1
Th Forttr's rharltsbl. Vlw.
One by one 1he travelers entered
the Bleeping car bound for the Exposi
tion. "Porter," said a fat man.
"Yes, .ah."
"Put me off at Buffalo."
The porter showed two rows of ivo
ries in an affected grin.
"Dat's purty Rood, sah," he said.
An "octopuatic" looking man came in
and looked at the porter with evidences
of a smile twitching around the corners
of his mouth.
"Porter," he said.
"Yes, sah."
"Put me off at Buffalo."
Then came a woman a brazen wo
man who sprung the same old gag,
followed by the two traveling men, who
drew cuts at the farther cno of the car
to see who would have the honor of in
dulging in the witticism. And through
it all the porter smiled. Finally he
came oyer to my berth and sat down.
"Dcy's some mighty humorous peo
ple in dis world, sail," he said.
"Very," I answered, as a tall man,
faultlessly attired, came in with his head
high in the air and passed us without a
word.
The porter looked surprised.
"Say, boss," he said, following the tall
man with his eyes, "do you s'pose it am
possible dat boy never heard of dc 'put-mc-off'
gag?"
"It's possible," I answered, "but not
probable."
The porter lapsed into silence, and
thought for a moment, and then hi.t
lace brightened. ,
"Say, boss," he suddenly exclaimed,
I've got it. I'll bet ten dollars dat
man's a Soutlianali, an' won't speak to
a niggah."
t un Nult Kmrr One
Kdmund Vance Cooke, a platform poet
and contributor to magazines, during a
recent tour through Texas was accosted
by a drummer in the usual fashion o(
"What do you sell?"
"Hot air," answered Mr. Cooke in a
very matter-of-fact way."
"Hot air?" .
"Yes."
"Gee! I hope you don't' sell any in
this country. Ve want rain down here."
"Where do you reside?"
"San Anton."
"Well, I sold a couple of lots there."
"Who did you sell?" the drummer in
quired in a characteristically ungram
matical manner.
"Franklin and Shaw." mentioning the
names of the president and secretary o(
the San Antonio Lyceum.
"Franklin and Shaw? Don't know
them. You don't mean Lawyer Frank
lin, do you?"
"Yes'
"Well, pardncr, I can sell a ton of
coal to a man that's looking for a load
of ice; I can sell men's shoes to a wo
man milliner, and I once sold a man a
barrel of salt for confectioners' sugar,
but if you can sell hot air to a lawyer
you can go to the head of the class."
Moth Got What Tlmy l'rrrcl for.
The last time I interviewed General
Howard it was on the subject of an
swers to prayer, and I thought 1 Jiad
him. In iiis famous fight with Stone
wall Jackson the Union forces were de
feated, so I inquired of General How
ard: ;
"You -prayed before that battle?"
"Yes," he answered.
"And Jackson was a praying man. He
prayed also?"
"Yes." he assented.
"Then how was it he gained the vic
tory? Did that mean that the Union
:ause was wrong?"
Very gently the good old general re
plied: "Both our prayers were answered.
Jackson prayed for immediate victory
and I for the ultimate triumph of our
cause. We both got what we prayed
!or."
A rilHtlcit lor Trntlhlp.
"Throwing an old shoe after a bride
and groom means that all ill-feeling is
thus thrown away."
"Yes; but suppose the old shoe should
happen to hit the bride?"
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deep-eeated cases after nil else faiN. Drug
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unt free and prepaid by writing Dr. Uillam,
12 Mitchell street, Atlanta, (la.
Germany's share in the traffic of the
Suec Canal has increased greatly ut the
expense of England.
Putka jf Fauklkkh Jvkh are fast to sun
light, washing and rubbing. Hold by all drug.
g- ;
In a certain Western State there are
two families, one numeil Day and the
other Sunday. They are neighbors. Mr.
Day is the father of seven girls, while Mr.
Sunday has an equal number of boys.
Four of the sons have murried Sundays,
another is engnaed, so it now appears that
"every Day will be Sunday by and by."
