Lieutenant Hohsonhas declined the offer o( 810,000 for ten lecture. An other evlilouce of the mnu's Inherent bravery. With thermometers in firerooms registering 200 degrees, it must re' qnire move courage to stay bolow and keep a ship moving than to stand on 1eek to be shot nt. llemctuber the firemen. Assuming Hint the combined circu lations of alt the landing Chicago liewspnpers amount to 1,000, 000 copies day, the increase of one rent in the price all mound costs the citizens of the Windy city no less than $:l,(150,- 000 a year. In view of the assertion recently made by the Hnauish newspapers to the effect that "there are no college in America" it is interesting to know that we have 4.')0 universities and col leges, 8472 professors and teachers therein, and 124,084 studeuts. It was significant of the trend of Englieh feeling that at the Fourth of July celebration at Constantinople the Americans resident along the Bospo rus were takeu to the Princes Islands, where Minister Angell was residing, in the British Embassy dispatchboat. There were present, also, a large num ber of English officials (all wearing American colors), and even Admiral Woods Pasha, of the Turkish navy. It was a graceful courtesy, which we may be sure the Americans appreci ated. The Frankfurter Zeitung, a leading German paper, reviewing the war and the role Germany has played, regrets the attacks of the German press on the United States, and arrives at the conclusion that Germany has behaved in a "thoroughly iujudicious manner." It says: "Two German vessels at Ma nila would have sufficed amply, and in the future we hope the foreign office will take into its own hands the set tling of all incidents iu connection with Germany's foreign policy, includ ing those relating to the navy," A Pennsylvania commission, charged , with the difficult task of devising some means whereby convict labor can be utilized without interfering with union labor, has found, after two years of inquiry, nothing better, un der existing statute restrictions, than the New York plan of utilizing such labor iu the making of supplies for state institutions. The members of the commission approve of the Euro pean plan of making army stores and equipments in the prisons. That plan, of course, is not applicable iu this country, where ordinarily there is no such demand for war material, but Pennsylvania is supporting 30,000 in sane in its various hospitals, aud it is believed that the furnishing of sup plies for that indigent army would keop all the prison inmates ia the state busy. The authorities of Portland, Ore., believe that they have solved the problem of economical street sprink ling, and the explanation of the way they do it is a revelation of how that far Western city is gridiroued with street railways. There are at least thirty miles of track within the city, s the ooutract for sprinkling covers that amount of highway on which rails are laid. Each mile of the thir ty is to be sprinkled once daily, Sun days excepted, the work to be done by the street railroad company with a motor sprinkling cart. The city fur nishes the water, aud the railroad com pany distributes it for $400 a month. Not counting the cost of the water, the expense is about $13 per mile per month. That is certainly less than it s -would cost the city to do the work through its street department. The cost per city lot of fifty feet frontage is about seven cents a month. The New York Tribune say: Amid all the talk about German in terests at Manila, it is well to bear in mind that there ave only foar German trading-houses in that city, that there is no direct line of vessels between Germany and the Philippines, and .that no cargoes are ever sent from either country to the other. The amount of German trade must there fore be email. It could not well be large. .The phief produots of the is lands are sugar, hemp aud copra. Ev idently no sugar could be sent to Germany, which is a sugar-exporting country. The hemp goes to all parts of the world, but chiefly by way of Great Britain. The copra is practi cally all taken by Great Britaiu and France. The tobaoco, now a minor product, goes chiefly to Spain, or did before Admiral Dewey interfered with the trade. It ie one thing to protect existing interests. It is an- ";r and very different thing to try 1 :'.Isk new interests. THE RED CROSS. They too have heard the drum-beat, They follow the bugle's enll, Thenn who are swift with