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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-02-09
A Sad Death.

Tuesday morning, February 6, at 4:15
occurred the death of little Olive Fern
Thomas, at the age of fourteen months
and eleven days.
The little one was taken i'll with
commissions Monday afternoon at
about three o'clock and all the aid of
medical skill proved in vain. Loving
parents and kind friends tenderly
nurscd the little sufferer, and DR.. Bar
rett, of Cresco, was called for con-
sultation with DR.. Lewis. Every
thing that could be done failed to re-
lieve her until yesterday at about four
a. m., when she fell asleep never to
awaken here again, and at a quarter
past four her little soul was claimed
by its Maker and little Fern was at
rest forever.
Short funeral services will be held
at the home here tomorrow morning,
conducted by Rev. Hendricks, and
services, conducted by Rev. Holmes,
will be held at the Congregational
church at Cresco. at Up. M, interment
being in Oak Lawn Cemetery. The
sympathy of hosts of friends goes out
to the parents whose hearts are torn
and whose home is made desolate by
| the death of this beloved child
Iidge,cay Record.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-02-09
James Rrophy Dead.

Another of the pioneers of the county
has passed away and was laid to rest
Wednesday at the cemetery at Lour-
des. Mr.. Brophy was we'll advanced
in the 70's, but just his age we are un-
able to learn. He was among the very
early settlers of the county, locating
in the town of Paris, the farm which
he died on. He had been ailing for
sometime and was being cared for by
his children, Mrs. Guyette and her
husband being with him constantly
and Mrs. McCarville large portion of
the time. Mr.. Brophy was one of the
honest, upright men of the county,
with an open hand and purse to those
in need. He will be mourned by not
only large circle of relatives but by
all who knew HIM.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-02-09
THE TAX QUESTION.

A bill introduced by NJ. L. Temple in
the legislature is one of the most i'm
portant measures as regards the ques-
ton of taxation yet introduced. In
many of the counties of the state from
$4,000 to $4,000 year is said to be made
by foreign collection agencies, who col
lect personal taxes, not listed by the
county auditor. Speaking of this prac-
tice and the bill introduced, Mr.. Temple
said:
'In many cases have seen from $4,000
to $1,000 taken out of the county in a year
by one of these agencies. There is no rea-
son why this should not be collected by the
regular county officers. 1t is wrong prac-
tice to pay so per cent. to outside agencies
to collect taxes that can be collected. If
they can be collected by stranger they
can by people acquainted with the tax
payers. believe the bill have introduced
If enacted into law would prove of equal
Importance with any bill to be passed by
this legislature"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-02-09
ADMITS THE CHARGE.
A Council Bluffs Man Confesses That
He Sent Abusive Matter
Through the Mails.

Charles Emanuel Nemetz, of Council
Bluffs, was arraigned before Commits
sioner Mason, of the federal court, in
Des Moines on charge, which he ac-
knowledges, of sending abusive mat
ter through the mails. The alleged mat
ter was sent in the form of letters to
Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon, of Topeka,
Kan, and to Father Malone, Catholic
priest, of New York city. Upon the
hearing Nemetz was bound over to
await trial at the May term of court,
and was released upon signing his own
bond for $500.
Nemetz is drug clerk at Council
Bluffs, about 2s years of age. He was
arrested at Council Bluffs by Deputy
Marshal Mcknight, and to Mcknight
acknowledged having written the let
tiers which brought about his arrest. In
the letters he strongly condemned the
course pursued by Rev. Mr.. Sheldon
and Father Malone for the methods
which they pursue.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-02-09

