Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 30, 1893, Page 2

: = A s the corresponding perind of any pro vigus yenr, We sce no reason to compiain The Boll Our sales have fallen off 50 per cont from the sales of tho corresponding month last year, People are buying only neceasitios. It s not due toa lack of mon; but 10 4 lack of confidence in the futur Profits, too, are smaller. times in the near future, however. Thompson, Belden & Co.—Trade has been about ths same as it was last yoar, as regards the solume of business, but prices have boen lower and we have, of course, made less money. Business for the first six months of the vear has been far above the average, however, and we have no reason to_complain. We ' believe that a fow weoks will see everything in good shape. No Retrenchment on Clothing. Manager Wilcox of Browning, King & Co. —Our business equals that of last year at | this time, We have greatly enlarged our business and notice the present dull times more on that account than anything clse, but our daily reports aro as good as those of a year ago. Our house here is doing a detter business than those at St. Paul and Minne- apolis and our sales for the first fifteen days of this month show an increase over those of the same period in 1502, 1 think Omaha is better off financially than most cities and we have no complaint to make. Samuel Gamble, Manager of the Con i- nentgl Clothiug Company—Our business for the firstsix months this year was better than that of 1502, We never knew what dull times wero until after July 1. I think the reason for this is that so many salaried peovle nave beon saving up o go to t World’s fair, and when tne financial de- pression came on they simply held on to their money. I think that by September 1 times will be much better, T am going east tomorrow to purchase the largest stock we have over put in for fall and winter trade and I bolieve that the outlook justifies us in arranging for a very heavy trade this fall. M. Levy, Manager of the Nebraska Clothing Company--Our businegs this spring wis hbotter than last season. V.o had a splendid trade up to July 4 and while things have been quiet since then 1 must say we have enjoyed a good trade, although it has not been as heavy ns during the same period last year and busi- ows 4 decline of about 10 or 15 per cent during the past two weeks. This is be- eause there are not as many men at work in the city, and we have n splendid trade from mechanics, Owing to the busy harvest sea- s0n not many farmers are coming to #6wn, but weo aro making greater preparations than ever sor a big fall trade. We notice a gen- eral picking up this week and believe we will do as good business next month as ever. We are opening up & large store in Kansas City and expect to increase our stocks in all our stores to meet the fall trade. Proprietor Amstein of the Penple's Cloth- g company—This season has not been as good for us s that of last year, still we are having a steady trade. M. H. Cook, proprietor of the Columbia Clothing company—Our business is as good 1How a8 it was during this period last year. The prospects for a heavy fall trade are good, cspecially from = the country peopio. | think there has been no real cause for alarm, but o one has grown conservative in business. Things will scon loosen up and with a favorable season we can safely rely on even a better business than we had last fall. We are now making arrangements for a big business this fall. Using Carpets Yet. Mr. Wilhelin of tho Orchard & Withelm Carpot Company—We are woll satistiod with our business this year and look for an ex- vellent fall trade.” We have made prepara- tions for o heavy trade during the remainder of the yoar. Our business is as good as it was at this time last year. D. D. Muller, manager of the Omaha Car- pot company—Up to July 1 our business was equally as good as that of 1802 It has b hardly as_good since then, but it is pick up now. Weought to have as good trade this fall as we had Jast. The outlook for 1t 15 good and may even excell our expectations, will if the financial problem is settled soon. Luxuries Still in Demand. 1 A. Hospe, jr., of the Hospe Art and Music company—Qur business is equally as good as 1t was this time last year. We havé'no complafut to make, us We have done a better business than we anticipated this scason. July has been a good month for us aM col- lections have been satisfactory. When 1 look over the field I must say that [am more than satistled. 1 employ about twetfty-two people, and they are working on full time. Our factory is runoing at its full capacity. Buylng * Paylug for Thom. R. B. Rozenzweig of Drexel & Rozouzweig —T'rade has been away ahead of last season all the way through, and is getting better cach_succoeding day. The class of goods wold is not us high priced as has been sold in previous years, but every one scems to be buying freely. All customers are talkiug nbout the hard_times, but all scem 10 have money with which to supply their o This firm docs a straight busine: fact has not caused rinong any of the G. W. Cook of G. Son—Our re- ceipts for Juno were §200 in excess of the samo month last year, and in looking up lust night what we have done so far this month I found that we were already $200 of last July. Our business has been first class and our collections have been Al Our custo- mers paid up o promptly that our collector has not boen out since the 10th of the month, It looks very much to me as if peoplo had taken their money out of the banks and were buying goods. There is no uso taking about u scarcity of money, us the rank and file have cash and are spending it. A great many people have gono to the Tair, and if it was not for that, sales would be even heavier than they now are. We cater to the best class of trade and our sales are largely in good grades; in fact, it is the cheaper class of atock that sticks to our shelves. The grocers tell me that trade is first rate, and 1 know that ours is. If péoplo would only get this bynk foolishness out of their heads everything would be all right. We know that we are ahead of last year, for our books show it. 1 will bet that all of the rotail dealers ave seiling plenty of goods, and there is not the slightest doubt that merchandizing in this city is in an un- usually healthy condition. One thing noticed in talking with all the shoe dealers was the fact that men working owa salary, and whose pay was going on just the same as when times were sapposed o be botter, were all tel about the hard- ness of the times, and calling for somothiug a litue cheaper thun they had been accus- tomed