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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-12-14
What Shall We Have for Des erte

This question arises in the family
every day. Let US answer it to-day.
Try Jell-O, a delicious dessert. Pre-
pared in Two minutes. No baking add
hot water and set to cool. FlavorS:-
Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Straw
berry. AT your grocers. 10 cts. 6w4
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-12-14

II you are bald; if your hair is falling
out. OF Ii you are troubled with dan.
druf, there is but one way to cure il.
Shampoo once week with a good clean
Soap and apply Beggs' Hair Reviewer.
It has cured thousands and can't fail
to cure you. Try it now. Tomas & Son
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-12-14
For Sale.

A valuable home with about ten
acres of land, owned and occupied by
the late James II. Brown, south OF the
Railroad and east Of the Stock yards.
For price and terms enquire OF Ham
BROWN, near the premises. 86tf
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-12-14

The county attorney has caused no.
tiees to be served on the projectors of
is-saloons of Keokuk that unless they
comply with the terms of the mulct
tax law within 80 days their places
will be closed under the prohibitory
law
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-12-14
A Kansas Minister.

Rev. L. S. Coulton, of Circleyille,
Kans. says: "Dr. Warner Your White
Wine of Tar Syrup has been in my
family and found it to be all and even
more than you claim for it. 1t is a
speedy cure for all throat and lung
diseases
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-12-14

DeWitt's Little Early Risers are
dainty little pills, but they never fail
to cleanse the liver. remove obstruc-
tions and inyigorate the system, -
shnttleworth Drug Co., successor to
J. II. Luers.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-12-14

The gray aud black broadcloth in al,
ternate stripes gradually tapering to
ward the waist Line, with basque eff
feet of the gray stitched just below
The sleeves are of the gray, with seal.
Hoped stitched pieces on the upper half
and wide cuffs of alternate stripes Of
black and gray.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-12-14
He staid at Home.

A Bristol man besought his wife, he
being but three years married, for the
privilege of night key.
Might key!" She exclaimed, in tones
OF amazement. What use can you have
for night key when the 'Woman's
Emancipation League meets Monday
night, the Ladies' Domestic Mission
Tuesday, the Sisters of Jericho
Wednesday, the 'Woman's Science Cir
Gle Thursday, the Daughters of Nine.
vsh' Friday, and the Suffrage Band
on alternate Saturday nights? You
stay at home and see that the baby
doesn't fall out of the cradle" He stays,
-Tit-Bits.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-12-14
~ have used Beggs' German Sal,

81 have used Beggs' German Salve
n my family for several years, and
consider it the best salve made. twill
cure a burn, cut or any skin disease
without scar, and it has cured every
case OF piles that has ever come under
my notice. Amos r. Sma;... Lomas
& Son.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-12-14
Insincerttx.

Our civilization demands a greater
OF less degree of mendacity," re-
marked the abstruse person. "We are
constantly encountering some empty
phrase, some conventional remark
which is absolutely devoid Of SINGER
ity."
That's right" answered the book
agent. That's perfectly true. am
reminded of it every time walk up
to front step where there is door
mat with the word Welcome on it,"
--Washin ston Star.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-12-14
Had watched Her Mamma.

1t was Dots first visit to the coun-
try. and she was very much interested
in the pigs curly tails. At last an
idea occurred to her. ''Auntie,' she
said, does uncle put pigs tails in curl
paper every uight?"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-12-14
Some Pretty Gonceib in
the BLOUSED 7ackeb
Despite Their Fanciul Elaborations. the Pretty
Garments Are Very Warm

loose jacket slipped on over an under
bodice; hut we are accustomed to hay-
ing them attached to the foundation,
and have almost forgotten that. prop
erly speaking, a bolero is a loose
hanging short coat.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-12-14
Jell-o. Tho New pes.ert

pleases ali the family. Four flayors:--
Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Straw
berry. At your grOcers. 10 cts. Tw
to-day. 6w4
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-12-14

A Cold Engagement.
swell, I've caught that Boston girl
"Then you've caught ."-Towr
Topics.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-12-14
IOWA STATE NEWS.
CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS.
Report of the Secretary of state of
Iowa Gives Some Interesting
Facts and Figures,

