Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 12, 1881, Page 11

, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. “JUNE 12, HE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, “JUNE 12, Y8st—vwewry Pages Y8SI—-TWENTY PAGES. m FINANCIAL. J, T. LESTER & 60, STOCKS. All Stocks and Bonds Bought and Sold on N. ¥. Stock Exchange, 95 & 27 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. J. T. LESTER, Member New York Stock Exchange. CHAS. SCHWARTZ, E. K. WILLARD, Member New York Stock Exchange. SAMUEL W. ALLERTON, Special. New York House--SCRANTON & WILLARD, 42 Broadway, and 13 New-st. CT WIKRE fi : tie th ron our office t woinion T. Witara, opposite Stuck Exehsnges” O* Stocks also hourht and sold in Boston, Philadel- phia. and Bultimore. GRAIN and PROVISIONS bought and sold or carried on margins. WHT. BAKER & 00, 1 Chamber of Commerce, CHICAGO. Stock Department Stocks and Securities Bought and Sold at New York, Boston, and Philadelphia Stock Ex- changes. — Direct Wires from our office to our Eastern Correspondents. Latest information concern- ing all Railroad Stocks and Se- curities furnished on applica- tion. WM. T. BAKER, Member New York Stock Exchange. W. F. COBB, NM. L. SCUDDER, Jr. New York Correspondents: NIcCINNIS BROS. & FEARING. REED & BREESE, INVESTMENT SEGURITIES, {00 Dearborn-st., Ofer a Umited number of shares of stock in the Lake Superior ron Ca., and Itepublie Iron Co., at prices Eas wil net purchasers from 1s 100 per eent in divi- ends. WE ARE BUYERS AND SELLERS OF ALL THE DIVIDEND-PAYING IRON STOCKS. We have also a tlay of choice + per cent Municipal Bonds. DAY & FIELD, STOCK BROKERS {30 LaSalle-st. oll securities dealt in at the New York Ste.k Exchange bought and sold on com- mission and carried on a fair margin. Interest allowed on credit balances. Money to Loan On Improved Real Estate at 6 per cent. ‘WM. V. JACOBS, (Basement) Portland Block. GUARANTEED AGAINST LOSS. Small or large sums Invested in stocks and guarau- teed ugainst loss. FAVORABLE TIME. This is one of the most f2vorable periods of the rear for making money in stocks. We will pay One ‘Theo gand Duliurs forthe name of # parte whe has ever Josta dollar through us in stocks. 33 Exchange-place, THE UNION TRUST CO., Northeast Corner Madison and Dearborn-sts., receives savings deposits and allows interest on same subject to the rules of the bank. G. M. WILSON. cashier, COMMISSION MERCHANT: ene OOT CTO CTOs ESTABLISHED 1340. RUMSEY, BRO. & CO. GRAIN AND PROVISION Commission Kerchants, 16 Chamber Commerce, Chicago, Ill. Grain and Provisions bought and sold and carried on margins. 5, WANTED. A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF TRADE, ‘A tirst-cluss Bookkeeper und Oftice-man,wants a posi- Yion in a Grain or Provision Commission House. Re fers tw the ofticers of the Board. Address DS, Trib- pe fice. OUR WATER-SUPPLY. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Carcaco, June 1L—Since the building of the North Pier, sume feet from the old light- house, the water-supply has not been so pure, taking it the year round. ‘The construction and extensisn of this Government pier was probably anecessity, but nevertheless x great disadvun- taze to our water-supply, inasmuch as it pperates something after the nature of a chute in carrying the river water out in a narrow oF contracted channel just s0 many hundred feet further in the direction of the Crib; whercas hadthe pier not been built, the river water, with ali of its impurities, in ordiuary weather and southerly winds, would have been carried around the corner of the old pier and more closely followed the line of the shore, awhile but asmull quantity of the impure water would bave reached the Crib: as it now is, the sewage and filth is carried out to contaminate our water-suppiy. Another source of trouble may be attributed to thie pler-—viz.: thatin severe ‘winters the ice collecta in dense masses on the north side of the pier, gronads on the bottom, and with a change Of wind and current drags ‘out to the Crib and obstructs the water inlets, thoreby endangering a@reguiur su . ast ‘inderseand, the Government contem- Piates building unother pier below North ay €nue which, when completed, will greatly in- crease the present dillicultics according to my judgment, ‘sa north wind would carry the sith from Fullérion avenue conduit toward the Crib Consequently what may be said ayrainst Our press entand grand system can readily be accounter for, and should not bo teed as an argument @gatnst the system itself. Should the city: ever adopt my plan, mentioned in last Sunday's TRINUSE, of getting pure Water dy extending the tunnels tur enough our ince the lake to obtain a water supply-irc e danger of anchor-ice, and the dead certainty 0} contamination by sewage, we may be sure of an abundant and never-ending supply of water be- yonda doubt. The city would then have & sy8- tem built upon correct. principles and as tirm and lasting as the pyramids of Beyot, if built as itshould be, supplying a city’ of = },009 peup! i. ‘with pure cold water, the temperature of whic! b Would be even the year around. Allcan be fo z Structed and put into operation just as sure! ly and safely as what bas previously been done | rightly managed, thus securing LO our enterpris- ing city one of the boldest und grandest, mont ments of engineering sill in the civilized Wort But we must go beyond a depth of ten feet in order to do this. GeorceE R. BRAMHALL. —_——————————— - CORRECTION. . To the Editor of The Chicago Omcaco, June 11.—Commenting on the Horr trial, you state that “Jt came out durmug the tes- timogy that he [Horr] had the night before been trying to‘ fix things’ with Dr. Gardiner.’ he afternoon previous to the foul trial Horr mele & proposition to me “to pay Horner $14 and Of ould bave Horner Surrender me the phacton. Thig conversation I made known to the Assist. Ant Btate’s-Attorney. 1 submit, was there any “fixing things” on my part? Iyave my cyt dence truthfully, and without besilition oF Fes” ervation, and made every e‘fort to convict Horr Of the otfeuse churged in the indictment Faaxk U. GaRpixer, 126 State stree! ————————— Malarial fever, ague, and biliousness will teste every neighborhood assoon as Hop Bitters ve, BUSINESS. Stocks Open Strong and Active, but Close Weaker. Union Pacific Prominent in the Deal- ings—Promises for Stock- holders. The Produce Markets Generally Strong- er, Except Rye—Provisions : Quiet. Breadstuffs Active—Wheat and Corn Strong, with a Better Demand. FINANCIAL, Stocks were strong and activ Northern Pacitic prerecred pavcenae Union Pacific wus for the day tho most prom!- nent stuck. Dealings were large, and all sorts of stories were put into circulation with regard rode The Compuny are about to issue, it is = Bs new stock at par to pay for the Oregon Ex- ension, Another report was that there was to bead per cent extra dividend. Still another, that Union Pacitic stockholders would receive valuable rights in connection with the Exten- sion already spoken of, including the privilege of subscribing to the new 6 per cent bonds at par. Lesides, there will be a stock bonds. Russell Suge, it was wired, had turned a great bull, and looked for a further advance. Western Union was active and nigher. Gen. Eckert was quoted as authority for the state- ment that the business of the Company had in- creased so enormously that it was difficult to obtuin operators. He bad sold his new stock and repliced it with the old. