Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 21, 1893, Page 6

] TRIOMPH OF MODERY SKILL Oompletion of a Work Began by the Im- perial Fiddler of Rome. PIERCING THE ISTHMUS OF CORINTH The World's Progress Exemplified in the Buocess of Nineteenth Century Ene gineering At Against Fallure of Ancient Mothods The kingdom of Continental Greece is made up of two peninsuias, the penin- gula of Attica and the peninsula of the Peloponnesus. They are joined togethor by the narrow Isthmus of Corinth. On one side of this isthmus lies the Gulf of Corinth, on the other side the Saronic gulf. The natural route to Athens from the Adriatic is through the Gulf of Corinth, But the vessel which sails through this gulf is stopped about Iurl[\(' miles from Athens by this narrow nec of land, which says, ‘‘Thus far aml no further. To get to the other side of the isthmus means a long voyage around the Peloponnesus, A few weeks ago, writes a correspond- ent of the New York Tribune, Lclimbed the steep height of Acro-Corinth, 1,836 feet above the sea, from which the ob- gerver has one of the grandest views in all Greece. Here the eye is confronted to the north by the glory of smow-capped Parnassus and the great mountain walls of Botia, Phocis and Locris. The Corinthian gulf lies below to the left, bordered by fruitful palms; the Saronic gulf a little to the right, dotted with iamis, Agina and the smaller isles. Athens lies forty miles to the east, and onaclear day the Acrepolis and the king's pulace may be distinetly seen. One has only to turn on his heel to see the mountains of Argolis to the south, and the Arcadian chain to the west. Finding the h#rhest point on the top of the citadel rock I pointed my camera down s0 as to get the whole width of th isthmus within its eye. I took off the cap, and the result is that, in a picture four by five taken from this commanding height, [ am able to seo the water on each side of the narrow neck of land which joined the two peninsulas. The natural thought was why should this ligature, which a good knife could so easily sever, have been permitted so Jong to seja“ate the waters which wash its sides? My photograph was new, but the question it suggested was at least 2,000 years oid. Three or four Roman Emperors haa asked the same question, and one of them at last had attempted to answer it with a spade and drill. Six Hundred Yoirs 13e ore Christ. But Nero was not the thought of it. Some six hundred years before Christ Penander conceived this idea. Later Demetrius Poliorcetes was only deterced from the projeet by the report of his engineers, who persuaded him that the level of the Gulf of Corinth was higher ‘than the Saronic Gulf. and that there would be danger of inundating the banks and adjacent country if the canal was cut. Davius was deterred in the sume way by pseudo- scientists from cutting a canal from the Red Sea to the Nile by the fear that Leypt would be inundated. The Emperor Caligua also contem- plated the projeet of a Corinthian canal, Fititasiero who actually undertook the work which is just now completed. Nero, I dare say,in his voyage to Greecs had seen this isthmus from the top of Acro-Corinth, and had studied it on the rround. He was transported to the isthmus in ordor to begin the work. He gave the first blow of the pick and super- intended the work personally for some days. But Nero was more used to wielding the sword than the pick and the more peaceful instrument had soon to be laid down. The revolution in Gaul obliged him to return to Rome and to abandon his work, though he also took refuge in the pretext that the two seas were of unequal level. The public spirited man Herodes Atticus afterward continued to some extent the work Nero began, When we consider the remarkable work of which the ancients were capa- ble it is surprising that a project planned 80 long ago, and so practical; should not have been carrvied through. Pausanias, who traveled through Greece about 170 A. D., tells us that he who attempted to cut the isthmus through obliged to abandon the enterprise. ' You can still scc,” he says, “where they began to cut, but they were unable to advance on ac- count of the rock. And so the isthmus remains what it was by nature, a part of the mainland So difficult it is,” he piously adds, “for man to oppose the d vine de " DBut the I%rench engi- neers who in 1862 pointed out to the Greek government the feasibility of the enterprise answered the observation of Pausanias by referring to the remark- able skill which the ancients had in [)h ing rock, of which the enormous blocks of Pelasgian walls are a suflicient proof, and Pausanias, who visited nearly all the great temples in Greece, knew well enough what skill his predecessors had in fashioning limestone, conglome ato or marble. As easily may be dis- missed the thin excuse concerning the different levels of the two se The true reason for the suspension of the im- perial work, as the French engineers pointed out, was undoubtedly the revolu- tions which shook the Roman Empirve, After its downfall and in the Middle Ages it was not to be expected, under the varying fortunes of Greece, when that country was battered about like o shuttlecock between Franks, Venetians, Spaniards and Turks, that any work of constructive magnitude would be at- tempted, A Modern Effort to Cat I The work was projected again in modern times, under the auspices of the Greek government in 1869, eneral Tare, a hero of the Hungarian revolu- ony and & warm patriot, secured a con- fon from the government which he made over to a society called the [ntor- national Sotiety for the Marine Canal at Corinth. The soelety wus made