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The news & observer., 1898-02-08
Jan. 18th to Feb. 18th. 1898,
NOTICE

Is hereby given that the co-partner-
ship in the drug business at Raleigh, N
c.. heretofore existing between the un-
dersigned, under the firm name of Caro-
lima Drug Company, has this day, by
mutual consent, been dissolved, the
stock of goods having been sold by us
in lump to Messrs. Frank Fl. Heartt
Thomas B. Heartt and G. Dennis
Heart. trading as Heartt & Heartt.
All persons indebted to said Carolina
Drug Company will please make pay
menf of such Indebtedness to us, and all
nf nersons having claims against said Car
Dina Drug Company will please present
the same promptly to us.
We thank our friends for their liberal
patronage in the past, and bespeak TO
tbe new firm Of Heartt & Heartt con
tinuance of the same.
This January Sth, 1893.
0 SAMUEL r. SMITH.
JNO. q. SMITH.
The news & observer., 1898-02-08
BALTIMORE.

BALTIMORE, Feb. 7.-FlOuf opened Ill,
y eAtern supeInnt s2t0a3 90 do. extra So.4bs
4.l0 90 fam IL s.. 20; winter 9nest pat
ents 81 sta5.lO; spring do. s0.IU.G5.SJ; eprn
whef stralRhLs S49Jn6 05
Wheat easy; spOi and Fehr 1ary 9,S t9l& ;
March 9-k Ga9s3s May t6 a96& steamer No.
2 red 93&ae3A; southern HEoai by sample "
aq8k: do on grade S4ayo
Corn essy; spot and February S3Ka35%
March asa33K steamer m168c 32HE8!A
Snutnsrr tshts corn a2aAK do yellow 32aS4
Oats firm; NO. white, western Zsh@5U;
NO mist d q.
Rye slightly o1sier: No. 2, ne& r-by 6S& ; No.
2 western 64A
Has Quiat, cnoice Timothy S13 asked.
The news & observer., 1898-02-08

Notwithstanding the news that under
ordinary circumstances would be suffi-
cent to break prices very sharply, wheat
declined only u cent, and when Letter
brokers started to bid a general cover
ing movement ensudd, which carried
prices back to within X cent of Satur-
days final figures. Corn closed un-
changed Oats added Is cent to the
former price and provisions advanced D
TO 12M cents.
The news & observer., 1898-02-08
CHICAGO, Feb. Z.
Opening. Clos n g

UA@C 0uoGaGions went az tOIIUWS' o,o,
Flour ste 6y. Wneat, No. epvtng 9'aSJ;
No. i srrins t0as4; Nc z red. 9sa9S4. Corn.
, o. 2, 27t. Oats, No. 2 2it al4N 20 Will
{ O h ~ a9Y No. 3 whit I 0 U 21A 025K. Rye.
:ho !, -. FLAX ptpsi Vol. 81 24k al f09. .Prime
Tlnoothy seed e., ,Cat S2H. Mess pork DcT bbl
$40. OalO 81. Laco per . lhs S4.92A aa9i. short
rib sid ss iIoose) e. UG5; IS Drs -sAICe6 ehou-
dsrs ,Uoxed, '&SBh Short clear slices (boSeO
sb2pa5,S5. WhlsEey, dIsrilers' finished goods
Dsr gallon 2I.ISa.
The news & observer., 1898-02-08
RALEIGH COTTON.
NEW YORK MONEY.
RALEIGH, N. G.,

NEW YORK Fepruary 7.-Money on ca |
eesy. at Upper cent, Imst loan 1k per
eo,iI' clotiDg at per cent. Prime
mercantile paper 3at per cent Sterling
.nnsng. IL st.ong, with actuel busi
sesa fn ba ak .es' ss.,tB at 4.s5k ,9.Sj% for de-
mand. aud Ii3l48jA for sixty days. Post
rates sol af.S. commercial bills s2a4.ssA.
uaIus cert ficn.es b6S a57A. Bar slvt r 56A
Garican doIiaTa ~. cover nent hcu6s
sir1rg. tate bonds DUH. ilr ad bonds
The news & observer., 1898-02-08
TRAINS LEAVE RALEIG
PIG A. NJ. DAILY.

