Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 2, 1895, Page 6

WELCOMED THE NEW-YEAR Bidding Farewell to the Year that Has Passed Away. HOW THE DAY WAS OBSERVED IN THE CiTY In One Round of Pleasure the People of the Metropolis Joined Hands to Make the Advent of the New Yenr & Day to Be Rememberod. the man-about-town which Just before midnight had completed the bibulous circles he had traversed since early morning. unsteady steps he reached his hotel and caught the last elevator upstairs. As he fndustriously laborsd to find a receptacle for his night key snatches of "Sweet Marie” floated through the corridor and proclaimed to the other lodgers that the spirit of their nelghbor was still unsubducd. 1n five min utes more his disordered atiire was scaitered in wildest confusion on trunks, carpet dresser, while the votary of Bacchana shrines was stretehed fn that ber in which indignant nature tion from the excesses of the day. In the quarter of an hour that followed le lived a lifetime of revelry and song. In his ex cited dreams he was in a city where gut- ters flowed with sparkling wine and golden goblets were suspended from every lamp post. Musie, soft as the meloly from a fairy's harp, floated in harmonious measures from a hundred balconfes and half drawn shades disclosed glimpses of such lovliness as temoted Paris to forget that he was Menelaus’ guest. ‘There was a tumult in the street below. The slumberer stirred, and n a moment the scene had changed. He was in a gorgeous banquet hall, where volces were raised in his honor, His feet pressed the softest Ax- minster, and as the applause trembled on his ear he was touching gla: s with Chauncey M. Depew. Then a wild, shrill whistle plerced the air. The slumber awoke., It was followed by another and then another, until a thousand calliopes seemed to be screaming In his ears. He started from the bed, while appalling visions of midnight flames and awful danger succeeded the silvery vaporings of his dream The incubus of his potations still weighted his brain as he snatched wildly at his cloth- ing. As he secured a shoe, two shots rang out from the alley. He reached for the other as a dozen more shots pierced the din and they were answered until visions of mur- ders galore danced before his excited fancy. A babel of shouts mingled with the fan faronade as he grasped some of his valuables and dashed frantically down the corridor Tho elevator had stopped, but he almost fell down the winding stairway until he reached the hotel office. “Happy New Year,” smiled the affable night clerk. He glanced at the big clock over the desk. It registered 12:05. ‘“The h—l it is" sald the rounder. He threw a dollar on the counter for the boys and wearily climbed five flights of stairs to the couch he had so abruptly quitted. And his golden visions came again no mo and an sfound slum- eke rel The reception at the Young Men's Christian association, from 4 until 10 o'clock p. m., was pre-eminent in point of public interest. Tables were spread in the large rooms on the second floor. An inviting array of refresh- ments, served by handsome women, greeted each visitor. A reception committee, con- sisting of members of the association, ushered the callers and extended a cordial welcome. Over 2,000 persons availed them- selves of the hospitality. A small Christ- mas tree stood near each table. Each guest ‘was asked to leave his or her card upon one of the boughs of the small evergreens. It was a unique idea, and the effect was pleas- Ing. ‘The rooms were profusely decorated with smilax, flags and bunting. The names of the members of the committees, who dis- charged their various duties to the evident satisfaction of all, were published in The Bee yesterday. An orchestra of twenty-five pieces, under the leadership of Franz Adelmann, was sta- tioned in the reception room, and discoursed a number of musical favorites, © A game of basket ball was played by the Junfor teams in the gymnasium at 4:30 o'clock. An athletic exhibition followed at 8 o'clock in the same place, At 9 o'clock picked teams, under the respective captaincy of Mr. Engler and Mr. Toy, also gave a dis- play of their proficiency in basket ball. The game of basket ball was won by Cap- tain Toy's team, by a score of 6 to 0. At 8:45 o'clock Rev. 8. Wright Butler pre. sided at an entertainment in the auditorium. Recent Improvements have greatly benefited the acoustic faculties of the hali. Dr. Butler with characteristic wit and eloquence ex- tended a New Year's welcome to all. The program of the evening was one that met with® enthusiastic approval, and con- sisted of a plano solo by Mrs. Edith Wag- goner, selections by the T. K. quartet and Turner Zither club, club swinging by the gymnasium Sandows, with piano accompa- niment; a clarinet solo by Franz Adelmann; class drill, led by O. E. Engler; Alols Swo boda in muscular tests, and a recitation by Mr. Elliot. In addition to the ladies who were named as recelving there were the following: Mes. dames Will Rhoades, C. W. Cox, H. F. Rob- erson; Misses Bedford, Van Sieven, Cham- bers, Reese, Graves, , Frances ‘Wileox, Elizabeth Allan, Louise Harris, With the Woman's Clubs, From 3 to 6 o'clock the Women's club ive the usual New Year's reception in fts club rooms, Relat'ves and friends of the members were invited and during the hours of the reception the rooms were comfortably filled by guests. The occaslon was of the usual democratic character that marks the affairs of the club and was thoroughly en- joyable. The members laughed and chatted in a manner entirely out of keeping with the character of the coming woman as she is usually plctured and toward whose develop- ment the club 1s working, Refreshments, consisting of cake and lece cream, were served, The young women of the Young Women's Christian association gave a New Year's re- ception to their friends from 4 to 6 o'clock and in the evesing from 8 to 10 o'clock in the'r cosy club rooms in The Bee building. A large number of guests came in to enjoy & few minutes' social diversion. They were recelved by the members of the board of managers of the assoclation, who showed them the comfortable quarters of the asso- clation. No regular form of entertainment was glven, but throughout the reception the members amused the guests with musical select'ons. Dainty refreshments In the shape of cake and ice cream were among the ac- ceptable portions of the affair, At Hotels and Clubs, At the hotels, elaborate menu cards were prepared and an extra