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Grain and Provisions

Chicago. May 12.-Reports of fav-
orabie progress by both domestir and
foreign crops were potent factors in
weakening wheat values today. At the
close the July delivery was down 5-8c.
corn is up Is "a NC. Oats show a gain
OF l-Sc. Provisions closed practically
at last nights final figures.
Opening. Highest Lowest Closing.
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S. A. Il. Stocks and Bonds.

Baltimore May l2-Seaboard Air Linz
common ...."@, preferred l714@5s.
BOnds-is 80.
A. G.. l.. common 1870 ........, preferred
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New Orleans, May i2-Cotton futures quiet
and steady.
Liverpool.

Liverpool, May II, p. INJECTION spot
quiet and......: prices 2di points lower
American IN d ling fair, 772, good middling,
ordinary, 7.26, ordinary 7O6. The sales of the
day 5000, bales OF which 200 were for specu-
lation and export and included 1000 Ameri-
can. Receipts 10000 bales including 1880
American.
Enfures opeued and closed steady
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A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILE,
Itching, Blind,

Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protrud-
ing Piles. Your druggist will re-
fun money if PAZO OINTMENT
fails to cure you in to IA days. soc.
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Having sold my entire interest in the
firm OF Jones q Powell to Mr.. j. A.
Jones, l desire to thank the public for
the liberal support given us for the
past tyenty-six years, and to bespeak
for my successor the same liberal pa
tronage accorded the old firm.
A. NJ. POWELL.
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In confirmation of the above 1 wish
to join in thanks to the public and all
friends for past favors and confidence,
and to request a continuance of the
same and the immediate payment of
all accounts due, which will be the
most practical method of showing
their good WILL
j. A. JONES.
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Dissolution NOTICE.
BROKERS.
Established 1873.

The firm of Jones & Powell is this
day dissolved by mutual consent. Mr..
j. A. Jones assumes all liabilities, and
money due the firm will be paid to
him.
April 30, 1904.
J. A. JONES.
A. NJ. POWELL.
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Other Cotton Markets.
Port. Tone. Mid. Receipt

Raleigh Spot Cotton Market.
Receipts Yesterday 49,. Is bales
Prices yesterday ......131a 0D13 70 C.
Receipts same date last
wear .... 10 bales
Prices same day last
year .1OA Q101Ac.
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il. O'Quinn&CO.
FLORIST GCarnationsa
4 Raleigh, N. 6.

Bouquets and Floral Decorations arranged in
the best style at short notice. Palms, Ferns and
tions.
Spring and Summer Flowering bulbs,
Bedding and Border plants of all kinds.
Rose Bushes, Strawberries, Evergreens
and Shade Trees, Vegetable Plants of all
kinds In season.
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Limit of Tickets


December 1904 will be sold daily
to Louis and
o
25,
o
Sleeping Dining change between
an
H. L. 7. p. A, III. p. & A.
N. N. c.
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Worlds Fair Rates
Seaboard Air Line Railway
TO ST. LOUIS. MO. AND RETURN.

On of the
Richmond the
c. L.
Mo a all stations
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April 29th, 1904.
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the colonial service only siicl, men as
appear from their general education TO
be suitable persons TO place In charge
of the interests OF thousands OF natives
or tile various colonies and dependence OF
the great powers
At the preAterit time 1t Is only In very
few instances that man can enter the
colonial service OF England France or
Holland without having first submitted
himself to n very scNsk:e educational
test. The object OF these tests Is not
30 much to insure that the candidate
Inns II competent knowledge Of Greek and
Latin, sanskrit and Chinese mathematics
and natural history, as to- make II ccr-
tain that tho applicant has Il mentality
al Once strong and receptive; that his
education has l,ee,,ifs,,ch as to fatniliarlze
him with the history and achievements
OF various nations and to develop within
him liberal spirit and wide tolerance
OF customs and manners differing greatly
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SERVANTS OF BRITISH RESIDENTS or MALAY STATES