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bunions. At all drug-tint and shoo stores,
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The trouble -with the budding genius is
that he is frequently nipped in the bud.
Beat For the Bowel.
' No matter what ails you, headachn to a
eaneer, yon will nerer get well nntil your
bowels are put right. CisciBrrs help nature,
oars yon without a gripe or pain, produce
easy natural movements, eoit you just 10
cents to start getting your health back. Cis
ca.Br.TS Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up
in metal boxes, every tablet' has C.C.I,
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American wheat has been found to be
excellent for the manufacture of Julian
macaroni.
F1TB permanently cured. No Hts or nervous
new after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. 2 trial bottle and treatise frss
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An exposition of British products is
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. MJ?- Wm,'o's Soothing Syrup forohildrsn
teething, soften the gums, reduces inflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind colio. ajo a boltls
Western Siberia affords a good market
for American manufacturers of milk cans.
Piso's Cure for Consumption fa an infallible
medicine for coughs and colds. N.W. Bah oil..
Ocean Prove, N. J,, Feb. 17, 1900.
There are in the world twenty-four
presidents and only twenty kings.
W.H. Griffin, Jackson, Michigan, writes:
'Buffered with Catarrh for fifteen years.
Halls Catarrh Curs cured ms." Hold by
DruggleW, 76o.
Married women are usually advocates
ol Dome rule.
Vnh Orehra a,er
li used sad recommended by phv.iclsns all
Zu?J TorM Mi0M of. """H "
,d "r?- s sura in it. action,
"as wonderful enrativs properties.
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xl always keeps things going.
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SIN IN HIGIT PLACES.
Dr. Tatmage Says (he Same Law of
Right and Wrong Should Apply to
Both Rich and Poor.
THE FASCINATION OF FRAUD.
ICopyricht iwt.1
Vahhinoton, l. 0. In this discourse
Dr. Tahnage shows that there is a ten
dency to excuse brilliant faults, because
they arc brilliant, when the same law -of
right and wrong ought to he applied to
hiirh places and low; text, Daniel iv( 3.1,
"The same hour was the thing fulfilled
upon Nebuchadnezzar, and he was driven
from men and did cat grass as oxen."
Hera is the mightiest of the Kabylonish
kings. Jx)ok at him. lie did more for the
grandeur of the capital than did all his
predecessors or suectssors. Hanging gar
dens, reservoirs, aqueducts, palaces, all of
his own planning. The bricks that are
brought up to-day from the ruins of Baby
lon nave liis name on them. "Nebuchad
nezzar, son of Nabopolnssor, king of Baby
ton." He was a great conqueror, lie
stretched forth his spear toward a nation,
and it surrendered. Hut he plundered the
temple of the trua God. lie lifted an
idol, Bel Merodach, and compelled the
people to bow down before it, and if they
refused they must go through the red hot
furnace or be crunched by lum or lionesr.
So God pulled him down.
He was smitten with what physician
call lycnnthropy, and fancied thnt he wag
a wild benst, and lie went out and pas
tured amid the cattle. God did not ex
cuse him because he had committed the
sin in high places or ntciuise the trans
gression was wide rosounding. He meas
ured Nebuchadnezzar in high place just as
he would measure the humblest captive.
But in our fine, you know us well as I,
that there is a disposition to put a halo
around iniquity ii ii is committed in con
spicuous plai ts, end if it is wide resound
ing and of large proportion. Kver and
anon there has been an epidemic ot crime
in high places, and there is not a IState or
a city and hardly a village which lifts not
been called to look upon astnundine forir-
j cry, or an absconding bunk cashier or
I president, or the wasting of trust fund or
swinuiing mortgage, i propose, in carry
ing out the suggestion of my text, as far
as I can. to scatter the fascinations
around iniquity and show you that sin is
sin and wrong is wrong, whether in high
place or low place, and that it will bo
dealt with by that God who dealt v.'itli
imnalaced Nebuchadnezzar.
