Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 25, 1900, Page 8

8 OMAHA LIVE STOCK MARKET Cattle Bupplies Are Smell and Not of Good Quality, MODERATE NUMBER OF HOGS ON SALE Offered to Make ¥ Fare Not Enongh Sheep Market=Other Badty fo »l SOUTH OMAHA Catile. Hogs Dec Recelpts were El Official Monduy I3 day last We i woek Kk before Ks ago ur weeks ogo 4 Average price paid for hogs for scveral days, with cmparisons the past 1000, 1506, 1895, 1594 I nee wwes wecwss * Indicat The officlal number of brought in today by each o ot stock attle. Hogs, H'r's, Ry 2 Ry Ry VR & O R R ity P, east linois Central it Ry tal recelpts 2 e disposition of the day's receipts was ch buyer purchasing the num- r of head Indicated Cattle. Hogs, Sheep aha Packing Co. ud Co mpany King Co Armour & Co. (o1 A Becker & Degan 3. L. Curey Lobman & Co Jiumilton' & Rothachild. . L. I, Husz 3 Uther buyers & Totals CATTLE butincinde stuff. K huve been the demund improved s 17 | Bupplles Were ugaln very small A few loads of very deceat fipts at the different “markets small for some days, and as for fat stock nos graduall prices have advanced 152 on beef steers the past few days. Jay, with only a few loads on sale, the demand was strong and prices were about a dime higner than at the close of last week. at cows and heifers also sold 51 higher than last week. Medium grades wold a shade stronger owing to lght re- | celpta, but canning stock showed littie, if wny, change. “There w w any Kind, and tacre for feeding stock country 18 lim and prices clined sharply the past week A few western cows were all the ra cattle recelved today. Range Stock suiti- ble for the block |8 sclliug stronger in sympathy with the demuid for native heef Canners” and_feeding stock are in sk demand at weak prices. Representative sales N 1 1 s offered of it demand | from the have de- stock v he catt v sl 1nquiry Av 350 170 Sl TRS 1510 168 1230 1) a0 WS AND 240 STOCK HEL b i 3 1 W YOMINC 120 8 cows W cow COLORADO. 6 1 steer Runches it 5 cows. included e packer, le 1000 1230 fonds a Conditions and prices higher, at long string number TRecefpts local number at the opening were close to T Which busis the bulk sold, the welling At $1.57 ! fuir $185 CAfter the first round trade weakened and closing prices were conslderably lower than the opening, the last hogs scliing at $ONL@1.85, against $4.85G487% early in the duy s compared with a week ago today prices are slightly higher. 'The hogs sold today at'a range of $L.80G4.%, and bulk at SO, IRepresentative sales No. Av.8h. Pr. N sh 103 1 200 g 100 0 oy < E g [a 100, 4 73 o SHEEP-There w make A market. — The prices lust week has caused a shut-oft in supplies at all markets. The castern mar ket are lightly supplied and a little better ndition of trade 18 noted. The decline in prices are so great, however, it will take Bome time even with moderato supplies fo the trade to recover the loss. Nominally the market is i better shupe than at the close of last week Quotations: Choice fed 33 380 falr to choice fed w 7 cholee year'ings, $4.10a1 earlings, SLWGLI0; cholg fair' to good ewes, 33000 npr{ng lambs, 4 0 falr to good sy Jumbs, $4.504.75; feeder ewes, feeder wethers, ' $8.5003.7; feeder no sheep here to heavy decline in wethers, thers, $3 fair " to wos, Rood i 32,2008, Tamby at | &0 Market o shipping with extra head strong_and including 10G 15 higher and cxport stecrs, 347040 cholce Christmag beeves worth up te dressed beef und butcher steers, $4.1 Steers undar 1,00 pounds, $3.0648 ern and feedors, 822561 cows helfers, £220ai75: Texas and [ndian steers, ywa and heifers, $2.503.5 celpts, 2700 head. Market gher; pigs and lghts # o0; butchers, $4.90 AMBE-Rocelpts ve muttons wls and bucks, $20001 3.0 "HOC strong 48001, .6 SHEEP AND Market nominal Inmbs, 4,255, stockers, packers, L [ none. 0G4, 20, $2.004 CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET, r=togs Ensy mher. Receipts, Cattle Active and High CHICA 950 head; butchers’ stock ers, $5.40016.2 coted fe Kers, § 5 canners, ; calves, ) e ctive 1 ars at poor to m wat 317 st #.00q 4 ‘Texas bulls, $240a3.2 000 head; left ov ned 5i10c higher, mixed and butcher heavy i light, % a5 Texas fe steers HOGS 200 head cusy: top, 05; good' to cholce hewvy, $4.651, ou, '$4.871e5 SHIIEP AND head; active and « cholce wethers, $3.7504.60; mixed, § 80 woester! Texas sheep, $2.252. i western lambs, LAMBS 1672 Receipts hig fair sheey tive lambs, 1. to_cholce $3.75014.50 & $1.254 i New York Live Stock Market, NEW YORK, Dec. 2. — BEEVES celpts, 8,75 head: market active; steady to a_fraction higher; bulls and frm; steers, $4,0065.90; i export g bles, " slow; live cattl Shipments, 518 head cattie | ters of beef. Recelpty, Erassers, $4.505.5; R steer: ow 0 cows, ateers, 2 all #old; grasse 722 head; Ssoe higher; lttle calves, $1; AND LAMBS — Recelpts, 7.000 sheep, dull: good to choice lambs, ' shade higher; under grades, D, $2.25G%.00; culls, $2; lamby Tambs, $5.6046,90. lambs, ¢ head; firmer fe %; cholce pigs, higher. veals, ables slow HOC ing; quotations CATTLE 100 nativés, 100 Texans, 200 Market ‘opened active at 1oc higher closed slow with part of the advanc $4.9005.50; stockers and foed: butcher cows and heife , $2.5008.00; fed west ans, $3.66@4.10; calves, 4400 head; trade lvance; he Wi, 0715 i lght! $4.7574.95; plgs, > AND LAMBS- Receipt, The offerings were all feeders thuat broaght steady prices; fat lambs are bringing $1.