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THE HISTORIC ROUTE.

The Nashville. Chattanooga &
St. Louis Railway, the model
railroad of the South in equip
ment, roadway and service, is
also the greatest in historical in
terest, more than fifty famous
battlehelds and five national GEM
eteries being located on the var
ious lines of this system. This
is the preferred route to Atlanta
for the Cotton States and Inter
national Exposition, open from
September Is, to December 81,
1895, for which very low excur-
sion rates have been made.
Through sleeping Car service from
St Louis to Atlanta via Evans
vile, Nashville and Chattanooga.
This is the route of the famous
Dixie Flyer" through sleeping
car line which runs the year
round between Nashville and
Jacksonville, Fla. For further
information, address Briard +.
Hill, 32S Marquette Building,
Chicago, ILL.,, or r. c. Cowardin,
Western Passenger Agent, Rail
way Exchange Building, St.
Louis, Missouri, or d. J. Null
laney, Pass. Agt., 50 West Fourth
ST., Cincinnati, Ohio.
w. l.. DANLEY, G.. p. & I. A,
tI3o35 Nashville, Tenn
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HINOERCORNS,
FITS AND NERVOUS DISEASES.

When Henry NJ Hall, M. D., late surgeon Z.
s. A., Department of Tennessee, returned from
the war he found child afflicted with epilepsy.
Leading physicians were consulted, without
apparent benefit. Noted specialists could give
but little If any relief To rescue his child from
fate worse than death became the object of
his life. For several years experiment followed
experiment, until at last success crowned his
efforts. In 1889 old age and infrmities in
duced him to lmpart the knowledge Of how TO
manufacture 1t, under the agreement that
bottle should be sent free of all charges TO any
one applying for IL, who was afflicted with epi-
lepsy. Since then over 10000 free bottles have
been sent to the afflicted. Experience has
proved that il cures Insomnia St. Vitus' Dance,
and all forms of Nervous Affliction. II you
want to try this wonderful remedy free of all
charge. write, stating your disease as plainly IA
possible give your age and post office. Address
The Hall Chemical Co.. West Philadelphia, Pa
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First Dividend for This Companv

MILWAUKEE. Jan. 21.-The directors of
the Chicago. Wisconsin and Minnesota
Railway company, at q meeting held in
this city, ordered dividend Of $50 per
share upon $500 shares of the preferred
stock OF the company. the total dividend
amounting to s46s, ,OOO The payments
however are to be I'm Wisconsin Central
improvement bonds, which mature on
May l. The dividend Is the first that the
company has made
The true northerner., 1896-01-24
B,ebvaymap surrender,.

CLEVELAND, Jan. GA man giving
the name of l.. +. Preston walked into
the detectives Office at the city hall Mon.
day and said he was tired of being fugi
tive from justice. He said that he had
held up j. w. Freeman at Albany, n. Y,
on Sept. q, 1895. and robbed him of $3.50.
An examination of the records showed
that such man was wanted, and as Pres.
ton answered the description given he
was locked up and the Albany authorities
nofifaI
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Failure I'm Paper.

LOUISVILLE, X, Jan. 22.-The Louis.
Vile Paper company filed deed of as
signment in the county court Monday.
Mr.. B. H.. Fansley was made assignee.
The liabilities OF the company are placed
at $4,000. The assets, the attorneys say,
should reach about SIC, 900. The cause OF
assignment as given out was hard times
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Died Suddenly of Heart Failure.

MILWAUKEE, Jan. GA special to The
Evening Wisconsin from Shawano, Wis,
SAYS: Daniel III. Pulcifer, late United
states postoffice inspector, died suddenly
of heart failure. The deceased was 63
wears of age. He served in the Wisconsin
Legislature in 1879 and was sergeant-at.
arms of .he assembly Of $780,
The true northerner., 1896-01-24
Some More Trouble for John Bull.

BUENos AYREs Jan. 2l.-A dispatch to
La Preusa from Rio Janeiro says that
Senor Carlos Carvalno, minister Of for
eign affairs, is preparing note demand
ing the immediate restitution of the ISL
and of Trinidad, which has been occupied
by Great Britain.
The true northerner., 1896-01-24
Due TO Rhodes, Ambition.