pity On the Held where brave men fall. When the battle-boom Is silent, And the eoholng thunder dies, Tlnty finite to the plain red sodden With the blood of saerlllce. , The flag that floats above them Is marked with a erltnsnn slim, Pledge nt a Brent enmpnmion Aud the rlltud heart divine, That once fur man's redemption Knew earth's completest loss, Thexe to the Held of valor llrlng love's Immortal cross. And so they follow the bugle. Anil lined the drum-beat's call, lint their errand Is one of pity They lucuor the men who fall. Harper's llsr.ar. THE YELLOW OOD. RT LEAVENWORTH MACKAR. Tom Jeukius ran his hand through the gold that lay heaped on the floor of the shack. "Hernia to me, Billy," he said, slowly, "that hopin' to find it is better 'u flndin' it." Dull gleams of light from a smoky lantern fell athwart the face of the old miner, rugged.homely, deep-furrowed by time and hardships, and offering a marked contrast, indeed, to the hand some, patrician features of Billy Bailey, his junior partner. "Findin', Billy, means quittin'. It's an end to the wants an' privations I've knowed for nigh twenty years. But, somehow, I've come to like these still ole mountains, an' the singin' of the pines, an' the river. They've growed like friends, an I'm never lonesome among 'em. Listen! you can hear 'em now. Maybe it's the las' time they'll ever slug fer me." "We're golu' back to ciy'lization," continued Tom, unheeding the other's lack of sympathy with his reminiscent mood, "an' that, means separation. I know you like ' me, Billy. A feller oouldu't want a better pardner than you've been ler the two year I've knowed yon. But with yer eddi ca tion, an' yer young blood, an yer am bitions, yon ain't my kind in oiv'liza tion. We can't be the same down there. I couldn't expect it. But I think s powerful deal of you, Billy. "Oh, come, Tom," broke in his companion, impatieutly, "you're in the dumps tonight. Take a walk and brace up. Should think you'd look on the bright side of things now. We've worked and starved in these cursed wilds for gold, until at last we've got it. Think of the city's ten thousand pleasures thattbis stake can buy for ns. There's no life iu these solitudes. It's there iu the crowded streets, and it can be ours wheu we've got such a god the god of gold to see us through." Billy laughed gloatingly in anticipa tion. Then ouco more he fixed his eyes with a glittering intensity on the yellow heap, which meant for him all that life can mean to a selfish, love lack nature. "But it ain't for me," persisted Tom. "I'm past them thiugs. If it wa'n't fer the hope of Uiidiu' the old womau down thero in Frisco on' mnk iu' hor comfortable, I'd stay. I don't care fer the gold after all. I've found it, an' my hungeriu fer it's satisfied." Billy made no answer. He had long since become resigned to the di versity of their tastes, and tonight he was iu no mood for argument. He got out some materials, aud began to repair a rent iu his coat. Torn rose presently, aud dumped the nuggets into a gunny-sack. Then he arranged his blankets for the night. "Pntitaway safe, Billy," he said, jocularly; "we're already on the edge of civ'lizatiou, an' must learn to be pertickter." "I'll look after it, never foar," said the other, shortly; "good-night." Billy finished his task, but his mind was still busy with thoughts of the future. He rose aud stepped out into the night. At his foot the turbulent river rushed blackly along, its foam crests gleaming like dull silver iu the clear starlight. Behiud him towered iu silont majesty the rngged, wooded mountains. The air was heavy with the breath of the pines. But Billy saw none of the beauty of the night. The mountains awakened memorios of hardships and hopelessness; the river was only a highwoy to civilization. He lit his pipo, and began to pace up aud down the shelving shore. Thore was none of the stuff of which heroes are made iu Billy Bailey's com position. Had the fates seen fit to continue their kindly beginning, he would probably have developed into one of the horde of wbited sepnlchres that so largely make np what the world is pleased to term the respect able of humanity those who observe the conventions to the letter, indulge every desire with a studied care that wins the approval of men, aud dying are respectfully buried and sneedilv forgotten. On the contrary, fate bad preferred giving Billy a chance to provo his mettle. His college career cnt short by