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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-09-28
COMMERCIAL REPORTS.
How the sftuation Appears to Brad
street and Dun.


NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-Bradstreet:
aside from the increased activity in
general trade at Atlanta, Savannah,
Dallas, st. Louis, Omaha, Kansas
City, Milwaukee and Minneapolis, no
improvement in demand for staples is
reported in contrast with last week.
Higher prices for cotton seem to have
stimulated shipments in Georgia, but
elsewhere receipts at primary, mar
kets are slow. The sign expanding a
volume of trade in iron and steel
shown last week at PittSburg and 9TH
er centres of production have proved
disappointing.
AT the city named there has been
egen aIurther depression in prices.
~ increased distribution of dry goods
NOTIONS, shoes and grocery staples is
reported from Baltimore. Country
buyers at Louisville have stimulated
trade in staples, but factories there
recently started are not employing
full forces. A reaction is reported in
various lines.
Six out of a dozen Southern trade
centres report a gain over last week
Previously reported improvement in
Memphis, has continued, and the like
is true at Nashville, but Industrial
operations there are restricted by the
financial situation. Besides at Attain
ta appears relatively most favorable,
higher prices for cotton having stimu-
lated receipts and collections being as
good or ubetter than in preceding
years. Chattanooga merchants also
report an increasing volume of bust
ness. Savannah cotton receipts have
increased, but the naval stores move
ment is restricted owing to the lack of
tonnage.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-09-28

Col E G Edmunds has etnrned
from the Worlds Fair.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-09-28
Equitable Life

A method which guarantees
all the protection furnished
By any kind of life insurance,
and in addition the largest
cash returns to those policy
holders whose lives are pro-
longed, and who then need
money rather than assurance.
For facts and figures, address
w. j. RODDEY, Manager,
For the Caroiinas,
ROCK HILL, S. c.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-09-28

w Hanes and party have returned
from the Worlds Fair.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-09-28
DUN's REPORT.

There is no longer microscopic
view of sentimental imrovement that
cannot be measured. Some increase
is seen both in production and in dis
tribution of products. True, it is
smaller as yet, but after the worst
financial blizzard for twenty years,
it is not to be expected that all roads
can be cleared in a day. But all con-
ditions, except at Washington favor
gradual recovery.
The failures number 3l9 in the Uni
ted States against 1SS last your. on
ly five failures for over SlGo,u1v each
The liabilities in failures for the sec
ond week in September were but
So, O42, l29 against S5,319,09S the first
week.
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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-10-06

from Heaven: both countries he'd In.
rigating canals, and in both countries
taxes were paid In kind and stored in
public warehouses; both countries
maintained public roads, disposed of
their dead with the same ceremonies,
and built houses much in the same
style. Humboldt found in the Next
can calendar strong resemblances to
the ancient calendar used in Tartary,
India, and Thibet. The skull OF the
American, except in its greater
length, greatly resembles that of tho
Chinese. For number of years many
good people believed that the Anieri-
can Indians were the descendants Of
the ten .Lost Tribes of the House of
Israeli" some persons believe so still,
hut they have not heen taught by re-
cent scientific discoveries.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-10-06
Bromining.

"Isromming' is the term applied in
California to the unearthly sound
that the ostrich imaglnes to be song.
When I first heard it, says q recent
writer, lacCually mistook it for the
trumpeting of a distant fog horn. In
the desert it might well be a fit an.
swer to the roar Of the lion. So re-
culiar is the sound that l took pains
to ascertain exactly how it was pro-
duced. The process. after all, is sim.
pie. The bird initiates his long neck
till it looks like a big bag; he then
let's the air out again in three install
ments. He blows thrice thus in sue
cession, making nine roars in all.
The performance is then over for the
time being. "Brommine" is occa-
sionally heard by day, but more
usually breaks the silence by night,
aud is probably meant as a challenge,
Two Of the herd are always on guard
while their companions sleep. They
take turns in this duty.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-10-06
Whence Came They?

