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THE COMMERCIAL
WORLD.

were regarded re- favorably by holders. They amount
eo 10 So4 ,sSl, and 50s05 bushels cleared at the
cepts We're 430 cars. May corn opened at 2e3s@
Z9H2c, sold between 2912c and o9140293sc, clos
ing at 29Ssc, unchanged from yesterday. Esti-
mated receipts for Monday 375 cars
oATS-As usual the oat market presented moth
Ing interesting. 1t was dull, inactive fairly
steady The tone was firm to correspond with
similar variations in wheat and corn. Receipts
We're 200 cars No oats were taken from store.
May oats closed a shade higher than yesterday.
Estimated receipts for Monday PIE cars
FLAN-Was duh and steady. Cash No. l, 81 1a1
S2c; December. 92c; May CSC. Receipts were
PRoVISIONS-Tradew was dull, and the feeling
steady in product. No direction was reported in
Without this guide provisions elected TO remain in
the one position. January pork closed a shade
lower than yesterday; January lard and ribs un-
changed.
Closing Prices.
WHEAT-November, SIC; December, 571sc;
CoRNENovemDer, 2s14c; December. 27ssc:
OATS November, 1sc; December, 1870;
,PoRK@November. So O71a; January, SO o71a;
LARD..November. SIS 471a; January, s6 go;
R1Bs-No7ember 81 421a; January, 81 571s;
May, Sd S215.
BUTTERErhe butter market was in about the
same condition as of late. Stocks were light and
the arrivals small. There was fair demand, and
the feeling was steady. Prices were unchanged:
ThG6S-Wero. steady. ReCelptS were nouerdIe.
The supply of fresh stock was very light. Ice
house sold fairly well. Strictly fresh brought 2OD
2lc: icehouse at 1412GDl5 sc 4 dozen.
MONEY-Was 5(G511a per cent on call and 6@
per cent on time loans. New York exchange
sold at SIC premium.
Livestock.
UNION STOCKYARDS. ILL. Nov. 16.-The
cattle market was quiet to-day, the supply being
small Quotations were steady. There was fair
demand for hogs, and considering the wet weather
and muddy alleys the sales were good. Prices were
steady. The receipts Of sheep were light, but so
was the demand ana Inc market was not more
than steady.
CATTLE - Receipts, 300. Common to extra
steers, So lO@5: stocKers and feeders, 81 25@
g So: COWS and bulls, 81 40@3 25; calves, 50 75@
6; Texans, S2@S 40; Western rangers. 81 25@3 10
GS-Receipts. $4,000 Heavy packing and
shipping lots, So 55@3 rs; common 10 choice
mixed, SIS 40@3 rs; choice assorted, So 6o@3 70;
light, So 4063 70; pigs, S2@S IS.
| SHEEPEReceipts, $500. Inferior to choice,
81 1908 so; lambs, 1904 so.
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PROVISIONS.

CURED Neutrality-suspicious. remain unaltered.
Bacon Is quotabe at &c q ID for heavy and 71sc
p h for light medium, 1O1ac q h for light, ll@
12c for extra light and for sugar cured East
Hams lie; Mess Beef, $7@s D bbl; extra mess
do, $S;99; family do, $40; extra prime Pork, SO
p bbl; extra clear, $l6 p bbl; mess, $l4 p Dbl;
Smoked Beef, 91a@1Oc q fb. -
LARD-Eastern tierces, quotable at 6@614c q
10 for compound and &c for pure; pals, 81 &c; Cali
fornia tierces, 51ac for compound and 1ac for
pure; half bbls, 7c; 10-b tins. 74c; do 5ib, 71ac
D ID.
CoTToLENE-7c in terces and 77sc o Ii in
TO- Ii tins.
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DEcIDUoUs AND CITRUS FRUITS.