the melting away of his father's fortune, he awoke one morn ing to find himself face to face with the world, his wits his only capital. He remembered tonight his struggles to maintain hia sooial position; the slights heaped upon him by erstwhile boon companions; the gradual sinking way of hope, until, with starvation staring uiui in the face. he had shinned in a vessel bound '"round the Horn.," un nis lips were angry phrases for the friends who had failed him: in hia heart a resolve some day to retaliate. recalled bis hardships on the Western frontier, his final falling in with old Tom Jeukins, and the hope less search for gold nntil week ago, when the gravel of dried-up moun tain stream unexpectedly yielded tm 1 their little fortune and ended for him the wrotched existence in these soli tudes. His future course was plain. Mercilessly he would engage iu the war for wealth. His heart must know but one love the love of gold. Aud the stake! it was not so much after all. If he only had Tom's share, tool The thought startled him, and he looked furtively about ns though already tinder surveillance. Well, why not? The old men cared nothing for gold he had snid as much. Why not begin the tusk of wealth-gathering tonight, and double his fortune by n single coup? The skiff was all rend'y for the morrow's journey down the river. Ho could easily reach North Fork by daylight, nnd miles of dis tance would lie between him and Tom before the latter could make the trip across the almost impassable mountain trail. He weakened for a moment as he thought of Tom's almost motherly solicitude of how throughout their wanderings the big-hearted miner had borne the brunt of the struggle. Even when the treasure was discovered the old man's first words were: "I'm glad for your sake, Billy." Then he asked himself if he, too, was growing senti mental, and tonight, of all nights, on the very eve of battle. He walked back to the house. Tom was fast asleep. The flickering light of the lantern fell aslant the corner where he lay, his jowerfiil form half swathed in the tattered blankets, his brawny arms thrown above his head. The fuce, from which sleep seemed to have smoothed away the deep furrows, mirrored the rugged honesty of his heart. But the touching picture meant nothing to Billy, who watched the sleeper for an instant,' and then pro ceeded to put his cowardly scheme into effect. It was but the work of a few minutes to gather together the thiugs necessary for the short journey down the river, and to seoure the treasure for safe transportation. There was a look of cunning triumph on his face as he completed his preparations. He was thinking of the surprise await ing Tom, who had been "fool enough to believe in human friendship." He made a cautions step toward the door of the shack, when a slight noise, real or fancied, caused him to glance back over his shoulder. The next in stant the bag of gold crashed to the floor, while Billy sank on his knees m though felled by a blow. Tom was sitting bolt upright in bed, his revolver leveled at Billy's heart The two gazed at each bther in utter silence. Billy's eyes, fixed with the penetration born of despair, scanned the old man's face, and read there reproach . and pity, rather than a thirst for swift revenge. This somewhat reassured him, aud he rose to his feet. "Well," he said, bluutly, "what do you intend to do?" "Ho," said Tom, with a long breath, "I wuz mistook iu yon, after all. To think that I give you my friendship an' you wa'n't w orth it. , What be I goiug to do? What do men nsu'lly do when a pardner turns thief?" "You wouldn't shoot me, Tom?" "Why not? Men's been killed fer less 'an this on' the world wuz well red of 'ein." Then it did mean death. As Billy realized this his face turned ashen pale, while a palsying terror struck through him, rending his bravado mask and revealing him as the pitiable dastard he was. He cowered before the old man, pleading hysterically. "Oh, spare me, spare me, Tom. Yon said you cared nothing for gold, while I I was mad with love of it. It is rty god my heaven my everything. But take it, take it all only give me my life Tom I I can't die. " "Git up," commanded the other, coldly, "don't mnke me dospise yon worse'n I do. What would you do if you wuz in my place? Shoot, wouldu't you? You'd kill me now if you had the chance." "But thiuk, Tom, what life means to me ; I'm young aud " "Thiuk what friendship meant to mo, Billy. I'm