up mainly of French capitalists. Wor', however, was not begun until 1882, Iy was continued until 1890, when about two-thirds of the whole canal wus cut. The company was obliged to suspend work for lack of money. A new company was again formed, It began work in June, 1890, and the canal is about finished. first one who Nero's Route the Present Site, An interesting featuce about the canal Is that ib is essentially and practically the completion of the very trench which Nero began o dig from both sides of the isthmus. The wmodern engineers found that their Roman predecessors hLad chosen the shortest point between the two gulfs and the least costly. They were ut first tempted to abandon it for what seemed an easior course formed by a natural ravine. But not only would this have exceedod in length the canal of Nero by some 1,360 moters, but it was found that such & multitude of torrents flowed into this ravine and washed out the s il to such a great depth that works of great expense would have been needed for the construction and maintenance of fhe canal. It was probably the same tear which deterred the uncients from \aking what seemed wt first 10 be the more natural cut. It was no small gash that Nero and Herodias Atticus cut in the isthmus, It extended on the one side 2,170 meters end 1,070 on the other. Nero also made twelve wells on the line of the canal, probably as cuts to test the ground; or possibly 1o assist in the ex- cavations. The modern engineers have adopted a systom of wells and tunnels in making their cuts. Tunnels have been run horizontally, vertical wells have been cut and the earth drawn out through these tunnels, The canal is 5,200 meters long, and 11,500,000 cubic meters of earth and rock were taken out of it. Of this the first company removed 8,200,000, and the remainder was taken out by the present company. The width at the bot- tom is 21 meters and at the sea level 24.60. The depth of water will be eight meters, The largest ironelads can pass through at this depth, which is tho same as that of the Suez canal. The canal is not broad enough to admit of the pas- sage of two vessels at the same time, bu it will take only hall or three-quarters ot an hour to make the passage. The Suez canal, on account of the sand, was cut V-shape, so that it is much broader at the top than at the bottom, and ves- sols of large draught can only sail in the middle. It was possible with the Corinth canal to make the cut almost vertical. J Nero began this work withjhis pickaxe, but 1,800 years have brought into play appliunces and forces which the Roman emperor had hardly foreseen, notwith- standing the claim of Wendell Phillips in his lecturo on “The Lost Arts,” that Nero had sight and foresight enough to use an opera glass when he went to the play. Three great steam excavators have been used, and also steam_dredges for the part below the sea. Railways have been employed to carry of the earth. Two thousand workmen have supplemented and directed the work of the machines, The greater part of the cut was through a.soft rock which gave no difficulty. At both ends of the canal sand was encountered, admitting a good deal of water, which had to be pumped out. b Not Dreamed Of by Nero. The canal will be lighted by elec- tricity, a way which was hardily com- prehended in Nevo's plan. Two tugs will be used to take through sailing ve: sels. Steamers will be allowed to use their own power. The rock of which the sidesare composed becomes harder when exposed to the air, and no fear is entertained from the wash of the bank. A retaining wall has been built at the end eleven and a half meters high. The cost of the canal, exclusive of the interest on the capital, is about 70,000,- 000 franes, or about $14,000,000. — CRIME QUICKLY PUNISHED. d Oat to Criminals In m. A Siamese named Ai Yone, who mur- dered his wife because she had forsake him for a lover, was executed by decapi- tation, relates the New York Sun, the hod bearing a close resemblance to the Chinese and the spectators showing the same cager and unsympathetic in- terest in the proceedings and the samo haste in quitting the scene of blood the moment the vietim's head was lopped off. Ai Yone was a young mese who lived near Phrapioom with his wife. About four months ago she suddenly de- camped with a handsomer man. The husband tracked the paiv like a blood- hound, never leaving their trail till he ran them cown ina house where they were hiding. The lover escaped, but the woman was overhauled as she was flying and was horribly slashed with a sharp knife, no less than cighteen wounds being made by the maddened husband. Ho was caught red-handed and convicted. He never showed any fear when sentenced, but he refused to see his mother because he said the sight of her grief would unnerve him. The exeention was set for 9in the morning. As early as 5 o'clock the prisoner was led out, heavily manacled. He formed the central figuré in an im- posing procession of officials of all the State dep s dressed in their vichest robes. The whole party’ took boats and went up the river to the exe- cution grounds. The condemned man was among the coolest in the crowd, chewingjbetel and apparently enjoying the carly morning ride. On the grounds a temporary altar had been erected, und before this” the seven superbly-built executioners, with drawn swords, made offerings of boars’ head, fowls, rice, ete., and lighted large tapers, Then the swords wore anointed. The condemned meanwhile remained on the funeral barge, where Buddhist priests gave him the last rites. He smoked and chatted after the ceremony and never showed any sign of weakness, At lust he was brovght out