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Good Crop News and Free Of
ferings Abroad Bearish Ites.
Corn and Oats Fir.
ST. LOUIS CASH QUOTATIONS.
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CHICAGO, June 23.—Wheat showed
but little change at the opening to-day.
The best prices were not held well, es
pecially for the December, which was
under most pressure. Crop reports from
Western Canada were favorable and
wheat from that country was offered
freely abroad.
Corn was again higher on continued
‘smull offerings in the pit and good buy
ng.
Oats were firmer and hog products
were lower with the break of 10 cents
in the price of hogs.
Wheat ruled steady during the early
session on Liverpool cables, light re
ceipts and room covering, but highly fa
vorable crop reports and lack of new
buying power later resulted in a decline.
Unfavorabel weather in the Argentine
Republie, dry conditions in Oklahoma,
light receipts and scattered buying by
commission houses were the strengthen
ing factors in coern.
. CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET.
Grain quotations:
4 Previous
High. Low. Close. Close.
WHEAT -
Ju1y..... 8% 9% 9% §1%4
Sept..... 8% 79 79 80
Pee. . ... & 81y 7% 823
CORN—
July:.... 63% 68 69 68%
Sept..... 67% 67y 674 67
OATS ~
Ju1y..... 3% 38% 3914 394
Sept..... 38% 395 y 38 38
P 9 38 387% 39
PORK—
July. ... ¥ 20.62%, 20.70 20.70
Sept.... 20.07% 19.97% 20.05 20.07%
LARD-~
July.... 10.07% 10.65 10.07%2 1010
Sept.... 10.25 10.221, 10.2212 10.271%
0ct.... 10.27% 10.27% 1027% 10.32%
RIBS—
July.... 11.47% 11.421%4 11.421% 11.47%
Sept.... 1L.55 11.47% 1L.50 11.55
0ct..... 1% 11.25 11.25 11.37%
CHICAGO CASH QUOTATIONS.
CHICAGO, June 23.—Wheat—No. 2
ved, 86% @87%; No. 3 red, 85@85%; No.
2 hard winter, 861 @88; No. 3 hard win
ter, 85% @86%; No. 1 Northern spring,
936)94; No, 2 Neorthern spring, %1% @
93; No. 3 spring, 89@911. ;
Corn—No. 2, 69%@72%; No. 2 white,
3% @T74%; No. 3 yellow, 0% @7l;. No.
3, 69@70'%; No. 83 white, 3% @i3%: No.
3 yellow, 0% @7o'2; No. 4, §7@69, No.
4 white, 69@72%; No. 4 yellow, 68@70.
QOats—No. 2 white, 403%@41; No. 3
white, 39%,@39%; No. 4 white, 38:@
39, standard, 40, @40%.
CHICAGO CAR LOTS.
Following are receipts for Tuesday
and estimated receipts for Wednesday:
S ee ) Tuesday | Wedn’'sday
Wheat . Lo 13 | 20
Corn . iiios o ‘ 245 163
KRR . © oo 5o g 172 4
Yoas .. ] w 0 31,000
PRIMARY MOVEMENT.
WHEAT o e AnL
Receipts.. .. .. ..| 265,000 | 544,000
Shipments .. .. ..! 351,000 273,000
SOOI b o o b T
Receipts.. .. .. ..| 547,000 z 921,000
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BRADSTREET'S VISIBLE SUPPLY.
Following shows Bradstieet's visible
supyly changes of-grain for the week:
Wheat, decreased 10,418,600 bushbels
Corn, increased 624,600 hushels.
Oats, decreased 1,744,000 bushels.
LIVERPOOL GRAIN.
LIVERPOOL, june 23.—Wheat opened
unchanged to %d lower. At 1:30 p. m.
the market was 3d higher; closed un
changed to %d higher.
Corn opened unchanged to 'sd lower.
At 1:30 p. m. the market was unchanged
to '%d lower; closed % to 5%d lower.
COTTON MARKET OPINIONS.
Josephthal, Louchheim & Co.: *“*From
pow on sales on all upturns are advisa
ble.”
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S. M. Weld & Co.: “"We advise buying
on all weak markets such as we hagl
Friday and Saturday.”
MARRY-Many rich, congenial and anx
jous for companiens. Interesting par
ticulars and photo free. The Messenger,
Jaeksounville, Fla.