spread of epicurean delicacles were placed before the patrons. There was a large number of strangers in the city at the varlous hostelries, At the Omaha club, many members dropped ~In to enjoy the palatial new quarters at Twentieth and Douglas streets. The Commercial club was practically de- serted, but a few of the old guard occu- pled chairs In the reception room and availed themselves of the standard literature within reach. A few of the faithful had an informal thering under the massive antlers at the Iks' lodge room Caught Around Towa, At the depot, there was comparatively lit- tle through travel, but the local business en- Joyéd a boom. Most of theé trains were on time. Several railroad employes of the yard who were caught in the retrenchment wave loitered about with just a trifle of sarcasm on their faces when people wished them a New Year. i A .m street car employes celebrated the day by for revenue, and - consoled them- selves with the old superstition that a man with a job on New Year's day would have - the year round. soners In the city and county jails ven a holiday and served with moro ‘meals, with a few extras, but they 3 use themselves in the best man- mum St. Joseph's, Preabyterian, With | Childs and the County, everything was made as cheerful as possible and the hollday was observed in a quiet manner. Pt A fifty-two week feast is provided by Har- per's Young People for $2.00 a year. ROMANCE OF A ROMANOCER, The Courtship and Marriage of Robert Louis Stevenson. A San Francisco writer gives a very Inter- sting sketch of the late Robert Louls Ste- venson, devoting considerable space to the romance of his marriage. He says: “Steven- son first came here to get married. His bride he had met in France, when she was the wife of a Californfan, When Stevenson was making that trip that bore fruit in his delightful book, “An Inland Voyage,” he met in Parls Mrs. Samuel Osborne of San Francisco. She came of Dutch parentage, her maiden name being Van de Grifit, but she had married young Sam Osborne, who was private secretary to Senator Stanford, and somewhat of a protege of the railroad millionaire. She was a brilllant brunette, with the vivid coloring and many of the tastes of a gypsy. Her husband had gone with her on a4 vacation, but he had been recalled on business, and then she was stay- Ing with some friends at the Frencn cap- ital, She and Stevenson fell in love at first sight. Thelr literary and personal tastes ran in (he same channels, and the au- thor spent much time in her company. He professed to draw inspiration from her so- clety, and when she left for home it was understood that she was to get a divorce from her husband by means of the easy processes of the California courts, and when this was accomplished that Stevenson would come out to the Golden state and make her his wife. Everything was carried out according to this program. When Sam Os- borne was told of the desire of his wife, he made no objection, but, like a model Ameri- can husband, gave his wife all the aid in his power. The result was that she secured her freedom. The tidings were sent to the distant lover, and he prepared to come out Into the west after his inammorata. Orig- inal in everything, he determined to take, the trip in a novel fashion, so he engaged pas- sage In the steerage of ome of the great ocean lines, with the design of writing up his experience. He secured plenty of ma- terial, for the voyage was rough, and he had a sorry time among the emigrants, who were herded together like sheep. This ex- perience, however, didn’t cure him, and he took passage in an emigrant car, and crossed the plains in that fashion. This was worse than the steerage trip, as the people were packed closer, and the Journey, owing to the many delays and slow time, consumed two_weeks “When Stevenson reached he was a sorry object. He had a hacking cough, spat blood, and had contracted a troublesome skin disease from herding with unclean emigrants. Foul alr and poor food had reduced his strength, and he was a semi-invalid. He was received, however, with open arms. As soon as he was cleaned up, however, and a trifie recovered from the fatigue of a long journey, the wedding was held. The remarkable feature of it was that Sam Osborne was present, and gave away the bride, his ex-wife, with a heartiness that would have done credit to the most dis- interested persons, while he capped the cli- max of his performances by introducing to the bride and groom a handsome and stylishly dressed young woman as his affi- anced wife. It takes Bohemianism to rise superior to such an American specimen of elective affinities as this, but the actors in this strange scene were equal to it. The marriage feast was very gay, and soon after it was over Stevenson went with his bride to a deserted mining camp on Howell moun- tain, in Napa county, to recuperate his health. There he wrote the book which he called *'The Silverado Squatters,” which is one of his best things, although justice has never been done it by the reviewers because of their unfamiliarity with the scenes it de- scribes. Stevenson lived for several months at the deserted mining camp of Silverado, breathing in health with the balsam of the dine and the redwood. He was than finan- slally reduced and he had no reputation in this country. His book on his California ex- periences went a-begging, and finally the Century editors published it in several in- stallments.” Y e STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. San Francisco T'xperience of a Montana Man Before and After Taking. His name is Charles B. Hoffman and he lives at Butte, Mont. He was standing at the mouth of a mine when the lightning struck the straw hat he was wearing, and it tore a hole in the hat and cut part of the rim, Then it tore his clothing into shreds and left him naked. Both his overalls and the shirt he was wearing presented the appear- ance of having passed through a sausage mill. Hoffman sent his picture to the New York World, showing his condition after the accldent. “I would like,” he writes, “for some one to explain to me why I was not killed in- stantly.” He has been asking this question ever since the accident happened, but thus far he has not received a satisfactory answer. Nobody can tell him why he was not killed by the lightning, The bolt, he says, after passing through his hat, struck him on the shoulder and ran the full length of his body, burning the skin to a crisp on the sides and legs. It also cut his left