Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 7, 1895, Page 6

6 —— e [RIED ENERGENCY RATIONS| First fixperiments by the Arny Were Not Altogether Buocessful, MADE MANY OF THE MEN SICK ‘War Depnrtment Not Altogether Sat- afied and Wil Try It Again in the Nenr Fature=Ment E tructs of No Value. WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—(Special)—The test of condensed food for the army, which was recently performed by a detachment of troops from Fort Logan, near Denver, Colo was not of sufficient extent to permit a de- cislon yet as to whether the ‘“‘emergency ration,” as it is familiarly known, will be a success or not. In accordance with instruc- tions from the War department here com- pany H of the Soventh infantry, commanded by Captain George S. Young, started on a four days' march to give the new food a trial. So far as this test is concerned the prospects for the food are not favorable. Numerous reports were printed as coming from Denver to the effect that the trial had been a total failure, and that as a result of the experiment a portion of the detachment of troops was suffering seriously from the effects, and that some of the individual sol- diers were dangerously il A detailed account, however, which has Just been received at the office’ of the com- missary general of subsistence, shows that the newspaper reports were wholly unfound- ed, and that there was no such condition of affairs existing among the men as was al- leged. This_report, which was submitted by Captain Young, who had charge of the soldiers, and Captain La Garde, the surgeon, states that a detachment consisting of four officers and fifty-five men started out on the march of four days from the post at Fort Logan. A test was had on the first day, and as & result a number of the men were af- fected in an unpleasant manner. The test was-mot only of short duration, but it was only a partial trial. On the first day the men were served as their allowance for din- ner a portion of bean soup and one of the ration cakes, CHARACTER OF THE FOOD. The soup is wade from a tablet which has been prepared, containing all the ingredients of bean soup when made under ordinary circumstances, The cake is made 'of whole wheat. In the preparation of the cake the wheat is first boiled to such an extent as to insure its thorough cooking. After boiling the tiny particles are forced through an ar- rangement like the ordinary grater, and when this operation is completed the wheat comes out In thin shreds, which are soft and moist. Small cakes are made of this sub- stance, which are toasted slightly to com- plete the cooking. A portion of the shreds which have not been toasted are added to that which has gone through the operation and the whole is compressed Into the cake ready for use. The cakes are of dark brown coior when the preparation is com- pleted and are made into convenient sizes for carrying, usually being about four inches square and an inch thick. This prep- aration of wheat is intended to take the place of ordinary bread. Besides the bean soup the soldiers were served with coffee as a beverage. The report shows that the men who were affected by the food were not made danger- ously sick, but were affected with nausea and a disposition to vomit violently. None of the men were affected on the first day, but on the day following a good many of the men began to feel the effects of the novel diet. As a result two of the men were compelled to fall out of line, but none of the others were affected so seriously. The test was not continued on the two remaining days of the test march, although several of the officers made an attempt at it, but they did not experience sickness, DO NOT ADMIT FAILURE. Officlals of the commissary general's de- partment say that the test does not show the new food to be a failure, and they think that in time it may succeed. The sickness of some of the men is attributed by sur- geons on duty in the War department to the fact that the food with which the tests were made was not fresh, but old and had been manufactured some time before being caten, 8o that its nutritious qualities had been Tost. One of the officers of the sub- sistence department has made @ special trial of his own of this new food, and the test was €0 successful that he, thinks there is no reason for discouragement over the prospects for success In the army. It is believed here that the men were too hasty in devouring the food, and that they did not sufficiently mas- ticate the wheat cake. Officials of the de- partment aleo think that in preparing the soup from the bean preparation the men aid not boil it long enough, but ate it too oon, with the result that there was not sufficient nutriment gained fram it to bene- fit_them, Trials on this march were had only with the bean soup, wheat cake and coffee. MUST MODIFY THE PROCESS. The preparation of the condensed sub- stance for making the coffee is partially a success, _That Is, good results are obtained from the preparation which has been in- vented. and an excellent, sweet-tasting liquid 1s produced. There are objections, how- ever, to the manner of packing this con- densed substance. In most cases the coffec is ground finely and with It s mixed the sweetening substance, saccharine usually being employed. But it has been found that when ground so finely the coffce loses its aroma and a large part of its strength, fo that to a certaln extent the invention is not a success. Besides it has been found Impos- sible to compress the coffee and sweetening substance £o that it will hold together. It has been Yound ta crumble and break in pack- ing, or when it is handled to any extent, and this, of course, destroys its usefulness, as the most Important mission which this con- densed food is to perform will be when long marches are made and it is necessary to carry a supply of food to last for a number of days or possibly weeks. Future efforts will be devoted to devising a way to make the coffea preparation so that it will not be so friable, but will stand rough handling when being carried about in the knapsacks of the individual soldiers. One of the most successful preparations hich has been made in connection with this mergency food” is the tea tablets. This has been tried on numerous occasions and has been successful in practically all cases. Theso tea tablets, which are made in small, convenient sizes, usually about the sizo of an ordinary peppermint drop, contain the con- densed tea leaves and tho sweetening prepar- ation combined. The tablets are of a dark green color and are compressed into a rather hard mass, so that they will not break or crumble with handling, and are well fitted for packing, not only because of their small alze, but because they are comparatively light in welght and will stand a reasonable pressure as a consequence of packing. The tablets are made in sizes that