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GRAIN
Atlanta Markets
A Sermon by Rev. W. H. Faust, Winder, Ga.
ST. LOUIS CASH QUOTATIONS.
Wheat—No. 2 red 954409644
Corn—No. 2 68
Oats—No. 2 40
CHICAGO, Dec. 23.—Wheat was easy
and % lower at the opening to-day.
There was not much buying. North*-
western cars were less than half of last
year’s receipts at this time.
Corn opened 44 higher, on account of
wet weather and snow over the vorn
belt. Offerings were light and the de
mand was fair, but scattered.
Oats opened *4 higher in sympathy
with corn.
Provisions were steady to firm.
Grain quotations:
Previous
High. Low. Close. Close.
WHEAT—
Dec
May.....
July
CORN —
Dec
May
July
OATS—
Dec
May
July
PORK—
Jan.... 20.50
May.... 20.90
LARD—
Jan.... 10.65
May.... 11.00
RIBS—
Jan.... :
May.... :
87%
87%
87%
87%
91
90%
90%
91
87 %
87
87%
87%
69%
68%
69%
69
69%
69%
69 44
69%
69%
68%
69
68%
39%
38%
39
39%
41%
4144
4144
41%
41 %
40%
41
40%
.50
20.42*4
20.45
20.55
i.90
20.80
20.87%
20.8244
(65
10.6244
10.65
10.65
.00
10.97*4
11.00
10.9744
'• (744
10.75
10.77%
10.7744
.10
11.05
11.0744
11.07%
CHICAGO CASH QUOTATIONS.
CHICAGO. Dec. 23.—Wheat: No. 2
red, 94*409544; No. 3 red, 02V4@93^;
No. 2 hard winter, 8814ft/ 89; No. 3 hard
winter, 880 92; No. 1 Northern spring,
93091; No. 2 Northern spring, 89090;
No. 3 spring, 89.
Corn: No. 2 yellow, new, 69%; No. 3,
6144066; No. 3 white, 650 66; No. 3 yel
low, 64066; No. 4, 54(5)61; No 4 white,
*8061; No. 4 yellow, 56061%. '
Oats: No. 3 white, 391404014; No. 4
white, 381403914; standard, 40%#41.
CHICAGO CAR LOTS.
Following are receipts for Tuesday
and estimated receipts for Wednesday;
I Tuesday iWedn’sday
Wheat
Corn
Oats
Hogs
66
991
252
23,000
49
682
167
26,000
PRIMARY MOVEMENT.
WHEAT— | 1913. | 1912.
Receipts
Shipments
890,000
[ 842.000
1,410,000
463.000
CORN—
1 1913.
1912.
Receipts'
Shipmept’s
2,311.000
771.000
1,365,000
592,000
LIVERPOOL GRAIN MARKET.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 23.—Wheat opened
14d higher; at 1:30 p. m. the market
was unchanged to %d lower. Closed
unchanged
Corn opened unchanged; at 1:30 p. m.
the market was unchanged to 4fed high
er. Closed unchanged to %d lower.
ST. LOUIS CASH QUOTATIONS.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 23.—Wheat: No. 2
red. 95140 9614; No. 3 red, 93©94: No. 2
hard, 85(59314; No. 3 hard, 8514086.
Corn: ~No. 2, 68; No. 3. 65%.(56614:
No. 4. 59140 61%; No. 2 yellow. 6S069;
No. 3 yellow, 66(567; No. 4 yellow, 61;
No. 2 white, 68069; No. 3 white, 6614;
No. 4 w 7 hite, 6214.
Oats: No. 2, 40; No. 3, 3903914; No.
2 white, 41140 42; No. 3 white. 39039%;
No. 4, 3914; standard, 4114.
ATLANTA LIVE STOCK MARKET.
(By W. H. White. Jr., of the White Pro
vision Co.)
While cattle receipts were normal, the
local live stock market ruled steady at
unchanged prices during the week. There
was some improvement noted in quality,
with a better assortment coming in.
Light receipts are anticipated for the
remainder of this month, which should
be true on account of the light demand
during the holiday period.
Hogs in good supply, market easy.
