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> THE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIEFS V lar kets— •Continued | The Uuavoidable Christ j 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.