THE REALM OF FASHION. © PO00000080060 For Cold Mornings. For cold winter mornings nothing «can exceed in comfort a pretty morn- ing jacket of soft wool eiderdown. As here represented, pale blue was the WOMAN'S HOUSE JACKET. color chosen, the edges being neatly finished with a bias binding of satin in the same shade, which is machine stitched on its inside and upper edges. The gracefully pointed collar is a picturesque feature of the garment, snd is included in the neck seam with @ 5 under-arm gores and centre-back scam gives a trim effect. The sleeves are two seamed iw late est cut, gathered at the top and come pleted at the wrists by bands of vel. vet. The skirt comprises five gores; tie trimming of narrow and wide ribbon velvet outlines the front gore to the lower edge extending all around the foot. The top is fitted closely and below the hips it fiaves fashionably to the lower edge. The mode is characterized by astyl- ish air which will hold when fashioned in any of the season’s mew fabrics in plain or mixed weaves. Velvet, silk or mousseline can be used for the voke and collar, or lace may be applied over some constrast- ing bright color. , The revers may be of the dress goods decorated with braid, gimp, velvet, passementer’e, insertion or applique trimming and various com- binations may be charmingly de- veloped in this style. TT Ladies’ Sleeves. A sleeve that is exceedingly pretty for thin fabrics and one that can be made up in the heaviest material is here given. The sleeve cap may be used over either sleeve or dispensed with altogether, as preference dictates. No. 1 has a full upper and under portion, gathered in spaced shirrirgs and arranged over smooth linings, the kia fHEaCHE 83 hr THs 14; 7 gi fe HB Ia {i 1! 1 pGIEN RH : ; ho is y § dd 7 NY Gi TOR A MISS OF FOURTEEN. a comfortable rolling collar, that com- pléetes the neck. The shaping is very simply accom- plished by side seams, that end just below the waist line, underarm gores and shoulder seams, the fronts being closed invisibly in centre, under small decorative bows of satin ribbon. The sleeves are two-seamed, in regular coat shape, the becoming ful- ness gathered at the top, and the wrists bound with satin. Although especially designed for eiderdown,any woolen fabric may be chosen to de- velop this neat and trim house jacket, flannel, camel’s hair, ladies’ cloth or cashmere being pretty when trimmed with ribbon, lace or insertion. To make this jacket for a woman of medium size® will require three and one-half yards of material twenty-seven inches wide. - A Fetching Suit. Checked novelty wool suiting in ‘brown and chamois shades showing a silk thread of pale blue woven in with the line of darker brown that forms the check is the material chosen for the fetching suit shown in the large engraving. Brown ribbon velvet is used for trimming, the revers of piece velvetto match being overlaid with creamy point de Venice lace. Three hand- some steal buttons. decorate the front, a steel buckle being used to clasp the belt of velvet at the waist line. Hat of brown felt faced with shirred «chamois, colored satin and crushed cream roses under the brim at the left side. Handsome brown shaded tips, roll and loop of satin ribbon. The yoke and collar are of finely tucked cream colored taffeta that comes already tucked for this pur- pose. The yoke may be at both front and tack or in front only, and the revers :aay extend in Bertha fashion on the hack or be cut off at the shoulders. The closing may be in front or at cen- row of shirring being covered by bands of insertion or gimp. The wrists are finished by frills of lace or chiffon. If a transparent effect is de- sired it is best for the amateur to make the sleeve over a cheap lining and cut it away from underneath after the sleeve is finished. This gives firmness to the seams and retains the proper shape and set of the sleeve. No. 2 has only slight fulness at the top and the lining is shaped exactly liice sleeve. It is illustrated in gray brocade, {rimmed with embroidered chiffon and silk applique. The back HEAVY MATERIAL SLEEVES. seam is opened for two inches at the wrist to allow the frill of chiffon to fall gracefully through. The pretty shaped sleeve cap is bordered 1v match gathers grouped at the shoul. der, causing the becoming fulness. To make No. 1 will require one and one-eighth yardsof thirty-six-inch ma- terial. To make No. 2 will require one and one-fourth yards of same width goods. Lace Insertion For Decoration. tre-back, and the box plait can be omitted as shown in outline sketch. A body lining fitted by single bust darts, Lace insertion and tiny silver but. tons used to decorate linen gowus are ' most effective. DR. TALMAGE'S [SUNDAY SERMON AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE. Subject: “Make Home Happy'’—The Door- sill of the Dwelling House is the Foun- dation of Church and State-—Let Chris- tian Love Abide Therein, Text: “The disciples went away again unto their own home.”