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, sssssssssssssOse
Ring Up!

Look herer' said the well-dressed
man who had been accosted on
Clark street. this is the fourth
time l have bought your wtfe's we'd
ling ring. How many wives have
youT'
Five or six, bossv' chuckled the
beggar. You see. Use from Salt
Lake City"
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Kentucky Philosophy.

They may take away our pistol
And our pretty women, too.
They may take away our horses
Before the race IL through.
They may take our mortal coil
with crimson sort OF tint.
But wen always have our Juiep
As long as there IS mint.
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just one Letter. pinerence.

He-Life was only a desert before
/ met you.
She-And now
And now IL is all dessert"
IL was Just subsequent to this con-
versation that the man behind
them, who was carrying home three
pounds Of sugar, some bacon and
two pairs OF small shoes lay down.
had Mt. arose and went on his
way.-Indianapolis Press.
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Mrs Jones--And pray, Mr.. Jones,
what IL the matter now2
Jones-I was only wondering. my
dear. where You might have
bought this fish.
Mrs. Jones--At the fishmonger's
Where do YOU suppose l bought TT
JoneE--W Well, l thought that per-
haps there might have been n
remnant sale at tho Royal Aqua
rum ~ Punch.
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Willie. can you tell us
what this SPELLS "R-e-f-r-i-g-e-r-
a-t-o-r 2"
Willie Starvem (the landlady's
son)--Um-m. Why--er-er--
Teacher-Come. What does your
mother put the cold meat and vege-
tables and things in?
Willie Starvem (brightening)-
Hash
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May know plenty Of club fell
lows. never was pushed for
horseless carriage ride In all my
life.
Ida-Not so hasty, dear, About
eighteen years ago you were often
pushed for a horseless carriage ride
by your nurse.
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He--What n lot of ladies' You
have asked 10 assist YOU ut your
reception. Isabel
She-Of course, Harry: how
stupid you are about society. I
have 20 ask all those from whom
want to borrow things.
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One Mans wisd o m.

Dix-Did you ever get stuck on n
counterfeit bill?
Hix--No. When get hold OF one
! leave 1t In my pocket and my
wife appropriates it.--Chicago News.
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Mrs. SMALL think that man
Negley is. just horrid!
Her Husband-W Why. my love, do
not talk so when he IS lying dead.
Mrs. Small-Yes, and he died with
out being insured Ohio State Jour
nal.
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student What does a sheep cost,
waiter?
Waiter-O, 10 OF u marks, sir.
Sunderland qusilP
Waiter--1wo marks. sir.
Student--Well, my old man Is say
Ing all the while that l spend too
much money, and So. to please 7im.
! must eat the cheaper things. Wait
err bring me a pair OF quatls!-
ueitere Welt.
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"A popular author always re-
minds me of the British nag" said
MIR. Northslde TO Mr., Pcrrysville.
How can that beP'
Both are so largely red. YOU
know"
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A Choice of Problems.

Geraldine-When does the TWEEN
tieth century begin?
Gerald-Let's talk about some
thing less complicated, I'll tell
you how to score a baseball game.
--Harper's Bazaar.
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Ths Hard work First.

visitor-What is Barkem. the
great poet. working 80 hard att
Editor-IIe is writing the ex-
PLANTATION OF how he happened TO
write the poem he viii write to-
morrow. Baltimore American.
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Teacher-Willie, what's the mas
culine for '1aundress?
While Wiseguy 49, Chinsmani-
BrookIVn Life.
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WAS your play a SUGGEST" asked
one manager
why, the critics like IT," an
swered the other.
Il know. But how about the DO
lice 2'-Washington Star.
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The Class In Geography.

Teacher Maseach usetts is called
the hay state"
Johnnie (whose father n a livery
mann Its eorrei CA de map. miss --
baltimore American
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other Worlds to Conquer.

