Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 16, 1893, Page 6

THE _OMAHA DAILY BEE: JVEDNE afMairs explains the steady outpourin Pacific securities, which company holds a Northern Pacific securi. was naturally affected, and sold the lowest price ever touched, The ommon fell off to 4% per Febraary, $7.4107 49, COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL Almost One Oent Knocked Off the Price of | middling 6 receipts, 467 balos, ross, 460 bales! North American ool ordinary, & certain amount of et bales new cotton | Northern Pacific cent and the proferred to mainder of the list, General £ 254 per cent to ! cent to 4814, while other stocks yielded During the afternoon there was a rally of 1§ to 11§ per cent, and the improvement was fairly well maintained That there was no particular pressure to sell was evidenced by the fact that only 144,916 shares changed hands all The market closed steadier at the re- covery noted, The Post says: okers have b received to date, cctric fell off Chicago Gias 21 Producs Market. creamories, solid THAT CEREAL OPENED AT A D[CUNE‘ Early Weakness Wenkening Factor. in Ratiroad Stocks Was & T'hio market is practically steady and In Corn Cloudy rge, bt they are suficient to The bulk of the salos are supply the te Little Backward, g g RURUT Lo L old roosters, The fact that the London n buying our stoc! i1, in the face of this weck’s Stock ex- change settlement, is significant, exactly iu the sense of which The few days preceding London's settlement are always devoted to the squar- ing of speculative accounts, and the accounts ht most in need of squar- Jwn stock 1s plenty at 1%c n orders fron the country. Howie grown stock, per 4-basket Cim1caco, Aug. rency increasing the discount on drafts here today The premium wis chiefly what knocked New white clover, Corn suffered «till ' fow biackberries Blackberries blueherries, per also to the extent of A cided scarcity of the last fort ing are clearly the short sales. not now buying for the rise. italists seem L0 have taken already a suffi- cient load, and little speculators are for the time warned off by the high London money Whether this rate is to make further advances depends, no doubt, on the action of the Bank of France. Paris exchange holds firm even above the rate at which gold can be shipped to London, and it is bound to 8o lonas London's open market discounts rule at 4 per cent, against 214 per cent in_ Paris. bank has shown unexpected willingness to arguing no doubt that the tates perforce, of offerings of provisions Compared with last night, pork is up 27lge, ¢ and ribs 20c. Wheat at the opening was about ¢ lower than yesterday's closing some sligh t fluctuations prices clined {c, then became strong, vanced from 1e to 1ge, again closing was casy, fromige to It was surmised that operators were creating a iarket in a specu- A day or two ago they bought here is vory little doing In pota- The, 1arRe cap: minission men at local growers do not Appear to be h 1o supply the local retail from the country son there have not ased off, and in_from California. i¢ from the some of the many grape lasket, 40@50¢ CALIFORN A FRUITS per box, $1.15 clings, ¥1.10; h EarlyCrawford penches, large sveculativ e little manipulation of the ¢ the French per box, $1.60@ Intivo way. #2; nectarine: release its gold wold will go to the Unitod sooner or later, when France is compelled to Ader crop deficiency in our All this and the ready accommo- tion of our bankers in tho German specie unlike_the “'scramble for gold™ by the whole of Europe of which we have lately heard so much, ignoramuses who cables on a dismayed community with gloomy shakes of the head to the very high premium on gold in Ro eem to have oce philosophers that nations on the verge of