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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-12-11

| ION beer war tax of So cents a barrel
was added to the tax of one dollar barrel
previously imposed. The committee recog-
nize that the manufacturers of beer have
some claim in the general reduction of the
war revenue, and they believe that the
amendment proposed in section / of the
bill making a net reduction of % cents per
barrel gives them all the relief to which
they are entitled in view of the reduction
carried by the bill
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-12-11

New York, Dec. 1o.-The consul gen.
.eral of the Orange Free State has re-
ceived the following reply to cable
gram OF good wishes sent to Paul
Kruger by the American Transyaal
league:
II thank the directors of the American
Transvaai league and all sympathizing
Americans for their greetings and hope
their kind wishes will be fulfilled.
lSigned) "KRI1GER
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HIS FIRST AND LAST GRIZZLY.

| Anybody Wishing to Hunt This Bear
Had Better Take Calling Gun.
My friend, Tom Coleman, and | were
discussing various matters over our ar
ter dinner cigars at an uptown restau-
rant the other evening when the con-
versation turned on hunting and fishing
experiences. Tom had just returned to
this city from an extended tour through
southern California incidentally | ask
ed him If he had run across any grizzlies
on the southern coast range.
"Ang 'grizzlies?" repeated Tom, We'll,
rather That is" he added, Il ran
across, as you call it, just one solitary
grizzly bear. More properly speaking,
though, the bear ran across me. 1t was
my first and last grizzly, too, ! as
sure you. I was down in San Bernard
inc county when it happened
IT had been trout fishing all the morn
ing with Indifferent success, and about
noon I concluded to rest awhile An
old log lying under a clump of manzani-
ia bushes afforded me good seat and
/ had soon filled my pipe and was sfnok-
ing away with that degree of natural
comfort which glorious days sport in
the open air always inspires.
IT had started out with old Jack Wa
terman, at whose ranch I was stopping,
but Jack had become tired and gone
home. T. had no gun or weapon of any
kind, but didn't suppose / would need
any. as Jack had told me on starting
that they waren't nuthin to shoot
round these parts but bars, and they
amt been a bar seen round here for
year past
"As sat there contentedly smoking
thought heard rustling in the bdsh-
es just back of me. Some bird, thought
then picked up a stone and threw it
In the direction of the sound. Pretty
big bird thought T. as the rustling con-
tnued louder than before. | then
threw larger stone, and Immediately
following my shot the sound of some
heavy body crashing through the chap
arral made me think that some of old
Waterman's cattle had strayed that
way | was satisfied with this, and sat
down again and resumed smoking.
Say" remarked Tom suddenly "can
you imagine bear as big as a house?
No? Well that's just what | saw as [
suddenly turned around. That's what
was making the noise in the bushes, a
bear a regular grizzly, and a whopper.
Scared? Well l should say so. My
teeth chartered likes pair of Spanish
castanets. There he stood though, not
more than thirty feet away hort of
sizing me up, as it were. and all
could do was to sit there and stare back |
at him. | wasn't sure whether grizzly |
bears, like Bengal Tigers, made their |
meals off strangers. or not. This animal !
looked as if he could have swallowed |
NE whole if he wanted to, and the more |
[ loked at him the bigger he seemed to !
get.
well, l just sat there as still as a |
bump on log for, it seemed to me, a |
number of hours. Then the bear DELHI |
arately walked up to where was sitt- |
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ISLANDS WITHOUT OWNERS.

