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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-01
STICKING TO THE FARM.

Don't draw tho papers. lawyer; rye.
changed my mind, you see,
For wife and have had talk and both Of
us agree
That, though the times are pretty hard and
troubles round us swarm,
And life amt what 1t used to be, we will
not sell the farm.
I stood upon the knoll to-day and looked
the old place DER.
I thought 1t never looked so fresh and
beautiful before:
The clover had redder hue the creek q
sweeter song,
And over in the pasture stood the herd, Q
mottled throng.
The vanished scenes Of other days came
back my soul to thrill,
Again heard my AXIS song upon the wood
ed hill;
A sturdy boy welded 1t and whistled at
my toll
A farmers urchin, stout and brown, q
product of the soil.
o. the long nights of the winter, when be-
fore the roaring blaze
I sat and pored enraptured DER Maoauley's
stirring lays.
Until above the icy wind that swept across
the ridge
seemed to hear the shout Of brave Hora-,
thus at the bridge!
Why, on the farm which now cross with
steps little slow
grew to stalwart manhood In the cher
ished long ago:
I whistled there behind the pillow and with
the sickle keen
cut the golden bearded grain for forty
years, I ween.
Unto the house where was born ono day
brought bride,
And Hannah James beloved face has never
left my side;
Beneath that roof we've lived and planned.
and there the children wed,
And twice in that old farmhouse dear lit.
tie one lay dead.
We've talked the matter over, Hannah
Jane and I, to-day:
know said I'd sell the farm to Banker
Ezra Gray;
But you needn't draw the papers up, for
this old hand Of mine
My name upon the cruel deed will never,
never sign.
1t might have been the clover. or the birds
that filled the wood
With Just the sweetest songs. while upon
the hill stood;
It may have been good Hannah's kiss, so
loving and so kind.
But. then, 1t makes no difference, for have
changed my mind.
Let Ezra keep his money. he can use 81 by
and by,
For when we two old people. in the little
churchyard lie
Our boys who live where thousands in the
mighty cities swarm
VIII ask for division and they'll let him
have the farm.
But while we live 1t shall not pass beyond
these hands Of mine.
So Ezra Gray can bide his time, the deed
we will not sign
For sixty years upon the farm my good
old wife and
Have shared the griefs and Joys Of life, and
there in peace we'll die.
Yes let US call the farm our own until the
summons come
And we have passed beyond the gates Of
the Eternal Home:
So burn the papers. lawyer, and I'll go back
and say
To Hannah Jane, the farm is ours until we
pass away.
IT, c. Harbaugh. in Ohio Farmer.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-01
OUR NATIONAL SAUCE.
Tomato Ketchup, It's Manufacture
and Adulteration.
II Europeans Want the Real Article They
Have to Como to America for It
Visit to a Famous New
Jersey Factory.

New Jersey is the home of the tomato
and especially of the national sauce of
America, tomato ketchup. Here the
tomato plant attains its highest state Of
perfection and produces fruit SO
luscious, red and round as to justify the
old English name of Glove APPLE" to
which the French still cling, calling 1t
pomme d'amour. The tomato plant be-
ing native Of America, and the name
coming'from the Indian word "tumatl,"
1t is fitting that tomato ketchup should
be on every table in the land, and that
America should furnish the choicest
brands of the product for the whole
world. The skill of the French cook is
surpassed in this instance; if he wants
real tomato ketchup he must buy it in
America.
Wide-spreading acres are devoted in
Jersey exclusively to the culture of to-
matoes, the choicest ones of which are
reserved for tomato ketchup. There are
large factories in which ketchup mak-
ing is the chief industry. A random
visit to one of these factories is enough,
to convince the owner of the most faded
palate that there are favors yet worth
tasting. Tomatoes are put up in nearly
half hundred inconceivable ways, but
chiefly in ketchup. The cooking is
done on scientific principles. The orig
inal recipe for the ketchup produced,
unlike that of certain famous English
sauce, probably came from an old
woman in the country" but the product
has been SO changed and improved by
experiment that the old woman herself
would be forced to admit that she had
not attained the highest rank in her art.
The best efforts of ut least two men in
one of the factories, says the New York
Tribune, have been devoted to impror.
ing the flavor Of the ketchup, but the re-
suits Of their labors can be obtained by
the general public only in the finished
product. Their processes ore carefully
guarded secrets, kept locked up In their
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-01

