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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
GUARD LIBERTY BELL.
Tho Four Giants Who Protect tho sacr.

Tho Four Giants Who Protect tho Sacred
Relic from Vandals.
Robert Mofht, Harry Helteroth, Fran
els Westpl.al and James Robinson, tho
four reserves who will guard the Lib
erty bell during the sojourn at the At
lanta exposition, are big enough to
brighten any man or gang of men who
might have designs on the bell. All
four are we'll over feet in height and
over 200 pounds in weight, says the
Philadelphia Record. Their combined
weight amounts to nearly 900 pounds,
and their combined height measures
more than 25 feet. Motif was appoint
ed in 1884. He weighs $50 pounds, and
is feet inches tall.
For more than eleven years he has
preserved the peace and directed traffic
III Eighth aud Chestnut streets. Helte-
roth weighs $50 pounds, and is feet G
inches high. Botk Helteroth and West
phal (who is 6 feet 2 inches tall and
weighs s1o pounds) are stationed at the
East Market street entrance of the city
hall. Helteroth was appointed in 1886
and Westphal III 1892. Robinson is the
tallest man of the four, standing 6 feet
2s4 inches high and weighing 225
pounds. He was appointed in 1898, and
is usually on duty at the Market street
ferry.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19

The chief public interest in the
Meeting of the Knights of Labor at
Washington was the address of Cen
eral Master Workman Sovereign, in
which he injected more truth than can
be found in the entire gold bug press
OF the United States. He said:
Capital has monopolized the ele-
ments of production and labor is in
competition with itself for the right to
live. A money oligarchy is fast WHIP
ing ont the last vestige of Individual
liberty. Construction of judicial
authority is already given to law, pla-
cling all labor organizations in the cat
egory of criminal conspiracy. Misde-
meanors of the most trivial character
have been raised to felony without
sanction of the law, and used to i'm
prison representative of labor organi-
cations, and injunctions, followed by
charges of contempt, have been used
to condemn labor leaders to the felon's
cell without evidence of guilt or tria
by jury. The associated banks have
declared war Oh he meme oi the PEG.
pie and the whole plutocratic fratern.
ity has invaded the realm of free gov.
eminent and constitutional security
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
YOUTHFUL PICTURE DEALER.
Cigarette Cards Arc His Wares and He
Docs . Good Busineax.

S-S~Ss 2~sAeAAASooS
One of the queerest of many ways OF
getting livelihood is that adopted by
boy who runs the streets of Louis
vile, Ky. This boy is generally to be
found among the newsboys and boot
blacks, but he never sells paper or
blacks shoe, says the Louisville Com
mercial. His business is the buying
and selling of cigarette pictures, and
he seems to make good thing of it.
Small boys IRE inveterate collectors of
these pictures, and generally they get
them from him. The name of the lit
tie picture merchant is Willie Dreyfus,
and he has the name printed On card,
which he carries with him.
Willie gets his pictures in very sys-
tematic manner. He goes around to all
the centrally located saloons and gets
permission from the proprietor to pick
up any pictures which he may fnd.
Very often the barkeepers collect pic
lures for him, and when they do this he
generallypays them small sum. Then,
too, he hunts up tho small boys who
have collections of pictures who want
to sell out. These collections he buys
at bargain and sells at good round
price.
That the business is profitable one
is shown by the prices which Willie gets
for his pictures. For new pictures
which have just come out of the boxes
he gets twenty-five cents hundred.
Sometimes he hasspecial pictures which
bring as much us one cent apiece. Not
very long ago he sold 1000 pictures for
eight dollars. AS he has practically a
monopoly of the business, Willie finds
out how badly the prospective pur-
chaser wants the pictures and charges
him accordingly.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
Grattan Has a Wheel Of His Own.