bankruptey and flooded with irredeemable paper money are very likely to bo anxious bidders for the little gold their own depre- ciated currency will buy. The followineg are the closing quotations watermelons 1s make good its Wy from $16 0'per 100: Stall or Inferior, $10.00@16.00 cantnlonpes, buskots, $1 tos, £1.752.00. ouni to anything v are awaiting @ turn to buy in again course the financial situation is having effect upon the market ; short crates, ket look strongl, The recent Soma of the last Sunday's wheat, while tod; ported easier and at 1 s discount ana The husiness in shipping cabbage 10 the country appears to be about received and filled av Cables are gencrally o and Madrid. course of the American wwred to thes 1sional orders New York was o weakening feature. was good buying at the decline whici I'lio receipts northwest the ‘LERY--Stray shipments are arriving and quality of the stock is pronounced good for this Soason of the year. Celery, por doz. TROPICAT, FRULTS. movements seem The steady receipts only 119 cars and the estimates for tomorrow were only 45 cars, wns and all ady business exchange today : Messinas, per hos. choies to tancy, $5.00:5.50. omo effect in a ge e to e de: wheat also had The market opened Riverside Mediterrancan sweets, 83.75. natn abont ste 75; per bunch, swall to Anmerican BXp bunch, large, medium, 82 02,2 HIDES, TALLOW, ETC, 1 green hides, and closed com- paratively steady wes in oats were confined to 1 reduction of frc and the close was at a Ches. & Olilo de was light ars' anticipation of a falling off hogs was borne out by today head having % 0. S L. & U rocn salted in receipts « 8 1bs. 10 15 1s., 5 1bs., Be; No. 1Ld & Cottlon O1l Cert. y fiintiiides, 6 Del. & Hudson. dry salted hides, be. cured hides te per 1, less than full 1 sulted, ouch 85ca@sl. s (short woole Shearlings (short ». 2 dry flint consequently strong and ag a further con Nog products wus ad- tember brought a pr e over the Octone issold for tne the price of mium of from 22! 5¢ 4 suggesting that mor wooled early skinsi, No. shearlings (short limited stocks and caus! iprehension of cher woolpelts, per I, actual weight, 102 nal quotations &L prefd.. 1ski murrain not far from the top. The demand for vess ana rates steady at i corn to Buffalo and 2%c for wheat and 2i5¢ for corn to Kings ated receipts for tomorrov 5 cars; oats, Colotado biteher ary flint Colo 1., nctual wei <, actual wei room was moderate wheut ana 1¢ in wool pelts, pieces and by ALLOW _AND Louisville & A Louisville &N 45 cars: corn, 2 15,000 head. Uhie leading futur grease, yellow, old butter, @244} ranged as follows: | Migh | Low Missouri Pacific St. Louis Markets. 15.—Frovr—Steady, | National Linse tional Corda; arket tame, exce: 2006(SL.J. & K. C 34 ('St J. & K. C.pri‘d Kugust, hore mber, 68%¢, k on crop conditions, losing N nber, 604G The total sales of stocks toduy were 144,848 shures, including: 7,500; Chicago Gy Atchison, 4,100; 400; General Elec R Firm, unchanged. tern, 8,700: Rock Island, 9,000; Union PROVISIONS “ Detter; pork, new make, shoulders, § New York Money Market, NEW YORK, Aug. 15— At @5 per cen ing offered at 4 per ¢ PRIME MERCAN STERLING EXCHAN shoulders, #5.75; hiuns, sugar-cured, ONEY ON CAl fast loan at 4 per c RecEiPTS—Flour, 3,000 s 'n, 67,000 bu. 5. PAPER—8@12 per cent. Cash quotations wo s—Flour, 90,000 sack 1, 63,000 bu.: ots, 10,000 bu and barley, none. s und sellers apart. pring, 613¢; No. 8 spring, £. o for sixty duys and $4.5615@4.87 for demand. S CERTIFICATES — Witkar—No. 0 sales reportes b. N § No. 8 yellow closing at GOVERNMENT BONDS—Stronger. State bonds Kansas Clty Murk NG 9o oD, IKANEAS C1TY, A WieaT—1c lower; The closing quotations . 