All who preach feel that two kinds of
sermons are necessrrv the one on tho
faith of the gospel, the other on the mo
rality of the gospel and the one is just ns
important an the other, for you know that
in this land to day there are bundled of
men hiding behind the communion tublca
and in churches of ,li'.us Christ who have
no business to be there as professors of re
ligion. They expect to be all right with
God, although they are all wrong with
man. Anil, while I want you to under
stand that by the deeds of the law no
flesh living can be justified and a mere
honest life cannot enter us into heaven,
I want you as plainly to understand that
unless the life is right the heart is not
rightgrace in the heart and grace in the
life. Ho we must preach sometimes the
faith of the gospel and sometimes the mo
rality of the gospel.
It seems to mo there has not been n
time in the last fifty years when this latter
truth needed more thoroughly to be pre
sented in the American churches. It needs
to be presented to day.
Look upon all the fascinations thrown
around fraud in this country. Yon know
for years men have been made heroes of
and pictorialized and in Various ways pre
sented to the public, as though sometimes
they were worthy of admiration, if they
have scattered the funds of banks or
swallowed great estates that did not be
long to them. Our young men have been
dazed with thin quick accumulation. They
have said: "That's the way to do it.
What's the use of ploitding on with smail
wages or insinnificain. salary when we
may go into bumucsj life and with some
stratagem achieve such a fortune as that
I man has achieved?" A different measure
I has been applied to the crime of Wall
street froiiKthat which has been applied
to the spoils which the man carries up
I Hat alley.
So a peddler came down from New Kris
land many years auo. took hold of the
money market of New York, flaunted his
abominations iu the sight of all the pco-
file and defied public morals every day of
lis life. Ynunn men looked up and said:
"He was a peddler in one decade, and in
the next decade he is one of the nion
areha of the stock market. That's the
way to do it." To this day the evil influ
ence of that profligate financier has been
felt, and within the past few weeks he
has had conspicuous imitators.
There has been an irresistible impres
sion going abroad among young men that
the poorest way to get money is to earn
it. The young man of flaunting cravat
sa' s to the voting man of humble apparel:
"What! Y'oti only get $1800 a year?
Why, that wouldn't keep me in pin
money. I spend SoOOO a vear." "Where
do you eet it?" asks the plain young man.
"Oh, stocks, enterprises, all that sort of
thing, you know." The plain young man
has hardly enough money to pay his
board, has to wear clothes after they are
out of fashion and deny himself all luxu
ries. After awhile he gets tired of his
plodding, and he goes to the man who
has n' lneved midden I v large estate, and he
says, ".lust show me how it is done." And
he is shown. He soon learns how, al
though he is almost all the time idle now
and has resigned his position in the bank
or the factory or the store he has more
money tlmn he ever had. trades off his oid
silver watch for a gold one with a flashing
chain, sets his hat a little further over on
the side of his head than he ever did.
ri.iu.i- iiucr cigars and more ot ilieiu.
He hns his hand in'. Now, if he can es
cape the penitentiary for three or four
years he will get into political circles, and
he will get political jobs and will have
souk thing to do with harbors and pave
ments and docks. Now he has got so far
aiong he is safe for perdition.
Jt is quite a long road sometimes for a
man to travel before he gets into the ro
mance of crime. Those are caught w.io
are only in the prosaic stage of it. If the
sheriffs and constables would onlv leave
them alone a little while thev would stcul
as well as anybody. They might not be
able to steal a whole railroad, but thev
could master a load of pig iron.
Now, I always thank God when I 6nd an
estate like that go to smash. It is plague
struck, and it blasts the nation. I thank
God when it goes into such a wreck it can
never be gathered up again. I want it to
become so louthsoine and such an insuf
ferable stench that honet young men win
take warning.
If God should nut into mnnrv or it
representative the capacity to go to 'its
lawful owner, there would not be a bank
or a safety deposit in the United States
whose walls would not be blown out, and
mortgages would i ip and parchments would
rend, and gold would shoot, and beggars
would get on horseback, and slock gamb
lers would go to the almshouse.
