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Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-06
Articles. open. High Low. Close. rYes'y
caah nuotationa zero as foIlows:

Cash quotations were as follows:
FLOUR-Steady; winter patents. $a:S0Q
400; straights. 50. 80; clears, y ,2OqS 80;
WHEAT~No. 8. n@75c; No. Q red. ss14@
oATs-No. 3 white. 45hG47Mc.
BARLEY-F6ir to choice mailing. SEQ
63i5c.
SEEDs-No. 1 fax, $40; No. / northwest-
ern, N.7S; prime timothy, $6.55@660: clover,
contract grade. 1910.
PROVISIONS-Mess pork, per Dbl, S15.65
@15.70. Lard, per 100 lbs, $9.271saa30 Short
ribs sides Qoose), ss25aS:4 20. Dry sailed
sides Cboxed), S.62k6S.75.
WHiSKY-Basis Of high wines. s1.st.
The following were the receipts and ship
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-06
THE A L MARKET.


INSTRUMENTS placed on record Wednes-
day, February 5:
warranty Deeds.
M. F. Bourke to ID. W, Morrow, vari-
Gus lots and blocks in Florence.....t 1
@. II. Norman ct al to Christ Jensen,
swX 3O-16-12 Except eighteen acres) 5000
c, III SanbOrn ct al to l. ]. Reyes,
lot s, block 8, Amber Place.......... 800
N. II. james and husband to ]. c.
Wizard. part block 2. Brighton add. $500
O. a. Morton and wife to ]. III.
Harte, lots I and s. Luke & It's add. loo
W. w, Baker and wife 70 Il. F. Paul
sen, lot 4, block I, Clarendon add. 800
r., u. fitzgerald and wife to Nels
Pearson and wife. ma lot 4. block l.
Nels Pearson and wife TO y. J. Ftz-
gerald. lot /. Troxel's subdiv........ 1900
Quft Claim Deeds.
Newton Land company 70 Z. NJ Gar
nett. lots 3. 5 and s. block 90, Flor
ID. w. Morrow and wife 10 same. lots
l. 4 and 5. block 90. and lots 3 4
and 8, block 70. Florence. I
Total amount Of transfers...-"....ns.t2 s
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Bank C~Iearings

OMAHA, Feb. 5.-Bank ~clearings today,
1913. as. 81; corresponding day last year,
SsSSi7s6S; Increase, 8.6l2I6
ST. LOUIS. Feb. 6~-ciearinss. ts.Ie7. IS5;
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-06

BOSTON, Feb. 5.-Call loans S6t per
cent; tine loans. SifG4h per e onicial
closing.
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stock In sight.

The following table shows the receipts of
cattle. hogs and sheep at the Ave principal
markets for February 8:
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on the Produce exchange today the but
ter market was firm; creameries, 16G26c
dairies, 15G22c. Cheese, steady, 9H01lhc,
Eggs, Arm; fresh, 26kc.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-06
BUY WHEAT

Wheat has declined eight cents and corn
nine cents from top prices. We consider
both a purchase. Place YOU orders with
responsible house aud one thai ill Civ,
you prompt and satisfactory exc on.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-06
. Indicates Sunday.
!" IndICato8 SundAy
The official NUMBER of cars OF stock
brought In today by each road was;
Coftia Hous Sheep.HTS.
Total receipts. us

The disposition OF the days receipts was
as follows, each buyer purchasing the num-
Der of head Indicated:
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-06

CHICAGO LIVE srOcK MARKET.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-06

New york Mining stocks.

NEW YORK. Feb. 5-The following are
the closing prices on mining stocks:
New-York tribune., 1902-12-14
REED COULD NOT RESTRAIN HIMSELF.

