Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 4, 1893, Page 6

A THANKSGIVING THIEF. Ladies’ flome Journal. Sophia Hurd stood in her front door and Mrs, Packer stood on the steps tak= ing leave after a ncighborly call. A stiff wind, with o chiill of snow in it, blew straight in Sophia's face and ruffled her thin, lighterimps. She took off her apron and put it over her head a8 a hint, but Mrs. Packer was in no hurry o go: the wind was at her back and she did not feel it so much. “I heard the Hopkinses was goin’ to have Emma’s bean tomorrow,” said she. “Be they?” returned Sophia indiffer- ently. Sho looked down with a hard guzo at tho old stringy black feather which adorned the top of Mrs. Packer's everv-day bonnet. Mrs. Packer gtood o much lower that she had to wrinkle her her steaight line of gray haiv when she looked at Sophia. “Yes," eaid she, “they be. Mrs, Green #aid they'd got two chickens hesides the turkey. She seo Henry Hopkins carryin’ of ‘em home, 1 s'pose they're goin' to have chicken pie, too.' Sophia aroused to interest 1n spite of the iey wind in her fa *Perrible fine, ain't they?” said she, with a scorn- ful-1ift of her nose. *“Well, T guess they ain’t got so much more to do with than other folks.” “[ gness they ain’t neither. I heard Sam Brightman's folks was pretty bad off. 1 guess they won't have much Thanksgivin',” Sophia jerked furiously when ‘the wind struck her, and _put her hand to her crimps, which blew back, and quite bared her high, flat forehead. “1 don't know nothin' about it,” said she harshly. “Tcan't keo‘\ track of all the poor folks in town, an’ I dun know as I'm called on to. There was rich and poor ever sense the world was made, an’ [ guess there always will be; there ain’t no way to help it that 1 can see, except by shiltin’ the money to the other side; like the weights in balances, one side's ot tobe up an’ tother down. I dun fixmw why them that’s up has any call to go down, if they can help it. Gen'rally speakin,’ folks have money because the Lord has given 'em faculty to git it, and keep it. If folks ain’t born with faculty I don't see as it's anybody's look out buy the Lord’s. Them Brightmans never had any faculty. Mrs. Bright- man, she can't cut out a calico dress to save her life, an’' Ella she was just like her, an’ got married to a man & good deal more 80. It was lucky he died, I guess. . There's them three white-livered chil- dren, an’ they don't look as if they had faculty enough to make mud pies, an' teeter, and as for Sam, he ain't never had none. I dun know but he does his work well enough when he can git it, an’ he's willin’, but he's slow as old Tilly, an’ he ain’t never had no business 1 Some men_ would have got work whether or no. He come to me one day last week an’ wanted to cut up my wood, but I told him no, pretty quick. There's old Mr. Thomas will cut it cheaper, besides working faster, I guess. 1 ain’t goin’ to have Sam Brightman if I know which side my bread’s but- tered on. “Well, T dun know,” said Mrs. Packer. Her dull, placid face took on a reflective cust; she was thinking what next to say. Sophia pulled her “apron closer and scowled against the wind. *“Yousaid you weren't goin’to have any company Thanksgivin'?? said Mrs. Packer, slowly. *“No, [ ain't,” returned Sophia, in a sharp, decisive tone. New topics were scarcely endurable and recapitulations were maddening in the face of this north wind. *Well,” said Mrs. Packer, ‘‘I'm going to have Cyrus an’ the children an’ brother Ezra's folks, as I said before, It malkes considerable to do, but—" “I should think you'd feel as if you'd got to be home seein’ to things,” inter- rupted Sophia, with a blue glare of her prominent eyes; she was quite out of patience \ Mrs. Packer-looked up at her with innccent incredulty; she could not be- lieve that she had heard rightly. “*What say?” she faltered. " *I say that I should most think, as long as it was the day before Thanks- givin’, an’ you'd got all that mess of company comin’, that you'd have to go home an' see to things.” “‘[fanny is to home,” said'Mrs: Packer, feebl, he had not yet fully taken in Sophia’s meaning. Her own aggra- vating points were such purely negative ones that people seldom felt at liberty to retaliate, and when they did she gearcely knew what they meant. How- ever, now a sudden red flushed over her large, dull face, **(Good aflternoon, Sophia,” she said with a sudden accession of dignity, and went down the path to tho gate with a clumsy sidewise jolt of her whole body. Sophia shut the front door with a bang and went into the warm sitting room. Bhe stood close to the air-tight stove and spread her long, thin hands over it. *She's gone off mad, an’ I don't care if she has,” she said, *“If folks don't know enough to go when they start to it's time they was told, She always makes the heft "of her call in the "doorway, Buudlng,there in that awful wind! ‘shouldn’t wonder if I caught my death.” There was nobody else in fine room, nor even in the