foot on the side and bot- tom, breaking the bones of ‘the foot. “‘My clothes were torn to pieces and thrown from my body," says Mr. Hoffman, “and my shoes were torn from both feet. He became unconscious as soon as he was struck by the lightning, and did not revive for an hour and a half. When he regained his senses Hoffman was in great pain, and he was confined to the hospital for nine weeks, ‘When Hoffman's clothing was examined after the accident, it was seen that in many places the lightning had cut the cloth as neatly as if it had been done with a razor. Some of the cuts were long and straight. The lightning took his clothes off quicker than he could have undressed himself, and it threw them in a pile on one side of the track, with his shoes carefully deposited be- side the pile. The clothes even seemed to have been neatly folded until they were ex- amined and found to be a pile of rags. Hoffman's ‘“‘pants” had been yanked off him without the formality of pulling them over his feet. This seemingly impossible task was accomplished by the lightning first cutting each leg open, ahd then it ap- peared to have taken them by the seat and dropped them on the coat, to finish the job by depositing Mr. Hoffman's straw hat on top of all. After It got through with Hoffman this remarkable streak of lightning ran along a metal track into the Glengary mine, at the mouth of which he had been working, ran to the end of the shaft, which is 400 feet below the surface of the ground, and then it ran along a ‘‘cross cut” 200 feet, where it branched off and for sixty feet followed a “winze." There was several men at work at this point, and all were more or less stunned. The bolt of lightning went into the earth when it reached the end of the ‘“‘winze." Hoffman 1s now known in Butte the hu- man lightning rod. Drendtul ment, Harper's Bazar: ‘Do you remember,"” sald Mr. Cawker to his wife, “‘that when the lovely Miss Beeson jilted young Mr. Spudds, five years ago, to marry Mr. Dillingham, the rejected one swore a mighty oath to be re- venged on his successful rival?” “Yes, replied Mrs. Cawker, “I remember it well, but such threats never amount to anything. “In this case they did. Spudds has filled :lll the anclent grudge he bears Diliing- m." “‘He hasn't killed him, has he?" “Oh no. His torture is more lingering than that, my dear.” 'What has he done?” “Dillingham told me of it himself, and I must say that the scheme does Spudds credit in its ingenlous oruelty. “‘But tell me what it 1s." ““Well, after the wedding Spudds went and allled himself with a fashionable store in the city, and ever since then he has occu- pled his time In preparing the most per- fectly irresistible descriptions of openings of all sorts, and sending special invitations to Mrs. Dillingham to attend them. The r fellow tells me that he has two mortg on his house now, and expects t@ go into Ir- retrievable bankruptcy immediately after the next opening at Spudd's stere.” THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 18986 NDUSTRIAL C0-OPERATION Remarkable Growth and Success of the Movement in England, BEGINNINGS, SMALL VAST RESULTS The Jublles of & Society Which Started with 8140 and Now Has a Capital of $00,000,000—Seventeen Hundred Socleties in the Country, The working people of Rochdale, Lancas- shire, England, have just celebrated the jubilee of the co-operative movement, It was done In a very quiet and sensible way. The principal feature was a donation of $5,000 to the Rochdale Infirmary. This sum was voted to the hospital by the Equitable Ploneer soclety, the co-operative organization which was started In December, 1844, and the ex- ample and influence of which have, accord- ing to the New York Sun, wholly transformed retail trade in hundreds of towns in industrial England. The Ploneer soclety was established by some weavers, whose Jjoint capital amounted to $140. There are now in England mora than 1,700 co-operative societies, with 1,300,000 members. Their aggregate capital amounts to $90,000,000, the annual turnover to about $250,000,000, and the profits to nearly $22,500,000 a year, The movement began In a very small way. The twenty-eight weavers who started it half a century ago had no idea that they were going to bring about a revolution in any de- partment of English trade, or be the ploneers ina far reaching soclal movement. They were merely dissatisfied with the groceries they obtained at the ordinary stores and the prices they were compelled to pay for them, and they determined to supply themselves on a co-operative plan. Some of them were in debt, and with all of them a great effort was needed to save the little ready money which was necessary to start the new store. When each of them had contributed $5 to the undertaking a start was made. One of the weavers went to Manchester and bought at wholesale rates barrels of flour, sugar, but- ter and oatmeal. Each of the twenty eight subscribers bought his weekly supplies from the little store. He paid cash at the price current in the neighborhood, with the result that when a clearance had been made and a balance struck a good profit was shown on the turnover. The experiment was repeated, and with equal success, and before the co- operative idea had been tried many weeks it was found necessary to hire a room and glve the store an established and permanent character. A room was taken for which w rent of $50 was paid. J BECAME A PERMANENT BUSINESS. Up to this time the co-operators had met when the supplies from Manchester arrived and taken their shares away with them. Wken the permanent store was opened an- otter plan was adopted. The store was open In the evenings only, and after the weavers had finished work ‘at the factories they took turns in acting as salesmen. This plan was continued until business had de- veloped to such an extent that it required the care of a permanent manager and two or three assistants. It was not long before this stage was reached. At the end of the second year the membership had increasel from twenty-eight to seventy-four; the capital stood at $900 and there was a profit for the year of $160. This was in 1845. In 1846 $360 was divided; in 1847, $400; and since then the Rochdale society has gone on in- creasing in membership, capital and turnover urtil in 1894 it is in a position to vote $5,000 to a hospital to celebrate its jubilee. From 1844 onward numerous towns and villages in the north of England followed the example of the people of Rochdale and established