breasts. If both of them should die
suddenly the world would miss dis
tinctive product of the culinary art.
The superintendent of the factory is one
of these men. lie probably knows as
much about preserving fruits and MAX
ing sauces as any man in the United
States-and maybe more than any other
man.
THE secret of the tomato ketchup
made here is carefully guarded" said
the superintendent. 1--WE say we nuke
ketchup without the use of chemicals or
coloring matter, and we do 1t. Salicylic
acid Is the standard chemical to pre-
vent fermentation. If you can get Just
the right amount of that perhaps 1t is
not harmful; but the trouble is YOU
have to use Just little too much to
make sure that fermentation will not
set in; and that surplus amour. Of
salicylic acid binders the natural fer
mentation of food In the stomach. It
Is as plain as that two and two make
four.
'Then there is another thing, the
coloring matter. These highly-colored
ketchups that look SO bright are really
not as pleasing to the eye as ketchup
that retains the natural color of the to-
mato, and they certainly are not so
healthful, for they contain carmine.
Anyone who knows what carmine is
made of doesn't care to eatit."
So much for the makers estimate of
his own product. The factory Is GER
tainly neat and aromatic. A Whit Of
the air there after dinner is always as
good as dash of tomato ketchup. It
requires 1000 tons Of tomatoes daily to
supply the demand for the various pre-
serves that are put up here. These are
furnished largely by the farm in con-
nection with the factory and partly by
the surrounding gardeners. The finest,
reddest fruit is reserved for the ketchup
making. 1t must be unbruised. This
IS placed In scalding machine where,
with two separate cold washings and a
hot plunge bath, the skin is loosened.
Hence it goes into peculiar machine
called the Cyclone" which separates
the skins and seeda from the pulp. Big
porcelain-lined pumps take the pulps to
- s'iAtSAJ NHSlS luG COtsstT IlDerS nTe
taken out and nothing but the blood
red fluid percolates through, to be made
into ketchup. Even this refining proc
ess is not enough, for the water is sepa-
rated from it, and the clear pulp is then
placed in large Theoretically sealed cans,
where it is cooked without foreign
substances Of any kind as preserya-
tive.
These cans are taken down through.
out the year, as occasion demands, and
the real process Of making ketchup
from the essence of the tomato begins.
The plup goes through more sitting
machines that make it smooth like
cream, and is placed in large tin-lincd
kettles, where it is boiled and seasoned.
Country girls with fresh Jersey com
pleNiona stir it up meanwhile, and the
spices-What they are only two men
know-are added. 1t is then tomato
ketchup ready for the bottles, buckets
and barrels that await it; for ketchup
is made by the barrel and shipped by
the ton,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-01
BREEDS WORMS FOR SALE.
Maine Farmer Raises and Sells Them for
Batting Purposes.

Batting Purposes.
Josiah Crewdye, q farmer, living
three miles from Lewiston, enjoys the
reputation of being the only angle
worm raiser in Maine. He occupies an
old firm and uses sort of primitive
dollhouse for his worm colony The box
in which he kept them covered the floor
ing of the old forcing house, and was
built four feet deep and filed with soil
to within 18 inches of the top.
During last spring and summer Crew.
dye and his boys gathered the festive
might walkers" in large quantities, and
whenever any blowing was done the
boys walked behind with pals, and
gathered up the worms, which were
forthwith transferred to the incubator.
Crewdye estimates that he put three
barrels Of walkers" into this incu-
bator during the summer. From De-
ccmber l to January l. 1896, Crewdye
sold 3s quarts of worms at one dollar
q quart. Fishermen left orders at.
Charles Blanks grocery in the village
for Crewdye, and he brought in the
worms to fill all demands. When the
cold snap came on in February and the
Thermometer ran down to 2s degrees
below zero the worms were all right and
kept on multiplying and thriving.
The day after Christmas Crewdye's
son Karl was in the incubator Watching
his father remove the manure from the
box, intending to replace it with fresh.
This work was called feeding the
crawlers." Karl played on his har-
monica, making quite noise, and was
surprised, as was his father, to observe
the worms working up out of the
ground, their heads sticking out about
two inches, while they swayed their
heads to and fro, as if tickled to death.
to hear the music. When the boy ceased
playing. the worms slipped back into
their warm beds. This story was told,
and was doubted until q reporter saw
the story verified. The lad with his
mouth organ seemed to have the same
effect upon the might walkers" as the
wind instruments used by Hindu snake
eharmers have upon the serpents that
roam undisturbed in the Orient.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-01
BEQuEATHs AN ARM TO SCIENCE
Bnliardist lves Willing That the Secret,
of Ills Strength Be Learned.


