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The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-25
Russia to Stop Wheat Export

St Petersburg, Sept. 25.-It is assert
ed that the Russian government will
shortly prohibit the expectation of
wheat from Russia.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-25
oPLE YOU HEAR OF.

Mrs. Booker T. Washington, the wife
of the negro educator, not only teaches
in the institute at Tuskegee, but helps
many of the poorer class to put into
daily practice the principles taught
there.
i
Penmarch lighthouse, on the Brittany
coast. with its 10, 100000 candle power
electric light, $50 feet above sea level,
and visible sixty miles away, is mon
ument to Marshal DavouSt, duke of
Auerstadt. his daughter having given the
French government $4,000 for the pur-
pose.
In his opening address on the eastern
situation at Brown university on We'd
nesday, DR.. Andrews quoted an unfa-
miliar saying to the effect that it takes
two Turks to beat a Greek, two Greeks
to beat Jew, two Jews to beat an Ar
menian and two Armenians to beat the
devil.
Mrs. Mary Sparling, the socialist,
daughter of the late william Morris,
Is supposed to be the finest maker of
artistic lace in the world. In appear
ance she very much resembles her
mother. who furnished the original
model for Dante Gabriel Rossetti's well
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-25
SCrOfuIa EruptiOns

Little Girl the Victim OF Impure
Blood - Suffered Intensely Until
Hoods Sarsapariiia Cured.
"When three months old, my little
daughter had eruptions on her face.
was obliged to keep her hands tied at
night and it was necessary to watch her
during the day. She would scratch her
self whenever she got the chance, until
her clothes would be covered with blood.
We concluded to try Hoods Sarsaparilla,
because had great faith in it, and after
awhile we could see that she was getting
better. People often asked How did
that child burn her FACET and they said
she would certainly be left with scars, but
she was not. It is now year since she
was cured by Hoods Sarsaparilla and her
face is as smooth and white and soft
as that of any child" MRS. WILBUR
WELLS, Warren, Conn.
N.B Be sure to get Hoods because
Hoods SarSaparilla
Is the best-in fact the One True Blood Purifier.
Sold by all druggists. 81; six for So
80, cure Liver Ills; easy to
Hoods Pills take, easy to operate 2se.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16

We have at last discovered Mr.. NJ.
D. O'Connell's poor wash woman, to
whom that gentleman referred in his
address at the court room in Elkader
during the late campaign. We had
all along supposed that she was a
myth, but find that she is living,
active being-a reality. She resides
in the city of DEBORAH and had $500
Of her hard earned savings deposited
in the First National Bank there
when it was wrecked by the rotten
methods of its management composed
of men who, like Mr.. O'Connell of
Ft. Dodge, held up their hands in
holy horror because the "silver an
archists proposed to pay poor wash
women in fifty-cent dollars and rob
the poor creatures of one-half of their
hard savings" Mr.. O'Connell did
not miss the bulls eye very far after
all. His washwoman has been robbed
not of one-half OF her hard earned
dollars, but of all of them, and not
by 'siIver anarchists but by those
sound money, honest dollar patri-
ots-who have saved the country
from reputation and dishonor."-
Clayton County Democrat.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16
LEGAL FIGHT FOR A BIG CAVE.

Secretary of the Interior to Doodle Q
ER$;s south Dakota Case.
Litigation, which has been in pro-
gress for more than year for posses-
sion Of the famous Wind cave, at Cham
berlain, 8. D., has now reached ON inter
esting stage. Mcdonald, the man who
located the cave before 1t was surveyed
and held 1t as q squatter, made final
proof in June, 1895, claiming the land
as agricultural land. A few months
later the South Dakota Mining COM
pany fled protest, in which 1t was al
legged that minerals existed on the prop
erty.
The register and receiver of the
United States land Office at Rapid City
investigated the matter, and decided in
favor of Mcdonald, as the investigation
showed there was no mineral bearing
rock to be found in the place, although
colors of placer gold as we'll as other
mineral traces were discovered. The
case was then carried to the commis-
sioner Of the general land Office. He de-
cided that the Land was neither agrfcul-
tural nor mineral, and held for cancel
lation McDonald's application for q
patent.
Both parties are naturally dissatisfied
with this sort of decision, and both
have now appealed the case to the'sec-
rotary of the interior. A decision Is
awaited with considerable interest, as
the cave is equivalent to a fortune to
the person who becomes the owner of 1t.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16
JOKES BY sPoRTsMEN.
Tricks That Hunters Play ON One Anothe
In tho Woods.

