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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-12-29
Heautx Ia nIooa peen.

Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar.
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all i'm
purities from the body. Begin. to-day to
Danish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads.
Cascarets,-beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, lQc. 25c. Soc.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-12-29
DO YOU KNOW

Consumption is preventable? Science
has proven that, and also that neglect
is suicidal. The worst cold or cough
can be cured with Shiloh Cough and
Consumption Cure. Sold on positive
guarantee for over fifty years.
j. III. LuerS Drug Co.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-12-29
Cures Coughs, colds. croun

Cures Coughs, colds, Group, whoop-
ing cough, lagrippe, pneumonia, and
consumption-Begg's Cherry Cough
Syrup. Best doctors in the state told
me L had consumption; two bottles
Begg's Cherry Cough Syrup cured me.
VIM. Whitetield, Lincoln, Neb.--Lom
as s. Son.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-12-29

The modern and mott effective cure
for constipation and all liver troubles
the fomous little pills known as De
Wits Little Early Risers.-J. H,
Luers Drug 20.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-12-29
OUR CANDIDATE IN 1900.

Words worthy to be cut in imperish-
able granite and planted along the
wayside of every public highway in
America. "Money Is made to be the SER
cant Of a,1an-aad I protest against all
eories that e,etlt,one money and debascs
mankind. p H1lliam J. Bryan.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-12-29
None to Turn over,

IT thought you were going to turn over
new leaf, john" she said.
Il was" he replied, "but find ! can't
"Why not"
"There won't be any new leaves until
spring. Chicago Post.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-12-29
A Natural mistake.

Young Poet Ito friend DWELL, Charley,
I've sworn off.
Friend (enthusiastically)-rm heartily
glad of it, old boy; and all your friends will
feel the same. Let's go and have drink.
Young Poet-Didn't just tell you I had
sworn off drinking?
Friend (disappointed)-Y didn't say
you had sworn off drinking. 1 supposed
you had sworn off writing poetry. Good
lbye.-N. Y. Tribune.
A New Year Declaration.
Alas, no resolutions fair
Shall on the scroll appear:
I'll but endeavor to repair
The ones l broke lastyear.
Washington Star.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-12-29
NEW YEARS RETROSPECT.
1t Shows That jealousy Sometimes
Rests on Thin Foundation.

ooNA7 ELL T well, 50 >! this is, is New New
NN er. "Do you remember how
we quarreled this day one year ago."
Remember! I think dol" cried his
wife. "Why, the cards were ordered when
it happened, and didn't know whether ]
could have your name taken out and Dicks
inserted, in case changed my mind"
"In case l changed mine, you mean, dear.
Strange that I never suspected how much
poor Dora cared for me until that day."
"I'm sure she had concealed it very we'll
the way she ran after Dick, as if he ever
had eyes for anybody but mel He never
told his love, but woman's intuition was"
"a synonym of vanity, dear Of course,
I couldn't help knowing that she cared
for me when met her in the boarding
house parlor, with her eyes full of tears, on
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-12-29
Merely mn Omcial Form

He wished me happy New Year;
The words would have ticked me. but
knew from his bearing austere
was booked for salary cut.
Chicago Record.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-12-29

To Cure La Grippe in 24 Hours
No remedy equals WARMERS WHITE
WINE OF TAR SYRUP for this terrible
and fatal disease. II taken thorough
ly and in time, it will cure case in
"a hours, and for the cough that
follows La Grippe it never fails to
give relief. Price Csc and 50c.-J. III.
LuerS Drug Co.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-12-29
To Cure a Cold in One Day

Take Warmers White Wine of Tar
Syrup, the best cough remedy on
earth. % and so cents.--J. Ell. Luers
Drug Co.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-12-29
A Habit of His,

N1ajor-Goins to swear off drinking this
year, old man?
Minor suppose SO. / generally do
Town Topics
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-12-29

Consumption Cure Warmers
White Wine of Tar Syrup, the best
cough remedy on earth, cures cold
in one day If taken in time. % and
80 cents.-J. Ii. Luers Drug Co..
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-12-29
Constant
hing

