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2 THE WILMINGTON MESSENGER, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1907 Ent-il at the Postoffice at Willing ton, N. C, as Second-Class Matter. Aprif 13. 1S79 JACKSON & BELL COMPANY. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION THE DAILY MESSENGER q mail. ti year, fO.OO: six months, $3.00; tore months. $1.50: one month, 50 rnts. THE SEMI-WEEKLY MESSEN GER (two eight pajje papers), by mall, year $1.00: six months, f0 rents sn Mdvance. WILMINGTON, N. C. nun ay. . . iT:i;itrAitv 22, idot NEW YORK COTTON KXCHANKK For the benefit of our readers who :irp interested in the lirt ag.?:jiFt the New York cotton exchange which is "being made by Congressman Living ston vre give below some facts and lig urea. These will give some idea as to how the "futures" business of that gambing institution is conducted. The business of the exchange as originaLy established and intended to be conduct ed, was perfectly legitimate th.? sale and purchase of cot f on for future de livery; but now it has developed into a gambling ganu in which the our- sider plays. with, the man. who mani pulates the machine. There is still legitimate business dona in cotton futures where mill men buy for future delivery-, and men can trade in it just as honestly as they take or sedll options on land or any other marketable article. It is not against this cass of cotton tradimr that Mr. Livingston has made his fight, tout against the methods of the New York exchange by which its members can control the price of cotton, and which puts the outsiders who deal with them completely at their mercy. According to the rules of the ex change the seller has the op :!on wheth er or not to deliver the cotton. If he choses to deliver, the buyer must take the cotton or sell his contract to a third person. When these men hold a large lot of contracts of sale all they have to do to bear the market i6 to flood it with notices that they will de liver the cotton. The men who have bought do not want the class of cotton that would be delivered under the con tracts and they are forced bo rush on j the market, with their contracts for purchase. We say the men who buy future con tracts on the New York exchange do not wxint the, cotton that would be tendered- This is because that cotton is of very inferior quality. Though the contract is for cotton of middling grade the contract specifies that the sellei may deliver cotton of any grade down to low middling stained, at the estab lisher scalte of prices on middlng as a basis. This scale runs all the way from two cents above middling quota tions for fair to two cents belosr for low middling stained, and the tender is always of the low grades, for tbere is little or none of rhe middling grade in stock. In the licensed warehouses 01 New York there is cotton the refuse of many previous crops of the lowest giades which is held for lender on these contracts, some of it said to have been held in stock for fifteen years. r Fully good ordinary . . 1.07c 1 it 1 : 1 O !",- uuuu uiumaiy - - - On. Strict good middling tinged . . .30c Good middlir.fr tinged Va! of middling on. Strict middling tirqed 06c Middling tinged 12c Strict low middling tinged 46c Low middling tinged . . . . 90c Strict good ordinary tinged .. .1.25c Fully middling stained 42c Middling stained . . . 50c Barely nvddlin siained . . . . .78c Strict low middling vt.iined .... 1.50c Fully !ov middling stained .... 1.75c Low middliner stained 2.00c These facts and figures show T;ow completely the members of the New York cotton exchange have in their rower the men who trade with them and with what, ease they can contra the cotton market. For years this New York cotton change has been a financial vampire. preying upon the south. It has robbed this section of millions of dollars. Indi cations are, however, that it has seen its best rather its worse days Tf Mr. Livingston cannot secure the sup pression of its illigitimate busines' he will have done his section of tho conn try great good by his ntilation of tka workings of the exchange. There is already ?v;Gc ?.(.; )f a revu s'Cii or feeling toward it or, s true ohirac;r is becoming better understood. This is in the fall? in value of seats on the ex change. They ai now held a less than half they sold for six months ago. In our opinion the Ormond bill re verses the principle as to sheriffs and blockade stills. It is the sheriffs sworn duty tovdestroy all of them that can be found in their counties. Those sheriffs who do not do their duty in this respect should be turned out of of fice. Instead the legislature offers a feward to those who do what is re quired of them by their oath of office and by the law. Why not also offer a reward of so much for the capture of every man who has committed .1 murder or 'other serious crime? 