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FRIDAY, AUG. .9, .1901
MP.R.&F. J. MEAD. PUBLISHERS
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O&fc&l Paper of County.
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Democratic State Convention.
The democrats of town will meet
ID
delegate
convention at Des Moines, Iowa,
Wednesday, August SI. 1001,
at lO.o'clook, a. m. for the purpose of nominat
ing candidates for tho following oOloes:
Governor,
Lieutenant Governor.
Judge Supreme Cowt.
Superintendent Public Instruction.
.Railroad Commissioner.
And for the transaction of suoh other business
sre may be brought before the convention.
Bach county will be entitled to two delegates
and one additional delegate for every 200 votes
and fraction of 100 or over cast for W. J. Bryan
for president In lSOO.
Oountle3 will be entitled to delegates as
follows:
Allamakee I Fayette 16
Oerro Gordo 0 Floyd 8
Cblokasaw 12 Howard
Clayton 16 Mitchell 1
Winneshiek Worth
All voters who believe in the principles advo
cated by the democratic party and who are in
favor of an economical and constitutional
government are coTdiaily invited to participate
hi the selection of delegates to the "state con
vention.
By order of the democratic state central
oommlttee. G. A. HUFFMAN,
Chairman.
A. K. JACKSON, Secretary,
Democratic County Convention'
To the Democratic Electors of How
ard County.
There will be a delegate convention
os the Democrats of Howard county,
Iowa, held at the Court House In
Cresco,
SATURDAY, AUGUST 17,1901,
at 2 o'clook p. m., for the purpose of
choosing
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delegates to attend the
State convention at Des Moines, on
Aug.
21,1901,
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and to choose delegates
to attend the senatorial convention
(not yet called.)
The ratio of representation will be
as follows
Afton 9
Albion 3
Chester 2
Forest City 3
Howard. 7
/"Howard Center. .3
Jamestown
New Oregon 7
Oak Dale 3
Saratoga 2
Paris 5
Vernon Springs
and Cresco 13
The different township committees
are .requested to call caucuses in ac
cordance with the above.
A.
jR. MCCOOK,
Co. Chm.
Meaning of the Steel Strike
In liis latest weet.ly circular Banker
Clews of Wall street says that stock
values depend a good deal upon the
steel strike, and adds: "The action of
sthe union was a bold challenge to the
^,-jnost potent corporation in the United
"States. If yielded to, the rights of
capital, in dealing with employes,
must have been surrendered and the
'Industries of the country thrown into
confusion. The action of the steel
strust, therefor, needed to be unflinch
ing and unmistakable. The unionists
Should recede from their demand for
the mutual benefit of both sides.
There liai been no small misgiving as
to what may be the outcome of the
hostility of labor towards this great
corporation but that distrust is now
fextinguished and the great trust
experiment must conquer its foremost
fllfficulty and forestall its chief peril
"I The moral of this victory means the
•5" Strengthening of the trust institutions
at one of their most distrusted points,
•v and thereby adds a new element of
confidence to the great industral in
vestments which have been organized
within the last few years." Mr. Clews
assumes a victory for the trust though
the fight between it and labor has
only begun. He is counting the chick
ens before they are hatched. Vet
coming from one familiar with the
needs and purposes of the steel and
other trusts his statements are im
portant. He holds it to be vital to
the existence of the combinations
that labor shall be under their control.
They must have the power to regulate
•wages as well as fix prices. Otherwise
they cannot assure dividends, their
Stocks and bonds will become a drug,
and they will collapse. Mr. Clews
admits that the success of the trusts
depends upon denial to labor of what
5 they claim for themselves. Their po
sition is that while industrial capital
may combine, organize, limit output
and fix prices, labor may not combine,
organize and define the wages for
which it will work. For self-preser
ration the trusts must withhold from
labor a privilege which they insist
upon for tiwjjjselves. As the Wall
street banker puts it, labor must be
at trust mercy or trusts cannotflourish
The success of the combinations de
pends upon their power to pontrol
both wages and prices.
According to the Clews view the
contest now in progress between the
Amalgamated Association on one side
and
the United States Steel corpora
tion on the other involves the death
of
one of the combatants. If the
trust cannot live unless it can regu
late wages to suit itself, it will die if
the
association wins. And if the
trust wins organized labor, since it
cannot survive the loss of its power
to
negotiate respecting wages on
terms of equaiity, will die. The Wall
Street financier has unconsciously con
tessed
what has been forseen from the
first, viz: that the very necessities of
trusts make them enemies of labor,
and
that their maintenance and suc
cess involves its degredation and en
slavement. On the trust's side the
Steel
strike is a struggle for mastery
on
the side of organized labor it is a
Btruggle to escape serfdom and retain
Independence.—Dubuque Telegraph.
m. The newspapers are making a great
ado because the son of a Cleveland
millionaire is working in his father's
Shop for 81.75 a day. Perhaps ithat is
JBvery cent he is worth,
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Never Met Sampson.