2, nominal; No. No. 4, no salc f.0. b, 35 good demand; No. 2 white, nowlnally 26@ TIMOTHY SEED- Ponk—Mess, per hbl., §128713213,1214; Jard, , 85.474@8.671; Firn; 510080 #7.00@7.26; short clear sides (boxed), o 1g clags A . unchanged; creamery, 16@ tshed goods, per gal., A hAnzen Wiheat, 2,000 bu.; corn, 8,000 bu.; N. Carolina 4. at, 20,000 bu.; Mutual Union 6. were the receipts and ship- *N.J. C. Tnt. Cert monts for today Aug. 15.—N tional transit cer- %1 highost, D8ly; 21,000 bhs; ¢ Va. Ex-Mat. ¢oup. Boston Stock Quotations, 15.—~Call loans, 7 8-10@210 per i per centand commission, sing quotationson stocks, bonds and mining 107,647 LbIS, BOSTON, Aug néd at 57143 closed, 673 high- VERPOOL, Az 208 9d per ewt, LONDON, Aug. 15, 11750 por ewt. rVery warm. 21511d@21s W I New York Markots, T0%| Westingh : 05 6d per ewt. exports, 25 bbls, 12, s |Atelitson 2ds 9614 Atchison du. CORN MEAL Dull, nomin BARLEY Ma nd poor; Kolders offer frecly s 8d per contil;No QHb L. g g, 58 7'edan Allouez Mintng Co v Atlantic Hoston & Mant western stendy. ipts, 412,100 slos, £,620,000 1 dnys, 230,000 tals of Americ \ls, includin t futuro, 60 Mix. Con. Com.. V. & New Eng.. tore und ¢levator pts of Anjer- 681506071503 were' dull wnd wis weak it 8 ) ind local w xtra Indin mess, 22148 6d por cen- tal; bacon, long el He deeline ¢ oo Market. Ontions open 5 down,closod tsdown; sulos, 14,2 r, $14.85016.25; Octobe nber, $14.80%10,00: Dec NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2w YORK, Aug. he following are the mining quotation ftceeipts, 43,000 210000 ou, exports, 120,000 iet; N 15 Hule & Noreross, quiet; No. 7, 8155 red, Ancust, 661@661 622 Lu.; sules, 90,000 futures, 75,000 by San Franclseo Mining Options, d P s B AN FIRANCISCO, Aug. 10, otations for miulng stocks Rtuled steady; No. 2 white, 85¢. The official closing 3114, cloxing WukAr—Scarce, white, 40150 CORN—Stron; Strong; No, 2 mixed, 201c. weot sulted Noew Orle solected, 46 1060 1bs., 4@ Is Whont Market, Futures dull and pulled, 16025¢; T No. 1 northe ). 2 northern, b ckled shoulders, 6 @1140; middies, nomin westorn. stean Mining stocks lifeless, closiug quotations BALTIMORE, Aug. 15. Easy; August, W niess, $14.50@ 15.00. Dull; spot and August, 47c. 1 Siuation, New York exchange was a western factory, 144 Cugese—More' d kims, small, 5L, Hght domand Toteds Geoin Murkot part skims, Wimr—Active, steady; diseouut bid. It was regarded by lo sign for Chicag 1o keep o (np wnsfers ut Now Yorl nze, Chicago thas - zold when New York cannot do it. The whiiess of exclinnge proof thist Chicugo grain and provisions are Oars—Quiet; wixe old, paying fol Dull, steady; crade oi yellow, 43¢, Baltimore, $5.10; STOUKS AND BONDS, Dull, swady; stralued, cowwon to L and & Lower Range os Prevailed. NEW YORK, Aug. 15, the Evening Post don spectul to Quiot; 2614026 New York. Aug. emoly dull throughout today aud a prices prevailed dealiugs were confined almost entirely to the professional beurish on unsettled. state of affairs. this situation o'clock, when d coin todiy. extra, 25@biye apan. 4G4ty Astrs—Boady, dull; New Orleans, open . good 1o eholco, 3062 803,c. buGAK--Kaw, dull, Forty-five thousand Bitr wold wis in good denind Tho Btock ex- J1d'(non—Qulet, stoady; American, ¥2.75@ Fiouneul N KANSAS C1TY, Aug New Youk, ' Barely steady; $18.:20; plates, quiet, it was learned Clearings, 802,286 that the syndicate formed to take the col- Northern Pacific company to liquidute the floating debt had been disrupted and on the upplication of the trust company receivers had been appointed This sudden ture of SPELTER—Steady ; domestic,$3.7550 "change, lateral trust Clearings, $2,101,116; Moucy, 6 per eent NEW ORLEANS. x eady: sules, 4,000 bales; August, §6.86 $5.87@8.58; October, #8.87@8.59; vember,#7.08@7, U¥; Decewber, 7.16Q7.19; PHILADELPIIA Money, 6 pus Cleariogs, $10.806,147; | sdvances varying trom 10¢ to 40¢ per 100 1bs, 7 8-1Ug8 per | This was ao wverage galu lu Leavy snd we- for sue property. Lalances #1,200,957, DAY, AUGL I' 16, 1893. cent. Exchange on New York, #1.0021.60 dis- count ( LoNDON, Aug. 1 AMN»mu of bullion gone into the i £45,000 NEw OrLeANs, Aug TB.