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Peoria Market.

PEORIA. May la-CoRN-Firm; No. 5
white, 5Sise; No. yellow. bS.se; No, 9 vel
low. bShc; No yellow, biAci No. mixed
bSAC; No. 3 mixed. SS.c No. I mixed,
bih9lke; no grade' 4sSsalsc.
OATs-Higher No. 2 white, Sissc; stan
daTd. AAc; No. white, 34isc.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14
DISTRICT AVERAGES

Inc weather y warmer IN the WESTERN
and cooler In the eastern portion Of the
corn and wheat region Frosts or freezine
temperatures are reported in the extreme
the Louisville district and rainfall Of ], "a
inches occurred at Macksville. Kan
Local Forecaster. WeSthe MT paTea.u.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14

In order that the advertiser may get the
best results for money invested he must
reach the buyer by the most direct and
reliable channel. The Bee is that channel
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14
AIinneanoIin Grnin NInrket.

MINNEAPOLIS, May 1S-wHEAT-May,
S8Ac; July, ssp3e September, S34tc; Deem
her, 9Aq92Ac; cash, No. ! hard, S1O2; No.
/ northern, ti.o0dl 0llsc; No. northern.
S7c6SlOo: No. 3. SiasSc
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14
Duluth Grain M.rLs,

DULUTH, May 10 WHEAT No. 1
northern. n.o2; No; 2 northern, sscaSi 90;
MAY w. nominal: July, N,O2 bid; Sep,
OATS-34Itc.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14
liverpool Grain sIarket.

LIVERPOOL May p-wHEAT-spot,
easy No. western winter. no stock: No
Manitoba. Is Cd: No. 3 Manitoba, IL I'd;
futures, easy; May. Is I'D; July. g md:
cosN-spot new American mixed, nom
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14
Clearing House Bank st.temeu,

NEW YORK, May 13-The statement of
the clearing house banks for the week
than the reoyirements ~ the 81 Der cent
rule This is an increase Of S5,664, $50 in
the proportionate cash reserve as COM
pared with last week. The statement fol-
lnu
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14

lhal; old American mixed steady, Sc 3hd
new American kiln dried firm. IS "a fu-
lures, easy July, ts Sd; September is shd.
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dOnth. open. High. Low. Close. Yes'y
suEnr Market

NEW YORK, May l3-SUGAR-Raw
steady; muscovadO, So test. g 36c; centrif-
ugal IS test, 3S6c; molasses sugar. IS test
ailc. Refined, steady: crushed SOo,
granulated. A90c; powdered 6OOc
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14

SILVER-Bar. quiet at "a l1-lsd per OF.
MONEY-1h per cent.
The rate of discount in the open market
for short and three months bills is 2k per
cent
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14
Dates. 1911. 1910. 1909 .lisos 1907 lsOe. lsOs.
SUNDAY.

Receipts and disposition of live stock
at the Union STOCK Yards, South Omaha,
Neb for the twenty-four hours ending
at p. m, yesterday:
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London Closing stocks.

LONDON, May l3.-American securities
were quiet and featureless here today
Prices opened at fractional gains, but later
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14
Wool Market.
Oils and Rosin

ST. LOUIS, Mo, May l3-WOOL-Un-
changed; territory and western mediums,
i5di7c; fine mediums, lSai5c; fine. ll412c.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14

New York Carh AIarket.

The following quotations are furnished
BY Logan Bryan, members New York
Stock eXchange. sl5 South Sixteenth street
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14
Kansas City Grain ana Provision

KANSAS CITY. May 2-WHEAT-Cash
NO z oq91ei No. 3, SS995c; No. red. 9oa
coRN--unehanged to NC lower; No. q
mixed, 6l%q621kc; No. 8, 5lkd6i1Sc; M q
white, SIC; No. g. size.
OATS-Unchanged to Nc higher; No Q
white, Sst @SS1sc; No. mixed, siIkds2isc
RYE-No. 2, S7dS1.OO.
HAY-steady TO 81 lower; choice timothy
Slbb09lfOO; choice prairie, $iaO0d13OO
Receipts. Shipments
nneaI pu'''''''''''''''.. $500 $1,000
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LnrnI AernritIen-

Quotations furnished by Burns, Brinker
& Co, 449 New Omaha National bank
building:
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14
CHICAGO LIVE srocK MARKET

80 wsthsrs, shorn. 'ssatSs; ewes. SIS
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14

Oils and ROsin.
SAVANNAH Ga. May 13-OILS-TuF-
pentine, firm, at 65G65hc.
ROSIN-Firm; type + and @, N.22h
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14
DAILY AVERAGE

decrease, '%United States deposits in,
cluded, M,543, 400, an increase OF $ll,600
Summary of state banks and trust COM
panies in Greater New York not reporting
to the clearing house:
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14
New YORK SIIninE Stocks.

