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THE GEORGIAN’S NEWS GRIEFS
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Markets Continued
GKAIN
SE0I1
CISC
OTTOfl
ST. LOUIS CASH QUOTATIONS.
Wheat—No. 2 red 96 @96 Vi
Corn—No. 2 70 @71
Oats—No. 2 40 Vi @41
CHICAGO, Dec. 16.—Wheat closed net
%c to %c lower to-day, and while De
cember rested on the bottom prices
there were reactions in the deferred
months.
Corn was up %c to %c.
Oats acted in sympathy with corn
and showed an equal gain.
Hog products were without noticea
ble change.
Grain quotations:
Previous
High. Low.
Close. Close
WHEAT—
Dec 89
88%
88%
89%
May 92%
91%
92%
92%
July 88%
88%
89
89 %
CORN—
Dec 70%
69%
69%
70%
69%
May 70 %
70%
69%
July 69%
68%
69%
69
OATS—
Dec 39%
39%
39%
39
May 42%
41%
42%
41%
July 41%
40%
41%
41
PORK—
Jan.... 20.72%
20.67%
20.70
20.90
May... . 21.02%
20.82%
20.85
20.85
LARD—
Jan.... 10.75
10.65
10.65
10.70
May.... 11.05
10.95
10.95
11.00
RIBS—
Jan. ... 10.87%
10.77%
10.77%
10.82%
May.... 11.12
11.05
11.05
11.07%
July
. ■ .
....
11.37%
CHICAGO CAR
LOTS.
Following are receipts for Tuesday
and estimated receipts for Wednesday:
| Tuesday iWedn’sday
Wheat
52
31
Corn
969
756
Oats
196
105
Hogs
38,000
26,000
PRIMARY
MOVEMENT.
WHEAT—
| 1913.
| 1912.
Receipts
891.000
| 1,092,000
Shipments
421.000
| 499,000
CORN—
1 1913.
| 1912.
Receipts
1 2,024.000
| 1.149,000
Shipments ....
| 613,000
1 418,000
LIVERPOOL GRAIN MARKET.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 16.—Wheat opened
unchanged. At 1:30 p. m. the market
was %d lower; closed %d lower.
Corn opened %d lower. At 1:30 p. m.
the market was %d lower; closed Vi to
%d lower.
CHICAGO CASH QUOTATIONS.
CHICAGO, Dec. 16.—Wheat, No. 2
red, 96%@97%; No. 3 red, 92%@95%;
No. 2 hard winter, 90Vi; No. 3 hard
winter, 89% @90%; No. 1 Northern
spring, 91% @92%; No. 2 Northern
spring, 89% @90%; No. 3 spring, 88% @
89%.
Corn—No. 2 white, new, 70; No. 2
yellow, 72; new. 70@70Vi; No. 3 68; new,
64Vi; No. 3 white, new, 65% @67; No. 3
yellow, 70%@71; No. 4, 65@67; No. 4
white, 58%@62%; No. 4 yellow, new, 60
@64.
Oats—No. 2 white, 41%; No. 3 white,
40%; No. 4 white, 34%@40 V4 I standard,
41.
COFFEE MARKET.
Coffee quotations:
| Opening. | Closing.
January. . .
9.30
9.25@
9.27
February. . . . .
9.42@ 9.48
9.38@
9.40
March
9.50@ 9.60
9.51 @
9.52
April
9.56
9.63@
9.65
May
9.80
9.76@
9.77
June
9.90@ 9.95
9.86@
9.87
July
10.05
9.95@
9.97
August . . . . .
10.05@1C.15
10.03(d 10.05
September. . . .
10.184! 10.22
10.12@10.1.4
October
10.204; 10.30
10.16(310.20
November. . . .
10.20
10.20(3
L0.22
December
9.J2(g)
9.13
Closed steady. Sales, 26,250 bags.
ATLANTA LIVE STOCK MARKET.
(By W. H. White, Jr., of the White Pro
vision Co.)