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba is expected to begin this month ‘the payment of dividends ft the rate of 6 per cent a yenr. The New Jersey Midland Extension to Scran- ton, Pu, through the Delaware Water Gap, par- allel with tho Lackawanna Road, is now an as- sured certainty. This road will also be ex- tended from Stroudsberg to Pottsville, Pa., into Schuyikill County, where ure situated the three real anthracite coal-beds of the State. The Company has bought 4,008 acres of choice coal lands near Tamaqua. A new road is being constructed between St. Louis and Loutsville, and will be completed, with trains runoing, before Dec. 1. The route will be parallel to that of the Onio & Mississippl, about twenty miles south, and will pe an fm- portant rival line. Pullman was advertised to go to 160 last week, but fniled to do so. Nearly everybody bad the polut to buy it. Yesterday it sold as low as 145, and closed at 146, a decline of 13. Large blocks were offered in New York at 146, hose who know declare there is absolutely no truth in the report of a serip dividend. Northern Pacifle preferred advanced rapidly from Sf to 864, but that seemed to be the limit ‘The stock {3 to be tested on the London Stock Exchange, and {sto be put up previously to a high enough point to make it acceptable to the Liritish appetite. A second installment has been called for from the subseribers to the Mutual Union Telegraph Company. After the opening, an and hour or two of ac- tivity, the market became dull, and closed with usuggestion of weakness. Alton & Terre Haute dividend bonds precede the common shares in dividenas. The stock is about 68 and the bonds 80. The latter are strong- ly neld by the managers of the corporation. ‘The syndicate of bunkers which took the Penn- sylvania Railroad Company's $10,000,000 recent 4 per cent oan are able toannounee that private applications have absorbed the entire issue, and that no public issue will be made. The origiual market price of these bonds was 97, while to- day sales were reported at 99. Government bonds were stronger. In Chi- eago, District of Columbia 3.65s were 107% bid and 108% asked; the 31:8 were 10313 bid and 10:35 ed; the 4s 1173s bid and 138 asked; the 4}:s % bid and 115X asked; the 53 10335 bid and 1033; asked. At the close the 45 were 110% bid and 11S!3 asked; the 41j3 115 and 11533, and the 5s, 103% and 1013. The market clused strong. Until lately there was a difference of 1 per cent between the extended 63 and the extended 5s, but there is now only 3 to 12 of I per cent differ- ence. There is no renson for any whatever ex- cept for the difference ot interest between July land Aug. 12. Forvign exchange was quiet, with no variation in rate: Chicago bank clearings were $5,858,000. Loans were moderately active at5@7 percent. New York exchange sold between banks at par@2ie per $1, discount. ‘Asmall part—$300,000—of the new Northwestern 5 percent loxn which had been reserved by the New York agents for sale in New York bas been bought by Adotph Loeb & Bro., of this city. who now control all of tne loan that is extant. William -H. Vanderbilt took $2,000,000 of these ponds when first put out, and all of the balance of $3,300,000 has been placed in Chicazo. Such a fact speaks volumes for the growing financial importance of this city. On the Chicago Stock Board there were sales of Cook County 78, 1885, $4,000, 1094; Cook Cook County 7s, 1892, $5,000, $5,004, 12175 1m; $5,000, 123; West Chicago 53, $2,000, 1062:; Lincoln Park 73, $5,000, 10915: $1,000, 109223 Chi- cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 53 (Mineral Point), $5,000, 9944: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 4s, 85,000, 97543 $6,000, 97565 $5,000, 9754 } Wabash, St. Louis £ Pacitle 3s, 35, 000, BY TELEGRAPH. NEW YORK. New York, June 11—Governments were strong and iG! higher. Jn tho railroad bond markets the special feature was Texas & Pacitic land-grant incomes, Which advanced 9% from 92!{. Luke Eric & Western incomes declined to 824 from 831s, and advanced to$!. Rome, Watertown & Oxdens- burg firsts advanced to 1073, from 107 and de- clined to 106!$. Chesapeake & Obio currency 6s advanced to 6634 from 65, Milwaukee & St. Paul consols to 130! from 129%, Jersey Central con- sols assented to 1193; from. 118}, Houston & ‘Texas (Western Division) firsts to 119 from 112! Boston, Hartford & Erie firsts to $5% from Bi, and Peoria, Decatur © Evansville incomes to 914 from 9. Ohfo Southern incomes declined to 2 from 64, und Iron Mountain (Arkansas Division) tirsts to 214 from 13. Bunter market opened generally firm, and in carly dealiugs an advance of 3; to Us was re in cfad Louisville, New Albany, Northern Pa- cilic, Westero Union, and do es. -certitied leading Che apward iuvement. ‘This was followed by a Tenction of 3 to 1X, but speculation soon be- aoa strong asain, and at the Second Board the Career became quite buoyant, and an advance of 14 ta 4 took pluce, which wus most marked in Sfemphis & Churleston, Union Pacitlc, Western PGioke and Canada Southern, In late dealings there was u fractional reuc don, but the gnurket ed generally firm, 14,000, Ohio & Mississippl. + “ZhovfOnuario & Western... 4.4jOhiv Central. SUN] Pacitic Mat 0) S|. Dec. © Evan: a tn. Ww) ending, an 00 14,300 ow 11un 3,0) 8D S40 Northern Pacitic... The railway and was unsettled and tirst balf uf the week, trunk tines and he PF yunet road Company a pea ttlement for the purchase of the Philadel- phia, Wilmington & Balymore Railron stocks phin, Mperauons ave rise to a temporary {eur that money might have to, be sent to New En- gland to the detriment of the local ‘muuey mar- ut put, toward the close, when the rus mors of cutting rates were denied, an & was announced that the meeting of the trunk- miscellaneous speculation generally lower during the on rumors of cutting by yment by the Pennsylva- large sum of wioney Presidents in this city was bar- ine Eres tore was. a marked | chunge for the better in the temper of specu! aidan, for teeneral and in soime cnses u shurp a” vance in prices. ‘fhe upward movement aL ste close was materially ussisted by tne ease in mane : demand for roved investment son sities and ‘a large increase in ae ‘ earnings. for the. first, week in June, a gs St. Paul showing a Meee cas, ‘& Northwestern $101,- Sitio Grande $02.83, Union Paciiic MY & Omiha S8.0e1, and St. Louls uo $21.10. The eurnings, of the EBRipeuke & Onlo Road for May were 218.085, against $199,443, a0. increasc of 349. = oe jo sainst Se mington & Western earnings for Shy dia a1u2 63, an increase Of S10.8%, ‘the ereut. est ‘advance was ip ‘Louisville, New Albany 283;¢ for September. 