Good to cnoice steers, 1.000 to 1,200,
6.0006.50; good steers. 800 to 1,000, 5.75
0 6 00; medium to good steers, 700 to 850,
6 25 0 5.60.
Good to choice beef cows, 800 to 900,
5.00@5.50; medium to good cow r s, 700 to
800, 4.5O05.°O.
Good to choice heifers, 750 to 850, 5.00
05.25; medium to good heifers, 650 to
750. 4.2504 50.
The above represents ruling prices of
good quality of beef cattle. Inferior
grades and dairy types selling low'er.
Medium to common steers, if fat, 800 to
900 5 0005.50; mixed to common cows, if
fat," 700 to 800 . 4.00 0 6.00; mixed common,
600 to 800, 3.2504.00; good butcher bulls,
3.5004.50.
Prime hogs, 160 to 200, 7.60 01.80; good
butcher hogs, 140 to 160, 7.4007.60; good
butcher pigs. 100 to 140, 7.2507.40; light
pigs, 80 to 100. 6.7507.25; heavy rough
hogs, 6.5007.25.
Above quotations apply to corn-fed
hogs, mast and peanut-fattened lc to
144c under.
COTTON SEED Ol
Cotton seed oil quotations:
L.
Opening. 1 Closing
Spot . .
December
January .
February
March .
April . .
May . .
June . .
July
6.6206.75
6.69 0 6.71
6.8406.85
| 6.9606.97
7.0807.09
7.1707.18
I 7.2207.24
7.2607.27
6.60
6.6906.78
6.700'6.72
6.8606.87
16.9806.99
7.0707.10
7.1807.19
I7.220V.24
7.2707.29
Closed steady; sales 6,200 barrels.
NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET.
Coffee quotations:
January. .
February.
March. ,
April. . .
May. . •
June . • »
July. . •
August. .
September.
October. .
November.
December.
j Opening. | Closing.
I 9.050 r t*io! 9.050 9.07
9.190 9.21
9.35
9.48
fi.60@ 9.61
9.85; 9.700 9.71
9.80 0 9.81
9.880 9.90
9.970 9.98
10.040 10.05
1 0.090 10.11
9.02 5 9 05
9.15 .
9.40® 9.60 9.33
9.480 9.65^ 9.46
9.69
9.800
9.900 9.93
9.95010.00
10.06
10.11010.20
10.15
Closed barely steady. Sales, 23,000 bags.
FRUITS AND PRODUCE.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES—Lem
ons, fancy, $3.75 0 4.00; celery, $6.00;
Florida oranges, $1.75 0 2.00; bananas,
2*4030 lb.; cabbage, per crate, 244 c lb.;
peanuts, pound, fancy Virginia, 6%@7c;
choice, 6*406; beets, $1.75 0 2.00; In
half-barrel crates; cucumbers, $2.00®
2.50; eggplants, $2.5003.00 per crate;
peppers, $1.5001.75 per crate; tomatoes,
fancy, six-basket crates, $2.50®3; on
ions, $1.50 per bushel: sweet potatoes,
pumpkin yams. 75® 80c per bushal;
Irish potatoes. $2.50 0 2,60 per bag; con
taining 244 bushels; okra fancy, «ix-
basket crates, $1.5001.76
EGGS—Fresh country candled, 35@
S7c, cold storage. 34c.
BUTTER—Jersey and creamery, In
I-lb. blocks, 2744080c; fresh country,
fair demand, 18020c.
UNDRAWN POULTRY—Drawn, head
and feet on per pound: Hens, 16@17c;
fries, 2244024; roosters, S®l'Jc; turkeys,
owing to fatness 17019c.
LIVE POULTRY — Hen? 40046c;
roosters. 30086c; broilers. 26©3wc per
pound: puddle ducks, 80035c; Pekins,
85®40c; geese, 50060c each; turkey*,
owing to fatness *52217c.
NUTS.
Brazil nuts. 16018c per pound; Eng
lish walnuts, 14 016c per pound; pecans,
owing to size. 1244030c per pound.
FISH.
