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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-10
One of the principal objections ur

One of the principal objections urg-
ed against government ownership of
railroads is that if the government
owned them it could give the party i'll
power undue control over its employ
ees. The last camp .ign has shown
the objection is not we'll founded
The railroads are owned by corpora
tons and the postoffices are owned
by the government and the railroads
we're decidedly more IN politics thar
the postmasters. While no effort was
uade by the government to coerce
its postmasters, u terrible effort was
made by the railroad corporations tt
compel their employees to vote for
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Democrat.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-10
RELICS OF MOUND BUILDERS.
Find Bono Implements, Believed to Be
1000 Years Old.

Find Bone Implements, Believed to Be
1000 Years Old.
Great interest is manifested at Pitts
burgh, Pa, over the discovery of num-
Der of implements in a mound at KEGS
Rocks, which is being excavated for
scientific purposes. The mound is be-
lieved to have been built by the ancient
mound builders and the implements
found place the mound on par with
those that have been explored else.
where.
The work is being done under the di-
rection of Thomas Harper, of Pitts
burgh, who believes that the specimens
found are not less than 1000 years old
and prove that they We're made by the
most ancient people that inhabited this
continent.
The specimens will be placed in the
Carnegie museum. Since this mound
was opened month ago 16 skeletons
have been found, many of them being o.
| gigantic stature.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-10
MOTHER AND SON REUNITED.
Romantic Story of q Negro Woman Whs
Found Her Son After 80 Years.

Romantic Story of a Negro Woman Who
Found Hor Son After 80 Years.
Mrs. Martha Harris and her son,
James Harris, have just been reunited
after separation of 30 years.
Mrs. Harris and her son and two sis
tiers, who are colored, We're slaves on a
plantation in Tennessee, about 100 miles
back of Memphis. When the war broke
out the master of the plantation en-
listed and the negroes scattered.
Martha and her children got passage
up the river on steamer, but at one of
the landings lost the boy. The boat
went on, and she did not know whether
the child had fallen overheard or had
been lost on land. She finally drifted
to Fond du Lac, Wis, and, with her
daughter, has accumulated quite little
fortune.
In 1898 she visited the worlds fair,
and in the colored peoples department
found piece Of music with the name
James II. Harris on the cover as its
composer. She wrote to the address
given, and in time received a reply, and
the son finally came to Fond du Lac.
He has barber shop in St. Louis and
has become quite musician, several OF
his compositions having been in the
colored peoples department at the
worlds fair.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-10
THE INGENIOUS cHINAMAN.

shell of large oyster, and put the god
inside. Nature proceeded to cover the
intrnding object with numerous secre-
tions, until behold we have a perfect
pearl god; and it is indeed one of the
wonders of my collection. The oyster
assaulted must have been large one.
1t is not unlikely that this experiment
may have been tried on a number of oys-
tiers before one was found strong and
healthy enough to live and cover the
idol with pearl.
'The Cinnamon make a regular bust
ness of raising pearls, and they intro.
duce all sorts of little objects into the
oyster shells. 1t is difficult thing to
pry open the oyster shell without break
ing it. The live oyster shuts his mouth
pretty tight, and it requires patience,
experience and skill to force open the
lips just far enough without killing
the mollusk. OF course, all pearls are
not artificially produced; in fact only.
small proportion of them. But all
Of the curiosities are the result of Chi
nese manipulation. The pearl divers;
bring oysters to the surface for food,
as well as for their pearls. They risk
their lives on all occasions, for the
ocean is full of sharks, and many diver
has gone gayly at his work, never to be
seen again on earth. He has become
food for some one of the monsters Of
the deep. I have read some wonderful
stories of fights which pearl divers have
had with sharks, in which the divers
have come out victorious by striking
the sharks behind the pectoral fin with
long, keen knives. 1t is narrated Of one
diver that he made fortune by kill
ing two sharks in one day, one 80 feet
long, and the other IS feet long. He
was called the bravest man on earth,
and was made captain of the bodyguard
of his king.
"Now, with these few pointers about
amber and pearls, if you will go to the
Smithsonian institution and study the
immense collection there you will find
much to interest you and your readers,
You should also look at the crystals
The word crystal comes from the Greek
word Krystallos, which means ice. The
ancients believed crystal to be ice sc
thoroughly CONCEALED that no amount
of heat would melt it. That is one Of
the exploded fictions of ancient science
Nearly all of the jewels of nature have
their histories and their legends. Ever
until this day some of our ladies have
their theories concerning lucky stones
unlucky stones, birth stones, and al
that sort Of thing. "A novelist once made
a fortune writing novel about thu
moonstone. Everybody read it. Every
body loves the mysterious"
SMITH D. FRY.
Imogene's Complexion.
The rain that makes the roses bloom
In bowers of delight .
Has washed the rosebuds from the
cheeks
OF Imogene tonight.
Detroit News.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-10
TO VISIT THE HOLY LAND.
Rev. F. f. Bliss Inansurates Novel Plan
for tho Children.