M. L. Grattan, now OF Preston,
Mimi, formerly of Waukon, is too
thorough horesman to look upon the
bicycle with aught but intense dis
gust, heightened by the absurd talk OF
its displacing the horse. In letter
to the Breeders Gazette he pours ont
his love for the horse and his sarcasm
on the wheel in the following charac
teristic manner:
"The horseless age is not here; il
never will be here until man retains
his sovereignty over the earth. A
horseless age means an emasculated
race OF dudes who, lacking vilility
Will not even be able to pcrpetuate
their own weakness, and the race will
die. The love of the horse and his
companionship is inimical to vice. A
nah may walk and plot deviltry, he
may ride wheel and fee the physi.
clan. The horse occupies his hands,
his mind and stimulates torpid facul-
ties. The great masters of men have
been masters of the horse. Thousands
of consumptives have been cured by
him, his devotees escape contayion,
no 'bicycle faee' is acquired in his
use. He scatters care to the winds,
he brings the bloom of health to the
cheek, he makes a race of men who
use and master him virile, combative,
strong. The nations that have excell-
ed in horsemanshlp have ruled the
world, they will always rule the world
and in the great final catasthrope the
grand brute whose neck ..is clothed
with thunder, who ..smelleth the bat
tie afar off, will go into oblivion with
man, and not before.
The light brigade rode into the jaws
of death upon brave charges. Inn
agine them distorted upon the tops of
bicycles. Alexander, Caesar, Napol.
leon, Washington, Grant and Sheri-
dan were all enthusiastic lovers of the
horse. Mount Sheridan upon a
wheel instead of his horse ond imag-
inc, if you can, anything poetic in his
fierce ride to Winchester. What flee
ing, panic-stricken soldier would have
voucnsafed second glance or thought
to a monkey-like form on wheelp
His big black steed, furious with ener-
gy and power, Inspired courage as
we'll as the daredevil rider. A horse
less age, indeed! Wait until war
comes again to the nations of the
earth, as it surely must as long as
earth lasts, and mans best friend will
quickly find his place again.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
sage's Sage Talk.

Russell Sage, the New York money
magnate, tells the Tribune that bnsi-
ness is unsatisfactory, and defines the
reasons. He says:
"To be frank, the business situation
is not encouraging. These failures in
{ numerical business are making them.
s YES felt, and there will be more.
h We just come from a bank meeting.
" saw more evidence of these bust
Mt 9 troubles in the subjects we dis.
cussed this morning than at any time
sir e the beginning of the year.
scribe these failures to the shrink.
age IN general values and the remark.
ably low prices of farm products,
which reduce the buying power OF
that very important section of this
country inhabited by the farmers.
Inc farmers are poor in money. They
buy sparingly. That cuts into con-
sumption and as the margin of profit
on goods produced is sAsall trade is
not prosperous.
T. 10 illustrate the fall in prices / may
cite a little incident-an auction sale
OF silks recently. Now silk is as stan
dard an article as flour, yet the prices
realized at this sale lately were 80 to
40 cents lower than were realized al
the sale thirty days before.
There is some inquiry for funds from
people pinched by the fall in prices,
and have had such applications in
The last ten minutes to the amount OF
$l,0oo,Ooo. / expect that things will
be unsettled during the rest of the
year. Besides these business suspen.
sions their are the Kaftir bubbles, and
cltogether it looks like time for con.
servatism."
If Mr.. Sage had only told why farm
prices are low his explanation would
have been complete. They are low
because primary money is scarce ant
relatively and constantly becoming
scarcer, and primary money is scarce
because it is limited to gold alone ani
the production gold, though increas
ing, is wholly inadequate to meet tn,
worlds crescent demands for metallic
money. This is the truth, and unit
the American people shall understand
and act upon it, prosperity will re
main a stranger.-Telegraph.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19

The change from the silver unit to
the gold unit, and the suppression OF
the silver coinage, is the most trans
parent piece of selfishness on the part
OF the ruling classes to make the rich
richer and the poor poorer, history
makes any record Of; the people see it,
feel it, and acknowledge it. Yet they
sustain it. Why? Because the par
ties with which they affiliate have so
strong hold upon them, and have
made such towards Of them, that they
dare not break loose from the misera-
Die machines even to save what few
rights and what little property they
still have left. This is the truth, and
every old party voter, who is not
tax-eater, salary drawer, mort
gage grabber, or a coupon clipper,
need not go beyond his own consci-
ence to be told of it.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
NEW cAeoosE GAR.
It Is bald to BE Great Improvement
over the Old Model.

