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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16

Bill Johnson's Opinions:
I've allus notissed, fellers.
Hits risky thing to do
To kaikalate accOrdin'
To how things look to you.
The man at talks the incest
Don't help you up the hill;. =
The one lat prayS the lOudest
Don't allus pay his bill.
Sometimes the biggest fishes
Bites the smallest kinds o. bats;
An mighty ugly wimmin
Can make the best o. mates.
The smartest loOkin' Teller
May be reg'ler fool;
You're allus kicked the highest
BY the meekest loOkin' mule.
Atlanta journal
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16

In an address delivered in the SEN
ate few days ago advocating the
adoption of resolution providing
for the restoration of silver as primary
money, Senator Chandler of New
Hampshire, a sound money republi-
can, said in part:
my inquiries have been carefully
and conscientiously made, and they
lead me to opinions which are ex-
ceedingly disturbing to my hopes
that business prosperity is near at
hand. 1 do not believe that we have
as yet realized the full fall in prices
which decentralization is produc ing"
"Here, then, we have this sta rtling
condition of our country: Our $685.
600, $1,000 (of property in 1900 has
shrunk SIG, OOO, 900, 900, or to $49,OOO,-
600, 100000. Our debts of $4,000, OOO,-
600 Census of 1900 have not shrunk,
but remain due, according to the let
ter of the bonds, and are an inexora-
charge upon our property to that full
amount, leaving US, deducting our
debts, values to the amount of only
$33, 900, OOO,0 900. Can this continuous
shrinkage of our property and the
unyielding burden of our debts be
endured without widespread bank
ruptcies? Can ali this indebtedness
be liquidated, or that portion of it
which falls due in the near future,
with such fall in valuesP am CON-
PEELED to believe that if the present
tendency of prices downward con-
tinues, the debtors of the world will
be unable to meet their engagements,
and insolvencies will continue to in
crease from year to year until almost
revolution will take place in the
ownership of the property of the
country, which will pass from the
control of debtors into the hands of
creditors.
II fear that prices will not rise,
that business will not revive, that
debtors cannot pay, and that bank.
ruptcies will increase, and I believe
that the present lamentable condi-
ton of the business of this country,
and of nearly all countries, is owing,
in large measure, to the fact that,
as the Iddlesleigh commission OF 1895
declared, there has been continuous
fall of prices caused, in large measure,
by the appreciation OF the. standard
of value. The hour has struck in
this country when there must be a
sincere and earnest movement to ar
rest the injustice that is being done
to the masses of the people,"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16

It is related by the Washington Post
that an Illinois member of congress
once dined in Chicago with "Billy"
Mason, who is now United States sen-
ator-elect. They had talked of the de-
sire of Mr.. Mason to come to the sem
ute, had admired the beautiful house in
which he lives. had even inspected the
tiled glories Of the bathroom, and then,
smoking an after-dinner cigar, the two
friends walked downtown together.
When they were some distance from the
house the representative turned and
looked back ut the large and brilliantly
light dwelling. "You have beauti-
full home." said the representative.
eyes," replied Mason, with sound
that was between laugh and sigh,
"but can hear that house drawing in
terest two blocks away"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16

Mnj. ]. G. Lee, Louisiana's COM
missioner of agriculture, says that from
the 100000 acres in that state under
cultivation there is raised annually
about$75, 900, 900 worth ofdifferent prod
ucts, and he claims that no other state
In the union can show equal results.
The state contains 2s,0O0,OOO acres of
land. Louisiana is not generally given
credit for all that Maj. Lee claims for
the state.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16

signora Cousino, of South America,
the richest woman in the world, has
copper and silver mines that yield her
on income Of 100000 per month, and
coal mines that net $4,000 a month,
while her stock farms produce more rev.
enue than all her mines put together.
She also owns o fleet of steamships
and immense bodies of land.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16

Rev. Mr.. Endlich, q New jersey
preacher, recently had removed from
his right arm needle which had been
meandering through his system for 10
years. He stepped upon it one night
just as he was retiring. the needle en-
tering his heel and breaking of so that
1t could not be extracted. Notwith-
standing the long lapse of years since
the needle entered his frame, Mr.. End
Itch has paid little attention to 1t. He
never once lost the thread of his dis
course, and his sermons were always
pointed. He basted the sinners with all
his usual fervor and sowed the truth dill
igently at all times. There was no "be-
twixt and between" about him, and
when he used the familiar comparison
Of the plutocrat and the camel, as he
often did. he was particularly happy.
Comment is needless.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16

with force and arms feloniously did
steal, take and carry away one jar Of
jelly preserves" was the awful charge
brought in the Portland (Me.) police
court against five small Portland boys,
who. according to their own account Of
the affair, had "only swiped some jelly"
Thus does legal verbiage make much of
small matters.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16
March, April. Nav.