Rev. F. F. Bliss Inansurates Novel Plan
for tho Children.
I, Rev. Z. Frederick Bliss, of Chicago,
the protector of the youths congress Of
the Columbian exposition, has launched
at Grand Ledge, Mich, the Jerusalem
Celebration society. The purpose of
the organization is to conduct annual
pilgrimages to Palestine eliminating
in a great delegate convention of Amer
lean Sunday school children at .Jerusa-
lem in 1900, thus celebrating "the tri-
umphant completion of 10 Christian
centuries"
The expense for each delegate, TAX
ing in London, Paris and Rome, will be
$500. Thus, of those who pay annually rs
cents one in 1000 may go lis delegate;
among the 50-cent members one in 800
may be /. delegate; and there can be one
delegate among 200 of those that pay
two dollars. Competitive examinations
will determine who will be delegates.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-10
Tired Out.

The distressing feeling of wearines
and exhaustion without effort, which!
makes life burden to SO many
people, IS due to poverty of the blood
and feeble vitality. If You are suffer-
ing from such feelings, Bludbuiider
is just what yon reed, and will be Of
the greatest brnetir Ia you II ,'nrifies
and enricilps the blood, iininr,s .;Ie
and vigor to the whole system. ',i'' :.
digestion and overcolnes all mnil',1
tendencies and nervous atfec;i.ne
caused by depressed state of the
blood strengthens and builds mp the
system, while it eradicates disease
1t is pleasant to take and the dose is
small. Try it and be cured. Price SLIGO,
Sold by j. j. Lowry, druggist.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-10

eyes, Harry and went out riding on
tandem last evening, and he gave me
such fright have hardly got over it
even yet" Z,
Glow was that?"
'When we were going through an
avenue Of trees and there was nobody
in sight he leaned forward on his han
die bars and reached his head around
and kissed me!'
'Why, that was dangerous, wasn't
it? If you had swerved ever so little
the machine would have upset and
thrown you both off,"
eyes, but I didn't swerve."- Chicago
Tribune
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-10
Will Win Next Time.

Chicago, Nov. 4.-Gov. Altgald
gave out to day statement address
sed to the democrats of Illinois in
which he says:
although defeated, l desire to
thank you for the loyal support you
have given me and congratulate
you on the heroic fight you have just
made. Consider that only six months
ago our great party lay PROSTATE; it
had been betrayed into the hands of
stockholders and monopolists by
President Cleveland, it had been rob-
bed of everything Democratic except
the name, it stood for no great pri l.
ciple, it was loaded with political
deadheads yet it cut loose from the
domination. of trusts and syndicates;
it repudiated the men who betrayed
it and again proclaimed Democratic
principles and espo used the cause of
the toiling humanity. 1t was con-
fronted by everything that money
could buy-that Doodle could de-
bauch or that fear of starvation could
coerce. 1t was confronted by CON-
bination of forces such as had never
been united before and could proba-
bly, never be united again, and worse
still, the time was too short to edu-
cate the public.
while we are defeated, our party
is more vigorous and in better CON
dition generally than it has been for
third of a century. We have dug
the grave of the British gold stan
dard. One more campaign of educa-
ton will forever bury the palsied
form of that curse which has gh ed
prosperity and the happiness of mau-
kind. We may assume that the com
ing administration will be controlled
by the men who have been so promi-
nent in securing this election.
II believe that at the next general
election the people VIII reverse the
verdict of yesterday. The return OF
prosperity will not come as promised.
1t was the great common people OF
America, and not the rich, saved our
institutions in 1861 and it will devolve
on the great common people of this
country to save free government in
| 1902
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-10

