Late Hints For the Wardrobes of Those Who Like to Be Correctly Gowned. RITES NEw York OCiry (Special).—The cloth gowns show every week some new feature, so that it seems to be necessary to have three or four in one LATIES’ CUTAWAY COAT. wardrobe in order to be correctly gowned, states Harper's Bazar. The skirts of all the gowns are made long, and as olose-fitting as possible over the hips, and many of them have jackets or long cutaway coats. There is no doubt that the long coats and cloaks are much the fashion this year, and are hat are displayed very temptingly among the extravagant novelties. They are flat in’ effect and made with a double ruffle at each end, but large in size. A stylish sable muff in a simi- lar style has a wide circular frill at each end, is lined with white satin, and is finished on the edges with tiny short tails set on two or three inches apart all around. The Boy’s Suit. . The small hoy of fashion is arrayed in blouse and knickerbockers for or- dinary wear. The trousers are slight- ly full and loose, depending a little from the band which is worn above the knee. Boys like this style much better than the fitted knee breeches heretofore worn. Worn on the Hats. One novel and beautiful fibre which is used “extensively on hats shows a coarse, lace-like mesh of heavy silk thread, woven with chenille cord. A variation of this is of coarse-meshed lace, interwoven with double zephyr wool. Ribbon Frills For the Gown. The liking for narrow ribbon frills and ruches increases—if that is pos- sible. Three, four and even five rib- bons of assorted colors are irequently combined to complete the trimming of a gown. The Fashionable Jewelry. Neck chains, lockets and crosses are fashionable. The slender gold chains strung with jeweis are of course pre- ierred. The most ultra chain ties about the throatand pear shape pearls finish the ends. Out-of-Door Toilet For a Tot. A stylish out-of-door toilet for a tiny miss is here represented in rich red serge coating, trimmed with Per- SKIRT AND WAIST FOR A YOUNG LADY. being imported all the time. A smart walking gown is made with a velvet skirt, and over this is worn a leng redingote of beige cloth that entirely covers the skirt. In front there is a flounce, of the same material as the redingote, that starts at the waist in a narrow width, and it gradually broad- ens out until it reaches part way up the coat. = The upper part of the coat is finished with a deep collar that forms a wavy cape, and there is a high stock-collar and vest of velvet, and in- side the stock-collar is a high flaring collar also of the velvet. On the front of this coat are large fancy buttons. The sleeves are small, but have a little fulness at the top. They are very long, and are finished around the wrist with a ruffled caff. To wear with this coat is a hat of felt, some- thing in a sailor shape, trimmed with roseites of velvet and stiff wings. The same gown in two shades of green is effective also. A Popular Mode. The model shown in the large en- graving is desirable for either silk or woolen fabrics, charming combinations being effected by making flounce and broad collar of contrasting material. “This is also a good design for remod- elling, as the waist can be lengthened over a new lining, the collar of new material giving a stylish finish. A flounce to match collar will give added length as well as style to the skirt, and the decoration may be as simple or as elaborate as desired. To make this waist for a miss of fourteen years will require two yards of material forty-four inches wide. To make the skirt will require three and one-half yards of material forty- four inches wide. Maffs to Match the Hat. Fancy muffs of velvet to match the! sian lamb fur and tiny frills of black satin ribbon. Flare bonnet of red velvet, with red taffeta bows and tie strings, black soft quills and border of Persian lamb. The Empire style needs no introduction. It is graceful and becoming to little folks, the cape collar with its circular ripple ruffle being also a revival of a former style and at this time a very popular fea- ture. The deep box-pleated skirt portions of the coat are joined at the top to front and back short body portions, CHILD'S COAT. which meet in shoulder and under- armseams. The cape collaris included in the seam with the turn-over collar, The Cold-Weather Cape.’ Capes for cold-weather wear are either in shawlpoint or seamless cir- cular shape, and nearly every model is of three-quarter length, 1SOF EXTREME URGENCY. MARINE LEGISLATION NEEDED WITH- QUT DELAY. Some Measure Providing For the Revival of American Shipping and Its Adequate Protection Should Be Passed by the Fifty-fifth Congress. It is a notable fact that the re- assembling of the Fifty-fifth Congress marks the first time since the first Presidential term of General Grasat that both Houses of Congress have been in entire political accord either with a Republican or a Democratic President during the second half of his term. TItis a fact to be considered that this remarkable political harmony of Congress with the President, during Mr. McKinley's entire term, is due to