Builders, without realizing that tllere
is no finer career, none fill 4 OF greater
possibilities than that Of a colonial ad-- n n
&ministrat or. 81 al ss NJ s5s ss Phi
We're the guiding genius OF colonial Sad- II
sminlstration to address the youth setting
out OH his career, we may Imagine hen.
saying: $50 to the man with whom
you have to deal learn his language,
study his habits, enter into his Is life$
understand his superstitions, rejoice with
him. mourn with him, hear his sick
respect his dead. stand by his side in
work and in play, In health and in sick
ness. And when you have taught the.
native that you are not with him to-
make money out OF him, to weanst him
from his gods, to Cypress him or to Ill ~
use him. and when. he has taught yollE
tosundcrstand the strange workings OF
his heart, to sympathizc9 with the ever.
present struggle within him Of strong
emotions and a weak vii You, vii l3$srlea Z
that reward which cannot be m eastycas
by any standard the knowledge thai t AS
a ma NJ You have gone out into the vast
places Of the earth and done m q MS
work,''---( Copyright, 1904. by the Boston
Herald Com pany } III Isl VI.
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the keen delight OF physical accomplish,
ment whether It be In tile building Of
bridges, the construction OF ships or
The erection OF great edifces. presents a
moro compelling Fascination. To another
everything is lost In the desire TO Sbeauti--.
fy55ifc. to give TO those whose work
brings them Into contact with the harsh
realizes OF the animate and inanimate
universe the consultations OF literature.
art aud music.
But surely no career presents a fascl-
nation comparable to that Of a colonial
administrator. such n career lninisi Sr T.
10 all the stronger and nobler instincts
OF the mind It means at tbs. Very lea s.
travel and sea. contact with strange
face. and varied civilizations thc.vi VI
#uf 1saturc in her more prodigal and and
y daring aspects. II meant these things
INJURIES ago when Cortes faced It'll
4 Aztec palaces Of Mexico, whcnta Ralelsf
sc t. out To fird Ell Dorado in the jnngi!ee:s
OF South America. when Dutch anu eng 8
.l.sff cut each Others tjiioars In thassa,"c
groves OF the Mollccas. when the $French. s
man Duplex was all but Emperor = 5e q
southern India. e
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THE MODERN COLONIAL ADMINISTRATOR


