| Show KICKS OF THE TIDIES there are still signs of a broaden mg activity in all branches of business country and accepting the trade reports as authority there is even reason to believe that the prosperity so lona hoped for will be with us in a more pronounced form as the months go by duns review says that july though ordinarily the dullest month in the year has been most of investment and general trade more business was done during that month than in any corresponding one of which there is record the payments through clearing houses were 08 per cent larger than in 1892 and exceed by a much greater ratio the statistics of 1897 and thus early the ground swell ot the fall trade is aleo beginning t 0 be felt and as this is bound to stead ay increase the country will escape a doll summer month altogether au ac live august september and october are promised ed culminating iu a january of extraordinary business the boom in the iron trade continues bat it cannot the credited more to the demands of the to those of peace the new isas received cover rails tor russia and japan and york and chicago and a noteworthy demand tor structural forms at chicago philadelphia and pittsburg one order of tons tor implement stuff la most significant the consumption of the manufactures ol 01 iron during the hau year hag it is said exceeded the output of tons there is also a marked increase in the eales of wool |