SHOW me the man that struck
my Wife" howled a man in the
mob.
What will you do IL you find
him ?" asked a bystander.
Introduce him to my mother-in-
law" was the suggestive reply
Chicago News.
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1--WE sworn not to get drunk any
morer'
"why?'
20. the last time got drunk I
iidn't know what was doing. and
went around and paid all my debts!"
-Cnsere Gesellschaft.
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xVhyf

Little Mary had a rose,
Its thorns stuck in her skin.
"Oh, goodness" she exclaimed,
why don't
You use the safety pins?"
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A Lifeiike Representation

Caller-The death scene you do
magniticently! II must be very eS-
hausting.
Actress-Yes indeed After I die
every night I'm always half dead
Lustige Blaetter.
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This paper SAYS Won should never
cut n pie with a cold knife
Il never do. II I haven't got a
hot knife eat the whole pie.'s--
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Turkeys are different from bal
lot boxes" said Dukane to Gaswell
Doubtless, but what striking
difference had you in mind?"
I'VE prefer our turkeys stuffed"
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1.-THE genealogical tree bears no
fruit" said Fitziackson.
surely. that is a mistake" re-
piled Fitzjohnson, you forget the
dates. Detroit Free Press.
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Mrs. Belleheld-Well. Lent is
passing away quite rapidly.
Mr.. Bellefield--Odd, isn't It?
whats odd about it,"
80 many people are trying to
keep it,
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An international Conference,

IT work In the English style. I
don't leave the Office all day. and
then eat my dinner I'm the evening"
II prefer the French way, TO sleep
all day and work all night
II follow the German rule. and
pend the day in coffee house and
the evening In a beer salooni''-Slp-
pliclssimus.
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Compact Apartments.

Penn-Small? Why, every time
one Of his children wants to sneeze
they have to rush out in the hall
way
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In Kentucky.

As a first-class promoter Of Justice
the star-eyed goddess falls
She's much too quick at the trigger
and much too slow at tho
scales
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Jack-Don't you like these tight
sleeves the girls are wearing now?
Tom-Yes; it's not so easy for
the girls to laugh in them.
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Tiresome Man--How you yawnl
We're yea up late last nightr
Weary Young Woman-No: but I
feel 1t In my bones that l shall bs
tonight
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"Sapsmith often makes a specta-
Gle of himself. doesn't her"
We'll. hardly that. He is too in
significant to make more than a
monocle of himself. Harper s
Bazaar.
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DAY praises Hay"
what does he say?"
Says he's o, X"
That's just his way"
who? Hay7"
mo. Day" Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
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Joe-Aren't you reioiced that out
door sports have begun again?
outdoor sports2 Oh. say. you
don't mean it's time to beat carpets
again, do youT'
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IL auias
[s snnsi|
IL Tbs~|
In ealiAh
n sss'
ks.|
are ~
Inc sssa|
|nesA tat|
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Natural.

"Mr. Striekeno says he is alwa ys
nervous when he gets up to- sing -
II don't blame him." answered
Miss Cayenne. HE has heard him
self before. "-Washington Star.
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COyvIess MIX.

Stubb-What kind of milk did you
get out of that small cocoanut?
Penn-Condensed milk.
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tyswps!sf va Wv i"t MS
sIels about it.-Yonkers
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Discipline.

Add you wife scold because you
were out late last night?
II twhose wife Is u teacher)-No, I
only had to write a hundred times
the sentence, II must be home at
10 o'clockr'-Fliegende B,aetter.
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WHY HE CELEBRATED.

terrible jag on, I'm, ~
o
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\ a.as'nsn,
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ftt.A.
E'e.. ~
|'e',..s~ss
LAY var
~ .ssa
| $3.50 : ..,.
men ' ~.
mn -.
I . 80 $50
or 49,. 80
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rave IN
ri specs
i. on one
blink ycs
id sans
fulsipst
Wy, viii
ou have
Is On u
hieh yes
hot osea
mustard
the plate
very bet
slices d
vinwaa
ard have
thea w
cwn well
IL In tsa
cooked
sufse On
1 DO any
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-10-26
JEFFERSON AND LIBERTY.