Cattle receipts normal, with the as
sortment uneven and prices irregular,
the range being steady to quarter high
er, with better grades in strongest de
mand Trade has been reasonably ac
tive during the week, but will likely drift
into dullness with the approach of the
holiday season, especially on medium
and plain stock. After January 1 re
ceipts are expected to be lighter, but of
a bdtter grade, and higher price levels
will doubtless be reached.
Hogs continue in good supply, with
prices barely steady to a fraction lower.
The following quotations represent
ruling prices of good quality of beef
cattle. Inferior grades on dairy types
selling lower:
Good to choice steers, 1 000 to 1,200,
6.00@6.50; good steers, 800 to 1,000, 5.75
@6.00; medium to good steers, 700 to 850,
5.25@5.50.
Good to choice beef'cows, 800 to 900,
5.00@5.50; medium to good cows, 700 to
800, 4.50@5.00.
Good to choice heifers, 750 to 850, 5.00
@5.25; medium to good heifers, 650 to
750. 4.25@4 50.
Mixed to common steers, if fat, 800 to
900. 5.00@5.50; mixed to common cows, if
fat,’ 700 to 800. 4.00@5.00; mixed common,
600 to 800, 3.25@4.00; good butcher bulls,
3.50@4.50.
Prime hogs, 160 to 200, 7.60@7.80; good
butcher hogs, 140 to 160, 7.40@7.60; good
butcher pigs, 100 to 140, 7.25@7.40; light
pigs, 80 to 100. 6.75@7.25; heavy rough
hogs, 6.50@7.25.
Above quotations apply to corn-fed
hogs mast and peanut-fattened lc to
l%c under.
COTTON SEED OIL.
1 Opening. | Closing.
Spot
6.65@7.00
December . . . .
6.71@ 6.73
6.57(36.70
January . . . . |
6.78 6.80
6.72(36.74
February . . . .
6.83(36.87
6.85@6 86
March ... . 1
6.99@6.7.00
6.95 @6.97
April
7.04@7.C8
7.05(3 7.08
May
7.12@7.13
7.14(37.15
June
7.14(37.19
7.16(37.19
Juyl . . . . .
7.23@7.24
7.24(37.25
Closed very steady; sales 44,400 bbls.
DCn-WETTING SKi JB.VB
ft# ft> I# Box of Penine, FREE. Address,
MISSOURI REMEDY CO., Offlce 15 St. Louis, Mo.
Amount Ginned by Counties Totals
2,066,109 Compared With
1,564,428 Last Year.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—The amount
of cotton ginned in Georgia prior to
December 1, aggregates 2,066,109 bales,
as compared with 1,564,428 bales during
the corresponding period last year.
The preliminary total for the State
was made public by the Bureau of the
Census at 10 a. m. on Monday, Decem
ber 8, showing ginnings at 2,064,792
bales. After this report is issued the
Department of Agriculture revises each
State’s returns and issues a corrected
total later.
The quantity of cotton ginned by the
different counties in Georgia, counting
round bales as half bales, not including
lir.ters, are shown as follows:
County.
Total
I Crop
1913 j 1912
2,066,109|1.564,428
Appling
6,783
4,214
Baker
7,18!
