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POULTRY AND GAME.

POULTRY - Young BOOSTERS are scarce and
some bring slo but this figure is too extreme for a
quotation. Other descriptions show little change.
Live Turkeys, l5@17c p ID for Gobblers, l5@lec
q ib for Hens; Geese, 2 pair 81 25@1 rs: Cos
lings, 81 5O62 rs; Ducks, $495 for old aud 500,
3 z dozen for young: Hens, $S o0Go; BOOSTERS,
young, 81 5099 2 doz: do, old, $4G4 so; Fryers
S6G6 so; Broilers. IS 5O@6 for large and $2654
for small; Pigeons, 81 5O9l as for young and
81 506Dl rs for old.
GAME-Hare. 81: Rabbits, 81 20 for Cottontails
and Sl6ll 25 a ,fOz for small
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2O@35c each: medium, 4O@5Oc each; long woods,
Csc each. Culls of all kinds about 19c less
TALLow-No. /. rendered, 3l4S34ac; NO. q &c;
refined. 51aG534c: Grease. 21ac @ h.
WOOL-We quote Spring Nevada. 6@9c; san Joa-
San joaquin. foothill, good to choice, 7@Sc; San
Joaquin, years fleece, 4129612c.
HOPS-NomInal quotations are 29ic p d.
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PROVISIONS.
Are ouiet and nnohanraa

Are quiet and unchanged.
CURED MEATS-Bacon &c q n for heavy, &c
ior light medium &c p ID for light, 10c for extra
Ignt and 12c 2 n for sugar-cured: Eastern Sugar
cured Hams, 111ac; California Hams l0c q b;
Mess Beef. SS a Dbl; extra mess do, SO so; fam
ny 90, $40: extra prime Pork. SO q hbl; extra
10c p ID.
LARD-Eastern, tierces Is quoted at 614c q b
fornia tierces, 51ac for compound and 6iac Tor
p n.
CoTToLENE-es4c in tierces and 7ssc p n in
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DEATH OF PRESIDENT HoLooMB.

Vice President Morrow of the Produce Exchange
called the Exchange to order yesterday morning
and ANNOUNCED the death OF the president, W. A.
Holcomb. H. Sinsheimer, Juda Newman Frank
Dalton, Elisha Ransom and Horace Davis were
appointed committee TO draft appropriate resolu-
tions of respect, and the Exchange adjourned at
noon TO Monday morning in respect to Mr.. Hol-
combs memory.
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HAY AND FEEDsTUFFs.

BRAN-$15@l5 so p ton.
MIDDLINGS-$17@1s p ton for lower grades
and SIS 60@l9 SO q ton for the best.
FEEDSTUFFS - Rolled Barley, $16@16 SO;
ocake Meal at the mill, $40 o ton; jobbing, $2I;
Cottonseed oilcake $21 q ton.
HAI-The old quotations rule. Wheat is quot
able at SS9l1 so q ton: Oat, $SG9: Wheat and
$e@s so; Compressed, S7@l0 SO; stock, S6@7 p
ton.
STRAW-3O05Oc n hale
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NEW YORK STOCKS.
Bonds, Exchange. Money and RaiIrosd

Shares.
Money on. call easy at 2@21sy; last loan at 21a%;
and closing offered at ga. Prime mercantile
paper 51,aG6%. Bar silver 6Sc. Mexican dollars,
b4c pter.ing exchange easier. with actual busi-
ness IN bankers bills at 81 S73lG4 So for sixty
oays and 81 SSsl@4 SO for demand. Posted rates.
81 gsIhG4 90. Commercial bills, 81 S63I0p4 STA.
Government bonds steady; State bonds dull; rail-
ROAD bonds firm. silver at the board quiet.
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FOREIGN MARKETS.

WHEAT IN LIVERPOOL.
LIVERPOOL, ENG, May 1.-The spot market
is steady at 6s 6d@5s I'd. Cargoes dull at 27s Sd,
oD passage sellers.
The Produce Exchange cable gives the following
Liverpool quotations for No. 2 Red Winter: May
5s 414d; June. 5s 414d; July, 6s AID; August, 6s
4s4di september, SIS Sd.
SECURITIES.
LONDON, ENG. May 1.-Consols, 111ss; silver
81 1-16d: French Rentes, 1927 1215c.
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BANK CLEARINGS.

NEW YORK, N. Y, May blank clearing
totals at the principal cities for the week ended
April 80, with comparisons, as telegraphed to
Bradstreets:
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RECEIPTS OF PRODUCE.
FAMILY RETAIL MARKET.

