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ThePennycomequicks
Written for THE DISPATCH by
S. BARING GOULD,
Author Of 'MEHAl,AH,,,"COUETEOTAL1""JOHNHEEKlko,,,,'THEQXTEEX;KS,"ETO
ALL RIGHTS
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS.
Mrs. Sldebottom and her sen. Captain Penny
comequlck, are unable to live In the stTle they
lh on their Income of 30, and speculate on
the probable toruine they mar receive on the
death or Mrs. Sldebottora's half-brother. Jere
lnlah l'eunx comequlck. The latter Is in love with
his niece, balome Cusworth. -who lives with him.
Jeremiah l'ennycomequlck, -while walking at
midnight. Is overtaken by a flood Irom a bursted.
reservoir. He and another man. who is half
clad, seek refuse in a but, and Jeremiah wraDS
bis coal around his companion. After the flood
subsides a bod v is lound which Is identified by the
card case in the coat pocket as that or Jeremiah
Pennycomequlck. Philip 'l'ennycomequlck is
telegraphed for and arrives. A will is fonnd
making Salome Cusn orth her uncle's heiress, but
the document has been invalidated b- tearing off
the signature. Mrs. Sldebottom declares that she
will not respect the wishes of her dead half
brother, as expressed in his will. In the mean
time Jeremiah l'ennycomequlck, who was not
drowned, has been picked up bv a coal barge,
balome thinks she sees' the ghost or Jeremiah
Pennycomequlck In the house, l'hllip l'enny
comequlck takes charge or his uncle's mill and
Insists that Salome and her mother shall remain
with him in his uncle's house. Jeremiah l'enny
comequlck hears that he has been declared dead
and determines to allow his relatives to remain In
that belief while he spends a year on the conti
nent for his health.
CHAPTER XIX.-BACKINO OUT.
"You will dine with us to-night, Philip." said
Mrs. Sldebottom. "Now that we have settled
our business. It will be quite fascinating to
have a bright and cheerful evening together.
We will take the crape off our heads and
hearts. Lamb shall sine us some of his comic
songs, and I will play you any music you like
on the piano. You shall listen, and the motif
of our entertainment shall be 'Begone dull
care.' I wish there were anyone invltable in
this place, but there is not, and, moreover,
though I do not care for the opinion of these
barbarians, it is too soon after the funeral to
have a dinner-party; we mast mind the pro
prieties wherever we are."
Mrs. Sldebottom was in good spirits. She had
managed for herself well. The estate of JJr.
Pennycomequlck had been divided between
herself and Philip, but as the Dusiness was al
ready charged with her jointure, he deducted
this from the total Delore dividing. She still
retained her hold on the factory, remained as a
sleeping partner in the firm, though, as Philip
found to his cost before long, she was a sleep
ing partner given to walking in her sleep.
Philip was to be the active member of the firm.
It was by no means her wish that the mill
should be sold and the business pass away, be
cause it was prosperous. If it had fallen into
Lambert's hands it would h ave been different,
for she knew well that her son would have been
incompetent to conduct it. She was cheerful
now that all was concluded, perfectly satisfied
with herself, for the terms she had made with
her nephew did not err on the side of generos
ity. "And now," said Mrs. Sidebottom, "I really
dn intend to get Lamb to insert a hyphen in his
name, and spell the final syllable with a capital
Q. I have ascertained from a really learned
man that our name is most respectable, and
like all good names, is territorial. It is of
ancient British origin, and means the Wick or
settlement as the head of a Combe, that is a
valley. When you know this yon feel that it
has an aristocratic flavor, and that it is older
than trade. I think that when written Peny-combe-Quick
it will have an air, Philip, an air
of snch exalted respectability as will entitle us
to look on those who were entered on the Roll
of Battle Abbey as parvenus. I intend to have
Lamb's cards printed thus. I like the Ameri
can way of combining the paternal name with
thatacqnired at marriage. If I call myself Mrs.
Penycombe-Quick-Sidebttom I flatter myself
I shall carry weight."
There is a characteristic of some persons, not
so rare as might be supposed, but subdued in
England as a token of ill-breeding, yet one
which among foreigners, judging from our ex
perience, is not forbidden by the social code.
This characteristic is the sudden transforma
tion of manner and behavior at the touch of
FAR MM MISHED.
Nearly Four Hundred Building Per
mits Taken Oat This Season.
DIAM05D STREET IMPROVEMENT.
Closing Quotations at New York When Bus
iness Ended'Satnrday.
H0HE MONEY PLACED ON MORTGAGES.
The total number of building permits
taken out this year to date is 367, at an esti
mated cost of 587,250. Fifty-eight were is
sued last week. How does this agree with
the recent statement of a growler that
"Pittsburg is finishedl" The rapid growth
of the city and its beautiful suburbs is a
matter of pride to every well regulated cit
izen. Only a few growlers look upon it
with alarm. It is not beyond hope that they
will awake some day to a sense of their utter
worthlessness to the community.
A valuable piece of pfroperty on Diamond
street changed hands yesterday. The purchas
er is in favor of widening the street and
planked down his money with that end in view.
In this connection it may be stated, as coming
from good authority, that the value of property
on that street has appreciated 1020 per cent
since the widening project has been under dis
cussion. The number of mortgages placed on record
the past week was 210, representing loans
amounting to over $1,000,000. One was for $645.-
000, one for 561000, one for $27,000 and two for
$15,000 each. Nearly all of this was furnished
by home capitalists.
The stock market Saturday was in the same
boat with oil, so far as new features were con
cerned. Prices fluctuated within a very nar
row range, and, witn one or two exceptions, the
closing figures differed very little from those
of the day before. Philadelphia Gas was a
trifle weaker, 100 shares going at 39. Electric
about held its own; there was no pressure to
either buy or sell. La Noria was barely steady,
with a sale of 400 shares at 2. Switch and
Signal was hela at 24. with 23 bid. There was
no demand for Tractions. Consignee moved up
the hundreth part of a dollar, at which 100
chares changed hands. Having broken the ice,
it may be considered as fairly on the market
There was the usual Saturday demandfor bank
stocks, but none of them were gathered in.
MONEY AND WEATHER.
The Snow Storm Make a DnII Day at the
Bonk.
The local money market was quiet Saturday.
This condition was in great part attributed to
the weather.' The borrowing demand was
small and depositing fair, the result of the
day's business being to leave the banks consid
erably ahead in the item of cash. Discount
rates were steady at previous quotations.
Small rates were reported in sufficient supply
for current needs. The Clearing House state
ment for the week shows a small balance in
favor of the cm responding time in 1SSS, buta
gain of over 513,000,000 for the expired portion
of the yeir.
Exchanges I 2,0S1M B6
Balances . ",64S90
Exchanges for the week 13.081.u54 87
Malances for the week 2,096.170 27
Kxchangts, dally average 2,180,175 81
Kxchanites week of 1888 13,203,510 33
Balances week or 1SS8 2,153,085 34
Exchanges last week 12,745,879 26
Balances last week - 1364,489 84
Total exchanges to date, 1889 166,400.262 50
Total exchanges to date. 1888 152,801,976 25
Gain, 1889 over 1888. to date. 13,593,286 25
Money on call at New York yesterday was easy
at 3 to 3 per cent Last loan 3, closed offered
"3. Prime mercantile paper, 4J& Ster
ling exchange quiet but firm .at $4 86 for
60-day bills, and $4 88 for demand.
The following table snows tne prices of active
stocks on the New York Stock Exchange.
Corrected dally for The Dispatch by Whit
s'3' ?tepbenson1 members of New York
Stock Exchange. 67 Fourth t venue:
CIos-Open-
Hlrt- liOw- Inr
Inc. est. est Bids.
Am. cotton OU Xii 56),
RESERVED.
money. We meet with and enjoy ready hospi
tality, suavity of manner, that lasts till some
difference arises about a coin, when all at once
the graces we admired give place to a rough
ness, a coarseness and greed quite out of pro
portion to the amount under dispute. In En
gland we may feel aggrieved, but we strive to
conceal our chagrin; not so the foreigner, who
will fall into a paroxysm of fury over a sou or
a kreutzer.
Mrs. Sidebottom was a lady of this caliber.
