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Written for THE DISPATCH by
S. BARING GOULD,
KSutbof or,MnlTAI,AH,,,"COT7BTEOTAI.,""JOHir HEEBnro," "The Gavebocks'Etc
ALL SIGHTS
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS.
m cMBhnttnm and her son. Cmt&ln Pennv-
fcomequick. re unable to live In the style tlicy
J-wlsh on their Income or -MOO, and speculate on
jfthe -probable Jortune they mar receive on the
"death or Mrs sldebottom's half-brother. Jere
nniah l'ennvcomequlct. The latter la In love 1th
Phis niece, iconic Cusworth, who lives with him.
Jeremiah 1'enni. comeqnlcV, while traltinc at
"mldnlftnt, Is overtaken by a flood Irom a bnrsted
- reservoir, lie and another man. who Is half
clad, seek: refuse In a hut, and Jeremiah wrats
Ills coat around his companion. After the flood
subsides a body It lonnd which Is Identified by the
card case in the coat pocket as that or Jeremiah
Pennycomequlck. Philip Pennycomequlck It
.telegraphed for and arrives. A will Is found
'juaklnfr Salome Cuswortli her uncle's heiress, but
the document has been invalidated b tearing on
the signature. Mrs. Sldebottom declares that she
will not respect the wishes of her dead half
hrother, as expressed In bis will. In the mean
time Jercniah Pennycomequlck, who was not
drowned, lias been picked up by a coal barge,
balome thinks she sees the ghost or Jeremiah
Pennycomequlck in the house. Philip Penny
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 Penny
comequlck hears that he has been declared dead
and determines to allow his relatives to remain in
that beller while he spends a year on the conti
nent for his health. Mrs. Sldebottom refuses to
carry out a olnt agreement made with Philip to
pay balome Xi.000 and thereby offends Philip,
who declares he will pay the whole amonnt him
self, even if it rums the mill business. Salome is
itgaln excited bv seeing the figure ol a man who
looks like the supposedly dead Jeremiah Penny
comequlck. haiome tells Philip that she will not
accept the money. The latter thinks .Us aunt has
influenced balome, and to checkmate Mrs. Side
bottom he proposes marriage to Salome, who ac
cents him. thlnklnr that he loves her. Jeremiah
Pennycomequlck hears of the proposed marriage
and is much disquieted tbenat, knowing that his
reappearance at his home would force Philip to
return to his drudgerv and penury as a lawyer's
clerk. Phllln confides to his mother-in-law that
lie hates KarlschoBeld, who Is reponlble for his
lather's ruin, at which Mrs. Cusworth becomes
.confused and uneasy. Jeremiah is approached bv
JJeaple Teo. a fluent financier, who is about to
start a health resort. Jeremiah thinks he has seen
the gentleman, or his Uoll.es, at least, somewhere
before.
CHAPTER XXV.
Without Bills,
VlrgiUus, Bishop of Salsburg in the eighth
century, condemned the erroneous doctrine
- lield by some that c have antipodes. It wag,
no doubt, true that men in the middle ages had
not their antipodes, but it is certainly other
wise now. "Where our fathers' beads were,
there now are our feet. Everything is the re
verse in this generation of what it -was in the
lost. Medicine condemns those things which
-M-dictne did enjoin, and enjoins those things
which were forbidden. What onr parents
revered that we trim into burlesque, and what
they cast aside as worthless that we collect and
treasure. Maxims that moulded -the conduct
in the last generation are trampled under foot
in this, and principles thought immutable are
broken by the succeeding age, as royal seals are
broken on the death of the sovereign. If we
were bred up by our fathers in high Toryism,
when of age we turn a somersault and pose as
Social Democrats; if we learned the gospel at
our mother's knee we profess Buddhism with
the sprouting of our whiskers. The social and
moral barriers set up by our fathers we throw
down, and just as pigs when driven in one di
rection turn their snouts the other way, so do
we so do our children, which is an evidence in
favor of Darwinlanism, showing that the por
cine character still inheres.
It was regarded of old as a canon by romance
writers, that the final chapter of the last vol
ume, be it the se. enth as in the days of Rich
ardson, or the third as in the days of Mudie
and Smith, should end with the marriage of
the hero and heroine. A cruel and wayward
late held the couple apart through the entire
story, but they came together in the end. And
there was a reason for this. Marriage is the
. oUpar of the romance of life. It concludes
one epoch and opens another, and that which
It opens is prosaic It was concluded, and con
cluded with some show of reason thataro-
SURYEI OF TRADE.
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Tropical Fruits and Fancy Apples
- Active, Eg?s Firmer.
B0DTHER5 CROP PROSPECT BRIGHT
aHiot Week in Cereal Lines, With Corn
as the Exception.
iflOG PEODUCTS SHOW IMPROVEMENT
, Office of Ptttsbuhg Dispatch, I
v Saturday. April 27, 1889. J
Jfe- In'the lines of country produce there has
"(been an increase in volume of tradethis week
over last. The old stock of vegetables has
been shoved onto market; at nominal prices.
" A Liberty street produce commission merchant
, reports sales of a fair article of old potatoes at
20c per bushel. The time is close at hand when
new stock will be in lull supply. Cincinnati
markets are already supplied with Southern
potatoes, and Pittsburg will be supplied by
rincxt week.
The only question with holders of old stock
now is, bow much can be realized? Another
week will bring the new crop to the front. Ad-
. vices from the South are that prospects there
for vegetables and fruit are unusually good.
The danger line is passed. tWith prospects of
sew garden stuff extra good the old stock finds
bard roads to travel. The oldest commission
man does not recall the time when potatoes
- ' were as low at this season of the year as they
are now. A marked feature of the week has
been the advance In choice apples. Ten days
ago apples were slow at S2, as the outside price
for fancy. The past few days the same have
been selling readily at $3.
Tropical fruits have been moving out freely
the past week, and the drift is upward.
"" Eres. too. cive sicns of firmness. Snnnlv has
.been above demand for a number of w eeks
apast, but this week supply and demand are
laoout equal.
JjjA drop ot lc in Elgin creamery butter is the
fonly change of tb week. The time has come
Iwhen, according to experience of former sea
1 sons, butter must have a fall. So far it has
jheld uo beyond expectations of dealers. Said
iaTleadine lobber of cheese, butter and ectrs to-
'day, "Our trade has been beyond expectations
uirnugn me weeK lonowing easier, ana mucn
TiAttpr than ttiA rnrriennnrtlT,. vpptnf a tm.
' f ago. April has already made a much better
.. record than last April, with two good days still
ito hear from."
,." Cerealn.
The tone of markets gives few signs of im-
provement the past week. In general there has
Uieen a weakening in most lines. Com has been
itho exception. Shell corn is scarce and firm at
ian advance over last week's prices. Oats are
S-"in supply beyona the demands of trade, and
.prices have shown drooping tendencies all the
week. j..The same is in a measure true of bran
and bay. A better quality of oats and hay has
been coming to markets ot late than for months
past, but this faot does not serve to arrest the
downward drift. Receipts of cereals have been
larger this week than for a month past.
Flour is 23c per barrel low er than last Satur
day, and Jobbers report sluggish markets at
the decline. Said a leading grain operator: "I
'- have had the lightest trade this week that I
have bad since the beginning of the year." A
"i good U. P-. who will not swear, overhearing
this statement, said: "It is a darned good thing
' h 3"on" sales were light, for there would have
tu e ls on Ilnost everything you could
"5f have sold in cereal lines the past week."
'Hoc nnd Hoe Product.
Though receipts of hogs have been light at
liberty yards, there has been a downward
drift in prices. Pork packers complain that
the price of hogs has beentoo high all the sea
son, and products too low. An improvement
in markets for bog products is noted in the
pastfewdays.
A representative of one of our leading pork
packing firms thusputstbe present situation of
his industry: "We Jiave learned not to expect
mum, ana are not dttappointea with the slow
ness of trade. There arc signs of improvement
in the Oatt fn .-.- Tl-manri Ik Iinnrndni.
