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CONDITION OF THE MARKETS
Wheat Advances Slightly. but the Rise
Is Smaller than Was Expected.
Corn FIuctuates Frequently, but the Advan-
tage Remains with the 'Bulls'-Provisions
Firm, Accompanied BY Higher Prices
MONEY, BONDS AND STOCKS.

a Quiet Market In New York, with Steadily
Advancing Tendency.
NEW YORK, April - Money on call was
easy at lag per CENT, closing at offered
Prime mercantile paper. sal per cent
Sterling exchange was quiet at 81 s51 for
sixty-day bills and a. 81 for demand.
The total sales of stocks to-day were 233. 264
shares, including the following Delaware,
LacKawanna & Western, Is. 700; Erie, 3.110;
Lake Shore. 1880; Louisville & Nashville,
1900; Missouri Pacific. 7.120; Northwestern.
$685. Reading SO. 200: Richmond & West Point,
x4.77O; St Paul, 2s,326 Union Pacific. 1850;
Western Union 7215
The stock market was quiet to-day, but there
was more vim in the transactions and the tone
was mach steadier than that of yesterday, there
beinga slow and uninterrupted advance through
out the day. A much more confident feeling
prevailed than has been seen at any previous
time this week and while there was nothing
new done by the ''bnIs. the bears were less
aggressive, and few of the traders went over
TO the side of the bulls" The news of the day
was not important, but the harmony developed
at the trunk line meeting had favorable
effect upon the general feeling Lon
don was moderate buyer and
the shorts endeavored to cover.
especially early in the day. Reading was again
. prime favorite; it's transactions were very
the day The opening prices to-day were only
slightly higher than last evenings figures, and
after short-lived depression the entire list
moved up, though Missouri Pacific showed some
weakness The advance lasted throughout the
for enoon. but after that time the business done
underwent marked decrease and the movements
in prices ceased almost entirely. The last hour.
however sho wed more animation, and under the
lead OF Reading and few specialities, every
thing moved mp and the market closed
quiet but firm to strong, at about tbs
best figures OF the day. Almost the
entire list il higher and advances conin ed to
fractional amounts, except for Reading. which
gained IT. and Omaha, and Wheeling g. Lake
Erie, per cent each.
There Ia an immense demand for railroad
bonds, and they cannot be supplied at anywhere
near the ruling prices. While heavy trans
actions are announced from day to day outsids
J of the exchange the business dons at the board
is small. and does not reflect the true state of
the market The recorded sales to-day were
only 81 100 900, but the tone of the dealings was
firm. and fractional gains were made through
out the list
Government bonds were dull and steady.
Sta'e bonds were dull and featureIess. Closing
quotations were:
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Cash Quotations were as follows: =

