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NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

The following market is furnished
by Miner & Co., members Chicago
Board o. Trade and the New York ex-.
change. Branch office, rooms and 8,
Chiffon block, 1O5 North Market. New
telephone 1884. I. G. Furman, local
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GRAIN ANC PRODUCE.

This market is furnished by Cassidy
& Gray, members Chicago Board OF
Trade, Local office, Rooms Is and 10,
Leighton building. Telephone 933, e.
E. Weight, resident manager.
Corn
Wheat Open. High. Low. Close
May -. .90B .92k .90A .92A-
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The Ups and Downs.
<9..kf.Is.h+&$ %+@.s<-$0
. LOGAN MARKETS. 0

There is a slight change in poultry;
otherwise there are no changes in the
local markets today.
I'll a. nl.. Feb 19)
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When the talk is of children every
grandmother is prepared with a spec.
ial report
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FOR SALE-ONE GRAY MAMMOTH
jack comin~ 8 wears, 16 hands.
heavy bone, high life and stylish.
Will trade for cattle or young mules.
A. Westercamp, Oskaloosa, Ia, BOX
1913.
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FOR SALE-HAyE THREE lacks
or will trade on land. Live at Far
son, Iowa. p. Hawthorn
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MARKETS BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO Live Stock Market.

Chicago Live Stock Market.
Chicago, Feb. 19.--Cattle-Receipt
10000 market strong.
Beeves-$3.95@6.10.
Cows and 1.S0@4.75.
Stockers and feeders-$2.70@4.S0
observation-disclosures
Hogs-Receipts, $4,000; quotations 8
@10c higher
Lght-$4.20@4.5O
Mixed--S425@455.
Rough-s4.25@4.30
Bulk sales-S4.35@4.50.
Sheep-Receipts, $4,000; market
strong.
Mature sheep--ss.25@55o.
Lambs-$5.O0@7.0
Yearlings-$5. 5O66.30.
Chicago Grain and Provisions.
Chicago Feb. 19-Wheat:
No. red-9o% @921s.
No. 8 red-SSA @91la
No. 2 hard-90& @971a.
No. hard-sS& @94h.
May-Opened, 90& OIL; highest,
July-SSh.
Corn-There are no quotations on
May@opened so1s @soA; highest,
81: lowest. CO.'S; closing, 6o&.
July-5SA.
oats-No. white-5o@52 1s
May-opened, 52@52M; highest
62zs: lowest, So; closing, 52ss.
July-Old, 4hsA
Rye-Cash, 81.
Barley-70@S8.
Timothy-March. SASS.
Clover-March. $3.50.
Pork-May. s11.27
Lard-s7.32.
Ribs-$6.40.
New York Butter and Egg Market.
firm.
Creamery specials-321s.
Held-31h
Extras-32.
Third to first--25@31.
Dairy-21@26.
Process second to special--2S@25h
Factory-23h @24.
Held-231h @24
Imitation creamery-24@26.
Eggs-Market firm
Firsts-25.
Seconds-24@24h
New York Poultry Market.
New York. Feb. 1s.--Poultry-Alive,
market weak.
Chickens-11R
Fowls--13.
Turkeys-13
Dressed-Market quiet.
Chickens--10@17.
Turkeys-12@17.
Fowls-10@131a.
Chicago Poultry Market.
Chicago. Feb. Market
firm
Turkeys-12.
Chickens--11.
Spring chickens-11
Chicago Butter and Egg Market.
Chicago, Feb. Observation-Disclosures
steady.
Creameries-21@32
Dairies-20@2s.
| Eggs-Market strong.
Eggs quoted at 231a @241s
Peoria Grain Market. Is
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LARGE RUN OF HORSES.
Biggest One Days Receipts Reported
for Yesterday Booked

