Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 15, 1889, Page 11

THE CONDITION OF TRADE. Monoy Is Basior Than Usual at Thig Season of the Yoar. INCREASE IN CLEARANCES, BIG Cold Weather Wanted to Stir Up Traae—No Noticeable Change In the Price of Staples. The Local Resame. g ¥ The comptroller of the currency has called upon ghe national banks for a statement of their condition at the close of business, De- cember 11. Money is no more stringent this week than last, 8o far as first cluss borrowers is con- cerned, and rates are steady at 8 and 10 per cent, but as bankers bear in mind that money will be needed at eastern centers about the first of tho year for dividend paying pur- poses, it scoms to be thewr disposition to scrutinize puper closely just now, and any that is likely to bo slow 18 wot readily ac- copt All legitimate wants are {airly met and it is safe to say that money is casier than usual at this season, but with a feeling in the ascendency that Janvary will find a closer market for all. The clearings for the week, as reported by Mr. Hugqes, manager of the clearing house, foot $ increnso of 25 310 per cent, $061,700.08, ‘Lne very mild weather bas had an un- wholesome effect upon trade, and while job- bers do not compluin of any great falling oft in sales, they are somewhat perturbed us to the outlook for collections, - As a rule, our retail traders havenot much surplus capital and dealers in everything pretty much but Aroceries, have found themsclves for the Jast 1o seasons with more winter goods on their shelves than thoy like, and these goods being on hand, there is not money to meet bills, Jobbers m Omaha, however, feel that the country is perfectly solventand will at wost need but an extension of thir or sixty days to come out and pay up satis- factorily in caso cold woather nolds off longer. ~ An old-fashioned snow storm would yev make business good, but it should not be delayed beyond the first proximo. "There has been no great chango in the prices of staples. Sugar is weaker, from the annonncement phat Mr. Spreckles has started up, but if b6 has begun operations quotations from him have not yet reached this market, but undoubtedly when he does start prices for refined sugars will be lower for a time at least. In coffees, fair Rios are up ¥ to i ver pound at the seuboard, but local jobbers have not announced an advance to0 date, though they freely say that g per pound may be added to curreat guotations the first of the week. There are no chunges to note in dry goods, hardware or lumber; trade 1o these lines fuir for the season, but traveling men ginuing to homeward fly that they take their Christmas swallows here. The produce market has been somewhat demoralized for the past ten d and prices obtained by commission men have been as a rule below quotations, Butter receipts have been hberal and only the choicest stuff brings top prices. There is very littie de- mand for tub butter except such as will grade as fine creamery. Fancy rollis sellioe at 15@17e: good, 12@idc; medium, @il poor, T@se; fancy creamery, 206 22c; good, 18@20c. Eggs are in full supply, but striculy fresh ave salable at 29 per dozen. Poultry is a drag on the murket; dressed chickens have sold at h@ie. Ducks and geese, f@llo; turkeys, 0@19c. Receipts of game are liberal and the market somewhat lower, but a good demana prevails aud with slightly cooler weather guotations will be migher, The barb wire trust is said to have ‘'died a bornin’'” because the trustees could not are may ~"gjree unon how the spoils should be divided, it 18 said. This industry is not very profitu- ble as at present conducted throughout the country 88 a whole, but western manufuc- turers aro getting better profits thau their eastern brethren and it was the latter who wanted the most, hence the trouble. New York reccived during the month of November foreign goods of the value of £38,015.170, against 32,877,505 for the same month of lust year, £35,300,850 for November, 1887, and §31,824,500 for November, 1856, Last month'’s exports were not as large as expected. The totul, exclusive of specio, was £2,000,000 Jarger than for the ssme month of last year, but only £500,000 avove the total for November, 1887, and $1,000,000 Dbelow the corresponding month of 1886, The sgcretary of the United States treasury has made sinco August 3, 1887, the following purchiases of government bonds : 4 per cents. 41¢ por o Amount purchased. $103,259, 750 o - 182,105,941 Cost av muturity. .. 180,010, Baving.. 5 6,643,041 ‘Lhe Now England mackerel fleet hus fin- isbied work for tho season and tho result is anything but gratifying, The entire cutch is sbown to have béen only 11,443 bbls, As striking as this exhfbit may be, a compirison of this year's catch with the result of the preceding four years is even more remark- able. In 1885 the catcn amounted to 157,860 Dbbls. In 1886 it dropped to 53,861 bbls, and 1857 t0 44.762. The following year gave oniy 23,250 bbls. To what point prices would have been forced but for the timely importations from Kurope is problematical, The New York Commercial Bullotin says that the stock of European fish, iv is believed, will be sufficient to keep prices down for the next thirty days, and the chances are thut Bu- rope will feed this country right along, pro- viding an averago of $17.00@2000 per bbl can be realized for stock in original order, Tho beet crop, according to M. Licht's port, is for 1580 and 1560 cluding productions as follows: many, 1175,000 tons; Austria, 720,0003 Frauce, 650,000; Russin, 490,000;' Belglum, 180,000; Holland, 35,000; other countries, 00,000. ' The total production in 1888-59 was 2,704,456 tons; in 185788, 2,451,050 to The Minneapolis and' Dulith wheat re- ceipts this year