co- operative stores, and as they succeeded In their enterpriscs they went into new lines, At first business was confined to groceries. Butchers' shops were next added, and later on the socleties branched out into dry goods, shoes, talloring and furniture, until now it is possible to buy all the ordinary requisites of life at the stores of the existing socleties. Until early in the '60s the managers of each co-operative store bought goods at wholesale in what they regarded as the best market and there was no natfonal organiza- tion in which the societies were affiliated. In 1864 the principle of co-operation was ap- plied to wholesale buying. The Co-operative Wkolesale society was established and since then most of the societies have done thelr buying through this concern, which has its Leadquarters in Manchester and depots in all the large towns. This soclety was fully organized in 1865. In that year its turnover amounted to $603,750; for 1893 the sales amcunted to more than $47,600,000, and now more than 1,000 societies, with 825,000 mem- bers, have subscribed to its capital. In 1844 the ‘Rochdale weavers were able to carry the purchases for their store in a wheel- barrow. Last year the Co-operative Whole- sale society had a fleet of seven ocean-going steamers of 1ts own, exclusively used in bringing home its purchases from abroad. The society's agents are established in every ccuntry which has products to sell; and in the case of dried fruits and similar goods it often buys up the produce of an island or of an entire fruit-growing district. Among British buyers it does the largest trade of all in the produce of the world. EVERYTHING SOLD FOR CASH. Although the co-operative soceties have become s0 numerous and the volume of their trade is now so large, there has been practi- cally no change in the simple de- tails of organization and constitution adopted by the Rochdale pioneers fifty years ago. Now, as in 1844, to become a member of a co-operative soclety it is only necessary to subscribe §6 to the soclety's share capital. The sum so invested gives the shareholder a volce in the management of the soclety, and entitles him to a dividend based on the amount of his purchases at the store. The management is in the hands of a com- mittee elected annually by the members, and to this committee is entrusted all responsi- bility. It appoints the paid manager and the salesmen, elects delegates to the wholesale soclety’s meectings, and generally acts for a co-operative society, as a board of directors does for a joint stock association. It s open to anyone to make purchases at the stores. Prices are tne same to mem- bers and non-members, and there is abso- lutely no_credit. Trade at the co-operative stores differs from trade in ordinary stores In this, that for every penny spent at the co-operative stores checks are given to pur- chasers. At the end of a quarter a dividend 18 declared at so much in the pound on the purchases. — Members then hand in their checks, and either draw the dividend or allow it to acerue to their credit, In the latter case interest 1s paid on the money, usually at the rate of & per cent, with a limit, "however, on the sum which can be placed to the credit of any one member, Thus, If the dividend is at the rate of half a crown on the pound, a family whose trading for the quarter amounted to £12 will have 30 shillings standing to its credit. Non- members receive a dividend on their pur- chases, but not at the same rate as mem- bers. Usually there is a difference of about 25 per cent in the dividends payable to mem- bers and nonmembers. In connection with most of the co-operative societles reading rooms are maintained which are free to members. There are also halls for soclal and educational purposes; in the smaller towns frequently these are the only halls so available. In many of the large towns the societies spend liberal sums on education. They organize free lecture and often pay the fees of their members or the children of thelr members who care to attend ‘the evening schools and technical classes. Although no credit is allowed at the stores, in times of exceptional distress the socleties often make liberal grants to funds. Many of the more lmportant socleties have large and carefully selected libraries, and led the way in establishing lending libraries for the working classes long before the mu- nicipal councils embarked on this work, WORKING PEOPLE ITS SUPPORTERS. Members of the co-operative societies are almost exclusively of the working classes and comprise the pick of the industrial popula- tion of England. The movement originated and has been worked entirely by men of this class. In some places the stores almost mo- nopolize the trade of the working class popu- latlon. Only those who want credit deal elsewhere. In towns where this Is the case the ordinary tradesman seldom gets a work- Ing class cash customer. He has to rely on people of greater social pretensions. Amerl- cans in provinclal Ky J‘uml often remark on the comparatively (dmdll amount of adver- tising done by —tradesmen. There s little of the spirited advertising which characterizes tradesmien in American cities. One reason ,for this s that no amount of adveNfRjng would ever draw the working class fash trade to ordinary tradesmen doing business in a town where a co-operative soclély ‘has a strong hold. Every penny a woffing class customer has to spend goes, if possible, to the co-operative store, to be represemted ‘in the pile of checks which he is accumulating for dividend day. Members will often, walk a mile and pass a dozen good shops in order to make a 6-penny purchase at the society’s store. As has been stated, the invariable rule is money down on the counter for every purchase, and the rule is almost as“gembral that purchasers shall carry the goods home, no matter what their weight or bulk! A map of England showing of the 1,700 co-operative stores would pre- sent some curlous features. 