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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-11-23
CHANGE IN MEMS DRESS.
A Clothier Ayers That "Knickers"
Are Slated for Evening Wear.
The Fashion Long Advocated and
Now the Craze for Biking and
Golf Has Removed
Objections.
copyright, 1871.


Just about this season every year
theoptimistio tailors launch a little
boom for knee breeches, to be worn
with evening dress. Heretofore the
movement has been fostered by custom
tailors solely, but this fall the matter
has been taken up iby some of the large
clothing houses, in the belief that they
have the real thing in booms at last.
One argument advanced for the adop-
tion Of knickerbockers has at least the
merit of novelty. The chief objection
heretofore has been that we are such
an ill-developed race that to show our
legs to the public gaze would be too
severe shock. But now, the advocates
of knee breeches declare we have
grown SO athletic-thanks to the bicy-
cle-that our legs may be displayed
with impunity.
OF course the adoption of this style
would effectually prevent guests from,
being COMPOUNDED with the servants.
since the knee-breeched "Jeems" is not
yet common article in this country.
And the element of cheapness suggest
ed by the dealer adds considerably to
the attractiveness of the scheme. This
Is the way he putt:
"Of course you know that the mer-
chant tailors have made many desper-
ate attempts to induce their customers
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-11-23
Great American Moth Cure.

Mrs. Brown-John, want you to
buy me some tobacco to put under the
carpets. They say it's the best thing in
the world to keep moths out
Mr.. Brown-Here's that box of cigars
you gave me last Christmas. I think
that will be even more effective than
tobacco.-N. Y. World.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-11-23
Food That Makes Brains.

According to a celebrated health re-
port blanched almonds give the higher
nerve or brain and muscle food, and the
man who wishes to keep his brain
power up would do we'll to include
them in his daily bill of fare. Juicy
fruits give more or less the higher nerve
or brain, and are eaten by all men whose
living depends on their clear-headed-
ness. Apples supply the brain with
rest. Prunes afford proof against nerv-
business, but are not muscle-feeding.
They should be avoided by those who
suffer from the liver. But it has been
proved that fruits do not have the same
effect upon everybody. Some men have
never been able to eat apples without
suffering the agony of indigestion; to
others strawberries are like poison.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-11-23
COURAGEOUS BOY.
How His Goodness Saved Him from
Becoming Tigers Meat.


1t is related that party of English
officers were dining in jungle, some
distance from Madras, in India, when a
huge tiger, "maneater" much dread
ed by the natives, rushed in among
them, seized a young midshipman, and
flung him across her back, us helpless
as mouse in the fangs of cat.
In the first moment of terror the
other officers had snatched up their
weapons and retreated few PAGES;
while the great beast stood lashing her
sides with her tail, as if doubtful
whether to seek more prey or to retire
with that already taken.
They knew that it MS usual with the
tiger, on selling victim, to deprive it
of life at once by pat on the head
which generally brushes the skull; but
this is not an invariable practice.
Hence, as the little MILDLY" lay mo-
tionless on the creatures back, his
friends, uncertain whether he had re-
ceived the fatal pat or not, were afraid
10 fire lest they kill him as well as his
assailant.
While they were thus hesitating they
observed his hand stealing gently over
the side of the animal. Surprising this
movement to be merely the convulsive
action of one in the throes of death,
they raised their pieces to fire, when to
their utter amazement the monster
dropped stone dead.
An instant later the mystery was ex-
planned. The young man sprang from
the carcass, waving in triumph q
bloody dirk drawn from the tigers
heart, for which he had been feeling
with the utmost GOODNESS when the
motion of his. hand had been mistaken
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-11-23


