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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-06
SILVER.

BradStreetS-
A fractional advance, followed by a
fractional decline, is all that there is to
record concerning the course of this
weeks silver market. The tone in New
York was apparently little stronger
than that of the London market, al
though in both cases prices are gov
erned entirely by supply and demand.
According to the foreign cables the
Eastern purchasing is limited, and it is
noted that shipments from Europe to
the East since January l are somewhat
smaller than for the same period last
year.
Silver Prices-London: February %,
27Bc; February n, 273sc; February IS,
27ssd; March ], 27Rd; March 2,
q 7-16d; March 3, p 7-16d. New York:
February 25, 595sc; February q, $3.50;
February %, $3.50; March l, 59Ac;
March 2, 59Ac; March 8, 59Ac.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-06
Articles.

Flour quiet; winter patents So 700
8 80; straights SO 1908 so; clears SO 20
as 80: spring specials 81 20; patent
So 4O@3 70; straights So 00@3 20.
Wheat, No. spring 6S471c; No. 8
spring 64@70c; No. 2 red 73c.
Corn, No. 2 351a@35%c; No. yellow
35h@36c.
Oats, No. 2 f. o. b. CSC; No. white
f. O. b. 30@31Ac; No. white f. o. b.
30@30Nc.
Rye, No. sic.
Barley, No. 2 42@50c.
Flaxseed, No. 1 81 1901 1872.
Timothy seed, prime 81 40
Mess pork, per bbl., 50 1909 20.
Lard, per 100 lbs, IS 221k@5 %.
Short ribs sides Ooose) 81 50@4 70.
Dry sailed shoulders (boxed) 40
4asc.
Short clear sides (boxed) 81 90@5 90.
Whisky, distillers' finished goods, per
gallon 81 &c.
Sugars, cutloaf 51Oc; granulated
5.20c.
Butter steady; creameries 1920;
diaries 111a@17c.
Eggs firm; fresh zoe.
Cheese steady; creams 9% @10Rc.
New YORK, Marcn 4.-FlOur very Gull
and rather weak; winter patents So $50
4 90; winter straights SO 55@3 IS: Min
nesota patents So 1904 20: winter ex-
tras 81 500 265; Minnesota bakers IS 10
@3 10; winter low grades 50 1902 65.
Corn meal easy; yellow western SAG
S5c.
Rye dull; No western 671ac f. o. b.
afioat.
Barley malt quiet; western 60@70c.
Wheat, spot dull: No. 2 red 85c f. O. b.
afloat for SPOT; options ruled weak all
the morning. Besides liquidation,
prompted by weak cables, short wheat
was mt nut on prospective bearish sta
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-06

e1lre eonds IS at s. wanted. May
kinds of goods will only Ne sold ahead
at value. as agents refuse TO name =
price. Finished cottons have not adj
vanced much in price compared with
the makeup in the gray cloths. but
prices are being forced up quietly.
Printed fabrics are selling well, piques
being in excellent demand, while ging-
hams are in a strong position, with
staples quoted about II cent higher.
Fancy ginghams are in excellent shape.
Dress woolens are steady, with manu-
facturers fairly employed. Mems wear
woolens are steady and meeting with
fair fall orders, but the market lacks
snap.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-06

New York, March 4. Commercial
Advertisers London financial cable
!. { am:
The stock market here was more ac-
tive to-day and the one was good
Americans were quiet, but hard, above
parity, closing at the best The feat
ures were Ontarios, Milwaukees, Cen
trail Pacifics and Louisvilles.
OF gold $4,000 pounds worth was
bought, 5000 pounds worth being for
Australia.
There is a good demand from Ger
many for gold at IT'S 9Ad.
New York, March 4.-Money on call
easier at 2@2k per cent; last loan at
21s per cent. Prime mercantile paper
$685. per cent Sterling exchange
steady, with actual business in bank
ers' bills at S4.85k@4S5A for demand
and at $4.S31a @4.S3A for sixty days;
posted rates $4.S41a@4.S5 and s4.S612W
4.87; commercial bills at S4S3
Silver certificates normally $40
607sc.
Bar silver, 591ac.
Mexican dollars, 4712c.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-06
INITIAL.

New York, March 4.-The metal ex-
change issued no report to-day. The
brokers price for lead is s4 10 and for
copper SIS co.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-06
IMPORT AND EXPORT TRADE.

