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TUE TAFT POLICY
The Reason Why Be Spoke
 From Inc Rear Platform.

Chicago. III. Oct 7.-'Why Taft Went West. or Is Golf a Lady-like Gamer" might afford an appropriate title for a chapter on MT Taft's recent campaign trip. It now develops that one of. the chief reasons why Mir Taft took to the rear platform was to tell the farmers of the northwest about golf, and to show them that he Ia not dude. MT Taft emphasized that fact in his speech at Fargo. North Dakota. By inference at least, 1t was apparent that MT Taft wanted to in- form his hearers that If by any chance he should be elected president there would be no more tennis cabi- nets. such as President Roosevelt maintains, but that he would proceed to organize golf cabinet and play the game on the white lot. He might invite that other distinguished golf CT, John D. Rockefeller to play with him, but John D. is not so popular with the farmers and laboring men as he is with the republican party, so MT Taft did not mention him.
 Instead of telling the people what he thought about the guarantee of bank deposits, publicity of cam paign funds, the popular election of senators, physical valuation Of rail roads, injunction and other subjects in which they are interested, MT Taft discussed golf.
 Here is record of what he said on the subject as transcribed from the stenographer's notes:
 T want to make little personal explanation. got an intimation that l ought to go out to North Dakota and convince the people that l am not an aristocrat and above the people. They said that I had been playing golf this summer, that that is an eastern game and it indicated that l was out of sympathy with the plain people. Well, now, I want to state my case in order to satisfy public opinion on that game of golf. In Scotland, golf is the game of the poor, and in this country where you can get place to play it, it is the game of the people who are not active enough to play baseball and tennis-that have too much weight to carry around. And yet when a man weighs 295 pounds you have got to give him some opportunity to make his legs and muscles move and golf affords that opportunity. It may be that it is a game of rich men, but beg to assure you that I am personally advised of the fact that a very poor man can play it. But somehow or other my friends were certain that if could only come out here and show you the kind of man I am in appearance that you would get over the impress sion that there is anything about me that resembles dude. So I am here and l am glad to be here"
 After setting himself right on the all important golf question, Mir Taft proceeded to explain why it was that two gentlemen" as he characterized them who had violated the antitrust law, and who were presidents of two subsidiary concerns of the tobacco trust, had not been put in jail wher they had confessed their guilt. He
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-07
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then argued that it would be better to have the trusts than to have the statutes piled with laws which would result in red tape and impositions, burdens on corporations.
 In the same speech MT Taft paid Mir Bryan compliment of admitting that to take the tariff off and put on the free list every trust made article in this country would certainly end the trusts that was de- pendent on the tariff"
 MT Taft, perhaps unwittingly, however, admitted also that the Ding- ley tariff is not responsible for the prosperity of the farmers, for, he said, q don't maintain that the Dingley tariff bill alone accounts for the great prosperity that we have enjoyed in the last eleven years. Certainly, so far as the farmers are concerned, the Lord has had good deal to do with it in the mater of good crops"
 This is the first instance on record where the republican party ever con- scented to divide honors with the All mighty.
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would cross to the cabin for good night word with the man upon whom her every thought centered.