old." In the momentary silence that fojlowed, the pines and the river could be heard singing their old, old song, unheeding of the strife of mor tals for a scrap of the treasure they guarded. Tom heard the song, and his bittoruess seemed to 'go out with the weird melody. The hand that held the weapon dropped listlessly to his side. "I'll spar yer lifo,"he said hoarsely; "yon kin go." Billy stood a moment as though he had not heard. "Yer free. Go!" said Tom. The boy glanced from the old man to the bag of gold, and then turned slowly toward the doorway. "You better take yer pile now," said Tom, quietly, "as I reckon you won't be oomin' back." "Do you mean it?" gasped Billy. "Certainly; half's yourn, ain't it? There's only one thief in this camp, au'-it ain't me." Tom proceeded to open the bag, and roughly divided the contents. "You can take the boat, that goes with your half. As fer me," he added, in voice that wavered in spite of himself, "I'll do what I'd V done if you'd V robbed me. I'll stay awhile longer with the mountains an' the river. They're uncertain sometimes, an' sometimes dangerous, but most wise they're better'n men." Billy vaguely appreciated the nature of the man with whom he was deal ing, yet he felt that such nobleness required some acknowledgment. He sprang forward, and tried to grasp the old man'a hand. "So, no-not that!" cried Tom, fiercely. "Don't touch me. The gold is yourn. Take it and go. But go quickly, Billy fer ' I'm only human." San Francisco Argonaut. The value of a ton of pure gold is 1000.000,000, . FOR FARM AND GARDEN, Full or Spring flowing. According to Nebraska experiments early fall or summer plowing gave better yields of corn than spring breaking. When the plowing was done very lute in nutuinu there was no appreciable difference. Tuning Fruit Trees. Hummer pruning tends to form fruit buds while trimming in the spring produces wood growth. Trim each year, but only enough to cut out cross branches and water sprouts. A tree ran sometimes be induced to bear yearly by removing half of the fruit buds and permitting it to bear a half crop only each season. It is, how ever, usiinlly more practicable to allow nature to take its course aud let the trees bear each alternate year. Let each tree assume its individual shape and do not try to have all look alike. Sawdust an the farm. In many sections sawdust can be purchased at a price that makes it valuable in farm operations. It should not be used on light or sandy soils, but on clay land or on land inclined to be wet it will loosen up the soil as well as enrich it. In the stock barn, and especially with cows, sawdust is valuable for bedding, readily absorb ing the liquid manure aud retaining it, so that the effect is plainly visible wheu the sawdust is applied to the soil as a fertilizer. As a summer mutch for strawberry plants sawdust is equal to anything used for that purpose. It is too heavy for a winter mulch except between the rows, but it may be used in connection with some coarser material like leaves or straw, and will be valuable. It must lie remembered that the value of saw dust as a fertilizer is but nominal and its chief value, iu its application to the soil, is after it has been used in the stable as an absorbent for the llquid manures so often lost through care lessness. Clover and Timothy Together. This system of work fitted our cir cumstances, with clover-timothy hay and with barn room to accommodate it. We never tried to raise clover alone, and do not reciprocate the sentiment of those who belittle the ex cellent qualities of this grass. The two suit each other so well that it seems like criticising Mother Nature to divorce them. Hown together these two plants fully occupy the ground as they grow side by side, the timothy filling spots loft vacant by the trifolium, or deserted by it later when its biennial mission is ended. And when it comes to harvesting the crop timothy acts as a go-between or nurse iu helping to cure the clover which is difficult to handle separately. Except to those who can control plenty of help, haying cannot be prosecuted under ideal conditions, so fur as pre serving all the crop at that stage when the chemist informs us the green crop contains the most available nutritive qualities. While haying may usually begin when the crop is at or neor its best, the later cut hay may have passed to the stage where it is loss digostible, aud this is one of the un