1110 Mr. Jerome has met his match in the San Francisco lawyer. The latter gave him some severe thrusts in their tilts on Monday. Mr. Delmas' weapons arc different from those Mr. Jerome has been accustomed to have used against him and he is at a great disadvantage. He has never been able to make the Californian lose his temper, although he has tried to do so many times. Laxative Fruit Syrup Pleasant to take The new laxative. Docs v not gripe or nauseate. Cures stomach and liver troubles and chronic con stipation by restoring the natural action of the stom ach, liver and bowels. Refuse substitutes. Price OOo. For Sale by J. C. SHEPARD. J. HICKS BUNTING DRUG CO- THERE ARE LOTS OF FARMERS RIGHT AROUND HERE WE KNOW WHO WAN T A GOOD PLOW A AMERICAN KXFOHT TRADE A census bureau bullet? n shows that for January of this year the value of American exports of bread-slv.ffs, meat and dairy products, catle, hogs and sheep, cotton and mineral oil amount ed .to $110,393,241 against $9US4,:3S for the same month last yeui, and from July 1st to January 31st, to $593,701,251 against $570,595,392 for the same period of last year. A peculiar fact is that but for th increase in the cot ton figures for both last January and the seven months of this fiscal year over those of the two periods of last year there would have been a falling off in the totals for the present over those for the preceding year. There was a falling off in every article except cot ton, which made an increase of $30, 998L843 for January and of $43,218,243 j ior the seven months period. So, it was king cotton that again as it has often done in the past came to the rescue and prevented the government statistics showing a falling on in the export of these five chief articles or oil: foreign trade. The heavy export of cotton turned a threatened decrease moo an increase another proof that King Cotton has not been dethroned. It strikes us that it would be a great pity to lop off a part of the county to Cumberland in order that a new coun ty may be formed. We do not suppose the people in the other part 6f thf county will agree to it and. we do not see how those in the section to be ci.t off could consent to give up their cit zenship in that grand old county. There is not so much need of small counties in these days of many railroads and improved highways as there was in former times when people remote from the county seat had so much dif ficulty in reaching it. The new county should not be formed if there is any danger of making Cumberland republi can by doing so. There is little danger, however, of the new county being formed for many years yet to come. The editor of the Memphis, Tenn., Times" writes: "In my oninion Foley's Honey and Tar is the best remedy for coughs, colds and lung trouble and to my own personal knowl edge Foley's Honey and Tar has ac complished many permanent cures that have been little short of marvellous." Refuse any but the genuine in the yel lew packages. Jos. Shepard. J. Hicks Bunting Drug Co. NOTICE. Senator Overman gained an import ant victory for the southern states by securing the retention by the confer ence committees, in the legislative ap propriation bill of his amendment for exploitation of our foreign trade in cotton goods. A liquid cold relief with a laxativ principle which drives out the co; through a copious action of the bowels and a healing principle which liuger Stati or JCorth Carolina. uouktt or New Hakovbr. ( By virtue ' and in pursuance of a power of sale contained in & certain mortgage executed on the 13th day of December, A. D. 1901, by Henry Croen. ours and wire Caroline Croenburcr to John H. Brunjes, and duly recorded in I'wos S3, page 291 in the of nee of the Register of Deeds of New Hanover county, tne undersigned mortgagee w 11 expose for sale to the highest bid der, at the court house door In the city ji v;'mington, county of .New Han Over ;nd state of North Carolina, at twelve o'clock M. on the 11th day of February, A. D.