The report of the secretary of state
on criminal convictions in Iowa for tbe
year ended September 30, 1900, has been
prepared. 1t shows fewer convictions
and less number of years of sentence,
but u slightly increased cost of convic-
ton, compared with last year and the
year before. This year 1853 persons
were convicted in Iowa; last year, 1871;
the year before that, 1855. The SEN
fences this year amount to 1,279 years;
Last year to 1,377 years. Polk county
furnished 229 years of the 1870 years
OF this years sentences. The cost last
year was $362,00o; this year. 500 600.
However, these figures for this year in
clude about $4,000 reported by Polk
county which does not belong in the
cost of criminal convictions.
Following are the statistics of the
report for this year:
Total number convictions. .......... 1,15s
Number sent to industrial school,. %
Number sent to county jail...... $50
Number sent to penitentiary...... 442
Number fined ........................ 500
Penitentiary for ife................. Z
jail sentences .................. SO yrs. mos.
penitentiary sentences ....1,279 yrs. mos.
Read and write. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 941
Do not read and write............ 80
Unknown Observation-Disclosures. $50
Born In America. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 697
Foreign born. Observation-Disclosures. 226
nativity unknown .................... $50
Moral habits ........................ 1899
Medium habits OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 26S
Bad habits Observation-Disclosures. 400
Unknown ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. 2S6
zines imposed Observation-Disclosures S1, 2S4
zines collected ....................... $43 800
cost OF prosecutions. ................. .s4O9 9l7
salaries, etc., to county attorneys. $50, $50
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-12-14

Thomas B. Reed does not seek
to make himself unduly conspicuous
in the congratulations Washington
Star (Rep).
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-12

The communism of the State school
and highway taxes is written all over
the State of Vermont. The taxpayer,
in any community, without chick or
child to send to school, is the victim of
this sort of communism in that he pays
the regularly assessed local school tax.
So are other tax payers in score of
other ways. So are the taxpayers of
the whole State in the sums levied
upon them to maintain Burlington's
experiment station, ostensibly for the
benefit of agriculture; or for labor
atory there for a purely imaginary
beneft to the people at large.
Communism is all right, it is beauti-
full and lovely, 80 long as it brings some
$4,000 year into Burlington; but
when it becomes matter of paying
back few meager thousands to the
contributors of this plethoric tribute of
communism, then the CALLED jade's
withers are wrung and she winces-if
her newspapers are always true repre-
sentatives of local public opinion,
which is sometimes matter of reason
able doubt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-12
James Monroe or John Hayl

The man who will preside over the
United States Senate after the fourth
of next March has laid down the prin-
ciple-the only principle--upon which
the work of constructing the Nicaragua
canal should be undertaken by this
government at the cost of the people
of this Nation
81 most earnestly hope that the pending
treaty concerning the isthmian canal wi |
not be ratified unless amended so IS to pro-
vide that the canal when built shall be
wholly under the control of the United
States, alike in peace and war. This seems
to me vital, no less from the standpoint OF
our sea power than from the standpoint Of
the Monroe Doctrine"
Thus spoke Theodore Roosevelt, and
" hat American with red blood and
fearless lips will say him nay2
The man who will preside over the
Senate until Theodore Roosevelt is
sworn in as vice-president has declared
the right of this Nation to proceed to
build and control the Nicaragua canal
without regard to the Clayton-Bulwer
treaty:
"The United States is at present under no
obligation, measured either by the terms of
the convention, the principles of public law
or good morals, to refrain from promoting,
in any way that it may deem best for its
just interests, the construction of this canal
without regard to anything contained in the
convention of 1850"
William p. Frye signed that declara.
ton of former committee on foreign
relations, along with John T. Morgan,
John Sherman, William M. Evarts,
II i L. 4
what Senator of the United States tc-
day does not know in his heart that
William P. Frye is right?
There we have the American duty
and the American right; and the only
obstacle to the performance of the duty
and the assertion of the right is the
present secretary of state, the Hon.
John Hay.-New York Sun.
The purpose of.Secretary Hay is to
vindicate an initial bunder of his own
Originally committed, perhaps, rather
in the rashness of inconsiderate am
bition than from any lack of patriotism
by eDacting that blunder into the
supreme law of the land at incalculable
cost to this Nation in the future, and
to the utter abandonment and de.
struction of the Monroe Doctrine.
We understand that Mr.. Hay has
threatened to leave the Cabinet unless
the whole power of the Administration
be exerted to procure the ratification
of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty I'M
amended.
If that is the alternative now pre-
sented let John Hay 20 while the Mon
roe doctrine remains, to be for the
Twentieth century what it has beer
during the greater part of the nine
teenth, the guiding principle of Amer
lean policy on this continent.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-12
VermOnt's Constitution.