MARRY RlCH—Matrimonial paper of
highest character. containing hundreds
of whotos and descriptions of marriage
able people with means. Mailed free
Sealed. [ither sex. Writa to-day. One
may be your ideal. Address Standard
Cor. Club, Box 607, Grayslake. il
NOW IS THE TIME to order Black
‘Tongue medicine for dogs; six bottles
for two dollars, or three dollars per
dozen to agents. Made and sold by Dr.
A. A. Lewis, Roberta. Ga.
FEMALE HELP WANTED.
LADIES for home work; nothing to sell;
35¢ an hour guaranteed; particulars
10c. Rankin & Dodson, 810 Oak St
Hillsdale, Pa.
AGENTS.
COLORED agent wanted, man or wom
an, under 50; experience unnNecessary;
$lOO month. Write quick. Box lA-409,
Cinecinnati, Ohio.
ANTI-GERM ELlXlR—Relieves acute
indigestion, rheumatism, piles, secrof
ula, kidney and bladder, all male and
femalc troubles; three dollars per dozen
to agents; cash with order. Sold by Dr.
A. A. Lewis, Roberta, Ga.
SALESMEN WANTED.
SELL TREES—Fruit trees, Pecan
trees, Shade trees, Ornamentals and
Rosez. E.sy tosell. Big profits. Write
to-dav. SMITH BROS., Dept. 39, Con
cord, Ga.
THE GEORGIAN S NEWS BRIEFS.
Grain Notes
CHICAGO, June 23.—-The Record Her
ald says: .
“Sentiment of the wheat trade Is so
bearish that the market is decidedly
&n..i"‘?:& The few bnn:, .t: &'@ found
n! regar mar
hetuw%domlm for &
n‘l'lx of more ¥c at any time.
number of the largest corm bulls
reduced thelr ' ldings vesterday. The
market fs w'i « ' a bull leader. July M
quidation is o the weather is too
good for the crop for tnde?
to become sh present. This is
the way several of Yhe best pit traders
see i."”
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Armour was a good buyer of July oats
to-day.= The selling was mostly local.
Commission houses were also good buy
ers.
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Bartlett- Frazier Co. says: “Wheat—
Sentiment at the close yesterday was so ‘
unanimously bearish as to make a rally ‘
unlikely to-day. The situation as a
whole, however, is a very discouraging
one for holders and holds out no attrac,,
tion to new buyers. |
~ “Corn—Shipping demand yesterday
was again light, with sales of only 125,-
’OOO bushels, with charters being made
for 250,000 bushels. We look for prices
' to rule steady at Jeast, and as soon as
this occurs, we expect the Eastern de
mand to spring up again.
““Oats—The moderate supplies in sight
as well as a great many poor reports
regarding the growing crop, tend to
give the market a steady undertone and
curtail to some extent aggressive short
selling.
“Provisions—The little easier tone in
vesterday's market was attributed in
part te the weakness in grain, which
caused some local selling.”’
LIVE STOCK.
. CHICAGO, June 23.—Hogs: Receipts,
18,000; market 10c lower; mixed gnd
butchers, 8.00@8.35; good heavy, 8.25@
8.30; rough heavy, 8.006:8.20; light, 8.10 |
@8.30; pigs, 7.20@8.00; bulk, 8.15@8.30.
Cattle: Receipts, 13,000; market
steady; beeves, T7.60@9.40; cows and
291()!:‘:.)_-‘%.7528.50; sto_c;k’grs and feeders,
.50@8.25; exans, s 8.15;
8.50410.00. : P e
Sheep: Receipts. 12,000; market
steady; native and Western, 4.15@5.40;
lambs, 6.50@8.25.
_ ST. LOUIS, June 23.—Cattle: Receipts,
6,500, including 1.400 Southerns: market
steady; native beef steers, 7.50@9.25;
cows and heifers, 5.00@9.00; stockers
and feeders, 5.00@7.65: calves, 6.00@
10.25; Texas steers, 5.75@8.30; cows and
heifers, 4.50@6.65.
Hogs: Receipts, 8,500: market 10 to
15¢ lower; mixed, 8.35@8.40; good rough,
7.75@8.00; lights, 8.25@8.40; pigs, 6.75@
8.00; bulk, 8.30?8,40.
Sheep: Receipts, 12,500; lambs 15¢
lower; market steady; sheared mutton,
4 75@5.00° sheared vearlings, 5.75@6.50;
lambs, 7.00@8.00; spring, 9.00@9.25.