In an interview concerning the
Sampson-Schley controvercy Admiral
Cervera says: "I do not know Admiral
Sampson. I have never met him."
And yet Sampson's picture is to be
engraved on the medal that commem
orates the American victory in a
battle in which Admiral Cervera'com
manded the opposing fleet and friends
of Admiral Sampson insist that he is
to be given the credit for the Santiago
victory.
Admiral Cervera, however, has con
siderable to say of Admiral Schley.
Cervera knows Schley. He met him
on the 3rd day of July, 1898, in Santi
ago bay, and although Schley was the
conquering hero of that occasion, Ad
miral Cervera speaks of him as a brave
sea fighter, and as a gentleman as
courteous and genero'. in victory as
he was courageous and capable in
battle.—Omaha World-Herald.
Men Who Were There.
Dewey was there when bis victory
was won. Perry was there when his
victory was won. Farragut and Por
ter were there when their victories
were won. Sampson was fifteen miles
down the coast on an errand that a
steam launch could have performed
just as well as the battleship New
York when the victory of Santiago
was won. Yet Sampson gets the prize
money, the medal and the support of
the navy clique, while Schley, who
was in the battle and won it gets
nothing but censure from the pin
headed bureaucrats at Washington.
World-Herald.
COMBINATION EFFECTS.
Railway Maftnatei Put Up a Bind tm
Fool the Confiding
People.
The giant railroad combination is
evidently organized to fleece the public
and thus pay dividends on their wa
tered stock, not only at its par value,
but on the market price of various
stocks, many of which are quoted far
above par and greatly above the intrin
sic value for which the roads could be
replaced. The great railroad mag
nates insist that the combination will
benefit the public and better the con
ditions of the men employed, but this
is evidently said to fool the people.
Freights have already been advanced
from 30 to 30 per cent., according to
the Washington Post, which says
Prominent western merchants, all
heavy shippers -of merchandise, are
preparing to call to account before the
interstate commerce commission the
heads of the various railroad combina
tion* and the "community of inter
ests" alliances of the trunk lines
throughout the country. The charges
are made that following those move
ments of consolidation freight rates
have been, advanced from 30 to 50 per
cent, through quiet and organized
manipulation of the.various classifica
tion* of commodities. Behind the
movement to attack this scheme of
freight advances, by applying to the
interstate commerce commission for
relief, lies the plan for a still more vjgv
orous blow. The complainants intend
to demand that congressi shall take a
hand in forcing the formation of a uni
form classification of freights which
shall be effective on every railroad in
the United States.
It is encouraging to note that thea«
"prominent merchants" are to take ac
tion hitherto they have stood aloof
and left the burden of fighting the rail
roads to the "grangers" and others.
Their plan of demanding eong-ressto
give them relief is the only one that
will bring results, though it is very
doubtful if the coming congress will be
found willing to pass any bill that will
really hurt the railroads. Nearly every
republican member will ride on a free
pass, not only for himself, but for his
family, when he comes to Washington,
and the general managers who have
granted him this favor of course ex
pect protection and favors in return.
About one year from now the cau
cuses and conventions for the nomina
tion of congressmen and of legislative
candidates who will elect United States
senators, will be meeting, and then is
the time for those who want to curb
the rapacity of the railroad trust to
get in their work, and in 1903 some
thing may be accomplished,
PRESS COMMENTS.
=—The new republican platform is
rather long for a party that professes
to be running on the simple issue ct
McKinleyism.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Mr. Hanna's fine work in the
Ohio state convention may be taken
as an indication that he expects the
Buckeye state, to furnish the next
president, regardless of Mr. McKin
ley's declination.—Omaha World-Her
ald.
If Senator Hanna can organize
a machine in a few more states which
will do his bidding as unquestionably
as does the Ohio machine, he can
either be the republican nominee for
president in 1904 or select the gentle
man upon whom that honor shall fall.
—Peoria Transcript.