Good Opportunity for Government That
Has Lighthouses to Spare.
Frederick A. Cook, writing of Ant
arctic exploration in the January Cent
ury, tells of certain islands that might
well be fitted with lighthouses:
A series of low pyramidal masses APP
peared under the southern sky. 1t was
like a bank of blue fog fringed with
snowy bands. The whole length of our
seaboard formed an ill-defined, cloud
lige aggregation resting on the black
water and extending the entire length
from northeast to southwest. AS we
steamed on, the center groups became
more distinct, and the whole line rose
above the rorizon, Where we recognized
it as the northern exposure Of the South
Shetland islands, During the afternoon
a gentle but piercing wind came from
the land, bringing with it CLASSY air
and an easy, silvery sea, over which
the new land stood out in bold relief.
We could distinguish Livingston island
over our port bow, and northeastWard,
melting into the blue airy distance,
were numerous similar islands. Over
our starboard bow was Smith island,
its base still under the water sixty miles
away
In a general way THIS coast-line re-
sembles parts of the Greenland land
,scape. About the largest islands there
are many small. ice-free isles, or rocks,
which are the resting places OF seals,
penguins, cormorants, and gulls. on
the larger islands, and especially on
Livingston island, Their are high peaks
and rounded, dome like hills, which are
tipped with snow, but their sides are
bare. The valleys are filed with large
glaciers, which send tongues out into
the sea. We saw no glaciers, however,
which came out for any distance into
the water The limit of the ice was
generally at highwater mark, where 1t
wasted away in small fragments. There
was no snow on the coastal lowlands,
but there was also nothing to indicate
From what we learned of the |
lands further south, it is extremely pos
sible that mosses and lichens are here
abundant, but Their Is no hope for grass
or trees
1t is very curious that this group of |
islands, about one hundred in number, |
with thousand miles OF accessible coast /
line and several good harbors, free OF
ice for much of the year, should re-
main unclaimed by any government,
and unsettled by human efforts. 1t
would be ahumane mission IL our gov
would take possession of this
group Of islands and ylace there light
house, with a supply station for the pre-
;ervation of ship wrecked sailors Yes
;els are lost in this vicinity almost every
year and we do not know but that
'ome poor seamen are now stranded on
me of the many desolate islands, await
ne, the relief which never comes.
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ELECTRIC AND STEAM ROADS.

| The Providence Journal says thatsal-
most before the public realizes 1T there
will be an electric railroad in Rhode
Island extending the entire length of
will soon operate its trolley to East
Greenwich, which is only a few miles
distant from WEXFORD. whence there is
already similar road in operation to
Narragansett Pier. Within few
months, II is expected, this line will be
extended to Westerly, and from Wes-
terly there will inevitably be an extern
sion through southeastern Connecticut
to New London. There is also in opera
ton, during half of the year, trolley
road from Westerly to Watch Hill, at
the extreme southwestern extremity of
Rhode Island. 1t may not, says the
Journals be many years before through
trolley cars will be run from the Con-
the ocean, affording the passenger a
delightful scenic Journey and opening
up to the world fine rural district in
the south county
Doubtless all this will come to pass
and more too. 1t may also be noted
that in Massachusetts the Boston and
Worcester Electric road has been an
nounced, and already hearings have
been granted the promoters in many of
the towns and cities through which it
is proposed to construct the line In
Connecticut there are already long cleo
trio lines and there may be longer. One
of the most interesting speculations
concerning the electric lines which par
allel steam roads is that in regard to
the effect they will have on the earn
ings of the steam roads. 1t has been
supposed that the effect would be very !
damaging, but the steam roads seem to !
be living, much as the gas companies |
have lived since the electric light first |
shone with menacing brlliance upon
them. The experience which the Read |
ing railroad has gone through is inter |
esting and instructive. The Reading
lost a great part of its suburban bust
ness five years ago, when electric car
lines were constructed in the vicinity of |
The small fares were at
tractive. Passengers refused to pay 20
and % cents when dime would carry
them to their destination. In 1894 the
suburban traffic of the Reading fell to |
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In the far west an editor wrote fe-
verishly. Liberty Is dead!" We're the
burning words his pencil traced Then
he thought deeply. After a long while
he added, New York and Washington
papers please copy!"-Detroit Journal.
Physician with ear to patients chest)
There is a curious swelling over the
region of the heart, sir, which must be
reduced at once. Patient (anxiously)-
That swelling is my pocketbook. doctor.
please don't reduce 1t too much-Har-
lem Life.
Mrs. Church (after services--Wel!
the nerve of our pastor!
Mr.. Church (who stayed home)--
What's up now?
Mrs. Church--You know, last week
we presented him with horse and cut
ter?
Mr. Church--Yes?
Mrs. Church-Well, to-day he got in
the pulpit and asked us to pray for
snow Puck.
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Low ebb, Many towns at distances
of from to 10 miles were at that time
connected with Philadelphia by electric
traction. The first action taken by the
Reading was a reduction in fares on
April l, 1895; and two and a half years
later still further reductions were
made. The number of suburban trains
has also been increased. Fares which
were formerly Is cents were reduced to
10, and those of 25 We're reduced to Is,
and for long distances still more. To
and from Willow Grove the single trip
was reduced from AZ cents to 90 and
the round trip from So to 35. The re-
suit of these reductions and of the in
crease in accommodations is summar-
lied in the statement that the earnings
on the suburban traffic are now better
than they were before the street COM
petition began.
This indicates what can be done, and
perhaps by and by when the steam
roads have been turned into electric
roads they can compete still more sue
cessfully with the long distance electric
roads.
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Il STUPID USB1ND.