7 Chicago, which rose 17% on reports of a proba- ble scrip dividend. . The Pullman Pal Company came next, with an advance of Ae ‘Texas Pacific rose 68, and Boston Air-Line pre- ferred 7; ‘The balance of the list advanced 44 to 5i4, with Western Union stock and certiti- cates, Union and Central Pacitic, Peoria, De- catur & Evansville, Rome, Watertown & Ogdens- burg, Northern Pucifie preferred, and Denver & Rio Grande most prominent in the rise, ‘There were sume marked exceptions to this improve- ment, tne Elevated shares, Norfolk & Western, n District Telegraph showing a de- aiine OF PAGSN, but closing at a recovery. of . fon Pucifie is quoted ex- vie Wee ore aston. a ‘quarterly divi- Money market easy at 3@314. Prime mercan- ule paper, 3@4'%. Sterling exchange, sixty days, steady at 48314; demand, 48544. GovEnsmenrs. 114) New 4s. |Pacitic 63 of 15us, Louistana.. Missouri, Hock Island, WEB Ca BS Now Panagia ton S‘Verre Yiaute. 63} Fort Wayn at [Ar eu L orererreds: Bee Cleve, & Wab., St. L. & Pucitic: 5514 g/Do preferred. SHE Hannibal & $i Joe... 8S. c Do preferred, rE Bo preterred. tron Muuntain. i New York Central St. 1. San Fi 2 Harle: Do preferre ay rst preferre LL, &N, O.. ‘insas & ‘Texas, !Unton Paeitic st Inne Shore. 0 pt iCentral Maclte.. idy Northwestern KjiTexas Pacit Do proferred.. {Northern Pacitic. bg se. Pau, Do pr Touts St Paul Do preferred,, Del., Lack, & ¥ Western Union Tei. Vacitic Mail. Adums.. Furky..... 7 pAmurieah Del Now Jerse: Keouding Ohio & Mlasissipp! Do preferred. Chesapeake & Do test preferred. Mobile & Onto. Cleve. & Clu GoCR IL Ohio Central, Lake Erle & W Peoria, Dee, & Ontario & Wester LB. W, Marletta € 4 EE, 8 TR a aA Bosroy, June 11,—Stocks closed as follows: Boston & Maine....... 4 {Cos B.S Onsen He Cin., sand. & miiglBastern 1 1 Flint & P. Ma Awh. & Tope! New OrtEans, June 11.—Si change on New York, $1.45G2.50 per 1,000 premium. ‘Ster- ling, 481. FOREIGN. Panis, June 11.—Rentes, Sif &i4c. Loxvos, June 1L—Consols, 1003-16; account, 1003, American securities—New 53, 105353 43, 20%; Pennsylvania Central, 684; Reading, 30%. MINING NEWS. SAN PRANCISCO, San Francisco, June il Bostos, June 1L—The follows: Allouez Mining Co... 2 Calumet © HL. 27 Catan: Copper “Fi Duncan 5I Silver I Flint & Pere” Mar- quette, preferred....100 COMMERCIAL. ‘The following were the receipts and shipments of leading articles of produce in this city dur- ing the twenty-four hours ending at 7 o'clock Saturday morning and for the corresponding time a year aro: SHPME: ARTICLES. Flour, bri toh art Itye. iarley, bi. Graas seed, Tbs, Flax seed, Ibs. Broom-corn, Cured meats, Ib: Beet, 1cs Sheep, S ittdes, Ib: Wool, Ibs. Potatoes, bu. Coal, tons. Tay, tons... Lumber, mf shingles, m Salt, bris Cheese, v: Green apples, bris. Seans, ba. The followmg graln was inspected into store in this city yesterday mornin cars No. 2 red winter. wheat, 3 cars No. 2 winter, 1 car No.3 do, Scars rejected, 1 car no grade, 3 cars mixed, 192 spring. 47 cars No.3 do, 24 cars re- cars no grade (275 wheat); 207 cars and 5,500 tu No.2 corn, 101 cars bizh-mixed, 10 cars new do, 18 cars new mixed, $1 cars and 11,200 bu ‘rojected, 28 cars no grude (48 corn); 83 cars white oats, 97 cars and 6,000 bu No. mixed, 51 cars rejected, 1 carno grade (28 oats); Lear No.1 rye, cars No.2 do, 3 cars low grades (11 rye); 1 car No.3 barley. Total (967 cars), 510,000 bu. Inspected out: 35,190 bu wheat, 521,953 pu corn, 87,973 bu oats, 2,893 bu parley. Withdrawn from store during Friday for city consumption: $79 bu wheat, 2,627 bu corn, 435 bu oats, and 4,433 bu barley. ‘The following were the receipts of breadstuffs in this elty during the past week: Junet June 4, June 2% ‘Asi. It! Ix, Flour, bris. tical Wheat, bu; er0K Corn, ba. Oats, bu. liye, bu. 3 Burles, bu. 15482 The corresponding shipments wer June tl, Sunes, June 12, 1" SN Flour, bris. Wheat, bu. Corn, bu, Oats," bu: ltye. bu. Barley, bu. ‘The leading produce markets were generally strong Saturday, with a falrly active trading in grain, and a rather dull day in provision circles. The latter tended upward under a light demand, because holders were offering very little stuff for sale.. Wheat advanced, owing to a yood de- mand for futures, which seemed to be largely on country accounts while there was less offered on behalf of city speculators, though the re- celpts were moderately large. The fact seemed to be that the news published by the morning paper made to pause some who bad previously acted on the belief that our crops this year will be bigger than ever before, Corn was azain stronger, with small receipts, which wenkened up the shorts, tha recent wet weather has delayed shelling in the couu- try, but some parties iu the trade have advices to the effect that receipts will now increuse, with better wenthor. Outs took a sudden jump, cnch transactions and the entire list of futures for a time showing an udvance of 2@le per bu. ‘This advance, however, proved to be purely speculative, as inter in the day prices reacted, and at the close showed a gain of about H@ic on the opening ficures. Rye was ensicr. and barley again stronger. Sess pork closed 15¢ higher, at $16.30@16.235 for July and 216.4235 16.. $10.774@10.80 tor July and $10.S0@10.8244 August. Short ribs closed steady nt $5.20@3. for Ju! ‘Wheat closed 1c higher, at SLUG Lu for July and $1. G3; for <Au- gust. Corn, closed Xe higher, at hic for and 454@is%e for August. Oats closed at 3 s for June, 37%e tor July, und Itye closed weak ut $1.01 for spot, 9c for July, and 79:3¢ for August and September. Barley closed strong at $L12 for No. 2eash, and nominally Se for No, 3. Hogs were steady at $5.6005.95 for light, and at $5.60 @6.0 for heavy. Cattle were fairly active and dirm at $3.00@6.35 for poor to extra. Dry-goods jobbers continue to report & good general demand. As 1s usual at this time of for August. Lard closed dc higher, at for year, very few buyers are present in person, but orders by mail and telegraph: call for a large amount of goods in the aggremite. Prices re- main firm, standard cotton makes showmg special strength. In the boot and shoe market only a light business was doing, and the move- ment in clothing and millinery goods was also somewhat limited. ‘There was u good demand for groceries, and for coffees, tes, rice, splees, and sirups the feeling was unqualificaly itirm. Sugars re- mained weak at the modified quotations of the day before, hards sellmg at 1I@Uxe and standard A’s at 124:@105sc. Dried fruits, fish, and canned goods were unchanged, There was atair demand for butter, and the market was steady. Cheese remained dull and heavy, with full creams offered ut SG@9c and part skims at 3} @5ic. Prices of oils ranged the sameas on Friday. Coal and pig-iron were also quoted as before. Hay was slow, without change in quotations, with tho receipts still very heavy. Broom-corn continues active and unchanged. There isa brisk trade in building materials both from city and country. Exzgs were firm, and sold readily atl5 per doz. Wool, bides, grease, and tallow are moving slow, without material change in prices. Green fruits of all kinds are active and tirm, the supply being generally adequate to the demand. Potatoes were frm and unchanged both for new and old, the stock of the latter be- ing very small. Seeds’ were steady for clover und thnothy, of which there was little offering, strong for tlaxseed at the