—Clearings, $941,045 New York exchange, eommercial, $7.60 pre mium; bank, par Menpnis, Aug. dh+New York exchange selling at #1.50 premium. Cloarings, $95,425; balances, #17,172 CINCINSATI, Aug. 15.—Money 7@8 per cent oew York exchangd () 85.00¢48.00 disccunt: arings §1,180,650 NEW YORK, Aug. 15.<Petrolenm weak; there cre no sales; Peninsylvania spot sales, none; eptember options sklof, none; 57%c bid. Aug. 15:-Bank clearings today, i bulauges, $277411 6@8 per cont] exchange on N 6 dlscount. nk of ngland on bulance today, AGo, Aug. 15.-Clearings, #10,566,870, ork' exchange $15 discount. 'Sterling exchange firmer; actual, $4.79@4.83'%. Money comfortable at 7 per cent. OMAHA IVE STOCK MARKET, Oatlle Trade Barely Steady and Much Hogs Active igher. TrrspAy, Aug. 15, Receipts today were about up to tho aver- age fora Tuesday in August. For the two days supplies foot up 3065 cattle, 5,240 hogs and 1,146 sheep, as against 2,002 cattle, 7,305 hogs and 8,042 sheep Monday and Tuesday of last week. The cattle market today lacked lite and there were a good many soft spots in the trade. Most salesmen thought they got very nearly steady prices for cattle that suited the dressed beef men, but ordinary to Poor stuff was hard to moye even at prices weak to a dime lower than Monday. A fow bunches of good 1200 to 1.300-1b. beeves sold at $4.05 to £4.20, but the fair to ‘good 1,030 to 1,150-1b. steers sold at from 8375 to .05, Iair to poor light and half fat stuff sold at from $3.65 down. Very few of the westerns offered wera good enough for beof and prices ruled rather low. A fair clearance was offected. The cow market was active and firm. Decent butchers’ stock sold y at from §2 to $2.50, with canners down to $1. Calves were gencrally steady at from & to $3.50 and rough stock dull and weak at from & ) to #1.83 Feeders moved freely considering the weathor and prices paid were fully steady, occasionally firmer, the demand being good and the supply limited. Good to choice feeders are quotable at $2.70 to &, fair to good at §2.50 to £270 and common stuff at 210 §250. Representative sales: DIRESSED BEEF. No. Av. Pr No. Av. 1178 8300 20.....1183 1020 825 22.00.0118 J1280 825 60..011186 968 8 60 77....11028 1842 8 65 22017 111065 950 8 65 20 1098 865 89 12068 875 18 cows, 1..... 880 100 4. D01t 40RO 1000 700 150 9 1.1111020 150 87. 40071060 150 1 4. 917 150 2 i s 19! 1 1100 176 8. 8ilillie08 115 8 PHso D ki) 82 7 1 799 2 1 111033 14 16 950 20. 2 00 1078 1% 2 00 950 1 2 00 798 1 2 00 1012 2 900 £ 2 7 1 400 8 1 Besalineg 8. 130 2..0.0. 805 7 140 225055554689 2 220 800 2 el 228 e80! BULLS. 180 1......1050 165 1 50 1 1270 185 160 STOCKERS AND FEEDERS. 9. 553 180 883 240 1 B8O 200 820 240 1% 660 2 00 1177 240 4 870 2 00 873 2 60 1 410 200 800 260 3 656 2 00 2 60 6. 666 220 2 60 3. 865 235 2 65 0. 781 2385 270 8. 450 2 40 11025 290 301000 800 240 1000 2 90 110000 836 2 40 782 300 WESTERN CATTLI Av, Pr. . No. Av. Pr. NEDRASKA, 78 steers.1004 8 10 WYOMING. 1 feed'r.1150 200 8 calves 878 225 8 steers.1047 2560 1 feed'r. 820 2 60 7t 961 2 60 G stecrs.1150 8 25 5 steers. 1404 8 60 ws..1005 1 75 8 cows.. 879 175 8., 875 225 1 cow...1040 2 00 o 2 00 6 cows. 1010 2 65 4 cows 265 6 cows 1113 2 65 1strtlgil70 2 00 11 cows.. B78 155 20 cows.. 818 1 1 fo 5 22 fd'rs. 881 20 2 bulls 185 “1cow . 730 1385 4 heifers 200 1strile1160 2 00 1 feede 2925 4 0d'rs. 50 225 8 calves. 250 1 cow. .1220 2 G0 B cows.. 900 260 16 stecrs. 1195 2 90 6 rd'rs. 810 225 1 cow...1180 275 1cow... 820 275 7 steors.l: 335 IDAO CATTLE. 