Eggs are weakening again. but prices show no
material decline. Cheese is cheaper sButter is un-
changed.
Meats and Poultry show no change
Early Fruits are rather cheaper and so are tho
Summer Vegetables.
Following is THE CALLS regular weekly retail
price list:
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OCEAN STEAMERS.

Alta is the highest town in Iowa, 1919
feet above sea level.
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EXCHANGE AND BULLION.

STOCKS OF GRAIN.
Produce Exchange Grain Inspector Abel reports
stocks Of Grain in Call Board warehouses May
i as follows, in tons:
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cnAI-PER TON

Camel ..... -110 90 PleasantVal bO0lO 90
Wellington. -tGlO 90 SouthfieId
New We'll WeUinofon m O 90
lington.... -@1O 90 scotch... ID 8 SO
Seattle 00@ so Coos Bay. 6O9 -
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Dates of Departure From San Francisco.
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DESTINATION. SAILS; PIER.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-03-12
Women for Turkish Harems.

From "a Personally Conducted Arrest in
Constantinople - by +. Hopkinson Smith,
in the Century. e
And there were other days without
Mahmoud at Stenia, o few miles from
Therapia, to which place I once took
ship-the daintiest little ship. all cush.
ions and rugs, manned by two boatmen
in white balloon trousers, with yards
and yards of stuff to each leg, and
Greek Jackets embroidered with gold.
And from Stenia to the "Sweet Waters
of Asia, an Arabian Nights sort of
place, with an exquisite Moorish foun-
tain of marble, and great trees shading
iocks and punches of houris in white
yashmaks and embroidered feredies Of
mauve, yellow and pink, out for an
airing from their harems all on mats
and rugs spread on the grass, attended
by black eunuchs-as black as terra
pins paws, and as wrinkled and leath-
cry. They chartered and laughed and
munched bonbons and partook Of rose
leaf jelly, sitting with their tiny feet
| tucked under them, Turkish fashion,
their cigarettes pertaining the still air,
until their caiques gathered them in
again, and they all foated away like
go many colored swans. You must not
wander too near. Even a faithful
Turk turns his head away when he
passes a woman a Christian dog
might lose his for forgetting the cour
Il fauy
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-03-12

to MS" The greatest need of every
soul is the pardon of sin. Every man
knows that he is q sinner. Gods
spirit places that conviction in his
heart. The consciousness of this sin
makes him unhappy. Nothing but
Gods %pardoning grace can give him
peace. An unforgiving spirit is unfor.
given. SO long as we hold a grudge
against our brother, God will not for.
give us.
"And lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from evil And yet
James says: my brethren, count it
all joy when You fall into divers
temptations. How shall we reconcile
this prayer with James statements
Mansel explains it thus 1.-THE exter.
nal circumstances in which men are
placed by Gods will may furnish more
or less of temptation to sin the inter.
nal assent. which yields to temptation,
is not of God. In this latter sense no
man is tempted of God, but of his
w lust. In the former sense we pray
that God will not place us in circum-
stances of special temptation. This is
perfectly compatible with the admis-
sion that such temptations, should it
please God to send them as trials, may.
when rightly used, be even occasion
of Christian joy"
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-03-12

distress, or she would come with Mrs.
Dabney."
"Charlie, " Ellie said, as she went to
the bed and found him awake, "would
you like to see your motherf She will
soon be here now"
Eyes" he said, II do want to see
her. / am glad she is coming"
He was very weak and almost i'm
mediately fell asleep again, and when
his mother came an hour afterwards he
was still asleep.
She approached his bed, leaning on
her stick, for she was very feeble. Her
white head had grown whittier, and her
pale face paler since Charlie had seer
her. She was the wreck only of what
she had been, and Elfe's heart smote
her when she thought of the many
days she had been deprived of her help.
Silently Mrs, Dabney stood and
looked at her son as he slept, The seal
of death seemed set on his face, and
for once in her life she showed
emotion. A tear was trembling on her
lashes and the withered lip quivering.
Opening his eyes and seeing that
fixed look, with its spark of tenderness
in it, Charlie cried out:
"Mother |" and stretched out his
hand to her.
MY son - she exclaimed as she
bent over him, crying aloud for several
minutes. The flood gates of grief and
love seemed all at once to have opened
wide, and the feeling that for years
had laid dormant, burst forth with
overwhelming power.
When she spoke it was to plead for
forgiveness.
Forgive me, my child, your
wretched old mother who has been a
wicked woman. want to hear you
say you forgive me, and love me, be-
fore you die for, oh, God has afflicted
me sore, and brought me to see my
Sins.
Ellie was watching Charlie, who had
turned deathly pale. He seemed strug.
Cling for power of speech, but it failed
him, and he sank into Inconsistencies
(To be continued. }
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-03-12

