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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20
W. R. MEAD, EDITOR.
Official Paper of County.
The New Code Of Iowa.

The corporation owned newspapers,
and the corporation attorneys of ev-
cry shade and hue are making frantic
appeals to the legislature to make
haste and pass the new code, to adopt
it in the precise form presented and
prepared by its codifiers. Petitions
have been prepared and circulated
by those having in charge the in
terests of trusts, combines, corpora
tions and syndicates of the country
in its favor and are presented to the
legislature as expressive of the public
wish. The fine italian hand of this
class OF cormorants has been discov-
cred in a letter from n. NJ. Hubbard,
a prominent railroad attorney, clear
ly showing that it is the corporate
robbers of the people and not the
latter that want the code revision as
prepared under the manipulation of
the corporate interests of the coun.
try. This revision virtually nullities,
all the laws successfully fought
through successive legislatures to
place the railroads under the re-
straints Of law. An appeal coming 10
the PLAIN DEALER to give sanction
to this outrage upon the farmers and
their industries, by copying and en-
dorsing a newspaper article written
in the interest of the corporate plum
derers of the people induces this
paper to urge upon the legislature
the defeat of the commissioners work
We appeal to our senator and repre-
sentative to give vote and voice to its
utter defeat. The railroad laws of
Iowa cost the farmers fourteen years
of agitation and work, all of which
the code commissioners wipe from the
statutes. The people have organized
mutual insurance companies in
which farmers can insure their prop
erty at reasonable rates. This tie
code commissioners obliterate 10y
loading them down with burdens cal
culated to give the business of insur-
ance into the hands of the companies
which combine to charge extortion-
ate rates. The cry of these corpora
ton lobbyists is to AVOID a special
session and its cost by gulping down
their code revision at a single swal
low. A better way to avoid that ex-
pense is to defeat the adoption of the
code revision and thereby save to the
people the millions of which these
railroad and insurance lobbyists hope
to gather in from the revision in their
infarasfs
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20

The Baltimore & Ohio railroad is in
trouble. which probably means that
the large stock holders have conelud-
ed ic best to swallow, or in other
words freeze out, the small stockhold-
ers, thereby increasing the dividends
and profits of'the class which gobbles
up the stock of the little fellows. In
the mean time "the government" may
take possession OF the road, put 1t on
its feet and th,n tura it over to the
thieves who will again in turn go
through the process OF the large fish
swallowing the smaller ones.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20

About two years after President
Grant had signed the law stopping
the coinage OF silver, he wrote:
with free and unlimited coinage
of gold and silver we will clear away
our public debt before the close of the
century"
In plain terms he did net know
when lie signed the law, that he had
destroyed one-half the debt paying
money Of the country. Yet we still
have men who profess to believe that
full discussion of the measure was had
before congress and that John Sher-
man and Congressman Hooper of
Massachusetts did not sneak the bill
through congress with falsehood as
to its purport.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20
BIS OF MlR1H.

Miss rasse-."1Iow do you like my
new Photographic" Little Girl-"It's
perfectly lovely. Did you really sit for
1t yourself?"-Tit-Bits.
Bridget why didn't you heat my
room better? It's only so degrees"
"Oh. I thought that for such small
room so degrees would be enough
Fliegende Blaetter.
A. Criticism.-"1 don't like her sing
Ing. Her notes come from her chest"
"Well, ought they not?" mo. indeed.
They ought to stay there. Indian
apolis Journal.
"Ebryt'ing am all right in its place"
said Uncle Eben. 'Er sha'p razzer
meks er man good bahber one minute,
an terrible tough citizen de nex'."-
Washington Star.
Explained.-"What makes you wonl-
en- kiss when you meet7" "It is sort
of apology in advance for what we
mean to say about each other after we
part."-Indianapolis Journal.
Excuse me, sir" said Barker to q
boorish traveller, "but what is your
business?" ~ am gentleman, sir.
That's my business" "Ah," said Bar
ker. II see. You are taking vaca-
tion."-Harper's Bazaar.
"What did you see in America, un.
cle?" cried the boys. "Oh, saw the
Catskill mountains" said Uncle Peter,
loosely. 81 expect it was one of those
mountains that brought forth the
mouse" said Jock, thoughtfully.-
Household Words.
Always Moving.-"John," said the
frightened wife in the middle Of the
night. there's something moving down
cellar, I'm sure" John listened intent.
ly. "Oh, it's nothing but the gas meter
pegging away" he said with sigh Of
relief-Harlem Life.
REALLY" said Mrs. De Porque, cts
very distressing to see how common
things are getting" Eyes," replied her
husband; "luxuries are good deal
cheaper than they were." Its posi-
lively shameful. Why, it's getting SO
that anybody can afford diamond
robbery nowadays" Washington
Star.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20