STOCK GOSSIP.
NEW YORK, June 23.—“1 think the
Supreme Court decisions of vesterday
will help the market,” says E. E. Clark.
““The rate decision would now go far to
ward clearing the way to a considera
tion of the pronounced bullish factor of
record crops. “Baitimore and Ohio, New
York Central, Erie and, Pennsylvania
are all attractive, as they would benefit
most in the next important deeision,
which is the feright rate increase.”
¢ & 1
Inter-mountain shippers will seek to
recover $10,000,000 from railroads as
overcharges in view of the Supreme
Court's decision.
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| France is to declare operative July 1,
the law passed in March, taxing at 5
per cent incomes derived from foreign
’se«:urities. including Government bonds.
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The Financial Bureau says: “Bullish
tendencies are likely to continue in the
active list with buying upon reactions.
Washington indications that the
President is now hedging on his charges
of conspiracy against business to defeat
legislation are having a beneficial effect,
to say nothing of the private reports
that Wilson is more favorable to an ad
journment of Congress August 1.
“Buying of good character is report
ed in Southern Pacific, Atchison, St.
Paul and Great Northern and also
U'nion Pacific and Chino Coppers. Texas
Company and Guggenheim are being fa
vorably referred to in several houses.””
* * *
The Commercial: “There is a dispo
sition to take a more favorable view of
the Mexican situation.”
* * »
The Journal of Commerce: *““Things
are on the mend.”
- * *
The American: ‘‘Stocks give evidence
of a buying power that has not been
displayed for some time.”
* * *
The Sun: ‘“The advance in Southern
Pacific has a stimulating effect else
where.”
* . >
The Post: ‘‘“The ability of the Utah
Company to produce copper metal at a
much lower price than the Amalgamat
ed properties explains the different at
titudes which the stock exchange takes
toward the two issues.” |
NEW YORK PRODUCE.
NEW YORK, June 23.—Petroleum
steady: crude Pennsylvania, 1.75.
Turpentine quiet, 50.
Rosin quiet; common, 4.10.
Wool firm; domestic fleece, 27@30,
pulled, scoured basis, 38@?5; Texas,
scoured basis, 42@82.
Hides steady; Dnative steers, 17w18;
branded steers, 16%@17.
Coffee steady; options opened 1 point
higher to 1 point lower; Rio, No. 7 spot,
91, @9,
Rice steady; domestic, ordinary to
prime, 3% @5%.
Molasses steady: New Orleans, open
kettle, 35@55.
Sugar, raw, quiet; centrifugal, 3.39
(bid): muscovado, nomrinal; molasses
sugar, 5.74 (bid).
Sugar, refined, quiet; fine granulated,
4.20; cut loaf, 5.25; crushed, 5.15; mold
A. 480; cubes, 4.55; powdered, 4.40;
diamond A, 4.30; confectioners’' A, 4.20;
softs, No. 1, 4.05@4.10. (No. 2 is 5 points
lower than No. 1. and Nos. 3 to 14 are
each 5 points lower than the preceding
grade.)
Potatoes steady, sweets, Southern,
1.50@4.00. {
Beans quiet; marrow, choice, 4.56@
5 05: pea, choice, 3.25@3.65; red kidney,
choice, 5.65@5.70.
Dried fruits quiet: apricots, choice to
fancy, 16% @lB'%; apples, evaporated,
prime to fancy, s@liZ; prunes, 30s to
60s, 10%@11%; 60s to 1008, 6%@10:
peaches, choice to fancy, G'/.bl; seeded
raisins, choice to fancy, 6% @B%.
The Country Church Problem
By the Rev. W. H. Faust, Winder, Ga.
The rural church problem is the
most important problem that is be
fore us, and upon the solution of this
most important phase of our eccle
slastical progress will depend almost
wholly our future denominational
prosperity. It requires no sage or
philosopher to see that the church
‘that neglects the rural section is ab
‘solutely cutting off its base of sup
-Ipue:, and entering a conflict with
‘no hope of securing recruits to take
the place of those who fall on the
firing Hne,
~ The census reports of 1910 show
‘that in America we have 44 per cent
of our people dwelling in the cities
and 56 per cent of our people living
‘in the country. In our own beloved
‘iSouthland these figures change un
til there is found in our cities less
than 20 per cent of our population,
and in the country over 80 per cent.