NEW YORK, May lS-Closing quotation,
on mining stocks were
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14
April stock Dealings.

transactions In stocks on the New York
Stock exchange in April amounted to $685.
64 shares, against 6,Ss1, 352 in March and
u, 946,590 shares a year ago. The sales
since January aggregated 32,522, 1922 shares,
compared with 6772i.s04 shares for the SINH
and miscellaneous bonds in April reached
SIS ,7S6, 600, against S63, COO in March and
So, 500 in April, 1910. The dealings since
pares with t27 .O76, 700 during the same time
last wear.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14

Southern spinners are on their high
horses, says a commission merchant. Out
Of dozen Inquiries put before them on cot
ton yarns only one was accepted at buyers
terms.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20
SYNOPSIS.

John Calhoun becomes secretary of
state in TyIer's cabinet with the fixed de-
Termination TO acquire both Texas and
Oregon Nicholas Trist, his secretary, Is
Ritz, spy and reputed mistress of the
British minister Pakenham. Trist en-
counters the baroness and assists her in
escaping from pursuers. She agrees to
see Calhoun, and as a pledge that she
garding the intentions of England toward
Mexico, she gives Trist slipper. the
mate of which has been lost. Trist IS or
dered to Montreal on state business. and
arranges to be married to Elizabeth
says she will try to prevent the marriage.
A drunken congressman, who Is ASSISTING
Trist in mis- wedding arrangements. blum
deringly sends the, baroness slipper to
Elizabeth instead of the owner, and the
the baroness in Montreal, she having sue
ceeded, where he failed. in discovering
England's intentions regarding Oregon
She tells him the slipper he had. con-
tanned a note from the Texas attache to
States did not annex Texas within 80 days
she would lose both Texas and Oregon.
Calhoun orders Trist to head a party
bound for Oregon. Calhoun excites the
jealousy of Sonora Yturrio, and thereby
tache to a treaty of annexation. Nicholas
arrives in Oregon Later the baroness ar
rives on a British warship, She tells
Nicholas that a note she placed in her
slipper caused the breaking off of his
to washington to repair the wrong
Nicholas follows her He learns on the
Texas annexed. and that there is to be
war with Mexico The baroness tells
Trist that in return for compromise of
degree, she has sold herself to Pakenham-
Trist breaks Pakenham's key to the
baroness apartments Pakenham calls
pay. He insults her. She compels him
| light and he declares that She is pure as
| a lily The treaty is signed by Paken-
| ham The baroness gives the treaty to
Calhoun and tells him she got it for
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20
CHAPTER xxxVI.
The PaIo Alto Ball.

A beautiful woman pleases the eve a
good woman pleases the heart; is a
jewel, the other a treaSure.-Napoleon 1.
On the evening of that following day
in May, the sun hung red and round
over a distant unknown land along
the Rio Grande. In that country. no
iron trails as yet had come. The mag
ic of the wire, so recently applied to
the service of man, was as yet there
unknown. Word travelled slowly by
horses and mules and carts. There
came small news from that far-off
country, half tropic, covered with
palms and crooked dwarfed growth of
mesquite and chaparra1. The long
horned cattle lived in these dense
thickets, the spotted jaguar, the wolf,
the ocelot, the javelina, many small
er creatures not known in our north
ern lands. In the loan along the
stream the deer left their tracks, min
gled with those of the wild turkeys
and of countless water fowl 1t was
far-off, unknown, unvalued land
Our flag, long past the Sabine, had
! halted at the Nueces. Now it was to
advance across this wild region to the
Rio Grande. Thus did SNUG James
Polk keep his promises!
Among these tangled mesquite
thickets ran sometimes long bayous,
made from the overflow of the greater
rfvers-resacas, as the natives call
them. Tall palms sometimes grow
along the bayous, for the country is
half tropic. Again, on the dryer
ridges, there might be taller detached
trees, heavier forests-palo alto, the
natives call them. In some such place
as this, where the trees were tall,
there was fired the first gun of our
war in the southwest There were
strange noises heard here in the VIII
| derness, followed byslesser noises, and
by human groans. Some faces that
night were upturned to the moon
the same moon which swan so glori-
ously over Washington. Taylor camped
closer to the Rio Grande The fight
was next to begin by the lagoon
called the Resaca de la Palma. But
| that night at the capital that same
moon told us nothing of all this. We
did not hear the guns. 1t was far
from Palo Alto to our ports of Gal
weston or New Orleans Our cockaded
army made it's own history in its own
unreported way
| We at the White House ball that
night also made history In our own un-
recorded way. :, As our army was add
| ing to our confines on the southwest,
SO there were other, though secret.
| forces which added to our territory in
the far northwest AS to this and as
to the means by which 1t came about,
/ have already been somewhat plain
1t was a goodly company that as
sembled for the. grand ball, the first
one in the second season of Mr.. Folks
somewhat confused and discordant adj
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20
THAT WAS THE LAST STRAW
Many Women There Are Who Wht
Understand Just Why Long-Suf-
ferinq "Worm" Turned.