to buy. It was the impression of all these dealers that sucn talk was uuncalled for, and was as much respousible for the general score as other one thing. They suggoested that when o man had no reason to talk about hard times it wus the proper thing for him to refrain from prating about o condition that he himself had not exper- ienced und was not likely to, Women Are Economizing Some. J.J. Bliss, milliner, cheerfully declared that his receipts for the past two months had run from $12 to & a day more than dur- < dng the corresponding tmo last year, and that yesterday's receipts were more than - double what they were on the same day in | « 1802, His total for May was 8504 ahead of May, 1802, and he was satished that all . ::wm was to tho talk about hard times was ho airing of w chronic kick that had had bocome # sort of pop. ular fad. He said his collections were slow, because a great many of his putrons were ut the World's fair, and an unusnally large number of Omaha people are visiting in the cast, so that he had to carry quite & large amount, but he was not wor- ryving at all about it, ag it was all good. He found the popular demand to be for a cheaper style of goods, but that was not a result of the so-called panicky timoes, as it had been growing for two years, tho majority of women feeling that it was better to get three hats for §25 than to put all of it into one. 80 as Lo huve a new one oftener. Mrs, R H. Davies, millinery, said that she o waldd never enjoyed such i trade as she hus had this season. Geuorally there s pra seally nothiug doing after the Fourth, and sll belp is allowed to go at that time, but this year it hus kept up to the present time, and the girls are stilat work. Whereas it las been impossible to make expenses at this timo in previous years, business is now and Mrs. Davies swilingly said that she did not think sho had lost ‘mouey thus far his year. She amended tho sidtement, however, with reference to ihe best grade of goods, saying that she had nov been home from New York threo ‘woeks lu the spring she suid she was satistied thatshe was ot going to be uble to getrid of her cholcest patterns, and had S0ld thom ybout st cost anda fow of thum atn loss. Tho general trade had been » ¥, and | | | | We look for better | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE the times wors hard. Heor oollections wore | 168t year. Evotyone 18 drawing the lines slow, but sho was satisfiod that it was not bocause people did not have money. She knew any number of them who could write her a chock whenever they chose, bt they simply wouldn't do it, as they were afraid of something in the undiscovered future, and soemed to think they might need it. Mrs, J. Benson, ladies' furnishings and millinery, said hor trado was fully up to what it had been. Tt was a little ahead of last year, when she made the comparison at the end of June. and she was certain it would do fully as well at tho end of this month, but she had not examined the figures to sea just what the relative standing was. She did scarcely any oredit business, and what she did she considered about the same as cash. It had been more prompt in payment during the past few weeks than ever before, as bills mailed brought in an immediate re- mittance. The general demand was for a little cheaper grade of gocds, and in all lines sales were being made on a closer margin than hitherto, stll business was excellent, and she had not seen a thing in a business way in_her establishment that would have induced her for a moment to think the times were hard were it not for the talk that seemod to be on everybody's tongue. Retail Grocers Satisfied. William Fleming—Our business is not be- hind that of last year in dJuly. On the whole, it exceeds it. o expected a de- pression on account of the World's fair and peoplo going away for the summer, but we were hapnily disappointed. Hobart Williams of Little & Williams— Business is away ahoad of last year, I should say fully 25 per cent. Our trade has been steadily improving sinco last March, and July has surpassad our most sanguine expec- tations. Have been in this business for twenty years A. H. Gladstone of Gladstone Bros.—Last month we did a 15 per cent greater business than a year ago. Juiy's, 1should say, was about 5 per cent below. Our collections have baen rather slow, but I look for a great improvement even by the end of next week, and lasting in*o the fall, in fact 1 feol sure of it. There has been a great deal of need- loss scare, but 1 nover felt any cause for alarm. 3 Furnitare Buslness Very Goods F. Gebhard, in charge of People’'s Mam- moth Installment store—Our collections are better than in any month since we have been in business. We have made no com- parison with the salos of one year ago, but I should say that this year's perhaps exceed those of tho sume period last yoar. At least they have fully reached what we expected We have not noted any depression in our line and | don’t believe there will be any, as everything looks favorable with us. J. G, O'Connell, of O'Connell and§ Ader- son—I can't toll exactely how our business would comparo with lagh year as wo were Alosing out at the time. ~ Sofar we hav ome very well, collections have beea fair and 1 anticivation of a continuance of a good trade we have laid in a full stock. Dur- ing next month there muy b a slight deo- optember will probably make up it V. 1. Kierstead, manager of Dewey & company—Omaha 18 a commercial It is not affected like those cities which depend altogether on manufacturers. The present stringency was brought about s Sf confidence, diod unless the p bmplet Omaha h 3 as everything for the future looks promis- ing. Of course, during the scare the men with whom wo deal have had to reduce their stock somewha in order tomeet obligations, and they have done Our collections ‘¢ therofore been good and all our customers have treated us nicely. Trade is better than we reall, uld expect when we take into cousideration that July is a_dull month for us on & good wany los of luxury which we carry. Jobbers Cap’t Compluin, H. Hardy & Co.—Our local trade is ahead of last year. There has been a little gain every month in the volume of business. We have had to do more advertising to get the trade though, If the newspapers could be throttled and not a word published about the bank failures and rumois from other cities the interior of the state would never know that the times were hard. The country was never 1n as good condition as at the present time. Itketor & Wilhelmy Company, Hardware. ~—Taking the year as a wholo the retail trade of Omaha is in better condition than iv was a vear ago. Just at the present mo- ment there is nothing to brag about. The merchants are pursuing & conservative pol- icy and pushing collections more than sales. -Allen Bros., Wholesa'e Grocers.