will just be sufficlent to make one cup of tea of the average capacity. It is only necessary to drop one of these little tablets into a cup of hot water, and as soon as it has thoroughly dissolved and been stirred up the tea is made. The operation is simple and will commend itself to the tired and worn out eoldier who is in need of a stimulant at the end of a hard day's march. In the tea tablots, as in most of the other condensed f00d preparations, saccharine is used as a eweetening substance in place of ordinary sugar. In the tablets there are about four grains of saccharine to between thirty-five ad fitty grains of tea. TRIED ALL KINDS OF SOUPS. In the matter of soups wearly all kinds have been tried, some with success and others with failure. The bean soup seems to have been the most successful. In making the preparation the article Is usually ground into a powder and the sweetening substance added, after which the whole is compressd into small packages. It has been found that the bean cakes crumble somewhat also, but not to so detrimental a degree as the coffes preparation. Vegetable soups have been pza duced with ths condensed preparation, Shur this has not be'n generally successtul, owing to the fact that it is practically impossible to pressrve vegetable products for any length of time. The strength is nearly always lost from the individual ingredients, and more difficult to make 4 preparation of this kind than it 18 with the case of the bean, Condensation has been tried with other articles of food. It is not likely that meats Will be prepared wo that they can be pre- served and packed in a condensed form, such A8 I8 necessary it the food is to be used as an emergency ration in the army. Kx- tracts, of course, will be possible, but these are not mited to use in the army, as there I& always the extreme likelihood of breakage. Officlals of the subsistence department do not look with favor upon the beef extracts. In the opinion of one of the officers of the de- partment there is really no strength in these beef extracts. This officer today sald: “There Is & popular fallacy that thes: modern beef extracts, which are prepared and put up in lass jars and bottles, contain an unusual amount of nutriment and that they are ex- cellent strength restorers. As a matter of fact it has been proven from investigation that there is actually no strength-giving power in these extracts, and the only good effect which they have on a sick person is that they have the power of stimulating temporarily, but it Is an acknowledged fact among expert phy- siclans and surgeons that there is really no thening power in the ordinary beet ots. . WOULD NOT DO IN THE ARMY. “These preparations would not do in the army, not only because they lack powers s0 Indispensable in such foods, but because they would be practically useless for transporta- tion by Individual soldiers.” About the only successful preparation pro- duced from meats is that which Is made of pork and cornbeef. This preparation has been tried in some cases and has been gen- erally successful. In the preparation there is usually a proportion of three-fourths pork to one-fourth cornbeef and the two are com- pressed Into a size convenlent for trans- portation. But to this there is the objection that it will spoil if exposed to the air, as would be necessary If carried about by the soldiers, The officials of the subsistence department have not abandoned the tests of this newly- Invented food and it is intended to Bave another practical trial fn the near future. It is possible that troop H of the Seventh cav- alry, under command of Captain Edward S, jodfrey, will be chosen as the command which will be called upon to make the sacrifice this time and assist the War department in a more exhaustive trial of the “emergency ra- “‘Rush City,” which was remembered from its presentation here last season as one of the liveliest of those hurly-burly, helter-skeiter farce comedies which are dear to a very respectable portion of the theater going publie, returned to Omaha last night, opening what bids fair to be a highly pros- perous engagement at Boyd's. Although real estate agents are neither so numerous nop $0 active among us as they were during the period when Omaha was a boom town, there are still plenty of people left who remember with more or less pleasure the methods of that hostling fraternity. The audience last night was of the tyn'cal Sunday night variety, and was not slow to manifest its appreciation of the strenuous efforts of Mathews, Bulger and the rest to please and entertain. Commencing this evening at the Creighton theater, Edwin Milton Royle's new romantic play, “Mexico#’ will be given the first local production. Mr. Royle's company arrived in this city this morning from Chicago, where this organization has just finished a briliant three week's engagement at the Schiller thea- ter. The production in that city achieved a distinct success, the press without exception laying great stress on the strength of the play, the excellence of the company and the satisfactory manner in which the four acts are {llustrated by special scenery and cos- tumes. “‘Mexico” is bullt on entirely dif- ferent lines from Mr. Royle's first effort, as its story originates in an episode that oc- curred during the Mexican war. The princi- pal roles will be assumed by Mr. Royle, Lucius Henderson and Selina Fetter Royle, a trio of favorites whose popularity with local playgoers was firmly established during the first engagementl of “Friends” three years ago. Charles H. Hoyt, the only American drama- tic author who has never had a single fail- ure charged against him, will present his latest hit, “A Contented Woman,” at Boyd's theater for an engagement of three nights and Saturday matinee, beginning October 10, The senes of “A Contented Woman" are laid in Denver, and the story has to do with a political wrangle in which husband and wife are arrayed against each other for the office of mayor. The play Is said to be on a higher order of comedy than Mr. Hoyt gener- ally furnishes. It will be presented here under the personal direction) of the author, with Caroline Miskel-Hoyt in the leading role. ;rhe sale of seats will open Wednesday morn- ng. “‘On the Bowery,” the realistic play that incidentally pictures life among New York's poor and lowly, will be the attraction at Boyd's theater for three nights, commencing Sunday next. This piece introduces Steve Brodie, who stands as the type of a numerous class that has of lat. been receiving much attention from playwrights, novelists, so- clologists, and other students of humanity, The dolngs in his saloon, as shown in this play, are an epitome of the comedy and some of the tragedy of real life in the poor sec- tion of a great American city. The princi- pal people involved in the main plot of the play belong to higher walks of life. Circum- stances