avoidable losses which must be mot philosophically. Farm, Htock and Home. Feeding tha Iniry Cow. When properly fed a dairy cow will noither gain nor lose in . live weight, and uuder such conditions will pro duce the maximum quantity of milk, which her physical conformation per mits, and that milk will have its max imum quality, i. e., there will be a maximum epithelial growth. The food which produces such re sults is an ideal milk ration, and the nearest approach to it which man possesses is a good pasture. The moment artificial feediug begins the conditions are altered. If an excess of nutriment is given the tendency to fatten will gradually outstrip the ten dency for milk production. If a de ficiency of nntriiuout be given the body suffers first, subsequently the quality of the milk, and, lastly, the quantity. These results will be most marked when there is simul taneously an abundant supply of water. If now the food be changed there will be a corresponding change in the quantity and quality of the milk, but it will not be immediate. Experiments have been made for me nnder the latter conditions. The re sult was that the animals first utilized the food to replenish their emaciated bodies. The milk - remained practi cally unaffected for from four to six weeks. Then the food told. This fact emphasizes one source of error in feeding experiments they are not oonduoted on a sufficiently long period. Professor F. J. Lloyd before the British Dairy Farmers' Associa tion, Manure and Familiars. A ton of manure with ten pounds of nitrogen, twelve pounds of potash and six pounds of phosphorio acid in it, is worth more to you in the end for farm crops, as a rule, although, per haps, not so immediately available, than the same number of pounds of these ingredients in auy fertilizer on earth. This is because the manure furnishes vegetable matter to decay in the soil and has a beneficial bao terial effect, neither of which you get from cornmeroial fertilizers. Sow, here is the substance of the whole matter, and every honorable agricultural paper or institute worker or fertilizer man will agree with it heartily. We want you to save all your manure, and not let part of it go to waste and then buy book the same ingredients yon lost. We want you to (row clover, con-peas, eta, and get nitrogen practically free, instead of buying It. We want you to buy feed aud get fertility for your land. Lastly, if yon haven't enough, as you find by actual experiment, then purchase what yon heed. When you buy fertilizers again lot it be after yon have learned how to figure them. If figures on the bag sny 2 to II per cont. of nitrogen it means 3 per cent. only. That is all the law reqnires. The "ii" is put on to decleve you, so an agent can call it 2 l-'J per cent, on an average. Two per cent, means, of course, two pounds in 100 or 40 iu a ton. Figure this at 14 cents. Then figure the phosphoric acid that is available, soluble and reverted, at 5 1-2, cents. Next the potash at 6 cents; then, add 20 per cent, for mix ing and you will have a fair idea of what the fertilizer is worth, or rather, what yon should pay for it. Do not lot any interested party fool you into thinking that a Ion of wheat straw will not be worth more to you in the end, properly used on your farm, than $2 worth of any fertilizers you can buy. Where quick action is wanted, of course, yon can get a fertilizer that will do better than the straw, but in the long run you will lose by selling straw at 82 and buying fertilizers with the money. I would not sell it at $4 ton. The vegetable matter that the straw adds to the soil is too valuable, T. B. Terry in Practical Farmer. Forcing Tomatoes In Winter. Heed for the crop was sown Sep tember fifteen in 2 1-2 inch flats filled with loam and sand in' proportion of four to one. Professors Mason and Hall, Bulletin 70, Kansas experiment station. In three weeks plants were taken from the fiats and set iu 2 1-2 inch pots. These were twice repotted and finally on December 10 were set in benches. All the vines were trained on a trellis and after the branches were established pruning consisted in cutting out weak foliage and occa sionally thinning the more vigorous plants. When the plants were small the watering was done by means of a sprinkler, but after they were set in the bench the ground was watered twice a week with a heavy spray from the hose. Later the soil was soaked heavily every eighth day by