the bracing ocean breezes. ".j j While th past summer nionthshave been hot ones in many places, South port has only at times had warm days, the highes temperature during June, j July and August being 88; degrees, with the- mean " temperatures,: 75 degrees for June, and 78 degrees for July and August. j Southport's death record during the summer has been equal to us jweahter, one white adult and owd infant child being' the total number of deaths among the people living here Southport, as a health reiort dur ing, the hot months for ills many visitors, a cool enjoyable refuge from heat, toil and dust, can only be spoken of in the superlative degrees it is the Queen of Resorts, and no one'd imputes its title as being, First. There are Summer Resorts andS resorts for the summer, but only one Southport, with its inhaustible life giving ozone for those who seek it, during the season when life seems not worth the living. i FROM NORTH TO SOUTH. It would not ue at all surprising should the first general . movement toward the Southern States come from men residing in the Northern sections rather than froirr foreign lands. The favorable condition of the crops throughout the greater portion of the South compared with tlie un favorable situation in many sections of the North and West is calculated ' to arrest the serious attention of farmers and fruit growers. There are hundreds 61 families who have given up in despair and are now leavingthe drought-stricken regions for more desirable quarters, and many of these intend going South. The era of land speculatiou is about at an end in the West. The best agricultural areas have been occupied, pricesj are too high for tjiose of limited means who are seeking for homesteads and the low prices of corn, wheat and other staples of the great prairies indicate the necessity not only of a change of situation, but of a greater diversity of production I ! There are millions of acreslof cheap and fertile lands thoughout the South, and iu the specialties of truck garden, ing and fruit growing very consider, able progress is being made,! by men from the North who have gone out as "pioneers. All are not equally success ful, but it has been demonstrated that the same amount of capital, skill and industry Invested in general farming or in gardening and fruit raising in the more desirable portions of the South will yield very satisfactory re turns, as compared with Northern farming There ate disadvantages, but these are-compensated for in large measure. If the climate is too hot in summer it is less rigorous in winter, and clothing and fuel are not so ex pensive. Labor is cheap and abundant, if not of the most desirable kind, and the advantages will be found to fairlv offset the drawbacks. To those whose ambition is to secure a homestead which will yield them a competency at a small outlay, the South now offers better opportunities than the West. It was not always so, but this seems to be the situation at present. For some years to come the drift will be from the large centres of population to the farming regions, and in this distribution the South will share liber ally. Pittsburg Commercial Gnzrtte, PRESS COM3IENTS. The Washington, p. C , W, always first in ita news concerning aflairs in the Nation's Capitol,' during the recent biennial encampment of the Knights of Pythias, daily furnished its many leaders an extra Pythian Edition full of the movements and doings of the Knights, which has been eagerly read and enjoyed bV the Knights who were unable to le at the Washington Kit campment. The Post s measure of i journalism is ever on a large and pro gressive scale of advancement. The North Carolina Road Improve ment Association will hold a State Road Conference at Charlotte on Sept. 12th and loth., and in this connection the Lkaiikk wishes it were possible for every Eastern county in the State to send its Commissioners to the Confer ence and pay their expenses. No one fully realizes the important effect of good roads upon a county's moral, social and material progress, except by actual lest, and a visit of the East ern Commissioners to Charlotte could not fail to be productive of great results. 