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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-30

cure these cases per-
marently, L. he has
hat the experience
and given the study
TO these die eases that
they ueServe he
should Tot fail; If he
does, it shows con-
clusively that he is
not conn etsnt to
handle such cases. "
: " DR. Hathaway
4 Co. cure such dis
eases permanently
and for life. They
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-30

in their line and give only safe and expert
treatment.
sPECIALTIES-Syphillis Blood Poisoning,
Nervous Debility, Kidney and Urinary Difficult
charges, Piles Rheumatism, Skin and Blood
Diseases of ell forms, Catarrh and Diseases OF
Women. Address or Call on
DIR. HATHAWAY L. CO.,
209 Alamo Plaza. Over the Globe,
San Antonio, Texas.
Mail treatment given by sending for Symp-
tom BanG. No. for men, No. for women,
No. 8 for skin diseases, No. 4 for catsrrh
Office Hours-9 to II, 2 to 5. and Z to 9. sun
days, 10 tol.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-10
SHEEP IN FINE SHAPE.
All the Animals on the Wyoming Range
Doing Remarkably Well.

Au the Animals on the Wyoming RangeA
Doing Remarkably Well.
Joseph Desert, a prominent sheep
man, came into town the other day
from 100 miles north of Casper, Wyo.,
and reports that the fall of snow in the
country Travelled over will average six
inches. All the sheep in that section
nre in prime condition. The loss on
the range SO far amounts to nothing.
4 Two hundred and fifty thousand sheep
are being winter-ranged in Natrona
county. A bunch of yearling ewes sold
the other day at Rawlins for $2.35 per
head after shearing. A herd of mixed
sheep sold lately for $225. This is q
considerable advance over last years
price for the same class of sheep. Local
sheep men look for wool to bring seven
to eight cents pound this spring. Not
much money is being advanced by COM
mission men, owing to the fact that
wool growers want to sell rather than
consign their wool. At this time last
year over 100000 had been advanced
to local wool growers, while this sea-
son so far only $15o,0o0 ha-e been adj
vanced.
All the local sheep companies de-
clared dividends last season and mort
cages of record against individuals were
reduced 40 per cent. of the gross
amount. Locally the range sheep bust
ness is looking up. Four hundred thou
sand sheep will be sheared in the pens
around Casper.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-10
TWISTING NEcKs OF CRIMINALS.
Novel Device Proposed for the Executor
of Murderera.

Novel Device Proposed for the Execution
of Murderers.
Ohio solons are noted for doing many
queer things, but the most noted bill
of the session has just been introduced.
1t provides for the execution of muir
aerer in startling Misunderstanding
victims head until it breaks. The in
vention consists of chair having
hinged back and hinged footrest.
Both the back and the footrests are
hinged to the seat portion of the chair
and provided with means whereby they
may be adjusted to and fixed in the
horizontal plane of the seat. so as to
form a sort of table or bier upon which
the body may he examined and carried
nway after death, Swiyeled on the end
of a screw that passes through collar
in the upper part of the back of tho
chair is a block having q curved recess
jim it's front side, in which rests the back
of the prisoners neck when seated in
the chair, and fastened to one end of
this block is q strap that is passed
around the prisoners throat and is,
detachably secured on q pin at the OPP
posite side of the block. The con-
ftrivance is worked by spring, and the
downward movement breaks the neck
of the prisoner, causing instant death
and insensibility to pain. When life
has been thus extinguished the back Of
the chair is lowered and the footrest
raised, SO that the body is in hori-
zontal position for examination or
other post mortem treatment.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-10
QUEER coRpuLENcY OF GIRLS.
Sisters, Fourteen and Sixteen Years Old
Weigh $50 and 3S5 Pounds.