New York, March 4.-The imports Of
dry goods and general merchandise at
the port Of New York for this week
were valued at S11, 1913, SGT. The i'm
ports of specie this week ending Sat
urday were:
Gold $20,790; silver, $27,901.
The exports of specie for the week
ending Saturday were:
Gold $174,924; silver, S996,098.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-06

sunday trains between Uhrichsvflle ana
Cleveland. See official time cards Other
trains daily except Sunday
Electric cars between Bridgeport and
wheeling, and Bridgeport and Martina
Ferry and Bellaire.
Consult agents for general information
as to best routes and passenger rates 70
all points.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-06
DRY GOODS.

Bradstreets.
The Boston market for cotton fabrics
shows great strength, and the tendency
is higher. Gray goods continue very
firm, are closely sold up for near future
delivery. and buyers are unabls1to Sc
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-06

Daily: except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping or Parlor Cars on all
through trains.
T c. BURKE.
city Passenger and Ticket Agent, Wheel
ing Agent for all Steamship Lines.
F. Is, UNDERWOOD, D. b. MARTIN, !
General Manager. Mgr Pass, Traffic.
Baltimore.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-06

Leave. Arrive
From Wheeling 10 a. m 2. m.
Grafton and Cumberland. @E:G S:ae
Washington and Baltlmore.I .1z:2j sS:20
Philadelphia and New York. 1875 SD
y. IN
Plttsburg and Cumberland. '5:25 I'll 90
washington and Baltimore. '5E 'l:2G
Philadelphia and New York SIS %1:5G
Grafton and Cumberland. 100 3.I
washington pa and Pitts 7:i5i GO.
a. m.
GAINESVILLE and Newark. $50. '7:35i III
Columbus and Ch.cago..... 1885 "iE
p. IN.
GAINESVILLE and Columbus. 1000 5:Is
Cincinnati and st. Louis. 1000 SIS
Grafton ana Cumberland. 1910 %
Washington and Baltimore. 1850 -n:to
p. m a. III.
washington CPa) and Pitts. .2:sl 1:i6
Philadelphia and New York .Z:4I 1000
GAINESVILLE ard Newark...... Bib 'ii:f0
Columbus and Chicago. Bis sli:b
Grafton and Cumberland. s4:Bl 1922
Washington and Baltimore. '4:f5
Pltts5urg and Cumberland. 5;0 700
Washington and Baltimore. go 1000
Philadelphia and New York, 5.zt 1922
GAINESVILLE and Golumbus...-l -u:fH 80
Cincinnati and ST. Louis....-l Ito, 80
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-06

NORTHWEST SYSTEM-CLEVELA &
PTTTSBURG DIVISION
Trains Run Daily. Except Sunday. as Fol-
lows:
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-06
O. z. OHIO , a'1ss CO.
Cars will run as follows, city time
WI Z, Ell ING TO ELM GROVE

Time Table Taking Effect February Il.
1899.
Leave $50 a. m. ELECTROMAGNETIC
for Moundsville, ClarinGton, New Mar
t:nsville Sistersville, St. Marys, WAY
eriy, Williamstown, Parkersburg, and
intermediate points.
Leave 7:4O d. m. Except Sunday(-Fast
Express for Moundsville, New Martins
Vile SistersVile. Williamstown, Park
ersburg Ravenswood, Wildwood. Mason
City. Pt. Pleasant, Gallipolis, Hunting
tom Kenova. Charleston, Cincinnati.
Louisville. and all points South, East
and West Parlor car 70 l<enova.
Leave 1l:10 a. m Daily-Express for
Moundsville. Powhatan, Darlington
Proctor New Martinsville, Sardis, Sis
tersville Friendly St Marys, Waverly
Wiliamstown. Parkersburg, Ravens
wood, Mason City, PIT Pleasant, CALI
polls Huntington, Kenova, Charleston,
Ashland Russell, Ironton. and interme-
date points south Of ParlSersburg. Par
lor car to ParkersburS.
Leave 4:15 p. m. Daiiy-Accommodation
for Moundsville Darlington. New Mar
tinsville Sistersville, St Marys Wav-
erly. Williamstown, Parkersburg, and
intermediate. points.
Leaves Wheeling Il :25 a. m. Sundays.
LATE LIE MAY,
CITY Passenger Agent, 1900 Market street
]. G. TOML1NSON.
Ticket Agent Union Station.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-16
The Historic Two Thirds Rule.