-1907, for cash, the fol- llowing described tract, piece or parcel of land situated, lying and heing in the city of Wilmington, county of New Hanover and state of North Carolina. bounded and described as follows, to wif Beginning at a point in the eastern line of Fourth street one hundred and ninety eight (198) feet south of the southeastern intersection of Grace, formerly Mulberry street.) and Fourth streets, and running thence eastwardly ana parallel witn Grace, or Mulberry street one hundred and sixty-five (165) feet; thence southwardly and parallel with Fourth stret sixty-six (66) feet; thence westwardly and nar- allel with Grace or Mulberry street one We want to see them at our store this Mk hiul !kjw litem our Hoc. W have a hip stock of Syracur one autl ino horo plow. At cry plows Culti vators a ad Harrows, Dixies. Mkldio Bursters, subsollrr. New Ground lIou Give us a Call We will make it Intercstlnc for yu m good and pricx. N. JACOB! HARDWARE CO. REX GUANO MSTMIMJTOR in the throat and stops the cough- jhundred and sixty-five (165) feet to that is Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syr up. Safe and sure in its action; pleas ant to take and conforms to Nation a Pure Food and Drug Law. Contains n opiates. Sold by Robert R. Bellamy. This is the day for the senate to settle the political fate of Senator Smoot. The resolution for unseating him will, by unanimous consent, be voted on today. - mum 1 I . Cferonic Constipation Gured. One wa suffers from chronic constl patlea is in danger of many serious nil meats. Orino Laxative Fruif Syrup cures chronic constipation as it aids digestion and stimulates the liver and bowels restoring the natural action of these organs. Commence taking it to day and you will feel better at once. Orim Laxative Fruit Syrup does not mauseate or gripe and is very pleasant to take. Refuse substitutes. Jos. Shep ard, J. Hicks Bunting Drug Co. the eastern line of Fourth street: and thence northwardly and along the eastern line of Fourth street eixty-slx (66) feet to the point of beginning; the same being the western half of lot 4 in block No. 194, according to the official plan of the city of Wilming ton, North Carolina. JOHN H. BRUNJES, H. McClammy, Mortgagee. Attorney. jali 30d Onejiears a great deal these days about paternalism in government and legislation, but Minnesota has started the ball rolling for nnflrnni;r.m t There is litt.e of the pres nt crop of f1, . . , , , these matters. A bill has been intro- any grade on hand. New York s rc-!,, . . 41 , . , mi f ""u u me legislature or that state ceiptts for this entire cotton vear since! , . , o, which provides that no mother ;hiii September 1, 190G, up to February loth motner shall v lu uuise uer uaDe oeiore it is Wonder what effect absolute prohibi tion for a few weeks in South Carolina will have on the elections in the coun ties on prohibition or dispensary which will be held in May? Report of th condition of the MURGHISON NATIONAL BANK TVPLMINGTON. N. At the close of business January 26 1907. RESOURCES. Loaas and discounts $1,714,945 98 Overdrafts secured and unsecur ed 3,846 61 E,s,JJond8 to secure circulatioiiV S00,00t 00 U.S. Bonds to secure rJ.S. Deposits 60,000 00 Rankin house, furniture and ix- tUTP ok nriM na Due from National Banks (nit re serve airents). . . omM-ig it... n .. . . . , .... ucnuiajiaic iiniins ana iitinc- 1 ers Due from approved reserve ar'ts. Notee it Dther National Banks... Fractional pt per currency, nick- vu una cents 'iwrui Monet Uesebvjc IH BANK, VIZ: fpecie 12.M0 CO Lepral-tender notes... 63,000 00 Redemption fund -srltk V. R Treasurer (5 per cent of circu lation) 15,000 00 A perfect force feed machine, designed to spread fertilizer In an open dr 11 and cover it. The feed mechanism is a'spiral co veyor of spec'al design, making a rer fectly uniform discharge under all condition, up or down hill the fiamc. The fertilizer is discharged on an adjustable .half rone .or roop sbfoped casting as shown in cut, that spreads the fertlJizr r ir broad b tI 0 hche or more, thereby increasineg its value. The hppcr is made is galvanized steel, bold ore budiel or nbout C5 lb. . of fertilizer. ( 7 An agitator has been placed in the hopper for 1507 which Insure th- ' ' filling of the conveyer with all conditions f euan. It is easily. regulated t sow any quantity from 200 to 800 rr arr.? on 2 ft. rows, more per acre on narrower or les cn wider rows. This machine is well made.and Its success is attested to bv riproecntathe farmer throughout tke entire cotton belt Weight about 90 pound?. J. W. IVf urchison & Company, TOJl-ilLVGTOV. V. C. 221,276 47 131,07 27 2,009 00 SI 03 65,010 90 .'J.7S8 m 14 Rising From the Grave. A prominent manufacturer, Wni. A. Fertwell, of Lucama, N. C, relates a most remarkable experience. He says: "After taking less than three bottls of Electric Bitters I feel like one rising from the grave. My trouble is Brlght's disease, in the Biabetes stage. I fully believe Electric Bitters will cure me permanently, for it has already stop ped the liver and bladder complica tions which have troubled me for years." Guaranteed at R. R. Bellamy, druggist Price only 50c. amount to only 13,530 bales, while o that day there were in her licensed warehouses 1Q2.001 bales including 122,559 certified baless that is. those which had passed inspection bv the a month old. It does not regulate