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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21
Hauling Down the Flag.

Anent the recent transfer to Eng
land, free of cost, which necessita
hauling down the flag" of a large
slice of American territory in Alaska,
republican senator VIM. L. Mason, of
Illinois. has been making some in
yestigationS. He is now personally in
vestigating the boundary matter, has
been to the summit of White Pass and
is at present in the Porcupine coun-
try back of IIaines.
In an interview at Skagway senator
Mason makes the sensational charge
that Secretary of State Hay, through
reprehensible friendship for England,
Is responsible for at least the temper.
AIRY loss of the big slice of Alaskan
territory, thrown on the Canadian side
through the provisions of the modus
vivendi. Senator Mason said:
Secretary of State Hay is too much
of a Britisher. Pauncefote gives him
a dinner and he is won. 1t is Hay who
is responsible for the Americans los
ing the strip on the big end of Ameri-
can territory in this disputed area.
He is unfit for anything. object to
maintaining British official at the
expense Of our government.
II am not in favor of yielding an
inch OF what is rightfully American
territory to the British l want every
foot Of land ten marine leagues from
the shore of the main land in this dis
puted territory for the United States,
and favor fighting If we do not get
it."
But why is Mr.. Hay any more re-
sponsible than Mr.. Mckinley who is
responsible for having Hay, an En-
glish sympathiser in his cabinet? OF
the two Mckinley is most to blame.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21
BLEEDs FROM EVERY PORE.
The Strange Disease That Is sappins
the Life of Michigan
Farmer.

Loren Emmons, farmer in Pokagon
township, Mich, is slowly bleeding to
death from every pore of his body. The
disease is a very rare one, and among
the medical fraternity is known as
purpura hemorrhagea. Last Tuesday
night black spots appeared on Mr.. En-
mons ankle. He went to physician,
who found them to be hemorrhages be-
meath the skin. Since that time like
hemorrhages have taken place all over
the body and Mr.. Emmons is bleeding
from the roof of the mouth, the nose,
the ears and even the slightest scratch
anywhere on the body, or little bruise.
will produce blood. This disease gen
orally presents itself in weakened
person, but Mr.. Emmons has ALWAYS
been possessed of robust health, and
the case is very peculiar.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21

for the republican apathy" which
was noticed in that campaign, and for
the republican defeat which came at
the polls. A panic is decidedly i'm
probable this year, but labor troubles
and crop failures arc always among
the possibilities, and any sort of
calamity invariably hits the party in
power.
All Of these reasons, coupled with
the conviction which is doubtless hon
estly entertained that their policy
will, upon presentation, appeal with
force to the majority of the people,
together with the fact that 1t is the
American practice tor each side to
make an active fight in every election,
whatever the chances may seem to be,
explain the hope of Mr.. Bryan and
his supporters that they will carry
the country In 1ooo.-Charles NJ. Har-
vey, in Lcslie's Weekly.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21
OUR NATIONAL LEADERS,
For President,
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN,
of Nebraska.
For Vice-President,
ADLAI e. STEVENSON,
of Illinois.
Starving Porto Ricans.

Our various committees of relief,
who are interested in suffering hui
manity thousands of miles from our
shores, can find work nearer to their
hand-in Porto Rico. The report of
Maj. George D. Croft reveals condit-
ion of affairs in our recently acquired
colony that calls for the widest meas.
ure of relief, extended in the shortest
possible space of time.
The death rate in the city of Ponce
is about one hundred per thousand
per annum, and the inspector of the
health board says that these deaths
are due almost wholly to starvation.
A correspondent of the New York In
dependent writes that people fall, star
wing, in the streets, and in towns like
Suana Diaz people are taken from the
public square to the cemetery. The
town of Yauco, with a normal NOR
tality of sixty per month, reports four
hundred deaths in three weeks.
Has the prosperity which the Unit.
ed States people are enjoying caused
us to forget that the stars and stripes
fly oSoro Porto Rico, too? Are the
starving natives of that island of less
concern to us than the famine suffer-
ers of India?-Chicago Journal, Re
publican.)
Had Spain allowed such starvation
to exist in Porto Rico how the heart
of every republican would have been
stirred to the depths. But the 'be-
nevolent assimilator" and imitator of
British rule in India, can through an
unconstitutional tariff rob, plum.
der and starve that country without
criticism.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21

