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TWICE-A-WEEK.
VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 31
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Tie Largest
The Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette
For July, 1896, says:
liOBT. THOMSON, PrCS. J. J.Lownv, V.-Pres.
P.
rescoI
High Art'
SIEMER,
&l'ri
WALTER BAKER & COMPANY, of Dorchester, Mass.,
have given years of study to the skillful preparation of
cocoa and chocolate, and have devised machinery and sys
tems peculiar to their methods of treatment, whereby the
purity, palatabihty, and highest nutrient characteristics are
retained. Their preparations are known the world over,
and have received the highest indorsements from the
medical practitioner, the nurse, and the intelligent house
keeper and caterer."
Consumers should ask for and be sure that they get
the genuine goods, made at DORCHESTER, MASS.
WALTER BAKER & CO., Limited.
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A General Banking Business Transacte
Special Advantages for Making Loans.
INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS
DIRECTORS!
J. LOWRY. ROBERT THOMSON. JOHN MCCOOK. H. C.JPRICB
W.K. BARKER. JOHN THOMSON. W.DANFORTH.
Is the Place to Get the Best.
No Second Grade Stock on Our Shelves
Call on us when you want anytoing first-class in Groceries,
Dried Fruits, Canned Goods, Flour, &c.
AUCTION SALE!
On my farm one mile west of Crosco, commencing at
1:30 p, m.
Tuesday, January 5, '97
consisting of
About 25 Head Poland China Pigs,
a span of mules, a span of work horses, 2 sets of heavy harness and
some other articles. The pigs are all in the best of health vud will be
sold to the highest bidder ar I wish to close them out at once.
One year's time will be given to responsible parties,
MARTIN P. LYDON, Prop.
SUITS AUD PANTS
At the Lowest Prices ever heard of in Howard county.
-Why buy a Beady-made Suit when you can get one
made to order that fits for the same money that
you would pay for a "hand-me-down.
A Good, All Wool Suit made to your
order for $15.
A Good, A1J Wool, heavy-weight Pants
made to order for $4
Is not conlined to music and painting. In
the Tailoring trade there is endless oppor
tunity to display skill and good taste. If
you want a suit for summer that is as near
perfection as possible, call on
...
«?$*«?•$
BOBT.THOMSON'. CnsUle
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GROCERY
anil Best Selected Stoct ot Crocker? in lie City
An examination of quality and price will demonstrate our
leadership in this line.
WM. KELLOW, Jr
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THE TAILOR
LIME SPEINUS, IOWA
If
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Lydon's sale, Jan. 5th,
The board of Supervisors are in ses
sion.
F. M. Clark was down from Lime
Springs yestevdaj.
Miss Ruth Ling is sick, threatened
with typhoid fever.
Mrs. E. McCarville is visiting with
her sons in the country.
Mrs. Geo. Chryst was a New Year's
visitor at Lime Spriogs.
Andrew Schaefer returned yester
day from a Minneapolis vi3it.
Lon Thayre and wife visited rela
tives a'. Uonair on New Years.
Mrs. I. B. Howl and ot Liino Springs
visited friend* here last week.
Another car ot choice New York
apples for $1.50 barrel at Kellow's.
Practical business experience is
taught at the Uresco Business Institute.
Miss Mabel McClasky of Decorah
was a guest at the Mason house last
weik.
Miss Linnie Cole returned last week
from Minneapolis for a visit with rela
tives.
Miss Eva Marshall returned to
school duties at Waseca, Minn, on
Saturday.
For fresh groceries or a good meal
go to M. Barrett's Restaurant, Market
St., Cresco. sept lyl
W. B. Ousley, D. S., in Cresco
1st to 15th. All work guaranteed to
give satisfaction. 15tf
H. C. Berry will visit friends in
Butler county as soon as there is
sleighing sufficient.
Mrs. Lottie Kellow and Mrs. Carter
gave a five o'clock tea to select
friends Wednesday last.
Chas. Miller and Philip Cumminss
with their wives, were at Le Hoy
visitors on New Year's day.
It has leaked out that Mark Hanna
mailed a rabbits foot to our esteemed
fellow citizen, J. C. Webster.
I have a few Poland China male pigs
left, of May and June farrow.
J. C. TODD, Kendallville, Iowa^
The business failures for 1896, as
reported in Bradstreets, were 15,112,
with liabilities placed at $247,000,000.