ORCHARD FRUITS - Persimmons, 40@75c;
Apples 60@90c for good to choice and 25@50c for
common to fair; Winter Nellis Pears, $1@1 So
other Pears are nominal.
BERRIES - Cranberries, $40 p bbl; Huckle-
berries, 4@5c q ID; Raspberries, $3G6: Strawber-
chest for large berries
GRAPEs-Black grapes. 30@40c p box; Mus
cats, 30@40c; Verdels, 35@40c: Cornichon, 400
Soc; Tokay, 30@40c p box: Grapes in crates bring
lOc more than in boxes. Wine Grapes wet,
and generally poor and slow Of sale at $l2
@ls p ton.
CITRUS FRU1TS-California Oranges, ST 75@
2 so q box for Seedlings and 81 50@5 25 p box
for Navels; Lemons, 1902 so for common and s3
13 so for good to choice; Mexican Lines, $39b;
Bananas, $1@2 . bunch; Pineapples $2@5 q doZ
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81 O514 400, ST O51a: 100, 81 o5ss; TOO, 81 O51s.
December-400, 9934c; 100. 991ac; 200, 995sc.
BARLEY-The Crown of Denmark takes for
London 81 925 ctis Chevalier, valued at $50, 900.
The market rules strong, with further advance
in futures. Feed 6O@6212c: choice, 65c; Brew
ing, 671a@75c; Chevaller. 81 1091 20 for No.
and 60@75c q ctl for on grade
CALL BOARD SALES.
INFORMAL SEssIoN-10 oclock-May-200 tons,
671c; 1OO 673sc
REGULAR MORNING SEssIoN-December-10
to ns,, 6312c
OATS-Dealers report more steadiness at the old
quotations. Arrivals have been light OF late.
Milling, 60@7Oc; fancy Feed, 70@75c; good to
cnoice e71a@671ac; common to fair, 50@55c:
Gray, 571a@67 1ac; Red, for seed, S5(G95c; Black,
for seed, 81 10@I 80; Surprise, S0@90c 3 ctl
CORN-Continues dull, though receipts and oner-
ngs are light. Large Yellow, 7712@S0c D ctl
Small Round do, S0@S212c: White, s5@9Oc q ctl.
RYE-75@S0c q ctl.
Observation-Disclosures heavily supplied and
the market weak at S5l692lac q ctl.
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HIDES, TALLOw, WOOL AND HOPS.

HIDES AND SKINS-The-e was no further de-
cline yesterday. but the market was very soft.
Heavy sailed steers, &c fs ID: culls and brands &c
medium, &c p h; cus and brands. &c p ID: light,
51a@6c q ID: culs and brands, &c q n; Cow
h1ces oh2g6c 10; @ cuiis ana v brands, oc; salted
usual selection, 12013c p H.: culls and brands
S@9c; dry Kip and Veal 10c q ID: culls, 7@Sc: dry
cali, l5c cus, 10c q 10; Goatskins, 20t935c each
Kids SC; Deerskins, good summer, soc; medium,
15@25c; winter, 10@15c; Sheepskins, shearlngs,
2Oc each: short wool, 30@40c each: medium, so
@6Oc each; long wool, 6O@7Oc each. Culs of all
Kinds, about 1ac less.
TALLoW-No. ! rendered is quotabe at 4140
41ac fB ID; country Tallow, 4@414c; refined, &C.
Grease 3G31ac = ID.
WOOL-We quote Fall as follows: Humboldt and
Mendocino, 7619c u ib; San Joaquin and Southern,
31a@l5c u ID; free Mountain, 6@7c; defective 90,
4@6c p n.
HOPS-6M7c a m
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HAY AND FEEDSTUFFs,

BRAN-$13@14 @ ton jobbing rates
MIDDLINGS-$16t@1 for lower grades up to
$50 so Il ton for the best.
FEEDSTUFFS-Roled Barley, S14 50@l5 so;
Oicake Meal at the mill. SIS . ton jobbing. $50;
Cottonseeu Uilcake, $24.
HAY - Was easier yesterday under rather
heavier receipts, though no decline was quoted.
Wheat and Oat S70li: Barley, Sc 5O@9; Alfalfa,
s6@7 so: Glover, Sc 5O@7 SO; Compressed, $6@
IL; Stock S5G6 q ton.
STRAW-35M7Oc "a bale.
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POULTRY AND GAME.