FISH—Bream and perch, 7c pound:
snapper, 10c pound; trout, 11c pound;
bluefish, 7c pound; pompano, 25c pound;
mackerel. 12c pound: mixed fish, 506c
pound; black fish, 10c pound: mullet.
ll%12e.
FLOUR AND GRAIN.
FLOUR — Postell’s Elc-gant, $7.00;
Omega $6.25; Carter s Best, $6.25: Qual
ity (finest patent), $5.10; Gloria (self
rising), $5.80; Results (self rising), $6.40;
Swan's Down (fancy patent) $6.00; Vic
tory (in towel sacks). $6.25; Victory
(best patent), $6.10; Monogram, $6.00;
Puritan (highest patent), $5.50; Golden
Grain, $5.60; Faultless (finest patent),
$6.25; Home Queen (highest patent),
$5.50; Paragon (highest patent), $5.50;
Sunrise (half patent), $5.00; White
Cloud (highest patent), $5.25; White
Daisy, $5.25; White Lily (high patent),
$6.50; Diadem (fancy' high patent), $5.75;
Water Lily (patent), $5.15; Sunbeam $5;
Southern Star (patent), $4.75; Ocear
Spray (patent), $5.00; Southern star, $5;
Sunbeam, $5.00; King Cotton (half pat
ent), $4.75; low grade, 98-lb. sacks. $4.
CORN—Bone dry', No. 2, white, old 97;
white, new, 96c; choice yellow', old, 95c.
MEAL—Plain, 144-lb. sacks, 91c; 96-
lb. sacks, 92c; 48-lb. sacks, 94c; 24-lb.
sacks, 96c
OATS—Fancy white clipped. 58c; No.
2. 57c; fancy white, 57c; white, 55c;
mixed
Cotton sed meal (Harper), $29.00;
buckeye, $28.50.
Cotton seed hulls sacked, $15.00.
SEEDS—Tennessee blue stem, $1.50;
Appier oats. 75c; TexaS red rust proof
oats, 68c; Oklahoma red rust proof oats,
65c; Georgia seed rye, 244-bush, sacks,
$1.20; Tennessee seed rye, 2-bush, sacks,
$1.00; Tennesse barley, $1.10.
CHICKEN FEED—Beef scraps. 100-lb.
sacks, $3.25; 50-lb. sacks. $3.50; Aunt
Patsy mash, 100-lb. sacks, $2.50; Purina
pigeon feed, $2.50; Purina baby chick
feed, $2.35; Purira scratch, 100-lb. sacks,
$2 20; 50-lb. sacks, $2.00; Purina scratch
bales, $2.40; Purina chowder, 100-lb.
sacks. $2.40; Purina chowder, dozen
pound packages. $2.50; Victory baby
chick, $2.20; Victory scratch, 50-lb
sacks, $2.15; 100-lb. sacks $2.10; No. 1
chicken w'heat, per bushel, $1.35; No.
2. per bushel, $1.25; oyster shell, 80c;
special scratch, 100-lb. sacks, 80c; Eggo,
$2.15; charcoal, 50-lb. sacks, per 100
pounds, $2.00.
SHORTS—Red Dog, 98-lt. sacks, $1.85;
white. 100-lb. sacks, $1.90; dandy mid
dling, - 100-lb. sacks $1.75; fancy, 75-lb.
sacks, $1.80; P. W., 75-lb. sacks, $1.75;
brown, 100-lb sacks, $1.70; Germ meal,
75-lb. sacks, $1.75; Georgia feed, $1.70;
Germ meal, 75-lb. cotton sacks,
clover leaf, 75-lb. sacks, $1.60;
75-lb. sacks, $1.50; 100-lb. sacks,
bran and shorts, mixed. $1.65;
meal. Borneo, $1.70
GROUND FEED—Purina feed, lOO-.b.
sacks, $1.80; Purina molasses feed. $1.85;
Kandy horse feed, $180; Harrodairy feed.
$2.00; Arab horse feed. $1.85; Allne°da
feed, $1.65; Suerene dairy feed, $160;
Monogram, 100-lb. sacks, $1.60; Victory
horse feed, 100-lb sacks, $1.70; ABC
feed, $1.60; Milko dairy feed, $1.65; al
falfa meal. $1.55; beet pulp, 110-lb.
sacks, $1.65.