Chatty, cordial with those who did not cross
her, she was transformed, when her interests
were touched, into a woman pugnacious, un
scrunulous and' greedy. A phenomenon ob
served in certain religious revivals is the impa
tience of wearing clothes that takes those
seized by spiritual frenty. In the ecstacy of
devotion or hysteria, they tear off their gar
ments and scatter them on the ground. So
when Mrs. Sidebottom was possessed by the
spirit of greed, she lost control oyer herself,
she flung aside ordinary courtesy, divested her
self of every shred of politeness, stripped off
every affectation of disinterestedness, and
showed herself In bald, unblushing rapacity.
In dealing with Philip about the inheritance of
Jeremiah, her masterful pursuit of ber own ad
vantage, her over-bearing manner, her persist
ency, had gained for her notable advantages.
She had used the privileges of her age, rela
tionship, sex, to get the better of her nephew,
.and only when her ends were gained did she
smilingly, without an apology, resume those
trappings of culture and good breeding which
she had flnng aside.
Now that all was settled, as she supposed, she
was again the woman of the world, and the
agreeable, sociable companion.
"Yes, aunt," said Philip, "I am glad we have
come to a settlement. If it be not all that I
could have desired, it at all events leaves me
vastly better off than I was before the death of
my uncle. With the help of Providence, and a
good heart, I trust that the respectable old
house ot Pennycomequlck will maintain its
character and thrive continuously."
"You like trade," said his aunt "Lambert
never could have accustomed himself to it By
the way, there will be no necessity for you to
change the spelling of your name."
"I have not an intention to do so."
"Right Of course it is as well to keep on the
name of the firm unaltered. With us, moving
in a higher and better sphere, it is other."
"There is one matter, aunt, that has not yet
been definitely arranged, and that is the last
about which I need trouble you."
"What matter? I thought all was done."
"That relative to Miss Cusworth."
"What ibout Miss Cusworth T"
"You surely have not forgotten our com
pact" "Compact? Compact?"
"The agreement we came to that she was to
receive acknowledgment from us."
"Acknowledgment! Fiddlesticks!"
"I am sorry to have to refresh your memory,"
said Philip, harshly, "but you may perhaps re
call, now that I sneak of it that I threatened to
enter a caveat against-our taking out powers
of administration, unless you agreed to my
proposition that the" young lady should be
given the same sum as was invested for her
sister, which was the least that Uncle Jere
miah intended to do for her."
"Now what nonsense? Philip! I neverheard
such stuff. I refused to listen to your pro
posal. 1 distinctly recall my words, and I can
swear to them. I told you emphatically that
nothing In the world would induce me to con
sent" "The threat I used did, however, dispose you
to alter your note and yield."
"My dear Philip," said Mrs. Sidebottom, as
suming an air of solemnity, "I have taken out
administrative authority and have adminis
tered, or am in the process of administering."
"Exactly. You have acted, but you were
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C. Bur. A Qulncy..... 94
C Mil. & St. Paul... 61
C, Mll.ibt. P.. pf....l04
C, Kockl. 41 92V
U. St I & Pitts 7.
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Lake Shore 4 M. S. . . 102
Louisville 4 Nashville. 62
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Nortnern Pacific pref. 61 X iu
Ohio 4 Mississippi 21), 22W
Oregon Improvement 46 46
Oregon Transcon
PacifleMall 37) 371
Phlladel. 4 Beading-.. 44 44
Pullman Palace Car...l82 182
Blcbmond 4 W. P. T.. 26 26
Klchmond4W.P.T.pr79 8t
bt Paul 4 Uoluth 34 34
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.UonezM'cCo. (new 90
Calumet 4 Hecla....220
Franklin 10
Huron 2
Osceola 11
Pewabic (new) 3
Qulncy SO
Bell Telephone 224
Boston Land 6
Water Power 7
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San Diego 23M
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Fllnt4PereM. ofd. 96
K.CStJ.4C.B.7.120
Little B. 4 Ft. S. 7s. 101
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N. V. 4 New En... 44$
Old Colony. 172
The New Meat Company.
Messrs. John H. Davis & Co., of New York,
and Messrs. Sproul fc Lawrence, their corre
spondents in this city, have in response to a
disposition on the part of the public to invest
in industrial enterprises, made a careful study
of the business and prospects of the American
Meat Company, the results of which they
present in onr columns to-day in connection
with an announcement inviting subscriptions
to the company's stock. The concern is in no
sense a trust but simply a comprehensive plan
for raising, slaughtering and selling, direct to
the consumer, beet and other meats. The
methods of the company shonld not be con
founded with those of somewhat similar con
cerns that have preceded it Its management
is in the hands of men ho are experienced in
every department or its business, and effective
precautions against dishonesty on the part of
subordinates have been incorporated in its de
tails. The nature ot the company's business is
snch that it is likely to interest a verv Urge
number of people. The character of the bank
ing houses who have investigated the company
and who recommend itsstookas a sound invest
ment Is entitled to a good deal of consideration
in determining the value of the enterprise.
K0THIKG IN OIL.
The Narrowest Market of the Year Com
Ins Pipe Lines Eepori.
The oil market Saturday was narrow, dull
and unprofitable to all concerned. It opened
and closed at 90. The highest point touched
was 90 and the lowest 90. The snowstorm
interfered somewhat with the transmission of
quotations from other points, contributing
materially to the depression. Trading was very
light
The report of the pipe lines is due about the
10th, and it will show a smaller drainage on
stocks than for several previous months, indi
cating smaller shipments and a considerable
THE
only enabled to act because 1 held back from
barring your way. You know that very well,
aunt and you know on what terms I withdrew
my opposition. You accepted my terms, and I
look to you to fulfill your part of the compact
"I do not find it in the bond." said Mrs. Side
bottom. "I can quote Shakespeare. Come,
Phil, I thought we had done with wrangling
over sordid mammon. Let us enjoy ourselves.
I did not ask you to stay for dinner that we
might renew our disputes. The tomahawk is
Duneo, ana me caiumet arawn iorm. -
"It was a bond, not indeed drawn up in writ
ing, between us, because I relied on your
honor."
"My dear Phil, I gave no definite promise,
but I had to swear before the man at the Pro
bate Court that I would administer faithfully
and justly according to law, and the law was
plain. Not a word in it about Cusworths. I
am in conscience bonnd to stand by my oath.
I cannot forswear myself. If there is one thing
in the world I pride myself on it is my strict
conscientiousness."
"The cow that lows loudest yields least
milk," muttered Philip. He was greatly in
censed. "Aunt,11 be said, angrily, "this is a
quibble unworthy of you. a. perfectly clear
understanding was come to between us, by the
terms of which you wereHo go halves with me
in raising 4,000 or 5,000 to fnnd or otherwise
dispose of for the benefit of Miss Cusworth."
"Four or five thousand fiddlesticks." ,
"It I had opposed you," said Philip, grimly,
"some awkward questions might have been
asked relative to the cancelled wfll."
"What questions?" asked Mrs, Sidebottom,
looking him straight in the face with defiance.
"As to how that will came to have the signa
ture torn off."
"They were perfectly welcome to ask that
question, but I defy you to find anyone who
could answer it"
She was right and Philip knew it What
ever his suspicions might be, be was without a
grain of evidence to substantiate an accusation
against anyone. Moreover, much as he mis
trusted his aunt, he could not bring himself to
believe her capable of committing so daring
and wicked an act
"I wish that the old witch-drowning days
were back," said Mrs. Sidebottom. "It is clear
to me that Salome has been exercising ber fas
cinations upon you. On, that she could be
pitched into a pool that one of scalding water.
, swarming with goldfish, would suit admirably,
because oi the color or her hair. Then sink
or swim would be all one sink for innocence,
swim for guilt clear of her anyway."
"Do you seriously mean to evade the ar
rangement come to between us ?" asked Philip.
He would not be drawn from his point to side
issues.
"I never went into it"
"I beg your pardon, you did agree to what I
proposed."
"Upon compulsion. No, were I at the strap
pado, or all the racks in the world, I would not
yield on compulsion. There yon have Shakes
peare again, Phil. I wonder whether you can
tell me from what play I quote. If you were a
man of letters, you would cap my quotations."
"There can be no question as to what were
the intentions of Uncle Jeremiah."
"Ah, there I agree with you. Having made
a preposterous will, he tore it up, to show that
he did not intend to constitute Salome his
heiress."
What was Philip to say? How bring his aunt
to her terms of agreement? He remained
silent, with closed lips and contracted brows.