POULTRY-Turkeys continue dull and weak.
Live Turkeys, 10c q ib for Gobblers and lOc q b
for Hens dressed do, 10@121ac; Geese, p pair,
81 5O@1 rs: Ducks, S4@6 p doz: Hens, So 50@5;
BOOSTERS, young, $4@5 o doz: do, old, $4@5: Fry
ers, s4 Broers, SO 5Ot@4 for large and So 50@3
for small; Pigeons, 81 1892 q dozen for young
and $101 25 for old.
GAME-Receipts Of all kinds were very heavy
and prices broke. Quail, $1@1 25Fa dog; Mailard,
S2G3; Canvasback, $4fl7; Sprg, 81 1892: Teal.
$l@l 25; Wfdgeon, Sl@1 25: Small Duck, 75c@
81: Hare, 81: Rabbits. 81 25@l SO for Cottontails
and 81 for small; Gray Geese, $2@2 so: White
$s oO@5; English Snipe 81 50@3: Jack Snipe, 81
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BUTTER, CHEESE AND EGGS.

BUTTER Creamery is well cleaned up and
prices have again advanced Diaries are also doing
better in sympathy, though poor stock drags.
CREAMERY-Fancy, 26c, with sales at an ad-
vance; seconds, 24G25c.
DA1RY-Fancy. 22@24c; good to choice, ls92lc;
lower grades, 1212@l6.
CREAMERY TCB-20@2lc p b.
PICKLED--l6@1Sc q ID.
FIRKIN-15@16c @ ID.
CHEESE-The market rules firm. Fancy mild
new 9@10c a ID: common to good, 6@Sc; Young
America 9@10c; Eastern, 12@13c a n.
EGGS-All good Eggs are steady at the quota
tions Fancy Eastern, 2712c; good to choice East
@2712c; cold-storage RANCH 2212G30c: pullets
Eggs, 25@30c; ranch Eggs, 35@40c.
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BEANS AND SEEDS.

TRANSFORMERS are liberal and the market is
still dull. Bayos quotabe at $1@l Is D ctl; Small
Whites, 81 25@1 So p ctl; Pea, 81 50@1 65; Large
Whites, 81 1901 90: PINK. Sl@1 10: Reds, 81 Is
@1 25; Blackeye, 81 1901 s5: Red Kidney, 81 o0
SEEDS-Brown Mustard is quotable at 81 rs
az p ctl: Trieste, S2@2 10 q ctl; Yellow
Mustard, 81 25@1 go q ctl Flax, 81 80 2 ctl
Canary, 3G31ac q ID: Alfalfa 634@714c . ID;
Rape. ls4@2c . ID; Timothy, 63ac p h; Hemp,
4c p b.
Niles, 81 2O91 40 for Blackeye and 81 40@l go q
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POTATOES, ONIONS, VEGETABLES

POTATOES-No further change. Sweets quot
able at 75c@s1 25 q ctl: Salinas Burbanks, 60@
S5c; River Burban&s, 3O@40c; Oregon Burhanks,
5O@65c; River Reds, 3O@35c p ctl.
ONIONS-Steady at 45@6Oc; Pickle Onions, IS
@5Oc q ctl.
EGETABLES-Gree Peppers, 20@40c q box;
Dried Peppers, 10@11c q ID; Tomatoes, 2095Oc .
bx; Green Peas, 21s@3c; Garden Peas, 5@6c: String
Beans, 5@7c; Lima Beans, 4@o5c q 10: Cucumbers,
25@5Oc q box; Dried Okra, 1212c p ID; Egg Plant.
940c; Garlic, 3@4c q ID: Marrowfat Squash, S7@S
q
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EXCHANGE AND BULLION.
THE WEEKS FAILURES.