If you want a good suit of clothes go
to H. H. Rygg. He will give you the
best goods and garment for the money.
The Cresco Normal and Business
Institute opened the term yesterday
with between sixty and seventy
students.
Mr. James Walton has gone to De
corah to spend a weak visiting his
sister Mrs. C. Christen and numorous
other relatives and friends.
Mrs. J. T. Hurley and little daugh
ter were up from Luana for a few duys
visit at the home of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. .B. 1). Everingham.
Our merchants are taking invoice of
stock to ascertain what the year has
done for them or against them in the
way of prosperity or otherwise.
I
The Daughters of the King and the
members of the Episcopal church are
requested to meet at Mrs. W. B.
Lent's, Wednesdy, Jan. C, at 2:80 p.m.
The ice storm has played havoc with
shade trees, and with telegraph and
telephone lines, the latter being
broken and down in all directions from
here.
Prof. Ling and all the teachers in
our public schools who have spent
their vacation away, came Saturday,
ready to resume school wcrk Monday
morning.
The spring Institute is only three
months away. If you wish to teach
you should prepare yourself. You
can do no better than to attend the
Cresco Normal for that purpose.
Chas. Peck and wife of Itasca, Wis.,
and his sister, Mrs. W. T. Irvin, of
LaCrosse, are guests of their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Peck, arriving
on Thursday last, for a visit of a week
or more.
Tho following persons have credit
on subscription acount with the PEE
DEI:: Karl Gerber, John Meyers, N.
B. Wheeler, J. H. Upton, Cresco C.
A. Wells, Lime Springs H. E. Cran
dall, Colfax, N. D.
During the mud of last week, John
Watts and H. C. Howard made a trip
with the oil tank to ltidgeway, during
which they tipped over, being caught
under the front wheels. Both
were quite badly injured.
Everything first-class at Mitchell's
barber shop, if they do cut hair for
15 cents, their work will bo ot the
best. No one will bo slighted. Call
and get a line hair cut and smooth
shave for 25 cents, opposite the Court
House.
Rain and sleet commenced falling
Saturday morning, continuing all day
Sunday, freezing as It lell, rendering
the walks a sheet
of
iee, and loading
the trees with all the ice they can
stand beneath, many breaking under
the load.
John Dreier and family will remove
to Billings, Missouri, this week, if the
car to take their household ell'ects
comes. The family is intelligent,
honest, industrious, prosperous and
worthy the friendship and esteem of
all good citizens,
EDITOK P. D.—Permit me to say
through tho P. D. that it is not the in
tention of my reply to "J. M. Hunter"
to convey the idea that John McHugh
was in anyway responsible for the
Huntor tirade against the fair officers.
J. C. WEBSTEK, SECV.
PLUCK, PROGRESS. PERSEVERANCE AND PATRIOTISM IN POLITICS.
Wallace's Farmer and Dairyman is
striving to get on the side of the peo
ple again, but having betrayed them
in the campaign into the hands ol the
class which has a monopoly of money,
transportation, and news, it is un
worthy of public trust or confidence.
Milton George Is in tie same boat.
They were cither fool or knave, and
we don't believe either Is a fool.
We note from a wedding card from
St. Paul the announcement of the
marriage of Richard H. Boxell and
No'Uo Montague, Dec. 17, '96, by Rev.
Father Gunn at Elma. They will be
at home after Jan'y 1st, 1897, at 85
West Congress St., St. Paul. The
bride is a daughter of our esteemed
friends. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Monta
gue or" Lourdes, a noble womanly
woman.
Although rain was falling and ter
rible roads must be traveled, eighty
"one numbers were sold for the Wood
men's dance on New fear's eve. With
favorable weather, they would have
had too big a crowd to accommodate.
It was a tribute to ihe popularity of
the Woodmeu, and their arrangements,
and wfll doubtless encourage them to
give 6ther dancing parties. Their
wives also served a very nice supper
Woodman's Hall.
Clint Sisco, of Cresco, has been
visiting his grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. L. Potter, the past week Tru
man Fallgatter of Parker, S. D., Is
visiting his grandfather, Truman
Robison, and other relatives during
the holidays,..
..Mrs. C. Foley, of Crane
Creek, died Monday. Dec. 28th, aged
100 years. She has been a resident of
Howard county for thirty years past
and was well known to all and loved
by many. The funeral occured Wed
nesday, at Lourdes. Rev. Nelson
officiating.-—Elma News.