0,444
Baldwin
10,237
10.157
Banks
9,821
7,429
Bartow
22,16;
16,203
Ben Hill
9,052
7,307
Berrien
15,442
10.276
Bibb
9.198
8,166
Bleckley
12,008
7,795
Brooks
13,317
9.082
Bryan
3,085
2,161
Bulloch
36,142
18,525
Burke
46,168
30,594
Butts
12,970
10,766
Calhoun
16.655
12.943
Campbell
12,698
8,566
Carroll
36.126
26,141
Chattahoochee
5,268
5,083
Chattooga
12,641
9,254
Cherokee
10,942
8,187
Clarke
11,020
9,752
Clay
12,419
9,170
C ayton
10,515
8,474
Cobb
17,530
1.3,093
Coffee
16,860
10,320
Colquitt
21,518
15,749
Columbia
14,417
9,538
Coweta
26,000
24,691
Crawford
5,403
5,076
Crisp
22,913
]6,19i
Decatur
13,473
9,800
DeKalb
10.593
7,532
Dodge
31,215
20,491
Dooly
35,876
26,392
Dougherty
15,360
13,560
Douglas
9,565
6,449
Early
17,925
14,660
Echols
89
191
Effingham
3,792
2.450
Elbert
19,769
13.655
Emanuel
34,386
20,368
Fayette
11,554
10,338
Floyd
19,911
14,892
Forsyth
8.837
6,161
Franklin
20,912
17,422
Fulton
1,875
1.254
Glascock
3.272
2.55 i
Gordon
14,094
11,826
Grady
5,378
5,074
Greene
16,231
12,896
Gwinnett
25,435
17,372
Hall
13,569
9,737
Hancock
16.721
14,386
Haralson
11.491
8,230
Harris
21,112
20.280
Hart
19,911
13.257
Heard
12,045
11,038
Henry
24,555
18,787
Houston
19,669
14,476
Irwin
17,619
12,502
Jackson
37,573
28,831
Jasper
22,554
19,492
.Jeff Davis
3,875
2,986
Jefferson
25,177
19,056
Jenkins
18,539
11,049
Johnson
18,200
12,795
Jones
11,960
11,865
Laurens
46.861
33,630
Lee
15,589
10,967
Lincoln
8,254
6,676
I^owndes
10.189
5,392
Lumpkin
560
453
McDuffie
8,800
6.48.)
Macon
16.293
12,787
Madison
23.113
17,777
Marion
8,869
7,330
Meriwether
29,084
28,023
Mi'ler
5.645
4,197
Milton
7.188
5,702
Mitchell
30.607
22.297
Monroe
21.095
19,111
Montgomery
14.10?
9,682
Morgan
23.747
20,848
Murrav
3.392
2.867
Muscogee
6,737
6,711
Newton
21.293
17,067
Oconee
15,775
11.986
Oglethorpe
21,680
18,096
Paulding
10,803
7,563
Pickens
2,775
2.282
Pierce
4,109
1,85$
Pike
20 695
18,921
Polk
16,146
11,225
Pulaski
15,545
11,238
Putnam
12,345
10,213
Quitman
4,827
4.403
Randolph
26,475
21,793
Richmond
9,607
5,895
Rockdale
9.217
6,061
Schley
6.031
6,190
Screven
28.670’
18,728
Spalding
14.719!
14,820
Stephens
5.895!
4,397
Stewart
13,9321
12.504
Sumter
34.9471
29.511
Talbot
9,6851
9.841
Taliaferro
9.118
6,544
Tattnall
18.295
7,54)
Taylor
11,251
9,18''
Telfair
13.810
10,533
TerreU
35.90.3
31.031
Thomas
20.854
J5.061
Tift
15,0.38
8.816
Toombs
12,216
6,319
Troup
21,974
21,438
Turner
20,8101
15,251
Twiggs
10,925!
8.102
Upson
13,2361
11.849
Walker
7.6031
5.490
Walton
40,658!
28.876
Ware
1.3681
705
Warren
10.9711
7,3.37
Washington
25.574 1
20,117
Wavne
4.3441
1.614
4.650!
3.774
Wheeler
7.238
5,050
W r hitfield
6,066!
4.366
Wilcox
24.987!
15,857
Wilkes
23,172'
19.672
Wilkinson
7.6081
5.728
Worth
26.473|
19,491
All others
6.054'
3,673
MONEY AND EXCHANGE.
NEW YORK, Dec. 16.—Money on call,
3%@3%; time money, unchanged; 60
days, 5; 90 days, 5; six months, 4%.
Posted rates: Sterling exchange, 4.82
@4.85, with actual business in bankers’
bills at 4.8525 for demand and 4.81 for
60-day bills.
Prime mercantile paper unchanged.