of Ills Strength Be Learned.
Frank Ives, champion billiard player
of the world, can strike ball with a
cue harder than any other man in the
world. Corbett, Fitzsimmons, Sandow
and other athletes and strong men have
competed with him and be has not
been beaten yet. One quick, sharp blow
with the leather tip of his cue, and the
ball flies around the table, striking
eleven cushions. With Wizard
schaefer and Eugene Carter he entered
into test of Strength" so to speak,
and the ball he hit travelled three feet
nine inches more than Carter's. Ives
weighs 145 pounds, Schaefer about ten
pounds less, while Carter tips the beam
at over 200 pounds, and is strong in pros
portion.
Ftzsimmons, who strikes BLOW like
a horses kick, can barely touch nino
cushions. while Corbett, whose blows
are equally un' 'easant, cannot strike
more than eight.
There is no trick in Ives method Of
hitting the ball. lie has consulted emf.
nent physicians on the subject, but they
give him little satisfaction, except to-
say that his profession has led to the
development of muscles which prizs
fighters and strong men do not use.
As Ives cannot settle the question to
his own satisfaction, he has taken steps
to enlighten others after his death. Lee
Harrison, his confidential friend, has
been intrusted with the billiardist's
will. After disposing of his property.
which Is said to be worth fully $780,
600, he wills that his right arm be sew
cred from his body and sent to his
physician for dissection. The real se-
cret, he thinks, will then be discov-
cred. The rest of his body he desires
to have cremated.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-01
A Clever Thought.

When Judge Charles B. Andrews, Of
the Connecticut supreme court, was q
freshman at Amherst it was the custom
to "smolse out" freshmen. a party Of
dozen or more of the fellows would
enter the room of an unsuspecting boy,
light their pipes and smoke until the
victim gave in and offered a treat.
When they came into Andrews room
they were without their pipes and had
no tobacco about them, butwith stern
voice one fellow handed Charles dol
lar and ordered him to go out and pro-
cure pipes and tobacco for the crowd.
Charles went out and soon returned
with 90 pipes and one cents worth of
tobacco. They did not smoke him out
that night.-San Francisco Argonuut.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-01
Farm Lands for Sale.

One farm consisting of 200 acres.
This is situated on the north bank of
the Upper Iowa, Il miles from Ches.
ter. Buildings are all modern and
commodious, consisting of an elegant
frame dwelling house erected last
season at cost of $2s50; one barn AZ
a30 feet, with 90 fit. posts and base
ment; one barn 56x32 feet. and all
other farm conveniences including a
wonderful artasian we'll which sends
forth cool, clear water with force and
volume sufficient f'W mill power or
any other purpose to which it may be
applied.
l have also several Other lands for
sale including one forty acre farm in
Chester township; one quarter section
Of improved land ia Sarat oga; two
farms in jamestown, one in Oak Dale
and several CRY lots in Cresco.
For information call at my law Of
flee or address JOHN M. CANNON,
S6tf Cresco, Iowa.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-01