NEW YORK, Jan. % = The Worlds
London cable says: The Times gives the
first real note in the English press Of the
conviction everywhere in well-informed
circles in London that Rhodes ultimate
aim in the Jameson affair was the es-
tablishing of the United States OF South
Africa. with Cecil Rhodes as dictator, or
a Nineteenth century Washington, IL you
The true northerner., 1896-01-24

"By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws
which govern the operations of digestion, and nutr
ton, and by a careful application of the fine proper
ties of well-selected Cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided
for our breakfast and supper delcately favoured
beverage which may save US many heavy doctors
bills. IL IL by the judicious OF such articles of
diet that constitution may be gradually built up
until strong enough 10 resist every tendency TO dis
ease. Hundreds of subtle maladies floating
around us ready to attack wherever there is a
weak point. We may escape many fatal shaft by
keeping ourselves well fortified with pure blood and
a properly nourshed frame."-Ci9H ScyzTce Gastke.
Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only
in half-pound tins, by Grocers, labelled thus:
JAMES EPPS X CO., Ltd, Homeopathic
o32 Chemists, London, England,
The true northerner., 1896-01-24
Milwaukee Shoe House I'm Trouble.

MILWAUKEE, Jan. 0-Attachments
were issned Monday against the shoe
house of Smith 81 Stoughton Co. in favor
Of Charles +. Pfster of this city for s47,-
00O, and the store Is now In the hands of
the sheriff
The true northerner., 1896-01-24

WANTED Several trustworthy gentlemen or
w ladies TO travel ih Michigan for established,
reliable house. Salary, $3.50 aud expenses. Steady
position. Enclose references and self addressed
stamped envelope. The Dominion Company. Third
Floor, Omaha Bid, Chicago, Ill. [l9t26o44
The true northerner., 1896-01-24

W ANTED.-s everal trustworthy gentlemen or
w ladies TO travel i'm Michigan for established,
reliable house. Salary, $3.50 and expenses. Steady
posu N. Enclose references and self addressed
stamped envelope. The Dominion Company Third
Floor, Omaha Bldg, Chicago, Ill. llet26otf
The true northerner., 1896-01-24
%. Louis Grain.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. Il.
whest-No. 2 red cash. 85; do hard, 5734c ;
January. 6s4c; May. 6lhc Corn-Cash.
2511c; January. 25ssc; May 1870 Oats
Cash. 1870; January. 1870; May. 2J1sc. Rye.
Lower Sac bid
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wheat-No. 2spring on track. 5Ss4c; No.
northern. 6O1zc: May, Gle Corn-No. g. 26c.
Oats-No 2 white. l94c; No do. ls34c.
Barley-No 2. Sac: samples. 23934c Rye
Firm; No. 1. 80
The true northerner., 1896-01-24

DETROIT, Jan. II.
wheat-Cash white. ooc cash red. $3.50 bid |;
May. 6e1<c; July. 653zo.
The true northerner., 1896-01-24

Wheat-Cash, csc; May, Toe asked; July.
6514c; No. soft. sc asked. Corn-Cash, Hitc
nominal No. 3. &c; No. 4. 2516; May. 8O1<c.
Oats-Cash. i9c bid; May. 2l14c bid
Detroit Grain.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-07-31
HARD TO BEAT.
conviction with steadfastness worthy

convection with u steadfastness worthy
of q better principle.
Inasmuch as no body of tramps will
invade the territory preempted by an
other detachment, the breaking up Of
campis not very serious matter. When
given notice by the farmers to vacate
they usually comply with the request
promptly, only occasionally burning q
barn or two to show their displeasure.
If orders to quit are issued in the spring
or early summer, the band moves ten
or fifteen miles westward; if in late
summer or fall, the progress is toward
the east, provided Chicago has been the
point of departure. In this way some
companies travel through Illinois and
Iowa, others through Wisconsin and
Minnesota, always following the line of
railroad selected as their own at the
beginning of the season. and return by
the same route, reaching the city be-
fore the first snowfall.
The question has often been asked:
GLOW are tramps made?" 1t is doubt
less true that a certain percentage Of
men is born with q hatred for honest
employment which no system of educa-
ton can eradicate. Such creatures are
the natural vagabonds, the ulcer on
the body polite which has defled treat
ment ever since society was established.
And there is no doubt in the mind of the
sociologist that they will continue to
exist as long as mankind has to struggle
for existence. But the majority of our
lntter-day tramps are creatures Of cir.
ouustauces.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-07-31