(.but prices are unchanged. It Is a comfort to
I .w i . we are down W nira Pan anQ trade
55"" . "urse."
jJVlesspork touched In Immt noint for the
Chicago the Mav nn.;.. - enw ci,...
l?fal1.,.a5Tnced o $11 Ml All signs point
toTalbetter dav tor wi, nu.irar ts;
llAMMiTOOm for fmnr..M-. t..r.t,t t-
nWt industry reaches a MtesfMtory but. J
PUBLISHED.!
RESERVED.
mance should deal with the romantic period of
life and finish when that reaches its apogee.
The Parliament nf Ijove at Toulouse in the
Twelfth century laid down that love and mar
riage were mutually exclusive terms; that ro
mance died in the sound of wedding bells, or
at longest lingered to the expiration of the
honeymoon. This law has governed novelists
ever since. The Ingenuity of the author has
consisted in devising impediments to the union
of the lovers, and in knocking them out of
their way as the story neared its conclusion.
But in this revolutionary age we have dis
carded the rnle; and carried away by the inno
vating stream the author of this tale has ven
tured to displace the marriage. Had he been
completely lost to reverence for the ancient
canons, in his desire to ba original, he would
have opened his novel with a wedding proces
sion, strutting to the carriages over strewn
flowers, holding bouquets, with the peal of
wedding bells, while the bridegroom's man
circulates, tipping the parson, the curate, the
pewopener, the sexton, the clerk, the bell ring
ers, and all the other sharks that congregate
about a bridegroom, as the fish congregate
about a ship on board of which is a corpse.
But, as the author is still held in check by old
rule, or prejudice, and yet yields somewhat to
the modern spirit of relaxation, he compro
mises between the extremes, and introduces
the marriage in the middle of his tale.
In a novel, a marriage is always built up of
much romantic and picturesque and floral ad
junct. It Is supposed necessarily to Involve
choral hymns, white favors, bridal veils, orange
blossoms, tears in the bride, flaming cheeks in
the bridegroom, speeches at the breakfast, an
old slipper, and a shower of rice. Without
these condiments a wedding is a very insipid
dish.
But here we are forced to innovate.
The marriage of Philip Pennycomequlck and
Salome Cusworth was hurried on; there was no
necessity for delay, and it was performed in a
manner so prosaic as to void it of every feature
of romance and refinement.
In the pansh church there was morning prayer
every day at 9, and this service Salome fre
quently attended.
On one morning as it happened, a gray one.
with a spitting sky Philip also attended ma
tins, from "the wicked man" to the final
"Amen." When, however, the service was
concluded a service attended by five Sisteis
of Mercy and three devout ladies the vicar,
instead of leaving the desk, coughed, blew his
nose and glowered down the chnrch.
Then the clerK began to fumble some books,
the five Sisters of Mercy perked up, the devout
ladies, who had moved from their seats to
ward the church door, were seized with a sus
picion that something unusual was about to
takef place, and hastily returned to their
places. The Sisters ot Mercy had with them
one penitent, whom with sugar plums they
were alluring into the paths of virtue. It at
once occurred to the religious women that to
witness a wedding would have an elevating,
Wealthy effect on their penitent, and they re
.Jived to stay, for hex sake, for her sake only,
they, for their parts, being raised above all
mundane interests. Also, the servants of the
vicarage, which adjoined the churchyard, by
some means got wind of what was about to oc
cur, and slipped ulsters over their light cotton
gowns and tucked their caps under pork-pie
hats and tumbled into church, breathing
heavily.
Then Philip, trying to look as if nothing was
about to happen, came out of his pew, and in
doing so stumbled over a hassock, knocked
down bis umbrella which leaned against the
pew, and sent some hymnals and church ser
vices about the floor. Then he walked up the
church, and was joined by Balome and her sister
The tone both here and Chicago is certainly an
improvement on what it was a weckago.
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
Condition of the Market nt the East IJberty
Stock Yards.
Office of Pittsburg Dispatch, l
Saturday. April 27, 18t9. J
Cattle Receipts, 6C0 head; shipments,
520 head: market steady at unchanged prices;
no cattle shipped to New York to-day.
Hoos Receipts. 1,300 head: shipments. 1,900
bead; market slow; all grades, (4 E5l 95; 5
cars of hogs shipped to New York to-day.
Sheep Receipts, 1.000 bead: shipments, 200
head; market slow at unchanged prices.
By Telegraph.
St. Louis Cattle Receipts. 100 head: ship
ments, 100 head; market steadr; choice heavy
m-UIve steers. J3 S0GJ4 40: fair to good do. $3 00J?
4 00; stockcrs and feeders, fair to good, $2 10
3 00: rangers, corn-fed. f2 703 SO: gras-fcd.
SI 902 75. Hogs Receipts. 700 head; ship
ments, 1,500 head: market strong; choice
heavy and butchers' selections, S4 604 75:
packing, medium to prime, SI 404 60: light
trades, ordinary to best, 4 CWS4 70. Sheep
Receipts, none; shipment. 1,200 head; mar
ket steady; fair to choice, S3 004 75.
Kansas Crxr Cattle Receipts. 1,068 head;
shipments, none: market about steady: good to
choice corn-fed, S3 904 25: common to medinm,
53 003 80; Blockers and feeding steers, 2 0O
3 60: cows. $1 753 25. Hogs Receipts, ICbO
head; shipments, 1,425 head; market slow, weak
and 5c lower; good to choice. $4 504 57:
common to medium, 54 254 50. Sheep
Receipts, 44 head: shipments, none: market
steady to weak: good to choice muttons, S4 5
4 oO: common to medium, 2 604 00.
Chicago Cattle Receipts. 1,700 head:
shipments, none: market sIot and steady;
choice beeves $4 00(24 20: steers, S3 253 90;
stackers and feeders, f2 353 40; cows,bullsand
mixed, SI 753 15; Texao steers,, S3 253 SO.
Hoes Receipts. 9,000 headf shipments 4.500
bead: market strong: mixed, S4 604 75: heavy,
54 554 75: light. S4 604 80; skips. S3 504 4a
hheen Receipts, 1.500 head; shipments, none;
market weak; natives. S3 003 95; Western,
S3 50Q4 90; lambs. S4 905 80.
Buffalo Cattle Receipts. 2,900 h ead
through; 100 head sale: active and a shade
higher. Sheep and lambs Receipts, 200 head
through; 3,600 bead sale; sheep slow and
lower; lambs firm. Hogs Receipts, 4.200 head
through; 500 head sale; active and higher;
mediums, 34 95; Yorkers, S5 05.
Cincinnati Hogs firm; common and light,
4 004 Co: packing and butcher'. S4 504 70;
receipts, 1,040 head; shipments, 1,140 head.
Satnrdny'n OH Market.
Bradford. April 27. National transit cer
tificates opened at S4c; highest, 84Jc: lowest,
S4c: closed at 84c;
Tttustiixe, April 27. National transit Cer
tificates opened at 84c: highest, 85c; low
est, 84c; dosed, 84Kc
Ori Cut. April 27. National transit cer
tificates opened at 84c; highest, 85c; low
est. S4Jc; closed. 84Kc
New York, April 27, Petroleum opened
weak at 84, but after declining to 81 moved
up slightly on small buying orders Irom the
West, and closed steadv at 84. Consolidated
Exchanges opened at 84JjT; highest, 85; lowest,
84M; closing, 84. Stock Exchange opened ar
84H: highest. 81; lowest, S4Ji; closing, 84.
Total sales, 463,000 barrels.
Sletal Markets.
New York Pig iron quiet. Copper firmer;
lake. May, S14 25. Lieaddull; domestic, S3 65.
Tin quiet and steadier; Straits, S20 5a
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and mother. No psalm was sung, no '"voice
breathed o'er Eden," but the Sisters of Mercy
intoned the responses with vociferous ardor,
and the penitent took the liveliest Interest In
the ceremonial, expressing her Interest in gig
gles and suppressed "Oh. my's!"
Finally, after "amazement," the parson, clerk,
bride and bridegroom, and witnesses adjourned
to the vestry, where the vicar made his cus
tomary joke about the lady signing her sur
name for the last time.
