Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 22, 1894, Page 6

UNCLE SAM'S 0DD EXPENSES Curious Ttems that Help to Swell the Treas” ury Deficit, INDIAN AS A CONSUMER THE POOR Odd and Costly Fentures of the Diplomatie Bervice—Recoltoctions of the War In Cash Bills—A Quaint Cotlection, Some curious items enter into the ex- penso account of Uncle Sam as will be gocn by the Globe-Democrat summary. Away out in Arizona, near the city of Florence, there is a ruin of the dwelling place of some prehistoric people. 1t is called Casa Grande. The government pays a man $480 a year to watch Casa Grande and ses that somo Chicago archwologlst doesn't carry it away for exhibition purposes. 5 Sceretary Gresham has tried to get along this year with #3,000 for bringing home the remains of diplomatic and con - sular officers of this country who died abroad. In view of the probable increase of mortality among the unusually large number of these patriots who have re- sponded to the call of Josiah Quincy and have gone to places where the climate is bad, Mr. Gresham asks $10,000 the com- ing year for diplomatic movtality. Another item of close relationship to the last mentioned is 5,000 to bring home the widows of those diplomats who dio abroad. The charge of States treasury. Che condition of Lo-the-poor-Indian is the inspiration of much sympathy among cortain Caucasian philanthropists. The regular budget for the ' man this year reaches §6,031,156.61. Next year it is expected to go to $7,008,611.41. ° This o multitude of things which civ- 1lized people have never thought of. T'or instanc vy one of the 60 men Crows gets a $10 suit of *‘good substan- tial woolen clothing. consisting of u coat, aloons, flannel shire and woolen of the women Crows ,, a pair of woolen hose, twelve yards of calico, and twelve yards of cotton domestic.” The end of this Indian budget is not in sight. The [ndian is as good a stayer as the pensioner. Away back 1in 1794 the government stipulated to pay the Six Nations of New York state a cer- tain sum—several thousand dollar every year, and it isstill doing {t. There are annuities which have been paid to the Senecas religiously since 1817, The Shawnees have heen getting a good roungd sum yearly since 17904, These and inany like them are permanent an- nuities. Some of them have run 100 years, Most of them have been in op- eration fifty years. They seem to be just as good for another century. There are the Pottawatomies of Tndi- ana and Michigan., They have worked the white man beautifull, In 1795 they got one permanent annuity which has been paid regularly ever since. In 1509 they socked it to our grandfathers for another annuity. In 1818 the Pottawat- omies came again, and this government ugreed to pay them another so-much-a- yeur without any limitation of time. The fourth permanent annuity for this thrifty tribe was fastened upon the treasury in 1828, Between that time and 1846 four more permanent annuities were added to the Pottawatomies’ list. And they have been puid faithfully every year. They will be paid next year and the next year after and nobody nows when the obligation will cease. Three of these annuities are paid in “silver,” and silver it was for the Indian all through the war and afterward, when white folks never saw the color of toin. Another annuity is in “specie;” two more are in “money.” The other two annuities illustrate more forcibly the farcical. Every year since 1826 this government has solcmnly delivered to the Pottawatomies fifty barrels of salt. And every year since 1826 this govern- ment has maiptained a blacksmith shop with equipments and supplies for three blacksmiths at a cost of 81,008.99 & yoar for the Pottawatomies. The disbursements to these Pottawato- mies, who long ago ceased to be Indians In all but name, amount to $20,647.65. They must, according to the treaties, go on forever. They are ‘‘permanent.” The Creeks have the oldest of these annuities, It started in 1790. The Chickasaws began to draw a permanent wnnuity in 1709, The Choctuws were put on the roll for $3,000 a year, with no limit of time, as early as 1805, Is it any wonder that the more civilized he gols the more tenacious the Indian grows of his tribal relation and of Uncle Sam’s paternalism? Turn over a few pages and you will find the sunrise and the sundowa gun at the military posts. This little incident of army life requires 1,700 barrels of powder in the course of the year, and that costs $30,600. A new War department item this year is “experimental cooking—#500.” Sur- geon General Sternberg is going to teach the art of cooking to the enlisted men in the two companies of the hospi- tal corps. The hire of a steam launch is consid- ered a necessary part of the oquipment of the Amcrican legation at Constanti- nople and $1,800 a year goes for that. This country’s merchant marine does not amount to much compared with that of other countries, but the cost to the Fu\'ornmuut of bringing home the