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THE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIEFS.
Markets—
GRAIN MARKET
ST. LOUIS CASH QUOTATIONS.
Wheat No 2 red 84%@8S%
Corn -No. 2 66 @66%
Gats--No. 2 39
CHICAGO, Joiy 22.—There was an
enormous business In cash wheat to
day, the total transactions here amount
ing to 50,000 bushels, all of which was
for export. The seaboard reported fifty
boat Brads or 40,000 bushels taken by ex
porters, and in addition to this vessel
room was engaged for twenty loads for
Sugust shipment, with the rate of freight
favorable to the shipper.
Prices for wheat closed % to % cent
lower for the day, corn was off % to \
and oats were % to % cent lower Cash
sales of corn were 190,000 bushels and
of oats 170.000 bushels
Hog products were lower on selling by
those wanting profits.
A message from one of the crop ex
perts now in the Northwest, says that
the black rust scare Is at an end and
that wheat Is ripening rapidly and that
the harvesting of the same will soon
be on.
Prev.
High.
I
Close.
Close.
WHEAT—
July . .
. 86%
86%
86%
86%
Sept.
. 87%
86%
87
S7%
Dec. . .
CORlC-
. 91
90%
90%
9074
July . .
. 62%
61%
61%
62%
Sept. . .
. 63%
62%
62%
63%
Dec. . .
60%
59%
59%
60%
OATS —
July . .
. so%
39%
39%
39%
Sept. . .
. »l%
40%
10%
41 %
Dec. . .
41%
40%
40%
41%
POKE
July .
.22.22%
22.00
22.10
22.22%
Sept. .
.21.50
21 25
21.42
21.25
.19.45
19.45
19.45
LARD—
July . .
.11.87%
11.87%
11.82%
11.87%
Sept. . .
.11.95
11.87%
11.67%
11.95
Oct. .
.12.00
11.95
11.95
12.00
IUBS-
July . .
.11.80
11.75
11.75
11.87%
Sept. . .
.11.92%
11.87%
11 87%
11.95
Oct. . .
.11.70
11.65
11.65
11.72%
CHICAGO CASH QUOTATIONS.
CHICAGO. July 22.—Wheat. No. 2 red,
new, 87%087%; No. 3 red, new, 86%@
87; No. 2 hard winter, new, 88@88%;
old 89%@90; No. 3 hard winter, new,
81081%; old, 88%@89; No. - Northern
spring, 92%093%; No. 2 Northern
spring, 91 @92; No. 3 spring 89@91.
Corn, No. 2, 62%@63%, No. 2 white.
64%064%; No. 3 yellow, 62%@62%; No.
3 white, 62064%; No. 3 yellow. 63%;
No. 4, 61%@62; No. 4 white, 62%@63;
No. 4 yellow, 61%@62%.
Oats, No. 2 white, 43; No. 3. 38%; No.
white, 40041; No. 4 white, 38%039•%;
Standard. 41%@42
PRIMARY MOVEMENT.
WHEAT—
1913.
1912.
Receipts ......
Shipments
1,792.000
1.139,000
1,095,000
620,000
CORN— |
Receipts
404.000
421.000
Shipments
538,000
454,000
LIVERPOOL GRAIN MARKET.
LIVERPOOL*, July 22.—Wheat opened
% to %d higher. At 1:30 p. m. the mar
ket was % to %d higher; closed % to
%d higher.
Corn opened %d higher. At 1:30 p. m.
the market was %<1 higher; closed %d
lower.
LIVE STOCK MARKET.
CHICAGO, July 22.—Hogs—Receipts,
13,000. Market steady to 5c lower;
mixed and butchers, 8.7009.55; good
heavy, 8.9509.35; rough heavy, 8.600
8 90; light, 9 1009.55; pigs, 8.2*09.30;
bulk, 9.10@9.35.
Cattle—Receipts, 3,000. Market steady;
beeves, 7.3509.15; cows and heifers, 3.25
@3.40; stockers and feeders, 6.2*08.00;
Texans, 6.7508.10; calves, 9.25011.00.
Sheep — Receipts, 24,000. Market
steady; native and Western, 3.0005.10;
lambs, 5 0007.50.
ST. LOUIS. MO., July 22.—Cattle re
ceipts. 8,000, including 2,500 Southerns.
