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Baltimore. $3.50. 924 bushels in 1903. ard
16.069.077 bushels in 1902 OmciaIly in
spected receipts at the port OF Portland.
Me. totaled 6.SOS.s79 bushels. OF which
1858. 1913 bushels were Of American orr
gin and 5.15S,6s6 bushels OF Canadian
origin
Figures of coastwise shipments OF coal
are available for Eve months from the
four ports of New York. PHILADELPHIA
Baltimore and Newport News. In this
period New York has reported s.073,7i4
tons shipped. Philadelphia 2, 2sS, 3s1 tons.
Baltimore 673. 962 tons, and Newport
News 769,S06 tons. Receipts Of coal at
Boston In six months this year were
3,O56,972 tons compared with .2177.7sa
tons in 1902.
Cotton Crop Movement.
In Southern territory the cotton crop
movement covers the first ten months OF
the current commercial year. Out OF
total available supply Of 10. 739. ST bales.
7.66s.716 bales were port receipts. 1851
40 bales overland shipments. and l.s1s.-
500 bales shipments TO Southern mills.
The total American spinners' takings
were 1898. 127 bales, compared with 3
727.757 bales in 1902. and 3.245. 559 bales
in 1901. New Orleans shipped p .9I4. 545
bushels OF grain. including -four reduced
| to bushels. in the first six months OF
1903. and 5.954.1O9 bushels in 1902. CAL
veston's figures were 9,713131 bushels,
and 1,l7S,7S6 bushels, respectively.
On the Pacific coast lis. 2s4I24 feet Of
redwood lumber were shipped from Calf
fornia points in the first six months.
compared with 1IO.7s4 ZIG feet IN 1902,
and 102, 21s, 4OS feet in 1901. Citrus fruit
shipments from southern California for
thirty five weeks were Is. $50 cars 20
July ?. 1903. 1886 cars in 1902. and -
3SI cars in 1901. The cargo tonnage
movement at Tacoma for this half year
amounted 70 81 $50 tons, and s.SO6
tons for the first half Of 1902
River and canal traffic covers the Mon
ongaheIa River, on which 5,22S, SIS tons
were reported this half year. against
4.6T7.5S7 tons in 1902: at Louisville. Ky,
1.161.571 tons and lilo. $50 tons. resDec-
lively. The New York state canals re-
port a tonnage to the end Of June, this
year. OF 1881. 100 tons. 9O2,09S tons in
1902, and sl5.7S2 tons in 1901
Anthracite coal shipments aggregated
81 SIS $50 tons for six months in 1908,
IS. 73I. $50 tons in 1902. and 27.435.952 tons
In 1901
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TTdmps and Public Safety.
Certain Conditions Due to Increased
Transportation Facilities.

The recent disclosures concerning
the system of peonage which goes
under the name of the convict lease
system in two or three Of the South
ern States have an important bearing
on the particular phase of the race
problem which has caused most discus
sion IN the past ten or fifteen years.
1t has sometimes been asserted that
the fitness e tho negro for freedom IS
Gisproved by the criminal acts com
mitted by some members of the race
and that before the war such behavior
was unknown.
Those who argue in this way, while
doubtless sincere, have failed to take
into account two or three important
facts. Before the war the railroad
system Of the country was far less
perfect and extensive than it Is today.
Facilities we're not afforded the erin
inal for getting away after he had
committed a crime, or for reaching
tbinly. settled localities where crime
might be committed. The Southern
States, IN short, are suffering from
very much the same sort Of tramp
plague which afflicted the Northern
States some twenty-five years ago. and
perplexed the general public and the
authorities for some ten or fifteen
years. This tramp nuisance has been
abated by strict supervision on the
part Of town officers and carefulness
OF the part of the public.
It IS not as safe, anywhere in the
United States, for women to stay by
themselves on lonely farms, as IT was
before the war. Those who are
obliged to do so inevitably ran a risk,
North or South. 1t Is not safe tc
leave women and small children in the
custody Of men about whose moral
character nothing Is known, and Ii
probably never was safe to do so.
Under the plantation system of the
South, and the village system Of the
North, sixty or seventy years ago, bad
characters were known, and could be
guarded against. In these days there
Is always. in the safest community,
some slight risk that ones next door
reighbor may not be just what he
Stems. Yet women 90 about uncs-
corted as they never dared TO do then.
III public places, and, on the whole,
are safer than ever before. 1t is only
when they are IN lonely farm houses,
far from possible assistance, that
there Is, and probably always will be.
a chance Of their being attacked.
And, moreover, there was no convict
lease system in the old days by which
the young criminal IS thrown into the
intimate company with the old, and
then let loose to prey on the communi-
~. That Is not the least consideration
t. be taken into account.
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ITALIAN EMIGRATION.