—r—The formatipp of trusts al
ways results in cheapening the prod
uct, as we have been so often assured
by the trust magnates. Xevertheless,
it may be well to note the fact that
the price of linseed oil has been con
stantly on the jump since the Linseed
Oil company was boupht by the Stand
ard Oil people.—Hartford Times.
r-—There are significant signs that
the republican party is being divided
by discord. That, party is likely to be
seriously disrupted in rungress next
winter over the tariff question, and
Who shall say that that party, which
arrogates to itself nil the virtues,
and is insolent in its nsumption of un
paralleled powers, may not go to
pieces before 1904 through internecine
quarrels.—Syracuse Telegram.
Those who have been indulging
in the delusion that the ship subsidy
steal was dead will receive light from
.the resolution of Mark Ifanna's Ohio
convention indorsing the piratical
proposition. Mark Hauna ie deter
mined to have his pound of flesh, apJ
he and his associate bandits are mak.
ing every preparation to put the next
congress in condition such that they
can force this measure through.—In
/JbinHpoIlg Sentinel.
JOKE OK SCIENTISTS.
Minister Tells the Secret of Famous
Calaveras Skull.
Los Anffelea Preacher Sara That R. C.
Soribner Confessed He Started
Scientific Myntcrj- DepoaU
in( the Bonea as a Joke,
The solution of a scientific mystery
which has puzzled geologists and au
thorities on the antiquity of man for
35 years was explained the other day
when a minister of Los Angeles, Cal.,
confessed that the mystery started as
a practical joke.
In 1868 an imperfect human skull
was found in a deposit of gravel,
known
to be ancient, in a gt.iu :':ue in
Calaveras county, Cal.
The latest volume of reports from
the Smithsonian institution contains
a paper by Prof. William II. Holmes,
describing recent researches in refer
ence to this skull made by him and
Prof. W. J. McGee. Prof. Holmes ex
presses doubt, but does aot consider
his conclusions decisive. This report
having come to the notice of Eev. W.
H. Dyer, an Episcopalian clergyman
of Los Angeles, Cal., he told the story
which solves the mystery.
In tihe '70s he was a mdssionary at
Angeles camp, near which the skull
was found. During that time R. C.
Scribner, who kept a store at Angeles
camp, confidentially confessed to him
that he had' conceived and carried out
the joke. He took an old Indian skull,
went to the bottom of the shaft wMle
the workmen were away and buried it
in the auriferous gravel. There it was
soon found, and the papers were filled
with speculations of writers as to the
antiquity of man,
(The above undoubtedly refers to the dls
covery upon which Bret Harte founded his
famous poem In which Is related the discus
sion In a scientific society: "Upon the
Btanlslaw," over the finding of seme sup1
posed human bones In a mine. When the
discussion Is at Its height one member de
olares they are the bones of his mule,
'which fell Into the mine several years be
fore. Then a flght occurs and one of the
specimens strikes Johnson—
"and stretched him on the floor,
And the subsequent proceedings Interested
him no more.")
NEW MOUNTAIN MACHINE GUN
Great Intercut Taken In Enarine of
War Which Will Be Teated by
the Army*
Great interest in taken in a new
gun built by the Bethlehem Steel com'
panj\ It is a three-inch mountain gun
of new design, which has now been
presented for test, with a view to iti
adaptation by the army if it shall ap
pear as superior to other guns of the
same class. The gun is similar in ap
pearnce to the Maxim-Nordenfeldt
mountain gun which has seen such
good service with our troops in the
Philippines, and which was made the
subject of an interesting report by
Capt. George W. Van Deusen, Six
teenth field battery, who went with
the guns from Europe to Manila, and
who is now on duty at Port Eiley.
The gun is smaller than the Maxim
Nordenfeldt gun and the equipment
complete can be paoktd on inter
changeable saddles, an advantage not
possessed by other mountain guns,
whioh in transportation must have
their parts assigned to particular sad
dles.
The gun will be sent to Sandy Hook
for the Ballistic test by the army ord
nance board, after which tie whole
equipment will be sent to Port Riley,
Kan., for the field test under the su
pervision of the commanding officers
of the light artillery school. The tests
at Sandy Hook and at Port Riley will,
however, be under the general direc
tion of the board of ordnance and fort
ification.
WAS PLAYMATE OF KING.
Daath Occurs at St. Joaeph, Mo., of
Exiled Noble of the Danlah
Court.
Death the other day removed the
seal from the lips of those who know
the life history of Frederick G. Wed
dle, the former companion and play
mate of King Christian of Denmark,
who lived in retirement near St. Job
eph, Mo., for a quarter of a century.
