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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-18
INSECTS AND CONTRACTION.
Tho Damage That Can BE Done Even b.
a Gnat's Sting.

Tho Damage That Can Be Done Even by
CHATS Sting.
II Is generally understood that the
stings Of some insects are essentially
poisonous in a greater or less degree,
and must therefore be early and care
fully treated. Pain alone in such cases
will suffice for a danger signal, and few
when thus warned would care to
neglect the puncture made by a hornet,
wasp, or even bee. The fact that
other insects, like some species of fly,
are capable of equal or even greater
mischief, says the London Lancet, is not
SO commonly known as It ought to be.
The recent death of woman at Kings.
ton from septic erysipelas thus caused
may be quoted in illustration. In ac-
counting for such occurrences two
points are specially ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ly, the condition Of health Of the per
son attacked and the previous habitat
of the assailant
In no case probably is It possible to
define exactly the influence exercised
by each Of these contributing factors.
This much we know, however, that no
matter how trivial or how great the eff
feet OF the conveyed poison, it is much
enhanced by all conditions of weak
ness or blood impurity existing in tie
sufferer. A mere nudge or gnat bite in
one person will prove almost as serious
in its effect MS septic wound in an
other. There are in the system all the
material for condagration, and q
spark might light it up as we'll as fire.
brand. The habits of insects afford a
clew to the seeming vagary of their oc-
casional and accidental virulence. The
sting of the mandibles, which perhaps
are buried an hour previous in some
putrid sore, excreta OF offal, cannot
penetrate living tissue without leav-
ing in it something of the same putrid
character. It is safer, therefore, for
medical practitioner to regard each and
every injury of this kind, however
slight, as possible source of illness,
and at once to contrive its relief by
poulticing antiseptic congresses or like
means
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-18
A valuable paper that should

A valuable paper that should set
people thinking is the Hon. Waiter
Clark's brief review of the progress
and development of the telegraph
traffic in great Britain, since 1870,
when all the telegraphs in the United
Kingdom were acquired by the gov
eminent from the corporations who
had previously operated them. The
telegraph system in England is an in
tegral part of the post Office, as it is
as much part of commercial and
social life today as the daily mail.
Under the old system the districts
paying best have ample service at
high rates, as is the case in this
country, while whole sections of the
lines of railway were without tele-
graphic facilities. The government
at once extended the telegraph to all
sections aud reduced the rate to one
cent a word. The result is this: In
1870, under private ownership, 7,OOO,-
900 individual messages, and $4,000,
00G words of press dispatches were
annually sent. Now the annual
number of individual messages sent is
10000, 900 ten times as many and
over 60o,0oO,Oo0 words of press des-
patches thirty times as many. And
the cost is less than one-third of what
lit was, the services quicker and
prompter, and the governments post
al service seq supporting, In Ameri-
ca the IN IA til, tha ), companies are earn
inu ' landS On n yofarod
other yl ,ooo, $50 on wh Ms.et t6e
/ 20, tai service is not self sustaining
and shows an annual deficit.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-18
USES FOR cocoANuT.
Florida Has Several Promising Plants
lions of This TROPICAL Fruit,

Florida Has Several Promising Pianta-
lions of This Tropical Fruit.
Quite number Of tropical nuts have
recently been introduced into cultiva-
ton in this country. Already on the
east coast of Florida are growing two
hundred and fifty-thousand cocoanut
trees, forty-two thousand being in one
plantation. 1t is believed that the first
trees of this kind in that state sprouted
from the nuts brought from Central
America and the West Indies by. the
gulf stream. At Key West and about
some of the old forts cocoanuts were
planted at an early day, as certain
ancient trees now standing bear wit
ness. In 1877 bark freighted with
cocoanuts was caught in a storm off
the coast of Florida and bcached near
Lake Worth. Several thousand of
the nuts were saved and planted, the
satisfactory growth of the seedlings
giving an impetus to cultivation.
The word cocoanut is derived from
the Portuguese COCO, meaning monkey,
because the base resembles monkeys
face. The tree was known to tho peo-
pie of Ceylon as early as 100 B. c., the
milk being used by them for making
cement. The cocoanut is one Of the
most useful of plants-root, trunk, leaf,
sap and nut are made to yield tribute
to man. The fiber of the husk furnishes
excellent yarn, and is preferred to
horsehair for stufing beds, cushions,
chairs and saddles. 1t is stronger and
more elastic than hemp. The Poly
nesians twist small cords of this fiber,
which serve in the construction Of
houses and canoes where Europeans
would employ nails. The green nuts
are grated for medicinal use. Grated
cocoanut forms an ingredient of the
East Indian condiment curry. In the
Maldive islands labor is usually paid
for in cocoanutS
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-18