JEFFERSON AND LIBERTY.
think all the world would gain by
setting commerce at perfect liberty.
The only orthodox object of tho In
} stitution of Government Is to secure
the greatest degree OF happiness posi-
BILE to the general mass of those asso-
ciated under 1t.
The whole art of governments CON-
sists In the art of being honest.
Governments derive their just powers
from the consent of the governed.
The liberty of speaking and writing
guards our other liberties.
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for enslauing the men Of another
race, 1t is all the same old serpent"
-Ltncoln's Complete Works, Vol

-LHtCOUUo NOHGptctS WWNoS wv
l., page 259.
LET it be remembered" said the
continental congress in addressing the
states at the end of the Revolution.
that it has ever been the pride and
boast of America that the rights for
which she contended were the rights
of human nature"
"True statesmen as they were," said
Lincoln, "they knew the tendency OF
prosperity to breed tyrants, SO they
established these self-evident truths,
that when, in the distant future, some
men, some faction some interest
should set up the doctrine that none
but rich men or none but white men.
or none but Anglo-Saxon white men.
were entitled to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness, their posterity
might look up again to the declaration
of independence and take courage to
renew the battle which their fathers
began; so that truth, justice and
mercy and all the humane and Chris
tian virtues might not be extinguished
from the land; so that no man would
hereafter dare to limit and circum-
scribe the great principles on which
the temple of liberty was being built"
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and Intelligence, I confidently be-
ltepe. - President Mckinley at
Minneapolis, Oct. f2, 1899.
Read what Abraham Lincoln
said with regard to these promises
or benevolent assimilation" offer
ed to a people for a surrender of
their liberties.
Mr.. Lincoln, in speech at Chi
cago, ILL.,, July 10, 1858, spoke as
follows:
s'Ihose arguments that are made
that the inferior race are to be
treated lDite as mach allowance as
they are cdpdble of enjoying; that
us mach Is to be done for them as
their condition aoill alt01o; What
are these arg,tmentsS They are
the arguments that kings haze
made for enstduing the people In
all ages of the aDvrld. You sDtu
note that all the arguments of king
craft acere dlauays of this class.
They dl,odys bestrOde the 7eclss Of
the people, not that they aoarted to
do 1t, bat becausee-t5,e people acre
better off for being ridden.
Turn 1t every aoay y0at aoitl, aohetll-
er 1t comes from the mouth Of q
king as an excuse for ensldvt,lg
the people of his country, or from
the mouth of one race as a reason
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-10-26
SLAVERY RECOGNIZED
Amendment to the Constitution for
Which q Million Lives Were
Sacrificed Set at Taught
by Mckinley.
THE INFAMOUS suLu TREATY.

The constitution of the United
States says:
ARTICLE XIII.
1. Neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude, except as punishment for
crime whereof the party shall have
been duly convicted, shall exist with
in the United States, or any place sub
ject to their jurisdiction.
M'KINLEY'S INFAMOUS TREATY
WITH THE SULTAN OF SULU.
Article 1. The sovereignty of the
United States over the whole archi-
pelago of Sulu and its dependencies
is declared and acknowledged.
Article II. The United States flag
will be used in the archipelago Of Sulu
and its dependencies on land and sea.
Article III. The rights and dignities
of his highness the sultan and his da-
tos shall be fully respected, and Moros
shall not be interfered with on account
of their religion. All their religious
customs shall be respected and no one
shall be prosecuted on account of his
-S>>o-OS'
Article X. Any slave in tho Archi-
pelago Of sulu shall have the right to
purchase freedom by paying the master
the usual market value.
Article XIV. The United States gov
eminent will pay the following month
ly salaries: To the sultan. $3.50; to
Dato Rajah NADIA, $75; to Dato Attik,
$50; to Dato Cable, s75; to Dato Joak-
anian, $75; to Dato Puvo. $50; to Dato
Amir Haissin, $50: to Hadji Butter
$50; to Habib Mura, $40; to Serlf Sa-
gum, SIS.
Signed in triplicate, in English and
Sulu, at Jolo, this twentieth day OF
August, A. D., 1899, (13th Arakuil
Akil, 1890.
The Sultan Sulu,
Dato Rajah Muda,
Signed j. c. Bates, Brigadier-General
u. S. v.
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No Room for Subjects
Under the Free Flag
The Supreme Purpose o the People Should Be to
oppose All Attempts to Grasp Imperial Power.
REPUBLIC FACES PROFOUND CRISIS