connect their destinies for a time with doings on the Bowery, and Steve Brodia becomes an important factor in the shaping of those destinies. He figures In the guise of protector and rescuer, not only fn his sa- loon, but also on the Brooklyn bridge, from which he jumps to save a girl's life, and on an East river pier, where he rescues the girl from a burning watch house, scenery used with “On the Bowery' is one of the most applauded feat ol PP features of the at- Frank Lane's friends here ar little surprize for the opening performance e proparing a popular actor, and the of “A Contended at Boyd's theater on Thursday evenicg next, will probably make known what it Is, Colonel Burt Dasher, the genlal represen- tative of “A Contended Woman” company, says that Alice Evans, familiary known to her professional friends as ‘‘Babe" Evans, has just been engaged by Hoyt for a sou- brette part in @ play Mr. Hoyt Is now writing for Captain Adrian Anson, of the Chicago Base Ball team, entitled “'A Run- away Colt."” This is the lady whom Wilton Lackaye married ten days ago in Council Bluffs. Willlam Malley, manager of Conroy & Fox, whose play, “O'Flarity’s Vacation,” is to be the attraction at the Creighton for four nights, commencing Sunday, October 13, ar- rived in town yesterday, Commencing Thursday, October 10, for three nights and Saturday matinee, Miner's big production of “Human Hearts" comes to the Creighton. — Policemen Must Have a Warrant. TOPEKA, Kan., Oct. 6.—An important de- cision was handed down by the supreme court yesterday, involving the validity of one ‘ection of the prohibitory law. The law of 1889 conferred upon the police officers the authority to enter any place where it was thought liquor was being sold and make ar- rests without a warrant. Under this section policemen have been in the habit of enter- ing places which had fallen under suspicion and arresting whomever they caught in ap- parent possession of the place. The court holds that this section, in so far as it au- thorized arrest without a warrant for mis- demeanors not committed in view of the offi- cers, is unconstitational and void. - S0 They Were Married. CRESTON, Ia, Oct. 6.—(Special.)—Mrs. Mary Wombold of Red Oak and Ernest Fritche, foreman of the round house here, ended a romantic courtship Friday night, when they were married at 708 South Cherry street by Justice Gouldin. Mr. and Mrs. Fritche had never seen each other until a week ago. They had corresponded, on the strength of an exchange of pictures. Mrs. Wombold resided In Wyoming, and was to have met Mr. Fritche at Omaha two weeks ago. They were both in Omaha, but missed each other. Mr. Fritche returned home and M "Wom:ml? came on In 8 short time. The Affection at sight was mutual the mar- riage followed, " A RO 895 THE OMAHA THE MOSES OF THE BLACK BELT Leading His People Out of the Bondage o Ignorance and Idleness, PRACTICAL WORK OF B. T. WASHINGTON The Taskegee Institute a Bright Ex- ample of Encrgy and Talents Ap- plied on Practical Lines—Edu- cation and Reformation. Since the death of Fred Douglass the col- ored people of America have had no one generally recognized as a type of what the emancipated negro might become until at the opening of the Atlanta exposition the best speech of the day was made by Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee Institute. Mr. Washington's speech at once caused him to be known to the many, as he was already known to the few, as the wisest and truest leader of his race this country has ever pro- duced. A writer in the Chicago Times- Herald ranks him with the most skillful of Wwhite educational organizers of the highest executive capacity, of culture, prudence, Judgment, devotion' and missionary enthusi- asm. One of the few, continues the writer, who knew Booker T. Washington and believed in him more than a decade ago was the late ieneral Armstrong, whose great work in tho industrial training o for young negroes and Indians at Hampton, Va., ended only with his death. On being asked if he thought the Hampton school 'had proved its usefulness, be replied: “If I haa done nothing else hera worthy of praise, I should still feel that my long devotion to this undertaking had been repaid in the training and commissioning of so remarkably useful a man as Booker T. ‘Washington." The young colored man of whom this un- equivocal estimate was made by so experi- enced an educator as General Armstrong had just completed the course at Hampton and had gone into the new missionary field at Tuskegee, Ala, the very heart of the black belt, to found a school. He had como to Hampton a few years before from a planta- tion cabin under the most forlorn conditions, and in a state of absolute poverty. He wore linen tow and homespun, was barefooted and almost ragged. Under the wise pro- visions of the missionary school he was soon able to present a respectable appearance, and with the labor of his hands to payhis way, so rapld was his development and so rare his qualities of mind and heart that he was early marked for the carrying out of educa- tional and industrial work among his own people. In 1881 he went to Tuskegee alone and opened his school In a dilapidated log church, with thirty pupils collected from the cabins From the first the conception of the educa- tional needs of the colored people was broad. The Institute was td be primarily for the teaching of how to live, the training of.the faculties, the mastering of a trade, the in- culcating of self-respect and a proper under- standing of what constitutes true citizen- ship. Latin and Greek and geometry and metaphysics were, as yet, not needed by the southern negro. = As yet, except tilling the soil and becoming domestic servants, no sta- tions in life were open to them, and their idea of glory was to become a preacher or go into politics. These people were to be taught to put on shoes and to put off the homespun of slave days; to build decent houses of two rooms and an attic and abandon the old log cabin; the gIrls to stop wrapping the hair into hornlike tails and wearing gaudy colors and orna- ments. The gospel of cleanlimess, frugality and constant industry was preached as the only hope of the race. The habits of drink- ing, smoking, petty thieving learned in slave days, sobriety for the men and virtue for the women, the purchase of small farms and the constant cultivation of them, the becom- ing perfected in some trade by which a decent living could be earned, were some of the things aimed at. The popularity of the movement Is attested by the growth of the Tuskegee institute. There are now nearly fifty resident teach- ers, with 1,000 puplls in attendance; 1,500 acres of land have ben acquired and fifteen buildings, aggregating $200,000 in value. This is chiefly of importance because nearly all the work on the place—making the brick, cutting, sawing and manufacturing the