The bellringers knew nothing about the wed
ding, and having deen udfnrewarned were not
present to ring a peaL No carriages with
white favors to horses and driver was at the
doorof the church no cab was kept atMer
gatroyd no rice was thrown, no slipper cast. ,
The little party walked quietly and unob
served back to their house under umbrellas,
and on reaching borne partook of a breakfast
that consisted of fried fish, bacon, eggs, toast,
butter and home maae marmalade. No guests
were present, no speeches were made, no
healths drunk. There was to be no wedding
tour. Philip could not leave the mill, and the
honeymoon must be passed in the smoky at
mosphere of Mergatroyd. and without the in
termission of the daily routine of work.
As Philip walked home with Salome under
the same umbrella, from the points of which
the discolored water dropped, he said in a low
tono to her, "I have, as you desired, offered
your mother to manage her affairs for her. She
has accepted my offer, and 1 have looked
through her accounts. She has very little
money."
"I do not suppose she can have much; my
poor father died before ho was in a position to
save any considerable sum."
"She has about 500 in Indian railway bonds,
and a couple of hundred in a South American
loan, and some 300 in home railways about
1,500 to 1,600 in all that is to say she had this
a little while ago."
"And has it still, no doubt."
"No: you yourself told me she had met with
losses."
"She informed me that she had, but I cannot
understand how this can have been. 1 doubt
entirely that she met with losses."
"Bnt she allowed me to see her book, and
she has sold oat some stock in fact, between
two and three hundred pounds' worth. She did
that almost immediately after my uncle's
death."
"But she has the money realized, I suppose."
"None at all. It is gone."
"Goner
"She cannot and will not account for it to
me. except by the vague explanation that she
had a sudden and unexpected call upon her
which she was forced to meet."
"But she said nothing about this to me.. It
Is very odd."
"It is, as you say, odd. It is, of course, possi
ble that Janet may have had something to do
with it, but 1 cannot say; your mother will not
enlighten me."
"I cannot understand this," said Salome,
musingly!
"I regret my offer," said Philip. "I would
not have made it if I had not thought I should
be met with candor, and given the information
I desired."
When Sirs. Sidebottom beard that the mar
riage had actually taken place, then her moral
senso reared like a cob unaccustomed to the
curb.
"It is a scandal f" she exclaimed, "and so
shortly after my sweet brother's death. A bag
man's daughter, too !"
"Uncle Jcromiah died in November," said
the Captain.
"Well, and this is March. To marry a bag
man's daughter in March I It is a scandal, an
outrage on the family."
"My uncle would have had no objections, I
suppose. Philip is as good as Mr. Baynes."
"As good 1 How you talk. Lamb, as if all the
brains in your skull had gone to water. Philip
is a Pennycomequlck; and Baynes is, of course,
a Baynes."
"What of that?"
"Mr. Baynes was a manufacturer."
"So Is Philip."
"Well, yes; for his sins. But then he Is allied
to us who have dropped an n, and capitalised a
Q, and adopted and inserted a hyphen. Mr.
Baynes was not in the faintest degree related
to us. Philip has behaved with gross indecency.
A bagman's daughter within five months of his
uncle's death! Monstrous. If she had been his
social equal we could have waived the month
DOMESTIC MAEKETS.
Potatoes Dull, Tropical Fruit and
Fancy Apples Active.
EGGS FIRMEB, CREAMERY STEADY.
Heavy Cereal EeceiptsHay, Oata and
Bran Drifting Down.
C0EN THE STE0KG CEREAL FACTOR
office or Pittsburg Dispatch,
Saturday, April 27, 1S8S.
Country Prodnce Jobblne Prices.
Old potatoes have nothing more than a nomi
nal value. Produce men are cleaning out old
stock t whatever it will bring to prepare a
place for the new crop. One dealer said thathe
closed out his old stock at 20c a bushel.
Large quantities of old vegetables are travel
ing to the garbage pile of late.
Choice apples are firm at an advance of 1 00
per barrel over prices of a week or two ago.
Tropical fruit is in good demand. Two firms
report the handling of eight carloads of banan
as each the past week. The greatest activity
in produce lines this week has been in fruit
from the tropics.
There is a good demand for ezgs and cream
ery butter, and prices vary very little from a
week ago. New Ohio cheese Is improving
steadily in quality, and it cannot be long until
the new will be up to the old.
Butteb Creamery. Elgin, 272Sc: Ohio do,
2526c; fresh dairy packed, 2021c; country
roll. 2023c; Chartiers Creamery Co. butter,
2829c
Beans $1 751 9a
Beeswax 28a30c $ ft for choice; low grade,
1820c
Cider Sand refined, 6 5007 60; common,
$3 604 00: crab cider, RS 008 SO ?l barrel;
cider vinegar, 1012c f gallon.
Cheese New Ohio cheese, 910c: Ohio
cheese, fall make, 1212Kc; New york, fall
make, 12Q12Kc; Limimrger, 910c; domestic
bweitzer cheese, HK12Kc.
DriedPeas $1 251 So $) bushel; split do,
2&S3&C 9 .
Eqgs llUHc -p dozen for strictly fresh:
oose eggs, 55c dozen; duck eggs, 18c fl
ozen.
Fruits Apples, 82 003 00 ?) barrel; evap
orated raspberries, 25c $1 ft; cranberries. S-i5
jH barrel, S0cSl 00 per bushel; strawberries,
2335c a quart.
Feathers Extra live geese. 6060c; No. I
do.. 4045c; mixed lots, 30ffiS5c fl ft.
Honey New crop. 1817c; buckwheat, 13
15c
Hominy S2 652 75 f? barrel.
Potatoes Potatoes. 3035c bushel: SS 75
4 00 for Jersey sweets; seed sweets,. $2 60
2 75.
Poultry Live chickens, 73S0c fl pair;
undrawn chickens, 10 12c f) ft; drawn, 14
15c fl ft: turkeys, 1820c dresed. fl ft; ducks,
live, 6070c fl pair; dressed, 1314c fl ft; geese,
live, SI U01 2o fl pair.
Seeds Clover.choice, 62 fts to bushel, $5 60 fl
bushel; clovcr.large English, 62 Bs,$6 00: clover,
Alsike, $8 50; clover, white, S3 00: timothy,
choice. 45 fts, $1 65; blue grass, extra clean, 14
fts, 90c: blue grass, fancy. 14 fts. $1 00: orchard
crass, 14 fts, tl 65; red top, 14 fts. $1 25: millet,
50 lis, SI 00: German millet, 60 fts, Jl 60; Hun
garian grass, 60 fts Si 00; lawn grass, mixture
of fine grasses, S2 SO fl bushel of 14 fts.
Tallow Country, 4K5c; city rendered.
55Kc
Tropical Fruits Lemons, fancy, $3 S0Q
6 60 f) box; Messina oranges, S3 005 00
fl box: Valencia oranges, fancy. $5 60
7 00 fl case: bananas, ?2 60, firsts; SI 50, good
seconds ? buncb; cocoanuts, S4 004 60 ft
hundred; uew tigs, 910e fl pound: dates, 5&
6Vc f? pound.
Vegetables Celery, 4050c doz. bunches:
cabbages, S3 601 00 fl hundred: new cabbage,
S3 003 50 fl crate; onions. SI 001 25 fl barrel;
onion eel's, faney Eries. S2.603 00; Jersevs.
S2 002 50; turnips, 4060c f) barrel.
Groceries.
Green Coffe Fancy Bio. 22023c: choice
BJo,2021c; prime Rio, 20c;. fair Rio, 18K019c;
old Government- Java, 27c, Maracaibo, 2223c;
Mocha, -30K31Kc; 8antos, 19g22; Caracas
coffee, 20K22c; peaberry, Rio, 2123c; La
guayra, 2122c.
Roasted (in papers) Standard brands. 24c;
high grades, 26Q28c; old Government Java,
duik. ffiHKJjfc; JuaracaiDo,Z7428J4c, Santos,
txg-iiz; peaoerry. Z7C; peaberry Santos, 222ic;
vuuiko .ni, u?yr, prune xvio, xsc; gooa .Bio.
4acj uiuwary, 2i?&c.
but, a bagman's daughter! I feel as if allied to
blackbeetles."
"Her father was about to be taken into
partnership when he died," argued the cap
tain. "If he had been a partner, that would have
been another matter, and I should not have
been so pained and mortified; but he was not,
and a man takes his position by the place be
occupied when he died, not by that which he
might have occupied bad he lived. "Why, if
Sidebottom had lived and been elected Mayor
of Northingham in the year of the Prince's
visit he might have been knighted, but that
does not make me Lady Sidebottom."