The disastrous effects OF the fail
ure OF the cocoon crop Of Piedmont
reports Pietro CuneO. United States con-
sui at Turin. together with the further
bad effects OF the frosts and prolonged
rains on the wheat, grape, and other
crops of the province, have been exceed
ingly discouraging 10 the peasants, and
the prediction IS made that the coming
year will witness great increase. from
this portion Of Italy. in the emigration
10 the United States"
The Washington times., 1903-08-12
VIII Oppose Johnson.

Latest advices from Ohio warrant the
Inference that at least one voice will be
raised in the Democratic State conven-
ton against the nomination of the Hon.
Tom L. Johnson for governor. DR..
James A Norton has been chosen over
one of Johnson's partisans as dele
gate to the convention. and Ii is ex-
pected that to the last he will oppose
the nomination of CIeveIand's mayor
Iii feeling exists between the doctor and
the mayor, but chiefly on the part Of
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SEEN SAID, AND HEARD
IN THE POLITICAL FIELD
Timely Topics of Local and National Interest

the doctor. who holds johnson respon-
sible for his defeat last fall.
DOC" Norton represented the Thir-
teenth district in the House for sew
eral terms. and as the six counties
composing it are Democratic and the
doctor is popular with his constituents
IL was generally supposed that he
would be returned as long as he desired
a seat in Congress. His majority in
1900 was something like 5000, and even
reelection last year. AS for the doctor
OF his return
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In a Lighter Ven.
Bonnd TO Become Popular

''What a queer FAD Mrs. Dashington has start
ed since returning from her latest visit TO South
Dakota
DO you mean the popular society fayorite
who has had 50 many divorces
''Ycs. She has had her wedding rings put On
chain and IS wearing them necklace.
1t is awfully fetching. too. New York Herald.
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INTERNAL COMMERCE OF AMERICA
Statistics For Fiscal Year Ended June 80, 1908.

Internal commerce conditions in the
United States. asreported by the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor through
its bureau Of statistics. show that the
first half of the current year compares
favorabIy with the corresponding per-
iod in 1902 or 1901. With a few excep-
tions the volume of trade thus far this
year equaled, If not exceeded, that OF
last year. though occasionally falling
below the high level of 1901 There IS
no evidence Of general recession IN
commercial activities, corresponding to
the extraordinary shrinkage in specu-
lative values.
Western staples for this year have
gained materially over last year, re-
ceipts OF live stock at five markets hav-
ing amounted TO Is. 126. Sol head. com
pared with 1883. 345 head in the first
six months Of 1902, and Is, 10. 300 head
in 1901. The numerical decrease from
1901 occurred IN hogs, which have been
averaging equal to, or heavier than. in
1901, and much heavier than in 1902
Coincident with this. the trend OF prices
for hogs has been downward The price
at Chicago on July l was S5.79 per hun
dred. against s7.61 a year ago.
Wheat Receipts.
Wheat receipts at eight interior mar
kets for the crop year ended June 80.
1908. were 236. 675. 500 bushels. compared
with 221, 100 .3S7 bushels in 1902 and 2t7.
05S.743 bushels in 1901. The total ship
ments of provisions from Chicago and
Chicago points, for the first TWEEN
ty-six weeks of 1903 were Cpl .13S tons.
against 653 .2l7 tons in the same period
OF 1902, and 500 ,O29 tons in 1901. Ship
ments Of -four from Minneapolis we're
S,379, 625 barrels, 1853, 7OS barrels. and
7.2lS.721 barrels, respectively Six
months shipment of grain from Buffalo
by rail were 4.45S. 800 bushels in 1906,
81 ,259. 404 bushels in 1902. and 39.05S. G24
bushels in 1901.
On the Great Lakes the tonnage OF
coastwise traffic shipped from ports re
porting 10 the end OF June this year has
totaled Polls, 227 tons, compared with
l., 4S9. 45S tons and IL ,621 ,977 tons in 1901,
Coal tonnage for the half year amount
ed 10 1888, 500 tons. of which $500. 936
was shipped 70 DOMESTIC pofIs, ana
:. 49,. S7S tons to foreign points. Domes-
tic iron ore shipments were 1886 III
tons, of which 3, 922. O74 tons were shipped
in June The registered tonnage for six
this year in the domestic trade
OF the. lakes reached 25.57O, 757 net tons
with %, S42. 6ss ne tons in 1902
The freight tonnage via the Sault Ste
Marie Canal was 11.944,9 34 tons in 1903,
II ,4S6, sol tons in 1902, and 6.767 100 tons
IN 1901.
On Atlantic Seaboard
At the North Atlantic seaboard grain
receipts. including flour reduced 10
bushels. were as follows for six months.
New York. 60 .O53.14O bushels in 1903 aud
4S S3l ago bushels in 1902: Boston. 1857
pa bushels in 1903, and 13, SIG, S9S bushels
in 1902; Philadelphia. 20.442. 659 bushels
IL 1903. and 16.s65.07S bushels in 1902;
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His Occupation Gone.