.bIlan, and the resident OF Pahang. Tho
picture was takenTin july 1903. Up to
the day on Which It was taken these
men had never been together in one
place; they will never be together in ono
place again. One OF them, Sir Frank
swettenham. K, G. NJ. q. dhird from tho Z
left in the picture) has completed thirty
three years in the colonial service and
has retired to enjoy a handsome pension
and a well-earned rest. The gentleman
on his left liz now governor Of the Gold
Coast In Africa, and the gentleman on
his left Is now high commissioner of
southern Nigeria in Africa
One Of the greatest contributions mud
by Mr.. ltudyur1 kiplng to our, knowledgss
OF The world and It's people Is his treat
ment OF the Indian and colonial civil SER.
want as material for literary nrtE.e III !
ton. It is Impossible to read stories
like n,l'lle Tomb Of His estors,
liam tho Conqueror. and The Bridse
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cess In Wall Street. It requires indivld-
sunlitys OF thought, cool conserya tive juds-s
5mcnt. honesty. and coura &c. me man
who has good business brains. VINO re-
les upon his own Judgment, and VINO as
regards the rumorS which are sprung to
affect the stock market, has a good field
hero foralis brains and money. such men
go slowEuntil they understand something
( Of tho market, but they are almost all
ways successful" x
,.But do they last Mr.: clews? Do
4 they las t?'' " II 8 ss fF3.5
..Yes Men Of that class usually anass
fortunes and retire. The life of the
Street is a. strenuous life, and ono which
demands all the energy o young blood
Most brokers retire before they reach
three score--vcry few last until three
score and ten. They, take heir fortunes
and put them%into good Interest bearing
Investments and nfter4thats speculate only
on the sure things in The market. :
How Old Stagers Make Money.
s g did not know that any stock was
absolutely sure, Mr. Clews, said l.
Perhaps not absolutely sure, slepled
sthcgiVall Street broker, There Is nothing
absolutely sure but death and taxes: but
there are some stock almost rs safe as
government bonds and thege rise or fall
ut any great fluctuatlpn OF the mar
kct. These rich old stasGrs know what
these securities are and watch them.
they let their dividends accumulate at
the bank and, whenN the market Is away
down and every one is as l1lne as indigo,
they creep our like tho traditional ground
hog on Il da TX dny#and come down into
tho Street They call upon their brokers
and say: fEuy2me q thousand shares of
#thls4stock for cas- hand Il thousnnd shares
sofatlat;stocls forcash, land then slip back
homo. q They nut tho stock away IN their
safe deposit boHeslund keep 1t there. BY
ard by tire mnrct goes lp. Everybody Is
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To-day the career OF colonial admin
3istrator bus q mich wider significance.
The Zines are gone wien, colonization was
an affair OF priests OF soldiers, when the
burylng OF those the soldiers slow, and
the christening OF those the priests con-
vertcd filed the long Intervals between
the dispatch OF the treasure ships to
Europe and their return with news OF
the great world.
But ifGsome Of observation-disclosures and
all Of the brutnlity OF coonia! adminisra-
ton has departed. tfera remain enough
elements TO chain our a,tcntion.if we
lave. not lost. In o,r craving for cofl-
stant excitement. the sense Of What ;tis
due to those who are dcvoting thelralivcs
to the allluous task Of producing order
out Of cllaos. Of CARRYING Justice ana
peace 10 places wl,cra& these things lave
never been more than Il name. OF throw
Ing open to the world those vast treas.
ures which nature has hidden + In her
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some official in charge Of a large forest
tract or Of some remote district or the
general line Of travel; s There he lives,
year. in, year out, wit hno other COM
partnership than the natives. no other
occupation than the daily round Of his
duties. n But I have generally found such
men happy and contented inttheir work,
satisfied to accept isolation from their
fellows as an unavoidable incident Of a
fine career interested in their task and
In the native life around them. a nd all
lowing themselves, In moments of dis
scouragement the satisfaction of looking
back on tho pleasures of the last trip
s"home's and forward to the pleasures
of the next. f;I S
III One IF my illustrations affords curious
example Sof the vicisstlWles Of the life
of a colonial administrator. The gentle
men who form the group 3 British officials
Of the Malay Peninsula we're at the
time I took the picture {readtng from
left to right Of the picturey the resident
OF Sclangor, the rcsident-general Of the
Malay states, the high commissioner OF
the Federated Malay states the resident
Of Perak, the resident Of the Negri Semi
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Vice and Is assigned q definite post.
He will begin at a salary OF not less
than s1,50c IL year, and In the course OF
time may rise to a position which will
yield him "a salary OF anywhere from
$4,000 to $4,000 q year. But this does
not represent the whole attraction Of
a post III tile Indian or colonial service.
In tho first place. man In either of
these services enjoys a social recognition
which, enables him to move In any circle
he may, affect; In the second place, pro-
vison Is made that after, n certain age
he may retire or, a handsome pension
varying between $1,000 and $4,000, ac-
cording to the posts he has occupied, and.
finally, If he should die while III the
service his widow and children receive
pensions. S5 Il 4.
1t Twill be seen from What has gone be-
fore that III the British colonies (and
thu same might be said OF the Dutch
and tho Frcncl) the civil service Is
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Duties Of a Colonial Administra:,
WALL STREET THE RICHEST. TWO ACRES on. EARTH.
cie Tas With M Carpenter Shrine TIE Golden