"You call him a bagman," said Captain Lam
bert, "but I should say he was a commercial
traveler."
"And does that mend matters? Do seven
sylables make a difference! A dress improver
is no other than a bustle, and an influenza than
a cold In the head."
"All I know is," said the Captain, "that his
daughters are deuced pretty girls, and as good
a pair of ladies as j ou will meet anywhere. Tve
known some of your grand ladies say awfully
stupid things, and I can't imagine Janet doing
that; and some do rather mean things, and
Salome could not by any chance do what was
unkind or ungenerous. I've a deuce of a mind
to propose to Janet, as I have been chiseled out
of my 160.
"Chiseled out!"
"Yes; out of my annuity. If the will had
been valid I should have had that of my own;
but now I havo nothing and am forced to goto
you for every penny to buy tobacco. It is dis
gusting. Til marry Janet. I am glad she is a
widow and available. She has a hundred and
fifty per annum of her own, and is certainly
left something handsome by Baynes."
"Fiddlesticks!" exclaimed Mrs. Sidebottom.
"I will, indeed, unless I am more liberally
treated. I hate to be dependent on you for
everything. I wish I haa served a caveat
against your getting administration of the
property, and done something, to get the old
will put to rights."
Mrs. Sidebottom turned green with anger
and alarm.
"I will go to Philip's wedding breakfast, or
dinner, or dance, or whatever he is going to
have, and snatch a kiss from little Janet, pull
her behind the window curtains and propose
for her 150, 1 will."
Lambert's mother was very angry, but she
said no more. She knew the character of her
son; he would not bestir himself to do what he
threatened. His bark was worse than his bite.
He fumed and then turned cold.
But Philip gave no entertainment on his
wedding day, invited no one to bis house: con
sequently Lambert had not the opportunity he
desired for pulling Janet behind the window
curtains, snatching a kiss and proposing for
her 160.
"I shall refuse to them," said Mrs. Sidebot
tom. "And return to York?" asked her son.
"I can't leave at once," answered the mother.
"I have the house on my hands. Besides, I
must have an eye on the factory. Lamb, if
you bad any spirit in yon you would learn
bookkeeping, so as to be able to control the ac
counts. I do not trust Philip; how can I, when
be marries a bagman's daughter? It i a proof
of deficiency in common sense, and a lack of
sense of rectitude. Who was Salome's mother?
Wa do not know her maiden name. These sort
of people are like diatoms that fill the air, and
no one can tell whence they came and what
they are. They are everywhere about us and
all equally Insignificant"
Mrs. Sidebottom had but the ears of her son
into which to pour her discontent, for she had
no acquaintances in Mergatroyd.
On coming there she had been meet bvthe
manufacturers' wives in a cordial spirit. Her
brother was highly respected, and they has
tened to call on her and express their readi
ness to do her any kindness she might need as
stranger in the town. She would have been
received Into the society there a genial one
had she been inclined. But she was super
cilious. She allowed the ladles of Mergatroyd
to understand that she belonged to another
anda higher order of beings, and that the days
in which the gods and goddesses came down
from Olympus to hold converse with men were
over.
The consequence was that she was left to her
self, and she grumbled at the dullness of a
place which was only dull to her, because of
her want of tart. No more kindly, friendly
Spices (whole) Cloves, 2125c; allspice, 9c;
cassia, 89c: pepper. 19c; nutmeg. fOgSOc
Petroleum (jobbers' prices) 110 test, 7c;
Ohio. 120, 8Kc; headlight, 150. 8Ke: water
white, 10c: globe, 12c; elaine, 15b; carnadine,
114C; ro) aline, 14c.
Syrups Corn syrups, 2b29c; cholre sugar
syrup, 3338c;primesngarsyrup,3033c; strict
ly prime, 33&c: new maple syrup, 90c
N. O. Molasses Fancy, 48c; choice, 46c; me
dium, 43c: mixed, 4042c ,
Soda Bi carb in kegs, 3K4e; bi-narb in s,
5c: bi-carb, assorted packages. 56c; sal
soda in kegs, lCc: do granulated, 2c
Candles Star, full weight, 9c; stearlne,per
set, 8c; paraffin e, ll12c
Rice Head, Carolina, 77Kc; choice, 6Ji
7c; prime. 5&6Vc; Louisiana, 60Xc
STARcn Pearl, 3c; cornstarch, 6k7c; gloss
starch, S7c
Foreign Frctts Layer raisins, S2 65; Lon
don layers, S3 10; California London layers,
S2 50; Muscatels, S2 25: Caifornia Muscatels,
SI 85; Valencia, new, 67c; Ondara Valencia,
JX8c; sultana, 8s; currants, new, 4J4oo
Turkey prurjts. new, 45c: French prunes,
813c; Salonlca prunes, in 2-ft packages, 8c;
cocoanuts, per 100, S6 00; almonds, Lan , per ft,
20c do ivica, 19c; do shelled, 40c; walnuts, nap..
1215c; Sicily filberts. 12c; Smyrna figs, 12K
luc; new dates, 6Ji6c; Brazil nuts, 10c;
pecans, ll15c; citron, per ft, 2122c; lemon
peel, per ft. 1314c; orange peel, 12Kc
Dried Fruits Apples, slicea, per ft, 6c;
apples, evaporated, 6V6c: apricots, Callfor
nea, evaporated. 1518c; peaches, evaporated,
pared, 224223c; peaches, California, evaporated,
unparcd, 1012Kc: cherries, pitted, 2122c;
cherries, unpitted, 56c; raspberries, evapor
ated. 212lkc; blackberries, 7i8c; huckle
berries. 1012c
SUGARS Cubes. 9a9Vc: nnwrterorl DMSt)
9sC; granulated, 9c; confectioners' A. 8i3Jic;
Pickles Medium, bbls. itanm. u m. mn.
dlums, half bbls. (600). S2 75.
Salt No. 1 fl bul, 95c: No. 1 ex. f! bbl, SI 05;
dairy, ft bbl, SI 20; coarse crystal, fl bbl. 81 20;
Higgln's Eureka, i bu sacks, $2 80, Higgin's
Eureka. 16-14 ft pockets, S3 00
Canned Goods Standard peaches, SI 30
1 90; 2ds. SI 301 35; extra peaches, SI 501 90;
pie peaches, 90c; finest corn, Jl 001 60; Hfd.
Co. corn, 7090c: red cherries, 90c81 00; Lima
beans, 81 10; soaked do, 85c: string do do, 75
85c; marrowfat peas. Si 101 15; soaked peas,
7075c; pineapples, $1 401 60: Bahama do,
$2 75; damson plums. 95c; greengages, 81 25;
egg plums, 82 00, California pears, S2 50; do
greengages. S2 00: do egg plums, S2 l; extra
white cherries, S3 90; red cherries, 2 fts, 90c;
raspberries, 81 401 50; strawberries. SI 10:
gooseberries, SI 201 30: tomatoes, 82KS2c;
salmon, 1-ft, 81 752 10; blackberries, bOc; suc
cotash, 2-ft cans, boaked, 99c; do green, 2fts,
SI 25Q1 50; corn beef, 2 ft cans, $1 75; 14-ft cans,
813 SO: baked beans. $1 401 4o; lobster, 1 ft.
SI 751 W); mackerel, 1 ft cans broiled, SI 60;
sardines, domestic Js, 84 154 60; sardines,
domestic, Ks, S8 258 50; sardines, imported,
3, 811 6012 60; sardines, imported. Us, 818 00;
sardines, mustard, 84 00. sardines, spiced, $4 25.
Fish Extra No. 1 bloateV mackerel, S36 fl
bbl.; extra No. 1 do, mess. 8M; extra No. 1
mackerel.shore, $32; extra No. 1 do. messed. 836:
No. 2 shore mackerel, 824. Codfish Whole
pollock. 4c f) ft ; do medium, George's cod,
6c; do large. Tic; boneless hake. In strips. 6c; do
Georeo's cod in blocks, 6Ji7Kc Herring
Round shore, 85 00 fl bbl.; split, S7 00; lake, 82 50
fl 100-ft. half bbl. White fish, $7 53 100-ft. half
bbl. Lake trout, 85 50 fl half bbl. Finnan
haddock, 10c ft ft. Ireland halibut, 13c $ ft.