and comparative GOODNESS, SO he pushed
her away with Disguised "vamoosel"
and hurried on.
Years ago there were still poisoned
arrows used occasionally, weapons
deadlier than the popular rifle or car
bine, for their scratch was fatal. The
head was dipped in q poison curiously
made. A bit of liver, quite putrid, was
held before rattlesnake until he had
injected his venom into it time and
time again. After few more days
this virulent substance was put upon
the points of the arrows, to carry agony
and dissolution to whatsoever they
touched.
1t was one of these arrows that How
land jerked from his arm, q few mo-
ments later, as he went into the hut
where his two soldiers were waiting.
He held it in front Of the candle and
examined it intently, while the blood
dripped over his dusty boot. One of
the men asked him how it had hap
pened, while he cut open the sleeve.
"a mistake, very likely. 1t was not one
OF the bucks; we parted good friends"
The woman he did not mention. He
looked at the arrow again. cts poi
soned, guess. Rather hard luck" he
said. He passed one hand across his
face wearily, and repeated: Hard
luckl" Then he gave the men a de-
tailed account of what he had done and
accomplished, that they might tell the
maj or in case he himself should be past
speaking. The agency doctor was off
on two-days' hunting trip, so the SOL
diers bathed and dressed the wound
and made Rowland drink the contents
OF q large flask Of whisky. But he or
dered his horse and went back to the
post, nevertheless, across the long.
cleaning plain of sand, under the pur-
pie arch with its stars Of glimmering
gold; three weird, dark figures follow
Ing the road through the night.
And just as the gray dawn came over
the far-off black mountains, just as the
dawn breeze sprang up and blew on his
swollen and burning face, just as the
first call for reveille shrilled through
the valley, two dust-whitened riders,
supporting him in his saddle, drew up
at the hospital.
At two o'clock stretcher carried the
body Of Lieut.. Rowland from the hos
pital to his quarters; and the flag was
put at half-mast.-San Francisco Ar.
ronaut
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-01
Not Such a Jewel After All.

Mrs. Bimby-Why did you leave your
former mistress?
Applicant slapped her husbands
face for asking me for kiss.
Mrs. Bimby (triumpkantly)-Good!
you are engaged.
Applicant-Thank you. You see, no.
body but fool would have stopped to
ask.-N. Y. Herald.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-01
Hard to Decide,

summered on the Jersey coast.
And l am puzzled still.
AS twixt the skeeters and hotels.
Which had the longest bill.
Town TOPICS.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-01
SHE SUES HER FATHER.
Sarah A. Lighthau Seeks to Recover Val
liable Real Estate.

Seren a. Aighthau Seeks to Recover Val.
liable Real Estate.
A bill has been filed in the superior
court Of Chicago by Sarah A. Lighthall
for the recovery from her father, VIII.
liam A. Lighthall, Of valuable real es-
tate alleged by her to have been fraud
ulently procured. An injunction is also
asked to prevent the father from dis
posing of the property.
w. A. Lighthall, the defendant Is
said to be man OF considerable wealth,
having made his money in the manufac-
ture of boiler-cleaning compound. His
wife died in 1905, leaving considerable
property, including the residence ht
49@ West North avenue. AT the time Of
her mothers death, the daughter, Sa-
rah Lighthall, who was only child,
was student In the Chicago Musical
college, keeping house for her father
after her mothers death.
In May, 1905, she AYERS that she ac-
companied her father, at his request,
70 lawyers Office, where she was told
to sign papers, Of the contents ofwhich
she was ignorant. She tells the court
that she made repeated requests Of her
father to be told the purport of the
papers she had willingly signed, but her
father either evaded the questions or
told her to trust in him, as he knew
what was best.
The bill charges fraud against the ia
ther IN taking advantage of the girls
ignorance of business matters, and asks
that two-thirds of the property
which her mother left after She, died
be seized and reconveyed to the COM
plainant, and that her father be re-
strained from conveying OF making
away with the property.
= He Couldn't Coon 1t.
One of the grand officers of the Native
Sons was visiting a parlor of the order
In Butler county recently. At roll call
ne observed that quite number had
been absent from the. last meeting.
| When the time for making constitutions
al excuses came the president said:
Worthy vice PRESIDENT officer
stood up-'you We're absent from the
last meeting. What legal excuse have
you to offer therefore,"
Il couldn't coon it," he replied, and
sat down again.
Your excuse is accepted"
The visiting official puzzled over the
excuse for an hour. lie could not under
stand the. reply. Finally, at recess, he
went to the vice president to interpret
| his excuse.
WELL" he said, there is quite large
stream between my residence and the
town, and there are no bridges across it
nothing but a barbed wire fence.
The coons creep across the creek OH
this wire, and at the time of the last
meeting the water in the creek was SO
high that couldn't wade it, neither
could coon the barbed wire."-San
Francisco Post.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-01
The Pick of tho. FlocI