to wear something besides the funereal
waiter suit for evening dress. There is
very little for tailors in dress suits, for
customers wear them so long that the
average man orders one only once in
two or three years; the fashion in dress
suits has not changed appreciably in
ten or fifteen years. But the clientage
of the merchant tailors has not been
large enough to enable them to make
any impression on the general public,
and men have gone on wearing the
standard dress suit. The only success
full innovation in this line has been the
dinner coat
"Tennis, golf and bicycling have, how
ever, in the last three or four years
made the wearing of 'knickerbockers'
80 common that they no longer occa-
sion remark. Men who would not for
any consideration have appeared on
the street in bicycle lSnickers' few
years ago now wear them as matter
of course, and it will require no more
hardihood to wear knee breeches in a
ballroom than on street.
"As to the old-time attire being suit
able for the ballroom, there can be no
question about it. Dancing is more
violent exercise than wheeling, and no
sensible man likes to have trousers
Tapping around his ankles when dane
ing. Again, knee buckles and silk
stockings give man an air of dis
tinction he can never have when
wearing trousers, and render it impos-
eible to mistake him for waiter.
"One reason why men would not take
up the fashion of wearing knee
breeches was that Americans were for
merly thin and scrawny, and had poor
ly developed legs. Athletics and Wheel
ing have changed all that. The aver
age man now has legs he need not be
ashamed of; moreover the man who
wears dress suit is usually man
who ~ well fed and tolerably prosper
Gus, and who has some flesh on his
bones.
"Of course, we have looked out for
the question of expense. Formerly knee
brooches for men were maaa only to
order and were expensive. Now there
are thousands of expert makers of
these garments, and knee breaches can
be made for ten dollars. Suitable stock
ings can be sold for two dollars, and
patent leather pumps for three dollars.
So it would cost the average man only
two dollars to change from trousers to
the costume of Washington.
"Oh, you will see the new-old fashion
catch on and what's more, when
swallow-tail coats wear out, you will
see long dinner coats replace them, so
that by 1900 evening dress will consist
OF dinner coat, waist-coat, knee
breeches. silk stockings and pumps"
Educate Your bowels with Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constitution forever
Wc.2 zoe. II G. 9. @. f,:' druggists refund money.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-11-23

Educate Your Bowels with Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever
Wc. 2oc. II G. &C. Fl. druggists refund money.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-11-23

ga customer whose wife used Mothers Friend
says that if she had to go through the ordeal
obtained, and the cost was $4,000 per bottle, he
would have them" GEO. LAYTON, Dayton, Ohio
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-11-23
Mr.. Mckinley exhorts /

-NIr. Mckinley eXhorts the Ohio
Sunday school boys to be virtuous and
moral. He does not explain to them
that it is virtuous and moral to appoint
a disrep"table New Orleans negro dive
keeper to high Office as payment for
that dissolute persons services in brib-
ing delegates to support the candidacy
of an Ohio church member.--N. Y.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-11-23

Bellaire, o., Nov. 1.-THE 100 miners
at the Glenz Coal company's mines at
Glencoe, o., ten miles west of here on
the Baltimore & Ohio, went out on a
strike Tuesday because the company
wanted to reduce wages on csrtain
kind of work in the mines.
Tough.
"What tough face that young fell
low has! Don't you think so2"
"Think SO? / know it. 1 tried to
break it once. Cincinnati Enquirer.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-11-23
for a dying, spasm.

TOT uyTHB SPds111.
We feel certain that this bold and
self-possessed youngster must have
made his mark later; but here the
story ends
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-11-23

The promise OF steel armor plate at
500 ton by new process is of more
Importance to the public than at first
appears. Such an improvement in the
process of making fawless steel would
mean far more than the cheapening of
the cost of war vessels; it would mean
cheaper machinery of all kinds and
consequent saving in the cost of manu-
facture. But the new process has yet to
be tested before its revolutionizing sue
cess can be accepted as fact.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-24

Alaska. John Lindsay of Olympia,
who left Dawson on November 2, al
Ieges that provisions and employment
both are scarce, and adds: Worthless
claims are offered for sale in great
numbers. Nearly every man coming
out has one or two to dispose of to the
gullible public, which should be fully
warned against these wildcat
schemes"
The new law which is designed to
prevent men from holding claims for
speculative purposes will go into eff
feet January l. BY the provisions of
this law no owner of a mine can leave
his claim during the working season
longer than seventy-two hours. If he
does so he fOrfeits his right to the
claim.
Mr.. Lindsay reached Dawson on Oc-
tober 10. With the Yukon piled full
of ice in great ridges many feet high,
Mr.. Lindsay says, travel over it is an
utter impossibility. He says, how
ever, that 100 men in six weeks could
cut a roadway tk=ongh the ice
ridges, beginning at the Hootalinqua.
where the rough ice commences. A
fine road will thus be made and sup
plies drawn by horses or dogs can be
put down in Dawson City in twenty
days from Skagway.
Mr.. Lindsay met Major Walsh on
the trail and the Canadian Commits
sioner said he did not expect to reach
Dawson before the 1st of February.
owing to the difficulties of travel. Ma
jor Walsh also confirmed the report
that in place of reserving alternate
claims the reservations will be in
blocks of
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-24