house, but Sophia shiv- ered impressively with appealing frolns, «ad finally, when she passed the jooking glass on her way to the kitchen, cast & woe-begone look at herself, *‘I look dreadful pinched up an’ blue,” she muttered, The kitchen was full of warm, savory and spicy odors, A plum pudding and a chicken pie were baking; a row of new es and some cako »tood cooling under he ‘pantry window, On the fim-hsn table was a great turkey and another ehicken pie all ready for the oven, _Sophia looked into the stove oven to see how the pudding and pie were pro- greulnf. Th8 hot, fragrant steamn l'luheng n her face. She turned the pie und. ‘The two kitchen windows faced south- west and the afternoon sunlight, shift- ing and fluctuating as if itself blown by the wiud, came in. A great, green par- l‘fllh'\nwh'%nuga hung in one of the windows, e stood on his perch and watched Sophia with one yellow eye. ~ Finally, when she arose, he cglled out in his dissonant yoice—the greeting of & merry comrade: ‘“‘Hullo, Sophi, how's your th? - Want a cracker?”’ " Sophia went into the pantry and paid no attention, She had had the parrot for years, His conversational powers werg limited to those three clauses of friendly salutation and inquiry and one r—*'Clear out.” 'resently he shrieked out that also, ; then swung wildly back and forth his strong beak. i ia cleared & space on the pantry side this time,” she fieted it bos Tieind bu “v’ohl.t out on the kitchen t. It weighs a good fifteen s Pack e owan dyla’ o gt out forehead up to- here. I guess ehe heard [ bought a big one, an’ mebbeold My, Thomas told how I gov him to kill them two chickens, Well, it ain‘tnobody’s husinese; if T ain’t got folks tocome to Thanksgivin' I guess 1 can have as good a dinuer as them that has.” \ “Hullo, Sophi,” screcched the parrot. which had been listeniog on calmly, “*As long as I ain't got a cat or a dog, it's Jucky that I've got a parrot that can pick the bones, instead of a canary bird,"” said Sophia. ‘“It's going to be considerable for mo to eat, np_ all that great turkey an’ them two chicken pies.” She mixed up another cake. When the pudding and chicken pie were done she filled up the oven again. It was 8 o'clock that evening when her Thanks- giving cooking was all finished, the dishes washed and the kitchen put in order. Then she went to bed. She was a lonely woman: het own kindred were all dead and gone years agot she had no husband nor children, and nobody to come home to Thanksgiving. But no- body in the village had a better filled larder than she She was one of those who found a certain joy independent of all associotions in possession; no loneli- ness could keep her tonight from com- placent reflections upon those loaded pantry shelves. There was more than she needed, but she had it. And dfter all it was not mevely a question of material need ard supply, but of all the natural craving of a lonely and soli-centered soul; it would necessarily take much of this grosser food to sat s.j_\- that, but sat- isfy that itdid toa certain extent, and always had. After Sophia's mother died and left her solitary in the house and in the world, the beautiful black cashmere dress, which she bought and wore to church the Sunday after, and also tho fine, black. straw bonnet, with its tuft of black satin roses, had brought her a certain solace. Sophia’'s mother had been niggardly even with herself. ‘When Sophia held the purse sho was not niggardly with hereelf; the neigh- bors said she was extravagant. They watched some rolls of tapestry carpet, a new stove, a new lamp, & new chamber sot and spring bed go into the house with wonderand doubtful approbation. “Well, I hope the money’ll hold out,” they said. But Sophia was shrewd enough: she know that the money would hold out, and there was no visk in her feathering her nest prettily, although there were no opening mouths in it, if she enjoyed it. And enjoyit shedid. She rocked easily in ber new stuffed chair over her new carpot, and she slept comfortably on her new spring bed, with the carved headhoard of the bedstead overshadow- ing her. #5he thought honestly in her inmost soul that she was happier than many women she knew who had large families and little money, and were wor- ried and overworked. Sitting early in church on a Sunday with her nice black skirt falling daintily over her knees, her cashmere shawl arranged in studied folds around her unbending shoulders, her thin light hair in two carefully crimped scallops over her temples and her bonnet strings tied in an unhurried bow, she watched the women who had risen early, gotten breakfast for u large family, put the house in order, washed and dressed the children and laid out the husband’s clean clothes for him, toil anxiously up the aisle, and felt a peace in which she realized no savor or regret. Sophia Hurd had never had a love affair in her whole life; when she was a girl the young men were all afraid of her. She had always had a ready incisive- ness of manner, and never