Vermont seems to be as much OF
posed to constitutional renovation and
improvement as Connecticut, accord
ing to the Waterman and State Jour.
nal, OF Montpelier, which castigates
the Senate for defeating an amendment
intended to liberalize and modernize
the fundamental law of that common
wealth. There is not the same differ
eDce in the population of the towns
there as in Connecticut, but a similar
right of representation is violated when
the "little town of Baltimore, or Som
erset, or st. George, with its bakers
dozen of voters" is made "the peer in
the House of presentativos of Buzz
lington with her three thousand vot-
ers." 1t is argued with self-evident
justice that the present Constitution is
wholly unrepublicaD. at was repub-
lican when it was framed and adapted
to the requirements of Sta of some
10000 inhabitants, abiding in a wilder
nees. 1t is unrepublican in its applca-
ton to the needs and requirements of a
community existing a century and
quarter after its ad ption." 1t is now
characterized as San anachronism, a
bepatched, incoherent, inconsistent,
ramshackle affair, which, existing in
any State of the South, would excite
derision and incur fierce denunciation
for its Disregard of the commonest
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-12

If John Hay insists on leaving the
cabinet, if his surrender to.Pauncefote
and Great Britain is not ratified by the
Senate of the United States, he will
undoubtedly have to go. This country
has plenty of timber for another secre-
tary of State. The ownership and con-
troll of the canal once surrendered can
never be restored. The right senti-
ment and the real state of the case az
pear in the article on this page from
the New York Sun. In the hands of
Great Britain the Clayton. Bulwer trea-
ty has been a jack-ir-thc- box. She has
persistently violated the letter and the
spirit of that compact in her own inter
est, and in her own interest she has
sprung the treaty on the vision of the
United States to deter and prevent its
government from consulting and de-
Tending it's own vital interests in that
part of Central America. When Great
Britain surrenders her own exclusive
control of the Suez waterway the Uni
ted States will give up its claim to a
similar exclusive right in the Nicara-
qua ditch.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-12

The New York San is stumped. 1t
suggests: "Perhaps some of the philo-
logians will be good enough to tell a
waiting world what is the origin of that
delicate and classical contemporary
phrase, Chewing the rag TO chew
the rag 1t cannot justly be called
beautiful, but doubtless it is good; but
where did it come from2 Whence and
what art thou, execrable shape2" A
question in philology or any depart
ment of mental or moral ecience, or
anywhere in the realm of human az
fairs, material or spiritual, which the
Sun cannot illumine with the light of
wisdom or exposition, must indeed be
deep hidden and past finding out. We
have often wondered what was the
Specification of the phrase in question
and made diligent inquiry, and had
expected that when the Sun tackled
the question we should know all about
it. Expectation has signally failed.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-12
Won't Cure Everything
But Dr. Kennedy's Favorite Rem
edy Will Cure You If You Suf-
fer From Disease of the
Kidneys, Liver, Bladder
or Blood.
Thirty Years of Cures to Its Credit
Trial Bottle Free.

