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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02
90 TO SCHOOL.
Children Cannot Be Excluded Be
cause Thew are Not Vaccinated,


Madison, Wis, Feb. 29.-The legal
ity of the rule requiring the VAGINA
ton of all school children in Wiscon-
sin as a condition of their being per-
mitted to attend school, promulgated
by the state board of health through
local boards in January, 1894, was
tested in q case decided by the SUI
court today, that of the state ex rel
T. J. Adams, of Beloit, against ex-
Assemblyman R. j. Burdge and the
other members of the school board of
that city. When the vaccination
rule was promulgated, Mr.. Adams re-
fused to have his children vaccinated,
and when they were, in consequence,
excluded from the schools, he
brought action for a writ of manda-
mus to compel the defendants, as the
school board, to permit his children
to attend the public schools without
physicians certificate to show that
they had been vaccinated. The low
er court found that he was entitled
to peremptory writ of 1nandamus, as
asked for; that there was during jan
uary and February, 1894, no epidemic
of smallpox in Wisconsin, there be-
ing but few cases in the state, and
only one in Beloit. The court also
found that the statutes preclude the
idea that the state board of health
possess legislative power in itself, and
its rules must not be inconsistent
with the laws of the state or the rules
prescribed by the local boards of
health persuant to law. The court
found further that one of Adams
children was of such age that he was
bound to send her to school under
the law or suffer the penalties. From
the decision of the court below
against the school board the latter
appealed. Decision affirmed.
The principle involved in this case
is applicable to the rule of the school
board in Cresco, which undoubtedly
would be treated IN the same way if
resort for redress were taken into the
courts, by any aggrieved party. The
board of health in Iowa and the
school boards of the state have no pow
er to legislate, and the rule that child
rem must be vaccinated or else be ex-
cluded from the public schools, is in
conflict with the law of the state.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02
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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02
Queer Result o. a Joke.

In one of the suburban towns Of Phil
adelphia tEarce young school girls, their
hair still hanging down their backs,
met one evening recently at one OF
their homes to study their lessons for
the following day. AS they were drawn
up around the dining-room table, says u
local exchange, chance newspaper
caught their attention and seemed to
interest them more than their Latin
grammars. CHANGING down the coll
umns they came upon one of those
weird personals, and, prompted by
spirit of mischief, they decided TO an
swer 1t. AS a result of their corre-
spondence they made an appointment
to meet the unknown individual under
certain tree at four o'clock the fol-
lowing Saturday afternoon. Consider
ably before the hour appointed
three giggling girls were safely in
stalled at their point of vantage, and
nearly screamed with laughter when
they saw approaching d somewhat ped
ngogical-looking man with a book UNI
der his arm-the sign agreed upon.
They watched him pace impatiently up
and down for the space of half an hour
or more, and then go away quite de-
jected. This was too good fun to be
rclinquished. So note of explana-
ton us to the cause of detention and q
renewed appointment gave them a rep
etftion of their amusement They con-
tinued their correspondence until they
became little anxious as to how they
were going to withdraw it, and still
more anxious as to what might happen
to them in case they We're detected.
So, partly to relieve themselves of fur
Their responsibility, and partly for the
huge joke of the thing, they gave their
correspondent the name and address OF
u typical, prim New England old maid,
q member of the church which they
attended, as the person to whom he
had been writing. The beautiful de-
nouement of the whole adventure was
that the object of their base deceit
went, saw and conquered. And on the
day that the ancient spinster futtered
| up the church aisle in white muslin
and blue ribbons to the tune of the
wedding March," the three young
girls sat together on back seat and
secretly gloated over the hilarious re-
suit OF their audacious prank.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02

Four years ago Mr.. Cleveland went
into office with majority of the peo-
pie his supporters. In two days he
retires from the Office he has disgrace
ed with barely, as shown by the Pal.
mer vote last fall, 10000 adherents
in the United States. Walter Well
man, the newspaper correspondent
notes that since the repeal of the
Sherman act, Mr.. Cleveland has not
had single measure to approve that
he had recommended to congress.
From more than 100000 giving him
their votes in 1892, but 100000 of the
former voters voted to sustain him.
He goes out of Office as thoroughly
despised as Benedict Arnold or any
other traitor to the cause of the peo-
pie.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02