—The re- tail trado of Omaha is in pretty fair shape. Of course there are not as many retailers s there wero at one time, a good many having dropped out of business provious to this sunmer. W. A. L. Gibbon, President Commercial Club.—From what I can rlearn business in Omaha in a retail way is no worse than it was last year. Comumnlission Men Talk. Thero is no class of wholesale merchants that come juto as close business relations with the retail grocers of the city as the produce and fruit commission men. They meet the retnil merchants daily in business transactions as the goods which they have for sale are not, as a rule, bought in large quantities, but only as they are required from day to day. Besides that the commis- sion men have a rule that ail their goods must be paid for weekly, and hence they are in a position to feel any chunge in the con- dation of collections much sooner than the Jobbers who sell on loug time. In view of these facts it may bo of interest to know the opinions of some of the commission men as to the coudition of the retail trade in Omana as compared with previous years. Riddell & Lytle—There is a good demand for goods and _aay one haviug confidence in the future can’ put out any quantity of goods. Some of the retailers are short of money and do not pay their bills quite as promptly as they did. oore, Fergnson & Younger—We are doing more business than a year ago, show- ing that tne retailers must be having o bet- ter trude. Of course this 1s the dutl time of the year and money is usually scarce whother there is a tfinanel crisis or not, Collections are very fair and quite as good as lust July, Riddell & Co.—The grocers talk hard times and are buying carefully, but the vol- ume of business holds up well. There have been very fow grovery failurcs this summer, which would indicate that business in that line must be 1z fair shape at least, Peycke Bros—Business, us far as we can learn, is just as good or better with the re- tail grocers as ip was last year ut this time. There are no hard times here in reality—it 18 all talk. G. Peguu—I think the retail dealers of Omaha are doing as much bhusiness as they uid last yeur, but the tulk of hard times has @ bad effect. T think collections are as good us they were a year ao! Icken & Wotilers—Wo would think that the rotailers were doing about the usual amount of business for this season of the year. Oue groceryman told us that he col- lected more money in-July this year than during any other month in the pust year and @ half. All this talk about hard times in Omaha is all bosh, Those who know the least about it talk the most. Kirschbraun-Haskell Produce company — ‘I'he city retail trade is dull, but it is the dull season, Whether it is more quiet than usual is a hard thhuf to say. The retailers buying fn small lots and it does not seem us ifthe cousumption of goods is quite so large as lust year. Callections are about as good us las!, year, Ryder & Co.—The retail grocers ull admit that they are having a fuir trade, but collec- tions are slow. eorge M. Ribble ~Everyone is talking hard tiwes, but when you come right down o the facts trade is about as good as it was 1ast year iu the vity of Omaha, Sehroeder & Co.—We have seen much worse times io Omaha thao the present, and not very long ago, either. The retaileds ap- pear to have money t pay their bills and there have been very few business failures in'the city this summer, Willisms & Cross—-We believe that the retall trade is about us good as it ever is at this season. Collections are fair and fully us good as 1 !JuI!{. . » rach & Co. o retail dealers are buy. ing very carvefully and are feeling their way along. They buy just what they need for the 'Elml.lhhu aud this makes business ap- r dull. Whitnoy & Co.—~We are of the opinion that the retail werchants of Omahs are doing as much business now as they did last year ut this time. Collections seem better to.us than a year ago. Our cash sales have beeu larger. Beuus & Clark—I'he year’s business from January up tothe preseut time is abead of and bringing businoss nearcr to a cash basis which would have s tendency to reduce the volumn of trade, i — OMAHA CRICKEL CLUB BEATEN. Succumbs to an Eleven of Looal Players Outside the Organization, Yesterday was a black letter day in the annals of the Omaha Cricket club. 1t was the first time in many a long year that its members have suffered defeat. Matches have been played with Lincoln, Hastings, Council Bluffs, Kansas City and the old St. George's club of Omaha, but every time have the Omahans come out with the biggest score. Yesterday this record was broken And this, to0, by & team of Omaha crick- ars. (3. and W. Vaughan, two members b, had collccted an elevon ave included Jack Prince, the clist, and did include more than one ex- cellent cricketer. The Vaughans, of course, wero tho mainstay of the team, but they were the only two who were members of the club. Jack Prince did not play, but the side was strong enough without him, though on paper it seemed that the Club should win at all_points. With the excep. tion of the two Vaughans most of the best of the members played for Club, but the tail end of the team was weak and more than one of the best bats and an odd bowler or two were certain ssed, R. W. Taylor and Hart opened the Club's innings about five minutes before 4 o'clock, with George Vaughan and W, R Vaughan bowling. The start was de- cidedly disastrous. This, indeed, was where the game was lost. Hart was bowled in the second over, with the scoreat 2; Gleave took his place, and, after hitting & two, was caught at slip from a rather fluky ball; and almost the next ball Taylor's wicket was knocked over. Gavin hit about a little freely, but the batsmen continued to play a most cautious game—all they could do, in fact, with the balls that were being sent down, Lawrie was dismissed in a very few minutes, a couple of overs later Wilson let a ball get vast him, aad then Florance, who had been at the wickets for quite a little while, was also bowled, and six wickets were down for a paltry 17. Things were looking decidedly bad for the home team when Robb joined Gavin, and for a time longer there was no change. Robb it o one from his first ball. He skied the second and should have been caught at slip. The Vaughan's kept up the standard of their bowling and neither Robb nor Gavin dared do ought but block. Sev