in front of altur und placed on freshly cut plan- tain leaves. The executioners asked his pavdon for Killing him, after they had wound red sashes about their bodies and placed red handkerchiefs about their heads. A snow-white cloth was wound around the condemned man's loins, his ears wore stopped with clay so that ho should not hear the headsman’s foot- steps as he came behind him, His neck chain and handcuffs were removed and his elbows wero secured to a bamboo post, while he was forced to a sitting position. Then a white line was marked on his neck asa guide to the swords man The exceutioner, a lusty young Sam- son, now approuched from behind, ad- vancing with many funcy steps and moving his sword like the baton of a bandmaster. His six associates formed an attentive group and watched every movement. For a moment the large sword gleamed in the air. Then it de- sconded exactly upon the white line. The body feil slightly to one side, the head dropped, but hung by a bit of skin, and the man’s life blood leaped forth upon the sand. One of the attendant executioners severed the head com- pletely, and another neatly piaced-it on a pole and exposed it to a crowd of Siamese and Chinese that filled the en- closure. Then the body was hurried to the unmarked grave near at hand and before five minutes all the lurge crowd had vanished and only the grisly head and the blood-stained sand remained to mark the tragedy. Spoedy Justice Mo A French scientist has been using his microscope recently cn the bank and national notes of the varicus countries and finds that they ave the home of great numbers of little organisms. These, he says, may be dangerous to health, and he counsels the fortunate possessor of the paper money agaiost placing it in the wouth under any circumstances. On some of the notes were bacteria and bacilli in considerable numbers. The professor declares that the bills are a dangerous medium for the spread of con- tagious discases and highly praises the system of destroying returned bills adopted by the Bank of England, al- though for another purpose. Busy people have no time, and sensible people have uo fucliuation to use pills that muke them sick a day for every dose they take. They buve learned that the use of De Wite's Little Early Risers does not in- terfere with their bealth by causing nausea pain or griping. These little pills are per- fectin ‘action and result, regulating the stomuch and bowels so that headaches, diziness and lassitude are prevented. They cleanse the blood, clear the complexion aud one up the sysi Lots of health in Lhese Lo fellows, THE OMAHA DAILY BERY MONDAY, AUGUS A TRAIL OF BLEACHED BONES Strange Discoveries in the Valley of the Bhadow of Death. THE RESULT OF RECENT EXPLORATIONS fuge Nitrate Teds, A Mountain of Salt and a Hill of Knolin—A Rough and Experience in a Famous Calliornia Desert. W. D. Barton, who for some time past has been at the head of an exploring ex- pedition through Death valley, along the Amargosa river to Ash Meadows, the Charleston mountains and other al- most unknown localities in the wildest parts of Inyo county, California, and Lincoln county, ‘Nevada, has returned to San Francisco and related his ex- perience to a Chronicle reporter. Mr. Barton's expedition was composed of six persons, all frontiersmen and pros- pectors of many years experience. They went for a party of capitalists in this city, and indirectly for Prof. Blake and others, who are now building the railroad from the noted Vanderbilt gold mines to Pioche. Mr. Barton tells a strange and remarkably interesting story of the curious resources of this far- away region. Dead men marked their pathway. says that they discovered the dried-up bodies of no less than five men, who long since expired from thirst. There was nothing on them to identify them, for like most men under such circumstances they had stripped themselves of the clothes in their delivium. The few scat- tered clothes they found contained no clew as to the identity of the dead. The country they passed through was full of strange mincral deposits, which, when the road is built, will be produc- tive of great wealth, Twenty-six miles of the road from The Needles to Van- derbilt has already been built, and a contract has been let for building eighty miles farther toward Pioche. About 160 men are at work on the extension now. The entire distance tobuild is 150 miles. The route is via Vegas ranch, the Peranegat valley, Cherry Creek valle and White rviver. Mr. Barton esti- mates that the road can be built for $10,- 000 a mile. One of the strangest things Mr. Bar- ton and his party saw and examined was a mountain of kaolin at the mouth of the Amargosa river, in Inyo county. This is the material of which the finest inaware is made. It is a remarvkably fine clay and vers white. The moun- tain looked like a great chatk cone and was about half a mile in civcumference. “But_there were many other things along the line of our route,” said Mr. Barton, “that challenged our attention and elicited our surprise. It is a coun- try full of wonders and you never gt through being surprised at what is be- ing constantly revealed. “Up the Amargosa from mountain we cam He the Kaolin ross great nitrate of soda deposits. So far as I have learned they are the only extensive ones in the Umted States. 