%5 stockers and feed- $13.2. Receipts, tock Market, Mo, Dec. 24 The dournal quot CATTLIS Recelnts, 4% head, Markot ac tive and’ i0c higher! quality ‘Inferior; n tives, $4.2 Toxas and westerns, $3.50 @.25; Ccow heifors, $21004.60; bu'ls and stags, 82 yearlings and caly 8.2 ors and feeders, $3.000 Market 7 i bulk of sale (Spe- L 2100 head. ~Recelpts, none; demand good. Stock in Stght. Following are the receipts at pal wostern markets for Dec Cattle. Hogs the four Soith Omaha . “hicago Kansas St Louls 1 ESALE MARKETS, Totals 47,448 OMAHA WHO! Conditions of Trade and Quotations on Staple and Faney Pr BGGS—Recsipts, lght; geod stock, 15920, POULTRY—Hens, be; spring chickens, 5e; roosters, dc; ducks, S@blc, geese, Bl4@ic; turkeys, 747 FRESH DRESSED POULTRY—Hens, 61 ducks, §14@ic; geese, T i spring chickens, per Ib., 6¢; turkeys, Prairle _chickens, per per doz., $.0099.30; teal, $1.56 mixed, $1.6041.75; qucksnipes, §1; quail, 1.50; JacKrabbits, $1.00@1.25; cottontalls, 'TER—-Common to fair, 11%c; cholce, separator, 2c; gathered creamery, FRESH OYSTERS - First grade, solld packed, New York counts, per can, dc; x- tra selects, 82c; standards, medium, 20c. Second grade, slack filled, New York counts, per can, 30c; extra selects, f6c; dards, 20c; bulk ‘standards, per’ gal., $1 PIGEONS-Live, per doz., 3c. VEALS-—Choloe, 0 10c. HAY-—Price quoted by Omaha Wholesale Hay_ Dealers' assoclation: Cholee upland, No. 1 upland, $§; medium, $7.50; coars §7) Rye straw, $6.50. These prices are for hay of good ‘color and quality. Demand talr. OATS-No. CORN-No, 8, BEAN-$13.50 VEGETABLE T bu., S0c. Per bu. basket, 40c. t bu., Sc Per bu, 40 Per do Per doz. BEANS-Wax, per string, %c POTATOES—Per bu, S0 doz., white, 26c. R2c, PARSNILS, TURNIPS A e, 1-3 bu. basket, $1; Idaho, per T POTATOES—Per bbl,, $2. CARBAGE-—Holland seed, TOMATOES — California, IONS—Per bu, %0c; LERY- AULIFLOWER—California, ITS. PEARS—Per box, 20042 GRAPES-Malagi, per ke APPLES-—Nativ bbl., 32 Bellnow CRAN bbl; Jerse H0G@60C; ber 4-basket Colorado, per crate, &, $6.60419.00, SeasLi per bi: por Californta T Do, 81 10G 16 RRIES—Bel} and Bugle, § ¥8, per bbl., $8.75; per crat TROPICAL FRULTS, ORANGES—California weedlings, navels, $.50; Mexicans, $2.75@3.00; Floridas, MONS--Californfa, $3. ce, 8 BANANAS—Per bunch, according to size, $2.00012.50, I 9.50 per (i 12. extra fancy, California, new ATES, Glac per 1b cartons, S0c; lay- Persian, In b, Halloween, 6 MISC HIDES-—No. No. 1 salt \ .up_ boxes, airs, hides. $1.5 nuts, per Ib., 13 nonds. per 16, 187 ns, 10412 tion case, or 1 '\‘ ! pet Colarado, Per hhl SACERIRAUT bbl., ck Quotations, A p. m.—Closing: 310 Erle a1l do ist pfa % Pennsylvania 7\ Read Cons., money do account Atchison Pac 8t. Paul Hilnots ¢ sville tten i N. Y. Central BAR SILVER dy at MONEY i@ per cent aiscount in the open marks {8 4@4ly per cent for three months' @4y per cent tral nfd Wi Anaconda S S Rand Mines ... 8 20%d per oz, The rate of for short bills bills, ds Market., Dee. 20.—The dry goods e quite a holiday appear- jess reported wis limi » 'was no change in n or woolen goods . Print cloths ous prices. The mar- tomorrow Dry YORK m today Wo ance and the bus in all directions the tone for either nor alteratic were fnactive at RSl be ‘cio Peorin Dee. NEW nrket, ORN—Inactive; PEORIA, e, OATS—Steady; No, 24¢. billed through. WHISKY-On the finished gocds No. white, 24e track; basis of $1.27 for win Butter Market. ELGIN, 1l Dec Butter today de- steady at 2ige. None was offered. 5 0f the week, 10,00 tubs. $10041H4.40. N 10" Nebraska fod ewoes.... 7 Nebraska fel lambs.: Av . 