1t would show that most of them are in the north and mid- lands. Here and there outside those sections there are isolated socleties; but these have usually been started by people from the north who have settled in fairly large numbers in these places. In all the railway centers, such as Crewe, Gloucester, Swindon, Peterborough and_Doncaster, these societies exist, owing to the fact that in the first thirty years of the railway era the mechanics in the locomo- tive, car and_wagon shops at these places were recruited largely from the north of England and brought the co-operative idea with them to their new settlements. The one place where the co-operative move- ment has never thrived among workingmen is London. If a map of the Kind suggested were made the area comprised in the metropo- lis would be comparatively a blank, almost as much a blank as the purely agricultural counties of England. London working people are not too poor, but there is no neighbor- liness among them. In working class Lon- don the movement has been tried in only two or three districts, and there the measure of success has been small oadiiche e Industrial Notes. Baltimore sends cetton duck to Japan. London is now trying an apparatus which, it is claimed, will abale the sewer gas nu- sance by utilizing the gas. Reports compiled by the Manufacturers Record show that the southern states this year produced more than one-third of the total corn crop of the United States. A new project for the sanitation of the sewers of the City of Mexico, at a cost of about $25,000, calls for the building of some twenty-five wind mills in different parts of the city to rotate paddle wheels in the sew- ers and quicken the current to one meter per second. The Paper World says that a large new sulphite wood pulp manufactory has just been completed at Forshaga, Sweden. The Flod- goist system has been adopted, the boiling taking place in rotary boilers, the largest ot this construction which have hitherto been in use. The factory is being worked by six turbines, with an aggregate of 400 horse- power. Each turbine works a separate de- partment. In Norway electrical treatment is being adopted in bleaching pulp. The pulp being placed in chloride solution, the electric current is turned on. From twenty to forty minutes suffices for the operation. The process is patented. An extraordinary horseless carriage, which is ot electric, but propelled by steam, is an innovation in_ France. It is built ot tubes, which are incased in a light frame- work, and therefore, mot seen. These tubes form' the tank to supply the water direct to the cylinders, for there is no boiler. The water is conducted into two little tubes with closed ends, over oil-lighted wicks no larger than those of a duplex lamp. These supply steam for the cylinders, sufficient to propel a carriage for four persons at the rate of fiftcen miles an hour over level ground, and three or four miles an héur up ordinary road grades. The wheels ard fitted with bicycle spokes, and have solid rubber tires. A coach- man sits in front before a pair of upright handles not unlike thosb of a bicycle, with which he steers. The first cost of these carriages 15 about $1,000, but the kerosene wick is a cheap horse, and costs nothing to keep and little to make go. AR e No one who has laken Harper's Magazine gives it up willingly, Price, $4.00 a year. e =L L FACTS ABOUT COUNTIES. Imaginary Lines and Not Natural Bound- arlos Used to Mark Them. Few even of the New England states have made use of natural features for county boundaries. British kings set the fashion'in the new world of marking political divisions by imaginary lines, and the fashion, says the New York Sun, has been followed faithfully in states old and new. Its final development is found in the western states and territorles, where nature's boundaries, mountain ranges and rivers are neglected for the sake of parallels and meridians. Maline, whose coun- tles are as irregular in shape as any in the world, has not made use of natural land- marks to any considerable extent. Vermont and New Hampshire have here and there used mountain ranges and streams for county boundaries. Massachusetts and Connecticut have disregarded natural boundaries in great degree. Even the great Connecticut river flows across counties, and s a boundary line only between parts of Middlesex and New London counties ,in Connecticut. Rhode Island’s chief county boundaries are imag- inary lines. Massachusetts has two island counties, Dukes and Nantucket. Island counties oceur also in' New York and Washing- ton, but not elsewhere, though the larger part of Door county, Wis- consin, s an lisland in Lake Michigan, Washington's island county bears the name of Island and Is surrounded by the waters of Puget sound. Maine's counties average nearly 500 square miles each in area, and there are several each of which is larger than the state of Rhodo Island. New York has few, natural county bound- aries, save in the lake regions and along the Hudson. New Jersey has artificial boundaries for many counties, but Pennsylvania has used mountains and rivers in many instances. Delaware has used small streams to bound her counties and’ even her townships, or hundreds, as they are called. Maryland, Virginia ‘and West Virginia, having plenty of streams and mountain ranges, use such natural features for county boundaries. Vir- ginla’s counties are unusually small in both area and population. Natural boundaries are usual in the Carolinas, Georgia and Ala- bama, but Mississippi has many imaginary county lines, and her counties are notched in a way to suggest that they were made with a view to the production of one of those wooden puzzle maps that are held together by the notches. Loulsiana, Arkansas, Ten- nessee and Kentucky have the character- istic rectangular county forms with many imaginary boundary lines, though creeks and rivers are used to some extent in Kentucky and Tennessee. Florida has boundary lines of each sort, and so has Texas, save in the northwest, where natural boundarles are al- most entirely disregarded. Buchel county, Texas, is a right-angled triangle, and per- haps the only one in the United States, The states of the middle west have com- paratively few natural county boundaries, and those immediately beyond the Missis- sippl almost disregard, landmarks in the choice of county lines, the counties being piled mathematically” tiek on tier. Even the great river Platie, flows across Nebraska much of its way through counties. The Rocky mountain states, unable to dis- regard the stern necessities of great rivers and almost impassable mountain ranges, have accepted these natural. features as county lines, though the Missouri flows through one of the North Dakota- counties. Oregon and hington have aécepted mountain ranges and great rivers for county lines, and so has California, though i many cases imaginary boundarles are used, 3 A single county of Montana is about as large as all the New England states together save Maine, Cherry county, Nebraska, is