Amer- can seamen who get shipwrecked in va- rious foreign ports is $45,000 a year. Be- sides this there is an expense of $50,000 for the “‘relicf and protection of Ameri- can seamen in foreign countries.” The stocking of Alaska with reindeer goes on well. The cost of maintaining the herd of 175 last year was about 86,000, It is proposed to go into the busi- ness a little more extensively this year, and $10,000 is wanted. This government vents prisons and T TP 2 T ST Y can conviets” in Siam, China, Japan, Turkey and Madagascar. The appro- priation for this feature of the diplo- matic service is $14,600. Some people would think it was punishment enough to live in those countries. At the Yumas Indian agency in Ar zona a flour mill is operated by the gov ernment for $1,500 a year, Fifty-dollar funerals are given to anion soldiers who die poor in the Dis- trict of Columbia. There were fifty of these funerals this year, and the quar- termaster genoral expects at least sixty the coming year. Our minister to Turkey maintains a small standing army. He has an allow- ance of $6,000 to pay the wages of inter- proters and “‘guards.” The president of the United States can increase the army abroad if he thinks necessary., He has & lump sum of $90,000 from which to employ ‘‘canvassers,” guards, 'drago- mans and porters and other persons and equipments to maintain the dignity of American logations. Next year Secre- tary Gresham wishes this increased to $105,000. The repairs on the white house last ear cost $27.000. For the coming year 44,000 .is wanted. This will include 0,000 for refurnishing the mansion, ationof Indians is a regular 1,000 a year on the United Benjamin Harrison,” and el.” The artificial limbs and trigses which are supplied for the old soldiers stand for an appropriation of $645,000. The secretary of state estimates that it will require $2,000 to make good the wear and tear by the office scokers of his carpets and furnituresince March 4. He asks for 81,500 to buy a collection of books and pamphlets on the history of the revolution. This collection was made by General Siv Henry Clinton, who, as commander of the British forces in America, had exceptional opportuni- ties to inform himself. The headstones put up over old diers in national cemeteries last year cost $25,000, and at least #30,000 is wanted for those which will be required this yea War reminders are th on the pages of the budge The soldiers have not been paid off. Last year there was dis- bursed in the form of arvears of pay_ of two and three years volunteers $474, 633.70. This year for the same kind of claims the disbursement will be $200,000 and for the coming year the estimate under this head is 250,000, The gov- ernment is still paying the bounties promised to volunteers. . Last year the amount was $205,000: this year it will be $200,000, and next year 5,000, all for bounties which the averag: o sup- posed were settled nearly thirty years ago. But the claims are coming in: they are proved up and there is nothing to do but pay them. The generous re public pussed a supplemental bounty act in July, 1866, a year or more after the war was over, toeven up some supposed diserimination, Under this act claims are still being 0,000 last year, 825,000 this year, $25,000 next year, Of course, the unfortunates who got into southern prisons and the fortunates who went home on furlough -are entityed to the rations which they didn’t eat. The rnment is settling with both classes terans who misspd their hard tack and sowbelly. There was paid out for commutation of rations to old soldiers, who were prisoners or furloughed, $ § 3 there will be paid on such claims this yeur, $15,000, and next This is a great and good government and the more the budget of 397 long, broad pages tudied the greater it seems. A s ELECTRICITY AS A CURE-ALL. A Bufalontan Thinks He Sees Rain Ahcad for Doctors and Drugglsts, Tn speaking the other night of the possible revelations to come from dis- ries of the future touching the us of electricity, C. J. Hamlin of Bu brought forth from the recesses of a closet and exhibited to a Courier man an article which he said be regarded as one of the s rgest things in the world at the present time, and one that was destined to injure the business of druggists and the practice of physicians to a great degree. Inclosed within a bright metallic box of oval shape, and which was in turn neatly fivted in a small wooden box, was a small nickel eylinder, spool-like in form, and with rounded ends. The interior of the cylinder could be veached by remoy- ing one of its ends. Its value consists in the peculiar electrical construction of this interior, which is connected with a 1lic button by means of a cord about ixteenth of an inch in diameter and containing & dozen or 8o minute wives. The instrument is _cal tro- poise, artd_the cylinder is a *polarizer.” The polari is placed en a chunk of ice, or if more convenient the window can be opened and it