No book nor paper on rural life is
worth while that is over five years
of age, from the simple reason that
conditions are c¢hanging, and radi
cally changing. almost annually.
To-day the prices of farm land are
steadily going up, while the values
of farm land are as steadily going
down. For instance, in my home
county of Oglethorpe, land that 50
yvears ago made a bale of cotton per
acre and sold at $2.50 per acre, is
to-day selling fer $5O and $75 per
acre and will make only three-fourth
of a bale.
Again, men are valuing their land
at $4O to $7O per acre and renting
a one-horse farm for %00 pounds of
jint cotton. A Dbusiness man—yes,
even a preacher—can see that some
thing is radically wrong somewhere.
The Country Life Commission was
qpminteipme years ago tg inves-
tigate such problems and .every
preacher and layman would do well
to read the report of its findings.
When the writer was a lad the old
rooftree was looked upon as sacred,
but in this commercialized, material
istic age it is regarded merely as
_property to be sold te the highest
bidder at public auction. The land
once owned by prosperous farmers
is now owned by absolute landlords
or big corporations whose omnly aim
seems to be to get the largest in
core from the rentals with the least
output for their maintenance. The
student of bistory easily and readily
recognizes that the class of people
that tills the soil controls and domi
nates a country. ‘Their ideals, po
litical, social, moral, religious, will
unconsciously creep in and become
the standard. The rural church is
in the rural coramunity and for its
own seli-preservation must begin io
realize the great importance of
changing rural community life.
] We Need More Churehes.
I have no particle of patience
with the general idea that seems 10
be growing more and more prevalent
that our rural communities are over
churched.
Less than 50 per cent of our popu
ntion are professed Christians. Take
Winder and vicinity, or Jefferson and
vicinity, or any rural church in this or
any other county. Throw wide the
doors of all the churches on a given
day and invite all the people to at
tend a service. Not half the people
could be seated. o
Rural and Urban Co-operation.
The city can not live without the
country. The great Catholic Church
in one of its meetings in Chicago sev
eral years ago laid special stress up
on country work, and, commencing a
magnificent propaganda to make the
United States Catholie, said: “We
have up to this time neglected the
rura! sections. If we would make the
United States Catholic, we musi
strengthen our forces in the country,
for the leaders, financial and spirit
val, come from the country.”
Unfortunately, there is a sharply
drawn line of demarcation between
the country and the city. The town
churches that have services each
Sabbath should try to reach out and
touch the rural church, where only
one Sunday per month services-are
‘held. The country folks feel that the
‘town folks are different, but if they
‘would only consider that, after all,
people are just people, and, by coming
to church in town, the interests of
the kingdom would be greatly ad
vanced. The city pastor in many in
stances would be glad to get out into
the country and hold a meeting, and
could greatly help the overworked
country pastor, who is attempting to
shepherd four or five churches. This
would break down to a large extent
the wall of separation that is grow
ing up between us and establish a
cordial fraternal feeling that would
«trengthen mightily the work of the
kingdom. After all, we be brethren,
and, whether from field or factory,
from urban palace or rural cottage,
Cod is ol common Father.
Absentee Pastors.
Much is being said and written in
the realm of agriculture concerning
absentee landlordism, and without
doubt it is the bane of successful ag
riculture, but in the work of the
church the absentee pastor is just as
hurtful. No man can live in the city
and run out occasionally, say once a
month, and do successful work as a
pastor. The church must suffer un
der such pastorates. The pastor, too,
must suffer. And here it might be
well to state that the preacher isn't
alone responsible for this condition
that is so deplorable. He wants to
educate his children and give them
advantages equal to those of the chil
dren of his neighbors and friends, and
his salary is pitifully small. The av
erage salary of preachers in the
rural sections of the United States is
$573. In Georgia the average will be
still lower. Here comes in a prob
iem. How can a man provide for the
wants of a family, buy books and the
necessities of life, and lead in con-
tributing for benevolent objects on a
salary so low?
A South Dakota pastor says: "I
have seven children, and my salary is
$7OO. Last year, with crop failure, I
got $555. This year prospects are
worse. | came here two years ago
from England. [ could have gone on
‘the road as a salesman at $ll2 a
month salary and $5 a day expenses,
I only had 19 members, but with vis
iting and ordinary meetings member
ship increased to 98, with 150 in Sun
day scheool. I preached three times
each Sunday, and every Sunday walk
ed 31 miles. Then crops failed, and 1
have lost by removal 82 members.”