nearly as large as New Jersey, and one county in Arizona is nearly as large as Vers mont and New Hampshire. One county in Wyoming exceeds by 200 square miles the area of Vermont, and any one of twenty far western counties s almost double the area of Delaware, The Obtu the location Dutlander. Indianapolis Journal ‘You Americans,” sald the superior foreign gentleman, “‘will never know the full value of existence till you learn to appreciate the blessings of rest.” ‘We do already,” replied the native. If you don't believe it just watch the scramble that oceurs for the place when & vacancy ceeurs on OMAHA LIVE STOCK MARKETS Cattle Receipts Extremely Light and Holi- (ay Business Soon Over, TRADING BRISK AT UNEVEN PRICES Dealers Made a Rush at the Slack Offorings and Cleaned the Pens Early—Hogs Exactly Opposite Cattle In Al Essentinls, TURSDAY, Jan. 1 The réceipts today were 700 cattle hogs, 40 sheep and 28 horses, as ag cattle, 2880 hogs and 106 With only 19 fresh Ic yards there was not room for the making of much of a market. As under such circumstances the trading was rushed through n a hurry and prices were unevenly higher. While some sellers thought they recelved from 10c to 15¢ more than yester day there were others who did not regard their sales as any better than yesterday high as §$1.65 was paid for some 1,237-1b, steers, but the bulk of the dressed beef steers went at from $3.65 (o $1.17 The five or six loads of cows and mixed stock offered were picked up in short order in the morning, and the trade was all over long before midday. Prices on desirable stock were strong to 10c higher. The bulk of the cows in the yards sold at from $2 to 260, while a small bunch of §i2-1b. heifers brought $3 The offerings of stockers and feeders were light, and there was hardly enough doing to make a test of the market. Good to cholce feeders are quoted at from $2.70 to $3.25, with fair to good at from $2.35 to $270. " Representative sales DRESSED BEET. sheep yester s of cattle in Pr. £ 50 350 Av. No. Av. 2 114§ 2.... 780 3 6 2., 8 SHIIPING AND 34 cow 2 L0 1087 1060 110 (1032 DERS, . 800 4. 18 [ 1 The receipts of hogs than anticipated, and unfavorabl 15 vere enabled to bear average quality of although ~there W ¥ market closed weak and dull at the The top was $4.45, us o Representative sale . Sh. Pr. No. 120 $4 00 [ wore with th from oth the m; th larger rather noints ket about offerings nothing v 835 RBEEEESEE bunch of common natives The market was nominally steady. Falr to choice natives are quoted at $2.25G3.00, fair to good westerns at §2.0003.00, common ‘and_stock sheep at $1.002.00, good to cholce 40 to 100-1b. lambs at $2.5063.85. Kansas Cluy Live Stock Market. KANSAS CITY, Jan. 1.—CATTLE-Recelpts, 2,100 head; shipments, 500 head. Market strong (o e higher] Texas steers, $200@3.75; Texns cows, 2.0002.75; beef steers, '$3.25@5.20;" native cow $L40@3.50) stockers and feeders, 3$2.50@3.55; bulls and mixed, $1.5502. HOGS--Receipts, shipments, 1,000 head. Market 5@10c¢ higher; bulk of sales, $4.15 4.50; ers, $1.0574.50; 1ight, @4.35; heavy, $4.15@4. $4.00614.30; Yorkers, 16; DRy, $3.0063.60. SHI: Recelpts, 1,00 head; shipments, none. Market steady and unchanged. SHEEI were received, OMAHA GENERAL MARKET. Condition of Trade and Quotations on Staple Fancy Produce. BUTTER—Culled stock, 8c; common to fair, 5@l0c; falr to gosd country, 10@12c; cho'ce to fancy, M@l6c; gathered creamery, J9@20c; sepu- rator creamery, 20@2lc. EGGS-Strictly fresh laid, 18@1%c., LIVE POULTRY—OId hens, 6c; spring chick- ens, 6c; ducks, 6@7c; turkeys, T@Sc; heavy toms, 6@ic; geese, Ge. DRESSED _POULTRY—Chickens, choice Targe, Ti@sc; cholce small, T07%c; urkeys, r to good, §G9¢: choice heavy, 10G11c small, 1@I12c; ducks, falr (0 good, 6@Tci fancy, 9G10¢; geese, fuir to good, 6@ic; fancy, 9G10c, GAME—Prairie chickens, ' pe g doz., $3.00; blue’ win 31.5001.7; green wing teal, p ducks, mixed, per doz., $1.0)@1.25; c $0.006G5.00; mallards wiid ved heads, quail, $1.50; deor saddies, 12@1%c; ant 10¢; small rabl fair, 1674 bl 0'to 110 bs. are and’ coarse, S@dc, full crean, Young A, 18c; twins, aska and Towa, full o 1le} Nebraska and lowa, part skims, 768c burger, No. 1, lc; brick, No. 1, 11¢; Swiss No. 1, 1oe. HAY—Upland hay, $9; midland, $8.50 $8; rye straw, $0. Color makes the pi Light shades sell the best. Only bring top prices. PIGEONS--OId birds, per doz. VEGETABLI: —Western stock, car lots, 6(B63c; w7 auoted lov land, on ha wp gradis Heas.00. Hand-picked, navy, $1.9032.00; CABHAG CELERY v catime, $3.006 BERTS- I CARROT CAULIFLOW. HORSERADISI PARSNIPS e RUTABAGAS—P PARSL Per dc TURNIPS—Per bbl, SPLIT PEAS-Per GREEN PEAS RADISHES er doz LETTU Ver doz., SPINACH bl $1.60@1.75 FRUITS, QUINC] “alifornia, per 50-1b, None. TMS—Califorzia, none, UNES—None, BARS —~Winter Ny 2, Vic per T4)c Home grown, §2.75; Mus- 5G3.00, Per b, 1a Lbl., $2. b, $2. binches, 82 ib.. Bu, g 85e, $1.2001.35, $1.60 box, PPLES—Good b, castern stock, $3.60; greenink Malag: 3 & CRANBERRIE ney, $10.60 per bbl TROPICAL FRUITS first carload of oranges frc this year was shipped to the holiday trade. The frult was sold f. o. b. at 3260 a box. This is later { usunl for the first shipments o be made, it is wald there 1 a desire to hold the until it s The Cal., for but fruit Floridas, per $2.4042.T5. 35— Ploridas, per e stock, 32006250 bunch. $3.75; fancy, Florida, sizes 00@4.25; new Messinas, sizes 00 5.00. box, 1508, 1768, 2 and ulf box LEMONS—Maluga, 260 and 800, LLANEOUS, OYSTERS—IXL, 8¢; medium, per horseshoes, 12¢; extra standards, 15c; lects, 15ci company selects, 2c; counts, 2 NEW cholce, 1 HONE! strained, 4 MA can, 10c; extra mes New York FIgs-Bxira 13c; Call nla, bags, Te. éw York, | 17c; California, > J0-1b. canw, per b, 10 dullon Sugs, per d i Bnghish walnuts, standards, 10¢; filberts, $@l0c; Brazil iclibark hickors wuts, per bu.. §1.50% 2.00; large hickory nuts, fancy raw Peahuts, 60; roasted peanits, HIDES-No. 1 green hid A 1 nides, 3i4c; No. 1 kre No reen salted hides, St 5 1o 40 lbs., dlyc; N 40 1bs., 3'sc; No. 2 veal calf, § 10 15 1 G No. 3 dry fint hides, G part cured hides, fully cured. SAUER KRAUT per half bbl., $2.60. MINCE MEAT- Funey, fancy, 16c; fancy, Me; 16¢; e, soft- shelled. nuts, e per 11 i Ary it less than Cholce white LbL, $4.50; in half bbls, per Ib. the Biée; 10-gal. kegs, Gc; condensed, per case of § doz. pkis., $2.50. FISH-Sunfish and erch, 6 ple, 10c; catfish, 12c; buftalo, Te: lack’ bass, 200 bt CIDER—Pure julce, per bbl., §5.50: halt bhl.. §8, SHEEP PELTS-Green saited, each, 25@600; rreen salted shearlings (short wooled early skins), each, b@lse; dry shearlings (short wooled early skin®), No. 1, ench, 5@loc; dry shearlings (short wooled early’ gkins), No. ‘2, each, bei dry flint Kansas and Nebraska butcher wool 'peits, per Ib., actual welght, 5@Sc; dry fint Kansas and Nobraska _murrain wool pelts, per Ib., actual woight, 4@6c; dry fiint Colorado butcher wool pelts, per Ib., actual welght, 4@6iec; dry flint Colorado murrain wool pelts, per ib., actual welght, 4gife. low, No. 1, 4@ TALLOW | 43¢ {allow, white A, 446 yellow, G2%c; ; rough tallow, 2 No. 1 large, $20.006125.00; 1 small, $8,00@10.00; bear, . 