The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency reports 81
failures in the Pacific Coast States and Territories
for the week ending yesterday compared with 25
for the previous week and IL for the corresponding
week OF 1894. The failures for the past week are
divided among the trades follows: ! bank, l
insurance, restaurants, l millinery, general
groceries and liquors, livery, butchers hard
ware, 2 sheep-ralsers, l bakery, ! hotel and
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FOREIGN MARKETS.
WHEAT IN LIVERPOOL.

WHEAT IN LIVERPOOL.
LIVERPOOL, ENG, Nov. 16.-The spot market
is quiet at 5s 3d@5s 41ad. Cargoes are dull at 27s
Sd NoVember-Decembe Der shipment.
FUTURES.
The Produce Exchange cable gives the following
Liverpool quotations for NO. Red Winter: No
vember, 5s 214d; December, 5s 212d; January, os
Sd; February, 5s 314d; March, 5s 4d.
SECURITIES.
LONDON, ENG. Nov. 16-Consos, 1861; sill
yer, 3034d; French Rentes, -
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caused by shifting Of her barge and necessitating
her going into Auckland, will somewhat upset the
business of English buyers, who will not get sup
plies on her until next spring. which they
ably expected to receive the present month. The
local papers have lad much to say about the
packing of fall run fish under Columbia River
labels that il is needless for refer 1t beyond
remarking that no longer does label necessarily
indicate the source of origin quality of the
tents of the can all of which should strengthen the
whose position has become assured by their efforts
to maintain quality i'll the pack" The Alaska
Packers, Association quotes Red Salmon as fol-
lows: In lots of 25, 600 cases csc; 10000 cases
921ac; $4,000 cases, 9Oc q dozen. net cash +. o. b.
eX-shp.
SUGAR-The Western Sugar Refinery Company
quotes terms net cash: Cube Crushed, Powdered
and Fine Crushed alf5Ssc Dry Granulated, 4s4c;
Confectioners' A. 45Sc; Magnolia A, 37Sc; Extra c,
384c: Golden c. 36sc alf-barrels, lac more than
barrels, and boxes 12c more.
SYRUP-Golden, In bbls, 15c; Black Strap, 10c
q gal.
SAN FRANCISCO MEAT MARKET.
Wholesale rates for dressed stock from slaugh-
terers follows:
BEEF-First quality, 5@51ac; second quality,
41ac; third do, 394c p h.
VEAL-Iarge 4G5c: small, 5@7c y h.
MUTTON-Wethers, 41a@5c; Ewes, 4@41ac
q ID.
LAMB-51a@6c p fb.
PORK-Live Hogs, Sc for large, SAC for small
and - for feeders dressed do, 41s@51ac p tb.
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BANK CLEARINGS.

Local bank clearings last week were $l7 l94, AL
against $15,165,229 for the same week in 1894.
This gain shows improved business.
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gOMPlGNlECEyERALETRAN
WHITE STAR LINE.
United States and Royal Mail Steamers
BETWEEN
new york, Queenstown g. LiverpooI

NEW York, Queenstown g. Liverpool,
SAILING EVERY WEEK.
(iABIN, $50 AND UPWARD ACCORD
~ ing to steamer and accommodations &f879
Selected: second cabin, $50 and $40; MajesIic and
Ieutonic $35. Steerage Tickets from England Ire
!ano, scotland. Sweden, Norway and Denmark
cnrougn 70 oan FRANCISCO at lowest rates. Tickets,
from w. III: AVERY, Pacific Mail Dock or at the
Generai ONCE OF the Company, 6l3 Market street,
under Grand Hotel. 6. W. FLETCHER
General Agent Tor Pacific Coast,
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BOARD SALES.

