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IMPORTS OF DRYooops.

ss'.e47 Total sales for tho day. .unlisted,
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MISCELLANEOUS.
PHILADELPHIA STOCKS.

sBid. tAskea.
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Actual closing rates follow:
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1ss:. Hls, psTioa s, Bid. AKA
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BOSTON STOCKS AND BONDS

Boston. Sept 2s.-cIosing prices:
MONEY
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ANNUAL REPORTS.

ILLINOIS CENTRAL. RAILROAD COMPANY
The Illinois Centrals report for the year ended
June CO. 1904. follows:
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20
THE SHELTER BEI,r

We always pity that dweller on the
prairie farm who either does not know;
enough or is too Indifferent and un-
progressive to put a substantial shelter
belt around his farm homestead. 1t Is
SO easily obtained and cared for, is
such blessing and comfort both VIM
ter and summer, that there is no sort
Of valid excuse for making and MAIN
tanning a home on a bleak, cheerless
and unprotected prairie farm Such a
grove has many uses. 1t will break the
force of both summer and winter
winds, it will save fuel both in the
house and barn, it will invite the birds
to make their home with you, in ten
years it will furnish a supply of fuel
for the kitchen stove, it may possibly
charitably hide from the traveller al
rough and tumble farm homestead!
There is everything to be said in favor
of such shelter belt and absolutely
nothing to be said against it.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

until we look into this. Come hither,
woman!" he cried to the affrighted
maid Know you aught of this?"
The girl was almost paralyzed with
terror as she slowly stumbled nearer
him. AS for Anne, she sank back in
her chair as If stricken. Was Grafton
about to be discovered, then? For
tunately, no one noticed her at the
time.
Josette stopped before her master,
white with fear, dumb with appreh en-
sion.
ANSWER mel" cried the marquis.
Speak! Ha! what is this?" he ex-
claimed, stepping across the room and
picking up the cloak from chair
where Grafton had thrown it. "Was
this it?"
81 judge SO, Monsieur lie Marquis"
answered Basile.
"speak, woman!" Numbered the old
man, Whose cloak Is this?"
Mine sir" faltered the girl.
"And who wore it tonight"
"I-I did myself, sir"
Were you in the armory listening?"
"I-yes-sir. Oh, mon Dieu, mon
Dieu!"
She sank on her knees on the floor,
covered her face with her hands, and
burst into tears.
will Monsieur lie Marquis pardon
me?" said Basile insistently "The
person, man, perhaps, was seen with
Madame Josette."
tAh, sol" cried the marquis, turning
fercely to the PROSTATE woman. "You
have lied to me, then?"
Eyes, monsieur" she sobbed
"Who was it? Speak, you fool"
But the girl only shook her head ant
sobbed and walled at his feet. The
marquis could get nothing further from
her.
Curse these women!" he exclaimed
in deep disgust. Where did they go
Basile?"
"They came up this stair, monsieur.
'Have you men outside the door,
Eyes, Monsieur lie Marquis"
Bid them search every chamber il
this corridor. Now, Mademoisell.
Anne" he said, turning to the countess
perhaps you can help us. Know yol
aught of this strange visitor? Ha
anyone been here?"
Annes tongue clave to the roof o
her mouth, her knees trembled beneath
her, her heart stopped it's breathing il
terror, but she could not lie, even t,
save her lover. She looked at tn
marquis in silence.
There is no one in the other rooms
Monsieur lie Marquis" said the stewart
as the men reported to him.
'sHa! He must be here, then. Anne
tell Newly are you silent? VIVA
is it child?" her grandfather bent owe
her. Speak! will have an answer
Did any one come here? is there an
one here now? BY heaven, thes
women exasperate me beyond endur
ance! Jean-Renaud, you were her
when l came in. How long had yo
been here?"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20
CHAPTER XIV.
DE WIRE PAYS FOR HIS LIFE AND
IInNOR

HONOR.
RI n TTEND Monsieur de ker-
S ~ saint, Jean-Renaud,"
said the marquis to the
old retainer, who had
been an interested spectator Of the
whole transaction, as the count stepped
to the door. But before either the
sailor or the servant had passed
through the entrance. the marquis
steward appeared in the way.
Pardon this intrusion, Monsieur le
Marquis" he said in great agitation,
''but there is something which mon
sieur should know. There is stran-
era spy, perhaps, somewhere in the
chateau. One of the servants told me
that he saw woman, or some one,
In the armory during the dinner listen
ing; and others have said that one
cloaked and hooded fitted along the
hall and came up these stairs after the
dinner. l thought monsieur would
not wish any one to know what passed
at the table and I ventured to come
here"
"And you did we'll, Basile," an
swered the marquis. "a cloaked figure,
a woman, then What sort of a cloak? ?"
zone like mademoiselle the countess
foster sister wears" answered the man
slowly.
"What, Josette!" exclaimed the mar
nuis. Ode Kersaint, stay a moment
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20
LIFE IS STRIFE.