"Now, look here. Philip," said Mrs. Side
bottom, good-humoredly, "I have ordered
shoulder of mutton and onion sauce; also
quenilles of maccaroni and forced meat, and
marmalade pudding. Come and discuss these
good things with us. instead of mauling these
dry bones of business."
"I have already spoken to Mrs. and Miss Cus
worth. Relying on your word, I told them
what we purposed doing for them."
"Then you made a mistake, and must eat
your words. What a pity it is, FhiliD, that we
are continually floundering into errors of judg
ment or acts that our common sense reproves,
so that we come out scratched and full of
thorns. You will be wiser in the future.
Never make promises, that is in money mat
ters. If you persist in paying the hussy the
tion to the sum coming out of your own
pocket 4,000 or 5,000, I have no objec
Excuse me, I must laugh to think how you, a
lawyer, have allowed yourself to be bitten."
"I do not see how I am to pay the sum you
increase of runs from the wells, which will be
close to 53,000 barrels, this being the largest ag
gregate for any month since the shutdown.
Oil haslieen struck in the petroleum fields of
Scott county, Arkansas, where prospectors
have been bonng at a depth of about 4.000 feet
The supply is thought to be inexhaustible. ;
The shipments of oil from the port of Phila
delphia last week were the largest ever before
experienced, being 4.965.928 gallons, and since
January 1 there were 25,762,810 gallons, as com
pared with 19,113,666 gallons for the corre
sponding period last year.
A. B. McQrew & Co. quote puts, 90Kc; calls,
9091c.
lhe rollowing table, corrected Dy De Witt Dll
wortb, broker In petroleum, etc. corner Fifth
avenue and Wood street, Pittsburg, shows tne
order or fluctuations, etc: :
Time. Bid. Ask. Time. Bid. Ask.
Opened 90)4 Safes 11:15 r. M.... WH 00 H
10:15 A. M.... 90S 90K 11:30 P. II.... 90H 90H
10:39 A. M.... P0H 90K 11:45 F. at.... 90K 90K
10:45 A. M.... 90S4 90a 12:00 90H ....
11:00 A.M.... 00,'i 90H Closed
Opened. 0,ic; aigtieot, 90Kc: lowest SOKe;
closed, tOhc
Barrels.
Dally runs , 47,913
Average runs 49.171
Dally shipments 85,091
Average shipments 79,791
DaUv cnarters -. 21,426
Average charters ,. 27,013
Clearances -- tMw..u 736,000
New York closed st COc
Oil City closed at SOHc
Bradford closed at 9c He
New fork, refined. 7c
London, refined. 5MJ-
Antwerp, refined. lSHt.
MABKETS BY WIRE.
Wheat Still Losing Ground Another Drop
In May and Jnly Options Corn and
Oatk Featureless Hog Prod
ucts Bather Dampy.
Chicago The wheat market was quiet to
day, and while the feeling was unsettled and a
little nervous, there was generally less disposi
tion to trade, and business was light While
many operators incline to the belief that the
large traders are out of the May deal, there,
nevertheless, are some who believe that the
effort to force out the holders alluded, to for
several days past was done for some purpose.
It was claimed that more long May wheat
came on the market, that -shorts covered, and
that the market was evening up. Prices for
May declined 2c, recovered ljc and closed 1c
lower than yesterday. July advanced io
above yesterday's closing, declined a and
closed Jc lower.
Corn ruled rather quiet the entire session;
fluctuations were confined within Kc range,
and did not vary much from yesterday.
Oats were fairly active, stronger and higher.
May was the favorite and advanced c early on
cood buying by several large traders chiefly
to cover shorts. Offerings were liberal on the
advance, and after the urgent buyers bad been
filled up an easier feeling prevailed and the
advance was lost. Later in the session quiet
ness prevailed, closing sales being at a shade
below those of yesterday.
Very little interest was manifested in hog
products and trading was light Offerings
were small, and the demand from all sources
was limited. Trading was chleflyin'mess pork
in other articles nothing of consequence doing,'
and changes in prices slight There was a fair
trade in mess pork at irregular prices. Open
ing sales were made at 5c advance, but a weaker
leeling was manifested later and a reduction of
17K20c was submitted to. Toward the close
prices improved slicbtly, but trading was small.
The leaning I mures ranteu as roiiows:
WHEAT NO. -! .May, V.
June.91ii91?ieWilKc;
CORN-No.2May,353533535:: June,
363635VS35Kc; July, S63636K36c
OATS-No. 2 May, 25K26.Sc; June.
25K25&25J25Jic; July, 25Ji2ok25V
25c-
Mess Fore, per bbL May," $12 4512 45
12 2512 30: June. J12 3012 S512 3012 35;
July, $12 ocxoiia oi4tjii oimuiz iw,
HTTnjt-r Rma. tier 100 Bs. Anrll. S3 15; Slav.
6 22X6 22K6 206 20; June, S6 22)86 25
6 22KB 25: July 56 356 356 306 30.
Casn quotations were as follows: Flonr steady
ana uncnangea; o. i spnnc wneat wu$ayiici
No. 3 spring wheatnominal;No. 2red,9090a
Nn.2 fnm. 3511c. No. 2 oats. 25c. No. 2 rvn
43V.C No. 2 barley, nominal. No. 1 flaxseed.
81 So. Prime timothy seed. SI 801 82. Mess
pork. .per. barrel. 12 25. Lard, per 100
lbs. $6 95. Short ribs sides (loose). 6 156 2a
Dry salted shoulders (boxed). $5 605 75. Short
clear sides (boxed), $6 506 62V. Sugars Cut
loaf, unchanged. Receipts Flour, 10.000 bar
rels; wheat 21,000 bushels: corn, 67,000 bushels;
oats. 75,000 bushels; rye, 12,000 bushels; barley,
PITTSBTJBG' DISPATCH;
mention without jeopardizing the business. I
must have money in hand wherewith to carry
it on. IX you draw back "
"There is no if in the case, I do draw back.
Bo me the justice to admit that I never rushed
into It You did, dazzled by the girl's eyes,
Hrawnjby her hair."
Philip rose.
"What are you going, Phil? Lamb will be
here directly. He is at the 'White Hart,' 1 be
lieve, playing billiards. It is dlBgustlng that
he can find no proper gentlemen to play with,
and no good players either. Come, sit down
again. You are going to dine with us. Some
of your uncle's old port and Amontillado sherry.
It must be drunk we shall hardly move it to
York."
"I cannot dine with you now."
"Whynot?"
"Under the circumstances I cannot," he said,
coldly. 'I trusted to your honor I trusted to
you as a lady, and." he raised his head, "as a
Pennycomequlck '' f
"How spelled?" asked Mrs. Sidebottom,
laughingly.
"I cannot sit down with you now. with my
respect and confidence shaken. 1 trust that
you,have spoken in jest, and that to-morrow
you will tell me so: but I am not fond of jokes
snch jokes as these leave a scar. I could not
accept my share of Uncle Jeremiah's property
without making recognition of the claims of
the Cusworth family. The father died in my
uncle's service; the mother and daughters have
devoted themselves to making uncle's life
easy and now to be cast outl If you hold
back and refuse to pay your share of 2,000, 1
must pay the entire amount; and if the busi
ness suffers, well, it suffers. The responsibility
will be yours, and the loss yours also, in part,'
"Nonsense, Phil; you will not run any risk."
"If you had taken your part and I mine, we
could have borne the loss easily; but if I have
the whole thrown on me, the consequences
nay be serious.. Ready money is as necessary
as steam to make the mill run."
"I don't believe I cannot believe that you,
a man of reason yon, a man with legal train
ingcan act such aQuixotish part?" exclaimed
Mrs. Sldebdttoin, becoming for the moment,
alarmed. Then she calmed down again.
"I see through you, Philip," she said. "Hav
ing failed to persuade me, you seek to terrify
me. It will not do. I do not believe so badly
of humanity, as to think that you will act so
wickedly. Come, think no more of this, lhope
you like sirloin?"
"I refuse to sit down with you," said Philip,
angrily.
"Then go!" exclaimed his aunt, with an ex
plosion of spleen. "Go as an Impracticable
lout to your housekeeper's room, to sup on a
bowl of gruel and cottage pie!"
CHAPTER XX A Face in the Dabk.