Pickerel. K barrel, F2 W-.Q barrel. 81 la
Buckwheat Klour 252Vc W ft.
Oatmeal 86 )6 60 fl bbl.
Miners' Oil No. 1 winter strained. 6560o
fl gallon. Lard oil, 75c.
Grnln, Flour nnd Feed.
Total receipts bulletined at the Grain Ex
change, 23 cars. By Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne and
Chicago, 3 cars of hay, 2 of oats, 6 of flour.
By Baltimore and Ohio, 1 car of oats, 1 of hay.
By Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Loui?, 3 cars of
oats. By Pittsburg and Lake Erie, 2 cars of oats,
1 of bran, 1 of middlings, 1 of feed, 1 of rye, 1
of wheat. Sales on call. 2 cars No. I timothy
haj, 813 00, May. Total receipts for the week
were 212 cars, against 189 last and ISO the previ
ous week. Supplies in all lines excepting corn
are in exeess of demand, and markets are de
pressed. Oats, bran and hay are particularly
slow. Wheat is steady. The quality of Oats
and hay coming to the front of late is an im
provement on what has been received for a
few months past. But the improvement in
grade fails to stimultte markets.
Wheat Jobbing prices No. 2 red. 8697c:
No. 3 reL.8588c
corn jno. -i yenow ear, 4142c; high
o. 2 white. 81r32c: extra. No. 8.
r JKc: No. 3 white. 28Ve29c: No. 2 mixed.
C28C .,..-
IYE No. 1 Western.1- 70075c: No. 2. 5SSfic-
Barley No. 1 Canada. 9598c: No, 2 Cana
ls. 85066c: No. 3 Canada. 70)72c: TaVk Rhnro
7S8ec. '
people are to be found in England than the
North Country manufacturers, but the quali
ties of frankness, directness, which are con
spicuous in them, were precisely those quali
ties which Mrs. Sidebottom was incapable of
appreciating, were qualities which to her mind
savored of barbarism.
And yet Mrs. Sidebottom belonged, neither
by birth nor by marriage nor by acceptance, to
a superior class. She was the daughter of a
manufacturer, and the widow of a small coun
try attorney. As the paralytic in the sheep
market waited for an angel to put him into the
pool, so did Mrs. Sidebottom spend her time
and exhaust her powers in vain endeavors to
get dipped in the cleansing basin of county so
ciety, in which she might be purged of the taint
of trade. And, like the paralytic of the story,
she had to wait, and was disappointed annual
ly, and bad the mortification of seeing some
neighbor or acquaintance step past ber and en
ter the desired circle, while she was making
ready and beating about for an introducer.
She attended concerts, public balls, went to
missionary meetings; she joined working par
ties for charitable objects, took stalls at
bazaars, hoping by these means to get within
the vortex of the fashionable world and drawn
in, but was always disappointed. Round every
eddy may be Been sticks and straws that spin
on their own axes; they make dashes inward,
and are repelled, never succeeding in being
caught by the coil of the whirlpool. So was she
ever hovering on the outskirts of the aristo
cratic ring, ever aiming to pierce it, and always
missing her object.
A poem by Kenrick, written a the corona
tion of George HX, represents that celebrated
beauty and toast, tne Countess of Coventry, re
cently deceased, applying to Pluto for permis
sion to return to earth and mingle in the enter
tainments of the coronation. Pluto gives his
consent; she may go but as a ghost remain
unseen.
Then says the Counter:
"A fig for fine sights, if unseen one's fine face.
What signifies seeing. If oneself is not seen t"
So Mrs. Sidebottom found that it was very
little pleasure to her to hover about genteel so
ciety, and see into it, without herself being
seen in It. Her descent to Mergatroyd was in
part due to a rebuff she had met with at York,
quite as much as to her desire to conciliate her
half-brother. She trusted that when she re
turned to York she would be so much richer
than before that this would afford her the
requisite momentum which might impel her
within the magic circle, within which, when
once rotating, she would be safe, confident of
being able to maintain her place
"My dear Lamb," said she, "I may inform
you, in the strictest confidence, that I see my
way to become wealthy. There Is a speculation
on foot, of which I have received information
through my York agent, to buy up land ana
bnild a great health resort near Bridlinzton, to
be called lodlnopolis or Yeoville, the name is
not quite fixed. No one is to know anything
about it but the few who take preference
shares. I am most anxious to realize some of
the securities that came to me through my dar
ling brother's death, so as to invest. The man
ager is called Beaple Yeo."
"Never heard of him."
"And the chairman Is the Earl of Schofield.
Mr. Beaple Yeo and the Earl together guaran
tee 17 per cent think of that. Lamb! on their
own guarantee! aii Earl, too and the funds
are only three or three and a half!"
CHAPTER XXVL
Hymen.
A twelvemonth slipped away, easily, hap
pily; to none more so than to Philip Penny
oomequlck. To the Fates, how strange must seem the
readiness with which women plunge into mat
rimony, and the shyness with which some men
look at it; for matrimony is emphatically an in
stitution designed for the comfort of man irre
spective of the int rests of the woman. The
married man;ceaSo3 to have care about his
meals, they come to him; he gives no thought
to his servants, they are managed for him; he
is not troubled about his clothing, it now hangs
together, whereas formerly it fell to pieces.
When the married man prepares to shave, the
soao dish is full, his tidy is clean, his razors in
order; the bachelor finds all in confusion. Be
fore marriage, he who had a cook was served
with Indian rubber; after it, he gets his meat
succulent and well cooked. Before marriage,
the linen went to the wash and only half re-
Flour Jobbing prices, winter patents'
85 75 00: spring patents, 86 006 25; winter
straight, 85 005 25; clear winter, 84 7505 00:
straight XXXX bakers', 84 254 60. Rye flour,
83 5033 75.
Millfeed Middlings, fine white, S15 00
16 00 f) ton: brown middlings, 811 6012 50;
winter wheat bran, 813 00Q13 oO; choD feed,
815'0016 00.
Hay Baled timothy, choice, Sll 50(314 75;
No. ldo,S135014 00: No. 2 do, 811 0012 50:
loose from wagon, S18 0020 00: No. 1 upland
prairie, 810 5011 00; No. 2. 89 5010 00; packing
do. So 503650.
Straw Oats. 88 U0825; wheat and rye
straw,87 00760800.
Provisions.
Sugar-cured hams, large, lOJJc sugar-cured
hams, medium, lie; sugar-cured hams, small,
llc: sugar-cured breakfast bacon, lOc; sugar
cured shoulders, 8c; sugar-cured boneless
shoulders, 9c; sugar-cured California hams,
8c; sugar-cured dried beef flats, 8c;-sup:ar-cured
dried beef sets, 9c; sugar-cured dried
beef rounds, llc; bacon shoulders, TV; bacon
clear sides, 8c; bacon clear bellies, 8c: dry
salt shoulders, 6c: dry salt clear sides 7c
Mess pork, heavy, 814 00: mess pork, family,
SU 50. Lard Refined in tierces, 7c; half
barrels, 7fc: 60-ft tubs, 7cj 20-tt pails. 7Jc; 50
ft tin cans, 7Kc: 3-ft tin pails, 8c; 5-ft tin pails,
7c; 10-ft tin pails, 7c Smoked sausige, long,
5c; large, 5c Fresh pork links, 9c Pigs feet,
half barrel, 84 00; quarter barrel, 81 90.
Dressed Blent.
Armour & Co. furnish the following prices
on dressed meats: Beef carcasses, 450 to 550 fts,
Sc; 550 to 650 fts 6Vc: 650 to 750 fts, 6Uc Sheep,
8c fl ft. Lambs, 9c fl ft. Hogs, Gc Fresh
pork loins, 9c
MAEKETSBY WIRE.
Storms In Dakota Bull the Wheat Market
The July Option. Higher Corn
Drops a Fraction Onla Steady
Hoc Prodncts a Trifle
Lower.
Chicago Trading in wheat to-day was spas
modically active and the feeling unsettled,
prices advanced sharply from yesterday's clos
ing, but the advance was not sustained. July
opened c higher and advanced a more, then
declined c and closed o higher than yester
day. The early strength was due to firmer
cables.