HAY—Per hundredweight: Timothy
choice, large bales. $1.30; large light
clover mixed, $1.20; Timothy' No. 1 small
bales. $1.25; Timothy No. 2 hay, $1.15;
heavy clover hay, $1.15; No. 1 light
clover mixed, $1.20; alfalfa, choice, pea
green, $1.35; alfalfa No. 1. pea green,
$1.30; clover hay, $1.20; Timothy stand
ard $1.05; Timothy, small bales, $1;
wheat straw, 70c.
GROCERIES
SUGAR—Per pound: standard gran
ulated, 5c; New York refined, <44c;
plantation, 4.85c.
COFFEE—Roasted (Arbuckle) $21.75,
A AAA $14.50 in bulk, in bags and bar
rels $21, green 20c.
RICE—Head, 4440544. fancy head, 6%
@7c, according to grade.
LARD—Silver Leaf, 13c pound; Seoco,
9%c pound; Flake White, 8 44c; Cotto-
lene, $7.20 per case; Snowdrift, $6 50 per
case.
SALT-One hundred pounds, 53c: salt
brick (plain), per case, $2.25; salt brick
(medicated), per case. $4.85; salt red
rock, per hundredweight, $1; salt white,
per hundredweight, 90c: Granocrystal,
per case, 25-lb. sacks. 85c; salt ozone,
per case, 30 packages, 90c; 60-lb. sacks,
80c; 25-ib. sacks, 18c.
MISCELLANEOUS — Georgia cane
syrup, 37c; axle grease, $1.75; soda
crackers, 744c pound; lemon crackers,
8c; oyster, 7c; tomatoes (two pounds),
$1.65 case, (three pounds) $2.25; navy
beans, $8.25; Lima beans, 744c; shredded
biscuit, $3.60; rolled oats, $3.90 per case;
grits (bags) $2.40; pink salmon, $7; co
coa, 88c; roast beef. $8.80; syrup, 30c
per gallon; Sterling ball po«ash. $3.30 per
case; soap, $1.5004 per case; Rumford
baking powder, $* 50 per case
PROVISION MARKET.
(Corrected by White Provision Co.)
Cornfield hame. 10 to 12 average, 17*4c.
Cornfield hame, 12 to 14 average, 1744c.
Cornfield skinned hams, 16 to 18 av
erage, 17.
Cornfield
age, 12 %c.
Cornfield B. bacon, 24.
Cornfield sliced bacon, 1-pour'd boxes,
12 to case, $3.30.
Grocers’ style bacon, wide and na*-
row, 1744 c.
Cornfie'd fresh pork sausage, link or
bulk, 25-pound buckets, 13 44-
Cornfield frankforts, 10-pound car
tons, 13.
Cornfield bologna sausage, 25-pound
boxes, 12.
Cornfield luncheon ham, 14 44-
Cornfield smoked link sausage, 11.
Cornfield smoked link sausage, in
pickle, 60-pound cans, 6.50.
Cornfield frankforts, in pickle,
pound kits, 1 85.
Cornfield pure land, tierce basis, 1244
$1.75;
bran
$1.50,
Germ
picnic hams, 6 to 8 aver-
16-
Text: “He could not be hid.”—Mark
vii: 24.
Nineteen hundred and fourteen
years have come and gone and this
glad Christmas time finds us again
celebrating the birthday of the Prince
of Peace, and consciously and uncon
sciously the whole world is testifying
to His divinity, claims and Sonship.
The greatest infidel in the wrorld (if
there be any real infidels) each time
be takes his pen in hand to w r rite a
letter and begins with the day and
year testifies to the year of the Lord.
Look about you and enjoy the store
windows, and the holly and mistle
toe and toys, and read in the press
dispatches the appeals for the help
less, and in the advertisements the
call to come and purchase that class
of presents that will cheer the hearts
Of your best friends. See the looks of
eager expectancy on the faces of the
children as they gaze upon the holi
day displays. The man remotest from
the throb and rush of the bristling
city's traffic catches the spirit of
Christmas and jogs along homeward
near the 25th of December with his
buggy loaded with toys and pres
ents which will brighten and make
more Christlike the lives of the chil
dren and the patient wife, who has
helped all along bear the year’s bur
dens.
