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The herald., 1897-12-01
Cash quotations were as follows

Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour, easier; mostly 511Oc lower; No.
spring wheat 9OG904 No. spring wheat.
S4@9O; No. red. 95s4 49614; No. corn. 25A
@25s; No. oats, 211a; No. 2 white, f. o. b.,
231z 42SA; No. white, f. o. b., 23923% No.
2 rye. 45A@451a; No. 2 barley, f. o. b.. 25la
Q36; No flaxseed. 1.04@1 10; prime timo-
thy seed, 2.65; mess pork, per bbl., 7.156D
72O: lard, per 100 lbs. 4.2O@4 221s; short ribs,
sides, loose. 4.15@4.7O; dry salted shoulders,
boxed. 1905; short clear sides. boxed, 4.45
d450; whisky, distillers' finished goods, per
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Silver Bullion

NEW YORK, Nov. so.-BaF silver, 691l:
Mexican dollars, 46A.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov Solar silver,
60; Mexican dollars, t7447M.
LONDON, Nov. 30.-Bar silver, 271ad.
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San Francisco Produce
Feed and Observation-Disclosures. aO.0O022. 80

per ton; bran, 1900.
Hay-Wheat, 12.OO@1450; wheat and oat,
II. 1.OOg135O; oat. 10.00@12.00; best barley 1000
QI12.0O alfalfa, S0OQ95O; clover. S.0O09 so
stock, 8.0OQ9O0; compressed wheat, 12.OO0
400 per ton; straw, s0@40e per bale.
Dry Beans-Pink, 1s0@1 40; Lima, 1900
1,75; small white. 1.15Q125; large white,
95c@110.
Vegetables-Early Rose potatoes, 25045c
per Genital; River Burbanks, 30@40; River
reds S0Q40c; Salinas Burbanks, 60QS0; River
ced sweets, bo9s5c; silverskin onions, LAO
rack; cuoumhers, 10000 per box; garlic,
s@pkc pef lh.; green peas, S@5o per ID. !;
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European MARKETS

NEW YORK. Nov. a0-Ths Evening
Post'a London fipanciaI oablegrpm says;
The strength of consols was the only
feature In the stock market hare today.
They topphsd tie highsst price on record.
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Mortgages, $1,000 and Over

Alfred W. Eames ct al. to Nora Nc
Cartney-Part Sec. 20, 2 s. 10, yrs,
IL per cent Observation-Disclosures. $1,000
John y. Franklin ct AL to Lottie Com
stock Forsyth-Lot 1C9, G.. & d.
Adams st. trt. 6 mos, l yr, II per
cent, $500, sls75. 1876
Jas. j Watson ct al. to w. ii. Purcell
Part lots II and 49, Garland trt,
payable in installments, II per cent 4,400
Lucy B. Pendleton and i. w. Pendle-
ton to Conrad Stumpf-Ilot "A, blk
J. resub. of Jones trt, yrs, 10 per
cent ............. ...................... $500
J. G. Denman ct al. to James Hay
Part Sec. 30 8. II. 2 yrs. 10 per
cent .............. ..................... 1900
Elizabeth Mary Blackman ct conjux
to H. Giese-Lot 26, Park Villa trt,
yr. Il per cent. t...........;,.......... $500
Stephen NJ. White, Chas. Monroe ct
al to Sec. Sav. Bk--Part Blk 6, o.
s.. 8 yrs, S,s percent ...s... ..a...... 80. 900
Nine releases under $1,000 ............ also
-
49,
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Treasury Statement

WASHINGTON, Nov, S0,-Today's state
ment of the condition Of treasury shows:
Available cash balance. $216. .76S. .22o; gold re-
serve. $751; 113,O64
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BOSTON Quotations

BOSTON. Nov, So.-Atchison, 1ssa; Bell
Telephone 2SS; Burlington, s4Mi Mexican
Central 6ia.
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Mining Stock Quotations

SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. S0.-The closing
quotations for today on the stock exchange
were as follOwS:
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Bond List

NEW YORK, Nov. 3O.-The following
We're the closing quotations on bonds
today:
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Incorporation
Mining Stock Quotations

Fortuna Mining company, Fortuna,
Humboldt county; $1,00OO0O: subscribed,
etl-S
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The following arc official closing quota
tions on the Los Angeles Mining and Stock
Exchange for today:
Name of Stock Bid Asked. Sales.
Cavil .,........... .5. Won To- s954s
East Amargosa. .1.5G 15O f,l0c0I1. 80
Gold Bug.........S,00
Lucky Star.......6.50 1000
Mohawk Acton ..7.50 1O0o0ps. 90
Mogsanetta ..... lM US 10000 17a
10000 TX
lOOO0 II!
Old Dominion.... TX
Pacific Con....... lA
Laurel Mt......... 1H
Rand Mt......,... 2.5O 200O12. 10
100o42.0O
Sun Danco ,,.... is
Wedge ........... "a 2Z
Unlisted Active
Val Verde......,.. 14000T2. 30
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Closing Stocks