q suppose. Miss Rambo." said the caller,
chat your father feels much happier now that
be has been cured % his rheumatism"
well" explained the Young lady, che feels
better when he realizes that he docs not have
10 suffer any more; but he feels pretty bad
when he remembers how exactly he used 10 be
able 10 forcten the weather Judge.
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Assumption of the Name.

The ex-cOachman- assumed the name
which he now usos in order to con-
firm the story that he was an illegiti-
mate son of the Austrian Emperor, and
thus indirectly member of the house
of Hapsburg. The fact that he was
shown in court to be the offspring OF
English domestic servants who had
never been out of the United Kingdom
does not appear to distress him or his
wife unduly, and if ten years hence
nothing has been done to prevent them
styling themselves Stuart de Modena
they can easily acquire by purchase from
the republic OF San Marine the title Of
duke or prince and call themselves
Duke and Duchess, or Prince and
Princess, of Modena.
Lest this presumption should seem 20
be far fetched and extravagant | would
mention that some years ago the Her
olds Amt" or imperial department OF
heraldry at Berlin. in Difference to the
personal direction of tie Kaiser, insti-
/ tuted proceedings against man OF some
means for using the nobility particle
OF won" without lawful authority
that is to say. without being a noble.
II was even claimed that he had no right
TO the name which he bore, as his
birth was illegitimate.
The case looked very black against
him. Fine and imprisonment stared
him in the face, when suddenly his law
yer bethought himself Of the fact that
his client had spent number of years
in England. and found on investiga
that he had used there without any op-
position or objection not only his
fathers name but likewise the nobiliary
prefix Of won" for period Of more than
ten years. True, he was not a British
subject. but he had during that de-
cade his legal domicile In England, and
this was enough 10 establish, according
to English Law, his proprietary right TO
not merely his fathers name but like
wise to the particle Of won" This
proprietary right acquired in England
he retained on his return TO Germany.
and on this being shown the Berlin
courts had no alternative but TO dis
miss the suit against him and leave him
in undisturbed possession not merely OF
his name bat likewise of the nobiliary
prefix which he had assumed.
Perhaps this will serve to explain why
the court OF Austria should be accord
ing attention to such very small fry as
the divorced Countess Russell and her
coachman husband and should be about
10 invoke the Intervention of the Eng
liah tribunals to pevent them from max
ing use OF a name which belongs TO the
imperial house of Hapsburg.
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Versed In the Art.

She's an amateur actress, an amateur cook,
An amateur singer is she;
She paints just q bit, in an amateur way
Like many a maiden you see.
But Il YOU consider the way she can hirt
And capture the masculine heart,
Well "amatcur' isn't tc word You should
She's thoroughly vcrsed in the art.
Philadelphia Bulletin
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No Concealment Possible.

'"You say a woman can't keep a secret.
remarked the philosopher; how about telling
her age?'
That's never a secret replied the wise
guy, yawning; cher school friends who were in
the grade below her always attend to that"
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
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A Dry Warning.

I thought I'd show my dearest one
Wise DR. WIey's 5crecd,
IN which he claims that summer drinks
Are very bad indeed.
She smiled AZ me and took tie sheet
And read il through, I think:
- fu1 10 dry" she swcctly said:
Lets have "a summer drink"
Cleveland Plain Dealer,
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Daily Calendar of American Historu.
August u.

177S-Gen- Charles Lee tried by court
martial for disrespect 10 Washing
ton, suspended from command for
one year.
1o6I-E. Nj. stanton, Secretary OF War
refusing TO resign, was suspended.
Grant made Secretary pro tenn
1S91-James Russell Lowell died at Cam
bridge, Mass.
1S9S-Peace protocol signed at Washing
ton, NJ. Cambon acting for Spain.
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A Hard Subject to Handle.