The Chicago beef trust is an i'm
mense power. 1t controls about /, 200
wholesale and retail meat markets in
different pa. is of the country, which
are supplied by fully 1000 refrigera-
tor cars, built by the combine at IL
cost of $40, 100000. 1t has about $780,
100000 invested in markets, and from
$15,O00,000 to $40, 900. 900 in packing
plants. About $4,000 a week is re-
quired to meet its payrolls. 1t
slaughters annually about 1000, 1000
cattle, and it handles from 80 to IS
per cent, of all the cattle annually
sold. The trust is one OF the strongest
combinations in the world, and it is
question of the most vital interest TO
the American people how it may be
effectively prevented from arbitrarily
spoliating them. 1t compels the
farmer to accept a low price for his
cattle, and forces the consumer to
pay u high p i :e for his beef. and thus
robs both for It's own enrichment.
Telegraph.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-18
TURNING HOUSES INTO GOLD.
Deserted Buildings We're Made Of Orc and
Arc Now SmeIted.

Deserted Buildings We're Made Of Orc and
Arc Now Smelted.
Among the greatest mines Of Arizona
was the Vulture, now the property of
H. A. w. Tabor. It is fifteen miles
southwest Of Wickenburg, whence the
ores were taken by wagons to be milled
on the bank Of the Hassayampa.
The mine produced over ten million
dollars in gold, and the richest ore was
found on the surface. OF course, in the
early days nothing save the best was
milled, and in the great waste dumps
around the mine was found the build
ing material for the town of Vulture.
The mine worked on for score of
years without varying fortune, the
town maintaining large population,
when the pipe line from the Hassayam-
pa was washed away by the flood that
followed the breaking of the Walnut
mill was closed down and the camp
was deserted.
Three years ago T. z. Parish secured
a two-years' lease Of the property, fit
ted up ten of the stamps, put in gas
oline engine, got his water out of The
mine and started to ''cayoting" on the
lower levels. Near the end of his lease
he ran out of really good ore.
In this extremity, says the Denver
Republican, he bethought himself of
the scores of tenantless houses. Every
one was constructed of free milling
iron oxide gold ore, and specimens
Clipped from the corners assayed an
average of twenty dollars to the ton.
The last three months his stamp mill
ran solely upon building material,
much to the profit of it's owner.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-18
The truth is. so lone MS the mass o

The truth is, so long as the mass of
people have any interest in their owl
personal welfare, their opposition to
the qualification of the white metal
will exist. 1t Isl stated in one of
Paul's letters that we die with a cor
ruptible body, but shall rise incor-
ruptible. 1t seems that the applica-
ton can he made regarding the free
silver death and burial; every time it
has been buried it has risen tenfold
dearer and more highly priced by the
people. 1t is one of the issues th 1t
will not down, though the hired shee S
of Wall street have as many lies as
Jack on his ale-house bench; and
these same papers know that it is as
steadfast as the object which troubled
Macbeth's gaze-that "the damned
spot would not out!"-Memphis Com
mercial,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-18
Painted Skulls In Austria.