When the slave states and the free states
were divided by the Mason and Dixon line
lang ago forgotten-the two-thirds rule was
adopted in the democratic national con-
ventlons. This was done in 1892, in Jack
sons day; and the practice has never been
deviated from, except in the stormy days
of 1860, when Douglas and breckenridge
were both placed in nomination by rival
conventions, neither receiving a two-thirds
vote of all delegates. Down to the present
time the rule has, with that sole disastrous
exception, been observed.
1t cannot fairly be said that the disaster
of 1860 was due to the non-observance of
the two-thirds rule. War between
the sections actually existed at the time,
although it did not take the form of armed
bodies until the following spring. All the
probability, have averted the struggle that
followed.
The rule was in jeopardy in 1896, and if a
delegation from Michigan had not been
unseated, it would have been abolished,
and the value of precedent at least i'm
paired. The fact is, there is no longer any
reason why it should be retained 1t yio-
lates the foundation principle of this gov
ernment--the rule of the majority. 1t, too,
involves an absurdity. A majority can
frame a platform, but a majority cannot
name a man to run upon that platform.
The vote that makes a declaration of prin-
ciples should certainly be permitted to
name the man who is to stand for those
principles. For example, it is conceded
that Mr.. Bryans friends and supporters
will be able to frame the platform of 1900;
no one can intelligently dispute this propo-
sition, but it is claimed that the eastern
democrats will be able under the historic
rule to prevent his denomination. Such a
situation is absurd, and there is no reason
why it should be possible.
True, the rule has age and precedent in
its favor; true, too, 1T has heretofore OPP
Grated to prevent the nomination of fac
tonal candidates, and to promote the nam
ing of men who are Enthusiastically the
choice of the party; but after all the vii
of the majority is the true touchstone in
republican government, and candidate
who can command that is entitled to and
should have, the nomination.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-16
Weekly


And yet consumption has not been even
approached for furnace stocks which stood
last February at 4G2 90i tons had been e.
duced on July to 1863, 1886 tons. The stocks
of warrant iron have been decreased from
1875 200 tons in February to $4,000 tons on
July 1. All stocks do not now much ex-
coed a single weeks consumption.
The Iron Age in discussing the market
does not hesitate to say that an easing of
the situation is not yet in sight The set
Element of the tin plate strike means more
orders in a market that is already over
crowded with them. There are no signs
at any point that the higher prices have
checked consumption. New work and new
enterprises are constantly leading to orders
for The various products of the mills. This
country is sending rails to Russia and ship
plates 10 England, and if the home market
should become less active every bit of sur
plus product could be marketed in other
countries, for all the world is iron
hungry.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-16

an explanation and justification OF south
ern success in small mills The well-man-
aged small mill is today the best invest
ment in the entire circle of cotton manu-
featuring. 1t has been the fashion to cry
down the small mill, and to warn investors
against it, but the small mill is today the
favorite mill of investors. North Carolina
is becoming prosperous through such mills,
and every cotton county in Alabama should
have mill of 10000 spindles or less. The
big mill no longer threatens the little mill.
1t is the well-managed little mill that is
climbing to the top. because it is making
more profit per spindle than its oyergrown
competitor Cheap fuel and constant and
sl1illful supervision in a small mill is better
because more constant and lasting, than
gold mine. Such mill is much more
profitable than the average gold mine.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-16
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
Alabama in the First Half.

The product of pig iron in the first six
months of this year stands at 6.29i. 476 tons.
The American Manufacturer thinks the
production of the entire year will not
vary 100000 tons from 12,50O,O0O tons. 1t
does not think the weekly capacity on July
l will be maintained.
Accepting the estimate of the American
Manufacturer as correct. we see that the
Alabama furnaces must produce 100000
tons in order to maintain their historic per-
centage of ten per cent. of the country's
production. Will they do it? We think
they will. On July l this district had
twenty-five stacks in blast, having a week
ly capacity of 81 SIG tons. These stacks are
now producing iron at the rate of 1,137,OJO
tons a year. At least seven more stacks
will be put in operation by or before Oc-
tober L. and the indications are therefore
pretty good that the districts percentage
will be maintained, unless the Manufacture
er's estimate of total production in the
country should be largely exceeded. The
maximum weekly capacity of this district
IS just about 25,OG0 tons. and if more ne
expected or wanted more furnaces must be
built. a new up-to-date five hundred-ton
furnace is greatly wanted here today, and
the need of it may be still greater next
year. If so, it will assuredly be forthcom-
iuo
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-16
The TransvaaI Trouble.