1 located 160 acres of the nitrate while I was there that was as white as a snow bank. Isent specimens to New York for an- alysis and have since received the returns. They show that the beds run from 52 to 63 per cent of pure nitrate of soda. The crust of the nitrato is from four to eighteen inches deep. However, when the crust is taken off in any place it fills up again, the same as before, and in a marvelously short time. S0 for all practical purposes it may be said its depth is unknown. “Twenty-five miles north of the nitrate beds, and on up the Amargosa river, wo camo upon salt mines so strange that [ do not believe there ave any like them anywhere. Hamilton Disston, the saw manufacturer of Philadelphia, you may know, -owns a mountain of salt on the Colorado river. But it is red sult,that is, it is mixed with other mineral matter, 50 as 1o color it. his salt that T found,however, looks like the frozen waves of the ocean, and [ never heard of it in such fantastic shapes. It is almost white, and quite so in muny places, but changes to ultramarine blue. The white in it looks like ocean surf. In the blazing sun it afl¢ and weneral way it takes the form of a crater, and there is a rift or gorge in it, in one place 180 feet deep. All along the Amargosa riv numerable minerals. There wer salts of soda, borax, arsenic, gy kaolin, nitrate of suda and tho quality of tale. In the deepest part of Death valley we found a rock that looked for all the world like an umbrella. It rose from a big flat rock, had a stem six feot high, while on top was a curious overhanging cupola. “On top of the mountains between Death valley and the Amargosa is a wine of topaz. 1t isnot the smoky topaz, but clear, and there is lots of it, One of our men collected a fruit can full of it. He afterward sold one choice piece for $14 and another for $7. These were in the rough state, “In what is known as the Ash meadows in Lincoln county, Nevada, wo saw some strange sights. These meadows cover about 200.000 acres. 1t is a curious soda and mineral salt rezion, and on it good grass grows through the white beds. Scerub ash trees grow also all about. These ave the only kind of trees that do grow there, “Now, in this queer valley are some queer holes they call horse holes. They reach 10 underground rivers and horses oming along over the plateau some- times fall into them. That is the veason for the uame. Isaw in one unusually deep and wide hole. ata devth of some fifty fect, in the water, something that looked exactly like a tree. It might have been a tree or some fantastic min- eral formation, 1t was green in color, even to the branches. “Phere is another strange thing about this valley. Cattle grazing over the surface do'well for a time, but if they are there too long the white mineral de- posit of the surface injures their fect, giving them a sort of rheumatism or paralysis of the lower parts, As a sult [ have seen, [ suppose, a8 many as fifteen or twenty cattle grazing about ontheir knees,which were worn through to the bone, These cattle never could be got out, of course, but, strange to say, 1 have seen some of them in wretty good condition, The Indians usually kill them and eat them, “Beyond Ash Meadows, in the Chavleston mountains, fifteen miles to the north, we found & mountain of alum 1t was a8 White and pure alum as ey you saw in a drug store. Puttothe mouth it had the same taste. Ialso tried it in fire, and it spluttered and blisters were raised on it. Water al- fects alum, that is, melts or dissolves it, but fortunately thore is rarely any rain there. However, I saw oue pluce where it had been struck by a waterspout and was worn into a deep gorge, “In the torvid Death valloy, where the thermometer rose to 140 degre I wit- nessed one black nighta fierce electrical storm. Two rows of electricity, one from the north and the other from the south, seemed to wmeet, sud there was the most !n~:\|"n!fi‘lglnnink. coupled with thunder, that uld be conceived. Tt was louder than all the artillery of bat- tle, and tho valley was so_light that you could pick up a gin, anywhere, “Except in Lincoin county, Nevada, where for some H&tance is a large area of fine agriculturat Jand, the country is grewsome and axful in character. It is hot, rocky and &b up with defiles and queer dry river bads, 1 am not speaking now of Death valley proper, which is as level as a floor.""Phere are almost no wild animals, bt ¥here are two or three kinds of rattlesndkes, the sidewinder and some Gila monsters. “There are some big turtles, or land terrapins, on the desert and they are about the only animals there that can stand off the little coyotes. When the terraping see the coyotes they simply draw their heads and feet into the shell and close up, and 1 have seen the little coyotes standing around watching for thein to come out. The Amargosa river is usually dry, and in some places it is eight miles wide. 1 have gone into camp at night along the Amargosa and in a few hours awakened and found the water waist deep owing to a sudden cloudburst, The cloudbursts are usually accompanied by a great roar- ing.” Mr. Barton expects to leave again in a few days for the same country. This time he will go by way of Reno and will take but one companion with him. This trip will end in the remote part of Lincoln county, Nevada, where he says the fine agricultural lands are, and which he says is a good place for settlers, becauso lenty of water can bo had by digging but ten or twelve feet. On the recent trip Mr. Barton and his party went on mules for some of the way and on foot during the remainder. It was a very rough and wild experience. ’ S LR HOUSEKEEPING IN JAPAN. Orlental Servants Ave a Delight to the Amerlean Woman, A bright givl who has recently mar- ried a tea merchant writes home about Oriental domestic management: ,*“We have five servants at the cost of employ- ing two at home. Tam looked upon as positively ornamental and am not ex- pected to even think about daily house: hold