Members Of the Clover Club. famous dining
organization OF Philadelphia, viii never forget the
impression OF earnestness which Thomas B. Reed
made at one Of the clubs banquets a dozen or
more years ago Among the guests OF the club
U The occasion the remarkable wit OF his
uas. Larry jerome. When Mr. Jerome ascer-
ualned that Reed was 10 be a guest at the dinner
ne expressed surprise and volunteered the opinion
ehaI Reed could never sit through the dinner with
out violating of the rules Of the club. which
was that al reference TO political subjects should
Os avoided at the social gatherings. So positive
was Mr. Jerome in his opinion that he offered to
Det a case Of champagne, and wager was quickly
MADE with a friend and ardent champion OF the
man from Maine
"hen the time for talking came Jerome, in one
u ms characteristic efforts, made humorous
uorezSs, IN which in his ininitable way, he held
me Republican party up ridcuIe account Of
-0s protection principles It all funny, such
Hoee Joke, that thought for a moment of
a'iihg the speaker to order. But all the time
Nat The diners were roaring with laughter Reed
ras @s growing recder and redder IN the face and
sGSs,llg about most uneasily In his seat. He
e. airy boiling with rage. The instant that Jerome
- ooSn up jumped Reed, and he delivered
1t me most powerful short addresses the bene
Ea-cSl protection that uttered Moses =.
80 take his seat of avail whatever until
sbost most singing rebuke had been administered TO
lie aoeoeate OF free trade OF course. Jerome won
A-s case Of champague
New-York tribune., 1902-12-14
QUEER 4QU4RIUN FISH.

The visitors TO the Aquarium within the last cou-
pie of weeks have had opportunity see speci-
mems of several kinds of fish which have not been
exhibition there before in some time A number
OF dogfsh and skates and an angler have been
captured and brought in by fishermen. They have
been placed together in the tank the side of the
building opposite tC the entrance. The doSfsh ap-
pear be the active of the group They
suggest baby sharks as they speed about the tank
One of the interesting things about the dogfish is
that they bring forth their young alive in Htters
of half a dozen. not being mammals the young
which are several inches long. born with egg
sacks attached. From these they draw nourish-
ment until they have matured sufficiently to seek
their own food Then the depleted egg sack falls
off A dogtish born at the Aquarium a short
time ago. Unfortunately it died.
The skates do not about the tank so much
as the doghsh. bUC, unlike the angler. they do
hug the bottom all the time They are thin
fiat. The unduations of the fish when swimming
suggest the flying of a bird. Some Of the skates
are termed 'barndoor' skates by the fishermen
because OF the expensiveness of their bodies When
resting on the bottom OF the tank. they do
when not in motion. they blot out large part Of
its white surface. Their eyes. which are several
inches back of the sharp snout are almost in
visible The outlets of the gLs on top near
the eyes. They are closed by slides. which open
The angler is the queerest of the lot As every
one knows. he has the name Of angler because Of
two peculiar appendages his head. which when
with bait attached. These they said to use in
Tsuaiiy lie fat on the back The fish IS shaoed
much like a bellows. the tail being the nozzle. He
has an enormous mouth in proportion 10 his size
1t extends half way across his head Mr. Spencer.
few days ago. said that the mouth Of this hsh
minded him of story. Two boys were playing
had an unusually large mouth. The other said to
him: Gosh! Jim. Amt you got big mouth, It's
Weren't. your mouth would go clear round. and
the top Of your head would be island I"
New-York tribune., 1902-12-14
ALONG THE HUDSON.
TO EXTEND RTVERSIDE.
Plans for Connection zcith the BOu-
LeUard Lafayette.