—John xx., 10. A church within a church, a republic within a republic, a world within a sorld, is spelled by four letters—Home! If things go right there, they go right everywhere; if things go wrong there, they go wrong everywhere. The doorsill of the dwelling- house is the foundation of Church and State... A man never gets higher than his own garret or lower than his own cellar. Domestic life overarches and undergirdles all other life. The highest house of Con- gress is the domestic circle; the rocking chair in the nursery is higher than a throne. George Washington commanded the forces of the United States, but Mary Washington commanded George. Chrysostom’s mother made his pen for him. If a man shoull start out and run seventy yearsin a straight line, he could not get out from under the shadow of his own mantel piece. I there- fore talk to you about a matter of infinite and eternal moment when I speak of your home. As individuals we are fragments. God makes the race into parts, and then He gradually puts us together. What I lack, you make up; what you lack, I make up: our deflcits and surpluses of character being the cog wheels in the so- cial mechanicism. One person has the pa- tience, another has the courage, another has the placidity, another the enthusiasm; that which is lacking in one is made up by another, or is made up by all. Buffaloes in herds, grouse in broods, quails in flocks, the human race in circles. God has most beautifully arranged this. It is in this way He balances society; this conservative and that radical keeping things even. Every ship must have its mast, cut-water, taffrail, ballast. Thank God, then, for Princeton and Andover, for the opposites. I have no more right to blame a man for being different from me than a driving- wheel bas a right to blame the iron shaft that holds itto the centre. John Wesley balances Calvin’s Institutes. A cold thinker gives to Scotland the strong bones of theology; Dr. Guthrie clothes them with a throbbing heart and warm flesh. The difficulty is that we are not satisfled with jnst the work that God has given us to do. The water-wheel wants to come inside the mill and grind the grist, and the hopper wants to go out and dabble in the water. Our usefulness and the welfare of society depend upon staying in just the place that God has put ug, or intended we should oc- cupy. For more compactness, and that we may be more useful, we are gathered in still smaller circles in the home group. And there you have the same varisty again; brothers, sisters, husband ard wife; all dif- ferent in temperaments and tastes. Itis fortunate that it should be so. If the hus- band be all impulse, the wife must be all prudence. If one sister be sanguine in her temperament, the other must be lymphatic. Mary and Martha are necessities. There will be no dinner for Christ if there be no Martha; there will be no audience for Je if there bo no Mary. The home organi tion is most beautifully constructed. Eden “has gone; the bowers are all broken down; the animals that Adam stroked with his hand that morning when they came up to get their names have since shot forth tusk and sting, and growled panther at pan- ther; and, mid-air, iron beaks plunge, till with clotted wing and eyeless sockets tho twain come whirling down from under the sun in blood and fire. Eden has gone, but there is just one little fragment left. It floated down on the Riyer Hiddekel out of Paradise. It is the marriage institution. It does not, asat the beginning, take away from man a rib. Now it is an addition of ribs. This institution of marriage has been de- famed in our’ day. Socialism and polyga- my, and the most damnable of all things, free-lovism, have been trying to turn this earth into a Turkish harem. While the pupits have been comparatively silent, nolvels—their cheapness only equalled by their nastiness—are trying to educate, have taken upon themselves to educate, this nation in regard to holy marriage, which makes or breaks for time and eter- nity. Oh, this is not a mere question of residence or wardrobe! It is a question charged witlr gigantic joy or sorrow, with heaven or hell. Alas for this new dispen- sation of George Sands! Alas for this mingling of the nightshade with the mar- riage garlands! Alas for the venom of adders spit into the tankards! Alas forthe white frosts of eternal death that kill the orange-blossoms! The Gospel of Jesus Christ is to assert what is right and to as- sail what is wrong. Attempt has been made to take the marriage institution, which