1 No newspaper has less disposition to be unjust in criticising the state ments of its comtemporaries than the Leadek, j nor be quicker to apologize for unintentional statements winch may do others injustice. While the statement of the Norfolk Vi-ginlun, in regard to the Cape Fear bar depths, was only! a local expression, yet the Vii'jininu must agree with the Lkadek that local as well as editorial expres sion have their effect upon readers of all newspapers, and each, when unfair, are equally subject to criticism. The Yirginiau's expressions of good will towards this section, noted in .last week's Leadek, are assurances that the Yirgimans intentions are just and honorable, which the Leahkk is glad to note. NORTH CAROLINA EDITORS TjllE JKK'TOH SAYS 'DOX't.' The Messenger has twice warned against taking refuge under trees in a storm. ,Two persons m thils Slate have been reported killed by lightning in a week, who were under trees. During the last three months at least a half dozen have been killed in the same way: Others were in passages. Keep out of drafts and avoid trees in thunder storms. Wilmington '-Messenger. " Why givj? IT AWAY? The Press has been running ? months and has $127. 10 due on subscription. We hope those who read the paper and our friends will remember, we are poor and cannot run without money. Rutherfordton Press. REVIEWS. The Atlantic's supply of fiction m September is somewhat more than usually large. Besides Mrs. Deland's "Philip and his Wife," now within one month of conclusion, there are three stones "Tante Cat'rineite," by Kate Chopin, "For their Brethren's Sake," a powerful tale of a Derbyshire town, during the Great Plague, by Grace Howard Peirce; and Mrs. Cather wood's "The Kidnapped Bride," the last of a series of early French-American stories. "Old Boston Mary: A Remembrance," by Josiah Flynt, In Mrs. Louise Ilerrick Wall's sketch, "In a Washington Hop Field," too, there is so much of human interest that one may almost think of it as a story. "Up Chevedale and Down Again," by Charles Stewart Davison, is again a record of actual events a thrilling narrative of Alpine adven ture. One of Miss Edith M. Thomas's delightful minglings of verse and prose, "Rus in Urbe," preserves tne thoughts which city streets have often suggested to persons whose hearts are not with the town. Atlantic Monthly, 4 a year; Boston Mass There is more Catarrh in this section of tht country than all other diseases put tDgether, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pro nounced it a local disease, and pre scribed local remedies, and by con stantly failing to cure with local treat ment, pronounced it incurable. Sci ence has proven Catarrh to be a con stitutional disease vand therefore re quires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo.Ohio, is Ihc only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoon ful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. J Address, F. J. Cheney A: Co., Toledo, O. JTrScld by druggists, 75c. Man's selfishness always has been three or four sizes too large for him Galveston News. FOR IDLE MOMENTS. Brown 'l hear you are the happy father of twins." Jones I am the father of fwins." Life. u 'Sunday-School Teacher What is charity V' Boy "It's a feeling that folks used to have before tramps got so thick. "- (iood News. ! Ciiolly "Chappie, deah boy, you awpawsitivel3 and gwossly intoxicated you actually have a jag on!" Chap pie "Haw! Tsi it jon stwaight?" London (Ont.) Free Press. 'You must beware of tautology," said the editor to his new assistant. Is there a tautologicAl expression in the article I just handed you, sir?" "Yes. there is. You speak Of a poor poet." -Pittsburg Chronicle, r Dinks "According to some of the scientists, the human race is gradually growing smaller. Strange, isn't it?'' Danks "I dunno. People have got to adjust themselves to the modern flat some way." Buffalo Courier. "Yes, madam." said the clerk in the furniturej store, "you will find that bedstead jas represented. It is full width, made out of the best walnut, and, yoii ban look fou.youiseIf, there's no man under it." Yonkers States man. Mrs. Slimdiet "The boarders are all at the table. Where's the milk?" Cook "Here- muni; but it do look awful blue." Mrs. Slimdiet ''Then hurry into the dining-room and pull down the yellow sunshades." New York Weekly. FOR THE FARMER. The skim milk from one cow is esti mated to be worth $20 a year. So far as the actual proportion of nutri tious matter is' concerned it is more valuable than cream, because it con tains the protein and mineral matter. Its value on the farm depends on the use to which it is applied. It should furnish sustenance for two pigs in a year if used in connection with clover and grain. A correspondent of Hoard's Dairy man writes of an experiment which he says he made of feeding tallow to his