Tricks That Hunters Play on One Another
In tho Woods.
Sportsmen like to play tricks on one
another. Some Of the jokes are older
than the hills, but always ready for
service, says the New York Sun. A
dead deer braced up against the side of
tree has more than once been mark
for pounds of lead. Eight men once
shot their repeating rifles at such o
deer, some go shots being fred at it be-
fore 1t fell. The joyful hunters, on
going to it, found that the beast had
been dressed and that As bullets had
gone through it.. Hunters sometimes
doctor the shells of their mates, putting
in double charges of powder and talk
ing out the shot. Firing pins are ex.
tracted and putty ones substituted.
Buckshot is substituted for IS, and
the .amazemcnt of hunter when
he finds how the IS punched, as
he supposes, and tore woodcock half
in two is the sport that comes from
1t. Rifle shells are filled half will,
powder, half with red pepper. The
powder drives the bullet after a
deer and burns the pepper. Unlimit-
ed sneezing follows.
False trails made by man with
bear-foot moccasins in the snow have
led many tenderfoot over weary miles
only to end in a mans trail at some
log where the benr's feet could be
taken off. 1t sometimes happens that
a pack of fox dogs are led on drag
trail when the dog followers thing it
Is live fox's.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16

When the republicans were singing
peans of joy because they were in.
augurating q president, the demo.
cratic legislature of Missouri were
shouting for JOY that the man who
had betrayed their party was going
into retirement:
The boom of the cannon had put
the house in hutter of excitement,
and just at its climax Colonel Crisp
rose and moved that the house take
q recess to celebrate the outgoing OF
Cleveland.
II do this" shouted Colonel Crisp,
.'because Cleveland has never served
his party, his country or his God"
1.-The gentleman from Jackson
moves that the house now take re.
cess until 2 o'clock to celebrate the
retirement to private life of the great
American failure" said Speaker Far.
ris. A mighty chorus of ayes greeted
the announcement.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16
HOW TO FIND OUT.

Fill bottle or common glass with
urine and let it stand twenty-four
hours; a sediment or settling indicates
an unhealthy condition of the kid
neys. When urine stains linen it is
positive evidence of kidney trouble.
Too frequent desire to urlnate or pain
in the back. is also convincing proof
that the kidneys and bladder are out
of order.
WHAT TO DO.
There is comfort in the knowledge
SO often expressed, that DR.. Kilmer's
Swamp Root, the great kidney RENE
dy fnlhlls every wish in relieving pain
in the back, kidneys, liver, bladder
and every part of the urinary pas
sages. 1t corrects inability to hold
urine and scalding pain in passing it,
or bad effects following use Of liquor,
wine or beer, and overcomes that I'M
pleasant necessity of being compelled
to get up many times during the night
to urinate. The mild and the extra.
ordinary effect of Swamp-Rootis soon
realized. 1t stands the highest for it's
wonderful cures of the most distress
sing cases. II you need a medicine
you should have the best. Sold by
druggists price fifty cents and one
dollar. You may have sample bot.
tie and pamphlet both sent free by
mail. Mention the PLAIN DEALER
and send your address to DR.. Kilmel
y Co, Binghamton, N. Y. The pro
prietors of this paper guarantee the
genulneness of this offer. mar 16
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16
ANCIENT ADVERTISEMENTS.
They Were Written on House Walls in
Spaces Called AlbumS.