Reports of severe wind storms in Dakota
and dry weather in the Northwest and that
rain will be badly needed thero within a week,
together with reports that 14 boat loads of
wheat bad been taken in all at New York yes
terday helped to strengthen the market. The
shorts covered freely. At the advance there
was considerable realizing by New York parties
who bought at the lower flgures,being sufficient
to cause a sharp reaction from top prices
reached,af ter which the market ruled steadier.
A large business was transacted in corn and
lower prices were established. The market
opened a shade lower than the closing yester
day, was steady for a time, then sold off c,
Teacted e, ruled steady and closed o lower
than yesterday.
An active business transpired in oats, and a
lower range of prices was recorded. The open
ing was very weak, at c decline, due to
large arrivals. There was a rush to sell at the
start, and the lowest prices of the day were
made the first few minutes. After sellers had
unloaded buyers took hold, and prices ad
vanced c A slight reaction followed, but
the, close was steady at about the same as
yesterday's closing.
Very little business was transacted in hog
products. Prices averaged a trifle lower and
fluctuations were confined within a narrow
range, closing at about medium figures.
The leading rutures rangea as follows:
wheat ko. z Jiay. mxwuiim0i81c
June. 81KS2H81
uly. 7SXG
,
ess Pork, ner bbl. Mav. Sll 57ViS)ll Bite-
June. 811 6olf 7011 62Q11 67; July, Sll bO
qui euiaiu tfAiyii ii;
Sll 72XQ11 77U.
D, per 100 fts May. 86 87K6 85; June,
g6 9?K6 87KS6 87K; July. 6 95
L.ARD,
86 92H6
xmi.c
Corn No. 2 Mav. 83KO S3J3333Ko
J une, 34K34c: Inly, 34K353431c ;
OATS No. 2 May, .ilK2121k21Vc:
June, 21K222122c; July, 2222K22
22Kc
U
o Ki5.
Short Ribs, per 100 fts. May, $5 95: June.
SO 02KS8 02H; Jnly, 86 07K6 106 07
6 OifC
Casn quotations were as follows: Flour dull
and unchanged. No. 2 spring wheat. SlgSlKc:
No. 3 spring wheat, 7378c; No. 2 red. 81
81c No. 2 com.. 33Kc No. 2 oats, 21
2!JaC No. 2 rye. 40HC No. 2 barley nominal.
No. 1 flaxseed. 81 55. Prime timothy seed.
81 35. Mess pork, per barrel. Sll 60. Lard, per
100 lbs. Sfi S5m 87. Short ribs sides
(loose), f5 9e6 OU. Dry salted shoulders (box-
K
turned, silk handkerchiefs returned as cotton,
stockings came odd, jerseys in holes, sheets in
rags, and shirt fronts enameled with iron
mold; after marriage, everything returns in
good condition and in proper number.
Bnt to the woman matrimony is by no means
a relief from cares. On the contrary, the wo
man passes through the ring into an arena of
battle. We are told by anthropologists that in
the primitive condition of society a subdivision
of tasks took place; one set of men undertook
to till the earth and manage the domestic ani
mals, while another girded on their arms and
defended the infant community. These latter,
for their services, were fed by the tillers, housed,
and clothed, with food they had not grown,
houses they had not buiided, clothing they had
not woven. The same subdivision of labor con
tinues still in the family where the man is the
tiller and toiler, and the woman is the military
element. She marches round the confines of
bis house, fights dally battles with those foes
of domestic felicity the servants. When they
oversleep themselves, she routs them out of
their beds; when they neglect the dusting, she
flies in pursuit to bring them to their duties;
when they are impudent, she drives them out
of the house.
With what unflagging zeal does she maintain
her dally conflicts. How she countermines,
discovers ambushes, circumvents, throws open
the gates, and charges the foe !
Now consider what was the life of the girl be
fore she married. She had no worries, no war
fare, she was petted, admired; she enjoyed
herself, indulged her caprices unrestrained,
gave way to her humors nnrebuked. Her bon
nets, her dresses were given to her, she had no
care what she might eat, any more than the
lilies of the field, only, unlike them, devoting
herself to the thoughts of her clothing for
which, however, she had not to pay. Unmar
ried girls were anciently termed spinsters, and
are so derisively still in the banns, for they
formerly spunthelinen for their future homes;
now they toil not neither do tney spin.
Then comes marriage, and all is changed.
They enter into a world ot discords and disa
greement. They have to grow long nails and to
sharpen their teeth; they have tb haggle with
shopkeepers, fight their servants; whereas the
husbands, those sluggard kings ot creation,
smack their lips over their dinners and lounge
in their easy chairs, and talk politics with
their friends, and smile, and smile, unconscious
of the struggles and paBSions that rage down
stairs. The eyes that, in the girl, looked at the beau
ties of creation, in the married woman search
out delinquencies in their domestics and de
fects in the household furniture. The eyes
that looked for violets now peer for cobwebs;
that lingered lovingly on the sunset glow, now
examine the coal bill; and the ear that listed to
the song of Philomel, is now on the alert for a
male voice in the kitchen. The nose that of
old inhaled the perfume of the rose, now pokes
into pots and pans in quest of dripping.
From what has been saia above, the reader
may conclude that the position of the wife,
though a belligerent one. is at all events regal.
She is queen of the house, and if she has
trouble with servants, it is as a sovereign who
has to resist revolutionary movements among
her subjects.
No more mistaken idea can well be enter
tained. As the Pope writes himself, "Servant
of the servants of Heaven," so does the lady
of the house subscribe herself servant of the
servants of the establishment. If she searches
into their shortcomings, remonstrates, and re
sents them, it is as the subject criticising, mur
muring at, and revolting personally against
the tyranny of her oppressors. So far from
being the head of the house she is the door
mat, trampled on, kicked, set at nought,
obliged to swallow all the dirt that is brought
into the house. .
Marriage had produced a change in Philip.
It bad made him less stony, angular, formal.
Matrimony often has a remarkable effect on
those who enter into it, reducing their pecu
liarities, softening their harshnesses, and ac
centuating those points of similarity which are
to be found in the two brought into close asso
ciation, so that in conrse of time a singular re
semblance in character and features is observ
able in married folk. In an old couple there is
to be seen occasionally a likeness as that of
brother and sister. This is caused by there be
ing exposed to the same caresses and the same
strokes of fortune; they are weathered by the
same breezes; moistened by the same rains. In
addition to-the exterior forces moulding a
ed), S5 255 60. Short clear sides (boxed), 86 25
6 37K. Receipts Flour, 7.000 barrels; wheat,
18,000 bushels: corn, 160.000 bushels; oats. 125,000
bushels; rye, 11,000 bushels: barley, 14,000 bush
els. Shipments Flonr. 8,000 barrels; wheat.
21.000 bushels: com. 210,000 bushels: oats. 105.
000 bushels; rye. 6,000 bushels; barley, 10,000
bushels.
On the Produce Exchange to-day the butter
market was weak; fancy creamery, 2223c;
choice to fine, 1920c; fine dairies, 1820c; fair
to good. 1416c Eggs firm at 10llc
New York Flour quiet and held firmly
Wheat Spot dull and nominally Kc higher,
options fairly active, KC higher and heavy;
Rye quiet; western, 62c Corn Spot active,
chiefly for export and forward delivery, KStlc
lower and weak: options, moderately active,
c lower and steady. Oats Spot dull and
weak: ODtions dull. VGMa lower and weak.