foot up 5,000,000 bushels, against 24,000,000 bushels the saae time last year and 35,000,000 bushels the previous year. The northwestern country elevators now hole 10,000,000 bushels of ‘wheat, or 8,000,000 bushels less than a year ago. ‘The @Mcrican Meat company, started less than a year ugo by Stephen W, Dorsey, with a great flourish of rumpets, is about to wind up its affairs, Warner Milier hus resigned the presidency, and the company will go into liquidation, American farmers and others who have wheat to sell will read with interest the fol- lowing paragraph by H. Kuios-Juckson in recent issue of Dornbusch's List: *Coming weather, rather than existing supplies, showld regulate future prices for the next three months. Any ordinary winter blockade of Russian ports would give America a unique opportunity of selling its winter wheat, as thers really woula be no com- petitive seller, Thore may be several pros- ctive wheat sellers for spriug, but if Russia be disabled by frost America would have tho field to llloff. While the sales of foreign wool in Boston this yenr foot up 20,813,200 1bs, & decreaso of 6,865,700 1bs over last year, the sales of do- mestic wool have falien to' 89,010,663 lbs, an increase of 53,744,000 Lbs, 'y Careful estimates make thie value of the shoes destroyed in the Lyunn fire §750,000, of the leather and findings of all descriptions #1,100,000, und of the machinery $275,000. Unusually urgent demands for raw sugar, largely from Philadelpiia, resulted in an ac: tive market last weok, with advaaces of %@ 3je. Stocks at the four distributing points are down to 20,45 tous, against 141,407 tons four months ugo and 57,014 tons one year ago. In symyathy with the buoyanoy on this side foreign sugar warkets hurdened perceptibly, Retived is firm and iv some grades Jschigner thav 8 & eek ago, Coffoe 18 firm at the advance of last weok. ‘The receipts at Rio Janeiro thus far in the surrent crop year (which commenced July 1) have been 593,000 baygs, and at Santos 1,072, tmm’f-, agaiust, for the same time in the receding crop year, 2,109,000 and 903,000 gucruupamwulé The following shows the stocks in Rio, Santos, United States and Europe, and shipments afloat December 1 1880, 1858, 1887, Rio (total) ., 220,000 246,000 285,000 Santos wm; o 0,000 200,000 530,000 U.S. (Hrasnl)... 816,056 217750 977,568 Europe(all k'ds). 1,814,900 1,196,000 2,175,500 2,007,808 1,979,750 3,119,008 Of Ger- Afloat for United States 108,000 Afloat for Europe from Java and OOBye . ueniie Afloat for Burope from Brazil.... 240,000 186,000 80,000 10,000 10,000 800,000 530,000 160,000 Total o ) Against Nov, 1.2.877,801 405,471 3l The stocks of whoat and corn at_tweniy one leading interior and seaboard markets, east of the Rocky mountains, in transit from the west to the seaboard, and atloat on the ocean, destined for Greal Idritain and conti nental Europe, on the date named, were as follows: t, bu. Corn,hn U, 8, cast of Rockies Afloaton ocean—U, X X Afloaton ocean—C.Eur'pe 8,440,000 1,600,000 Total December 9, 18505 Previous week. ... Total Decerber 10, 184 Total Decomber 12, 1857, %, Total Decewmber 13, 1886, 31,7 Total December 14, 1585 The December governmol would seem to show that rail and lowa are charging much moving grain than iu othe The average price of coru in only 17¢, 1n_Kansas 180, and 1n lowa 1fc. The dverage price for the seven states, Ohio, Indiana, Iilinois, Missouri, lown, Kansas aud raska s 2% rop report vs In Kansas her rates for westorn statos, Nebraska 18 OMAHA LIVE oK. Cacel Saturday, Dee, Todny’s trading in eattle iwas well ¢ lated to misload the shipper as to the true state of the market. ‘There wero 8o fow cattlehere that the buyers pmd ratier wild prices in somo instances where the cattlo were just what they wanted. ‘flie market was anywhere from 5 to i%e higher, but the only reason for the higher prices was the searcity of the cattle, and with fair run values would be back whero they were before. In other words it was not a healthy advance, as shippers will be very apt to learn if they go to rushing cattle in_on the atrongth of it. Steers sold at &2.35004,00, i at ®.25@4i0, Cows brought The demand for fecders and stock cattlo was good for tho last day of the week and the yards wero pretty well cleared beforc the close, the supply boeing light. Light stocko 2,60, Hogs sold a shade hicher today at§3.47 0, a8 aguinst &34 yesterday. The market was and an carly clearance was el market is now at the highest p tirst day of tho week. The hogs sold Monday at $3.50@3.60, priveipally « 855 The populur i £1.45, with the extreme rauge & The market was still lower on ;@345 ou quite active with a top load at 3. was strong and €. price. Friday's market closod strong, and several loads brought #1.50. Sh There were no shes market. The followiny is a table of prices paid in this markot for the grades of stock men- tioned: Priue st Good ste: 00 to 1600 1hs ) 10 145) 1hs 3, 1050 to 1300 fhs Common 1000 to 1150 1 steers. Waestern steers. . Fair to good cows. Goou to choice cows Fair to good bulls . Light stockers and Teodors Feeders, 030 to 1100 s avy hogs. . mixed hogs R presentative Sales. STEERS. No. 18 310 19 310 20 898 90 25 16 5 17 cows, o5 1 83 00 8 00 8., 1 L1250 2 00 6. . 404 STEERS AND HEIVERS, YEARLINGS, 9.0ve oo 1074 BULLS. R e FEEDELS, 255 UEIFERS, 240° 1 ...1110 WESTERN CATTLE, Owaner and Xo. 111 steers, corn red. 21 steers, (fol-Tex 683 feeders, 5 feedors 40 feeders 3 canuers 320 Av, oG8, k. _Pr. No, — &1 40 B 280 3 45 280 3 43 200 80 160 80 200 120 400 80 120 40 120 160 120 200 120 320 80 120 200 200 160 120 80 120 120 160 40 820 200 120 250 40 160 820 200 200 160 240 280 TEEZLEETTERELE ,.