any prettiness to soften it. She had always been daintily appointed: there had never been an untidy lock nor a gaping seam but that had served only to intensify appar- ently the severity. hen she had been a young girl, very young, still going to the academy, with her hair crossed in two tidy braids at the back of her head, her prim calico dress rustling stiffly at her heels, and youth giving its one fleeting charm to her clean, sharp blonde face, this very Sam Brightman, whom she and Mrs. Packer had discussed, had gone home with her once from the singing school, had kissed her at the gate, and she had Viciously slapped hls face in return. T'hat one kiss of boyish admiration had been her last, and it was strange, but she had never forgotten it. She thought of it when poor Sam Brightman, bent and haggard with his long toil: in his fruitless vineyard of * life, had stood by her woodpile asking leave to cut it and 80 earn & few cents for him and his half- starved dependents. All the boyish spirit and prettiness had gone out o him, and he had been a brave, pretty boy. Sophia, elderly and enveloped in a hard and regretless maidenhood, had stood in the doorway holding a shawl well over her face that she might not catch cold, trying to drive a sharp par- gain, and yet had thought of that old, childish kiss. She was conscious of no sentiment regarding it; it was simply as the one rhyme in the prose of her f’ife, and kept singing itself in her ears, tool- ish as it was. That night before Thanks- giving, when she lay drowsily in her chamber, she thought of it again, and a vague and half-reluctant fancy came into her mind of what her life might have been had she not repulsed that first kiss. “Thera'd been turkey ‘nough to go ‘round, and pies anyhow,” she said to herself. “Is'pose he'd have lifted the turkey inan’'out of the oven, an' he'd spilt the gravy, likely as not, Men folks ave dreadfully unhandy. I guess he'd been pretty well off, though, to what he is now.” Sophia pressed her lips con- temptuously in the dark as she thought of Sam Brightman’s gentle, passive wife, 1t was a dark night, the wind still blew, the sky was overcast and the moon would not rise till midnight, Sophia fell asleepand slept so soundly that when she awoke with a great start she thought she had not siept auvall, But the moon was an hour high, the clouds had cleared before it and it was 80 light that she could see everything quite plainly. She sat up in bad and listened. She hud a confused idea that she had heard a window opened somewhere in the house. Presently there came a shar) clatter from below. It sounded as if somehody had leta dish fall. Sophia got out of bed, slipped on her shoes and stockings, put on her dress skirt and a shawl, then she went out boldly to the head of the back stairs, which were nearly opposite her door, She listened; there was' c one moving about below. She elutched the stair post. **Who's there?” she called out in & bold voice. There was no reply, the noise ceased. “Who's movin' ‘round down stairs?”’ she called out again, and the silence continued, “There's somebody down there,” said Sophia, and her voice sounded - still firmer and bolder. *I heard you and I'm going to find out who you ave. 1It's bright mooulight. You'd ought to rtainly some have thought of that, whoever you are, | before you come thievin', You've got yourself into & &rony sorape, I guess yow'll find out. low, I'm goin’ to set right here an' hark. You can't stir without my hearin’ o' you, and you needn’ think you can, Sophia sat down on the top stair and waited and lstened. There was no sound {rom below. Suddenly the parrot fluttered and screcched his whola vocal \alu-l{ law agitated medley: ‘‘Hullo, Sophl! Olear out. Wans & crackerd How’s your health?” Sophias kuew that the unknown nerson below had moved. “You're movin',” she vtalled out wheun the parrot’s clatter had Inlled o little. *1 heard you. You needn't think you was silenee - again. Sophia listened. She sat there until the L"Ook struck 2and heard nothing more. She was trying to persuade herself she im- agined the te ~Hflng sounds and might safely return to bad, when there ecame a sudden choking congh from below. She arose and leaned far over the stair rail. “Sam Brightman,” she called, “you're down there. You can't cheat me, I know your cough, Now you just tell me what you're prowlin' ‘round my house in the middle of the night for. I should call it pretty work. There was no answer, ‘“‘Sam Bright- man,” sho eaid again, and her tone was quito flerce, *“you speak this minute. What are you doin' down there. You can't cheat me. T've heara you cough in moetin’ for ton years, you, Sam Brightman n that's a church member, with a wife that's a church member, prowlin' round women's houses in the middle of the night, 1 'pose you think mebbe you've got a fuculty for stoalin® if you ain't got none for work. What you after down there? You speak or 1 shall get dressed and come down.” There was silonce still. “You, Sam