NEW YORK. Nov. .3O.-The following
were the closing stock quotations today;
Atchison ...... 1871 do pfd. 14O
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A dispatch from Madison, Wis, says:
Under the decision of Judge Siebecker
In the injunction suit OF the Travellers
Insurance company of Hartford, Conn,
against Insurance Commissioner F'ricke
that corporation will have to pay the
state S34, 4,101.53 TO continue it's accident
business in Wisconsin. Since 1864 the
Travellers has been doing a life and nc
cident insurance business in the stata,
while paying oEly life insurance IL
ccnsc.
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OFFICE OF THE HERALD,


The capital stock Of the Pacific Mall
Steamship company is $20,0OO,0Oo, the
par value of each share is $780,.
The company paid no dividends from
1857 to December. 1896, when per cent
was paid; in June. 1897. per cent was
also paid.
On April 80. 1897, the current liabilities
were s24S,771; the current assets $780,
ilo.
The fiscal year of the company ends
April 80. The following are the gross
earnings for the fiscal years named
Year. Gross Earnings.
Anyt~.sssss.ss.ss.s i1V ifo
Sdv0 41zz'9oo
AnSo S,un w. otA
Sov4 5,oS1VJo
sThe Atlantic line is not included in
1907, as it was discontinued in 1896 under
q contract with the Panama railroad.
Tho net earnings for the fiscal years
named below were as follows:
Year. Net Earnings.
1897 STA 25S
koyb iUo 5s1
1850 '.........'s.....'...s.. t@ooa
koCt ftofol
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In September, 1897, the gross earl

A dispatch from New York announces
that at the semi-annual meeting OF the
Pacific Mail company, held the 18th ult.,
o dividend Of per cent, payable Decem-
\ ber l, 1897, was declared. The treasurer
reported $1,227 ,470 available cash on
hand.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-04
PERSONAL AND OTHERwIsE.

Since The Yantic rammed the Canadienne
our northern neighbors are more than ever
convinced that she is war vessel
Everybody in Chicago who contributes 81
Tor the erection OF monument to the late
Carter II. Harrison will receive bronze
medal.
Kaiser Wilhelm Is said to have taken a
great liking to Lieutenant Niblack, the naval
attache of the United States embassy In.
Berlin, and frequently invites him to the
palace, where they discuss naval matters with
the greatest informality.
President Alfred Coolidge of the Second
National bank of Colfax Wash. has raised
an immense quantity of wheat this season
and sold 1t at rate equallng $34.20 an acre
while the land itself could not have been sold
at any time these last three years at SO an
acre
Edward j. Phelps. ex-minister Of the United
States to England, delivered an address at
the Boston university law school recently,
in which he said: The first and foremost
duty of the lawyer must be the necessity of
his realizing that he should always be
gentleman"
There are but eight survivors of the war
OF 1872, and but three of them are on the
pension roll. They are Hosea Brown of
Grants Pass Ore, who is 105 years old ;
Elijah Glenn OF Newark N. j., and Eleazer
Smith OF Danbury, Conn, each of whom is
101 years old
r. +. Tyler and his wife rode in a piano
box in freight car from Exeter, N. H., to
Seattle, Wash, last year, but few days ago
when they tried to return in the same way
were captured with their supplies of canned
goods and water cans. Although taken out
they are still in a box.
Edwin s. Hunt has found near Saybrook
Point, Conn, a cannon ball that was fred
from British. war ship in 1912. The hole
in the ground Is still there to show where the
haI Mt thnt
| cannon and the man who pulled the lanyard
are not in evidence. But IL anybody doubts
Mr.. Hunts storyAthere is the hole.
Pelham, in the state of New York, Is the
| smallest village in the country, and on
Wednesday last miniature election was
held. All Of Peham's nine voters went to
| the polls and cast their ballots for or against
| an appropriation for sl5, 900 for road improve
ments. 1t took ten minutes to get the vote
| in, and the result was six ballots to three
| favoring the appropriation.
| A New York woman who has no faith In
| banks wrapped her savings. amounting to
| $146 in an ofd skirt jammed II under her
| mattress and went out shopping When
| she arrived at the store she caused com
| motion by shouting that she had been robbed
| She ran to newspaper office and inserted
| an advertisement of the heart-breaking
quality and went home. Then she remem-
bered where she had hidden her ROLAND
! that's all.
Robert Fitzslmmons, actor, blacksmith and
| champion plug-ugly of the world, was ad-
mitted to membership in the Marion lodge
4 OF Elks at Marion Ind, the other day and
now Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler Armstrong
has ordered that he be expelled, the alter
| native being the forfeiture OF the charter
of the lodge. 1t is said that Fitzslmmons
will be dropped from the membership rolls
| but Mr.. Armstrong will probably deem 1t
wise to wear fistproof shield over his solar
plexus. ..
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-04