When tea parties become vehicles
for the dissemination of neighborhood
scandal it is time they were super
ceded with the prayer meeting, and
perhaps'those who are most bitter in
denunciation of others have a skeleton
in their own closet, the remembrance
of which should make them charitable
toward the supposod faults and short
comings they charge to others. It is
possible that the ones they traduce
are not guilty of the indiscretions
charged and are entitled to the charity
of all christian women. At all events,
the PLAIN DEALEU will ask evidence
of guilt before pronouncing sentence
of condemnation, and then if guilt is
shown will acquit the accused If peni
tent. To these critics we commend
tho linos from Bobby Burns addressed
to tJi'i "rUnco-Guid:"
O ye who are sao gutd yoursel'.
Sap pious and sap Uoly.
l'o've nought, to do but mark and tell
Sap pious and sap
}'ve nought, to dob
Your neebor's fauts and lolly!'
Married-
BAUNES—ST. JOHN—la Howard coun
ty, on Dec. 30, 189G, by Rev. L. S
Cooley, Mr. Chas, A. Barnes and
Miss Amy B. St. John.
WILLIAMS—LEWIS—At Lime Springs,
Dec. 30, 1896, by Rev. R. W.
Hughes, Mr. John A. Williams and
Miss Ella E. Lewis.
BLACKBURN—Errs—At the home of
Elisha Epps, Cresco, Iowa, on Jan
3, 1897, by Rev. O. Ii. Holmes, Mr.
Win. P. Blackburn and Miss Hattie
M. Kpps.
The bride is a niece of Ellsha Epps,
and was originally from Dubuque.
The groom is a resident of Cedar
Rapids, where he is employed as a
baker and candy maker. They may
conclude to make this their future
home, and if so, will locate here In
tho spring.
Jackson's Birthday.
We observed some time since in a
great metropollton Journal an account
of a democratic blow-out for January
8, the occasion, it said, being to cele
brate the birthday of President An
drew Jackson. The statement of Jan.
8 as tho birthday of Jackson, we ob
seve going through the country press.
Andrew Jaskson was born near Cure
tons Pond, Union County, North Caro
lina, March 15, 1767. The 8th of
January is noted for the victory of
Andrew Jackson and his Kentucky
riflemen who fought behind fortifica
tions made from tales of cotton over
the British uuder Packenham, in the
war of 1812. For the purpose of keep
ing history straight we respectfully
suggest to the big dailies who know
so little of the history of tha country
that they consult -their country ax
chanfes for facts, assuring them that
if they see It in the PLAIN DEALEU it
is so.
CAESCO MARKETS
(Corrected eaoh issue.)
GRAIN.
Wheat 00§0S!
Harloy 13 ©20
Oats 10 &
13
Corn 15® 19
.Timothy Seed per bushel 90 is
Flax seed @U2
Clovor perewt 3.00 (SO lo
LIVESTOCK.
Live Hogs 2.75 3.0a
Beef on foot 232X
Steors.,,, 2K @3
4,
WWWPm
CRESCO, HOWARD COUNTY, IOWA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1897. $1.00 PER YE
Bunco,
As
Yi
D4JBY
Choice Dairy Butter W®
Choice Creamery Butter
Unsalted Butter...
Cream por inch
Milk perewt 00
MISCELLANEOUS.
ERKS per dozen 10®
Potatoes 15
Onions 30
Beans l.oo
Home Seekers Excursion.
The C. M. & St. .Paul It. R. Co. will
continue the sale of round trip tickets
Dates of sale Jan. 5th and 19th, Feb'y
2d and 16th, March 2d and 16th (itul
April 6th and 10th, 1897, two dollars
more than tbe one way rate. Ask at
ticket office for particulars.
3t -j, M. J. WHITE, Agent.
it Is Flayed.
Interchanging fypneet thought.
Like a thinking people oflglit,
Makes us wiser 11 at, onCe—
All except the taoughtlesfi dunce.
The cloth men we ip the county
again. They play the game with the
farmers, with a class of men, who, if
they were to make a deal of like mag
nitude as they majce with these rov
ing robbers with a man in their own
county whose success depends upon
his integrity, would consult with
friends as to the ^dvisabiiity of the
transaction. But they swallow the
story of the plauqjble str&nger and
are buncoed, after which they come
in auil ask the sympathy of the peo
ple. They nre the men who don't
read the newspapers.
Then we have the tree peddler for
some nursery aw^y "deowta" east.