the
eandto ruleth m
andthe
Inperi ln
in America
be-Rsp.h-
Mc o
America
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COST OF AlILITARIsM.
Two Hundred Millions for the Army;
Seventy-Five Millions for tho
Navy Is What McKin-
ley Wants.
rE1ANDs ARMYoF 100000 MEN.

We are at last to know what we are
to pay for our experiment in imperial
ism.
The Washington government has
made its demand. 1t demands an army
of 100000 men and it wants 5000, 000,-
900 for the next year to support its
pretensions.
The navy department wants SIS, 000,-
600. The end Is far away. This is
only the beginning Of what American
taxpayers may expect.
To support the army and navy until
the end of the fiscal year, June 30,
1902. congress will be asked to appro-
pirate more than $200,000,000. The
war department is estimating on the
basis of 100000 men.
Under the present law all volun-
teers and regulars in excess Of about
10000 men must be discharged before
July 1. 1901, and Quartermaster-Gen-
eral Ludington is making arrange
ments for the transportation home Of
the volunteers, beginning next month.
IL Will Uc uCCSSodly W AOSAu AI ASSi0
ments to take the place of the volun-
teers in case more troops are author
lied, and when they are ready for ac-
tive service they must be transported
/ to Manila.
The pay of the army will be what
was estimated for the current year
SAT 100000. There will be heavy bill
for clothing, medical and hospital
stores, ordnance, ordnance stores and
supplies and regular supplies for the
quartermaster's department. The es-
innate made by Commissary- General
Weston for subsistence stores for the
current fiscal year was $11, 112,242, and
| this will be exceeded.
Secretary Roots estimate for the
military establishment for the current
year aggregated SIPS, 170,5S3, and it
will undoubtedly be larger for the next
| fiscal year
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KING GEORGE AND KING WILLIAM.

When the American colonies
were in revolt against Great Brit
ain, George III, then king, issued
a proclamation as follows:
81 am DESTROYS of restoring to
them the American col0ntes), the
blessings of ld,o, qc1licf they haze
fatally and desperately exchanged
for the caldmities of aoar, and the
arbitrary tyranny of their chiefs"
-Geurqe III. of England, d1l 1875.
So too while the forces Of the
United States were chasing the
patriotic Filipinos from their
burning homes, President McKin-
ley assured them of his kind pur-
poses as follows:
''Thnt Congress acill prouide for
then. the Filipi'los), a government
quhicl qUilJ bring them blessings,
qUhich qUi1I promote their. material
interests, as aoelI as adUdnce their
people i,s the paths Of Civilization
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-10-26
ALL FORMS OF TOLL
MENACED BY TRUSTS
The Farmer, the LabOrer and the Business Man
Alike Threatened with SerfdOm
DEMOCRACY THEIR SOLE DEFENDER
THE KANSAS CITY PLATFORM SAYS:

PLATFORM
umater
of arbitrarily fl. the terms and
s all
uode stroyed.
yhasal
Industrial which men,,
produce of mater
protest eih n OF n
holder of
In the
of 8
n
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-10-26

3eeee.eeseeeseeeeS. s~r~ee.e.eeS~see~
The highest obligation of this nation
5 10 to be true to itself. No obligation to
any particular nations, OF to all the
nations combined, can require the
abandonment of our theory of govern
ment and the substitution of doctrines
against which our whole national life
has been . protest, w. j. BRYAN.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-10-26

Whenever things get SO far wrons
as to attract their notice, the people.
if we'll informed, may be relied upon
to set them to rights.-Thomas Jeffer-
son.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-10-26
HEATH ENDORSES NELLY
"Postoffice Department..
First Asst Postmaster General.