1 cubs, 1 medium, $.0006.001 k, Montana and Rocky mountain, No. | large, $18.000122.00; No. 1 medium, f i gmatl, $10; Dblack,” Montana year 0. 1 Targe, NG, 1 medium, $5; Montana - cubs 1 1,50 mall, tip, No. 1 large, $20; No, 1 o1 small, $8 benr, siiver tip, large, $11; No. 1 medium, $§ bear, silver tip, cubs, No. $6: No. 1 medium, $4.50; No. 1 smail hrown, 1 large ).00625.00; No. um, $16. 1 small, $12; bear, brown, year- No. 1 Targe, $10.00612.00; No. 1 medium, $8; 1 small, $ culim, No. 1 lar No. 1 mediim 1 emall, 33, bad No. 1 Jarge, $1.00@1.50; M tm, 60 1 small, doc; fisher, No,'1 No. 1 medium, 86, No. 1 small, #; fox W® (o cording v, N 10 dium, $60 wlver, irding wty, No. 1 large, $; 1 &mall, $20; fox, cross, No, 1 No. 1 small, $2; 1 medium, $1.25; 1 large, No, fox. No. 1 1 an 00; 1 medium, $2; i 1 1 AND GREA! Bafide; gren (o 13, 8%¢; gre d i3] old ‘butter, bees: prime, RS—Réar, bl meditim, $10. No. 1 large, $6.0068.00; No. 1 small, $; bear. | med um, | silver © No. 1 pale. 1 small, $50; fox N No. 1 kit, 1 large, ‘82 1 small, $1; mink, 1 medi o, lark, No. 1 lar se; No. 1 medium, nall, 30¢; mountain Vion, perfect head 1 farge, $1.00G2.00; | No. 1 large, $8; emall, $5; otter, " 1 modum No. wa 1 1arge, 1 medinm No. Targe, 60G65c; No. 1 small 2025 $3; No. No. wolveripe 1 small? §2; wolr, 1 medium, §2 T large, mountain, No 1_smali, $1.50; 1 medium, kin, No. S@ioe; No. rats, fall .1 smi n Wool Market. BOSTON, Jan. 1.--The past week quiet in the wool market, with the value of Ming off. 1t s, of cow 0 early to estimate the effect of the new tarifl on trade Ml tone fx steady and buyers in need of sup are paying. mer rates. Prices for leading descriptions « follows: Ohio and Pennsylvania, fic p20e; XX and above, I8@I8Ee; OhiD, 1 i territory, Montana, fine and fine medium, 9q12c; N ‘medinm, \Wyo ming, Utah, Dakota, Nevada, Tdaho and Colo- rado, fine and fine medium, 9a12c; medium, Oregon wools, eastern fair, Aus: tralin wool, super, M@Hc; TGI8, has been London Money Market. BAR SILVER-21%d per oz en market, for . 18 % per cent BERLIN, Jan. 1.—Exchange on London, duys' sighi, 20 mirks W prg LO: is quoted today at Buo n, eight 106407 at —te e SECRET SOCIETY NOTES. Rome, Dr. S. R. Patten, who s on the committec on laws of the Degree of Honor, Ancient Order_of United Workmen, was in Lincoln last Friday night to attend a meeting of the committee, No business of importance was transacted. George Crook tent, Sons of Veterans, has elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Captain, J. T. Yates; first lieutenant, J. G. Kuhn; secoud lieutenant, J. T. Festner; delegate-at-large, W. L. Sallsbury; camp council, A. H. Roitzer, W. A. Gordon and Willilam Gibson. The installation of officers will oceur on January 7. Omaha council No. 65, Royal League, has elected the following officers for 1895: Ar- chon, J. 8. Knox; vice archon, Dr. R. M. Stone; orator, E. C. Ryan; scribe, Alfred Thompson; collector, G. M. Winkelman; treasurer, R. S. Wilcox; prelate, H. S. Kreider; guide, M. Murphy; warder, J. Wall- work, Jr.; sentry, S. S. Senne; trustees, H. 8. Kreider, Dan Cameron, J. L. Elgin. The officers who were elected to serve for the coming year in U. S. Grant post No. 110, Grand Army of the Republic, are as follows: Commander, Frank H. Bryant; senior vice commander, Lafayette Anderson; junfor vice commander, Charles Colling; chaplain, L. A. Harmon; surgeon, Dr. J. B. Ralph; quarter- master, R. S. Wilcox; officer of ‘the day, Charles E. Burmester; adjutant, Dr. R. M. Stone; officer of the guard, Edwin Jackson; quartermastert sergeant, D. M. Haverly. St. Paul—Modern Woodmen of America: Venerable consul, Paul Schmidt; adviser, G. Kramer; clerk, F. W. Rincker; bauker, G. E. Woodberry; escort, L. Larsen; watchman, W. Oleson; entinel, A. E. Richards; man- ager, H. L. Cook. Sutton—Ancient Order of United Work- men: Master workman, John Brown; fore- man, Gilbert Van Patten; overseer, Thomas Bauer; recorder, J. A. Davis; financler, J. D. Dennls; receiver, N. 8. Rolland; guide, C. F. Meyer; insde guard, Henry Browneli; out- side guard, William Nagel; medical exam- iners, Dr. J. M. Birkner, Dr. H. L. Vraden- burg: trustee, Joseph Longstreth. Wisner—Abe Lincoln camp, Modern Wood- men of America: Venerable consul, I W. West; adviser, . J. Malchon; banker, W. Armstrong; escort, F'. C. Evans; watchman, Erncst Schademann; sentry, A. Matthes; physician, H. Pritchard; delegate, A. R. Ole: son; alternate, 8. S. Krake; manager, C. C. McNish; clerk, L. C. Kringel. Wilber—Modern ~ Woodmen Venerable consul, John Spirk Christy; banker, F. Gay; clerk, W. H Davis; escort, John Barton: sentry, J. W. Wondra; watchman, Jim Shafranka delegate to head camp, F. F. Gay; manager, for three years, N. B. Hayden; camp physician, Dr. Blder. York—York camp Ni ; men of America: Venerable Pruitt; adviser, . H. White Franklin; clerk, B. A. War cort, W. J. Keith; watchman, A. G. Chessman; sentry, Charles B. Bick; member of board of man- agers, for three years, J. D. White; delegate, A. G, Pruitt, Nebraska City—Nebraska City camp No. 331, Modern Woodmen of America: Vener- | able consul, Frank Haven; adviser, M, C. Berry; clerk, H. M. Boydston; banker, George W. Hawke; escort, H, Wilhoft; physician, C. Watson; manager, C. W. Hoge; watchman, | C. Barnaby; sentinel, W. Roach; delegates, Frank Haven and H. M. Boydston, st il L To keep up with the times to be without Harper's Weekly. a year. of America: | adviser, H. E. Modern consul, banker, Wood- A. G, E. S u cannot afford Only $4.00 — Burns and Sutto pretty wedding oceurred at the residence of Mre, Jennie 1. Burns, 507 South Twentieth street, last evening, when Rev. Cramblet’ united in marriage Miss | L. Burns and Mr. lmery C. Sutton, | The bride was attended by Miss Truland, | and Mr. Jay Burns acted as best man, The house was artistically decorated with rose and