advance, and firm and higher for Hungarian and millet. Lake freights were steady at 4¢ for corn to Buffalo. Milwaukee parties were on the mar- ket bidding 434¢ for vessels to go to that port and load with Wheat. Six vessels were char- tered for Butfalo, three for Kingston, and two for Erie, taking an aggregate of 352,000 bu corn, 50,000 bu oats, and 6,00) bu wheat, Lumber freights aro a tritie easier, with more vessels olfering. The sudden advance fn barley within the past few days from 98c to $1.12 is explainable from tho fact that Milwaukee parties are building a “corner,” which is now at its first story, but which {ts architects count upon carrying to a greater clevation, as they clatm to be contident of pushing the price of the cereal to $1.25. The demand bere {s quite lively on this account, and owlng to the limited stock the market is nat- urally sensitive, ‘The decline in spot rye since Thursday last bas been 9@lc per bu. This downward movement was caused chietly by the marked fucrease in the receipts, which nré now much larger daily than atany time in the past two months. In addition to this there is onlya light aemand, and sample lots are selling at n wide range, the price being governed largely by the wants of. the customer. PROVISIONS. HOG PRODUCTS—Were agatn quiet, but stronger, though no change'lu Liverpool was reported, und the lucalhog market was quoted steady. The strenzth tn product was supposed to be mostly in sympathy withcorn. ‘There was a moderate demand for tard, und apparently a little more Inquiry for meats on foreign account, while the reported shipments were large. ‘The pucking of thisclty siuce the close of Februnry iy reported as 9400 hoxs, against 1273.00) for same tine a year axo, und 85,00 to do In 1879. ‘Mess PORK—Advinced 24w2e per bel, sad closed be abovo the latest prices of Friday. Sales were re- ported of 289 bris seller June at 215.10; 5,0) brs s July at s1akete.40; 3,00) brig seller A\ « and Lod vels seller September at $10.306l Total, ¥20 beis. Che murket closed tirm at about $1529 bid for round lots 5 sty for duty, und, 16.45 fur August. bmAdvaneed Se er lw Ibs, und closed Se the lutest prices of Friday. Sules were report- 4 ics seller June nt, $W.T0o 1. WJ tes 10.90; 11250 tes seller August at Tu tes neler snaber wt $10, 7G 1U raat $1u.br d ayant 2h ee et du etegiuas seller July und USKS yelier the month, § seller July, z IWs2y seller AUZust. 4 ‘MEA TS—Showed little change in prices. Sales were tes sweet pickled suoul long and short clears xt ts ler dune, $5.23: seller Ausust, and 8.376.490 pes green hams (15 1bs) at bye 5.295 Manchester cut, at S754, 3 orgelter the month, 160 ed of | seller Ju WW. 1, seller th market bers JW) pes do, 19 Ibs, ‘of feading cuts of ments were us follows ai Short rites. ‘Shoul- L, & ders, | clears.| clears. Loose, part salted, Lio, vexed. dune, rouse! July, louse Ted finuia quoted at tass{e for’ 1 reen Lams, same avernze, SHUStic. ‘Htucon quuted at (iui for snoulders, S{@se for short ribs, ‘kao3{c for short clears, 10G@10!s¢ Tor hams, all canvased and packed, i Was quiet at $10.25@100 for mess, 1L3@ 11.0 for extra niess, and 21L.@21.U for hams. BREADSTOUFFS. FLOUR—Was strong, In sympathy with wheat, but there was rather less duins. Sales were reported of urls winters on private terms; 30 bris and 1,00) sacks springs, partly at $5.l0G5.75. Total equal to 1.225 bris. Winter wheat tlours.were quoted at S.WGt2; shippisk springs at $4,004.00; the low-krade springs ut FLGUGLW. Kye tour at wbout $.75G4.L0. OTHER MILLSTUFFS—Were In light demand but steadier. Sales were reported of 9 cars bran at $3.25 on track, and $230 free on board; 2 cars middlings at $12.0K@12.0, Coarse corn-meal was nominal at $6.25 per ton on track. SPRING WHEAT—Was active and stronger, ad- Lge, und closing Iie above the tatest prices of Friduy. The British markets were stronger, av- eraging an advance of fully 1d per cental all round, but New York reported Httle do- ing; our receipts were rather Inrze, and our stocks in store appear to bave increased about 430,000 bu. during the week under a masterly inactivity In shipment, ‘Tho weather in the West was tine and cool, but the ngricultural reports published morning were discournzing to the bears, and he eely, while that (or the general pros- peet) stimulated a ‘xood, peculative demana from Winter wheat districts, ‘There were also xome stzns ofan export inquiry, thougn the price Of spot wheat wens reputed by what it ts worth to carry into July. loged nt sitive bid. Spor sales were re- Bears No. 2 at $10u'guol.vo76; 3 at S1WIGLU; 2 ears do (Central) cars rejected at Ta@Tbe; ars and 3! cars by sample at Tes at. Sc@si.0ig. ‘Total. about $3.0 bu. Seller July opened at $1.104¢s1.10%4, yold at $1.10, receded to Ht0Gand advanced to §1.1l'g at the close. Setter ‘August ranged at €1.10@L 11S, Seprember at 11856¢ Jus the rearat SLOG, und June was nearly nominal at s1.00g1-1l, all ciosing wt the outside, HARD WHEAT—Sates were 31 cary No. 2 Minnesota atgiUsi@@l.il: the premium over stcalght No. 2 was Joc early. and acout Iclater. WINTER WiHEAT—Was qulet and stronger. Sales were reported of Lear No. 2 red (St. Paul) at $1.05: 9 cary No. 3(A., D. & Co.1 ars by sample AL ELM LI. "Also 3 cars mixed at $1.02, Cow netive and again stronger, advancing: SGoMe trom the latest prices of Wriday, dnd clysiny firm. ‘There was not much change in the tone of fur- ady.ces, but New York tended upward, and our gipis were uzain smaller, with an apparent dec se of about RW) bu in our stocks instore during fhe week. ‘This leaves a sinall quuntity to, be scat tered around among twenty efevators, There was niso a zood shipping demand Saturday, promising 2 further reduction in stocks. he decrease in receipts during the week ts attributed to the “bad” weather, which bus hindered shelling in the country, Dut some receivers say that an improvement ix promised them in that respect. Certainly the'disappearance of the July premium ‘will tend to increase receipts this month. Cash No. 2 closed at ‘Spot sales were reported of 84,00) bu and und hizh mixed at dWeti%e; 6 cars new 15 jew mixed at lac bid, 2wenrs No, high mixed at dhe: 240), bu and white at He: 3 and 19 cars do ats equal to about 314U0) bu, Se Heel and udvanced to 4Bgeat the close. Selle qust ranzed at HUGH! fe, September at s@id;gc, und Sune at dic Hise, all c.osing ut the outside. “Wore strong at the opening, No. 2 gilt-edge selling up tossice, but the market afterward weake ‘OZ ell ase down to wisKe, und closins steady aUsie, orubaut se above Eriday's hest price. Ite- Jected sold tn m sniall way curly at iliac. Seller June opened at Srfe, adv ie ileelined to. Sistc- d closed at sige. July opened at isscc, advanced to ved to Side. ut which price tt closed, St sold. from sshge to Bec, declining to 2Sse at viseptember sold at 23 early, and closed in large, und track- ‘Cash sales were ite on trick: Tueise Tor rejected whit Nese tor No.2 white: and s14ed2e\ for choice te free on board, ‘Total equat to about 5000 bu, HYE—Was dutl, with, ‘Spot selling nt #101 in store and track stuffall the way from We to 1.02. June frag nominally quotable at &Lu! with July at te sell ers, and Ausust and September salable at Wise. Cash sales wero made of aigL0lin store; 4 cars by sample tae. for no srade, $1.00 for No. 2nd We for Fujected on track. ‘Fora! equal to nboue 0x bu. AL S strom, and advanced 2c, selling early at $1.10 for No. % und later the same grade sold at Liz. No. dteas nominally ssc. Cush sales were jnade of 2 cars and 4.00) bu at £1.192112 in store; 1 ear utwve for Canada to arrive. ‘Total equal to zbout a0 bu. Tn the afternoon the curbstone crowd ran wheat up to $Li2for August, §LIU for September, and #15 for seller the year. BY TELEGRAPH. FOREIGN LIVERPOOL, June M—31:0 a, m.