/. As the heart Of an orphan child
yearns for mother love, so does the
heart Of humanity, ~orphanaged by sin,
% ont after God. "Our Father who
art in heaven meets that yearning Of
the soul.
.. All Of Gods blessings are con
ditioned on prayer but all may pray
and sing.
What a privilege to carry
Everything to Him in prayer"
3, Our prayers are answered as we
help answer them. A son hearing his
father pray that the wants of the poor
might be supplied said to him
Father, | wish | had your corn. .
why so, my son? What would you
do with it?" the father asked. Tn,
child replied Il would answer YOU
prayer"
H. "Easiness of desire is a great
enemy to the success of a good mans
prayers. 1t must be an intent, busy,
operative prayer. For, consider what
a huge indecency it is that a mar
should speak to God for a thing tina
he values not, Our prayers upbraii
our spirits when we beg tamely FOL
those things for which we ought t.
die, which are more precious than i'm
perial sceptres, richer than the spoil
of the sea or the treasures of the Indian
hills. Jeremy Taylor.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-03-12
THE OLD STATE OF PIKE"
Once Extended to the Pacific 0cean!-site
Of the Largest Nursery in the World.

OnCe EXTENDED 10 tne racine UCean' olt8
Of the Largest Nursery in the World.
From the st. Louis Republic.
The County of Pike is older than the
State of Missouri itself, having been
laid out in 1919. The town of Louisiana
was laid out in the same year, SC that
Louisiana, Missouri, and the State of
Pike" came into history at the same
time.
When the Territorial Government es-
tablished Pike county its southern
boundary was the northern line of st.
Charles county. The western line was
along the divide between the Missis-
sippi and Missouri Rivers, to the ex-
IRENE northern line of the Territory of
Upper Louisiana, and extended to the
| Pacific Ocean on the west and to the
forty-ninth degree of north latitude.
One of the biggest institutions in
Louisiana, Missouri, is the Stark Bros.
Nurseries. Eighty years ago there
came from Kentucky to Pike county
the late Judge Stark, then Il young
man fresh from Old Hickory's New
Orleans campaign. He started the
nursery and planted the first grated
orchard in the state, having brought
the scions on horseback from Ken
lucky.
The business has descended from
father to son, and is now conducted by
the third generation, assisted by the
fourth. This firm has more than /, 600
statesmen and wants as many more
business men, professional men, me-
chanics, farmers and others, however,
inexperienced, are taught the business
and work the year COMMUNICATING
good pay weekly. The company en-
ploys more people in its offices than
would be necessary to run a large
manufacturing concern. The extensive
packing houses are connected with the
railroad by special track, whence hun
dreds of car loads of trees are shipped
annually. The nursery grounds EN-
brace a number of farms convenient to
the city, and ever extend to Rockport,
ILL.,, where there is a plant of severa
million trees.
A popularity of the concern Is thu
establishment of large orchards. These
orchards, in twenty-four states, aggre
gate nearly so, 900 acres, g., 500, 900 trees,
on the partnership plan. The firm il
also interested in nearly as many NOR
trees on the cooperative arrangement
The nurseries have been beneficial no
only to their home, but Missouri owe
no little of her prestige as a fruit
growing region to the progress am
work of development of this firm.
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Fifty-Eight Feet Of Children.
from the indianapolis Sentinel.

from the Indianapolis Sentinel.
What follows will be of interest to
students Of natural history and eli
matte conditions. The family referred
to is famous hereabouts as being the
tallest in the aggregate of any in the
county, although there arc individuals
Of greater stature. What will also
interest students is the fact that the
parents are rather small. The father
is 5 feet, 4 inches in height the
mother less, though both are of squatty
mould. The height and weight Of the
children is thus given:
James Connolly, 6 feet, 0 inches in
height weight, 260 pounds.
Edward Connolly, Q feet, 4 inches
weight, 245.
Sarah Connolly, 6 feet, 4 inches
weight, 266.
w. Connolly, Q feet. TX inches
weight, 10S.
NJ. Connolly. 6 feet, AZ inches
weight, 242.
Daniel Connolly, Q feet, 9 inches
weight, PAS.
Bernard Connolly. Q feet, Q inches
weight, 24S.
Ellen. Connolly, o feet, II inches
weight, 200.
Bridget Connolly, @ feet, 2 inches
weight, 1875.
T. Connolly, 9 feet, az inches
weight, 17S.
The total height of the children is s.
feet, 81 inches total weight, 2,27
pounds. The father thinks that lif
among the timber, coupled with abun
dant diet, is the cause of the extraordi
nary growth of his children.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-03-12