| Mrs. Lamberton, New York woman
who Is suing for separation from her
husband. is entitled to and will doubt
less be granted the separation. She is
also entitled to and will receive the
| sympathy of all intelligent people who
| know about her sad case. She was
school teacher before she was married,
| and she was naturally tired of teaching
| the unintelligent. When she married
she had sweet vision of not always
continuing to be a teacher She dream
ed that she might be occasionally talked
to in an intelligent and instructive way
by her husband. But alas for the van
ity OF human hopes! She soon found
that she waa married to man who
was perfectly willing to let her do all
the talking and teaching, just as she
had done in school. This wasn't what
she married for. In letter addressed
to her husband, in which she detailed
her grievances, she complains that when
they sat on the veranda of their home
in Plainfeld, "all you did was to smoke,
and, touch on what subject 1 would, +
never got response beyond yes or
mo- or something equally brief" She
further says that she hoped there would
be some Improvement when they went
to live in New York. but her hopes were
blghted. II tried" she says, until I
saw 1t was hopeless task, to draw
you into some kind of intelligent CON
versation, and then 1 was compelled to
give that up"
A man who will not be drawn into
intelligent conversation with his wife
is indeed clod and utterly unfit to be
the husband of an intelligent wife. A
wife who wants to draw her husband
into intelligent conversat ton" with her
not appreciate her ought to lose. There |
are many wives who want to draw their |
husbands into listening to intelligent |
talk but there are not so many who |
want to draw their husbands into I'm
telligent conversation with them. |
The New York wife who has a stupid |
husband who cannot or will not talk in |
diligently with her deserves husband
who can and WILL
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AN INDEPENDENr CANDIDATE.

Mr.. Anthony Carroll, citizen of New
Haven who often says and does indie
pendent things, announces himself as
an Independent candidate for alderman
from the Third ward. Mr.. Carroll has,
Of course, a perfect right to become such
candidate, and we hope that he will
become an interesting and influential
one. He knows a great deal about city
matters, and nobody will deny him the
possession of honesty and persistence,
two qualities much needed in an alder
man. His example in becoming an in
dependent candidate isn't bad for imi-
tation by good citizens who want to see
things go right at the City Hall.
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WESTERN PRODUCTS IN THE
Irt EAST