8hulls..1436 150 21 cows..1002 2 60 1feed’r.1170 2 00 33 f'd'rs.. 1048 2 70 SOUTH DAKOTA. 21 cows..1080 2 50 B strs tlg.1486 2 00 Hogs—The yards today had more the ap- pearance of a hog market. Receints we fair, but not hevy, about the same as a week ago. Kastern markets were reported bigher, and shippmg_buyers had orders for over a third of the offerings. Local buyers all had good orders, and the trade was from the start, with prices unywhere from a dime to a quarter higher than Mon- y. The advance was most on the «ood to choice light and butcher weight hogs that sold from £ up to £.15. Heavy and mixed pickers sold very largely at 855 and £.95. Squire of Bosten wus In'the market for the first time m several mouths, aud paid as high as # for choice heavie while rough heavies sold as low as $4.50 The pens were emptied carly in the forenoon, the market being active throughout and closing firm at the advance. Trading was lareely at #4.00 to 8. ns sgninst $1.75 and £4.80 Monday and $4.60 1o #4.65 on last Tues- day. Representative sales: Av. Sh. Pr. No Pr. 160 84 80 #4095 120 4 80 4 95 40 4 80 4 95 b 814 B0 4 85 4 95 50....277 40 4 K5 b 00 59 1815 120 4 85 5 00 105...817 —— 4 85 5 00 62....274 280 4 85 b OO g 4 85 5 00 4 90 5 00 4 5 00 4 5 00 48 5 00 49 5 00 4 5 00 4 5 00 4 5 00 4 605 49 6 05 49 6 05 4 b 05 4 5 05 4 5 05 4 5 05 4 b 074 4 610 101 360 4 510 240 4 5 10 4 200 4 95 510 249 860 4 95 515 Sueer—Iteceipts’ consisted of three loads of westerns. There' was a limited inquiry for good muttons, Bt uone for common und stock sheap. The feeling was very weak in sympathy with easigm markets iud prico by long odds the’jowest of the seasor Fair o ®ood natives, 3,000, b0y fair to good westerns. & M@4.20; com- mon and stock sheep. #1.50@ good to choice 4010 100-1b. lambs, $3. 004,75, Chicigo Live Stack M Aug. 16 —(Special Telegram to The receipts, of cattle were esti- mated 4t 3,000 head, coniposed In about equal purts of nitives, westerns and Texans. Al deseriptions mado - gain in sirength, the av- erage of prices being fr w 5¢ to 106 bigher 1l Mouday. There was # g0 d demund fro canuers and dressed beef shippers, and with buyers and exporters also look fowcuit e, sellers hud t & tuaile Avrivals sinee Buturduy ha been 1,500 head wo o than I sane ti lust bt Lo 1 el pls £ itest fifteen duy nonti show u i o of wore th 80,000 head. i comp Tl 1892 nd v, fsnott Tiest sl chuuce thst this 108 Seliers did | The only kuown just how will i w twatiers ull lo good Liter in the wonth, thelr own winy todiy thiat bothered (hem wis 10 wuch of un advance Lo sk taken s fust iy offored ut s The stulf wis - dium welghts of fully O6e, the bulk chuneing hands at from $5.25 1o 85,40 <hits showed less change, 15¢ gain in that class, but it was a highly satistuc tory market for sollers. The only complaint they had to make was that they ald not have more of thom, the fresh receipts amounting to barely 7,000 hiead, The stuff was alll out of lors' hands early in the forenoon, and the o was firm. sheep supply was again large—alto- gethier too Iarge for the needs of the trad Consequently the market remainod weak, 1t ( of them Light avering the was weak today, even the best grades, while for common to falr lots concessions of from 10c to 16¢ hind to be made, Trade was very slow and many lots wore 1n scllers' hands after buyers had secared all the stock they wanted. “Ruyars did not want to pay moro than from #4'to 84.25 for anything, und thero were few loads at botter than #8 Quota- tions were from_$1.50 to v Texans; from 1. 