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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-18
THE M1RKETS.

opening. highest. lowest and and closing
quotations in tOday's markets:
Wheat.
October. closed. 1875.
December. 11lsz. l14%s. III Y. 114it.
May, 1908. 1123i NE. Il2Ia.
October closed. 51ls.
D"cembcr. y =. =, - =, As y.
Nay, Ass. 45Ii. AS. 45is.
Oats.
Ocober, closed. 2S14
M MsGrm 90, So SO $ S5. $ 81 2a
Pork.
October. closed. 1OSJ
January. 12.12. 1872. 1912. 1925.
May. 1905. I9.22. 1905. 1920.
2s5G9fF IL 80 80, IL II III ~,
May. 20 T.27. III. T.25.
Ribs.
October, 10. --. -. rs.
January. 635. 5.45. SOS. $40
May. G.45, 6.52. GO. $50.
Receipts today. wheat 90, corn l31.
oats 22f, hogs $4,000. cattle ! 900, sheep
p. 600
Estimated receipts Wednesday: Wheat
60. corn -. oats 100. hogs 5000.
Hog market opened steady. Light
SOGI5.30. mixed and butchers 1900
10. good heavy 4-I0f' 30. rough heavy
4 OFf 80.
cattle market opened steady to
Strouz, for best. others dun.
Sheep market opened steady
Hogs at OmohH 5000. cattle 5000
Hogs at Kansas city 10000, cattle 90
{. $. yards. $40 a. m.-Hog market
slow. Light 4SON 80 mixed and
butchers 4-9om 80. good heavy 47e@
40. rough hCaEE f1pff 40.
Beeves 2.SoGI $50. cows and heifers 100
n 40. Texas steers 2.Io NJ 800. stock
ers and feeders son 100.
sheep market steady.
Hog market closed weak TO 90 lower
Light 30 NJ $50. MIXED and butchers
{ 50 m $40. good heavy 4.s5 ri $40. rough
heavy 4.70TJ 40
Cattle market closed steady
Sheep market closed steady 70 100
-oweT.
New York Stocks
New York. oct. 1S-Sugar 1874. Gas
I 1863, g. J. K p. 2eas. Southern Pa
cihc 81 :, 3 * O. 941z. Atchison com
mon s. i. AtchisOH preferred 1919. G.
NJ & St T. 10 =, Manhattan 15s. Cop
per 65. " T. Tel. GO. -. y. Y. Contra
49, = l. Il y I21 =. Reading common
80. Canadian Pacific 1873 "a. LeatHel
/ common 1874. p x. T. - y. Pacific Mai
/ #I7z- g.. : steel preferred EZIz. L. s
/ steel con- mon %. Peurs 1861 Missouri
! Pacific 1912. Union Pacific 1919 Goa
! & Iron - . . Erie common 81 p. WabasI
] preferred ~. g. q O. w. 1919, Illinois
Central l441z. Car Foundry 81 = r.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-06

An affecting incident was the recent
visit of President Loubet to his mother
at Montelimar. The mother Of the
French President is humble market
woman in the little village, and de-
spite her sons endeavors refused to
leave the p &c where she was born
and has lived for three-quarters Of a
century. Her son awaited her in the
market place as she drove up in her
little cart loaded with vegetables. As
sisting his mother to alight President
Loubet gave her his arm and escorted
her to her accustomed seat. Then plac-
ing over her large umbrella TO shield
her from the threatened weathe.:, he
sat by her side and mother and son en-
.'oyed a long talk together.
We can learn more OF President Lou
bets true character from this 1.-THE in
cident than from volumes of biogra-
phy that might be written No man
worthy the name OF nan ever forgets
his mother. She is his first love- and
10 her he remains true throughout the
year. Married or single. old or young.
he Is still her child. II. Loubet is one
OF the most popular men who ever
occupied the Presidential chair The
people feel that he is one of them;
that he can enter with sympathy into
their life: that he is q msn after their
own kind The incident which we
have Just related will bind NJ. Loubet
more CLOSELY than ever 10 his Ioyaj
people. Housekeeper.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-06
FAC or Queen az Rncks.