Native market steady Beef steers, 5.50
@8.75; cows and heifers, 4.75 08.25;
stockers and feeders, 6.2507.50; calves
600011 00; Texas steers, 6.25 0 8 00; cows
and heifers, 4.2506.50; calves, 5.0006 50.
Hogs Receipts, 10,500; mixed, 9.240
9.55; good 9.000 9.55; rough, 8.9009.10;
lights, 9.4509.55; pigs, 7.2509.10: bulk,
9.4509.55.
COTTON SEEO OIL.
NEW YORK, July 22—The October
delivery was the center of attraction in
the cotton seed oil market to-day. De
mand from shorts and refiners, induced
by the scarcity of crude offerings, served
to force that month up 22 points. Old
crop oil was in demand. There was
Very little doing in the late positions.
Cottor seed oil quotations:
, ('pening Closing.
Spot
9.20
July ......
9.20 @
9 25
9.27 0
9 30
August . . . . .
9.28 0
9.29
9.33 (a
9.35
September . . . .
9 28 (a
9.30
9.350
'9.36
October ....
8 2008.22
8.73 0
8.24
November • . • .
6 88 0
6.90
6.89(p
6.90
December . . . .
6.69 0
6 75
6.6806.69
January . . . .
6.6X0
6.75
6.68 (a
6.69
February . , , .
6.680
6.80
6.650
6.67
Closed strong; sales 19,500 barrels.
NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET.
NEW YORK, July 22.—Underlying
sentiment was still rather bullish and
it was rumored that this morning's de
cline In the price of coffee was only
natural after the recent rally of a cent
a pound, while moreover developments
In the spot position have been of a
character to encourage holders.
Opening.
Closing.
January
8.57
9.4209.44
February , . , .
9.6409.70
9.4909.51
March ....
! 9 70
| 9.5609.57
April
9 7209.76
9.610 9 62
May ..... .
9.79
9.6106.68
July . . , , .
8.950 8.96
August . . . .
9 1000.25
9.000 9 01
September . . . .
6 2509.26
9.130)9 16
October . , ,
i
9.2809.30
December . . .
9 46
9 360 9.37
Closed steady;
sales 103,000 bags.
NEW YORK PRODUCE.
NEW YORK, July 22.—Petroleum
firm; crude Pennsylvania, 2.50.
Turpentine easy. 38%.
Rosin steadier; common, 4.40.
Wool steady; domestic fleece, 23027;
pulled, scoured basis, 33054,; Texas,
geoured basis, 46053.
Hides uiet; native sters, 17019%;
branded steers, 16 (asked).
OofTee steady; options opened 40; No.
f Rio spot, 9%@9%
Rice steady; domestic, ordinary to
f < Mc3kflBefl ^eady; New Orleans, open
kettle. 35050
"jBugar, raw, easier; centrifugal, 3.54
tDkl)J muscovado, 2.79,
“Sinful Pleasures 9 9
A Sermon By REV. W. H. FAUST, Lexington, Ga.
Continued
Grain Notes
The Chicago Inter Ocean says: “The
wheat market is regarded as largely a
merchandising proposition. It was
noticed that some of the leading bears
who sold early were buying at the alose.
Traders who were short of corn and
long of oats were closing their spreads
yesterday. One line of 250,000 bushels
of corn was bought In and the oa‘ts sold.
There is a lot of this business opening.
There are also a lot of shorts in Sep
tember corn who are long in December
corn who have not started to cover."
• * •
Aberdeen, S. Dak., wires: “Commenc
ing In western Clark County running
through Spink and southern Brown
Counties, extending west to the river,
covering over 500,000 acres, 90 per cent
total failure. East and north from Ab
erdeen about 10 per cent abandoned.”
* * •
Bradley, S. I)ak., wires: "Every field
of velvet and blue stem wheat in this
section has the little brown specks on
the main stem of the wheat, some spots
in three fields, the leaves of the wheat
entirely dead from it. There is no dam
age yet, but this is unmistakably the
first symptom of black rust. Red rust
is very bad over the three States, and
it is no short step from red rust to
black rust.”
* * ♦
B. VV. Know wires from Omaha, July
21: “The corn crop in Nebraska, south
of the Platte and west of Lincoln, al
ready is hurt badly and in a critical
position. Portion of the Republican Val
ley received some rain and the crop is
holding out, but fully one-fourth of the
State is over the danger line and losing
ground fast. From Hastings to Hol-
dredge and south to St. Cloud fields are
largely fired. I have seen places to-day
where hot winds last week killed the
leaves on trees. From Hastings to
Crete the com is showing white, and
now is coming to tassel at four feet.