Sisters, Fourteen and Sixteen Years Old,
Weigh $50 and 3s5 Pounds.
Constantine, Mich; boasts of two sis
ters who, considering their ages, are
without an equal in the state as far as
weight is concerned. Lulu and Flossie
Sloppy are IA and 10 years of age, re-
spectively. They went there about one
year ago from De Kalb county, Ind.
lulu now weighs $50 pounds and her
sister 3s5. Lulu weighed only six
pounds at birth and Flossie GA pounds.
Neither girl is Of unusual height, Lulu
standing about five feet three inches
and Flossie five feet two inches. Each
is growing rapidly, however, in height
as well as in corpulency, and to what de
|mensions- they will ultimately attain
is an unsolved problem. The father
lis comparatively short man, weighing
about $50 pounds, while the mother is
10 slim-waisted woman of 125 pounds.
When Lulu was six years old she
weighed 20s pounds. Flossie at four
weighed 1873. Each now measures SO
inches around the waist. They can
perform prodigious feats of strength.
The only physical ailment with which
they are troubled is weakness of the
eyes. They attended school until they
became SO large that it was impossible
for them to walk between the aisles or
sit ut the desks,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-10
MONKS MAKE WHISKY.
Illicit Distillery Discovered In the Trap
pist Monastery at Okla, Quebec.

Illicit Distnlery Discovered In the Trap
pist Monastery at Okla, Quebec.
For about Is months past the local
officials of the inland revenue depart.
ment OF Canada have been aware that
quite lot of whisky was coming into
Montreal from the little settlement
of Okla, but were unable to learn the
source Of supply. A few days ago they
decided to solve the mystery, and a
couple Of inland revenue officers paid
a visit to tine Trappist monastery at
Okla. After making careful investi-
cation. they succeeded in finding a
full-neogeu WHISKY still of rs gallons
% day capacity. The superiors admitted
that the matter looked serious, but
claimed that the whisky was distilled
without their knowledge.
! Subsequently, however, two monks
from Okla called at the inland revenue
Offices and offered to pay a fine for
Illicit distilling of whisky. They were
referred to the government at Ottawa.
The Trappist monastery in question
is large concern on farm of 1000
acres, on which are cheese factory.
dairy and sawmills. The monastery
also runs a hotel which does good
business during the summer months.
The monks make considerable wine,
their output last season being about
10000 gallons.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-10
A CHEST OF GOLD.
Hidden During tho War, 1t Has just Been
DlScOparoI

Hidden During tho War, 1t Has just Boon
Discovered.
Near the close of the war, when Gen.
Sherman's army was marching about
the state.of North Carolina, people who
had money in the local bank of High
Point withdrew it and endeavored to-
conceal it. An old man of the name
of Peter Pool had $4,000 in gold In
the bank vault as a special deposit,
which he carried away and buried In
the ground near Sunbury post Office,
few miles from High Point.
After the war was over Mr.. Pool went
out in the woods to get his money, and
was unable to find it. He kept his
failure to himself, fearing somebody
else would find his treasure and steal
It. But, strange as it may seem, he
had lost the location and never did
find the gold.
The other day, rs ]. H. Walker was
walking over his land, which he had
purchased, he observed that very
large oak tree hal been blown up by
the roots. AS he passed by the tree he
saw what appeared to be an iron box
among the roots. He pulled it out and
found it very heavy, and fastened by
the two old-fashioned padlocks, he
managed to lug the box to his dwelling
and broke it open. In it he found $1o,-
900 in gold coin. 1t is not doubted that
this money is that of old man Pool.
1t is understood that Pool left no heirs.
If this be true, the Chapel Hill univer-
sity will probably contest with Mr..
Ea a:l.ar- tha- -nlHnerahi1,- af-the- treasure.
as all escheats go to the university,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-10
DIDN'T MAKE A CONTRACT.
The Fact Brought Sorrow to an Aneri
can Abroad

The Fact Brought Sorrow to an Aneri-
can Abroad
I A well-known Philadelphia lawyer,
who has just from abroad, tells
the Record rather remarkable story
Of his experience with q doctor in Paris.
i"Over there" he remarked, Everything
lis done by contracts fact which I dis
covered to my sorrow. My wife caught
q severe cold and was taken quite Ill.
/ called in a French physician who had
been highly recommended by the pro-
Iprietor of the hotel at which was stop
ping, and he paid five visits to my wife.
after which she was so much improved
that his services were no longer re-
qulred. The.next day I received his bill
for $500 francs, which is equivalent to
$500. Thinking mistake had been
made, l went to his Office, where he
smilingly assured me that the bill was
correct. To my remonstrances he re-
piled: But monsieur made no contract
with me- When told him wouldn't
pay such an exhorbitant bill, he In.
formed me that it would then be i'm
possible for me to leave France. In des-
Iperation ! consulted friend Of mine
who resides in Paris and found that
the frog-eating doctor had me where
the hair was short, and in the end / had
to pay it,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-10
DOG DETECTIVE.
Does What Human sleuths Had Worked
Upon Three Months In Vain.