Exiled from his native land in 1850
with his father, who was an attache
of the court of King Frederick VII.
of Denmark, and who was banished
for political reasons, Frederick Wed
dle came to America, where his life
was filled with hardships, with nar
row escapes and exciting incidents.
He was 72 years of age at the time
of his death, having been born in the
royal palace at Copenhagen in 1829.
There he lived with his parents dnrr
ing early boyhood, his father being
chief magistrate of the royal court,
and, as auch, the royal counsel of the
king. Young Weddle was educated
at court, where he waa the playmate
of King Christian IX., the present
ruler of Denmark.
Calve in New Role.
The sensation of the coming sea
son of grand opera a.t the Metropoli
tan opera house, New York, will un
doubtedly be the production of Isi
dore de Lara's opera, "Messaline,"
with Calve in the title role. The fa
mous prima donna is said to in
terpret the character of the notorious
Roman empress with extraordinary
realism, De Lara's score is not high
ly considered by European critics, and
the moralists have made vigorous at
tacks on the libretto, which l.s' ^aid
to be over the line of the permissible
its tale of one of Messaline's numer
ous intrigues.
Dutch Marine Glory Ha* Vanlahed.
In 1070 the Dutch possessed 60 tons
out of every
100
afloat. Now they own
out of each 100.
He Wouldn't flp Davy,
"Let me see the funny
urged the little one.
"Jbjt I'm looking at it,
father.
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pj?pej"
replied her
"Oh, well,'-' she returned, "you can
look at it after supper, for you don't
I'flvp to go ut to j)lny."—Chicago
Post.
James White Bryanvllle, Ind, says
DeWitt's Witi?h Salve healed running
sores on both legs, Be had suffered 6
years. Doctors failed to help LJm.
Get DeWitt's. Accept no imitations.
—Shuttlcworth Drug. Co.
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fiEALTH AND BfeAUTY.
too tight shoes are always worn
tablespoonful of it in the daily
bath.
For. one who loves a dainty bath
there are many simple ways of medi
cating or perfuming it. Almond meal
is always nice oatmeal sewed in a
bag of cheesecloth and then thrown
In the water for a few moments is
ber has been boiled. Equal parts of
Here is a lotion for tlie woman
who is troubled with freckles: One
ounce vaseline, two tablespoonfuls
strained lemon juice, half a pint
elder flower water, one ounce white
wine vinegar, one ounce Jamaica
rum and one ounce alcohol. Sponge
the faoe with this every night after
washing, let dry on, and then rub in
a very little good cold oream. This
lotion will fade the freckles so that
they will be scarcely noticeable.
WAY STATIONS.
Between 1800 and 1870 British rail
ways increased 510 miles a year. The
present yearly increase is 201 miles
a year.
OF MORE OR LESS INTEREST.
A ship load of Filipinos are to be
tried on Hawaiian sugar fields.
An enormous increase in shipments
in general merchandise is being made
from all Pacific porta to oriental mar
kets.
A New York judge decides that in
surance companies cannot be com
pelled to make good damages result
ing from explosions.
One-fourth of a pound of paint is
allowed for every squar# yard of prim
ing coat, one-sixth of a pound per yard
for the succeeding coat.
A section of the Itocky mountains,
between northern Idaho and the Can
adian Pacific railroad, 200 miles long,
is to be explored for the first time.
The Bank of New York has just
put in vaults made of steela foot thick.
All the compartments have sensitive
doors that give an alarm on the slight
est jar.
It is stated on the authority of a
Chinese tea merchant that the glaze
on the paper covering of tea chests
is due to a preparation composed
principally of the refuse of sharks'
fins, tails and skins.
SCHOOL AND COLLEGE.
The oldest of the great public
schools is Winchester, founded in
1373.
Three English universities elect five
members of parliament, four Scotch
two, and one Irish two.
The crack scholars of Harvard 1901
were Freund, Bauer and Petersen—
two Germans and a Swede.
Japan has two imperial universi-j
ties, one at Tokio, the other at Kioto.'
The latter is only three years old.
llev. Washington Gladden, of Co
lumbus, O., has been appointed Ly
man Beecher lecturer in the Yale di
vinity school for next year.
Charles A. Smith, of Minneapolis,
has presented 25,000,000 feet of tim
ber, valued at $25,000, to the Swedish
Lutheran college at Lind.sborg, Kan.