East of Lincoln there is small damage,
but sonte white heads are showing
The hopeful possibility lies in the fact
i hat the crop was not in tassel during
last week’s blistering weather, but many
tassels now are coming white. The sec
tion of the State I covered is in no
worse shape than Northein Kansas."
• * •
Bartlett, Frazier & Co. says: "Wheat
—We look for a steady market to-day
and are inclined to think prices will
gradually harden.
“Corn—We can see nothing but higher
prices.
“Oats—In our opinion the market is
in a strong position, with a compara
tively limited long interest and more
new buying apparent.
“Provisions—The strength in corn Is
helping prices, and while there Is more
or less realizing, new buying appears to
be on the increase.”
* * •
Rainfall and Temperature: Canadian
Northwest part cloudy, 45 to 64 degrees;
Edmonton, .02; Minnedosa, .24; North
west cloudy, 58 to 70; Moorhead, 64;
Duluth, .02; -Huron raining. .14; West
clear, 64 to 68; Southwest clear, 64 to
74, Ohio Valley part cloudy, 64 to 70.
* * *
Kansas City says: “The com and
wheat region bulletin shows no rain.
Maximum temperatures yesterday 85 to
98 degrees. Minneapolis says rainfall at
Campbell, Minn., .70; Crookston, .24;
Grafton, N. Dak , .15: Grand Forks, .44;
Jamestown, .20; Winnipeg cloudy. 55;
Duluth cloudy, 58; Glenwood cloudy, 60;
hard rain this morning; Bismarck clear.
51; Harvey cloudy, 60; light shower last
night.”
• • •
Advices from the largest corn counties
in Kansa?, which normally produce 55,-
000,000 bushels: Three reports from
Atchison County show loss of 30 per
cent; two from Hrabor show loss of 60
per cent; two from Red Cloud show loss
of 75 per cent; two from Dickinson
show loss of 100 per cent; Jewell County
shows loss of 65 per cent; Lyon Coun
ty shows loss of 50 per cent; Kingman
loss of 95 per cent; Sedgwick, 75 per
cent; Marshall, 55 per cent; Butler, 95
per cent; Mitchell, 75 per cent; Wash
ington, 80 per cent, and Reno, 80 per
cent.
• * •
Lyle wires Chapin from Norton.
Kans.: “The important corn counties
of Kansas, along the Nebraska line, east
of Bellville, crop in normal promise,
with light exceptions. West of Belle
ville there is some damage that may be
25 per cent in some fields. Most of the
fields are not yet hurt, not much in tas
sel. Five per cent generally applied will
cover all apparent damage to date.”
• * •
Iowa weather and crop bulletin says:
"First four days of w r eek excessively
hot. Daily maximum temperatures 100
to 104 degrees over Southern counties
on one or more days, and as rainfall
was inappreciable over the larger prt
of the State, crops beginning to feel
the efTeet of the dry hot weather. Late
oats are already damaged to some ex
tent by heat and lack of moisture.
In some localities corn is beginning to
curl during the day. Corn on good soil
holding up well and making rapid
growth.”
STOCK GOSSIP
The market holds Advance remark
ably wel land there is accumulation of
stocks by large interests on all moder
ate recessions. Confidence in the situ
ation seems to be gradually returning
and investors are taking advantage of
the present low level of prices to aver
age their holdings. Many railroad is-
sies return over 6 per cent on present
prices, while industrials return 70 to 10.
Crop prospects are excellent and earn
ings should continue far above dividend
requirements. Big crops make large
earning'? and eventually enhance the
value of securities.—G. D. Potter.
• • •
It looks as if this advance has only
started. Would increase holdings on any
recession in stocks like Union Pacific,
Reading, Copper issues and Steel com
mon.—G. D. Potter.
• * •
The Bankers Trust Company cer
tificates of deposit for the St. Louis and
San Francisco general lien 5 per cent
bonds have been listed on the 8tock Ex
change. It is understood the total
amount deposited under the agreement
with Speyer & Cb. tn New York and in
Europe Is mor$ thaoi $26,000,000. No
call has yet boen made for the deposit
of the Frenofc bonds amounting to $33,-
000.009. Of the remaining balanoe, a
clear majority has been deposited under
the Speyer bondhaUtors*
Text: “Deinas forsook me, having
loved this present world. ”—II Tim
othy iv: 10.