payne from a cut-glass goblet. A few
weeks before election time the expert
enced tramp enjoys life. He is picked
up by the agent of one or the other
political party and enrolled as guest
at some cheap lodging house from which
he can be registered. From the day
OF registration until he has cast his
ballot for the publication of municipal
politics" he lives in clover. After that
come neglect and the warm days of
spring.
But instead of bemoaning his lot and
abusing the erstwhile kind policeman
who, after the election, degenerates
once more into petty tyrant, the man
without home takes up his stick and
wanders out into the country, unless
be can steal q ride on freight train.
Before he has Travelled ten miles he will
meet number Of his colleagues, and
forthwith they will form band, elect
leader and establish a camp.
OF course, not tented camp, because
tramps have never been known to carry
baggage. The leader of the band SIM
ply selects some deserted barn or ten
antless section house, and there he es-
tablishes his kingdom until driven away
by the outraged farmers living within
the purliens of his realm.
When men have learned to be philo.
sophical. they do not require much to
live. After winters campaign among
the five and ten cent eating houses of
metropolitan city, baked chicken,
even though it be burned and full of
pin feathers, is indeed luxury, and
breakfast of fresh-laid eggs is en-
chanted into Luculllan feast. Usually
the depredatory habits Of the vagabond
are confined to the collection of such
eatables. although once in awhile he
will make an attack upon q freight car
loaded with. beer or other liquid re-
freshment. Given these luxuries-and
few pieces Of clothing which he. Sc
cures by begging-the king of the road
is happy man-an up-to-date philoso-
pher who believes that the world owes
him living, and who lives up to his
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-07-31
TRAMPs IN THE WEST.
Their Number Is Increasing from
Year to Year.
How tho Modern Ishmaelites Spend
Their Summer yacation-Used for
Political Purposes in Spring and Au-
tumn-What Makes yagabonds.
Especial Chicago Letter.1

"Why is Meandering Mike like fan
nel?" because he shrinks from wash
ing" This threadbare little joke has
been heard time and again, but no one
can appreciate it's deep significance un-
til he has had the fortune-or misfor-
tune, if you please-of visiting one Of
the numerous camps established by tho
tramp fraternity along the lines Of our
western railroads.
In winter the tramp establishes him.
self in the large cities Of the land. He
lives by begging, and sleeps wherever
he can find place. If mendicancy does
not pay for his fusel oil and food, he
steals or taps empty beer kegs III the
rear Of saloons. The stale remnants
which find no escape through the bur-
keepers faucet, even with the aid of q
powerful pump, are poured by the
dirty scavengers into the proverbial to-
mato can and consumed with the same
relish displayed by the blase million
aire when he sips his French cham
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-07-31
ina, n,pn4. leaning over mo ,,,,,,,, =,

Tnat night, leaning over the prov OF
the vessel, watching the glimmering,
fantastic lights in the phosphorescent
waters, Mrs. Trinder waxed confiden-
tial, and I learned the reason of her
journey. She was unused to travel.
ing, having never been so miles away
from her home before. Ten years ago
she had loved and been loved, but the
loved one was Ineligible, and her par.
ents, fully alive to the advantage OF
wool, had persuaded her to marry old
Trinder. But now that she was free
and independent, she was ON her way
to India to seek out her early love.
They had always been faithful, though
they had not corresponded (that would
have been wrong), but she had fire.
quent news of him from mutual
friend. That he still cared for her
seemed certain, for he had never mar
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-07-31

condition never recovered to that point
which denotes universal prosperity,
Each ere OF overproduction gave birth
to new evils; and the ranks Of tramp-
dom, augmented by foreign recruits
have been gaining rather than losing in
strength.
Hence, to certain extent, every
tramp encampment on the prairie of the.
middle west Is constant reminder of
The mistakes Of our system of political
economy, as interpreted by professional
politicians. While the tramp, as an in;
dividual or a class, is nuisance, his ex-
istence should teach q great lesson.i
The foremost thinkers of America are
unanimous in pronouncing him q crea-
ture Of the nuisance of power and
wealth; and this estimate is no doubt
correct when applied to all but natural!
yagabonds.
The evil resulting from the Increase
In the number of homeless and de-
graded waits is felt mostly in cities
like Chicago and New York, where they
are used for political purposes. Many
municipal elections in the western
metropolis have been carried by the
cheap lodging house vote which is cast
exclusively by individuals degraded by
years of lawless living. They are
bought up for song by ward politi-
clans, and thus frequently help to per-
petrate rottenness in the administers
ton of the city's affairs, without, of.
course, contributing anything towards
its revenues.
Nevertheless, before pronouncing
Judgment on the human wreck that
applies at your door for assistance
and at times takes by force what is not,
given quiclly-it is we'll to ponder the;
conditions which have reduced him to-
his sad condition. The blear-eyed,i
dirty-faced mendicant may at one timel
have been the husband of good wom-I
an; may have been the father of al
family as promising as your own. Be,
fore casting stone it would be wise to
consider what we might be had we.
been in his place.
G. w, wEIPPIERT.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-07-31