‘ CE T LIGHT S0RTS, 40 35 Disposition of Stock. CATTLE, Swift & Company Hawmon 1 & Conpany Armour & Cudaby Bocker & 8., Shippers..... Feeders. Ho0S, Showing the number of hogs bought by the packers aud leading buyers on toduy's market: Armour-Cudahy Packlog Co. Owaha Packing Co Swit & Co > G. H, Hammond & Co o . 505 Hoks yestorday averaged 235 lbs, aud 02 totl Ending Saturday, December 14, CATTLE, Armour 1,00 Omaba. (2] Swift.... Hammond J Feeders and shippers ot Armour-Cuaahy Dacking company Owmaha . ¥ Swift & Co.....o G M. Hammond & SuELr Swift & Company Hammond & ( Hamilton, 8. & Co Clark. . . ‘e Geo. Meisnor & €. 1eeutiun With Hogs. wmarket with hogs vesterdny: . ine, ( il Bluffs, I Y G Ad. ams, Logan, 4 g Ia., J. H. Butler, Ct , Uook ; J. John 1 h mpany, Wickerson Knudson, Davey U, W, M. Compan, Davey: S. D. Sherbrook, Creightong C. Lemont, Inm Breses & Dorter, Ius villey Very & Farrington, Lyons; O, Holmquist, Oakland; J. W. Chatt, Crai (08 Johnson, Blai H. Kahie, As- pinwall} Nels Barlin, o0, Caldwoll, Harlan Harris & B, Han cock; Buen & Huntingron, Oakland: M. H. Hegarty, Oakiand; € rusey & J., Avoca; Menagh & Co,, De: nison; G. B. Morah ris, Central City: A, D, ‘ H.' Lowis, Columbus: & Bow: Alter & Glover, Gral Trawbully J. R rartman & D, Staplehursti & Red Ulysses; O, W Burwelly Cumming, Gund & Campbell; A. W, Johnson, Loomi Swith, Holl Miller, Axtent; William Cook, Hebro Kepler, Dorchiestor; Gamet & Ogd in, ‘I M. Flutton, & K, Strain: M. Biogham; ~ AW, Oliager, Paris & Munn, Ord; C. 1. \Way Thomas, Piatte Center; 1d Brother, Holimesvilies C." H. Pitman, Cort- land; L. Anderson & Co!, ¥ Douglorty & Spe. Hawthorue,' Ta; . H. Neff, Auburn, Moss, A ver, Blanclard . 1ros & Co, C. Bliss, Howells; | \ Albio uloy Brothers, Wisner; Nye, Wilsom Morehouse company: H. Selinstock, W Point; O'Brien & W, Atkinson. With Cattie market with cattle: Bros., Wickkerson; J. S. Byers, Auro Beatri Hobelman Co., Chicd, Col.3 T. Suttin, Western; Sioux City: Parsons & ux City; Goodwin & D. Sioux City; R N. Cox, Verdon; J. ster, Stuart; Peterson’ & N., Arlington . Liilr“mmuh Goohin J. Turner, I vard, Kearne, Ord Lauca 1, Hoopo Live Stock Notes, Cattle sell high. Hog market stronger. Dealers have no confidence in the eattle market unless the receints continue light. Since November 1 Omatia has packed ! more hogs than during the same time la r. D. C. Hauna, Monmouth, farmer aad stock deals t 1ook after his busiue H. is on his way west interosts. 1L, a hea ards Mr, © Civelew, The showings of the past week’s business on the r et are not aston- ishingly large, yet the local brokers are well satistied. They have had their money in Omaha dirt long enough to know its value and niany of them are . that idepeudent frame of mind just now that they dou't care whether they sell or not. They have suc- ceedod in attracting the attentiou of eastern capital to Omaba within the past fow months 10 @ degree never kuown betore and they are highly gratified with the promised results, In the search for good investments for the great surplusage of castorn tal Qmana is taking first place. As the field becomes widened confidence increases and a pomnt has been reached in the opinion of cutsiders that, a few yoars ago would have been considered impossiblo except in the dreams’ of vision- aries. his address at the real estate exchange, beforothe viaduct election, Mr. Kimball of the Union Pacific stated that the voiing of the bonds n aid of the union depot aud the Nebraska Central Railway company would attract the attention of the moneyed men of the east to Omaha. The result has proven s predicuon corrcet. Within the past two weeks Omaha has beon visited by a very large number of eastern men who con temiplate western investuents aud a large nuinber of them have become interested i the investment point. The representatives of & syndicate of Scoten capitalists wer the city during the past week quietly g prices upon certain outside property which they wish to purchase for a manufacturing site. Altogether the real estate men feel very coufident of a live business for the next two years as soon as the contemplated im- provements are fairly commenced. Some Comparative The following figuj realty and building the corresponding w KEAL ESTATE igures 8 8l0w the business in cles as comvared with vk of last year: PRAN:PLRS, Day Monday. . Tuesday Wedunesda, Thursday Friday.. Saturday. Totals. . o BULLDIN Day. Monday Tuesdey .. Wednesda; Thursda; Friday..... Saturday..... $100.620 g Notes, Chris Hartmau has a permit for a $10,000 residence at Thirty-fourth and Farnam, The two-story brick building at 1121 Doug- 1as, owned by Mrs. Anna M Kalenboch, will be torn down and rebuilt at a cost of $3,500. H, A. Taylor will build ao $3,000 brick block of stores and flats at Twenty-fourth street and Indiana avenue. W. J, I’aul 1s building ten flats, two story, on Harney street, near Tiwenty-sixth, to cost #30,000, Mrs, Charlotte M. E. Adams will build five dwellings on Ohio street, near Twenty-sec- ond, to cost #2,000 each, 0. N. Ramsey is building a $10,000 frame residence on Howard, near Twenty-fourth. Sarah M. Kitchen will build a two- story frame residence on Howard street, wenty-fourth, to cost $10,000, The Bank Clearings. The clearings for the week wore as fol- lows: Monday P .8 058,627 08 Tuesday . T44.546 B2 Wednesday . 741,780 41 Thursday . 839,401 27 780,003 93 Friday. . Saturday. 