directed to II before the passage OF the
tariff law and as It produced no effect
then II is improbable that a renewal of
~ will have any. even though this be
made in more vigorous language than
heretofore employed.
The fact is that while the German
government may feel it has real
grievance in this matter and while it is
compelled to give attention to the de-
mand OF the sugar interest of that coun-
try, It is not probable that 1t seriously
expects this country to abandon the diff
ferential duty. That duty is imposed as
an Offset to the export bounty paid by
Germany and other countries and is es
sential to the protection of american
sugar producers. AS to the claim that
it is in violation of treaty, the action of
congress regardless of Germans pro-
test must be accepted as meaning that
in the view of congress the claim Is not
well founded. At all events it is very
certain that The differential duty will be
retained. In that case will Germany at
tempt some sort of retaliation? I'm
doubtedly there is a strong disposition
to do this, but the conditions are not
now favorable to such n course. What
the German government should do is to
seek concessions through reciprocity
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-04
WOMEN po,Sc mENs work.
The Invasion OF Mans Domain Not Ne
Serious Ms supposed.
Chicago TimesHerald.

CHICAGO Times Herald
Referring to tho figures OF labor bulletin
No. 49, showing the marked increase OF
women In mems occupations, Mr.. Carroll u.
Wright is of the opinion that this Invasion IL
no, likely to encroach upon the employment
of men, nor hurt their chances
In the first place, women are In many cases
taking the place OF children, not OF men; in
the second place, invention and discovery.
like the railroad, the telegraph, the telephone
and the use OF electricity, are opening many
new occupations to men.
The reasons given by employers for their
employment OF women are that they are
more adaptable to work; are more reliable,
more easily controlled. neater, faster more
Industrious, careful polite and docile.
One superiority is likely for many years yet
to give women, where other things are equal,
an advantage over men-that is sobrcty
This virtue is becoming more aud more es.
sential to success. and employers are making
II more aud more an absolute condition OF
employment. Women have also the ad-
vantage OF willingness to accept lower pay.
But this will not always last Wages. like
water will seek their level. But In a COM
petition between sobriety and drunkenness
woman will for a long time surpass her male
rival II is to be considered. too that IL women
are supplantlng men In some occupations
men began IT," The spinning, the knit
ting. even the weaving. the making OF gar
ments, all of the cooking and preserving, tho
products of the dairy were not many years
ago household duties performed almost en-
tirey by women. These occupations now
give employment to large numbers of men as
we'll as of women So that If he reproaches
her with encroaching upon his industrial do
main she can truthfully accuse him of first
being an intruder and trespasser upon hers
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-04

Japan announces that it will aban-
don the free, coinage of silver at
the God-given ratio and substitute the
hateful Rothschild policy known as the gold
standard on April l, 1898. Meanwhile silver
yen, or dollars, will be exchanged for gold
yen one for one, About the same time an
other silver country to which the
Bryanites are continually pointing with
pride, Peru, will join the ranks of
civilized nations and substitute the gold
for the silver standard. Almost uni
versal experience testifies to the fact that
freo silver is "a dangerous and disastrous
policy. AS time passes the Bryanites will
find 1t harder and harder 10 convince any
body that it would be good thing for the
United States.
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A RIGHTEOUS VERDICT