The manuscript of an appeal for
funds for Dartmouth college, dated
1781, lius just been given that college
by the estate of a Mi.ss Hopkins, of
Northampton, Mass, it is signed by
Washington, T. Lincoln, Livingston,
William Jiooff, Kobert Morris and
other historical persona.
Could Teatlfy Otherwlae.
"It's all a lie," the tomcat howled',
"As he quickly ran to cover,
While the nrilsfHes all around him flew,
"That the toortd adores a lover!"
—Chicago Tribune.
At No Dlaadvuntaite.
"We have a deaf and dumb member
of our Woman's club,-" paid Miss_ Gal)«
beigh to young Mr. Dugglesby.
"Indeed," gurgled the youth. "I
(should think she would be at a disad
vantage-"
"Oh, my, no. Why, we let her makp
$11 tfte motions."—Baltimore Amev
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at the expense of health, for their1 foundation and
wearer gives up walking exercises on maintenance of a
account of the suffering and difficulty library at a crossroads, remote from
it involves.
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good for the- complexion.
For bathing th face to remove
sunburn, milk, buttermilk or lemon
juice are all goodt Very good, too, manful parts in establishing the older
is at in a I
rosewater and glycerin, with a few'
pends chiefly upon the starches and was "i2 miles from a lemon," he must
sugar which it contains. Dates, plan- forego intellectual stimulus and social
tains, bananas, prunes, figs and! recreation. But the movement toward
grapes contain the most starch and
Bugar, and therefore are the most
nutritious foods. Cherries, apples,
currants, strawberries and grapes
contain considerable vegetable acid,
making them valuable blood puri
fiers.
In Japan 786 miles of railway
owned by the Japanese government
earns one-third more yearly than
2,942 miles owned by private com
panies.
The 12 railway companies of Eng
land and Wales employ between
them 312,000 men. The Scotch and
Irish companies employ 40,000 men
between them.
Belgium has 29% miles of railway
to every 100 square miles of surface,
Great Britain comes next with 17
miles, and Germany third with 14
miles. The American proportion is
six miles only.
The art or science of reducing the
weight of steel cars to the minimum
point and of maximum loading oa
pacity has produced a car weighing
15 tons that will carry a load of 69
tons. Suoh cars are being turned out
rapidly in one or two of the great
Bteel mills of Pennsylvania.
Remarkable progress is being made
in locomotive construction by the in
crease of heating spaoe. Imagine an
Intense fire 47 feet long by 50 feet
wide and you have an idea of the
enormous heat required to create
steam to drive a locomotive. The
heating surface of some recently
made engines of enormous capacity
is 2,391 square feet,
A rich farmed \vho died recently in
Erie county, Pennsylvania, provided in
Deneflta of Rnral ^is ^or
any
Everybody knows how valuable a shelter it is designed to serve many
few drops of household ammonia are other intellectual and social uses. It
for all cleansing purposes, but not wilicontain a kitchen, ruception-rooms
tlwp °nf:
.k,n0Tith°is
W
1 refr«hi^.,a
village. The building which will
and a hall that may be utilised for lec-
tures, entertainments and religious
gathering's. This action is hailed by
the New York Independent as indicat
ing' the growth of a belief that wealth
which has been accumulated in the
country should be used for t.he benefit
of the country. Our grandfathers felt
this more strongly, perhaps, than our
fathers did, or than we have. Rich
farmers—and poor farmers, too—bore
coll^es"
drops of benzoin, will work wonders doubtless, that the first students at
on a rough skin. This should be
thes€
dabbed on nightly. farms. The farmer of that earlier
The nutritive value of any fruit de-
do3"
7
^he» ^ey could no gtve
the"
Save ^bor. reahzmg,
colleges would be the lads from
never dreamed that, because he
the cities and toward the west affected
seriously many little neighborhoods
which had been centers of wholesome
and vigorous life. Pending the read
justment to changed conditions in the
east, and the success of the first
pitched battle with nature in the west,
it seemed that the farmer must needs
be a man of one idea—to "hold on."
The general demand for rural free de
livery showed that the evil days are
over for both sections. The farmer
knows where he stands. He has leisure
to renew relations with the world, and
he means to do so. The will of the
Pennsylvanian suggests the spirit in
which to meet the reasonable demands
of the people in the "outlying regions."
If the farmer cannot go to the library,
take the library to him.