Brightman,” said Sophia, “jest as sure as you don't speak and tell me what you're after 1'll have the sheriff come in the mornin’ an’ take you to the lockup, Now, what are you was another cough, and it wnexpectedly from just below her. “I'm after sumething to eat for my wife and daughter and grandchil- dren,” answered & man's voice with a gruft defiance in it. ‘‘Somethin’ to eat? I should think you'd took a pratty way to get it. Ain't you ashamed o' yoursell. Why don't you go to work?” ‘Mebbo you can tell,” repliel the voice from below. ““Well," said Sophia. and her tone was a little subdued, “if you're so bad off as all that why didn’t you come an’ ask for victuals?" ‘:Because I'd ruther steal than beg; when I've worked jest as havd as I knew how all my life it makes me feel more like a man,” replied Sam Brightman, flercely. “‘I ain’t no call to beg. If T can't %m\'e my share, an’ them that be- long to me can't have their share of the things in this world by any fair means, if folks won't let us, Iinean to have 'em whether or no. I've made up my mind. I heard how you'd goj} a big turkey and chicken pies for nobody but yourself to eat, an’ we ain’t got a mouthful in the house, an’ you wouldn’t give me no work. I made up my mind I'd steal a little Thanksgiv- in', seein’' as the Lord hadn't give me none. Now, you can do jest what you've a mind to do with me. Get me sent to jail; it won't make no difference to ‘em. ain’t doin’ anything for 'em, an’ I'll get fed. They take some pains to keep thieves alive after they've caught ’'em. Mebbe I'd better set ’om all to stealin’. Government has sowe lookout for wicked folks if it don’t for good ones. You can do g’csn what you've a mind to.. 1'm past carin’.” “Youcan have one of 'em chicken pies, if you are in tuch dreadful straits as all that comes to,” said Sophia in a sarcastic voice. ‘I should think you talked real pretty for a church member, Sam Brightman, Take one of 'em pies, an’ go home, an’ mind you shut the pan- try door.” *I don't want your pie,”said Sam Brightman, and he coughed again. “Well, you can go without it then, if you don’t want it after all this rumpus,” returned Sophia. ‘‘There's -one thing T want to know. What was it you tipped over and broke in the pantry?” ‘I guess ‘twas a dish,” replied Sam Brightman fecbl{. ‘A dish, what kind of a dish?” ‘I dunno.” ““T ’spose it was one of 'em nice covered ones. Now, I think you'd better go back home. You can take that chicken pie or leaye it, jest as you've a mind to. If your folks are starvin’ the way you say they are, I guess you'll be glad ‘nough to take it; an’ if you try any such work again, you won't get oft so easy.” Sophia listened ‘for & reply or Sam Brightman's retreating footsteps, but there was dead silence from below. “Sam Brightman,” said Sophia, “you speak.” She trembled; vague alarm was stealing over her. ‘‘Sam Bright- man,” ghe called again imperatively; but the™ was w0 response. Sophia backed .ato her room. keeping her eyes toward the stairs. She shut the door and put a chair against it—there was no lock; then she lighted a lamp and dressed herself. Sheeven smoothed her hair and looked, scrutinizingly in the glass. *‘I look awfully pale,” she mut- tered. Then she took the lamp and opened the door cautiously. Everything was still. Sophia stole softly to the head of the tairs, held up the lamip before her and peered down. There, indeed, lay Sam Brightman, oor, old free-lance in the poverty and abor question, huddled in a forlorn heap at the foot of the stairs. t“‘Ll;.ml sakes,” gasped Sophia, “he’s in a fit." She went down, her knees shook under her; she set the lamp on the stairs, bent over Sam Brightman and touched nis shoulders gingerly. “Sam,” she called loudly at him, ‘‘Sam, what's the mat- ter?” Sam’s face, upturned insensibly to the lamplight, was ghastly. Sophia trem- bled violently. ‘‘Sam,” she called im- Pur&ll\’ely, with her shaking voice. ‘Sam, be you dead! Sam Brightman, for the land sakes, do speak to me,” Sam did not stir. Sophia stepped over him and ran into the sitting room for the camphor bottle. She poured some over his forehead and held her handkerchief wet with it to his nose. “Smell of it,"” she panted. ‘“Sam, smell of it. Be you dead, Sam be you dead? Land sakes, what shall I do?” Sam gasped faintly and tried to rise. She pushed him back., “Lay still,” said she, agitatedly; “lay still, You've had a bad spell, but you're comin’ to. Lay still. Smell of this camphire.” Vhere be 17" moaned Sam Bright- man, looking with piteous, bewildered eyes on hers, *Right here in my house—Sophia's. Don’t you know? Don’t you remember? You've known me ever since we were children, You're right here. Don't you worry.” Sam H‘:ightmnn was, for the time, past worrying. He shut his eyos and ay with his mouth open, panting feebly, “Sam Brightman, look here,” said Sophia suddenly, ¢ opened his eyes wearily. “‘How long is it since you had anythin’ to eat?” Sam did not rnplfi; his pale face took on an obstinate look, L ieve you're starvin,” said Sophia sharply. ‘I never heard of such doin's. A pretty plece of work I shounld call it. Don’t you know Bo better than to do thie way? Now you lay still; don't you tr,un’ get up.” phia went hurriedly into her parlor bed room and got some pillows and comfortables; then she arranged Sam Brightman as easily as she could at the foot of thestaire. She kept enjoining him not to move lest he should faint again; and he showed little disposition to. His last stress of m uite exbausted bim for the time; nobody sounded 3 Gkl 4 MONDAY, D ECEMBER 4. 