flooding. After each wettiug, when the soil be came dry it was cultivated lightly and leveled off. Toward the end of the season no cultivation was given. The vines made a vigorous growth from the time they were set in the bench and a considerable quantity of the foliage had to be removed to pre vent shutting out the light. The fruit season was ended about June 12. This need not be done, for as the tomato is a continuous bloomer, it could be kept bearing so long as the vines can be cared for aud the fruit disposed of. The fruit was smaller than that grown out of doors, but still quite fair-sized, many of the tomatoes being three inches iu diameter. They were uniformly smooth and in good condi tion. By Februnry 24 all varieties bnt one gave from one to three ripe fruit. The yield from the rows placed nearest the glass was the least, giving 103 against 100 pounds from the front row or that further from the glass. The time from the plauting of the seed until the ripening of the first fruit is 23 weeks. About half this time the plants grew in flats aud took up little room. The crop was allowed to bear 8 1-2 months. Winter toma toes were a novelty to most people, and at first they were bought slowly, but as the people became more famil iar with them they sold readily. In tests made at the Geneva (N.Y.) station in forcing tomatoes it was found that plants trained to single stems are more profitable than threo stem plants for winter tomatoes, the fruits ou the single stems are heavier and greater in number, so that the total yield per square foot of bench is decidedly larger. It was also found that the amount of fruit ripening dur ing the first six weeks of fruiting is much greater for the single plants. Very little difference was found in the yield of plants grown in pots from from those grown in benches in the single-stem tomatoes, but with the three-stem . system using the pots seemed to be a decided advantage.- American Agriculturist. Farm and flarden Note. Underfed or overfed bens are poor layers. Do not expect eggs from over crowded flocks. It is not desirable to keep begouias entirely in the shade. They should have, if possible, the morning sun. Unless the soil about the heliotrope is kept loose, the plant will not do its best. It should be showered often. , To prevent worms from attacking the roots of tea roses, scatter wood ashes over the ground at a short dis tance from the stalks. Hubsoiling has the advantage of loosening the hard pan below the sur fuce. It may be injurious on some soils to turn the subsoil np, but it can do no harm to pulverize it. The interior walls of the silo should be as smooth as possible aud then there must be no cross rods or pro jections of any kind as these prevent complete packing and consequent rot ting. Gentle heat and moisture cause fresh seeds to germinate, during which process they require darkness. When sprouted introduce to the light by degrees, aud keep constantly watered but not wet. Oats contain more protein than corn and less starch, but oats contain fully aa much oil (or fat) as corn, about 4 per cent., bnt the propor tion of oil ia too small to render either grain unfit for horses. It is the starch in the corn that produces fat on aa animal. THK MARKKTv. prrrsiiuitn. drain, Flnur and Feed. ' WHEAT No. 1 red. $ c'J tH No. 2 red , 1,8 Of C(HtN-No. a yellow, ear". 81 8 No. 3 yellow, shelled 84 Sj Mixed ear , 8.1 81 OA'19-No. 1 white M 31 No. 8 whits 114 4? BYE No. 1 49 67 Ft.Ol'lt Winter patents 4 4.1 4 65 Fanny straight winter 4 00 4 10 I'-e Hour 8 W 8 25 fiT-No. 1 timothy 60 ( lover. No. 1 1 fib 8 (K f'Ki-.l) No. 1 while mid., too. . 17 80 18 Off Drown middlings 14 SO 16 03- 1 Iran, bulk ..., 11 00 11 60' 8 I HAW Wheat 6 80 6 60 "t 6 00 111 8F.EDH Clover, 60 lbs, S 60 8 00 Timothy, prime 1 80 1 60 IMIry Product BtTTF.R-F.lgln creamery....., ViQ at Ohio creamery 1H 19 Fancy country roll IS IS CIIF.KHE Ohio, new 8 New York, Dew 8 Fruits and Vegetable, BEANH-Oreen, Vbu 606B 75. I'OTATOKH White V Lbl l ftO 1 76 CAHHAOE Per bbl 60 SO ONIONS Choice yellow, V bu, 40 60 Poultry, Etc. CHICKEN8 rr pair, small. .8 600) CO' TUKKEYS Per lb. . . . 14 IB EOG8 Pa. and Ohio, freih.... IS 14 CINCINNATI. Fl-Orn $ lOf? 8 8V wheat-no. a red 6a 7 RYE No. 8 45. CORN-Mlxed 80 81 OATH.... jl ri EOOH 11- UUTTElt Ohio creamery 13 l?i PHILADELPHIA. FI.OITR f 8 75 00" WHEAT No. a red 68 69 OOHN-No. 8 mixed 84 85 OATH No. a white S'J 8) BUTTER Creamery, extra 19 EC1QH Pennsylvania firsts 10 NKW YOKK. Xt. FLOUR Patents 4 60(S 6 WHEAT--N0. a red 7( COHN-No. 8 86 87 OATH White Western 80' BUTTEH-Creamery. 