Many stories have been told OF won
derful animals discovered by the vari-
GUS native tribes of South Africa; in
fact the folklore OF the Transkei alone
would fill decent little library. And
even native servants Sho have grown
to regard themselves as civilized by
reason of their daily contact with the
white man are by no means free from
superstition.
An instance has recently occurred at
shirland. where the presence of a
white springbuck had become the cen
ter OF a veritable romance. The goat
herds declared that a miraculous halo
surrounded the animal; she YVES the
Queen Of BusSs.' and had been en-
dowed with perpetual youth If doz-
en- bullets pierced her body she would
rise phoenixlike from the bushes. with
wound healed and endowed with
double measure OF vitality. Conse-
ouently. when their "baas." John p.
Hobson, announced lis intention OF
calling a few friends together In or
der to hunt the animal and secure the
skin and horns for the Port Elizabeth
Museum. his swarthysretainefs stared
aghast and prophesie1 dire disasterI
The coveted buck fell to Mr.. Hobson's
rife and no misfortune resulted
CRAFT Reiuet Advertiser.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-06

As illustration
picture will
divided into agreeable by tiny
raVn VIII give only should
remembered that the road
scape horizontal
picture nor should it be divided triangular
ean other Nature have abolished
10 accept OF this hint from The dGd
parts oy dwelling
OF ordinary kind
simple elements
nave sufncent strength
ana It's close and intimate relation which
appreciated by all who the
that there
road is found this
arrangement plain that they
selves and the figure
composition the
beautiful the introduction of
siderable
who have considered
prices to fill
having possible relation
from the road apparently
E. in
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-06
Al Over the state.


w. w. Cargill of La Crosse has made
the Methodist church in GAINESVILLE a
gift of $4,000 in memory of his father.
William Berg of Chiffon was killed
while attempting to board a south-bound
freight train. He was about IS years
old
The La Crosse county board of super
visors have voted to install a lighting
plant of their own in the county build
ing.
The little son of Louis Man of Pesh-
tigo received fatal injuries under the
wheels of gravel wagon, from which he
fell.
The Eau Claire county board adopted
a resolution appropriating $1,000 to es-
tablsh county training school for
teachers.
Lars Rasmussen. farmer living three
miles north of Lone Rock, was accident
ally shot in the foot by a companion
while hunting rabbits.
A fire occurred on Main street in Pal
myra. Two loads of hay were burned
while standing in the street before the
fire department could do anything
William Weller. 13 years old, of Bur
lington. while hunting was shot and kill
ed by his own gun. He was dragging
the gun after him when dog stepped on
the trigger.
Leonard Wollhoefer of Waterloo, aged
IA years. was shot by his 4-year-old
brother who was playing with gun.
The bullet passed through his thigh. His
condition is serious. and recovery is
doubtful.
The Racine county board has decided
to inspect two farms. one of which may
be purchased for the insane asylum The
f. f.. Jones farm is favored. because it
adioins the asylum farm. With the pur-
chase, the county viii have over 200
acres.
fire which threatened the new post
Office and several other buildings in the
business district caused about 5000
damage in GAINESVILLE The grocery store
of Deslrich Brothers and the photograph
gallery OF George W. Wise, in two
Story brick building. were destroyed and
the building is total loss.
Because his wife. Margareta Bren.
threw : pancake into his face, Joseph
kren OF Appleton WIS -4s4AAcN a NANN-NN
/ on the grounds Of cruel and inhuman
! treatment.
A robber who had beep koidisg up
women on the street and taking thea
money and jewelry was arrested in RAJ
cine. He is a waiter ont Of a job, who
gave the name of John Hsverstick-
A change Of venue he's been granted
BIZ Judge Goodland 10 the Appleton Wat
or Works Company in its suit against the
city to collect payment of water and
hydrant rental since the expiration Of
| the contract. The case viii no doubt be
taken to Winnthago county.
Carl Yost. age5 80. Mrs. August Nau-
u.er. aged ~. ana Ada Stoil aged y. Of
Oshkosh. are believed 10 have been
drowned in Lake Winnebago. They went
hunting and have not returned
The John c.. Curran school building IN
| Rhjuelansser. in which the first and eth
grade pupils were taught. burned. entail
i,r los estimated At $1,000 There IS
81 600 insurance. II viii lie rebuilt.
After causing her husband 20 BE- ar
rested on an abandonment charge. Ms.
R.nne~t forSave him in Justice O<tiseid-
| er'S court in Shebsysan. Renaert's sis
ter Kissed the court in leu Of fee and
| then the three returned 70 Rennert S
| house In the town OF Lima
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-06
MEXICO Has a smnlI Narr.