cral runs had been added from short hits, when Robb was awain m This time it was hardly a chance. The ball rose & short way from his bat and point had hardly time to get under it before it fell. Then the turn- ing point came. Both the bowlers were tly tiring. The balls came down los swift and few of them even looked dange ous. Robb hit about in every direction, scoring ones, twos and threes, and toward the close of his innings a six. The partner- ship altogether put on 28 runs. Matters had reached a critical stage and George Vaughan for a moment rose to the oceasion. He sent daown three good balls to Robb, which it would have meant death to have struck at and missed, and the third broke on to the £, ot ‘T'his was about the end. Robb had wmade a total of 2 cluding o six, two threos and two twos. Doyle took his place and was caught beforo he had broke his egg, and the last three wickets fell for seven. Seventeen for the tirst six and seven for the last three! McPherson, who had proved himself an excellent wicket keeper, in the previous inning, opened the Zingari's battivg, with Con Young; and it was their partership which put on most of the runs of the side. Glenve ana Robb had charge of the ball, but after two overs Doylo took (leave's place, with a view to placing him subsequently at the other end of the pitch. Young remained at the wicket for a good while, but did not have much of the play, and had only hit five singles, when he was caught at long-off by ilson—a good hit, but a little too short. Then Guild and W. Vaughan joined McPher- son who topped Robb's ‘score before he was dismissed. George Vavghan who went in next carried his bat through, but 41 had been put up when he went in and ouly 12 were needed to win. These were not obtained until five more wickets had been taken, George Vaughan contributing the majority of them. As soon as the winning run was hit an- other wicket went down and it was agreed to play the inning out. It was supposed, of course, that this would be achioved in a few minutes, but the bowlers and fielders be- came slack and it took nearly half an hour. Dave Johnson, who had been put down last on the list, hit about to by or anywhere else, and had got into double figure when Garvin caught him at square by, and the side was all out for 93, of which 40 had been contrib- uted by the last partnership in twenty-five minutes, ive had the honors of the bowling in the Zingaris' innings, as much so as did G. Vaughan hen the Clubs were at the wickets. ree wickets were down when he took the ball for the second time and he captured six of the other seveu. 0: ONMAHA C R.W. Ta, . H Vaughun, G. Vaughun. iy Viuzhan.. e, ¢ Johnson, b McPhorso run out.... A nderson, not out. AL J.C. Doy J .\lulry AW, Extris Totul.... > VAU on, b. Do, TR 23 uniz, ¢. Wilson, b. Robb S0 Glouve, A ] n, b. 104 30 3 0 i 2 Dougliss, b. Gl 1 Ross, e, Wilso 0 b. Gl 1 Omaha will have another tennis tourna- ment before the season closes. The one just closed brought out quite & number of players of apility, but it was confined to residents of the city, Next month city res- idents will have another chance to dis- tinguish themselves, and tne chance will be extended to all residents of Nebraska. Some woeks ago letters were recoived from Lincoln and Hastings, each of which cities wanted the arrangements to be made with a view to giving them at least one of the two events to be played. But Omaha had the same = desire, and with a greater likelihood of securng o good “gate,” it has ut last been agroed to play both events 1n this city, It seems that Neb.aska ladye players lack either the ability or the pluck to enter an open tourna- ment and play in public, forit is taken for granted by the organizing committeo that it would be impossible to obtain a large enough entry of ladies o make it worth while to establish a champiouship for the fair sex. Inany case the events on the peogram of the state tournament, asin the case of the re- cent city meeticg, are for men only. There will be no handicap events, and of course the state chumpisnships must be competed fpr on eveu term Mr. C. H. Young, whois organizing the tournament, has already sent out somo 200 or 300 circulars. He has addressed them 10 the secretaries of the teunis clubs of somo thirty-five Nebraska towus, and the editors of most of the state newspapers. He expects an entry of uot less than twenty or thirty pairs for the doubles, and most, if not all the players who enter for the doubles should try their htnd at singlos too. There is nothing like playing against the cracks in an open tournament to improve ones style, d this is an excelleut opportunity which uo Nebraskain who knowsa racket from s teanis net shoula let p The days for the tournament are August 15, 16 and 17, and the entry fee isonly fifty cenis for each player. r. Young will re- ceive names of intended compeditors be- tween uow wud August 12 at his room, 208 New York Life building. There are s number of good tennis ylayers in Omaha. Among those who are rapidly coming to the front aud may some day wear champlonship honors is er Packard. Packard was a colegiate base vall pitcher in early days aud is an active athlete. He has taken 10 tennis kindly and displays great proficiency in the use of the racquet, ——r— Balloon at 8 and 8, Courtland beach. R Balloon at 3 and 8, Courtland beach. INDI'S STRIPED TERROR The Destroyor of " Mi% and Dasolator of Nativa Villages 2 FEROCITY OF THE ROYAL BENGAL TIGER Sir Edwin Arnola’s’ Rgminiscences of the Real Lord of Grostion in Indlan Jungles—An Ingident on the Lower Sloves of thé Ghaute The true owner and landlord of many a tract of country in the parts I am re- visiting in thought, writes Sir Edwin Arnold in the London Telegraph, is the gold-coated and striped tyrant of the woods, the tiger. There are large ranges on the ghauts —one might almost call them estates—which are owned, at least temporarily, by pair of tigers, or it may be by an old male tiger singly, or by a tigress which has been left alone to take care of herself and her cubs, and so develops all the worst virtues of her fierce maternity., Tt is one of these last that has come to my mind in connection with a summer evening in India, when along the lonely jungle road an Eng- lishman with his attendants was ap- proaching a village. In such a country as I am doscribing the villages aro fow and far between, partly bocause of many dificulties as to agriculture and mar- kets, partly because of the resolute way in which the more courageous wild beasts dispute with man hereabouts his pretentions to call himself lord of the creation. On the plains