They Were Written on House Walls in
Spaces Called Albums.
When some enterprising Greek or
Roman merchant of old first whitened
a portion of the wall of his house and
on this album, as it was called, rudely
scratched the symbols of his trade he
little dreamed it to be the dim fore
Swallowing of miles upon miles of pic
torial advertisements, first produced in
the interest of commerce, but destined
to come so close to art as to attract
more than passing notice from the es-
thetic connoisseur and collector, says
Lippincott's.
Yet from the very earliest times
some sort Of public advertising was
felt to be necessity. Thus we read Of
notices in the first days of the children
of Israel being posted in the high places
of the -proclamations, generally,
of kings and prophets, inscribed on
parchment; and papyn more than 5000
years old have been exhumed from the
ruins of ancient Thebes on which are
written descriptions of runaway slaves
and the rewards offered for their re-
turn.
Another heather mode of attracting
attention was to hang on the statues
of the Internal deities, within the
temenos of the temples, sheets of lead
bearing curses and prayers of venge-
ance against those persons who had
stolen goods or otherwise injured the
advertiser. the evil to be deprecated
only in case Of the restitutionsof the
property. A collection of such impre-
cations that was discovered in the tenn
pie of Demeter at Onidus in 1858 may be
seen in the second vase-room Of the
British museum.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16

Many writers have referred to the
wonderful uses of the hairpin, simple
though that little implement may be.
Not long ago some one made out list
Of several hundred uses to which the
hairpin may be put, and, even then, con-
fessed to missing as many more. But
here Is something quite novel in the list
of the hairpin's benefactions to human
ity. It is given on the authority Of the
Hartford Post. A fuse burned out in
one of the Wethersfeld cars the other
evening and the car at once came to q
standstill. After moment the motor
man opened the front door and putting
in his head inquired: "Can any lady lend
me hairpin?" His singular request
was at once complied with and in a
short time the car was again under
way. "What did he want that hairpin
for2" asked the woman who had sup
piled 1t of the conductor when that Off
cial came to collect her fare. ITO make
fuse out Of" was the reply, land
guess you are entitled to ride free this
trip" And she did, while the other pas
sengers applauded heartily.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16
GOOD SIGNS IN LONDON.
Things Which Are Jokes without In

IhinEs which Are Jokes Without In.
tending to Be Such.
The Americans first visit to London
brings to his notice, if he be at all OBJ
servant, many peculiar signs, says the
New York Mail and Express. Here are a
few seen by reporter last summer:
Englishmen are noted all the world
over as prolific letter writer's. In fact.
little personal attention is paid to bust
ness when it is possible to write a let
ter and say what one ordinarily should
say verbally. Attached to the heavy
doors of four-fifths of the most success
full business houses in the English cap
ital is q highly polished brass plate, on
which is inscribed: do Not Ring the
Bell Unless an Answer Is Required"
Directly under this plate is an OPEN
ing for dropping letters "that do not
require an oral answer"
On the Strand, within stones throw
Of the Bank of England, is a well-known
tradesman, who has "richly" hung
blue sign in his window which tells the
busy throng outside that "Yankie Cy-
der Is Sold Here"
1t may be considered joke-this
sign-as a party of Americans who in
CURED earnestly believed, but the
tradesman took the matter quite Sc
riously when the subject of the sign
was broached, and then remarked:
Hi ham er blooming Brighter hif an
other chap didn't soy the same thing
t'-day. e told me 'ow to spell Yankee,
but 'ang me hif hit 'asn't escaped me
memory. Hit will ave to do now,
though"
A "gentleman's hnirdresser" close to
Charing Cross exposes a sign which
says: Hair Neatly Trimmed While You
Wait"
And this sign, too, was not intended
as joke. London signs are indeed pc
culiar, If not strikingly odd.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16

Gen. j. B. Weaver in a recent let
ter makes several points that are per-
tinent to present conditions. He
said:
Brass bands, fambeau parades
and excursion trains were very at
tractive last October, but they are
grim Knockers now during the cruel
months of winter. Nothing but the
opportunity to labor for wages that
will bring the comforts of we'll order
ed homes will satisfy our robust, self
respecting people. They were prom.
Used all that heart could wish before
election. The goods delivered do not
correspond with the samples exhibit
ted during the campaign. The prom
Used pay car turns out to be a badly
ditched gravel train. The people
were not looking for a reduction in
the number of employees and curtail-
ment of wages, nor were the farmer
looking for still greater depression of
prices. These things we're kept in the
dark and scheduled to arrive after
Nov. 8. Business men, wage earners
and farmers are alike melancholy,
and it it but natural that they should
express their displeasure at the ballot
box. They see plainly how the good
times and prosperous business condi-
tons will never return until there is
a change in our financial system.
Commerce could not flow unvexed to
the sea along the channel of the
Mississippi until the confederate
blockade was destroyed. Neither
can we ever have an adequate money
supply, nor will it's circulation be
normal while Wall street and British
spectators keep our minis closed
against silver and are able to enforce
their degree of out-lawry against our
legal teuder greenbacks. All things
are working well and the spring cleo
tiyns are indeed very encouraging.
The fall elections will likely be much
more SO. The present legislature is
doing admirable work in more direct
ions than one for the allied opposi.
ton in Iowa. Their attempt to dis
franchise the people through anti.
fusion legislation is an admirable
tonic for us and an eye-opener all
around. 1t will physic the doctor in.
stead of the patient.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16