lumber, laying the brick, plastering, paint- ing and glazing, have been done by the pupils. Nearly all of the students come to the school 8o poor that they are scarcely decently clothed. They can work their way through, the young men by tilling the land and thereby learning the science of agriculture. Or they can work In the carpenter, blacksmith or car- rlage shop, In the brick yard or sawmill, at harnessmaking, ‘shoemaking, and mattress- making. The girls learn all departments of housework, laundrying, sewing, cooking, and both may set type in the printing office. Every hour employed in this way is credited to them, and helps pay their way. The cost is only $2 a week and the year lasts thirty- six weeks. Much of the products of the farm goes into the kitchen or stable and reduces the cost of maintenance, the forests on the farm fur- nish all the timber for building, and a bed of clay the brick. The young women, under the direction of a tailor and dressmaker, make the reat blue uniforms and calico gowns, and they are furnished at cost. In mental training they get a little more than a good common school education—just enough to enable them to be a real inspira- tion to their home people. They know a good deal about right living and right think- ing; religion has become a daily habit, not an emotion; they know the self-respect of de- cent, sober garb and the ability to earn a living. Then they are sent back home to make of their lives what they can, and ewery one Is imbued with a missionary spirit. They are \not separated in sympathy from their people, but they have the means to lift them to_their own level. Tho educational power of the institute does not stop with the confines of the farm. Three years ago Mr. Washington called the first conference of colored people to be held at the school. This was issued through the pupils in their home letters. The circulars were printed by the pupils in the school office, and read: “We want to bring together for a quiet conference not the politicians, but the com- mon, hard working farmers and mechanics— the ‘bone and sinew of the negro race—the ministers and teachers. We want: *“1. To find out from the people themselves the facts as to their condition and get their ideas as to the remedies for present evils. 2. To get information as to how the young men and women now being educated here can best use their education in helping the people of their race.” At the first conference there were 800 rep- resentatives, who were delegated by the country churches and school districts. They came ‘ten, twenty, fifty miles, in wagons, carts, on males, afoot; barefooted, patched, happy. Some of them had mortgaged thelr crops to come, or their mules, so little thrift have these black children of the south, Be- fore they went home there was a new-fash- foned revival. They saw what their chil- dren had done and were doing, and they re- turned home unanimously resolved to: Work six days in the week, fifty-two weeks In the year; to wear shoes, to build houses of two rooms, to put up a school house and church in place of the old log cabin, to pay a teacher for six months Instead of three, not to mort- gage crops or mules, not to waste time on politics, to stop drinking, making errands to town; b support their wives and educate their children. The women were equally resolved to keep thelr houses and children clean, not to be 1dle or on the streets, to wear neat, clean calico dresses and shoes and buy no more red feathers. There was also a widespread determination to own their farms or little homes. “Thritt, continuous Industry and a sense of responsibility are what the plantation negro most needs to learn,” was the lesson taught by the young evangel. ~That his words bore frult’ was made evident in the improvement reported by the delegates at the mext con- ference. Mortgages had decreased and school houses increased. The first pay- ments had been made on many homes. By this time, too, the graduates of the school had gone out to teach in the district schools, and each one was an object lesson to the ccmmunity. Each one regards it hi mission to further the prosperity of his race. Nearly al] are compelled to combine teaching with 'some other occupation in order to make & living. Thus following a trade among their people, they live lu one place the year A DAILY BEB: A\ l INDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1895, round. ing. Mr. Washington, ouggf,the depthe of his experfence and knowleake 'of the black race, ya that the generaf-adsption of the two- room house would megn gore for the real progress of the raco than the franchise. There I8 no refinement, no decenoy possible in a huddled econdition. " Two-thirds of the colored people of the blaek belt still live in the one-rcom log cabin of slave days. A large number have bban abandoned since the establishment of the fnsij ute. The negro s imitative and emulative, and the presence of one decent house in a com- munity sets a fashiom=amt ny one else will be contented until he Dbpajone. Certain it 1s that no Tuskegee graduite will live in a cabln. ~ Fellow pupils marry each other, and thus all through the countfy are set up little homes with a carpet on’the floor, muslin curtains at the windows, splint-bottomed chairs instead of benches, and the wife will wear a neat calico gon and a white apron when she sews in the afternoon. Her hair will be brushed as smoothly as nature al- lows and neatly colled. There will be a tablecloth and napkins, and at least one newspaper. Flowers wiil be trained around the little porch’ and a varlety of vegetables ralsed in the garden. What a contras¢ to the mud or clapboard floor, the dirty, half-naked pickaninnies, the weeds and dirt and idieness, and the inevi- table mortgage and red calico gown and feathers for Sunday, and (he cast-oft finery of a white man for the fither. What a con- trast in self-respect. Thrife and industry, self-respect and re- sponsibility are the things Booker T. Wash- ington has set_himself to inculcate in 2,000,- 000 negroes. By the time the fourth 'con- ference was held this year, just befort the opening of the exposition, there were re- markable proofs of the tremendous progress made in three years. The physical improve. ment was encouraging, for there is no doubt the race has deterioraied since negroes were raised for the market ll%e catile. They arc still large, muscular, with broad chests, capa- blo of wresting fortunes out of the fertile soil of Alabama. They have common sense, wit and capacity for thoughtfulness quite equal to the white peasantry of Kurope. In this time, seelng that at Tuskegee the colored political Cemagogne was conspicuous by hie absence, they have come to honor “educa- tion, property, industry and practical reli- glon" ‘more than gaudy honors. From hundreds of remote districts have come demands for teachers from Tuskegee They testify