President Kruger-Oom Paul, as he is
popularity called-is virtually a dictator in
the Transvaal republic, and so in discussing
its affairs we will not go far astray if we
speak of him alone. He is not inclined to
treat Englishmen and English capital
within the limits of his country fairly, al
though they have made johannesburg
busy prosperous city, and have brought
prosperity to every other part of the re-
public. Excessive taxes are imposed, and
all sorts of limitations put upon participa-
ton even in the lesser departments of local
government Englishmen are asked to
pay excessive taxes, and are given no voice
in the expenditure of those taxes. Citizen
ship has been denied them.
The tax on dynamite needed in large
quantities in the deep quartz mines of the
gold district, Is prominent trouble. A
syndicate of Dutchmen controls the supply
though 4 duty imposed by Kruger, and the
syndicates' prices are not cqualed even by
those of American trusts. The purpose Is
said to be to compel English mining COM
pants to sell out to Beers or Hoanders.
AS there are about eighty great English
companies engaged in gold mining, it Is
plain the plan of President Kruger is far
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-16
ze)3,oea>
FAMINE PAPER MONEY

n. Y. Letter in Chicago Tribune.
With all the wealth in this great city,
which contains banks by the hundreds, a
famine in paper money has struck 1t, and
that pleasing commodity is scarcer than it
has been in years. Gold and silver is plen-
tiful-the banks have plenty-but on all
sides there is dearth of greenbacks hard
TO account for.
Many banks are unable to meet the de-
mand of their customers, and when men
who work all over the city are paid off at
the end of the week, an unusual amount of
hard coin will pass into circula ton. The
paper money is somewhere and plenty of it,
too for $l,l00 100000 of it, with the excep-
ton of $2O,000,000 held in the United States
treasury, has been issued. Maurice L.
Muhlman, cashier of the sub treasury, this
afternoon declared he could in no way ac-
count for the scarcity of paper money.
Yes it is true there is an unusual scar
city of paper money in this city," Mr.
Iuhlman said. but 1 cannot explain it,
So far as l can learn there is no reason for
this famine. There should be more one,
two, five, ten and twenty dollar bills in cir
certainly must be somewhere. Some cities
must have more than their share, for not q
few Of the city banks are short. No, ! do
not think this famine will be more than
temporary. The paper money must soon
find Its way back here, where SO much of it
Is needed"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-16
BRYAN. the Man and Democrat.

The Ase-Herald presents this morning
interviews with a number of prominent
democrats. discussing the issues brought
about by Senator NIorgan's recent inter-
yiew Each one of these leading democrats
declares that the people Of Alabama are
overwhelmingly in favor OF the renomina
ton of Mr. Bryan. The fact of the matter
is that the democrats of Alabama, as well
as of nearly every other state in the south
and west, are enthusiastic believers in the
democratic platform, upon which Mr..
Bryan was nominated, and in the person.
ality of the man himself.
Mr.. Bryan is one of the few candidates
the democratic party has ever placed be-
fore the people who stood squarely and
honestly by the platform upon which he
was nominated. Mr.. Bryan is man OF
such strength of character, honesty and
purity, that he would not accept the nomi-
nation upon a platform which he could not
endorse II Mr.. Bryan is the next nominee
of the democratic party, and it seems GER
tain that he will be, he will be an enthusi-
astie advocate of every plank in that plat
form, or else he will decline the nominal
ton. Mr.. Bryan is rot man of single
idea. but one Of great breadth of intellect,
and with a strength Of character which
has caused him to be respected and adj
mired by all the people of this land, what
over bo their nolitical views
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-16
REyLEUriONs or BACHELOR
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
Man loves what he is not sure he has got;
woman loves what she is sure she has not
got ~
The only thing that keeps woman from
winning every argument she gets into is
her unwillngness to cry and have red eyes.
The woman who prays for her husband
may not have any better luck than the one
who scolds hers, but she is lot more COM
Portable to live with.
Every woman believes her husband is a
mathemat teal genius until their twelve
year-old boy tackles him and wipes up the
carpet with him.
When a fellow has proposed to a girl and
been turned down, he always has d hang
dog look when he meets her several months
afterwards.
When a man is in love with woman he
Is always wanting to give her something;
the only thing a woman wants TO give the
man she loves is herself.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-16
THE MAKING OF MAN