Knives and forks with one prong for the
use of princes and dignitaries of the
church. In those days nobody knew
the real amber fields, and great deal
OF it was found by the seashores, where
it was washed up by the waves. 1t has
been discovered, however, that the ex-
tinct cone-bearing trees flourishcd in
immense forests on the plains of north
Germany, and amber is there discovered
in large quantities by miners. Large
quantities of it are also found in the
yellow sandstone along the Baltic
shores. There are regularly operated
amber mines in east Prussia, at Pal
micken, and it is also picked from the
cliffs, much as placer miners find gold in
California pockets. Consequently am
Der is no longer more valuable than
gold, but on the contrary it is on the
market at from two to fifty dollars per
pound, according to it's quality. 1t is
no longer used for knives and forks, but
is most generally used for mouth pieces
on meerschaum and other pipes. 1t is
no longer one of the mysteries of the
world, but one of the commodities. But
the specimens found in various places
in peculiar conditions, still find their
way into the cabinets of the collectors
of curios.
''Here is something as wonderful as
the amber containing insects. Look at
this diminutive Chinese god. 1t is q
perfect pearl, and yet you must know
that no sculptor could ever have CHS
eled it and polished it SO perfectly.
Pearls are morbid symptoms in oys-
tiers. If a bullet is Embedded in human
flesh and not extracted, and the man
lives, the bullet becomes encysted. Ma
ture forms a coating around it. That
is exactly what is done by nature for
the pearl-bearing oysters. All along the
Chinese coast this fact is taken advan-
tage of. The cunning Cinnamon know
that if grain of sand gets inside Of
the she'll of the oyster, nature will form
coating after coating of pearly secre-
ton around the disturbing particle,
thereby protecting the oyster from irri-
tation.
Some ingenious Chinaman fashioned
this little god, and then forced open the
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-10
ORIGINAL NOTICE,

In District Cour Howard County, Iowa.
December Term 1896.
Mary Howells,
VS.
VIM E. Antry, Joseph Carey, s. L. Carey and
wife, Rufus i;ilgss and wife. Van r. Carey
and wife Sophia, Howard County; Jeremiah
jackson. Lewis Jones and wife Gumor. Ben
jamin Z. Jones and wife Sarah, David II.
Jones and Edward K. Jones.
You are hereby notified that on or before
December 1st 1896. there will be ON file in the
office of the Clerk of the District Court of HON.
ard county. Iowa the petition Of the plaintiff
Mary Howels. in which she states that she is
the owner in fee simple of the south half OF the
northeast quarter of section No. twenty-seven
in township No. one hundred. north of range
No, twelve 81 ne \ 27-l00-12l and the center
one-third of the east forty acres OF the north
east quarter OF Section Eleven in Township One
Hundred North of Range Twelve Center q E 40
a NE Il 1l-1Ol-i2) west OF the 9Th p. M. Howard
county Iowa, and praying thatsthe title there.
to be quoted In her and that you be barred and
forever estopped from having or claiming any
right or title thereto adverse to the plaintiff.
Now, unless you appear thereto and defend
befoie noon of The second day of the December
term a, d. 1895. of said court, which Will com
mence ON the lith day OF December A. D. 1896
default will be ente rad against you and a de
| cree rendered thereon as prayed.
WIN. WILBRAHAM.
10 Attorney for Plaintiff
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-10

LIVED With THE INDIANS.
Merton L. Miller Has Returned from Q
Trip In New Mexico.