whero the coun- try is open and casily traversed tigers never stay long in one place, or are Itkely to pay with their hides if they do: but on the shoulders of tne hills; sur- rounded by thickets which are the fringe of ‘an interminable forest, the striped rajah of the forest is oftentimes master of the situation and takes tribute from the cattle, goats and dogs of the community till he can be trapped or poisoned, or until he goes for some personai reason elsewhere. It is not so bad for the country people as long ay he rotains his naturai dread of man, which is so instinctive that the Indian herd *boy will often fearlessly save his oxen by shouting at the attacking tiger, and even flinging his stick at him; nor do the slender Indian girls shrink from leading their goats to the stream or fotching home wood and geass becanse a tiger has killed a cow or kid just beyond the village. But at one timo or another a tiger who has been, like the rest of his kind, terribly afraid of man in any shape, lays that droand aside on a sudden and for- ever, and then becomes truly formida- ble. It is, perhaps, in most cases the result of an unintended experiment. The courage of & tiger is the courage not of pride, but: of desperation, like that of a cat. He will get between the roots of the trees or the cracks in the earth to escape, but if escape be cut off he will attack an’ ele] i sportsmen upon {t, wh fantry soldier should hurl against the masonry'of a fortress. some fatal going with agriculturist, or the local postman with himself In momient” the Hindoo girl her pitcher, or the native his jingling bells,Kax passed some spot whote & tigar 1y lit §aIb watthiag the distant cattle grazing, or waiting for night time to,, yigt some tigress who has amorously responded to his roar. The. beast has thought himself orceived, has foa‘ d to be cut off from is usual retreat, or the vietim has shouted in terror, making the tigor hys- terical with fright, and then, in a paroxysm of rage and fear, it has snarled and sprung forth and dealt in frenzy rather than design that_terrible blow with the forepaw which will stun a wild boar and dislocate the neck bone of a bull. Before his roarof angry sur- prise has echoed through the jungle the man, or woman, or child lies a <orpse under his claws, and instinct forces him 10 go on, and to clinch the soft neck with his yellow fangs. Then the secret is out; the tiger has learned what a “poor forked thing” this lord of the creation is: how feeble his natural forces; how useless for defense that eye that was so dreaded; those hands that were so crafty: those limbs that bore him so hau;’lll({y with his head to the sky. Moreover, the tiger has tasted man and found him as savory to devour as he is easy to butcher, and from that time forth the brute neglects no further opportunity, but becomes a confirmed *‘man-eater.” Thero appeared the other day inan Indian newspaper a letter from an English official who had come across an instance where a young tigress, in the manner aluded to, had dul)npulumdn district, killed dozens of men and women, and taken actual possession of a forest road and tract. She began her career in July by killing two women near a forest village, and by the end of the following December had slain at least thirty persons, becoming bolder and more cunning with each fresh murder, Her beat lay in some foot hills, and she roamed over an erea of twenty-five miles long by three or four broad. The country was such that she could neither be tracked for any dis- tance nor driven out by beaters. = She would not kill a tied buffaio, nor would she go back to a corpse if once disturbed. She became at last so bold that she would in open daylight carry off men and women when cutting the crops in the terraced fields, stalking them from above and suddenly springing on them, The terror of her rocity spread through the country. Thevillagers left their homes for safer regions, vet even in the forests the tigress learned to stalk the sound of an ax, and made many victims before the woods were proved to be even more dangerous than the fielda: ‘had been, 'he method of attack: adopted was 80 sudden ass tor prevent any possibility of escapeyithe blow dealt so deadly as to rendér even a ery for help impossible, Therviethm was dead and carried off before&is dompanions knew what had oceurred: «Constany efforts were made for herdébtruction. Poison, spring guns and:dead falls were inef- fectually resorted-to, any number of buf- faloes were tied upiat night, and many a time the fresh tradb ofi & kill was taken up in hopes of abtaining a shotat the tigross, but withinovesult. - At last a file of soldiers were requisitioned to see what force gould dowremove this hor- rible animal, cunuibghaving ‘been found of no avail. Theobeast was killed, and was found to be alpousig tigress, in per- fect condition; the‘pad of her left fore- foot ha? at one-time been deeply cut from side to side, but had thoroughly healed, leaving, however, a deep scar, which had proved her presence wher- ever she roamed. The same account mentions one in- stance in which'two cowherds, living in a small grass hut ina somewhat wild forest, wore cooking their food in the evening, when this tigress suddenly sprang on one and carried him off, His companion intimidated the animal with shouts and threats, and succeedod in making him leave his victim. Carrying his wounded companion into the hut, the trembling Koombi closed the entrance and waited for daylight. But this he never saw, because, after a time, the tigress, emboldeaed the increasing darkness, returned, and forcing her way into the hut, carried off the uninjured SUNDAY, JULY 30, 1893 “RIXTEEN PAGES e ————————————— e — man, who was, doubtless could to prevent the appromch of the brute. The other, who was first soized, died of his wounds and sheer terror the next day, after relating the story to those who had found him. Tho party of the sahib that Indinn evening camo across just such a scene us is here spoken of. hillside by the widening path to the jungle village no sound whatever arose from its fow and humble habitations. Nobody camo out to make salutation or to offer supplies; no cattle were percoived wandering about, no children, no birds, except, indeed, many vultures upon the tree in the squara and upon the tomple roofl. The pots in the grain dealor's shop were empty and overturned. a piece of cloth just bogun was left with broken threads upon the loom in the noext hut. On the other side of the way the chattiosat a potter's were tumbled and broken, and a sheet of copper lay at doing all he As it oame down the — FRANK RANSON'S CLOSE CALL Ho Tried the Power of the Human Eyoe on 4 Thoughtless Buffalo. NARROWLY ESCAPES DEATH FROM FRIGHT Mo Started In to Tume the BufMalo at Wen- #on Wnd Came Out with & Fresh Crop of Geay Hair—Thrill- Ing Experience. When Attorney Frank Ransom went down to the building at Thirteenth and Harney occupied by the Omaha Art Exhibit com- ith' pany a couple of yoars ago and viewed Al the blacksmith's forge hal bent to mako 1160 Biofatadt's great peiatioe, The tasi some vessel, precipitately abandoned. " ot i 50 0 Whorevar one wazed there sers signs of | ©f 1o Buffalo,” ho sat. vofore the 800 0 a hasty flight on the part of the in- habitants, who did not scom to have left anybody to represent them. Yes!: thore was one silent and melancholy repr sentative, and the sudden appearance of her would havo startled the party very much more than it did but for a di covery made by the sahab's ghorawallah ~—tho groom—close by the silent and empty tempie. There was a muddy patch there in the square, from which the last of the rain water had but re- cently dried up, and in the black slime 50 loft woro deeply imprinted the “puds” of an evidently immenso tiger. It was, of course, evident now to the Englis man and those with him that the striped terror which left thoso footmarks had given the villagers notico to quit, and was somowhere or other near at hand, in practical possession of the fee simple of the village. Desolate boyond expression was the little unpeopled *‘place” of the hamlet, and the look of the helpless rod god staring from his portico uvon the huts that ho could not protect, and tho ex- citement of the horriblg vultures perched on the cotton trees, aware, no doubt, of the deadly secret of tho-phice, for 'round the corner by the dyer's shop, where two or three newly stained turban cloths still hung upon ropes to dry, they camo upon that secrot. Ac the threshold of a mud hut, evidently dragged off from the broken charpoy on the carthen floor lay the body of a woman, torn on the brown delicato neck and along the shouldors and breast with long red claw marks. A dead infant, also mangled by a savage bite, and with one of its urms nearly torn off, lay half concealed under tha corpse, the appear- ance of the bodies showing that they had been only lately killed. No ono could doubt what had killed them. The sign manual upon the bodies was surely that of the royal beast who often in this way disputes the right of his human rival in Tndia, roars to scorn the illusion that man is master of ereated things. The sahib's party was badly equippod for tiger shooting, and passed, not with- out anxiety and the closing up of the three or four servants and coolies, through tho outskirts of this evicted village. At any moment her ladyship the tigress or his lordship the tigor, who had taken possession of the place, might emerge from a grain store or a cow pon, or even from some milk bush or jowari patch, to ask the travelers what business they had upon the royal property. The Englishman hastily put bullets in both barrels of shot gun and walked his horse asquicly as his men could follow out of the ill-fated gaum. At its outskirts they were astonished to hear a voice high above their heads, which came, as they afterward found, from a young Hindoo low caste man sit- ting concealed in the branches of a large mango treo, from which could be seen both entrances of the village. He had made a rude platform in a fork of the tree and watched on 1t,with the long barrel of # matchlock protuding, and by his side an earthen jar of water. Thoy invited him to come down and to tell them the meaning of the extraordinary spectacle they had witnessed. He de- scended and informed them that for months past his village had been in- fested and persecuted by a tigress, which, after killing cattlo and goats, had slain and partly eaten three or four children outside the hamlet, and had taken, during the pasteight or nine days, to entering tho village at night and carrying off somebody or other sleeping, as the Hindoos do, outside their huts under the verandas. The woman slain that morning with her baby was the wife of the poor match- lock man and he had perched himself in the tree hoping to avenge her death whnen the sahib’s pagty passed. It was too serious a case not to be re- ported in the proper quarters, and an Sxpoditionof practiosd. tiger ‘ahootars was equipped among the officers at the nearest station. The beast was tracked and was killed after receiving eleven bullets, and then it turned out that she had a half grown cub which had lost a limb, and thus the maternal affection of the ferocious parent had driven it to canvas for over two hours and lamented the extinction of the lordliest race that ever roamed and ruled the plains. The scene was vecalled to his mind the other evening by the exclamation of a friend, when, to the intense surpriso of tho latter, Ransom feolingly remarkod: “What a gol- dinged fool T was to drop a toar to the mem- ory of any such condemuned murderous brutes!" Thereby dangles a narrative con- nected with facts which demonstrate why Wise men sometimes change their minds. It so happens that Mr. Ransom s a neighbor of Police Commissioner Hartman, and as neither keeps chickens to discourage the material well being of bugs and vegota- tion in the garden of the other, the fecling that exists between thom does not provent their speaking as the meet and pass by. The other ovening, when the commissioner reached home, he found tho scion of the faiuily cherishing a fond desire to go out to Benson and sco tho herd of buffalo. The commissioner proved susceptible to persua- sion, and the family carriago was soon roll- ing Bensonward, with the commissioner and his son occupying one seat, and Neighbor Ransom tho other two. The younger Hart- man wore & bright red shirt, and although Mr. Ransom might consider that fact alto- gether irrclovant, its materiality will be ap- parent later. As might be expectod, the talk during the drive turned upon the nature and char teristics of the butfalo.and the commissioner told the story of how he killed his first and only ono, when a boy in his teens first cross- ing the pla to Denvers He was with a freighting party, snd had oxpended all his shot before going 100 miles from Omaha. So it was that when thoy happened to run across an immenss herd of the animals he had nothing with which to wage su warfare, and was compolled to dr nails from one of the boxes of dry which was a part of the freight. chopped up with a hatchet on tire of a wagon wheel, and loaded his shot gun with a handful of the metallic