Thousands of their nursery stock
conies to to our county annually.
Not one tree in 5Q() ever comes to
bearing. The worthless character of
the trees purchase^ convinces men
that one can't grow fruit in this
county, though their next door
neighbor supplies l^is family with
fruit in abundance from trees grown
in Iowa. The sirnplq fact is, they
have allowed the tree peddler to
unco them out of their money for
worthless truck, and their family out
of good fruit.
Then we have the '-snob" who
can't distinguish one tuae from
another, who goes into ecstacies over
some troupe from a distance and is
delighted with the most common
place airs. His neighbor as inco m
petent to judge as himself is enlisted
for the party, and delighted to even
a ball room recognition, he thuis
allows the village snob to bunco him.
Then we have scores and scores of
people who are unable to find on the
shelves of their home merchants
goods which suit them in either
quality or price, and some distant
city gets their order and their money
for substantially the saiqe articles
their home merchant could furnish
at better figures. And they are
buncoed into making war on their
town, its business and its prosperity.
Then we have in every community
mothers and daughters who fall in
love "with some waxed mustache on
the face of some worthless stranger,
with whom for the daughter an al
liance is sought to ascertain that a
fraud and a scoundrel has been won
and the daughter buncoed out of her
happiness and her home. And so we
might run through every feature of
life and home and see how true is
the favorite phrase of Barnum that
"the people like to be humbugged."
It is time thrown away to mention to
either of these classes that they are
being imposed upon, buncoed by the
crafty, cruel and unscrupulous, yet
as a journalist, one is scarcely ex
cusable for these reasons not to men
tion and caution against fraud and
imposition.
Free Lecture Course.
Tbe second lecture of this course
will be given in Lyric hall, by Dr.
Geo. Kesselat7:30 p. m. on Friday
evening, Jan. 8th.
rnOGUAM FOK T1IE EVENING.
Music Cresco Glee Club
Lecture Dr. Geo. Kessel
Music—character song Wesley Swenson
Heading Miss Hattie Howe
Music—Instrumental Mrs. Anna Ahern
Music—Solo Mrs. M. M. Moon
Saint llupert—A contribution by Aug. Beadle—
Keclted by Miss Alma Combs
Music—Duct Prof, and Mrs. Perry
$2 00 for $100.
We have at our disposal thirty
copies of the National Recorder.a large,
eight page weekly publication of
Washington, D. C., devoted exclusive
ly to information about new ideas,
new inventions, discoveries and pro
gress in general. Until all have been
dlsposod of we shall give to each new
subscriber or a person renewing his
subscription, both the PLAIN DEALEU
and the Recorder one year for $1.00,
the price of each being $1.00.
Tour oi All Mexioo
under escort of American Tourist As
sociation. lteauCampbell, Gen'l. Mgr.
January 19, and February 27. Sleep
ing and Dining Cars and specia
baggage cars through all the tour
without change. More miles and days
in Mexico, more cities and towns thau
ever offered. Tickets include all ex
penses, sleeping and dining cars,
hotels, etc. Apply to any tickct agent
ofthe Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
railway, for further particulars.
For Sale or Rent.
My house and property in New Ore
gon. Title perfect price right terms
satisfactory. Enquire of Geo. Bly, or
of A. J. Mintey, near the premises.
n25w3 C. S. BLY.
For Sale.
A small house, story and a half and
two lots two blocks from the first
ward school house. Tima given lor
part of the price, if desired.
That
hnme
H. Croxton.
WANTKD—FAlTHFi:!.
MKN OH WOMEN
to travel for responsible established
house In Iowa. Salary $780 anil expenses. Po
sition permanent, ltoferenco. Enclose solf
alIresseilstaup»l envelope. Tho National,
Star Insurance lSlilii,, Chicago,
Jlack can te
rurea,
Lame Back
&MHilfI<[ ,11II!
wltU
Or. Miles' NEKVE I'LASTEU. Only 23c.
That
can bo
mired
with
Pr.MUes'NEKVE PLABTEU. Only23c.
Highest of all in Leavening Strength.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report,'
Rp^!
Notice.
The annual meeting of tho Stock
holders of the Alliance Mercantile
Association will be held in the Court
House Tuesday, January 19, 1897, at
10 o'clock, a. m. A. J. COOK,
33w2 Secretary.
Farm for Sale.
05 acres located miles south of
Cresco. Fair building, good well and
cistern, and running water, 45 acres
plow land, balance small timber. A
line location will be sold at a bargain.