Following were the sales in the San Francisco
STOCK Board yesterday:
REGULAR MORNING SESSION COMMENCING AT9 40.
600 Alpha 29 so Chollar. ...56 500 Ophir. Il. 5
100 Andes .2S3OO CC&V .2.40 100 Ovrmn ....l 2
200 Belcher.. 30l00 Conid =. ..96200 Potosi 50
200 $4,000 q & c.. ..3O40O .......... 10
30 Bodie $1,000 Mexican ..44400 Union c.. 81
Following the sales in the Pacific Stock
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NEW YORK STOCKS.
Bonds, Exchange. Money and Railroad
Shares.

Money on call is nominaly 119@2% Prime mer-
camille paper, 5@512%. Bar silver, 67%sc. Mexican
dollars. Sac. Sterling exchange Is trm with actual
business in bankers bills at 81 S734@4 SO for
90 days and 81 s914@4 S912 for demand. Posted
rates. s4 Ss1a@4 80. Commercial bills, S4 S6s4
O4 S71o. Government bonds steady; State bonds
dull: railroad bonds frmer. Silver at the board
was 6716O6Sc.
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SUMMARY OF THE MARKETS.

Twenty-seven failures last week.
Bank Clearings gain IA per cent.
Wheat advanced a traction.
Barley futures rising.
Oats show more steadiness.
Corn, Rye and Buckwheat dull,
Hay rather easier.
Beans heavily offered
Potatoes and Onions steady.
Butter advanced again.
- Cheese very firm.
Choice Eggs rule steady.
Turkeys cheap and weak
Decline in game.
Grapes steady.
Citrus Fruits unchanged.
Prunes continue firm.
Hides very weak.
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FLOUR AND MILLsTUFFs.

FLOUR-Net cash prices are as follows: Family
extras, So 25@3 35: Bakers extras, So l593 25;
superiine, 81 25@I2 so q bbl.
CoRNMEAL, ETC.EFeed Corn, $ls@19 p ton;
Cracked Corn S1S 5O0I9 50 q ton.
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OCEAN STEAMSHIPS.
PACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIP COMPAl

PACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIP COMPANY
CLEANERS WILL SAIL FROM Asa
- Broadway wharf, San Francisco, as EzssSS2
follows:
For Mary Island, Loring Wrangel, Juneau, Kill
lisnoo and Sitka (Alaska), at . A. NJ, Nov. 16,
Dec. l, 10, 81.
For Victoria and Vancouver (B. C.) Port Town
send, Seattle, Tacoma. Everett, Anacortes and New
Whatcom (Bellingham Bay, Wash.), 9 A. N.
Nov l6, 81, g. Dec. l. s, IL, 16. II, 80, 81 and
every fifth day thereafter. connecting at Vancouver
with the c. T. r. R., at Tacoma with N. z. r. R.,
at Seattle with G. n. Ry., at Port Townsend with
Alaska steamers.
For Eureka, Arcata a1d Fields Landing Hum
boldt Bay str. Pomona, 2 p. NJ, Nov. T. IL is,
10, 23, 81 and every fourth day thereafter
For Santa Cruz, Monterey San Simeon Cayucos
Port Hartford (San Luis Obispo) Gaviota Santa
Barbara, Ventura, Hueneme. San Pedro. East San
Pedro (Los Angeies) ana Newport, at 9 A. NJ, Nov.
i, 5, 8, 13, IL, p, %, 29, and every fourth day
thereafter.
For San Diego, stopping only at Port Hartford
(San Luis 0bispo), Santa Barbara, Port Los
Angeles. Redondo (Los Angeles) and Newport. IL
4. NJ, Nov z, IL, Is, 10, %. 81 and every fourth
day thereafter
For Ensenada, San Jose del Cabo, Mazatlan La
Paz Altata and Guaymas (Mexico), str. William
cite Valley, 10 A. NJ, 25th of each month.
Ticket Office, Palace Hotel, 4 New Montgomery
street.
GoODALL, PERKINS d CO., Genr Agents.
10 Market St, San Francisco
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CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
SATURDAY, Nov. l6-'