ATLANTA Special Pullman vestibuIe
for Henderson, Weldon, Petersburg,
Richmond, Washington, Baltimore, Phil
adelphia, New York, and all points
north Buffet drawing-room sleepers
and Pullman coaches Atlanta to Wash
ington, parlor cars Washington to New
York, Pullman sleeping car, Chester, S.
c., Portsmouth. Arrives at Washington
10:45 a. m, Baltimore II noon, Phila-
delphia 2:12 p. m., New York 4:52 p.
m. Also for Portsmouth, Norfolk, Old
Point and local stations Seaboard and
Roanoke railroad.
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epot c1tton closed quiet: middling upland
9 l-.6: middling gulf l6. sales alb la es.
H4frVrY nnT
NEW ORLEANS
LIVERPOOL.

q LIVERPOOL. Feb. T.--4:s0 f. M.-Spot COT
ton. good bu1ne.s g done Tr'ces higher: &uer-
lean mid Ting fair 2 2lazd: good middling
s-32d; good ordinary zIo.itd.; ordinary
z .-3zd.
aies Of the day were IA 100 hales, OF which
loo we're Ior speculation ana exl ort and
included Ii zoo American: recefpta Is'UCO
bales, ipclu ing e,30O American
Futures opened STACY with N )derate de
mand and G osed barely ST. ady.
The news & observer., 1898-02-08
Sale Of House and Lot in Garner. n. c.

By virtue of power conferred in two
mortgage deeds, recorded in registry OF
and book No. ia. at page so8, | win on
Monday, February 28, at u o'clock m. offer
for sale to the highest bidder, TOR cash, at
the court house door in the city of Raleigh,
certain house and lot in Garner, G.,
bounded as follows: Beginning at a stake
in the middle of the North Carolina Rail-
road, near the western line of said town,
feet to stake, thence N. 81 deg, II. 479
feet to stone corner, thenceN. 63 deg, w.
1r5 feet to stake on wash near bridge,
thence to the beginning containing about
two acres, except the right Of way of said
railroad and kL own as the Richard Johh-
son place. b. Il. MONTAGUE,
MortageeA
Raleigh, N. O., Jan, q, i80s. \
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grOCKs AND BONDS.

New York, Feb. 7.Today's market
for stocks suffered from the burden of
realizing sales. and from bear pressure
due 10 the recrudescenre OF me 0llban
scnre. Tl,ere were special elements of
The news & observer., 1898-02-08
1875 A. N. DAILY.

For Henderson, Weldon, Suffolk
Portsmouth, Norfolk and intermediate
stations connects at Portsmouth with
Bay Line for Old Point and Baltimore
with Norfolk and Washington Steam
boat company for Washington; with n.
Y. 2. and n. railroad for Philadelphia
and points north; also at Weldon, with
Atlantic Coast Line for Richmond,
Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia
and New York, and with Scotland
Neck Branch for Greenville, Washing
ton and Plymouth.
Pullman sleeping car Atlanta to Ports
mouth
The news & observer., 1898-02-08
.oCAr sTooK MARKKT
GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Chicago, Ills, Feb. THE influence
which the Letter interests have in
wheat trading was well Illustrated today
The news & observer., 1898-02-08
LiHER MARKETS.