Chicago, Feb l9.-The special COM
bination sale aof harness horses at
tracts MANY new buyers to the market,
some Of the offerings being negotiated
to Canadian breeders. and a few be-
ing Knocked down for export to Eu-
rope at fair prices. the top figure for
export being s720 for standard trot
ting-bred stallion with a record of
2:19A. Good drivers cleared at $1,000
400, with bulk of sales 1T $2000300.
In the regular auction 1926 measured
the top price for drafters, with good
chunks movin- at $170R200, the offer
ings that changed hands above 5000
possessing extra quality and finish and
comprising principally matched pairs
that were negotiated at s425@45O.
Farm mares and chunks led in demand
at Sl000160 and upward, orders being
executed for distribution to all quar-
ters many of the chunks being pur-
chased bv Illinois farmers. There is
no upward tendency in prices, as the
general volume of business is far be-
low the record proportions Of last year
There is good tone to the market and
the big receipts move freely at the
following unchanged prices:
Poor Good
to fair. to choice
Los'rs and feeders eo@1so 1eog1so
FARMERS ana email
CHUNKS -. $50. 500 So 95D150
Actors q coachers. 110@130 140@350
Carriage pairs 80, 22503G0 325@675
Western, branded. 800 As 500 10c
Mules ............ 75@125 150@19o
Movement Of Horses and Mules.
Movement of horses and mules at
Chicago Stock Yards for dates men
toned:
Received Shipped.
Monday, Feb. II ....1,210 23O
Tuesday. Feb. IS. 500 800
Week SO far ..........1.710 $50
Same time last week. 1898 3S9
Same week 1907. 2,120 567
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May ,.,11.as 11.a2 1925 1927
Lard
july july !: !: 10 10 7.s 10 7 7s 7 7s
9 hay (: 81 81 81 90 80 80
Car Lots.
Wheat today, "a: estimated tomor-
row, 5.
Corn today, 60; estimated tomor-
row, A..
Oats today, 90; estimated tomor-
Northwest Receipts.
Duluth TODAY, 21: last year, 49,
Minneapolis today, 149; last year,
Receints.Wheat today, $4,000; last
year, $4,000. sana%s
Corn today. $4,000; last year,
Shipments.
Wheat today, 273,000; last year,
Corn today, 242,ooo; last year,
Liverpool Cables.
Opening Wheat, A@%c HIGHER;
corn, SIC higher.
closing-Wheat 1A@1ssc lower;
corn %e higher e - u..,..
Receipts today. $4,000; left over.
5,lSs; estimated tomorrow. $4,000.
Cassidy and Gray's Market Letter.
sWHEAT--A good many in the trade
were of the opinion that liquidation In
Liverpool was about over. but the
panicky condition of the market today
reflected just the reverse conditions,
and it resulted in heavy selling early,
but declines were not lasting, and
ton through commission houses. Some
stop orders were reached under 91c
per bushel for Nav. but resting buying
orders were many and with recoverles
appearing In Liverpool the market
here responded in good shape Shorts
not only covered. but there was dis
| position shown by level-headed oper-
market. being Influenced there by the
small primary movement and good
cash demand prevailing here and else
where. There is a possibility that Ar
gentine shipments may again make a
formidable showing tomorrow, but II
| declines are brought about In such an
event. we would certainly favor pur-
chases, as we think the market is In a
position to do much better
CORN-Offerings We're very slim
early and there was good buying by
the Patten house and others that
started shorts to covering, especially
on the small movement. Trade was
not large and the effects of the heavy
weather here We're offset to some ex-
tent by rains in Ar-entina that fav-
orably affected the crrwd, who were
bearish, and sold on the strength of It
1t looks to us as If the market could
congest verv easily, hence, on SHARP
i dips we would buy the May kind fol
good sized upturns f I.
| sOATS-Commission houses sold ole
May. Cash people, including Armour
bought, rejecting cash sales, ant
prices worked up despite talk of Large
arrivals coming here to make con.
tract. The market Is very uninterest
ing.
PROVISIONS Worked up early IL
sympathy with hogs, on which short!
covered, while a western house bought
lard moderately. Hogs would hav,
been in larger supply had 1t not beer
for the storm and they will soon make
their presence felt and. this was re.
l>r,t a.
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FOR SALE-PURB BRED ABER-
deem Angus bulls. Ed. F. Oehler.
Moravia, Iowa.
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FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-FoX HOUND PUPS
From trained parents. Elmer c.
Rector, Floris. Iowa. m
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WANTED.

WANTED-75 DISCS TO SHARPEN
right away. Phil Gov Blacksmith,
Hedrick, Iowa.
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Telegraphic Reports
From Leading Centers

Coarse, anwashed ............... 25@25h
Beeswax, No Observation-Disclosures. a4di3h
Beeswax. No .. ................. 20G22
rallow, No. l.. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. "a
Tallow, No, ..,.,,,,,.,,, 3jS
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FOR SALE = NATIVE LUMBER
sawed to order inquire, Chas Harris,
Batavia, Iowa.
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Chicago Butter and Egg Market.
Chicago, Feb. Market
steady.
Creameries-21@32.
Dairies-20@2S.
Eggs-Marl1et strong.
Eggs quoted at 1914 @241s.
Peoria Grain Market.
Peoria, Feb. 19.-Corn: sic
No. 3 yellow-55k
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New York Poultry Market.