in every way to the improve ment of communities because of this new propaganda. They agroe unanimously to stop 1iving on corn pone and raise wheat and poultry and vegetables; to avoid the towns and the emigration agent, to pay their tax and stop moving, to work winters as well as summers. They even agree to scttle differ- ences ont of court, to sdpport the women of the family at home and nct force them to the streets. Bvery year the delegates are sent home with circulars got out by the school. Theso papers contain pictures of pretty little cot- h directions of how to build thém of materials, ete., information about seed and how to cultivate small fruit and vegetabl:s. These clrculars inake the rounds of communities and end in somebody setting the example of putting the good advice into practice. The women are not forgotten, but are told how to make new dishes out of th: old materials, how to make neat clothing and to keep the house and children clean. Every month a little leaflet called the Southern Letter ia issued from the school and containg for the {uformation of north- crn philanthropists, who mainly suppog the school, and for the parents and friends of the puplls a report of the work. Thus Mr. Washington tells in one number that $10,000 was given for a new building. Instead of advertising for bids Prof. J. H. Washington superintendent of industries, told the pupils that they were intrusted with putting up that building. Then Bricks were made in tfe yard, lumber in the mills, lath, shingles, brackets, moldings, doors ahd windows. Sand was dug off the place for plaster, and lim mads for mortar. Then plain furniture was made, tables and chairs, carpets woven, and the cabinet work put ia’'and the walls decor- ated. The money was-all kept in the school and there was a buildingiand the original $10,000 credited to pupils ?;r work. It rep- resented $20,000. Yet this is only on still the principal feat tion is free, board, el and books being the only expenses. gives $3.000 a year to the school, andifrom $50,000 to $75,000 a year is collected from. friends of the insti- tution north and south. Its affairs are su- pervised by twelye trustees. four of them northerners. General Q..0. Howard was one of these a year ago. » The full course of study is Your years, with a preparatory course for young pupils. The boys wear a plain blue uniform with a cap, and the gain in appearancs and self-re- spect is immedfate, It cultivates neatness and order. There fs a military drill, a library of 10,000 volumes, and pupils are required to discuss current events dally. No pupll is allowed to leave the grounds unless he wears his uniform. This keeps his behavior up _to the mark. Fifteen hundred acres of land, $200,000 worth of buildings, forty teachers ‘and 1,000 pupils, the raising of $75,000 a year, and the raising of the percentage of log cabins aban- doned for houses, in the region for fifty miles around, the graduation of nearly 2,000 puplls and sending them buck to their own homes in tull sympathy with their race and equipped for a wide usefulness in their origi- nal station in life is the record of Booker T. Washington after fourteri years' work. The laste General Armstrong siid of Tuskegee: “It is, 1 think, the noblest and grandest work of any colored man in the land.” As long as he lived he made¢ a plea for an en- dowment 80 as to keep this light burning in the black belt of Alabama. In his speech at Atlanta Mr. Washington, in his personality, has made a yet stronger plea. TO THE The little leavin 1« gradually work- tde. Class work is the school. Tui- LAST VISIT AGENCY. Curious Custom Among the Sioux for Showing Their Good Will. CHAMBERLAIN, 8. D, Oct. 6.—(Spectal.) —Frank Wade, deputy United States mar- shal, glves the writer particulars of a curi- ous Incident he once witnpssed at Pine Ridge agency while visiting that reservation to serve subpoenas on witaesses and others whose presence was required at an approach- ing term of the United States court. The incident concerns a practice with which but tew western people are famillar, even though living in proximity to Indian reservations, and has never been described or even re- ferred to in print. The deputy marshal was seated in the agent's office when he chanced to glance down the wagon road which en- ters the agency. In the distance he beheld two objects, which upon closer approach he discerned were Indians—an aged warrior and a squaw. They were on foot. The old war- rior appeared to be very feeble, and was leaning for support upon his wife, who was his companion. Several times before reach- ing the agency the old Indian sank to the earth, and while seated in the roadway was carefully supported by the squaw, a younger and more robust person. After resting in this fashion until his waning strength was partially regained, the old Sioux tottered to his feet, and still leaning on the squaw for support, again resumed his journey to- ward the agency. After several more rests the couple reached the agency buildings, and after circling around & few of the more prominent structures, restiug at Intervals as before stated, the old warelor started slowly and painfully on ‘homeward journey, again supported by his faithful and’ patient wife. When at the ageficy it was seen that the only garment worn' by, the aged Indian was a linen sheet, whigh he kept carefully wrapped about him. The painful and tedious Journey was taken in mecordance with what is common practice with some of the Sioux, and is known as the' “last visit to the agency,” the journey béing undertaken only by those who are convinced that they are about to die. It is said the principal object of the last visit is to show the Indlan's good will toward the agency authorities. South Dakota's State Fair. SIOUX FALLS, 8. D, Oct. 6.—(Speclal)— The state falr which. has just closed here is the first one for the past six years which has pald out. The show was a success in every particular, and the State Board of Agriculture is highly delighted with the re- sult, as well as Sioux Falls people. The board held its annual meeting during the fair and re-elected the old officers through- out. The last day of the falr was firemen's day, and a fine tournament was held. Rock Rapids, Ta., won the 200 yards hose race in 0:26 7-8. Mitchell took the green hose race, covering the distance, 200 yards, in 0:31%: Fox and Lynch of Yankton won the double coupling contest and Fox captured the single coupling contest; the hook and ladder con- test was won by Mitchell in 0:31 seconds, the distance being 200 yards; Sioux Falls won the hub and hub hose race and Mitchel) the bub and hub hook and ladder contest, PACE SET MAY BE T00 RAPID Danger of Unwise Expansion in the Flush of Business Rovival, CAUTIOUS ~ OBSERVERS ~ APPREHLNSIVE Fear that Conditions Do Not War- rant the Gait at Which Induse trial Wheels Arc Whirling Just at Prescnt. NEW YORK, Oct. 6.