The Pick of the Flock.
st. Peter sits In his cushioned chair, IN
And ne'er does he worry or fret;
"These mortals think they are smart
says he, a
But I'll get the best Of them yeti
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-01

peated the story Of her savage passion
in the same monotone, as tinkling and
musical as the sound of a crystal bell.
But Rowland had completed his en-
bassy successfully, and was in haste to
return to the camp during the night
and comparative GOODNESS, SO he pushed
her away with Disguised "vamoosel"
and hurried on.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-01
As He Read Her Brief Note.

"She wants all presents returned" he
unused.
''I wonder what she misses!
Perhaps Id better go back at once
And give her back her kisses.''
Chicago Tribune
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-01

twinkling. and said nothing in reply,
butsmoothed the hnndana on her knees.
When he was gone, she rose and stood
IN front of her tspec to watch him out of
sight, as tie fair-laired white woman
had done Il few hours before.
After tine she put the handl1er-
chief OH her head and went in the tlirec-
ton he had taken.
When she found him it was dusk and
TIE COYOTES had begun TO whine and
bark all about them, and one faint star
glimmered In THE rurpling sky. Her
eyes were wonderfully bright, and her
wild grncefulness would have been al
Turing to another man.
She went up behind him and touched
him on the shoulder. He faced about
and asked what she wanted. But for
the bright handkerchief ON her head,
he would not have remembered her.
When he saw that, he smiled, and the
girl, encouraged, began n protestation
of desperate, savage love in the most
even of voices and broken of English, in
tersperscd with Apache and Mexican.
Rowland answered her kindly, and,
to her calmtoned pleadings, smiled in
her tense face and turned away.
"poco tempo, you come" she said.
gliding after him and grasping his hand.
She followed him for few yards, still
holding his hand. you Gomez" she in
sisted.
"Yes, POGO tempo, come see your
father"
She flung the hand from her and hur-
ried off into the shadow, with low
snarl.
Late at night, as Rowland left the
council of the braves, n hundred yards
from the camp woman strobe up to
him, and, without any preface, dropped
] ut his feet and caught his hands. and re-
New-York tribune., 1896-05-14
DESTRUCTIVE WESTERN STORNS.

Council Bluffs Iowa May l3.-One Of the heaviest
ranstorms experienced here for years occurred ate
Yesterday afternoon High winds accompanled the
downpour and did considerable damage On broad'
WAY one OF the l5O-foo: electric light towers was
b,ou,n over but no one injured. The rain was
coming down In torrents at the time ana the streets
were deserted The tower struck the main wires OF
the Western Union completely wrecking them ana
cutting off all communication through the west.
The streets were flooded and considerable paving
was washed out This afternoons storm was ac-
companed by a heavy fall Of hail and considerable
damage was done TO growing crops and small fruits
Sterling. Kan, May I3-Three persons are re-
nor,ed injured by n tornado which caused much
damage in the vicinity of Cow Creek ast night
TIE houses OF Logan Zerbe. Levi Wagner. Robert
Deenez and others were badly wrecked
Nocona Tex May B-Threc persons were Ser-
o,isly injured by "A tornado which struck this place
yester,lav The Injured a child OF y * DAVIS
i I Pruett and Mrs T. j. Pruett. AT . O'Clock
The storm struck the houses OF Davis ana fruett
Completely demolshing them: The storm was ac-
compancd by heavy rain and hail.
Rr1oit WIS May l3-Mrs Margaret Snyder; an
old woman was killed and Miss Myrtle Silverthotrn
was fatally hurt by being struck by tra;n on the
Chicago and Northwestern road at Footville yester-
dav tremendous halstorm prevailed when tne
accident happened and the train could not De seen
81 paul Mimi May ia tornado passed over
Warrington Mimi, last night, doing damage APP
nroximating s. 900. The course was from south 10
north heavy rain followed.