Galveston, firm. 6f. s eos bales
Norfolk, stea y, ~. 2.lS0 ralos.
Baltimore, nominal. o% . 0ales-
Boston steady. 5 I5-l6, 335 nsiee
Wilmington, firm. 7.lb, 3ie bales.
PniladeI pD1a. nm. o 5 10, 3t6 bales.
Savannah, steady, o 10, 2,t4 rates,
New Orleans, stea y, IN. 1855 oaies.
Mobile, firm bx. 3,7oI bates.
Memphis. 1irm, M. o,7Ss bales.
Augusta, firm. 5&. Bio b .lee
Charleston, firm 6 g. q, l.3O6 bates
Cincinnatt, quiet, firm, bH. c3i bales.
Louisville. n IN, l-Io bales
st. Louis, firm, 7ls, 2jt hsies-
Houston. steady, on. g. ll9 bales.
New York. quiet, q lao. 42O bsies.
The news & observer., 1898-02-08
KANSAS PACIFIC HEAVY
THE POSTPONENIENr or SALE A
BEAR FEATURE.
SOME SPEClALTlES SCORED GAINS
Broadening speculation in Cotton and Scared
Shorts The Staple Closed Steady With
Six Points Net GaIn.-Leiter Influence
Sustained Weak Wheat.
Sustained Weak Wheat.

New York, Feb THE opening ol
trade in the dry goods field was fea-
tureless to-day, hut generally arlspicious
There was q fair percentage of buyers
and they seemed to take hold of goods
at second hand with considerable VIM
Jobbers, in fact, have had less cause
TO complain since the first of the year.
The extent of trading an the jobbing
houses has steadiIy TncreaseG. Iieports
sS-.ay from out of town jobbing and
final markets have been of fair business
an all lines. Scasonable goods are in
steady demand and replenishment of
stocks is becoming necessary day by
day. At first hands the market is firm,
hut without feature. Buying is ire
Sular. In cotton goods the orders have
neen urgent i'm many cases, and fairly
numerous. But they are for small
amounts. and not calculated to fortify
sellers. Print cloths are unchanged at
3 3-16 cents for sixty four square
extras.
COTTON.
New York. Feb 7.-To-day's trans
actions in cotton futures reached 2J5,-
600 bales, this being the heaviest for
several months past, and representing
broadening speculation and ALSO alarm
on the part of shorts. Prices at the
best point showed an advance of s to 10
points on the more active positions.
Liquidation caused a partial recession,
but the market closed at a net gain of
six to seven points, and steady in tone.
The rise originated in strong cables
public and private from Grea Britain
and the continent, chiefly from Liver
pool and London. The spot saleS in
the English market reached 14,000 bales
and private cables said that conditions
at Manchester We're broadening. AT
the same time the movement of cotton
at the ports was not up to the claims
made 10y the bears and forecasts from
the Southern points of accumulation IA
vor the idea of moderate movement.
Southern spot markets We're reported to
be generally active with American and
foreign spinners competing for supplies
Exports show q continued tendency ia
orer-run receipts and spot holders are
showing an arbitrary relation to the
market. Further accounts from Fail
River indicate an upward tendency on
print cloths and accounts from the dry
goods centres are also of encouraging
purport.
Nrw YQpu Feh p Fufrarar anarof9
The news & observer., 1898-02-08
The ''3 Days" Cure

for men. prompt ana permanent cure
in all cases. BY mail, plain wrapper
Price 80 cents. The SO Days" Cure Co.
716 18th Street N. W., Washington
d. @. 1-12-1 m
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2:16 A. NJ. DAILY.

ATLANTA Special Pullman Vestibule
for Southern Pines, Hamlet, Whining
ton, Monroe, Charlotte, Lincolnton,
Shelby, Chester, Clinton, Greenwood,
Abbeyille, Athens, Atlanta, Augusta, Co
lumbfa. Macon Montgomery, Mobile,
New Orleans, Chattanooga, Nashville,
Memphis and all points south and south
west, through Pullman Buffet sleepers
and day coaches Washington and Attain
to, connecting directly at Union depot,
Atlanta, with diverging lines; also Pull
man sleeping car Portsmouth to Chester,
s. G..
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2.24 2. NJ DAILY.