! The West has reached the stage where
it is beginning to distribute manufac.
tured products through Boston and New
England, and is competing with the
leaders in this hitherto invulnerable
stronghold even to the driving of some
of these leaders out of business.
Men who have made study Of and
are familiar with the history Of indus
trial growth in the United States can
not conceal their establishment at the
existing situation, since the flight Of the
West into manufacturing domain has
come about with rapidity bewilder-
ing to those disposed to regard the West
as essentially an agricultural estab-
lishment. AS late as 1S48 Daniel Web
ster declared he strenuously opposed
the expediture Of single penny by the
government in the attempt to develop
that great American desert beyond the
Mississippi" That the West would ever
become manufacturing power was re-
garded as a possibility too remote for
serious consideration. In 1890, however,
the net value of manufacturing prod
ucts for Massachusetts was $414960 $3.50,
and for Illinois $339621, 191. When the
next census report is made, it Is safe
to say that Illinois will lead Massachu-
sets. The fact is that the South and
West are after New England's long
established manufacturing supremacy
and are capturing the prize
A short time ago traveller In Car
roll county, N. H., saw a farmed leis-
urely jogging along a sandy road,
one afternoon, in a light road wagon"
that was made in Aurora, I'll. He hap
pened to stop for dinner at a farmhouse
in the hamlet of North Wakefield. The
owner of the place was using farm
wagon bought the last spring from a
firm in Michigan. Il gave $40 for the
concern" said the old fellow, "and as
fur as I can see it appears to do me as
we'll as if I'd paid $125 for iConcord
wagon such as is made up here at the
state capitol Some days afterward, in
the best room of an Ossipee citizen, he
saw large sheet-iron stove, one of the
sort designed exclusively for the burn
ing of wood He was looking it over,
for it had been many years since he had
seen one of those old New Hampshire
stoves that used to be made at Great
Falls, now Somersworth, and set up
through the country to devour the birch
and beechwood. He looked down at the
about the edge of the stove
read the name of firm of
stove founders in Council Bluffs, Ia.
That prairie Iowa would ever see the
day when it would make a stove to be
used in the New Hampshire hills would
have seemed a few years ago, as rea-
sonable a proposition, as that the circle |
would be one day be squared.
In the little groceries and crossroads |
stores We're found many articles for |
household use that had been made in |
he West. There were clothes wringers |
and washing machines from Grand |
Rapids, washing machines that were |
made in northern Indiana walls of pep |
1ermint that We're put up in the pep |
lermint region of northern Indiana, !
packages of hops that come from the
Pacific coast, and SHOES that were made !
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SEEING WITHOUT EYES.

A Blind Man on the National Capitol
Steps Can Tell Who and What
A few days ago I met a blind man
on the steps of the capitol, who asked
me why they had been blowing up the
capitol grounds. I told him that it
was on account of some extensive sew
err construction. After I had gone a
few steps it occurred to me that 1t was
a little peculiar that a blind man
should know that the grounds had been
ployed up, when + would not have mo-
ticed it had L not been here all sum-
mer. Now the wide lawns are covered
with new grass. T. went back and ask
ed him.
"Oh, / can see a great many things
without eyes that you cannot see with
eyes," he replied. "As to the ground,
I can tell by the SMELL of course. 1
live in Pittsburg. l haven't been here
patched these steps?"
/ did not know that they had been
patched, but capitol policeman said
the new sewer had something to do
with that
Il noticed lot of smooth places as
| walked up" he commented Il pre-
sumo you want me to tell you how /
know things. Every one does, espe-
cially reporters I would If ! could
but / can't. I travel all over the coun-
try alone and just know, that's all. I
sell cough drops I am tired to-day,
could not hustle and, came here to rest.
When / can't call out about the cough
drops in just such a voice people
won't buy. My voice gave out to-day.
Oh, yes I,just know things. For in
stance the house has adjourned while
we have been standing here. A mo-
ment before persons were walking
along slowly. They were sightseers, /
suppose. Now they are walking rap
idly That means that men who have
business there have finished and are
going to the cars.
II tell when there are brick houses
or frame houses on the street by the
feel Of the noises. l tell how close to
the houses by the way the sounds act.
| tell uptown by the way the sounds
go. I know when l approach crossings,
II there are a number of people, by the
changing of the footsteps. My hear
ing is getting bad, though, and I can
not see as well as / used to- ret off I
a train and go to my boarding house
after asking only or two questions and |
know just where to sell cough drops |
by the way people walk. I can tell |
long people and short ones, old ones |
and young ones, sometimes light and |
dark-haired ones, thrifty and reckless
ones prosperous and poor ones, we'll |
dressed and shabby ones. / get along
better where there are lots Of noises !
and lots of persons han / do where
here are few. Washington is not
very good place for my business.--Spe-
,ial to Detroit Journal
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When | am gone,' he sighed, "the sun
VIII shine on In the sky;
The tinkling rivulets will rum.
The flowers will bud and die!
When am gone the breeze will blow
Across the meadow STILL
And trees will bloom and grain will grow
Upon the distant hill!
When / am gone the waves will break
Upon the sloplng strand,
And happy children still will make
Their castles in the sand!
When | am gone the birds will sing
As blithely as to-day,
And men and maidens, in the Spring
VIII live to love away!
When you are gone" she said, "the rose
VIII blow itself In June;
The winding brooklet, as it flows,
VIII sing the same old tune!
When you are gone the ducks will quack
Just as they quack to-day,
And every planet, In its track,
VIII swing through space away!
When you are gone the humble bee
VIII humble as before,
And sails will CLEAN upon the sea,
And waves will shake the shore
When you are gone, the gentle breeze
VIII blow as now it blows,
But, oh, my friend, some breweries
May be compelled to Closet
IS. e. Kiser In Chicago imes-Herald.
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ing. oh, Lord thought T. I'm done for
now surely Well, sir, that brute just
walked by me- gave snort and sniff
as II to say, What excuse have you got
for living, ankhow?' and then off it
went down the ravine.
1 must have sat there an hour after
that without moving. Finally / braced
up and started for home. / forgot both
pole and fish. Old man Waterman
thought I'd been bitten by a rattle
snake when 1 reached home that even
ing.
No, Stree" observed Tom. Tim not
hankering after grizzlies this week
That same bear is there yet, I've no
doubt only if any one wants to go out
Their and bunt for it, l advise him to
take Calling gun with him, that's
all."-New York Herald.
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ability. 1t will of necessity be expen-
sve schemng, but look of tasteful
stylishness will be q sure return. Pic
tured herewith is a model that may be
copied safely. The dress goods was
bright red ladies' cloth, the fringe black
silk and headed by narrow white
cloth band This heading did not APP
pear in the fringe of the scarf, which
was white peau de sole. Collar and
yoke were Of the white cloth, but were
handsomely embroidered in red and
cold.
Fringed sash affairs that are planned
to restore an eel fitting skirt to stylish
ness are to be had readymade. AS
that means they will soon be numerous
and cheap, the device, which at first
seemed an easy way out of difficulty,
should be avoided. Here is another
scheme, unless you can devise a better.
Match the color in narrow satin or vel
vet ribbon. Lay lines of this from belt
to half way down the skirt, sewing
only on one edge Of the ribbon. The eff
feet is of tiny tucks. Let the ribbon
finish in little loop, or in a fringed-
out end. If you can not match the
color of the gown, black velvet very
likely will lend dressiness to the skirt
In that case it will be better to carry
the rows all around. The sheath out
line is not disturbed by the pleats,
tucks, etc, at the back of skirts. The
plainness is relieved. that's all, and this
the ribbon treatment will accomplish.
FLORETTE.
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FASHION NOTES.