779,715 63 Total,, . . #4,840,124 79 Increase over corresponding week of last year, 28.3 per cont. A Colonization scheme, Mention has already been made of the pur- chase by Dr. V. H, Coffman of over 5,000 acres of land in Custer county for the pur- pose of colonization. Mr. John Green of the real estate firmof Green & Williams, through whom the first purchase was made, has been in the vicinity of Broken Bow for the past weok and hias closed negotiations for further tracts of land that will inorease Lr. Coff- man's vossessions to 20,000 acres. Mr. Gireen reports that the land purchased Is all flnely improved and is now covered with fine crops of cora aud well stocked. The purchase included the stock a 3 crops and everythiog ou the farms, Mr, Green will go o Europe in u few weeks and bring out a colouy of dohemians or Danes, who will be Dlaced oo the farms in time to' produce next Year's crop, SUNDAY THE SPECULATIVE MARKETS. Wheat Recovers Fractionally From Friday's Da¢line. CORN UNEASY AND NERVOUS Oats Fatally voil ot Interesting Eeatures—Provisions Close tho Week in a Slow Manner —~Hogs Active, RODUCE MARKETS. . Cirtcano, Doc. 14, ~[Special Telegram to Tue Bre.|—The wheat market got steady today and recovered fractionally from yos- torday's decline, It was ficm at the recov- ery and developed absorving qualities that rather surprised the bear party, whose ex- poctations were set on further depreciation in values, Hutchinson, who was a heavy and continuous seller of May abova Sic, seems to have changed front, and it is sur- mised that he bas been @ big buyer under cover, The northy bought considerable wheat today through its regular Chicago counections and the tons of foreien markets was steadier. One of the leading New York exporters wires Dun that his cables quoto Russiav wheat strouger, with shippers payiug move in Liv- erpool tha the value of the wheat to cancel forwara engagements, During the forenoon an uncoutirmed voport gained currency that 350,000 bushols of wheat had been worked in Baltimore for export. Advicos from the northwost show o further decrease in the wovement of spring wheat. Receipta at ull voints east and west for the first five days of the week foot 1p 3 bushels, against i1l bushels for the cor- respouding period last week and 1,800,018 bushels a year ago. Shivments from wll points are slightly higher than last we Lu the northwest the movement of the wi is koeping well up to the recent avera volume of transactions business fell short of yesterday, but intercst was al- most a8 great. Mav opened at 82¢ and ror quite o little while the market hela around that figure, gotting to S13(@Sec ana ire quently touching 82ige. A gaod deal of busi- ness was done within this range, and then tho market moved up to $¥c, 1t wot CHICAGO back to S25¢ a few times theroaft er, but’ 82, ¢ was the fighting line during the last vart of thesession. It frequently bulged to 8240c and right at the last went to S23,@ closing at the December opened a e ranged at 7@ aud closed at th top. January opened at ranged at, @iske and closed at 781, @7si{e. The m; psed with a decidealy better feeli ontrolling than was discoverable yester The cort 3 asy, nervous and sid, R v the cash and De- rmber end of th i firm for more re- mote futures. The advance in the price of spot and December was dve just a8 the cline of the previous two duys had beon=-to the erratic action of a leading operator, who from bewg a free sellor iited quantitics turned around as @ buyer today, and until the price reached B for cash and Decomber he did nothing toward supplying the demand which his action had created. At the last hour's prices o vever, ho sold some and gave momentary relief to the anxious shorts. Receipts were under the mates and again_the for- quoted firm. Clearances tic ports were liberal and there at shipoing demand Lere at firm Apart from the uervousuess of De- r shorts thére was no prominent fea- ture in today’s speculative trading, which for the most part leaned to the bull sid De- cember opened at 319, advanced to 33c, ro- . May opened at 331, @314c and closed at 33ig@d3ic, De- comner gained ¢ over yesteraay's: closing quotation, January ;e and May I-16c. Oats were devoid of interesting features sharing tho later dullness elsewhere and ruling practically steady. May sold at 22 and sparingly at the sphit above and below, was a shade firmer at 207gc. woderate and withdrawals s for some days past, continued 1. r business was eventually re- ded in sample lots, while cash oats in store were utterly negiected. No. 2 regular was salable at 2054c. No interest was shown in white oats for tuture account. In the provision trade the week closed in a slow manner. I'rading today was more re- stricted, if anything, than usual, and from tue start there was no movement to relieve the uninteresting condition of affairs, Out- siders gave the market little or no atteution and in local circles a quiet feehng held con- trol. Prices, however, were held ste: nd the day's changes covered a small range. The closings were the sume as yesterday for |iu|;;( and short ribs and orly 2'c higher for lurd, CH10AGO LIVE STOCK. 2e. 14.—[Special Telegram to Tne Ber]—Carrie—Oat of 2,200 on the warket about 1,200 were Texans, offcred by a beef siaughtercr, leaving ouly about 800 natives on the market, scarcely a suflicient number to get buyers out, yer about overy- thing was sold that was worth looking at. Even stockers and teeders were about all closed out for the first Saturday in a long time. The provhets are out with a prophecy that the run will only be a moderate one next week. 1t is to be hoped that they may beother than false prophets. Choice to extra beeves, $.50@5.40; mediumw o good steers, 1850 to 1500 1bs; §3.53(@4.25; 1200 Lo 1830 1bs, $3.00@3.90; 950 to 1200 lbs, $2.75@ Stockers aud feeders, $L90@3.00; ¢ bulls and wrixed, £1.00@3.00; bulk, $2.00@2,25, Steers, $2.25@?2. cows, $1.50102.10), Hogs—The market was uctive upturn of 10¢ on early sales, but later on and at the close about 50c covered the ad- vance. A large number sold early at #3.60@ 865, and later at #3,55@3.60, aud this ri of pri g everything, p and ted Light. Part ot the loads and odd lots sold as low as £3.40@ 4.45, There were fower hogs leftin the pens @t the close than for any day this week. New Yorc bry Goods Market. New Youk, Dec. 14,—[Special Telogram to Tue Bee.]