There was time in the history OF the
United States when O genuine trampI
was a rarity. That was when employ
ment was plentiful and the demand for
labor did notexceed the supply. I!
After the close of the civil war the
modern tramp, the Ishmaelite of our
fn-de-siecle civilization, made his apl
tpearance In small numbers, but not UNI
til 1873, when the great panic paralyzed
every American industry, did he throng
our highways and byways. No human
being, not born into vagabondage, drops
from responsibility into q state of saw
age freedom without passing through
intermediate stages. A few facts gath
cred from time to time by the writer
lend substance to the statement that
nine-tenths of the miserable wretches
who now live in idleness, and often by
crime, started upon their career as
tramps while honest workingmen.
Through no fault of theirs they had
lost employment in the towns where
they had worked for years. Several of
those interviewed-and their statements
were afterward corroborated = had
AAAsANS paAV pay ulSutS Oh homes anu
others owned lots and household goods.
When the factories which had given
them work closed their doors, these
men took what money they could spare
and travelled to other points to earn a,
livelihood. They found the same UNI
fortunate conditions prevailing wher-
ever they went. Their funds gave out;l
they could no longer pay railroad fare;]
they had to rely upon the charitable
for food and lodging; their once neat
clothing had become shabby and thread
bare. Onward and onward they went,
like the Wandering Jew; from the lodg-
Ing in hay loft to a cot in the calaboose,
and the stone pile. Honest and honora-
BILE, every hand was raised against them
until they, In turn, raised their hands
against everybody.
The transition from responsibility to
trampdom was o rapid process. It re-
quired years to accomplish it. But, once
accomplished, it took hold of body and
soul. and neither reformatory nor prison
could eradicate 1t. The once respected
mechanic, owing principally to their
intelligence, became the leaders of
bands OF predatory wanderers and :he
founders of class of society which is
destined to thrive for many years to
come.
The depression of 1873 was succeeded
by q few fat years, but the Industrial
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-07-31

spectcd the few trees we commenced
our descent, and in so doing came across
the worst-tempered man. In the course
OF an evcntful life it has been my mis-
fortune to foregather with many bad
tempered mortals, but this one could
give points to any TIVE other men OF
my acquaintance and beat them, and
that is saying II good deal, for there's
nothing like residence in the east for
fraying out the edges of one's temper
even those of covcnantcd civilians,
lie was an ill-favorcd, unwholcsolnc
looking individual, with puffy checks
and watcry eyes, hetol:cning too great
affinity for the inspuatirg peg. His
carriage had come to grief on the road
and he was standing among the debris
apostrophlzlng the driver aud his fe-
male relations to the third generation
in terms that caused my companions
lip to curl with disgust, From one or
two expressions borne after us upon
the breeze we learned with sorrow that
he was to be fellow passenger to
Bombay.
On our return to the ship a couple of
hours later l found Mrs. Trinder sit ting
In her cabin among her purchases, wear
ing very frightened expression. She
was timid little thing, and about rs
fit to knock about the world alone us
an unhedged canary, having evidently
been kept in baudboN all her life.
"They've put mailman next door"
she began in q low voice; hes dread
fully violent. Listen"
= string of 1lindustani invcctives
mingled with blows falling on some
dull substance, and ordinations OF
"Sahib! Sahib," reached our ears
through the open grating that headed
the partition walls af the two cabins
and | recognized the accents of the
worst-tempered man.
Its only temper" said, reassuring-
ly; you'll get used to that sort OF
thing. He's beating his servant, but
you may be sure the boy is we'll paid
or he wouldn't stand it, If the man
swears too loudly, III speak TO the
captain"
Beating his servant! How dreadful.
Let us go up on deck"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-07-31

