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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-03-31
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full of new life and vigor, take No-To-Bac,
the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
strong. Many gain ten pounds in ten days.
Over 400, 600 cured. Buy No-To-Bac OF your
druggist, under guarantee to cure, SOC OF
Sl.oo. Booklet ana sample mailed free. Ad.
Sterling Remedy Co, Chlcnao or New York.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-03-31

paper-bound. ABSOLUTELY free to any woman who
will send twenty-one cents in one-cent stamps
to cover the cost Of mailing only to Worlds Dis
Buffalo, N. Y. If handsome, substantial, French
cloth binding is desired, send ten cents extra,
thirty-one cents in all.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-03-31

a handsomely illustrated volume
of a thousand pages, several
chapters of which are devoted
to the reproductive physiology
Of women. 1t is written in plain
language, and contains over
three hundred illustrations and
colored plates. Until recently,
it was sold at a dollar and a
half a copy. and at this price,
it reached the tremendous sale
Of six hundred and eighty thou
sand copies. It is now offered,
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-03-31
Plague Among Troops.

FIHRuo hHhouK AToopss
LONDON, March 3l.-A special dis
patch from Bombay says that the
plague has broken out among British
troops at Calaba.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-03-31
If door is hung

If a door is hung
to swing one way,
there is no use
trying to push it
the other w a
There is a right
and a wrong way
to do things.
Many thousands
Aof W o m e n in
y America are sick,
and would like to
| be we'll. h e y
are making efforts
IN uef well h,it
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-03-31

CoLCMBUS, o, March 3l.-lIon. G..
l.. Converse, ex.member of congress-, is
dead
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-03-31
Bad Year for NJ osuuitoes.

SIOUX City, Ia, March 3O.-Obseryer
Purssell OF the government weather
Office here, is authority for the state.
menr that mosquitoes will be scarce
during the coming summer along run.
ming streams throughout the North
west. They owe their existence TO
stagnant water" he explains, land the
recent high water in all streams in
this section has so thoroughly cleansed
the channels that the pests will have
hard work finding breeding places"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-03-31
GREAT nEDICAL BOOK FREE.

Every woman should have a copy of Docto
Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser. It
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-08-06

When you hear q man talking
about 5O-cent dollars you can safely
conclude that he belongs to one of
two classes. He is either an individ-
ual who has never given the coinage
question moments intelligent con-
sideration and is simply repeating,
parrot like, q catchy phrase coined
by the money power; or else he is q
man who thinks that his interests
will be promoted by making money
dear and the products of labor cheap,
and that he can confuse aud delude
the thoughtless by the use of tricky
language.
When silver was freely coined at
the ratio of 16 to /, the silver in a
silver dollar was worth more in the
markets Of the world than the gold
in gold dollar. Then silver like
gold was freely used in the arts and
also for money purposes, aud it's uses
fixed it's value.
No one would be short sighted
enough to contend that either metal
could retain its comparative price, if
deprived of its use as money.
No one at all informed on the
subject, aud possessed with the small
est trace of common honesty, would
contend that the commercial price of
silver. when deprived of its principal
use, would furnish reliable guide
as to price after its use would be
restored Manchester Democrat.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-08-06
OUR CANDIDATE IN 1900
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
Syndicate Editorials.

The Wall street syndicate is again
supplying republican weeklies with
editorials. We find in several of our
republican exchanges an editorial
paragraph during the same week,
corresponding word for word and
each appearing as original editorial
matter. The following from the Nc
Gregor News appeared the same
week in the Cresco Republican, and
was published and replied to in the
PLAIN DEALER the issue following.
The article as it appeared in the Nc
Gregor News is copied and replied to
bv the Elkader Democrat as follows:
Candidate Whites socialistic ut
teranccs are being discussed with
alarm the country over, though few
people can think 1t possible that the
sele-respecting state of Iowa can sc
far forget itself as to make q man OF
these principles it's governor" Mo
Gregor News.
Why not publish his "socialistic
differences" and let the people read
what the next governor is sayings
Are you afraid to trust your readersi
Fred White when boy in his teens
sbouldered his:lnusket and served his
country we'll in her days of travail,
arriving at his majority while with
Sherman on his march to the sea, but
did not cause 'alarm the country
OVER then, and such misrepresenta-
ton and Islander as the above will not
deter ''self-respecting State Of love-
from honoAiDg him now.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-08-06
TWO VALLEYS OF DEATH.
One In Java and Another in Il
South of California.