Plans have been completed under the direction
of President Cantor Of the Borough of Manhattan
for the extension of Riverside Drive from the Man
haitian viadact, one-hundred-and-thirty-
to the Boulevard Lafayette, at One-hundred-and-
fftv-sixth-st These plans. which provide for a
carriage road sixty feet wide. bride path twenty
feet wide TWO broad walks and grass plats between
the road and walks five feet wide, will be submitted
10 the Board of Estimate and Apportionment at its
next meeting The west side of the city has no
finer feature than its drive along the river, with
handsome houses side and the panorama OF
the Hudson and the Palisades the other, but
with this improvement completed the drive would
be still more important feature, because II would
make a continuous trip frczn Seventy-second-st-
TO Two-hundredth-st- possible This distance. Of
nearly seven miles. would be along the river the
whole distance Tiaducts bridges, fountains and
artistic park features included in the scheme,
and the whole work according TO the plans now
under consideration. could be executed in about
three years at a cost 10 the city OF S2,70o,OO0
Mr Cantor is enthusiastic on the subject of the
extension, and II speaking Of II said that the real
estate Of the region would appreciate so much be-
cause Of the Improvement that it would pay for
Itself IL Z short time.
At present Riverside Drive ends at Claremont.
The Manhattan Viaduct connects the broad ave
nue. with upper Broadway. but as Mr. Cantor
says the viaduct leads only through con-
ventonal city street away from the beautiful
river. The drive from e-hundred-and-f d-ffty-sxth-
st 70 Inwood on the Boulevard Lafayette IS one
OF the finest in the world, and the pans under
consideration viii bring this scenic route into con-
nection with lower Riverside Drive"
The driveway viii be eighty feet above the
river where il begins. ne-hundred-and-thirty-
ffth-st- At thirtysiEth-st. there
viii be bridge OF artistic design At One-hundred
and-forty-third-st- and One-hundred-and-forty
fourth-st. the parkway will be nearly three hun
dred feet wide. At e-hundred-and-f -fortyffth-st-
there viii be another handsome bridge The third
street 10 be crossed at high level is One-hundred
and-nfty hrst-st- Audubon station is between One
hundred-snd-ffty y-1Irst-st- and -hundred-and-
nTtysecond sts-. and the proposed bridge viii prob
ably overlook much traffic. a series OF beautiful
arches viii carry the drive One-hundred- and
hfty-hfth-st- at Trinity Cemetery at a height Of
sixty feet above the river. At One-hundred-and-
nfty-sixth-st- the drive makes its connection with
the Boulevard Lafayette The plan contemplates
70 the Claremont-
When it is all done" said Mr.. Cantor, there
Viii De beautiful driveway from Central Park by
way OF Seventy-second-st- Riverside Drive and the
foouleFard Lafayette to DyckInan-st-, and back by
ne Speedway and St Nicholas-ave.. in all a round
OF fifteen miles"
New-York tribune., 1902-12-14

Will be played throughout the meal. The classes
Of 1900 and 1901 who were particularly good at
amateur dramatics in their Undergraduate days,
are going TO present two short plays at the close
of the afternoon. The class of 1901 held reunion
at Barnard yesterday afternoon. The other classes
will hold reunions after the luncheon on Decem-
Der 90.
The sophomore class of Barnard will give dance
December 19 in the theatre in Brinckerhon Han.
This is the first time sophomore class has at
tempted form of gayety supposed TO be the eXclu-
sive privilege of the upper classes. but it IS PROB
able that they will establish precedent for it
The committee in charge of this dance consists of
Miss Florence Nye: chairman; Miss Ev9lyn Cold
smith Miss Katherine Goodyear, Miss Alice smith,
Miss Florence Meyer. Miss Helen Cooley, Mss
Blanche Reitlinger and Mss Cecil Dorian, ana
Miss Emile Hutchinson, ex-oficio Those who
have been asked TO act patronesses are Mrs;
Nicholas Murray Butler, who has been elected
honorary member Of the class of 1865; Miss Laura
d. Gill. Miss Virginia Gilderseeve and MISS Ter
trude Hirst
The sophomore class gave entertainment to
the freshmen in the Barnard Theatre last Friday
A couple of short plays, some singing and other
turns" well dancing and refreshments,
made highly agreeable afternoon
New-York tribune., 1902-12-14