Several years ago an Atehison cou-
pie were living happily together. The
community was shocked one day when
the wife applied for a divorce and got
it. The story of the divorce has come
out 1t seems that the wife went into
the kitchen and shaved" all day. She
made bread, pies, cake, cookies ana
pork and beans She boiled tongue,
made a potato salad, stuffed eggs,
made a custard and brown bread
When her husband came home at
o'clock in the evening he found her
dressed up. And on the table was
cold tongue. pork and beans. fresh
bread cake, cookies, pie, potato salad,
stuffed eggs, brown bread and Gus
tard. The wife thought her husband
would say: You poor darling, how
you have worked today!" Instead, he
said in a surprised way: cold sup
peri Lord, but you have an easy
timei" His wife did not answer him.
She was speechless with rage, and
he does not know to this day why she
asked the court to be divorced from
a BRUTE-Atchison Globe.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20
The Lesser Evil.

Gresham college in 1919 was the
scene of a famous serio-comic duel be-
tween two celebrated doctors, Doctor
Mead and Doctor Woodward, both of
whom were lecturers at the college
While walking down Bishopsgate
street one morning they quarreled
over some medical question and ad-
journed to the square of the college
to fight it out with swords. Woodward
fell, wounded in several places, where
upon Mead magnanimously said, Take
thy life" Anything but your physic,
Kissed back the chagrined Woodward
ere he swooned away.-London Chron
icle
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20
But
to Do Country Some thing of Favor"

pie and those who rule them. The
people still will win"
She spread out her two hands top
and bottom of the map. "All, all,
ought to be yours-from the Isthmus
to the ice for the sake of the people
of the world. The people-but in time
they will have their own,"
we listened to her silently, credit
ing her enthusiasm to her sex, her
race; but what she said has remained
in one mind at least from that day to
this. Well might part of her speech
remain in the minds to-day of people
and rulers alike. Are we worth the
price paid for the country we gained?
And when we shall be worth that
price, what numerals shall mark our
territorial lines?
May I carry this document to Mr..
Pakenham?'' asked John Calhoun, at
last, touching the paper on the table.
please, no. Do not. Only be sure
that this proposition of compromise
will meet with his acceptance
81 do not quite understand why you
do not go to Mr.. Buchanan, our secre-
| tary of state
Because 1 pay my debts.'' she said
simply 81 told you that Mr.. Trist
| and 1 were comrades. l conceived it
might be some credit for him in his
ing this much
He shall have that credit, madam.
| be sure of that said John Calhoun.
He held out to her his long, thin,
blood1ess hand
Madam he said, Il have been mis-
taken in many things. My life will be
written down as failure. I have been
/ misjudged. But at least it shall not
be said of me that 1 failed to rever-
ence a woman such as you. All that
| 1 thought of you, that first night / met
you, was more than true. And did
not tell you you would one day, one
way, find your reward?"
He did not know what he said;
but I knew, and 1 spoke with him in
the silence of my own heart, know
ing that his speech would be the same
were his knowledge even with mine.
Tomorrow went on Calhoun. ito
morrow evening there is to be what
we call ball of our diplomacy at the
White House. Our administration,
| knowing that war is soon to be an
nounced in the country, seeks to make
a little festival here at the capital.
We whistle to keep up our courage.
| we nSJen 10 music 10 make US fOr-
get our consciences- Tomorrow night
we dance. All Washington will be
there. Baroness Won Ritz, card
will come to you"
She swept him curtsey, and gave
him smile
Now, as for me- he continued, Il
am an old man, and long ago danced
my last dance in public. Tomorrow
night all OF us will be at the White
House-Mr. Trfst will be there, and
DIR. Ward, and certain lady, Miss
Elisabeth Churchill, madam, whom j
shall be glad to have you meet You
must not fail US, dear lady, because ]
am going to ask of you one favor"
He bowed with a courtesy which
might have come from generations OF
an old aristocracy. IF you please
madam, / ask you to honor me with
your hand for my first dance In years
my last dance in all my life"
Impulsively she held out both her
hands, bowling her head as she did Sc
to hide her face Two old gray men.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20
CHAPTER xxxv-continued.