publicans in congress have done in
the case OF the anticipation bill. They
think the support of the republican
farmers of the west is assured this
year in any case, and consequently it
would be good politics. to win the
favor of the rich gamblers and specu-
lators, by killing the anti-gamblipg
bill. Unless this piece of treachery is
in some way rebuked, the same set
of congressman will next winter pass
the iniauitous railway polling bill,
and that will be followed by some
other act of treason to the people.
The use of parties is to give effect to
the popular will, but they never do
this long at time unless they are
held to rigid accountability by the
peoplc.--Des Moines News.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20
PARTISAN BOARDING HOUSE.
One Landlady Who Has Made Fortune
On of Americans.

One Landlady Who Has Made . Fortune
on of Americans.
Few American women can afford to
pny hotel prices for long stays in Eu
rope, but are forced to live in boarding
houses when they are abroad, n thing
at which they turn up their noses when
they are at home. The pension prices
in Paris range from seven to fifteen
francs day. 1t is well to give up the
idea of getting into "swell private
family" Swell private families in Paris
do not keep boarders. There is q swell
pension, however, in Paris which has
many well-known Americans under its
roof all the time. Among others
Duchess dc la Rochefoucauld, when
she was Miss Matte Mitchell, Of Ore
con, lived there with her mother. This
boarding house is near the Arc de
Triomphe, and the landlady has made
fortune out of her American boarders;
she says her daughters dot is 200 900
francs. The food is not any too good
one gets rather too much veal there
but the cooking is excellent. There is
another large pension in the Champs.
.E]ysees quarter where rooms the size
Of q packing case are seven francs day,
more comfortable ones 10. Light, fuel,
towels, ETC., are extra. All the servants
have to be tipped oil the time, as tie
landlady pass them starvation wages.
You will see at this pension OF the table
tl'hote decayed Spanish grandees, Por-
tuguese marquises, Greek diplomats,
Belgian barons, queer French counts
and queerer French countesses, South
American heiresses, Persian generals
and any number of American mammas
and daughters. At this place the food
is good and well cooked.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20
MIND YOUR EYE.

Don't read lying down or in con-
strained position.
Don't read by freight, moonlight or
twilight.
Don't read by pickering gaslight or
candlelight.
Don't read books printed on thin pa
per.
Don't read books which have no APP
preciable space between the lines.
Don't read for more than 80 minutes
without stopping, whether the eyes are
tired or not.
Don't hold the reading close to the
eyes.
Don't study at night but in the morn.
ing when the eyes are fresh.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20
OLD AND sPRY.

Twin sisters, 10 years old, were pres
ent as witnesses in court at Columbus,
Ind, a few days ago.
Mrs. Annie Merifield, of Limington,
Me-. who is 81 years old, is making con.
siderable pin money knitting socks for
the Portland market.
Two hale nonagenarians, Mr.. and
Mrs. Moulder, of Honey Creek, Ind,
celebrated the Goth anniversary of their
marriage recently.
Probab bly, the oldest railroad engineer
in New England is Squire Wilson, Of
Lyndonyille, VT. He has been running
IN engine on the Boston and Maine
system since 1852. and is still making
. daily run.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20
Western Farmers Betrayed.