was intended for the happiness and elevation of the race, and make it a mere commercial enterprise; an exchange of houses and lands and equipage; a business partnership of two stuffed up with the stories of romance and knight-errantry, and uanfaithfulness and feminine angel- hood. The two after a while have roused up to find that, instead of the paradise they dreamed of, they have got nothing but a Van Amburgh’s menagerie, filled with tigers and wild cats. Eighty thou- sand divorces in Paris in one year preceded the worst revolution that France ever saw. And I tell you what you know as well as 1 do, that wrong notions on the subject of Christinn marriage are the cause at this day of more moral outrage before God and man than any other cause. There are some things that I want to bring before you. I know there are those of you who have homes set up for a great many years; and, then, there are those here who have just established their home. They have only been in that home a few months or a few years. Then there are those who will, after a while, set up for themselves a home, and it is right that I should speak out upon these themes. My first counsel to you is, have God in your new home, if it be a new home; and let him who was a guest at Bethany be in your househgld; let the Divine blessing drop upon your every hope and plan and expectation. Those young people who be- gin with God end with heaven. Have on your right hand the engagement ring of the Divine affection. If one of you be a Christian, let that one take the Bible and read a few verses in the evening-time and then kneel down and commend yourselves to Him who setteth the solitary in fami- lles. I want to tell youthat the destroying angel passes by without touching or enter- ing the door-post sprinkled with blood of the everlasting covenant. Why is it taat in some families they never get along, and in others they always get along well? I have watched such cases, and have come to a conclusion. In the first instance, nothing seemed to go pleasantly, and after a while there came a devastation, domestic disaster, or estrangement. Why? ‘They started wrong. In the other case, although there were hardships and trials and some things that had to be explained, still things went on pleasantly until the very last. Why? They started right. My second advice to you in your home is, to exercise to the very last possibility of your nature the law of forbearance. Prayers in the household will not make up tor everything. Some of the best people in the world are tho hardest to get along with. There are people who stand up in prayer meetings and pray like angels, who at home are uncompromising and eranky. You may pot have everything just as yon want it. Sometimes it will be tho duty of the husband and sometimes of the wilo to yield; but both stand puanctiliously on your rights, and you will have a Waterioo with no Blucber coming up at night-fall to de- cide the conflict. Never be ashamed toapologize when you have done wrong in domestic affairs, Let that be a law of your household. The best thing I ever heard of my grandfather, whom I never saw, was this: That once having unrighteousiy rebuked one of his children, he himself having lost his Jutienca and, perhaps, having been mis- nformed of the child’s doings, found out his mistake, and in the evening of the sama day gathered all his family together, and said, “Now, I have one explanation to make, and one thing to say. Thomas, this morning I rebuked you very unfairly. I am very sorry for it. Irebuked you in the presence of the whole family, and now I ask your forgiveness in their presence.” It must have taken some courage to do that. It was right, was it not? Never be ashamed to apologize for domestic inaccuracy. On the other hand, the husband ought to be sympathetic with the wife’s occupa- tion. Itis no easy thing ‘o keep house. Many a woman who could have endured martyrdom as well as Margaret, the Scoteh girl, has actually been worn out by house management. There are a thousand martyrs-of the kitchen. It is very annoy- ing, after the vexations of the day around tha stove or the register or the table, or in the nursery or parlor, to have the husband say, “You know nothing about trouble; you ought tq be in the store half an hour.” Sympathy of occupation! If the husband’s work cover him with the soot of the fur- nace, orthe odors of leather or soap fac- tories, let not the wife be easily disgusted at the begrimed hands or unsavory aroma. Your gains are one, your interests are one, your losses are one; lay hold of the work of life with both hands. Four hands to fight the battles; four eyes to watch for the danger; four shoulders on which to carry thetrials. It is a very sad thing when the painter has a wife