—FLOTR—D No, GUAIN—Wheat—Winter, No. 1, 93 7d; No. 2 955 spring. No. 1. 0. ite, No. 1, 9s Gd; No. 2.58 10d; club, No. 1, 9394; No. 2 Ys td. Corn, 4s Usd PROVISIONS—Pork, 726d. Lard, Sts G1. LIVERPOOL, June 11.—-PRovistons—Hams—L. C. dull at 33. cue jo. 1, His: American, chotce, firmer at 30s. PURPENTINE—Spirits tirmer at ‘hs. Gita1n—Wheat—Spring No. 2 tirmer at 9s 3d. Corn steady at 43 10d. LONDON, June 1L—Tone ANTWEEP, June IL-PETBOLEOM— Liverroot, June 11.—Evening — Corrox—Quiet; Girlegst{d; sales. 7tW0) bales; speculation and export, 1,00; Anterican, 6,004. TALLOW—Fine American, 33s ‘The following were recelved by the Chicago Board of Trude: Liv er; red winter, 2 1d; H A POOL, June 1L—Wheat firmer und held high; No. 2 spring, ¥ 3d; No. 3do, 23 9d. Corn firmer. Cargoes off coast—Wh Pe eat firmer and a shade higher: demand moderate; red winter advanced 6G¥d. Corn in moderate demand and steady. ‘To arrive—Wheat firmer and a shade higher: red winter (at London) advanced 6d. Corn, steady. Pork, 73s 6d. Lard, sis 9d. Bacon—L. C., 438 6d: S.C. coed anor Ot buiter, ax ais ed, Cheese, 8. Beet, 5 un! larkets: ve EI rather more faroribiss oy weather in Baas ‘LONDON, June iL—LtveRroo.—Wheat firmer; Western red winter, 9s 7 bts Come fem STARR Wheat a shade dearer: fair average red winter, 453. Corn steady. Carcoes on passaze—Wheat a shade deurer. Corn steady. Fatr averace quailty. of American red winter wheat for Pfompeshipment. 464. Country markots for wheat nglish and French firm. Weather in England shows signs of improving. Patis—Wheat and flour firm. . NEW YORK. New YoRE, June lLCorros—Firm atl 1-166 ust futures dull; June, 1.0ic: July, 1. ‘Aue frst Mes September, 10.7e; October, 1Uzre; Novem ber, December, 10.14 » 10260; Fe FUR. TONG March, ite denatry, Nove Fer Fira but’ quiet: receipts, 14,000 bris; ex- pores 10M Bris: ‘super Stats “ana Western, £1008 455: ‘common to good extn, SL002300; eood 10 ghoice, s.lUe615; white wheat extra, SiiUg6i3; Silnnevota patent process, S25@S00. GitaiN\t heat biter closings recetpes, 2s,00) b expo-ts, 1ilW bu; ungraded spring, #11 No. spring, $1.15; No. 2 Chi 203 ungraded red, : ‘and Mit 123. Corn higher; receipts tio ba; unsound, Haste: No.” Promber sjesse. Outs dalle receipts, she Wostorn taixed. dn@ttxfe; white do, este. HdrsQulet bur deine we Weise OPrs—Oulet Lut Hein, a. L@lSe: Basten and West- Ce Ree ore diate ezie orm and West Gkoceies Cotes quiet’ but firm; Rio canoes quoted Sexe; Job" lots S4GiNe, Suear quiet Pre ra ret pe ee rl A aaa HErkOLEUM-Gulet but tm: Calted, Ste. MAY G1IC. ‘Pork moderately active; old mess, PROVISION $15.0); “new. do, Beef quiet but firm. Cut outs quletund unchanged. Lard—Demant active; HUTTER—In good demand and firm; 9G21c. CURESE—Scarcely 20 Hrm, atu@syie. FASHIONS. Latest New York Modes. New York Evening Post. All shades of yellow are greatly in yogue. Very little jewely is worn with white toilets. Bright yellow silk mitts are worn with toilets of black, ‘The shade of green called bronze d’art is excecdingly fashionable. Old-fashioned paste buckles now glitter upon large poke bonnets. Ombre satin sashes aecompany many of the imported evening costumes. Fine embroidery and elaborate shirrings are the adornments of India mull dresses. ‘The large Anne of Austria collars, covered with fine embroidery, are worn over dresses of white linen lawn. Very handsome grenadine toilets are im- ported combined with satin sublime, and trimmed with rich steel-beaded fringes and appliques, The wide-spreading Bernhardt ties of In- dia mull have been disearded by the ultra fashionable people who so lately appeared behind thein. Unless she be swift of hand, the young Jady who now sits down to put a new set of buttons on her “party” gloves has 4 morn- ing’s work before her. Ladies who possess the lace sacques of thread or lama, at present so completely out of style, are making them over into the pretty Stuart collars, pointed fichus, and an- tigue shoulder capes now in vogue. ‘There isa new quality of sateen called sateen fuulard which greatly resembles In- aan silk in its appearance. It comes in a variety of designs, Egyptian, bayadére stripes, checks and plaids,—multicolored over grounds of almond, gray, pale blue, ete. Princess polenaises are made of these fab- rics, trimmed with fancy lace. ‘They are worn over linen skirts of a monochrome col- or, the skirts being trimmed with tiny ruflles of the same goods. For the seaside, very fresh and charming dresses are made of batiste, white, pale doe color, ciel-biue and wild rose pink, embroi- dered by hand with flowers and garlands in silks of most vivid colors. ‘The fronts nave quite large tabliers covered with narrow jlounces gathered, not plaited; the upper skirt is turned over the hips in embroidered reverse and lightly draped’ behind. The Vodice has an embroidered front, with shirred searts crossing over it, trimmed with narrow lace. American as well as European ladies are scintillating ina perfect armor of je id. beads. Whole cuirass bodices, tablier, skirts, panels, doimans, shoulder-capes, bonnets, and slippers, are covered with, beadedzem- broidery. 1 jezant costumes of, black “are sparkling like “coats of mail” with a dense covering of jet and steel, and delicate toilets of white brocade, satin and tulle, are embel- fished with marvelous designs wrought in beuds of pearl, gold, silver, crystal, and other beads resembling costly gems. ‘Tabliers, panels, and portions of the corsage are eacn worked with a special design composed to suit its particular shape although uniform on the whole. _A pretty garden party costume for a young girl is made of cream-colored foulard, fig- ured with wild rose blossoms and buds. The tunic is in the Wattean style, made over an underskirt of black velvet or dark miyrtle green satin. Silver.ornaments in the shape of shepherds’ crooks, hold in place the jaunty panier draperies at each side. A Sheperdess hat of cactus lace straw is lined with rose color, and trimmed with a wreath of unmounted wild roses. A pair of pert- looking Watteau half shoes, laced. up the front and fastened with a scarlet silk cord and tassels, is worn with cream-colored silk stockings embroidered over the instep with tiny rose-buds and fine green leaves. Inno point whatever is fashion subjected toany sort of rule in the shape of bodices. Ot peaked waists, shiried waists, plaited waists, “Jersey” waists, “baby” waists, cassaquins, or coats there is no end, they may be either in the vest, habit, cuirass, or severe Quaker style; may be long asa Joan of Arc bodice, or the natural