the fulfillment by the Republican Con- gress of the pledge of a protective tariff, which pledge was made in the National platform and promptly re- deemed by the Congress through the influence of the administration. There is, however, one pledge which was made in the platform of the Republi- can party at the National Convention, at St. Louis, and indorsed by the President in his letter of acceptance of the nomination, which is unfulfilled. We refer to the pledge of protection for the American mercantile marine. The platform distinctly set forth the character of the protection that should be given in the following language: ‘“We favor restoring the early American policy of discriminating duties for the up-building of our merchant marine and the protection of our shipping in the foreign carry- ing trade.” Mr. McKinley stood squarely upon this plank of the platform when he said, in his letter accepting the nomi- nation for the Presidency: ““The policy of discriminating duties in favor of our shipping, which pre- vailed in the early years of our his- tory, should be again promptly adopted by Congress and vigorously supported until our prestige and supremacy on the seas is fully attained.” There is no possibility of mistaking this language. It conveys a distinct enunciation of the policy of the admin- istration. ' The candidate announced that the declaration of the Republican platform in favor of the upbuilding of our merchant marine had his hearty approval. The platform distinctly de- clared that discriminating duties should be restored, and no other form of pro- tection was contemplated by Senator Foraker, of Ohio, when he framed this plank of the Republican platform. While the results of the war with Spain have made necessary effective legislation by the Fifty-fifth Congress at this session, this is no reason why an earnest effort should not be made to redeem the pledge of the Republi: can platform, which promised protec- tion to our merchant marine through the policy of discriminating duties. Indeed, the necessity for such protec- tion is even more urgent now than it was when this plank of the platform was framed. Our sea power has been wonderfully increased, our navy has taken high rank among the most ad- vanced nations of Europe, our tecri- tory has been expanded, our commer- cial fields have been enlarged; and yet we are dependent upon foreign bot- toms for the carriage of our oversea commerce. Our trade should follow our flag, but until we have a merchant marine bearing that flag we cannot reap that benefit from our territorial and commercial expansion to which we are clearly entitled. There is no more important policy demanding the attention of the Fifty- fifth Congress than this policy of pro- tection of our merchant marine. The exact form of discriminating duties which this protection shall assume is clearly defined. It was acted upon and adopted by the people at the Presidential election, and it has the unqualified endorsement of the ad- ministration. The voice of Senator Elkins should not be the only voice raised in the Fifty-fifth Congress in advocacy of this measure of protec- tion and upbuilding of our merchant marine, and it is essential that the bill introduced by the Senator from West Virginia shall receive early con- sideration in order that its passage may be assured before both Hoases of Congress before the final adjournment. Then will be fulfilled the two most important pledges of the administra- tion—the protective tariffand the res- toration of the early American policy of discriminating duties for the up- building of our merchant marine and the protection of our shipping in the foreign carrying trade. There should be no delay in pressing for considera- tion by the present Congress some ad- equate measure of marine protection. The time to actis now. It is a meas- ure of extreme urgency. All Are Silent. It would be interesting to hear a free trade organ explain what has be- come of the freight of disasters which were billed to fall on our export trade under the Dingley tariff. All the or- gans of the policy under which. Eng- land is steadily losing her manufac- turing supremacy to us are as silent about the victories of protection as if their mouths were closed by good, thick American tin plate. —Washing- ton Post. Nature and Protection. Nature made the country a grea grain producer, and the wisdom, cour- age and foresight of the old-time pro- tectionists made us an independent manufacturing nation, soon to be felt in all the markets of the world.—Cin- cinnati Commercial Tribune. An End of Jeering. The Dingley law has vindicated ii self and the wisdom of its authors, and there will have to be an end to the Democratic jeers at Dingleyism,— Troy (N. Y.) Record. 