No one knows exactly where the
American Indians came from, and
there are many theories on the sub
ject. Man lived on this continent
earlier than, or at least as early as,
he lived on the European continent,
but it is not believed that the In
dams are descended from such carly
people. The latest theory seems to
be that the so-called American In
dams are descended from Chinese,
who in some way reached the west.
ern coast thousands Of years ago.
The parallelism between the customs
Of the Chinese and the ancient Pc
ruvians are often very striking; the
systems of government of the two
peoples were similar; the Emperor
and the Inca both claimed descent
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-10-06
Newspaper Morality in London.

On what grounds, VIC wonder, do
the majority of London papers con-
spire to ignore n anuther's exsist-
cnce? 1t seems Il pretty piece of folly,
but of course if Il paper chooses to do
this it is its W affair. If the Pail
Mall Gazette publishes the news that
Paris has been blown up, or that
Africa has disappeared. the Times
may, il it likes, continue to come out
in affected ignorance of the catas-
trophe. But it is quite another mat
ter when a naughty morning journal
condescends ITO borrow, and borrow
largely, without acknowledging the
source of its loan. The Daily News,
which we have always looked upon as
dull but respectable, while appro-
printing such of our narratives of the
fracas in the House as seemed good
to 1t. %ungenerously refers the state
ments to san evening paper" The
Morning makes no acknowledgements
at all.
But the worst offender Of all is the
Times, which has embodied the state
ments of our contributors as the re-
suit of conversation in the lobby.
There is no question as to the origin
of these s'political notes." as not only
are the members whose opinions are
quoted those who wrote in tho Pail
Mall Gazette yesterday. but the very
phrases and words they used are pro-
duced. 1t is not so long ago since
the Times mercilcssly fell foul of the
st. Jamcs's Gazette for a similar of.
fence. We take leave gently to call
its attention to the fact-London
Pail Mall Gazette.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-10-06
The Point of View.

ION the platform of a railroad sta
tion the other day." said a traveller,
81 saw waiting for a train a little
girl, Ter mother, and her mothers
mother, a pleasant little family party
about starting on a days outing; nice
people, but clearly in moderate cir
cumstances. The little girl was in
her best clothes, and she wore a
broad-brimmed dropping Leghorn
hat; her grandmother held her
tightly by the hand, but with the
confidence Of youth she had freed
herself, and she stood nov a little
apart. AT this moment two bare
footed small boys of about the same
age as the girl, who had been walk
ing APART, stopped and stood near
her and looked at her. 1t was plain
chat to them the little girl was a
butterfly of fashion and q rcprcsen.
tative of wealth. They surveyed her
from head to foot with deliberate in
tercst. and she received their scru-
tiny with equal calmncss, suppose.
indeed, that there is none of us to
whom somebody doesn't look up. 1t
Ill depends on the point Of view."-
New York Sun.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-10-06
Peter Than Powder.

Recent experiments just concluded
at the Government proofbutts, Wool
rich, appear to prove the decided
superiority ofcordite over gunpowder.
A siX-inch quick-tlring gun was
loaded with % pounds 10 ounces of
the ordinary black gunpowder, and
yielded a velocity of 1900 feet per Sec
ond, with a pressure strain On the
gun of 10 tons per square inch. The
same gun was charged with IA pounds
three ounces of corditc, and gave a
velocity of 2274 feet per second and a
pressure of 15.2 tons. More import.
ant still, after $50 rounds had been
fired there were no signs of erosion.
The new substance is manufactured
at the Government powder mills,
Waltham Abbey, and contains SIS per
cent of nitro-glycerine, 81 of gun.
cotton and 3 of mineral jelly. The
velocity of the shot along the bore of
the six-inch gun was calculated to
the millionth of a second from
the first moment of being set in
motion. Minute as they may appear,
Lieut.. n. Watkin, II. A., has in
vented an instrument which, it is
said, will measure fractions of time
to the ine-billionth part, of a second.
About SO of the 6-inch quick firing
guns have been supplied to the. navy,
and the authorities at the royal gun
factories have begun the manufacture
of larger guns Of the same pattern,
with Il velocity Of /, 300 miles per
hNur
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-10-06
rests ia peace, his warfare DER, but IL
may help to comfort the living and
keep his memory green.-Mrs. NJ. L.
saycd l,y q d