who does not like pictures. Itis a very sad thing for a pianist when she has a husband who does not like music. It is a very sad thing when a wife is not suited unless her hus- band has what is called a ‘‘genteel busi- ness.” So far as I understand a ‘genteel business,” it is something to which a man goes at ten o’clock in the morning, and from which he comes home at two or thres o’clock in the afternoon, and gots a Inrge amount of money for doing nothing. That is, I believe, a “genteel business;’’ and there has heen many a wife who has made the mistake of not being satisfied until the husband has given up the tanning of the hides, or the turning of the banis- ters, or the building of the walls, and put himself in circles where he has nothing to do but smoke cigars and drink wine, and get himself into habits that upset him, going down in the maelstrom, taking his wife and children with him. There are a good many trains running from earth to destruction. They start all hours of the day, and all hours of the night. There are the freight trains; they go very slowly and very heavily; and there are the accommo- dation trains going on toward destruction, and they stop very often and let a man get out when he wants to. But genteel idle- nessis an expresstrain; Satan is the stoker, and death is the engineer; and though one may come out in front of it, and swing the red flag of ‘‘danger,”’” or the lantern of God’s Word, it makes just one shot into perdition, coming down the embankment with a shout and a wail and a shriek— crash, erash! There are two classes of peo- ple sure of destrnction: first, those who have nothing to do; secondly, those who have something to do, but who are too lazy or too proud to do it. I havo one mora word of advice to give to those who have a happy home, and that is, let love preside in it. When your be- havior in tho domestic circle becomes a mere matter of calculation; when the caress vou give is merely the rasult of deliberate study of the position youn occupy, happi- ness lies stark dead on the hearth-stone. When the husband’s position as head of the household is maintained by loudness of voice, by strength of arm, by fire of tem- per, the republic of domestic bliss has be- come a despotism that neither God nor man will abide.” Oh, ye who promised to love cach other at the altar! how dare you com- mit perjury? Let noshadow of suspicion come on your affection. It is easier to kill that flower than it is to make it live again, The blast from hell that puts out that light, leaves you in the blackness of darkness for- ever. ’ Here are a man and wife: they agree in nothing else, but they agree they will have a home. They will have a splendid house, and they think that if they have a house, they will have a home. Architects make the plan, and the mechanics execute it; the house to cost one hundred thousand dollars. It is done. The carpets are spread; lights are hoisted; curtains are hung; cards of invitation sent out. The horses in gold-plated harness prance at the gate; guests come in and take their places; the flute sounds; the dancers go up and down: and with one grand whirl the wealth and the fashion and the mirth of the great town wheel amid the pictured walls. Hal this is happiness. Float it on the smoking viands; sound it in the musie; whirl it in the dance; cast it in the snow of sculpture; sound it up the brililant stair- way; flash it in the chandeliers! Happi- ness, indeed! Let usbuild on the centre of the parlor floor a throne to Happinnss; let all the guests, when come in, bring their flowers and pearls and diamonds, and throw them on this pryamid, aud let it be a throne; and then let Happiness, the queen, mount the throne, and we will stand around, and all chalices lifted, we will say, “Drink, O queen! live forever!” But the guests depart, the flutes are breathless, the last clash of the impatient hoofs is heard in the distance, and the twain of the household come back to see the Queen of Happiness onthe throne amidst the parlor floor. But, alas! as they come back, the flowers have taded, the swest odors havo become the smell of a charnel-house, and instead of the Queen of | Happiness there sits there the gaunt form | of Anguish, with bitten lip and sunken eye, ! and ashes in her halr. The romp of the dancers who have left seems rambling yet, like jarring thunders that quake the floor and rattle the glasses of the feast rim to fia ; . | be sure that some will'rececive the messagzs rim. The spilled wine on the floor turns into blood. The wreaths of plush have be- come wriggling reptiles. Terrors catch tangled in the canopy that overhangs the couch. A strong gust of wind comes through the hall and the drawing-roon and the bed-chamber, in which all the lights go