The Mexican navy at present con-
sists of four small boats in the Gulf
of Mexico and two in the Pacific, be-
sides small patrol boats in the south
ern waters. The Democratic, the first
boat bought by Mexico. Of 400 tons dis
placement, is on the Pacific coast, and
with her is the Oaxaca, and old sloop-
rugged boat of steel, of about 1000
tcas, but of only seven knots speed,
used as a transport.
Two new gunboats just bought In
the United States, named the Vera
Cruz and the Tampico, are in the
gulf. They have steel hulls, are 200
feet long, diSplace 1000 tons, have
shown a speed Of about fifteen knots
and have two four-inch guns and 9TH
er smaller rapid-firing guns each. Tho
Zaragosa and Yucatan, 1,226 and $50
tons, respectively, the former having
six 4S-inch Canet guns, are also In
the gulf. and are used as training
ships for the naval school which was
established at Vera Cruz in 1897. The
Brave and Morelos, being built in
Italy, will displace each 1000 tons.
There are sixty-five cadets at Vera
Cruz, also an arsenal aud a small
floating dry dock. There is a small
wooden dock at Guaymas in the Gulf
OF California.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-06
LOOKING EoR INDIANS.
How a Dissatisfied Recruit Obtained
His DISCHARGE

his discharge
An army captain. who likes to talk
about his experiences was once sta
toned in California at a post nowhere
near Indians. except those in the front
OF the cigar stores in the nearby city.
Among the batch of recruits came a
big husky fellow who was very quiet
and well liked by the men of his com
pany. In few weeks the man seemed
10 grow quieter and TO stay by himself
and have little to say to any one. One
afternoon he was excused from dress
parade by the surgeon on account of
sickness. Just as parade was formed
the big fellow was seen TO rush across
the parade in front OF the command
ing officer. In his hands he carried
pair of lineman's climbers. He stop
ped at the foot Of the tall fiagstaff,
and before he could be stopped he had
strapped on the climbers and raced up
the staff. On the crosstress, half way
up, he sat, Old Glory fluttering to the
breeze over his head Parade over,
the guard. the officers and many 9th
ers gathered at the foot of the STAFF
and the man was commanded to come
down. He paid nc attention to the
commands Of any one or to the threat
of the commanding officer that he
would have him shot If he did not
come down. He took from his pocket
a pair of field glasses and scanned the
country in all directions for about half
an hour, when he closed up the glass
and descended into the hands of the
guard at the foot of the STAFF. As he
was being marched off to the guard
house he remarkedi
Il did not see any coming"
See any what?" asked the sergeant
of the guard.
why, Indians. The Modocs are
coming to attack the post, and l am
on the watch for them"
The surgeon talked with the man,
who was quiet and seemed rational
on every subject save that the post
was in danger of being attacked by
Indians. In day or two he was re-
leased from the guardhouse and in
h'AA ou hVNA Was Ap AiIN SLdn again
and at the same business of watching
for the Indians. NJ threats or COM
mands would induce the man to come
down or make any reply. At the end
Of three hours he came down from
of his perch" and in dag or two pa
pers We're sent in recommending his
discharge, not on the ground of insani-
", which would have necessitated his
being sent to the asylum, but on ac-
count Of unfitness for service.
His discharge papers were given to
aim, and as he passed out of the post
A member of the guard said to him:
We'll. how about the Indians now?
See any?"
The big fellow turned around when
off the reservation, and out Of the
gate, and with smile that was child
ike and bland, replied:
Indians, no! You army fellows GER
tainly are a lot of jays"
He had been a llneman. and, not
satisfied with the service, had chosen
a novel way to get out.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-06
WORKMAN WHO CHEATS.
Dribb1e He Represents in a Business
Worse Than a Wide Leak.

Dribb1c He Represents in Business La
Worse Than a Wide Leak.
An employer of thousands of men
was asked what thing in all his large
operations gave him the most concern.
THE man who does a little less than
is expected of him. was the reply.
HE is the dangerous factor In all bust
ness. The absolute failure we readi-
ly discover and discharge, but the
'almosts' escape detection for months
and often for years, and they make
our losses as well as our fears" and
with very serious smile he added:
1.-THE drip In business is worse than
the leak"
1t is a condition that is as old as
human experience. Eighteen and
half centuries ago Seneca put it in
these words: "Some portion of our
time is taken from us by force; an
other portion is stolen from us; and
another slips away. But the most dis
graceful loss is that which arises from
our own negligence; and if thou wilt
seriously observe, thou shalt perceive
that a great part of life fits from
those who do evil, a greater from
those who do nothing, and the whole
from those who do not accomplish the
business which they think they are do
ing"
Thousands of men fancy they are
fulfilling their duty to their employ
ers and to their tasks by keeping hours
and performing just enough to hold on
to their positions. They have an idea
that to do more would be to give larger
service than their compensation re-
CURED They object to what they be-
lieve would be extra values. 1.-THE old
man sha'n't get more than he is paying
for" is the vernacular
Possibly it never strikes these trim
mers that in cheating their work they
are doing double damage; they are in
juring their employers much, but they
are robbing themselves more; they are
| in fact losing everything in life that
is worth while. They fare worse than
il they did nothing at all, for time
with all its precious values slips en-
tirely from them and leaves no sub
| stance or satisfaction.
Half doing soon brings undoing. 1t
| Is the nine-tenths doing or the ninety
nine one-hundredths doing that bleeds
bsuiness and saps haracter.-Satur-
/ day Evening Post.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-06
ALL OVER THE STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST IN BADGER
DOM.
Fatalities Among Hunters in Woods
Bees Pay Church Debt-Mine Superin-
tendent's Brave Active Rivers Fire
Extinguished After Fight.