The normal condition Of the ocean is
that of absolute calm. 1t is the same
of the atmosphere. In the depths Of
the ocean and in the far reaches Of
space above realm Of cloud and storm
perpetual calm prevails. The earth's'
surface touched by the heat Of the,
sun becomes the great battle-ground
of the clements. The contending rush
of hot and cold air currents, Of nega-i
tive and positive electricity, each bent
on regaining an equilibrium, fret the
gray seas into foam and beget tornado,
lightning stroke, hail and rainfall. In
nature life depends upon the disturb;
ance Of normal conditions. and curl;
ously enough, the development Of mani
does too. Calmness means death. J
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20
1.-THE Texas Train"

A handsomely equipped train run
ling on fast schedule to the southwest,
leaving st. Louis daily 4:52 p. m
Quickest between St. Louis and Hous
ton, Beaumont, Lake Charles, Port
Arthur, the gulf coast country. Bette:
service to Dallas, FIT. Worth, Waco
San Antonio. Write for folders, map.
literature and cheap homeseeker',
rates.
E. w. LaBeaume, G. p. & T. A..
Cotton Belt Route. st. Louis. Mo
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

The possibilities connected with cat
gut are illustrated in the case Of
Ysaye, the violinist, who gets 100000
for fifty concerts to be given the COM
ing winter in this country.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

Ono Of the largo railway lines of the
west will not use cedar ties for the
reason that they are too soft to stand
the terrific impact of the modarn loco
motive,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

The wooden sidewalk in our towns
and cities will soon be as much OF a
rarity as is the old stake and rider
rail fence on our farms. The cement
sidewalk is here to stay.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20
CHAPTER XVI.
GRAFTON WINS AND LOSES.

GRAFTON WINS AND LOSES.
"A s the three men and the
~ servants left the room,
with an expression of re-
lief so great that she could
not describe it, Anne sank down in
the chair by the table. She thought
her lover extricated at last from his
precarious position. Her emotions
during the last few moments, when she
feared that the marquis would dis
cover his presence, and then when de
Wire had so nobly interfered in his
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

We nre running the cider mill these
early September days, and the Juice
of the Wealthy apple makes drink
fit for the gods; it also makes the
finest of vinegar.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

Two things, very similarly named
are looming up us most important fac.
tors connected with the agriculture OF
the southwestern portion of the coun'
try. They are alfalfa and the catalpa
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

Specializing on the board of trade,
betting on the races and whisky are
the trinity of traps which are said to
catch 30 per cent Of the defaulters Of
the country.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

When boy, well raised, goes wrong,
it may sometimes be found that there
was an old rascal Of grandfather on
either one side or other Of the house.
Anyway, the grandfather being dead
and the law Of heredity being no I'M
important factor, this becomes an easy
method Of disposing Of such a case.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

It is a never ceasing wonder and
marvel how nature will take the rain
fall, the sunshine, the heat, and out
Of the same sort of plant food make a
thistle, rose, a skunk cabbage or a
peach.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

Oregon and Washington hop growers
are in clover this year-a fine crop,
nearly ton to the acre, and Is cents
pound for the hops at tho press.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

1t was a very pretty sight and 9
very unusual one-a large field OF
grain recently cut and the shocks sci
with mathematical accuracy botl
ways in straight lines. This field was
a fit subject for camera. This II
Nebraska.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

A common idea prevails that light
frost which will pinch the leaves Of
the corn is good thing for 1t in has
tening its maturity. We think this is
oil wrong and that the ear is never so
well developed as when it ripens un.
touched by frost.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

We met a fruit man recently who
lives in southeastern Nebraska. He
was engaged in harvesting the fruit
from 100 acres Of peaches, from which
orchard he had sold 10000 bushels at
a net profit to him Of $4,000. This
beats corn, hogs and alfalfa. He is To-
Gated forty miles west of Omaha and
has raised peaches successfully for
seventeen years.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

A bullfighter in Spain has just re-
tired with fortune Of $1,O00,000 earn
ed in the arena. In this country it is
easy to find plenty Of men who have
made more than this by just watering
the stock.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

A leading stock paper recently pub
lished a diatribe against the mule and
referred to our old friend in most con-
temptuous and uncomplimentary terms.
While by no means perfect, the mule
still remains the one sole instance
where man improved upon the work of
the Creator.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

A tramp was recently killed while
riding the blind baggage, and when
the coroner sat on him it was found
that he had $3.50 sewed in the lining
of his old coat. He was, in spite of
this. beating his way from Texas to
North Dakota. Queer types are these
hoboes.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