cows to test the question whether fat given in the food found its way to the butter and increased the proportion of it in the milk: He states as the result that the yield of butter was increased from one pound in 23 pounds of milk to one pound in 1& pounds, an increase of nearly one-third. It would be dollars in our pockets to tax ourselves heavily for good roads. Markets would te open to us all times of the year; we could haul our sup plies at less expense; there would be less wear and tear on wagons and in jury to horses: the church, the school and the doctor would not be so far away; the members of the agricultural community would be Drought closer together, and a more intimate social intercourse would result. Irrigation by the use of windmills is receiving attention in all sections. There are now eight journals devoted to irrigation. As a remedy against drought the storage of water for use when it is most needed will at some day be a portion of the work of suc cessful agriculturists. Necessity is in ducing invention in the storage of water, and already large market gar dens are being partially supplied by windmills, though the rains are de pended upon for the larger share of moisture during growth. There is a belief that prevails among many farmers that 'many green ma nures are sometimes injurious to crops, causing the soil to turn sour instead of making it mellow and light. This can only happen when the soil is full of stagnant water.. If there are under drains the surplus water will filter through the soil and air from the surface will follow, which will stimu late fermentation of tne green manure still more. Something depends on the kind of green herbage plowed under. A growth of clover has a large proportion of nitrogen in it, causing it to give off much heat when it decays, while a growth of sorrel rots more slowly, and may be said to sour the land, not becuse it is itself sour, but because it has too little nitro gen to getup much heat. A dressing of quicklime sown on the field after any green manure has been plowed under greatly adds to its effectiveness. American Cultivator. THE PLAYTHING OF ALL. The country editor is one who reads newspapers, writers on any subject, sticks type, folds papers, makes up the mail, runs errands, saws wood, works in the garden, is blamed for a thou sand things he never thought of, works hard all day, is subject to spring j fever, helps people into office who ! forget all about it afterward; and fre quently gets cheated out of his earning j He puffs up and does more to build tip i the town and country than any one j else, and the miser and fogy are bene- j fited, yet they will not take his paper, but will borrow lit. Seaford (Del.) Sens. FALL OF THE YEAR IS NOW HERE, THE AUTUMN LEAVES WILL SOON APPEAR TIE SHOPPERS' IS AGLOW WITH The 'I own of Southport and in fact the whole County of Brunswick have been our friends and customers in the past, and we want to tell them how we are pushing our -business and making preparations for the FALL TKADL. Our buyer lias been in the New York, Phila delphia and Baltimore Auction Rooms for some time laying in the greatest bargains with the Tariff off, we have ever been able to buy! i We are putting a gallery around our Dry Goods Department, n 3wly painting and remodling the whole store, to give us more room, more light and a better appearance. Our business is well known throughout the States of North and South Carolina and We want the country at large to know that we are impro ving and better able to do business than ever before. SINCE THE TARIFF BILL PASSED Goods-declined - in price and Ave are up to the times. On all goods that there was a tariff we reduced. 'the price to meet the re duction. We are putting in a nicer line of DRESS GOODS than we ever had before. We will be sure to interest you in this line. We hare all the new Styles and. Grades. -:o: MEN AND BOY'S CLOTHING. H e have a large stock of Men and Roy's Clothing from the Cheapest to the I Jest. To show it, is to prove it. We carry this stock on our second floor; 1000 pair of Men's Psints from 4.ic to $4.50 a pair. SHOES ! SHOES ! SHOES! Seven thousand pairs of Shots, we carry every style from the cheapest to the host. Tin's stock is all new. fresh and clean. EADIES AND GENT'S UNDERWEAR. In this line we have made large purchases and the prices are lower than we have ever been able to offer these goods before. Our Summer Goods in this line are going for less than cost. We do not Want to carry it over. SHADES AND CURTAINS. )ur shade department is well supplied Linen Holland, all the leading colors at 2." cent each, with fixtures complete. Lace curtains 3 yards long for 75c up to 2 oO a pair. Poles and trimmings. 