from memory then recited these Incl
dents of Montgomery's death as fol-
lows:
Last August, in company with a ma
rine, Montgomery left the Yorktown
without permission, while the ship was
in the harbor of Nagasaki, Japan. The
men swan to the shore. Two days
later Montgomery body was found
by Japanese boatmen in the water, and
it was taken to the police station.
Commander Stockton was notified and
he sent a petty officer ashore to iden-
tify the body, accompanied by the sur
geon of the ship. Finding marks of
violence upon the body, Commander
Stockton ordered a board of officers to
hold an inquest.
From investigation of the case and
from all evidence obtainable, the Of
ficers came to the conclusion that
Montgomery had died not from drown
ing, but by violence at the hands of
some person or persons unknown.
Commander Stockton reported the
case to the United States Consul at
Nagasaki, to the police authorities on
shore and to the Navy Department,
through the admiral of the Asiatic
squadron, and also held an interview
with the Chief of Police of the district
and disabused his mind of the idea that
Montgomery had died from accidental
drowning.
The evidence given by the marine
who accompanied Montgomery shows
that the latter had not drunk to eX-
cess and was seen at II o'clock the
night Of the murder with roll of
Japanese bank notes wrapped in can
vas in his hand, and displaying his
money to his shipmates. No trace of
Montgomery murderers was found up
to the time the Yorktown left Naga-
saki on September Is last, the vessel
then being under orders to sail for
home.
Montgomery's body was found in a
shallow part of the harbor, and the
circumstantial evidence showed thai
he was knocked on lhe head ana
thrown overheard.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-24
CAUGHT PURL0iNING
A P0LicEMAK'S CHICKENS.
Exciting Chase and Capture at Night of a
WeH-Known Young Man of
Eureka

EUREKA, Cal, Dec. 23-B. McGar-
raglan, we'll known young man of this
city, was arrested at an early hour
this morning by Policeman Frank
Barnum and locked up on a charge of
burglary. McGarraghan was caught
in the act of stealing the policemans S
chickens, but an accomplice escaped
The officer chased McGarraghan sew
eral blocks, clad only in his under
shirt and firing as he ran before get
ting his man.
In the police court to-day the case
against McGarraghan was continued
until tomorrow, and he was released
on bali Late this afternoon Harry
Rask, barkeeper, was arrested as
McGarraghan's accamplice and also
charged with burglary. The raids
were the outcome of an organization
known as the "One Night Club" COM
posed of well known young men of
the city, who found robbing hen roosts
a great source Of amusement.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-24
LAKEPORT IN A
STATE OF TERROR
Two Incendia1y Fires Occur in
the Town in one
Night.
Citizens Are Aroused and a Crusade
Will Be Made Against Worth
less Characters.
snecial Dlsnatch to The can.

Special Dispatch to Ihe Call.
LAKEPORT, Dec. 22!--The ircbug
made his appearance last night, and.
as a consequence, this usually quiet
town is all excitement.
Yesterday notices bearing skull
and crossbones. with the words ito
night" underneath were posted in
four places-Brown's store, Aliens
saloon, the fire engine-house and the
window of a vacant store in the Levy
block. AS soon as they were dis
covered the more timid anticipated
trouble, while others thought it was
a joke, but the events of last night
prove that an attempt was made to
burn down a portion of the business
houses on Main street.
The fire was first discovered in a
vacant storeroom two doors north of
the Lakeview Hotel. AS soon as no.
ticed an alarm was given, and Mar
shall Mitchell, with the assistance of
Howard Williams, rushed in and ex-
tinguished it. They found a pile of
old newspapers saturated with coal
oil and covered with dry-goods boxes.
The building is an old, unsightly af-
fair, and is so situated that if a fire
once got a good start in it all those
in the block would be destroyed, as
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-24