and many of them have produced their
greatest works under the benefcent
influence of the narcotic leaves. Ten
nyson and his pipe were insepnrable
friends. 1t was his steady companion
from morning until evening, and the
thicker the clouds of smoke would
belch from it the faster the inspiring
thoughts came to the roet.. And SO it
is with many other mental toilers.
The first historical mention of to-
bacco was made by Columbus. When
the great discovcrer landed at the
islands of the West Indies he and his
crew saw with great establishment how
the natives smoked dried herbs. In his
report he says: "They are dried herbs,
rolled in a broad, dried leaf; they look
like the small muskets which Spanish
children use on Pentecost. On one end
they are lighted, and on the other end
the people sucked and drank the smoke
by inhalation. They get drunk from it,
but it evidently prevents them from
getting tired. They call these small
muskets tabacos." Little did the I'm
vaders think at the time that 400 years
later tobacco would rule the world, and
that the production of the herb would
amount to over 2,00O,000,O0O pounds
yearly, at the value of hundreds of mil
lions of dollars.
For long time after it's discovery to-
bacco remained stranger to the Eu-
ropean nations. The Spanish settlers
and adventures in the new world &C.
customed themselves soon to the use of
the herb, but the "barbarian custom
did not make any notable progress.
In the middle of the sixteenth century
smoking sailors could be seen occasion
ally in European ports, but their ex-
ample was not followed by the. people
in general. The cigars of that time
were about the shape and size of q
candle. 1t was not the cigar, however
which was destined to conquer the old
world, but the pipe. Only with the
advent Of the latter began, the victori.
Gus march of the narcotic herb around
the globe.
In the course Of time the Europeans
in America became acquainted with
various ways of smoking. The Aztecs
in Mexico used peculiar pipes, about the
manufacture of which the Franciscan
monk, Bernardino de Sahagun reports
the following: "Those Indians who
sell pipes for the inhalation of to
bacco smoke cut reeds and clean thess
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02
s. KRAUsZ.
Sending money in Letter..

An old post Office inspector says:
"Money never should be inclosed i'll let
tiers for transmission through the mails.
In the first place, it is unnecessary to
do so, because money orders are so
cheap; and, in the second place, money
in letter offers constant temptation
to those who handle mail. Its practic-
ably impossible to place money in let
ter SO that the postal clerk into whose
hands the letter falls will not instantly
aetect it. Paper money has peculiar
odor unlike anything else on earth, and
The clerk who is dishonest uses his sense
Of smell in spotting valuable letters
rather than the sense of touch"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02
BAUBAU OF NEW GUINEA.

Of the leaves. Then they are coated
with finely pulverized wet charcoal and
painted with flowers and animals. They
also have such pipes where the painting
only shows after Tong use. Some are
finely gilded. The pipes are filled with
the dry leaves of the tobacco and other
aromatic herbs, rose leaves, etc., and
then they are lighted"
When Ponce de Leon visited Florida
for the first time he found the natives
devoted to the tobacco habit, but their
way of indulging in it was different from
the AZtecs. The Floridans used hol-
low vessels of burned clay into which
they inserted reed pipes. The vessels
were filed with the dry tobacco leaves,
and the smoke drawn through the reed.
This smoking utensil was the prototype
of the tobacco pipe of to-day, but did
not attain any popularity at first. Six
decades later Sir Walter Raleigh landed
with his expedition in Virginia, where
the colonists came in close contact with
the native Indians. The latter used
the same kind of tobacco pipes as the
Floridans, and soon the colonists had
accustomed themselves to the use of the
herb. The mathematician, Thomas
fIariot, a former teacher of Sir Walter,
wrote the first letters to Europe prais-
ing the qualities of tobacco. The Vir-
ginia colony was no success, and Sir
Francis Drake brought the men back
to England, landing them in 1886 in
Plymouth harbor. Here they created
great establishment, for tobacco smok.
ing was seen for the first time in Eng.
land. The Indian clay pipes found ad.
mirers and the habit of the returning
colonists was contagious. Soon one
could see everywhere in England men
with tobacco pipes, and in 1893 smoking
in London theaters was common. The
herb was imported from America, but
the burned clay pipes were manufac.
tured by English potters, and as early
as 1919 the guild OF London pipemakers
was incorporated. In 1890 English stu.
dents introduced the habit in Holland
The fact that tobacco smoking tempo.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02

The best word yet said for the wheel
comes from DR.. Abbott, secretary of the
Massachusetts state board of health,
who maintains that it is in great meas,
ure responsible for the decrease of con-
sumption among women. DR.. Abbott
points out that the decline in the death
rate of women from pulmonary dis
eases began five years ago, the time OF
the first general popularity of the bi.
cycle, and has continued since. The
rapid respiration it induces strengthens
the lungs and assists them to throw off
foreign substances.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02

Here is diamond, here a piece of
charcoal. Both carbon; yet between
them stands the mightiest of magic
ians-Nature. The food on your ia
BILE, and your own body; yet between
the two stands the digestion, the ar
bitter of growth or decline, life or
death.
We cannot make flesh, blood and
bone. No. But by means of the
Shaker Digestive Cordial we can en-
able the stomach to digest food which
would otherwise ferment and poison
the system. In all forms of dyspep-
STA and incipient consumption, with
weakness, loss of flesh, thin blood
nervous prostration the Cordial is
the successful remedy. Taken with
food it relieves at once. 1t nourishes,
and assists nature to nourish. A trial
bottle-enough to show its merit-1C
cents.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02
Cheap Farms for Sale.

