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THE ROCK ISVAKD ARGUS. TUESDAY, SEPTEEBER 2G, 1911. 10 Today's (By wire from E. W. Warner Co, members of Chicago Board of Tradv. Grain, provisions, stocks, and cotton. Local offices at Rock Is-and bouse. Rock Island. 111. Chicago office. S8-SS-100, Board of Trade. Iocal telephone. No. west 230.) BOARD OF TRADE TRANSACTIONS. Wheat. September, 94 y. 95. 94, 954. December. 98 4, 99, 98. 9S. May. 104i, 1054. 104. 104. Corn. September, 8, 68. C8. GSi. December, 63, 64, 63. C4. May. 65, 66. 65. 65. Oats. September, 45, 45, 45, 45. December, 47, 47, 47, 47. May. 49, 50, 49, 50. Pork. September, 14.75, 14.75, 14.75, 14.75. January, 15.00, 15.00, 14.95, 14 97. Lard. September, 9.30, 9.30, 9.25, 9.27. January, 8.S7, 8.S7, 8.S2, 8.82. Ribs. September 8.55. 8.55, 8.55, 8.55. January, 7.87, 7.90, 7.85, 7.87. THE GRAIN MARKET. Liverpool Grain. Liverpool, Sept. 2C. The wheat mar ket was Influenced at the opening of the weakness In Winnipeg and the de cline In America, and values were to lower. Selling was further en couraged by the increasing' Manitoba and Russian offers continued favorable on the advices from Argentine and the expected liberal increase in the visible tupply. Following the opening there was a further decline of to with the d.rnand very slow and pressure to Bell both cargoes and parcels. At 1:30 p. m. the undertone was easy, with prices to ?s lower than yesterday. Corn at the opening unchanged, and . showed a decline of to with the undertone weak. Selling was due to cheaper American offers and weakness in Buenos Ayres. More favorable ad vices from Russia and Roumania and an absence of demand for spot. Liverpool Cabies. "Wheat opened to lower; closed to lower. Corn opened unchanged; closed to lower. Chicago Receipts. Today. Contrac t Wheat 64 Corn Oats 227 Northwest Cars. To- Last 21 152 132 Last day. Week. Year Minneapolis 475 371 27S Duluih 297 244 Oats .... 105 Chicago Estimates Tomorrow. Wnrat 40 Corn 324 Oats 505 i , 1 by wiuh sr:.', HE path 01 Miss Ju dith's peaceful 11 fe had long since rea'-h-rd the boei nning rf the stinset rutite. but in spite of her graj hair.-? the spark ff ro mance still burned brightly in her gentle soul. S5h waz Ttrt clniff th erofore, to deduce from the demeanor of her nice that comet hing had gone wrong between that vivacious young woman and Tom. With P. keen appreciation cf the advantages of the psychological mo ment she summoned the girl to ttie far er..l cf the long south veranda, well shut out from the silvery moon light by a aass of Virginia creeper, and with sympathetic directness pro ceeded to extract the secret burden of the young woman's heart. "Now, Marjraret. tell your old auntie what's happened between you and Tom." she said, mere by way of command than entreaty. "You've rjuareJed. You needn't say no. It simply won't do, my child, and it must be patched up this very night." "Quarreled? Why, auntie." Mar garet began, assuming '-he defensive, "you know you you " The girl hesitated, rtammered help lessly and waa lost. For a moment there was silence. Then she broke down and confessed the whole story of disappointment and wounded pride. "Yes. something has happened," she continued haif defiantly. "Tom Mr. ; Ingram hadn't written me a line in ', ten days. Think of it! And we're to! be married in the early all. 1 know that the surveying party is not so fcr away from civlMiatlon that he can't reach the malls and send me some sort of message. That quaint litt'e postofflce he's always poking fun at can hardly have been swallowed up In the earth. "It was his orn proud boast that there never was to be a lover like him. but now that he's got me, I sup pose the ardor of the pursuit is fast turning into cold indifference. I'll teach him a lesson." Her thrust was tipped with sharp 'rony. "But ycu are Judging him too quickly." Miss Judith protested, ral lying warmly to the young engineer's defense. "There's certainly some good reason. Wait. Don't be fool ish, child." "No. It's my