matters. I have had to get used to the amusing deference my retainers ac- cord me. Invariably every night at bedtime the five appear and prostrate themselves before me as a goodnight ceremony. T had great difficulty to pre- seve my dignity on the first perform- ance of this singular custom, to which I am now accustomed, and am as solemn as the occasion requives. “The other day, on one of my rare sits to the kitchen, I dropped my hand- kerchief and withdrew before discover- ing my loss. A few moments later, seated in my own room, 1 heard a whis- pering outside the door, followed by the entrance of my maid and the waitre the former bearing a small salver, upon which rested the bit of cambri 1t was gravely presented,. and they both re- tired. I heard after that its presenc on the kitchen floor ereated quite a com- motion. There was an animated aiscus: sion as to whom baionged the honor of restoring it to me, the cook claiming the privilege on the jground that it was found in his domain. Finally a compro- mise was effected. - The ook reverently picked it up and placed it on the salver: the waitvess brought it 1o the door and then consigned it tothe maid,who, being my personal servitor, was the only one who epuld vightfully restore a personal belonging. Fancy all this fuss about a handkerchief, which a Susan or Mary unc would have, pocketed quietly and returnad when it suited her.” The same correspondent goes on to say: “Generally speaking, the Japanese men make kind and afectionate hus- bands, the women being virtuous and cxemplary wives and mothers, The children ‘are certainly the happiest lit- tle imps in the world; their parents spoil them, at the same time never los- ing their control over them. 1 think the nonirritating nature of the na- tive diet has much to do with such serenc nerves and temperament. One never sees a child whipped in Japan; a mild slap on the Lead is the worst ch tisement administered. A husband has absolute control over his wife. Thereis considerable pinching and slapping done on occasions, for domestic javs are fre- quent betwoen husband and wife, and during such storms biting and serateh- ing are indulged in {reely on both sides, But the greater physical strength of the man invariably léaves him master of the field, and the belligerents settle down all the happier for vheir fra: “The ordinary dining set in Japan looks like an equipment for a toy honse. The table is about eight inches high, and its top is a tray about elght inches square, Every porson has his own table. He sits on a cushion and the serv- ant, o neatly dressed Japanese girl, brings him not his dinner only, but his dinner table, There s no com- mon dining room in a Japancse house or hotel. The dinner is served whreever the guest wantsit. When he comes into the house first he 13 served with tea, which is kept handy in a metal canister and a kettle is placed on the ‘hibachi.’ Much economy is usedin pouring out the tea. After pouring the hot water upon the leaves and filling the cup, she places it upon a metallic holder, and with a bow pushe: it within reach of the guc Then ne she provides a tobaceo set, so that he can smoke if he wishes, Dinner is then served, On the tray will be several covered dishes. Nearest the guest, in the right hand corner, is o lncquer bowl filled with miso s At the left is a poreclain bowl for On the other side isa laequer bowl in which stew, fish or vegetable will be served. In the .middle is a cup for soy, liquid like Wopdester sauce in appear- ance. Salmon, tréut and other fish are 8¢ d raw, with satrips of vadish, The dinner with hiy.ehop-sticks takos up a slice of fish and radish and dips them in the sauce before carrying them to his mouth,., Toward' the end of his meal <he will remove the saucer-shapdddop from his rice bowl and pass it to the attendant, who will place on it four slices of some pickled vegetable, Theseshe will cat as a relish with his rice, The chop-sticks are usu- ally wood, ten inches long, Incased in a paper sheath, “they are placed on the table with the. Qinner. The cheaper ones, given at & hotel, are used only at one meal. They auo merely codar otic! The better kind ave lncquerer, and these the guest, when he has finished, is sup- pused to wipe on a napkin,” - rious CIL In many mountain ranges rent by the wetion of torrents, isolated cliffs have been loft standing like monuments of former geographical periods, while the softer strata of gravel and loose rocks have been washed aw with the excep- tion perhaps, of a massive bowlder re ing. as it were, upon the roof of a tower like erag. On tho island of Mauritius that arrangement ropeats itselfl on a marvelous scale in the mountain peak known as “'Peter Botte," a wmonolith towering above the coust range to & height of more than 2,000 fect and sup- porting a rock so much broader than its pedestal that it gives whe combina- tion the appearance of an inverted pyru- mid or a gigantic wadstool, )3, COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL 21, 1 Oombination of Encouraging Features Oaused an Improvement in Wheat. THAT CEREAL OPENED MUCH HIGHER Shorts Were Alarmed at the Showing and There Was Mora Doing Than ef Late—Stooks and Honds. Ciicao, Aug. 10.