How many dishonesties in the making
out of invoices, und in the plastering of
false labels, and iu the filching of custom
ers of rival houses, and in the making and
breaking of contracts. Young men are in
doctrinated in the idea that the sooner
they get money the better, and the net
ting of it on a larger scale only proves to
them their greater ingenuity. There is a
glitter thrown around all these things.
Young men have got to find out that God
looks upon sin in a verv different lieht.
And remember that the man who gets
his gain by iniquity will soon lose it all.
One moment after his departure from life
he will not own an opera house, he will
not own u certificate of stock, he will not
.own one dollar of Government securities,
and the poorest boy that stands on tho
Jtrect with a penny in his pocket looking
at the funeral procession of the dead cheat
'as it goes by will have more money thsu
that man who one week previous boasted
that he controlled the money market.
bo '.here has been a great deal of fasci
nation thrown arounil libertinism. So
ciety is very severe upon the impurity that
links around the alleys and low haunts
of the town. The law pursues it, smites
it, incarcerates it, tries to destroy it.
You know as well ss I that society be
comes lenient in proportion as impurity
becomes affluent or is in tlevaled circles,
and finally society is silent or disposed
Jki pulliute.
'. Albert is the jwicc, AhcJury. ihe calico
offlcef that date atTaigti the wealthy liber
tine? He walks the streets; be rides the
parks; be flaunts his iniquity in the eyrs
of the pure.
(Sometime it seems to me as if society
tvere coing back to the state of morals of
Herculaneum, when it sculptured its vile
ness on pillnrs snd temple wall and noth
ing hut the lava of a burning mountain
could hide the immensity of erime. At
what time God will rise up and extirpate
these evils upon society 1 know not nor
whether He will do it by fire or hurricane
or earthquake, but a holy God, I do not
think, will stand it much longer. I be
lieve the thunderbolts are hissing hot,
and that when God comes to chastise the
community for these sins, against which
He has tittered Himself more bitterly than
igainst any other, the fate of Hodom and
Gomorrah will be tolerable as compared
with the fate of our modern society,
which knew better, but did worse.
We want about 10,000 pulpits in Amer
ica to thunder, "All adulterers and whore
mongers ahnll hare their plsce in the hell
that burnetii with fire and brimstone,
which is the second death." It is hell on
earth and hell forever. We have got to
understand that iniquity on Columbia
Heights or Fifth avenue or Beacon Hill is
as damnable in the sight of God as it is
in the slums.
Whether it has canopied couch or eider
down or dwells amid the putridity of a
low tenement house, God is after it in His
vengeance. Yet the pulpit of the Chris
tian church has been so rowed down on
this subject that it hardly dares speak,
and men are almost apologetic when they
rend the Ten ( 'ommandmentn.
Then look at the fascinations thrown
around assassination. There nre in all
communities men who have taken the
lives of others unlawfully, not as execu
tioners of the law, and they go scot free.
You say Hint they hnd their provocations.
God gave life, and He alone hns a right
to take it, and He may take it by visita
tion of Providence or by an executioner
of the law. who is His messenger. But
when a man r.ssutnes that divine preroga
tive he touches the lowest depth of crime.
Society is alert for certain kinds of mur
der. If a citizen going along the road at
night is waylaid and slain by a robber,
we all want the villain arrested and exe
cuted. Kor all gnrroting, for all beating
nut of life by a club or an axe or a slung
shot, the law has quirk spring and heavy
stroke, but you know that when men get
affluent and high position and they avenge
their wrongs by taking the lives of others
great sympathy is excited. Lawyers plead,
ladies weep, judge halts, jury is bribed,
and the man goes free. If the verdict
happen to he against him a new trial is
called on throuirh some technicality, and
they adjourn for witnesses that never
come and adjourn and adjourn until the
community has forgotten all about it, and
then the orison door ouens and the mur
derer goes free.