can be placed on the window sill or on the ground where there is snow. The metallic button is prossed against the wrist or ankle of the patient, or in any spot desired, by means of an elastic band to which the button is attached. [n this way a continuous electric current is kept up_which pen e- trates through the skin of a person or ammal and permeates tho sys- tem, producing. it is very beneficial ~ results in almost all forms of illness, and proving a com- plete and certain cure for rheumatigm and many other distressing and dangor- ous diseases. A person can safely go to sleep with the metallic button fastened | to his wrist, and in fact it can be worn with beneficial results for two or three nights. Meanwhile if the connections are in good order and the polarizer is in snow or on ice, the person’s system will be gradually filling with elecivicity, the life-giving principle, and if the treat- ment is continued he will feel, after three or four nights, as if his hair wero standing straight up on end and a brisk breeze blowing through it, from the roots upward. Mr. Hamlin says that after fifteen or sixteen years' study electricians have lately perfected this electrical life-giver. In larger size Mr. Hamlin has used it for doctoring horses, and has cured many stiff joints and more serious afllic- tions in his fine animals. The life of one very valuable mare was saved by the same means when afllicted with colie. The superintendent of the Hamlin stock farm is one of the persons benefited by the use of the elec- trical contrivance,and in many instances within Mr. Hamlin’s knowledge he says that the effects of the device have been truly remarkable. The little instru- ment will last a lifetime,and one of them can cure dozens of persons of their ail- ments. Another most desirable and im- portant result that is achieved by elec- trical instruments is the diffusion in a room of ozone, that nec 'y constitu- ent of the atmosphere whose absence in- variably causes the air of a room or sleeping car to appear close and stifling. Mr. Hamlin conducted the reporter to his bedroom, where one the ozone- makers was in operation, The effect of its work was apparent upon entering the door of the room, which was filled witha cool, delicious and refreshing atmos- phere. A little stock of ice’in a tin ves sel on the floor near vhe bed was replen- ished daily by the servant, A polavizer of larger size than the one first described herein rested on the ive and was con- nected with an electrical apparatus at- tached to the wall four or five feet above it. It is through this apparatus that the ozone is given out into the room. The same large polarizer used in the manufacture of ozone was able to fur- nish electrical encrgy for a family, and that it was used for that purpose was at- tested by the presence of soveral elec cal cords of varying length radiating from it. Oneof these cords was adapted in length to the distance to Mrs. Ham- lin’s bedroom, and when that lady feels indisposed the electric medicine is brought into use, e A Ten Hion Dollar Bridge, The attention of New Yorkers has heen so fixed on the possible construc- tion in the near future of a bridge over the North river to the New Jersey shore that littlo notice has been taken of a project of almost as much importance— to bridgo the East river and give the wealthy Long Island railroad access to the heart of the metropolis. The scheme is & part of a greater undertaking, very dear to its projector, Austin Corbin, to make some day a harbor for transatlantic steamers at the extreme eastern end of Long Island, which will reduce the pas- sage to Queenstown by several hours and enable the modern large passenger steamers to avoid passing through the Nurrows, The structure is to be built under charters granted many years ago to & De. Rainey, Lt is Lo cross the rivor claimed, | THE over Blackwell's island, the penal and insane settlement of New York ecity. There are to be three river and two anchor spans, supported by four steel plers, two on the island within the bulk- head lino and one on either shore, also within the bulkhead line, thus leaving the existing navigable channels entirely unobstructed. The bridge will have two water spans of 870 feet each and a clear headway of 153 feet, eighteen feet more than that at the Brooklyn bridge. The total cost of the bridge is estimated at £10,000,000, and the consent of the national and municipal authorities has been secured, el i We could not improve the quality if we paid double the price. DeWitt's Witch Huzel Salve is the best saive that experience produce, or that money can buy. st “Seiiauhoiy HEAVY LOCOMOTIVES. Argnmen Against T Py o and In Favor of Lighter Machines. At the last meeting of the New Eng- land Railroad club, says the Providence Journal, there was an interesting dis- cussion on rolling stock, in which the proper weight of locomotives was con- sidered by Mr. J. N, Lander of the Old Colony system, For many years it