5 to 88,40 for westerns, and f £1.85 t0 $4.60 for nutives. Tho lanb mar was lower, quoted at from #8 to $5.65 Rocefpts: Cattlo, 3,000 hend; calves, 1,000 head; hoes, 7,000 head: sheep, 14,000 head The Evering Journal reports UATTLE Recaipts, 3,100 head: shipments, 1,100 h murket ighier; prime, $4.00¢ good to clioice, $4.85@4.76; medium, $8.000 4.00; common, $4.60@5.00; ' westerns, $2.500 4.10; Texans, $2.0003.40; cows, §1.26@3.15. Hoas—Recelipts, 7,600 head; shipments, 8,000 head; markot higher; #4.25@4.50;" mixed and 2 hoay ommon_rough, kors, 84,9065, butchors, light, & SHEED 000 head: shipn 1,200 lower: natives, #3 4.00; i fancy weste wethie 50@4.60. St. Louls Live Stock Market, 1. Louts, Aug. 15 b, —~CATTLE—Recoints, 4,000 hoad: shipments, 2,000 head; market aciive on all kinds: prices strong on natives und 100 highor on Texans; falr 10 good native sl 43 fulr to pretty good Texas st 00; cows, $2,00@2.40, Recolpts, - 8,100 Load; shipmonts marker 106 hihor, butchers 76; Hght, #5.50@5.70; mixed, @B.00¢ lonyy, $40035.50. SHEEP — Hoceipt 00 he none; market slow o Hoas 300 heady lections, & 00 shipments, Ransas City L KANSAS Crry, Auz. 15.—CAtriE—Rece! 9,000 head: &hipments, 2500 head; good cattlo steady: othors slow: Texas and shipping steers, ¥2.3006.00; Texns and native cows, £1.45@8.00; butchors' stock, #3 40@4.15! st rs and foeders, $1.7008.60; bulls and mixod, $1 60, oG8 —TRecel pts market 16@35¢ 200 head; shipments, none; higher; ' bulk of 'sales, £4.90705.40: lowy fos, £4.800 packers, £5.00 006,003 kers, 8560 45,60 2,100 head; shipment none; market steady; muttons, $2.40@2.¢ by, $4.1024.40, New York Live Stock Market, NEW Yok, Aug. 15.—BE No trade; dressed beef fiem ac Gize. CaLves—Dull, but stoudy. Sit AND ' LaMBs—Active; higher for choice lambs; shicep sold at 8] market slow Hoas—Murket slow at #5.7 Rocoipts and Disposition of Stack., Official receipts and disposition of stock s 1 by the hooks of the Omiha Union Stock Is compuny for the twenty-four houts ending at b o'clock p. m.August 10, 1893: rrs.e SUEEP, | HORSES & MIS a| Cars. [Head, 3| H. Hummond €0 Swift & Co. The Cudahy P John P. Squ kg 00, & Co, Stock in Sight. Receipts of live stock at th western markets Tuesd four principal 1gust 15 ¢ oz, Sheep. South Omaln it Chicugo. . 13,000 Kansas City. . 2100 St. Louis..... 2,100 Total.. 17745 Leuvenmark dives tonight, Courtland. THE MAN WITH THE STRAW Edmund Downey in New HAT ork Advertiser, “Mamma, dear, why do you let that horrid man come into our room at night?” “What man,darling?” Tasked, scarcely heeding my child's question. “The man with the straw hat, who stands before your dressing table and does something to his nec I put down the book I was reading in my bedroom and went over to my child’s cot. “Go to sleep, Teddie, dear,” T mur- mured, catching his outstretched hand and chating it. *‘You have been dream- ing, my pet.” “Oh, no, mamma, dear,” rising up to a sitting *I am not dreaming. sleep yet. I have been trying to keep my eyes on you, but I could not help looking at the man. Ile frightens mc 80 much, mamma, dear.” I was quite alarméd now. What could be the matter with my dear child —my only c¢hild—my beautiful, sensible, said my boy posture in his cot. I have not been to sensitive, little Toddie? He was only six years of age, but he seemed almost as wise and as gentle as his father darling who had left me fore months before. “Oh, mamma, dear, why did you let the horrid man come into our room? pleaded the child, the tears coursing down his bright, chubby checks, ‘“He is such a horrid man—so unlike dear papa!” I burst into a flood of tears. But in a fow moments I succeeded in checking the torrent of my grief and turned toward my boy. There was plenty of light in the smull bedroom. A brilliant reading lamp lay on the dressing table. I pazed carn- estly into my boy's wistful brown eyes, He ‘was undoubiedly wide awake, and as T passed my hand over his face I found hLis white brow was quite cool. “What