waist line may be relegated nearly to the arm-pits and yet be equally 4 la mode. The only question at present to be weighed in regard to the corsage is, Which of them all is most becoming? ~ But the unaccountable manner in which not a few ladies decide this ques- tion-passes human understanding; so many of the weighty ones selecting the short plaited waists,—so many frail, slender ladies choosing the plain, long, unadorned cuirass or Jersey style. Notwithstanding its natural fondness for solitude, the grave and austere owl has for sone time past been thrust into popular favor as a fashionable ornament, his demure and solemn visage appearing upon bonnet crowns, hats, and muffs, his Dod ess owl- ship also actually doing duty for the outside ofa chatelaine bag, or his great round face, with its staring eyes, peering from amid the folds of a lady’s dress, there doing duty tor an ornament to fasten the heavy drapings back. Now his miniature is seen upon enanieled sleeve-buttons, ear-rings, scarf and euff-pins, and hair ornaments. "A horned owl of Pompeiian porphyry sleepily perched upon the new moon's silver crescent is an- other unique design for a geutleman’s scarf- pin. ‘The newest French dress hats have rather broad brims and round crowns, the dis- tinguishing feature of the trimmings being a fall of Spanish lace trom the edge of the hat. The lace is usually about four inches deep. One of these hats lately’ exhibited was the finest black chip, around the crown of which was twisted a scarf of beaded Spanish lace. Two short fluffy black ostrich tips nodded over the left side of the crown, fastened by a large ornament in the shape of a crab formed. of jets; and a black Spanish Jace rutile was yery slightly fulled around the extreme edge of the hi Upon this shape this trin- ming quite veils the eves. On another style the brim ed considerably, the lace edge then appearing like a halo around the crown of hair. ‘The feathers were omittea upon the Jatter hat, and in their place were a cluster of tea-roses and a spray of scarlet honey- suckles. ‘he “Lavyense” tunic is again a popular overdress with fabrics. It is gathered up at the sides, and fastened under the pout ex- actly as peasant girls tuck Ne their skirts, or usa washerwoman arranges her skirts before atub. ‘The front breadths are cut as for an ordinary skirt, and almost as long as the petticoat. The front and side breadths are joined, gathered up, and secured at the back py an ornament or bow, ‘The deep upturned portion of the skirt is faced with a contrast- ing eolor, as, for instance, the dress may be of ligured foulard with the rever of cardinal or blue, or the overdress may be of cream- colured nun’s veiling and the rever of striped or plaided surah. ‘The effect of the *La- yeuse” tunic is graceful and coquettish, but invariably negligé. It could not be worn with an evening toilet expeet by quite a young girl, and in very light materia! Such as the veiling, India muslin trimme with lace, Japanese crape or foulard. AMERICAN PORK. Its Complete Vindication by the Department of State. The Calumnies of Foreign Nations Thoroughly Exposed and Re- fated. No Lard from Dead Hogs, and Trichinw Almost a Nonentity. Onur Washington specials printed in Te Triscve of Friday morning contained a yery full synopsis of the report made under the auspices of the State Department on the American hog, the manner in which the ani- malis raised and prepared for human food. The investigation grew out of the fact that the French and Belgian Governments had raided the good name which American pork products had maintained throughout the world for a quarter of a century. The . foreigners found that American bacon and hams were rapidly underselling the native product. The home raisers of hogs and packers of meat com- plained bitterly of American competition, and the only possible way to stop it was to get up a scare and a panic on American meats. This was done, occasioning losses of thousands of dollars on our packers and their friends in the principal seaports of France and Belgium; and also inflicting upon the best pork product in the world & suspicion under which it must labor for several years to come. 4 ‘The inv ation was made by Mr. Michael Scanian, of the Statistical Bureau of the State Department. ‘Those directly and indi- rectly connected with the trade aiforded to Mr. Scanian ali the information at their com- imand, and the whole question, beginning with the birth of the pig, and ending with it boxed and on the train for the seaboard, was exhaustively considered. The process: of selecting the hogs, and the manner of ki ing, cutting, and guriny, were described with great accuracy, In refutation of the reports industriously spread ubroad that American lard was made of dead hogs, and the bacon and hams were more or less atfected with triching, statements of hog-raisers, buyers, packers, and the Health Commissioners of Chicago ‘and Cincinnati are appended to Mr. Seanlin’s report and conclusions. DR. DE WOLF FURNISHES THE FOLLOWING: Under the ordinance we have five Meat In- spectora on duty,—two of them an duty at the Stock-Yards, and three of them in the city mar- kets. ‘Technically, we have no right to exercise po- lice power ut the Stock- Yards; nevertheless, the Stock-Yard peepeietar and commission-men dealing In animals find It to their interest to per- mit our Meut inspectors to exercise their fanc- tions at the Yards, because it we condemn un animal as unt for food in the yards they re- tain the carcass for fertilizing purposes, walle if it is put on to the markets outside the yards we confiscate the carcasses when condemned, and make no retura to the owner for the material confiscated, Iregard that as the sharp and sure method of punishing the deuler. There is a company at the Stock-Yurus, churtered by legislative enact- ment, known us the * Union Rendering Com- pany.’ One of the enactments of this charter provides that all dend animals found in the yards, and that imples coming inon_ the truins dead or dying after arriving at the yards, us well as animals condemned by our Inspectors us untit for food, shail be turned over to this Com- pany for rendering purposes. These dead or dis- eased animals condemned by our Inspectors as untit for toud are turned over. to this Company for rendering purposes. These dead or diseased ‘animals ure removed from the Stock-Yard in- closure by this Union Rendering Company on their own trains, running. to the Indixna line, about twenty-nine miles, There they have e tensive facilities for the extraction of greas and conversion of the residue Into commerciat fertilizers. During the year 180 430,000 pounds of meat found in our efty markets by our In- spectors, ane untit for use by cause of emacia- tion of tho curcass, bruising of the carcuss, or taint after slaughter, bad been condemued and toro into the rendering tanks as above de- scribed, THE SUPPLY OF HOGS brought to the yards for the purpose of packing ig not critically inspected by our Meat Inspect- ors (for reasons above stated) outside our lines, and I am only inter in protecting the citi- zens of Chicago. I nave, however, for scientitic purposes ana other reasons, kept ‘a very sharp eye upon the condition of the hogs received at the Stock-Yards since February. 