Following Are the Highest Prices During
the Past Week.
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The best prices yesterday were several cents
lower than those of the preceding day and the
market was dull. The table OF weekly prices be-
low shows general decline for the week, ranging
from cents to 20 cents, though Confidence fell OFF
35 cents. Hale & Norcross alone held its own and
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NERV0IIS DERII lTY OF every kind, name
cialty. This distinguished doctors success in
cases of this character has been really phe-
nomenal.
fUUNG mtN n night itu emissions, DS exhausting ting
drains. pimples, bashfulness, aversion to soci-
ETY., stupidness, dependency, loss OF energy,
ambition and self-eonsciousness, which de-
prives you of your manhood and absolutely un-
fits you for study, business merriage-H you
are thus afflicted you know the cause. Get well
and be man.
MIDDLE LE-AGED and OLD MEN Il sssEs ssS..sss are
of you troubled with weak, aching backs and
kidneys; frequent, painful urination and sedi-
ment in urine; impotency or weakness of
sexual organs, and other unmistakable signs
of nervous debility and premature decay.
Many die OF this, difficulty, ignorant of the
cause, which is the second stage of seminal
weak ness. The most obstinate cases of this
character treated with unfailing success.
hnIEN if you are suffering from persistent
AnDiLV headaches, painful menstruation,
leucorrhoea or whites, intolerable itching, dis
placement of the womb or any other distress
ing ailment peculiar to your sex. you should
call on DR.. SWEANY without delay. He cures
when others fail.
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A Clever

Lord Hammer. the distinguished Eng
fish Judge whose death was recently
announced, was known as a very stern
and strict ruler of his court: no man
dared take a liberty with him, and he
was never known to be hoaxed but on
one occasion. A juryman, dressed in
deep mourning, serious and downcast
in expression, stood upand claimed ex-
emption from service on that day as he
was deeply interested in a funeral of a
gentleman at which it was his desire
to be present. "Oh, certainly" was
the courteous reply Of the Judge, and
the sad man went. My lord" inter
posed the clerk as oon as the ex-jury-
MAJ had gone, do you know who that
mar is you exempted?" No" HE
is an undertaken
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To BE Gained Elijah.

Children have been admirably drilled
in Bible detail. They know more
about it than ~three-fourths Of their
Sunday school teachers. They have
learned the story of Moses till they
can say it as pat as the multiplication
table. But l do not find any living in
terest in Moses. There is one of the
grandest life stories in history, and
they seem to have no feeling
about it. And that need not be so.
| remember one Of my Sunday school
teachers in Chicago telling me how
troubled she had been because she was
afraid she was not making the stories
Of the prophets interesting to her boys.
But one day she was comfortcd, for she
heard from the mother of one of them
that the lad had come home the Sunday
before, and, after sitting silent
awhile, suddenly burst out at the din
ner table: We'll. l do thiniz Elijah
was a fine fellow; and, if ever I have a
kid of my own, l mean to call him
Elijah!" OF course, it is only a rare
teacher who can teach that way
Brook Hereford, in Contemporary Re-
view.
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SLIM SALARIES.
The Kind of Pay Upon Which Some Meth
Odist Preachers Must Live.

