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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1891)
BUSINESS LIFE A SCHOOL Temptations of the Men Who Toil in the Busy Marts. Iff War Between the Bible and Ledger, Between Church and Counting-House —Applied Christianity From the Tabernacle Pulpit. $. * _ Dr. Talmapo’s text was, Proverbs 3:6 "In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths. ” “A promise good enough for many kinds of life, but not for my kind of life,” says some business man, “the law of supply and demand controls the bus* iness world. “ Ilut I have reason to •ay that it is a promise to all persons In any kind of honest business. There Is no war between religion and business, between ledgers and Bibles, between churches and count* Ing-houses. On the contrary, religion accelerates business, sharpens men's wits, sweetens acerbity of disposition, fillips the blood of phlegmatics, and throws more velocity into the wheel of hard work. It‘gives better balancing to the judgement, more strength to the will, more muscle to Industry, and throws into enthusiasm a more conse crated fire. You cannot in all the round of tho world show me a man whoso honest business has been de spoiled by religion. The industrial classes are divided Into three groups: producers, manufac turers, traders. Producers, such as farmers and miners. Manufacturers, such as those who turn corn into food, and wool and flax into apparel. Trad ers, such as make profit out of the trans fer and exchange of all that which is produced and manufactured. A business man may belong to any one or nil of these clusses and not ono is indepen dent of any other. When tho Prince linperlnl of France foil on the Zulu battle field because tho strap fastening the stirrup in tho saddle broke ns ho clung to it, his comrades all escaping, but he falling under the lances of the savages, a great many peoplo blamed tho empress for allowing her son to go forth into that battle llold, and others blamed the English government for ac cepting the sacrifice, and others blamed the Zulus for their barbarism. The uuu inusv mi uiuino wan me narness maker who fashioned that strap of the ■tirrup out. of shoddy and imperfect material, as it was found to have been afterward. If the strap had held the prinoe imperial would probably have been alive today. Hut the strap broke. No prince independent of a harness maker! High, low, wise, ignorant,you in one occupation and 1 in another, all bound together. So that there must be one continuous line of sympathy with each other's work. Hut whatever J’onr vocation, if you have a multiplic ty of engagements, if into your life there come losses and annoyances and perturbations as well as percent ages and dividends, if you aro pursued from Monday morning until Saturday night, and from January to January by inexorable obligation and duty, then you are a business man, or you are a business woman, and my subject is ap propriate to your case. We are under the impression that the moil and tug of business life are a prison into which a man is thrust, or that it is an unequal strife where un armed a man goes forth to contend. 1 shall show you that business life was intended of God for grand and glorious education and dlscipliue, and if 1 shall be helped to say what l want to say, 1 shall rub some of the wrinkles of care out of ypur brow, and unstrap some of the burdens from your bauk. 1 am not talking to an abstraction. Though never having been in business life, 1 know all about business men. In my first parish at Belleville, N. J., ten miles from New York, a large portion of my audience was made up of New York merchants. Then I went to Syracuse, a place of intense commer cial activity, and then 1 went to Phila delphia, and lived long among the merchants of that city, than whom there are no better men on earth, and for more than twenty-two years 1 have atood in this presence. Sabbath by Sabbatli, preaching to audiences, the majority of whom are business men ana business women. It is not an ab straction to which I speak, but a real ity with which 1 am well acquainted. in me nrsi place, i remark that busi ness life was intended as a school of energy. God gives us a certain amount of raw material out of which we are to hew our character. Our ; faculties arc to be reset, rounded and '* sharpened up. Our young folks hav ing graduated from school or college need a higher education, that which the rasping and collision of every-day life alone can effect Energy is wrought out only in a fire. After a man has been in business actively ten, twenty, thirty years his energy is not to be measured by weights or plum mets or ladders. There is no height it eannot scale, and there U no depth it eannot fathom, and there is no obstacle it cannot thrash. Now, my brother, why did God put •V : you in that school of energy? Was it merely that you might be a yardstick to measure cloth, or a steelyard to weigh flour? Was it merely that you might be better qualified to chaffei ■%' and higgle? No, God placed you in that school of energy that you might be developed for Christian work. It the undeveloped talents in the Chris tian churches of today were brought out and thoroughly harnessed. I be \-. lieve the whole world would be con verted to God in a short time. There are so many deep streams that are turn ing no mill-wheels and that are har nessed to no factory bands Now, God i, - demands the best lamb out of every flock. He demands the richest sheaf of every harvest He demands