would cross to the cabin for a good night word with the man upon whom her every thought centered.
 As 1t happened, however, Harry was at that moment very near her Alone on the mountain, the per- .'exing con fict of feeling had again descended upon him. He had fought 1t, but 1t had prevailed and at nightfall had driven him down a the town, where the street preacher now held forth. He stood alone, unnoted. little dis tance away near the courthouse steps, where by reason of the crowd Jessica could see neither him nor the dog, which sniffed at the heels of the circle of bystanders as if to inquire casual ly of salvation.
 Numbers were swelling now, and the street preacher, shaking back his long hair, drew premonitory, waver- ing chord from his melodeon and struck up gospel song. The song ended, he mounted his camp stool to propound his usual fiery text.
 The watcher by the steps was gazing with strange, alert intentness. Some thing in the scene held him enthralled. Hallelujah Jones knew the melodra- matic value of contrast. As his mood called he passed abruptly from exhor- tation to song, from prayer to fulmina- tion, and he embellished his harangue with anecdotes drawn from his lifelong campaign against the arch enemy of souls. Of what he had said the soli- tary observer had been quite uncon- scious. It was the ensemble-the repe- tition of something experienced some where before-that appealed to him. Suddenly, however, chance phrase pierced to his understanding.
 Another moment and he was leaning forward, his eyes fixed, his breath straining at his breast. For each word of the speaker now was knocking a sledge hammer blow upon the blank wall in his brain. Hallelujah Jones had launched into the recital of story which, though the stern charge of a bishop had kept him silent as to name and locality, yet, possessing the vivid- ness of an actual experience, had lost little in the telling. It was the tale of an evening when he had peered through the tilted window of chapel and seen its absolute rector gambling on the ta- ble of the Lord.
 The words shrieked themselves through Harry's brain. Harry Sander
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nal process of the recovered mind had been stealthily undermining. Harry Sanderson at last knew his past and all of puzzlement and distress that 1t had held
 Shaking in every limb and feeling all along the courthouse wall like drunk eli man, he made his way to the fur ther deserted street A passerby would have shrunk at sight of his face and his burning eyes.
 For these months he, the Rev. Henry Sanderson, disgraced, had suffered eclipse, had been sunk out of sight and touch and hearing like stone in a pool For these months-through an accidental facial resemblance and a fortuitous concurrence of circum- stances-he had owned the name and ignominy of Hugh Stires. And Jes- sica? Deceived no less than he, dat ing her piteous error from that mis- taken moment when she had torn the bandage from her eyes on her wedding day, she had never seen the real Hugh in Smoky Mountain. She must learn the truth. Yet how to tell her? How could be tell her all?
 At any hour yesterday, hard as the telling must have been, he could have told her Last night the hour passed. How could he tell her now? Yet she was the real Hugh's wife by law and right. He himself could not marry her. If God would but turn back the uni verse and give him yesterday.
 His feet dragging as though from rold, he climbed the mountain road. As he walked he took from his pocket the little gold cross. and his fingers, numb with misery, tied it to his thong watch guard. l. had been only bau- ble, pocket piece acquired he knew not when or how Now he knew it for the badge of his calling. He remem- bered now that, pressed certain way, it would open. and engraved inside were his name and the date of his or dination.
 He might shut the cabin door, but be could not forbid the torturer that came with him across the threshold. He might throw himself upon his knees and bury his face in the rough skin of the couch, but he could not shut out words that blent in golden lettered flashes across his throbbing eyeballs. 'Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours wife"
 So he crouched, man under whose feet life had crashed. leaving him pin ned beneath the wreck to watch the fire that must creep nearer and nearer.
 (To be Continued.)
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? Chapter e4

.LLELUJAH JO W E s was in his element.
 With his wheeZy melo-
 deon. his gasoline flare and his wild earnest
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main street of the littie mining town. He had not lacked for listeners here. fer he was new sensation. When he 1t llis flare in the courthouse square ct dusk on the second evening the of fec of the Mountain Valley House was empsied and the barrooms and gaming tables well nigh deserted of their pa- irons.
 5essica had seen the mastering crowd from the hotel entrance, Mrs. ualloran had welcomed her errand that day and given her her best room. a chamber overlooking the street. She bad persuaded her vi;itor to spend the afternoon and insisb:d that she stay to supper, just to ste low she would like it for steady diet" Now, as Sessica passed along toward the noun sein road the spectacle chained her s>et on the outskirts of the gathering. ssDe watched and listened with a pre-
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son, not Hugh Stires! Not an ou st! Not criminal, thief and forger! The curtain was rent. The dead wall in his brain W as down, and the real past swept over him in an u n gov vernable flood. Hallelujah Jones had fur nished the clew to the maze. His story was the last great wave, which had crum- bled all at once the cliff of obliv- Ia~ xlzAA &h1
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Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-15
Quotations Of the Nay on various
COmmOdttIe