~ AZ 5AA0 ~ A1o ~ oTcSU 4mRXVVCNOAV
over tho Old Model. :
A new caboose car constructed on
lines suggested by conductors and
brakemen is being tried on the Pitts
burgh division of the Panhandle road.
The car has eight wheels, and the GU
pola is is inches higher than the old
pattern, the top of the roof being Is
feet from the top of the rail- There
is no ladder on the outside of the car,
access to the roof being had through
doors 81 inches by SO inches in the ends
of the cupola. The tracks are arranged
for 36-inch wheels, this being the size
of standard wheels, used under passen-
ger cars, which when partly worn are
transferred to cabooses.
The new cur has eight longitudinal
stills, two more than have hitherto
been used. The platforms are 31h
inches long, being 10 inches longer
than the old standard. A safety bar
is provided in the gangway at the CEN
ter of the handrail. The frame of the
car has been made stronger, the posts
and braces being 1h inches by 81
inches, While in the old car they were
1Aa inches by 2ks inches.
The cupola being higher, it is braced
with iron braces running down the
side plates. There are two stationary
outside seats upon each end of the
cupola provided with safety bars and
handrails. The roof Of the cupola is
made circular in form, with radius
to conform to the roofs Of the smaller
tunnels upon the road. The car has
water tank, wash bowl, folding
table and large lockers. There are
drip pans to catch all leakage and over
flow from the oil cans. A stretcher
is kept under the hunks. There are no
projecting iron handrails OF steps in
side the car.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19

The bankers are now getting up a
fight in which diamond must cut dia-
mond. They are attacking the ex-
press companies for doing money
order business. They say it is too
much like issuing checks and drafts
and interferes with the profits of the
banks. As soon as they get the green
backs destroyed, they will attack the
United States postal order system.
Nobody must do money business but
the banks.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
GIRLS KICK THE FOOTBALL
Pontiac (Alich.) High School Misses In
dulge In Hair Pulling.

Pontiac (Alich.) High School Misses In
dulge In Hair Pulling.
The young ladies' football team or
ganized a short time ago by the young
misses of the high school of Pontiac,
Mich, held the first practice game the
other afternoon in the back yard of the
girl who plays left tackle. AT o'clock
the eleven assembled, arrayed in sweat
ers, short skirts and small caps. The
coacher, older than the others, took her
place in the center of the ground, gath
cred her warriors around her, grasped
the leather sphere firmly, stopped n
moment to give further instructions as
to signals, passed the ball to the ath-
letic young lady standing back of her,
and the practice began in earnest.
Though hair-pulling was general, the
entire tenn was alive the next day and
occupied their usual places in the school
room
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19

Worshippers of the golden calf say
the silver dollar could not have boon
the measure of values in the United
States because only eight millions of
them had been coined up to 1878.
How about the gold dollar? Oh, it is
good measure OF values. And yet
the United States never coined gold
dollar until 1919, and not one is being
coined now, nor has been for years.
How are YOU now, Mr.. Blatherskite?
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19

Will some advocate of the gold dol
lar as the unit of value in the United
States, tell us how many gold dollars
have been coined in this county in
1882 How many in 1894? How
many have you seen bearing either of
these dates? How many bearing the
date 1898? How many gold dollars
have you seen at all? Aren't YOU a
singular sort of a cuss to want every
thing measured with yard-stick you
are never permitted to see?
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19

There isn't gold miner in Colorado
unwilling to exchange his bulletin at
par for Uncle Sans illegal tender
green backs.'' Why does Carlisle
scheme with a lot of foreign Jew
brokers to buy up this bullion as fast
as it is dug if he does not favor assist
ing Rothschilds to bunco Uncle Sam
out of more bonds?
Why not have a United States agent
buying gold bullion in the gold camps
OF the nation to put in the United
States treasury? Do you see the mig
ger in the wood .pile?-Denver Road.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19

The Democrats of Iowa will
hereafter see to it that their State
Convention shall not be dominated by
those whose jobs depend upon their
doing the bidding of persons not in full
accord with the views of the majority
and not in the interest of the masses
of the people. -Alamakee journal.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19

The Texas democratic platform gets
at the truth when it says: "There is
an organized conspiracy inside of the
democratic party headed by Grover
Cleveland and his cabinet to lead them
into the republican party" That is
the point you are headed for, gentle
men. How are you going TO defeat
the conspiracy? BY sticking to partyp
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19

If the silver dollar is worth only
fifty cents, why do not gold-bugs buy
them up with their gold dollars and
double their money? They can pay
just as much debt, buy just as much
grog, and obtain just as many poker
chips for a silver dollar as for gold
dollar.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19

The gold dollar was unknown to the
American minis until 1919; there had
never been a gold dollar coined up to
that time; the great change in our
monetary system was made in 1873,
when the silver dollar was dropped
from our list of coins, and the gold
dollar was made our standard of value.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
Mother KIlI. Hcr Chlld.