Daubcr / viii guarantee 20 paint anything
called for.
Dealer-GoOd: Do me a speaking likeness Of
= dumbWaiter.-P Philadelphia Ledger,
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Psychologists NEXT.

The sstrologers predict that the Reliance
y.ilI win the yacht race. Now, let Us hear
from the hactcriologists.-St Louis Globe Dem
ncrat.
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Three United States Senators struck
a bar IN the Yukon the other day, and
had to be pulled away-a somewhat
difficult undertaking. For the relief Ct
their temperance constituents 1t should
be added, however, that it was sand
bar.
The Washington times., 1903-08-12

The warning 10 take no bad money"
has not been needed by the Coney
Island resort keepers. Ten thousand
dollars of the queer" was worked off
on them last week.
The Washington times., 1903-08-12
Each for Himself.

We all desire the greatest good
To the greatest number done
But the greatest number is understood
To uc always Number One.
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
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The McComas men 81 the Maryland
Republican board Of appeals cannot
justly be called "Mudd- slingers." The
Representative from the Fifth district
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A Right Rarely Exercised.

The question will probably occur to
some of my readers as to whether
foreign embassies, being exempt from
The Washington times., 1903-08-12

The sporting element ought TO take
great interest in the Ohio campaign this
fall. Besides the governorship race
there will be the "colored race" and the
Herrick- Johnson automobile race.
The Washington times., 1903-08-12

The directors of the Yarn Trust have
decided to dissolve the organization
evidently il ran out of tales
The Washington times., 1903-08-12

A New Jersey wall paper firm Is to
go out of business-forced to the wall
as Il were.
The Washington times., 1903-08-12
King and Coachman.

-@AAA5 anu SOGClllldu
Emperor Francis Joseph through his
embassy in London will. it is understood.
take legal steps in England to prevent
the divorced Countess RUsselrs present
husband, the former Coachman Brown,
from continuing TO bear the name Of
Archibald Stuart de Modena. under which
he married her last winter. AS l men
toned the other day in these articles,
Brown in a letter addressed to the Lon
don newspapers. at the close of his trial,
announced that in Difference to the wish
es of his wife, to whom he had become
Teconciled, he would continue from
henceforth to bear and be known by the
name under which he had married.
Now this announcement might be
treated with contempt and ignored were
it not for the fact that If in England a
man bears during a period of ten years
a name without anyone making legal OPP
position thereto or resorting to law to
enjoin him from its use. he becomes ipse
factO authorized by law TO retain that
name So that If no objections are
raised by the Austrian court or govern
ment through the embassy in London to
FOOtman Browns assumption of the
name of Archibald Stuart de Modena. he
will at the close of a decade become
lawfully entitled TO bear not only in
England, but also as a British citizen
abroad, a name that belongs TO the i'm
perial house Of Hapsburg. to a branch
thereof. in fact. which became extinct
in the male line In 1875, but which still
survives. on the distaff side. in the per-
son of Princess Louis OF Bavaria. daugh-
ter of the late Archduke Ferdinand OF
Austria MOdena. and younger brother Of
the last TeigIing Duke of MOdena.
The Washington times., 1903-08-12

From the menu prepared for the Dew
cry picnic. it is apparent that there is
nothing the matter with the commissary
department of big Bits" mayOralty
boom
The Washington times., 1903-08-12
In His Arms.

Carrye-Do you hold fast 20 your ideals
Harry-Im trying to. You're my ideal
Boston Globe.
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was not thrown out-he merol- jumped
out Of the window to avoid the fight.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-09-10
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
INSPECTING POOR FARM

Members of the county board went
in body this morning to Coal Valley
for an official inspection of the coun-
ty infirmary, spending the day there
as guests of Steward j. c. Swanl.
The board yesterday afternoon
adopted the following presented by
Supervisor Burgoyne:
Resolved, That the beard of re-
view be authorized, so far as the ac-
ton of this board is concerned. to
continue in session until the records
of back taxes are cleared up, and that
we give to said board Sof review our
moral and legal support in the dis
charge of its duty"
The committee on town and town
accounts submitted the following re-
port which, upon motion, was receiV-
ed and adopted:
Your committee on town and town
accounts would report that they have
examined the different tax levies for
the year 1903 and find them in accord
ance with the law. and recommend
that the county clerk be directed to
extend taxes for roads and bridges
and town purposes in accordance with
said levics as follows, to-wit:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-09-10
PLAY IN DRIZZLE
Women Golfers Have First Match
Round of Annual Tour.
nament.
BUT ONE DEFAULT Is MADE
Two Pairs in Each Glass Engaged
In Second Round
Today.