A strange custom, dating back to the
dark ages, has survived in some of the
mountain districts in Austria-the
painting of skulls. The small size Of
most cemeteries in those regions makes
it necessary to regularly remove the
skeletons of the buried who have lain
there eight or ten years. to make room
for newcomers. The relatives of the
dead thus to be exhumed are generally
notified before the removal, so that
they can attend to the cleaning of the
skeleton and be present at its deposit
in the so-called "bonc-house" or 'char-
nel-housc." On such occasions the skull
is often ornamented with paintings.
representing rosaries, wreaths. snakes.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-18
LAID TO -
Claim Mad. =, know that they
- Oily vote for Babb but

:, know that they
" ''."' Oily vote for Babb but
cos-atting all kinds OF name
10 re. trying to bolster up an excuse
doing so. They try to make their
1party prejudiced-selves believe that
because Babb said he was in favor of
'.gold and silver on an exact equality"
that he is all right, Don't they know
that Grover Cleveland made the same
assertion four years ago? Don't John
Sherman frequently say the samep Is
not that Horr's position? Old Roths-
child himself would not hesitate to say
that if he wanted sucker votes. The
catch is what constitutes the "equal-
ity"? Some of them say ratio of 80
to would do it and others say it
can't be done unless England agrees
to it. Babb hasn't backbone and man
hood enough to say which he believes.
He wants the support of both factions.
He knows well enough that 16 to /,
regardless of what any other nation
says or does, is right, just az other
cepted the nomination from Cleve-
land's cuckOOs as a goldbug and now
he can not make out of himself de-
cent straddlebug. When he accepted
that nomination under the existing
circumstances he said by the act that
he was willing, for an empty honor
to lend his services aud influence to
the the plutocratic enemies OF human
ity ana of democratic government
consequently he can never be trusted
again, Should he come out and bold
ly express his honest convictions as
in favor of free and unqualified 16 to
l coinage the people would be foolish
to support him. If he lent his honor
to the enemy once he may do it again.
A vote for Babb is vote for goldbug-
ism and the silverite who casts such a
vote can not be altogether honest
with himself. Crane is the only silver
candidate and ought to be elected
Farmers Tribune.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-18
THE FUTURE.
Growing Uncertainty as to What It
Has I'M Store for Industries.
Volume of Business of Past Month
Almost Equal to Largest Month
of l8o2-Review of Trade.

New YORK Oct. 14.-R. q. Dun &
Cos weekly review of trade says:
The price barometer gives Indications that
are not entirely favorable Cotton goods go
up with increasing evidence that the crop OF
cotton is short. Prices OF other manufactured
products of wool, hides and leather. all show
some decline, u general abatement in new
orders being the principal cause. With an
Immense volume OF business, not much OK
cccdcd In the largest month of the exceptional
year 1899, and with evidence that In several
branches the volume has surpassed that OF auy
previous year, there Is growing unce rtlinty
about the near future of industries. Money
markets are neither strained nor threate ning,
foreign exchange no longer raises upprehen-
sion. and ali fears about tho great northern
crops are past There hlve been few advances
in wages of labor within the past month and
only u few works have been closed by strikes
for an advance.
Cause of the Decrease.
1.-THE main cause of decreased orders has
been repeatedly pointed out By this journal
during the past half yoar When business be-
gan to revive "a milton traders were in haste
to order not only the goods each expected to
sell within given tine, but enough more to
replenish stock; which hsd beea cut down
almost to bare shelves 10y Two years OF pros
tration Thus the buying was much In excess
of real consumption witiin the given time.
Also, as prices rose, many huStenou TO buy IN
adv:ncc OF visible needs, hoping that every
purchase would mean q gain. while
mu!ttudes hurried to get in their
orders before competitors could luy
as cheapy. Under such conditions
buying continued for six months and still con-
tinueS in cotton goods, which have risen less
than the material But In most lnanutac-
turcd products buying for the same reason
can no longer be expected, AMI the steady and
regular consumption is not vet known.
Cotton and Wool.
1T is too early for cotton movements to cast
much light on tho probable yield: port re. eipts
thus far % per cent. smaller than last year,
d, not indicate IS small u crop as many fear,
In view of the known latcness Of picking
Widely circulated advices to hold back cotton
have some influence also
In wooden manufactures demand for
dress goods and some spe:ialtics keeps many
fnlly employed, bat most OF the works MAX
Ing mems woolcns, for which new orders are
scant find not enough to keep them running
To pile goods up in advance wholly III the dark
as to future foreign competition involves such
risk that some concern, may close for time
Failure Record.
Failures for tho week have included two
banks and several concerns of some size, and
have been a6S in the United States against 23l
last year, and s. in Capada against 40 last
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-18
The C. S. Graves Land COMPANY