hash. To make a long story short, he crept up on an old buil bufalo, and shot a hole througn him large enough for an ant to walk through. That was the only one the commissioner ever killed, but he saw millions of them at short range and knew enough ubout them to fill a small “book. He was certain they were the most treacherous and altogether devilish animals that ever wore hair, and the mere fact thatany of them were to be found on the north side of the city would tempt him to drive toward Bellevue rather than Benson, wore it not for the fact that his boy had never seen any of them, The smooth-shaven attorney could not sece it in that light at all, for he had read a great deal about the buffalo and he was certain that it ought to be pleasure enough for any sane man to go out once ina while and show his veneration and admiration for a noble ace by occasionally spending a few hours with the few magnificent specimens that are all that are now left of the countless num- bers that a fow years ago caused the very carth to tremblo beneath thoir tread. “Yes, 1 will admit that they are magnifi- cent creatures so faras appearance goes,” said the commussioner, “and perhaps a man can’t help admire their size and strength, but I tell youthey have the meanest dis- positions that were ever encased in hide.” “You arc entirely mistaken,” positively assertod Ransom. *‘They are remarkably docile for such powerful animals, and all the authorities are united on that point. Even when you find one that is inclined to be in the least unkind, you can control him almost with a breath.” “Mr. Ransom, are you insinuating as to my democracy?” asked the commissioner with much severity. “Not in the least, my dear sir,” said Ran- som. *I merely intended to say that a sin- sle glance was sufcient. All that you huve to do to control any animal, und a buffalo more particularly than any other, is to look him squarely in the eye, Itis the mysteri- ous power of mind over matter, and 1t was never known to fail.” Further discussion was proventod by the goods These he the arrival at the losure where the buffalo theso desperato ways. Indeed, the | 4ry confined, but the wary commissioner spectaclo of thav village was full of phil- | \youlq nov allow the coachman to drive osophical suggestivenoss. —The doad i yyyinseveraliodsof the fouce. This did human mother had been slain by reason | ISRl DL IS IR Lt of the very same instinct which had | ROV St the boy, o made her seek in vain to preserve her child from the attack of the tigress driven to its wiv's ends to find food for its own helploss offspring. The tigress was in her way as tonder a parent as the loving mother whom she murdered, and then, besides, there was the whole vil- lage depopulated, to make one wonder what sort of a world it would have been if, as might well have happened, tigers had evolved as masters of the globe in- stead of men. IS Bulloon goos up twice today. A Disagresment. Detroit Tribune: Outside a one-man band was awakening the cchoes by n strenuous and austained effort. fnaido thoro was scarcoly less harmony, is bosom was heaviug tremendously while the wife of his bosom had thrown her- self upon the sofa in an attitudoe of deep de- jection. ;" —she was tearfully reproachful in tono—"'do you always disagres with me?” He looked pained. “My love,” he protested, in evident dis- tress, “when have I disagreed with you?" “Why, this very minute I asked you if you dian’t think the laay in the next house was really a better cook than I am, and you said yes." She wept 80 softly that the one-man band made tho evidence of her grief inaudible. RM.AVARE STial Balloon goes up twico today. Show Tent iown SrauNTON, IlL, July wind, accompanied with rain, visited this place about 9 o'clock last night, blowing down outhouses and fences. The large tent of Reynolds’ show was blown down upon the crowd. A rush was made for the entrance and women ainted and were trampled upon. None were killed, but many broken and bruised limbs are the result. own, 20.—A severe e m— The Differeu ‘Washungton Star: It is interesting to see how different men make fortunes,” said the contemplative citizen. *Now, there's Biggins. He got rich out of politics, while Baggins got his start from what he won in a pokor game.” **Yes," replied his friend. “Biggins' for- tune was machioe made and Baggins' wa: hand made.” —— Balloon at 3 and 8, Courtland beach. closer. His father vainly endeavored to impress upon him that it was better to bo safe than sorry. Nothing would do but to go at least as far as the fence. The commis- sioner was even firmer on that point than he had been on the other, and most emphuati- cally refused to be decoyed from the car- riage while there was & buffalo in the vi- inity. “Chris,” said Ransom indignantly, ‘‘you ought to be ashamed to evince such coward- ice in the presence of your son. How can you expect him to become o manly man when you allow yourself in his presence to becomo the cringing vietim of & consuming fear? Come with me, myboy. T will take you where you can put your bards upon those cute little horns and pick the sand barrs out of the buffalo's whiskers. Your father is getting old, but he means all right, even if he isn't as nervy as he used to be. The buffalo will be glad to see us, and I will show you how completely they can be dominated by a glance from the human eye,” Taking the boy by the hand, the lawyer walked gleofully toward the fence, and was soon poiating out the most noticeable fea- tures of a comfortable looking buffalo bull that was graziug on the other side. *'Notice his eye,” exclaimed the elucidator of buffaloism. *'Do vou see how small it is, and that it seems to retreat into the hair away from your gaze? A small eye never has any show against o large one, and a strong, contident look completely over- powers it. 1 will walk down toward him and you will see how quickly he will re- treat, although he weighs quite a little more than I do." The advooate of Blackstone, Coke and buffalo was saved the trouble, however, for the buffalo just then seemed to notice the red shirt for the first time. The effect it had on him was most pecullar. He winked hard a couple of times, humped his back, rested the lower coruer of his whiskers on the ground, held out one leg for & moment #0 rigidly that it quivered, and then made a lunge for the fence. +'Pon my soul, Arthur, | belleve he's com- fog this way," was the surprised exclamation of Mr. Ransom, who had regurded the pro- liminaries with considerable curiosity. As 8000 48 he saw that his diagnosis of the io- tontions of tho buffalo was tored but one word more, Run," ho Ahrioked, and strtightway sot the pace himself at & olip that he will never oqual again if he live old. Mr. Hartman, from his seat in the car riage, took in the wholo situation, and after noticing that the buffalo was unabla to got through the fence, bogan encouraging Ran- som, who had never looked behind him, and who fanciea he could hear tho breozo sough- ing through the buftaloio whiskers just be- hind him, “Don’t let him gain another foor," yellad vorrect, he ut to be & million years the commissioner, and Ransom strained until he nearly burst a blood vessel, “You'll never make it, Frank. 