18v7.. I be- lieve, and indeed I positively know, that the stories and reports current near Chicago, and far from ws, touching the disposition of packers to slaughter diseased or emaciated bogs for packing purposes, are muliciously and wickedly alse. ‘The larger packing-houses employ buyers for their pens of great experience, and to whom they pay larze sums. Mr. Armour, for example, and the “Anglo-American Packlog Company,’ I bave understood, employ three men, to each of whom they pay $5,002 yeur.. The ‘hogs are scrutinized With the greatest care, ete. How- ever that may be, a hoz infected with trichine cannot be detected by any generul appearance of the animal. have seen hogs suffering from trichiniasis ia the most perfect condition of physical health. The only possible means of detecting this con- dition is by the examination of the carcuss with the microscope. Tbave been consulted by the packers several times touching the propriety of organizing a corps of scientists for the purpose OF INSPECTING THE CARCASSES packed at the yards. The impracticability of iiny such move will appear to uny one who re- eails the fact that more than 5,000,000 of hogs per annum are slaughtered for packing here. single individual, no matter how expert, could hardly cover more than ten or twelve carcasses aday, In September, 1878, I requested two gentle- men, recognized us authority in microscopical work fn this city, to undertake an exumination of the pork supply which the packers were using. We bave been accredited with a pork supply from 3 to 5 per cent of which is declared te be infected with trichinte. Itis true that some seasons this per cent of infection bas been dis- cover-d, and I am inclined to believe that a similar extent of disease would bave been dis- covered in the domestic supply of France and Germany bad the same care been taken in In- yestigution; for exnmple, it was necessary on some occasions to exumine fifty specimens from one hog before trichinw were discovered. Do you not see haw readily such carcasses might be regarded as sound and perfectly tree from infection, if you made, an examination simply trom. two or threo specimens from the carcass? IN THE INVESTIGATIONS MADE by these gentlemen, and by the State Micro- scopical Society a few years previous, a number of specimens examined from cach carcass showed a thorougnness of work altogether be- yond that declared as necessary by foreign ex- aminers. i ‘Our supply of pork this year is more free from trichinw thin for any yeur, certainly during the lust six or eight years previous. ‘This fact Lassert because L have kept for the past month un uccomplished microscupist at work in the yards, and he bas failed to find a single case of trichine. ‘Another matter of interest in this connection, our mortality In this city for the lust tour yeurs ranges from 8,000 in 1877 to 10,000 in 1880. Only two: cases of trichiniasis have been reported in the City of Chicago during that perlod. ‘Cbisis an im- portant stateinent, iu view of the fact that our markets, without great watchfulness on the purt of the Health Department, are supplied with meat rejected by the packers. ‘The supply of meat, therefore, distributed to the city has a much greater probability of ine fection than that used by the packers. WHAT BECOMES OF DEAD HOGS. ‘The foreman of the Union Rendering Com- pany’s establishment Globe Station fur- nished the following account of the disposi- tion of the dead hogs: We receive the animals. from the city and Stock-Yurds, -We run them inside the building under cover,and make connection with our steam holsting apparutus. We run the car- casses on # simuil car up an Inclined plane on to our floor; we run them up by steam power. We skin the horses und cuttle, not the hogs: the dead unimals were received last night, aud ure put in thig morning; we bave twelve tanks here for receiving and cooking the animuls: we chop thorn through once to bave them put into,the tank. After the carcaases are cuoxed In the re- ceiver, we draw off the grease first, and then we run the meat intu larze vats of wuter, straining the water cleven times before the river receives it. We keep buck the animul refuse by strainers, and press it by blih-pressure presses—there are five presses—taking the animal etuf off dry. This stuff after being pressed aud half dry is then run through dryiug-machines. The dry fertilizer Is the re- suit of the unimal meat. We have two drying- macbines, which we can work up every twenty- four hours. ‘We work up all the stuff from the beginning to the end within twenty-four bours after re= ceiving it, if there is no accident to the muchin- ery. ‘the wrense is then barreled and shipped. There are two qualities of srense, and the best xreuse issold and branded a3 “white grease.” and the noorer brown grease Is niso sold to soapintxers, pranded a3 “brown grease.” Muchof thegreuse ig sold ta Cinciunati soap-men. This greuse can- not be sold as lard in Europe; there is 1 sinell to the greuse whicn renders it impossible to be Daimed off as lard: tho blood of a dead hog that Gies a natural death ferments, and it is impossi- ble to get the blood out of the flesh. ‘Men at this railroad station eat raw pork, Ger- man workingimen; they claim it has more strength than the evoked. ‘The Colon Rendering Company Ss the only es- s tablishment that gets the dead hogs in this county: we get all the gead animals from the Stock-Yards and city. ‘ou more dead hogs in summer than in winter’ “In the real hot weather, or real cold weather, we have more, but at other times the stuif comes reguinrly. Dead cattle and sheep are rendered together to muke tallow: borses separate.” = Where do you cenerally sell this gresse?"” “ Allover; itis shipped to the South, shipped East, and some in this State; the most of the fertilizer goes to Baltimore.’ id SPARE THE ROD. Consequences of Whipping.a Deilcate, Nervous Child—A Fancy Sketch—Per- haps. We hear frequently from a certain class of moralists a lamentation over the decline of strict family government in this country, and a dismal foreboding of the deluge of wickedness, chaos, and destruction which is to result from sparing the rod. Both the lamentation and prophecy are idle. The age does what is right in its own eyes, and very justly; its collective wisdom is surely more worthy of trust than are the opinions of single individuals; is more likely to have the breadth, hight, and depth to meet all the multiform exigencies of the case than are the views and theories of isolated persons. Barbarous methods may do well in barbarous times; the great evil is in continuing them by torce of blind obedience to tradition long after their fitness has ceased. <A striking il- lustration of this is given by a writer in the New York Tribune, which we commend to the attention of believers of the rod: ‘A father ina New England town had a son; 2 little, large-headed boy of nervous in- y, With eyes of startling wonder, and lashes, which started like ke eyes with qnick apprehension and timidity; 2 boy who played with all in- tensity, kept