Runaway marriages are becoming
80 common that it is interesting to
recall a stern parent of Philadelphia
who refused to ever again see his
only child, a daughter, who had of
fended him in this manner. Year a
passed, and the time came for his
death without having brought to him
any softening toward the girl. As he
was a man of great wealth, consider
able curiosity was felt to know
whether she would be mentioned in
his will or whether in death, as in
life, she was disinherited. After many
and generous bequests to charity the
following clause in the will wa3 read:
"I give, bequeath and devise to my
daughter, Jane, the sum of five dol
lars, in order that she may purchase
some strongly-written tract on filial
obedieno*."
At Mound City, Kan., a smart young
fellow picked up the hat of District
Judge Walter L. Simons and said:
"Why, judge, your head and mine
the same size." ."Yes," veplied
Ratabliahea New Diocese.
Washington, Aug. 5.—The papal
briefs erecting the new diocese of
Altoona, Pa., and appointing Mgr.
Eugene A. Garvey, the vicar general
of Scranton, as the first bishop of Al
toona, have been received at the
apostolic delegation here and for
warded to the new diocese. Cardinal
Ma»tinelli has indicated his desire
that the new diocese shall be formed
as early as possible. Archbishop
Ryan probably will consecrate the
new priest.
Chineae Makingr War Materials.
Tientsin, Aug. 5.—The governor of
Shan-Tung, Yuan-Shi-Itai, is con
structing arsenals in that province
for the manufacture of arms and
smokeless powder. He is engaging
experts who were formerly employed
in the arsenals here. The Chinese are
also manufacturing arms and am
munition a,t Pao-ting. Trade is im
proving, but the attitude of the Chi
nese is sullen and defiant.
WillinB to Pay for Peace.
Paris, Aug. 5.—In the course of an
interview with Mr. Kruger, published
in the Figaro Saturday, the ex-presi
dent. of the Transvaal said: "We have
already once proposed peace directly
to Great Britain and we will not re
new the propositions. All we are
willing to give for peace is money if
Great Britain asks it. No price is too
dear to obtain independence and the
right to live as a free nation."
C'oualn of Stcyn Killed.
Bloemfontein, Orange River Col
ony, Aug. 5.—Commandant. Ilaer
manus Steyn, a cousin of President
Stevn, was killed August wjiile
fighting at Fieksburg. Boers and reb
els are reentering the Barkly West
district of P.TPP Colony.
CroUi-r Chicago ^povea Gibraltar.
Gibraltar", Aug.' 'S.—The United
States cruiser Chicago has sailed for
Southampton, where she will go intc
drydock.
LOSING
FLESH
In summer can be prsyspted
by taking
Scott's
Its as beneficial In summer as
In winter. If you are weak or
run down, It will build you up.
Bend f6r free sample.
SCOTT & BOWNB, Chemists,
409-415 Pearl Street, New York.
50c.
ana $1.00 oil druggifitB.
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judge, "on the outside."
Kentucky Kdltora Vialt St. Loula.
St. Louis, Aug. 5.—Several hundred
members of the Kentucky Press asso
ciation, with their wives and daugh
ters, arrived in St. Louis at five o'clock
Saturday morning en route to Salt
Lake City, on a special train over the
Louisville & Nashville. They were me.t
at Union station by President D, R,
Francis, Breckinridge Jones, J. D,
Dozier, John Schroers, William 6. Mc
Chesney and Perry Bertholow, who
acted as a reception committee on
behalf of the Louisiana Purchase Ex
position company. The visitors were
driven over the world's fair site.
IOWA BTATE NEWS.
BIG DITCH DRY.'
Thouanmla of Poumla of riah Killed
in Calhoun Comity llccaaac
of L,apk of Water.
The big ditch that runs through
Calhoun county from Pomeroy 70
miles south has gone dry, and thou
sands of pounds of fish that were
in it have been killed. Included among
these fish were buffalo, carp, piokerel,
pike, channel cat and mud cat. They
got into the ditch from the Raccoon
river during the spring freshets.
Nearly every year untold quantities
of fish are destroyed in this manner.
All this might be prevented by put
ting a trap into the mouth of the
ditch, so the fish could not get from
the river into the ditch. The extreme
heat and drought of the past few
weeks has dried up all the ponds in
Calhoun county, even the largest
ones, so that the only water is in
Twin lakes. There it is holding out
well and the lakes are full of ducks
that have congregated there after be
ing- driven away from the dried-tip
ponds in that vicinity. There waa
more water in the lakes this spring
than for nine years before. The
Gun Barrel slough poured water into
the south lake this spring in volnme
equal to a small river and kept it up
for a number of weeks. The farmers
thereabouts tell of the prairie chick
ens being so hard pressed for water
that they come into the farmyards
with their little ones to drink out
of the troughs. They find friends in
the farmers much oftener than they
find enemies.