One day d Union soldier was fleeing
for his life from Confederate sharp.
shooters, says the Pittsburg Dispatch.
At last he saw q hollow log, and need
ing rest crept into it, feet foremost.
Ris face was but q few feet from the
open end. Shortly after he got into
the log o large spider came aud spun
his web over the open log as much as
to say, II will save you" He spun his
web round and round. backward and
forward, until a network was made.
Then the spider disappeared, Ashort
time after the spider had left the log,
along came the C~onfederates. They
stopped close to the log where the
poor soldier lay nearly frightened to
death. He heard them say "there il
no one is there" and they passed on.
The soldier stayed in his log until
next morning, when lie made his es.
cape back to his fellow soldiers, and
told them of the good spider that
saved him from the hands of the
enemy.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-10-06
Nothing skittish About Her.

A Harlem clubman, who attempted
to play a practical joke, was nom
plussed in a very unexpected way.
He says: II am very particular
about fastening the doors and win
dows of my house. 1 do not intend
to leave them open at nights as an
invitation to burglars to enter. You
see. l was robbed once that way last
year and l never mean to be again; so
when I go to bed / like to he sur
that every door and window is Sc
curely fastened.
"Last winter my wife hired a bic,
strong country girl and the newcom-
er was very careless about the doors
at night. On two or three occasions
1 came down stairs to find a window
up or the back door unlocked. Icau-
toned her, but it did no good. 1
therefore determined to brighten her.
1 got some false whiskers, and one
night, about IL o'clock, I crept down
the back stairs to the Kitchen, where
she was. She had turned down the
gas and was in her chair by the fire,
sound asleep, as 1 could tell by her
OASdOiiluEs Uuc Cu0 LuOtleuU i SUruC
a match she woke.
~ expected a great yelling and
screaming, but nothing of the sort
took place. She bounced out of her
seat with a "You viilain!" on her
lips, seized a chair by the back, and,
before I had made a move, she hit
me over the head. forcing me to my
knees l tried to get up, tried to eX-
plain who l was, but in vain. Before
l could get out of the room she struck
me again, and it WAS only after I had
tumbled up the back stairs that she
gave the alarm. Then she came up
to my room, raped at the door, and
coolly announced:
"'Mr. -, please get up! I've
killed d burglar. New York Mer-
curry.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-10-06
Talktne Doss.

A common mastif at Zcitz, in SAX
ony, had a peculiar bark, and it's
master, a boy, thought there was in
the noise a resemblance to some Ger
man words, and having apparently
nothing to occupy his time, deter
mined to teach the mastif to speak,!
The project vas difficult. but the
patience aud ingunity of the boy
Overcame the many obstacles. The
words which the boy taught the dog
were about thirty in number, mainly
German, but including u few French
words also. These words wcre not
used spontaneously, but uttered at
the dictation Of the young teacher
by his canine pupil.
The "Dog of Liebnitz," as this
wonderful mastiff is usually called,
had a rival in a speaking dog, said to
have been exhibited in Holland in
Ills, which could pronounce all the
letters of the alphabet except FL"
en-" and en-"
In the following year orc is men.
toned at Berlin; and the Bibliotheque
Germanique for 1920 asserts that
there was then a dog who could speak
sixty words, and had a very COM
mendable preference for short ones,
never attempting more than three
syllables.
The late DIR. James Hunt, in deal.
ing with these remarkable cases,
points out that it is not speech in
the real sense Of the word, even If
the statements here cited. for there
is no evidence of a%ntccedent thought
determining the choice of words.
At the most, the dog gave Il clever
imitation of the human voice, not of
mans mental process. But as ami
mails certainly convey information to
each ether, there is still some ground
to hope that an improvement may
yet be affected in the communication
between man and his ..poor reIa-
| tions.a
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-10-06
WHERE raAMPs COME FROM.
Interesting Information Concerning Our
Voluntarily Idle Army.