Willoughby, Hill & Co., of Chicago,
have made an assignment. This is
the firm that loaded up with Mexican
dollars as an object lesson to the
people. In their windows were piles
of.Mexican dollars, and man who
bought fifty cents Of goods and gave
one of the United States dollars got q
Mexican dollar as change. It would
have been good object lesson to their
creditors had they had even Mexican
dollars for them. But Mark Hanna
after using them as a t'cat's paw"
should have protected them with the
surplus of the campaign fund raised
TO corrupt the ballot boxes OF the
country.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16

The fleets of Christian Europe are
assisting the Turk in his slaughter OF
Christians, and why9 Largely be-
cause the money power, which is the
real ruler of Europe, is interested in
keeping up the price of Turkish se-
curities. II there were no Turkish
bonds owned by the so-called Christ
ian money lords, Turkey would have
been wiped off the map of Europe
long ago.-Manchester Democrat.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16
Cheap Farms for SAFE.

100 acre improved farm, two miles
from Cresco, $40 per acre, bargain;
In Vernon Springs 90 acres at $45;
New Oregon. 80 acres at $36, 200 acres
at $35; Paris, 80 acres at $50; Howard
Center, 800 acres at $3S; Chester, 40
acres at $50, 100 acres at 1928, and 200
acres a!,a at $4s; Oak o1 Dale, a dso acres at
$sS; Saratoga SAL 1eo Ga acres at at ss5, and
~ acres at $50; Howard, 80 acres at
1886; New Oregon, 40 acres at $35.
Money to loan on good farm
securities. JOHN ". CANNON.
Cresco, la.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16
Why Il TIT

Why was John Shermn selected TO
Secretary of Slater Because he cal
take a different position on all ques
lions every day.
Why do the goldites contend tina
all that is necessary to restore conf
dence and produce prosperity is good
money? Because they think that th,
people ought to be satlsfiedif the ricl
have good money, whether the mas
ses have any money or not.
What good does it do the peopl,
of the United States to have none,
so dear that they cannot buy it will
anything they can produce? Itnake
them go without money and prevents
extravaganza and luxury.
What makes the Clevelandites cal
themselves 1.-The National Democra
cy?" Because a. small party mus
have big name to conceal its in
significance.
Why does Mr.. Cleveland think the
people are prosperous? Because hi
judges others by himself.
Why do the gold conspirators who
are wrecking the fortunes of the PEG
pie think these are good times9 Fol
the same reason that the wolf enjoy.
himself when there is no one around
to protect the sheen.
Why doesn't England get mad be-
cause the United States continues tc
ask her to restore silver? Because
it costs her nothing to refuse the re-
quest, and it flatters her vanity to
receive the United States as a sup.
plant.
Why does Mckinley say in his in
augnral that he will sustain the gold
standard by taxes or loans, unless
England will give him bimetallism,
Because he believes that England is
willing to collect all debts due Der il
gold, and will continue the gold stan
dard as long as her debtors will Dor
row or be taxed for that purpose; and
that therefore he eau trust England
to refuse his request, and can fool the
people by pretending to favor biniet-
allism, without endangering the
schemes of his hackers.
Why do the McKinleyites contend
that more revenue for the govern
ment exrorted by taxation, will in
crease the supply of money among
the tax payers and produce prosper
ity? For the same reason the physi
clans of the old school bled their pa
tients to death to increase their vital
ity.
Why did Mckinley encourage sena
tor .Wolcott to go to Europe to nego
tiate for free coinage? Beca use Vol
colt, by his spectacular display or
the other side of the Atlantic, could
attract the attention of the people
while Mckinley himself was organic
ing Cabinet to maintain the colo
standard confidence in his fidelity tt
to the money trust.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16
Is it ''overwork" that has filled this