For terms and particulars apply to
Martin Moen on the premises or John
Moen, Cresco, Iowa. 2 m.t. a. w.
To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
lets. All druggists refund the money
if it fails to cure. 25c. 0w2G
•WANTED—FAITHFUL MEN Oil WOMEN
TT
to travel for responsible established house
in Iowa. Salary $780 and expense,. Position
permauont. Reference. Enclose selX-aililres
sed stamped envelope, Tho National, Star In
snrauce Bldg., Chicago.
BATHROOMS A LA MODE.
Bin. John Jacob Aator and Mrs. George
Gould Have Fine Ones.
Milady's bathroom has grown to be in
Its luxurious perfection a triumpli ot
artistic cleverness, says the New York
Journal. The skill of the architect 1a
employed for special designs, and there
is no limit to the decorations. iBesides
the regular tub, which is beautiful as
ornamental porcelain and silver can
make it, there is a sitz bathtub with,
spray and wave attachment and other
apparatus to suit the taste and conven
ience of the owner. In some instances
the room is lighted by skylight or win
dows of stained glass in exquisite de
signs of water nymphs and goddesses.
In many the beautiful works of art
both in fresco and oil painting and
statuary in matrble and bronze, repre
sent a small fortune, and a loan exhibi
tion of these treasures would create a
profound sensation in artistic circles.
With these voluptuous surroundings
and the delicate atmosphere from the
perfumed waters, the whole is less sug
gestive of the Scriptural injunction
"Wash and be clean," than "Steep thy
sense in luxury." Not the most ex
travagant, foir where one has plenty of
money there is no extravagance in put
ting large sums of it in circulation, but
the one representing the most lavish
expenditure is probably that of Mrs.
John Jacob Astor, while a close second
is that of Mrs. George Gould.
BULL AGAINST RHINOCEROS.
A Terrific Battle in the Land of tho
Zulus.
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When I was on the Zulu frontier,
said a traveler recently, I stopped for
a week with a. native, a splendid fellow,
who had a fine farm. Among other anl
maJs he had a young bull, called Hulo,
•which he and his children fondly be
lieved could vanquish any beast on
earth. Hulo was a great pet and not iu
the least vicious, so I was surprised on
the second evening of my stay to see
Hulo sniffing the air and pawing tho
ground in evident rage. I was about
to ask what it meant when out of the
forest came an ugly rhinoceros. My
host and I hurried for our guns and Hu
lo dashed at the beast with dauntless
courage. A rush, a crash, and the bull
was hurled 20 feet. Fortunately the
horn of his enemy had not caught him
and the first rush had taught him a les
son. His horns were like sharp swards,
but the hide of a rhinoceros is remark
ably thick, and the young bull soon
showed signs of fatigue. So he resort
ed to strategy, and dodged behind his
clumsy foe, giving him vicious stabs In
the thighs. This was rapidly weaken
ing the rhinoceros, and just at this time
we found some steel bullets (leaden bul
lets having no effect on this animal)
and quickly completed the work Hulo
begfn. Then the bull stood on the car
cass and bellowed his joy.
LAUGHTER A DISEASE.
An Actual Case of a Man Who Began
Laughing from HI* Toc» Upward.
Do you laugh? Then you have been
attacked by a disease, for laughter is a
disease. This has been proven by nu
merous cases which have come undetr
the notice of eminent- neurologists.
They have declared even modecrate
laughter a symptom of nervous hys
teria-.
People have died of laughter. From
Austria comes a curious account of a
man suffering from a nervous disease
that manifested itself in paroxysms of
laughter. The patient was 30 years of
age and had beein subject for three years
to fits of laughter, which occurred at
first every two or three months, grad
ually increasing in fnequencj' to a dozen
or maro day. The uittacks occurred
especially between nine o'clock in .the
evening and 0:30 o'clock in the morning,
nnd in greatest frequency between five
and 6:30 o'clock. In the intervals be
tween ttie attacks, and immediately be
fore and afterward, the man. was per
fectly well. The attacks commenced
from a tickling sensation arising from
the toes of the left foolt. The patient
would fall to the ground, where* he could
lie down. At the height of the attack
the patient first smiled and then
laughed aloud without any apparent
cause for the excessive merriment. The
entire act occupied about two minutes.
ABSOLUTELY PURE
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Well-BroU Thieves.