is it, Teddie, dear?” I asked, “There is no man in the room, o course,” “13ut there was just a fow moments ago, mamma.” j “Indeed there was not, my pet. “But 1 saw him, mamma, He came last week, too, and [ was awake and saw him. You had left the voom fora while, and he came in at the door and went over to the dressing table and he did something strange with his neck. Then I shut my eyes, and when I opencd them he was gone. You came into the room then, but I was wo frightened to tell my r just six of alarm now. What could ail my ehild? “You weredreaming, Teddie, persisted, stooping over him a nis lips and his cheeks. wy pet.” “1 am s0 frightened, mamma, dear. All the week I was afraid to ask you about the man. Tonight he came in again while you were reading, and he stood quite close to you and looked into the looking-glass and did something to his neck. And then I shut my eyes tight. Won't you promise not to leave me tonight, mamma, dear?” dear,” I 1 kissing “Go to sl eep “1 promise, my pet,” kissing him again and laying his head gently on the pil- low, “Now, go tosleep, dear, while I read my book,” What could afl my darling? I won- dered, as I stood news his cot patting his shoulders with my hand. He had never been wn odd ehild, never been seriously ill; he had always slept wonderfully | well; it was not ecasy to frighten or | startle him. He had never had any | nurse but myself, and I never told him stories of ghosts or fuivics, nor had I | allowed bim to hear auy such tales, 1 Ays bean his companion my one thought, my one idol, &l copting that other idol, my darling d who had shared his great love Teddic and me. This house was vacant for & twolvemonth before you took it. last occupier was A man ovil reputation inderstand One Friday eve urned from wearing a large straw hatt that I recol- remember seoing it in of somewhat ho owned the house, T who was vory fond of boat- iing. aboutd o'clock, t was aprety little detached and I had secured at a wonderfully cheap rental consideration, ow, and all that could be say or spared should be ldvished on my loved ehild. lect well, for 1 m whon I was dressing table in‘the bed [ left the awful house that night, mord is & strong iv wounld be romembers of horror, the vision denied to dead than med 1o be quite himsolf again Ho romped with mo, talked to mo just as usual: and made no reference to the st for I had no still, with a foeling acceountable vision his dreams standing in frontof the dressing table in the little bedroom READY MADE MUSYARD PLASTERS Wo wero tho first manufacturers on this it Our latest improvement. ver before prodiic thought it best to keep silence unpleasant subject. refer to the dre At loast, up to On Friday evening, o'clock, as I was tueking him up in his cot, my darling boy said: “Mamma, you will with mo tonight?" “Yos, dear,” 1 r the noxt week or them spread on cotton ¢ h SEABURY’S SULPHUR CANDLES: P'revention {a bettor than cure, by burning these candlos bad smells in basomens, closets, royed, and thuscontagious diseases 1 also userul for e ating Inseots, To purify siok-rooms, apartmonts, ote., s HYDRONAPHTHOL PASTIH.‘ES, in_burning, disinfect and fragrance refreshing an 1 invic 2. Sole Manufacturcrs, SEADURY & JOHNNSON, NEW YORK. DOCTOR Searles & Searles PHYSICIANS SUAGEONS & promiso to remain replied, “if you wish e Tl s \ xpelling mos- Fhen T kissed him and sat down in the wing twilight. here was no one living with us in the A little girl from the neigh- housework quitos and 1l borhood did all for me during the day, and usually went home about 8 oclock As down stairs my maid-of-all-work came up shortly after 8 o'clock to let me know she was going. urged me, and [ said: \ Dr. Jackson to give me a call this even- You pass his houso on your way home, 1 think?" As soon as the little gicl gov my lamp alight A sudden impulse Teddie was used to the light and it never seemed to disturb and sat down near the dress- in a somewhat dition—though I am not arily weak of nerve agitated by every sound which reached About 9 o'clock Twas horribly to hear a piteous cry from my” child, book hurriedly and went over to him, “Mamma! m: he is again! come into our room?” I stared round the little bedroom, but could see noth “There he is now, mamma, dear wssing table!