hourly and there is but little hope of
q her recovery. Mrs. Booth is said to be
dying of a broken heart. Nor is this
statement a figure of speech, If the
story is correct, as told by Mrs. Booths
most intimate friends. 1t is to the eff
feet that a rupture of a blood vessel
of the heart, as the doctors diagnose
Mrs. Booths case, was caused by in
: tense grief and shock incident to the
misunderstanding between BalIington
~ Booth and his father, which resulted
in Ballington Booths withdrawal from
the Salvation Army and their subse-
duent persecution. 1t was in January,
1895, that General Booth ordered his
son and daughter-in-law from Ameri-
ca. The next month they withdrew
from the army. Since then, the vOlun-
teers say, Mrs. Booth has been the vic
tim of most malignant personal at
,tacks. On top of this, her friends say,
every mail brought to Mrs. Booth
ANONYMOUS letters-Some of the most
violent nature-telling her that she
was responsible for estranging her
husband from his family and that she
had shortened the life of General
Rooth. commander-in-ch chief of the
salvation Army, by her actions. These
letters and other evidences of hostility
have been taken greatly to heart by
Mrs. Booth.
Commander Booth Tucker of the
salvation Army has issued the follow
ing statement in reference to the atti-
t11de of the Salvation Army regarding
Mrs. Booths illness:
|eWhiIe realizing that this is not the
moment to enter into anv argument,
controversy or defense, yet in case our
position should be misunderstood, and
in view of the statement made by the
press. [ am constrained, on behalf of
our people all over the world, to say
that there is but one feeling in our
hearts regarding the illness Of Mrs.
Booth, and the consequent sorrow and
anxiety through which Commander
Rallington Booth is passing. That
feeling is love, which would find ex-
preston in unceasing prayer
Consul Mrs. BoothTucker has been
in constant communication with the
hospital and with Commander Bal
Iington Booth, expressing her SYM
pathy and proffering assistance within
her power, while General Booth has
cabled from London the assurances of
his prayers"
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-24
REINDEER DRIVERS VOLUNTEER.
One Hundred Sturdy Men Would Aid the
Relief Expedition.

ASTORIA, Or, Dec. 23-The follow
ing telegram, sent to-day. speaks for
itself:
To the Hon. r. A. Alger Secretary
Of War, Washington, D. c.: The AS
toria Commercial Association has a list
Of 100 resident Astorians, hardy natives
OF Norway and Finland, who are ex-
perienced reindeer drivers, and would
be glad Of an opportunity to accom-
pany the Government relief expedition
to Alaska. Astoria is the point of de-
parture for a weekly line of steamers
for all Alaskan points. and the reindeer
drivers can leave here as soon as ar
rangements can be made
ASTORIA PROGRESSIVE CONNER
CIAL ASSOCIATION
ALBERT DUNBAR, President
Z. j. SMITH, Secretary"
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-24

they are all ancient frame structures,
with the exception of the Lakeview
Hotel and Mantzs store, and the
water supply is of little use in such an
extremity.
Several hours after the first excite
ment had subsided another fire start
ed in the same building, and was also
put out before getting under head
way.
The hoodlum element has been car
ryfng things with a high hand lately.
and vigorous measures will now he
taken to suppress it, as the law-abid-
ing citizens have banded themselves
together and raised a purse, which
will be given to the person furnish
ing information leaGing to the arrest
and conviction of the miscreants.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-24
lie NnLe-corneN Controversy.

ITHACA, n. Y, Dec. 25.-The delay
in bringing about an agreement be
tween Cornell and Yale for race be-
tween the crews Of these two univer-
stiles is creating a feeling here that
after all there may be no race. Even
the most conservative members Of the
council are becoming antagonistic to
Yale. It is believed that another con-
ference should be held Immediately
and the matter settled at once so that
a feeling so dangerous TO the most inn
portant negotiations may be nipped III
the bud.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-24
FOULLY SLAIN
By JAPANESE
Fate of Two Am ericans
in the Port of Ma
gaSaki.
One Of the Marines Displayed
Roll of Bank Notes
While Ashore.
Commander Stockton Tells OF the
Crime and His Efforts to Find
the Assassin.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEWPORT, r. l., Dec. 2S.-Com-
mander c. H. Stockton, U. S. N, who
commanded the Yorktown at the time
when the two sailors, Frank Epp of
New York and Seaman Montgomery.
attached to the Asiatic fleet, were
killed by japanese at Nagasaki. has
just returned to his home here. Com
mander Stockton said to an Associated
Press representative that Montgom-
cry was landsman on the Yorktown.
He was the boats deck cook, and had
been restricted to the ship on account
OF drunkenness. Commander Stockton
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-24
FRUiTLESS EXPLOIT or
SAN JOSE EOOTPADS
Attempt to FOB San franciscan Is Raf-
fled BY His Screams and
SprntnQ.