/ should say at q guess that lie has s75,-
O9OOQ0.''3 n II # Il & III
WHO. is the~,.ehest nan in the United
States rs. s56is ,sSls
John. D. Rockefeller. H''s!s5 &
'Wlat. is lie \ orti II ~ |
"I'rt ba'blyy $500, 600 or 6O0OO0,OOO. He
mus. Eave. IN income or thirty or forty
million dullass a year.
"IIe is probably the richest man In the
world, is i.eEnot?' 5
Yes, | suppose so. It is hard to realize
what 5t1.0V,cO0 means. The sum is SO
enormous that the human mind cannot
grasp IT, ss II a
From Shirt Sleeves to Shirt
Sleeves.
s."But, Mr.. clews,,'' said !, .''if such for
tunes are possible is there not danger
cha t all the wealth OF the country may
some be in the landssof one or two
men, or, at the most, of az half dozen or
so ." 8r y, ss.s " "a i4 4 a
s,"I think not. we have All old saying
here in Wall Street that 1t is only three
generations from shirt sleeves to shirt
sleeves. Tho, first shrt-sleeve man ac-
tcum,l'a les ns5fortune. His sons, reared
to luxury and Sdlcness. eat their dinners
In swaloW-tailed coats. but do not add
to the pile, and the grnndsons spend the
money so fast that they are soon back
X III shirt sleeves again. 1t Is not possible
now to entail "a fortune, and ones de-
5sccndants soon dissipate 1t. You must
remember IT. takes much more ability
to save and Invest money than to make
IT, al n n u
The Vanderbilts, Astors, Etc.
'But We have many rich families who
are now in or beyond the third genera
Etlon?''
"Ycs, know NO have tho, Astors and
A the Vanderhilts The Astors have In
vested largely Unreal estate which cannot
run away; and they have also an lln-
written law eby which the bulk of tho
fortune so far has gone to the eldest
son, Tho Yandorbllts have also Increased
cover but a brief period. Where those
fortunes or any others OF our present
fortunes will be an hundred years rom
now IS hard 10 say. Tho IN tlWal law OF
ITO Is change and In nothing Is this
moro evident than III the rise and fall or
fortunes.
Besides there are other means OF dssI-
pulion outside those of extravaganza or,
loss. The great fortunes Of to-day are
largely used for charity, Andrew Carr
snegle has given away. something like
twelve or fifteen millions, John Rocke-
Teller has scattered nearly tho same
amount through the University of Chicago
and IN other ways, Jay Gould gave to-
nothing outside his family, but his daush-
ter, Helen, is making up for that omls-
sion by deyoting her life and much OF her
money u helping her rellownlen. "A part
of the Vanderbilt money has gone into
schools, and could give a score of in
stances wleretgrea fortunes nre secretly
used for tho good of lie world ut large"
Railroads and Industrial Stocks.
"iitNlling IN 5tis srtnt$c&lpB rnt%,ps,
Mi. Clews, what do you think OF Indus
trials Us inyestments?"
lam fraid OF them.a VAS he reply,
"'nhet mostaof them need to be tried In
Nie fIE? before they VIII BIO safe
How about our great railroad combl-
nations?" .y 81 81
That is IA different matter said tho
Wall Street ftuaacler. 'oug railroads
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Levi p. Morton was, q dry goods clerk 81
Russell Sage worked in q coun try store;
Peter Cooper served his time as a shoe
maker 8 apprentice, and jay Gould sold
rat traps. d. 0. Mills began life with
nothing, SO did John Rock Her and An-
drew Carnegie. When G. p. Huntington
first came here he was penniless, and
the Astors and Vanderbilts sprang from
the soil. Nearly every man who is now;
successful was once a poor boy. He. had
industry, frugallty, and thrift and II was
those qualities that enabled him to lay
the foundation OF his fortune" iSF
But such days belong to the past, Mr..
5Clews?., ,ss 3 t75
Not at ALL was the reply. '1rhe,
chances of to- day are greater than ever.
We never needed good men as we do now,
and we Will need them more as time goes
on. This country has grown prodiglously
In tho past eight years, but l t. Is JUS
IN the beginning OF its development. The
boy who starts now has possibilities far
beyond the widest dreams OF the past. 'ffit
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from those Of his native land.
Educating Youth for Colonial

Il One of the earliest attempts to. provide
specia education for youths destined to
fill posts in colonial civil service was
the establishment by the East India Com
pany Of London OF Haileybury College.
.teresting to note that the first president
of the college was j the Rev. Samuel
Henley. who commenced his career. as
teacher Of mental and moral philosophy
at William and Mary College in Virginia.
Hailcybury College supplied India with
many distinguished administrators. and
1t marked n great advance beyond the
earlier system under which patronage
alone regulated appointme nts. Butethe
college had this great defect, that the
directors OF the East India Company were
also the directors Of the colleges. and were,
very often ready to protect students who
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were friends or, relatives OF theirs from
the consequences which ought to fol-
Low bad work or lad behavior IL, such an
institution. 3sf
About the middle of the Nineteenth
Century open competitive examination
was adopted as the only method OF Sc
leoting officials for the Indian service; and
2to-day most of the British colonies sit
tia ted III the tropics get their administers
tors under this system.
The examinations are very severe fully
as difficult as the examination for a Phi.
y. al an Americanauniversity; and. rs
might be expected. 1t Is only by offering
extraordinary Inducements that young
men can be secured who&are willing to
undergo the hard work; necessary to give
them; n chance OF selection In COM
petition In which there are usually half
a dozen competitors for each post.
y Al, ilsa OF the difficulty OF the cxani-
nations may be gained from the follow
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.thickest forests. IN ner most Inaccessible,
mountains. .aIEaEl6