Scheme for Restoring sheath skirts
The worthlessness Of ordinary frnges
and the considerable cost of the good
sorts do not check the advance this
trimming has made. 1t gives the entire
character to many a handsome new
gown, and in more appears as part
of the scheme of ornamentation. Its
more tasteful use is the former method.
A little of it may be made secondary
to some other trimming with good eff
feet, but unless a trained hand directs
such combination the two portions
will not harmonic nicely. Dreadful
can be made in this way, while
when fringe is the dominant garn-
ture the planning Is within anyone's
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pig iron product was 13,S67S44 tons,
worth $149 1874 ,499 The anthracite pro-
duct. was worth 800, 1913, 54S; bituminous
coal, $156,675,S76; copper, $1o2,SS7969.
while gold was but S72, Asa, 055 and silver
but $36, 573,21S. 1t is of interest to note
that the output of aluminium was $780,
900 pounds, worth $2,029,SS4 against s.
metals platinum was produced to the
extent of 300 ounces, worth $3,S37.
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CEp7TONS.

The Kind That Stays-"Our new
cook has been with us three weeks
now" yet you don't seem happy :"
mo; she can't cook "-Chicago Record
Inequalities of Fate.-"Carolus Duran
won't paint a portrait for less than
$4,000" Dear me, and lots of artists
who would paint one for forty cents
can't. make living.-Indianapo
Journal.
Often the Case.-Mrs. Frontpue Ito
minister's wifel-Why is your husband
always asking for money, money,
money? Minister'S wife-(wearily) I
presume it's because he never gets any.
New York Weekly.