And the high gods took in hand
Fire, and the falling of tears
And measure of sliding sand
From under the feet of the years,
And froth and drift of the sea-
And dust of the laboring earth;
And bodies of things to be
In the houses of death and of birth;
And wrought with weeping and laughter,
And Fashioned with loathing and love,
With life before and after
And death beneath and above,
For a day and night and a morrow,
That his strength might endure for a span
With travail and heavy sorrow,
The holy spirit of man.
-Swinburne.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-16

reaching. The stock and bonds of these
companies are widely scattered. and con-
fscation even If it be slow and disguised
would prove very damaging in almost every
country.
No one questions President Kruger's ac-
tual rights, and no one claims that the
Jameson raid or other hostile acts of Eng
land should be forgotten; but England cam
not afford to let the process of eonfisca-
ton go on without protest and action. Her
high commissioner, Sir Alfred Miner, is
trying to induce President Kruger to deal
fairly with the Englishmen in his eoun-
try; but it is plain that England is getting
ready to sternly meet a refusal on his part
to treat Englishmen justly. Machine guns
and artillery are going forward, and it has
been stated that there are now 10000 Brit
ish troops in South Africa available for
service. The Beers cannot muster that
number Of troops even if they impress
every man above 16 years of age. The
chief question now relates to the amount
of yielding that President Kruger will do
in the face Of such formidable prepara-
TONS The chances are very coed that,
brave as the Beers are and straight as they
unquestionably shoot, Kruger will endeavor
to minimize the concessions demanded, and
that when he ascertans the minimum, he
will put all thought of another Majuba
Hill aside, and grant the inevitable. He
has plenty of horse sense, and SO have his
advisers. They will not buck a stone wall.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-16
Southern Small Mills INDICATED.

In North Carolina it has long been an
axiom that small cotton mills are the best
dividend earners. and this truth has leaked
as far it seems, as Boston; for the Ameri-
can Wool and Cotton Reporter comedies
that the greatest profit per spindle has
been made by small mills. 1t mentions one
of 5000 spindles which cleared from So to 100
per cent. profit in one year, while mills of
about 10000 spindles have netted their
stockholders handsome percentages.
The tendency in New England has. how
ever, been towards large mills, but practi-
cal mill men, says the Reporter, are be-
ginning to think that very large mills cannot
be operated at the smallest relative cost. A
large mill can sometimes purchase some of
its supplies on slightly better terms, but
many economies can be practiced in 2 small
mill thst ass irnpossible in huge MILL The
once of q small mill, too, can exercise
greater watchfulness over its operations.
'He could" adds the Reporter "attend to
more of the details himself overlooking
them more carefully, and as result there
would be more uniformity and less hap
hazard work throughout the plant" The
Reporter mentions q mill that formerly had
600 spindles, and that was enlarged to a
mill of 275,OOO spindles. Although this mill
has been managed with exceptional skill.
yet its profit per spindle is not as large as
II was when /. contained only 100000 spin
dlcs.
TITS confession of the Reporter is both
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-16
Iron Production and Supply.

Seventeen additional furnaces were put in
blast in the month of June, thus increas-
ing the weekly capacity on July l to the
extent of 1901 tons. The following table
shows at a glance the course of recent
production:
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-16
APPARITIONS

At noon of night, and at the nights end.
Such things have CHANGED to me
AS one, by day, would scarcely tell friend
For fear of mockery.
Shadows, you say! mirages of the brain!
know not; faith, not /!
Is 1t moro strange the dead should waiN
again
Than that the quick should die!
--Thnmas Bailey Adrich.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-16

The Board of Trade has secured three
stars in Senator Morgan, Governor john
ston and Congressman Underwood for its
Gay of celebration on July %. All three
will speak from one platform in Capitol
park,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-16
TWO CITIES TO ZEE PR0Up or

From the Huntsville Mercury.
If Birmingham gets the amor plate plant
and SJuntsviile gets tho hTst blcachery in
the south, Alabama will have reason to
feel proud of these two cities. And the
indications point that way.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-16

The William Smiths outnumber the John
Smiths in the new Boston directory.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-16

The inspired organs are now putting out
the rumor that Senator Morgan will not be
candidate for reelection. The wish is
both parents to the thought.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-16

The New York quarantine officials have
no one in that city is afraid of them. Thus
do science and skill gain victory over the
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-16

The successor of John Hollis Bankhead
will not be selected in the state house at
Montgomery. The counties of the Sixth dis
uict are still doing business at the old
stands.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-16

The Klondike is now recommended as a
superior hair tonic. 1t Is said to put hair
upon the baldest head.