A special train of 16 refrigerator
cars loaded with dressed poultry start
ed from Cresco, Monday, for the New
York market. The poultry was the
property of w. r. Owen who accom-
panied it and who will personally at
tend to it's sale.
John Malek and his father have
bought the N. A. Mastine house on
the Vernon road. We understand the
former will occupy 1t, which means a
wedding. Mr.. Mastiue and family
expect to return in about three weeks
to the old home in Canada.
The st. Valentine ball Feb. 14th,
given by the courteous gentlemen,
Messrs. Carroll & Mullen, will be the
last dance in O'Malley's hall with
music by Carpenters orchestra. This
will be an event no one should miss.
Everybody invited to attend.
Young people who expect to take the
Teachers examination at the Spring
Institute should read the County
Superintendent's announcement in
the PLAIN DEALER of Jan. 26th, and
take warning. Moral:-Attend the
Review work at Cresco Normal and
thoroughly prepare yourself.
Unfortunately the ground hog saw
his shadow the End of February, and
now we have blizzard blowing at full
blast with a promise of six weeks of
winter. Well, we have been here AZ
winters and have never failed to have
plenty of winter no matter what
ground hog day might have been.
| Prof. Tonolli's orchestra of eight
pieces will be one of the features of
the dance to be given on Washington's
birthday, Feb. %. With one Of the
best dance halls in Northern Iowa and
as good music as is procurable and
good management, no doubt this, the
last dance, will be the most pleasant
ever given in this hall.
Johnson Bros. sale is largely at
tended every day and the stock is be-
ing rapidly disposed of. Their stock
contains large quantity of very
choice goods among which we noticed
ladies cloaks and Jackets Of very fine
and substantial quality. In fact the
house never handled shoddy, or any.
thing bordering on its questionable
quality.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-02-09
An Editors Life Saved by Chsmosrlatu's
Cough Remedy.

During the early part of October,
1896, contracted a bad cold which
settled on my lungs and was neglected
until l feared that consumption had
appeared in an incipient state. 1 was
constantly coughing and trying to
eXpel something which | could not. l
became alarmed and after giving the
local doctor a trial boughta a bottle of
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and the
result was immediate Improvement,
and after / had used three bottles my
lungs were restored to their healthy
state.-B. S. EDWARDS, Publisher of
The Review, Wyant, Ill. For sale by
DIR. VIM. Connolly.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-02-09
HIGH SCHOOL.
Teachers Meeting

A Teachers Meeting will be held in
Cresco, Saturday, Feb, l7tb, at 1870 p. m.,
in the High School Room. The teachers
Of the entire county and the school off.
GERS and the citizens Of Cresco are COR.
daily invited.
PROGRAM.
Music First Grade Pupils
School Libraries Mary Aida Tate.
Discussion l.. B. Greene
The School Township Unit p. F. Hammond
Discussion q. II. Graves
How to Secure Good Results in Spelling Mabel
Mcpherson.
Discussion jennie jenna dipSons Rpsssn
Musiu
Some un,wrlttcn Lessons That Ne rtach-B. f.
Thornc.
Discussion John Brierly.
Seat Work Illustrated Ada Eighmy
Music.
Art in the School Room Ruth o. Allison
| D,scrssion Dora Carver.
| Malcella Ahern
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-02-09
A. o. r. G.

AT regular meeting of Cresco lodge
No. Al, A. o. r. O., the following officers
were duly installed for 1900:
Mrs. Mary Z. FISK, Past President.
Mrs. Carrie E. Boughner, President.
Mrs. Anna Huesselmann, V Pres.
Mrs. Jennie V. Moultop, Secretary.
Mr.. Darwin Shumway, Treasurer.
Mr.. Fred Dobson, Guide.
Emery Warrington, Inner Guard.
George Middlebrcok, Outer Guard.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-02-09
Prefer Iowa Farms.

Peter Hinck sold his farm near
Fontanelle last fall and with his fam
lily went to Germany to make his fu-
ture home. They have all returned
here and will buy another farm. He
says Germany is too slow and old-fash-
ioned for anyone who has ever lived in
this country. A brother-in-law also
came with him. More Adair county
farms have changed hands this winter
than for two years past. The average
price paid is about $35 per acre, but
there is an upward tendency.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-02-09
IOWA STATE NEWS.
SALOONS CLOSED.
Supreme Court Says Consent Petit
tions Are Illegal, But Grants
Stay of Judgment.

AS result of a decision of the su-
preme court holding saloon consent pc
titions illegal, saloons were closed in
nearly every interior town in Iowa, but
the court on petition granted stay of
judgment, and many saloons have re-
opened. In the following counties the
mulct law is in force under old petitions
and the number of saloons, the average
annual tax paid and the total tax for the
year which will close and be lost if this
decision applies are shown:
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-02-09
slent with n corpsc.