deliberate Judgment," Mrriraret retorted through her tears. i tried to think that tried to be 1: r:tble tut this morning paper Lea s out ay rosplcicn. JusUe me ur J convict him. Read thU dl V .:;!. which saya that the party is 1,1. : : . sing well villi the. uxrey of w Market Quotations Primary Movement. Receipts. Shipments. Wheat today 9S5.000 313.000 Year ago 943.000 722,000 Corn today 638,000 11.000 Year ago 702,000 S67.O00 Chicago Cash Grain. Oats No. 2 w 47 '3 48, No. 3 w 4647, No. 4 w 4647, standard 47 347. ' Corn Xo. 2 68?eS, No. 2 w 68 69. No. 2 y 68g6S, No. 3 w 6S6CS, Xo. 3 67 -365, Xo. 3 y 6Si&8. Xo. 4 w 68 68, Xo. 4 y 6767, sgy 66, sgm Cb. LIVE STOCK MARKET. Opening of Market. Hogs 15,000. Left over 3,70 S. Prospects weak at 3-esterday's aver age. Light 6.55 fi 7.10, mixed 6.400 7.07, heavy 6.30 3 7.00, rough 6.30 0 6.55. Cattle 7,500. Weak at yesterday's decline. Sheep", 40,000. Weak at yesterday's close. Nino O'clock Market. Hogs tomorrow 26,000. Quality fair, market dull to 10c lower than Monday's average. Light 6.4 5 7.00, bulk 6.55S6.85, mixed 6.357.00, pigs 3.75 6 6.30. heavy 6.25 6.95, good 6.45(36.95, rough 6.256.45, yorkers 6.85 "7. 00. Cattle slow, weak. Beeves 4.75 8.00, stockers 3. 00 15 5.65, Texans, 4.405 6.15, rows 2.10tfj6.20, west erns 4.15-5 7.00, calves 6.00 5 9.50. Sheep steady at Monday's close. Na ! tive 2.50 l 4.10, lambs native 4.00 j 6.0'", westerns 2.50 (f? 4.25, lambs western 4.056.15. Close of Markets. Hogs closed 10c to IT.c lower than yesterday's average. Bulk 6.50 'a 6.80, light 6.40(5 6.95, mixed 6.35"? 6.95, heavy 6.20 fl 6.90, rough 6.20 7? 6.4 5. Cattle, good strong, others weak. Sheep, weak, top 4 25. Lambs 6.15. Western Live Stock. Hogs. Cattle. Sheen. Kansas City 1m0 1C.000 15.000 Omaha 0.900 9,000 52,000 Estimated Tomerrsw, Hogs. Cattle. Sheer) 26,000 19,000 42,0'JO Chicago NEW YORK STOCKS. i New York, Sept. 2G. Following are I the quotations on the market today: 'Oas 131 j Virion Pacific 15S ; r. S. St.-el preferred 107 jr. S. Steel common . ! Riadir.tr : K,!c-k Island preferred I H.,ck Island common . ! Sout'.icrn Pacific ! N'.'w York Central ! Missouri Pa ific . 50" .1.171 . 45' :? 1 a ; Great Xorthern 122 lr good health and enjoying them selves, indeed: That's the unkindest it if all. It's .the injustice, the utg iert that hu .s. If Tom can con-pmr.!.-tte with 'the daily papers it leek;-, if he miaht at lenst send me a. miserable prst card. Love is ev erything to woman. I l ave thought it all over. I have writtr-n the young 1 sent Ionian breaking oil the en- j casement." This emphatic pronouncement ! threw Miss Judith Into a state of ut ter panic. "What have you done, child?" she cried In dismay. "Ah, the marriage MARGARET. rf my dear foster ch :dren has been the one great dream of my life, and now by a thoughtless act you have shattered it. ruined my happiness. You did you say that you hav written?" "Yea. I have written,- replied the girl with a tone of finality. "The letter went out In the corning mall. It is now beyond recall." "It shall be recalled! It shall not be delivered!" protested Mis Judith with all the vehemence of an ancle Toby. Mis Judith's ment&I energy waa xpeadtKi during the succeeding mo- Northern Pacific H Louisville & Nashville 138 Smelters 60 Colorado Fuel & Iron. 25 Canadian Pacific 226 Illinois Central 135 Pennsylvania Trie .... Lead Chesapeake & Ohio Brooklyn Rapid Transit ... Baltimore & Ohio .-' Atchison Locomotive Sugar 119 .. 31 .. 44 70 .. 73 95 ..102 .. 33 . .113 St. Paul 109 Copper Lehigh Valley 156 Republic Steel common 21 LOCAL MARKET CONDITIONS. Sept. 2C. Following are the quota tions on the local market today: Eggs, 22 c. Butter Diary, 27c; creamery, 30c. Lard, 12c. Feed and Fuel. Corn, per bushel, 70c. Oats, 40c to 42c. Forage Timothy hay, $20c. Clover hay, $15. Wheat. 