Does What Human Sleuths Had Worked
Upon Three Months In Vain.
The Cincinnati papers contain an al
most incredible story. which, neverthe-
less, seems to be well authenticated.
In the early spring of 1895, business
man of Cincinnati, Charles Hermann
by name, disappeared, and no trace of
him could be found. For three months
detectives worked upon the case with
out avail.
Soon after his disappearance, Her.
mapn's dog was found. badly poisoned,
and near the point of death. uA4a-
NAL was sent to the hospital for dogs,
and remained there two months under
treatment, not being suffered to go
out. But his life was saved.
i When at last the dog was liberated,
he began to search FOR his master; and
after q good deal of running about,
commenced digging on the banks Of
the Ohio river, opposits Cincinnati.
There, after time, he nuearthed the
body of Charles Hermann.
i There arc Indications that murder
was committed, and that poison was
administered to the dog at the same
time. Very likely 1t was thrown to
him by malfactors who dared not shoot
or touch him.
The body was identified, but I'M
fortunately the sagacious dog could do
mo more.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-10
Just One Item.

The American Agriculturist is reccg-
nized authority on farm statistics, and
topics relating thereto. For several
years it has collected and published a
live stock census. The result of it's
investigation for the past year are
full of significance, almost startling
when the far reaching effects of the
facts stated are considered. 1t gives
the value of live stock in the United
States On January i, 1896. as $780,
420, 900, o decline during the year of
500, 10000 This is the lowest point
yet reached since 1898, when the de-
cline began, and when the total value
of animals on the farm was reported
at SO, 4S5, 0S3, 900, shrinkage in three
years of $6s2, 663, 900, or about rs per
cent.
These figures are Illustrative of the
blessings OF the golden era. They
demonstrate the actual workings of
the single standard. As the volume
of real money has decreased, and con-
sequently become dearer, the value
of farm animals has gone down. Pric-
es are valued by the volume of money,
and as gold is now the sole standard
of value, the agricultural class, in live
stock alone, have seen 25 per cent
stricken off the value of the same.
The ''object lesson" is no respecter of
persons or classes, and ruins all alike.
There is but one remedy and that is
the restoration of silver to the coin-
age, and a return to timetable stan
dards, Strange indeed that the farm
ers of the whole country do not rec
ognize the fact that, as silver has de-
parted from the coinage, so has their
prosperity disappeared. Their pro-
ducts-wheat, oats, corn, live stock
and garden trucl-all bring less, aud
are worth less, but their mortgages
remain the same. They can barely
pay the interest; to meet the princi
pal is u hopeless task. Restore silver
and bring back the old tiiue bimetal-
lie prosperity-this should be the de-
mand of every farmer III the "a I'd
Rocky Mountain News.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-10

Frank g. Carpenter, the famous
newspaper correspondent, has been
interviewing Governor A. r. Shepard,
the man who under Grants admins
tration made Washington the most
beautiful capital in the would, on the
effect of free silver coinage upon the
industries and prosperity of Mexico.
"Mexico," said Gov. Shepard in reply
to an interogatory, lis very prosper
ous, and that notwithstanding that
for four years the crops have failed,
and there has been considerable fam
inc. This decentralization of silver
acts as protective tariff for Mexico.
1t keeps out foreign goods which are
sold at gold prices by making them
too expensive, and the result is that
the Mexicans are establishing all
kinds of factories. 1t is the same in
Japan, and will oe the same in China.
The Japanese are now making most
of their own cotton and China is
establishing cotton mills. We are,
think, likely to ruin ourselves if we
keep up our present policy. We are
trying to establish FREQ trado, and, by
our demonstration of silver, are not
only admitting the goods of the silver
nations free, but are forcing them to
keep out our goods by the protection
of gold. They have the cheapest la
Dor in the world, and they are manu-
featuring on silver basis. They are
selling on u gold, basis, and they will,
in time, be the richest people in the
world.' With free and unrestricted
coinage, and despite repeated crop
failures and incidental scarcity, Mexi.
CO is prosperous, while under the sin
gle gold standard, and notwithstand.
ing abundant crops, the United States
is the reverse. The contrast and the
cause of it are worth considering.
Dubuque Telegraph.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-10
TWO FISH PROBLEMS.
Observations and Reflections OF Back
woods Sage.