Constant coughing is not only very
annoying, but the continuous hacking
and irritation will soon attack and in
jure the delicate lining of the throat
and air passages. A simple cough is
bad enough; but a chronic cough is
really dangerous. Take advice and
use the celebrated DIR. Bulbs Cough
Syrup at once and be cured.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-12-29
Coldeck-What was the difference, 100,
old boy, between you and me at 1880 last
MIGHTY
The New Year.
INVVV
Loves harmonies flow toward him full and

sweet;
Sins wild. dtscordant cries are past him
hurled.
With sad. glad heart and brave. reluctant
feet
He steps upon the threshold of the world.
--Judea
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-12-29

Drink HIS Only sOInce Now.
Z" Yes. I'll swear off on New Years day."
He said, 'if my neighbours kid'll
Swear off from trying to learn to play
His everlasting fiddle"
.-Ehtoaso Tribune.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-12-29
Tragic.

AI shall not see you till another year
Has dawned." he said.
Oh. tickle maid! she turned not pale with
fear
She laughed instead.
This seems tragic lay, TIL we remember
It occurred the thirty-frst day Of Decem-
Der.
IN. Y. Truth.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-12-29

N THE evanescent
beauty Of a winter
mornings glow
Come the footsteps
Of the New Year
DER the light and
fleecy snow,
And a happy well
90 m e soundeth
from the steeple-
guarded chimes
And prophesy the
tuneful bells the
d a W n Of better
TIM acs
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-12-29
Drink MS Only soInce Now.

N. Y. Truth.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-08-23
. that the blood of their SONS shall

pose that the blood Of their SONS shall
have been shsd>in,xain..,, .za.a-- 4 &
They do not propose that these two
wars shall have been fought without
q distinct and permanent gain to the
cause of real Liberty and Good
Government in this world
The people of the western empire do
not propose to surrender back to bar
barism single foot of territory once
reclaimed from bigotry and mis-
government.
Where American blood has once
been shed and the American flag has
once been raised, there they believe
it should stay in spite of all the world.
Today the seat of empire resides not
upon the Atlantic coast, but far
inland, where the Mississippi and it's
tributaries wander towards the sea.
The. West has not lived down the
great migratory and civilizing in
stincts inherent in its blood. It
voices these instincts in no uncertain
terms. It does not fear the Future.
Where the clear Destiny of the Race
and Nation points, it does not fear to
follow. w. D. Washburn, Jr.
Minneapolis, Minn., March /, 1899.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-08-23

We, as a nation, have never yet
failed to rise to the full compass and
greatness demanded by the destiny OF
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-08-23
Locals W. ID. Barksdale.

Dried apples and peaches just In. Also
shredded cocoanut .'..
Something nice In preserves at 1oc 10.
Bigl OF OF trunks. All kinds.
Little picnic hams. Very nice. Morrison's
hams-always the best. -.
Lots Of canned goods at low prices.
Cottolepe, the "new shortening" One half
as much as lard.
A ice muscavado molasses. Very fine.
New Orleans molasses. very nice at 40 cents
q gallon.
A splendid lot OF overalls ana jackets.
Come and see our lines Of trunks.
Mrs. Johnson's home made pickles are fine.
When In need OF something to eat come and
see what we have. W. ID. Barksdale.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-08-23

ALI you have to do when in need OF any
thing at the drug store Is TO ring my phone
lO7 Those boys will do the rest.
DR.. Hills Heachache will knock that head.
ache into cooked hat For sale by Milford
d DuPre. The Druggist. Phone 1O7
Remember to carry your prescription TO the
up-to. date drug store OF Milford & DuPre.
Phone l07.
Save time and money by buying your
smoking tobacco, cigaretta and cigars from
Milford C DuPre. Phone 1N.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-08-23