—Enormous oxport clearances of wheat and an improved York bank statement caused an_advance of 134¢ in September wheat today, 3¢ of which wain was suill adhering to the market at the close. Corn, oats and provisions were dull, the latter extromely so, and price change wero insignificant. Wheat at the opening was from o to ije higher, eased off a triflc and with some fluctuations pri ad- vanced Jge, closing stead. ho ex- ports from both costs of wheat and flour were 1,100,000 bu. larger than the previous week, and 2,370,000 bu. larger than the cor- responding week a year ago. From five points the cloarances of wheat were 506,000,- 000 bu. larger, and of flour 32,000 bbls. larger than last weck. The receipts at pri- mary markets for the week were 50,000 bu, smallor than last week, and it is estimated that the visible supply will show a de- crease of about 750,000 bu. against an increase of 8522000 bu. the covresponding week o year ago. Shorts were alarmed at the showing and there was more doing than of late. Realizing sales took somo of the edge out near the close. Good eash demand and the upturn gave corn ahoist. The trading wus entirely between put and call prices. The advance did not exceed !ge. 1t seenied one long yawn in the oats pit, so dull was the trade, Prices wero confined to ¢ ranger and the market closed at lust night's figures, Provisions were neglected. alittle but there was Lard opened de off and sc eptember is 7 ower than ther better dem: advance at the ¢ receipts were stimated re Pork was up no business in_it. cely moved after- s 7 1-2¢ lower and Octo- yesterday. Ribs were m nd and were bringing 10 o for September. Hog , 000, pts: Wheat, 86 cars; corn, 3 hogs, 22,000 head. “The leading futures ranged o: ticles. | O 5 WiEAT— Al o1 613ty s Suowr R Aug. i7ie h quotations were as follows: cr—Dull; nominally unehanged. spring, 611gc; No. 8 spring, no 0. 3 yellow, closing at OATs @30e; RYE Baniey—No. ). 4, on track, 30 AX SEED —No. 1, 98c. TiMOTHY NEED--Prinie, 83457 Pork—Mess, por b .7 por 100 Ibs., $8.17%@8.30; shol ribs sides (loose), §7.958.00: ary salted shouldurs (hoxed), $7.2517.50; short clear sides (boxed), No. e; No. 2 white, . 0. b, 28% ). 8 white, f. 0. b, 28@2815¢. 4650 nominaly No. 3, no sales; lurd, “Distiliers' finlshed goods, per gal., iAms—Cut lonf, 6ie; granulated, 5.57; 0. re the recoipts and ship- TSRITNENTS Flour, bbls.. 11,613 On the ket was steadier; ry, 17@22c. fresh, e, the Dutter o creamery, 19@241c; Eiggs, 5 stricily New York Markots, EW YORK, Auz. 19. — FrLoun—Receipts 000 plegs.: ¢xports, 7,000 bhis sales, 4,000 pkgs. kot dull, ur iy MEAL ull. Keceipts, 458,000 bu.s exports, 000 bu.; sules, 715,000 bu. of futures, bu. spot: spot market very dull, e | No. 2red, 1n store and clevaic flout, G8@09e; 1. 0. b, G313 070 4 3 1 norih dvanced west and .2 red, Sopten ol 139, 3,000 <hor: wraded Options P 72,000 bu.; exports, 63,000 bu. futures; 16,000 fiemer, quict; No.' 2, 473c w float. Op: nged, closing steady rouly traded in: Sep! TH@ATC, @47, clost sale spot.” Spots in ' elovator; ns dull and uncl eptember and Octol tember closed 474 sing nt 475, Deecmber, ing g 463, OArs—Receipts, 126,000 bu.; bu.; s 0,000 bu. futur SOt Spots quict; whites easicr dully steady; September, 801,3530% Wt B0l October, 8076, closing ut 310 Novediber, No. 2, 80%@30tc; No. 2 white, 3 No. 8 Chicago, 8 White, mixed western, exports, 100 4,000 bu. Options closing B sue; . quie £$1,00. Dull Hipks—Nominal, PROVISIONS—Cut, nominul. L Lo, 8o ¥0; options” s nominal: Octc ; shipoing, 85¢; good to aull; quiet; ek middles, tern none; 45,60 0071 Western creanmiery, Py Quict, stendy; weste 93,05 fancy tolored, S@I%C 63t tull Skius, 101 105 Quict, ensy: receipts, 8,748 western fresl, 16%16¢; seconds per 2.063,26. FALLOW rn smull, U skims, pkis.; eitsi, Dull, firm, CortoNsgEp Ot —Steady, quiot. PErROLEUN- Murket was dull; I ofl, Spot sules, noie; option sules, nos Lini oil, salel, none, ROSIN--Easy, dull. TonpesTiNg--Steady, quiet. Rick—Firin MorAssEs—Nominul sl to choice, dull. Raw, dull, n¢ Irox—Dull; A e -Steady s | Qu Pir nnsylvanin GUc bid; W Orleuns, open ket- inal; re 1, quiet, 2.75%15.00. dull, E y SPELTER—Quiet; domestic, St Louls Murkots, Br. Lovis, Aug. 19.-FLoun—Steady, changed. WilEAT - Was stronger on_export n Ing Sanie up; 2 rod, cash, byl Brige, nominal; Septemb 9 e touer, 62e bid ber, G8¢ bid Conx-—Firm wixed, cash Augast, 34l September, 80ice; De Baige, OATs—Rirm; 2, 2330 It 287%¢ © bid, Rye-—Firm, dull; No. 2, 4745¢ asked. Baruey—No trading Borrki-Unchang Faas—Unchunged. FROVISIONS ke, $13.071 sCE1PTs—Elour 000 bu.; corn, 57, SuieseNts--Flour, 6,000 sac 000 bu.; corn, 49,000 bu.; vats, un- we, clos- ; August, uskod; Ocs B4%c; cmber, cash, bid; Septom! new, current wheat, 65,- 100 bu. wheat, 20, 17,000 bu. Liverpool Market LIVERPOOL, Aug. 19— WHEAT—Quict and d mand poor; holders’ offer freely; No. 2 red whiile d el Cony , dewmand poor; 45 44 per cerital PORK-—Primo mess, western fin i Lakn—Prime western, 485 64 per ewt. mixed western, 015 44d per New York Lry Goods Marser. New Youk, Aug. 19. Some luprovement wits to be notéd in dry gcods today, partly in the wity of i better feel d parily through an increase in the transsctions, in :luding one OF tW0250m3 tmp ortance. Whethor this is spasmodic or not, only time can tell. Rrown cottons have the lead of attention, which class of goods would undoubtedly move fiet. Job- bers ara selling some goods, but have small supplies, but they are not oxpecting the future, 'Exports are taking some cottons, whicli is & foature of encouragement. Kansas C NeAS CiTy, Aug, e higher; No. 2 hard, 811t No. 2 rod, 5214@54c. afionN Firm; No. 2 mixed and white, 81@ OATS - Slow; No, mixed, 21@23¢; No. 2 white, nomiinally 26¢ BUTTER-Firn; croenmery, 17@21c; dalry, 15 @18, Eaas —~Actiye and firm at 11e. RECEIPTS Wheat, 4,000 bug shipments, wheat, 8,000 bu 5 Cotton Market. ORLEANS, A 10, 1,000 halos 26,70 Futures August, $6.60 hids ' Oetoner. §0.8020 815 $6.91@0.