POstOfhce Department..
"First Asst Postmaster General.
Warrington, d. C., Dec. Is. 1898.
"My Dear NIajor-I Intended to say t.
you when you were here that there Is one
man, Mr. Charles f. w. Nicely, of Muncie,
Ind, who want. to 60 into the Cuban
mail service, in whom 1 am more inter-
ested than any other man among thou.
sands of applicants for positions OF that
character. He Is a newspa per writer and
publisher, and about forty-two years Of
age, sp'endidly educated, hustler. man
loyalty itself. He would make GRAND
write and ask him to go and see you.
THIS Ia man you will warm up to, and
would like to have AS A COMPANION ~
well as an executive officer.
''Your. faithfully,
PERRY s. HEATH,
First ASST Postmaster General.
ITO Maj. E. j. Rathbone,
"Hami't"", Ohio"
The writer of the above letter is the
secretary of the Republican national
committee and the chief of its literary
bureau.
The object of his enthusiastic eulogy
is now in Jail at New York, charged
with participation in Cuban postal
frauds, in which he is said to have
| been prime mover. He is fighting
extradition to avoid a trial in the
country where the colossal frauds
were committed.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-10-26
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
FAV0RS LIBERAL PENSIONS.

We are proud of the courage and
fidelity of the American soldiers and
sailors In all our wars; we favor liberal
pensions to them and their dependents;
and we reiterate the position taken In
the Chicago platform in 1896, that the
fact of enlistment and service shall be
deemed conclusive evidence against
disease and disability before enlistment.
kansas City Platform,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-06-27
Camp Chase Memorial Day.

COLUMBUS, ONO, juno 9.-Pal-
metto wreaths from South Carolina,
magnolias from Tennessee, daisies and
roses from Kentucky. and corn Aow-
ers from North Carolina were strewn
this afternoon on the graves Of the
Confederate soldiers who sleep in the
old burying ground at Camp Chase.
Sectionalism was forgotten, members
of theA Grand Army taking conspicu-
GUS parts, and floral contributions
were as numerous from Federals as
Confeder>tes.
a bugle call was sounded, prayer
was made and then Governor George
K. Nash delivered an address. Mayor
Leathers, of Louisville, KY, followed
with an address, as did number of
others representing both the North
and the South. The Society of Con-
federatc Veterans Association, of
Louisville, rendered vocal selections,
and the McCoy Post G. A. r. drum
corps sounded taps. A large num-
ber of people participated in the ex-
ercises.
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the garrison were nearly all captured
and killed. Colonel Brown, in the
lower fort, held out until June 7sh,
when he surrendered. The Wilkes
riHemen desired to drag him to the
white house and hang him in the
spiral stairway to avengo the murder
of their comrades, but General Lee
had the brute protected by a special
guard, and with the other prisoners of
war he was delivered at Savannah.
The old house stands to-day, relic
of the past, among modern surround
ings. The hill, upon spur Of which
it was built. has been leyeled. Great
cotton mills now stand on the site Of
the old Indian camp, and streets Of
fats occupied by operatives stand
where the Wilkes rifemen stood be-
hind trees to fire at the English. The
city has been built up beyond it and
the trolley cars pass in front of the
house with the spiral stairs. Passen-
gers see the old house as they pass,
but they see only an old house, rapid
ly going to decay, strangely out of
keeping with its surroundings. Few
know it has spiral stairway leading
to the top of it's almost fat roof, and
fewer still the terrible tragedy enacted
in that stairway over a century ago.
It's stout timbers would stand the
wear of another century if protected,
but there is none 20 protect. The
rain leaks through the roof and beats
in through the shutterless windows,
and soon the city building inspectors
will condemn it and cause it to be
taken away.
And yet some people say that our
country is too young to have ruins
with history.