the best , men of every generation. A cause in which Newton and Locke and Mans i'. field toiled you and I can afford to ’' toil in. Oh, for fewer idlers in the cause oi Christ, and for more Christian workers, men who shall take the same energy that from Monday morning to Satur day night they put forth for the achieve ment of a livelihood or the gathering of a fortune, and on Sabbath days put it forth to the advantage of Christ's kingdom and the bringing of men to the Lord. Dr. Duff, iu South Wales. ., • r i mw a man who had Inherited a great fortune. The man said to him: “I had to be very busy for many years of my life getting my livelihood. After a while this fortune cathe to me, and there has been no necessity that I toil since. There came a time when I sal«l to myself: ‘Shall I now retire from business, or shall I go on and serve the l.ord in my worldly occupation?’” lie said: “I resolved on the latter, and 1 hnve been more Industrious in commer cial circles than I ever was before, and since that hour I have never kept a farthing for myself. I have thought it to be a great shame if I couldn't toll ns hard for the Lord as I toiled for myself and all the products of my fac tories and my commercial establish ments to the last farthing have gone for the building of Christian institu tions and supporting the church of God.” Oh, if the same energy put forth for the world could be put forth for God! Oh, it a thousand men in in these great cities who have achieved a fortune could see it their duty to do all business for Christ and the allevia tion of the world's suffering. Again, I remark, that business life is a school of patience. In your every day life how many things to annoy and disquiet! liargains will rub. Com mercial men will sometimes fall to meet their engagements. Cash book and money drawer will sometimes quarrel. Goods ordered for a special emergency will come too late, or be damaged in the transportation. People intending no harm will go shopping without any intention of purchase, overturning great stocks of goods and insisting that you break the dozen. More bad debts on the ledger. More counterfeit bills in the drawer. More debts to pay for other people. More meannesses on the part of partners in business. Annoyance after annoy ance, vexation after vexation, and loss after loss. All that process will either break you down or brighten you up. It is a school of patience. You have known men under the process to be come petulant, and choleric and angry, and pugnacious, and cross, and sour, and queer, and they lost their custom ers, and their name became a detesta tion. Other men have been brightened up under the process. They were toughened by the exposure. They were like rocks all the more valuable for boing blasted. At first they had to choke down their wrath, at first they had to bite their lip, at first they thought of some stinging retort they would like to make; but they con quered their impatience. They have kind words now for sarcastic flinrra ihey .have gentlemanly behavior now for unmanly customers. They are patient now with unfortu nate debtors. They have Chris tian reflections now for sudden reverses. Where did they get that pa-' tience? By hearing a minister preach concerning it on Sabbath? Oh, no. They got it just where you will get it —if you ever got it at all—selling hats, discounting notes, turning banisters, ploughing corn, tinning roofs, plead ing causes. Oh, that amid the turmoil and anxiety and exasperation of every day life you might hear the voice of tiod saying: “in patience possess your soul. Let patience have her perfect work. ” I remark again that business life is a school' of useful knowledge. Mer chants do not read many books and do not study lexicons. They do not dive into profounds of learning, and» yet nearly all through their occupations come to understand questions of finance, and politics, and geogra phy, and jurisprudence, and ethics. Busines s is a severe schoolmis tress. If pupils will not learn, she strikes them over the head and the heart with severe losses. You put $5,000 into an enterprise. It is all gone. You say, “That is a dead loss.” Oh, no. You are paying the schooling. That was only tuition—I told you it was a severe schoolmistress—but it was worth it. You learned things under that process you would not have learned in any other way. Traders in grain come to know some thing about foreign harvests; traders in fruit come to know some thing about the prospects of tropical production; manufactures of American goods como to understand the tariff on imported articles; publishers of books must come to understand the new law of copyright; owners of ships must come to know winds and shoals and navigation; and every bale of cotton, and every raisin cask, and every tea box, and every cluster of bananas is so much literatuae for a business man. Now, my brother, what are you going to do with the intelligence? Do you suppose God put you in this scool of in formation merely that you might be sharper in a trade, that vou miirht he more successful as a worldling? Oh, no; it was that you might take that useful information and use it for Jesus Christ. Can it be that you nave been dealing with foreign lands and never had the missionary spirit, wishing the salvation of foreign people? Can it be that you have become acquainted with all the outrages inflicted in business life and that you have never tried to bring to bear the gospel wich is to ex tirpate all evil and correct all wrongs and illuminate all