Western farmers are generally ia
miliar with the provisions of the anti
option bill, for which ex-Congress-
man HBtch led the fight for several
years. Its purpose is to prevent the
manipulation of prices of farm pro-
ducts by the produce gam blers of Chi
cago, New York and elsewhere. 1t is
measure intended to protect farm
ers, especially those of the west, from
the sharks who live and thrive be-
tween the producers and the consum-
ers of agricultural products, and one
which is wanted by every farmer who
understands its scope and purpose.
The committee on agriculture of the
house of representatives to which this
bill was referred has just given it a
death GLOW, SO far as the present con-
gress is concerned. By vote of 8 to
6 the committee has agreed to an adj
verse report. 1t is worth while to
note and remember that with single
exception this result was reached by
q strictly party vote, the republicans
opposing the bill and the democrats
supporting it. Willis of Delaware was
the only republican that favored the
bill, and is said to have made things
decidedly torrid in the committee by
accusing his republican colleagues of
"being in league with the spectators
and gamblers of Wall street." Wheth.
er those gentlemen be actually in
league with the gamblers or not, they
are doing precisely what the gamblers
want done, and for the doing of which
the gamblers and spectators could
well afford to pay large money. Here
tofore the division on this bill has not
been strictly on party lines, and
would not be now in the house il the
measure were before that body with
any chance for its passage. Some of
the democrats on the committee may
or may not have seen that the repub-
licans could and would slaughter the
bill and for party reasons threw the
odium of it upon the republican
party.
Having an overwhelming majority
in the house and on this committee,
the republicans are fairly chargeable
with this act of treason to the entire
west, and the republican farmer liv-
ing in this section who has not the
spirit to denounce the treason is little
less than slave to party. 1t counts
for nothing to say that had the demo
Gratis been in control of the house the
result would have been the same,
though this lie probably true. Wheth.
er political parties be the masters, OF
the servants of the people, depends
wholly upon the people themselves
When the men who shape the meas.
ures and policies of parties find it nee.
essary to "stick close to the people,
they can be relied upon for vigilance
and diligence in promoting the gen
eral good. Whenever the people give
evidence that they will ''stick close tc
the party" in whatever it does, the
managers Of parties find it expedient,
if not profitable, to serve special in.
terests that are inimical to tue gen.
eral interests. This is what the re-
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20
Rain away,
Rnfny dayi
MY Dear Old Home.


My home Is like q friend: no less
A friend though out Of date and strange:
I've learned to love its ugliness.
And could not bear to see change:
Those clumsy frizes that you see,
Those pillars that they rest upon,
Are more than Babylon to me,
And grander than the Parthenon.
II asked: What Is It that you lover
That rambling roof that useless dome7
Those broken pinnacles above?.'
/ can but say: "It is my home.
Those walls were round me at my birth:
There mother held me on her knee:
Can any palaces on earth
Be like my own dear home to met"
Hark! Music in the great west room!
Dear Elsie must be playing there.
How fresh the smell of violet blooml
How mild the lilas-freighted air!
These warm soft nights in May recall
Sweet Eden to my half-closed eyes:
feel like Eve before the fall,
And our old home seems paradise.
Robert Beverly Hale. in Youths Conn
panion.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20
SHORT VERSE.
The War Of the Princes,