in the Constitution. They are the
natural attributes of National Suprem-
acy and are 80 manifestly bound up in
the very fabric Of the Constitution
that they need no direct mandate In
black and white.
The Constitution does not specifical'
ly provide that we defend ourselves il
attacked. Nor does the Constitution
in terms, deny the right of Secession
to a state which no longer desires to
retain its place in the national union
Yet we have waged both defensive
and offensive warfare when common
sense demanded. We fought the
greatest war in history to retain states
which desired to secede yet no man
can point to the constitutional
mandate in black and white which
authorized the coercion of the South
ern States.
Yet neither of these acts Of Sover
eighty was more logical than is the
retention of conquered territory thrust
upon us against our will and in such 6
manner that it cannot be abandoned
without a distinct moral wrong
against Progress and Civilization.
Neither Is there any precedent
against expansion in our written Of
recorded law.
If so, where is it, who wrote it anG
where is it now concealed?
Traditions Favor q Wise Expansion
Still less do our alleged traditions
offer any barrier to such wise ano
necessary expansions as are vitality
necessary to our national safety anG
we'll being. On the contrary. the
history of the United States is but tht
story of successive expansions, by
which the necessities of increasing
population has led us to absorb infer
ior races and to open new lands tt
Industry and Civilization. Our owr
English ancestry first drove out thu
Indian, and then the Dutch, and ther
the French. The very ancestors o
these particular patriots who nov
raise the cry of Imperialism, were th'
first to drive the untutored savage ou
of New England, with melancholy
but no less persistent zeal.
From the begin ming of our national
government we have lost no oppor
tunity to extend our national domain
Thomas Jefferson, who had much t
say about peace and various mixet
theories of human rights, wasted scan
time when the most favorable chance
in history offered the territory o
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-08-23

The Eastern Question.
Turning to the political and strategic
factors connected with the Phil
ippines, we are confronted with the
fact that the possessor of the Philip
pine islands to-day holds the key to
the Eastern Question.
Reared in almost complete ignor-
ance of the portentous problems LOW
pressing for solution In the Far East,
the people of the United States are not
only plunged into this vexed and
perplexing question, but its final
solution Is thrust unexpectedly and
upceremoniously into our hands.
The Eastern Question in the Far
East as we'll as in the West. is simply
the question as to which of the Euro
mean powers shall absorb the dying
nationalities of the Orient. The past
three hundred years in Asia is the
history of the division of the national
domain of the Malay, Hindoo and
Mongolian races.
The Malays and Hindoos have. al
ready been absorbed. The Mongolian
alone remain.
Hitherto the superior energies and
colonizing powers of England have
enabled her to acquire the lions share.
Durirg this period France has always
demanded compensation for Eng
lands gains, while Russia has quietly,
but assiduously. Clipped of fragments
all along her vast frontiers, until
to-day she threatens the very existence
of the Mongolian empire. Spain, in
her shame and weakness, has played
no part in this cannibalistic feast for
some two hundred years. Nominally
possessing the richest colony in the
East, she has only remained Its owner
i because the other nations could decide
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-08-23

Anew lot of black crepons for skirts, just
received at Haddon's.
The incest box of paper going at Harrison
& Games for 10 cents.
All we ask you to do Is to call and examine
our line of paper and we are sure to please
YOU. II costs nothing 10 look 1t over. Hars
rison & Game.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-08-23
Voice OF the West.

We, as a nation, have never yet
failed to rise to the full compass and
greatness demanded by the destiny OF
our race.
WHY should we fail in this?
We will not fail. We are not race
that fails. Our forefathers encounter
ed much vaster problems in the past,
and shall we say that we are unworthy
to follow in their footsteps? Shall we
shrink ignoble from the path plainly
blazed out before us by our Destiny,
and by our duties towards the human
race?
While some closet thinkers of the
Eastern coast may shrink with fear
from these new problems, there is no
apprehension for our future among
the 5O,00O,000 people who fill the
vast realm between the Alleghenies
and the Pacific coast. The people
who have wickedly "expanded" into
the Mississippi valley, and have turn
ed the Louisiana purchase, the Mex
lean Cession and the Oregons into the
granary of the world are not perplexed
with the intellectual fantasies which
paralize the overcultured intellect of
the East.
Their thoughts and aspirations are
American and not European.
From the first they believed ferently
and ardently i6 the full righteousness
of the war which has destroyed the
last lingering tyranny of Spain in two
quarters of the globe. Breathing the
pure air of mountain ranges, vast
plains and prairie lands, their convic-
tions are product of honest toll in
imprepnated with those p1reiy com.
merical considerations which have so
often be-numbed the natural humani-
ty of the East. The people of the
West whose so!diery have born the
brunt of the recent contest, both in
Cuba and the Philippines do not pro-
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-05-27