was considered that nine tons per wheel, or 18,000 pounds, was the extreme limit. His preforence was pever to go above eight tons, provided that would furnish suflicient adhesion for the work. There are locomotives today made to run trains at high speeds, assumed to be more destructive to the track than those at slow speods, that have a weight of forty-four tons upon the four drivers, or eleven tons to each wheel—an enormous ght resting upon one point of the rail, and that point a knifc edge almost, bounding along ot seventy, eighty. ninety, 112} miles an hour. Now, he thought if it is necossary. in order to get steam to do the work re- quired by modern railroading, to have such enormous weights—and he beheved it is—that we must resort to different types of engines; we must hay driving wheels, that th weight may be distributed over more bearing points. Reference was made to engines for passenger ce. This means going into the complications of ten-wheel engines or moguls, It was stated that the true solution is this: When the character of our grades issuch and when the weight of the trains is such that an engine running not to exceed fifty-five tons, cannot do the work, it is vastly more economical and safer to divide the trains and make two where before one was run. Between Boston and New York the Boston Albany road did this very thing a y or two ago. The train leaving Boston at 11 o’clock at night got so neavy that it was difficult to make time with it, and the company wisely divided it into two. The Shore line has done the same thing within a year. That is true economy, although you. can figure out that it costs more to operate the trains, because it adds so much to train mileage; but the question of whether i costs more on that account does not cover the whole argument. The ques- tion of safety is a most important factos and he belie! that if it was nec o more than an ordinary 18x 3 ino on our New England roads it is better to divide the train: that it is vastly safer than to attempt to wun such enormous trains as some are doing today. Perhaps as hoeavy a train as is run in New England is the Fall River steamboat train. On its last teip to New York that train had ten vestibule cars, weighing thirt; vo tons each, and three parlor cavs, weighing forty-five tons each. Fourteen cars is the regular train. That train ishandled by an 18x24 cylinder engine. Instead of soenormously increasing the weight of passenger engines better re- sults can be had with a lightor engine carrying a bigher pressure of steam. He was free to suy we have got all over being afraid of 200 pounds of steam. There is no more difficulty in _construct- ing a boiler that is safe with 200 pounds than with 100 pounds. It is simply a stion of design, material and work- 1ship, and a 50-ton engine with 18x24 eylinder, carrying 200 pounds of steam, will handle a train that a 60 or 70-ton engine with lower pressure would have difficulty in taking cure of. Itis a mis- taken idea that it takes an immense heavy engine to furnish the proper amount of adhesion to handle a passen- ger train. Any one who has mado ex- periments with the dynamometer will understand this. With reference to freight engines, the problem is different: we must have ad- hesion there to get the trains over the hills. and this means that we have got to have heavy engines. This problem was solved years ago, and on [reight trains you sée the mogul and the con- solidation. * * * On freight engines there 1s not so much objection to multi- plying parts as there is on passengor itch Hazel Saive cures sores. iteh Hazel Salve cures ulcers. S s A Rich Beggar, The champion beggar of the season was fined $30 in the municipal court of Portland, Ovre., recently, and when she paid tho amount she still had a cash bal- ance of $80 in her pocket. This beggar was a woman who gave her name as Na- thalie Vebauwhede and claims to be a native of France, She came totown se eral days ago,says the Oregonian, accoms panied by hor husband and two children, and an old man, whom she claimed was her uncle. Nathalie took occasion to call upon Chief of Police Hunt soon after her arrival with a pitiful story about a blind husband and two small children and a request that her uncle might be allowed to play the hand organ on the street. The chief refused the request, and sent the woman to Secretary Walpole of the City Board of Charities. She wanted to go to San Francisco and the City Board of Chari- ties would not send her, so she went to begging. She must have been very sue- cessful, for a few days later she invested $750 of her earning in a ranch in Wash- ington county. She also cavries a very fine gold wateh. Chief Hunt learned that Nathalie was begging on the street, and had Officer Holly bring her to the central station. —_———— Oue word describes it, “'perfection.” Were- ferto DeWitt's Witch Huzel Salve,cuves piles -~ — Reigning Monar According to the Gotha Almanac, which has just been issued for 