Mockng Bird" How he came TO compose the
song his wife told recently, in a voice that
quivered a little.
'In 1852" said Mrs. Winner, I'VE had music
store down near the Delaware River in Phila-
delphia. A young colored man of the name of
Richard Milburn used to clean up for oc-
casionaIy, and this young called
'Whistling Dick account of his powerful and
sweet whistle.
Mr.. Winner liked Dick, liked to hear him
whistle and liked to hear him sing. IF you only
had song that you could sing and whistle
both he would say, that would be a fine combi-
nation And Dick would agree that it would.
and he would ask Mr.. Winner why he didn't
fix up such a song that for him. Well Dick,
I WILL my husband said one afternoon and he
wrote the words and music of Listen to the
Mockng Bird that evening-wrote them in
about three hours, and showed them to me be-
fore we went to bed"
These the words of the song as Mr. Win
ner wrote them that night:
I'm dreaming of Hally.
Sweet Hally, sweet Hally,
I'm m dreaming now Of Hally.
She's sleeping in the valley
The valley, the valley
She's sleeping In the valley
And the mocking bird is singing where she lies
Listen the mocking bird
Listen Tbs nj to the moe mocking bird.
Listen TO the mocking bird.
Listen to the mockng bird,
sun singing where the weeping willows wave
All well yet remember,
remember. remember.
All. well yet remember,
Mhen we gathered in the cotton side by side
twas IN the mild September
September, September
twas in the mild September
ana the mocking bird was singing far and wide
Listen TO the mockng bird etc
The next morning Mr. Winner ran over
Listen to the Mocking Bird with .whistline
DICK, and the latter had soon learned botb
the melody and the words And thereafter
Dick was always singing and whistlius his
new song. and before a week had gone nv il
seemed as If all Philadelphia had learned the
song from him. for, wherever you turned the
strains OF Listen TO the Mocking Bird fell on
the ear
MT. winner was music teacher and he also
mad shop where he sold music and musical
Instruments He wrote songs with great faciIf- |
ly When the mood came on him he would
SIT down and compose song in an hour or two. /
never asking more than S5 or SO apiece for |
MS compositions. He published his songs /
nearly always under an assumed name He !
would become confused when they were spoken
,f
1e !ert oenind him two pieces that had great
New-York tribune., 1902-12-14

| popuIarity-''Lis to the Mocking Bird and
| one as familiar to the world as the Mother
| Goose rhymes, Ten Little Injuns
| Ten Little Injuns' was written in 1861 Mrs
| Winner said Of it:
| Il was in the sitting room with the children,
| and Mr. Winner in the parlor. drumming
ON the piano softly 1t was o'clock in the
evening and he had been away from US about
two hours. Suddenly we heard a loud laugh.
and he came in with a page of manuscript IN
his hand and read the Ten Little Injuns' that
he had lust composed aloud to He chuck
led as he read over the foolishness of the
words
The words were:
Ten little Injuns going out TO dine;
One choked his little self andthen there were nine
| Nine little Injuns crying at his fate;
one cried himself away. and then there were eight
| Eight little Iniuns slept until eleven;
one oversight himself. and then there were seven
Seven little Injuns cutting up sticks;
one chopped himself in half. and then there were
six
Six little Iniuns playing with hive;
The humble bees killed one, and then there were
five.
Five little Ipjuns going 1 in ,gn for I4w qSsre were four
Four Httle'Intuns going out to sea; b ,b.rs ,ro-.
a red herring swallowed one ana tnen 'here were
three.
Three little Injuns. walking in the Zoo; -
big bear cuddled one, and then there were two.
Two little Injuns. sitting in the sun;
One got frizzed UP. and then tn 9re was one
One little Tntun lived all alone;
He got married and then there were none
Mr.. Winner wrote over two hundred songs in
the course OF his life. For none of these was he
paid over $40 though some of them attained a
great popularity. The song that he believed
TO be his best Is the one called Whispering
Hope" and another What is Home With
out a Mother"
From 1852 down to the time of his death he
ters in praise Of Listen to the Mocking Bird
Abraham Lincoln said OF it: 1T is real song.
1t is as sincere and sweet as the laughter OF
little girl at play" The King of England said
of it: Il whistIed Listen to the MoCking Bird
when 1 was boy" Nine. Emma Nevada. af-
ter singing Listen to the Mocking Bird at the
Academy of Music in 1899 kissed
Mr. Winners forehead with tears in her eyes.
Now and then some one would write: Y on
are an impostor. Listen to the MOcking Bird
was not written by you. but by Alice Haw-
thOrne." For Alice Hawthorne, which was the
name Of Mr.. Winners mother. was the name
under which the song appeared.
The good old man continued to the last to
earn his living by writing lesson books for be-
ginners in music, and by teaching the violin
He had to do this work TO support himself his
wife and his daughter. Two days before his
death he gave his last violin lessOn-a lesson
to Il little boy-at his home, No. l. 200 North |
Sixteenth-st.
II am a little tired" e,said to the lad. II
have been teaching for more than fifty years. |
I'm seventy-five now, and am growing tired |
New-York tribune., 1902-12-14