—Henry Clews, head of the banking house of Henry Clews & Co., writes of the situation in Wall street: In the stock market we have had a repe- tition of the comparative quiet and the ab- sence of outside ‘nterest that have charac- terized busi now for some weeks past There fs a falr “traders” market, with moderate fluctuations in prices, and but lit- tle more. “This aspect scems to be due less 1o any new distrusts than to the absence of any Special factors stimulating activity. It is perhaps no more than an Inclination to rest naturally following -« the great that set in with the syndicate operation The effects of that recovery seem to have exhuusted themselves for the time and a breathing spell appears to order, Among cautious observers there has been for some time a disposition to doubt whether, In the general business of the country, affairs may not have struck a faster pace than conditions on the whole warranted. The increase in industrial pro- duction has been so great as to suggest a question whether supply might not be found to surpass the wants of consumption. The almost universal rise In wuges seems to have been as much a matter of sentiment as of prudent bus calculation. Higher wages hav nec ted n advance in prices; and higher prices have naturally in- duced ‘caution in laying in stocks. Thus the first flush of industrial recovery Is begel- ting a certain amount of hesitation in the distributing trades; and, for the moment, at ast, there s some tendency toward re- ction. In some branches of trade this tendency is encouraged by the largeness of the imports—an efect on the one hand of lower duties, and on the other of the rise in the price of home products, In_ the iron trade there is a distinct reaction from the late large advance in prices and some contraction in the demand. The woolen trade, in making large voluntary advances in wages, has neutralized much of the bene- fit arising from free raw material, and thus handicapped, it has to meet thé com: petition of large imports of forelgn fabrics In like way the leather trade has advanced wages aad prices to a point at which the boot and shoe trade are compelled to con- tract at the same time their purchases of leather and their product of goods. These E buw specimens of what s occurring In sther branches of trade nd may be tak Qs expressing o process’ of temporary re tlon that is appearing in most of our man ‘acts of this character attract the atten- tion of Wall sireet and check the buoyancy of the finan After such large advance in the of_stocks has taken place within the 't #iX months it 18 therefore not surprising if there should be some willingness to sce the market ested and to wait for the further develop- tendencies.: The market has there- y fallen into the hands of the pro. who a atisfied with fractiona! ups and downs, and do not care to risk large operations to force the general ove- ment of prices either the one way the other. Tt is proba over, that some large holders of . icceeded in unloading to_a considerable extent, and s far the market lacks an element of sup- ort. ! It is not, however, to be inferred from these facts'that the market Is in any really weak or exposed position. There are counter facts which suggest a hopeful out look. While the manufacturing interests may have run into a tempo 'y overexpan- ston, yet the reparts from trade circles uni- formly represent the retall trade as active and healthy, If wages have been hastily advanced, the working have the more money ~to &pend, which will help to ke off’ plus production and to higher range of price ad situa tion 19 fmproving and is likely to continuc 10 do 80 as the crops come forward for e: port, the movement of which has thus been tardy. The gold situation has entercd upon a more assuring phase. Produce bills are gradually increasing in volume. Europe is coming round to accept the rise in cotton and wheat, and both articles are conse- quently contributing a larger supply of ex- change; and some 37,000,000 of bankers' bills have to be drawn against the negotation of that amount of stock of the Anaconda mine. Owing to these facts, the rates of exchange have fallen below the specic shipping point, and the general conclusion in Wall street'is that not only shall we ex- port no more gold this year, but may quite probably import it. “That contingency mu argely “depend upon the course of our s curfties in the foreign market. The cessa tion of gold exports will affect London fa vorably ‘toward Americans, and that fact would " support any upward tendency in prices'on the home market. At present the mining craze at London and Paris must in volve some neglect of our investments, but the inflation has reached such a 'hizh tension that the time annot be distant when prudent operators will begin to re ize upon the inflammable stuff upon which they are venturing such high stakes. Upon the whole, therefore, we are r from taking a gloomy view of the prospects of this market. There is in the situatiun material enough for a further improvement in values later on, and the -‘|I|I| among operators is such that they uld easily re- to any such tend It is not a market to be heavily “short” upon, the “bears” evidently appreciate that fact. Moderate declines in prices, ther fore, will afford romisging opportunitie for buying for moderate profit. Quick in and out transactions will be the most re- munerative for the coming week. millions and OMAHA ERAL MARKET. Condition of Trade and Quotntions on Staple and Faney Produce. EGGS—Fresh stock, per doz., 13%@14e. BUTTER—Packing stock, 7c; cholce to fancy country, 16@1Sc; gathered creamery, 17G1Sc; sep- arator creamery, 18G20c. VEAL—Choice fat, 70 to 100 Ibs,, are quoted at T@Tsc; large and coarse, 4@dc. CHEESE—Wisconsin full cream, 12; Young Americas, 1214c; twins, 12¢; Nebraska and Towa, full cream, 10@11c; Limburger, No. 1, 12¢; brick, No. 1, 12%c; Swiss, No. 1, 13@14c. 3 LIVE POULTRY—Hens, 6@6lse; roosters, 3o spring chickens, per Ib., $@siic: ducks, 6c; spring ducks, 8@8ic; turkeys, Te; youn turkeys, Swde: geese, 5i6e, $1.00071.2: PIGEONS-Per do HAY—Upland, $6; midiand, 3.50; lowland, $5; rye straw, 85, color makes the price on hay: light bales sell the best. Only top grades bring top price: GAME— Tairie chickens, o young, per doz., $3.0069.50 teal and mixed ducks, $1:50; m Nead ducks, $2.6043.00; quall, $1.7 teal and mixed ducks, '$1.30; maliard and red head ducks, $3; quail, $1.7 BROOM CORN: ¢rop, delivered on track Ereen self-working carpet, per 4@2%¢; cholce green running o hurl, 214G i common, 1%c VEG NS—Hand-plcke per bu., $2. OES—New choice stock, 80c. crated, 100 1bs., basket, per per % bu. —Crated, per doz., $2. stock, large No. 1, 40c; large ment, per doz, LIMA BEAN TS, POMEGRANATES-Calitornra, per box, $1 CALIFORNIA QUINC Per box, §1.5) CALIFORNIA PR, 1 tts” sultable for” shipping: other varieties, § A IDAHO PEARS. CRANRE! UTAH Pr er case, ‘$1.50G1.75, RIES—Cape Cod, per bbi, $8. EASTEIN GRAPES EASTERN GRAP basket, 22 23 FORNIA GRAPES—Per case, 315 Muscats, $1.10G1.15; PLUMS- None. BOUTHERN PEACHES—None, APPLES-—Cholce” shipping slock, bbls., $2; cooking avpies, 31 CALIFORNIA PEACHES—Freestones, per box, 90c; Clings, ~$0@86c, NECTARINES—None, TROPICAL FRUITS, ORANGES—None. LEMOUNS—Extra ‘fan 30" size, $10; Ca BANANAS—Ch New York Concords, per black v Tokays, 312 lemons, $10; $7.5068.00, per bunch, §: 1. 