1894, the queen of England has reigned longer than any other ruler in the world, hay- ing ascended the throne in 1837, Next to her in_point of time are nperor Francis Joseph of Austria, and Freder- ick, the grand duke of Baden. The monarchs who have reigned the shortesu time are Prince Friedrich of Waldeck, and Duke Alfred of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The oldest monarch, according to the Almanac, is the pope, who is more than 83 years of age. The grand duke of Luxemburg and the king of Denmark, respectively 76 and 756 years old, stand next to him in this regard. The Grand Duke Karl Alexander, who lives in Weimar, is fourth in point of age, and Queen Victoria, with her 74 years, is the fifth oldest monarch. The youngest corowned heads are the little queen of the Netherlands, who is 13, and the king of Spain, who is 7 years and 6 months old. e DeWitt's Witch Hazel saive cures piles, OMATIA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JANUARY 22 1894 NOT POPULYR 0N THE STREET New York Brokers| Do Not Like the Form of Carlisle's Bonds. NOT AVAILABLE FOR THE BANKS 10 USE Henry Clews Polnts but the Grawbacks to ftho Secrotary’s Plans, But Rejoices That the Government's Credit Is ' Preserved. In his weekly financjal letter Henry Clews, the Wall street export, discusses the pro- posed bond issue. He says: **Wall street has remained comparatively lifeless throughout the past week. During the first half the absence of any action by the government for overcoming its financial embarrassments had a depressing effect both here and on Amevican securities at London. The announcement on Thursday of a loan for £30,000,000 by the etary of the treasury had some effect in strengthening confidence, but the form and method of the loan were to some extent disappointing, “The offering of a 5 per cent ten years pond at a price limit which would keep the return to the investor within 8 per cent was regarded as a somewhat unusual operation. The facts leading to that course seem to have been thav the government has no existing legal authority for issuinz any other available form of obligation, whilst, with the existing divisions of opinion in congress on questions of finance and currenc, the administration deemed it wholly unce tain as to what sort of authorization it might get from that body, or whether it could get any authorization whatever, or whether ~cougress would® reach conelusion within the period required the ex ne exiger that now embar the treasury. Under these circumstances theadministration appears to have felt itscif driven to use an old authorization granted under other circumstances, but which may haps be fairly construed as legalizing b loan--che h will be abouc §0,000, the full deticioncy gross produc 000wkl sufties to cover the treasury may have to meet; but it is o be presumed that, in such event, any fur- ther required issuc could be made. Why the Bar grot It. “Regret is exprossed in banking circles that the obl be issued is notof a kind specit apted for the use of banks: us, had it been the best, the scere- would have been cnabled to make a t exchange of 1ts issue for the gola of , which is the one thing the t s, and with which the banks co This view is a sound one; and yet it would seem that, undev the present and prospective excessively low ates for mon: the banks would find it to their interest to invest temporarily a liberal portion of their immense idle funds in a bond yielding 8 per cent and which, with the recovery of confidence, might eld some ultimate profit on the pri 1. hould the banks not be liberal Subscribers for the bonds, it will probably be for other reasons than because it would not pay them to subscribe. The method of 15su- ing the loan is not likely to prove to be a popular one, though, that is probably the 'y thing Mr. Carlisle intended it to be. It a narrow method of condu so large an operation by a great government, and what Mr, Carlisle may 1 the way of a fractional commission hy I far more than lose through the lower prices likely to be offered in the abseuce of the ordinary methods of ‘sending of? such a transaction, to say nothing of the Ipss of eclat that would attend the much larger oifers that would be brought out through the customary modes of negotiation. Coutirms Confidence in the Treasury. *With these drawbacks, the bond issue is to be welcomed as fraught with great ad- vantages to financial’ interests. 