0. TALNAGES (SUNDAY: SERMON. Subject: “Light in Darkness —A Dis- course That Will Be Comforting to the Sick and Helpless—Shut in For an All. Wise Purpose. TEXT: ¥ii., 16. Cosmogony has no more interesting chapter than the one which speaks of that catastrophe of the ages, the submersion of our world in time of Noah, the first ship carpenter. Many of the naiions who never saw a Bible have a flood story—Egyptian flood story, Grecian flood story, of which Ducalion was the Noah: Hawaiian flood story, New Zealand flood story. Chinese flood story, American Indian flood story— all of which accounts agree in the immer- sion of the continents under universal rains, and that there was a ship floating, with a select few of the human family and with specimens of zoological and ornitho- logical and reptilian worlds, although I “The Lord shut him in.”—Genesis | could have wished that these last had been shut out of the'ark and drowned. All of these flood stories represent the ship thus afloat as finally stranded on a mountain top. Hugh Miller, in his “Testi- mony of the Rocks,” thinks that all these flood stories were infirm traditions of the Biblical aecount, and I believe him. The worst thing about that great freshet was that it struck Noah’s Great Eastern from above and beneath. The seas broke the chain of shells and crystal and rolled over the land, and the heavens opened their clouds for falling columns of water which roared and thundered on the roof of the great ship for a month and ten days. There was one door to the ship, hut there were three parts-to the door, one part for each of three stories. The Bible account says nothing about parts of the door be- longing to two of the stories, and I do not know on which floor Noah and his family voyaged, but my text tells us that the part of the door of that particular floor on which Noah stayed was closed after he had entered. ‘“The Lord shut him in.” So there are many people now in the world who are as thoroughly shut in, some hy sickness, some by old age, some by special duties that will not allow them to go forth. some surrounded by deluges of misfor- tune and trouble, and for them my sympa- thies are aroused, and from them I often receive messages, and this sermon, which 1 hope may do good to others, is more es- pecially intended for them. To-day I ad- dress theshut in. ‘The Lord shuthim in.” The world has no statistics as to the number of invalids. The physicians know something about it, and the apothecaries and the pastors, but who can tell us the number of blind eyes, and deaf ears, and diséased lungs, and congested livers, and jangled nerves, and neuralgic temples, and rheumatie feet, or how many took no food this morning because they had no appetite to eat, or digestive organs to assimilate, or have lungs so delicate they cannot go forth when the wind isin the east, or there is a. dampness on the ground or pavement because of the frost coming out? It would be easy to count the people who every day go through a street, or the number of passengers carried by a railroad company in a year, or the number of those who cross the ocean in ships, but who can give usthe statistics of the great multitudes who are shut in? I call the attention of all such to their superior opportunities of doing good. Those of us who are well and can see clearly, and hear distinctly, and partake of food of all sorts, and questions of diges- tion never occur to us, and we can wade the snowbanks and take an equinox in our faces, and endure the thermometer at zero, and every breath of air is a tonic and a stimulus, and sound sleep meets us within five minutes after-our head touches the pil- low, do not make so much of an impression when we talk about the consolations of reli- gion. The world says right away: “I guess that man mistakes buoyancy of natural spirits for religion. What does he know about it? He has never been tried.” But when one goes out and reports to the world that that morning on his way to business he called to see you and found you, after being kept in your room for two months, cheerful and hopeful, and that you had not one word of complaint, and asked all about everybody, and rejoiced in the success of your business friends, although your own business had almost come to a stand- still through your absence from store or office or shop, and that you sent your love to all your old friends, and told them that if you did not meet them again in this world you hoped to meet them in dominions seraphic, with a quiet word of advice from you to the man who carried thie message about the importance of his not neglecting his own soul, but through- Christ seeking something better than this world could give him—why, all the business men in the counting room say: ‘Good! Now, that is religion!” And the clerks get hold of the story and talk it over, so that the weigher and cooper and hackman standing on the doorstep say: ‘‘That is splendid! Now, that is what I call religion!” No doubt while on that voyage Noah and his three sons and all the four ladies of the antediluvian world often thought of the bright hillsides and the green fields where they had walked and of the homes where they had lived. They had had many years of experiences. Noah was 600 years old at thetimeof this convulsion of nature. He had seen 600 springtimes, 600 summers, 600 autumns, 600 winters. We are not told how old his wife was at this wreck of earth and sky. The Bible tells the age of a great many men, but only once gives a woman’s age. At