Here we have the parable of a man
going to his friend at midnight and
asking of him three loaves of bread to
supply a guest who had stopped with
him from a journey. At this un-
~seasonable hour, when the door was
shut, and he and his children were in
bed, he refuses at first to comply with
the request but at last yields to the
importantly of his friend and in order
to get rid Of him. gets up and gives
him the bread. There is no conpar.
isou meant 10 be instituted here be-
tween this selfish man and God but a
contrast. The teaching of the parable
is this If this selfish man, simply 70
save himself trouble, will yield to the
importunities Of his friend and supply
his wants. how much more certainly
will the bountiful Lord bestow gifts
upon His children who ask Him. The
reason why God requires importantly
in Us in prayer is not because He is
unwilling to give, but that we may be
the better prepared to receive. Delays
are not denials with God. By such
delays sometimes He tests our faith
and seeks to increase our desires. He
is more willing to give than we are to
receive and just as o as He makes
Us fit, by the discipline of His delays,
to receive, that moment the blessing
comes from His bountiful hand.
In addition to the encouragements
we have to prayer from the dealings
of friend with friend as in the parable,
we have added the positive promises
Of God And l say INTO you, Ask,
and We shall receive seek and We shall
find knock and it shall be opened unto
yon." These three words, TASK, "
seek and knock, indicate three
distinct degrees and modes in our
prayers, increasing in intensity as we
pass from words in the asking to the
labored use of means in seeking, to the
intenser Importantly in knocking.
(which implies also patient waiting for
the opening of the door. These prom,
ises are then backed up by an appeal
to the facts of experience: For
everyone that asketh receiveth and he
that secketh findeth and to him that
knocketh it shall be opened" Oh
course in all this it is implied that we
ask and seek and knock in the way God
has instructed us in His word-in the
spirit Of humility, repentance, faith
and obedience.
The subject of prayer is then strik.
ingly illustrated by the relation exist.
ing between the parent and the
children showing that as no father
would give his child a stone for bread
or a serpent for fish or a scorpion fol
al egg, so He says: IF ye, then,
being evil, know how to give goot
gifts unto your children how mucl
more shall your heavenly Father Civ,
the Holy Spirit to them that asl
Him."
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-03-12
Lamb Wrote for Antiquity.

son an Authors Choice Of Company" by
Prof. Woodrow Wilson, In the Century.
Once and again, it would seem, a
man is born into the world belated.
Strayed out of a past age, he comes
among us like a alien, lives removed
and singular and dies a stranger.
There was a touch of this strangeness
in Charles Lamb. Much AZ he was
loved and befriended, he was not much
understood for he drew aloof in his
studies, effected a self pleasing
quaintness" in his style, took no pains
to hit the taste of his day, wandered
at sweet liberty in an age which could
scarcely have bred such another.
Hang the agep' he cried. II will
write for antiquity. And he did.
He wrote as if it were still Shakspere's
day made the authors of that spacious
time his constant companions and
study and deliberately became him
| self 1.-THE last of the Elizabethans. u
| When a new book came out, he said,
| he always read an old one.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-03-12
Lead Pencils.
From ~Newspaperdom.

From Newspaperdom.
Ernest Faber, director of the Johann
Faber pencil works in Germany, stated
in a recent lecture that there are TWEEN.
ty-three factories in Nurnberg, employ
ing about 10, 900 workers and turning
out 4, 300, 600 pencils per week. The firm
of Faber alone makes nearly n and
o%ne-fourth million pencils a week.
In the United States a pencil industry
has been developed which produces
about as many pencils as the whole Of
Bavaria. In Russia, likewise, pencil
factories have lately been erected.
France has forbidden in schools til,
use of German pencils.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-03-12
Consolation for the Bereaved.