maiden hair ferns. One of the most | pleasant features of the evening was the Wedding march, composed and rendered by Mr. Guy Burns, brother of the bride. Only the most-intimate friends of the cont parties w _belng: Mrs. 12, Btockha NoYtor Wheatley, | Wortman, ham, Charles Stockham, Claude and Bunell, Btock Stockham | LOORKING OVER THE BIG HORN Mysterions Visit of a Party of Capitalisty to Wyoming, ARE LARGE BURLINGTON STOCKHOLDERS Suggestion that Thelr Trip May Ho Come nected with the Intention of the to Gain Control of the Short Line, Wyo., Jan. 1 Captain Billingsley, D, E. Thompe David Blair, A. M. Forbes and A. Le a party of capitalists from Lincoln, Neb., and Chicago, arrived in Lander Sature day from the mines in the Atlantic districts They came west over the Union Pacific to Rawlins, where they procured a private cone veyance. They spent two or three days ine specting the mines. Captain Billingsley 18 the owner of several valuable mines in the viclnity of South Pass Yesterday the party will put in two ot LANDER, Ackland, (Special)—H. proceeded north and three weeks looking over the Big Horn basin country. ‘They will probably return east via the Burlington, taking the train at Sheridan All efforts to glean some information cone cerning their trip was futile, They rcfised to be Interviewed, and in registering at the hotels they neglected to put down thelr place of residence. It fs understood, howevar, that several of the gentlemen are lurge stockhold= ers In the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad company, Mr. Thompson being one of the prominent officials of the company. It s the gene impresslon that the Burlington will build through the Big Horn basin country within the next twel months, and the mysterious movements of the party of gentlemen mentioned lends color to the belief. The Burlinzton unquestionably has its yes on the DPacific coast, and the segregation of the Oregon Short Line from the Union Pacific may ultimately result in the Burlington acquiring possession of that property. At any rate this company is liable to make ome moves the near future that will be a great surprise in railroad circles, 'he Vanderbilt people about for an outlet to the Northwestern has had a contract with the Union Pacific to handle all the latter's through business between Council Biuffs and Chicago, but if the Union Pacific loses the Short Line It will have but little Pacifio coast business to turn over to any line, con= sequently the Northwestern seeks to make other arrangements, The present terminus of its line is Casper in the central part of Wyoming. Connection could be made with the Oregon Short Line by extending the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missourl Valley line from Casper to Opal station in Uinta county, a distance of about 400 miles. The prelim! nary survey for a greater part of the distance has already been made. The original inten= tion of the company.was to build to Ogden. The line would traverse a_ section of country, rich in mineral resources, and would not only be a paying investment, as a _local enter- prise, but would give the Vanderbilts one of the greatest trans-continental lines in the country. ¥l are also casting Pacific coast. The GHT FOR SU Union Pacific and Gould Interests Watchs Ing a Texas Road. " FORT WORTH, Jan. 1.—General Dodge of New York, Receiver Trumbull of the Den-, ver, Texas & Gulf, and Receiver M. Jones of the Wort Worth & Denver City re\urne(f‘l yesterday on a speclal car from New Mexico, They were accompanied on their journey; by Judge Green of the Sixty-eigth judicial district court of this city, under whose court the Fort Worth & Denver City is now held.' The presence of the gentlemen fn Fort Worth in confiection with the suit brought by the Mercantile Trust company against the Fort Worth & Denver City, praying for a fore closure of its mortgage, and asking for the appointment of a receiver, has created a great deal of talk in railroad circles all oven the western country. It is understood that there Is considerable more in the sult of the, Mercantile company than the face of the) document represented, and that there was an effort by the Gould interests on one sidal and the Union Pacific on the other, to ob tain control of the Fort Worth & Denver. City. The demand made in the suit of the, Mercantile company that a receiver be ap-, pointed for the property was looked upon as a direct attack upon the present recelvers, ' and, although denials of this were made im= mediately after the suit was filed, the rumors, of conflicting Interests ~eontinue to cireus| ate, It was also rumored that there would be a change In the present receivérs, and if this was done, it would of course somewhat af- fect the management of the entire system| from here to the T 8 gton Buslsess, | Eleven Months ol The following statement shows gross earnings, expenses, and net earnings of the jurlington system, including the B. & M in Nebraska, for the eleven months ending mber 30, 1804, compared with the cors esponding period in 1593: 184, 1892 Decrense. Gross earniugs .. g expen mings . xed charges | Burplus 1,840, 2516 1,089, Cheyy CHEYENNI, ent O'Hearne from .the leaving a ments, T in the ord til busin n Lot Oat, Wyo., Jan. 1.—Superintends discharged elghty-five men Cheyenne. shops this afternoon, of 105 men in all depart- Is will make no change @ in the force uns erlally, Harper's Bazar gives correct information about fashions for everybody, for $4.00 a years R Emperor Visits Ambassador Kunyon, BERLIN, Jan. 1.—Emperor William, aftes his New Year's reception, visited United States Ambassador Runyon. a most horriblo blood disenso, 1 Lund s . NN BEFOR i TRYING varlous remedi none of which aid me ar ) nlls canio off, and my hair ko out, leaving we perfectly bald, '1thon went to o 0E . HOT SPRINGS . # !1opiog to e cured by this celobratod treat. ment, but very s00n became disgusted, an § doclded to n{ The effect: wai Icould get rollef from ruly wonderful, commenced Lo COver aftor tak ing the firstbot- Uo,and by tho timo I had taken twelvo bot- Ues I was entiroly cured—cured by 8, 8. 8. when the world.-renowned Hot Bpiin, falled.” WM. 8. LOOMIS, Bhreveport, La. For delivered prices on Corn any description in or telegraph W. H. BOOTH & CO,, Kansas City, Mo, Welghts and grades guaranteed. or Feed ot car loads lots, Write IT IS IGNOR 1,00,000 Packages Sold Weekly, ANCE THAT WASTES EFFORT.” TRAINED SERVANTS USE LIPTONS TEAS FINEST THE WORLD PRODUCES, Best Grogers Sell Thew