For Wilmington, Charlotte, Clinton,
Greenwood, Athens, Atlanta, and all
intermediate stations. Connects at
Union station Atlanta, with diverging
lines. Pullman sleeping car Portsmouth
to Atlanta.
The news & observer., 1898-02-08
Big Money Made
600 to 400 Per Cent.
In Grain and Stocks

$4,000 invested in Grain or Stocks
by our SAFETY METHOD, will pay
81 100000 in the next NINETY DAYS,
never was there such an opportunity
offered in speculation, to make large
profits in GRAIN and STOCKS, and
with our SAFETY METHOD you are
compelled to win and make handsome
profit, as wheat will be selling before
MAY at $1.25, and stocks will advance.
Write for particulars and take advan-
tage of a good chance to make money.
Our SAFETY METHOD is a sure win
nor
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-04-30

With this resignation Mr.. Shermar
retires from public life after a servica
of over forty years, embracing the
house of representatives, the United
States senate, the secretaryship of the
treasury and the secretaryship of state
The a for the resignation is the
condition of the s~ecretary's health,
which is now impaired as the result Of
years of devotion to the public services
and the arduous labors of a lifetime,
added to age, the venerable secretary
now being within a few days of IS
years.
The secretaryis resignation was ten
dered in a simple note rendering to the
president the portfolio intrusted to
him upon the inaugural on of Presi-
dent Mckinley, and asking that it take
effect Immediately.
The secretary was seen by a press
representative before he vent to the
cabinet meeting, but he declined to
make any statement beyond saying
that he was, carrying with him his res
ignation.
While no definite announcement can
be made at this time as to who will
succeed Mr.. Sherman, it is understood
that the next secretary of state will be
Mr.. William R Day, at present first as
sistant secretary of state.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-04-30
Many Miles of Soldiers.

A German military critic has been
adding up the grand total of the CONT
mental armies, and, after noting that We
can form only a vague idea of what is
meant by tens Of millions, he tries to
bring home to his readers in another
way the colossal growth OF modern
ornaments. If, he says, we could have
all the armies of the continent on a war
footing and drawn up in n long pro-
cession, with their guns and ammuni.
ton and baggage wagons, the column
would be rather more than $4,000 miles
long. and, marching day and night, II
would take nearly 8 year to passa gsTea
point.1Golden DayA
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-04-30
THE AMERICAN COAST LINE.
It Is Nearly 5000 Miles LonG-Ths
Work of Surveying 1t Begun
Under Jefferson.

In q message to congress in 1907
Thomas Jefferson, then president of the
United States, recommended the survey
ing of the Atlantic coast line of the
country with a view to its adequate de-
tense and also to the establishment of
guides and safeguards to navigation.
Congress adopted the recommendation
of the president and made an appro-
priation of $4,000 for the purpose, the
direction of the matter being put into
the hands of the secretary of the treas
ury, at that time Albert Gallatin, who
communicated the views of the admins
tration to 1.-The scientific men of the
country" in a circular distributed in
New York, Boston and Philadelphia
chiefly. The plan adopted was to ascer-
tain the positions of certain prominent
points on the Atlantic coast by astro-
nomical observations and to connect
these by trigonometrical lines.
The chief of the coast survey was a
native of Switzerland, and the work
went on under his direction with occa-
siosal Interruptions caused by changes
vi u 1870 hLNl ~
died. The work at hat time had beer
finished from Point Judith, opposite
Block Island, to Cape Henlopen, in Della
ware. Since then the work has been
prosecuted actively, but meanwhile it
has been increased, particularly since
the concession of territory on the Pacific
from Mexico. This coast line of the
country is now, according to the report
just completed, nearly 5000 miles, the
land frontage of the country on the
Canada and on the Mexican border lines
being only 4,SS0 miles. The details of
the American coast line are as follows:
Sis miles, embracing 2,349 miles on the
Atlantic ocean, .556 on the Gulf of
Mexico, and 1,S1O on the Pacific ocean.
1t is an established proposition
among authorities in naval warfare
that the naval strength of a government
would be proportional to its coastline.
The rule may be said to prevail pretty
generally, though Russia, which has
relatively a small coast line On the Black
sea and on the Baltic, has a large navy,
and Norway andSweden, which have an
enormous coastline, larger in proper
ton than any other countries of Europe,
have very few warships. The coastline
of the United States is really as nearly
long as the distance from New York to
Liverpool and return by the ordinary
course of steamship travel, and its pro-
lection against any possible attack has
of recent years secured more attention
han was the case before the recon-
struction or more practically the con-
struction of the present American navy
N. Y. Sun.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-04-30
OUR YANKEE TARS.
American Sailors Have the Creates,
Record ms Fighters on
the Sea.