FALSE ISMS"
A Sermon by Rev. W. H. Faust, Lexington, Ga.
Text: “I will build My church, and
the gates of hell shall not prevail against
it.” Matthew xvi: 18.
It shall not be our purpose in this
sermon to go into a detailed discus
sion of the church and its technicalities.
Let it suffice to say that the church is
the institution founded by our Lord Je
sus Christ for the purpose of saving
the world, and that it is composed of
men who believe in His divinity and
have been regenerated by the Holy
Ghost, conscious of their dependence
upon God and thoroughly imbued with
a spirit of world-wide evangelization.
“Many men of many minds” is a pe
culiar proverb, of course, lake many
of our other old sayings, there is an ele
ment of truth in it and also a very
large element of falseness in its gener
ally accepted Interpretation—that is,
many people seem to think that It is
perfectly right for hundreds of churches
and isms to spring up, and this Idea has
grown to be immensely popular and has
worked itself out into a regular fad.
Many Denominations Contrary to the
Bible.
Solomon said, “Of making many
books there is no end and much study
is a weariness of the flesh.” If he lived
to-day he might with equal truthful
ness say of making many denominations
there is no end, and the many wrangles
and disputes attached to the process Is
disgusting to thinking people and an
abomination to the Lord. Experts in
statistics and men who claim to know
tell us that we have 200 different de
nominations in the United States. Now
1 say it in no spirit of egotism, but any
ordinary man could intelligently study
the creeds of them all and boil the en
tire number down to a half dozen or
more that would contain all the essen
tial differentiating doctrines of the en
tire number. I believe with all my heart
in the denominational idea. It is as es
sential (seemingly) to have different
churches as it is to have different po
litical parties. And yet we are multi
plying new organizations entirely too
fast. The spirit of the organization is
being forgotten in the multiplication of
creeds and machinery to perfect the
same. Jesus Himself said, “This is My
church, and the gates of hell shall not
prevail against it.” Now which of the
many churches of to-day is Christ’s?
Which of the various multiplied organ-
iztions shall the gates of hell break
down before? These are questions
which confront us on every side.
Newspapers have recently carried in
bold headlines the fact that Baron
Headly has renounced Christianity and
gone over to Mohammedanism, giving
as his reasons that there were entirely
too many divisions in Christendom.
Such reasons are as worthless as a last
summer’s bird’s nest. The student of
church history well knows that Moham
med himself said that there would be
many divisions in his own perfected or
ganization. And evidently, when a man
leaves Christianity for Mohammedan
ism, he jumps from the frying pan into
the fire, so far as divisions are con
cerned.
No, the trouble with the world is to
day that men seek continually some
thing new. The proper thing to do
would be to begin to seek out the
old paths beaten into highways by
the footsteps of consecrated mothers
and fathers and walk in them to the
end.
Purpose of Founders of New Isms To
Destroy Those Existing.
Jesus, who was the founder of Chris
tianity, said that He came not to de
stroy but to fulfil. Not to tear down
but to build up. Jesus came to seek
and to save the lost, and yet the foun
ders of new cults seem to -’eel that
they were called into the kingdom for
the express purpose of destroying all
existing orders, and overthrowing all
established creeds and faiths. A man
never builds up his own house by
tearing down the house of his neigh
bor. It is easy to do destructive work.
It is exceedingly hard to do construe^
tive work. Any man can take a crow
bar and an ax and demolish a building
already erected, but it takes a real
carpenter who understands his busi
ness to take plane and hammer and
saw and square and erect a house.
The builders are not the destroyers.
The man whose heart has been touched
by God goes out into the cold world
and seeks to save the lost sheep of
the hoqse of Israel. The man who pro
poses to become the founder and head
of a new creed goes into ministerial
pastures and preys upon the helpless
flocks of others. Parasitical in their
tendencies rather than uplifting and
helpful.
Enough New Ideas.