1803 would ever know little he had eaten and how mich B ARd worcied for the Inst few months, Sophia Hurd wge msthodicall in all hor ways; at nighl she always left her kitehen fire ready to light in the morn- ing. Now all she_had to do was to touch a mateh 1o it und set on a little kettle of broth 116 over from her chicken pies. Whep it was hot she emptied it into a bowl and carvied it, with a spoon, to psor-sam Brightman. “Now you jost et yp and drink this,” said she, and Sw might have been Sam's mother from huer tone. Sam made angefiort to gotup, but sank back again,, ‘'(‘an't you sit up?” “You tryi you've got to drink ou can't gét home. 1 never see such work."” o Sam made anothar effort and fell back. “For the land sakes,” said Sophia, and her voice had an odd, quizzical tender- . “Well, open your mouth." extonded w spoonful of hot broth, the fragrant steam of it came in Sam's face: he shut his lips tight. ou open your mouth this minute,” said Sophia, and he opened it. Sophia fed the whole bowl of broth, spoonful by spoonful, to Sam Brightman, and, as she did 80, an expression came into lier shavp, homely face which had never been there before, which her friends would not have recognized as hers, nor she, had she seen hersell in the glass,® 1t was the look of & mother feeding a child, and with it a curious averted effect, as if she were turning shamefacedly from her own eyes. When tho bowl was drained she got \lu from itehen 1 guess you'll fecl better now.” said she with a half laugh. *“You lay still u few minutes longer an' [ guess you can get up.” She got u basket down from the top shell in the pantry and packed it with food. She set in one of the chicken pies at the bottom. Presently she heard Sam staggering into the room. ‘‘Here's a basket for you to take home.” said she. “I never heard of such work.” She did not turn her head. Sam made no reply. He went straight toward the door, un- bolted and opened it, and the night air rushed in. HAin't you goin’ to take this vasket?' asked Sophia. am made no reply. He stepped out weakly. Sophia followed after him with the basket. ‘‘If you ain’t equal to car- ryin' o' it I'll go with you,” she said. I shan't be afrald to come home. It's as light as day and the neighbors are all abed, 80 there won’t nobody see us.” “T don't want your basket,”said Sam with feeble gruffness, pushing it back as she approached him. **'Well, I should call it nretty work. Why don't you wan't it?” Had you ruther have stole it? ‘“Yes, I had,” said Sam fiercely. He went feebly down the walk, and she stood looking after him. *‘Hullo, Sophi,” the parrot sung out with a wild flutter when she went in. She unpacked the basket and set the food carefully away. Then she locked the ddor, put a stick'in the window whereby"Sam Brightman had entered and went to bed again. She could not sléep'any, and heard the town clock when™it ‘struck the hours until morning. 'Shd ot up at the first light and dr d‘herself again. When she brushed her “hair before the glass she ran out her téngie and looked at it i It looksfevorish,” said she. E self W'bowlful of sage tea for her breakfast It was her panacea. She had been brought up to consider it a salutary and comfoiting draught, and this morning she <feally felt ill, she thought. So seldoii Bad her determined calm been infringeéd" upon that its dis- turbance impregséd her like a real bodily ailment. 9 a0s After sho had‘‘finished the sage tea she heated the vven afid put in the tur- key to roast, then cleancd the vegetables for dinuer. At 11 d'clock the rich odor of the roasting turkey permeated the whole “house. The vegetables were steaming. She sat down by the kitchen window and reflected. 