Now, if cnpital punishment be right I
say let the life of the polished murderer
?o with the life of the vulgar assassin,
.et us have no partiality of gallows, no
aristocracy of electrocution chair. Do
not let us float back to barbarism, when
every man was hi own judge, jury and
executioner, and that man had tlie su
premacy who had the sharpest knife and
the strongest arm and the quickest step
and the stealthiest revenge. He who wil
fully and in hatred takes tho life of an
other is a murderer, I care not what the
provocation or the circumstances.
He may be cleared by an enthusiastic
courtroom, he may be sent by the Gov
ernment of the United States as Minister
to some foreign court or modern literature
may polish the crime mwil it looks like
heroism, but in the sight of God murder
is murder, and tho judgment day will so
reveal it.
Now, do not be fascinated by the gla
mor thrown over crime of whatever sort.
Because others have habits that seem bril
liant, but yet at the same time are wicked,
do not choose such faults. Stand inde
pendent of all such influences. Put your
confidence in the Lord God. He will be
your strength. "Vengeance is mine. I
will repay, saith the Lord."
Cultivate old fashioned honesty. This
book is lull of it. Old fashioned bonesty
such as was spoken of by Dr. Livingstone,
the famous explorer. You may not know
he was descended from the Ifighlunders.
Dr. Liviiigsto ic said that une day one of
the old Highlanders called his children
around him and said: "Now, tny lads, 1
have looked nil through our family line.
1 have gone back as far as I ran, and I
lind that all our ancestors were honest
people. There doesn't seem to be one
rogue among thein, and you have good
blood. Now, my lads, be honest."
There are hundreds of young men who
have good blood. Shall I ask three or four
plain questions? Are your habits lis good
as when you left your father's house?
Have you a good ticket iu your pocket?
Have you a fraudulent document? Have
you been experimenting to see how accur
ate an imitation you could make of your
employer's signature? Oh, you have good
blood. Remember your father's pravers.
.lenieiuber your mother's example. Turn
not in an evil way. Have you been going
astray? Come back. Have you ventured
out too far?
' As I stand in pulpits looking over au
diences sometimes my heart fails me.
There are so many tragedies present, so
many who have sacrificed their integrity,
so many far away from God. Why, niy
brother, there have been too many prayers
offered for you to have you go overboard.
And there are those venturing down into
sin, and my bean aches to call them back.
At Brighton Beach or Long Branch you
have seeu men go down into the surf to
bathe, and they waded out farther and
iiu ther, and you got anxious about them.
You said, "1 wonder if they can swim?"
And you then stood and shouted: "Come
back! Come back! You will be drowned!"
they waved their hand back, saying:
"No danger." They kept on wading deep
er down and farther out from shore until
after awhile a great wave with a strong
undertow took them out, their corpses
the next day washed ou the beach. So I
see men wading down into sin farther und
further, and f call to them: "Come back!
Come back! You will be lost; you will be
lout!" They wave their hand buck, say
ing, "No danger; no danger!" Deeper
down and deeper down until after awhile
a wave sweeps them out and sweeps them
ofl forever. Oh, com? back! The one
farthest away may come. .
"Oh," you sav, "you don't know where
I came from. You don't know what mv
history hns leen. You don't know what
iniquity 1 have plotted. I have- gone
through the whole catalogue of sin." My
brother, 1 do not know the story, but I
tell yon this: The door of mercy is wide
open. "1 hough your sins be as scarlet,
they shall be as snow; though they be red
like crimson, they shall be ua wool."
1 hough vou have been polluted with the
worst oi crimes, tnough you have been
smitten with the worst of leprosies, though
you have been fired with all evil passions.
mis moment on your brow, hot with ini
quitous indulgences, may be set the flash
ing coronet of a Saviour a forgiveness.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Andrew Curucglc bus offwed Load
vllle, Col., flOO.000 for a library.
The salary of the youug King of
Spain is $700,000 a year.
Scnor Moret bus been fleeted Preiil
tli'ut of the ISpiiulwh Cliunibcr of Depu
ties.