TEACHERS' INSTITUTES.
Superintendent Barrett Saya the
Canae for Lack ot Enthnalaam
la Extreme Hot "Weather.
State Superintendent Barrett is vis
iting the county teachers' institutes,
lecturing about four or five times a
week and between times sweltering
on the road or in hotels. He says:
"There Is no use trying to concentrate
the attention of the teachers when they
are seated in a room on which the sun
beats with full force on three sides. It
Is Impossible to have enthusiasm under
such conditions. If I were running the
Institutes I would have them open at 7:30
In the morning and close at noon, giv
ing the teachers an opportunity to And
a cool, shady spot, if such a thing can be
found. Nothing is gained by keeping the
teachers at work two sessions a day in
this weather. It would be better—far
better—If we could have the Pennsylva
nia plan, under which the county super
intendent is authorized to dismiss all the
schools In his county at any time in the
year and hold an Institute of one or two
weeks, the teachers receiving their pay
while attending the institute. In this
way the institutes are scattered through
the cooler weather, and much more Is
accomplished than is possible here where
many of the institutes are unavoidably
held during the extremely hot weather."
HOW TO SAVE CROPS.
The state Board of Control
Letters to All State
Inatttutiona.
Eaual Suffrage Campaign.
The strongest campaign ever mada
in Iowa by the Iowa Equal Suffrage
association is to be made this fall in
order to line up in formidable shape
before the next legislature to secure
the passage of a suffrage bill. It has
been decided to secure about half
dozen prominent national organizers
to come to Iowa to help strengthen
the weak counties and organize un
organized counties in order that
every representative and senator may
have a suffrage constituency.
Earth Will Be Deatroyed.
Kev. H. King, a holiness minister of
Bethlehem, declares that the present
hot wave will culminate in the de
struction of the earth by fire, as fore
told in the Scriptures. He declares
the weather will oontinue to grpw
hotter and hotter until the sun will
-rain down in pieces on the earth and
consume it. He has made a close
study of the Bible and claims that
all the propheoies in regard to the
last days have been fulfilled save ope,
and that is being rapidly accom
plished.
Reault ot a Quarrel.
Charles McClumsy, a livery stable
employe at Spirit Lake, shot Mamie
Reed three times. He then turned
the revolver on himself and fired
three bullets into his head. The girl
was not wounded fatally, but Mc
Clumsy would probably die. The
woman came to Spirit i,ake five weeks
ago from Fairmount, Minn. She and
McClumsy are said to have been en
gaged for some time, but later the
engagement had been broken.
To Buy an Inland.
Calvin Jordan, assistant clerk of
the city of Des MoineB, has returned
from Toronto, Can., where he has
been negotiating for the purchase of
Clapperton island in north' Lake Hu
ron, between Grand Manitou island
and the mainland. There are 18,000
acres in the island, partly timbered.
Jordan plans to devote the island to
tjmb.er and wheat growing.
What most peopfe want is someth
ing mild'and gentle, When in need of
a physic. Chamberlain's Stomach
andLtver Tablets fill the bill to a
d°t-
Emulsion
ant
....
f.
They are easy to take and pleas-
JQJrttect
J''or
worth Drug. Co.
nW. fiiVfr"
Sends
John Cownie, of the state board of
control, under the auspices of the
board, has sent a circular letter to
all the superintendents of the state
institutions urging them to diligent
ly cultivate the growing crops on the
institutions' farms. Mr. Cownie saya:
"That is what the corn and vegetablei
need. Active cultivation of the corn will
save hundreds of thousands of bushels
In Iowa this year. If the farmers would
heed the advice In the letter we have sent
out I am confident that they would mar
terlally reduce the loss thay tear that they
will suffer.
"The fields of Iowa are full ot fox tall
and weeds. Weeds grow whetheT there
Is moisture or not. The lack of cultiva
tion will permit them to choke out the
grain by absorbing all the moisture in
the ground. Stir up the soil and dig them
up and the corn and vegetables will get
the moisture out of the ground and out of
the atmosphere both."
"I was given up to die with
quick consumption. I then began
to use Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. I
improved at once, and am now in
perfect health."—Chas. E. Hart
man, Gibbstown, N. Y.
It's too risky, playing
with your cough.
The first thing you
know it will be down
deep in your lungs and
the play will be over. Be
gin early with Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral and stop
the cough.
Three ilies: 25c., 56c., $1. All druifUti.