Or rather enough so-called new
ideas. For in rea’ity the new schools
of thought are simply dishing up to the
thinking world the old Sadduceah,
Pharisaical, heathen, notions and views,
and attempting to palm them off as
food new and strengthening. The so-
called present day infidel who denies
the existence of a future life may feel
that he has some originality about
him, but he is only silly. The Saddu-
cees had that false doctrine worn to
a frazzle before the first advent of
Christ into the world. Men who love
sin, whose imaginations are only evil
and deleterious continually are only
too g’ad to revel and roll in the cess
pools of their own bestial sensuality
and lust while hugging to their bosoms
the damnable fallacy that they will
have another opportunity to repent in
the world to come. Christ was either
right or wrong when he said every
man shall be judged according to the
deeds committed in the flesh. If the
righteous and wicked both go to the
same place, then where is justice, and
where even a semblance of the in
exorable ’aws of nature?
Will Socialism Save the World?
Study the Book of Acts and find that
the early disciples, the first Christians,
held all things in common. This was
more communism than Socialism as we
have it to-day. It is all right to hav*
all things in common provided all ar«
believers in Jesus Christ, and that all
have been changed by the regenerating
power of the Holy Spirit. But right
here is where Socialism has failed up
to the present. It has had to deal with
men who have not been molded into a
changed humanity by the power of the
Holy Ghost. Only a full faith In the
man Christ Jesus and a complete ad
herence to His teachings will ever en
able Socialism to take the world. So
cialism up to the present lias empha
sized the material—Christianity has al
ways stressed the spiritual and it will
be hard for the Church and Socialism
as it now stands to ever he wedded.
Isms Judged by Their Finished Product.
A tree is judged by its fruit. The
quaint old proverb, "The proof
.P 1 ® , Pudding is the chewing
of the hag’ here holds good. What
has Eddy ism and Dowieism and
the other new cults and fads con
tributed to the world in the way of
men? The church, the old church, the
church established by Jesus Christ the
church which He Himself said ’ the
gates of hell should not prevail against
as it has gone on its conquering wayj
lias produced a Martin Luther, who
could begin the greatest reformation
the world has ever known. It has pro
duced a John Knox, who had the abil
ity and courage to lace one of the
greatest rulers of the day and de
nounce the sins of the government and
its leaders. It has given to the world
a John Wesley, who could defy tra
dition and bring back life to the world
from a spiritual viewpoint when all
seemed to be dead and buried beneath
a perfect avalanche of favor
itism and indifference. The old
church has furnished to the world a
Moody, who could go from ocean to
ocean, from continent to continent and
preach a Gospel that saved hundreds
and thousands of the lost. It gave
a Spurgeon, who, as a young man, could
thrill a London congregation with his
spiritual power and who in his old ago
was a very prince of preachers and
teachers. It gave a Dixon, who could
move Baltimore and shake Chicago and
thrill London and attract the attention
in spiritual circles of the whole civil
ized world. Go where poverty is most
oppressive and you will find that
Christianity alone has built orphan
ages and asylums and sanitariums to
care for the children of the poor and
the aged and*infirm. The great men of
the world have been the products of
the church. Wilson, the head of these
great United States, a Christian, an
enthusiastic churchman; Bryan, our
great Secretary of State, a consistent
churchman; yueeri Victoria and Glad
stone, her great Prime Minister, were
all the gifts of the church to the world.
When Jesus came and uttered the
words of the text Rome was in her
prime. Her soldiers, with ironclad
heels, tramped the world from center
to circumference. and her eagles
screamed over every nation. Greece,
with her primacy of learning, has
passed with her away. Nations and
kingdoms and principalities and pow
ers have passed away. Think you then
that these new fads and isms will dis
place the church? Nay, verily! like
Tennyson's brook, the church of the
living God will go on forever. The
power and wisdom of Christ is behind
it. Its member have received their
marching orders from the King, anti
when they go, as go they must, He is
ever with them with all power in
heaven and on earth at His disposal.