164 Aaasse 40 Pr 3 4 (% . fll:l‘k Market. H—CATTLE-Recelpts, St. Louis Li of the Treasury, Dee. ~Today's state- ment of the tr ury balances in the gen ral fund, excl of the $150,000,000 re- serve in the bank of redemption, shows: WASHING 7543.50; | 1147 | $4.50 | | | | | 5.42 | weaker on realizations ir | But TIHE Avaflable cash bulance, $141,684,769; gold, on OIL CITY, Pa $1.07; certificates, and Mosin, Dec. 21, -Credit balances, no Didi ahipments, 10 bbIs!; average bbls.; runs, 168,913 bhle: average, 01458 bbls NEW YORK, Dec O1L8- Aull; prime cride prime crude dull; _refined rk clphin 'and Baltim: and Haltimore, in bulk, strained, common to dull at 40 a6 3 0118 - Petroleim, ferican refined, 5 13-16d. Turpentine spir- ity, 388 60, Linseed, 318 LIVERPOOL, Ded. 2 seed, Hull refined, #pot, Turpentine spirits, dull common, steady at 48 (d fined, quiet at 75, Lingeed, stead ANTWERP, " Dec. 24, ~O1LS- 18 francs, paid and sellers Cottonseed, yellow, Phi [0 Cotton- at 20 6d od, Rosin, troleum, ‘re: dy, at o1 petroleum, Financial. 2, o11 al at 2 i L. strong at of bullion withdrawn ingland on b old premiums Buenos Avres, Spanish s, LIN, De wak amount Bank of £135,000. follow Ron the day Was quotad as Madrid, $4.15; Business on the bourse irregular, Home tonals were rather easler. iroh_and coa view of the hoil- duys. Banks were steady change on London, 20m 42gpfgs for checks, Discount rates: Short and three-months' bills, 3% per cent 9.6 P somewhat funds were firm, Inte steady, Americans were Canadians adyanced and I today Bank Clearings and Exchange NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—Clearings, $122,084,- 023; balances, $6,861,084. Subtreasury debit bajances, $045,5% . 8T. LOUIS, Dec, C n.l!hn‘" $2,267,224; sat per balances, $817,712 New York exchange, 10c discount bid, par rings, $3,802 asked _CINCINNATI, Dec, 24 ¢ Mo 306 per cent. New York ex- change, e discount PHILADELPHIA, $ 181,817; balances, « Ne 1y — Clearings, 81, New York Money Market NEW YORK, Dec. 24~ PRIME MERCAN- TILE PAPER -Nominal at 4%as. STERLING EXCHANGE-Steady. for actual business were as follows days, $4.90%; demand. $184%; cables, Commercial 'bills, $4.791g41.811 WOMEN'S INFLUENC Rates Sixty A sible for the Chare rx of Other Sex. ness Hours" Largely Respo acter of Me 'he Young Man Out of Bu {s the theme upon which Senator Bev- eridge of Indiana discourses in a recent article In the Saturday Evening Post, in the course of which he “There is positively nothing of such value to young men—yes, and to old men, too—as the chastening and powerful influence for good which women bring into their lives I should be the last man in the world to suggest that a young man should keep him- self ‘tied to his mother's apron strings,’ as is the saying of the people, and this it not what 1 mean when I earnestly suggest that he keep as close to his mother's opinfons, teachings and influence as the circum- stances of life will permit. The same thing, of course, may be said with reference to a man's wife—even more strongly, it possible. the conversation and opinion of any good woman are, as a practical matter and a measure of worldly wisdom, simply be- yond price. She is wise with that sub- limated reason called ‘woman's instinct “There is, too, & human quality kept alive and growing in your character by woman's association and Influence that, as a mattor of business power in meeting the | world ana its problems, 1s far and away be- yond the value of the craft of the tricklest gamester of affairs and business and poli- tics who ever lived. It is a saying of th farmer folks among whom 1 was raised that such and such a person ‘has princl- ple,’ meaning that the person so described is upright, trustworthy, judiclous—that such a person’s attitude toward God and man and the world is correct. “Women have principle in precisely the sense in which that term is used by the country people. They will keep you true to the order of things—to the constitution of the universe. They will do this, not so much by preaching at you as by the in- fluence of their very personality. The man who has gotten out of touch with woman- Kind {s not to be feared. He 15 to be pitied ritker than feared, for he is out of har- mony with the world—he is disarmed. No matter how large his mind and great his courage, he s teutralized for all natural, proper-preportioned, and therefore endur- ing effort “I know a physician who, still young, has reached the head of his profession in this country. Sundays and the evenings with his wife and children are not enough for him. He takes Wednesdays also. Pre- clsely this same thing is done by the great young captain of finance and affalrs whom T described first in this paper as being a total abstainer. This is not done for tne rest it glves these men, or if it is done for that It is not the greatest benefit they get out of it. They come back to their work with clearer and stronger conceptions of human character and of truth in the ab- stract and the concrete, with which all men, no matter what thelr profession or business may be, must deal. They have a new tenderness, a larger tolerance, a broader vision of life and