™ point- nma!” he cried. why do you let him cialists CHRONIG, RERVOUS PRIVATE DISEASES We cure Catarrh, All Disoasos of 4 Noso, Throat, Cho't, Stomaoci Rheumatism, Dyspepsia. Slkin_and Fomale Woaknessos, Lost Manhood CURED, an ! all forms of WEAK MEN HYDROCELE AND VARICO! and successfully eured. 17 strange. is going to lift his hand to his neck.” terrvified child to bosom and soothed clinging pressures. had regained moments he his ordinary A Liver, his head to G back on the pillow. I heard a loud knock at the man again, mamma, d horrid man with the permanently rere straw | murmured, . FISTULA, FISS without the nse of kil Allmaladios of & privite Lt sex, positivel on ot address, eipes and Symptom Blanks, 118 SHuth 16th Se OMAHA, NiSH, pormanently eursl, the doctor. and sce my little ind my leaving you for a moment let the doctor in!” You will not o delicate natira, ot for Cireulars, Going to Buy a Watch? If so, buy one that cannot be stolen. The only thief-proof Watches are those with another knock at the hall door and my dear boy murmured: I feel all right no won't come Dr. Jackson, a kind, middle-aged gentleman, whose faco was I brought the doetor up at once to my child and whispered to that he was sufferi tack of nightmare, and that strange delusion that he saw a man with a large straw hat in the room. The doctor lool then felt the child’s pulse some general questions about his health k his temp “The child scems all v , wddressin “I don't think familiar to me, .d curiously at me and Ho asked mo ght,” said Dr, a low voice, Here's the Idea: The bow has a groove on each end. A collar runs down inside the “The doctor down stairs, T ts into the grooves, . bow to the pendent, ™\ 80 that it cannot bs pulled or twisted off, A ETN To be sure of getting the caseis stamped with this trade mark. It cannot be had with any other kind. Ask your jeweler for pamphlet, or send for one to the famous Boss Filled Case makers. oneWatch Case Co., PHILADELPHIA- “Only leave the door of the room open, a Non-pull-out, sec that ched the parlor the doe- vith a grave face said @ “This is certainly a most When we re child has seen, hat standing in front table doing something to Do you know SOoUTII OMAIHA. " Union Stock Yards Cnmpany. South Omahas fest Cuttlo Ho and Shao) markota the west. anything of this house?” Ea “Nothing whatever, except that it is omfortable and very very pretty. very 3 to you is to leave the pretty, comfortable, cheap house al is no occasi with the agents by acting on my profs “But why? Wood Broth:rs, tve Stozk Commissi Tolepiione 157 JOIN . DADISMAN, WALTER 15 W00, il and wire cheerfud ional advice What is the matter?” I £oth Umaha ST will tell you,” Aoctor, “and please und ghosts, but thi AMAHA Manufacturers « Jobbers Dieclory HARDWARE Rector & Wilhels 100k ana Jackson | rstand, [ am no bel ainly o most puz- | furnished upon apy BAGS & TWINES | TENTS, ETC. Bemis Omaha Bag (Omaha Tent-Awning and manufno Lobeck & Linn, 08 10 hardware 114 Farnum Stroe’. 3 | IRON WORKS. W, A, L. Gibbon & Co [Omaha Safe and [ron BOOTS AND SHOES, HATS, BI0. Coe Shos Company. 1) 1L Hoanrd & Mors Sulesroom and O nd Harnsy Streets M nufasturer T U atate Of Nobrask s W Invitation is oxtend s to LUMBER. 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