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Show THE GREAT PROSPERITY. Tho commercial reportn from Dun and from Hrndstreet thin week are of the most reassuring character. Hus-lno?9 Hus-lno?9 of all kinds In at the top nf the wave, and conlldcnce In tho future In unlimited, The harvests ate turning out magnificently for a "bumper yield," vvhllo the stocks were so depleted by lenson of the partial crop failure (especially (espe-cially of corn) Inst year, that the likelihood like-lihood of very low pi Ices Is not seriously serious-ly considered Dealers everywhere arc pieparlng for a henvy fall trade. Tho labor disputes nre not held to be of serious moment In the general outlook lompared with th highly Important harvest encouragements nnd the general gen-eral Btrensth ot business. Thus far Dun. The report by Hradstreet In that tho midsummer unlet has cone, nnd the full business Ins begun Iluycrs nro arriving ar-riving at nil markets, and tho mar of trade will Incrense from now on Manufacturing Man-ufacturing Industry, which has been more than usually active during tho summer, continues well employed! failures fail-ures nre few, and liabilities small, July railways earnings show- seven per cent gain over Inst sear "The wclRht of Imported Iron Is piesslng on domestic, though no perceptible crft.it Is yet tfeen In prices for pig lion, which Is still In nctlvc icqttest for next year's delivery." de-livery." It Is altogether a mighty picture pic-ture of a strong people's tremendous energies, wonderful activity nnd enormous enor-mous induction The matter referretl to In Rradstreet's report, where It mentions tho Imports of Iron, Is no doubt the demand for railroad use, mentioned, for cxnmplc, In our New York Bpeclaln of yesterday morning, where the Union PacKlc had been obliged to place Un order for n hundred thouand tons nf rails In Oer-mnny Oer-mnny because the domestic mills could not fill the order for more than a year, nnd the rnlls are needed soon, pnrtly for Ihe Southern I'.iclflc. Tho cnlnrge-mnts cnlnrge-mnts of the steel and lion mills nro going on constantly, and new- mills nro constantly being nut In, but this lull lu-ll case ot facility c.in not keep up with the Increase In demand The United States Is a shining example of what great things a free people can accomplish, accom-plish, a spledld Illustration nt what unfettered un-fettered manhood can give lo the world when It has free swing May that sterling ster-ling manhood never fall, and may Its opportunities nlvvays Increase and never grow less. |