Allentown, Pa, Nov. 12.--Crazed by
religion Mrs. Elins Glider on Sunday
night sacrificed the life of her babe to
appease the wrath Of a supposed angry
deity. The child was su1focatcd. It's
little body had been badly beaten and
the tiny ankles were hacked with a
butcher lknifc
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
A Fatal Error.

Hurley, Wis, Nov. 12.--Jesse Morgan,
pf Chicago, while hunting deer at Sand
Rock with his brother, James Ii. Nor
gan, and Edward Stockley, also of Chi
cago, mistook Stockley for deer and
shot him through the head with IL rifle
ball. killing him almost instantly.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19

j Worshippers of the golden calf are
very much opposed to u '.debased"
currency, but they have no objection
to debased people-to currency
that debases their own people.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19

Tommy, can you give me SEN
tenee in which but is conjunction?'
asked the teacher. "See the goat
butt the boy. Butt is conjunction.
and connects the boy with the goat.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
Called seven Louisa. wife.

Levi Cain, well-known citizen and
quite wealthy, died at Maysville, KY.
the other morning after a lingering ILL
ness. lie had been married seven times,
and, strange to say, each of his wivcs
had Louisa as her given name.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19

There are three democrats in the
senate who hold over and four elected
in the entire state to the next legisla-
ture, which makes the senate stand
democrats z, republicans 43. In the
house the democrats have but 20,
while the republicans will have 80
members. Howard county sends Is
to democrat to the house, and one
who favors a high license for the liqu-
or traffic, both of which are IN har-
mony with the majority sentiment of
the voters of the county. The Hawk
eye has been collecting the views of
members in both houses on the ques-
tions of license, resubmission of the
amendment, and upon manufacturing,
with the following result:
RESURMJSSTON
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
How Would This Do.

How would this do for q democratic
platform on the money question:?
eve declare unqualified hostility to
bank notes and paper money as circu-
lating medium, because gold and
silver is the only safe and constitution
al money"
This was the democratic platform
of 1886, and we respectfully inscribe
it to Grover Cleveland and John G.
Carlisle.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19

Celebrated Its booth Birthday.
Krem, on tile Danube, place of TO-.
900 souls, has just celebrated its e00th
anniversary az q city.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
For Rent.

A good conlmodious Office in BERG
Bl2ek. Enquire Of b. F. Davis, or NJ.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19

Tue non-commlttals are the ones
who will get the Doodle paid for votes
and will come home richer in shekels
than the others, probably.
The State Register, which hereto
fore has been the prophet of republic
can sentiment and policy in Iowa
sends out this forecast of the result,
ard intimates that the Doodle for the
non-committals is to come from "the
brewers. distillers and wholesalers of
other States" md says:
Manufacture of liquors for legal sale
will probably be enacted by the next
Iowa legislature, unless the democrats
OF the state and the brewers, distillers
and wholesalers of other states are
able to bring sufficient influence upon
the next legislature to prevent lcgisla-
ton in accordance with the majority
sentiment of Iowa."
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-28