Almost every one has come to be-
lieve that March, April and May is a
season that brings arrangements of
the body dependent on blood impure
ties. This belief is an old one, is near
~ universal, and has arisen, not as
the result of teachings of the medical
fraternity, but has been learned in
the bitter school of experience. De-
preston of the nervous system at the
approach of spring is fertile source
of blood jmpurities,-general lassi-
tude, dull, heavy sensations, contin.
ual tired feelings, with irregular ap-
petite, and sometimes loss of sleep.
Pc. ru-na meets every indication and
proves itself to be perfectly adapted
to all their varied peculiarities. Pc
ru-na invigorates the system, rejuven-
ates the feelings, restores the normal
appetite and procures regular sleep.
That tired feeling which the natural
result of the depressing effect of warm
weather Immediately after the invigo-
rating cold of winter, quickly disap-
pears when Pe-ru-na is taken. Thous-
ands are daily testifying to it's price,
less benefit.
All who desire DR.. Hartman's latest
book on this interesting subject can
obtain one for short time free by
addressing The Pe-ru-na Drug Manu-
featuring Company, Columbus, Ohio
1t is notorious that Wallace's Month
y went republican and ..sound money"
during the last campaign for "price''
as Judas went for one. After helping
to betray the people into the hands of
plutocrats, the usurers of the world,
it advocates closing one-half or more
of the public schools of Iowa to save
the people the burden of taxes they
incur. He advises carrying the child
rem by teams night and morning to
the few country schools he would
leave the people. He says ..the scar
city of money and business and the
necessity of reducing taxation is maxi
ing itself apparent in a good many
different ways. One of the newest
manifestations of the determination
to save money is the doubling up of
the country Schools To the extent
of his ability he contributed to the
perpetuation of conditions which make
low prices for all the products of labor,
and the apparent necessity for wiping
out half the school houses on the
hill tops as we'll as the saloons in the
valleys, limiting education to those
who are fortunately SO situated that
they can be carried night and morning
to some distant school. Was there
ever more arrant knave than Henry
Wallace has demonstrated himself to
be? The public generally put the
proper estimate upon the man and his
protested interest in it's welfare and
prosperity. y
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16

Last year there were $3.50 suicides in
tho United States, 7e1 more than In the
previous year. There seems to be
growing tendency to self-destruction
IN this country, resulting 1t may be
from the financial depression.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16

A man recently drank pint Of yeast
in mistake for buttermilk. He rose
three hours earlier than usual next
morning.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16

A recent report says that by wash.
ing clothes at the undertaker's the sec.
ond wife Of Bangor (Afe.) man IL pay.
ing of the bin for the burial Of her pro.
d6cessor,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16
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 SEQ
ton of the country. Parties desiring
a home in that locality wonld do we'll
to correspond with him.
Address William Stanley, Rock,
Redwood county, MINI. to may 4
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16

LAxoL is the best medicine TO chill
dren. Doctors recommend it in place
of Castor Oil.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16

and be at rest. One
physician said I had
consumption, for I had
q cough that gave me
NO rest. But q good
old physician whose
medicine had failed,
advised me to use DR..
Miloss Restoratfvo
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16

Nervine and thank God that it has bright
ened my days, heightened my life and saved
me from the horrors of nervous prostration."
DR.. Miles Remedies are sold by all drug
gists under positive guarantee, first bottle
benefits or money refunded. Book on Heart
and Nerves sent free to all applicants.
DIR. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart Ind
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-16
vi ore

Medicinal value in bottle of Hoods sarsa.
parilla than in any other preparation.
More skill is required, more care taken, more
- expense incurred in Its manufacture.
1t costs the proprietor and the dealer
More but 1t costs the consumer less, as he
gets more doses for his money.
Moro curative power is secured by its peculiar
sxz combination, proportion and process,
which make 1t peculiar to itself.
Moro people are employed and more space oc-
cupied in Its Laboratory than any other.
More wonderful cures effected and more tes-
timonials received than by any other.
More sales and more increase year by year
are reported by druggists.
More people ar taking Hoods Sarsaparilla
taking today than ever before.
moro and STILL MORE reasons might be
given why you should take
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-20
Property Transfers.