Cash Quotatlons were as IolIoWs: Flour
ruled rather quiet but Arm No. 2 spring
wheat, 742 077gc: No. 8 spring wheat,
rs 076zc; No. 2 red. s29c; No 2 corn, 544
0543c; No 2 oats 284 0314e; No. 2rye Gle; No.
2 barley, ~ 080c: No. / faxseed. 81 49, prime
timothy-seed, 50 &c 02.67; mess pork. per barrel,
$l405 a 10; lard. per pound, 765c; short
rib sides Cloosej. 7150I174c; 6ry-salted shout
ders (boxed), 5.75 &c; short clear sides (boxed)
7700775c; whisky, distillers finished goods.
per gallon, 81 Is; sugars, cut-leaf SIC; standard
A, 6sc.
On the Produce Exchange to-day. the butter
market was quiet and steady; creamery. q a.
263c; dairy, III 024c Eggs easy at 10 a 16c
Rsceipts-Flour, $4,000 bris; wheat, 5000
bu; corn, $1,000 bu; oats $1,000 bu; rye,
26 900 brls; wheat, 1000 bu; corn, 900 bu;
OATS $4,000 bu; rye, 1000 bu; barley, II, 900 bu.
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NEW YORK April 13.-Petroleurn quiet and
fluctuations small The market opened strong
797ec, but declined i2c In the first hour An ad-
vance Of l4c then occurred which followed by
reaction, after which the market rallied again and
1889; highest sO4c; lowest 793sc; closing sOlac.
Turpentine dull at Ace.
OIL CITY. Pa. April 13-National Transit certif-
Gates opened 799sc; highest SOs4c; lowest 1886
closed SO1ac * rs. l. 295 900 hrls; clearanees s.
112 600 brls; chAters IL Ill brs; shipments. 56,-
677 brls; runs, 44.37S brls-
PITTSBURG. Pa. April 13.-Petroleum active and
firm National Transit certificates opened SOC;
closed at S0sac; highest S07ec lowest 1880.
CLEVELAND. April 13.--Petroleum steady; stand
ard white 100, 7l4c.
WILMINGTON. N. c.. April 13.-Turpentine frm
at 36lsc.
CHARLESTON. s. c.. April 1s.-Turpentins steady
at Soc
SIC.
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NEW YoEK April 13.-Cotton easy. Upland
9sc; Orleans, zsc; sales, $50 bales Futures closed
dull. April a.52c; May. 9.59c; june, 9.7Oc; Au-
gust, 9.S4c; September, 9.63c; October 9.4lc; De-
cember, 8. 33c january, o.4Oc.
NEW ORLEANS. April l3.-Cotton quiet. Mid
ding, 9ssc; low middng, 0c good ordinary, Slac
net receipts. 404 bales; gross receipts S43 bales
coastwise 142 bales; sales 5000 baies stock
zig, 1913 bales
LIVERPOOL April 12.-Cotton-Dull, with
moderate inquiry; sales, 5000 bales. including 1000
American.
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EIDoRA @. Ross-You answer No. 1868 correctly
but you the little too late to compete for
the prize. Please let rs hear from you often.
FRAEK-We very thankful for the well-penned
puzzles. We will use them fast as possible. Please
let hear from you often.
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Original Puzzles.

Original Puzzles.
NO. 2696-NUMERICAL ENIGMA.
I am composed of thirty letters and q say
ing Of great American statesman.
My "a ii, z, 81, 16, is country of Asia.
My %, %, 8, 4, IL, s, 3. II, %, 81 is great
Indiana discovery.
My ID, IL, 81 is boys name.
My 10, l. 6, so is to conceal.
My II, 8, %, 10. 1S, 80 was a great poet
Ny 2, Is % 90 III is to twist.
Ny IS. 8, 80, 10, IA, 20 means decayed.
MARION, Ind. FRANK.
no. 2697-RIMLEss WHEEL AND HUB
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Puzzles Answered.

BY a FL. Lybyer, Brazil, Ind: Nos. 2675, 1876,
2678, 1919 1882
By Frank Marion, Ind: Nos. 2675. 2676, 267s,
2679, 1852.
As both the above solvers send the Same number of
solutions, award each Of them small book, con-
tanning an interesting story.
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MetaIs.

NEW YORK April 13.-Copper weak; lake, 1850
Lead firm: domestic 4a4c. Tin weak; straits, 80 i9c
ST. LOUIS. April l3.-Lead, selling. common
and refined. 4.5Oc
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Drv Condo

NEW YORK, April 13.-The market is unchanged
with either agents iobbers though the volume of
sales COMPLETED is much in excess of the apparent
business in motion.
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ASS: light grades. ordinary best s., lO05 81.
Sheep-heceipts. 100. Shipments 2.1O0. Market
firm; fair to fancy, $406.1O.
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Answers to Puzzles

AnsWers TO Puzzles.
No. 2675-A button.
No. 2676-Sir Humphrey Davy.
No. 2677-Nan ann.
No. 2678-1. Apsheron. 2. Fear. 3. Hard. a.
Sable. g. Mariato 6. North. z. Faro.
No. 2679-1. Victory. 2. Nail
No. 268O-Estafet.
No. 26s1-Valkyr-ia.
No Q6S2-Indiana
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THE PUZZLE DEPARTMENT.