Chicago Poultry. Market.
Chicago. Feb. 19.-Poultry-Ma Market
firm
Turkeys-12.
Chickens-11.
Spring chickens--11.
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PUBLIC SALE POSTPONED.

MY SALE OF HORSES, CATTLE.
hogs and indictments, has been post
poned until Saturday. Feb. 20. J, +
Stevens.
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PROV1SIONS-Wo up early in
sympathy with hogs, on which shorts
covered, while a western house bought
lard moderately. Hogs would have
been in larger supply had 1t not been
for the storm and they will soon make
their presence felt and. this was re-
Elected by late selling. with the closing
weak and trade light.
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OF r. l. REDS--L STILL
have some fine cockerels for $500
EACH pullets. s1.00 each. VIM. H.
Sutton r. R. NO. 1, Weldon. Ia.
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WANTED-5O PLOWS TO PUT ON
new shares right away. Phil Coy,
Blacksmith, Hedrick. Iowa.
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of her late patron. He died within
few months, and then began the days
of dire poverty, the days of embrOid-
cry
Mrs. Gilbert described her meeting
with my sister and spoke with tears in
her eyes of the efforts she had made
to induce my sister to accept 1.-THE least
little thing"
"She won't let anybody do anything
for her." she declared
Except her brother" said |, and the
thin hand that still lay in mine thrilled
with happiness as it answered my
clasp.
Then told her that her real name
was EIilda owen and that If there was
ANYTHING in the world that she wanted
her big brother Bob would go right
out and get it. To which she replied
by saying ebert" several times very
softly and sYeetly.
The hour was up, and we were all
excluded, leaving Hilda with DR.. Har-
denberg and a nurse who had just ar
rived. Mrs. Gilbert rode home in her
car, while Conner and ! walked aim
| lcssIy for a matter of half an hour,
when | led him to DR.. Hardenberg's
house. The doctor was at work with
his microscope.
"This is the best result I've had" he
said. ''This is absolutely confrmatory."
He had been studying a part of a
drop of blood taken from my sisters
finger tip. wherein he saw the germ,
the infnitesimal enemy that warred
against her health and recognized tie
creature by its aspect.
Doctor" said |, you have permit
ted me to hold a somewhat exciting
interview with your patient | hope
she has taken no HARM"
Harm he cried. 81 should think
not She'll get well in half the time"
"What result would follow" | ask
ed, IF she should now be told that !
am not her brotherT
Hardenberg and Conner both start
ed back from me, staring.
Good heavens!" cried the doctor
"What do you mean? | wouldn't have
that happen for a mint of money!
"But you know that Pm not her
brother don't youT'
~" he gasped. mo You must be-
There was no other female child ex-
cept your sister on that ship. How
can we doubt"
"You have seen us BOTH" said /
"ycG who can recognize the features
of that microscopic creature which
you have to magnify thousand times
suppose. in order to see It at all"
ave got 1,5O0 ON 1t tonight" said
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the doctor. III you were magnineu es
much as that you could carry tne
Flatiron brAjng in your pocket LOT
a matchbox But what of itF'
If you mean that she doesn't iooh
like you" said Conner, 81 tell you
you're dead wrong There's strons
family resemblance"
And you're the man." said l. VINO
saw horse for a few minutes TWO
years ago and spotted photograph OIL
him tonight at a glance. Do you sup
pose | could go to the nearest stable
and buy a horse-and good one 100
and pass him off on you as a son OF
Bertram and Humbe?
But your sister isn't horse pro
tested Conner. shes a human being
There's a laundering sight of diner
ence."
"There's this difference" said /
that it's easy to find a man VINO
knows something about horse. And
now let me tell you what this young
lady is whom | have had the peculiar
pleasure of meeting tonight. She is a
thoroughbred Saxon, the last one left
alive. should suppose; certainly the
most beautiful example. But what
am II"
English" said Conner promptly
Just as English as she is
Both my father and my mother
were born in Wales" said l. Both
had what you would call Norman an
cestry on one side and Cymric on the
other. am colored like Norman, but
no person who has made even the mos'
cursory study of the subject could fa1
to recognize my Cymric blood at q
glance On the other hand, there Is MOI
the faintest shadow of a possibility
that this young lady has one drop OF
that blood in her veins"
There was a moments silence, then
Conner said almost with a sob:
you don't like her"
It was the word of warm hearted
Irishman. That good fellow had ear
nestly rejoiced in the idea that he was
working to make two people happy
and now he was disappointed. | tooF
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friday December Is 1903