Oneof the first productions the Amer,
lean republic was proud of was the
American sailor, or, as he was affec-
tionately called, the Yankee tar" 1t
was q very small navy that was set
afloat by the revolted colonies in the
revolution to contend with the greatest
naval power in the world, but it made
a great record for sailing and fighting.
Our navy has already written a brave
story on the pages of Jul history. In
face of our own declarations to the con
trary, we have always, when the emer.
gency came, had ready within the nee.
essary period the ships and the sailors.
1t has been our habit for a very long
time to assert our inferiority, but there
has always been a stanch craft to carry
the American flag to any point of the
earth's surface where honor or duty re.
quired it to go, and to keep it flying in
honor after it got there.
The United States has a great inland
population, dwelling remote from the
ocean and its commerce and it's life,
out the American. Is never a landlubber
lie takes to the sea on occasion wher.
ever he may have been reared, Just as in
war times he shows a genius for the ar.
tillery. In his country there are lakes
on which navies may perform their evo-
lutions, and rivers where steam fleets
may meet. On Lake Champlain the
Yankee tar kept up a fire which old
English sailors said they had seen
equaled only in Nelson's great fight at
Copenhagen.
1t has been the popular belief that our
sailors were recruited from foreign
countries, hat the Yankee tar, strictly
speaking, did not exist, but this is one
of the numerous mistakes we have
made about ourselves. 1t was in 1896
that the nativity of the sailors of the
American navy was enrolled. In April
of hat year SO per cent. of the whole
enlisted force-7,516 men and appren.
tices-were described as American cit
liens. In 1896 Secretary Herbert re-
ported that ~ per cent. of the enlisted
men were American citizens and So per
cent. of the apprentices were natives OF
the United States.
From these figures it will be seen that
the American navy is more American
than it ever was before. The future
navy is to be Differed and manned from
the apprentices who are natives of our
soil. Every American sailor is the in
heritor of glorious traditions. Every
generation of American sailors Asa
proved worthy of its predecessors
Kansas City Star.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-04-30
SCORE AND TALLY.
Something About the Survival of an
Old Custom Among the French
Peasantry.