thickest forests. in}ner most inaccessible
mountains. j5s
Everybody Competent to Govern
One OF the most curious products %of
modern civilizatonJint the most advanced
countries is The light-heartedness with
which everybody approaches questions Of
administration. How many men can
$you meet In the street who, having no
training as specialists. will undertake.
to manage a department store, to organ
5ize q shpbuildng plant. 10 build and
equip a grea hotel? How many men.
equally devoid Of training. would hesitate
II Inomcnt If you asked Them 70 admin
s!stert. the affairs OF a municipality, Of a
state. OF a nation?
+ IT is an astonishing fact that in regard
to nc most important and most diff
cult work III the world that Of govern
mcnt-everybody feels himself to be
competent expert s NJ II 'tsl 5ss
f az For centuries this clews wa $ allowed TO
prevail IF in the appointment Of colonial
officials; and It Is only within the past
hundred years that any serious EFFORT
has been made TO train colonial officials
for their duties or TO select for posts IN
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{ Is. /. b z !
ministrator are such as to keep him
busy for about six hours a day under
normal conditions and anywhere from
that up to twenty-fotr OH occasion, there
Is sufficient leisure MS a.rule for good
deal of recrea ton and amusement.
In India and IN the other British de-
Tendencies you Will find. wherever two
or three civil servants are gathered to-
gether. cricket, polo, lawn tcfinis; and
football clubs; and In addition there are,
hunting Of game. great and small, riding
boating, and with the excellent roads
which are found all over the British em
Pine, automobile trips.
OF course a very considerable number
of men III the colonial and Indian SER
vices hold positions which make It
necessary for them to live away off in
tho Interior, far from any town; but
this kind OF life las its own peculiar
computations, 8
| have spent week occasionally with
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]. REsIDENC E OF THE. CONVERSION on sINGAPoRE..

definite career in the same sense as the
term As applied Is the law. or to medi-
cine, or to engineering. " 4. /. MS u s
In the course of, my travels III the
far east was greatly interested to
find that mong tho colonial civil SER
wants whom = met. but chiefly among
those OF British nationality, there were
number Of men OF large private means
entirely independent OF their official
'salarieg.. The fact has an important
igniticance, TOR ii shows that men of
high qualifications. who could afford to
live anywhere in the world a life Of
complete leisure, are willing. for the sake
of the work, to exile themselves &insout-.
of-the-way places and perform the really
difficult md cxacting4 duties OF q colonial
administrator. Il S ~, sssrt ~
Duties of 4 Colonial Administers,
Although the duties Of a colonial adj
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ing list Of a. few Of the subjects in which
candidates arc examined: Sanskrit
language and literat ure, Greek language
and literal ure. Arabic: langu age and litera-
ture, pure ma thematics, including geonlet7
rical comic sections, plane analytical geom-
ietry, applied mathematics. including sta
tics. hydrostatlcs and geometrlcal optics,
political science. Including analytical ju-
risprudencc. theory. of& Legislation, and his
tory OF political theories.
Prizes Awaiting the Successful.
This sounds very torm1 dnble. and so, in
fact, It is; but tho prizes which await
the successful candidate are we'll worth
working for. 81 Having passed alfs pre-
limlnary examination and a further ex-
animation IN certain subjects which viii
be u OF special use to Him IN his work.
such as the native dialect Of tie province
TO which lie is, assigned Hi,iou and
Moha mammalian law. and SO on the sue
cessful candidate IS enrolled ingthe SER
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INTO the channels Of speculation and
trade re fAcannot take it,iit is loaned
10 some one. else, who does the same.
No lliore arc many worse mon than
RUSSELL suac. The money Of the great
trusts lis also kept In circulation, and
Il Is 50. with most Of our large fortunes
Such .uccumulatlons are Il benent,.5Th
only million that is Il curse isEthe dead
millipn-the million that is stored awaytn
Il vault.'' s i
Our Richest Men.
How much do you estimate Russell
Sage at MI Clews?' M
e " t9,fnot know what he Is worth, hut
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. rGndern life Apart from the mere rpi1-
tideratlor OF earning n livelihood. which
Is common TO MI professions. there Isl
es a rule some peculiar fascination about
each field OF nctlvity which determines
he precise career which Will be selected
by those to whom any choice Is given
4 In tile matter.
rho satisfaction of making weak bodies
strong, affording relief ito human suffer
Ing and the Interest OF probing the Sc
cre;s Of life and OF studying the ineclinli-
ism Of I he human frame make their np-
peal to ono class OF mind. 70 another