woods Sage.
"Do fish feel pain?" Idunno-Inever
was fish, says writer in Outing. Yet
have observed frcshly-landed fish to-
execute certain movements which
seemed to indicate that the fish felt
something; mebbe 'twasn't pain. It
nay have been simply agony, or any old
thing like that. Those who used in
their younger days to carry in their
trousers pocket cork stuck full of
hooks may remember occasions when
q hook worked free from the cork.
Once l accidentally hooked pointer
dog by the ear, and the language he
used and the way he ran out of line
convinced me that he felt something.
He may have felt only o pleasant SEN
sation, but he didn't come within so
feet of me for two hours. The desperate
sagging back and zigzag resistance Of
o hooked fish, the wild fipfaps and
straining gasps of freshly-landed fish
may be evidences of pleasurable SEN
sations, but am tempted to consider
them as closely allied to that joyous
thrill which prompts a man to rise
above the insiduous caress of a strong,
:well-bent pin. "Do fish feed at night?"
Well, well-do fish swim? Country
boys, how about the big fire beside the
water? How about the boy who got
first to the big boom and thus secured
the boss place? How about the spiky-
filmed channel cats and mud cats that
came up two at time; the goggle-eyed
rock bass. special prizes; the hideous
mud puppies" which Mt once went
into the fire along with yard of line
How about the night lines? How about
everything connected with the sport
that used to get better and better as
midnight approached, until the glo-
rious fun and occasional profanity were
interrupted by the sound of the "old
man" falling foul of wire fence or
breaking CAD from the plum tree up
the bank? Do fish feed at night?
dunno-they used to.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-10
PADEREwskrs MANAGER.
Held for the Nonpayment of Del
Seventeen Years Old.

Held for the Nonpayment of Debt
Seventeen Years Old.
Herr Won Gorlitz, the manager for
Paderewski, was arrested the other day
iat San Francisco by Deputy Sheriff By
'ington, on justice warrant charging
him with being an absconding debtor.
The arrest was made at the instance of
lG. Verdier G. Co., who assert that Cor
'litz owes them bill of $251.55 for dry
goods purchased II years ago. To this
they have added $205.35 interest.
The manager and his wife were in
1879 connected with an opera company.
When the company went to pieces Cor
litz was unable to pay for the goods
used for his wife's costumes. Gorlitz
deposited 5000 cash bail. He says he
was never legally responsible for the
bill.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-10

A correspondent of the Sioux City
Journal purports to give an interview
with the democratic members of the
legislature on the silver question:,
which, If no more reliable than as
given of Mr.. Lowry, is no index of
their views upon this most important
question. Mr.. Lowry was not seen
by the correspondent who says ire
port says j. J. Lowry, Of Cresco, is
classed as sound money man." Mr..
Lowry correctly reported would have
been classed as favoring the equal
coinage of gold and silver at the ratio
of 16 to 1, without waiting for any
other country on earth, and if the
supply of money thus coined is made
quate to meet the demands of bust
ness and the restored prosperity OF
the country would supplement it
with treasury notes, like the coin
made full legal tender taking from
the banks the privilege of issuing
notes and restoring to the govern
ment the entire function OF issuing
money!.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-10
300 !. Reward, 500.

The reader of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
has been able to cure in all its stages,
and that is Catarrh Hairs Catarrh
Cure is the oily positive cure known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh be-
being constitutional disease, re-
quiras a constitutional treatment
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken intern
ally, acting directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces Of the system, there
by destroying the foundation of the
disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the consti-
tuition and assisting nature in doing
its work. The proprietors have so
much faith in its curative powers,
that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that it fails to cure. Send
for list of testimonials. Address,
T. ]. CHENEY 81 Co., Toledo, o.
Ei5"SO!d nv DruppiSts 71c
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-10
A Platform for Both.