Is it "overwork" that has filled this
country with nervous dyspeptics?-
that takes the flesh off their bones,
the vitality from their blood, and
makes them feeble, emaciated and in
efficient? No. 1t is bad cooking,
overeating Of indigestible stuff, and
other notwithstanding habits.
The remedy is an artificially djges-
ted food such as the Shaker digestive
Cordial. Instead OF irritating the al
ready inflamed stomach the Cordial
gives it chance to rest by nourish-
ing the system itself and digesting
other food taken with it. So flesh
and strength return. Is not the idea
rational? The Cordial is palatable
relieves Immediately. No money
risked to decide on its value. A 10
cent trial bottle does that.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16

A writer in the Boston Herald very
truly observes that every man is, after
all, his own taskmaster, his own monot-
onous company. With an ordinary bore,
who calls only now and then, he can
make shift to get along, but with the
bore who goes to bed with him, gets
up with him, breakfasts, lunches and
dimes with him, and is forever more re-
peating the old chestnut story of
what fool and failure and sinner
he has been, is now, and will keep on
being to the end of the chapter-whyl
with all this it is very different mat
ter. Such bore is each man in peril
of becoming to himself.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16

A few days ago the republicans in
congress voted almost to a man in
favor of making another attempt to
secure to the people of this country
the blessings of bilnetallism. They
want bimetallism but want England's
consent before they partake of it's
benefits or advantages. Their posi-
ton is analogous to that of a pro-
fessed Christian who would declare
his belief in the glories and blessings
of righteousness, but admit his ina
bility to worship God without the
consent Of the devil.-Manchester
Democrat.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16
The Case Of Captain Hart.

1
A few days ago Captain John D.
Hart was sentenced by federal
judge to two years in prison for aid
ing Cuba in her struggle for freedom.
This country has undergone some
wonderful changes during the last
100 years. About 100 years ago man
named Lafayette, Frenchman OF
royal birth, could have had anything
he wanted from this country. The
reason for this was that Lafayette,
stirred by the struggles of brave
people to secure release from tyranny
and unjust taxation, came to Ameri-
ca and aided the struggling colonies.
He fitted out an expedition in France
and sailed for the colonies. His arriv-
al brought cheer and hope to the pat
riots under Washington, and in the
course of time various other French
men came to the assistance of Wash
ington and his forces. Without the
aid of Lafayette and other gallant
Frenchmen the history of America
might have been that of dependen-
cy. It is not enough to say that the
colonies were fighting against the an
cient foe of France, and that Lafay-
cite was moved by other causes than
desire to see the colonies freed. We
have seemingly forgotten the ex-
ample of Lafaye tie and his fellow
Frenchmen.
Three thousand miles nearer to our
shores than our shores are to the
land of Lafayette is little country
battling for freedom from tyranny
and unjust taxation. But when a
brave American, moved by the same
impulses that moved Lafayette, at.
tempts to help them in their cause he
is seized by the beneficiariss of La
fayette's great work and thrust into
prison. 1t may be true that Lafayette
was inspired by reasons of hatred for
English treatment of Frenchmen, but
perhaps Captain Hart had in mind
the Virginius case when he tried to
lend aid to the Cuban patriots. Or
perhaps he was thinking of Ruiz or
Sanguilly, or of the twenty-seven
Americans cruelty murdered by Span
ish troops on the outskirts of Havana
less than thirty years ago. If Cap.
tain Hart has been guilty of breaking
any law it is because the law has
been constructed so as to throttle
liberty at the dictates of capital, that
would rather see a people suffer all
manner of kingly oppression than to
run risk of being disturbed in its
pastime of clipping coupons or col
lecting cent per cent.
Lafayette was all but deified by the
American people for leaving his
native land and coming to America
to aid in securing American liberty.
But that was nearly century ago.
Today John D. Hart is thrown into
prison for doing just what Lafayette
was praised and banqueted and al
most worshiped for doing.
There have been many changes in
the United States since Lafayette
last visited our shores, and some of
the changes are to be regretted
World Herald.