liable source of food. Among those
the sweet potato occupies first rank,
with an annual production of about
9S, 100000 pounds. The common
white potato, although rather in
ferior quality, comes next in import
ance. Then follows the camatengca-
hoy or manihot.
There are also a large number of
other roots and vegetables, the list in
Guiding most of the more common
kinds that are grown in this county.
Fruits grow in great abundance, ba-
nanas heading the list, willie the other
varieties are the mango, pineapple,
orange, lemon, plums, bread fruit and
pawpaw.
The Philippine plants cultivated for
industrial purposes are quite humer-
Gus. Among saccharriferous plants
cane is the only one that is at present
employed for the manufacture of sugar.
A species of sorghum called tatad is
grown, but does not appear to be used
for sugar making. Owing 10 crude
methods of manufacture the sugar
made in the Philippines is inferior in
quality and consequently brings low
price. About 500,000,000 pounds a
year are exported, exceeding in lin
portance all other exports except those
of Manila hemp, of which nearly the
entire crop is marketed abroad. The
average yearly shipments amount to
nearly 100000 long tons.
Cotton has recently lost much of it's
former importance, partly because of
excessive taxation, but principally be-
cause of the successful competition
of British fabrics.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-05-27

piled, holding out his hand. ri am do
ing particularly difficult piece of work
Just now, a most difficult subject. in
which the handling is everything, the
whole difference between success and
failure l was writing with my fist
yes. doubled up so-in despair, when
my servant told me you were here.
Look at this ''-spreading out his hand
and showing an angry swollen red ridge
of muscle which rose between the first
and second fingers and extended beyond
the wrist. "That means the intensest
and most exquisite agony. 1t seems to
disappear above the wrist and to rise
again in the underside of the arm.
from where it runs in rope of pain to
the very armpit.
"It must be horrible, said Mary
"Are you working now2'
81 was when you came.
"Why don't you let me begin right
away, sir2" she ventured to say.
He looked at her again with the same
quick, alert glance as before. Don't
call me sir. " he said. half amused
and half irritable.
81 always called Mr.. Desmond so. >
she said meekly.
"He had an Office and lot of clerks
that was different. l don't require that
kind of thing. One sir would upset
me for morning. Come into my study.
1 like you for tackling the work straight
away. Well try how it goes. y
Mary followed him into the study, a
long. low ceiled room with many books.
few pictures. some guns. fishing rods,
golf clubs. two luxurious sofa lounges
and half a dozen capacious chairs. A
rough terrier dog lay before the open
window and big Angora cat. brindled
like bulldog. was in possession Of a
fur rug before the empty fireplace. 1t
was q revelation to Mary Conway-she
had never seen such room in all her
life before.
She established herself at a table and
they began. She was amazed at the
ease and rapidity with which Alan
Stacey poured out his story, taking 1t
up at the last written word and spin
ming it out in the most vivid and inter
esting way. almost. indeed, acting it all.
So for nearly two hours they worked
without a hitch, until the servant came
to say that luncheon was served. Alan
Stacey drew long breath and rose to
his feet
"Come to lunch" he said. 81 used
to have ideas about not interrupting
the flow of genius-but I take my meals
at regular times now-it pays better
all round. Do you think you've got all
that2"
II think go. said Mary. "If you
will allow me. will transcribe it after
lunch 80 that you can see for yourself. y
TO BE CONTINUED.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-05-27
SMOKING BY BOYS.