—The dry goods markev at first hands waintains the provious strong tone and additional changes of prices of cottons are indicated for the uear future. Mason- ville 4-4 bleached sheetings were placed “'at value.” Additional phi of prints are likely to be made soon, jbyt no changes are looked for in that dired E FINANCIAL New Yonk, Dac. 14.—|Special Telegram to Tur Bee.|—-Stocks—THej stock market olosed easy all around today. There was no great animation in any guarter, but the in- fluences were on the bull{ side. The prin- cipal feature of the day ;r found in the bank statement, which showed an increase in the reserve of about $2,000,000. The gossip ut the Windsor and elsewhere was not of & very hopeful character aod little was ex- pected of the Saturday half day session. Each day adds to the force of the buyiug in bugar trusts and the insiders appear to be giviog the support. The action today was the strongest iu the trusts, followed by good guins in Lackawanna and Missouri Pacific and a slight upturn throughout the list. New Eogland was not epecially active, but showed & net gawn of 3¢ per ceut to 44% the close. Manhattan was an exception aud dropped below par to 99}, In Northern Pacific preferred, Atchison, Burlingtoy and Northwestern the gain was X each on very Light business. Rock Island, St. Paul and Union Pacific were up }4@'¢, Missouri Pa- cific went up 14 to 653¢ aud closed at 68, Lackawanua woved up | per ceat o 1351, closing a fraction under the top. Sugar was advauced over 8 poiuts to 6134, olosivg at 014, Chicago gas gawed 3§ per cent to 4034, owing were the closing quotations . 8,48 regular, . 128 |Northern Pacific 8, 48 conpon: do preferred. K 4§araguinr W& N, W . do prorerre N.Y.Central PDAE . .. |Rock Tsland M. & SE.P opreferrad .. St.Paul & Omaha, o preferrea Ualon Pacifio Qentral Pacifio, Chicago & Alton Chicago, Buriington v Lake Shore . Michigan Ce: Missourt Paciflo Moxry—On call, o MEROANTILE ¢ with no loans. PAPER — 075 cent STENLISG Excnae Quiet but sixty-day bills, $4.80'§ emand, $4.54}4 PRODUCK MARKETS, Cnicaco. Des, Th=1:15 Wheat—Steady; Decomber, s30 teady; Decomber, 821 3ige Dacember, Janu- Janu Itye Barley Prime Flax Whisk, Pork Lard Flour @4 imothy —€1.20(1 eod ~Cash, $1.86'5 —81.01 10; May, $0.70. Steady; January, $.4021¢ ; May, 8,10 Dull and neg ¢ wheat, i spring wheat, £2 ryo, buckwheat, $1.50@2.00 per cwt, Provisions—Shoulders, #.12', @4.25; sh clear, §. s Buiter @2, 2. and 107,c. Firms full cream ched @9%/c; Young Americas, 10 Lowers fresh, 16.@15¢. ht green cons, oach, 2 No. 1 8. salted, 6e; ts. Shipwm'ts. 2,000 16,000 18.000 . ..143, 115,000 14.—Wheat—Rece 1pts, 3 eXpOrts, ¢ spot dull, v S4@@3415¢ in elevator, c t 85@s67¢e 1. 0. b’y ungraded red, {0, Options dull, unchanged; No. 2 red, Decem- ber closing at $41{c, Corn-—1 steady; afloat; ungrade fiemer, dull; De Oats—Receipts, firm and quict December, 25c. Coffee—Opuions points up. £16.10@10.1 firm; fui Sugar—Raw, dult and weak, Petroleum—Steady ; $1.041 for January. Eggs—irmor; western, 24! /(@ Pork—Iasier; mess, inspected, 11,75, Lard—Quiet and steady; western £6.24. Buttar ~Weak; creamery, 14 Cheeso—fuasy 3 western, 8@10c. Kuansas City, Dec, No. cash and No, 8 sh, 851503 N bid. Corn— cash, Oats Cin + spot dull and clevator, 4iijc Options spot, Options dull and firmer; closed 10@20 Decem bor, i spot Rio, firm quiet and steady; refined, United closed at "$11.00@ steam, western dairy, 9@10c; ed,’ cash, 1{e bid; No. oid. @ bid. 14.—Wheat — Weak, ra—-Firnier; ats—Nominal; W hisk) 02, Milwauke ', Dec. 14, — Wheat — ng, on track, cash, . 1 norihern, Sle. S No. § on track, 26}4¢. . 2 white, on track, wixoed, 2 mixed, 2@ 1, 1 store, 46'5c. Quiet; No. 2 fn storo, 461 Provisions—L'irm3 pori, $9.00. »aiy, Dec. 14.—Wneat—Higher; i May, Sific, Corn—Lower; ' casu, @ 207 Oats—Dull; cash, 20¢; May, 22%c, Pork—Quict at 10,00, Lard—Steady at #5.70. Whisky - ady av $1.02 Butter—Creamery, 22@24e: dairy, 18@2 Minneanotis, 4. —Sample whe at— Dull; receipts, 20 cars; shipments, 63 cars, 1 hard, December, i8; sc: No. 1 uorthern, wber, H 1 a ey . 2 northern, Decembe g on track, 72@ide. Liverpool, Dee. 14, - Wheat — Quiet ; holders offer' moderately; California No. 1, 78 3d@7s 31¢d per cental. rn—Rirm; new mixed western, 4s 2id per cental, May, j LIVE STOCK Onicazo, De reports as follo. Hogs - Reco hig] mixed, #.5003.65; heavy, $3.45@3.70; ligl $3.40@8.70. Shoop—It 0003 market steady’; natives, western, corn fed, 00@1.10; lambs, &.00 ipts, 903 exuns, Stock Yards, Louis, Dec. (4. —Cattle — Receipts shipments, 000; market stronge fancy native steers, §3.30a6.30; stocl fair to 1,600 shipments, gher: heavy, & light, #.25003,50, Cattlo—Keceipts, head, — Market cows, $1.00@ , $1.80@2.90; veal market, sh: packing, anners, 3 sLockers and fecder Market closed strong; 3 heavy, $3.421¢ @355 wixed, $3,21 r Kansas Oity, Dec. 14,—Cuttle—Receipts, 2,003 shipments, 1,300; stead. ders lower: natives, $3.004.40; cows, ¥ ersund feoders, $2.00(w Hogs—Receipts, market higher; evei el Weekly Bank Statement, New Youk, Dee. 14.