100 acre improved farm, two miles
from Cresco, $42 per acre, bargain;
In Vernon Springs, SO acres at $45;
New Oregon. 80 acres at $50, 200 acres
at $35; Paris, 80 acres at $50; Howard
Center, 800 acres at $38; Chester, 40
acres at $50, 100 acres at 1928, and 200
acres at $4S; Oak Dale, 100 acres at
$50, 100 acres at $54, and 800 acres at
$35; Saratoga, 100 acres at 1876, and
72 acres at $50; Howard, 80 acres at
$35; New Oregon, 40 acres at $35.
Money to loan on good farm
Cresco, la.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02

In Decatur, Ala, short time ago q
negro was arraigned for stealing chick
ems and clear case was made out
against him. The judge disposed of the
matter by saying: Prisoner at the
bar, there appear to be no mitigating
circumstances to plead in your behalf,
You have been well educated, instead
of which you steal chickens. 1t there
fore becomes my duty to corrugate you
to the full extent of the law, which Is
30 days at hard labor"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02

The Boston Transcript thinks the
election of Mckinley u confirmation Of
the old tradition that the American
people like their presidents to have only
one Christian name. The first FIVE
presidents had no middle name, and
when Mckinley is inaugurated he will
be the seventeenth president without
one. The List includes George Washing
ton, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson,
James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew
Jackson, Martin Van Buren,, John Tyler,
Zachary Taylor, Willard Fillmore,
Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan,
Abraham Lincoln, Andrew johnson,
Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison
and William Mckinley.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02
William Stanley.

farmer, lately from near Lourdes,
Howard county, Iowa, now living in
Southwestern Mimi, is prepared to
give full and reliable information in
regard to all lands for sale in his Sec
tion of the country. Parties desiring
home in that locality wonld do we'll
to correspond with him.
Address William Stanley, Rock,
Redwood county, MINI. to may
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02

A scientist says that only 900 persons
in 100000, according to medical au-
thority, die from old age, while 1900
succumb to govt, 1s,400 to measles,
2,7oo to apoplexy, 1000 to erysipelas,
$500 to consumption, $4,000 to scarlet
fever, $4,000 to whooping cough, 10000
to typhoid and typhus and 1000 to rheu-
matism. The averages vary according
to locality, but these are considered &C /.
curate as regards the population of the
globe as whole.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02
Facts from Denver.
[oney is the creature of law.

Money is the creature of law.
The idle are standig menace to
society.
And this is the age of Sound
money!
Let the banks give security or re-
ceive no deposits.
There's plenty of prosperity for the
fellows who don't need it.
Thump the place hunters as fast as
they stick their heads up.
1t is the men who loan money that
desire to control its volume.
Government should do all the gov
erning and part of the banking.
1t is not noise that convinces the
judgment; neither is it eloquence,
but clear-cut logic.
The dangerous person in politics is
the one who persists in calling things
by their right names.
The money power is more danger
Gus to the liberties of the people than
all other things combined.
The way the National banks are
failing don't look like it was the "best
banking system in the world"
One of the tenets in the creed of
plutocracy is that the man who does
the most work shall receive the least
for it.
Improved methods of production
should shorten the hours of labor in
stead of creating millions of idle men
and women.
The so-called money of ultimate
redemption is fraud. The only re.
demption money needs is that in
which it is received for the products
of labor.
Bradstreet reports losses by bust.
ness failures for 1896 at $24S, 0OO, 900;
which is an increase of 16 per cent
over the year 1896. And the gold
tandard mill grinds GA
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02

African peoples have grown out of the
North American pattern, but that the
smoldng habit was cultivated by some
tribes before the discovery of Amer.
lea. There are no assured facts to this
effect, but many circumstances point
to the conclusion that the black race
smoked long before the Caucasians.
1t was not tobacco, however, but the
common, Intoxicating leaves of the
hemp and 'dacha," another specific
African kind of hemp. Leaves of other
plants may also have served the pur-
pose. How primitive their way of smok-
ing must have been can be seen to-day
among the Bechuans in Africa. A Be-
chuan constructs his pipe by forming
small samdhill with crater-like open
ing, which he fills with hemp, dacha,
tobacco, or other combustiblc material.
Then he puts glowing ember on top,
and after inserting tube through the
sand to the pipe, he enjoys the smoke
lying on his stomach.
Few things can be said about the ma
tive Australian smokers. They are not
passionate smokers, and excepting the
wooden spoonpipe, with the stem of
birds bone of the New Zealanders, the
pipe of the Papuans of Room island, and
the "baubau" of the New Guinea tribes,
one does not find interesting varieties.
The "baubau" is q piece of bamboo
more than a yard long, open on one end
and having side hole, like a flute, in it.
A cigarette is put into the latter, the
bamboo is filled with smoke by sucking
at the open end, and the smoke inhaled
through the side hole after removing
the cigarette. This is the most tedious
way of smoking in the world.
The shah of Persia owns the costli-
est and most magnificent pipe on earth.
1t is incrusted with rare and precious
stones and said to be valued at 100000
Capt. Crabbe, in Brussels, owns the
most complete collection of pipes, con-
sisting of over 5000 specimens, and in
Guiding pipes of all periods, countries
and materials.
| g nDA1Yc1
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02