Mr. Sidebottom was not at ease in her mind
after the suggestion thrown out by Philip that
the business might suffer it so much capital
were suddenly withdrawn from it She re
called how it bad been when her brother
Nicholas had insisted on taking oat of it his
share--how angry Jeremiah had been; how, for
a while, the stability of the firm had been
shaken, and how crippled it bad boen lor some
years. She remembered how that her share of
the profits bad been reduced, and she had no
desire to meet with a recurrence of this shrink
age. When Nicholas made that great call on
the resources of the firm, there was Jeremiah
in the office, thoroughly experienced, and he
was able, through his ability and knowledge,
to pull through; but it was another matter now
with Philipa raw hand, in authority.
Then, again, Mrs. Sidebottom knew her,
brother Jeremiah had contemplated a large
outlay in new and improved machinery. To
keep np with the times, abreast with other
competitors, it was necessary that this costly
alteration should be made. Bnt could it be
done if 4,000 or 500 were sacrificed to a ca
price? "Philip is such a fool!" she muttered. "He
inherits some of his father's obstinacy as well
as his carelessness about money. Nicholas no
sooner got money in his hands than he played
ducks and drakes with it; and Philip is bent on
doing the same. Fourthousand pounds to that
minx, Salomes There goes the church bell.
When will Lamb be in?"
Mrs. Sldebottom lit a bedroom candle, and
went upstairs to dress for dinner. While as
cending she was immersed in thought, and sud
denly an idea occurred to her which made her
quicken her steps. Instead of dressing for din
28,000 bushels. Shipments Flour, 4,000 bar
rels; wheat 7,000 bushels; com. 111,000 bushels:
oats, 69,000 bushels;- rye, 4,000. bushels; barley,.
20,000 bush els.
On the Produce Exchange to-day the butter
market was active: fancy creamerv, 2425c;
choice to fine, 2123c; dairies, 2023c; good to
choice, 1519c Kggs firm at 10c
New York Eiour heavy and moderately
active. Cornmeal dull. Wheat Spot dnll and
KMo lower: options fairly active and 4c
lower. Barley dull. Barley malt quiet Corn
Spot firm and fairly active: options dull and a
trifle easier. Oats Spot firm and quiet; options
firm and fairly active. Hay steady and quiet;
shipping, 65c; good to choice, S095c Hops
steady and quiet Coffee Options opened
steady at 10i0 points up, closed barely steady
at 10 points up; sales, 49,250 bags, including
April, 16.50ia60c: May, 16.7016.75c: June,
16.o016.90c; Jnly, 16 95c: August. 17.0017.10c;
September. 17.1017.25c; October, 17.2017.30c;
November and December, 17.2517.35c; January,
17.30 17,35c: February. 17.40c; spot Rio firm; fair
cargoes at 18c. Sugar Raw steady and quiet;
refined quletand Arm. Molasses Foreign quiet;
60 test 25c: New Orleans dull: onen kettle.
steady;
Cotton-
!K43c:vellow.50c. Rosin
quiet and steady. Tallow strong; city. 4c bid.
Turpentine dull and steady at 45Kc Eges
steady and in fair demand; Western, HKllc;
receipts, 6.033 packages. Pork quiet; old mess,
$12 5012 75: new mess, $13 013 75; extra
prime. S12 50. Cut meats quiet; pickled bellies,
67Kc; pickled shoulders, 5c; pickled hams,
9K10c. Lard qniet and barely steady; West
ern steam, $7 32W: city, $6 75; April, 57 28; May,
$7 31; June, $7 S3; July, $7 35; August 7 37; Sep
tember, $7 39. Butter strong and active: West
ern dairy, ll18c; creamery, 1625c; Elgins.26
27c Cheese dull and weak; Western, 910c
St. Louis Flour quiet and steady but un
changed. Wheat quiet, but was very unsettled
and irregular: after considerable fluctuation
on unfavorable reports and free selling, the
was firm except for May, which was c lower;
No. 2 red; cash. 90K9qe and nominal: May,
august. loykiyioyM, cioseu io;,'itBjc; year,
7878Mc, closed 78Kc Corn firm but quiet;
26J26c Rye 'No. 2 in demand at 4445e.
Barley Nothing doing. Flaxseed quotable at
1 45. Provisions dnu.
Cincinnati Flour heavy. Wheat easier;
No. 2 red. 88S9c; receipts. 600 bushels; ship
ments, 1.000 bushels. Corn steady: No. 2
mixed, 34H35c. Oats quiet and firm; No. 2
mixed, Ziy,c Rye quiet and steady; No. 2, 48c.
Pork dull at 12 75. Lard quiet at $6 90. Bulk
meats and bacon quiet and unchanged. But
ter steady. Sugar steady. Eggs firmer. Cheese
quiet
Milwaukee Flour steadv. Wheat easy;
cash ami May, 86c; July, 85Jc Corn firm;
No. 3, 33K34c Oats steady; No. 2 white. 28
2SKc Rye quiet; No. L 45K16c Barley
dull; No. 2, 56c Provisions easier. Pork,
$12 20. Lard, $9 90. Cheese steady; Cheddars,
llOllc
Philadelphia Flour weak and unset
tled. Wheat opened firm and closed weak.
Corn Carlots scarce and wanted at firm prices;
futures quiet but steady. Oats Spot firm;
fntnres dull. Butter firm Pennsylvania cream
ery, extra, 2526c; do prints extra, 28c.
Baltimore Provisions firm. Butter firmer;
western packea, lo20c; creamery, 2526c.
Eggs firm at 10ic. Coffee firm; Rio. fair. 18J
lSKc
Toledo Cloverseed steady and lower; cash,
S4 40; receipts, 72 bags; shipments, 735.bags.
Drygooda.
New York. April 6. There was an unusual
Saturday trade in drygoods with johhers
to-dav, staple as well as patterned fabrics
meeting with good attention. With agents,
demand was less active and more irregular,
but there was a fair fall request for goods
adapted to springtrade. Bleached cottons are
being more freely taken by the manufacturing
trade. Novelties in patterned fabrics do well.
Woolen goods of all kinds continue firm, thongh
flannel uress goods are selling for fall. The
market continues unchanged and the tone
steady.
Metal Market.
New York Pig iron firm; American $15
17 60. Copper lower and' steadier; lake, April,
$11 25. Lead easier; domestic, $3 67X. Tin
firmer; Straits, $21 10.
St. Louis There is abetter feeling in lead,
yet the market was quiet; Tefined $3 42.
Wool Markets.
Bt. Louis Wool quiet and unchanged. Ar
rival of new clip is still too light to give any in
dication of opening prices.
Saltation Oil, the great pain anni
hilator, has made a truly enviable reputa
tion. 25 cts.
' MONDAY,' .APEIL A8
ner, she put on her bonnet The church bell
had diverted her thoughts into a new channel."
When dressed to go out she rang for the par
lor maid." "Susan," said she, "I had forgotten.
This is a holy day. I believe, I am morally cer
tain, it is a saint's day, and appointed by th9
church to make us holy. We must deny our
selves. So put off dinner half an honr, I am
going to church to set an example."
Mrs.Sldebottomwasnot an assiduous church
goer. She attended on Sundays to do the civil
to the parson, but was rarely or never seen
within the sacred walls on weekdays. Conse
quently her announcement to Susan, that she
wasj about to assist at divine worship that
evening, and that dinner was to be postponed
accordingly, surprised the domestic and sur
prised and angered the cook, who aid not
object to unpunctuality in herself, but resented
it in her master and mistress.
"If Salome is not at church," sald Mrs. Side
bottom to herself, "I shall be taken with faint
nessj fan myself with my pocket handkerchief,
to let the congregation see I am poorly, and
will come away at the Nunc Dimittis."
But Mrs. Sidebottom tarried in church
through the Nunc Dimittis, professed her ad
hesion to the Croed. and declared her trans
gressions. As she listened to the lessons, her
mind reverted to the quenilles. "They will be
done to chips!" she sighed, and then forgetting
herself, Intoned, "A men." At the prayers
she thought of the shoulder of mutton, and in
the hymn hovered in sonl over the marmalade
pudding. Probably, if the hearts of other wor
shipers that evening had been revealed, they
would not have been discovered more wrapped
in devotion than that of Mrs. Sidebottom. In
the life of Saint Modwenna, abbessof Stoke-on
Trent, we read that this holy woman had the
faculty of seeing the prayers of her nuns danc
ing like midges under the choir roof : they could
not pierce the vault, being deficit in the boring
organ, which is true devotion. It is perhaps
fortunate we have not the same gift vOn that
evenlnc a row of tittering girls sougbtto attract
and engross the admiration of the choristers.