John Cressette was shot and killed
while going through the woods near
Browns spur carrying a deer that was
killed by a man named Trumbley. Cres-
settle evidently was making off with the
carcass and was avoiding beaten paths.
Ee was shot in the neck with a soft lead
bullet, seemingly from a revolver. Earl
Poundstone, one of party of Mellen
hunters, fired at a moving deer at about
the same time that Cressette was killed
and in the same vicinity. He used rife
bullets with steel jackets. An unknown
man was found dead in the woods near
Unekee. 1t is presumed that a bullet
from his own gun ended his life. James
Knapp. a young hunter of Osceola, was
shot and instantly killed near Hobson
while hunting deer with a companion.
The men were on a runway and Knapp,
becoming chilled, started 10 walk out INFO
an open clearing when a bullet crashed
through his body, causing instant death.
The identity of the maa who shot him
is not known.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-06
GOLDENROO.

When the wayside tangles blaze
In the low September sun,
When the flowers of summer days
Droop and wither one by one,
Reaching up through bush and brier,
Sumptuous brow and heart of fire,
Flaunting high its windrocked plume
Brave with wealth Of native bloom
Goldenrodl
In the pastures rude embrace,
All o'errun with tangled vines,
Where the thistle claims its place,
And the struggling hedge confines,
Bearing still the sweet impress
OF unfettered loneliness,
In the field and by the wall,
Binding. clasping, browning all
Goldenrod!
Nature lies disheyeled, pale,
With her feverlsh lips apart
Day by day the pulses fail,
Nearer to her bounding heart;
Yet that slackened grasp doth hold
Store of pure and genuine gold;
Quick thou contest, strong and free,
Type Of all the wealth to be-
Goldenrod.
kansas City Journal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-06

years Of experimental work on the
part Of its inventor, Capt t. S. Bald
win. It has cigar-shaped gas bag OF
vanished Japanese silk, 81 feet long
and II feet in diameter, with capac-
ity of 5000 cubic feet On the upper
surface and at the ends the silk is
doubled and at the points of greatest
strain trebled. =.
The car, 40 feet long, is a light
framework of white cedar braced with
piano wire. 1T is, in section, perfect
eouilateral triangle, so that the whole
is In the shape of right prism, save
that it grows smaller and smaller to-
wa. is the ends. 1t is pulled through
the air by a two-bladed silk propeller,
II feet from tip to tip, set at an angle
Of 90 degrees at the front end Of the
car. The draught Of air caused by its
zoo revolutions a minute serves to pre-
vent explosions by constantly cooling
the Hercules gasoline engine set about
eight feet from the forward end of
the car. The engine weighs only Go
mounds. but performs $500 revolu tons
minute and has working capacity
of seven-hourse power.
The aerOaaTl has seat and coming
platform about u or 13 feet further
back, and he can move from one end
to the other of the car at will. though
a change Of position of less than two
feet is sufficient to cause the craft to
ascend or descend in the air by raising
or Lowering the elevation of the beak.
at the rear there is a rudder Of 6x10
feel, made Of light canvas stretched
on a bamboo frame. The total weight
of the whole apparatus is only about
90 pounds. The maximum speed thus
far attained, by means of It's own en-
zines, not taking the wird into account
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-06
ANARANTHTS INVESTMENT.
ON~O~~~ON~~