Recent experiments made in Eng
land show that power generated by
gasoline motors is 60 per cent cheaper
than steam power.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

An old fruit grower claims that an
application of common salt to the roots
of apple and pear trees subject to
blight will entirely prevent it; pint
once year for small tree up to half
a gallon for large one. 1t is such a
simple remedy that it seems to be
worth q trial.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

War, In any way 1t can be put, is al
ways impoverishing and destructive.
While it may be indispensable at times
to preserve the liberties and integrity
of people and in a way place them on
a higher plane, every man killed, every
shot fired, makes nation that much
the poorer,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

While a farmer must Of necessity
trust in Providence, he must needs put
in his best work and use bis best judy
ment If he would expect Providence to
give him q square deal. Successful
farming is always case of faith and
works, largely works.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20
Cheap Rates to coIorai do.

and return via G. M. & st. P, Ry,
tickets on sale daily, good to return
October 81. w. L. Richards. Agt.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

Either the humming bird is short on
bird sense or else the fowers-cannas,
salvias, asters and the like-furnish q
continuous supply of nectar, for we
watched one of these little fellows WIS.,
it the same Gamma blossom twenty
times within the short space of fifteen
minutes.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

Both meat and bread will be high
priced this winter, but our old stand
by, the potato, bids fair to be cheap
enough. Pat is in evidence that pref.
ty good men can be raised on praties
and skim milk.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

A scientific friend Of ours claims that
grain tields-wheat and oats-are less
liable to be smitten with rust where
the prairie winds have a free sweep
over them than they are where pro-
tected from the winds by belts of tim
her. The rust, which has almost ruin
ed the wheat crop Of the Dakotas this
year, would seem to have done It's work
in spite of the winds.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

The present war in the east is Great
ing a market for American flour, the
Japs having discovered that, prepared
in the shape Of hard tack such as the
American soldier is furnished, it is
cheaper than rice, the standard Japa
nese ration.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

A new labor field is opening. Eight
thousand cotton pickers are wanted in
Oklahoma. The colored man is not
there to take up his old time work, and
white men and women must be obtain
ed. The work appeals to the Italians,
many Of whom are going south to
work in these cotton fields. Good
place for them. for they are children
of the sun.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

Good sense has returned to the
grain growers this year, and more Of
them have put their grain into the
stack than for many years. The grain
was thus safely secured, the plows
were started on the stubble in August,
the straw will be worth twice as much
when thrashed late in the fall, and the
grain will be brighter in color and bet
ter in quality.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

The automobile fellows are very anx-
1ous that the farmers should improve
the roads and make nice smooth tracks
for the devil machines. The farmer
thinks, and not without reason, that
when he has made this sort of roads
there will be no safety either for him
or his stock with the crazy chauffeurs
making thirty miles an hour over them.
The farmer will never take kindly to
the automobiles until their owners
have more regard for the lives and the
rights Of other people. i
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

The alberta peach made great rec
ord in the west this year. Beginning
down in Texas in June. it kept making
its way north through Arkansas and
then Missouri, winding up with splen-
did fruit from the latter state up
to September. This peach will have to
be classed hereafter as a standard
southern product, as much so Us cot
ton.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

A matter of 50 a month in wages
is very small thing in the pay Of the
hired man on the farm If he is the
right sort Of hand. The careful,
thoughtful hand may easily save his
employer ten times this amount in the
care of machinery and stock. There
is not enough difference made in the
wages Of farm hands-the scads, the
lazy, the shiftless, the careless, getting
always too much and the best men not
enough.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

The horsepower Of the modern loco
motive is rated from $500 up.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

A dairyman friend has tried this plan
with his cows during the dry and heat
ed term of August and early Septem-
Der: He brings his cows in from the
pasture at 10 o'clock, puts them in the
basement barn and darkens it and then
gives them what silage they will eat,
varying this with feed of sweet corn.
The cows are turned out again toward
evening. His milk check keeps June
pace.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

1t is pitiful to read of the injury sus-
tanned by the great wheat crop Of the
northwest section this year, magnifi-
cent oceans Of wheat promising TWEEN
ty-fve bushels an acre, in three days
smitten with a rust which silently fell
on them as did the plaques in the
time of Pharaoh, and the life taken
out Of the splendid crop. 1t is not
alone the unfortunate wheat grower
who suffers, but every man who eats
bread.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

1t appears that Uncle Sam, uninten-
tionally, Of course, worked a regular
shell game on about $4,000 people in
connection with his Rosebud lottery
land scheme. But little of the tract Is
worth over 81 an acre and has no fu-
ture save as range pasture, and men
tumbled over each other to get quar-
ter at 81 IN acre after living on it
fourteen months.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

1t seems likely that the Panama ca
nal will be dug by the colored men of
the south. While there seems to be
no large surplus Of labor of this class
to spare in the south, the black man
will make the best laborer to be OBJ
tanned, and the political and economic
difficulties connected with the impor-
tation Of Chinese. or Japanese to do
The work will be removed.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

Law is queer thing. 1t is said that
Egyptian mummies Of the time Of the
pharnohs, imported into England as
specimens of sepulture and civiliza-
ton 5000 years old, have to have an
inquest held over them before they are
allowed to be turned over to the col
leges and museums which import them.
We do not vouch for the absolute truth
of this story.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-10-21
News Notes.