That the essential principle of tobac-
co, that which gives it all its value to
the smoker, is virulent poison, is uni
versally admitted. 1t is agreed also
that its primary effects is upon the
brain and spinal chord, with paralyz-
ing tendency.
Even Beard, who defends the mode
rate use of tobacco, admits that its ef-
fects are disastrous on some classes of
persons. 1t withers some, he says,
while fattening others causes in some
dyspepsia and constipation, while upon
others it has contrary effect. It is
soothing to some, but induces in 9TH
ers all the horrors of extreme nervous
ness. He adds that among the BRAIN
working class of our population the
proportion of those who can use tobac-
co with impunity is yearly diminish
ing, as a nervous tendency more and
more prevails among us.
Now whatever may be urged in
favor of moderate smoking later in
life, all intelligent persons who have
given the subject attention, unite in
condemning the use of tobacco by the
young.
Young persons do not know wheth-
er or not they belong to the class most
liable to be injured by tobacco. No
one denies the danger of its excessive
use, and the young have neither the
intelligence nor the self.control to re-
sist the tendency of smoking to grow
into an uncomfortable habit. Further,
er, the brain and nervous system of
youth are specially susceptible to the
baneful influence of the poisonous
principles of tobacco.
The commanding medical authority,
the London Lancet, says: ut is time
that the attention of all responsible
persons should be seriously directed to
the prevalence and increase of tobac-
co smoking among boys. StuDted
growth, impaired digestion, palpitation
and other evidences of nervous exhaus-
ton and irritability have again and
again impressed the lesson of abstin-
ence, which has heretofore been far
too little regarded"
1t cites case which lately came be-
fore the coroner for Liverpool-death
from a fatty change in the heart due
mainly to smoking cigarettes and cigar
ends-and adds:
"This of course is an extreme ex.
ample. 1t is, however, only a strong
colored illustration of effects on health
which are daily realized in thousands
of instances. Not even in manhood
is the pipe or cigar invariably safe.
Much less can it be so regarded when
it ministers to the unbounded whims
and cravings of needless urchins."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-05-27
PRODUCTS OF THE PHILIPPINES.
They Do Not Make Enough Food For Home
Consumption.

A report on the plant products OF
the Philippine islands just received by
the agricultural department is author
ity for the statement that the Philip
pines, although an agricultural coun-
try, do not produce enough food for
the consumption of its inhabitants.
In order to supply the deficiency it is
the custom to draw upon other rice
producing countries, notably the
French colony of Cochin China. No
explanation of this condition is offer
ed, the report dealing exclusively with
agricultural resources of the island as
they now exist.
The report shows that of the area OF
the Philippines islands one-ninth, or
about 100000 acres, is devoted to
agriculture. Taking into account the
natural fertility of the soil and the
vast portion of these rich lands not yet
under cultivation, it can safely be as
sumed, it adds, that with better meth
ods of exploitation the total agricultur-
al production of the islands could be
increased to 10 or Is times its present
amount.
One of the most important food pro-
ducts of the island is rice, which forms
the staple food of not the only the ma
tive population, but also of the numer-
Gus Chinese inhabitants. More than
100 varieties are grown, and by plant
ing alternately an early and late va
riety two crops year can be secured.
The ordinary price of rice in the husk
is from 60 cents to IS cents per bushel,
while shelled rice brings from 80 cents
to 95 cents per bushel. The annual
production of this commodity is about
Sc ,OOO,O 900 bushels, an amount far be-
low the actual requirements of the
population, even when supplemented
by maize, sweet potatoes, bananas and
other native fruits and tubers. In
some years the quantity of rice i'm
ported into Manila from Saigon has
exceeded 100000 bushels, with u
value of nearly S2,O00,000.
Maize, next to rice, is the most i'm
portaut of the grain products of the
Philippines, the report stating that in
several provinces it is the chief subsls-
lence of the natives.
Tuberous roots also constitute val