noon suddenly dropped to Ga. on the re-
FiVal or the rumOrs that Attorney Gen
eral Moloney had decided against the
reorganization plan. This was afterward
denied and IL was minated that the plan
VIII be made public on Monday next. The
decline in the stock checked the rising
tendency IN the general list and a re-
acuon OF Aql per cent ensued. Spec
ulation closed irregular and in the main
nrm: Net changes show advances of
3sq2s per cent Chicago Gas, however.
lost y per cent. Tomorrow, Thanks
glNlng day, being legal holiday all the
downtown exchanges win be closed.
Si.H5,OOO. The sales OF listed stocks TO-
day aggregated 1H745 shares and of un-
listed stocks. 7s,114 shares.
New York Stock List-ClOsing Bids,
Stocks and Bonds-American Cotton. oil,
lSA; DO preferred, 81; Sugar Refinery, $685.
DO preferred, 97i2; American Tobacco, Sis
do preferred. 80; Atchison, T. and S. r,
lI9s; Baltimore and Ohio, 5612; Canada
Paciflc, 5614; Chesapeake and Ohio, 1872;
Chicago and Alton, 100; Chicago, b. and
g., S5S4; Chicago Gas, 621s; Delaware.
lers Cattle Feeders, 1875; Erie 1874; do
preferred, 22l2; Edison General Electric,
IA; illinois Central, 49,; Lake Erie and
Shore. l5II2; louisville and Nashville. 54iS:
LOUISVILLE and n. A, 9ss; Manhattan, 101
Memphis and Charleston, Is asked; Mich
igan Central, 100; Missouri Pacific, 3O1a;
Mobile and Ohio. 2Ols; Nashville. Chatta-
nooga and st. Louis, IS; United States
Cordage, 67s; do preferred. 1874; New Jer-
sey Central 1O7; New York Central, 1901 :
New York and New England 81; Norfolk
and Western preferred, ia Northern
Pacific, As; do preferred, 151a; Northwest
ern, 1865; do preferred, 151; Pacific Mail,
JUS; Reading, l03s; Rock Island. 1875; 81;
Paul, 1875; do preferred, III: Silver Ger
uiicates, 67%; Tennessee Coal and Iron,
SSl2; do do preferred, so: Texas Pacific,
81; Union Pacific 91k; Wabash, St. L. ana
p, rs; do do preferred. 1873; Western
Union, SIS; Wheeling and Lake Erie, 1874
90 90 preferred, ass; Southern Railway
5s, 20; Southern Railway common 1915;
southern Railway preferred, S4ib
state Bonds-Alab ama A, 1897: do r,
l091R; do c. 100; Louisiana stamped AS,
100; North Carolina As, 104; North Carolina
IS, 124; Tennessee new set IS, 81; Virginia
is, preferred, 6; Virginia Trust Receipts,
s.; Virginia Funding Debt, 617s; South Car,
DINA 4l2s, 1912.
Government Bonds-United States As.
registered, 1llR; United States As. cou,
pons, 111A; United States Is, registered,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-28
MEMORANDA.

Charleston. 5. c.. Nov 27.-Arrived.
barkentine e. S. Powell, Hodgkins, New
York.
Cleared, schooner Edwin A. Gaskill,
Smith, New York; steamer Chatfeld OBJ,
Cooke, Bremen.
Sailed. schooners Talofa. Fletcher, New
York; Emma c. Knowles, Rodgers. Eliz-
abe.hport, n. j.
Boston, Nov. 25-Arrived. schooners
Stephen G. Loud. Pierson, Savannah; II.
J. Cottrell. Murphy, Brunswick.
Baltimore. Nov. 25.-Arrived schooners
Jennie Thomas. Young. Savannah; Long
fellow, Goldthwaite Georgetown, S. {.
Cleared, steamer Jessmore (BT), Craven,
Savannah.
Brunswick. Nov. 25.-Arrlved. bark Ste
phen G.. Loud, Hart, Providence.
Also arrived, banks Maria QtaD, Lauro.
Bordeaux; Borinquen Span, Linares. Ha-
Vana.
Sailed. banks Verdad SPAN. Teneriffe
TARA Topaz. Rio Janeiro; Henry A. Itch
field, New York.
Darien, Ga, Nov. 2i-Arrived, banks
Waltikka (Rus), EkhOlm, Dublin; Truro
(Sw), Bakberge, Hamburg: Jarisberg
(Nor), Tomassen, Brake.
Deal Nov. 25.-Passed, banks Alert
(Nor), Andreassen, London for Savannah
Ceder CRus). Fagerholm. London for Mo-
bile
Nov 22.-Anchored. bark Johanne CNor).
Jansen. Savannah for London.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-28
EXPORTS.

Per steamship VIM. Crane for Baltimore
--654 bales cotton, 165 bales sea island cot
ton, Isis bbls rosin, 1876 bbls rosin oil, 80
bbls pitch, As cases clay, 25ls tons pig iron,
5S09S feet lumber. So crates vegetables, IA
bales domestics, GO bdls hides, 6S5 pkgs
mdse.
Per British steamship Norfolk for Bar
celona-3.72 bales cotton, valued at sl52,-
479, and 8 tons phosphate rock, valued at
$25, for Port de Bouc; and 1,098 tons phos-
phate rock, valued at $10,9S0
Per Belgian steamship Iris for London
800 casks spirits turpentine. in tanks,
valued at $65250. For Antwerp 4,00 bar
res rosin valued at $15.500; 1880 casks
spirits turpentne, valued at S53 256.l5, and
Total value Of cargo, $1S5,S06 15-Antwerp
Naval Stores Co.
Per- Norwegian bark Elizabeth for
Glasgow-3,1O9 barrels rosin, valued at
1886, and 1850 casks spirits turpentine
valued at $2l,153-Paterson, Downing &