An interesting article appears in
the Forum for August from the pen
OF j. j. McCook entitled IA Tramp
Census" 1t contains a whole army
of statistics OF the subject which
will be of peculiar interest to the
economist and social rcfOrmer. Mr..
McCOok estimates the total number
of tramps at IL, Sls, and of these he
has secured a sort of biographical
sketch of l,349. These sketches have
hcen obtained from facts furnished
by the subjects themselves. The in
formation they give is believed to be
the most reliable that could be oh
tanned on the subject. 1t is certainly
reliable enough to form the basis OF
correct conclusions and to permit of
the study ana discussion of the sub
ject in all its phases and relations.
Mary startling facts are presented,
but they arc none the less worthy, of
consideration on that account.
1t may be a surprise to many to be
told that tramps do not come cxclu-
sively from the lowest stratum of So
ciety. OF the l, $40 interviewed 57.4
per cent. admitted having trades,
callings, or professions and Ala per
cent. were common laborers Only
sixteen of the whole number would
admit that they had no calling. In
the whole lot ninety-eight different
vacations were represented. Another
startling fact ascertained by MI. Nc
Cook in his Investigations was that
the regiment of tramps does not
draw it's recruits from the ignorant,
the physically disabled, the weak, or
the aged. AS large a proportion as
one in twenty was under 20 years OF
age. Three in five were under 35 and
seventy-tlve in M hundred were UNI
der 40. Only in twelve was so
or v These figures show very
clearly that the age Of the tramp is
no hinderance to his working capa-
bilities. They rather indicate that
tramps die young or weary of the
road and become more industrious as
they grow older. 1t is not probable
that the first is true. At q time
when the grip was raging and the
death rate generally vas phenomin-
ally high only s.5 per cent. claimed
to be chronic sufferers from ill health,
Whlle $50 per cent. asserted that
their health was perfect.
The mode of life adopted does not
appear to have been forced upon it's
followers through stress of circum-
stances. O%ne-third took to it within
twenty-four hours after their loss of
employment, half within a week and
four-flfths within a month. Only 4.6
per cent. would admit that they had
followed it more than a year. Nor
was want of education the cause of
their departure from the ranks OF the
Industrious. OF the whole number
interviewed 1887 could read and 7
write. Eighteen more could read but
not write. Only M94 per cent. could
neither read nor write. The annual
cost to the country of supporting this
army of tramps in idlcncss is esti-
n.ated by Mr.. McCook at IS, coo, 900.
That would give $3.50 per week to
each of them.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-10-06
The Ordeal of Boiling Oil.

The dcluded people of the Indian
Archipelago seem to be about as far
behind the times as were the Salem
with burners Of 200 tyears ago, only
that they seldom go to the extremes
which history tells us that our Puri-
tan ancestors did. In Ceylon the
system of switch finding" is both
unique and terrible. Some oil from
newly-gathered king cocoanuts is
manufactured by M OF the friends
of the complainant; this is poured
INTO a primitive stone vessel and
heated to a boiling point
Each of the suspected witches is
then brought upon the scene, and is
then and there compelled to dip three
fingers of the right hand into the
seething cauldron, each having u
right, under their idea of justice, to
throw the oil remaining upon his
fingers into the face of the complain
ant, who stands near by. While
this ordeal is being undergone, a sim
gle exclamation of pain on the part
OF the suspected person. is considered
to be an admission of guilt; if no such
exclamation is made, the innocence
of the accused is supposed to De es-
tab!ishcd. 1t is said that every tenth
person on the island of Ceylon has
manned fingers, as a result of having
met the "Ordeai of Boiling OIL"
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-10-06
Free Coita-e."