SAN JOSE, Dec. 23.-An ATTEMPT was
hold up Mr.. D. j. Jones of 511 Golden
Gate avenue, San Francisco, who is
visiting here. He was passing through
the Normal School grounds when two
dered Hands up" Jones raised .
mighty scream and dashed off like 2
fleeing deer, continuing his Screams
and flight until safely landed at the
central station. where he told his
story. No trace of the men could he
found, as they had evidently given up
pursuit in disgust
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-24
KIRK rs BOUND FOR KL0RDIKE.
King of the Dudes" TO Outfit a Bio Party
in This City.

NEW YORK, Dec. ga Herald spe-
cial from Philadelphia says: ]. Wal
dere Kirk, King of the Dudes" who
recently figured in New York poIice
court, and who has been named as CO.
respondent in the Mandelbaum divorce
case, was in Philadelphia last night
bound, he said, for the Klondike. In
San Francisco he will make prepara-
tions to take large party of men to
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-24

the gold fields. Kirk was in the gold
mining business out in Colorado some
years ago. Kirk told his friends that
ne had Iound ntty persons in New York
who wanted to go to the Klondike. and
who considered that in view of his min
ing experience he was the proper per-
son to conduct them there. Each one
of the fifty, Kirk said. had paid him
which is to leave San Francisco about
$4,000. He has already chartered a boat.
March Il
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-24
Petaiuma Child Scatded to Death.

PETALUMA, Dec. 29-Marie Paula.
aged two years, died here to-day after
suffering greatly from a scalding re-
ceived while playing with companions
at her home. A large vat of boiling
water was placed in the yard and COW
cred with planks. The child climbed
on the boards, which became dis
placed. She died in terrible agony.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-24
FATAL GRIEF
OF BALLINCTON
BOOTHS WIFE
The Talented Woman
Is Dying From a
Il Broken Heart.
Worry Over Troubles
Causes the Rupture Of
a Blood Vessel.
Shocks Incident to Estranoe-
ment Between Her FIus-
band and His Father.
GETS ANONYMOUS LETTERS
Broken Down the Noted
Christian Worker.
Shocks Incident to Estranoe-
naent Between Her Hus-
band and His Father.
GETS ANONYMOUS UsLETTERs
Evidences OF Hostility That Have
Broken Down the Noted
Christian Worker.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW YORK, Dec. 23-Mrs. Maud
B. Booth, wife of Commander Balling-
ton Booth of the American Volun-
unteers, is said to be growing weaker
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-24
Blazing SUGAR Plantation.

LONDON, Dec. PA dispatch re-
ceived here from Havana late this
evening says that the flames of a large
sugar plantation. ignited by the insur-
gents, are plainly visible from the
city.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-24
THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING -

With q force numbering almost an army, 1citb
additions made daily, with trained corps of men
able to cope 1citb large cyoucds-eUen wih all this
hare we yet been unable to cope 1cith the ron6s of
mankind that kept filing in our big house-on our
OUeycoat Floor, on our Suit Floor.
They hare coDoe they hare seen, they hare p1tr-
chased-they hare taken odUanta9e of our high
class offer of Suits and OUercO0ts, equal to any,
thing in to1O7o at SIS and $50, at
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-24
Nearly Every Man Coming Out
Has Worthless Claims for
Sale.
WARNING. TO THE PUBLIC.
Drastic Provisions Of the New Mining
Law-Property Will Be Easily
Forfeited.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

VICTORIA, B. c., Dec. 23.-Dawson
City advices up to November 1 were
brought here to-day by passengers on
the steamer City of Seattle from