onetime it gives Adam’s age as 130 years and Jared’s age as 162 years gnd Enoch’s age as 365 years, and all up and down the Bible it gives the age of men, but does not give the age of women. Why? Because, I suppose, a woman’s age is none of our business. But all the men and women that tossed in that oriental craft had lived long enough to remem- ber a great many of the mercies and kindnesses of God, and they could not blot out, and I think they had no disposi- tion to blot out, the memory of those bright- nesses, though now they were shut in. Neither should the shut in of our time for- get the blessings of the past. Have you been blind for ten years? Thank God for the time when you saw as clearly as any of us can see and let the pageant of all the radiant landscapes and illumined skies " which you ever looked upon kindle your rapturous gratitude. I do not see Ruphael’s ‘Madonna di San Sisco’ in the picture gal- lery of Dresden, nor Rubens’ “Descent From the Cross” at Antwerp, nor Michael Angelo’s ‘Last Judgment’ on the ceiling of the Vatican nor St. Sophia at Constan- tinople, nor the Parthenon on the Acropolis, nor the Taj Mahal of India, but shall I not thank God that I have seen them? Is it possible that such midnight darkness shall ever blast my vision that I cannot call them up again? Again, notice that during that forty days of storm which rocked that ship on that universal ocean of Noah’s time the door which shut the captain of the ship in- side the craft kept him from many out- side perils. How those wrathful seas would like to have got their wet hands on Noah and pulled him out and sunk him! And do all of you of the great army of the shut in realize that, though you have special temptations where you are now, how much of the outside style of tempta- tion you escape? Do vou, the merchant incarcerated in the sick room, realize that every hour of the day you spend looking out of the window, or gazing at the par- ticular figure on the wall, or listening to the clock’s ticks men are being wrecked by the allurements and uncertainties of business life? How many forgeries are committed, how many trust funds are swamped, how many public inoneys are be- ing misappropriated, how many bankrupt- cies suffered! It may be, it is,very uncom- fortable for Noah inside the ark, for the apartment is crowded and the air is vitiatedj ‘with the breathing of so much human and animal life, but it is not half as bad for him as though he were outside the ark. There is not an ox, or a camel, or an ‘antelopé, or a sheep inside the ark as badly off as the proudest king outside. While you are on the pillow or lounge you will make no bad bargains, you will rush into no rash in- F vestments, you will avoid the mistakes that thousands of men as good as you are every day making. Notice also that there was a limit to the shut in experience of those ancient marin- ers. Isuppose the forty days of the de- scending and uprising floods and the 150 days before the passengers could go ashore must have seemed to those eight people in the big boat like a small eternity. “Rain, rain, rain!” said the wife of Noah. “Will it never stop?’ For forty mornings they logked out and saw not one patch of blue sky. Floating around amid the peaks of mountains Shem and Ham and’ Japhet had to hush the fears oi their wives lest they should dash against the project- ing rocks. But after awhile it cleared off. Sunshine, glorious sunshine! The as- cending mists were folded up into clouds, which instead of darken- ing the sky only ornamented it. As they looked out of the windows these worn passengers clapped their hands and rejoiced that the fstorm was over, and I think if God could stop such a storm as that He could stop any storm in your life- time experience. If He can control a vul- ture in midsky, He can stop a summer hat that flies in at your window. At the right time He will put the rainbow on the cloud and the deluge of your misfortunes will dry up. I preach the doctrine of limita- tion, relief and disenthrallment. At just the right time the pain will cease, the bondage will drop, the imprisoned will be liberated, the fires will go out, the body and mind and soul will be free. Patience! Notice also that on the cessation of the deluge the shut ins camé out, and they built their houses and cultured their gar- dens and started a new world on the ruins of the old world that had been drowned out. Though Noah lived 350 years after this worldwide accident and no doubt his fellow passengers survived centuries I warrant they never got over talking about that voyage. Now I[ have seen Dore’s pictures and many other pictures c? the entrance into the ark, two and two, of the human family, and the animal creation into that ship which sailed between ttvo worlds—antidiluvian world and the post- diluvian world—but I never saw a piot- ure of their coming out; yet their em- barkation was not more important than their disembarkation. Many a crew has entered a ship that never landed. Wit- ness the steamer Portland, a few days ago, with 100 souls on board, going down with all its crew and passengers. Witness the line