,ure,v not Whatever Mrs. Gilbert
,,igbt have learned, It couldn't nave
altered the laws of nature or undone
rho divine handiwork And yet ! would
hove oiven much for few words Win
Mrs Gilbert. 1t was Hilda' however
who appeared.
This was the first time to my knoWl-
od0e that she had ventured so far as
the drawing room, yet she walked
without a sign of weakness and VIII
noble carriage And. oh, she was
,oautiful beyond dreams.
She wore sort of tea gown, | sup
nose 1t might be called, of green fabric,
and she carried a small black book.
think my mouth must have fallen open
like n dead mans when | saw the fig
ures 1887 in gilt upon the books cover
NV uncle's diary!
"Hilda," said |, without pause or pre-
face, Il know what that book is. Tell
me what you have found in it. Please
tell me straight away"
Her blue eyes opened bit wider
She looked at me, then down at the
book and then at me again.
"Why. | haven't found anything" she
said. 81 just got it this minute A
maid gave it to me. | haven't even
opened it"
Mrs. Gilbert's maid, under orders,
had been waiting for my arrival, of
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sight of the harbor. She returned
and was laid up for several days,
not very much damaged, but most
of the passengers were sent forward
by another ship. My parents chose to
stay by the Delphic, know not why.
1t has always been supposed that
she struck an iceberg off the banks.
] can tell on only that the disaster
was at night. | remember the awak-
ening, the thrill of half realized ter
ror. the wild noises and the trampling.
My father was carrying me, wrapped
In a coat, my mother following with
little Hida. Then something crashed.
i recall no feeling of blow, but my
consciousne S went out like candle.
The next ling | knew it was dawn
and | was in a boat with one sailor
who had wounded head and was COW
cred with flood. 1t has been sup
posed that his boat was lowered end
foremost in true panic style and all
aboard her were pitched out except the
wounded sailor and myself
Eventually we were picked up by
sailing vessel. my companion uncon-
scious and dying, | was taken to Bos-
ton and sent on thence to an uncle In
New York, by whom was reared He
died when I was thirteen, leaving
small property in trust. | attended Co
lumbia college and school of mines
and eventually took my Inheritance and
went west. Two years later came the
affair of the Golden Bush, and | was
rich.
The larger part of the year 1907
spent in New York and Whereabouts.
had everything except a home. On the
23d of December of that year | was
living in luxurious bachelor apart
ments, more lonely than | was in the
week that | spent on the Golden Bush
claim with only the haggard faces of
the mountains for company.
On the evening of the day that |
have named | returned from rather
early and very lonesome dinner and
found young man named Conner
waiting for me- | had never met him
before. He was sturdy, pleasant fell
low, Celtic and Dutch on the face of
him, and he introduced himself by pre-
iYNp or
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STARING.