Kidney diseases should be attended
to at once, for almost 80 per cent. of our
unexpected deaths of to-day are from
that cause. DIR. David Kennedy's Fa-
vorite Remedy is the only sure cure
known for diseases of the Kidneys,
Liver, Bladder and Blood, Rheuma-
tism, Dyspepsia and Chronic Constipa-
ton. 1t is marvellous how it stops that
pain in the back, relieves the necessity
of urinating so often at night, drives
away that scalding pain in passing
water, corrects the bad effects Of
whiskey and beer and shows its bene-
fetal effects on the system in an in
credibly short time. 1t is sold by all
drug stores at $l00 bottle.
You can tell just as well as a ply
stefan whether your Kidneys are dis
eased or healthy. Fill tumbler with
urine and let it stand "a hours if it has
a sediment, if it is milky or cloudy,
discolored or pale; if 1t is ropy or
stringy, your Kidneys and Bladder are
in dangerous condition and you do
not need a physician to tell you so.
If you would like to test Favorite Rem
edy free of all charge, send your full
name and post Office address to the DR..
David Kennedy Corporation, Rondout,
N. Y, and free Trial bottle, together
with a pamphlet of valuable medical
advice, will be sent you postpaid provid-
ing you mention this paper when you
write. The publishers of this paper
guarantee the genuineness OF this offer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-12
PEARY RELIEF PARTY.
Sends News of Its Safe Arrival at
Godhaven, GreenIand-Au
Reported Well.

Herbert L. Bridgman, secretary OF
the Peary Arctic club, received let.
ter the other day from Capt. Samuel
W. Bartlett, of the Peary steamer
Windward, dated August 10, God.
haven, Greenland. 1t reported the
arrival of the expedition there on that
day and all well. Nearly half the dis
lance from Sydney, C. b., was made
under canvas. Capt. Bartlett got
from Gov. Olson, of Godhaven, the 20
suits of skin clothing and 10 pairs OF
skin boots which Mr.. Peary ordered
last fall to be ready for him this sum.
mer.
Capt. Bartlett wrote that ne intend.
ed to start at once for Cape York,
with the hope of a good run and Of
finding Peary there" He says moth
ing of any unusual difficulties caused
by the ice or any unlocked for OBJ.
stacles.
Nothing in the letter indicates that
Mrs. Peary or any of the party was
not in the best of health and spir-
its. From Port au Basque, Newfound.
land, satisfactory time was made to
Disco, 1000 miles, and approximately
two-thirds of the distance from Sgd
ney to Cape York. AS the Windward
was originally built for sailing, with
engines merely as auXiliaries, the fact
that she was proceeding under can.
vas is considered favorable, as indi.
eating fair winds and an opportunity
to save coal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-12

Senator Plat of New York, said of
the probable Legislation of the session:
81 think the ship subsidy bill, the ar
my reorganization bill the war reven ue
reduction measure and the Isthmian
canal bill will all pass. Personally 1
favor the Nicaragua canal bill. l con-
slider the Nicaragua route the only
practical one, and l believe it will be
adopted" One of the obstacles in the
way of Nicaragua canal legislation was
removed when Secretary Hay and the
Nicaragua minister signed for their
respective governments which comedies
to the United States all necessary rights
and privileges for the construction of
the Nicaragua canal, and negotiations
for similar arrangement with Costa
Rica are now under way. An effort
will also be made to get immediate &C.
ton on the treaty with England, popu-
larly known as the Hay -Pauncefote
treaty which deals with the same sub
ject.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-12
As TO Communism.

The Burlington Ne,os is of the opin-
ion that the argument for the State
school tax sis the argument of COM
munism." A great many good and
proper things are called communism in
default of other epithets to apply to
something the objector does not happen
to like. The angry fishwomau in Lon.
don was "onto" this sort of objurgation
when she extinguished Charles Lamb,
who was jollying her ladyship, by de-
nouncing him as "parallelopipe-
DON"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-12

PRINCIPLES of popular government"
The Waterman is, as a rule, 80 loyal to
the political institutions of the State,
that this outburst is significant and we
hope it will coutinur he good work.
Rhode Island has corr, cted many of
the defects in her arc.cnt instrument,
ard Connecticut has been talking about
it for the last fifty years, and as she
will for the fifty years 10 come, proba-
bly,, or until the town unit idea ceases
to be sacred. Ia Vermont, "dirt, not
people, is made the basis Of represent
tation," says the Watchman, aud that
criticism applies with even greater
force to the Nutmeg State. Boston
Transcript.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-12
A Nobleman of the Navy.