Richmond: Isaiah j. Hawkes. and wife
to William Brown. % - feet on east
side Thirty-hrst street, ll5 II feet from
Pcndleton. $1.l50.
Daniel Kiniry's trustees TO West-End
Building Fund Association. IS feet on
Duval street, northwest corner First
$500
Jacob Reinhardt and wife TO Mathew
Schaaf. % "a feet on Marshall street
northeast corner Monroe, 5000
Henrlco: W. NJ. Cole TO Leonora V.
Williams. household and kitchen furni-
ture. surrey and harness, 500
Hugh Miller to Mary T., wife Of J. +.
Rose. lot I'm block %, Barton Heights,
500.
Frederick Pieasants's trustees to J. A..
Heisler. % 7-l2 feet on south side Grove
road. $50 feet west OF Strawberry street,
$1G2A9i
Edward J. Warren to Lewis Ginter, q
acres ] rood, and q poles on Brook turn
pike. $500.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-20
WORKING FULL TINE
AT TUE SHOP OF THE ROANOKE
MACHINE-W
An Important Order--The Outlook
for General Improvement Good
Tho Convention Committecs-Burn-
cd I'm an ENpIosion-Bricfs.

ROANOKE. VA. May 19.-(Special)-
This morning for the first time i'm many
months the employees in the freight de-
partment Of the Roanoke Machine Works
and on the repair line went TO work at
o'clock working ful time. The general
order has been issued from headquarters
that these departments viii work ten
hours per day each day except saturday
and work viii not suspend on that day
until 3 o'clock III is stated that high
official of the Norfolk and Western rail-
road IS authority for the statement that
within thirty days more men viii hoe at
work and on longer time i'm the Roanoke
1fachinc-Works than ever before known.
This. ID is believed. will be caused 10y the
suspension Of work at the shops at
shenandoah. Bluchcld. and Crewe. The
present outlook for q general improve
ment in the condition Of affairs here is
good.
Committees representing the City Coun-
cu and the Democratic Executive Com
miftee have gone TO Richmond to press
the claims of Roanoke FOR the guberna-
torial convention before the state Demo-
cratic Committee which meets there TO-
morrow night The various committees
are COMPOSED Of twenty -four of Roanoke
best-knoum citizens. including Mayor An
drews and several members of the Coun-
CT.
Major J. Hose Tyler. candidate for the
guternatorial nomination by the Demo
cratic party. was in the city to-day, en-
route home from Washington, AleXan-
dria. and other points
Dr. II. w. Crozier. q dentist of this city,
was severely burned by the explosion OF
am alcohol lamp in his Office this after
noon His right arm was badly injured.
After "a hard-fought battle over the
granting Of a liquor-lcense to r. l..
Woodward on Campbell avenue. Judge
Dunuy. of the Circuit Court refused 10
grant the license.
an important decree was entered in the
case OF j. T. Smoot rs. The Peoples Per-
petual Building and Loan Association.
Tlo court decreed that the contracts OF
The association were not usurious or ille-
sal.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-20

ton Of Gomez's troops. because man.
after a few months experience with Gu
ban post offices. and after being mixed
w IN Cuban affairs here recognizes q
pinkCrton IN every waiter who hands him
bottle OF wine at dinner for Cuban
Pinkcrtons are everywhere and Spanish
gold colors many things in these United
States. But he does write that with zso
American soldiers. such as the Confede-
rates were. he could have whipped every
detachment OF the Spanish army sent
against Gomez in the last three months
POSTAL CONGRESS.
Arrangements have just been completed
for the trip OF the delegates to the Fostal
Congress down Chesapeake bay and TO
Norfolk Hampton Roads. and the vicini-
~. They Will leave here on a special
train over the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road at o'clock Friday afternoon for
Baltimore There they will take one OF
the new boats Of the York River Line for
ola Point Saturday forenoon VIII be
spent cruising about Hampton Roads and
inspecting the ship-yards at Newport
News. where two OF the largest battle
ships are ON the stocks. The same after
noon they VIII witness n special dress
parade Of the garrison at Fort Monroe
and they will leave by boat that night,
reaching here on Sunday morning In time
TO so to church.
W. a. Carpenter, OF Abingdon. Va. IS in
the city stopping az the Metropolitan.
y. Tyrrell. Of Orange, Va; NJ. simpson
and wife. Of Norfolk, Va, and W. n.
Bull. Of Virginia, are at the Hotel Eme-
rich.
w. IT, Sands and wife Of Richmond.
Va: c. Herndon. j. r. Wallace, Frede-
ricksburg; :. c. Walters and wife, Nir-
ginia. the Raleigh.
James Burwcl. Luray; J. +. Brawen'
Virginia. METROPOLITAN.
j. r. Amos. Richmond; 7. =. 10th, Nir-
ginia; j. G.. Pollard Richmond; ]. *.
Cockman, Virginia. St. James.
Among the fourth-class postmasters
commissioned to-day for moncy-order OIL
ces are. Annie Chaplin. Wendenyilie' NJ
c.; Charles $. Peterson. Mcdowell, Va.
Not money-order Offices: Grenville ..
Alexander. Endicott Va: John d. Tur-
ncr LaneXa. Va; Robert NJ. Lewis, Rice
VILE. Va; Endora ID. Clay, Tweedy's. va.
Special mail service has been discon-
tinuod from Lydia to Orange Sampson
county, \. c.. from June 30, 1891.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-20