Maine isn't raising turkeys enough
for home consumption, and shipments
are being ordered from other states.
AT Oxford there has just been settled
out of court, for the consideration of
one dollar, law suit brought to re-
cover pay for the services of a hen which
the plaintiff had lent to the defendant
for the purpose of Matching some tur-
key eggs, the agreement having been
that the plaintiff was to have for pay
ment one of the turkeys.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02

A fact that has recently come to light
shows q new use to which human hair
has been put. During the last year or
two tons of hair have been packed be-
tween the plates of certain parts Of
war vessels. Hair is very elastic, and
thus affords very effective backing to
metal. Again, it is being used very
satisfactorily to form a kind of fender
which is thrown over the side of a ves-
sci to prevent her scraping against the
dock-to take the place, in fact, of more
commonly used rope coils.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02
EVOLUTION OF SMOKING.
King Nicotine Began His Reign In
Modest Way.
But Now vassals and serfs In Every Part
of the Civilized and Barbario
World Acknowledge His
DCSpOtlc SWAY.
Especial New york letter.

It has been said that the tobacco habit
is curse to humanity. On the other
hand, thousands are blessing the plant
whose fumes afford them pleasure and
consolation. Tobacco is held to be the
friend of the rich and poor alike, and
the laboring man after u hard days
work finds just as much pleasure in his
clay pipe as the millionaire in his Ha-
,,vana. Some of the greatest men are
warm advocates of the smoking habit,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02

A reform against nature is in prog
ress in BRIDGEPORT, Conn. A bachelors
club is attempting to force unfaithful
members to abstain from Sunday even
jig counting. On a recent Sunday night
the club visited houses where their
weaker brethren were making calls and
abducted the tender-hearted youths.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02

At least two railroad companies, one
operating in the far west and one in
the south, are about starting model
farms, with view to demonstrating
the capabilities of the land through
which their lines run, and thus attract
ing settlers, who in turn will make busi-
ness for the railroads,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02

Since SO many towns have inaugur-
ated the curfew bell scheme to get
the kids in under cover early at
night, it might in the opinion Of the
Arlington News. at this season of the
year, be very proper thing to have
q curfew to rush some of the kids
dads home, instead of absorbing all
the heat from the grocery store stove
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02

A Fairfield (Conn.) man who swore
that no woman should ever enter his
house aga.u, after his wife and daugh-
ter died few years ago, has just mar
ried Brooklyn swede, aged 80.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02

The administration's attitude to-
ward Cube has been officially indoors
ed by the combined European powers
firing upon fhe Greek flag. II is now
In order for Admiral Bunce to pro-
coed to Cuba and ssnds.a few shells
into the ranks Of the Cuban patriots.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02

Eugene Moore, e2-Auditor of the
state of Nebraska is under arrest for
the embezzelment of over $4,000 Of
state funds. 1t was high time that
the democrats or some other than
The republican party AXE the offices
there.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02

Twenty-Five turkey gobblers at New
Brunswick, N. j., attacked tramp who
had entered their Enclosure with fell
onious intent. and when he got away
he had no turkey, nor as much clothes
or cuticle as when he started in.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02

Two days more and the fat man
who refuses to protect American citi-
zens in Cuba will become private
citizen, publicly despised.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02

'hhe Iowa republicans might have
made themselves safer had they pro-
vided for but one ballot with but one
set of candidates thereon.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02

One is never lifted up permanently
by pulling others down. To help men
up by precept and example is the
true way to rlse.'
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02

A Kentucky court in late case says:
"While q man who marries widow
with eight infant children assumes a
great responsibility, yet we think the
honeymoon at least should be over be-
fore he qualities himself as the guardi-
an of his wife's infant children and
seeks the aid of court to sell their
home for their maintenance and educa-
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02

The Des Moines News says, "Mark
Hanna looks we'll in his senatorial
toga, but the price mark has been re-
moved -
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-02

A New York clergyman who recently
conducted Sunday morning service
ON Blacllwell's Island learned that there
are at present Is college graduates
wearing the stripes" in that peniten-
tiary. -r.s-'