1t settles the misgivings about the possibility of the treasuty embarrassments running’ into a grave disturbanve of. public confidence. It shows to the world that the United States treasury has behind 1t a ready resource of credit which will enable it to procure what- ever amount of gold may be needful for the protection of its oblizgations and the main- tenance of the gold basis. It demonstrates that, in addition to the thirty-five or forty millions of gold that we are now producing annually, we have an ability 30 borrow gold which no other country can boast of. Taken in connection with the repeal of the Sherman act, these assurances amount to a peculiarly strong reinforcement of con- fidence. Ior the stoppage of silver pur- means that the siiver hitnerto di- to domestic currency uses will here- £0 into our exports, with the elfect of correspondingly diminisbing the occasion for exporting gold. Witin an increase of the home production of gold, on the one hand, and of a diminution of its export, on the other, it is clear thas the United States is destined to increase its future ck of this metal, wh may be tho experience of other wuntries. Ouly & Small Matter. “There arve those who entertain some ap- prehension that the markeung of this fifty millions of new seccuri may intorfere with the sale of other invesuments now sceking buy To some extent this muy be the case. But it is to be remembered that the fifty millions of floating capital which is thus tofind a ten years restng place will in turn largely find its way into other hands to seek some other form of employment; and it is aiso to be kepy in mind thut fifty millions is & small matter for this greav country, or -when compired with the cnor- mous amount of idle funds now awaiting employment, which the present unprece- dented amount of bank deposits is but a very partial expression. The improvement in general business that set in with the opening of the yeur is making very gratifying progress. In the leading branches of trade, there are as many buyers here as 1s usual at this season of the year. Lraders are losing their late excessive caution, for the reason that the exhaustion of their stocks compels them to buy, and for the further reason that, as they sce no cause for expecting lower prices, there isno motive for continuing their late policy of postpone- ment. These signs of returning actvity are encouraging manufacturers 1o resume work and today probably 00 per cent of tho tories that were idle three weeks ago are running on full time, These a facts that must soon produce their effects in the Wall street markets. COMMERCIAL dire the banlk ury nee well afford to part. AND FINANCIAL, ar of a Cold Wave Fields Sustaln 1008, CuicAGo, Jan, 20.—Fear of a cold wave, which is 1n close pursuit of the presen’, rain, catching the water soaked fields before Monday helped to sustaiv wheat today in the face of an expected increased visible supply. The price at the close was X¢ higher than it lefy off yesterday. Corn is 3¢ higher and provisions are 1¢idc up for porls, from be to 714¢ up for lard and 5 for ribs. The wheat market partly got its strength from the larger exports frow both coasts than the trade had expected. The exports were over 1,000,000 'bu. more than one week previous. It is’ expected the visible supply will show an intrease on Monday of about 250,000 bu, Trade was slow and nar- row, but local shotts showed some disposi- tlon to cover, May sold early at 645, fell to 643 ¢, went up 1o 04Jgc, off to G4lge and closed at e, In corn there was & moderate speculative trade witnessed, though the warket was in no way active, the price covering but 3o rauge. A fiem feeling prevailed and slight goins were acored on all deliveries. Offeriugs were not very free, even at the advance. wnile the demand fmproved considerably, several of the larger concerus having goodsized buylng orders. 'he better touo was attributed to & great extent to the soft weather and small movement, together with & stronger cash market. The market opened at yesterday’s closing prices and worked up 3c, ruled firm and closed with 3¢c gain. Iu outs the buying by shorts was good and & Wet Wheat ths offorings not very heavy. The feeling was strong, and prices advanced g and closod firm at the highest point, May sold from 20%¢ to 80'ge, The advance was due to light receipts and the firm tono of the corn market. Roceipts of live hogs at the yards were fully one-third less than esti- mated, and as a result the speculative market for provisions opened higherall around. The trading was, however, extromely light, In mess pork the markot [ oW one, the rango for the day being within 7'5c. Just befora the tap of the boll the prices ad- vanced to the opening fAgiires of the day, closing 12150 higher than at tho same time yesterda Istimated roceipts for Monda 118 cars: corn, 280 cars; oats, 116 34,000 head. The leading futures ranged as follows: Wheat, ars; hogs, Low. | Close. | Oven. | High | 0074 0414 it o0 | 643/ 6544 [ G4y i a5 s ittty | ¢ . Cish quotations were as follows: FLour—ncl [ 3 spring, ' No. 2 white, 284@20¢; BARLEY-—No. @A8c; No. 4, 1.0, b, 402 1,81.37, me, #4.10, bbl, $13.07 short ribs s (looso), oulders (hoxed), § (hoxed), #7.00@7.50, 3" finished goods, per go FLAX TIMOT! PORK—Moss, 100 1bs., dry salre ort WHISKY per lard, poer Distill following were the receipts and ship- | wECED | SIPMENTS mds Cattle st ATURDAY, Jan. 20. of both cattle and nogs for the pa week show a considerable increaso, as o pared with the