darkness and lift up all wretchedness and save men for this world and the world to come? Can it be that understanding all the intricacies of business, you know nothing about those things which will last after all bills of exchange and consignments and invoices and rent rolls shall have crumpled up and been consumed in the fires of the last great day? Can it be that a man will be wise for time and a fool for eternity? I remark, also, that business life is a school for integrity. No man knows what he will do when he is tempted. There are thousands of men who have kept their integrity merely because they never have been tested. A man was elected treasurer of the state of Maine some years ago. He was dis tinguished for his honesty, usefulness and uprightness, but before one year had passed he had taken the public funds for his own private use, and was hurled out of office in disgrace. Dis tinguished for virtue before. Distin guished for crime after. You can call over the names of men just like that, in whoso honesty you had complete confidence, but placed in certain crises of temptation they went overboard. Never so many temptations to scound relistn as now. Not a law on the stat ute book but has some back door through which a miscreant can escape. Ah! how many deceptions in the fab ric of goods; so much plundering in commercial life that if a man talk about living a life of complete com mercial accuracy, there are those who ascribe it to greenness and lack of tact. More need of honesty now than ever before, tried honesty, complete hon esty, more than in those times when business was a plain affair and wool lens were woollens and silks were silks and men were men. flow many mon do you suppose there are in commercial life who could say truthfully, “In all the sales I have ever made I have nevor overstated the value of goods; in all the sales 1 have ever made I have never covered up an im perfection in the fabric; of all the thousands of dollars 1 have ever made I have not takon one dishonest far thin gV” There are men, however, who can say it, hundreds who can say it, thousands who can say it. They are more honest than when they sold their first tierce of rice, or their first firkin of butter, because their honesty and integrity have been tested, tried and came out triumphant. But they re member a time when they could have robbed a partner, or haye absconded with the funds of a bank, c4r sprung a snap judgment, or made a false assign ,mcnt, or borrowed inimitably without any efforts at payment, or got a man into a sharp corner and fleeced him. But they never took one step on that pathway of hell fire. They can say their prayers without hearing the chink of dishonest dollars They can read their Bible without thinking of the time when with a lie on their soul in the custom house they kissed the book. They can think of death and the judgment that comes after it with out any flinching—that day when all charlatans and cheats and jockeys and frauds shall be doubly damned. It does not make their knees knock to gether, and it does not make their teeth chatter to read “as the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, Bhall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a a fool.” Oh, what a school of integrity busi ness life is! If you have ever been tempted to let your integrity cringe before present advantage, if you have ever wakened up in some embarass ment, and said: “Now, I'll step a little aside from the right path and no one will know it, and I'll come all right again; it is only once.” Oh, that only once had ruined tens of thous ands of men for this life and blasted their souls for eternity. It is a tre mendous school, business life, a school ui integrity. a mere nan t in L/lverpooi got a five-pound Hank-of-England note and holding it up to the light he saw some interlineations in what seemed red ink. He finally deciphered the letters, and found out that the writing had been made by a slave in Algiers, sayjng in substance: “Whoever gets this note will please to inform my brother, John Dean, living near Car lisle, that I am a slave of the liey ol Algiers.” The merchant sent word, employed government officers, and found who this man was, spoken of in this bank bill. After a while the man was rescued, who for eleven years had been a slave of the liey of Algiers, lie was immediately emancipated, but was so worn out by hardship and ex posure he soon after died. Oh, if some of the bank bills that come through your hands could tell all the scenes through which they have passed, it would be a tragedy eclipsing . any drama of Shakespeare, miguticr than King Lear or Macbeth. As 1 go on in this subject, I am im pressed with the importance of our having more sympathy with business men. Is it not a shame that we in our pulpits do not oftener preach about their struggles, their trials, and their temptations. Men who toil with the hand are not apt to be very sympa thetic with those who toil with the brain. The farmers who raise the corn and the oats and the wheat sometimes are tempted to think that grain mer chants have ah easy time, and get their profits without giving any equivalent. 