out. And from thelips of the wine-beakers coms the words, “Happiness is ndt in us!” | And the arches respond, “It is not in us!” | of musie, | And the silenced instruments thrumbed on by invisible fingers, answer, ‘‘Happiness is not in us!” And the frozen lips of Anguish break open, and, seated on the throne of wilted flowers, she strikes her bony hands together, and groans, ‘It is not in me!” That very night a clerk with a salary ot a thousand dollars a year—only one thoua- sand—goes to his home, set up threo months ago, just after the marriage dav. Love meets him at the door; love sits with him at the table; love talks over the work of the day; love takes down the Bible, and reads of Him who came our souls to save; and they kneel, and while they are kneel- ing —right in that plain room, on the plain carpet—the angels of God build a throne, not out of flowers that perish -and fade away, but out of garlands of heaven, wreath on top of wreath, amaranth on am- aranth, until the throne is done. Then the harps of God sound- ed, and suddealy there . appeared one who mounted tho throne with eye so bright and brow so fair that the twain knew it was Christain Love. And they knelt at the foot of the throne, and, put- ting one hand on each head, she blessed them and said, ‘“‘Happiness is with me!” And that throne of celestial bloom with- ered not with the passing years; und the quesn left not the throne till one day the married pair felt stricken in years—lelt themselves called away, and knew not which way to go, and thes queen bounded from the throne, and said, “Follow me, and I will show you the way up to tho realm of everiastiug love.” And so they went up to sing songs of love, an1l walk on pavements of love, and to live together in mansious ot love, and to rejoice forever iu tie trath that God is love. = 4 | by the word of the Lord.” { enad bread.” [HE SABBATH-SCHOOL LESSON 1 INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR NOVEMBER 6. Ler<on Text: “Hezekiah’s Great Pasgover,’’ II Chronicles xxx., 1-13—~Golden Text: IX Chronicles xxv., 8—Commentary by the Rev. D. M. Stearns. 1. “Come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem to keep the Passover unto the Lord God of Israel.” This was the mes- sage of Hezekiah, a king who did right in the sight of the Lord (chapter xxix., 2), to all Israel and Judah, regarding them as one people. Although long divided into two nations, they ere one in His sight and shall yet be one in the eyes of all nations (Ezek. xxxvii., 21, 22). Hezekiah repaired the house of the Lord and restored the worship. He wrought good and right and truth before the Lord his God and did every work with all his heart and prospered (chapter xxxi., 20, 21). He would have all Israel remember their deliverance from Dyn and rejoice in the Lord and serve m. 2,3. “The king had taken counsel, and his princes and all the congregation in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the sec- ond month.” Although the flrst month was the regular time for the feast, there was provision in the law to keep it in tha second month if necessary (Ex. xii., 18; Num. ix., 10, 11). Place and time and form are not so important in God’s sight as a heart that is right with Him, Even feasts and Sabbaths are a shadow of things to come. Christ is the reality of all, and apart {rom Him nothing is real (Col. ii., 4. “And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.” It is written of David in II Sam. iii., 86, that ‘‘whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.” When king and people please each other, and all together please God, that is surely a sample of the kingdom of God on earth. Thus it shall be when Israel shall have be- come a righteous nation with the Christ, the Son of David, as their King (Ez. XXXVii., 24, 25). 5. “Make proclamation throughout all Israel to keep the Passover unto the Lord God of Israel at Jerusalem.” This feast commemorating the great deliverance of Israel out of the bondage of Egypt by the mighty power of God was to be kept every year, but in the Old Testament we have an account of only five after the first one in Ex. xii. These records are found in Num. ix., Josh. v,, II Chron. xxxv., Ezra vi., and in our lesson. The greatest Pass- over in the New Testament is recorded in Luke xxif., 14, 15, and 1n the other gospels ag having been kept by our Lord and His aspostles on the night before He was sacri- flced for us as our Passover. He spoke at that time of a future fulfillment in the kingdom of God (Luke xxii., 16), and in- stituted the Lord’s supper as a memorial of His death to be kept by His redeemed till He shall come again. 