Initiating lobe Spilkins, of the
Buzz Saw, we may evolve the follow
ing as the platform of both old par
ties:
Resolved, firstly, We reafirm the
fakt that our daddics wer old party
men.
Resolved, secondly, That we air tn.
Resolved, thirdly, We air glad NV it.,
and herebi pledg ourselves tn rename
SO.
Resolved, fourthly; We favor free
silver. [Su'n NV us du.
Resolved, filthy, We favor gold
standard. Sum NV us du.
Resolved, sixthly, We want the Of
fises. [Neerly aul Nv US du
Resolved, seventhly, We must have
harmony tn git 'em.
Resolved, eighthly, That we talk
harneny and the offises, and we air
agin everybody who don't.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-10
Men and women Nearly Allke.

In Amman. IN empire occupying the
eastern portion of the Indo-Chinese
peninsula, with population of 6,0O0-
900, men and women wear their hair
in the same way and dress almost
alike. Like the man, the woman wears
a turban, long tunic, wide, loose
trousers and bright sash, the end
falling below the knees. The physi'
ognomy is almost the same, as the men
are beardless and have their hair done
up like the women. The only clew to
distinguish them is found in the ear
rings and finger rings, which are worn
by women only.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-10
QUEER TEST OF MuLcT LAW.
An Iowa saloonkeeper Seeks Under It t,
Evado His Creditors.

An Iowa Saloonkeepcr Socks Undor It to
/ Evado His Creditors,
A suit has been filed through Attor-
neys McEvoy & Heindel by an Illinois
liquor firm against John Feehan, a
saloonlieeper of Ottumwa, Ia, for $500,
being bill for liquors to this amount
sold to Mr.. Feehan. Mr.. Feehan op-
poses the granting of the judgment on
the ground that the sale of liquors was
not legitimate business in the state
OF Iowa, and hence bills for liquorn
sold could not be collected. This de-
murrer sets forth the claim that tho
Martin mulct law simply stops Grim.
inal proceedings against keepers Of sa
looms, and does not legalize the traffic
any more than it was legalized under
the prohibitory law.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-10
Decides the Case in Favor of Railroad

Springfield, ILL.,, March 3. = Judge
Creighton, of the sangamon circuit
court, Tuesday handed down an opinion
in the case of the people VS.. the Chicago
g. Alton Railroad company, which was
tried some days ago. The case grew
out of the fact that the railroad COM
pany charged james Brown, of Dwight,
two dollars per car as switching
charges at the Union stock yards, Chi
cago, on load of hogs, and the suit was
to recover the penalty provided blythe
statute against eXtortion. The court
found for the defendant company,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-10

According to the New York World
the next candidate of the democratic
party must be a democrat. But what
is democracy and who are democrats?
The Worlds statement calls for a
definition.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-10
Tough ON the Cat.

Little Mrs. Justwed (sobbingly)-
Ju-ju-just think, Harold! The cuc-cuc-
cat has eaten all of the angel cake l
'Lub-baleed this m-m-morning! And,
oh-boo! hool ho-o-o-o!
Mr.. Justwed (soothingly) - There,
there, darling! Don't cry about it! I'll
met you another. cat to-morrow.--PucL
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-10

1t does not require an artist to draw
q funny picture of the present day
American politics. The in-the-party
republicans and democrats are work
ing like beavers to save the parties,
while the parties are working like
Satan to defeat silver
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-10

Chairman Carter, Of the national
republican committee, and Senator
from Montana, declares the West will
not support a gold standard candi-
date or platform, and the republican
bosses are demanding Carter's resig.
nation
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-10
Rest of All

To cleanse the system in a gentle and
truly beneficial manner, when the
springtime comes, use the true and
perfect remedy, Syrup Of Figs. One
and costs only so cents; the large size
81. Buy the genuine. Manufactured
by the California Fig Syrup Company
only. and for sale by all druggists.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-10
The WIG Tor Him,

Candid Friend-I say, Chatterton,
you ought to marry an intellectual
woman.
Chatterton (much pleased)-Do you
think so? Why?
Candid Friend-So that your chill
dren will have some brains.-N. Y.
Weekly.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-10
Perfum.d stove Polish.

An excellent enamel stove polish is
made of powdered graphite, which,
with natron soap and glycerine, IS
mixed into stiff paste. A few drops
of oil of sassafras are used to slightly
perfume the mixture.