18 EOOS mate of Penn .. 15. LIVK STOCK. Central Stock Tarda, East Liberty, Pa. CATTLE. Prime. 1.100 to 1400 lbs 6 10 6 13 Oood, HOD to 13U0 Itis 4 HO 6 00' Tidy, 1000 to 1160 lb. 4 75 IK) Fair light steers, 900 to 1000 lbs 4 i5 4 70' Common, 700 to 900 lbs 8 70 4 10' noos. Medium 4 11 4 15- Heavy 4 10 4 12 Roughs and stags 8 49 8 65 SHEEP. Prime, 95 to 10 lbs 4 40 4 60' Oood, 85 to 90 lbs 4 80 4 86 Fair, 70 to 80 lbs 8 SO 4 60 Common 8 25 8 80 Spring lambs 4 85 4 70 TRADE REVIEW. Ti LtrgMt Whilt Orif Will kt HumM-Dinus-hr Ira f reditu t Bin it Prtw. R. O. Dun & Co.'s weekly review ot trade reports as follows for last week: The smallest failures ever recorded In any month for five years were those of August. No other month since the monthly reports were commenced by Dun's review exclusively has shown, defaulted liabilities as small within $1,000,000 and the ratio of such defaults to solvent business, represented by exchanges through nil clearing houses only 1108.70 In $100,000, Is smaller by 26.5 pr cent than In any previous month. The clearings having been the largest ever known In August, and 23.0 per cent larger than In 1892. The enormous volume of business In a month, usually one of the most Inac tive of the year, demands attentfnu. Postponement during the months of war of some contracts and purchases which have now come forward ex plains port of the Increase and the strong absorption of securities ex-' plains part, but there has also been a great decline In the average of prices for all commodities, so t'hat it takes' a much Inrger volume ot business In tons or bushels to make up transac tions amounting to a million more thum In 1S92. It Is therefore strictly true that business Is larger than In the very -best of all past years, and yet there Is every prospect of much further In crease. There Is no room to doubt that the wheat crop, even though It may fall a shnde below some estimates, will prove the Inrgest ever harvested, and al though Reerbohm estimates Kurope's crop at 232,OOO,0u0 bushels more than the last, that would be only about an average yield, while other evidence ii less favorable. Foreign buying has been strong, so that Atlantic exports for the week have been 3.326,87$ bushels, agumst 5.534.75S bushels Inst year, and Pacific exports, 4.18. 81 bushels, agnlnst 2"fi , 6.". 1 bushels lust year. Hut receipts at the West are Increasing, and the price has dropped 5 cents for spot, though the September option is Te lower for the week, The Imp try has comes more enormous lulled the months to come, the demand for p ducts Is so great that both materials and products gradually advance In price, Bessemer pig has risen to $10 ii at Pittsburg, local coke at Chirago and anthracite foundry at the East are strong, and also bars and plates ad vance a shade, with most .structural and plate mills filled with orders for . months to come, and 25.000 tons rails sold at Chicago for delivery next year. The advance In tin plates, In apite of production far greater than war thought possible not long ago, Is evi dence that the consumption of steel In that branch will be heavy. The wire nail works also report a better de mand, and the output of Connellsvllle coke has started up, gaining 10, WO tons for the week. The woolen mills have rather better orders this week, but not enough' as yet to warrant running nearly full force, with the price of wool held at the West much above eastern mar kets, and by the markets about 1 cent higher than the mills are bidding. In cotton manufacture there Is better de mand with a sixteenth rise In print cloths, though brown sheetings are a shade lower, the demand for other goods being still fairly strong. Failures for the week have been 171 In the United States, against 191 last year, and 22 in Canada, akilnst 25 last" year. lanrfiits Stitisg Il4t. Several shiploads of Philippine In surgent troopa have Invaded the south ern Islands, with the view of seising; everything possible prior to the settle ment of the peace conditions. General Rloa, the Spanish commander, with at flotilla of gnnbos's. la actio energetically, rnvement In the Iron Indus- f not only continued, but be- f re Impressive because, after buying of materials has sat- needs of great consumers for t 10. 1
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