Consult your doctor. It ho saya take it,
then do as he says.
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Minneapolis
St. Paul
8:10 p. m.
Taopl
Molntlre
Rlcevlile
Elma
New Hampton 12:86 a.
oelweln :55 a.m.
Dea Moines 7 00a. m.
KansaqClty 8:00 p. in.
Dnfcuque 4:08 a.m.
Chicago 9:80 a. m.
11:63 p. m.
12:10
a.m.
Froeo&alr oars, Pullman standard si com
partment Bleeping cars. Dining oare on Burj
peanplan.
Vjty
sale by—Shuttle-
O. O. Buck, Ark..
troubleed wiuh com
bought DeWitt's Li'tl
Since then have jbcen
says.. I was
astipq,t{on until I
ttje Early Risers.
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entirely cured
of my old complajnt. I recommend
them.—Shuttleworth Drug. Go. S'®
pfesd'sj''
F. H, LOBD, G. P.«T.A..0Urn(r0
Do You Want
TO
SAVE MONEY?
Send in your name and address and.
tree our Catalogue of all kinds of
Merchandise at prices defying compe
tition. Fully illustrated Catalogue
sent on receipt of 10c for postage.
KAHN, GREEN & BERGER,
257 to 301 Dearborn Street Chicago, 111.
Catalogue mailed during July.
-GO TO THE-
Sranger opartment
Store
-FOR-
HARQWARE AND GROCERIES,
It is the place for the Best Goods
for the Least Money. The Largest
and Best Stock in Town. An examl.
nation of quality and price will cotj»
vince you.
Highest prices paid for butter and
eggs in exchange for goods.
H. T. WILLIAMS.
NKRVOUS WEAKNESS
fn-AJAX TABLETS
an^
tea
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lie tells yon not
to take It, then don't talco it. He knowa.
Leave it with him. We are willing.
J. G. AYER CO., LoweU, Mail.
COST GENSHOW'S
Restaurant
Customers Find Everything they want
Excellent Meals!
from 6 80 a. m. to 8.30 p. m.
5*ine Qigara, "Rxtro Qandios
tfbomporanos prinks
Jiinds of JT/wts, tftraita
and (fanned Qoods.
Special Rates for Day Board by the
week.
The greatest solicitors in the world
are Quality and Price. Wit, humor,
eloquence and oratory all sit dovrn
when tbey rise to speak. Price and
Quality are the great convinc.ers.
Both are ours.
J®-Next door to Andersen & Sobo
lik'e Hajdwaro Store, Kim St.,
Cresco, Iowa.
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GREAT
WESTERN
TIMB TABLB-GOING NORTH.
Marctt 8,1901.
Dally, DftUy, BxSu&Ja
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11:18p.m. 4:08a.m. 1:CSv.m
10:65 a. m. 7:06 p. m. 10:45 p.m
8:80 p.m. 8:80 a. m. 8:80 a.m
2105 a.m. 7:06 a.m. :isp.m
8:08 a, m. 8:07 a, m. 5,20 p.m
8:85 a. m. 8:85 a. m, 5 47 p.
8:55 a,
10. 6.06p.m
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9:22 a.m. 6.36 p.
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8:86 a.m. 1:25 p.m, 10 85 p.m
Chloago
Dubuque
Kansas City
DesMolnee
Oelweln
New Hampton
Elraa
Rlcoville
Mclntlre
Taopl
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Minneapolis
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8:44 a.m. 11:8P a.
4:06 a. m. 11:45 a- in
4:18 a. m. ll-.iG p.m
4:40 a.m, 12:16 P
5:15 a. m, 12:40 p,
7:00a.m. 1:45 P-m
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9:05 a. m. 4:00 p.
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oft used by abate or other exoeuu and In.
discretions and rsanltlng In ahattered
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Mirely rentore Lost
Vitality in old or young and fit a man for
Tablet"- Thay&veeXj
thousands and will cure you. We give a poaltln
mitten guarantee to'eflect a cure In En f»TO
a a a re I a
per packages or
nix
pk«s (full treatment) for $2.50. Bs
S3
AX °.f Price.tlHsnLrfrf.o:
BJsMEUY CO., 885 Dearborn Bt» Chfcugu.
For Sale in Cresco, la., by Lomas &
Milz Drug Co., Druggists.
PARKER'S
HAIR BALSAM
Olcuuci and brauttftet the bale
irroinutet
A Joxuriant growth.
Never F&ilts to Restore Gray
Hair to it* Youthful Color'
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