One In Java and Another in the
South of California.
The Valley of Death, or Poison valley,
as it is sometimes called, is an oval
shaped hollow near the summit of a
mountain on the Island of Java. Tits
about half mile in width and 35 feet
deep, and its atmosphere is loaded with
carbonic acid gus. 1t has not been
thoroughly explored, says the Phila-
delphia Times, for, as the bones of
beasts, of birds and of some human be-
ings may be seen from it's borders, even
the most adventurous persons do not
cnre to run the risk of breathing its air
for any time.
There is also "death valley" in Inyo
county, CAL, between the Paramint
mountains and the Amarogosa range.
~ Is forty miles in length by eight miles
| IN breadth, and its lowest part lies $50
1eet below sea level. 1t Is known that
every part of it is desert, but its
topography and its climate have never
been accurately observed forthe reason
that human beings cannot live lone
enough in its atmosphere to obtain thu
needed facts. In the coolest and highes
part the thermometer often register
l25 degrees Fahrenheit, and this ex
eessive heat may be the cause OF tn,
deadly nature of its air, but as the val
ley is OF volcanic origin it is surmise.
that deadly gases may issue from tn,
cracks in the rocks. There are severa
other places in the west where the hea
is SO excessive that people cannot liv
In II
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-08-06
used to transport the logs, electricity

used to transport the logs, electricity
operates street cars, and bicycles take
the place of livery. Now the gold bugs
tell us this is all due to progress and
genius, but we say that the water has
gone down in the barrel, butthe buckets
are still empty, too. If horses have
been retired, hogs and sheep should
have taken their place, and oats and
corn ought to have been profitable, but
there was no profit in hogs or sheep,
corn nor oats, and the bicycle and cleo
tricity did not affect them. They ought
to have been in the buckets when the
horses went down in the barrel, but
they were not, and when we silverites
want to examine that barrel then we are
crazy anarchists" We must not even
examine the wet spot on the outside.
All we need to have is confidence in the
bottom of that barrel But the bottom
Of that barrel Is what is leaking the
prices of our products and toll And
we have those with us yet, who are
standing around that same barrel like
flock of ducks around spout in dry
weather, still looking up the spout for
water. But it will never come until the
barrel is mended. And>so with the law
of supply and demand; it operates free
ly when the water goes down in the
barrel and rises in the buckets. When
one crop ceases to pay another one
rises to take it's place, we may be as
sured that some one is tampering with
the law of supply and demand.
EvTrrA TIrrL rJOT MFG
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-08-06
BANKRUPTCY AND GOLD.
Failure of Recommendations shown /
the Business History of 1906.

Failure of Recommendations Shown in
the Business History of 1906.
Statistics concerning the business
history of 1896 have been completed,
and the showing is not encouraging
to the advocates OF monometallic
gold standard.
1t is safe to say that no such showing
was made when this country was enjoy
ing the benefits of bimetallism. 1t is
not our purpose to indulge in what the
advocates of Sound money" are pleased
to call calamity bowling" but 1t is
useless to attempt to disguise facts, and
to claim that gold has brought with it
prosperity would be breach of faith
to the people.
Bradstreet's commercial bureau has
compiled the statistics of business fail
ures for the year 1896, and the sum
total reaches 1912. The alleged assets
Of these broken firms amounted to
$l4S,297, 1856, and the liabilities to $247,-
a52,s43. The loss, when final settle
1sept has been made, will be very pear
" % per cent. of the total EabiGsiss.
These IS only one ieatuse of this re-
port 70 which we desire TO call especial
attention, and that is 10 the fact tina ii of
these failing business houses s1s were
banks. In 1894 there were 106 bank
failures, in 1895 there were 1885,, and in
1896 there were 215. The total liabili-
ties increased from SIS. POS, 900 in 1894
to s2,544.o0o in 1895, and reached $685.
$4,000 in 1896.
What the gold standard has done for
the banks in the last three years can he
gathered from the fact that the liabili-
ties for 1896 are three times as great
as those for 1894. If the forcing of the
United States to gold standard works
this ruin to the banks, what must the
effects be on commercial interests in
general?
This question is submitted for serious
consideration. There is something in it
that is worthy Of study. not only on the
part OF bimetallists, but of those who
believe in the single gold Standard
Chicago Dispatch.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-08-06
Black Sand Pool YELLOWSTONE Park.