80c to S5c. Wild hay, $14 to $17. Straw, $8. Coal Lump, per bushel, 15c; slack, 10c. Potatoes, 65c Russian Marriage Laws (Special Correspondence of The Argus.) St. Petersurg, Sept. 23. The mar riage regulations governing the mem bers of the imperial family have been changed in an important particular by a recent imperial degree. Hitherto the statute concerning the imperial family incorporated in the fundamen tal laws prohibited members of that family from marrying any but persons belonging to a ruling or sovereign house. The only escape from this rule I was in having a recourse to a morgan- atic marriage, involving a permanent estrangement from the imperial court. The emperor has now lowered the bars for the more remote issue of em perors. Grand dukes and grand duch esses only are henceforth prohibited from marryin? outside reigning houses. As the grand ducal title appertains only to grandsons or granddaughters of emperors, in the male line, and to daughters only ?n the female line, and not beyond, princes of the imperial blocd, as the more remote issue is called, g? in liberty of marriage. !i is tfinugni mat tne lmmeaiaie oc- 107' ; I c-aslou which led to this change was 100 j the caso of Princess Tatiana C'onstan 3G ! tinovna, daughter of Grand Duke Con- stantinovich, and sister of Prince ments in tracing the route the letter would have to take to reach the young man, and in formulating some plan to intercept it on the way. Knrrie HO miles down the road it had aireajy left the train at Oakland, she figured, and was waiting until early morning to begin its 20-mlle Journey across the river, through wild swamps and then into the heart of the exten sive pine forests, then on to a point within ten miles of where the sur veyors were at work. The letter's des tination was an insignificant little backwoods postoffice, presided over by a lank cracker and a couple of lean houcJs. Three times a week it boasted communication with the out er world. But the trouble-bearing letter could not be stopped. Miss Judith waa forced to that conclusion by the logic of the situation. She had no 'phone; the telegraph office waa closed for the night; her home was twelve miles out in the country; and it waa night and there waa no one to bear a mes sage. Theee cumulative reason were lnsunaountabie. Tom Ingram waa a protege of Mlse Judith. When his parents died she adopted the boy. trained him up ten derly and educated Lira at the state - a. rJ l "C -Ha7' - Mr . t ,a John, who recently married Princess Helene of Servia. Princess Tatiana fell In love with an officer of the Hussars, Prince Bagra-tion-Mukhransky, an intimate friend of her brother. Prince Bagration, who is a son of a lieutenant general, and bears a family name distinguished in Russian military annate, is highly thought of at court, and the persist ence of the young princess was suc cessful in overcoming the statutory obstacle to the romance. The two were married Sept. 6. A form of polygamy frequent and officially tolerated in Russia has been read out of existence by a recent sen ate interpretation regarding the status of converts to the state church from among a dissident sect, the Old-believers, numbering millions of adherents. The senate rules that Old-believers, who are legally married according to the regulations of their sect, may not contract a new marriage upon embrac ing orthodoxy, until their first union is legally dissolved. Under these cir cumstances, declares the senate, mar rying a new wife before the old one has been divorced, will be regarded as polygamy, and jo prosecuted under the law. The practice hitherto has been to allow a new marriage, under the cir cumstances, and consider the old mar riage nonvalid for orthodox converts, though Old-believer marriages, as sach, were sanctioned by the law of 1874. The effect of the practice was to en courage Old-believers to join the state church, with this particular end In I view. In those cases, the old mar ! riage was considered void, and all mar ital and paternal obligations annulled. Orthodox missionaries made use of this temptation. The flagrant injustice to thousands of dissident wives, leading in many cases to hardships and to suicide, at last forced the auu-orities