The signal defeat which has overtaken
the mongrel county ticket is not merely
n triumph of the republican candidates,
but reputation of the shameless bar
gain and sale by which fusion was
brought about in Douglas county at the
dictation of the state house machine.
Twelve months ago Governor Holcomb
carried Douglas county by nearly GOO
and a majority of the fusion legislative
ticket was elected at the same time.
This year fusion is buried under an ad
verse majority ranging from 1,6O0 to
5000 and not a vestige is left of the
popocratic machine.
That this is righteous verdict Will
be acknowledged by all who believe
that political parties are founded to
give vitality to principles and not
merely to distribute the spoils of office.
The verdict rendered by the people of
Douglas county emphasizes more than
all else the popular aversion to spurious
reform that seeks to sail into power by
false pretenses.
No more despicabie example of
political depravity was ever pre-
sented than the Matching out of popo-
cratic ducklings from republican bad
eggs in the fusion incubator. The idea
that politicians who have fed them
selves for years from the republican
crib should turn n Summersault and
tumble into the popocratic trough is
so repugnant to the sense of decency
of the rank and file of all parties that
they naturally turned down the turn
coats and smashed the machine which
had prostituted itself to such base ends.
Another impressive lesson of the re-
suit in Douglas county is the proclama
ton issued through the ballot box that
no man can ride into Office by making
false issues. The people have no
respect for self-tortured martyrs and
distrust men who proclaim their SUI
perior honesty from the housetops In
rendering their verdict they have de-
creed that every candidate for office
must stand or fall on his own record
and not on the alleged shortcomings of
others, nor upon the clamor raised by
demagogues against parties who are not
involved in the contest.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-04
BLANCO is HOPEFUL.

The new captain general OF Cuba,
Marshal BlancO. is said to regard the sit
uation hopefully. but he has hardly been
long enough in the island to learn the
conditions there 1t is very likely that
most of those with whom he has come
in contact are autonomiSts, who would
of course encourage him to believe that
the plan of so-called self-goyernment
which he has been charged to put into
effect will lead to speedy pacifcation.
but the autOnomists do not constitute the
largest element of the people of Cuba.
On the contrary they are small minor
ity and their influence, it appears. is
proportioned to their numbers The
Spanish element does not want auton-
omy. because it does not regard the
Cnbans as being capable of self-govern-
ment. The insurgents will not accept
it. If their representatives in the United
States are qualified to speak for them,
because they are struggling for indie
pendence.
The probability is that Blanco's re-
ported optimistic view is largely for eff
feet in the United States. There is man
ifestly great anxiety on the part of the
Spanish government to make as favor
able an impression as possible on the
American public as to the prospects for
success of its policy The people of the
country would be exceedingly glad to
find that there is substantial reason for
Marshal Blanco's reported hopefulness
but they will want to see some practi-
cal results before placing confidence in
the new captain generals statements re-
garding the prospects for the policy he
represents. Meanwhile they are very
generally of the opinion that no obsta-
Gle, so far as this government is con-
cerned should be placed in the way of
his efforts to carry out that policy.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-04

According to report from the American
consul at Port au Prince, syndicate of
Btltish capitalists has taken charge Of the
revenues and customs of the so-called ire
public Of Santo Domingo. In consideration
Of loan of S75O0,OOO, the ruling powers of
this region have vested in these enterpr!slng
foreigners practical, though not nominal
control of the country for 100 years.
This association of British governors
agrees to assume all outstanding obligations
OF the government. The theoretical rulers
will rest easy i'm more senses than one,
for while at least, while the real power
will build railways and engage in internal
improvements, in order that Santo Domingo
may be made as profitable an investment for
their millions as possible.
This exploitation of debt-owing countries
by syndicate is certainly an interesting de-
velopment in latter-day civilization. How
far will it go?
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-04
THE STORY OF LIFE.

John C. SAKE.
Say, what is life? 'Tis to be born;
A haplesS babe. to greet tn light
With sharp wall, as If the morn
Foretold a cloudy noon and night;
To weep, to sleep and weep again.
With sunny smiles between, and thenf
And then apace the infant grows
To be laughing sprightly boy.
Happy despite his little woes,
Were he but conscious of his Joys;
To be, in short. from two to ten,
merry moody child, and then?
And then, In coat and trousers clad.
To learn to say the Decalogue,
And break 1t, an unthinking lad,
With mirth and mischief all agog;
truant oft by field and fen
To capture butterflies, and then?
And then, increased IN strength and size,
To be, anon, IA youth full grown;
A hero in his mothers eyes,
A young Apollo in his own:
To initiate the ways of men
In fashionable SINS and then?
To fall in love, to WOO and we'd
With seething brain to scheme and plan
TO gather gold, or toll for bread;
TO sue for fame with tongue or pen
And gain or lose the prize, and then?
And then In gray and wrinkled cid
To mourn the speed of ife's decline;
To praise the scenes his youth beheld,
And dwell in memory of lang syne;
To dream a while with darkened ken.
Then drop into his grave and then?
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-04
RELIGIOUS.