7 The bells were ringing for. meeting, everybody in the village was going, ex- cept the housewives who'needed to stay at home to prepare the Thanksgiving dinver. It was a pleasant morning, the wind had gone down and there was a heavy white frost, the yard and the fields were covered with it, the dry grass bent stifly and the rocks showed shining silver white surfac ““If T sent anythin’ over there to cat,” said Sophia, ‘I dunno what Sam would say. Idon’t darse to.” There was no sound but the hissing and bubbling of the boiling vegetables. The parrot's eye, set like a yellow pearl in his splendid mass of green feathers, watched her keenly. “I dunno, if I put.on my other dress an’ my best bonnet, an’ went over an’ asked ’em all to dinner, as they'd resent it,” said Sophia, "‘an’ I could get Sam to one side an’ tell him to keep dark about last night, an’ that I'd be glad to let him have the wood in my woodland to cut; it'll last him all winter.” The bell had long stopped ringing, there was & hum of thanksgiving in the church and all the village dinners were fast cooking, when Mrs. Packer saw Sophia Hurd, arrayed in her best dress, and coat and bonnet, going down the street. DG like to know whore she's goin’,” she said, “It't toolate for meetin’ an'I don't b'lieve she's invited anywheres for dinner."” Mrs. Packer henceforth cooked her dinner with one eye on the window. First she saw Sophia return hurriedly; then, when it was almost time for meet- ing to be out, Sam Brightman and wife, his daughter and the three little white- headed children, all keeping step, as if to some gladness in their hearts, like a little gala procession, and they all went in Sophia Hurd’s front gate, Rt A Obud Enjoys The pleasant flavor, gentle action and sooth- ing effects of Syrup of Figs, when in need of a laxative, and if the father or mother be costive or bilious, the most gratifying re- sults follow its use; 80‘that it is the best family wa{ok wn. and every family £h0uid nave a bottle o hand e Reducing Vibration in Kailway O A new inventiod efbodies a principle which will commend itself to all railway travelers. It is sought to lessen thedis- comfort and annoyanée of travel on many lines on which thére is excessive vibra- tion by the constrpction of a pneumatic car, *‘which embimees the application of an elastic fluid as an absorbent for vibration and oscillation.” An air cush- ion is arranged of the cellular principle between the caybady and the truck frame, and as theie is an equal distribu- tion of air under varying pressures, all oscillation is Axrfi’fmlud. This elastic medium is said to'eompletely absorb all vibration resulting 'rom rough tracks, jointing of rails, oacessive speed, or any other cause, and the car is carried smoothly and steadily along. This poeu- matic system can be equally well applied to stroet cars, and instances are not hard to find in which it unquestionably should ————e ints aud muscles are 80 lubricated by Hood's Sarsuparitly that «ll rheumatism flm stiffness soon disappears. Get only 000's. P Wht is claimed to be the largest cateh of lake trout ever made in four hours' time in Upper Baranac lake, New York, was made vecently. The th inciuded eleven trout weighing 125 pounds, OMAHA LIVE STOCK MARKETS Receipts for Eleven Months at the Lgecal Yards Show a Nics Inorease. CATTLE CONDITIZNS ARE IMPROVING Cessation of the Rtun of Rangers and an Over Supp'y of Poor Ntaff the Main Features—Hogs Stll Mighty Uneertain, SATURDAY, Dec. 2 The holiday Thursday tisorganized re- ceipts somowhat, but supplios for the past five market days, with comparisons, ave as follows: Recelpts this wo. Re Samo woek last y Receipts for the month of November woro 20 head, was tho hoaviest on rec ord for November and next to the heaviest month's receipts on record. The figures are as follows: November.. October. November, 1§92, Past 11 months.. 785,7 11 months, 1592, 688, Increase Decrenso KANSAS CITY FIGURES, Past 11 months, 1 11 months, 1892 Increase % Decreaso... 404,608 UnEs, Iogs, Sheop, Past 11 months, 14 2,804,747 11 months, 1892 3 Increase. ... Decrouse,... ... B74,427 1] 1 1t will be seen from the foregoing figures that Omalia is move than holding her own. Chunge for the Better Noted. Early in the weelk the cattle market was quiet and rather weak, but light supplies the past few days have changed the aspect of affairs cousiderably, and prices have ad- vanced substantially on all desirable killers, There is little new in the situation. Aside from tne good to choice beeves the demand from slavghterers has been and continues to be very indifferent, as people are letting game, poultry and oysters take the place of beef to a great extent just at present, and 1o material change is_expected till after the first of the year. The range season is practically over. Open weather continued itdonger than usual, but storms in the northwest have about stopped shipments from that direction and only a few straggling bunches are received. The big bulk of the offerings are made up of haif fat and short fea stock, cattle that have been on feed thirty to ninety days and buyers fairly despise it, so that sellers, un- less the supbly happens to be short, realize very unsatisfictory prices. The market today was good and lively. Re- ceints were not heavy and the demand from all sources was very good. There was a free movement and prices for ail useful grades of steers ruled strong at Friday's advance. Prices,of course, like the quality of the offer- ings, are very uncertain and uneven, but on an average 10c to lbc better than on Wednesday. Some very fancy, finished 1,45)-1b. Christmas beeves, batter than any- thing seen here this year, topped the mar- ket, bringing §5.90. the highest price