to action. River Stages. The U. S. steamer Ellen tied up at the foot of Nineteenth street last night to take on provisions, and left again this morning, to resume work between Hershey Chutes and Pine Creek. Work of blasting the rock in the channel there is now in full swing, j and is. progressing rapidly. Because of the excursion which the Helen Blair is to take out to the new power dam at Keokuk Friday, Sept. 29, the Wenona is to substitute in the pack et trade between Burlington and Mus catine temporarily. A Dreadful Sight to H. J. Barnum. of Freeville, N. Y.. was the fever-sore that had plagued his life for years in spite of many rem edies he tried. At l&st he used Buck len's Arnica salve and wrote: "It has entirely healed with scarcely a 3car left." Heals burns, boils, eczema, cuts, bruises, swellings, corns and piles like magic. Only 25 cents at all drugglsta. ANSWERED- ' university. He was to her a real son, loyal and devoted, endowed with all I the gifts of mind and heart and char acter that glorify manhood. Margaret was a frequent visitor at the old-faehionftd country house, and it was there that Misa Judith saw the first promise of fulfillment of her cherished dream. With all his good qualities Tom was proud and high-strung, like all the Ingrama. Therein lay the danger in the present crisis. A breach be tween two young lovers would be hard to heal. All that long night the girl's soul was In a state of bitter revolt against the injustice of the treatment she had received from Tom. She could not sleep. The clock in .the, hall down stairs tolled the hour at intervals of seeming ages. She. hated the dark ness. It accentuated her troubles. She longed for daylight and peaoe. When i the first faint streaks of dawn began to dispel the shadows In the room a strong and sudden reac tion of feeling set In. What If there should be some mistake? It was not like Tom to aot thus. TTae traditions cf his family and his training cried out against 11. He was too faithful to be guilty of such cold-hearted in difference. Had she not been chlldlsttTy seMtanT A sense of guilt swept over ner with the force of conviction. But the let ter? Ah, the letter would reach bjm in a few short hours. Soon Its terri ble mission would be fulfilled. It was too late. Waa it too late? There was a morning train at 7. It was. now 6 : 30. Why not attempt to correct the blun der? The thought came to her like an Inspiration. As she revolved the matter rapidly in mind the possibility of retrieving her error took on some thing of the rosy hae of hope. Feverishly she wrote for a few minutes, thrust the letter Into an en velope and marked It "Important! Rush!" Her brother was a newspaper correspondent, and she remembered having seen 6uch symbols of the right of way stamped in big letters on the Jong envelopes. "If he gets this at the same time, he will read It first. All will be well then, for I have asked him not to open the other letter." Hastily donning her riding habit she slipped out Quietly to the barn. There a new difficulty arose. Her pony, she reflected, could never make the twelve miles in the bare hour she had left tc reach the station. There was only one horse In the country that could make It over the rough roaas. xnax was Biiiy. xom a spirited sorrel. But Tom and Aunt Judith bad for bidden the girl to ever attempt to ride Billy. It would be too much like courting death. Tons explained Daily United States Weather Map ,44 L)6tf m Ay Cjbj .tlorn tekra mt f . m.. Mrnnt-flfih maridian ttma. yiKuufi!' " coaUncoa Jin" Po through points aZ ajul air ' r.r?K nT ,lne--tr throoh points of equal tm. j PKataro; ther will be draws oni for aero, freeimg, and liW. i SnCBOU Indicate itate of vaathar: Q elear; (j partly etoodri Q olcody; rain; anowi report mimilijz. Arrow At mMt thm v; . m , . . r 5? .vri L"J- ?T: 3-honr ralnfalT. if it aiiaaja i . ill lautu laird, wind tbJocuj if hJ luliea per hoax or mor7 FORECAST FOR UOCK ISlLf&XD. DAVKNPOKT. MO LINK AND VICWITT. Generally cloudy with probably showers