—[Special Pelegram to Tue Bee,]—The weekly bank statement shows the following changes: Reserve, increase ents, 1,000; £3.50H.55, vees 21500 sevens 1,150,100 2,087,600 .0 181,800 in excess of ris of specio Legal tenders, increase, Deposits, decrease. . Circulation, decrcase, ‘The banks now hold the 25 per cout rule. The amounted to $20,028, of which $11,861 was in gold and $17,167 silver. Railroad bonas were quiet aud while the tone of the gencral market was quict a majority of the changes noted are declines, The sales were onl, #500,000, of ‘which §175,000 were Kansas Texas which were the strong feature of the dealings, Laclede Gas b3 lost 2 at 88, The sales of bhonds for the week were $7,375,000, against $7,057,000 for last weck, ‘The exports of specie from the port of New York last week amounted to $207,035, of which $49,235 was in pold and $247,800 silver. The total exports—$1,200 in gold and $225,550 in silver—went to Europe, and $18,085 in gold and $22,220 in silver to South A merica, ——— Children ns expert mugicians’ are coming to be the wonder of the profes- sion, Alice Diebmann, aged nine, is astonishing London critics with her skill on the violin, R The city of Cologne is to hold next year an international wur exhibition, consisting of all articles appertaining to war or necessary for the use of the army. It is the intention of the pro- moters to make the show of an interna- tional character as far as possible. e Stamps from Spain are unique in the records ofrhilulcl . They bear the im- vression of the infantile countenance of his majesty, the youngest ruler of to- day, As Platt City, Mo., a tragedy was prevented the other day by a looking glass. A woman was in the actof shoot- 1ng her husband in the back and he was 8a ed by seewnyg the reflection in the wirror, AGE UINE WOMAN NOVEMENT The Concluding Portion of Grant Allen's Ab'e Article. REBELLING AGAINST MATERNITY. The Troub Practice fch Results from the Making the Excep- yman's Casne the Rule for AllL Woman and Wifehood, m There is a feeling ubroad that many women can't get married; and this feeling, bolstered up by erroncous statistics and misunderstood facts, has greatly induc women to erect into an ideal for all what really a bad examplo for a small fraction of their body—self-support in competition with wen, But are there not 700,000 more women than men in the United Kingdom! writes Graut Allen in the Fortnightly Review, part of which Tie Bre has already published, And must ot these 700,000 be enabled to earn their own living! That is tho one solid fac which the “advanced” women aro alway fliuging at our heads; and that is the ono fallucious it of statistics which secms at first sight to give somo color of reasonable. ness to the arguments in fayor of the defem- inization of women, As amatter of fact, the statistics aro not true. There are not 700,000 more women than men, but 700,000 more females than males in the United Kingdom. The peopte who say 700,000 women,” picture to them- selves that vasy body of marriageable girls, mussed in a hollow squars, and looking about them in vam, across wide leagues of country, for non-cxistent husbands. 1at figures ‘aro things that always require to be explained, and, above all, to be regarded in their true proportions to one gnother, Theso seven hundred thousand females inelude in fants in arms, lunatics, sisters of charity, unfortunates, and ladies of ewthty. A lurgo part of the excess 18 due to the greater longevity of wouien; and tho number coms priscs the great mass of widows, who have ouce 1 their lives possessed o busband of their own, and have outlived him, partly b cause they are, as a rule, younger, and partly by cint ‘of their stronger constitutions. Moreover, thia total disparity of seven hun- dred thousand, including babies, lunaties, and widows, 18 & disparity on a gross popula: tion of something more than thirty-five mil lions. Looking theso figures straight in face, we find the actual proportion of sexes to bo as to 179 females. Speaking very roughly, this makes avbout four femates in every hundred, inciuding babies, widows, and so forih, who have not a complementary male found for them. This in itseif 1s surely no very terrible dispropor- tion. It does not more than cover the rela tve number of women who are naturally de- barred from murriage, who under no circumstances, would ever submit to be married. Out of every hundred women, rougbly speaking, ninety-six husbands provided for them by nature, and only four ko into a nunnery or take to te ing the higher mathematics. And if marriageable men and women ouly are r one u as fur us 1 athe 3 . the disproportion 8 10 u quite insi at fraction, Nevertheless, it is a fact, that n both Englaud aud America the warriageabls men of the widdle and upper classes are not to the fore,and thataccordingly n these classes —the discussing, thinkiug, agitating classes —an undue proportion of Women remain un- married. The causes of this class disparity are not so far to seek. In America the young has gone weat. In England ke is in the army, in the navy, mn the Indian civil service, in the Cane mounted rifles. He is sheep-farming in New Zealana, ranching in Colorado, growing tea in Assum, planting coffee w Ceylon; he is a cowbow'in Mon- tana) or a wheat-farmer in Manitoba, or a diamond-digger at Kimberly, or a merchant at Melbourne; in short, he is anywhere and everywhere except where he ought to be, making love to the pretty girls in England. IFor being a man, I, of courae, take it_for granted that the first’ business of a girl is to be pretty. Owing to these causes, it has unfortunately happened that a period of great upheaval in “the female mind has coincided with a period when the number of unmarried women in the enltivated classes was abuormally large, The upheaval would undoubtedly have taken place in our time, even without the co-operation of this lust exacerbating cause. The position of woman was not a position which could bear the test of nineteeuth-centuzy scrutiny Their education was inadequate ~ their social status was bumiliating ; their politicai poy was nil; thewr proctical and personal grie unces were nnumerable; above all, their relation to the family—to their husbands, their children, their triends, their property— was