To keep score and to keep tally are
common enough phrases, but few of
the ardent boys and girls who keep the
score of an exciting game of baseball
and afterward compare score cards to
see if their records tally have any idea
whence these two words are derived.
Originally they were exact synonyms;
n score being a scar or notch upon a
tally stick, while tally comes directly
from the French taller, to cut, whittle
or notch. The use of tally sticks, one
would think. must belong either to re-
mote antiquity or to regions beyond
civilization and its accompanying
school arithmetics; yet such is by no
means the case. That it still survives
in rural France is attested by a writer
in n recent English magazine.
Sitting among a group of blue
bloused peasants before the fireplace of
a country inn, the landlady of which
also conducted the village bakery, he
noticed hanging from the mantel two
great bundles of sticks. Examining
them, he found that each rod vas about
IS inches in length and was split up
more than three quarters of its length,
the split portion being covered with
notches, while upon the handle was in
scribed n name. The mistress of the
inn observed him pulling over these
mysterious objects and, coming to his
side, good-naturedly explained that
they were ~tallies, and that all the bak-
o,-r- onaprnfc Of tho hnrSo u-ora Hant in
that manner
Every customer was provided with
a hazel stick split through the greater
part of its length and with his name
written on the handle. The split-off
piece of wood was retained by the GUS
toner; the principal stick by the baker.
When the customer desired a loaf or
two he came to the shop with his stick.
1t was placed in connection with the
piece from which it had been originally
taken and then with 4 knife a notcl
was cut at the point of contact on each
side, so as to mark both pieces of wood.
When one side has been thus scored
full the score was carried to the other
junction. AS oGn as the account was
paid the tally stick was thrust into the
fire"
The visitor carried away a tally as a
curiosity, but on showing it at home
was surprised to learn that n farmers
wife in his own neighborhood kept her
accounts for butter and milk on a
notched stick. She did not, however,
employ the checking system of the
split-off piece-a system which, simple
and old-fashioned as it is, renders falsi-
f~ication on either side impossible.
Records of elections were kept on
tally sticks until 1896 in the English
house of commons, and an overheated
stove in which useless and discarded tai
lies were being burned, in 1884, started a
confagration which destroyed both
houses of MISUNDERSTANDING Dis
ratch.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-04-30

tinue to be placid and enjoy good
health, and your associates will ruin
their tempers and get wrinkles around
the eyes. But that needn't worry you.
Look at the noble specimens of man
hood who have permitted their wives
to worry themselves into middle-age
graves. Did these men ever fuss ana
fret? Certainly not. That's why
they're alive and happy to-day. So
don't worry. If you have any worry,
shift it to your wife or your business
partner. That is what Mr.. Robbins did.
He had read about the Don't Worry"
philosophy, and on the very day he
adopted it a concern that owed his firm
a large sum of money failed dismally.
The partner came in with the news, and
the cold perspiration was beaded on his
forehead.
This is horrible, Jim he sa1d.
''Whatare we going to do when all these
drafts come in next month";"
81 don't KNOW" said Robbins, with
a peaceful smile, but don't worry"
Great Scott! Are you an idiot?
Somebody has to worry. What are we
going to do?"
Tell our lawyers to get what they
can. Next month, if we have collected
enough money, We will pay the drafts.
If not, we will not pay the drafts. The
situation is charmingly simple-noth-
ing complicated about it at all. At any
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-04-30
SCHOOL. AND CEURCH.

The Y. NJ. C. A., of Richmond, Va,
recently celebrated its forty-fourth an
niversary.
Ferdinand Brunetiere, who recently
lectured at Harvard, says that Catholi-
cism is France and France is Catholi-
cism.
Mr.. Messer, Y. NJ. C. a. secretary of
Chicago. will attend the worlds confer
ence at Basic, Switzerland, his expenses
to be paid by the association.
Rev. William Brush, one of the oldest
ministers in the Dutch Reformed
church in the United States, recently
died at Morristown, y. j., at the age of
50 years.
Word has reached us that a Christian
Endeavor society has been started by
Presbyterian missionaries at Dawson
City, and is in a tiOurishing condition.
The first service was attended by so per-
sons, and the collection, mostly in gold,
amounted to $40.
Last year the Society for the Propa-
CATION of Christian knowledge ICON
nected with the Church of England) is
sued 145,2O5 Bibles, 22,995 Testaments,
324,426 Books of Common Prayer and
S,5SS,962 other books, nearly 3,500,000
tracts, the total amounting to more
than 10, 200, 600.
The representative of the American
Bible society in Mexico reports that
many of the poor people after hearing
a chapter of the Bible read will make
any sacrifice to obtain a copy. Ifthey
have 10 money they offer 4 rosary, a
crucifiX. pictures of saints, the sandals
off their feet, eggs, firewood-anything
in their poor possession in exchange for
a copy of the Book of God as they call
it."