SIX 1eet deep, extends from Jersey City to Easton
cutting across the entire State its entire length
there are twenty-three planes and thrty-two locks
and In its prime there were few waterways in the
country as important
The boatmen stand by it yet-that is what there
are LEFT Of them Said one old empioye few days
ago as he fshed dead dog and bundle OF tangled
wire out OF one Of the rickety old locks It's the
people themselves is to blame, I tell you. They
puts al this rubbish in here. Why years ago, when
was young man, this canal here was that clean
you could drink out of it. They used to swim in
It then. and catch fish in it. too. I tell you it's
their osn fault If they want to keep the canal
pure and healthy why don't they stop throwing
all this rubbish into it?''
Dr. II. c. H. Herold, president of the Newark
Board Of Health. considers the canal in its pres
ent state a menace 10 public health and Of
the officers Of the board said the other day that
board.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-14
HOW HE SET A NEW FASHION.

When was in Arizona last winter''-began the
man whose anxious friends thought his lungs were
gone year ago and sent him West.
When you in Arizona last winter" inter
r1lpted a friend. you learned TO yell like CO.
manche instead of pining away
You are slightly mixed as TO tribes" said the
man who was not -"lunger' land besides that
Yelling business is another story. What I wanted
10 tell YOU about was that 1 unconsciously set a
new drinking fashion in Tucson.
And what was thaC"' demanded the chorus
why 1 got a high stool from the luncheon
counter in the rear of the Purple Dog and mopped
up my whiskey sitting in front Of bar" he ex-
plained Would you believe that men would
come in rest their elbows the bar and look at
me for five minutes at time with those cold keen
straight shooting eyes have out there? They
had never before such thing. Finally, they
Waxed curious and sent a committee TO ask me
why did IL -, -. . .,,. :, oes a4r,,,
my Honor comfortably explained. The Purple
Dog afords no tables. and the whiskey is about
ten times stronger than that they hand over in
New-York. One needs 10 Sit
:.F3efore I left they thought the idea good one.
and soon there were so many chairs IN front of
the bar that stranger entering could not tell
ii from the feed shop where Sambo handed out
9'Esut ! thought all the bufaloes were dead, said
one of the party. -, -, - -.
them"
But that drink was the last
New-York tribune., 1902-12-14
BARNARD ALUMNE RAISING MONEY

- Associate Alunnse OF Barnard have been
-.scAay active this year. both in relation 70 one
-oeosr and 10 the college A committee has been
1s'hized' consisting OF Miss Virginia c Glider
I've, Chairman; Miss Evelyn Osborne, 90 and
alss Elsa A!sberg. '02 To confer with the dean of
-nsrc on the principal needs of the college. with
s-e~ 10 giving some sort of entertainment to
"a. eFe one Of these needs. Mrs. Herbert Parsons.
:, - nss been appointed chairman OF a committee
investigate ways and means Of raising money
Dhe college. The aluInns have agreed TO hold
=. annual social reunion On December 80 all
80. afo alumnse who possibly be in the city
e attend luncheon, 10 be served at the college
-1 eisss is 10 haze a separate table, and music
New-York tribune., 1902-12-14
WROTE KNOCKING BIRD.'
UINNER DE4D.
He Nude Little Money Ont Of 1t,
bm the Publisher Much.