For the 1914th time people have
met to celebrate the advent of the
King, and each recurring season
brings us more and more for which
we should lift grateful hearts to the
Giver of all good. This delightful
season we w r ould not avoid Christ if
we could. We could not avoid Him
if we would. He is ever present with
us, and the w’orld about us is this
week bearing witness to the fact of
the Christ. The merchant is under
lasting obligations to Jesus for the
occasion. The children love Him for
the season. The older people who
have grown up in body and in years,
but not in spirit, love Him for the
Christmastide of goad cheer and sin
cere and kindly greetings. The crim
inals even in earth’s jails and peni
tentiaries are made glad as they
somehow hope that under the reign
of the Christ their burdens and sen
tences will be lessened and light
ened or pardoned. Christ is here. In
the churches with their thousands of
spires pointing heavenward and their
bells ringing out the glad tidings of
peaec and good will to men, in the
great business houses with their holi
day and quiet rest, one can see the
joy of the day. The bright smiles
upon the faces of all tell that some
thing out of the ordinary is occur
ring and a feeling that is indescrib
able possesses each one. A desire to
honor the King by showing love and
good cheer to His subjects is on all
sides observed.
Men Must Think of Christ.
Christ is indeed unavoidable, and
yet as, through a chain of peculiar
circumstances, he thrusts Himself
upon the people, they often cast Him
aside and, like one of old, say: ‘‘Go
thy way for this time, and at a more
convenient season I’ll call for thee.”
Never before in the ages of the
world’s development have men
thought so much. We have a world
filled with scholars and thinkers, but
in the throngs that crowd the thor
oughfares hunting for holiday bar
gains too few are to be seen who are
really seeking the pearl of great price.
Financially, the world is forging
ahead and the brains of the foremost
thinkers are daily struggling to in
vent some new method which will
succeed ih extracting more of the
world’s honor and goods therefrom,
but comparatively few are thinking in
Christ’s thoughts and searching out
means and devolving plans by w'hieh
the world can be made to conform
more and more to the image of the
Son of God.
Pause, oh man, and think for a mo
ment of this world without Chris
tians, without Christ. We boast of
our democracy and freedom of speech
and thought; we pride ourselves upon
the care that we take of the poor and
needy and helpless; we delight in
contributing to the orphans and to
those who are really in need; but
where Christ is unknown and not Un
derstood you will find no orphan
ages and asylums and sanitariums.
They all find their support and suste
nance in the lands where Christmas
is most observed Civilization is
greatest where Christ is recognized.
Our present day successes and
achievements in sociology, high
finance, morality and good govern
ment are the results of the teachings
of our Christ concerning property and
the relation that should exist between
man and man and between man and
God. The universal brotherhood of
man will forever remain a vague chi
mera, a pure and simple figment of
the imagination, until ther* first
comes the power of the Gospel of
Christ, the universal fatherhood ot
God.
It remained for Jesus to tell of the
man on the Jerusalem-Jericho road
who fell among thieves and was rob
bed and beaten and left for dead, and
was scorned by priest and Levite and
cared for by the Good Samaritan. This
alone has done more to interpret the
Christ spirit than thousands of Phar
isaical sermons meted out to men of a
Levitical type of mind.
When Jesus was here on earth He
was ever found where the need of
lost men was greatest. Never was
need greater than to-day. When He
ascended to the right hand of the
Father He promised the continual
presence of the Holy Spirit. The
Spirit strives with every man and wit
nesses the need, and calls and urges
that a hearty response be made ua
every call of suffering humanity.
And to-day, when we give our prc.v*
ents—yea, w hen we give even a coo
of cold water in the name of the M;i*t
ter—He is by to reward. The Spir#
of Christ was the giving spirit. Met
to-day withhold their gifts from the
church and keep their influence away
from His earthly sanctuary. They
enjoy its privileges and advantage*,
but hesitate to contribute to its proi>«
agation and support. When will
Christ’s institution come to be un
avoidable to such, and w'hen will they
support it as they should?