tonight or Wednesdav. Risingr temperature. WEATHER CONDITIONS. Showers in the Ohio and middle Mis sissippi valleys, the southern portion of the lake region and on the Atlantic coast have resulted from the baro metric depression that was yesterday over the lower lakes but which has moved "eastward to the coast of New England. Scattered showers on the north Pacific coast and in the Rocky mountain sections and the Missouri valley have attended the western low which remains over the Rocky moun tain plateau and another decided area of low pressure which has appeared in the British northwest. The area of high pressure and low temperature that was over the Missouri valley has drifted to the lake region and frosts are .eported from Minnesota and up per Michigan. The continued eastward movement of the high and the ap proach of the western and northwest ern lows will be attended by generally cloudy weather and rising tempera ture in this vicinity, with probably showers tonight or Wednesday. OBSERVATIONS. High Low Pr'cp yes- last 24 hra. t'rd'y. nii;ht inch. Atlantic City 7C CS .00 gravely. And that very prohibition had always made her the more anx ious to taste of the forbidden pleas ure. Necessity knews no law, respects no injunction";. This was not a case of choice or discretion. It was Billy or fail. She chose Billy. There was no one about the place as she cantered out into the sandy lane leading into the main road. She knew just how little urging was re quired to keep the 6snsitlve animal at his best. Billy settled down Into a steady, even gallop, covering the miles with the swift certainty and regularity of one true ' to his blood and training. Margaret was a true horse woman. She could appreciate the experience enough .to get a good measure of keen enjoyment out of it in spite of her troubles. The fresh morning air, the fragrance of the plowed fields, was delightful, and to crown it all, Billy TOM. was behaving like a king. Through field and forest, op hill and down, along the level stretches of the farm lands, she sped, paur-ing at last to get her bearings on the crest of the high ridge beyond Six-Mile creek. "Twenty-five minutes!" 6he ex claimed exultantly, looking at her watch. "Brave boy, Billy! Now for the home stretch." At the mere touch of the riding wh'p the spirited horse plunged for ward at increased speed. This hint of the lash infuriated b?m. It was a severe blow to his pride. He resent ed it. But Margaret sat easly in the saddle, thinking herself ratrter of the situation. Just how 'he accident happened the girl coul-1 never quite explain. She was rounding wooded curve U. S. Department of Agriculture. I AVILLIS Boston S4 5S 1.06 Buffalo ."...C6 50 .02 Rock Island 62 47 .W Denver 70 52 .00 Jacksonville 90 74 .00 Kansas City C2 5S .52 New Orleans SS 70 .3S Xew York 82 64 .30 Xorfolk 86 72 .00 Phoenix 90 72 .00 St. Louis 74 62 1.28 St. Paul CO 3S .00 San Diego 74 CO .00 Fan Francisco 02 5 4 .00 Seattle 62 44 .00 Washington, D. C. ...SS C4 .OS Winnipeg ... t 54 36 .00 Vello,wstone Park ... 40 .00 MISSISSIPPI RIVER. Flood Hgt. Chng stage, feet. 24 hr St. Paul 14 1.2 0.0 Red Wing 14 0.7 0.1 Reed's Landing 12 " 0.4 0.0 La Crosse 12 2.0 xO.l Prairie du Chien ...IS 25 0.0 Dutuinue IS 3.0 xO.l Clinton 16 2.3 x0.3 Le Claire 10 1.1 xO.l Rock Inland 15 2.6 0.0 RIVER FORECAST. During the next 48 hours a slight when an automobile unexpectedly ap peared, and before she realized any possibility of danger Billy shied in sudden fright, throwing her violently from the saddle. Fortunately the yielding limbs of a wild apple tree caught her body and broke the force of the fall. When consciousness returned she looked up into the care-worn face of Tom, who knelt over her awaiting eagerly some sign of returning life. For a moment she could not compre hend what it all meant; then, as memory lifted the veil caused by the shock, a smile of peace overspread her countenance. "Then you did write? "she asked, and the intonation of her voice an ticipated the answer. "Write? Of course I