NEW YORK. oct. 1L-FLoUR-Re-
ceipts, Z,SO bills exports, l&sOo obls.
market firm quiet trade; Minnesota pat
AS. Minnesota bakers, A.0d46. winter
extras. S.50d3.9o; winter patents. Al5OdAS5
winter low Grades, 81. 0q9.s0. Rye flour,
quiet; fair to good. AgodAeO: choice to
fancy. A.5O04.6O. Buckwheat flour easy,
t2.Sod3.1O per 100 lbs.
CORNMEAL-Quiet; fine white and yell
low, $40; coarse, 1896; kiln dried, A.l5.
RGE-Easy; No. 2 western, SShc c. l. T.,
Buffalo.
BARLEY-Firm; mailing, sldsSc. C. T. f.,
Buffalo; feeding, 6l%c, c. l. f., New York.
WHEAT-Receipts. 10000 bu.: exports,
1890 bu.i spot market firm: No. . red,
NO7Jsdl.O5s, elevator, and $lQ0Ts, Z. o. b.,
afloat; No. 1 northern, Duluth, GLIB, (. o.
b. atloat' No. 2 hard, winter, d.l0, I. o. b..
afloat. Excellent buying of wheat developed
on the opening decline today and prices had
a sharp upturn, reflecting dry weather in
winter wheat states and smaller northwest
receipts. Prices held until near the close,
when realizing developed, but final quota
lions we're still 1AdSsc net higher. Decem-
Der, N.o9s9l. lOh; closed, Sl10Ss May, Sll0Q
Ill; closed. H.0rk.
bu.; spot market easy; No. :, $50, nominal,
elevator, and 83lac. I. o. b.. aflOat, to ar
rive. Option market was without transac-
lions, closing, NC to Fac, net over; Decem-
Der, closed. 75c; May, closed, 72Ac.
OATS-Receipts. $3.50 bu. exports, 1,6JC
bu. spot market steady; mixed, 26G32 lbs.
529521Rc; natural white, 26d3l lbs, 52q64c
clipped white. 32G40 lbs, 549J9c.
FEED-Easy; spring bran, $500; mid
ding, $500; city, s23.35.
HAY-Ffrm; shipping, 6Od65c; good &c
choice. SOdS2hc.
HOPS-Dull; state, common to choice, 1890
crop. 1ikc: 1908 crop, 307c; Pacific coast
1908 crop, Sa11c; 1907 crop, 4d7c.
HIDES-Quiet; Bogota, 1shml91kc; Contra
America, 1915c.
LEATHER-Quiet; acid, 23a29c.
PROVISIONS-Beef, steady; family, Sl6.1l
dl7.50; mess, $lS,5Odl4.00; beef hams, $4,000
500; packet, N5.00q16.O0; city, extra India
mess, $24.OOq25M. Cut meats steady; picked
firm; western, 81. 7599.SO. nominal; refined
easy continent, SlO.4 South America
Ni.S; compound, H76GS.Oo. Pork, marke.
steady; family, $21.OO@2. 80; short clear
}0O0Q22.O0; mess, $l6.25q16.75
TALLOW-Steady; city, 6961c; country
5Ad6kc.
R1CE-Steady: domestic, fair to extra, 2%
d6%c; Japan, nominal.
BUTTER-Quiet; process, common to spe,
Gals, 160231zc; western factory. firsts
19hc; western imitation creamery, firsts
2Oc.
CHBESE-Quiet; state. full cream. spe
cials. 13k@l4Ac; small, colored or white
fancy, 13c; large, colored or white, fancy
12hc; good to prime. 1aG12hc; common 4
fair, 10A411&c; skins, 24i0%c.
E~GGS-Ouiet; state. Pennsylvania anC
nearby fancy, selected, white, 36G3Sc.
POULTRY-Alive, quiet; spring chick
ems, lac; fowls, 4c; turkeys, lac dressed
steady; western spring chickens, 15@1Sc
fowls, 11Q15c; spring turkeys, 1S92Oc.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-15
AND PRODUCE MARKET.
Market Continues Low on Account Ct
Weak Foreign Cables.
VALUES ADVANCE TOWARD CLOSE
Com mission Houses Took All OGertnsS
and sought steadily Until the
offerings HAD Been
Absorbed.
OMAHA. oct. 49, 1908.

OMAHA, Oct. "a. 1908.
, with weaker foreign cables our market
continued lower on che opening this morn
ms. and long odds were put out causing
a further break.
Commission houses took ell offerings and
we're buying steadily until offerings had
been absorbed and with the reinstating OF
some OF the late sales values advanced on
the close, showing a good gein.
Wheat started weak on lower cables ano
Jack OF Grading on liberal offerings. Later
= rally vas netned on dry weather and
bulllsh country reports on the coming
pscembeF wheat opened at 94'Ic and
closed at CSC.
Corn opened weak, but rallied shortly. on
better demand and lighter receipts. Selling
was heavy on all bulges however, and long
corn came out on all strong places weak
enipg the market. which closed lower.
December corn opened at 5sJsc ana CLOSED
al 66mc.
Primary wheat receipts were 1,1H,0O bu.
and shipments were 1,1O9,O00 bu., against
receipts last year of $4,000 bu. and ship
ments Of l,1TG,0o bu.
ments were $4,000 bu., against receipts
last year Of $4,000 bu. and shipments were
7S, 600 bu. -
Ciearances were 1000 bu. OF corn, 1900
bu. of oats and wheat and flour equal TO
332,000 blu.
Liverpool closed %9kd lower on wheat
and 3k61bd lower on corn.
seaboard reported 100000 bu. OF wheat
taken for export.
Local range OF options:
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-15
Wool Market.