1’lato and Aristotle were so opposed to merchandise that they declared com merce to be the curse of the nations, and they advised that cities be built at least ten miles from the sea coast. But you and I know that there no more in dustrious or high-minded men than those who move in the world of traffic. Some of them carry burdens heavier than hods of brick, and are exposed to sharper things than the east wind, and climb mountains higher than the Alps or Himalayas, and if they are faithful Christ will at last say to them: “Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. ” We talk about the martyrs of the Ficumont valley, and the martyrs among the Scotch highlands, and the martyrs at Oxford. There are just as certainly martyrs of Wall street and State street, martyrs of Fulton street, and Broadway, martyrs of Atlantia street and Chestnut street, going through hotter fires, <fc having their necks under sharper axes. Then it be hooves us to banish all fretfulness from our lives, if this subject be true. We look back to the time when we were at school, and we remember the rod, and we remember the hard tasks, and we complained grievously; but now we see it was for the best. Business life is a school and the tasks are hard, and the chastisements some times are very grievous; but do not complain. The hotter the fire the bet ter the refining. There are men be fore the throne of Ood this day in tri umph who on earth were cheated out of everything but their coffin. They were sued, they were im prisoned for debt, they were throttled by constables with a whole pack of writs, they were sold out of the sheriffs, they had no compromise with their creditors, they had to make assignmonts. Their dying hours were anno-ed by the sharp ringing of the doo: f.ell by some impetuous creditor who thought it was outrageous and impudent that a man should dare to die before he paid the last three (hillings and sixpence. 1 had a friend who had many misfort tunes. Everything went against him. He had good business quality and was of the best of morals, but he was one of those men such as you have sometimes seen, for whom everything seems to go wroDg. His life became to him a plague. When I heard he was dead, I said: “Good, got rid »n the sheriffs!” Who are those lustrous souls before the throne? When the question is asked, “Who are they?” the angels standing on the sea of glass respond: “These are they who come out of great business trouble and had their robes washed and made white '* the blood of the Lam b. ” LATE MARKETABLE NEWS Items of Interest to Dealers and Agriculturalists. New* From the Greet Cattle and Mlteep Range* and the Market* Where These Product* Are Hold Marketable Note*. There is a growing demand for more lean and less fat. Properly managed, the spring pig gets to market quickest. For fattening hoga a bushel of corn is worth three bushel* of outs. There are 53,000 sheep and 7,000 head.of cattle being fed in and about Wood River, Neb. The largest chicken ranch in the world la on an island in Bellingham Bay, Puget Sound. The farmers of Palo Alto county will ship 50,000 tons of upland hay to eastern markets. When not properly sheltered, h6gs will pile up in their bed, and this is frequently the cause of disease in winter. Cattle will do better to eat their hay or fodder clean than to have a quautity in the mangers to muss over. Cattle will worry if obliged to wait lor their meals, and worry means waste of flesh and food; feed them regularly. Of four sample lots of sugar beets sent from Creston to Ames for analysis only three contained sugar making qualities in paying proportions. Paint the cheap and rough farm imple ments, barrows, rollers, the grindstone frame, etc., with hot coal tar; there is a deal of salvation in it. Keep woolly sheep if they are to he made profitable. A very few pounds difference in the average weight of the fleeces will often determine the question of profit and One advantage of a comfortable shel ter, is that growing cattle can be kept thrifty with very little grain, if given plenty of roughness, and this will lessen the cost. J. A. Hazcltine, of Mitchell county, Has., had 500 acres of wheat this year which yielded 13,500 bushels. He has jnst finished sowing 700 acres of wheat for next year’s crop. Sheep have two teeth in the center of the jaw at 1 year old, and add two each year until 5 years old, when they have a “full mouth.” After that time the age cannot be told by the mouth. Receipts of hogs at Chicago for 1801 will reach about 8,300,000, the largest on rec ord, being 600,003 more than 1800. the pre vious banner receipts. This year’s re ceipts will “pan out” about 2,300,000 larger than 1889. A Chicago stock yards man who has a farm in Sac county, Iowa, is feeding 171 head of cattle on shelled corn at the rate of nearly a half bushel per head per day. He has about 250 hogs following that are fattening nicely. G. H. Parker, of Melville, Colo, has only been in the sheep business a few years, but his income from the sale of sheep has exceeded 115,000 and his flock of something over 6,000 is considerably larger than he started with. Already the exports of wheat from this country amount to 50,000,000 bushels more than at the same time last year. Tlie ex ports of wheat and flour together equal 82,151,841 bushels this year, against 29, 038,134 bushels last year. Increase, 63, 103,708. That the hog is sometimes “the gentle man that pays the rent” in America as well as in the oft-told of Irish cabin, is proven by the following statement of a farmer in Filmorc county, Minn., who says: ‘‘Twenty hogs bred, fed und mar keted for that specific purpose, paid the interest on the purchase price of my farm, and in ten years wiped out the principal.” Texas Live Stock Journal: The farm ers of Texas should not allow the present low price of hogs to discourage them. It is in a measure due