76002.25. 360 size, HIDES AND TALLOW, —No. | green hides, 6c; No. 2 green hides, Sc; No. 1 green salted hides, 7c; No. 2 green saited hides, "6c; No. 1 veal calf, § to 15 $o; No. 3 veal calf, § to 16-lbs., Tc; No. 1 fint hides, 10@14c; No. 2 dry fint hides, 106 1 dry sa Iy cured 2%@60c; (short wooled carly aking),; ch 6@l5c; dry shearlings (short wooled early No. 1 each, 6@l5c; dry ahearlings (short wooled early skind), No.' 2 each, bc; dry flint Kansas and Nebraska butcher wcol peits, “actual weight, 4@c; dry filnt C butcher wool pelts, per Ib., actual welght, 4@6l%c; dry fint Colorado murrain wool pelts, per Ib., actual welght, 4@6e. Hn;&' feet cut Off. as It Is useles frelght on them. O LOW AND GREASE—No, 1 de; No. 3 tallow, 3c; grease, white 16 140; grease, white B, 3%c; giease, yellow,' 2%G 30) grease, dark. 24¢; old’ butter, 3@2i4c; bees- ‘wax, prime, 17@%00; rough tallow, %o WOOL UNWASHED-Fine heavy, ¢@Te: fine I dry tallow, spurt | Wiy aree, 10 ue e Tieht, 8 arter-bl and o .gr otted 4 L and broken, fine WABHED- Medium, 1318 A, 16@18e; Llack, $o; 2G3c; ‘dend pulled, bgc. DRESSED MEATH it western stees, @so; good cows and helf i medium cows and helfers, 4G14c; Kood forequartcs cows ieifes, 316@4o; good hindquariers cows and 4G7c; falr hindquartors cows and : 18, 4WASe; cow chucks, i fett tonderioin, beet rolls, boneloss, $iges loin backs, bonelcss, 3 steet Tain, e, Nc racks mution, dles muiton, T fine, bucks, tug tocks, Dressed i legs mutton, 2c. PORK—Tork shoulders, §%¢; Dies (e toins, OYSTERS bulk English walnuts, soft- erts, 9¢; Brazil raw, Gk@ee; Per bbL., $3.50; h 1) Ppeanuls, ™ e SAUER KRAUT MAPLE SYRUP-Five-gal, cans, $12; Yg-gal. cans, 36, § FIGS-New crop, Callfornia, hoxes, Dot Ib,, 12%c. Common California’ figs, 60-b. Eoxes, CHICAGO ¢ atures of the Trading and Flue- tuations in Prices Suturday. CHICAGO, Oct. 5.—Wheat was weak and weary today, and the other markets fol- lowed suit. Compared with Friday's clos- ing prices, declines for the day amount to lge In wheat, %c in October and from Ye to %e in May corn, %c in October and Ye In May oats. The prices of provisions changed but slightly. Wheat ruled rather dull today, but showed some strength during the first hour, and sold up %c above the close last night, then turned weak and fell oft 1%c, and at the close was about %c below the closing figures yesterday, ThS opening public cables were firm, and there was some dis- position among shorts to cover. Frank Dunn was the leading buyer at the start and ha rable following, declioing from c. But the demand was soon satisfled, and the buying came to a halt when prices began to waver. Some of the early buyers began to unload and there was free selling, and as the market got little support theré was a_steady drop of ke, December going to western receipts were again exports from both coasts for were fully 500,000 bu, smaller week previous,” and dn increase 2,000,000 bu, in’ the visible dicted. —Armour was sald = tc A heavy seller of wheat against Lis enormous purchases in the northwest, and the scalping element was qu The weakness in the Kaffir rope continues, and had a de cnce. Pardridge was a free selley the session, but was thouxht to I cred some ‘of It on the =ibseqy The est'mate of 265 cars for Mol the probable little run all next the weak feature during the latter part of esslon. December opened at 601se, sold 0%c, then broke to 09%c, and closed at that bid The course of large. the week than the of over supply s t break day and ok wag the fluctuations in merely reflected in a weak way the changes in the wheat market. Prices at the close showed, as compared with the final quota- tions of the day before, a decline of e per bu. In October,” from %¢ to %e in December and from Ye'to e In May. The listing prices were: October, 30c; December, 275 to May, 2815 In oats, notwithstanding the good buying, the market was easier in ing " and showed a decline of from %e to 3¢ on Oc- tober and December, while May fell off ke The greater weakness in the nearby deliveries was in consequence of the large receipts and heavy estimate. May ranged at_from 20 ending at the low price. There close to complete stagna- tion in the speculative branch of the pro- corn vision business that could be made with- out reaching a complete stoppage. Pric were nominally a ®ifle higher than closing prices on the day before, owing to the steady live hog market. Estimates for Monday: Wheat, 265 cars; corn, oats, 850 cars; hogs, 31,000 nead. The leading futures ranged as follows: Articles. T_Opon. | High. | Low. | Closs. 59, 6035w U@l 4034 20%@is un 0 cars; 59 60% Oddiad 5 8% By Dec. LI May..... Corn. No Oct Jan;ece s Short Rivs=, Oc & spring stralghts, 5 WHEAT—N No. 8 spring, 3 yellow, 30%@ 2 white, 20%@ . nominal; No. 3, 23G36c; No. AX SEED-No, NIMOTHY SEED- I $3.4 PROVISIONS—Mess pork, per 4 lard, per 100 Ibs., $5.8214 3 « (Qo0ke), $6.200 dry salted ‘shoulders (hoxed), 5.36005.8714 short clear sides (boxed), $ VHISKY-—Distillers’ finished oo, $1.22. 5.4 SUGARS—Cut_lonf, standard A" $4.0 The following Were the receipts and shipments today TArticle Receipta.|Shipments. 11,000 111,000 Flour, bbls.. Wheat bu, 11.000 Corn, bu 242,000 ats. bu, 858.000 iye bu..... 1,000 Bariey. b, On th ket w; €000 Proluca exchange tod firm: ereamery. 9@: rm; 16446 Ge. PRICES MAY REACH THE 4y the butter mar- BOTTOM, American Raflways Lower, Tone of t Market Wan LONDON, Oct. 6.—~With the release of dividend money, commencing on Saturday, with no prospect for relief for the » money market, prices promise to recede to the lowest level. Sil- ver has been firm on purchases for China and Jupan. The stock market has been dull, except for the temporary setback In the ‘mining markets, which closed yester- ng that a steady 1o eoivéry will occur in all good mining inves 3 5 Consols and first-class securities Railwa stocks were somewhat lower, and "particularly “the Scotch lines, owing to the threatened spring trade bus- iness. American rail d, the bond issues bel hased, thu ting more confidence about exchang Shares genera a half, the chief falls beirg W Nashyville 1 but the hash, Atchison, onds and 11- Pacific fluctuated closed 17 lower; Grand dropped,’ the first 1%, guaranteed 1, sccond & Foreign bonds were lower on Paris seling, the situation in Turkey also giving uneasiniess, which af- | fected afl European stocks. Turkich - bonds | generally declined 1 and Italian and Span- {sh bonds 1 Sp MANCH peka & inois Central, a great deal an Trunk = generally . Oct. 6.