Five young ladies, hating each other as rivals.
Bought by their attendance to catch the curate,
who was unmarried. Old Banks was there, be
cause he hoped to sell two bags of potatoes to
the parson. Mary Saunders was there, because
some unpleasant stories had circulated con
cerning her character, and she hoped to
smother them by appearing at cburch'.on week
days. Mr. Gruff was there, to find fault with
the parson's conduct of the service, and Mrs.
Tomkins attended to see who were present
When the service was concluded, Mrs. Side
bottom came out of church beside Salome, who
had been seated in front of her. Sheatonce
addressed her. '
"My dear Miss Cusworth, how soothing it is
to have week day prayer. I have 'had so much
of the world forced on me of late, that I felt I
must for the good of my soul fly to the sanct
uary." "There is always service on Thursday even
ing." "My goodness! is this not a Saint's Day? I
thought it was, and I have been so devout, too.
You don't mean to tell me there is no special
call for it? and these saints they are perfect
ly fascinating creatures."
Mrs. Sidebottom could talk what she called
"goody," when there was need for it; she gen
erally talked it when chance led her into a puor
man's cottage. As children are given lollipops
by their elders, so the poor, she thought, must
be given "goody talk" by their superiors. She
put on her various suits of talk as occasion af
forded. She bad her scandal suit and her pious
suit, and her domestic worry suit and her polit
ical suit just like those picture books children
have, whose one face does for any number of
transformation garments, and the same head
figures now as a bronze, then as Nell Gwynne,
as a quakeress, or as a tight rope dancer.
The author at one time knew a bedridden
man who had two suits of conversation the
one profane, abusive, brutal the other pious,
sanctified, and 'seasoned with salt When his
cottage door was open, the passer heard some
such exclamations as these as he approached,
addressed to the wife "Now then, you
toad!" Then a reference to her eyes best left
unquoted. "If I could only get at you, I'd skin
you!" Then a change. "Fotch me my Boible;
O my suul, be joyf nl, raise the sacred hanthem!
Bah! i; thonght t' was the parson's step, and
he'd give me a shilling! Now then, you gal
lopading kangaroo!" This, of course, was an
extreme case, and Mrs. Sldebottom was far too
well-bred to go to extremities.
DOMESTIC MAKKETS.
Strawberries From Florida Blushing
Amid the Snows.
BUTTER AND EGGS MOVING FREELY
Diminished Supplies of Grain and Hay
Flour Weakening.
COFFEE, HAM AND PIG'S FEET HIGHER
Office of thepittsburo Dispatch,
Saturday, April e. 1889. $
Conntry Prodnce Jobbing: Prices.
Friday was one of the best days in produce
lines for a week or two past. Potatoes and ap
ples, which have been a drug all Season, moved
out freely. One jobber, who has had a blue
cast on his countenance and in his speech all
season, puts on an optimistic hue to-day, and
says trade is improving. Rome Beauty apples
sold at $2 25, which a week or two ago would
have been slow at SI 75. To-day's snowstorm
seemed to check the onward movement, but
the week winds up with an improved record
-over recent weeks. Butter is active enough to
bring an advance before many days. Wild
winter weather has served as a stimulus to
egK markets, and holders are firmer in their
views to-day than for a week or two past. A
leading jobber who sold yesterday at 11c and
llo said he had nothing to-day in the egg line
unuer 12c. Cheese is iu active demand at old
rates. The first shipment of strawberries direct
from Florida was received at a Liberty street
commission house this morning. The beautiful
berry opened up nice and blushing in the
heaviest snowstorm of the season.
Butter Creamery, Elgin) 2829c; Ohio do,
2526c; fresh dairy packed, 2021c; country
rolls. 2023c; Chartiers Creamery Co. butter,
2S29c
Beaks Choice medium, SI 90: choice peas,
2 052 15.
beeswax sugpoe -p a xorcnpice; 10 w grade,
Cider Sand refined. S6 60fi)7 50: common.
$3 504 00; crab cider. JS 008 60 $ barrel;
cider vinegar, 1012c -p gallon.
Cheese Ohio cheese, fall make, 1212c;
New York, fall make, 12K13c: Limburger,
lie; domestic Sweitzer cheese, HK12c
Dried Peas $1 451 50 11 bushel; split do,
2&Si4c s a
Eggs 11K12c V dozn for strictly fresh.
Fruits Apples, 81 00l oO fl barrel; evap
orated raspberries, 25c fi ft: cranberries, 8 00
'f barrel; $2 402 50 per bushel; strawberries,
50c quart.
Feathers Extra live geese, 5060c; No. I
do., 4045c; mixed lots, 3035c $ ft.
Hominy $2 652 75 f! barrel.
Honey New crop, 1817c; buckwheat, 13
15c
Potatoes Potatoes, 3035c bushel; S2 50
2 75for Southern sweets; $3 2503 60 for Jer-
Poultry Live chickens, 90c $ pair;
dressed chickens, 1315c pound; turkeys, 18
20c, dressed, fl bound; ducks, live, S085c $1
pair; dressed, 1314c pound; geese, 1015o
per pound.
Seeds Clover, choice, 62 lis to bushel. $6
bushel; clover, large English. 62 fits, SS 25;
clover, Alsike, $8 60; clover, white, $9 00; timo
thy, choice, 45 As, $1 S3; blue grass, extra clean,
14 lbs, 1 00; blue grass, fancy, 14 lis, Si 20:
orchard grass, 14 As, 2 00; red top, 14 Rs, $1 00:
millet, 60 fts, SI 25; German m'llet, 60 So, S2 00;
Hungarian grass. 48 fts, 2 00; lawn grass, mix
ture of fine grasses, 25c per ft.
Tallow Country, 45c; city rendered,
o5Ha
Tropical Fruits Lemons, fancy, S3 50
i 00 fl box; common lemons, S2 75 fl box; Mes
sina oranges, S3 004 00 fl box; Florida oranges.
S4 605 00 fl box; Valencia oranges, fancy, S5 50
6 00 fl case: Malaga, grapes, J9 0010 00 fl
per keg; bananas, S2 60 firsts: SI 50, good
seconds, f) bunch; cocoanuts, 4 004 60 fl
hundred: new figs, 1214c fl pound; dates, 5
6Kc f! pound.
Vegetables Celery, 4050c doz. bunches:
cabbages, SI 602 50 f) hundred: new cabbage,
S2 0002 60 fl crate; onions. 6075c f) barrel;
onion sets, fancy Enes, S3 253 60: Jerseys,
S2 75Q3 00; Western, S2 602 75; turnips, 2o
30c ft bushel. -.-"
Groceries.
Green coffee was advanced 40 points in New
York yesterday, making 80 points of a rise in
two days. Package coffee could oo longer
stand the pressure, and has been advanced Kc,
as will be seen by our quotations below:
Green Coffee Fancy Rio, 2223c; choice
Rio, 2021c: prime Rio, 20c; fair Rio, 1819c;
old Government Java, 27c; Maracalbo, 2223o;
1889:
"I was so glad you came in when you did,"
said Mrs. Sidebottom. "I was really feeling
sonewhat faint I feared I would have been
forced to leave at the Nunc Dimittis, and I was
just fanning myself with my handkerchief, on
which was a drop of eau de Cologne, when you
came in, and a whiff of cool air from the door
revived me, so I was able to remain. I am so
thankful! The hymn afforded me such ele
vating thoughts! I felt as if I had wings of an
gels, which I could spread, and upward fly!"
"I was late I could not get away earlier."
"And I am grateful to be able to walk back
with yon. You will allow me to take your arm.
I am still shaken with my temporary faintness.
I have, I fear, been overdone. I have had so.
much to try me of late. But when the hell
rang, I was drawn toward the sacred bnilding.
Upon my word, I thought it was a Saint's Day,
and it was a duty as well as a pleasure to be
there. I am so glad I went; and now I am able
to walk back with you, and after public wor
ship though the congregation was rather thin
the mind is turned to devotion, and the
thoughts are framed, are, in fact, just what
they ought to be, you know. I have wanted for
some time to speak to you and tell you how
grieved I was that I was forced to give your
mother notice to leave. I had no thought of
being Inconsiderate and unkind."