humanity, and, therefore, of their business, which Is merely a phase of life and affairs,” A CLEAN SW Breaks Up a e It was the noon hour and there were'a dozen “hands” gathered in the tobacco warehouse—all very black, relates Harper's Magazine, Varlous forms of petty gambling had been tried without fully satisfying their gaming instincts. Then Steve, who was big and fat, said “Boys, less make up er puss. Less all | put in er nickel and den let de pile go to | de pussen what names de bes' eatings. Marse Jimmy "Il be de Jedge. This was agreed to and soon there was a little heap of nickels on the box around which they were gathered. ow,” sald Steve, “we'll draw for de fust The next moment he grinned with de- as he drew the marked slip from Marse Jimmy's hat. He paused for a space he gave the weighty matter adequate consideration, then he sald, slowly Um, yaes, de bes' eatings! Well, possum, taters, watermillion A small black hand shot snatched up one of the colns “Whatcher deing, Charlie, you sneaking houn' dog?"' roared Steve, in a rage. “Shet you blam' fool nigger!" answered Charlie, deflantly, Yo' think I's gwine stay 1n dis yere game when yo' done gone name all dey 157" &0 lght 1 says forward and up, eat H 1 on Wheels, Kifglts Templar and their friends who | attend the triennial conclave to be held at Louisville next August will find novel lodging accommodations prepared for them. Quarters for about 4,000 of them will be provided in a ‘city on wheels,” which is to he established near the National league ball park, which can be reached on strect cars, within twenty minutes, from the heart of the clty From the terminus of the electric street railway llnes moving sidewalks will run along lines of sleepers and dining cars that bring the visitors to Louisville, and in which the city's guests will be housed dur- ing their stay. The cars will be “parked” 1 sidings facing on a large campus. Tho “city on wheels” will be flluminated at night with electric light towers. Electric fountalns and displays of fireworks will help the visitors while away the evenings. The little city will have a police force, & sanitary equipment, a “rest” pavilion, & reading room with buffet, a bathing pool and grounds for the competitive drills. A fund of $100,000 has been raised by the knights and business men of the city and the entertainment of the crowds will be looked after by ffty committees, which A G are now hard at work, OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, é (Copyright, 190, by W. A. Fraser) 1 This is the blography of a gentleman who is spending his fallow days in a jail in one of the southern states because of something that does mot come at all fnto this narrative Sidney Langdon came to Rangoon, in Burmah, with a theatrical aggregation. The company had a name, but no matter, for probably the members are not all in {Jall. They came up somewhere from the southern seas—Singapore, Penang way, and the cashier's billet had become a hollow mockery, for they played to bad business In Rangoon their theatrical ship plunged | for the last time, sank hopelessly and they | wero left stranded. Sidney Langdon, the waneger, up to that time had financlered | with extraordinary ability. When busl- |ness was bad Langdon's wife came into | play and tided them over the fmmedis difficulty, He won them out of Australia with his gun at pigeon matches, for he wae a crack shot. He borrowed them out of Hongkong, for next to shooting he was an adept at the art of making a loan. Just how they got out of Singapore nobody could quite say, not even themselves, but they did, and struck Rangoon financlally em- Larrassed. It it had been a circus, they would have made money in Rangoon, for that's the one sort of European entertainment the Bur- mese will flock to. Given a trick elephant, on oplum-doped tiger or two, some short- skirted bareback riders and a brass tand of malignant power, & financial success Is asrured. But Langdon’s company wero ter- ribly fifth-class minstrel artists, and he lacked even the brass band. Debts cumulated, and men with money to loan were all in the rice busincss and would not listen to his falry tales of the big houses he would be sure to play to in Calcutta, Then the manager disappeared, leaving the customary disconsclate lot of solicitous creditors. With barbaric avariclousness one of these traced Langdon to Caleutta, had him arrested, and brought back to Rangoon. It wasn't clever, it was even more ttan silly, as after events proved Freed from the ifncumbrance of the dozen ac to broker. His rise was phenomenal. He was as charming debonnalr in his manner as a well-bred goat. The Euglish host of Evershed’s hotel let loose the secret Langdcr's success when he described him to me. *'E was a gentleman, my word! A regu- lar toft! 