BOSTON. Oct, 1L-WOOL-The local wool
trade continues very active, with harden
ing prices. The leading domestic quota
tions range as follows: Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania fleeces, Xxx, 32d33c; X, S1q32c; No. l.,
washed, 34dS5c; fine, unwashed, 2lqEc;
half-blood, combing, 26ci three-eighths
blood, combing, CSC: quarter-blood. combing,
25c; delaine, washed, 34q35c: delaine, un-
washed. 2662Tc. Michigan, Wisconsin, New
York fleeces, fine unwashed, 90g2lc; de-
laine. unwashed, 2Sg2Sc; half-blood' UNI
washed, 25c; quarter-blood, unwashed, 30
24c. Kentucky fndfena and Missouri three
eighths blood. 25daeGes quarter blood, 24p1oc.
Secured values. Texas fine twelve months,
5Od52c; from six to eight months, 4594!c;
fine fall, 42Q4Sc. California northern, 42q
43c; Middle county. 34@35c: southern, 5d
No. l staple. 57d5sc; eastern No. | clothing,
EajOc; valley, No. /. 45Q47c.. Territory.
steady; fine clothing: .4sa6oc; fine medium
clothing, 45a46c; half-blood, 50d5Sc: three
eighths blood, 6@4sc; quarter blood. 4SG
ACC. Pulled extra, 56q6Ic: fine A., 5Oa52c
ST. LOUIS. Oct. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
2Oc; light fine. Hale; tub washed, @@27c.
LONDON. Oct. 1A.-WOOL-The offerings
at the wool auction sales numbered 1855
bales. Competition was animated and
prices generally reached the highest of the
series. Coarse crossbreds practically re-
covered the openeing loss under continued
American and home buying, Secured and
tendency. Punta Arenas. fine grades. adj
vanced 10 per cent and coarse 5 points
over the July average; Today,Ss o sales fol,
secured, 1sqls ND; greasy, 6l4dals I'D,
Queensland. 100 bales; secured, 1s41s 71zd
greasy SdgiS5hd' Victoria 90 bales
South Australia, 300 bales; greasy. 6&4lld,
New Zealand, 1900 bales; secured, 5d41s Sd
Cape of Good Hope and Natol, 700 bales
secured, Sdd1s Sd; greasy, 51sG9d; Punta
Arenas, $500 bales; greasy, 5a1Od. Val
paradise, 400 bales; greasy, 4hQ4Hd.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-15
CarIsv sseeeipts.
CHICAGO GRAIN AND PROVISIONS
Features of the Trading and Closing
Prices on Board of Trade.

Prices on Board OF Trade
CHICAGO, Oct. IA falling off in re-
ceiptsot wheat IN the northwest had a
strengthening effect today on the local
wheat market, final quotations being up
S6c to h8Mc. Corn and oats were easy, but
FoiiowinE a decline at Liverpool equal to
nearly 1c per bushel, the wheat market
here opened easy, with prices unchanged
10 k0Ao lower, compared with the previous
close. Before the end OF the first hour,
however, prices had advanced about 1ac,
owfng to an active demand by a leading
DULL and during the remainder of the day
sentiment In the pit was bullish the greater
BART OF the time. Cash wheat in the sample
market was in only fair demand and
premiums. were steady on winter varieties.
4 little better demand from exporters was
reported. but Il was entirely for durum.
The market closed at almost the top fig
ures.. FInei quotations on December we're
at. SI.0i and for May at Sl03b@i0A Clear
snees Of wheat and flour. were equal to
35g.p1 bushels, Primary receipts were 1,li4,-
90 bushels, compared with 5000 bushels
the corresponding day a year ago. Minne-
spolis, Duluth and Chicago reported re-
eeipts OF 81 cars, against liza cars last
week and go cars one year ago.
The corn market was weak, owing to
heavy selling inspired by a decline of
ISc 20 Sc in the price OF the cash grain.
The weakness OF the cash market was due
to likelihood OF a free movement of new
corn in the near future as a result of the
ideal weather conditions for the rapid
maturing OF the crop. II market closed
weak at almost the DOtlOni, flndt QuoNd-
tions showed net losses of A4%c to Ssc.
December closed at 634ba65%c and May at
6Bhc. Local receipts we're so cars, with Is
cars of contract grade.
TN oats market was unsettled, but senti-
ment was inclined to be bearish the greater
part Of the day. A decline OF hc in the
prices OF the cash grain had a depressing
effect on options. The market closed easy.
with prices off a shade to &c. December
closed at tsit04S4Sc and May at 50h960Ac.
Local receipts were 14b cars.
Provisions were rather weak at the start,
win 10 renewed liquidation, but sentiment
soon became bullish on buying by local
packers. The early selling was due TO q
i0c to loo decline in the price OF live hogs.
At the close prices were pzc lower TO SOC
higher.
Estimated receipts for tomorrow: Wheat
IS cars; corn, 1s cars; oats, 1893 cars; hogs
ECO head.
The leading futures ang as follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-15