to the unloading pro cess that is now going on among the northern farmers as the result of the high price of corn, and is therefore only tem porary. This depression is sure to be followed by high prices next summer. Chicago Drovers Journal: The tw*o blades-of-grass-where-but-one-grew-hefore theory is being put into practice [by pro ducers everywhere. The result must be better and more abundant product for less money. The effect of such changes on producers who are still pegging along in the same old way is temporarily bad, but in the end it will result in great good to the whole race. A farmer who had been vainly trying for two years to eradicate Canada thistles from his field put salt in them, sowing it all about where they were most plenty, and putting a pinch upon the scattering ones. Then he turned the sheep into the field. Several times the salting was re peated, and after one season’s trial, he could not find thistles enough cc 100 acres to salt the sheep on. They had gnawed them into the ground. It is frequently the case that lambs are let run with their dams too long, which has an injurious effect upon both; as long as they run together the lamb will depend upon the milk drawn from its mother for sustenance, which does not amount to much. Consequently, both are the worse for not being separated. About 4 months is the proper age to wean lambs. As lambs are one of the largest sources of profit to the sheep farmer, he should ob serve every requisite to success in rearing them. Iowa. 831,562,000 bushels of corn; Illi nois, 241,076,000; Missouri, 201,175,000; Kansas, 168,863,000; Nebraska, 145,004,000; Indiana, 116,400,000; Ohio. 96.280.000; Texas. 93,122,000; Kentucky, 86,040,000 and Tennessee, 81,824,000, are the ten lead ing corn growing states according to the estimates of the department of agricul ture. Iowa is also at the head of the list in point of average yield, her rate being 86.7 bushels per acre. Ohio’s average is Slaced at 83.7, Indiana's 32. Illinois’ 31 2 lissouri’s 29.9, Kansas’ 26.7, Nebraska’s National Stockman; A good many far mers are manifesting a desire to sell off their cows and go into the sheep business. If too many do this wool and mutton will go down, and then cows will be at a prem ium again and back to cows they will go just in time to find that they ought to have stuck to the sheep; and so it is and always will be. This fluctuating business is our great national weakness. Sticktoitiveness is what we want in this farming business. The man who has succeeded is the one who has stood by his cow or his sheep through thick and thin. The last government report gives the number of sheep in the United States on the first day of January at 43,431,186, val ued at $108,397,447, or an average of $2.50 per head. Iowa has only 452,025 sheep. Ualued at $1,439,750. Texas heads the list with the greatest number of sheep—4,990.* 272 head, valued at $7,001,682, while Ohio has nearly as many sheep, valued at al most twice that of the Texas sheep. The five states having the greatest number of sheep are Texas, Ohio, California, New Mexico and Oregon, in the order in which they arc named. Khode Island has the fewest sheep, being listed at 20,483 head, and the average per head is highest in that state, being $-1.00. Canada gets her share of nature’s bounty to this half of the world this year and the bureau of industries reported last week that the grain yield in Ontario is ex traordinarily large. The wheat crops, spring and fall, are estimated at 88,584, 020 bushels, nenrlv half as much again as the crop of 1800. *The oat crop exceeds by 22,000.000 bushels last year’s crop, ami the average prairie crop is the highest iu ten years. One hundred and forty-eight thou sand fewer acres were sowu in barley than last year, but the yield is 541,737 bushels more. The root crops are described as enormous. Fall wheat has averaged 25 to 80 bushels an acre in many sec tions, and weighs 00 to 60 pounds per bushel. Anderson, in his “Origin of Commerce,” in giving the comparative prices for the different grades of wool as 1843, quotes the Shropshire wool at the highest pi ice for exportation. In 17-2 the Bristol Wool society gave a. report on the Morfe Com mon breed of sheep which is the original stock farm from whence has sprung the present breed of Shropshire sheep In this report they stated that on Morfe Com mon, near Bridgenorth, there were about 10.000 sheep kept during the summer months which produced wool of a superior quality. They were »b aclc-fsteed, oi brown, or spotted, but little subject to either foot-rot or scab. The term “Morfe Common” has reference to a track or com mon or public hind unenclosed. Texas Live Stock Journal: Some of the eastern journals, we notice, are at a loss to understand why Texas cattle should be driveu no«th to be fattened instead of being fed off the boundless ranges of th^ Lone Star state. The reason is that the Texas ranges arc no longer boundless, much of the best portion of them having been fenced in by homesteaders and stock farmers, and the remainder being by no means inexhaustible. If left upon the Texas ranges untl four years old, these steers will not often turn off more than 1.000 pouuds, unless given other feed than the natural grasses. If taken to Montana or Dakota and matured these, feeding leisurely through Colorado on the way up, the same euUle will turn off 200 and 400 pounds heavier, and besides bring $1 per hundred pound» more than if murketed from the Texas range. This means an average