"I am aware of that," answered Salome, qui
etly. "Mr. Philip Pennycomequlck ha al
ready told mamma that the notice was a mere
formality. The explanation was a relief to us,
as mamma was somewhat hurt She had tried
to do her best for dear Mr. Pennycomequlck."
"You will have to induce her to forgive me.
What is religion for and churches built and
organs and hot water apparatus and all that
sort of thing, but to cultivate in us the for
giving spirit I am, myself, the most placable
person in the world, and after singing such a
hymn as that in which I have just joined. I
could forgive Susan if she dropped the silver
spoons ori the floor and dinted them."
Ho one would have been more astonished
than Mrs. Sidebottom if told tharsbe was arti
ficial, that she affected interests, sympathies,
to which she was strange. At the time that
she talked she felt what she said, but the feel
ing followed the expression, did not originate
It "My dear Miss Cusworth," she went on, "I
am not one to bear a grudge. I never could.
When my poor Sidebottom was alive, if there
had been any unpleasantness between us dur
ing the day and all married people have their
tiffs when you are married you will have tiffs.
As I was saying, if there had been any un
pleasantness between us, 1 have shaken him at
night to wake him up, that he might receive
my pardon for an incivility said or done."
"We had made our preparations to leave
Mergatroyd," said Salone, "but my mother has
been ill again, and my poor sister has heard of
the death of ber husband, who fell in a skirm
ish with the Germans. So when Mr. Philip
Pennycomequlck was so kind as to ask my
mother to remain on in the house, in the same
capacity as heretofore, we were too thank
ful "
"(Vhat! You stay V
"fes, my mother is not in a condition to
move just now, and my sister is broken down
with grief. But, of course, this is only t
temporary arrangement"
Mrs. Sidebottom said nothing for a moment
Presently, however, she observed: "No doubt
this is best, and l am very, very pleased tohear
it Philip did not mention it I mean Mr.
Pennycomequick. I must not any longer call
him Philip, as he is now head of the family,
unless the Captain be regarded also as a
bead, then the family will be like the Austrian
eagle one body with two heads. But, my
dear Miss Cusworth, tell me, did Mr. Penny
comequick say some foolish nonsense about
three or four thousand pounds?"
"He mentioned something of the sort to
mamma."
"It's all fiddlesticks," said Mrs. Sidebottom,
confidentially. "He is the most inconsiderate
and generous fellow in the world. HIS father
was so before him. But it won't do. The mill
will suffer, the business fall to the ground, we
shall all go into the bankruptcy court I re
spect the memory of my darling brother too
highly to wish that the firm he managed should
collapse1 like a house of cards. Philip is gener
ous and all that sort of thing, and he will try to
press money on you. You must not consent to
receive it, for two reasons first, because it
would smash the whole concern, and next, be
cause people would talk in a way you would
not like about you. Do you understand you
Mocha, S0X31c; Santos,;i922Kc; Caracas
coffee, 20K22c; peaberry, Rio, 2l23c; La
guayra, 2122c.
Roasted (in papers) Standard brands, 24c:
high grades.1 2628c; old Government Java,
bulk, 3233&c;;Maracaibo, 27K28c; Santos,
2221c; peaDerry, 27c: peaberry Santos,
2224c; choice Rio, 25Kc; primeRio, 23c;
good Rio, 22Kc. srdmary, 2IKc
. SpiCEsrfwhole) Cloves, 21 25c; allspice, 9c;
cassia, 89c; pepper, 19c; nutmeg. 7080c
Petroleum (jobbers' prices) 110 test, 7c;
Ohio, 1203. 8Kc; headlight," 150, 8Jc: water
white, 10c; globe, 12c; elaine, 15c; camadine,
lljc; royallne, 14c.
Hyrups Corn syrups, 2629c; choice sugar
syrup, 333Sc: prime sugar syrup, S033c;strict.
ly nrlme. 333oc: new maole syrun. 90c
N. O. Molasses Fancy, 48c; choice, 46c; me
dium. 43c: mixed, 4042c.
Soda Bi-carb in kegs. 3Hic; bl-carb in JJs,
5c: bi-carb, assorted packages, 66c; sal
soda in kegs, lKc; do granulated, 2c.
Candles Star, full weight, 9c; stearine,
per set, 8Mc; parafnne, ll12c
Rice Head, Carolina. 77Jc; choice, 6
7c: prime, 56Vc; Louisiana, b6Kc
Starch Pearl. 3c; cornstarch, oJ7c; gloss
starch. 57a
Foreign Fruits Layer raisins, S2 65; Lon
don layers, S3 10; California London layers,
$2 50; Muscatels, S2 25: California Muscatels;
SI 85: Valencia, new, 67c; Ondara Valencia,
78c; sultana, 8c; currants, new, 4l5c;
Turkey prunes, new, 4JJ5c; French prunes,
813c: Salonlca primes, in 2 ft packages, 8c;
cocoanuts, per 100, $6 00; almonds, Lan., per lb,
20c; do Ivica, 19c; do shelled, 40c; walnuts, nap.,
12K15c; Sicily filberts, 12c: Smyrna figs, 12K
16c; new dates, 56c; Brazil nuts. 10c;
pecans, ll15c; citron, per ft, 2122c; lemon
peel, per B, Jl314c; orange peel, 12c
Dried Fruits Apples, sliced, per ft, 6c;
apples, evaporated, 6V6c; apricots, Califor
nia, evaporated. 15lc; peaches, evaporated,
pared, 22023c; peaches, California, evaporated,
unpared, 1012Kc; cherries, pitted, 2122c;
cherries, unpitted, 56c; raspberries, evapor
ated. 2124Xc: blackberries, 7K8c; huckle
berries. 10212c.
sugars cubes, Btmszzc; powdered, 8
054c;
vellow. fair. 634n; vellow. darlr. i&Cc.-
.v. .yciiuw. nuuu. 1
Pickles Medium, bbls. (L200), S4 60; me
diums, half bbls (GOO), 52 75.
Salt No. 1 fl bol, 95c; No. 1 ex, f! bbl, SI 05;
dairy, fl bbl, SI 20; coarse crystal, fl bbl, $1 20;
Higgles Eureka, 4 bu sacks, $2 80; HIggin's
Eureka, 16-14 lb pockets, 3 00.
Canned Goods Standard pearnes, SI 30
1 90;2ds, SI 301 35: extra peaches, SI 601 90;
pie peaches, 90c: finest corn, SI 001 50; Hid.
Co. corn, 7090c; red cherries, 90cSl 00; lima
beans, SI 10; soaked do, 85c; string do do, 75
85c: marrowfat peas, SI 101 15: soaked peas,
7075c; pineapples, SI 401 50; Bahama do,
2 75; damson plums, 95c: greengages, SI 25;
egg plums, $2 00; California pears, S3 50; do
greengages, S2 00; do egg plums. S2 00: extra
white cherries, $2 90; red cherries, 2fts, 90c;
raspberries, SI 1501 40; strawberries, SI 10;
gooseberries, SI 201 30; tomatoes, 8292c;
salmon, 1-ft, SI 752 10; blackberries, 80c; suc
cotash, 2-lb cans, soaked, 90c; do green, 2fts,
SI 251 60; com beef, 2-lb cans, SI "o; 14-ft cans,
$13 50; baked beans, SI 401 45; lobster, 1 ft,
SI 751 80; mackerel, 1-ft cans, broiled, SI 60;
sardines, domestic. Vfc. Si 154 50; sardines,
domestic Ms, $8 258 50; sardines, imported,
i, Sll 50ls! 60; sardines, imported, , 18 00;
sardines, mustard, 4 00; sardines, spiced, S4 25.
FISH Extra No. 1 bloater mackerel, 36 f)
bbL: extra No. 1 do, mess,S40; extra No. 1
mackerel, shore, $32; eitraNo.l do. messed, $38;
No. 2 shore mackerel, $21. Codfish Whole
pollock, 4c f) ft.; do medium George's cod,
6c: do large, 7c; boneless bake, in strips, 6c; do
George's cod in blocks, 67Jc Herring
Round shore, S5 00 fl bbl.; split, $7 00; lake $2 60
fl 100-ft. half bbl. White fish, S7 ft 100-ft. half
bbl. Lake trout, $5 60 vft ha1f bbL Finnan
hadders, 10c fl ft. Iceland halibut. 13c ft ft.
Buckwheat Flour 1&2M ft ft.