Hay firm: light receipts: Bhipplng. 6570c:
good to choice, SocQSl. Coffee Options opened
firm, 10 points higher, and closed barely steady,
510 points up: sales, 23,500 bags, including
May, 16 60lB.6oc; June, 16.70c; July. 16.75c:
August, ia9016.95c; September. 17.05317.10c;
December, 17 20c; spot Rio quiet; fair
cargoes, 18Jc. Sugar Raw firmer
and quiet; lair refining. 66 7-16c;
centrifugals, 96 test. 77Jc; refined quiet
and firm. Molasses Foreign firm; New Or
leans quiet; open kettle, good to fancy. 2S42c
Rice steady and quiet; domestic, 46c: Ja
pan, 85 14. Cottonseed oil quiet: crude, 41c;
yellow, 60c, Tallow steady; sales 70 hogs
heads uty at 4c Rosin quiet and steady:
strained, common to good, 81 15, Turpentine
dull at 45c Eges steady, and quiet; western,
lSc; receipts, 3,988 packages. Fork steady and
auiet. Cutmeata slow; pickled bellies, 6K"Kc:
o. hams, 1010Kc; do. shoulders, 55?c;
middles slow; short clear, 86 55. Lard steady
and quiet: sales, western steam, 87 22: ci"y,
80 70; Mav, $7 177 20, closing at 87 19 bid;
June, $7 22; July, S7 25; August, 37 23 asked;
September, 87 32 asked. Butter easy and in
moderate demand: western dairy, Il20c; do
creamery, 1724c: Elglns, 2526c Cheese quiet
and steady; western, 810c
St. Louis Flour quiet and unchanged.
Wheat opened strong at an advance, but later
there was enough selling to depress prices,
though the closine was K6Jic above yesterday;
No 2 red, cash, 79c: May, 79803cclosing
at-79JJc; June. 775. closing 78c asked; Julv,
74755c, Closing at 74?$c asked; August,
747oi, closing 74c Com unsettled, but
closing as all other markets were lower; No. 2
cash. 30c; May,3030Kc closing at 30c; June.
viWouykd, Closing at sojiC asKea; July. 3l
310, closing at 31031c; August, 32(ffl32c,
closing at 32c asked; September, 3333jc.
closing 33c Oats firm and higher early, but
eased off late and closed weak: No. 2 cash, 23c
bid: May. 22V23Kc closing at 22Jic askedj
June, 22K23c..closing at 22c asked. Rye
No. 2. 42c Barley No market. Flaxseed,?! 45.
Provisions dull and weak.
Cincinnati Flonr dull and heavy. Wheat
dull; No. 2 red, S3c; receipts," S00 bushels;
shipments, 1,000 bushels. Corn firm: No. 2
mixed, 36c. Oats easy; No. 2 mixed, 26c Rve
quiet at 48048c Pork steady at $12,25. Lard
easier at 86 62 for current make liulkmeats
and bacon firm. Butter easier. Sugar firm.
Eggs higher. Cheese firm.
Mi
cash
No.
27c Rye firm; No. L 42c Barley dull;
No. 2, 55c Provisions unchanged. Pork.SH 60.
Lard, 86 90. Cheese steady; Cheddars, lugllc
Baltimore Provisions steady. Butter
dull and easy; Western packed, lb19c;best
roll, 1517c: creamery, 2326c E;gs dull and
weak at 10llc Coffee dull and fairly
steady; Rio fair,lJc
Philadelphia Flour weak andunsettled.
Wheat carlots dull, but steady; options dull.
Com Options weak; carlots weak. Oats Car
lots dull and weak; futures weak and lower.
Eggs steady; Pennsylvania firsts, 12c
Toledo Cloverseed dull and easier; cash
and April, $4 55. Receipts, 37 bags; shipments,
246 bags.
TAKE A LONG REST.
Stock and Oil Exchanges Adjourn Until
Thursday Morning.
At a members' meeting held on the floor
of the Exchange at 11 o'clock: Saurday it
was agreed to adjourn until 10 o'clock
Thursday. New York, Oil City and Brad
ford took, the same action. Some of the oil
men voted in the negative on account of the
critical condition of the market, and the
risk the long interest would incur, but the
stock brokers almost unanimously favored
the proposition, as it would enable them to
swap ideas and probably bring holder and
buyer into closer relations. Business in
stocks has been so unsatisfactory for several
days that any kind of a change would be wel
come. The prospect is good for a stronger and
couple, comes the reciprocal action of the inner
powers their passions, prejudices so that
they recoil on each other. They come to think
alike, to feel alike, as wen as to loot alike.
The roan unconsciously loses some of his
ruggedness. and the woman acquires some of
his breadth and strength. Tjjey become in
some measure reflectors to each other, the
light one catches is cast on and brightens the
other, and they mirror whatever passes along
the face ot the other.
The subtle, mysterious modeling process bad
begun on Philip, although but recently mar
ried. Janet was no longer in the house: she
bad returned to France, and as her constitu
tion was delicate had followed advice, and gone
to the South for the winter.
Mrs. Sidebottom and the captain had shaken
off the dust from their feet against Mergatroyd,
and had returned to their favorite city, York,
where they resumed the interrupted gyrations
about the whirlpool of fashionable life, and
Mrs. Sidebottom made her usual rushes, still
ineffectual, at its center.
Consequently, Philip was left to the undis
turbed influence of Salome, and this influence
affected him more than he was conscious of,
and would have allowed was possible. He was
very happy, but be was not the man to confess
it, least of all to his wife. As a Canadian
Indian deems it derogatory to his dignity to
express surprise at any wonder of civilization
shown him, so did Philip consider that it com
ported with his dignity to accept all the com
forts, the ease, the love that surrounded him
as though familiar with them from the begin
ning. Englishmen who have been exposed to
tropic suns in Africa, have their faces shrivelled
and lined. When they return to England,
in the soft, humid atmosphere the flesh ex
pands and drinks in moisture at every pore.
The lines fade out and the flesh becomesplump.
So did the sweet, soothing Influence of Salome,
equable as it was gentle, fill, relax, refresh the
spirit of Philip and restore to him some of the
lost buoyancy of youth. Salome was admira
bly calculated to render him happy, and Philip
was not aware of the rare good fortune which
had given him a wife who had the self-restraint
tojeeep her crosses to herself. That is not the
way with all wives. Many a wife makes a beast
of burden of her husband, lading him with
crosses, heaping on his shoulders not only ber
own, great or small, but also all those of her
relatives, friends and acquaintances. Such a
wife cracks a whip behind her good man;
drives him through the town, stopping at every
house and calling: "Any old crosses! Old
crosses! Old crosses! Chuck them on, his back
is broad to bear them!" precisely as the scaven
ger goes through the streets with his cart and
burdens it with the refuse of every house.
Many a wife takes a pride in thus breaking the
back, and galling the sides, and knocking to
gether 4he knees of her husband with the
crosses she piles on his shoulders.
As we walk through the wilderness of life,
burrs adhere to the coat of Darby and to the
skirts of Joan. Why should not each carry his
or her own burrs, if they refuse to be picked,
off and thrown away? Why should Joan col
lect all hers and poke them down the neck of
Darby, and expect him to work them down his
back from the nape to the heel? Little thought
had Philip how, unperceived and by stealth,
Salome sought the burrs that adhered to him,
removed them and thrust them into her own
bosom, bearing them there with a smiling face,
and leaving him unconscious that he had been
delivered from any, and that they were fretting
her.
We men are sadly regardless of the thousand
little acts of forethought that lighten and ease
our course. We give no thanks, we are not
even aware of what has been done for us.
Nevertheless, our wives do not go unrewarded,
though unthanked for what they have done or
borne; their gentle attentions have served to
give us a polish and a beauty we had not before
we came into their tender hands.
A bright face met Philip when he returned
from the factory every day. If Salome saw that
he was downcast, she exerted herself to cheer
him; 11 that he was cheerful, she was careful
not to discourage him. Always neat in person,
fresh in lace, and pleasant in humor, keeping
out of Philip's way whatever might annoy him,
she made him as happy as be could well be.
Perfectly happy Philip could not be, because
unable to shake off the sense of Insecurity that
attended his change ot fortune Constitution
ally suspicious, habituated to the shade, he was
dazzled and frightened when exposed to the
light. The access of good luck bad been too
more active market when the traders face each
other again.
Last week's business at the banks was suffi
ciently large to show that there is something
going on in Pittsburg besides sitting around
and complaining that 'the times are awfully
dull." While industrial and commercial activ
ity Is not so pronounced, to judge merely from
surface indications, as in some tormer seasons,
there is a large movement constantly going for
ward in all departments of trade that piles up
a huge aggregate or cash and keens everybody
busy to keep up with engagements. There has
never been a time in the history of the city
when business was in a healthier condition or
rested on a more satisfactory basis than it does
to-day. To establish this statement beyond
cavil a few figures may be quoted. Here they
are:
Exchanges f 2, 9, 433 38
Balances 49X3)9 00
Exchanges for the week 15,6.i7.93S 24
Balances forthe week 3,210,72) 32
Exchanges, dally average - 2,609,653 04
Exchanges week of 1888 11,117.767 00
Balances week of 1883 AU6,467 68
Exchanges last week 13,930,82) 99
Balances last week 3,033,990 22
Total exchanges to date, 1889 209484.580 09
Total exchanges to date. 1838 187,139,900 01
Increase. 1839 over 1833 to date 22.32o.660 03
The following table snows tne prices of active
stocks on the New York Stock Exchange.