6. “Ye children of Israel, turn again un- to the Lord God of Abraham, Isapc and Israel and He will return to the remnant of you.” Letters from a king to his people , urging them to return to the Lord God would be a most unusual occurrence in our time. Even if a church is in need of funds, it is more customary to turn to some wealthy people or to some worldly way than to the Great Head of the church. 7. “Be not ye like your fathers and like | your brethren which trespassed against i the Lord God of their fathers.” | is briefly stated in Jer. ii., 13, have committed two evils; they have for- | saken me, the fountain of living waters, Their sin “My people and hewed them out cisterns, broken eis- terns, that can hold no water.” Thus they | changed their glory for that which could | not profit. The Lord was their judge and lawgiver and king, ‘but they turned their backs upon Him and preferred their own way. Is there any analogy now? 8. “Yield yourselves unto the Lord, and serve the Lord your God.” The margin says, “Give the hand unto the Lord.” In Rom. vi., 13, it is “Yield yourselves unte God as those that are alive from the dead.” As unsaved sinners all we are asked to.~da. is to receive Christ. ty 9. “The Lord your God is gracious and: merciful and will not turn away His face from you if ye return unto Him.” His name in Ex, xxxiv., 6, is ‘The Lord, ths Lord God, merciful and gracious, lgEg suffering and abundant in goodness afd truth.”” Read also verse 7. He Bays:ih Mal. {ii.,, 6; “I am the Lord. I change not.” In Heb. xiii., 8. He 18 ‘‘Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, to-day and forevér*® He is not willing that any should perish, has provided eternal redemption for:all and is ever saying, ‘Him that cometh. to Me I will noise cast out’ (John vi.; 37). 10. “‘So the posts passed from: ejty to city, but they laughed them to seors -and mocked them” —that is, many of Ephraim, Manasseh and Zebulun did. The final tes- timony concerning Judah is, They mocked the messengers of God and despised His words, and. misu#ad * His prophets until the wrath of the Lord arose against His people, till there was no rem- edy” (II Chron. xxxvi., 16). This is the carnal mind which ts enmity against God and is ever the same, but these were not the heathen who never hedrd of God. They were the people of ‘God for whom He | had done more than for any nation on | earth. See II Tim. {ii., 1-5.: 11. “Nevertheless divers af Asher, Ma- | nasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves Paul the and came to Jerusalem.” When preached in Rome, some. believed | things which were! spokeri -and some be- { lieved not (Acts xxviii... 23). has bden and will be tiff. the end of this | So it ever age, The parables. of the gower, the tares, the rustard seed and th#-leaven of Math, | xiii., all teach this, as alo tie on in- | | struction to both prophets: aiid anBsties in | | -Isa. vi., 9; Jer. i., 19; ‘Exel: iii., 7-9; Math, | X.,16. The messengrr, of God muy alwavs and that the word of fhe Lord will never return to Him void. 12. ‘‘Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the com- mandment of the king and of the princes, It is God who worketh. Ha doeth'according to His will. He gnides His willing people and makes even the weath of man to praise Him, 13. “And thera assembled at Jerusalem much people to keop the feast of unleav- It was a very great congre- gaion, so those who wou'!d not come hurt none but themselves. When God is work- ing, those who will not fallin with Him 1088 the benefit to themselves, but the work goes on. There was great gladness and great .joy in Jerusalem, and their prayers were heard in heaven. (verses 21, 26, 27). Their joy in the Lord led to the destruction of idols, and it was at this time that the brazen serpent that Moses had made was broken in pieces, for they had been burning incense to it (chapter xxxi., 1, and IT Kings xviii., 4.) hen the Lord is honored, idols cannot be tolerated. —Lesson Helper. . Hung With Fatal Effect. While Frederick Remington was in the West he observed ‘& well-executed - portrait in a dark room on the wall of a cabin and asked whose picture it was. “That's my husband,” sajd the woman of the house, carelessly. ‘But it 1s hung with fatal effect,” urged the artist, who remembered the fate of his irst picture in the Academy. ‘‘So was iny husband,” snapped the woman, and the artist discontinued his observa- tions. The Savoy Theater in London has been deliberately reviving the charm- ing operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, and finds its reward in as great a popular- ity as attended their first presentation. It “is reckoned that three out ot every 130 English-speaking people have red hair. ‘Good to choice yearling | Medium - foreign demand. THE MARKETS. PITTSBURG. Grain, Flour and Feed. WHEAT--No. 1 red 3. TO No. 2 red CORN-—No. 2 yeilow, ear No. 2 yellow, she!led Mixed ear....... . OATS-—-No. 2 white... .. No. 8 white RYE-No.1.... ......0....; FLOUR - Winter pitants,... .... Fancy straight winter Rye flour HAY No. 1iimothy Clover, No. ‘1 FEED —No. 1 white mid., ton. Brown middlings Bran, bulk. . STRAW-— Wheat Timothy, prime... ... 