''The mints are coming silver bull
lion again at the rate of 81 800, 600 per
month" Nearly every gold standard
paper is making substantially the
above statement. The great metrop4
olitan dailies make the statement
without comment, leaving it TO the
penney-a-li liners to draw the conclus-
ion that the mints are adding that
sum to the money of the people and
that free coinage is not necessary.
The facts are that there is demand
for money among the people of less
denomination than is represented in
the mass of silver certificates issued
against the bullion deposited for their
redemption. To supply the demand,
silver certificates of larger denomina-
tions than one dollar are sent to the
treasury for the silver dollars they
call for. AS these have remained in
the bullion deposited, the mints are
at work coming the dollars needed
for that purpose. This demand for
silver disposes ola fayorite expression
aud theory of the gold standard peo-
pie, that the silver dollars cannot be
got into circulation, while there is an
acknowledged demand for million
ind half month. This issue it
should be noted does not, AS they as
sumo, increase the quantity of money
in circulation, because for every sill
yer dollar minted and sent out its
equivalent, circulating among th-
people, is surrendered and destroyed.
The silver certificates that reach the
treasury through the custom house
or Tor internal revenue may be rc-is-
sued, because the bullion for their re-
denpton is untouched in the treas
ury vaults,
But say the gold men, behold how
the silver and ITS representatives, the
certificates, return to the Treasury, il
being impossible to keep them out
in the channels of business On the
contrary they are both performing
their offices IN the channels of bust
ness in paying the custom duties and
the internal revenue taxes due the
government, aud the ofrener they are
returned to the treasury for tie
purposes, the less will be the need
for bond issues to obtain gold OF 9TH
er forms of currency.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-07-31

day between Port Said and the Gulf Of
Alden. His face showed that he was
trimming over with o matter Of
weighty Importance, so gathered my
self together and prepared to listen and
advise thereon, for, being an old singer,
1 was used to the condolences Of subal-
terms.
"Fact Is, I've been hard hit" began
the dragon, sitting down on the deck.
Miss Stanton?" I inquired, sympa-
thetically, for that young woman, on her
way to marry q planter, had worked
havoc among the unappropriated mas
culine hearts.
Miss Stantoni No. mean the
woman who sits next you at the table,
the one with the beautiful eyes,"
"My cabin companion, Mrs. Trinderl
She is probably going out to Join her
husband" added, warningly.
"Oh, no. She's widow. Hunt, OF the
Fourth, told me all about it;he has an
uncle who has place close to old Trim
der's, and he, Hunt, mean, knew them
quite well by sight. Old Trinder was
old enough to be her father. He made
pile in cotton or something Of that
sort, and died last year"
well, you know more about her than
do. Though she is my cabin compan-
ion, I haven't found her particularly
sociable-"
THAT'S just 1t; one doesn't get any
'torarder' with her; she won't talk to
anybody"
well, don't see how can make
her.
"But If you were to ask her to tea, or
something OF that sort"
"And ask you to meet her, Of course
don't mind, so be here ut four to-mor-
row." and I proceeded to scribble a
note to Hunt, Of the Fourth, In consider
alton of his uncle having known old
Trinder.
Somehow that tea was not q success,
although the cook surpassed himself
in tea cakes, and that subtle flavor of
stewed cockroaches that pervades nll
| ships tea was reduced to minimum.
The sound Of the dressing bell broke
up the party, leaving the dragon
baflled In his object, but more in love
than ever. He was one Of those men
who take the complaint seldom but bad
ly, and Mrs. Trinder, with her slim
| figure, big eyes, sweet smile and mono
syllables, was in hts eyes the perfeo.
| ton of wonanhood. And Mrs, Trinder
was lucky woman, for had known
| the dragoon intimately for ten years
and could not have wished for better
husband myself.
you'll come ashore?" said the
dragon four days later, as we steamed
slowly into harbor at Alden, and shoal
of duslsy infants surrounded the ship,
chanting in unison their chorus OF
"have O. dive" while boat loads Of wool
ly headed vendors Of ostrich eggs, feath.
ers and carved curios from the interio,
prepared TO squeeze their victims.
consented, for a coaling ship is not
a delectable place, but in spite of all
pervading dust Mrs. Trinder could not
be persuaded to accompany us, and we
left her surrounded by swarm of M
tive merchants, who, with unelring In
stinct, marked her rs an easy prey.
The journey to the empty tanks was
| jolly and dusty as ever. Having In