week previous, or the corre- sponding week last year. The figures arc as follows: Close of the Week Trade in Very Bud Ci o8 Oattle. Hows. Sheep, 14,000 ) 5,104 27088 1,638 me weelk last 30,078 5,171 The cattle market was about as dull and unsatisfactory during the entive week as 1t possibly could be. On Mo nd Tues- day thero was no radical decline, but on Wednesday and Thursday prices dropped sharply, aud altbough there was some show of recovery Friday and Satur- day, the aver paid at the close was fully 25c ning of the week. Various :1 by dealers for the present depre Re- ceipts at eastern markets have been liberal enough to prevent'any nec ity of shippers and exporters coming west for sup- plies, and thus the local market has been left in a great measure to 1o slaugh- terers. ‘The consumptive demaud is rather restricted at present, owing to the mild weather and the hard times and not very favorable circumstances for killing ope: tions. Then, too, the quality of tho re ceipts has bean poor, and, taken altogether, it is not much wonder that the trade is in its present condition, Glut ot Poor Cattle. The fresh supply today was the lightest since New Year's, and the offerings were, as usual, largely made up of poor to fair half fat and unfinished stecrs. There were so few of them, however, that following Fri- day’s very light run’ buyers showed more of a disposition to buy them even at slightly better prices. In most cases it was hard to seo any adyunce, bug there were scllers who claimed to have squeezed out, and 10¢ more than Friday. It would hardly be safe to call the market wmore than o shade higher, and this was ontirely due to the licht supply and not to any in- g ttle. The move- is woing couplo welzhing ol for cent 30 to 1,400 1b. was from § while poor to fair stecrs and odds and ends brought from 3 to The fluctuations in butchers' and canners' stock largely in sympathy with Cows suffered the most in th cline and naturally they ure overy. Up to Thursday 1 continuous decline of 60c luy and today probubly 10 ue has bo ined.” Ri the for been market have there had beei but on £ He of this aec cerpts today included s and mixed stoc good demand from all son anged hunds readily b prices streng toa dime iday. Sales included poor to and’ heifers, at from $1.60 to stock selling choice tows £3.00 r to guod butche; very largely ut from $2.2 at from 82 to 8 were fully steady, was no particular change in- the” market for rough stock, from $2 to 83 buying common to very good bulls, oxen and stags. In stockers and feeders the tiade has been rather dull all week. Offerings have not been at all liberal, nor has the demand been urgent from any quarter. There has bec little quotable change in prices, however, and gooa to choice, well bred and well fleshed stock ' still finds a ale at good prices. Common light ttle are not finding much favor and re low. Good to choice fecders are from 83 to $3.90, fair to good at 14 lighter, commoner grades au Nothing New in Hogn. There have been no new developments in the hog market the last week. Keceipts not only fail to show the expected iucrease, but actually fall below lust vear's supply at this tim § 8 S on, that is from Novemb: date, there has been rease in western pork packing 150,000 hogs. ceording to o tions the ontire season will show an in- . but all accounts agree now hat this increase, if any materializes, will be small und not in the slightest degree burden- This fuct is bound to sooner or have a healthy intluence on the and packers are finding 1t more difi- cult than ever to get the market down. Duving the weok prices have been very un- cven, but the close is 10¢ to 16c higher” than last weelk. There was & good lively market today at prices that averaged a shade higher than Frid Supplies were not heavy and with a fair shipping and good local demand the market ruled strong to a nickel to RIME IN HIGH PLACES! 1t is not strange that some psople do wrong through ignorance, others from a failure to investigate us to the rightor wrong of a matter, But it is strange, that individuals and firms, who are fully aware of the rights of others, will per- sist in perpetrating frauds upon them. High-toned, wealthy manufreturing firms will offer and sell to rotail mer- chants, articles which thoy know to bo infringements on the rights of proprie- tors, and imitations of well known goods, We want tosound a note of warning to the retailers to beware of such imita- tions aud simulations of “CARTER’S LIT- TLE LIVER PILLS.” When they ave of- fered Lo you, refuse them; you do not want to do wrong, and you don’t want to lay yourself liable to a lawsuit. Ben Franklin said **Honesty is the best poli- ey’ it is just as true that *‘Hongsty i3 thebest principle.” The ox- under on all grades. from .15 for rough packers, up t butchers, but ' for of all welghts it was practically a 85,25 market, fully two-tnirds of the offerings changing hands at that fig- ure, Karly trading was active, but