Everything relating to this departmentmust be add
dressed to w. a. Graffam West Scarborough. Cum
berland county, Name. Original contributions and
answers 70 each week puzzles are desiredl
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Spokes-1 to 9, a thorny shrub of Persia; to 10,
a species of beam; to IL, to tranqulize; A to IL,
at the tops TO -, fruit; 6 70 Ia, abbot; z to
10. spicys TO 10, proroun-
Perimeter of wheel The name of giant.
Hub-Eel-like fish PoSEY.
JEFFERsoNyILLE, Ind.
NO. 2698-ANAGRAN.
Some years ago, in western wild,
In cation days beguiled,
Away out Pacific slope,
shot the guileless antelope
Twas there caught real buck
Whose antlers l with carbine struck.
Version, bareback and coffee.
A dinner made, now you agree.
Jared quite well, though all alone
Far out in north temperate zone
MARTINsvILLE. Ind UNCLE TREo.
NO. 2699-HExAGoN.
/. A large boiler used in bleaching establishments.
2. To sym pathize 3. A fine white powder or earth.
4. Re-echoes 5. small water-course g. A tag of
lace formerly used in dress. 2. bristle. DoDo.
NO. 27OO-AMPpTATIoNs.
1. Behead and curtaf garment worn by the Es-
quiu1aux, and leave large boat. 2. hard kind of
wood and leave good. 3. little stick, and leave
exclamation. A. A mineral. and leave "A pronoun.
8. term in carpentry and leave French divine
STRAwTowN, Ind. v. W. xTz.
no. 270l-ENIGMA.
am composed of but few letters. but am part
of the greatest country in the world.
Ny first is an interjection.
Ny first and second is an intersection
My second and third is an intersection.
My last is interjection.
PERU. Ind. BELL.
NO 2702-PRoeREssIvE HALF-sQUARE.
l. A consonant. 2. A short term for mother"
3. To iniure spoil 4. mans nickname. D. A.
month of the year. 9. To move. as body of sol
of Italian lady of high rank UNCLE EPH.
DUPONT, Ind.
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NEW YORK AND CHICAGO.

NEW YORK, April 13.-Bar silver, 92sc
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j., NJ. r.. R.-soUrH.
Leave for Louisville
and the South. 4:l5am SI5am 4:00pm 5:50pn
Arrive from Louisville
and the south.-...lO 2oam 1lloam s:45pm Io:45pm
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and 12xIo, $3.50; nc, 14x2o. roofing tin. $780,
t. 20x2s. $11.OO; block tin IN pigs, 4Oc; tn bars
Ale Iron-27 iron 3i9c; - g iron. Sc; galvan-
lied. so and 10 per cent discount Sheet zinc. ac
Copner bottoms 30c- Pianshed copper 36cs solder
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= POPULAR FASSENHER ROUTES.
Trains leave and arrive at Indianapolis follows:
PANHANDLE RoUTE-EAST.
Leave for PitteburR, New York. ETC.. 4:30am 4:55pm
- Richmond and Columbus, u:0Hlam 4HApni
Arrive from Ny. Pittsb'g and East ll:45am in2pE
= = Columh's, Richmd, etc. 9.4uam 35Opn1
Sleepers to PittsburR and New York without change
CHICAGO DIVISION.
Leave for Chicago and Northwest 1l:l5am l100pm
Arrive from Chicago and Northwest 4:0Oam 3:50pm
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LIVE STOCK.
Cattle Steady, but In Light Supply-Hogs
Active and Higher.

CArrLE-Receipts $50; shipments, 3OO The sup
ply continues light and the quality only fair. Market
steady; few held over for tomorrow.
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Pullman palace cars. elegant reclininRehai cars.
and parlor cars between Indianapolis, Chicago and
Cincinnati.
For tickets sleepngcar accommodations and all in
formation call at Union Depot the Model Ticket
Office. corner Washington and Meridian SITS.
]. Il. MARTIN. Dist. Pass. Agt.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-22
Three Serious Charges.