The War of the Princes.
II am the kingl" said the sun. in his glory:
The frost-sprite heard, and he laughed
In scorn:
'King. indeedl Ha, ha, we shall sec, sir.
Who is the king. on the morrow's morni"
At evening, O garden aglow with blossoms
That swayed and danced In the rosy light:
Tenderly, fondly the sun caressed them.
Bidding each fower-matd . soft good.
ni1ht.
At morning, a desolate waste Of blaokness.
Where color and beauty and grace had
been;
The dark shapes. dead to the suns hot
kisses,
Could not be wooed back to life again.
Nov who is kingi" said the frost-sprite,
proudly,
Viewing the scene with exultant air;
But the sun pursued him with cleaning
lances,
And drove him back to his northern lair,
Thus have they warred since times be-
Thus Will they war till time lose breath.
The prince with the weapons Of fiery -splen.
dor.
And tho prince with the sword Of ice and
Emma G. Dowd. in Youths Companion.
A Rain Song.
There's mist upon the mountains and mist
upon the plain;
Rut can't you hear the music in the rain.
rain, rain?
It's singing of the summers with the roses
red and white
It's dream to you in daytime and lula
by at night!
Rain away.
Rainy dnyi
Round the hearth the children play:
And I'm dreaming.
Dreaming. dreaming
OF the melodies Of Mayl
Tho steeples. like sad sentinels that point
the stars in vain,
Are dripping. dripping. dripping with tho
silver beads of rain:
But what care We for weather-cecks
a-shiver in the cold,
When the hearth at home is blazing and
the lambs are in the fold?
Rain away,
Rainy dayl
Round the hearth the children play:
And I'm dreaming,
o I'm dreaming
OF the melodies Of May!
Frank L. Stanton. in Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20
CLEARINGHOUSE RETURNS.

Percentage of Increase or Decrease
Shown for Various Cities.
New York, March 1.-THE following
table, compiled by Bradstreet's, shows
the total clearances at the principal cit.
les and the percentage of increase or
decrease MS compared with the CORE
spending week of last year:
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20

-"Great scott!" howled the boss,
docs it take you four hours to carry q
message three squares and return?"
wy" said the new Office boy, "you
told me to see how long 1t would fake
ms to 80 there and buck, an I done t."
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20
Business Chances.

INDUCEMENTS offered to men with capital
and experience to build and operate flour
mills, oatmeal mills. feed mills flax mills, paper
mills starch factories and creameries In new
towns on the Great Northern Railway in the
Northwest. Address A. A, WHITE, 1920 Pioneer
Press Building, st. Paul. MINI.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20
"Where Are We At"

THIS question perplexes the whole business
world. People interested in the Northwest
can ind where they are at by consulting an at
las containing tire up 10 date maps and much
valuable reference and descriptive matter: sent
to any address Tor Is cents in stamps by F. IL
WHITNEY, G. P.& T. A., Great Northern Rail-
way, st, Paul, MINI,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20
A Business Proposition.

TIE owners of large body eff land on Wild
by island in Puget Sound WASH, will d.
vide 1t into tracts to suit buyers and sell at $40
and upwards per acre, on long time, and no
payments the first year. Produces all stable
crops;'ha close markets; schools and churches;
1,7D0 population; mild climate. For further In
formation address II. E. WORKMAN, Seattle,
Wnch
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20
Farms on the Crop Plan.

no you want to buy lands in the far-famed
~ grain-growing district Of the Red River
Valley OF North Dakota Remember they are
the best wheat lands on earth. Write to us and
get particulars We can sell you farm and
take pay from share of the cI0p.
GRAND1N & EDWARDS, Mayviile, N. D.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20
A Thoughtful Granddaughter.

A thoughtful grandmother visited
Martinsville, Ind, to buy pregents for
her 26 grandchildren. She spent q day
in the toy stores, and ut lost settled
upon gifts not likely to cause envy. She
chose for each Of the children shiny,
tin cup.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20
Flathead Valley. Montana.

EARNING lands. producing all the staple
fir and cedar. Mines OF precious metals and
coal Delightful and bealthfnl climate. Adapt
supply and power. Noextremes OF tcmpera-
ture. Market facilities. Homes for all. For
further information, address q. Il. CONRAD,
Kal.spell, Mont.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20
Willy w,nktum.


Little boy. with eyes of blue,
Like the gentians wet with dew,
Why Is II 80 far you roam,
What strange country is your home7
When hear that gleeful shout
Telling me that you're about,
Soon hear your mothers cry:
'Wtlly Winktum, winktum vii"
In q solemn gilded book,
At which have had q look,
william Allen Curtiss Brown"
Is the name for you put down.
That is English: but I hear
In your mothers accents clear;
Goo gah, poo bah. day de di,
Willy Winktum, winktum VIII
Willy Winktum, bonny bird,
Places where such speech is heard
Must be far in Babylon,
In the land from whence you come,
From your mothers happy tone,
This Is language she has known:
'Teety, weety, teety, II.
Willy Winktum. winktum viii"
Elizabeth G. HARE. in n. 7. Independent
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20
EGGS for the Young.