'Is clothes filled 'alf the room I never ‘eered 'im say nothink as wasn't perlite th nobody, an’ always argufied every- think wi' champagne. If there was heny dispute hover a deal or anythink, ‘e'd s ‘“'ave a bottle wi' me' Then 'e'd ‘ave own way. My word, e were a corker!" Now mine host Evershed was an obsery ant philosopher, for these were the lines Langdon played the people of Rangoon on: “’Ave a bottle wi' me. wheeled flash dog cart—red spokes and yel- low gear and a lacquer-polished black body —down from Dack & Co. of Caleutta. That it wasn't pald for did not detract from its swagger rush, as a beautiful gray Pegu pony swirled It up the Ladies’ Mile of Halpin road. Nor did the pcny travel one whit slower because his purchase money bad not been made over as yet. That his company had swamped him finanzially was not laid up against Sidney, for he explained that the few thousands he had lost was n mere bagatelle—it had only been a form of amusement with him, and he had written to his rich father in America for a substantial remittance to open up a big commercial house in Ran- goon, for ho liked the place. Soon nobod; was greater than Mr. Lang- don. His apartments were sumptuous, his wardrobe elaborately awful and his energy in *“’aving a bottle” with any good chap indefatigable. But solitary grandeur palled upon him; he was good looking, and from among the mauy maidens who sighed for assoclation with the dashing broker he se- lected one whose father was of undoubted financial stability. In gifts Langdon was generous to a fault—the chief fault lay in the fact that the gifts were not paid for. An exquisite diamond ring and a very mag- ent piano were among the trifles be be- 1 upon als flancee. Of course, a leglt- imate brokerage business in the seed tim of its being could not stand all this for any length of time and little clouds commenced to hover on Sidney's horizon Creditors cre like long-horned strects on a western cattle run; when one begins to get nervous the whole bunch scents the danger and in the end they stampede. Sidney saw it comirg, and he commenced to lay up cash against a rainy day. His method was in- genlous, for he was accustomed to flitting. The dog cart that was not paid for Lang- don sold for cash at a moderate price on condition that he should be allowed to use it for a week until the new one ordered from Calcutta arrived. In two days he sold it to another man; also the pony. The plano, for which the sole exchange had been a prom- issory note, he also sold; having first bor- rowed a tidy sum on it from an obliging moneylender. He explained to the lady that the dlamond ring was not at all up to her class—not in accordance with the wealth of his affection; she must have a better one. Once more in his possession it was speedily converted into cash; and the fair maid and the rapacious Delhl jewel merchant who had s0ld it fn the first place, never again saw its merry glint. Thus his affairs were tidied up. Other matters experienced the same oblique commercial ramification. His stand- ing as a rich broker, engaged to & wealthy man's daughter, gave Langdon a goodly call over malign circumstances; but before he could quite get away a nervous individual suddenly pounced down upon him with a bailiff and an emergency summons for a debt of 2,000 rupees. The bailift interviewed hotel. The officer was polite; deuced sorry, it was all a mistake, no doubt; but would Langdon mind going with him and putting it straight. Now Siduey had Intended tak- ing his departure that very night—It was a most unlucky interruption, but his actor training ame back to him, and he smiled with gracious forgiveness upon the bailift. The claim for money was either a mis- take or the malicious dodge of one of his broker rivals; however, that did not mat- ter—it wasn't the officer's fault; he was only doing his duty. Would he step up to the room and do him the honor of crack- ing @ bottle while he had a bath and changed his business coat for proper even- ing dress? Sidney had his bath and, in- cldently, the man with the warrant got yery drunk. Champagne did not flow fnto his life every day, and a thirst in Rangoon {s sometning of momentous intentness. Langdon put him to sleep, dressed with his usual exquisite care, and, going downstalrs, explained things to the host “My word! 