simply insupportable.” A real woman question there was, and is, and must be. ‘I'ne vity of it is that the coineidence of its rocog- nition with the dearth of marriageable men in the mddle und upper classes largely defiected the consequent movement into wrong aud essentinlly impracticable chan- nels, For the result has been that, instead of subordinating the claims of the unmarried women Lo the ciims of the wives and moth- crs, the movement has subordinated the claims of the wives and mothers to the claims of the unmarried women, Almost all of the woman's rights women have constantly spo- ken, thought, and written as though it were possible and ‘desirable for the wass of wo- men to support themselves, and to remain unmarried forever. The point of view they all tacitly view 18 the point of view of the solf-supnoating spinste New, the self-supporting spinster is undoubtedly a fact—a deplorable accident of tho passing moment, Probably, however, even the most rabid of the woman's right people would admit, if hard pressed, that in the best-ordered community. almosy every woman sbould marry at twenty or there abouts, We ougit, of course, frankly tw recognize the existcuce of the deplorable accident; we ought for the moment to make things us easy and smooth as possible for her; we ought to remove all professionai barriers, to break down theabsurd joalousies and prejudices of men, o give ber fuir play in the struggle for existence. So much our very chivalry ought to moke obligatory upon us.” That we should try to handicap her heauvily in the race for life is a shame to dur manhood. But we ought a% the same time fully to realize that she 1s an abnormity, not the woman of the future, We ought not to eiect into an ideal what 1s in reality a pain- ful necessity of the present transitory age. We ought always clearly to bear in mind. men and women alike—that to all time the vast majority of women must be wives and mothers; that on those women who become wives aud mothers depends the future of the race; and that if either class must be sacri- ficed to the other, it 1s the spinster whose type perishes with them that should be sac- rificed to the wmatrons who carry on the life and qoalities of the species. For this reason & scheme of female educa- tion ought to be mainly a scheme for the ed- ucation of the wives and mothers. And 1if women realized how noble and important a task it is that falls upon mothers, they would ask no other, If they realized how magnifi- cent a natior. might be molded by mothers who devoted thewselves faithfully and ear- nestly to their great privilege, they would be proud to carry out the duties of their ma- ternity. Instoad of that, the scheme of fo- male education now in voeue is a scheme for the production of literary women, school- mistresses, hospital nurses, and lecturers on cookery, All these things are good in them- selves, 1o be sure—I have not a word to say agalust them; but they ure not of the com- ter, They are side hines off the main stream of feminiue life, which must g way consist of the maternal element. “'Hul we can't know be foreband,” say the advocates of mannish tra ning, “‘which women are golug to be married and which to be spius " Ex- actly so: and therefore you sacrifice the many Lo the few, the poteutial wives to tne possible lady lecturers. You sacrifice the race to a handful of barren experimenters. What is thus true of the blind groping after female education true throughout of al most all the woman movewent, It gives precedence 10 the wrong element in the prob- lem, What is essential und eternal it neg- lects ip favor of what is accidenthl and temporary. What is feminine in women it ne, ots in favor of what is m e line. It attempia 1o override the natural dis. tinction of the sexes, and 1o muke women men—in all but virility The exact opposite, 1 baifeve, is the true 1ino of progress. We'nre of two scxes Ithy diversity of sex, pushed to it the greatest strength ¢ all ¢ our men virie; maky your o womauly, Don't cramp their it don't_compress tueir waista: don't trn thom into dolis or danc freely und cqually dovelop the {diosyncrasy, physical, moral, iuteliectunl, Let them be healthy in body; et thom be sound in mind; if possible (but' hore 1 kuow even tho most advanced among them wil 1), try to preserve them from the tyr of their own chosen goddess and i Grundy. In one word, craancipate woman (if womun will let you. which is mora than dountful), but leave her w dulled aud spiritloss epicene autc That last, it 8 to bo feared, is t istine practical result of the ' hixher el tion of women, up to date. Both in ogland and America the women of the cultivated clusses are becoming unfit to be wives op mothers. 'Ileir sexuality (which lies ot the basis of overything) is onfoebled or d stroyed. In some cases the HOW idrs riago altogether—openly rofuse and despise it which surely shows a lamentable weakening of wholesome fominine ines stincis. Tu other cases they marry, the h obviously ill-adapted to bear the st it maternity, and in such instances they (e cak down with the ud infant, This evil, o is destined by natural means to cur with time; the famiiies in question bo represonted at ull in the second tion, or will be reprosented only b and futile descondants, In w hundred v ninine oxe things will have mghted themsolye meanwhile thre is duuger that many most able and caltivated familics English-spe N ive tinet, through the prime orror of that an education which is oo must necessarily also be good for we Lsaid just nOW that mauy Women it jrese LW MAFriage, and this shows & wonKe ening of whol fominine instin fear ol miscon 1 mean, Darse, it thoy osc waut of physical impulse which o a8 present in every healthy woman every heaithy wan. dhat