increase iu value of #25 a head—a very sufficient reason why Texas stock should take the trail northward. A couple of alleged cases of trichime In inspected American pork have been re ported fromGermany andthe department of agriculture is engaged in an investigation of the matter. In a recent reference to this subject the Gazette intimated n suspicion that the German inspectors were emulat ing the example set by the British **vets,> in their alleged discovery of pieuro in American cattle, and in continuation of this suspicion the statement is cabled from Berlin that Hamburg importers deliber ately charge a conspiracy upon the part of certain officials to damage the reputation of American pork by circulating false re ports concerning it 'they declare that the ^eent deaths from trichina? were at tribute! ^German pork which was eaten raw, aud that American pork has been made to bear the blame thereof in order to frighten people from its purchase and use. Henry Clews: One of the most notable features of the market » the increase of investment buyers.Thcy represent not only the earnings of a year of reasonably pros perous business, but also the liquidated principal of western land mortgages, of which considerable amounts are already being settled out of the results of the large crops, while greater sums are likely to be extinguished during the coming six months as the crops come into market. The large earnings of the leading rail roads, and notably.of the Vanderbilt prop erties, together with the probable later advance in stocks, are attracting the in vestors who want over 4 per cent, for their money to the* mote substantial dividend paving shares, and the market supply of that class of investment is being steadily reduced, with a consequent gradual rise in their value. Lower grades of stocks, however, continue to be c mparatively neglected aud are the chief material of such limited speculation as is going on. At the moment, speculation is held in check by the influences incident to the ap proaching holidays and to the settlements and making up of accounts usual at the closing of the year. Besides, the opening of congress, with a largely new political complexion, induces a certain amount of waiting for indications of what is likely to be the future course of legislation upon certain important questions. These things have a tendency to defer operations and may keep the market quiet until about the close of the year, or possibly somewhat longer. But, in the meantime, a steady stream of favorable influences is gather ing into an accumulated force that is likely before long to prove irresistible. AIL signs go to show that, for the next few months,, the traffic of the railroads will largely surpass all precedent. Already the roads connected with the wheat grow ing states find their rolling stock emptoyed to its utmost canacitv ami t.hov nnt r»»ilv ure unable to accommodate the coal traffic but are compelled to refuse large quantities of (train, which is accumulating iu im mense stocks in the elevators and store houses of the interior. Next, the roads connecting with the corn belt will be equally taxed far beyond their ability to move the crop of maize—many times larger than that of wheat; and to this must be added an extraordinary forward ing of oats for export. to supply the Eu ropean deficiency. When the iigures come pouring week after week into Wall street showing the extraordinary magnitude of this traffic, it will need no prophesying to say what must be the effect upon specula tion. At present the disposition is to defer the discounting of these extraordinary prospects until the opening of the new year; but it remains to be seen whether the market can hold itself in restraint so long. There are already long-headed wealthy operators at work accumulating selected stocks in ways least calculated to attract attention ; but the rank and file of speculators and that unknown quuntitv ‘the outside public" are doing little anil are not likely to awake to the real sig nificance of the situation until the brainy leaders give the cue. Only a Half. Little Dick—Did you ever see half a boy? Little Dot—No; did you? Little Dick—Not yet, but tve both will next week. A cousin of ours what we never saw is cornin' here from the west, an* mamma says he’s a half orphan. Why Me Failed* Teacher—I don’t see what has got Into you lately. You have always known your lessons perfectly, and now you don’t seem to be able to compre hend a thing, no matter how much I explain it Are you sick? 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The heroine’s mother—An old ladv who is perpetually putting her foot in it and saying: -God save our poor child." r The heroine's fathor — A whit* whiskered party who is verv, Terr brutal in the first aet and a* broken, down, forgiving man in the last act. The villain’s chum—A tough looking fellow who aids the villain materially in the first three acts, but who gives the whole thing away before the final curtain falls. The old home—A piece of stock scenery always shown in the last act to soft music accompaniment, and at sight of which the hero always brush* away a tear.—Philadelphia Music • It Isn't done by others—that’s why the guarantee of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription should command attention. It’s a f uarantee that means something, f the medicine doesn’t give satis faction, in every case for which it’s recommended, the money is prompt ly refunded. 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