mo person who visits the Upper Geyser
Basin should fail to see Black Sand Pool. 1t
les to the south of the main Upper Basin, and
is reached by a road leading past tile beautiful
Punch Bowl Spring, Black Sand Pool is an
oval spring some 40 feet long by 20 or 25 feet
wide. The water is of a light blue sapphire or
turquoise color-it is not easy to nama the pre-
else tint in many MISUNDERSTANDING beauti-
full from whose surface the steam constantly
rises. The great peculiarly about it is that the
encircling sides, which are in places fifteen feet
high or more, are composed of black, probably
decOmposed obsidian, sand.''
The above is taken from wonderland 49," a
new book published by the Northern Pacific
Railway. Send SIX cents to CHAs. s. FEE, Gem
Pass. Agent, st. Paul. Mlnn., for it.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-08-06
Fred E. White.

The Clinton Advertiser says: Erred
White is plain man Of the plain
people. His hands are hardened by
honest toll in welding the ak, the
hoe, the spade and grasping the plow
handles. His feet for many a long
day have trod the furrow. A vast ma
joriJy of the people of Iowa are toll
ers whose brows are often wet with
sweat and they should remember a
fellow workman who knows the hard
chips of labor, is best able to under
stand the wants of the toiler, and is
most ready to administer the affairs
of the state in their interest. Then
why should they not on election day
rally to the standard of their toller
comrade in the battle of life. His
patriotism has been in the fires OF the
battle, his honesty is unquestionAble
and his ability OF the highest. Just
eucl, a man as the people need to
govern this great state Of Iowa"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-08-06
How's ThisI

We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & Co. Props, Toledo,
Ohio.
We, the undersigned, have known
F. j. Cheney for the last Is years,
and believe him perfectly honorable
in all business transactions and hnan-
cially able to carry out any obi
CATION made by their firm.
WEST y TRuAx. Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, Ohio.
WALp1NG, K1NNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in
terna,ly, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. Price 75c per bottle. Sold
by all Druggists. Testimonials free
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-08-06
The Dubuque Herald gives u

The Dubuque Herald gives us the
following remarkable facts:
The states net deficit on June Both
was $410, e29 81. The total amount of
warrants outstanding on that date
was 1887, 502.83. Against this there
was a total Of $36, $40. 96 cash on hand,
leaving the net deficit as stated.
No wonder the republican press is
attempting to make the campaign OF
national issues and hide from the
people the record made by their state
administration.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-08-06
Money and the Crops.

Republican newspapers are con-
graduating themselves and the
people over the good crops. Iu this
everybody will join them, for good
crops are undoubtedly worthy o.
congratulatory mention.
But there is one crop which the
republicans are using all their power
to diminish, and, unfortunately fol
the people, they have it in Their
power to lessen that crop. They
cannot reduce the quantity of corn
and wheat and oats and cotton, but
they can curtail the quantity of
money.
1t is just as important that the
people should have plenteous
supply of money as it is that they
should have generous return from
the fields of agriculture. The mines
of silver and gold which abound in
the United States will furnish abun-
dance of money if the republican
politicians will open the mints to
coin the bullion.
The fruits of the farmers toll
cannot be moved without money.
The prices he receives must be
meagre if there is meagre supply OF
money. The manufacturer cannot
dispose of his goods if the people
have not the money with which to
buy.
The folly of contracting the
currency Ia never 30 apparent as
during the days Of bounteous harvest.
The crime against the people in
closing the mints is never 30 patent
az when the farmers bins are over
flowing with grain and his pocket
are empty.
Set the minis in motion and tn
mills will open. Provide the peopl
with plenty of money with which t
do business and business will be done
The growth of money should parable
the growth of crops. Then prosper
ty will come.-Chicago Dispatch.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-08-06
-s-- -
MEXICAN DOLLARS.
And the Unprecedented Prosperity {
Our NeighbOring Republic.