.. .. Ou1SJ ITcACiaCIN TAASc 1 #
Methodist preachers are proverbially
an i'll paid lot, aud they always feel
that the phrase 'as poor as a church
mouse" applies with peculiar fitness to
them. 1t is one Of the denominations
frequent assertions. however. h a its
WORK is largely among the poor people,
who cannot afford to give their pas
tors large salaries. In the old days
when living was cheap the salaries
We're really not SO small in proportion
TO the living expenses as they are
now. Then a Methodist parson with a
salary of four hundred dollars %could,lf
he had a country pastorate, live com
fortably, keep a horse, send his nine or
ten children to school and manage to
lay by a penny for a rainy day. There
are plenty of the ''old stagers" left
among the Methodist preachers who
went through those times, and who
are now living frugally on the amount
which they laid by. Salaries among
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the Methodists have advanced some
what, but they are still extremely low.
The country parsons look upon their
city brethren rs rolling in wealth and
luxury, vet not a single a..cthodist pas
tor eve in New Yorl- receives as
high a salary as five the lid dollars a
year. This seems incredible. but. ac-
cording to the New York Tribune, it is
a fact, though it must be remembered
that a parsonage is almost always pro-
vided and is furnished in some way OF
other. comfortable or uncomfortable.
1t is not until one to the coun-
try districts that the really meagcr sal
aries are found. The case of the
preacher who applied for full connec-
ton with the recent conference at
Brooklyn is still fresh. Somebody got
up and said that the applicant owed
money, and SO ought not to be allowed
to come in. Then a committee found
out that the man had only three hun
dred dollars a year salary; that out of
this sum he had to support himself and
keep a horse, and IN Sundays had to
ride thirty or forty miles to preach.
They decided to let him in. It is some
times the q that the country preach
er's salary is eked out by q 'do-
nation from his kind-hearted parish
toner's. They flock to the parsonage in
a body some night, bring enough sand
wiches and cakes and pies and cider to
enjoy themselves thoroughly, turn the
house upside down. leave a few clothes,
provisions and, perhaps, q little money,
and then GO home with the impression
that they have provided a winters
supply Of food for the dominie's fam
lily, and have done altogether the neat
thing.
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INCREASE IN TENANT FARMING.
Figures Which show b Growing Power
of the Mississippi Valley.

Ut0O " uICn 0NOW INC OVOWluB 1OW0x
of The Mississippi valley.
The percentage Of farm-hiring fami-
liesin Iowa in 1890 was 29.57. The per-
centage of hired farms in Illinois in
1880 was 81 LBS; the figures for 1890 are
not yet published, but the growth of
tenancy in other states indicates that
the percentage will not be less than
40. Between 1880 and 1890 Wisconsin
gained 6,750 owning cultivaaors and
1877 tenant c~ultivators: Iowa gained
only 1881 owning c~ultivators and 49,
563 tenant ~cultivators. The percent
age of tenancy in Minnesota increased
from 9.15 to 1926. In Nebraska the
percentage of tenancy was 1S. OF in 1880.
The figures for 1890 are not out, but
the area cultivated by tenants Of the
state Increased from 953, 63S acres in
1884 to l.43'.47O in 1850, and A. f. Bent
ley's monograph on Harrison, Neb.,
taking that rs a typical western farm
community, showed that Of 1876 owners
Of the landin that township, ~ffty-one
had never been resident in the town,
and ten had lived there and moved
away; 12.9G0 acres in that town were
CultIVdtctl ny cWucIS diu 3.IVO ny tCu-
ants. Between 1850 and 1884 the num-
Der Of Michigan farms cultivated by
diminished s~eventy-four and
the number of rented farms increased
3,454. What do these facts indicate?
According to the New York CONNER
cial Bulletin they indicate that where
as twenty or thirty years ago the cul-
tivators Of the soil had all the prod
ucts, a considerable and growing frac-
ton of the farmers Of the west. as well
as Of New England, New Jersey and
the south, now. with the prices of
produce lower than they used to be,
divide the products with the owners of
the land.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-07-19

and so fond of encouraging the sub
mission of the people and indus
tries to do their work of attending
to industries for them-the money
lenders-that they rebel at regu-
larry and legitimately earning their
own incomes.
But the people will have some
thing to say about that if they live
long enough, and capitalists need
not wait until restrictive measures
are adopted before learning that
fact. Usury has robbed people
enough. 1t is high time that it be
abolished, and the money thus paid
by industries, go to these industries
in making their undertakings just
so much more profitable. Usury is
parasitism, pure and simple.-Item,
Philadelphia.