Corrected daily for The Dispatch by Whit
ney & Stephenson, members of New York
Stock Exchange, 57 Fourth avenue:
Open
ing. Am. Cotton Oil SoH
Atcn.. Top. & a. J".... -R
Canadian Baciac 51
Canada Southern 524
Central of New Jersey. ....
Centrali'aelflc 38
Chesapeake & Ohio ... I7H
C Bur. & Qulncy..... 91S
C, Mil. ft St. Baul.... 6-Oa
a. Mil St. P., pf.
C Kock.1. SP 93
C St. L. & Pitts
C, Ht. L. k. Pitts, pf.
C St. P.. 31. & O
C, St. P..M. & O.. pf, 93
C. & Northwestern. ...1C654
0. A northwestern, pL ....
High
est. Lowest.
iv
K'A 51
SiH 524
3M 38"
17H 17K
MM frU
m" 93 "
93" 93"
106 10M
s J s !
Col. Coal & Iron
Col. A Hocking Val ..
Del.. LiW
Del. & Hudson .
Denver A KloU
JJenver & Rio O., nf..
E.T.. Va.&Ga
2-a 24X UH
I37ji 137, 137
46 46Ja
E.T.,Va. &Ua.. Utpr ....
K. T.. Va. & Ga. 2d pf. ....
Illinois Central 1134
Lake Erie A Western.. JSH
Lake Erie & West. pr.. SSH
Lake Shore & M. 8 103 !
Louisville Nashville. 673
Michigan Central
Mobile A Ohio
ilo.. K. ATexas 12
Missouri Pacific 70
New York Central 107M
.N. Y.. L. E. & V 2SM
N. Y., L. E. W.Dref 10
N. Y., C. ASt-L
x. t., c. A St. L. pr.
N.Y.. C. ASt.L.2dDf ....
N. YAN. .E 43)$
fc. Y.. O. A W
Norfolk A Western
Norfolk A Western. p(. Kh
Northern Pacific
Nortnern Pacific pref. 61
Ohio A Mississippi.
Oregon Improvement. 49
Oregon Transcon T2'4
PacincHall
l'eo. Dee. A Evans
113V
m
S3 Si
103
63i
1134
18
H
103
67)4
12
71H
107H
29H
7W
70
307M
28
43 43K
53 52
61
i"
ax
61
43
a
Phlladel. A Beading..
.44V
si UH
I'numan raiace (jar .
.132
WK M2i
26 26
85 85"
100 100
23 2i
60 80
21 21
60 59
14 14
23H 23
85 85
68 6.J
21 21
Itlchmond .t W. V. T.
. 28 Jf
Richmond A W.P.T.pf ....
St. Paul A Uuluth
St. Paul A Dnloth pC. 83
St. P., Minn. AMan..,100K
St. L. A San Fran 23V
St. L. A San Fran pf.. 60X
oi, it. a sin .ist pr..
Mexas jracinc...
UnlonPaclflc...
Wabash
. 21 K
60!4
14
. 28
Wabash preferred
western union. .......
Wheeling A 1 K
National Lead Trust..
, 83
, 68
. 21
Government Bonds.
U.S. 4s. reg 103 0103
U. S. 4s, coups 103 0103
U.S. 4s, reg 12313123
U. S. 4s, coups 12!S129
Bid.
Currency, epereent. 1805 reg 120
Currency,.s per cent, issnreg. 123
Currency, epereent, 1897 reg 126
Currency, 8 per cent, lb9Sreg 130
Currency, (percent, 180V reg 132
Government and State bonds are steady and
unchanged.
Boston Stocks.
Atch. A Toe.. 1st 7i. lis
A. AT. LandGr't7s,108
Atch. A lofl. K. K. .. 424
Boston A Albany.. .217
B., H. A Erie 7s 1
C. B. AU 94
Ctun. San. A Cleve. 24
Eastern R. R 81
Eastern R. B. 6 124
Flint APereM. pro. 97
Mexican Cen. com.. 124
N. Y. ANewEnc... 43
N. Y.ANewEng 75.136
01a colour. 172
Rutland preferred.. 33
Uls.central.com... 16
AlloueiM'gCo'new) I
Calumet A Heela..,.208
Franxils. -- 9
Osceola 9
limner ... 48
Bell Telephone.. ..2W
Boston Land e
Water Power 6
Tamarack 1
imiTiifiTi and too great, for him to trust its per-i
manescy. The fish hat has its Jawstra-ssftseAj
with broken hooks mistrusts ine wwb.ujij
floats down the stream unattached to allaej
The expectation of disaDDolntment had beets
bred in him bvnainful and repeated experience,':
and had engendered a sullen predetcrminatioal
to mistrust GoodFortune. He regarded her ass
a treacherous goddes. and when she smiled, he j
was sure that she meditated a stab with a Mil-
den dagger.
Such as are born in the lap of 'fortune, from
T,fti hav linva nuTpr hn clrpn a fall, or
W.1.A.A Y.av ). imrf VlAn flnSAf vrlth finnJUUA M
through a drenching spoon, such persons look'
on life with equanimity. Nothing would sur- 'M
prise them more than a reverse. But with tba ft
DfcCpauua Ul. iuuuuc, sua vuM-a&esaMi- -"
0TP.1t hnnsphold at humanity, vrho hxrt ea- -
iinfiarl r.atT.Vi1aiV 'iffnv' TiiMrt.iSr-i1r It. ta
otherwise. When fortnno comes their tray
offering gifts, tbey mistrust them as the gifts
.1... Tt..... f T. t. .vl.f. .ham n .vlth tifvr, tin
VI UlBJAiWI. (, n,u wt.u. . .... ...u. -uv , .
Yi-inntaf FTa Vnnw that thATsnecter lnrkx st.J
hand, and when he is about to close his eyes,
will start up and scare him; when he is merry
will rise above the table and echo bis lauea.
with a jeer. So do those who have been un
lucky fear ever lest misfortune should spring
on them from some unforeseen quarter, as
some unprepared moment.
The dread lest there should be a revulsion ia
his affairs never wholly left Philip, and took:
edge oil bis happiness. He had found littlo
difficulty in acquiring the requisite understand
ing of the business, and obtaining a firm hold ,1
over the conduct 01 the factory. 1 nere was no f a
prospect of decline in the trade. Since the-. :t
conclusion of the European war.lt had be- m
MmA TvlaV "Pa-ii-ft lrnrl fi-rtrtrl a ilatninfl tn Si
figured damasks. He had no reason to dread St
cessation of orders, a slackness in the trade.
To be continued next Monday.
Wool Market-. ' '
St. Locis Wool unchanged; receipts cc-si'
tlnue very light. v
Philadelphia Stocks. . ri.
Closing quotations or pnnaaelphla stock, far-
TifahAri hT Vhltnp-v .fe Stenhpnson. hrnlrrL Nn S-f
Fourth avenue. Members New York Stock Ex-S ,
change.
Bit. Asked...
Pennsylvania Railroad ...55 53Jj
Reading Railroad 22 B-18 22k
U-ffaln IM.Kn a-rflVutAM. . I Lf ,
t.hl.h V-ll-v !L1l2 KTHr
-JClllgl. ...,JialUil. ..... .-. ....- ... . J
Philadelphia and Erie JO ...S-'
Allegheny vaney Donas 1I3M ...af
Northern Paclfln 2i ..
Northern Pacific preferred 60 -1
"When baby was sick, we gave her Castoria,
When she was a Child, sheciiedforCastoria,
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, "-
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FidelityTitle & Trust Companyr
CJLFITAL, $500,000
121 AND 123 FOURTH AVE.
Insures titles to real estate, and acts in all
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814 PENIS AVENUE. PITTSBUKO.r .,
As old res'dents know and back files of Pitts
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