And the Unprecedented Prosperity of
Our Netghboring Republic.
Reports of good times in Mexico keep
on coming, regardless of the disdain
with which gold standard advocates
view such facts. Thus, the Textile Rec
ord, of Philadelphia, in Its recent is
sue innocently reports in its news col
umns:
'There are 119 cotton mills in Mexico
at the present time, and it is now pro-
posed to build five more.
Gail kinds of industry in that re-
public are In q condition of high
prosperity"
We print this in bold, plain type,
hoping it may serve as an index point
ing the way of our "sound" money
friends in the manufacturing world to
better sense and better times.
"a condition of high prosperity"
Think Of it! Would not few of those
despised Mexican dollars be better than
no dollars in this republic of ours2-
Buffalo Times.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-08-06
SCIENCE OF LEARNING.
An Applied to the Money Question
Ten PrOpOsitiOns.

Ten Propositions.
There is science of learning as well
as science of teaching; both are in
their infancy. If one knows how to
study question, he can learn more in
weeks than is usually learned in months
and even years. If one knows how to
teach question, the result is the same.
The monetary question is not under
stood by many people, because they
have never been taught how to study
the question. The matter is very sim
pie. There are certain facts that I'M
derlie every question; there are GER
tain elements upon which that question
depends. It these facts are known, and
if these elements are learned, the sub
ject is Invested of all difficulties. A
knowledge of the monetary question
that is now SO interesting to the peo-
pie of this country, depends upon the
correct answer to the following:
1. Why have we now, and why will
we have for the present. and some time
to come, metal basis for our currency?
2. What is credit money? Token
money? Credit or representative
money? Credits?
3. What is the automatic system of
primary money? Or what is automatic
primary money? In connection with
this point state the automatic law that
governs the increase and decrease of
metal primary money.
4. How much gold have we in the
world? How much silver?
( What 10 hin, of a 11;S,,,o
6. What is the history of bimetallism?
Is bhmetallism true theory judged by
its honesty? Is it a true theory from
iadeietien3 Is it true in practice? In
eonneetaot with this point, STATE, the
Law Of supply and demand, and its au-
tensate action, by which two metals
as primary money will always be kept
at the parity determined on by the law
which creates them primary money!
z. What is the gold standard?
s. Who is in favor of the gold stand
ard?
Q. What is the effect of the gold stand
ard?
10. Why should the United States re-
ject the gold standard7
Now, if one, wishing to understand
this subject, carefully answers all of
these questions, he will understand it.
1t is not necessary for him to come to
the conclusion reached by himself. 1t
is not necessary for any two people to
view the same subject alike, but if any
two people wish to understand sub
ject, they must do about the same
things in order to understand it. Now,
I beg to say, that these questions are
answered, in my judgment, there can
be only one conclusion; but to say the
least of it, the person answering them,
will never have any doubt in his own
mind as to what he believes and the
reason for that belief.-P. H. Harris, in
Minneapolis Press
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-08-06
IN LAMPPosr LETTER BOXES.
Not Many Things of Value Found
Therc-Deail Mice DrOunch Tn


There-Dend Mice Dropped In.
ever find things inthe boxes ?" was
asked of post Office collector who was
taking the letters from lamppost let
ter box.
Some, butnot such an everlastinglot,
either" was the reply, says the New
York Sun. "a thief fleeing from
his pursuers once dropped a watch
in lamppost letter box, SO that It
would not be found upon his person nor
along the line of his flight; but watches
are not commonly found in lamppost
letter boxes.
"Once when came up to a letter box
1 found standing by 1t q policeman and
woman. The policeman said that the
woman had dropped a dollar bill into
the box between some letters and she
wanted to get 1t back. The rules Of the
post office require that anything that
may be found IN the boxes shall be
turned in at the. post office; the loser
must apply for 1t there. II had found
any money in this box should have
been compelled to turn 1t in. But there
wasn't any money there; the lady must
have lost 1T or have left 1t somewhere
else.
"As matter of fact not many things
OF value are dropped into lamppost let
ter boxes. Uptown you find q dead
mouse in box occasionally, but that's
about all. Children put the mice in the
box-they find dead mouse in the
street and think it's funny to put it il
lamppost letter box"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-08-06