CATTLE-there was a very decent run
of cattle here this morning although re-
celpts were very much lighter than usual
on Wednesday, there having been one week
ago 31 cars, two weeks ago 35 cars and
consisting almost entirely of westerns, but
there was a large sprinkle of trash. The
fact is there has been more trash received
than in a long time back. A good. many
of them COME from near points In Nebras-
ka and Iowa, being on the native order.
up a few cattle that just happened TO suit
them, the trade was a little slow to start
with,
Beef steers of good quality were not any
too plentiful and the market on that kind
was reasonably active, with prices fully
steady with yesterday. While there was
no choice or fancy cattle to put a top on
the market, good kinds sold up to $40.
There was a good demand and everything
changed hands in very fair season. Common
TO medium grades, on which there was a
little competition, were as a matter Of
course. not overly active.
Cows and heifers were steady to a little
lower. 1t was very apparent that the wire
edge was off the market and for the first
time in a good many days the trade was
not what might be called active, still there
wa a fair movement and It may be added
that COW. stuff is really bringing very high
prices at this point as compared with
other markets..
Good feeders were also sought after and
they too commanded fully steady prices.
Common to medium kinds and everything
on the trashy order was inclined TO be a
little dull. owing to the large number of
cattle of that kind on sale. Thu market as
a whole was in pretty fair condition
throughout.
Quotations on cattle: Good to choice corn
fed steers, Sc. 25G6.75; fair to good cornfed
steers, s., 4Oa6.25; common to tair cornfed
steers, N.00I5.4 40; good to choice range
steers, S4.5OT5.6 IS; fair to good range steers,
N.O064.5O; COMMON to fair range steers.
S3.25a4.OO; good to choice cornfed cows and
heifers, $3.65d425; good TO choice grass COWS
and heifers, s. 4OG4.0 90: fair to good grass
o and heaters, S2.75d8.25 common to
fair grass cows and helfers, S2.0042. 10;
good TO choice feeders, $4.O094.50; fair to
good stockers and feeders, $S.40Q4.0: COM
mon to fair stockers and feeders, s2.5043. 10;
stock heifers. S2.50d3.W.
L. -nnlnn.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-15

SHEEP-Receipts of sheep this morning
month there being a good. liberal run once
more. As usual at this point when receipts
are large, the market was active, there
being a good buying demand for all kinds.
Buyers were all out early in the morning
and the market right from the start took
on a good healthy appearance. This was
true OF both killers and feeders of sheep.
as well as lambs. AS to prices there did
not appear to be any material change as
compared with yesterday and most oper-
ators, both buyers and sellers, were sum
ming up the trade as a good, active and
steady market.
Quotations on sheep and lambs:
Good to choice lambs, S.c5M5.50; fair to
good lambs, S.OcqS.25 feeding lambs, $500
44.& good TO choice light yearlings, Si65
a4.S; good to choice heavy yearlings.
A.5Oa4.15; feeding yearlings, 50. 75d4.2 "a;
good to choice wetheTs, A&d4.65; fair 10
good wethers, A.OOa4.25: feeding wethers,
yS. o. 90; good to choice ewes. A.O0G4.5O: fair
To- good ewes, SS.5O94.0; feeding ewes, 500
$500; culls ana bucks, {l.O0Q25O.
Representative sales:
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-15
81. Louis Live stock Market.

ST. LOUIS, oct. MISUNDERSTANDING,
500 head, including ?, 400 Texans. Market
steady to 10c lower. Native shipping and
export steers. $4.O0dL50; dressed beef and
butcher steers. $2.75G626; steers under 1000
pounds, S.0Od6.0O; stockers and feeders,
S3.OOd4,00; cows and heifers, S,50M6, %, can
ners. S2.OOd225; bulls. S275d4.00; calves, 800
also; Texas and Indian steers, $275q5.40;
cows and heifers, $1.5Od400.
HOGS-Receipts, II 200 head; market 15a
25c lower. Pigs and lights, $3.O0a6. 20: pack
ers, t5.59a5.70; butchers and best heavy,
81. S006.O0.
SHEEP AND LAMBS-Receipts. 1900
tons. A.OOd435: lambs S.2a5.S5; culls and
bucks, s.. m3.T IS; stockers, $.50@3.J0.