of sunken ships, reaching like a submarine cable of anguish across the ocean depths from America to Europe. If any ship might expect complete wreckage, ‘the one Noah commanded might have ex- pected it. But no; those who embarked disembarked. Over the plank reaching down the side of the ark tothe Armenian cliffs on which they had been stranded the procession descended. No other wharf felt so solid or afforded sueh attractiveness as that height of Ararat when the eight pas- senger put their feet on it. And no sooner had the last one, the invalided wife of Japheth, been helped down the plank upon the rock than the other apartments of the ship were opened, and such a dash of bird music never fllled the air as when the entire orchestra of robin redbreast, and morning- lark, and chaffinch, and mocking bird, and house swallow took wing into the bright sky, whiie the cattle began to low and the sheep to bleat and the horses to neigh for the pasture, which from the awful sub- mergence had now begun to grow green and aromatic. I tell you plainly nothing interests me more in that tragedy from the first to the last act than the ‘‘exit’’ and the ‘“exeunt,” than the fact that the ‘‘shut- ins” became the ‘‘got outs.” And I now cheer with this story all the inmates of the sickrooms and hospitals, and those prisons where men and women are unjustly endun- geoned, and all the thousands who are bounded on the North and South and East and West by floods, by deluges of misfor- tune and disasqer. The ark of your trou- ble, if it does not land on some. earthly height of vindication and rescue, will land on the heights celestial. By a strange providence, for which I shall be forever grateful, circumstances with which I think you are all familiar, I have admission through the newspaper press week by week to tens of thousands of God’s dear children who cannot enter church on the Sabbath and hear their ex- cellent pastors because of the age of the sufferers, or their illness, or the lameness of foot, or their incapacity to stay in one position an hour and a half, or their poverties, or their troubles of some sort will not let them go out of doors, and to them as much as to those who hear mel preach this sermon, as I preach many of my sermons, the invisible audience always vaster than the visible, some of them tossed on wilder seas than those that tossed the eight members of Noah’s family, and instead of forty days of storm and five months of being shut in, as they were, it has been with these invalids flve years of ‘shut in,” or ten years or ‘‘shut in,” or twenty years of ‘shut in.” Oh, comforting God! Help me to comfort them! Give me two hands full of salve for their wounds. When we were- 300 miles out at sea, a hurricane struck us, and the life- boats were dashed from the davits and all the lights in the cabin were put out by the rolling of the ship and the water which through the broken skylights had poured n. And as I now find many in hurricanes of trouble, though I cannot quiet the storm, Ican strike a match to light up the dark- ness, and I strike a mateh. ‘Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth.” I strike an- other match. ‘ Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” I strike another match. “We have a High Priest who can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, and He was in all points tempted like as we are.” - Are you old? One breath of heaven will make you ever- lastingly young again. Haye you aches and pains? They insure Christ’s presence and: sympathy through the darkest De- cember nights, which are the longest nights of the year. Are you bereft? Here is a resurrected Christ whose voice is full of resurrectionary power. But do not think that heaven is made up of any indiseriminate population. Some of my friends are so generous in their theol- ogy that they would leteverybody in with- out reference to condition or character. Do not think that libertines or blasphem- ers and rejecters of God and His gospel have ‘‘letters of credit’ that will draw any- thing from the bank of heaven. Pirate crafts will not be permitted to go up that harbor. If there are those who as toheaven are to be ‘‘shut ins,”” there are those who will belong to the ‘‘shut outs.” Heaven has twelve gates, and while those twelve gates imply wide open entrance for those who are properly prepared to enter them they at there S78 at Joasts i¥elve ossibili many w e shut out, De a np A no use unless it can sometimes be closed. Heaven is not an unwashed mob. Show your tickets or you will not get in—tickets that you may get without money and without price, tick- ets with a eross and a erown upon them. Let the unrepentant and the vile and the offscourings of earth enter heaven as they now are, and they would depreciate and demoralize it so that no one of us would want to enter, and those who are there would want to move out. The Bible speaks of the ‘“‘withouts” as well as the “withins.” § Revelation =xii., 15, ‘Without are dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers and murdecers and idolaters and whosoever loveth and inaketh a lie.” Through the converting, pardoning, sanctifying grace of God may we at last bo found among the shut ins and not among the shut outs! A Gigantic Flour Syndicate. A $150,000,000 flour trust, whieh includes a combination of all the leading mills in this country. bas been formed. 