If Capt. Charles E. Clark finally gets
his deserts in the way of reward for
for his services in war with Spain,
he may thank the Montpelier Journal
as one OF his stalwart champions.
While the Vermont press is united in
admiration of the gallant sailor, it has
fallen to the Journal 0 take the labor
ing oar in the endeavor to have justice
done to one of Uncle Sans noblemen
in the navy.-SJ. Adams Messenger.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-12

cruisers shut up in the bay the capture
of the town by the army would have
been an impossibility. If the cruisers
could come out their fate was sealed
as the event proved. If Schley had al
tempted to plug up the means of exit,
or if he had been off with the Brook
lyn ten miles from his place in the
blockading line when Cervera came out,
what howl would have been made.
But as these were Sampson's little
slips they take on the shape Of virtues.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-12
NICE BABY

All babies are "nice," to
their mothers.
We all love children. Great
big men, with hard hands,
have soft hearts for helpless
newcomers to earth with the
smile of heaven fresh on their
innocent faces. No man is too
high or low, too proud or hum,
BILE, too busy or idle. too good
or bad, too great or small-eX-
cept a few very small mean
men-to throw up their hats
at the sight of a plump little
cherub; or to pity a thin one.
Plumpness and thinness are
accidents. Nature is bounti-
full parents want to be. SCOTS
emulsion of cod-liver oil cor
reefs their mistakes.
Wen send you little to try If you like.
SCOTT & BOVINE, 400 Pearl street, New Yor',
. a,.z. :. q. ri ~ -...a -4.s.s, III Els 4
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-12

Senator Proctor has presented in the
Senate the resolution of the Vermont
Legislature, calling on the government
to do justice to Captain Clark. The
Vermont delegation in Congress ought
to accomplish the object of that resc-
luton, if it does nothing else at this
session.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-12

Tins of cruel suffering along to this
section of the ever responsive Amer
lean public is cheerfully answered.
The children are not at fault. II Eng
land will not take care of them a
Christian people should either compel
her, or themselves undertake the bur-
den.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-12

the papers early opportunity for publ
cation. 1t is quite to the credit of
"that model of typographical perfec-
ton, the Lyndon UniOn," that it was
able to discover something wrong
about the mechanical appearance of
the document.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-12

EVERY MOVEMENT HURTS When
you have rheumatism. Muscles feel
stiff and sore and joints are painful. 1t
does not pay to suffer long from this
disease when it may be cured so
promptly and perfectly by Hoods
Sarsaparilla. This medicine goes right
TO the spot, neutralizes the acidity of
the blood, which causes rheumatism
and puts an end to the pain and stiff
ness.
Biliousness is cured by Hoods pills.
Twenty-Five cents,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-12
Overdid the Thing.

ats the chance of lifetime" urged
the affable young man. you invest
$50 and you can't fail to make $500 on
this scheme. It's just like finding
money"
young Teller" returned Uncle HI
ram, as he buttoned up his coat and
felt of all his pockets, Jest you take
the advice of an old man an go easy.
I'm from the country, an I'm jest han
KERN fer a chance to make some
money. I'm easy, but you don't size
me up right. I'm sort o. graspin' an
piggish, but I amt no overgrown hog.
If you'd jest come to me an tried to
tell me how I could make ten or mebbs
20 per cent. like as not I'd forked over,
spite of all the warnin's 1 got, but
you're putin it too strong. I never
knowed anybody who could make
money like that without usin' Jimmy
or a sandbag, an it sort O. puts rea-
sonin' man on his guard. Now you lest
go off into a corner somewhere an fix
that story up, an then you go round
the block an meet me on the next cor
ner and mebbe you'll get me. amt
calc'latin' to be took in this trip, but
amt nowise certain of myself. ANY
how, I'd feel better If had a chance
to turn down somethin' that wasn't so
transparent"-Chicago Times-Herald
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-12
The Montpelier Journal.

A newspaper which makes most
favorable impression upon ali who
read it is the M)ntpelier Journal. Its
editorials are well considered and its
news columns are carefully edited
Mortified News.