Mr.. Merton L. Miller, who is connected
with the apthropological department at
the University of Chicago, has returned
home from New Mexico, where he has
been living among the Pueblo Indians
for the past three months. He reports
o very profitable and interesting trip,
and, as he spent nearly the whole time
in town in which there were no other
white man, it can easily be realized that
he had ample opportunity to study the
Indian customs.
They treated him very well, but would
have much preferred his absence. After
he had been with them six weeks, they
requested the Indian agent to induce
him to leave. He stayed, however, but
was only allowed to do SO through the
influence of one of the three chief men
in the town.
There are 1s of these villages in New
Mexico; the one selected by Mr.. Miller
as being least changed through outside
influence was Pueblo Taos. He found
the Inhabitants quiet, Industrious and
moral people. They are Christians nom
inally, but in secret carry on the rites
OF an unknown religion! They are not
satisfied with the marriage or burial
ceremony performed by the priest, blu,
go through another, according to theil
ancient customs.
Mr.. Miller lived with one of the i'm.
portant families, several members O.
which spoke English. In spite of the
fact that the dogs often slept in The
bake-oven and that kitchen utensils
were not numerous, the food they pro
vided was quite acceptable. The old
est member of the family was won
an 1o6 years old, an age which it is MOI
uncommon for the women to attain
Numerous photographs and some very
fine pottery were obtained.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-10
Got the Information.

Mrs. Hayfork-Anything fer me?
Rural Postmaster - don't sec
nothin'.
Mrs. Hayfork-1 was expectin' let
ter err postal from Aunt Sally Spriggs,
tellin' what day she was comm.
Rural Postmaster calling to his
wife)-Did ye see a postal from Mrs.
Hayforl's Aunt Sally, tellin' what day
she was comin'2
His Wife-Yes; she's comm Thurs
day.-Bay City Chat.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-10
You Arc Invited

to become we'll and strong. An in
vitation is given to you to get rid.
of your sickness and diseases and
remain we'll. Sound in Body.
Sound in Mind. The time is at
hand when these sicknesses will re-
main only on those who are ignor.
ant of Natures laws or who will
not obey them.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-10
Lucky for Him That She Didn't.

"See here!" said the wife of his
bosom, "let this be the last time you
come home after midnight. There's
no necessity Tor it and have set my
face against it. Is that plain enough
to you?"
, He gazed at her long and critically.
"It is" he ,nurmured.
And she never caught on.-N. Y.
Press,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-10

FAITHFUL MEN OR WOMEN
w to travel for responsible established house
in Iowa. Salary $40 andexpenses, Position
permanent. Reference. Enclose self-addres.
sed stamped envelope, The National, Star In.
Snrauce Bldg, Chicago.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-10
IA SARCASM of the STAGE,

Quoth the manager: Madam. think not
s. that T rage;
But we might have been rich, while the
world told your praise,
II you only had kicked while you danced
on the stage
With the vigor displayed upon salary
washington Star.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-10
Executors Notice.
tate of John Cl,nch. Decease,

Estate Of John Clynch, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given. That the subscriber
has been duly appointed Executor to The Es-
tate of John Clynch, late of Paris Twp, in
the county of Howard, State of Iowa, deceased,
testatc, and has taken upon himself
that trust as the law directs. Ali persons
having demands upon the Estate OF said de-
ceased are required to exhibit the same; and
persons indebted to the said Estate are called
upon to make payment TO
WILLIAM CLYNCH,
Executor.
Cresco. Iowa. Oct. a. 1896, 1lw4
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-10
Method In Her Madne.,

Dashaway-Last night experienced
a novel sensation. Miss Twilling in
vited me out to dinner as her guest,
and insisted on ordering and paying
for everything. Iwonder what she did
it for?
Cleverton She probably wanted
something to eat.-Harlem Life. !,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-10
AMBER PUZZLED THEM.
That Is Why tho Greeks Called It
"Elektron."
And from That Word Is Derived Our
Own "Electricity"-A Chinese God
Inside of Pearl - Other
Rare CurlOs.
Especial Washington letter.