The Khotllvo of Egypt. Abbim nihil. 1
has Just rmid a visit to tho Kullnu of
Turkey. j
Miss Helen Gould hag given $8000
to Mouut Ilolyoke Soiuliiury, Iu Massa
chusetts. King Edward VII. Is going to visit
Wtllium Waldorf Astor at Cliveden.
Buy tho KugllHb puiK'rs.
E. II. ("singer, United States Minis
ter to Cblnu, has nailed from Sftu
I'lanclBco, Cal., for I'eklu.
Jules Vcrue, who bat puasiKl bla seventy-third
birthday, la said to lie en
gaged upon bis uliiety-nlDth novel. .
Governor LaKollotte, of WlMi-ontiln,
Is quite 111, and bas cancelled all bin
eugiigeiiicDts ou the advice of bis
physicians.
General I'ahuer. Commander-in-Chief
Iu IuilU. Is a physical giant, with iron- I
gray hulr and wuHtacbe, eloquent eyca
uud a rherry smile.
COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
Oeseral Trad Conditions.
New York (Special). -R. G. Dun fr.
Co.Js weekly review of trade says:
General business continues its even
course with all the leading industries
well employed and with confidence ex
pressed on every hand. Bountiful crops
of wheat seem assured and the damage
to corn, while considerable in some di
rections, does not promise to be suf
ficiently general or serious to at all im
pede the progress of the country. Labor
troubles are in process 'of settlement and
speculators have been responsible for
most of the unrest which has been re
flected in the markets.
Textile) lines have settled in a steady
position that promises more lasting
prosperity than if prices had been forced
higher or sensational activity had fol
lowed the altered attitude of buyers.
Grain crops this season are occasion
ing much uneasiness among speculator's
owing to the extremely complicated sit
uation. Owing to latest official and un
official prognostications there is reason
to anticipate the heaviest wheat yield
ever harvested, and making the custom
ary allowances for domestic consump
tion, even with the small supplies on
hand when the year opened, there ap
pears available for export about 50 per
cent, more than went abroad in the year
of greatest shipments. Yet prices arc
far above the low record and vigorous
rallies follow each decline. Extensive
needs abroad continue, the movement
from Atlantic ports for the week
amounting to 3,208,634 bushels, against
3.108,443 a year ago, and Western te
ccipts were 4,579,378 bushels, asainit 7,
618,677 last year. Corn exhibited re
markable strength, drought and heat
since July I giving reason to expect lcs
than the official report, which indicated
more than two billion bushels. This
cereal is now at an exceptionally high
point and estimates of 200,000,000 bush
els for export are too high, as foreign
ers will not buy freely at the enhanced
value.
Failures for the week numbered 208 in
the United States, against 196 last year.-
LATEST QUOTATIONS.
Flour. Best Fatent, $4.4534.00; Hish
Grade Extra, I3.95a4.40; Minncsr ta
bakers, $2.8oa3.oo.
Wheat. New York, No. 2 red, 72a
75c; Philadelphia, No. 2 red, 685-iaoVic;
Baltimore, 65a69Jc.
Corn. New Y'ork, No. 2, 53a54'jc;
Philadelphia, No. 2, 5ia5i4c; Balti
more, No. 2, 51352c.
Oats. New York. No. 2. 36a3fi'3c:
Philadelphia, No. a white, 37k'a38c; Bal
timore, No. 2 white, 35a35j4c.
Rye. New Y'ork, No. 2, 57c; Phila
delphia, No. 2, 58c; Baltimore, No. 2,
50c.
Hay. No. l timothy, $i5.ooat5 3o;
No. 2 timothy, $ 14.00a! 4. r,o; No. 3 tim
othy, $!2.5oai3.oo.