Edgar Bider, living four miles north
of Dows. died of heart disease very
suddenly. Mrs. Bider did not discover
his death. though lying by his side,
until she awoke in the morning. When
she attempted to arouse him she found
him cold in death Mr.. Bder had been
in poor health for long time. He
was about sc years old.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-02-09
sixtieth Celebration.

Attheir palatial residence near Prai-
rie City Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Zachary,
surrounded by members of their fam
lily, celebrated the sixtieth anniversary
of their wedding. Mr. Zachary, as
president of the banking firm of Zach
airy & Cochran, is well known through
out the state, having been a resident
of Jasper county since 1851.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-02-09
Fight Planned.

Arrangements for the contest be-
tween Eddie Croake, of Clinton, and
Jimmie Stafford, of Dubuque, have
been completed. The fight will be held
at Des Moines February 13 for a purse
of $500, side bet of 5000 and the mid
ole weight championship of the state.
The contestants will weigh in at 1872
pounds at the ringside. George Siler
will he referee
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-02-09
Married

HARTLEY -BULMAN- AT tho resi-.
dence of the brides father, Thomas
Bulman, in Paris township. Howard
county, Tuesday evening, Feb. 6, 1900,
Mr.. BENZ Hartley Of Allamakee ooun.
ty and Miss Carrie Bulman, Rev.
Greene OF Luana officiating
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-02-09

&c cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or go
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-02-09

VIM. Friend has bought the 40 acres
of timber land owned by M. M. Moon
and lying north of Mitchell's nursery,
paying $4,000 therefor, and is having it
cleared off; and when thisis done will
probably build home thereon.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-02-09
THE SCHOOL REPORT.
REPORT FOR MONTH ENDING Feb. 9, 1899.

Grand Total. ). s2s al7 47s o. %
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-02-09

A Teachers Meeting is called by
Superintendent Perry to be held in
the High School room, Saturday the
18th. The program is good one and
will elicit good deal of thought and
no little discussion. These meetings
are profitable to the teachers, and
hence of benefit to pupils and parents
alike and merits their approval, sup
port and attendance.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-02-09

A head end collision is reported on
one of the divisions of the Milwaukee
between freight and passenger train,
demolishing both locomotives and
wrecking the passenger coaches. The
engineer on one of the trains was
caught under the boiler and literally
roasted.
A Teachers Meeting is called by
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-02-09

A. G. Heck, of the Ossian Bee, was a
Cresco visitor on Tuesday, making an
agreabele call on the PLAIN DEALER
Office force. The Bee is sound politi-
cally, and we are glad that it is hold
ing it's own financially.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-01-26
The Louellest People on Earth.

From Parsons Weekly: Perhaps
the most isolated tribe of people in the
world is the Tshuktshi, people occu-
plying the northern portion Of the
peninsula of Kamskatka and the coun-
try northward toward the Behring
straights. These people are practically
independent of Russia, who appears To
have reasons of her own for letting
them alone. They have practically nc
communication with the outside world
and have only been visited two or three
times-the last time by Major de
Windt on his journey through Siberia.
The inhabitants of the New Siberian
islands are also practically alone on
earth, for they can only communicate
with the mainland, and therefore with
the rest of the world, once a year, and
a succession of bad seasons might iso-
late them for years. The pygmies OF
the great Central African forests, if
they can be called a tribe, have also
been people apart. For ages their
existence was little more than legend
airy, and only two expeditions COM
manded by white men have ever pene-
trated into their abode.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-01-26
One woman.s Good Work

1t is not much over twenty years
since a retired San Francisco teacher
named Miss Austin conceived the idea
that she could make the then barren
plains of Fresno blossom like a rose
and bear fruit abundantly. Under the
inspiration of that belief she began tho
cultivation and curing Of the raisin
grape. AS a direct result of the eff
forts of that one woman Fresno coun-
ty this year has profted in one indus
try alone to the extent of 81 200, 600.
which is reported to be the value OF
the seasons raisin-curing there. AL
most all of the other industries which
have since been developed in Fresno
county have been the indirect out
growth of the successful experiments
made by Miss Austin in raisin-making.
One of the latest developments is the
proposed construction there of a fruit
cannery to be the largest in the state
and to serve as a substitute for the
one now existing, which gives employ
ment to GOO persons during the
fruit-canning season.-San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-01-26
Not 80 Cold as It Looked.