wote. Eet ter than that, I came." The whole story of her suffering leaped before his mind's eye clear as the morning luu. "I'll explain it all when ycu feel better; Just one word now. Up to three days ago I fcot your letters. Then they stopped. Every third day we sent ur letters by a negro boy to the office. I never dreamed that they were not promptly reaching you through the mal!s. "Then something aroused my sus picions. I investigated. The boy on the last two trips had given the let ters to that miserable puppet of a postmaster. Jupiter Shaw, out in the woods where he found him squirrel hunting. This faithful servant of I'ncle Sam wi3 on one of Ms period ical sprees. and he calmly stuck those letters in his breeches pocket and forgot all about them." Cn the eeventh day he locked the office and disappeared in the swamp. It was by mere cbaace that I ran across him and discovered tat Ittttra L. MOORE. Chief. .O "7 am. rising tendency in the Mississippi will prevail from Clinton to Muscatine. J. M. SHERIER. Local Forecaster. Forced to Leave Horn. Every year a large number of poor sufferers, whose lungs are sore and racked with coughs, are urged to go to another climate. But this ia costly and not always sure. There's a bet ter way. Let Dr. King's New Discov ery cure you at home. "It cured me of lung trouble," writes W. It. Nelson, of Calamine, Ark., "when all else fail ed and I gained 47 pounds in weight. Its surely the king of all cough and lung cures." Thousands owe their lives and health to it. It s positively guaranteed for coughs, colds, lagrlppo, asthma, croup all throat and lung troubles. 50 cents and $1.00. Trial bottle free at all drugglsta. Chamberlain's colic, cholera and di arrhoea remedy is today the best known medicine in use for the relict and cure of bowel complaints. It cures griping, diarrhoea, dysentery, and should be taken at the first un natural looseness of the boweH. It ia equally valuable for children and adults. It always cures. Sold by ul. druggists. in bis pocket. Then I knew what you must have suffered. I hurried across the swamp and river and by a lucky chance got this automobile at Oakland. It's all the fault of Jupiter curse him! But. come, we must be off. You need attention " "O, I'm all right." Margaret smiled back at him as he assisted her to the waiting automobile. "I'm not hurt. There's nothing the matter with me except a pronounced attack of hap pluess." Wonderful Beast. The billposter came down tha street and spread a flaring circus ; st er on the dead wall opposite. Then the oldest inhabitant grew reminis cent. "When I see them things going up," he sighed, "I think of the circus days when I was a lad. The show came every spring and every boy In town there waa a hundred odd car ried wuter for the elephant and got in free." The grandson gave a low whistle. "Crlcky. grandpa, how many ele phants did they have?" "Only one, Tommy. That's all they could afford in those, days." "Well. I was just thinking. " "Thinking of what, bub?" "What an awful thirst that lone elephant must have lad." Souvenir of the South.- "And you ar J:ist from the Pou!h, my poor man?" haV.f.d the wuma:. in tho kitchen d(r. "Yes, mum," responded the wary hobo, as he munched a olycuit, "J'.nt came In on tie t'rough freight dil morning." "You don't say? How I would 'ova to se the southern soil or.ee aptln." "JuKt look on me rn'ig. mum. It s on derc a quart'-r of an Inch t'lek." Dangerous Job. Kind Lary Here Is a rhubarb pie, my poor man. II jw did you get tuat wound on your arm?" Tired Tim I was lo out, mum. Kii-d I.ndy Ah, a lockout on a steas.er ar.d there was a coTI-'lon ? Tired Tlra No, nun, a lookout r a serond-etory man an' do watcUiuai winged me, mum. j Larr7'a P.etort. I They were Jollying Larry about h!i stylish pair f patent leathern. '1 s thought you had more patriotism, j Larry," they guyed. "Why, then I i hoes have London tops and London's in England." "Thct may be," flashed Lcrrr. without a smile, "but tbey hov coric tolfes itwg Cork's in Oirland."