Is Offering land in Central Wisconsin,
Clark county, on long time and easy
payments to farmers who will go
there and improve it. There seems
TO be no better chance offered for
the young farmer, or those who can
not afford to hny high priced land,
than to buy farm of this company
and secure the benefit of the increase
IN valuation. See advertisement in
this paper.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-18

What does Mckinley mean when he
says that he cannot express an opin-
ion on the Cuban question or any
other public question son account of
his position9' His position" as gov
erner of Ohio or as a demagogue seek
ing the republican nomination for
for president? A statesman courage
GUS enough to advocate an addition of
40 per cent to the price of clothing
should be courageous enough to say
whether he is in favor of Spain or
Cuba.-Chicago Chronicle.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-18

The goldbug dailies and weeklies
are not pushing the sale of the Horn
Harvey debate, probably because the
way Horr demolished Harvey is not
juet the kind of goldbug literature
they like TO send among the people.
Silver men should push the book the
argument is on their side strongly.
Harvey had all the trumps and played
them skillfully.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-18
REPUBLICAN,.
How Stand Ye?

III you are pfOnlDlClOnlSG IN any
thing more than the name you will
vote the prohibition ticket. Its can
1idates are good and worthy men and
are entitled to your support if you are
honest in your professions. Prohi-
5ition and regulation are entirely diff
ferent in principle and in effect.
If you favor regulation of the traffic
in liquors then you may properly con-
slider whether you will vote the re-
publican or the democratic ticket. If
you favor deception, fraud, falsehood
and downright perjury you will vote
for the system of regulation that gives
the traffic to the drug stores of the
state, making them Observation-Disclosures
Looms, where spirituous liquors may
maketained by almost any person who
70 .hosc oney to pay for it, and the
conscience to subscribe to the regu-
: latiou application. Under this system
the druggists of the state are granted
franchise, a monopoly, in its sale
and use and worth to them in the ag-
gregateis II ore than two mi lion of DO
lars annually and for which they don't
pay the state or any of the towns
where they transact their profitable
business one particle of tribute. This
is thearepublfcan method of regula-
tion. Thpt there is demand for
liquor is evidenced from the fact that
men will practice every species of de-
cepEion, talsehood and perjury to OBJ
tain it; that they will lie and steal,
,,r1, ,rlr>,, -,
i've proof, though perhaps the taste
and appetite that Graves and demands
it, is vitiated, corrupted and depraved
from its use aud effect. But it is the
condition that is to be met and the
thing to be corrected, and the ques.
ton is as to the best means. The
democratic party recognizes the ex-
hedges the necessity the traffic creates
for prisons, for police, for courts and
all the costs they involve all of which
I'VE have under republican regulation
8 without one cent of revenue for the
additional costs put upon the public
from those who profit from the traffic.
Tie question between democratic and
A0PuoAiSoA PolASy 10 WA0VilSi lllosc
who profit from the sale of liquors
shall pay Il portion of the Sc additional
burdens put upon the public, Or
whether they may continue this high
ly profitable business free from shar-
ing its burdens except as general tax
payers. If the evil is to be continued
and as society is constituted, we see
no hope of an Immediate change for
the better, then the best thing is to
license its sale. compelling every drug
store or saloon that engages in the
sale of spurious liquors to contribute
alike in taxes for the evils they pro-
duce and the costs their business nee
essitates in courts, police and prisons,
poor houses and insane asylums. I'm
der the republican systrm all these
institutions, courts and police, are
burdens that fall upon the tax paying
public. Do you favor its continuance,
or do you favor a change that wi
compel those who profit by the traffic
to help pay the costs that it makes?
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-18

Now that Professor Bemis is no
longer member OF tue faculty, the
economy taught in the Chicago Uni
versity is suoh only in name. Ac-
cording to DIR. Harper's statement, it
is not science, but system intended
to please the Standard Oil and other
trusts from which the institution gets
its money.-Dubuque Telegraph.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-18

Cuba is going to be free. While
the United States in I'm official and
diplomatic way has not yet acknow-
lodged the Cubans as belligcrents,
and treated with them as such. yet it
must be known on that island that 80
per cent OF the people of this country
are in cordial sympathy with them in
their struggle for freedom from the
tyranny of Spain, and this gives aid
and comfort only little less powerful
than national recognition.-C Columbus
O. Press.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-18
Makers of Bugsics Fail.