—-The market here follows that of cotton, as regards fall- ing prices, but business is now small and extremely difficult. Some of the difiiculties among the Oldham companies over the | spinning margin are worse, rather than | be then before the rise began. Man- ufacturers having cleared their old’ stocks are now doing very little. The German spinners have sold” ahead six months at £00d prices. The Krench spinners are also busy on orders for several months. 8 Stock, 8T. LOUIS, Oc CATT Recelpts, 300 head; shipments, 1,00 head. ety light supoly causcd @ dull market, with sales In small lots and to butcaers' only; lght s brought 32606 ; cows and heifers, $1.90G3.00; Texas and In dian steers, $2.00G3.90; cows and heifers, $1.85¢ ) OGS —Recelpts, 140 head; shipments, 2,000 head; market lower’ heavy, §3.90g4.25; mixed, $.7664.10; Night, 34.0004 BHEEP-Recelpts head; market steady; b lambs, $3.064.50; _sout Stock in Sig Record of recelpts at the four principal markety for Saturday, October head; shipme: (tons, 200 Cattle. 1,88 N0 8,000 Eg Hogn 2,400 Sheep. South Omaha Chicago & Kansas City . Bt. Louls .. 11400 Totals ... 10,486 2,10 Sugar Marker NEW YORK, Oct. 6.—SUGAR—Raw, falr Tefining, Ske; Centiifugal, 9 tost 3e: e steady: Standard A- 4 7-16G4%0; Confec steady; © Fhrat National “ | HARGIN S———————————— OMAUA LIVE STOCK MARKET Light Saturday Run of Oattle and Nothing ! that Was Desirable for Killers, STRONGER FEELING IN THE MARKET Falr Run of Hogs and a Portion of the Decline of the Week Recove ercd=ackers S$till Continue to Be Benri SATURDAY, Oct. 5 Recelpts and shipments for the past twene ty-four hours, as compared with the pree vious four daye, are as follows: RECEIPTS, Catile, Hogs, Sheep, Hors October B.....oivel 1386 2,400 1,602 October 2440 October 3140 Octol 4,358 October 00 2,141 SHIPM 5 Calle. Hoga, Sheep, Horses. Octaber 5 135 108 . October ¥ October Veoriie i October 1 k! September d0.. 9i§ RECEIPTS, Cattl Recelpts this week.. ¢ Receipts last week Same: weel 1804, Same week 1893 Same week 189 DA The disposition of the day's offerings of live stock was as follows, cach buyer pur- chasing the number of head indicated: Buyers, Cattle. Hogs, Omaha Packing con Sveten o G. I Hammond e SWift and Company. Cudahy Packing com Halstend .......... R. Becker & Degan Hamilton & Stephens.... T, L. Careyiiiciies T, Tobman & R0 Heckor Bros....... ... . Shippers and feedors.. 110 ¢ i Left over {53 100 Totals ...oeven 2,71 The weck has been characterized by a large increase In the receipts of both cattle and hogs, as compared with the previous week, At the same time the receipts have falien short of the record made the corres sponding week of last y THE YEAR wing will show th the 1 crease, as gl of last year: 1, 14061 376 08 38 any PTS. coipts of live D 1o date and corresponding Decrense. 180,613 i 0 he usual light Sat- cceipts being the day last Saturday. Only fifty fresh loads wei and’ of ‘that number about le up of cows and heife e mostly stockers and feeders, There were no fat st f any account on the market. There was wome inquiry, and ‘the fecling was that really desirable cattle would have sold stronger. Ivery- thing here sold readily at good, steady prices. One big string of westerns brought $2.90, aad another bunich §3.20 Cows and heifers were In good request and the market active at yesterday's prices. No great activity was’ developed in the stocker and feeder division, but a_fair amount of business was transacted for a Saturday. Values did not show any ma- terial_change. HOGS—The hog run was fair for a Saturday, thirty-seven fresh loads being received. T quality was not quite up o yesterday's standard, but was fair. As to values there was some in provement, the general market being steady to o higher. The sales, however, would not show much If any advance'on thelr face, owing to the fact that the hogs were not so good today. The trade was fairly active and the hogs were all sold In good seAson. The best hogs fold at the same as the top yesterday, while $3.5 was the popular price. "The general tendency of the hog ma e pust week has been downward at the opening of the week at § the bulk of the sales at $3.95 to #. On Tuesdny the market dia much change, but_on Wednesdiy and it experienced a ma- terial decline, hogs selling on the last men tloned day at’ $2. ith the bulk at $3.8 o $3.90. On Friday sl lower, Tange of pri $3.95, The heaviest packers are still very bearish and will ‘have to go still lowel t thirty to fort to sell on the basis « et price of pork ( %5 hogs on this ma to be absolutely cert sions must advance or hogs t during sold with s hogs will have January pork, At would mean $3 4 One thing (h and that is th will_be lower. SHEEP—The recelpts were large but the she were all billed through and were not offered for sale on this market, CHICAGO LIVE STOCK. In Cattle th OHICAGO, Oct. 5. strong for good fat attle the week closed native beeves, the greater part of last weck's dgcline having been recov. ered. Medium grades of natives have had liberal offerings of range cattle to compete with, and consequently the advance in such stock was not ally desirable cattle have sold to 1 v Steers sold today At from ay, including 5,000 left over from I brisk of those & at from 33, $116 to $4.25 for_shippers. oldat from $3.70 to $4.3 5 to $4.25, and lght w The hest heavy ago. Sheep receipts are still beating all records. ily made today at full prices, e ferlor to_extra native sheep being salable at from $1.50 to §4, with export grades 2c higher than a 'k ago. Western sheep were wanted at from % to §3.50, and a prime heavy lot of Utah p Kold yesterday at $3.70. Lambs sold at 75 for common t pie: - Catile, §00 b 000 head: shecp, eavy mixed lots at from ghts at from $3.80 to closed 1oc lower than a There's nothing like muste And when you can got Music for nothing, Tt's pretty good nu'ie to buy. Standard shoot musie given away wbsolutely frow A Good New Piano for $178— $15 down and $8 a mouth. A. HOSPE, Jr., Music and Art, 154 Douglas, JAMES E. BOYD & CO Telephone 1039. OMAHA, NEB, COMMISSION Grain, Provisions & Stocks Room 111% Board of Trade, Direct wires to Chicago and New York. Correspondents: John A. Warren & Co, ¥. P. BMITH (Tel 13%) 8. M. STANFORD . F. P. SMITH & CoO. GRAIN and PROVISION@ Room 4. N. Y. Life Bldg., Omaka, Branch offices at Fremont grders placed on (he Chicago rrespondents: Schwartz yoi Behreiner, Flack & and Columbug. Al Boars " feara of uudy Tgend 10F Gur compis K ox 6 MAKGIN TRADING i O ALL MARKET EXs TRADIKG SIONS. " Alo our dally man EXPLAINED. w15 a5 "o, when aud ta . . Ak 4 . Hoth free. Bank references urnished. ARBOG, MEMBERS = CHICAGO Afoaito % A, 4 7-16G4%¢; cut loaf, § 3-10G0%c; gran- ulated, 4 §-l6c, - AR TRADE, B8 Traders Bulldiag, Cuicaga > OF &