1 THE MARKETS. PITTSBURG. . | Grain, Flour and’ Feed. WHEAT-—No. 1red No. 2 red CORN-—No. 2 yeilaw, ear No. 2 yellow, shelled Mixed ear HAY—No. 1 timothy Clover, No. I..............« FEED—No. 1 white mid., ton. . Brown middlings Bran, bulk 16 00 16 50 13 00 13 50 1225 12715 6 25 Dairy Froducts. BUTTER—EIgin creamery. Ohio creamery Fancy country roll CHEESE-—Ohio, new New York, new Fruits and Vegetables, BEANS— Lima dqt $ POTATOES—FancyWhita, % bu CABBAGE—Per 100 heads -ONIONS—Choice yellow, © bu. Poultry, Etc. CHICKENS—Per pair, small... 3 TURKEYS—Per It EGGS—Pa. and Ohio, fresh. ... CINCINNATI, WHEAT -—No. 2 red RYE—No. 2 OAT BOOS. oe Tw - BUTTER -Ohio creamery PHILADELY HIA. OATS No. 2 white BUTTER Creamery, extra.... EGGS—Pennsylvania firsts. ... NEW YORK. BUTTER Creamery, EGGS-—-State of Penn LIVE STOCK, Central Stock Yards, East Liberty, Pa. : CATTLE. Prime, 1300 to 1400 ths Good, 1200 to 1300 Ibs Tidy, 1000 to 1150 Ibs. Fair light steers, 900 to 1000 Ibs Common, 700 to 900 hs. ... Medium Heav SHEEP, Prime, 95 to 105 hs Good, 85to 90 hs. ............ Springer, extra 5 25@ Bpringer, good to choice. ....... 50) Common to fair 3 50 Extra yearlings, light. ........ 4 65 Good to choice yearlings Medium Common OU ado SEITE S i TRADE REVIEW. Closing Month of the Year Remarkable for Its Volume of Business. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade reports as follows for last week: December is adding a surprising clgse to" the most surprising year-of American history. November sur- passed all other months of the century in volume of business and production, and thus far December is doing even batter in payments through clearing houses, in railroad earnings, in foreign tade, in output of pig iron, in activity and strength of securities. But that is saying a. great deal, for in all these and cther tests, November was far the best month of American financial history. December began with a pig iron out- put of 235,528 tons weekly, against 228,- 935 November 1st, and with stocks of unsold iron diminished 28,988 tons’ in November, which indicates a «on- sumption of 1,024,313 tons\ during the month. Not only is the utput the greatest ever known, but i has in- creased 22 1-2 per cent since 1892, when the greatest monthly record then ever, known was made, and bessemer pig was then selling for $14 75 at Pittsburg; but until the middle of November, sold at $1010 this year. It has since risen with enormous demand and sales to $10 55 there, with gray forge $9 35, but the Chicago market is also strong, with sales of 100,000 tons, besides 25,000 tons billets, which had risen at Pittsburg with big transactions to $16. With scarcity of pig iron feared both east and west, there is as yet no rise whatever in finished products, al- though the demand is far beyond all product. Steel rails are quoted at $17 per ton at the East, although the Lackawanna Company has taken or- ders for 100,000 tons at the West, both the Pittsburg and Chicago works being sold far ahead, and bids for 32,000 tons for Australia are to be opened, while Chicago has pending a bid for 200,- 000 tons, deliverable in two years in Asiatic Russia. In other lines the de-- mand for finished products is of the same supprising magnitude, especially in plates and in sheets. The woolen industry also comes to the front with very extensive pur- chases of wool by large houses and small, helped by material concessions at Boston, so that sales at the three chief markets have been 17,968,700 pounds, of which 13,860,200 pounds were domestic, against 15,307,100 pounds last year of which 7,443,000 pounds were domestic and 16,504,100 pounds in the same week of 1892, of which 12,399,600 pounds were domestic. The transactions show a demand fair- ly up to that of the most prosperous years heretofore. The exports of wheat continue heavy from Atlantic ports, flour included, 5,- 492,692 bushels, against 3,568,805 bush- els, last year, and from Pacific ports 741,991 bushels, against 1,520,612 bushels last year, so that for two weeks the outgo has been 11,871,540 bushels, against 3,401,555 bushels last year. As the wheat output in December of last vear was close to the largest on rec- ord, the returns this year show a real- ly surprising gain. While prices have been 3c stronger for cash, the-western receipts for two weeks of December have been about 5,000,000 bushels greater than last year. The corn movement is the most as- tonishing feature of’ the business, the exports for three weeks having been 7,187,302 bushels, against 6,326,894 bush- els last year, and the price has ad- vanced for the week. Should such a demand for American corn continue it would be of enormous value t8 the western farmers. Failures for the week have been 261 in the United States, against 329 last vear, aud 31 in Canada, against 28 last year,
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