In its widest scny expression
means the right off srson owning
bullion to have -oined at a mint
without charge to him. The only
metal coined freely is gold, and, in
effect. the expression free coinage"
is used only with reference to the
possible admittancc of silver to the
same privileges. Copper is not coined
on private account. The coinage of
gold is the only coinage absolutely
free in the minis Of the chief coun.
tries of the world.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-10-06
a LARGE LUNCH.
HOY Ton,s,an soldiers showed Their Re.
gard for Their Captain.

Capt Border, now o civil official
Mt Maktar, in Tunis, gives an anus
ing account of an experience with
some Of his old Tunisian soldiers, says
the Youths Companion. Some time
after he had left the army and had
assumed office at Maktar, he met at
the town Of Bargon twelve soldiers of
the company which he had once CON-
manded. He was instantly recognized
aud surrounded. "They all talked at
once" he says. "They hung upon
my bride and upon my stirrups; they
embraced my hands; they graspcd my
boots and the tails of my coat.
'God be praised! We have waited
for you SO long! Have you been we'll?
And madam? And the children?
And our Lieutenant?:
".He was killed in Tonquin.'
".MaY God have mercy upon him.
lie was a brave man,
".And the ub-Lieutenant?'
".He was in Tonquin, and is now
q Lieutenant and decorated
".May God increase his prosperity
: "At last l was able to dismount,
and the good fellows hurried away, to
come back bringing mats and rugs
and cushions, that their old Captain
might be comfortably installed.
"sWc may offer you Il luncho'
"sYes, but it is a warm day, and
n dish will be sufficient
"They fastened away, and I saw
them holding an animated discussion;
then they disappeared in different
directions. ! aftcrward learned that
the most profound of the band had
proposed to the rest that they should
all contribute to a dish and that his
wife should cook it; but the others
were full of culinary pride. 1t was
decided that each should bring me a
dish, for when 1 had said "a single
dish / had not specified whether from
each of you or from YOU all to-
gcther.'
IL had finished an interview with
the town officials and was resting,
when l was Informed: .Sidi, YOU
lunch is coming.'
"My twelve soldiers were approach
ing, each with an enormous dish.
Twelve dishes to cat on that hot
July day, with a terrible torrid sirocco
blowing that would have destroyed
the appetite of a glutton! Twelve
dishes exactly alike, cooked after a
recipe which no doubt had been
handed down from remote ages.
Twelve mutton stews, swimming in
rancie oil, dressed with dry raisins
and peas as hard as bullets.
81 did my duty. J. tasted of the
twelve dishes and swallowed twelve
mouthfuls of milk, and informed each
of my hosts that his dish was good,
very good, superior. delicious, agreea.
BILE, exquisite, superflne, fragrant,
savory, delectable, OF succulent.
"They we're much pleased and de.
clared that whenever l visited Bar
gon they should entertain ME.
II have been there since, but I in
vented a way to protect my stomach
and to avoid hurting their feelings.
l arranged an order of precedence for
them according to their military
rank, the number of years they had
been in the service and their. age. At
every visit L state positively that 1
shall accept luncheon from some one
of them. and l thus resist the seduc-
tions of the Others and preserve my
digestion, though l am no less CRATE
ful for their kindness and devotion"
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-10-06
WHISKY in a Mogshcad OF Molasses.

Whisky in u Mogshcad OF NIolasses.
They have sharp liquor searchers
in Androscoggin County, and the wits
of rum smugglers are sharpened by
contact with them. The GUEST
scheme yet worked to hoodwink the
officers was discovered the other day.
The officers, seeing a hogshead of mo-
lasses with a suspicious address,
seized it. Inside they discovered a
whisky barrel. The barrel contained
ninety-fl five gallons of liquor. Encir-
cling it was a strong framework, upon
which the hoops, nearly two inches
wide, encircled the barrel, and into
this ran big screws from the hoops
and slaves of the outer hogshead. A
similar arrangement was used for the
heads, and the space thus made be-
tween the inner and outer barrel was
filled with molasses. The bunghole
of the inner barrel was opposite the
bunghole of the outer barrel, so that
by this arrangement the stuff could
be pumped out without brea6ing the
hogshead.-Daily Kennebec journal.