25c. each. STATION! R Y ! Statio lerv in all grades , wholesale and note w riting paper at i 3c a ream. A at 75c per dozen boxes, . of 24 sheets XXX white at 5 per tl ilousand or 20c OUR MILLINERY DEPARTMENT We want to tell everyone alout our Millinery Department. We have made big preparations to meet the Ladies desire to get their head gear Stylish, Nice and Cheap. These three things combined has been our long desire to produce We have bought goods as cheap as the biggest jobber in the country can buy them. We work this department at the smallest expense possible, and we try to give our customers the advantage. It is a well settled fact not to be dis puted that we carry more goods in this line than any other house in the State, -We buy in larger quantities and sell for smaller profits. We have recently got in several big lots of Ribbons at rock bottom prices in all styles and colors. TRUNKS, VALISES AND RAGS. In Trunks we have all the styles, a fine lot of these goods were bought in time of low freight rates and that made the goods cheap. Zinc Trunks with tray and bonnet box $1.25 each. IJetter goods in proportion Hp to $7.00 each. Traveling bags. Grips and Valises, and Lunch IJoxes from 25c up to $3.50 -o- TIN WARE ! TIN WARE ! We have made extensive preparations to meet the wholesale trade in Tin ware: Buckets all sizes, milk and bread pans, coffee pots, dish pans, dinner buckets, wash basins, tin cups, saucepans, graters, cake turners, pie plates, and lots of small articles in Tin at the lowest price Lamps and reflectors. 25 and 35cejnh. Tin lamps, nicely painted 20c. Burners Xos. 0. 1, 2, at 3, 5 and c- Wicks 5c a dozen. Waterbury clocks, nickel. 75c. Waterbury clocks, nickel, alarm. 85c. Seth Thomas' 2 day clocks, elegant cabinet, guaranteed, $3 25, regular price $6 This has been a successful year with us. our trade has been very good and with energy, push and ambition we mean to lead and let no man say come on boys and follow. There is nothing like the grit and energy learned on the farm, where hard licks and sturdy blows make a man able to wear good clothes. We want you to come and see us and note the improvement we have made in our store and look over the buildinp and see what a stock we carry. THE 1Mb! WILMINGTON RACKET STORE BRADDY & GAYL0RD, SOUTH FRONT ST. OPPOSITE THE MARKET WILMINGTON, N. C. E AUTUMN GOODS. :o: :o:- STATIONERY ! retail at the lowest prices. 3 pound beautiful line of writing paper In boxes of paper and 24 envelopes. Envelopes. per box. GOD FURNITURE! rilDMITITDT I Dull RUUIli " AND Parlor Suits. We Offer you your selection from the largest stock of Furniture and House Furnishing Goods of every kind and description in the State of North Carolina on the following terms and conditions: $100 purchase, $20 deposit, $3 a week $75 purchase, $15 deposit, $2.50 . $50 purchase, $101eposit, $2.00 " $25 purchase, $5 deposit, $1.00 " $20 pnrchase, $4 deposit, 75c, $15 purchase, $3 deposit, 50c, ' SNEED & CO. 16 SOUTH FRONT STREET grThe Cheapest Furniture House in North Carolina. DON'T MISS THE GREAT CLEARING SALE j- .AT- . TAYLOR'S BAZAAR Everything Must Be Sold. CORSETS, UNDERWEAR, GLOVES. LACES, MITTS. RIBBONS, HATS, FLOWERS, Feathers and Silks, Umbrellas and Sun Shades. :o: DRY GOODS, CLOAKS, CAPES, Infants Wear, Babies' Cloaks and Caps, Child ren's Reefers, Toys, Dolls &c Come and compare prices and see for yourself at TAYLOR'S BAZAAR 118 MARKET STREET. WILMINGTON. N. C Orders by mail promptly and carefully filled. I GLISTENA A New preparation for cleaning and polishing Bras is, Nickel, Tin Glass, and all kinds of metals. Something new and of great merit within reach of all, only Ten Cents per Pound. Sold exclusively, in the State by us. If you really wish something that will please the housekeeper send, for sam ple package. OUR PAROLE FLOUR is still in the lead. CHASE & SANBORNS Famous Boston Coffees. THE JOHN L. B0ATWRIGHT CO., Nog. 15 and 17 S. Front Street. Send iu your order for HrooiuH and patronize home industry. BroouiK at all price and in every Style and Quality at the TAYLOR MANUFACTURING CO. 108 North Water Street. THE P OR C E U WILMINGTON! N. C. First Class Accommodations. HEADQUARTERS OF " Knights of the Grip." W. If. CAPELL, Manager. Rates $2.00 '.Per Day
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