doing something all -day long without the power to rest, walked off alone, and even when alone spoke with himself, chased the geese with little legs as lean and swift, and at the table eating his meals could notsit very still, nor bear to sit all the morn~ ing in church hearing the sermon because his heart was too rapid in his narrow little chest, where every rib could be counted against his tender flesh and skin. In the morning he was awake at earliest light; at evening his tired nature yielded to the deep sleep of exhaustion. His mother feared she could never raise him to be aman. His father thought he was too long becoming & nan in gravity, sobriety, and formal obedi~ ence. “What ails my son?” the father sternly asked. “He is rattle-headed and without stability. [fear for him. Do you chas.ise him enough ? Spare not the rod lest he grow beyond you and your rule!” “Alas!” exclaimed the mother, “he has his little world we cannot see, perliaps. He is growing and sensitive. The doctor says wwe must not push him at his studies, but let him play all he can, till his frame Is equal to his brain.” "The father shook his head and spoke stern- - ly to the boy, and feared he was going to give them all trouble growing up so seldoin mold- ed and restrained. ‘ “All day the little boy was doing something, ‘earrying the cat by the tatl, carrying the dog under his arm, making pictures on paper of gueiues and steambuats and Indians and bel- lows. “tie will be an artist,” said his mother, hopefully, 2 “He will spoil the library,” exclaimed the father, suspiciously. ‘Antagonism grew up between the father and the boy, born, on the boy’s part, of fear; on the father’s, of eriticism and severity. The boy ran to his mother and as' (i her protec- tion from his father’s suspecting eye. The ‘ather feared his wife was spoiling the son with mistaken generosity and allowance. ‘At times the father’s habitual suspicion broke away like the clouds above hard, hwnid’ Britain, and he laid his rigorous books of theology down to take his boy walk- ing, and they grew a little nearer. Then again the father observed some voluptuous tendency in the son which started his fears anews some taste for worldly, passing modes and joys. * Wite,” said he, “do you ever give our boy money ? L. “A little,” she said; “a few pennies to buy drawing materials and colors; he will be an artist, I thi “Money,” exclaimed the sire, ~‘is the root of every evil. You had better give him fire or poison, Fie will become a wild, ruined spendthrift.” “ ae ‘The idea that his wife gave the child money operated in the father’s head like jealousy or revenge; it tinted everything ‘about his son’s conduct, and he believed his wife had deliberately set to. work to indulge her child at the expense of his soul. - One morning, thinking of such things, the father lay awake in bed anda gentle noise disturbed him.’ The sun was nearly up, though it was searcely 5 o’clock, and the light and air steiicing. through the chamber enrtains showed a little boy in his night- gown stealing along the floor toward the foot of his father’s bed. Lying perfectly still, with eyes almost closed, the tather saw that’ small, large-headed child, unable per- haps to sleep, yet careful not to awake his parents, turn an eye of timid covetousness upon his father’s trousers and vest hanging upon a nail. [He glanced sharply towar his father to see If he was quite asleep, and then swiftly, like a little bird, hopped upon achair and ran his lean white fingers into his father’s vest pocket. ‘Hia!? thought the father. “My son in my pockets by stealth, before I am awake, and imitating the bad example of my wife, © who often, perhaps, searches unauthorizedly there!” As he said this a dreadful idea crossed his mind. The son, spoiled by his mother’s in- dulgence, already corrupted by spending money, was a_thief,—a thief while yeta child! He rose in bed and spoke ina voice of thunder: “Robert, you are stealing my money!” . Hurror froze the boy; he dropped from the chair like 2 cat, aud was into his own bed in the next room and covered his face with the sheets. Anguish and stern resolve possessed. at once the father’s stricken heart. He had delayed too long to chastise his wayward son, now gliding into ruin. It mustbe done, hard though the thought should be. Ho awoke his wife, and, suppressing her replies with an iron will, related the story of her de- prayed child. “Ifenceforth,” he said, “L must be the magistrate and mother instead. of you! Robert, come, dress yourself!” z fle thrust the frightened mother back, The boy fell on his knees but could not speak one word, so large the knot that gathered in his jittle throat, so resolute the startled, fawn- like eyes, as if agony and perversity worked together to make him obdurate. Down the stairs and into the orchard, away from sight, the father bore his child, and making hint kneel upon the grass, struck hard and slow with a switch of the apple-tree, telling his boy to confess; yet duinb as Isaac upon the altar beneath his father’s knife, the shrink- ing childhood of the boy received his hard chastisement. Carried back, all trembling as with a chill of death, to the house of inourn- ing, the little boy was laid in his bed, still frozen tight of speech, and only the ointment of a mother’s tears fell on his tortured back and famine-narrowed shoulders, but his larze eyes turned to a little box that he kept his treasures in, and they placed it in his bed where he lay all. day sighing from his inar- liculate soul. “The father’s heart was wrenched to think of such a frail, dear son persisting in hit wickedness-and turning from repentance. Je sat by his side all that afternvon, demand-~ ing his boy to-confess and save them both the pain of another chastisement, which else he would feel required to enforce next day. The boy trembled but did not speak, and put. his arms around his little box asif it were his brother. The long night through asich went through the chamber ever and anon from those suffer- ing lips. Neither u nor woman slept. At early day the anguished father felt that the stern pitnishment must be meted out again unless his boy spoke and repented. He ruse and passed into the chamber where his son nn his lowly bed, all strewn with his lttle drawings, and his arms around his box, He sizhed no more, but seemed asleep. Upon his face « cotor pater than the snowy sheets extended. Another guest was in the bed; the ruest that cometh like a real thief in the night. “Mary,” cried the father, “ Mary, my wife, come here! Robert is dying.” ‘The mother came on feet of dove’s wings. 1ghe raised her son upon her breast. ‘The Tit tle lips unclosed and spoke the last forever to this world: ““Liove my papa. Mamma, I only wanted his pencil, not his ‘money. Dear God, let papa love me!” 9 2 -And so, mong the littte drawings he had been working at every dawn, till his pencils were worn to the wood and he would have borrowed his papa’s noiselesly, whose sharp~ ened pencil was In his waistcoat pocket, the little artist yielded up his broken heart. Only the room resounded with .a childless father’s ery: “Oh! had J my son again, even though he were a thief!"