tN? amount of sugarpap or catnip that is to be administered, and the Savannah News expresses surprise that it docc exchange officials and been declared to. declare "whether the flannel bound about its little 'tummy' shall be red or white". These omissions were a great oversight, on the part of the intro- cqme. within the rules 0f the exchange as of contract quality. When a man makes a contract to buy a lot of middling cotton for de livery in a certain month In the fu ture at such a price, the seller has the right under the contract to tender him the specified number of bales of any one of the foKpwing grades at the. st ale of prices sjcifieil, they being the grades and rates on and off middling prices established by the exchange: On. Fair - 2 00c Strict middling fair 1.75c Middling fair . , 1.50c Barely middling fair ."."""..! 1.25c Strict good middling . . ... i.00c Sa middling ,88c Good middling 7gc Barely good middling 57c toirier miaunng .. , .3Sc Middling Basis Off. Strict low middling . i4C Fully low middling .. .. .!!; 32c Low middling . . '.50c Barely low middling . . 70c Strict good ordinary .. .. ...." ,90c rT" ft V Total. LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid la t soo.ooo 00 8u rplu s f u nd 200,900 0u undivided profits, less expenses and taxes paid 21, 02$ i National Bank notes outstanding 300,000 00 Due to other National Banks 4C4,OP4 49 Due to State Banks and Bankers &3l.3fft si Dividends unpaid lirr u luaivmuai deposits sub ject to check 781 -HA as Cashier's checks out standing 2: 4A United States deposits.. 50X00 0u 1,767,134 9.1 Total 2,7fcS,lW 14 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA 1 S8 County of New Hanover. ) I, J. V. Grainger, cashier cf the above-, named huv.) , do solemnly swear that the above st;tinient is true to tbe best of my nuuwieuite mm oeiier. w ., , J. V. GRAINGER, Cashier, hunsenbed and sworn to hmr this 29th day of January, 1G07. CHAS. S. GRAINIER. ' Notary Public My term of office expires Jan. 1st, 180S. Correet Attest: FLOWER SEEDS NEW, FRESH, FLOWER SEEDS ALL VARIETIES Come and call for a complete list so you can make your own selection, J. Hicks Bunting Drug Co., Wholesale and Retail Druggists, Wilmington. N. C M. J. CORBETT. 1 H. C. MeOytJEFN, D J. A. SPRINGER. ) irectors. ' ducer of the bill. The use of improved machinery and adoption of extensive irrigation sys terns has greatly increased the output of rice in this country, but it has about Killed this industry for growers on a small scale. Of the nearly one billion pounds, while a little over one hun country in 1905 only about one pev cent, was imported. The quantity of rice and rice products exported amounted to over one hundred and thirteen million pounds, while a litle over one hun dred million were imported. The an nual consumption per capita of rice in Japan is three hundred pounds, in some provinces of India three .hundred and fifty, while in this country, for food purposes, it is only six pounds. WO Dyspeptics If you are too fat it is because your food turns to fat instead of muscle strength, If you are too lean the fat producing foods that you ?at are not properly digested and assimilated. Lean, thin, stringy people do not have enough Pepsin in the stomach, while fat people have too much Pepsin and net enough Pancreatine.. "THE SIWASA" JKodol For Dyspepsia contains all the digestive juices that are found in a healthy stomach, and in exactly those proportions necessary to enable the stomach and digestive organs to digest and assimilate all foods that may be eaten. Kodol is not only a perfect digestant, but it is a reconstructive, tis sue building tonic as welL Kodol relieves Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Sour Stomach, Heartburn, Palpitation of the Heart and Constipation. You will like it Digests What You Eat Rests the stomach, rebuilds the tissues and gives firm flesh. We are sole agents for the famous "Erie" brand of Canned Fruits and Vegetables. We have just received a full assortment of these goods and we in vite your inspection. S. 17. SANDERS "Good Things to Est." PIIONE NOS. 1G9 and 739 la feottlaa In tixas, tlty fax ul M 4oB4LT. Vrcpn4 at tkm i. ntcry f K.O.Dt'Wit III tm OPPENHEIMER INSTirUTE, Pern an ui Ccie fir.lksto&so. For testimonials Cram patients nr manemtly cured, address . XT. N. HATlTtXSS, ALL KINDS WHITE BLISS RED BLISS BOVEE EARLY ROSE Pride of the South. We have also a fev bushels of extra fine GOLDEN DENT SEED CORN Grown in this section last year from from Wes tern seed. General line of Heavy Groceries. Fertilizers of all kinds. Lime and Cement. THE WOIRXIHT CO v9. a n n cna urn AND raU'Tf V ' f . 1 riA OVMt iwu, aai4 1 a. . M m SStiI1! bPthejstemand renews ? tESSMiSSS? jri 12 2m.