From the Philadelphia Record: Yes,
| suppose this does look like cold
work" said a West Philadelphia house
maid, as her employer stopped a mo-
ment on Saturday morning to express
a word of sympathy for her in her APP
parently chilling job. She knelt in
the bitter cold, with bare arms and
hands, and scrubbed her employers
marble steps. The wet, white flesh
On her round and pretty arms brought
forth words Of commiseration from the
man. She thanked him for them and
said: when you see us bare-armed
maids hanging out clothes that freeze
stiff before we get the clothespins in
them, or when you see us scrubbing,
like me, marble steps that ice over as
fast as they are wetted, you think it's
hard work? Well, truly, we are COM
Portable enough. We keep our arms
and hands wet with hot water, and
that is as good protection against the
cold as sealskin is. AS long as we
keep the bare, exposed flesh wet, ii
isn't really bare and exposed at all
it's protected perfectly. 1t looks cold
don't it?" asked the housemaid, glanc-
ing at her pretty bare arms: tits
just as warm, though! Feel"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-01-26
TOMBs BUILT TO LAST.
Energy of the Egyptians Was Devoted
to Death.

Energy of the Egyptians Was Devoted
to Death.
To the Egyptian death was but the
beginning of a career of adventures
and experiences compared with which
the most vivid emotions of this life
were tame. He lived with the fear Of
death before his eyes. Everything
around him reminded him of that
dreadful initiation into the mysteries
of the tremendous after life for which
his present existence was but a prep
aration. His cemeteries were not hid
den away in remote suburbs; his dead
were not covered with mere grassy
mounds. or a slab or stone. The whole
land was his graveyard; its whole art
was of the mortuary. Are there no
graves in Egypt that thou hast brought
us into the wilderness to die?" asked
the Israelites in derision, and we may
believe that Moses WINGED at the sar-
casm. Egypt is the land of graves, and
the whole energy Of the people that
could be spared from keeping life to-
gether was devoted to death. The
mightiest tombs in the world-the
pyramids-were raised upon the deaths
of multitudes of toiling slaves. The
hills were honeycombed passages and
galleries, chambers, pits, all painfully
eXcavated in honor of the illustrious
dead, and sculptured and painted with
elaborate skill to make them fit habi-
tations for his ghost. Wherever he
he
tions for the great turning point OF
existence. The mason was squaring
blocks for the tomb chamber; the pot
ter nodded images Of the gods or bowls
or jars, to be placed in the grave for
the protection or refreshment of the
ka, exhausted with the ordeals of the
under world; the sculptor and painter
were at work upon the walls OF the
funeral chamber. illustrating the
scenes through which the ghost was
to pass, or depicting the industrious
life of the departed. The very temples
which cluster along the levels beside
the Nile were in the hills behind. The
sacred lake, now the weedy, pictur-
esque hunt of waterfowl, was then the
scene of solemn ferryings of the dead.
The temple walls were covered with
the terrors of the judgment to come.
The houses of the living, indeed, were
built of perishing mud, but the homes
Of the dead made to the gods who ruled
their fate were made to last forever.
On these all the strength, the science
and the artistic skill of the ancient
Egyptians were cheerfully lavlshed.-
Saturday Review.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-01-26
War Upon Bad Seeds.

The agricultural department has
constructed a new building at Wash
ington to be used solely for testing
seeds of all kinds, in order to afford
protection against dishonest dealers
Recent tests gave remarkable results
Meadow-foxtail seed from Germany
costing 35 cents a pound, vas adulter-
ated more than 20 per cent with seed
worth only 10 cents a pound. Orchard
grass, purchased in the open market
was more than half bad. Some Grim
son clover, similarly purchased. was
SO per cent bad.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-01-26

The situation in Canada in regard
to the scarcity of white paper is be-
coming serious All Canadian mill
owners and large dealers have sent out
circulars withdrawing prices for the
present and for the first time in years
orders are being rejected or half filled.
American manufacturers have been
vainly seeking shipments of wood pulp
from Canadian millers. English deal
ers also have made inquiries in
Canada.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-01-26