A princess, a countess, a duchess and
the daughter of a reigning prince were
among the 4,000 thieves, professional
and unprofessional, arrested in Paris
durlnar the first six months
of this year.
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TWICE-A-WEE]
Baking
Powder
MARRIAGE IN FRANCE..
Dim It* Expense Account for thi'
create In PopolatlonT
May not the cost ot getting may
in France act as a check upon man
and so partly account for the shriq:
of French population? The othe.
'a wedding was thus celebrated by
to-do middle-class folks in. Burg*
and may serve as a type. No lea*'
.five sumptuous banquets were givi
the bride's father, namely, two din
two breakfasts and one ballroom
per. At one of the dinners, to
Bat down 60 guests, no lees than 6(
ties of champagnc were drunk, t»
nothing of red wines and llqn
Strange to say, no one seemed
worse.
I The respective processions to
and church on different days
jthe hire of 60 carriages, this ewrt
falling- upon the young lady's paa
the entire ceremonial involving ac
lay of several hundred pounds.
was the affair less onerous to 1b'
friends and relatives. The ladles
expected to display a new and
ionable toilet upon each, separate
'sion—banquets, balls, civil and reU,
celebrations.
To the bridegroom, fell all kin
expenses, such, as fees, gifts to
church and the poor—these, howe
trifle compared to the mental
bodily wear and tear of three days
petual merrymaking last, but
least, the necessity of looking pie
When Anglo-mania has altered?
'this, and a Frenchman's wedding'
means two or three hours' cereal
only,--we may expect the marrlag*
to go steadily up.
HE HAD BEEN IN PRI8Q^
And WH Not UnJujtly Confined,
Confetsed.
The evidence the witness bad
I had. been very strongly against the:
yer's side of the case, and, lawyer
he was trying his best to break th
timony, or throw discredit on th
ness, says the Pittsburgh News.
tried browbeating, but themanigr
his efforts and In an easy, sell'
tained way stuck to his story. He
cross-questioning him, but with,
ter success, and he wa&on.the poj
!giving
up when a chance remarket
his eair and riveted his courage.
"I gather from what you just
that you have been in prison. Is
|true?"
"Yes, sir, I have been in prison.'1
Theattorney's eyes snapped and
{tented smile spread over his featui
he drew a sigh of relief. He proceed
make the most of his triumph, th
he felt confident that his case was
"The jury will notice that the wi 1
confesses having been in prison.
llong were you in prison?"
"Eighteen months."
"You do not pretend that you
not justly confined?"
"No, sir. Under the circumstan
presume it was all right."
"Of course the gentlemen of the
will understand without my calli
tention to it how much value to pli
jthe evidence of a man of this kind.!
you please state the name of thek
on?"
"Certainly, sir. Ande^sonville."
MESSAGES ALONG THE LI
All of Them Went, Mnt Some of
Not Intended for Headquarters
During some maneuvers at Aldei
to gain practice in the vedette- sy
|of employing cavalry to watch an
jport the movements of an enemy
mounted troops employed on the
sion were extended at intervals
wide expanse. The major at on
of the line, says the Lomdon Tele#
had occasion to send a message ti
.captain, who was at the opposite et
"The enemy are in force in froi
The signal was passed along th
all right till it came to a man statl
about midway, who thought fit \-i
Iprivate message of his own, ia.l
jonly for the benefit of his netehbt
"Have you a chaw of tobacco?"
JJnlucldly his comrades the
'these words were apart of the ori
message, and they were passed
man to man, till they reached the
'tain. The latter was somewhat a
ished at the request, but sent baol
answer:
"I don't chew tobaccos tut her
:two cigars."
The major found the cigars welt
and as he lighted one sent baok th
swer: ,, $
'•'Who said you did?".
Her Philanthropy.
I've heard them say the theat
Is very bad. And that
Is why a front seat I engage—
And wear my largest hat.
—Washington 8
What They Were.
"Pillbody has a good many revolu
ary Ideas in his head."
"Those are not ideas revolving!^
body's head. They are wheels.'*
dianapolis Journal.
Light Fingered.
Mrs. Blobbs—A man was here
who gets a living by reading the h(
Mr. B.—Some swindler, wasn't 1
Mrs. B.—Yes he read the han
the gas meter.—Up-to-Date.
No Danger.
Mrs. Featherweight (to cabme
You are sure you won't run away
me?
Cabby—No, mem I've been ma
those twiutv years.—N, Y, Tribui
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