¢ mber, $7.00@7 @717 ‘Febraary, ' $7.0307 33; qulet; good 1 166 fow middliy 6l net o 210 bales; éxports to continent, 63 astwise, 1,186 hules; sales, 1,060 stock, 48,001 bales, tton Unles Market. Ew Yok, Aug, 10, Options 10 pofnts down, closed stendy, uachunged to 10 points down snles, 15,000 bags, including: Sopten £14.70; October, $14.70: N, her, $14.6 Decomber, $14.66014.60; January, #1 Mareh, #14.60. Spo Telo, dull, nowinal; No. 7, 6.76. Phitadelphin Gral PRILADELPIIA, Aug. 19 No, 2 ved, Aucust, 65%@675¢ Cons—Steady; No. 2 mixed, 474 OATs—Firm; No. 2 mixed, Markot, WiEAT -Active; August, 47@ August, 82¢. M eapolls Whent Market. MiNNEAPOLIS, Aug. 10, — Wheat stronger and advanced laterin the d tember, 65%c; Decembe qeo ¢ n No. 1 hard, No. 1 673¢; No. 2northern, market sh wheat, northern, Clncinontt Murkets, NATI Aug. 19.~\WhEAT—Strong; No. 2 CORN--Mixed, 420 Oars—Firm: No. 2 mixed, 28c. WisKy—Steady. 1N red, Goe. Toledo Grain Market, _ToLEDO, Aug. 19.—WneAT—Dull, No. 2 cash, 6115¢. Conx—Dull, steady; OATS—Quict; cashi, 261, easier; 2cash, 424¢. Baltimoro Gramn Market. BALTIMORE, Aug. 19, — WiEAT — Market strong; No. 2 rod, August, 66c, ConN-Duils mixed, snotand August, 461405 No. 2 white western, 83¢. OMANA LIVE STOCK MAKKET. Cattle Trade Generally Whole During ithe f Last K SATURDAY, Aug. 19, Receipts of all kinds of stock show up well compared with last week and tho corre- sponding week last year, The figures ure as follows: Cattle. Receipts this week..... 10,160 2 Receipts lust week 8,279 880 6,091 Same week last ye 9,141 24321 1,861 “The general cattle market has been very dullall week. At Chicago during the week there was a 30¢ to 40c decline and this, to- gether with most discouraging experiences of exporters,imparted a very weak tone to the trade. The market has been almost entirely without outside support, and the demand ifined to the dressed beef trade, pr ve tended lower on all grades with the exception, perhaps, of tidy, fat, light, dry lot beeves.. These, however, have been too searce to cut much of a figure in the business, The supply of westerns has been comparatively small for this season of the year, and prices have certainly not been such,as to encourage wore liberal shipments at this time, Cattle Trade Features. Receipts today were hardly on last Saturday, and seven of the 65 cars re- ceived were Kansas City Texans, billed to Cudahy. Offerings were very largely rangers of only medium_ quality, including trainload of Indian Ter about the first good sized bunch of southern cattle this market has received this year. Tho market was very quiet. Good dry lot beeves v sale at apout steady pric 1,150 to 1,350-1b. cattle bringing #4 to s4 Ordinary 1,030 o 1.200-1b. steers we y steady at around & nd 83,85, Half fat ssy stock was weak and_lower, hard atuny price. Some fair Wyoming rangers, weighing around 1,100 1bs., sola at &3 t0 8,10, and the entive traintoad of Indian Territory cattle sold for £2.35. 1t was a dull, weak trade throughout, and there were some very decent eattle in the pens at the close. Common ¢ selling 15¢ to 25c lower than the close of last week, and aro in very poor demand at that. The' cow market has been in pretty good shape all week. This is readily accounted for by the limited number of western cattle offercd, which, ordinarily. largely tako the place of native cows at’ this season of the year, and the small proportion of nativ cows marketed. The demand has b quite brisk _and the light supplics h nged hands ¢ at com- par vy good figures. today anged _from £L15 for common _canuers to &5 for good fat co Desivablo butchiers’ cow: lling very larg from $2 to $2.40. The offerings of calves have been farly liberal, fully up to the o mand, and prices have shown little variation. {a 03 toduy were from 2160 to & for - forior to #ood v Fat bulls and stags ha @ soen quotably firm -at from §2.50 to #3.50, but tough thin stock 15 slow sale at from #1 to #2. In feeders there has been a gradual stif- fening of values. A good share of the cattle offered have come under this head, and the cheap prices have brought out the country buyers. ‘The hard times have tendency to restrict the country demand, but most feeders who are in_easy circumstances are talang advantage of the situation and buy- ing low-priced cattlo to eat low-priced corn. ool o choice feeders are quotablo at §2.706) 300 fair to good at §2.50@2.70, and comnon stuff at 2.00@2.50, Hogs Up and Down, The course of hog values the past week has been very largely governed by receipts. During the first half of the weels, with but 12,000 hozs, prices advanced 45 10 5oe, but during the past three days, with 21,000 hogs, there was i decline of #5¢ to d0e. iyerything now depends on supply and demand. ‘The speculative clement has been pretiy well shuken out of both hogs and provisions by heavy ns the stringency in money matters, and while | —reere e ————— | prices are from $3.50 to 4 below the high time Inst February their position is stron | Roceipts o far this month have been 8, heavier than for the same porio inst August, and while it is altogether probable that from now on this inoreass over Iastyear will be maintained stocks are so low and the prospect of liberal receipts #o romote that this fact can legitimately cut but little figure. Since March 1, accordin to the Cincinnati Prico Curront, the total packing in the west has been only 4,545,000 hogs, againat 5,730,000 for the same period last year, a desrease far this packing season of 1,185,000 hogs. It will take abnormally hoavy receipts for scveral months to overcome this shortage. The general quulity of the hogs has not boen 80 very good of late. They aro running very largely to heavy weights, and, whilo these are good enough, the iight and mixed hogs are anything but