'e were cool,” Evershed said afterward with deep admiration. ‘'E comes down, says as 'ow the hofficer ‘as got most bloomin' drunk, an' s sure to lose 'is billet it 'e doesn’'t go an' report hisself about this debt as is all a big swindle, 'E hopens a pint of champagne wi' me, an’ I promises to look after the hofficer, an' send 'im away ‘ome to sleep it boft." Now this matter of the 2,000 rupees was a subject of discongolate unrest to the gay broker; he'd have to square that matter to secure & peaceful departure. Sidney at the 1 Two blocks away lived a confidiog Par- DECEMBER musical wrecks Langdon had been carrying | as a star combination, he remained as a | of | He got a high- | | methods of finance, | behead him, |and his generally prosp: backed up by his habit of “having a bottle” | os 23, 1600. L M sl HIS ORIENTAL RECORD. The Story of a Swindler, By W. A, FRASER. S A .ow seo merchant to whom Langdon owed a thousand; also a desire to add to the gentle fira worshiper's tribulation. So he went to this creditor and confided in him. “See here,” he sald, “this grasping Mussulman, Ragnath, who fs of an unchristian faith, is seeking to hurt my business by the regu 1ar native methods. he has summoned me for 2,000 rupees, which I do not owe. The officer sent has unfortunately become intoxicated in the hotel and I must go alone. 1 owe you a thousand, which I have brought here it is. It you will kindly come with me to the court and stand security until tomorrow for this debt, 1 will show the follower of Mahomet that it will not do to bear false witness against a European. 1 will contest this sult and have him put In Jall. This thousand rupees which 1 glve you as evidence of my good faith, then keep for your dobt.” It seemed a candidly honest See, transaction | and the Parsee stood bondsman for Lang don’s appearance. It wasn't a productive transaction, for that night the broker quietly took the train and hied him over the border into King Thecbaw's territory at Mandalay. There was no extradition treaty and the wailing in Rangoon affected very little the gay Sidney; in fact, it was rather good sport to him. In Mandalay Langdon again flourished like a green bay tree. He even carried on business with his former friends in Rangoon—supplied the city with stone for the roads. Many devices were worked to entice him over the border 80 that twelve good men might be allowed to place on record their opinion of his past but Siduey was quite content In his new abode He would probably hav until such time as it bec remained there me necessary to but the year following his ad- vent was the one of the war between Eng- land and Upper Burmah. Agaln Lanedon had to prepare for a move, for with the coming of the troops Britlsh law would ex d up to Mandalay. Rich native mer- chants became panic-stricken at the pros pect of looting soldiers overrunning their premises. That was Langdon's chance; h had a big sate, and persuaded some of the terrorized Burmese to place their jewels with him for safekeeping The soldiers will not steal from a European,” he said. They belleved him; and the soldiers never got & chance to dis prove his words, for, as the troops entered Mandalay, Sidney went down the river in the big flat steamer, disguised as a mese servant to onme of the passengers. Right through the watchers at Rangoon he tripped. . . At Calcutta Langdon had a little sport- ing play in the swindling line. None of the racing men knew of his Rangoon record, ous appearan of the most expénsive, gave him as a man of means, The Calcutta races were on and Sidney knew the usual course among gentlemen bettors was to book transactions and settle the following Mon- day. So the first day of the meeting he plunged heavily with a bookmaker, was kind enough to book his bets. won quite a sum, bookmaker. “I should like to settle accounts, if you don't mind, as 1 am golng away to- morrow.” The other paid with a sorrowtul feeling at losing this man who bet with reckless freedom, for he looked upon him in the light of a profitable customer. But next day, at the course, his heart was mado glad by a sight of the buoyant Langdon. “Thought you were going awa bookie said, “Got a telegram changing my arrange- ments. Going to have another crack at you.” “That's good; glad of ft." All that afternoon Sidney had his crack at_the layer of odds and fn the end stood a heavy loser on the books—ten times the amount of the previous day's winnings. Then the bookmaker had a season of sadness, for he never saw Sidney again; not that day nor any day after, . . PRy P But though Langdon dropped out of the Calcutta life with the same meteoric rapid- ity he had come into it, yet our friend was not quite finished with India, for he tarried a few days at Madras. Here ho passed as Captain Kane, son of an American million- afre. His father was an owner of great sil- ver mines and other gigantic affairs in the | western states. Nobody ever quite koew standing Sidney That night he said to the " the how it was managed, but he had letters of | introduction to