paid in over twelve months. v to very goofl 1,100 to 1,450-1b. beeves sold at from $4.10 to $4.75, while the under grades sold all the way from $3 to $4. The snow storm delayed several trains, but the cattle soid freely and the close found very few in first hands. «.The cow market was active und stronger. all around. Probably a fourth of the offer- ings were cows and mixed lots, and with all local houses in the fleld after them they were not long in changing hands. Choice to fancy cows and heifers sold at frowm 3 up to $3.50, with fair to good butchers' cows at Trom $2.20 to $2.70 and common and cauniug grades at from $1.25 to §2. The calf market was stronger. Prime veals sold up to .25 and very common stock brought 2. Choice fat stags sold up to $3.50, with poor stufft as Jow as $1.40. Business in fecders was not very rushing today. It never is on Saturday and the snow storm did not help matters any. Yard traders did most of the buying, paying good firm prices for the desirable offerings and not caring to tuke the poor, thin, light and rough stuff at any price. Good to choice feeders are quoted at $3 to $3.60, fair to good at $2.70 to $3, with in. r to fair grades at $2.10 to $2.65. situation in Hogr Notwithstandiug the omission of one day's (Thursday’s) receipts the supply of hogs was nearly 8,000 heavier than last week. At Chicugo the increase was even move marked. This fact, and_probably this alone, will ac- count for a 20¢ drop in prices during the weok. Packers insist on lower prices. Provisions for _January sclling on the busis of $4 the very nature of things hogs must o down or provisions up. With no speculative sup- port there is iittle prospect of provisions going up, while with any increaso of sup- plies of Hogs prices are bound to go lowor, This is the situation in a nutshell 1f the numper of hogs avalluble in the next 60 days was cven approximately known by any one the markets would soon adjust them- selves on that basis. Reports from all sources aro conflicting and every one is grop- ing in the dark. The week closes with a fairly liboral sup- ply. With lower eustern markets, buyers pro- ceeded to try to fill their orders a% a 5e to 10¢ decline. Sellers are never anxious Lo hold hogs over Sunday. but they were also un- willing vo accept 8o heavy 4 cut_and trading was slow. The shipping demand was better than expected, in fact, about the best of the weel, and this fact caused the market to im- prove as the morning advanced, particularly on the light and butcher weight grades for which the demand was strongest, Tho heavy hogs, especially the very heavy hogs, were slow sale throughout and closed mean. Light and butcher weight hogs sold largely at $5.20 and $5.25, while the heavy and mixed £ DO YOU COUGH DON'T DELAY _— SOUTH OMAHA, Union Stock Yards Compaay, South Omahas Best Castle Ho and shaen ok 1a L WL COMMIS3I0N HOUSES. Wood Brotaars. Live Stock Commlssion Merohante S0tk Umaba—Telephons WAL —~ Caloany WAL R WY fusnnserr Market reports by mall and wire cheerful wraished upon applicetion. packers brought £.15 and #.90. A load o two of prime heavy weights brought 5.9 and low mark for rongh packers was 510, About everything finally sotd the bulk at 5,15 and £ 2) against §.90 1o &.50 Friday and .30 to one week ago today. Averags Prico of Hogs for November, Showing the average of prices paid for full loads of hogs ot this market on each day of the month of November for tho past seven years: Day. | 1808, 1802, 1801 7TS00, | TRSD. | 1988|1887, Pheep Trade, Receipts of sheep wore light and the ¢ of tho offerings was nothing extra. The demand was good, and what kiilers could use went readily at steady to strong pri but the trade in the under grades was slow. Fair to good natives, $2.75@3.50; fair to good westerns, $2,25(@! § common and stock shoop, #1.50@ good to choice 40 t0 100-1b, lambs, §2.50@4.00. Representa- tive sales, Kansn harket, KANSAS Orry, Doc e-Recelpta, 8,700 head; s 3 m stoudy | to 8.60; " shippi Texas and native —cows, fiers' stoek, soders, $2.0063.60. hoad: ' shipments, 5S¢ higher; heavy: heavy, packing and Yorkers and pigs, 1H0GS R 500 head; 1f stondy mixod, 400 ot stendy. head; shipmonts, St Louis Live Stork Market. 81, LOvIs, Dev CarrrE—Receipts, 2,200 hend; shipments, 400 head; market Stesdys dlo: Texus stoers sold, $2.40 00D, 0 liead; shipments, 8,100 ronig; top price, 16.50; bulk of ) SnEEp-Recelpts, 100 head; shipments, 300 len( ket nominal, ot enough supply. to make prices, Stock Recelpts of live stock western markets Saturday, Decen Cattle, South Omaha. 2,251 Chlcago. Kunsus 8t. Louls. Total.... 