Northwestern Prohibitionist
William Il. Merriam, president of the Mer-
chants National Bank of St Paul will have
to contend against three elements III his own
party, besides the regular opposition of the
Democratic party, which elements are these:
First-The very large and respectable ele-
ment mentioned by Mr.. Nettleton, who will
not relish voting for a man who pledged
himself, before his election TO the legislature,
TO the liquor league of ST. Paul not to favor
any temperance legislation, and to fight all
such measures and his lodging of the vote
on the high license law may be taken as an
indication that he carried out his part of the
contract.
Second-The very large ard respectable
element among the laboring men who will
not relish voting for man who favored con-
Wet labor, and who had the woodwork in his
house made by convict labor at saltwater.
Now. while this charge may not have much
weight with thinking men, still the fact re-
mains that it viii be a serious objection in
the minds of many.
Third--He is a banker. and National
banker at that, and this will have weight
with many of the labor organizations.
The campaign is now upon us, and 1t re-
mains TO be seen how many Christian tenn
perance men will vote for a man with the
record of Mr.. Merriam on the greatest ques
ton before the nation.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-22
THE WAY 1T WORKS.

The reports of the statistical bureau
OF the census show that if every mill
and factory in this country were run to
their full capacity they would supply
the entire home market in eight months
of each year without any foreign i'm
portatiOn at all When the war tariff
offered a subsidy to manufacturers, to
be taken out of the pockets of their
fellow countrymen, capitalists fell to
putting up mills and furnaces, and the
consequence was that every protected
market was glutted. There were but
two ways by which the manufacturers
could get out of their scrape-One was
by enlarging their markets, the other
was by curtailing production. The
former involved a surrender of their
privilege of taxing home consumers for
their benefit, and was. therefore, not to
be thought of. The other required
cast iron combinations among prOduc-
erS, under the name OF "trustS," with a
view OF restricting production. That
was the remedy the manufacturers
elected to adopt. ItinvOlved periodical
lOck-outs, short time, reduced wages,
and sometimes starvation for working
men, but it promised to accomplish the
end desired, which was profits for the
employers.
1t is in full operation now, and will
continue so long as the high protective
tariff lasts. 1t has thrown thousands Of
men out of employment in this country,
and viii keep on throwing them out
until restricted markets are put an
end IN.
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creased 20 per cent. In nearly every
other occupation the increase has been
over so per cent. Weavers in Bradford
receive $50 per cent, more wages than
they did before the free trade era.
These figures are taken from an
address which was made before the
London Statistical society by its
president, Robert Giffen, LII. d., few
years ago. Mr.. Giffen also showed that
during the same period the hours or
labor had been reduced 20 per cent, the
nine-hour day being almost universal
now in England. AS Mr.. Gitfen put it:
''fhe English workman gets from 90 TO
100 per cent more money for 20 per cent
less work; III round figures, he has
gained from 70 to 40 per cent in tlfty
years in money return" He adds:
while his wages have advanced, most
articles he consumes have rather
diminished in price," Put as
clincher for these figures the follow
ing figures, given by the French econ
omist, Chevallier, in his work on
"Wages in the Ninteenth Century"
published last year, showing the COM
paratiye rate of wages in different
countries: 1.-THE United States, then,
hold the highest position; wages there
are 315 per cent higher than in Australia,
81 per cent higher than in the United
Kingdom, 162 per cent higher than In
(prOtected) Germany, and POS per cent
higher than in (protected) France.
Great Britain, it its turn, shows a rate
of wages higher by AZ per cent than
that of Germany, and by 65 per cent
than that of France.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-22

close the foreign market to us;
and, product thus accommodating, over
production, with its concomitant of low
prices and stagnant market, results.
With an increase of production accom-
panied by an increase of price
which excluded all outlet to for
eign markets, this condition is ineyi-
table. We see that in trade, as in other
things, stimulants cause an abnormal
exeltion, followed as usual by dropping
powers and exhaustion. The course of
cause and effect in the process of trade
stimulated out of its regular course is
plainly evident, and demonstrates
clearly the necessity of sufficient tariff
reform to allow the law of supply and
demand sufficient scope to operate and
produce recuperatiOn from the logical
dizziness Which succeeds period of I'M
healthy enterprise. Take for illustra-
ton the history of pig iron product,
We find it stated that out of 704 fur
naces for the manufacture of pig iron
in the United States, with product of
S,6G6,000 tons year, 416, having pro-
ducing capacity of 4.17G,000 tons, are
doing nothing; AZ of these Suspended
operations two years ago, and at the end
of the last current year the stock I'M
sold at the furnaces amounted to $4,000
tons. So with railroad iron; the
means of production are twice as great
as the demand. These facts are familiar
to every intelligent observer of current
events. Our whole product of manu-
features was valued in 1850 at Sl,019,-
100000; in 1860 at 81, SS5, 600; in 1870 it
reached S4,232, O00, 600; and in 1850, the
last census, it was S5,S69, 100000. The
increase from 1850 to 1860 was so per
cent, or about per cent year; from
1860 to 1870 the increase was 100 per
cent, and from 1870 to 1880 it was so
per cent. The fluctuatiOn and the dis
turbance in business which it Oecasioned
was the result of an unhealthy and
unwiSe stimulant, called the protective
tariff,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-22
A QUESTION OF EDUCATION.