Thousands suffer from Catarrh or
cold in head and have never tried the
popular remedy. There is no longer
any excuse, as a 10 cent trial size of
Ely's Cream Balm can be had of your
druggist or we mail it for 10 cents
Full size SO cents.
ELY BROS, Sc Warren St., N. Y.
City.
A friend advised me to try Ely's
Cream Balm and after using it six
weeks believe myself cured of
catarrh. 1t is most valuable
remedy.-Joseph Stewart, 624 Grand
Avenue, Brooklyn. N. Y.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-08-06
Everybody Says So.

Cascarets Candy Catl,artic, the most Won
derful medical discovery of the age, pleas
ant and refreshing to the taste, act gently
and positively on Kidneys, liver and bowels,
cleansing the entire system, dispel colds,
cure headache, fever, labitual constipation
and bilionsness. Please buy and try q box
of g. G. G. to-day; 10, IS, so cents. Sold and
guaranteed to cure by all druggists.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-08-06
A Compulsory Delay

"Charge!" thundered; the command
ing officer. Not a soldier moved. An
aid hurriedly approached.
"Why this delay?" demanded the
general. "The enemy is in front and
the men are in line"
Zone moment" said the aid. 'SThe
kaleidoscope machines are not yet in
position"
Again did civilization prevent blood
shed.-N. Y. WorldL
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-08-06
Try Grain-O! Try Grain-O!

Ask YOUR Grocer to-day to show you a package
of GRAIN-O. the new food drink that takes the
place of coffee. The children may drink 1t with
out injury as well as the adult. All who try it,
like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of
Mocha or Java, but 1t is made from pure grains,
and the most delicate stomach receives it with
out distress. u the price of coffee. 15c and 25c
per package. Sold by all grOcers.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-08-06
To ConsumptiYes.

AS an honest remedy, Foley's
Honey and Tar does not hold out
false hopes in advanced stages, but
truthfully claims to give comfort and
relief in he very worst cases, and in
the early stages to effect cure.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-08-06

AUSTIN, MIMI. August 10, 1894.
To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This
is to certify that l have used Hazle's
Capsules. with beneficial results, for
headache and neuralgia. They are
perfectly harmeless, containing no
opiates of any description, and I
would cheerfully recommend them to
any person suffering from either of
the above troubles. Yours,
G. H. JOHNSON, NJ. d.
Surgeon c., M. & st. P. Ry:
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-08-06
When You Take Your Vacation

the most necessary article to have
with you(after your pocket book is a
bottle of FoleY's Colo Cure. 1t is an
absolute prevention or cure of all de-
rangements of the bowels caused by
change of water. You are likely TO
need il.
Sold by ]. J. Lowry.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-08-06
There is a Class of People

ly there has been placed In all the grocery
stores a new preparation called GRAIN-O,
made of pure grains; that tokes the place Of #
without distress, and but few can tell it from
coffee. 1t does not cost over u as much. Chill
dren may drink it with great benefit. 15c and
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-08-06
Relief in sixHours.

Distressing Kidney and Bladder diseases re-
ieved in six hours by the 'sNEw GREAT SOUTH
AMERICAN KIDNEY CURE" This new remedy
lisa great surprise on account of its exceeding
promptness In relieving pain in the bladder,
kidneys. back and every part of the urinary
passages in male or female. 1t relieves reten-
ton Of water and in passing 1t almost immedt-
alely. If you want quick relief and cure this
is your remedy.
Sold by DR.. j u. clemmer, Druggist, Cresco
Iowa. 33y1