Mr. Calhoun is commonly credited
with having brought about this treaty,
and with having been author of it's
terms. So he was, but only in the
singular way which in these foregoing
pages 1 have related. States have
their price. Texas was bought by
blood Oregon-ah, We who own it
ought to prize it. None of our country
is half so full of romance, none of it
is half SO clean, as our great and
bodeful far northwest, still young in
its days of destiny.
I'VE should in time have had all of
Oregon, perhaps" said Mr.. Calhoun;
at least, thateis the talk of these
fierce politicians"
But for this fresh outbreak on the
southwest there would have been a
better chance said Helena Won Ritz;
but 1 think, as matters are to-day,
you would be wise to accept this COM
promise. 1 have seen your men
marching, thousands of them, the
grandest sight of this century or any
other. They give full base for this
compromise. Given another year, and
your rifles and your plows would
make your claims still better. But
this is to-day
Believe me, Mr.. Calhoun 1 broke
in, your signature must go on this
How now? Why so anxious, my
SOM"
Because it is right"
| Calhoun turned to Helena Won Ritz.
Has this been presented to Mr. Blu
| chanan, our secretary of state?" he
| asked.
Certainly not. 1t has been shown
| to no one. I have been here in Wash.
ington working-well, working in Sc
cret to secure this document for you
/ l do this-well l will be frank with
you'll do this for Mr. Trist He is my
friend. l wish to say to you that he
has been-a faithful"
I saw her face whiten and her Inns
shut tight She swayed a little as
she stood. DR.. Ward was at her side
and assisted her to a couch. For the
first time the splendid courage OF
Helena Won Ritz seemed to fail her
! She sank back, white. unconscious
/ It's these damned stays. joint" be
gan DIR. Ward fiercely. She has faint
ed Here, put her down, so. Wei
bring her around in a minute. Grea-
Jove! I want her to hear us thanh
her. It's splendid work she has done
| When, presently, under the ministra
tons of the old physician, Helena
Won Ritz recovered her consciousness
she arose, fighting desperately to pul
herself together and get back hel
splendid courage.
Would you retire now, madam p
asked Mr.. Calhoun. Il have sent TO
my daughter"
Mo- no. 1t is nothing,' she said
Forgive me, it is only an old habi
of mine See, am quite Welt"
Indeed, in a few moments she ha,
regained something of that magnifi
cent energy which was her heritage
AS though nothing had happened, sh,
arose and walked swiftly across tn
room. Her eyes were fixed upon tn,
great map which hung upon the wall
"a strange map it would seem to u
to-day. Across this she swept a whit,
hand.
I saw your men cross this sh
said, pointing along the course of tn
great Oregon Trail-whose detaile,
path was then unknown to our geoe
raphers- Il saw them go west alon,
that road of destiny. I told mysel
that by virtue of their courage the,
had won this war. Sometime there viii
come the great war between your pee
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20

one younger man, took her hands and
kissed them.
Now our flag floats on the Columbia
and on the Rio Grande. I am older
now, but when l think of that scene.
1 wish that flag might float yet freer;
and though the price were war itself,
that it might float over cleaner and
nobler people, over cleaner and nobler
rulers, more sensible of the splendor
of that heritage of principle which
should be ours
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20
Keep Clean.