@ ROUBLE began for Amaranth
Brooke when she decided to buy
a back the ramshackle old family
homestead with the few hundred dol
lars that had been left TO her by a
distant relative. But there were her
brothers wife and children to provide
q home for. and when Amaranth made
mn her mind she cared very little
whether people approved of her pla'
or not.
She did care, however, what Syh -
ter Smalley would think of the matter,
for since she was engaged to him 1t
would be only right TO tell him what
she meant to do.
Amaranth had been looking over her
prospective purchase and was on her
way home, when he overlook her ana
MT once preached the subject.
mo use to throw your MONEY away
on that old rubbishly place" he told
her. You can't raise a crop there, an
i wouldn't take it as q gift. An your
money. with what I've got, would
build up nice. snug house on that
forty acres father gave me, an help
To stock the farm beside. Then we
could be married and so right to house
keeping. VIII you, Amaranth?'
They were lettering slowly home
ward and had paused at the old stile
where a scarlet-towered trumpet-vine
showered its gorgeous trophies at theiE
feet.
"Ssy yesr' urged Sylvester.
Amaranth felt her determination
weakening.
"Rut-but there's brother Reuben:
wife and the childrenr' she faltered
..They are quite destitute. and have NJ
one TO look TO but me-"
sylvester frowned.
"I.et Reub's wife look out for her
self" he returned gruttly. Il dare say
there's orphan asylums In the city
where the young uns would be tool
care Of"
Amaranth's eyes flashed scornfuiJ
at him as she drew herself up viii
offended dignity.
Brother Reuben's children shall
never go to me asylum while live
she declared Indignantly.
After q few more words their troll
was broken. Sylvester stalked moodiI
on his way, while Amaranth, with
pang OF sore disappointment at he
heart. turned toward the gray ston
farmhouse, where she earned q small
strend over her board by doing tn
homework for a family Of six.
The broken engagement Offers
fresh food for gossip among tn
Brooke and Stubbleheld kith and kin
but Amaranth was not TO be turne
from her course by their outSpoke
censures and criticisms.
The old homestead was bought an
paid for. To be sure the soil wa
rocky and sterile. and the dwelling 1
need of repairs
The orchard trees-what were let
of them-were gnarled and bent. an
the fences and outbuildings in a sa
state OF dilapidation.
II was really scarcely worth tn
small sum asked for Il. but Amarant
had determined to buy it and buy
she did
An ancient cow and half-decrep
pony were included in the sale
And after the house had been trea
ed TO a few repairs and thoroug
cleaning. brother Reuben's famil
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-06
Church Debt Lifted bx Bees.

La Crosse county bees, by strict atten-
ton to business during the summer
months, helped out the congregation of a
little country church from an unpleasant
burden of debt. The means to lift the
debt could not be seen, and it was feared
the church would have to go to its credit
ors, when members of the congregation
discovered that bees had made their home
in the church walls. As they were not
esteemed good neighbors for church
meetings, the clapboards were torn off
to dislodge the visitors. Then it was
found that the space was filed with fine
honey. 1t was sold, and enough money
was realized to meet the church debt.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-06

is IL miles an hour, but the usual rate
is only about eight miles an hour.
One of the exciting incidents of the
trial of the airships was the escape Of
the California Arrow. After trial
flight while the Arrow was being low.
cred to repair slight break in the
machinery, the rope was dragged from
the hands Of the assistants and the
ship scared into the air and disap-
peared in northwesterly direction.
The runaway ship was found next
morning about 16 miles west of st.
Louis The ship had sailed low, and
the anchor caught in a tree. There
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-06
Buy a Smoking Mountain.

What is perhaps Dame Natures big
gest laboratory has been purchased by
a syndicate of Americans. 1t is To-
Gated in the crater of the historic
smoking mountain of Mexico the Po-
pocatapetl Of the Aztecs. The trans
action, whether regarded as a real es-
tate transfer or an industrial DEAL is
interesting by reason Of It's novelty.
Popocatapetl has been on the whole
rather a benefcient volcano than 9TH
erwlse. Instead of porting out foods
Of lava and ashes like Vesuvius 1t mas
furnished for a century or so a prac-
tlcally inexhausitable supply of sui
phur. The world has long been aware
Of this fact and the sulphur mine has
been worked by native labor, though
on necessarily small scale, since
heretofore ithas been well-nigh inacces-
sible The mountain is over 1900
feet high and for 1900 feet is covered
with a dense growth of forest. The
crater itself is three miles in circum,
ference and 1000 feet deep.
These natural obstacles IN the way
of extracting and markRlng the vast
sulphur deposits in the Crater are to bd
overcome by constructing railway
from the village at the base to the
summit. The mountain was pur.
chased some years ago by a syndicate
Of wealthy Mexicans. who, however
failed to develop it anu have now sold
out to the American capitalists. The
undertaking win be large one, but by
applying modern methods the output
of sulphur can be made enormous,
while the timber which clothes the
mountain sides has layge commercial
value. Certainly it will establish n
new and unique industry in Mexico,
though thousands OF old Aztecs will
doubtless turn in their graves upon
realizing such PROCLAMATION.