This experience, somewhat modified,
has been that of numbers of minis
ters. Churches that 1256 years ago,
and 50 years ago, paid their pastors
$2OO are to-day paying the same.
Other things may change, but, like
Tennyson's brook, the pastor’s salary
in some churches goes on the same
forever.
If the churches in any given coms
munity would get together and form
a field and call a man and locate him
in their midst they could pay him a
salary large enough to enable him to
stay in their territory, and not only
preach for them, but visit the sick,
do pastoral work, and become a real
factor in community building, helping
out in educational and social work. [
might dwell at some length upon the
rural church as a community center
and stress its importance as a social
factor, but a whole paper shouid be
devoted to the consideration of this
great subject, and therefore, because
of its greatness, I refrain from doing
more than call your attention to it
in a brief way in passing. Our preach
ers must live where they preach, for
a man's greatest influence is exerted
where he lives.
Our Key Churches.
The country church is a marvel. It
is our source of greatest weakness
and our source of greatest strength.
The countryman going to town does
not always take his ehurch letter and
his habits of church and prayer
meeting and Sunday school attend
ance. He often refrains from going
to any church whatsoever, and thus,
‘while numerically he counts back at
home for the kingdom of God, ac
tually in the city he counfs against
it. He was accustomed to give but
little in the country, where little was
actually required. In town he gives
in the same” way, despite changed
conditions, and is thus no great
helper.
QOur orthodoxy is largely derived
from the country. The rural churches
have ever been. true to the Bible, and
in simplicity and firmness they have
stood against the fads and sins of the
day, and the result up to the present
'has been a mighty force for spiritual
uplift in the cities. What urban
chureh in any denomination could af
ford to exist without its country
reared and trained members and
workers? In this day of apostasy and
materialism, when our resources are
so sorely taxed and we stand in such
sore need of men, what would we d 3
were it not for the splendid contribu
tions in men of consecration and cu'.
ture that the country pours into the
city ?
To-day 95 per cent of our minis
try comes from the country. In 1903
there were 25,000 Presbyterians in
Chicago, and out of that vast number
only one ministerial student from ilie
city. During 40 vears of its history
the First Baptist Chureh ef Rochester,
N. Y., gave only one ministerial stu
dent to the denomination, and he w s
converted in the country. What would
we do in the religious world withoat
George W. Truett, A, C. Dixon, Len
(. Broughton, F. C, McConnell, J. B.
Gambrell, S. Y. Jameson, W. L. Pick
ard, Sam Jones, Mark Mathews, F.
L. Powell—and a host of others too
numerous to mention?
The Church and Education.
No paper on the country church
would be complete without a word ¢n
education. The writer, after exten
sive study and careful observation,
has reached the conclusion that we
have, as Christians, stressed educa
tion too little in our rural churches.
The church needs to awake, to assert
its prerogative of definite interest in
our schools—that is, that the Chris
tian churches must say to the Staie
through their members, “We want
truth, and Christian truth, taught our
children by Christian teachers.” The
Baptists have lost control of some of
their great educational institutions,
the Methodists are to-day fighting
over Vanderbilt University, and the
conflict is on in all denominations. We
are to decide between Carnegie and
Christ,
With the superior facllities poes
sessed by the State for giving every
youth a well-rounded education, on
the one hand, and the seductive doi
lars of the great steel king. on 1>
other, Christian education to-day, like
some storm-driven ship, finds itseif
between Scylla and Charybdis. And
the church must arise in these pres
ent perilous moments and say Lo the
teachers of our youth, in no uncer
tain tones, “You must love God before
gold, and place Christ above cast 4
it we are to decide between igno
rance and atheism, then let us have
ignorance, for that servant received
few stripes who knew not his maus
ter’'s will.
The educational fight begins in th»
country church community, and we
must get the stream right at s
source. I write of conditions as they
are, and they are not, by any means,
ideal. It is the province of the Staie
to educate its boys and girls. We can
never hope, as denominatlons and
churches of depominations, to take
over the prerogatives of the State. We
need no denominational high schools.
Under our present system, we do need
colleges and seminaries (o train and
equip our church workers, to fit our
boys and girls for leadership after
they have chosen their life's profes
sion.
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