1f you oan’t run any fastar than that, you'd batter turn and 190k him injthe eye.” Ransom's arms and legs wero flying like tho shuttlo of a sewing-machine, and he was splitting the atmosphore much aftor the | fashion of a lumborman openiag a loz. When he saw Hartman step from the carriage, snateh the whip from thehands of the' coach- man and start toward him, ho felt sure that his time had come, and with a final gasp of CHit him like h 1, Chri he made a des perate jump as he flow past Hartman, and landod in a heap insido the vehicle, He had lost his hat carly n the race, but oven when satisfied that the buffalo was on the other side of the fonce he refused to leave the carrlage and induced tho coachman to go and gather in his headgoar. He mado tho commissioner promiso not to say a word about it, and gave the boy $1 to forget it on the spot. “Say, Frank," sald the commissioner as thoy drove slowly back toward the oity, ‘what was the mattor? Couldn't you get a focus on the buffalo's eye?" “The d—d beast 1s blind," solemuly as- severated Mr. Ransom, and not another word would he say on the subject, It was through himself that it leaked out, for his fright had boon so severo that after going to sleep that night ho thought tho buf- falo was onco moro after him, and jumping from his bod, seizod & feather duster and began rushing around the room yolling “Look out!" at the topof his voice. His wife finally succeedod in quicting bim, and heis gradually rocovering, but ho will al- ways curse the day whon ho was mduced to put faith ina bualo and weop bocauso the race is dying out. som isa lawyer and, of courso, could not think of taking the worst of it, so he quietly told the story to his frionds, taking pains to place Mr. Hartman in the position of vietun of tho fright. But tho prépondor- ance of ovidenco is against him. Tho polico commissioner is against him. Arshur Hart- man says that Mr. Ransom's story is not in accord with the facts. Jolly William Lewis, the ebony coachman for Mr. Hartman, hasn'ta word tosay. When ho secs Mr. Ransom he simply loses all control of him- self and falls to the ground in a fit of laugh- tor. NATIONAL LEAGUE GAMES, Philadelphla Gets Ona Game Out of Four from Brooky: BRoOKLYN, July 20, —Philadelphia won the first game from Brooklyn at Eastorn park this afternoon by clover fielding and carnost batting. The sccond game was won by a narrow margin, the victory boing tho fourth obtamad from Philacelphia this woolk. Score, first game: Brooklyn.........0 0 4 01 0 0 1 0—6 Phitadelphia.. "0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 5-10 Hits: Brooklyn, 6; Philadolphia, 10. Errors: Brookiyn, 3. Eurned runs: Brooklyn, ; Phil- adolphin, 5. Patterles: Kennody and Kin- slow; Barsey and Clemonts, Soooml gane: 00800022 *7 0001138010-6 , 7: Philedelphis, 6. Errors: ndelphl, 3. Earned runs: y i Brooklyn, ‘4: Philadelphis, 2. Batterlos: Sharrott and Daily; Vickers and Clemonts. Spiders Swipo the Crippled Browas St. Lovis, July 29.—Opportune batting in the two games today enabled Cleveland to make it four straight from the Browns. At- tendance, b, Score first game: St. Louls 01200200 1-6 Clovlund. 031 1- 8 0010 Hits Cleveland, rut St 3 Cleveland, 2. Louis, eland. Huttories and Gunson; Cuppy and Connor, Second game: 5. L 000 020 0001 1000 a, Louis, 3. Brietenst O'Connor. Of Course, Boston Won, Bosrtoy, July 29.—Hawke lost his norve in the last inning and Boston won. Score: Boston ... 010002 47 Baltimore 01000021 04 Hits: Boston, 7; Baltimore, 4. ory: Bostoy Baltimore, 7. Earned runs: Bos- aitimore, 2. Batterios: Gastright ton, and Bannet One Tear Inwke and Clarke, Willle Can Fool, LovisviLig, July 20.—Anson put Hutchin- sou in today and he proved a complete puz- zle. Attendauce 1,000, Loulsvilie... 00000000 Chleago, 41400500 % Hits: Chleago, L4; Louisvillo, 2. ¢ - 1 14 ors Chic uisville, 1. Earaod rans: Chi- engo, 13 Loubsville, 1. ' Battorlos: Rhodos and Olark; Hatchinson and Schriver, tin the First. Cixerssarn, July 20.—Seasonable batting won the gamo for Pittsburg. The Reds, after driving Ehret out of the box, were un- @onnhs Wor able to bat Killen at all successfully. Score: Clnelnnatl. . 3000 000 0-38 Plttshurg. .. .600030003-9 Hits: Cincinnati, 3; I’lllvhurg‘.! Errors: Cinecinnatl, 8; Plttsharg 1. Earned runst Cinelonatd, 1 I‘I|lnhurn, H. Batterios: Dwyer and Murphy; Enret, Killon and Sugden. Glants Win Anotnor. New York. July 20.—Four thousand peoplo saw the New Yorks defeat Washington this afternoon. Score: Now York 4000200017 Washington ... 21080000 0-0 ow York, Washington, 6. Errors: Washington, Eurned rung k. Was ngton, 3. Batterles: Gete main and Wilson; Esper and Farrell, Standing of the Teaws, 10 38 51 8740 441 ————— Balloon at 3 and 8, Courtland beach, el Wanted tho Body as Collateral, S, Louis, July 20.—A startling story, in which a well f e Adettakon fir was related to Health Commis- Stoman last evening. Miss Fan- nie Scheneck died of consumption duy before yesterday. This morning her father and brother called at the health departiment offico and asked the aid of the ofticials to recover a burial certifi- cate they claim Undertaker Shevlin of Twenty-elghth and Laclede avenue absolutely refused to deliver to them unless they paid him a certain amount of money and allowed him to bury the body. They also said that he had tried to hold the body as collateral, —————— Wise Frovis New York Weekl, Mr. Baldie—I have discovorea that baldness 1s a wise provision of nature. Philosopher—That's a new discovery, sure. You have noticed, doubtless; that [ a billlard vall as rar down as the rim of my hat, but telow that the hair grows luxuriantly as ever." “Yes, that 1s usually the “Exactly. Well, now comes my discovery, Barber shiops are often draughty, you know.* “Very frequently.” “I'oo'true. Sure to give folks Influenza, pneumonta, and 1 dlon'l know what all." “Draughts are always dengerous. -~'nm§- it, Well, a bald-headed wan cam have nis hair out without removiag his hat* e —— 3und 8, Courtfand Beach. Balloon at