In the entire word of God there
can be found scarcely a parallel to
this sad expression of the Great Apos
tle to the Gentiles, as he gave the
reason for Demas’ having forsaken
him in his work. But Demas is hu
man and men still follow in his foot
steps, and for the love of self or
pleasure to-day leave Christ and His
service just as he did then without
any compunctions of conscience. When
asked for a reason for departing from
the companionship of Jesus and His
followers, they are at a loss to an
swer. The truth is, they have loved
the present world and the things of
this present world, and the greatest
enemy of Christ life is the world.
In the world, the flesh and the devil
operate and put forth their best ef
forts. The evil one uses great skill
and tact in doing his work. He seizes
upon every possible advantage and
turns it to his account. Pleasure Is
legitimate and to be desired greatly.
But not pleasure where sin is mixed
in. Again, in Romans, Paul outlines
to us the manner of life for the re
deemed man to live, urging that such
a one “be not conformed to this
world, but be ye transformed by the
renewing of your minds that ye may
prove what is that good and accepta
ble and perfect will of God.
Christians, have you ever stopped
to examine yourself and see what
God’s plan has in your life? Have
you ever tried seriously to cause
your life to conform to His purpose,
and thus be all that He had planned
for you? One’s mind has to be con
tinuously renewed and old things as
well as old opinions and theories must
continually be changing. New condi
tions confront us daily, and from
these new viewpoints we must con
tinuously adapt our vision to readjust
ourselves after having fallen out of
harmony with God’s will in our llve3
Is our supreme task. To bring our
wills into subjection to His, to put
ourselves in tune with the Infinite is
a task by no means small, but one
that pays not only socially, but spir
itually also. When life runs parallel
with God’s purpose all is well. When
life goes across His plans all is ill.
No mean ability is required to run
with the Master. Anyone following
his own evil inclinations may go
away from the Lord.
All pleasures and amusements are
not sinful. Some are, and when you
see them you are more than apt to
see the fruits of sin.
The Card Table.
Gambling in any form is hurtful,
and as a usual thing the mania starts
with cards. Experience plus observa
tion shows the results of sin here In
this realm. The story was recently
told and went the rounds of a lady
who won a pair of silk hose at a
bridge whist party and wore them to
church to a preaching service. Wheth
er it be true or not is to be left out
of the question, but such an attitude
is decidedly and distinctly the atti
tude of the people to-day. Alas!
Alas! There are leaders in our mis
sionary work who are also leaders in
whist. The most popular and promi
nent members of our missionary so
cieties are oftentimes the most en
thusiastic members of the town’s
whist club. Such things ought not
so to be. They are contrary to rea
son, to common sense and to the
teachings of Christ. One woman may
play cards and stop and be personally
unhurt; but as a rule the woman who
devotes hours to bridge is ignorant,
and woefully so. of her Bible. Life Is
too short, entirely too short, for both.
The average bridge player has never
read God’s word through and is not
a student daily of its fundamental
principles and teachings. All things
are lawful, but not expedient. Pleas
ure your servant is good, but pleas
ure your master, your tyrant, is bad.
Sin, when it is conceived, bringeth
forth sorrow and death. Against one
who has been helped by cards I’ll
place alongside such 50 who have
been crippled and seriously hindered
by them.
When entering into pleasure it is
always well to ask ourselves, What
would Jesus do were He here?”
Where He would go we could safely
follow. Could He go with the future
and present mothers of our country
and sit down and engage in a game
ihat has been the downfall of thou
sands and with which is associated
shame, murder and viciousness of all
sorts?
No chain is stronger than its weak
est link; no man is stronger than his
weakest point; no church is stronger
than its weakest member.' Each one
is responsible, in part, for the other.
No man liveth unto himself. The
hand can not say to the foot, “I have
no need of thoe." Neither can a mar
say to his neighbors, “I have no need
of you; I can live independent of
you.” We are as much responsible
for our neighbor's environment as he
is for ours. The Golden Rule comes
in with great force and effect here.
“Whatsoever ye would that others
should do unto you, do ye even so to
them.” If eating meat cause your
brother to offend, then stop and eat
no more meat. If you are strong
enough to play cards and be pure ana
good, then in the name of your broth
er who is weak and can not, I ask
you to refrain for his sake, in
helping him you are n^rhaps winning
a soul, and possibly doing good to a
future citizen of the Kingdom of God.