At the session of the Boston Evan
gelical alliance, prominent feature of
the discussions related to the dangers
which beset our educational system
from Objectionable text books. In some
of the states the histories used in the
public schools have both a political and
religious cOloring which must of neces-
sity be distinctly Objectionable to some
of the patrons. The alliance passed
resolution declaring that partisan or
sectarian books of any kind were dan
gerous menace to the public school sys-
TEN of the United States. History can
be taught without making it obnoxious
to any political opinion or any religious
faith, and so long as the educa-
ton furnished by the state is in
tended to reach ali classes of
the people, no good can come
of antagonizing its benefits by
introducing matter which will inevita-
bly, lead to hostile criticism. The atti-
tude of the alliance on these points is
eminently proper and just. But it might
have gone still further and lent the
weight of its influence towards correct
ing one other very obvious evil; that is
the Inauguration of movement toward
the reduction Of the number of secular
text books, thus affording young minds
an opportunity of expanding naturally,
instead of putting them through fore
ing process of cultivation. The compul-
sorry study of a dozen different branches
of education at the same time is simply
fatal to childhood, and has fitted scores
OF youths for premature graves or men,
tai wretchednesS.
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after Snider is beaten will be can
didate for congress from the Fourth
district, HeatwOle, one or two employees
OF the Merchants National bank and a
couple OF petty clerks. Great blanks
containing all of the counties of the
state on them, and on which election
data is to go, are beng prepared. Be-
yond this no particular work is being
done. The quarters look cherries.
Sam Nichols and Darius Reese are
about the only callers. The committee
men present look either savage or blue.
Apathy seems to have seized the once
valiant workers. There is no enthusi-
asm. no wild claims, no work. The
routine proceedings of the day are
painful.
10 a. INDOORS opened.
a. m.-Heatwole wrote letter.
II m.-Newel called.
l p. m.-TaX on champagne 20 per cent
p. m--TaX on cotton goods, 81 per cent
p. m.-Nichols called
o. m.-Wrote letter.
p. INDOORS closed.
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MIR. OAKEs, PROMOTION.

The promotion of Mr.. CAKES to the
presidency of the Northern Pacific rail-
road is gratifying indication that our
st. Paul interests are to be properly
guarded in the future management of
the road. Mr.. CAKES long residence
in our midst has not only enabled him
TO thoroughly understand the impOr-
lance of st. Paul as railway center, but
it has served TO ingratiate him so fully
into the confidence of our people that
they are willing to trust their interests
to his keeping. Apart from all business
considerations, the citizens of our city
unite in extending to Mr.. CAKES their
congratulations upon his promotion be-
cause Of the high personal esteem in
which he is held.
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The Corrupt Means.
Perham Bulletin.


1t is sad commentary upon the intell1-
gence of the masses to make possible the cor
rupt means resorted TO at the late Republi-
can state convention to defeat the will of
the people. But we have every reason to be-
lieve that after calm and deliberate consid-
Grafton on the part of the people that they
will repudiate "Boodler'' Merriam at the
polls. and set their seal of condemnation so
effectively upon boodlers and Doodle meth
DDS of campaign as to offer very little en-
enlargement in the future to that class of
politicians who think that from the fact that
they have been raised in luxury and ease and
without any other qualification they are en-
titled 10 any office they may desire. Six
months ago there was not one man in 5000
who, if asked who his choice was for gov
ernor. would have mentioned Bill Merriam.
The people are TO be congratulated, how
ever, that in Z. Nj. Wilson they have can
didate who they can vote for and feel they
are doing a duty to themselves, their families
and their country.