his hand, which he was not overwilling
to give me.
II will speak to you" said I, "as to
friend and to you, doctor, whom
have not the pleasure of knowing so
well, as to Il man of honor and discre-
ton. | am very deeply and strongly
attracted toward this young lady. 1t
would be a strange and hard service
that | would not render her, bitter
sacrifice that | should hesitate to make
for her advantage. Do | wish she were
my sister? God knows. The question
already begins to press upon my heart.
In the very first instant | knew that
she was not but when | looked into
her eyes and saw the loneliness and the
longing would have died rather than
grieve her. SO l sat there and lied"
"Greatp said the doctor. You're
the man for my money. You lied like
a gentleman, Nobody could have done
it better don't know what would
have happened if you hadn't"
"Give me a week." cried Conner,
land I'll prove she's your sister, no
y
man, It's a positive certainty"
"And meanwhile what?" said l.
go right ahead" said the doctor.
accept her affection upon false pre-
lenses" said l. "Cheat her into tax.
ing gifts from a stranger; sit by her
bed and help her to build air castles
with the very solid foundation of my
N 1t,
to call me gentleman
'If you do the other thing" said the
doctor with fervor. 81 give you my
professional word that the result won't
look to you very much like the work
of a gentleman. If you value her safe
ty you'll play brother
THAT'S talking" said Connor And,
anyhow. she is your sister, so what
harm can there be?"
When returned to my apartments |
received word that Mrs. Gilbert had
requested me to call her up by tele-
phone, whatever the hour might be
1t was then midnight, but obeyed in
structions.
II happened to think" said the lady,
that you'd want some help tomor.
row"
ITS very kind of you" replied.
about whatY'
"Why. your presents; the things
you'll buy for Hilda. OF course she
needs everything, just simply every
thing, but don't you buy necessities for
Christmas. No woman wants them.
We want trinkets, Injuries, useless
things. 1t took me five years to beat
that into my husbands head. and even
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a journalist, and this is his story. My
heartiest congratulations"
In my apartments the tables were
Uttered with photographs, as they al
ways are. My fad since | was boy
has been the study of the different
kinds Of men and the faces that they
wear. / do not study horses, but 1t
happened that had some photographs
that had been sent up from friends
stock farm in Kentucky, and 1t SEEM
ed to me that Conner saw these before
he fairly got into the room. He did
not notice any of the portraits of peo-
pie, but pumped straight down upon
the picture OF a horse which he recog
nized instantly, though there was no
lettering on it.
"Humbert he cried and went on to
give me the horses pedigree
on one side and Humble on the other,
and all the rest of it-but suddenly
broke off this strain and came to the
business thr had brought him there.
First. wi inimitable brevity and
pIth, he skPtched the wreck of the
Delphic.
"You," said he in closing, were the
sole survivor"
"Yes," said l.
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FLOWS, background for a girls face,
ina with a sort of undlrected vision.
nore like feeling than seeing, | per-
reiyed the doctor in the shadows be
yond the bed, watching.
The girls eyes were blue. They
seemed very large in her pale and thin
face. They spoke to me In silent Ian
guage that | knew. They reached out
to my soul with natural, deep long
Ing.
| extended my hand to her, and she
grasped it with quick, childish clutch.
MY brother!" said she, and the tears
rushed from her eyes.
| have since been informed that |
acquitted myself admirably Three
witnesses have testified in my favor
four, indeed, if | include my sister,
whose emotional state may be held to
impair the value of her testimony.
you were dear" declared Mrs.
Gilbert 81 could have Rugged you"
But this is the way it appeared to
me: That | was confronted by sit
uation utterly impossible and beyond
courses open to me | chose the worse
and might have done much better than
[ did even with that. You must take
my evidence against that of all the
others, for | alone was competent to
judge of my conduct. as you will pres
emily see.
My sister told me that she had been
known as Della Gray. the first name
probably having been derived from
Delphic. Gray was the name of the
skipper of the fishing vessel that had
rescued her. In his home she had
lived until her ninth year, when lady,
a summer visitor in Newfoundland,
had taken her away to the town of
Chatham, n. II. Why the Grays had
consented to have her go she did not
know. but it was something about
money. The lady from Chatham was
Mrs Lawrence, and she lived in a
good home. At her death two years
ago my sister had come to New York
and had been employed as stenogra-
pher in the Office of a lawyer, cousin
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' u Ii u
hands closed suddenly upon it.
"Oh, not yet" she said family.
Somehow IL dread it,"
The palms of my hands were wet,
and | was swallowing air, but | man
aged to summon up the appearance of
calmness.
"What do you expect to find hereT
| asked.
"Oh, you will think very meanly of
me-" she cried, but, indeed, | have
been overpersuaded and silenced since
the very first hour. Then for just that
earliest hour l believed, but never aft
erward And | have drifted on and
on, not knowing what to do. | could
see no escape from the evidence, and
you were so surep'
"Did Mrs. Gilbert tell you thatY"
"Why, yes but I'd have known that
you believed without a word from her.
You were such a good brother" And
she smiled through her tears But l
knew in my own heart
Listen" said |. Answer me- Did
you wish to believe? This may be our
very last minute | think this book
can never convince either of us, sure
~ not me. unless it tells me who you
really are. But, remember, 1t may
part us forever have known from
| the first instant, and | know now, and
| always shall know, that we are no
more to each other than cousins
through Adam, and so l ask you, do
| you wish to believer
Il think not" she whispered, with
white lips. The book!"
1t opened under my hand at the
pages headed June and June 5, and
under the first of these dates l read
the following in my uncle's hand:
Captain Enos Gray and his wife
came today, bringing the child. 1t has
blue eyes and bright golden hair. 1t
could hardly be more unlike poor little
| Hilda, who had my dear sisters col
oring, brown eyes and dark hair. De-