Keep your house and your belong
ings clean. Let the blessed sun, the
greatest physician in the world, get
all through you and all about you.
Get your full share of the free air of
heaven. Eat to live and not live to
eat as a sage philosopher of the long
ago tells US. Keep your house clean
in which you live and keep the
house" in which your life lives
clean, and all will be well.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20
THE TRUTH ABOUT RLuINa.
Talk No, 2.

Avoid liquid bluing. Don't buy
water for bluing. All the water
contained is so much adulteration-
Glass bottles make an expensive pack
age; add nothing to value to con-
Sumer.
Always ask for RED CROSS BALL
BLUE, the blue that's all blue. Makes
the laundress smile out loud. Large
package cents AT ALL GOOD
GROCERS
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20

Emperor William is to have forty au-
tomobiles during the ensuing season,
but even as King of Prussia and En-
peror of Germany he will be unable
TO ride in more than one of his auto
mobiles at time.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20

Bugs are reported to have damaged
this years peach crop to the extent of
IS 900, 600. We sometimes wonder
whether the country would be able to
stagger along under the burden OF its
peach crop II the peaches were to es-
cape being damaged by frosts and
bugs
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20

A New York woman has undertaken
N crusade against the long hatpin. The
pin is a real danger, and while wom-
en- may resent the regulation of any
part of their attire by law, their own
good sense should convince them of
the propriety of making this article
less of a menace to the public
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20

A New York judge has sew erely
criticised Cornelius Vanderbilt be-
cause he crossed his legs in the court
room. Mr. Vanderbilt should respect
fully content himself with the twid
ding of his thumbs or the twisting OF
his mustache-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20

A practical joker applied a lighted
match to a load of hay in East Lynn,
Mass, and achieved the gigantic
stroke of humor of burning up four
buildings He made a bigger hit than
most of his jocose tribe,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20

Ten cents a day is enough for
food" opines Prof Henderson of Har-
ward, but we doubt whether the pro
fessor is one of those who practice
what they preach.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20
Ear From Bohemia.

Bjenks-How is that lean, unscis-
sored bohemian getting on these
days?
Tjarks-Why, they say he is desper-
ately in love with the girl down in
the laundry and is to be married soon.
Something suspicious about it, though
Bjenks-I should say So What is a
true bohemian doing around laun-
dry, anyway?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20

ONE of New England's many preach
erS makes the announcement that
American women have ceased to blush.
PoufI Why should any woman ever
blush at what a good preacher says
to her?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20

A dealer has been fined $500 for sell
ing loaded dice. Loaded dice are use
less, anyway, as the industrious man
can lose enough with the straight
kind.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20

Gotham telephone authorities assert
that there is little profanity now or
rude language used over the tele-
phone Possibly and paradoxiGaily,
the profanity and rude language are
when the wire is busy.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20

A university professor of Chicago
says that detective stories are good
cures for seasickness. This leaves
something of a hiatus in uses for the
higher literature.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20

A Los Angeles man drank carDolic
acid, cut his throat and jumped from
a skyscraper. If thing is worth do
ing it's worth doing we'll
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20

1t has been decided that the ugliest
phrase in the English language is
''Please remit
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20

New York has a four-year-old boy
with a suicidal mania. Possibly he has
read the theory that the good die
young.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20

A protest is being made in England
against the tone of British novels.
This ought to be just the boost to bus
mess that the publishers have been
looking for. IL
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20

A sculptor named Butensky is com
ing to the front You can't keep a
man with that name in the rear.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20

After all, what woman would wan
to wear a harem skirt If it did no
attract a crowd?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20

It develops that the Gotham police
call the record of complaints from
citizens, the squesl book Which is
facetious but hardly reassuring to the
citizens.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20

Statistics show that 1878 persons
a minute are carried on the Chicago
traction lines. They are not all on
one car, though sometimes it seems as
If they were.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20

Better keep the straw hat in hiding
for a few days yet.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20

An Illinois youth has been barred
from enlistment in the navy because
he has large ears. Is beauty one OF
the requirements in our navy?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20

What an awful thing it would be if
the son in whom your hopes are cen
tered were to grow up to be college
professor
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20

1t cost LIPS lives to dig Pennsyl-
vania coal last year. The inventors
who are going to get US our heat di-
rect from the sun should hurry up
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-20

A fashionable young Boston woman
has learned to saw wood, but she ha
not learned to say nothing.