Eggs for babies and children are very
necessary, for the youthful body OBJ
t:.;as from them, it is claimed, every
thing that is necessary for its growth.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20
New York City,s Debt.

The public debt of New York city.
not including the floating obligations,
"a S1O5 949 446
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20
"77" for GRIP.

Rod by Drnseiss sent prepaid receint Of price,
ae $ioo, nay be assorted except Nos ~ % Aud
10, put up In u. 90 size only.
Dr. IluspHxkys' AsuAL( Enarsed &Revised, MAEprssA
HUMPHREYS NED. CO., III lls wilsn 81, New York.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20
Under the Lilac Tree.

Under the Lilac Tree.
Through my. open window,
Every breeze that strays,
Brings me fragrant doors
From stately lilac sprays.
Mosque-like in the moonlight,
With spire and minaret,
The lilac tree watts over me
The incense Of regret.
Like cool. gliding fingers. e
The air steals DER my face.
Moonlight. whiffs Of lilac.
Recall another place.
Under other lilacs.
Flecked with the shifting light,
With love aglow, all. long agol
I stood with you that night.
Just for one sweet moment
bid the picture stay;
Just to dream one hearts throb
That love can live Away.
All! Fate's strange vagariesl
All! for the dream long hedi
Love never dies; he only flies
To other hearts instead.
May Lillian Dodds. in Indianapolis Jour
nal.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20

w WlDELI huOWu WlSCOuSlu puUllS1GT,
IA who resides at Green Bay. writes
March 9Th, 1895, as follows:
"Fivc years ago became SO nervous that
mental work was burden. Icould not rest
at night on account OF sleeplessness. My
attention was called to DR.. Miles Resto7a-
tive Ncryine, and commenced to use 1t
with the very best effect. Since then 1
have kept bottle in my house and use it
whenever my nerves become unstruns. with
always the same good results. My son also
DR.. Miles takes , it for nervousness ss1,
Nervine success: have recon-
Restores it cures them. All who
ryo.,4L suffer from nerve
11Sdltlls'ssss troubles should try it.
1t is free from narcotics. perfectly harm
less. and yet soothes and strengthens. DR..
Miles, through his Nervine is a benefactor
to thousands" A. G. LEHMAN.
Editor and proprietor Of DER LANDsMAN.
d.. Miles Nervine is sold on guarantee
first bottle will benefit or money refunded.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20
According to Greeley:

According to Greeley:
OQ WEST: to FL. WhltnesS, 6. r. &
7. A. GIN, Ry., st. Paul, MIMI for frtptH
matter descriptive OF the Northwest country
which offers So many inducements to new SET.
iers and investors.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20

DR.. Miles Pain Pills are guaranteed to stop
AeadHCHe fn20 minutes, "One cent q dose.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20

Song Of Time.
Weep not for the hereafter
The burden OF the years;
For time stays not for laughter.
And time stays not for tears.
On swiftest pinions flying
He speeds DER land and sea:
Shall roses dead or dying
Revive because Of thee?
Care not for sharp thorns springinE:
To thee be life complete
II any bird ia singing,
And any rose Is sweet.
What Ills may come hereafter e
Whl come despite thy fears:
limo fingers not foy laughter.
And time stays not for tears.
-. 8. Stanton. In Chicago Times-HA,aIh.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-20

Our Little Echo.
We have an echo in our house,
An echo three years old.
With dimpled cheeks and wistful eyes,
And hair of sunny gold.
This little echo, soft and sweet.
Repeats what others say,
And trots about on tireless feet
Upstairs and down all day.
It makes us very careful not
To use naughty word.
Lest in the echo's lisping tones
1t should again be heard.
Which would be such dreadful thing.
As anyone may see,
Who has an echo in his house
A little over three.
Margaret Sangster. in Little Knights and
Ladies.