Oatmeal SO 306 60 ft bbl.
Miners' Oil No. 1 winter strained, 5860c
f) gallon. Lard oil, 75c.
Grain, Flonr nnd Feed.
Total receipts as bulletined at the Grain Ex
change, 25 cars. By Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and
Chicago, 4 cars of hay, 1 of barley. By Pitts
burg. Cincinnati and St. Louis, 5 cars ot hay,
5 of shell corn. By Baltimore and Ohio, 1
car of rye. By Pittsburg and Lake Erie, 7 cars
of hay, 1 of flour, 1 of wheat. Sales on call,
1 car 2 ye corn. 38c 5 days, B. & O.; 1 car 2
ye com, 39c,5days;lcar2 w. oats, 33c, 10
days. Retail dealers complain that it is next
to impossible-to obtain choice grades of bay
and oats. Last season's crops were plainly
much stronger in quantity than quality, The
drift of wheat is still toward a lower level of
prices, in spite ot bulls, and flour can hardly
stave off the inevitable decline much longer.
Jobbing rates of flour are off 20c the past week.
Onr wneat quotations are reduced to cor
respond with Chicago markets, but theft' is
hardly enough sold here at the present time to
furnish any reliable index to the condition of
markets here.
could not receive a large allowance from a
young unmarried man. However," continued
Mrs. Sidebottom. "do not suppose I wish you to
walvaall expectations of getting anything. I
ask you only to trust me. Lean on me and
wait; I have your interests at heart as much as
my own. I daresay you have heard my brother
say he would be driven to adopt Improved
machinery T"
"Yes, I heard him say that"
"Very well. My nephew, Philip, must recon
struct the mechanism of the factory at the cost
of several thousands. Now, my dear brother
did not leave enongh money to be used both on
his and on satisfying your just claims. If you
will wait, say till your marriage then you may
be sure I and my son and nephew will strain
every nerve to make you comfortable."
"Mrs. Sldebottom," said Salome, calmly, "you
are very kind. When Mr. Philip Pennycome
qulck made the request to my mother that she
should stay in the house, she consented, but
only temporarily, till he is settled, and has had
time to look about him for someone who will
be a more active housekeeper than my mother
can be; and at the same time it will be a con
venience to us, giving us breathing time in
which to recover from the shock of Mr. Albert
Barnes' death, and consider in what manner
my sister Janet's future will be tied up with our
own. As for that other very generous offer we
had no time to giverit a thought, as it came to
us simultaneously with the crushing news from
France." Salome halted. "You have passed
your door, Mrs. Sldebottom."
"Bless me! So I have I was so interested in
what you were saying, and so charmed with
your noble sentiments. Can I persuade you to
enter and dine with us only shoulder of nrut
ton, quenilles, and marmalade pudding."
Salome declined: she must return imme
diately to her mother.
"Whyl" exclaimed Mrs. Sldebottom, "bless
my soul, here is my nephew come to meet us 1
cannot however, take the compliment as paid
to me, for we have parted in dudgeon."
Philip had left his aunt's house in boiling in
dignation. She bad led him into a trap, from
which escape was difficult. He felt himself in
honor bound by the proposal be had made to
Miss Cusworth; he could not withdraw from it,
and yet at that time to have to find the entire
sum mentioned would severely embarrass him.
He could not tell Balome that he had been pre
cipitate in making the offer, and crave her in
dulgence to allow him to put off the fulfilment
to a convenient season. The only way out of
the difficulty that commended itself to him was
to offer Salome an annual sum, charged on the
profit of the mill, till such time as it suited ber
to withdraw her 4,000 and invest it elsewhere:
in a word, to take ber into partnership.
'Having come to this decision, hef esolved on
preparing it for her acceptance at once, and he
descended to the rooms occupied by the Cus
worths, there to learn that she had gone to
church. He at once took his hat and walked to
meet her.
He was ill-pleased to see her returning with
his aunt hanging on ber arm; he mistrusted
this exhibition of sudden affection in Mrs. Side-
bottom for one whom he knew she disliked.
"You see, Philip," said his aunt, "I thought
it was a Saint's Day, and the Saints want en
couragement; so I went to the Parish Church,
I put dinner off now can I induce you and
Miss Cusworth to come in and pick a little meat
with me not bones, Philip, these we have
pulled already together. I was taken with a
has kindly lent me support on my way home."
The little group stood near the doorstep to
the house occupied by Mrs. Sidebottom. A.
gas light was at the edge of the footway, a few
paces lower down the road. Mrs. Sldebottom
d isengaged her hand from the arm of Salome
then the girl started, shrank back and uttered
an exclamation of terror.
"What is the matter?" asked Mrs. Sldebot
tom.
"I have seen it again," said the girl, in a low
tone.
"Seen what?" asked the lady.
"Never mind what," interrupted Philip,divin
ing immediately from Salome's alarm and agi
tation what she meant "We must not keep
my aunt waiting in the street The ground is
damp and the wind cold. Good-night, Aunt
Louisa. I will escort Miss Cusworth home."
When Philip was alone with Salome, he said,
'What was it? What did you see?"
"I saw that same man, standing by the lamp
post looking at us. He wore his hat and over
coat Again I was unable to see any face, be-
Wheat Jobbing prices No. 2 red, SI 00
101;No.3red,9093c
Corn No. 2 ycllow.ear. 38a38Jc: high mixed
ear. 36K37c; No. 1 yellow, shelled, 339c:
.No. z yellow, sneuea, S7Kg38c; men mixed,
shelled. 3737J$c: mixed, shelled, 3536c
Oats No. 2 white. 32K33c; extra. No, 3, 31
f31Kc;No.3 white, 3030Kc:No. 2 mixed, 2S
29c
RYE No. 1 Western, 7075c; No. 2, 5556c
Barley No. 1 Canada, 9598c: No. 2 Cana
da. 8588c; No. 3 Canada, 7072c; Lake Shore,
Flour Jobblnc prices, winter natents. 6 25
6 50; spring patents, 86 50675: winter straight.
So 605 75; clear winter. So O0Q5 25; straight
XXXX bakers', S4 755 00. Rye flour, 34 00.
Millfeed Middlings, fine white, S16 00
17 00 ft ton; brown middlings. S13 0013 60;
winter wheat bran. S13 0013 60: choD feed.
S15 0016 00.
Hay Baled timothy, choice, S14 2514 50;
No. 1 do, $13 6014 00: No. 2 do, Sll 50012 00:
loose from wagon. $18 002U 00; No. 1 upland
prairie $10 0OQ1O 25; No. 2, $8 008 60; packing
do. 5 506 50.
Straw Oats. $8 00Q8 25; wheat and rye
straw, 87 007 5008 (XX
Provisions.
Small hams were advanced c, large aqd
medium Jc to-day. Pig's feet were raised 25c
on the half barrel and 15c on the quarter bar
reL Other hog products were left unchanged.
Sugar-cured hams, large, 10c; sugar-cured
hams, medium, lie: sugar-enred hams, smaU,
llc; sugar-cured breakfast bacon,10c; sugar
cured shoulders, 8c: sugar-cured boneless
shoulders, 9c: sugar-cured California hams,
8c; sugar-cured dried beef flats, 8c: sugar
cured dried beef sets, 9Kc sugar-cured dried
beef rounds, Uc: bacon shoulders, 7c; bacon
clear sides. 8c; bacon clear bellies. 8jc: dry
saltshoulders,6Jc;dry salt clear sides,7c Mess
Eork, heavy, $14 00; mess pork, family, $14 50.
ard Refined in tierces, 7c: half barrels, 7Kc;
60-fi tubs, 7c: 201b palls, 7c: 60-ft tin cans,
Ifid 8-ft fin pails, 8c; 5-ft tin pails, 7c; 10-ft
tin pails, 7c Smoked sausage, long, 5c;Iarge,
5c Fresh pork links. 9c Pigs feet, half barrel,
S4 00; quarter barrel. $1 90.
Dreaaed Uleat.
Armour fc Co. furnish the following prices on
dressed meats: Beef carcasses, 450 to 650 fts,
6c; 550 to 650 fts; 6c; 650 to 750 fts, 6Xc Sheep,
7c ft ft. Lambs, 8Kc ft ft. Hogs. 6c Fresh
pork loins, 9c
LITE STOCK MARKETS.
Br Telecraph.