France. none; to the Continent, 2,Ois bales;
stock, 37l092 bales.
Consolidated net receipts, 1850 baies,
exports-to Great Britain. 9.9l7 bales, 70
bales.
Totals since September list: Net receipts,
6s53.337 bales; exports-to Great Britain,
2920, O9f bales; to France GS0,& bales; 10
the Continent. 2,Ool,07S bales; to the Chan-
mel, 5.iSl bales.
Cotton futures opened steady; sales.
400 bales; January. $3.50: February, s5:V;
March. s6.9S; June, E.30; July, N.3i; Az
gust, N.2S; September. $3.50; october, $3.50;
November, 1919, December, s6.S2.
Futures closed QUIET sales. 500 bales,
January. ;6.3; February. $3.50; March,
$3.50: May, $3.50: June. 1880 July. 1874;
1913: November. s6.7S; December, s6Sl.
Spot cotton closed quiet and steady;
middlng Gulf Sc. middlng uplands, 7Ac.;
sales. S5l bales.
NAVAL-STORE MARKETS.
WILMINGTON, n. c.. May l9.-spirts
urpentine-Steady at 2iAM25kc.; re-
ceipts, II casks.
for strained: receipts. 10 barrels.
Crude Turpentine-Steady. at $40, $3.50,
and $50: receipts, Al barrels. 80, -.
Tar-Firm at $l.O5; receipts, III barrels.
SAVANNAH. GA. May 19-Turpen-
tne-Opened firm at % 3-Sc.; sales. ~
casks: closed firm at 2jAc.; sales, 80
casks; receipts. 1855 casks.
Rosin-Receipts, 3.G43 barrels; market
opened firm and unchanged. with sales
OF 1858 barrels, and closed firm with sales
OF LIS barrels, at following quotations.
A. y, {, and ID, sl.35; r., A:42l2u<lll; r,
A44i2GSL50; G., sl.52ia; II, Sl.65; !, SlO;
X. $50; NJ sl.S; \, 81; window-Slass,
$40; water-white. $3.50.
PETERSBURG COTTON MARKET.
PETERSBURG, VA, May l9-Cotton-
Steady at l-2Q7 3-sc. for good to best
lots.
PETERSBURG PEANUT MARKET:
PETERSBURG VA, May 1s.-Vir-
ginias quiet at 2Q2 S-Sc. for good to best
lots: Spanish quiet az 15c.
NORFOLK PEANUT MARKET.
NORFOLK, VA, May 1S.-Farmers'
market quiet and steady. with ten
dency. probably, upward; fancy, 5-Sg
2 3-4c: strictly prime, 2 Lag 3-Sc.; prime
2G2 Use; Spanish, Sic; low grades, ! lo2V
3-4c.; hand-picked, fancy. l-ia5 l-zc, F;
extras. 2 l-2a2 S-ic. third grade &C.; no
/ Spanish. shelled. 3-4c.; No. Virginia,
1-2a2 BIC; No. Virginia. &c.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-20
NEWPORT NEWS WEDDING.
Found GuiIty--Thc state Convention
Committees