inde; minded women should hositate to ac terms of marringe as they now wind oxist, 1 do not wonder. But if they fave it really at hear ) ms, t cape from slavery, w widen the bisis o ract batween the sexes, 1o put the on & igner nud safer footing, most seus. men, L feel sure, wiil lhea operite with them. As u rule, n in Aactual life that u are chary of eith forward or accenting modificat matter. They dread the frown « Grundian deity. They usually conte selves with vague declamation and erectiig female colibucy into a panuc the 1lls that woman s hair to, wiile thuy re- fuse to meddle at all in dofinite terms with the question of marriage or its substitute :n the future. While denouncing supremucy of m ¢ seem ready off that supremacy only for the minority of their sex, without attenipti; do anything for the married majority T'o sum up the point whither this lony, I confess discuraive, urgument is toi. Thera is, and ought o be, u renine woniin question’ and 4 genuine woman movement, But that movement, If it is ever t s any Z00d, MUSL NOL IZNOIe—Day, on the contiry: must frankly and unres iy ace pe and embrace—thie fact that the vast majority of adult women are and wil! and mothers (and when I 80 0nly in the broadest sense, possible expansions or modi uature of wifehood). 1t must wlso v the other fact that in un iden] commanity tha greatest possivle nuwiber of women shouid be devoted to the duties of muteriit order that the average fumily may he small, that s to educable. It must s its goul, & not general aul the independeneo of wom ron marriuge and the ample ‘Support o by the men of the couutry ing that exceptional ¢ umstances o exceptional tenderuess toward th who ure row compolled by tious to carn their own avoid creating that accident into and it will ende cessity for such exceptions in the fuly short, itwiil recognize mat tral function of the mass of women, & will do_everything in its bowor to wake that waternity as healthy, as novle, and as 1 burdeusome as possiblo. If the “advanced” womion this platform, 1 believo the mujority of vanced” mon will gludly hold out o the: the right hand of fetlowship. As a body we ara] 1 think, preparea 1o reconsic consider fundamentally, withont or preconcoption, the cntire relations bitween the sexos great deal more thun than the w prepared to do. We are now re any modifications in those rolations wi will satisfy the womun’s just aspirations fow versonal independence, for lnteliectital wnd. moral dovelopment, for paysical culty political activity and fora voic rangement of hor own affairs, b, and national. Asa matter ot fuc will go as far i their cipitste woman_us many was Ibsen, not_Mrs, Ibsen, wio wrote * Fha Doll's Hous It was women, not men, who ostracized George Eliot, T ness begotten in wowen by the v man is what we havo most to fizht avain not the slave-driving instinet of the men— now huppily becoming obsolete, or vven changing into a sincere desire to do ¢ justice. BBut what we aust absolute upon is full and free recognition of i 0 spite of everything, the ra mUst go ou repeoauci i th ever wodifications we s terfere with that prime necessi will o aid LOE AbEL WOMOu 4 it SeX in ree velling agamst maternity, or in gu. with the constituuon of ‘the solur systein. Whether we haye wives or not—and Ll aminor point about which I, for one, um supremely unprejudiced—wo tousy ut lcast have mothers. And it would be waell, if 08« sible, to bring up those mothers as strong, as wise, ns freo, as sanc; us healthy, s carncsy and as e nt as we can wake thew, Lo B M s. It is quite proper thut picturds of Mephis pheles should Luve a sinner-stir look As Adam romarked 1o Fye as thoy sab oue sido the gurden gate: “Weo've hud au une usuully early fall, have we not? After & man has finished putting un g stovepipe the family purrot hus 10 be kept out of the room wheu tho minister calls. Do novimagine that the boy wio joins the church about this time is concerned abous the future, It is the presemt he has an cye w. Stranger—I am looking for a named Dewon, Religious Kditor | probably want the “devil.” He's on the floor below, . Mr. Kauoodla--And now wouldn't you like me for a Christmas present! Miss Alert—Certainly, if you'll hang yoursclf on the Christmas tree. It is amusing to see a lawyer when a man wishes bum to take his case, and he knows there is uo money in It, dechno on Lh ground of religions scruples. B Dend Beat—1'm goine 10 a church fair tos morrow night and 1'd like to know what! the best kind of cake for me to take. Bake (who can’t collect uny mocy from D, B, )~ Sponge cake, Wife (at cnurch)—""That man in the se ond pew 18 seung very strangely. Do you think he s crazy " Husband—*1 wouldn'y be at all surprised, wy dear; I see his collap button bas kone down his back,” At Home—New Minister—Is your papa ag home, iittle girll I am the new winister, and I understand that he is one of the il lars of the chured. Livle Girl—O yes, he's always at home to ministers, Ministers don’t have bilis, you koow, A little American boy, who has 8 German governess committed o' memory, at her re< quest, a German evening prayer. When he went to bed at night he folded his bands and repeated the prayer, adding after the “amen,” in & revereutial tone, the explan tory words: **Das ist Deutscue, lisber Gott."? “Persistent effort always in_one direction will bring you to the top," said the parsodt “pon't know about that,” replied the eone vert, who had not always been 80 §0od s 1y was gong to be, *I once walked in one dis rection on & teeadmill for three mouths and never got any nearor to the top than I was when I started.” e There are now eleven aptist courches ig Louisville, iKy. i for livlihood, it will meet us th dormes few women aesire Lo cmans men will go, I ‘ntleman