The men who are carrying the heavi
est burdens of this old world are the
church members. The political burdens
rest upon the shoulders of the church
men. The moral and social cares press
heaviest upon the members of the
church.
Heaven and hell are settled realities
in the minds of most men who really
think. Reading the Exposition a few
days ago, 1 ran across the following
that carries with it a very grave and
important lesson: “An atheistic lec
turer held addresses in a number of
French cities recently and announced
that he would give an opportunity for
Christians to discuss his address and
present their side. In one city he spoke
more than three hours, so it seemed
that he would have not only the first,
but the last words also. However, a
plain farmer went upon the platform
and made the following address: “l have
neither the time nor the education so
that I could make a fine speech, there
fore I will let this old Book”'—showing
an open Bible—“speak. Here I read;
‘The fool hath said in his heart, There
is no God.’ ” He closed the Bible and
continued: “One should not debate with
fools; they need a physician’s care.”
Strange to say, this short and rather
blunt speech had a great effect, though
a good portion of the crowd consisted of
friends of Fauces’ views. The short
talk of the farmer had scored over the
elaborate lecture on the theme, “Twelve
proofs against the existence of God.”
Men may try as best they can to per
fect organizations and found sects and
institute societies and promulgate new
views and establish new isms, but God
is the same. The church pursues the
quiet and even tenor of her way, contin
ually basking in the favor and love of
her great Head, even our Lord Jesus
Christ. Like a mighty army moves the
church of God against the forces of
atheism and skepticism and heathen
ism. This mighty militant host, en
thused and cheered and sustained by
the continual presence and omnipotence
of her Captain, will never know de
feat, nor cease to progress until the
banner of the cross floats proudly over
the battlements of the devil and the
kingdoms of this world have become the
kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ.
It is comforting among so much that
is new and that makes such great claims
to turn to the text and read concerning
the church that we love so well that the
gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Grain Notes
Bartlett-Frazier Co. says: “Wheat—
We see nothing weak in the situation
and continue to advocate the long side
on all little setbacks.
“Corn—We are inclined to believe that
present movement will be short lived.
We are not disposed to sell.
“Oats—The market is listless and
moves chiefly with other grains
"Provisions—The market has many
friends who believe in higher values.”
METAL MARKET.
NEW YORK. Dec. 16.—The metal
market was firm to-day. Copper, spot
to February offered at 14%; lead. 3.95@
4.05; spelter, 5.10@5.20; tin, 37.70@37.95.
BAR SILVER.
LONDON, Dec. 16.—Bar silver steady
at 26%d.
NEW YORK. Dec. 16.—Commercial
bar silver 67%c. Mexican dollars 44c.
LIVE STOCK MARKET.
CHICAGO, Dec. 16.—Hogs—Receipts
38,000. Market 5c to 10c lower. Mixed
and butchers, $7.30@7.80; good heavy,
$7.60@7.75; rough heavy, $7.20@7.50;
light, $7.30@7.70; pigs, $5.75@7.10; bulk,
$7.60@7.75.
Cattle—Receipts 6,500. Market weak.
Beeves, $6.76@9.65; cows and heifers,
$3.25@8.10; stoekers and feeders, $5.60@
7.40; Texans, $6.40@7.70; calves, $8.50@
11.25.
Sheep — Receipts 25,000. Market
steady. Native and Western, $3.00@
5.55; lambs, $5.75@8.00.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 16.—Cattle—Receipts
5,800. including 1.200 Southerns. Market
steady. Native beef steers, $7.50@9.15;
cows and heifers, $4.25@S.50; stoekers
and feedrs, $4.50@8.20; calves, $6.00@
11.00; Texas steers, $5.75@7.00; cows and
heifers, $4.00@6.00; calves, $4.25@5.50.
Hogs—Receipts 18,000. Market 5c to
10c lower. Mixed, $7.45@7.75; good,
$7.65@7.75; rough. $7.70@7.80; lights,
*7.45<§7.65; pigs, $6.50@7.50; bulk, $7.45
@7.70,