Green Fruits and Vegetables. Ap
ples, early June, per bbl, choice, $i.5oa
2.00; do small, 75ca$l.25. Beets, native,
per bunch, Ij4a2c. Blackberries, Eastern
Shore, per quart, Rochelle, 4a5c; do Wil
sons, 4a6c. Cabbage, native, per 100,
Wakefield, $3.5034.00. Cantaloupes, Ga.,
per crate, $i.ooai.5o; do, North Caroli
na, per crate, 75ca$i.25. Carrots,-native,
per bunch, ia2c. Corn, per dm, 6a
10c. Cucumbers, Anne Arundel, per
peach basket, 35asoc. Currants, New
York, per 8-lb basket, 25a3oc. Egg
plants, Florida, per crate, $1752. 00.
Lettuce, native, per bushel box, 2oa25c
Onions, new, per half barrel basket, 65
a70c. Peaches, Florida, per 6-baskct car
rier, $1.5032.25. Plums, Florida, per car
rier, $i.ooai.5o. Raspberries, red, per
pint, 3'AiSC String beans, per bus,
green, 3oa40c; do, per bus, wax, 35a40c.
Squash, per basket, 20325c. Tomatoes,
Florida, per 6-basket carrier, fancy. $1.75
a2.25. Watermelons, Florida and Geor
gia, per 100, $i5.ooaao.oo.
Potatoes. New Norfolk, per bbl, No.
1, $2.25a2.5o; do, York River, per bbl.
No.I, $2.2532.50; do, Rappahannock, per
bbl, $2.0032.25; do, Eastern Shore Md.,
per bbl, $2.0032.25; do, Virginia per bbl,
$2.00a2.25.
Provisions. Bulk shoulders, 8j4c; do
short ribs, 9!c; do clear sides, o-Hc; ba
con rib sides, loc; do clcsr sides,
ioJc; b3con shoulders, g'ic; fat backs,
8J4c; sugar cured breasts, l2'jc; sugar
cured shoulders, Qc; hams, small,
I3!4c; large, 13c; smoked, skinned hams,
13c; picnic hams, o'j. Lard, best re
fined, pure, in tierces, g'jc; in tubs, oHc
er lb. Mess pork, per bbl, $16.00.
Hides. Ilesvy steers, associstion snd
salters, late kill, 60 lbs and up, close se
lection, io;4aiij4c; cows and light steers
939)4c.
Live Poultry. Hens, liai tc; old
roosters, esch, 253300; spring chickens,
I5ai9c Ducks, 7.i8-ic; spring ducks, 9
a 13c.
Eggs. Western Md. and Pa., per
dor., I3ai4c; Eastern Shore Md. and
Vs., do, 13c; Virginia, 130; Western and
West Virginia do, 13:; Southern 12a
2'ic; guinea, 7c.
Dairy Products. Butter Elgin, 21c;
choice Western rolls, 14315c; fair to
good, I3ai4c; half pound crc3mery, Md.,
Va. and Pa., 21 cue; do, rolls, 2-lb, do,
20C
Cheese. New cheese, large, 60 lbs,
94aloc; do, flats, 37 lbs, 9j3l0jg; pif
nics, 23 lbs, oizo'iC.
Live Slock.
Chicago. Good to prime steers, $5.10
a6.2o; poor to medium, $3.ooa5 00; cows,
$2.4534.50; hciicrs, $2.50.14.00. Hogs
top," $6.30; mixed and butchers. $5,853
6.25; bulk of sales, $6.00.16.15. Sheep
toe higher; lambs 15c to 25c higher;
Colorado 'shorn lambs up to $5.35;
spring lambs up to $6.00; good to choice
wethers $3.60 84.40; Western shc .p $3.00
84.40; yearlings, $42534.60; Western
lambs, $3 5oa5 35-
E3st Liberty, Pa. Cattle, $5.8536.00;
prime, $5.5035.70. Hogs steady; prime
heavies, $Ci.2oa6.25; skips, $5.0036.00;
roughs, $4.2535.75. Sheep higher; best
wethers, $4.1034.70; culls and common,
$1.5032.50; yearlings, $2.5034.50; veal
calves, $7.0037.50.
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Chic3go has a servant girls' union.
Belfast is Ireland's richest and most
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St. Louis freight handlers' wages have
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