2. Where You See Unselfishness You
See Christ.
Somewhere recently I read a touch
ing little story of an aged couple, who
always kept a vacant chair at tke*r
table for the Master. One day about
the noon hour a poor, feeble, ragged
tramp, hungry and thirsty, footsore
and weary, came along. Only for a
moment did the good couple hesitate
to invite him in. The tramp took his
seat. The blessings of Deity were in
voked upon the frugal noonday meal.
The conversation turned upon the
Master, and gradually the rags began
to melt away from the form of tho
tramp. His countenance changed, his
face shone, his garments were daz
zling, and lo, it was the Christ at the
place. “As oft as ye have done it
to one of these the least of My little
ones ye have done it unto Me.”
The humanitarian spirit that is be
hind our public schools and benevo
lent institutions everywhere to-day is
only found where Christ holds sway.
No heathen nation has ever provided
for the education and training of its
children that has not found its inspi
ration in the example of those who
love the Lord.
Slavery has never been totally ob
literated save in those countries
where Jesus holds sway. Go back to
the Dark Ages of the world’s history,
when men were bought and sold like
sheep, when the ties of parenthood
and childhood were ruthlessly sev
ered, when the mother with stream
ing eyes looked upon her daughter
sold body and soul to the highest
bidder without being able to inter
fere, and on every side behold a look
of stolid indifference where sympa
thy and love should have beamed,
and see the results of Christ’s pres
ence in alleviating these awful condi
tions.
Go into the homes all over America
this joyous Christmas season and
watch the children on Christmas Eve
as they retire, and are scarcely able
to sleep for thinking of the presents
and the visits of Santa Claus. Happy
childhood is not found anywhere in
the whole w ide world save where the
Christ Child has gone before and
made such joy possible.
One of our great Northern preach
ers tell9 of a visit to the Far East as
follows:
“In India T saw that monument, The
Taj-Mahal. In the center of the struc
ture is a piece of marble sixteen le t
across and eight or ten feet high. A
Mohammedan guard stands there, and
while I was looking up he shout d
something about one God and Mo
hammed his prophet. It echoed and
re-echoed, and we listened. I could
not leave with that echoing across
the world, and I begged permission
to stand where the soldier stood. Re
luctantly he consented. Then lifting
up my voice I shouted, ‘Jesus, highest
over all,’ and it echoed and re
echoed to the highest peak of the
Himalayas. That cry is to sound
around the world.”
Indeed, it has reverberated aroun$
the world in the notes of gladness that
are everywhere sounded forth at this
glad Christmas tide.
3. Everywhere Christ Is Manifest.
Walking down the streets of one
of our important cities recently, I
looked up and saw the picture of a
great red cross, and the notice, “Red
Cross stamps for sale here.” Thesa
stamps were being sold for the pur
pose of ameliorating suffering. The
sign of the cross was a witness to
the power of Christ and His influence
in such a worthy object. Thus in our
advertisements Jesus is unavoidable.
Roam in the green pastures of the
world’s best literature and one is con
tinually brought face to face with the
Nazarene. Browning, in chaste lan
guage and cultured trophe, refers to
His Spirit. Milton, with ponderous
swung, describes His work, and Ten
nyson sweetly unfolds His work and
purpose, w'hile Cowper sings of His
transcendent glory. No book in re
cent years that is really worth while
has been written that He has not in
dited the subject matter. Bunyaa’s
“Pilgrim’s Progress,” Milton’s “Par
adise Lost” and Bryan's “The Prince
of Peace” are classics incomparable
in their sphere. Language fails to
carry an adequate idea of their hold
on the hearts of people. Take Christ
out and they would be worthless and
unknown. A spirit of evangelism
should permeate our hearts as we
contemplate Him who sail, “Go into
all the world and preach the Gospel
to every creature.”
A spirit of enthusiasm should pos
sess us as we w'atch the gradual un
folding of His plans; a spirit of serv
ice as we contemplate what He has
done for us, and w'hat his Christmas
means to us, and we should at this
festive season enthrone Him ane.v
in our lives and thought, and as He
is unescapable. unavoidable and ir
resistible, we should all give our
lives and our all unreservedly into
His keeping.