What" say you, mot the sun stand
ing still?" Yes. The same miracle is
performed nowadays. The wicked dc
not live out half their day, and the
sun sets at noon. But let man start
out and battle for God, and the truth
and against sin, and the day of his USE
fulness is prolonged, and prolonged
and prolonged.
But it is time for Joshua to go home.
He is 10 years old. Washington went
down the Potomac, and at Mount Yer
non closed his days. Wellington died
peacefully at Apsley house Now,
where shall Joshua rest? Why, he is
to have his greatest battle now. After
10 years he has to meet king who
has more subjects than all the present
population of the earth, his throne a
pyramid of skulls, his parterre the
graveyards and cemeteries of the
world, his chariot the worlds hearse-
the King of Terrors. But If this is
Joshua's greatest battle, it is going
to be Joshua's greatest victory. He
gathers his friends around him and
gives MS VdleulcJOry.
And as you have heard a grand
father, or a great-grandfather seated
by the evening fire, tell of Monmouth,
or Yorktown, and then lift the crutch
or staff as though it were musket, to
fight, and show how the old battles
were won-so Joshua gathers his
friends around his dying couch, and
he tells them the story of what he has
been through, and as he lies there, his
white locks showing down on his wrink-
led forehead l wonder if God has kept
his promise all the way through-the
promise of the text. AS he lies there
he tells the story one, two or three
times overland he answers: 81 go the
way of all the earth, and not one word
of the promise has failed not one word
thereof has failed" And he turns to
his family, as a dying parent will, and
says: Choose now whom you will
serve, the God of Israel. or the God of
the Amorites. AS for me and my house,
we will serve the Lord" A dying
parent cannot be reckless or thought
less in regard to his children. Consent
to part with them at the door of the
tomb we cannot. BY the cradle in
which their infancy was rocked, by the
bosom on which they first lay, by the
blood Of the covenant, by the God of
Joshua, it shall not be. We will not
part, we cannot part Jehovah Jireh,
we take thee at thy promise: Il will
be a God to thee and thy seed after
thee"
Dead, the old chieftain must be laid
out. Handle him very gently; that
sacred body is over 10 years of age.
Lay him out, stretch out those feet
that walked dry shod the parted Jor-
dan. Close those lips which helped
blow the blast at which the walls Of
Jericho fell. Fold the arm that lifted
the spear toward the doomed city of All.
Fold it right over the heart that ex-
ulted when the five kings fell. But
where shall we get the FURNISHED
granite for the headstone and the foot
stone? / bethink myself now. l
imagine that for the head it shall be
the sun that stood still upon Gideon,
and for the foot, the moon that stood
still in the valley of Ajalon.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-01-26

1t IL estimated that there are now
7000,000,000 feet of white pine still
standing within the borders of Mime
sofa. 1t is stated further that this pine
is melting away at the rate of 1,5OO,-
100000 feet every year, and that in an
other five years, If the present rate OF
consumption continues, an end will
have been reached to the lumber bust
ness of the state. This, however, is a
prospect that causes no particular
alarm among business men, for, ac-
cording to Minneapolis reports. they
are confident that with the passing OF
the lumberman there will be a great
addition to the agricultural population
and that the added trade which will
naturally come as the result of the de-
velopment OF the rich farming lands OF
the northern part of the state will
more than compensate them for any
loss they may sustain by the closing
down of the saw mills.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-01-26

Owing to the overcrowding of the
western cattle ranges Secretary of Ag-
riculture Wilson will, it is said, rec
ommend that congress allow the west
ern states to lease these public graz
ing lands, and that the rentals de-
rived be applied to irrigating and edu-
cational improvements within the
states. This will warrant each renter
in fencing and improving his holding,
sinking wells and resting his grass
lands, which will result in a greater
grazing capacity for the land.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-01-26

Boston has an Authors club, every
member of which must have written
something worthy to be called litera-
ture." With the club itself sitting in
judgment, the modesty of the organi-
zation is something significant.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-01-26

The raising of fund to preserve the
house in Philadelphia in which the
first American flag was made and in
the erection of a monument over the
grave of Betsy Ross, the maker, has
been successfully carried out.