Bishop Taylor of the Methodist Episcopal
church estimates the number of converts in
South Africa as about 1000.
General Booth. who has gone to Berlin to
open vigorous campaign in behalf OF the
Salvation Army, expects to enlist as many
men as the German emperor has in the i'm
perial army.
V. d. David. a converted Hindoo who has
preached in India, Australia, England and
Scotland. is soon to open a campaign in Chi
cago. He has been known to preach eighteen
hours at q stretch
Bishop McKin the Episcopal prelate OF
Toxic. says that of a total of l5O 900 converts
in Japan the Catholics number about $4,000,
the Greek Catholics about $4,000 and the
Episcopalans about 10000.
Tho international board OF the Young
Women's Christian association at its recent
meeting In Montreal reported a membership
of 1000. 1t has $4,000 invested In build
ings and $4,000 in furnishings.
The Episcopal church congress which has
been appointed to meet in New Orleans in
November has been postponed on account of
the yellow fever epidemic until just before
Lent or Immediately after Easter.
1t has been recommended that the iftieth
anniversary of the massacre of Marcus Whit
more d. d. the pioneer missionary physl-
clan of Oregon, be observed In all COngrega-
tional churches Sunday, November 28.
The Russian holy synod has sent four
young priests to England in order to follow
the movement Of English ecclesiastical
literature and promote an exchange OF
ecclesiastical information between England
and Russia.
The Episcopalian denomination Is sixth In
point Of numbers in the United States. At
the recent diocesan council In Milwaukee II
voted to discard the title OF Protestant Eps-
copal church and to be known hereafter sim
ply as THE Church"
In Hawaii there are 1928 Protestants
26. 1853 Catholics 1868 Mormans (polygamy is
forbidden), 44s06 of eastern creeds and 2O.-
1872 who declined to state their faith or pos
sessed none. This IL according to the
religious statistics OF the last census
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-04
but In both places he was librarian who
knew not only books. but men"


II there ever was a scspegrace 1t was the
orator, Patrick Henry. Before he was %
years old he had failed twice as a merchant
and once as farmer. He married at is
and his and his wife's parents had to sup
port them aud numerous brood OF chill
dren At 81 Henry again failed as mer-
chant, and after a six weeks study of law
appeared before an examining committee for
license to practice John Randolph, the
chairman, was shocked at his gross igno-
rance OF the subject, burt the three
other judges Recommended him on the
strength of his good ccinmon sense Four
years later he astounded the world by his
great and learned speech on the tobacco
tax.
Sarah Benhardt desiring on her APP
preaching tour to play in StTasburg, ad-
dressed the German government for permls-
sion to appear in Alsace-lorraine She re-
ceived the following singular reply Mine.
Sarah Bernhard having several times de-
claTed that she would never olay in Germany,
we do not desire to cause her TO break her
word. But. as Strasburg Is in q somewhat
peculiar case, we willingly give her the per-
mission she asks, on condition that she plays
previously in some other German theater
that she may be pleased to designate" Nine
Bernhardt answered that she declined to ac-
cept the condition, and would consequently
give up her purpose to play at Strasburg
before her compatriots.
When Benjamin Franklin arrived in Phila-
de'ohla from his first voyage to England he
became violently i'll aud no one could per-
suade him that he was not going to die. 1t
was then that he wrote the famous epitaph
for his tombstone: THE Body of Benjamin
Franklin, Like the Cover OF an Old Book,
Its Contents Torn Out and Stript of Its Gild-
ing. Lies Here, Food for Worms. Yet the
| Work Itself Shall Not Be Lost. for 1t Will
| Appear Once More in New and More Beau
| tiful Edition, Corrected and Amended by the
Author" His biographer states that he was
greatly disappointed at his own recovery, as
he would again have to bear the suffering
| when he did die
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-04

The action of the federal court
at Chicago in deciding there are no
property rights in an Original adver-
tisement shows q queer sense of equity in
the matter. Advertising now has advanced
to the dignity of a commercial art. Trained
literary ability does not dsdain to engage
in its service, and plenty of bright young
meo take a collegiate literary course with
the avowed object of making a life business
or writing advertisements. 1t has proved
itself remunerative business and new idea
in advertising is distinctly a valuable pro-
perty to its originator or owner. To out
actual property and brain labor at the dis
posal of anyone who pleases to appropriate
it is scarcely Justice
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-04
GERMANr,S GRIEYANCE.

The new German ambassador to the
United State will come here with in
structions to renew the protests of his
government against the differential duty
in the American tariff on sugar. 1t is to
be inferred from what he said in re-
cent interview that 1t is the purpose of
the German government to make these
protests in somewhat more vigorous
terms than has already been done,
though why this should be deemed nee
essary is not quite apparent since that
government has already set forth in per-
fectly plain and unmistakable language
its claim that the differential duty is a
breach of the treaty with the United
States. This was presented to our gov
ernment and the attention OF congress