Septimus Winner. the author of Listen to the
Mocking Bird" died recently in Philadelphia.
He wrote Listen to the Mockng Bird in 1852
and sold it for s.. The man who bought this
song from him is reputed to have made
SO 900 900 out of it.
Listen to the Mocking Bird is said by some
sexpert TO be the most popular and the most
profitable song that has ever appeared in Amer
lea. A conservative estimate of its aggregate
sales in the fifty years of its life, as made by
these experts, would be: In America, 14,5o0,OO0
copies in Great Britain, 3.275,000 in Europe,
=, ,225 900 Total, 20,O00,0OO.
Mr.. Winner was seventy-five years old when
he died. He twenty-six years old when he
wrote the words and music of Listen to the
New-York tribune., 1902-12-14

drawn down to its former level, laying bare the
hundreds of flooded long ago, and causing un-
told damage to many beautiful camps. lodges cot
tages and hotels about its shores. to say nothing
of breaking up Of the most beautiful summer
resorts in America.
AS this is true Of Lake Hopatcong. It is also
true Of Green Pond and other bodies of water
Why. this canal involves water rights in practical
ly every stream, lake and pond in the upper end
of New-Jersey. I have heard these rights estimated
ct from s15, 100000 to *25,OG0.OOO,
Whatever the purpose of the railroad company
may be in seeking the abandonment of the Morris
Canal. position remains unchanged. If the
canal must be abandoned demand that the
land taken for its construction revert to the orig
nal owners and that all water rights be trans
ferred to the State We unalterably opposed
to the abandonment of the canal if all rights
to be retained by the railroad company
Since the legislative fight of two years ago when
the Morris Caanl abandonment bill defeated,
New-York tribune., 1902-12-14
The OLD NORRIS CANAL.
ABANDONMENT PROJECT
Lake Hopatc0ng Property Ozcners
Opposed TO Plan Of LeMgh.

The property owners about the shores of Lake
Fopatcong, up among the New-Jersey hills say
hsv have the best Of for believing bill is
- be presented to the incoming New-Jersey legis-
,.trre renewing the request made on behalf of the
Iahigh Valley Railroad Company two years ago
sor legislative permission TO abandon the old Morris
Canal for transportation purposes. and they have
.rganized TO fight the measure when it comes up
The lake shore owners contend that II the canal
is abandoned as canal and the railroad gets con-
rrol of all land and water rights involved great
injustice viii be worked to the property owners
shout Lake HOpatcong. They point out that it will
10 possible under such disposition of the canal
roperty for railroad sell the waters Of Lake
souatcong for water supply purposes and draw
them down if they wish TO in such a manner as
practically TO destroy the value Of the many beaut
fp CAMPS lodges and hotels about the lake shores
As for the railroad company, its officials are not
beralding their plans abroad The road has asserted
IN previous years that the canal which it operates
and controls under ninety-nine-year lease from
The Morris Canal and Banking Company. is 10
longer paying property. and they have asked per
mission convert it TO other uses that they may
make good their loss They still maintain that
position.
Newark. the largest Of the score of cities and
towns through which the old Morris Canal drags
its lazy length in its course across the State of
New-Jersey, alleges through the officials of its
Health Department that the canal in its present
condition is a menace to public health.
Those IN direct charge Of the canal retort that
fit is a menace to public health none are TO be
bsmed but the health officers Of the city Of New
srk who they say. should enforce the health laws
snd stop people from ndulging in such little pleas
sutries as tossing dead cats dogs and other refuse
into the canal
Briefly outlined, that is the situation with which
the legislature Of New-Jersey will find itself
frented For several years the old Morris Canal has
been thorn the legislative side of New-Jersey.
and those who say that this time the subject
will orOye uCre aggTaVating than before.
While the railroad. the Lake Hopatcong land /
owners and the people OF Newark are perhaps the
parties most directly concerned in the disposition |
Of the canal II is matter that concerns the whole
State for the Morris Canal. 102 miles in length, 1
from thirty forty feet wide, and in some places