Kansas City Cattle Receipts, 2,051 head;
shipments, 1,029 head; dressed beef, steers,
strong to 510c higher; cows strong and 10c
higher; stockers and feeding steers firm; good
to choice corrjfed.fi 104 40; common to me
dium. $2 803 90: stockers and feeding 'steers,
SI 603 40; cows, SI 602 80. Hogs Receipts,
4.314 head; shipments. 1,600 tfead; market active
and 5c higher; good to choice. S4 604 65; com
mon to medium. $4 204 60. Sheep Receipts,
877 head; shipments, none; market steadv to
10c higher; good to choice muttons, $4 101 35;
ommon to medium, $2 503 80.
St. Louis Cattle Receipts. 200 head; ship-'
ments, none; market higher; choice heavy na
tive steers, S4 004 60; fair to good do, S3 20
4 00; stockers and feeders, fair to good, J2 10
3 10: rangers, corn-fed. $2 8003 60: grass-fed.
2 003 00. Hogs Receipts. 1,300 head: ship
ments, 1,600 head; market higher; choice heavy
and butchers' selections, 54 804 90; packing,
medium to prime, S4 604 75; light grades, or
dinary to best, 4 704 85. Sheep Receipts,
200 head; shipments, none; market strong; fair
to choice, 3 005 00.
Chicago Cattle Hecelnts 2,600 head:
shipments, 1,000 bead: market strong and 10c
higher; beeves, $4 304 60: steers, S3 404 25:
stockers and feeders. 3 453 65; cows, bulls
and mixed. $1 603 40. Hogs Receipts. 8,500
bead: shipments. 4,000 head; market strong
and 10c higher: mixed, 1 805 00; heavy, SI 75;
skips. S3 004,50. Sheen Receipts, L000 head;
market stronc: natives. $3 905 60: Western
corafed, 4 005 30; lambs, 4 606 45.
Buffalo Cattle Feeling stronger; re
ceipts, 1.200 head through; no .sale. Sheep
and lambs Receipts, 400 head through;
5,000 head sale; sheep steady; good, So 255 40;
lambs weak and a shade lower; good; 6 156 40.
Hogs active and a shade higher: receipts,
6.200 head tbroueh; 3.0CO head sale; mediums,
$5 15; Yorkers. $5 155 2a
CrNcrNNATT Hogs steady; common and
light, S4 00485: packing and butchers', $4 70
4 95; receints, 900 head; shipments, 1,300 head.
Mining Stock.
Ne-w York. April 6. Mining quotations
closed: Amador, 100: Botlie. 110; Belcher, 300:
Caledonia B. H., 300; Chollar, 215; Consolidated
California and Virginia, 800; Commonwealth;
600; Deadwooa T.. 150: El Cristo, 165; Gould and
Curry. 210; Hale and Norcross, 400:
Homestake, 800: Horn Silver, 140; Iron
Silver, 300; Mexican, 330; Mono, 120;
Mutual 100; Ophlr.490; Savage, 250; Sierra Ne
vada, 275; Standard. 100; Sullivan, 150; Union
Consolidated, 300; Yellow Jacket, 310.
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was in shadow. You, bad your back; to tbo
lamp and the figure was in your rear: When '
yon turned It was gone"
To be continued next Monday.
Barry's Tbicofherous fastens the hair
where having a tendency to fall out; renews
its growth. ,
THE AMERICAN
incorporated under the laws ob
new mexico.
manhattan trust company. new
york; trustee and registrar of
STOCK.
The authorized issue of capital stock is lim
ited by the company's charter to 250,000 shares,
of the par value of $100 each.
The present issue is $11,000,000. of which'
S7.06o,00O HAS ALREADY BEEN SUB
SCRIBED FOR.
Messrs. JOHN H. DAVIS & CO.. Banker. 10
Wall st, New York, are authorized to offer for
subscription 40,000 shares, amounting 'to $f,000,
000, at 75 PER CENT OF PAR VALUE; pay.
able as follows: 20 per cent on application
(being $15 per share), the balance in four
monthly installments of 20 per cent'each, on
10 days' notice.
Scrip certificates will be issued when the first
payment is made, and each additional payment
will be indorsed thereon. Upon final payment
these certificates will be exchanged .for the
regular full-paid stock certificates.
OFFICERS.
J. H. FLAGLER. J. O. M0S3,
President. Vice President."
CHARLES E. COON, JENNINGS S.COXi'
Secretary. Treasurer." ""
ORMOND HAMMOND, JR., General Manager.
BANKERS.
JOHN H.DAVIS4CO.,10Wanst,New York.
OFFICES.
ALDRICH COURT, 45 BROADWAY,
NEW YORK.
This company is organized for the purpose of
supplying to the public the meats and other
products of cattle, hogs and sheep in the best
condition and the most economical way. To
avoid the expense and difficulty inseparable
from starting a new enterprise and creating
altogether new channels of supply, and distri
bution, it has purchased, free front liens, debt
or incumbrances ot any kind, the following;
property;
1st. The entire business of a well-known firm
of meat dealers in the Eastern cities of the
United States, with all its trade, channels of
sale and good will. This firm has been estab
lished ten years, has done a steadily increasing;
business, and enjoys the highest credit. A.
part of the funds derived from the above sale)
of stock will be immediately applied to in
creasing this business by the construction of
additional cold storage warehouses and sales
markets. The checking system of the sales de
partment, which has been carefully tested,,
fully protects the company from loss by leak
age or dishonesty.
2d. One hundred refrigerator cars of tho
best patent, whfch have been thoroughly tested
by the above firm.
3d. One of the largest slaughtering and re
frigerating plants In the West, located at Kan
sas City, carefully constructed and adapted for
handling beef, pork, and mutton and all the
products manufactured from the same. With
this plant Is a large amount of valuable rest
estate, sufficient tor the future increase of the
business for many years.
4th. In suitable proximity to the above plant
have also been acquired lands and feeding es
tablishments for fattening the animals named,
together with a large number of hogs and
sheep.
5th. As a valuable adjunct to the business the)
company atquires, in fee, free from any debt or
incumbrance, 1,859,000 ACRES OF LAND HT
NEW MEXICO AND THE REPUBLIC OF -MEXICO,
AND 230,000 HEAD. BY ACTUAIi
COUNT. OF IMPROVED GRADED CAT.
TLE, WITH ALL THE RANCHES, HORSES.
AND EQUIPMENT NECESSARY FOR
HANDLING THE SAME.
Thus constituted, the company expects to ac
complish the following results:
1st. To eliminate the profits of middlemen.
2d. To secure the economy resulting from
concentrated management.
3d. To obtain the material. required by it
trade at the lowest cost of production.
4th. To have an immediate and profitable)
outlet for all Its productions.
5tb. To have, in its cattle, a resource from
which it can draw at will, making it to that ex
tent independent of the general wholesale mar
kets for its supplies, and. in its lands, grazing;;
facilities, of which it cannot be deprived by in
coming settlement or adverse legislation- No
previous enterprise of this kind has combined
all the elements or has been so fully protected.
The foregoing property has been secured at
fair, and in many cases low, values, and a large
proportion has been paid for In the company's
stock.
THE MANAGEMENT WILL BE IN THE
HANDS OF MEN OF LONG AND SUCCESS
FUL PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE IN THE
SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS OF THE BUSI
NESS. Further information of the basis and scope of
the company's operations and of the working
plan under which a large success may be con
sidered assured, together with copies of tba
Prospectus and blank forms of applications for
shares, may be obtained by application to tha
bankers whose names are attached hereto.
The subscription lists will be opened os
Wednesday. April 10. and close on Saturday,
April 20. at 3 o'clock p. if. The right is re
served to reject any application or to allot a
pro rata smaller amount than applied for in
case of oversubscription.
JOM H. DAYIS k COL
BANKERS. '
10 WALL ST., NEW YORK. "H
THE SUBSCRIPTION BOOKS FOR THH
ABOVE STOCK WILL BE OPENED SIM
ULTANEOUSLY IN
Boston by
JV1KSSKS. lltVIWQ A. EVANS CO.
Philadelphia by
MESSRS. L. H. TAYLOR & CO.
Baltimore by
MESSRS.J0HNA.HAMBLET0N4CO- '
Pittsburg by
MESSRS. SPROUL 4 LAWRENCE.
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Transact a General BanHi Business; m
Accounts solicited. Issue Circular Letters ''
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