NEWPORT NEWS. VA. May 19.-Cspe-
cial)-The marriage of Miss Annie NJ.
Goodwin. daughter OF Jonathan Goodwin, OF
Nausemond county, ana Air. A. b. ABB
bit. junior member Of the wholesale
grocery firm Of Currin & Abbitt. OF this
city, was solemuized this morning at the
residence of the brides sister Mrs.
Charles Hoge. the Rev. G. g. Cox, pastor
O. The B8ptist church. officiating.
The jury i1 the case of the Common
wealth rs. Charles Farnham. indicted for
assaulting his wife, which has been on
trial Zoo the Corporation Court, to-day
rendered % verdict Of guilty fixing his
term in the city lal az ten days ana I'M
posing q fine of SO ON him.
Newport News viii be wen represented
81 The meeting of the State Democratic
Committee in Richmond tO-morrow night.
THE committee OF six, OF which Mr.. K. O.
Ilckf0rd IS chairman. recently appointed
lv the Busiucss-Men's Association 10 pre-
sent this city's claims for tire convention,
viii leave for Richmond tomorrow mora
ing. The committee is composed OF Hon.
Thomas Temple Powell. Colonel c. NJ.
BraxtOn. Mossrs. j.. C.. Smith, Harris l..
Moss. and g.. s.. Ashby.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-20
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES.
Veteran Journalist On Cuba-Outing
OF rosfn! Congress.

WAsHINGTON. j. c., May l9.-Cspe-
cial)-Spoaklng Of the Cuban situation
and the ability Of the insurgent forces on
the island, "a veteran and distinguished
Journalist. who has done grand service
there. said to-day: Il find here among
senators an impression that the rebellion
S. 'pciering CUT as they say down IN
SOuthside Virginia, Is gradually. frazzling
into tattcrs. A senator, a warm friend
Of Cuba Libre said 10 me the other
nieht on my expressing the CONVICTION
that the republic would be established:
4 wish I could feel as confident as you
arc. but I fear that Gomez has no longer
any army. and that his followers have
CisYcrscd.' / told him / knew the con-
tlary. ] am IN weekly correspondence
With men who have been with Gomez IN
the mountains with men who are there
now. With men Who are going there.
The man who succeeded me as CORE
aIondcnt OF New York newspaper IN
Cuba has just got back. after three
months service on the stan OF Maxine
Gomez and he says the insurgents are
in high spirits and have great confidence
~ the success % their Efforts 10 secure
freedom from Spanish rule-liberty. He
has never written the Numbers and pcsi-
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-20
RICHMOND TOBACCO MARKET.

Richmond, Va. May 10, 1897.
Auction sales on Change to-day, 10
packages, with $3.50 highest price.
Messrs. John T. Jacob & CO. sold IL pack
ages; George y. Haynes, 80 packages;
Carter q Ryland. II packages, and Frazer
x TOmpkins, packages.
Large offerings again tomorrow.
Private sales very light.
Revenue collections: Cigars and ciga-
rettes. S5,97S4O; tobacco, $23I6.O5. Total
$S.354.43.
Stonewall Warehouse sold to-day. in adj
dtion 10 the regular bright loose sale,
g. packages Of sun-cured tobacco, ana
Planters Warehouse sold 30 packages
with 81 highest price. The same house
also had "A fair bright loose break.
Both CrenshaW and ShOckoe warehouses
had small loose sales Of sun-cured to-
day. the latter house getting as high as
5000 for one lot.
Sun-cured continues TO come In in large
quantities. but our buyers want 1t. and
don't hesitate TO pay full market values
therefor.
The Trademark Association of fine-cut
chewing and smoking tobacco manufac-
turers have called a meeting OF all to-
bacco manufacturers TO meet at the ED-
hitt House Washington, ID. c.. on May
26th. at 10 o'clock. 1t is urged that every
manufacturer should be present in per-
son or send his or their views and proxy.
This is a most important meeting. and
will no doubt be largely attended.
Mr.. G. NJ. Fleming. of Briggs * Flem-
ing Wilson. n. c., who recently had
their mammoth factory destroyed by fire.
was here to-day and says work OF re-
building on even a larger scale than be-
fore has already commenced.
Mr. ". II. SmoOt, OF Durham, y. c.,
was also here to-day.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-20

LOVINGSTON. VA. May 19.-(Special)
kitchen Of Miss j. a. Mathews's resi-
Cence. at u o'clock. the house was set
on fire and rapidly burned TO the ground
b. II. Gorions house and the Nelson
Times building were also totally de-
FtrOycd. 40 insurance.