choice. The average weight now is over 260 lbs,, or fully 80 1bs. heavier than a vear ago at this time. This has created a vigorous demand for light weights and sont them up to a premium of from 10¢ to H0c. Prices Little Changed. Recelpts today were scarcely half as y as on last” Saturday, still the week's receibts show up 7,000 heavier than last week and 8,500 heavier than for the same week ayear ago. Conditions were much the same as on I'riday anl thero was little quotable change in the market. Everybody waited light and medium weight hogs and 200 to 250 -1b stuff sold all the _way from $180up to .10, with prime 1b sorts ar s Heavy and mixed packers went largoly at #.65 and #4.35, with extreme sales at from $4.50 to $1.80. Stronger markots east and the good genoral demand here im- proved the market toward the close and some lato sales wero fully 10¢ higher than the early market. Everything sold in good scason, the bulk at from #1.65 to #.80, agninst $4.65 to #4.8 Friday and §.55 18 #4650 on last Saturday. Surer — Receipts — consisted of double-decks of westerns. ‘The nmrarket de- veloped nothing new. Local slaughterers wanted & few good, fat sheep, but the demand is very limited and prices down at the lowest point in over two years, Fair to good natives, &3.00@3.i5; fair to good westerns, $250@8.25; common and stock €00 to choice 40 to 100-1b. eleven Recomts and Dispositio ctal roc 1 by of Stock. pts and dispositlon of stock as he hooks of the Omaha Union Stock s compuny for the twenty-four hours ending at b oelbek p. m August 19, 15 _ mECEIeTS OGS, S| [Head. | Cary. THead | ¢ Cars.|Head |0 6011.610] 12,107 SPOSITION | CATTLE| 1AGS. Recelpts of lve stock at the four principal western markets Saturday, August 19: Cattle. Hogs. 1,619 8,226 Chicago..... 21000 00 Kansas City 6,000 4,000 St. Louls... ot 800 Total.. Sheop, 2107 2,000 1,000 100 8,267 South Omaha. L 11,419 24,026 g0 Live Stoc Cmicaco, Aue. 19, 1 Tie BEE]T—Whole din pervaded the cattle market. There was Tittle or no inguiry for eastern necount, wnd the loeal demand was satisfied with a f loads. About 2,000 head urrived, muking 62,141 for the weok ngainst 44,614 for fast week and 70,834 for the corresponding week Tast year. Darfng the first nineteon days of " the “month the arrivals have been about 151,500 head, or 34,000 hoad leas than for the sanic time last ven The hog ned dull and weak. etive demand sp ally closing 10¢ run quite equaled ox- 00 head, the first half of next 1ol pickers bought Chi Telegram to Late and prices Improve than for Friday. pectations, hut light weok i mding week last yeur. and for sheep, the” prosent, aving been fully met. Tho supply T K amounts to 6,700~ num- ber that has never beon equaléd but throo times proviously—and buyers are loaded o The few sales inade today wore at S and quottions now raiige from 90 for Inferior o cholco sheep and y1 $2.65 10 $4.90 for lnmbs, Receints: Cattle, 2,000 head; ealves, 8,000 head; hogs, 16,000 head; sheep, 2,000 head, Kansas City Live Stock Market, KANSAS Crry, Aug, 19.—Car tocelpts, 6,000 head: shiy 15, 2,000 | murket sfows common sicers lowor; Texus steers dull and steady to 156¢ low others steady; dressed | and shippin, crs, #3.65%5.00; native cows, 81.00w3.40; Texas stevrs, $2.20 @3.50; stockers und feed L20@2.00, Hoas R ipts, 4,000 shipments, 100 head; market opened_aetive, strong an H@10e higher; closed ¢ best hogs are 10¢ Nigher thun yesterday; bulk, $4.95@5.30; sl grades, $1 b SHEEP—Qtecelpts, 1,000 head; shipments, none; market - steady; - trading ligh good' sheen in demand and stron, others dull; Texans, $2.90; westerns, $3.3 Tumbs, $3,50@4.00. St. Louls Live Stock Market, 1. Lous, Aug. 19.—CArrLE—Recelpts, 1,800 head: shipments, 1,000 head; murket steady, unchanged Hous = Rec 10 head #.70; hulk of sales, $5.2600.60. Sugke — Recelpts, 100 “head; 700" head: no market made. OUTIH OMAILA. Union Stock Yards Company, South Omaha. fest Cattlo 115 and Shosp market (1 ths woss. ipts, market 00 hond; shipment 10c low top pr shipments, COMMISSIT 1 10 Wood Brotners, Live Stock € £01th Umaha—Tel mmisiion Merchunts hono 1131, - = Chicap DADLSMAY, I0K W0 “Markot reports by mall and wiro chcorful urnished upon spplication. [E— Manufactuers « Jobbers Directory BAGS & TWINES | TENTS, ETO. Bemis Omaha Bag [Omaha Tent-Awning COMPANY COMPANY. ippania of tour ks, HORSE ¢ KRS, it 1115 Faranin Stroot BOOTS AND SHOES. Morse-Coe Sho> Company. 107-1100- 1111 Howard st Faotory —1119-1121-1125 Ho ward St. We are the 0NLY Manufastarer, of Boots snd Shows n Lo SLats OF Nebrasks. A kenoral fuvitation Ly et 131 to all Lo | our new factory . Kirkeadall, Jones & | Amer, Hand-Sewed DRY GOODS. i E. Smith & Co. |Kilpatrick-Koch Dry SH0 0. boots, shoas and rubbir goods, 105 1510 Hurney Stro -t Dry goods, nottons. fur ulliluk goods, corer | 11tk wia Howard sts. bt e A F[IBNITURE. i 0muh.’1[pllulsleliug‘ Beyes & Runyan COMPANY Upholatered furnlture. flus-iin Nicholas ot | Wholesale ouly. FURNITURE COMPANY snd 15th Street HARDWARE. Rector & Wilbelmy | Lobeck & Linn, OUMPARY, | De 10 hardware au ~ HATS, ETC. | IRON WORKS, . A, L. Gibbon & Co | Omaha Safe and [ron Wholesale WOIKS. $afe s, viults, Sl wood, Atkoars i 17 wat love 4 us Andreon, Jth and Harney ~ COMMISSION, Branch & Co. Importad, American Port Produce, land coment, Milwau- ko coment wid Quincy Kinds, oysters. white lim _ LIQUORS. | STOVE REPAIRS Frick & Herbert, |Omana Stove Repair WORKS. Sove repairs. Wholosale llquor deslers | and Water nttachments or auy kind of stove made. 1207 DOuRin st frotts of all 1001 Farnam St PAPER. | Carpenter Paper Co| Ketined and lubricating pupers, oo, olls, axle gres ~& . Standard 0il o,