0... Dairy Products. BUTTER —Elgin creamery. Ohio creamery .... ... iE Fancy country roll... ......; CHEERSE- New York. new. .-. 0... 0 Fruits and Vegetables, BEANS--Lima®qt...... ..... B POTATOLES-—Rose, $ bbl.... 1 ONIONS—Choice yoilow, © bu Pouitry, Ite, CHICKENS — Per pair, smi. TURREYS--Parih.. i... EGGS—Pa. and Ohio, fresh.... CINCINNATI FILO WHEAT No. 2 red. RYE--No. 2 CORN- Mixed OATS OATS No. 2 white BUTTER -Creamery, extra. ... EGGS—Pennsylvania firsts. ... NEW YORK. FLOUR--Patents WHEAT LI VE STOCK. Central Stock Yards, East Libert CATTLE, Prime, 1300 to 1400 Ibs Good, 1200 to 1300 Ibs Tidy, 1000 to 1150 Ibs 4 6( Fair light steers, 900 to 1000 tbs 3 Common, 700 to 900 1bs i HOGS. SHEEP, Prime, 95 to 105 Ibs Good, 85 to 90 ibs. Fair, 70 to 80 Ibs (Common Springer, extra Springer, good to choice Common to fair Extra yearlings, light. ER CTT OY | N XLS 1 Sian Lommon TRADE REVIEW. Rumors of War Affecting the Markets cf Europe --Good Demand for Iron. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade reports as follows for last week. Business has been more affected by foreign affairs than many realize. London's apprehension of war first caused advance in wheat and fears of monetary pressure here. Then came confidence in London, with a flight of French money across thé channel, and stock markets advanced, while wheat fell. Mobs in Paris did not mean to in- duence American interests from New York to San Francisco, but electric wires have made ghe world small. So the wires moved a cargo of wheat from the Pacific coast, started $2,500,000 more gold from Australia to this coun- try on London account, and the selling of American securities one day and buying the next. Wheat rose 3c from Friday to Mon- day, and then fell 4%c to Friday. But such changes dd not represent actual conditions, and with western receipts for the week 9,558,205 bushels, against 6,996,487 last year, nobody can pretend that holding of stocks by western farmers is an important factor. The Atlantic exports, flour included, amount to 3,796,830 bushels, against 3,- 864,649 last year, and Pacific exports »,994 bushels, against 1,326,808 last year, making 16,607,362 bushels in: four weeks, against 19,418,847 last year, when the foreign demand was far beyond all precedent. In four weeks the western, receipts. have been over 40,150,699] bushels, against 30,723,288 last year, and yet prices are lower. This clearly indicates much larger supplies and greater readiness to part with them than was seen a year ago, when nobody doubted the magnitude of the Corn refused to fol- low wheat, but slightly advanced. Cotton rose to 5 1-2¢ last week, but has fallen to 5 3-8c in spite of heavy frosts in part of the growing region. This expresses strongly the belief that no curtailment of yield is possible that will affect the surplus more than the closing of eastern mills one month in three, and the reduction of consump- tion abroad. For European mills, as “0 . well as those of this country, have sur- plus stocks, produced from the high- priced cotton of last year, which they cannot profitably market. There has been some closing of mills at the South, and also some reduction of wages. Wool dealers have reached the con- clusion that, with the heavy stocks on hand, it is no longer a question of profit, but of avoiding losses and con- cessions that has brought a big in- crease in sales for the week, though for four weeks the aggregate has been only 14,898,900 pounds, against 36,394,098 last week, 23,320,100 in 1896 and 26,538,- 503 in 1892. Now Ohio holders are ask- ing 2@3 cents less than a month ago, having 75 per cent of fine and 40 per cent of medium wool yet on hand, while 10,000 bales of wool are offered to foreign bidders, who may decide to ex- port it. The iron manufacture has still a good demand, late as it is, but the makers are depressing prices by bid- ding against each other, although in the average of all quotations the de- cline has been less than half of 1 per cent from the highest point. But the wire nail manufacturers have geduced prices 5 per cent and the rail manu- facturers, according to current reports, have decided not to advance prices, and there is a prospect that heavy de- mand for products will be further en- couraged by the later quotations. Failures for the week have been 226 in the United, States, against 219 last vear, and 24 in Canada, against 2, last year.
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