one or two prominent people, and after a few days was taking tifin and hobnobbing generally with the governor of the Madras presidency, Goven-Duffen, At that time the silver question, embodied in the skeleton form of the depreciated rupee, was of vital moment, and king of the dis- cussion board. Captain Kane enlightened the governor of Madras as to how this cur- rency problem was affected by America, His experience as the son of a great silver king was of much value, and his opinions were quoted, printed and generally accepted as standard utterances. He played whist at the Madras club, lived on the fat of the land savored with honey and, strange to say, left days before the entry of the usual grim aftermath, There was an aftermath, but it did not mature in reality until the coming of a of the flood of 1. 0. Us, checks, drafts on the wealthy father and other dubious literature which hed been so lavishly given to the Madras world, T SR Days before the fulness of this time he encamped at Colombo. From Madras Lang- don, now Captain Kane, took letters of in- troduction to the military and official life of Ceylon's beautiful city. This, of course, threw the onus of entertainment upon the Colombo dwellers, and Captain Kane of the U. 8. A. was Kept busy answering invita- tions; his room in the Grand Orlental ho- tel was filled with them. At the end of ten days he said to the proprietor of the hotel “I've got to return the mauy soclal kind- nesses 1 have tved here. 1 wish to do it in a thorough manucr—give one grand ball somewhere, and invite everybody who is anytody. 1 give you carte blanche—the best of everything that money can buy we must hav wines and all Break the record—make it a affair—don’t forget that “It stall be attended to, colonel,' the proprietor with fawniog deference. “The best music, and tons of flowers," suggested the son of the millionaire. will seo to it, general “The invitataions will bother me," de- clared Langdon-Kane. “I must have only the best people, civil and military." “Of course, my lord,” assented his host. But 1 don't know & third of them," ob- Jected the captoin, “If I might suggest it, T could attend to the invitaations—take them oft your hands I know everybody, of course.” “Capital, capital!” declared ronizingly. “Just send out the card use your own dlscretion in everything; dislike to be worrled by trifles, You can let me have the bill—" “All {n good time," interrupted the pro- prietor “There be no hurry abou* that part of it." It was a grand affair. proaching banquet and of the station. sald will For days the ap ball was the hotel staff worked with feverish for the order had been unlimited. The crush was terrifie, for the boniface had killed several birds with energy, {his Wmost precious stope that bad been | tory of the World was such & thivg heard | Ouect wires 10 CRickso and Ne you can | Bur- | who | protracted | long-to-be-remembered | talk | put in his hands by the golden fates. Many Httle courtesies he wiped off his own sla by the fnvitations; also the greater the crowd the bigger the bill The night of the bail, just as Sidney- Captain Kane—was preparivg to welcomc his guests, he recelved a message. He | confided this fact to the proprietor, and begiged him (o attend to everything until his return fn an hour or two. It was a tremerdously unfortunate thing, but a mat- ter of life and death to a protege ot his Langdon elipjed out into the night; and that is the last the genfal caterer ever saw of his prodigal patron, for an outgoing steamer that had been lying in the road- bed ready to took him far from India's coral strand that same night of tho mighty ball. The guests drank the wines and feasted like Lucullus, and mer- rily waited for that prince of good fellows, Captain Kan They are still waiting while others aro dead years wgo The steamer by or clear some of them, for that was several which the versatile Sid- ney fled fetched up in Rio Janelro; but that fs ancther hemisphere; and what the process was in the interval of his landing in the Georgla Jail is not of this history. SOME r1ES, Yarns About a Former St. Eressman, “Whenever 1 hear a discussion about po Louls Con- regarding them,” says an old man in the Washington Star, “I recall an | episode that occurred at Ol Polnt Com- fort during the naval rendezvous previous to the World's falr at Chicago. You know, there 1s @ national soldiers’ home at Hampton, near Old Point, and it was only natural, in view of the great event in Hampton Roads, that the national hoard which governs the home should take ad- vantage of the occasion to make an official visit to the Hampton institution. General Frauklin, General Steve Avery and sev- eral other members of the board were there, and had determined to make an in- spection of the home and its inmates on a Sunday morning. “Joht O'Neill, then a representative in congress from a St. Louis district, and were invited by General Avery to accom pany the party to Hampton. Everybody who knew O'Neill remembers what a de- lghtful brogue he possessed. When Avery asked him to enter the carriage then at hand and make the trip he quickly re- plied “‘I'd go in a minute, gin'l, but I've got t' g0 ' mass.’ Avery endeavored to impress upon him the fact that he could attend mass any Sunday, but a turnout of old veterans was not to be seen so easily. “0'Nelll still refused sisted, until at last I looked at my watch, and, observing the time, remarked to O'Nelll that he was too late to attend mass and be there at its most solemn portion, because communion time had passed. Sat- isfying himself on this point, and express- ing his regret that he had been cajoled into delaying his plous purpose, the carriage with Avery and myself. we started off Avery said to him: * “John, your religlous platform as you do to your political platform.’ **‘Bedad, that's thrue, gin'l’ he replied like a flash. ‘Ye know, they're both buflt v git in on!’ “Coming back from the house,” continued the narrator, *C inimitable stories, and one, I remember, as particularly good and timely. “‘The lasht bill Prisidint Harrison signed,’ he said, ‘was one grantin’ a pin- shun to an old lady in St. Louis whose son had been drowned durin’ th' war in th very moat around Fort Monroe there. He was on sentry duty an’ had fell fn th' wather. 1 had worked on that bill harder thin T had on anny measure, I reckin, in me congressional carcer, an’ it was passed at th' very lasht minute. Whin I reached th' prisidint in th' prisidint's room at th' sinate Mr. Harrlson had t'rown down his pin an' declared he would slgn no more | T told him this bill was for a solfer's mother, an’ he pickt up his pin an’ signed it. Whin I wint back t' St. Louls I met th' ole lady an’ told her what a toime I'd had gettin' her pinshun fer her. *Ye did nobly, Jawn,” she said; “an’ now, Jawn, how about th' back pinshun?”’’* ows and Avery still in As WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK. Relative Merits of Co Utah and Wy in Six months ago a young Chicago man was seized with a ere attack of mining fever, reports the Tribune, and went out west to try to cure it. He finally located up iu Wyoming, where he got possession of some undeveloped copper claims, which promise to make him a milionaire. He came back to Chicago a few weeks since to form a syndicate for their development To say that he is enthusiastic over his prospects in copper would be to understate the truth. His pockets are filled with chunks of copper ore and he spends most of his waking hours talking copper to any one who will listen. His friends bave some- times even feared of his sanity on the sub- ject. One evening this week he started to ride down town in a Clark street cable. He was accompanied by a friend, who sat with him on the car seat and tried his best to keep his mind off the subject of min- ing. The two w talking together about tho coming holldays and there was so sign of an cruption, when, half a mile nearer town, a couple of strangers got on the car and sat down exactly ‘opposlte. The cop- per flend was on the inside and his friend | noticed that almost as soon as the strangers boarded the car he commenced to stir un- easily In his seat. Presently the friend discovered to his horror that the strangers were talking about copper. The miner stood it as long as he could he leaned across the and the strauger who sat nearest, ay,” he broke in shrilly, are talking about copper. I'm a copper miner myself. I'vo got some claims In Wyoming that are the richest in the world." One of the strangers rose to the challenge instantly. “My mines are in Utah, young he sald, d T tell you the ore that comes from them can’t be veat.' Down into one pocket the champlon of Wyoming plunged his hand and brought it out, clutching a huge plece of copper ore. He leaned across the car and shook it under | his rival's nose. Le cried, “have you got any- thing that'll touch that The other man was not far behind kim Ho also had his pockets full of rocks, of which h and wave in the face of the ma s across from him. Both talking the passengers hegan to fear that a serlous eccounter was imminent. Floally the con- ductor came in Say, if you per Mines in | | Then ca addressed hear you , one were now fellows don't quit T'll call a cop,”” he said. “I ought to have you ar rested anyhow for running around with your pockets full of big stones. You act 1iko holdup men." 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