Especial Washington letter.
Electricity is something about
which nobody knows very much, and
concerning which very few know any
thing" says the electrician of the cap
itol. II have been handling electricity
for many years, but have much to learn
about it.
Until very recently T did not know
the derivation of the word, because I am
not a dialectician. have become inter
ested in the collection of amber, pearl,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-10
Tho question of the Hour

Rounly-What are you and your fam
fly going to do this summer?
Townly-I don't know t,but it will
have to be something that will make
our neighbors think we have had bet.
ter time than they've had.-Truth.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-10
Evidence Against Her.

Evidence Against Her.
$50 you won't concede that woman is
mans intellectual SUPERIOR"
mo; not while she can't drink a cup
of tea without sticking out her little
snger."- Chicago Record.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-10
Strictly Truthful.

Crimsonbeak-I'll give that man
Windham credit for being truthful.
Yeast-Why?
HE got up to speak last night, and
he said he wouldn't keep the audience a
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-10

WANTED-FAlTIlFuL MEN OR WOMFN
to travel for resnonsille established
house in Iowa. Salary s75D and exnenses. PO-
sition permanent. Reference. Enclose self.
addressed stamped envelope. The National
Star Insurance Bldg, Chicago.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-10
BETTER Breeding.

Mr.. Staylate (getting sentimental at
IL p. m.)-Yes, Miss Sweetly, believe
in the smile of the sturdy oak and the
clinging vine.
Miss Sweetly-Ah, but you couldn't
play the part of the sturdy oak, Mr..
Staylate.
Mr.. Staylate-And why not, pray?
Miss Sweetly-The sturdy oak knows
when to leave.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-10

"And is that as long as he kept
them?"
eyes; they all got up and left the
hall."-Yonkers Statesman.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-10

Chicago, Nov. 4.-Gov. Altgald
gave out to day a statement address
sed to the democrats of Illinois in
which he SAWS:
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-10

cresc,, Iowa, oct. "a. 1896, i1wa
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-25

Answering the suit filed against the
Adams Express Company by Harrison
Wagner recently, in which the plaintiff
sought to enforce more than a thousand
judgments. alleged to have been recovered
before a Maryland justice of the peace ten
years or more ago. judgment being asked
here. for 81, $685. go, Levi C. Weir, Clarence
A. Seward and Henry Sanford, trustees of
the company. ask that the writ Of attach
mcnt be quashed. The trustees say that
there is not now, and never has been, any
body polite or corporation under the name
and style of Adams Express Company IN
the District of Columbia or elsewhere: that
they the defendants named) are engaged
in business under the general name of The
Adams Express Company, and all Of the
property of the said firm is now and al
ways has been, vested under the articles of
association of the said co-partnership In
three trustees, and that they are the per-
sons in whom all the property belonging TO
the firm known as the said Adams Express
Company is now vested They also con-
tend that the plaintiff has no cause of
action
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-25
Sugar free tomorrow; Johnston's, page 8.
CITY AND DISTRICT.
BELT LINE STOCKHOLDERS.
Some of Them Object to the Present
Receivcrship.

A number of the stockholders of the Bet
Railroad Company, representing the minor
ity interests in that corporation, met yes
terday evening at 4 o'clock in the office of
Mr.. Nathaniel Wilson in the Pacific build
ing. The meeting called by two of
the largest minority stockholders in order
that the recent passing of the road into
the hands of a receiver might be discussed.
There was int rchange of interesting views
on the COZ. dition of the road and the tenor
of the talk showed a general desire to ap-
ply in the near future for the appointment
of co-reCeiver to act in conjunction with
Mr.. ". Kelsey Schoepf, who was recently
appointed by the court with a view OF
protecting the interests of the minority
stockholders. which some of the gentle
men at yesterdays meeting regarded as
being seriously threatened. No action Will
he taken. however. in this direction until
Mr.. SChoepf has filed his report and sched-
uie with the court. and has indicated the
extent of the authority which he wishes
To have himself clothed with. 1t is said
that the proposal to have the court grant
authority to Mr. Schoepf to issue receivers
certificates will be resisted and the court
definite action IS taken by the minority
stockholders as Indicated above.
The nil GRITTY stockholders of the Eek
iEston road are expected 10 unite with the
Belt Line minority.