7,500 400 100 St s and biliousness with vly Risors. Cure indigestio DeWitt's Little I | paration which b s stood th WHY PEOPLE WORRY Tts Causo Clear A ond the est Way of Avold ng It Reveated, “The past summer and early fall have been poriods of worry, of eare and exhausted vital ity oansed by the straing Incident to business.' The speaker was & prominent man, Contins uing ho said: “This has nuturaily caused men to becomo run down, nervoless and really unable to proporly nttend to business. Bud th's fs not a'l. Man's worrlos become a wo- man's wWorees bocanso of lier superior intui- tlvo powors und s;mpathy with everything that concerns hor husband, her brothers or her lover. Al those things oause great exs Tuustion, and It fs not surpeising that physis clans report n state of weakness which has not been known before for years It 18 true that our finanolal troubles are larzely over, but the system needs building up to_the condition an i tone of six months ago. Ttisevident that this oan only be done by the o ystomatlo uso of some ving stimulant, n that grand pro- a score ot yours, Duffy's Pure Malt Whiske s are truo, and they shonld nsiacrod by all - othi iro moedicinal whisk orin ¢ the health, wasted 3 o not for oment consider 1t 11ke ordinary whisk' d dono be decelved by any denlor whom tell you 80. Tt has no equal, and Js worthy of ‘the great popu v which 1t possessos, W. L. DOUCLAS 1 bullding p and streneth and vital | Bown 83 SHOE nd't'kie. Do you wear them? When next In need try a paley Best in the world. 1f you want a five DRESS SHOE, mado In the latest stylos, don't pay $6 to $8, try my §3, $3.50, $4.000r $5 Shoe, They fit equal o custom mado and look and wear as well, If yon wish to economize I your footweary doso by purchasing Wi L Douglas Shoes, Name and price stamped on tho bottom, look for 1t when you buy, ‘W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. Sold by Tgnatz Newman, llsas Svenson, S, W, an & Co., C. W. Carlsom; F. § South Omaha. A CARD, Cresse, Owing to the stringency of the times, 1 have reduced my regular charges 1o cash patients to exact- 1y one half of the printed oculist’s foe bill. l':.]'l‘, ALLEN, M, D. ir Surgeon. Room A Farnam. Jastoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher’s prescription for Infants and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphinc nor .other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil, It is Pleasant. Its guarantce is thirty years’ use by Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays feverishness. cures Oastoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd, Diarrhea and Wind Colic. Castoria reclieves teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency. Castorin assimilates the food, regulates the stomach and. bowels, giving healthy and mnatural sleep. Case toria is the Children’s Castoria. ent medicino for chil- dren, M repeatedly told mo of its good effect upon their children," Da. G. C. OsGoop, Lowell, Mass, “ Castoria Is the bost remedy for ohildren of which T a:n acquainted. 1 hopo tho day 15 not far distant whenmothers willconsider thereal interest of their children, and use Castoria in- stead of the variousquack nostrumswhich are destroying their loved ones, by forclng opluin, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful agents down thelr throats, thereby sending them to premature graves. Dx, J. F. KiNcHELOE, Conway, Ark. >anacea—the Mother’s Friend, Castoria. “ Castoria fs sowell adapted to children that 1 recommend it assuperior toany prescription known to me," T0. A, Ancmen, M. D., 111 80, Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. * Our physicians in the children's depart- ment have spoken highly of their experl- ence in their outside practice with Castoris, and although we only bave among our medical supplies what {s kuown as rogular products, yet wo are freo to confess e the merits of Castoria bas wor v ta look with favor upon it." UniTep Hosritak 222 DIsPENsARY, Doston, Mass. ALLEN C. Swirn, Pres, The Centanr Company, T Murray Street, New York City, “THERE 1S SCIENCE IN N EATNESS.” BE WISE AND USE Manufacturers & Jobbers Direclory BAGS & TWINES| TENTS, ET0. Bemis Omana Bag [Omaha Tent-Awniog COMPANY. COMPANY. importers and manufuo: i ¢ flour sacks, | HORSE COVERS, Duiriaps, twin 111 Faroam Bire BOOTS AND SHOES, Morse-Coe Shoz Company. Balesroom and O <197 119). 1111 Bowar 1 3t ory ~1119; 1121112} Howard L1 LY Manufasturecs of Boots sud £ Nebrasks. Lation is extendsd to all L0 inepsch Amer, Hand-Sewed BHOE CO., boots ‘sad rubber goods, 1510 Harnoy Biresi. A gene ourBew factory, _ Kirkendall, Jones & COMPA. Wholesale Cafres aonts 80s10a Rubber Bhoe (0. 10t 1104-1106 Harn:y Bt g 20V A Notlons, geots' furnlsh- ing goods, cor. 111h and Harney Sireets. M. E Smith & Co. Dry goods, notions, fur- plshiog goods, cormer 11tk snd Howard 3is. FURNITURE. | 0mnll.|)nulsum; (7 ‘lel‘lnll\ul. b Upholstered §16z-1104 " Niobolas ob Wholesale 0uly. Johoson Bros, WHOLESALE COAL. Rector & Wilbelmy COMPANY. nth and Jackson IRON WORKS, Omana Sale and roa WORKS, £afer.vaults, Jall wool, Ak | fron shutters - Wakefi:ld, I Jobn A Tmportyd. Awerican Port Il coment. Milwau- Wholcaale liquor deslers | ~and ay ki B 1001 Farnsm St mads TH7DOugs Y R | ous Carpenter Paper Co| Standard Oil Co. e full stock of Driaudxl wrapping and | Reiaea and lubricatal Papeie, iat wrin, Paverh, otk Olls, 8210 groass, ob