The weather man did not forget
that the women golfers of the tri-
cities were to play the first match
play rounds of their annual tourna-
ment yesterday afternoon, and as
soon as the play was well started ar
rived on the course with a drilling
rain storm which continued through
out the afternoon. Good playing was,
of course, impossible, but as the
matches had been started, the players
pluckily continued to the end, with
the following results:
For championship cup-Mrs. c. p.
Skinner defeated Mrs. ID. r. Robinson,
by default; Mrs G. T. Williams defeat
ed Miss MiXter 4 up 3 to play; Miss
Mott defeated Miss Blunt Z up to
play; Mrs. F. MiXter defeated Miss
Decker 4 up to play.
For consolation cup-AIiss Mande-
Vile defeated Miss Denkmann up
to play; Miss Barnard defeated Mrs.
Ford Champion up to play; Mrs.
F. w. Bahnsen defeated Mrs. &. d.
Dunn up to play; Mrs. L. NJ. Fuller
defeated Miss Preston up > to play.
Playing TOda-.
The second match play rounds are
being played this afternoon, and the
weather conditions being as favorable
as they were unfavorable yesterday
afternoon some excellent contests are
| anticipated. The pairing for today's
play is as follows:
For championship cup-Mrs. c. p.
Skinner vs.. Mrs. G. L. Williams; Miss
Mott vs.. Mrs. F. .,liXter.
For consolation cup-Miss Mande-
vile vs.. Miss Barnard; Mrs. F. w.
| Bahnscn ". Mrs l.. NJ. Fuller
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-09-10
Personal POINTS.

Hamlin H. Hull has returned from
his trip to England.
Mrs. NJ. A. Patterson has returned
from Salt Lake City.
Rev. r.. B. Williams leaves this even
ing for a visit at Lewiston, Ill.
f. p. Denkmann arrived home yes
terday after a trip to the Pacific
coast.
Herman Hansen and family are here
from Dayton, Miss, for a visit with
relatives.
DIR. c. Z. Sears returned to Chicago
today after spending his vacation at
his former home in Sears.
II. \. Joslyn. who has been visiting
his uncle, c. f. Adams, has return
ed to his home in Pittsburg.
Miss Maurine Rasmussen has re-
turned from Lansing, Iowa, and is
visiting at the home of Miss Fay War
rem.
Mrs. Henry Geisler and Mrs. Charles
Gantert left today for a months visit
at Chicago, Milwaukee and other
points.
Mrs. w. ii. Marshall, Mrs. T. Il. Dav-
is and Raymond Reimers have return
ed from their trip north on the steam
err Rutledge.
Miss Bertha Hanna, of the high
school teaching corps, who has been
spending her vacation at her home in
Cincinnati, returned to the city today.
y. D.sHamilton. newly appointed in
structor in physics and mathematics
at the high school. arrived in the city
today from his home in Blutfton, Ind.
Il. NJ. Whitman, commercial agent
for the Lackawanna road, and G. \.
Smith, commercial agent for the Hi
nois Central both with headquarters
at Peoria, were in the city yesterday.
Ex-Ald. and Mrs. Daniel CorkeR
have returned from their six weeks
trip to the Pacific coast. Among the
many points of interest visited were
Los Angeles. San Francisco, Portland,
Seattle, British Columbia, Salt Lake
City and Denver.
II. P. Caldwell, grand keeper of the
records and seal of the Knights of
Pythias of this state, and Frank y.
Hoy. editor of the Pythian Leader.
were in the city from Chicago today
to make further arrangements for
the state meeting of the order to be
held here next month. They were ac-
companied about the city by promi-
ncnt local Pythians.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-09-10
STEAMER SIDNEY TO BE
REBUILT THIS WINTER

The steamer Sidney, which was
taken TO the Eagle Point ways last
week, will be rebuilt by the Diamond
10 line in anticipation of next years
business. The boat has been running
in the short line service between ST.
Louis and Burlington, but with the
completion of the st. Paul that boat
was put in service between st. Louis
and St. Paul and the Quincy was sent
down to the short line service. The
Sidney was taken to the ways at
Eagle Point, and it is announced that
she will be rebuilt into a much larger
and better boat. Packet business
next year, owing to the fair at St.
Louis. is bound to be big, and the
company is making preparations to
take care of the trade.