The Theater.
Many of our most learned men (so
called) are strenuous advocates of the
theater as an educator. But where it
has instructed one it -has dragged
down numbers-
pieces where womanhood is cheap
ened and a premium is placed upon
lewdness should bring shame to all.
Even the pictures of some of the ac
tresses and actors In disgraceful poses
are againyt decency and order. Then
it is an expensive habit, too, and one
that costs much time and money.
Life is real and earnest, and tasks
are too stupendous to spend time id
playing.
“Must 1 be carried to the skies
On flowery beds of ease,
While others fought to win the prize
And sailed through bloody seas?
Sure I must fight if I would win.
Increase my courage, Lord.
I’ll bear the part, endure the pain.
Supported by Thy word.”
Often these days you see the ques
tion asked, “What would happen were
Jesus to visit this or that town?”
What in all seriousness would hap
pen should Jesus come and t«ee you
In a ballroom! Would you be glad
or would you be ashamed?
3. The Dance.
All who advocate it do so under
the specious plea of grace and bear
ing which it gives.
Lord Byron, that brilliant genius
who flashed like a meteor across the
literary world and who tasted the
cup of pleasure to the dregs, said;
“But ye who never felt a single
thought
For what our morals are to be, or
ought;
Who wisely wrote the charms you
need to reap,
Say, would you make those beauties
quite so cheap?
Hot from the hands promiscuously
applied,
Round the slight waist, or down the
flowing side,
Where were the raptures then to
clasp the form
From the lewd grasp and lawless
contact warm
At once love's most endearing
thought resign,
To press the hand so pressed by
none but thine;
To gaze upon that eye which never
met
Another’s ardent look without re
gret.
Approach the lip which all without
restraint,
Come near enough, if not to touch,
to taint;
If such thou lovest, love her then
no more
Or give like her caresses to a score,
Her mind with these is gone, and
with it go
The little left behind it to bestow,
For prurient nature still will storm
the breast
Who, tempted thus, can answer for
the rest?”
The daughter of Ilerodias danced
off John the Baptist’s head. Since
then many heads and souls have been
danced off into eternal ruin. Ninety
per cent of our fallen women entered
lives of shame through the dance
hall, and to-day are occupying broth
els as a result of “tripping the light
fantistic toe.” Reason is against the
promiscuous dancing of the sexes. Sin
will enter in when the door is thrown
open, and human nature is still the
same. The close rhythmic contact
of man and woman has never yet
been of much benefit to the masses
of society. Then again if one can
dance to the glory of God, why can’t
all do so? If your wife or sister or
mother were to be found in a bare
room with some other man’s arms
around her, what about it? Could
she ever be the same again? If not,
why not? Why the dance anyway?
Who usually follows it?
4. The Wine Glass.
Listen for a moment to Solomon,
the wisest man of all men:
“Who hath woe? Who hath sor
row? Who hath contentions? Who
hath complaining? W'ho hath wounds
without cause? Who hath redness of
eyes?
“They that tarry long at the wine;
they that go to seek out mixed wine.
Look not thou upon the w r ine when
it is red; when it sparkleth in the
cup, when it goeth down smoothly;
at the last it biteth like a serpent*
and stingeth like an adder.”
To it our nation pays a great an
nual toll. Seventy thousand Amer
ican citizens annually are slain upon
its altars.
In this materialistic age we meas
ure the value" of a thing by its cost
in money. We must value highly
this death-dealing curse.
For bread we spend annually $505,-
000,000.
For meat w'e spend annually $303,-
000,000.
For foreign missions we spend an
nually $11,000,000.
For liquor w r e spend annually $1,-
750.000,000.
For tobacco We spend annually
$800,000,000.
For poodle dogs we spend annual
ly $10,000,000.
For prostitution we spend annual
ly $3,000,000,000.
What a cost? Unbelief, disobe
dience, lying, profanity, impurity, cov
etousness, gambling, murder, drunk
enness—all these things like steps go
up from liquor. Death and hell en
large their borders to prepare for the
devotees of these sinful pleasures
and amusements. Christ came to save
from such. He patiently waits to
save all who w r alk the broad way to
death, men and women who follow
pleasure. Seek that happiness which
comes from serving Christ and which
will last long, long after all earthly
pleasure has passed away. Avoid all
that is evil; cling to Christ and the
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