New YORK, Oct. ID. Il. brewster
& Co., Incorporated manufacturers of
carriages, with Il warehouse at No.
4s9 Fifth avenue, made an assign
ment Saturday TO John A. Gar
yer. The officers of the COM
pany are Joseph e. Smith, president,
and X. Schuyler Tucker. secretary and
treasurer. The capital stock OF the
company is al25,ooO and the assignee
says that the liabilities will probably
be found in excess of that sum. 1t
will he several days before he will have
definite information as to the condition
of the concerns affairs.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-18
Don't Tobacco Spit or SMOKE yonr III.

Don't Tobacco Spit or Smoke Your Life hwav
Thetruthful, startling title OF a book .hont
No,io-bac. the only harmless, GuAxAN1EED 10.
DacGo,naoi5 cure. III you want to quit and
nerves. eliminates nicotine poison. makes
weak men gain strength, weight and yipor
Festive cure or money refunded. Sold by Dr.
j. j. Clemmer.
Book at druggist, or mailed free. Address
he sterling Remedy Co.. Chicago ofiiCe. AZ
Rand olph ST.: New York. ~ SpluceS 81. 6yi
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-18
Lave You Sotiocd TT

Have You Noticed TT
A lo.ter from the one you lore
May for a week or more
About tho city idly rove
In searching for your door.
But let your tailor send dun"
And in manner spry
It's sure to catch you on the run
Before the ink Is dr..
L. A. W. Bulletin.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-18
Desperate.

Why was l born quecn?" she
walled
Amid all these trappings of state she
mourned.
"Why was l born queen?"
With an energy sprung from despera-
ton she seized again her crown, and
tried once more to bend it into an APP
proximation of the prevailing shapes
Detroit Tribune.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-18
Four Killed In an Explosion.

ST.. PAUL, Mimi, Oct. by the ex"
plcsion of thrcshing engine near
Mountlalke, Mimi, Joseph Schu-
macher, Jasper Malette and two other
men. names unknown, were killed.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-18
N!ary's Lamb.

And everywhere that Mary went
That lamb was Mt her heel:
1t couldn't do 1t now. you know
For Mary rides wheel
Louisville Courier-JournaL
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-18
Smoked Too Many Cigarettes.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct IA boy
named Toomey, Is years old, was
buried Friday. His death was caused
from smoking cigarettes lie smoked
several boxes daily for years.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-18
Bradstrcct's View.
Bradstreet's saws:

Cooler weather has stimulated seasorable
demand for staple dry goods. millinery and
clothing, and joDbers i'll these line, in all
parts OF the country feel the improve
mcnt. Relatively, most gain has teen
made at the south, where an improve
ment is reported in almost all lines. Interior
merchants are placing moro liberal or
Gcrs than for several We, RS a.ld larger dis
tributing centcrs report sales of goods to the
cotton belt and collections thercfruln cxcep-
tional!y free. The more unfa. orable features
are found in dis ppointmenC ut the molera-
ticn with which wheat is exported from week
to week. the reported weakness in pig iron
and steel bille;s ;nd in toe compe ttion suf-
fered by do nestle WOODEN manufacture from
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-18
BANK cLEARlhes.

Per Cent. of Increase as Compared with
Same Week last Year Is 23.2.
NEW YORK, Oct. 12.-The following
table, compiled by Bradstreet's,' shows
the total clearances at the principal
cities and the percentage of increase
or decrease, as compared with the cor
reSnondinu week lnstveo
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-18
Great PrecocItv.

Doting Grandmother On street car,
showing baby to Disguised collegian)--
He's only thirteen months old, but he
can tallS-calls gran'pa and me ham
mer and dammer as plain as can bel
Judge.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-18
An Accommodating Domestic.

''Why didn't you come when 1 rang?"
said Texas lady to her servant.
Because l didn't heah de BELL" re-
piled Matilda Snowfall.
Hereafter when you don't hear the
bell you must come and tell me So"
"Yes'm."-TeXas Siftings.