Frem tho Buffalo Courier.
1.-THE meanest person l ever heard
of" said an east side undertaken,
"caused q great sensation at a funeral
recently directed. The house of
mourning was filled with the friends
of the deceased-in this case a hem
pecked husband. The widow, so 1t
was reported, vas already on the look
out for q second husband, and n OF
the indignant female relatives of the
corpse ordered q very nice floral
anchor sent to the widow. 1t was
greatly admired until the words, There
Are Others, ; in blue immortelles, were
observed on the anchor bar. The floral
piece was consigned to the cellar, but
was the subject Of a great deal OF
talk"
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-03-12
5Life.

n -
Complied by Mrs. H. A. Demi9g for the San
Francisco Times.
Why all this toll for triumphs OF an
hours-Young.
Life's q short summer, man a flower
DIR. johnson. !;
BY turns we catch the vital breath and
die,-Pope.
The cradle and the toni, alas, 30 nigh
Prior.
To be. ia better far than not to be-
Sewell.
Though all mans. life may seem to DO
a tragedy, Spencer.
But light cares speak when mighty
griefs are dumb, Daniel.
The bottom is but shallow whence they
come. Raleigh. :"
Your fate Is but the common fate of
all ;-Longfenow.
Unmingled joys here TO no man befalL
LlSouthwell. -"
Nature to each allots his proper sphere;
Congreve.
Fortune makes folly her peculiar carei
Churchill.
Custom does not reason overrule,-
Rochester.
And throw a peculiar sunshine on o
fool -Armstrong.
Live well how long or short permit to
heaven Milton.
They who forgive most shall be most
forgiven. Bailey.
Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot
see its ace,-Trench.
Vile intercourse where virtue has no
place. -Somerville.
Then keep each passion down, however
dear Thomson.
Thou pendulum betwixt smile and tear
Byron.
Her sensual snares let faithless pleas.
ure lay. -Smollet.
Witch craft and skill, to ruin and be.
tray. -Crabbe.
Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to
rise ;-Massinger.
We masters grow of all that we despise
-Cowley.
Then I that impious self les.
TEEN Beatty.
Riches have wings and grandeur is o
dream. --Cowper.
Think not ambition wise because tits
brave ;-Davenant.
The paths of glory lead but to the
grave. Gray.
What is ambition !-'tis q glorious
cheat Willis.
Only destructive to the brave and great.
Addison.
What's all the gaudy glitter of a crown,
Dryden.
The way to bliss lies not on beds Of
down-Quarles.
How long we live, not years but actions
tell Watkins.
That man lives twice who lives the
first life well. -Herrick.
Make, then while you may, your God
your friend, Mason.
Whom Christians worship, yet not com
prehend. Hill.
The trust that's given guard and t.
yourself be just Dana
For, live we how we can, yet die W.
must. Shakespeare.
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time, said Clayton, trembling with

time, A" said Clayton, trembling with
excitement.
"All right, |" said Mr.. Warren, IT
have business that will 'detain me in
st. Louis that length of time At its
expiration I will be here again. Good
morning." and Mr.. Warren bowed
himself not, leaving Mr.. Clayton
standing at the door with a ~frowning
dark countenance, which changed his
handsome features SO much that a be-
holder would have said: "What a
dreadful face.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-03-12
Little Bobby Wanted to Know.

From Browning, King q Co. IS Monthly.
Little Bobby lis black a color, popf
Little Bobby's Father NO, Bobby
black isn't q color.
Little Bobby But reds a color?
Little Bobby's Father Yes; reds
a color.
Little Bobby Indians are red, amt
they, pop7
Little Bobby's Father Yes, Indians
are red.
Little Bobby But Indians amt
colored folks2
Little Bobby's Father -N-no; In.
dams are not colored folks.
Little Bobby Negroes are colored
folks, amt they pop2
Little Bobby's Father Yes, Bobby
negoes are colored folks.
Little Bobby But they're black,
amt they?
Little Bobby's Father = Yves
they're black.
Little Bobby We'll then, pop,
why
Little Bobby's Father Il don't
know, Bobby / give it upl Run and
ask your mother
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-03-12
The Good Mans Initiative Dog.
From,the Danville Advocate.

From the Danville Advocate. D
II have a dog, said a minister who
had just heard a precocious story,
(which. is very sagacious. One Satur-
day he followed me to church and sat
among the people and watched my
movements in the pulpit. That after
noon / heard "a terrible bowling in my
back yard, and of curse went to see
what 1t meant. / found my dog in the
wood shed, standing on his hind legs
in q dry goods box. He held down a
torn almanac with one paw and gestic-
ulated with the other, while he swayed
his head and howled to an audience Of
four other dogs, even more sadly thar
/ had done in the morning.