G. A. Levin, a st. Paul grocer, is held
up and robbed by masked highway
man.
Judge Brill decides that the courts
can order a recount of the votes at
primary election.
The twentieth annual state oonven-
ton of the Young Women's Christian
association will be held in Wiuoua on
Oct. 2l-s3. 7..--.- ...-.
The capitol commissioners consider
one bid received on driveways and
sidewalks at the new capitol too high.
Frank j. Artz, accused Of murder in
the first degree, was acquitted at Be-
midi. He was indicted for the killing
of John Weillander, homesteader..
The trial lasted six days.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. P. Mills have just
celebrated their golden wedding anni-
versary at Elk River.
Two men believed to have been gull
ty OF blowing and robbing the safe in
q general store at Hopkins about four
weeks ago are under arrest 1t Rugby
Junction. N. D.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-10-21
MECCA FOR THE SICK
WONDERS OF ST. WINEFRIDE's
" WELL I'M WALES. m
Marvellous Stories Are Told and Be-
lsved in England Of the Cures
Wrought There-Blind
Girl Made to See.
London (Eng.) Special.

London (Eng.) Special.
While thousands OF the more for
tunate Of the earth are f1ocking from
all parts Of the world to continental
spas to seek or recruit health. there
is another army, smaller. it Is true.
but still numerous, OF whose pilgrim
age the papers tell US nothing, making
its way to Mecca in Flintshire, on q
similar quest.
They are . strange crowd, Of all
classes and afflicted by almost every
Ill that flesh is heir to-the MANNED
the sick, the halt, the blind-all jour-
neying to the shrine Of St.. Wine
fride. in the little town of Holywell
near the Dee estuary, in the hope that
the miraculous waters of the we'll may
make. them whole. For long centu-
ries these waters have wrought their
miracles. the blind even have found
sight in them, the dumb have had
their tongues loosened. and the Grip
pied have thrown aside their clutches
and leaped in the Joy of their recov-
cry: and what has happened to 9TH
ers may, they think. also be the happy
lot of every one of these pilgrims.
St. Winefride's well had its birth
nearly .13 centuries ago. and a strange.
ly romantic story is told of its origin
how the stream gushed forth from
the ground on which the murdered
daughter of q Welsh chieftain. the
beautiful Winefride, fell: and ever
since the water has flowed, bringing
healing with it, until a mere list of
all the miracles it has wrought would
fill volumes.
Over this wonderful we'll the moth
er of King Henry VII. built the ex-
quisite little chapel which is it's
shrine to-day. Beneath this chapel,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-10-21
Has Male Heart q ValueP

Has Male Heart u va4ue9
Ought girl to pay for the fun of break
ing a mans heart? This is poser not
only for Cupid, but for a Pennsylvania
Judge who will have to decide. Elmer
oliver, of Plymouth, Pa, has sued Eliza
beth Alspaugh for $1,000 because she
Tilted him. When he asked her why.
she tossed her head and said: 20, be-
cause" Young men all over the coun-
try will watch the case with anxiety. 1t
the Judge decides that Elmer's heart is
worth $1,000 or $4,000, or even 500. a
great sigh Of relief will 60 up from all
over the land. Few young women will
care to pay over 500 for the fun OF
running a steam roller over her best
young mans heart and making 1t look
like a smashed beet. But II the court
decides that male heart cannot be
dented more than SO cents worth, there
may be a fearful smashing of engage
ments every leap year.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-10-21


asylums., At the time of its organiza-
ton there were IL local unions repre-
sented by % delegates at the conven-
ton. but In the few months Of it's ex-
istence it has grown until at the pres
ent time it has "a locals affiliated with
a membership of about $500. There
Is a broad field for organization work
under the jurisdiction of this union,
and it intends to start an active cam
paign to bring members into the fold.
Although 1t has local unions in num-
Der of cities. Chicago is its strong
hold, as this class of labor is not or
ganized in the principal eastern cities.
The local unions of janitors and win
dow washers have increased their
wages on an average 80 per cent. since
they organized and the working condi.
lions have been improved. Charles L.
Fieldstack is president of the national
organization aid James Mclean is Sec
rotary. The former was elected at the
convention in February and the latter
was appointed by the executive board
to fill a vacancy.