the close was weak and lowor, with a few londs still unsold, On Friday the bulk of the hogs sold at £.20 and #.25, and_on last Sat ;n:n;‘ly trading was mostly at from $5.10 to Suee Was 1o highor thay I'ri treme range w weight stufl $5.85 for choice w0 good hogs But one load was received. There articular change in the situation Local houses have got a good many sheep this week, and woere con sequently in no very urgent need of supplies. Trade slow, but the market quotably steady. Good natives, $2.75(@3.50; fair to good westerns, &2 common and stock sheep, $1.50 to choice 40 to 100-1b. lamos, & Recoipts and Disposy OMelul re ant disp on 0! Stook, tlon of stosk s nion StH:k Y s onding av RECEINTS, woas. | Head | Cars ® | SHERr. i Head Cary Head | Cara, 71481 1 DISPOSITION. WUV ERS, TCATTIY Omaha Packing com: The G, H, Hanimond ¢ Swift& Co The Cudahy Nelson Morr R. Dok Clove hipy v & Dogon 1 Live Stock Marker, Ouly —about not o nu i n teady at the decling 191,761 1 hedd Tas A I8L750 T pened dull and wa snd, althouzh th 5 yesterday "harsdoy. sould by sold Juoted around s steady at from § 10 head; a 1 reports hoad; shipments, number on sale to wles of note: prices ur ¥26.00: others sellin hogs, 14,000 $3.00723.7 Hoas—Recoipts, 14,000 head 5,000 he market slow, be 1 #3.905.00; packers and mixed, e he y and_butehers' we ): pri i\, POAND LANDS— [ market stoady; top sk lambs, #4.506, City Live stoc KANSAS Crry. Jan, 1,600 head; shipments, slow and about, ste Steers, Vit 3. 403 butehier sto reand fecd 5,800 ket opened and closed 5@lue lower; Shipments, rough, hits, 35.350@ olpts, op, & 00 head; bulk, vy, peking and mixed, 85,055,985 light Yorkers and plgs, $4.505.30, Receipts, none: shipments, 500 heady nominally wonk WitkAT -Quiot; de- mand poor ra offor mioderately; No. 1, Californin, by 3140a0s 41545 No winter, bs 20@bs 3d. fony-—Stoady; demand orn, 43 8%, ‘Canadign, 4 114 PROVISIONS - Pork, prime Reef, extra Iodin, 1005 Ry v, 50 Iba, 8Hs 65 long ¢l rd, 415 6, moderate; mixed moss, fine, 768, long and short AT, 4D 1bs., 48, rican-Liverpool fine, 285, s Live Stonk Market, 20, ~Recolpts, 1,000 3,40 B 100 hoad; shipr 3,100 hen p price, § bulk of sul SHEED o, ket doad eipte, none: shipments, nonej Ll no tradin Sionx ¢ x Ciry, ty Liva stock Markot. Tan. 20, Hoas Ints, 900 yosterdiy, 1,505 hoad; ships ad: market 10¢ higher at $5.00@ offiet 820 , 100 head; tordny, 800 hoad} shipments, market dull and lowor yos- hoad; Stock in Sight Recolpts of live stoek nt the four principal aturday, X Cattlo, 1,426 5,000 1,600 Shoon. 239 2,000 1t Curea Colds, Coughs, Sore Throat, Croup, Inflae ag Cough, itis and Asthma, A certain ourc for Consumation in first stages, and a surc relicf in advanced stages. Use at once., You will ace the exccllont effoct after taking the frat & Large bottles 60 centn and SOUTTI{ OMAHA. Union Stozk Yards Company, South ©Omahas Best Cattlo Ho and Shoop market ia the wen. P e COMMIB317¢ AOUSES. Wood Brothars. Live Stock Commisiion Merohants. 801th Omaha—Telepoas 15 — Chlosty JORN D. DADISMAN, | WALTER . WoOb, | Msasgers Markot roports by mall and wire cheerful arnished upon ation. Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher’s prescription for Infants and Children. 1t contains neither Opium, Morphine nor It is a Larmless substitute for Parcgoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil. other Narcotic substance. It is Pleasant. Its gllfll‘fll\ltcc is thirty ycars’ use by Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays feverishness, cures Diarrhcea and Wind Colie. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd, Castoria relicves teething troubles, cures constipation and {latuleney. Castorin assimilates the food, regulates the stomach and bowcls, giving healthy and natural sleep. Case toria is tho Children’s Panacca—the Mother’s ¥riend. Castoria “ Castoria Is an excellent ine for chil- dren, Mothers have repeatedly told mo of its good effect upon their children.™ Da. G. €. Osaoon, Lowell, Mass. " Clastoria i3 tho hest remedy for children of which I am acquainted. 1hope the far distant when mothers wi Interest of their children, and use C stead of the variousquack nostrums which aro destroying their loved oncs, by foreing opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful agents down their throats, thereby sending thiem to premature graves. Dr. J. . KixcngLog, Conwagy, Ark. Castoria. * Castoria is sowell adapted to children thas 1 recommend it as superior touny prescription kuown to me," 0. A, Ancner, M, D,, 111 8o, Oxford §t., Brooklyn, N, Y. *Our physicing in the children’s depart- ment have spoken Lighly of their expori- ence in their outsido practice with Castoria, and although we only have among our medical supplies what is known as regular products, yet wo are freo to coufess teas the merits of Castoria has wor “a ta look with favor upon it." UNITED Hospimak 2= DIspeNsARY, Toston, Masa. ArLEx C. 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