The following paragraph appeared
as editorial in the Mitchell County
Press of the l4th. and as editorial in
the Cresco Republican the day follow
ing, and we have found the same item
word for word, quotation marks and
all, in our republican exchanges scat
tered from Maine to California.
If Imperialism is the paramount
issue why was free silver inserted ir
the Democratic platform? In 1896 the
Democrats sought to get free silver ir
through the front door. This veal
they are trying to sneak it in through
the back door under the cloak OF
neutrality-suspicious."
These same papers have been pro-
claiming for the year that free silver
was dead. After the passage of the
financial bill in March 1900, they said
it was dead-past resurrection. But
Lo. Hanna S editorial bureau which
furnishes the editorials for the weak
kneed sisters, afraid to meet the issue
of Imperialism, is seeking to resurrect
what it time and time again proclaim
ed dead issue. Deception is the OBJ.
ject. The gold standard majority in
the United States senate cannot be
overcome during the next administ ira
tion, and none know it better than
the papers who are allowing Hanna
editorial bureau to impose upon the
public.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21

"A recent number of popular society
journal says that, according to the AL
Chance. FOR p,.b manach de Gotha,
there are in Europe
~ II unmarried prin-
cesses of the blood royal and only Al
princes of marriageable age, and adds
that this affords "a chances for rich
Americans to start royal families Of
their own. This information is inter-
esting, says the Chicago Tribune, and
the rich Americans will doubtless be
grateful for the kind feeling that
r----r ~ i--A IL IL 900 - x>.-nt1t~.
that not even the specious sugges-
ton of starting royal families of
their own will incite Americans to
action. They know too well that
starting royal families Of their own
means the being grated on to and
eventually swallowed up, identity and
all, by the parent stem, and rather than
accept an end SO inglorious they will
stop at home and be proud heads of
proud though unroyal families. An
other factor that enters too largely In
to the matter to be ignored is the home
market. So far 1t has all that the most
fastidious could desire, and If the "a
luckless princesses would catch rich
American husbands they will have to
throw out far more alluring and SUBJ
stantial bait than that of the estab-
fishing Of royal families.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21

The cost of the English war upon
the Boer republics of South Africa
and the Chinese trouble have so far
reduced the resources of the British
government that it has been compelled
to issue $50, 100000 of 3 per cent. gov
eminent bonds which it sold at 90
cents on the dollar. The banks of
New York subscribed for and took
S25 100000 of that loan, the immediate
consequence being the shipment of
their cost in gold to London. Now if
the banks of this country as boastfully
claimed by Mckinley organs have
S5OO,0OO,OOO of credit in the banks of
England as the balance of trade in
their favor it would have been natu-
raj for them to draw on that balance
to pay the British loan, instead OF
shipping gold. This shipment of gold
is not calculated to improve things in
this country where prices are constant
iy dropping, where the iron trade is
demoralized and where mills are shut
ting down on all sides and operatives
turned out to tramp and starve.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21

Philadelphia people were treated to
the unusual spectacle of dog spread
at full length upon cake Of ice one
very warm day recently, says the
Record. The Ice had been left before
store door early in the morning,
The dog waddled languidly up the
street, the sorriest victim Of heat to
be seen In a days tramp. He looked
at the Ice, came nearer, shifted it in
evident enjoyment, then In raptures
of delight ran his tongue over Its cool
surface. AS cat capers In catnip, the
dog capered around the Toe. Then he
turned twice and stretched himself
upon 1t. Many passer-by seemed to
envy him his cool position.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21

The latest estimates indicate that the
Kansas corn crop will amount to 1O0,-
100000 bushels. 1t viii be worth, at
the least calculation, SsO,0o0,O0O. If
the sum realized from the sale of the
crop should be divided per capita, every
man, woman and child in the state
would receive $40. When this crop Is
shipped It will require 100000 box cars
to transport 1t. Divided into trains
of IL cars, the number would be over
$4,000. 1t 1t were possible to run all
the cars In one train they would make
q continuous string over 1900 miles in
length, reaching from Buffalo to To-
pelsa.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21
Evils of Antipyrine.

The use of antipyrine for the relief
and cure headaches has a depressing
influence on the heart, and causes a
derangementof the Kidneys. Krausc IS
Headache Capsules contain no antipy-
rine, choral, morphine or any injuri-
Gus ingredient. They cure quickly and
leave the head clear and cool. Price
Pc. Sold by j. III. Luers Drug Co., and
the Lowry Drug Co., Chester.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21

Thirty-seven years ago Henry Thomp-
son, now living in Smith Center, Kan,
mailed from the camp Of his regiment
in Missouri letter to his brother In
Iowa. Last week this letter was re-
turned to him from the dead letter Of
fee at Washington, and in a matter-of-
course way, as though the letter had
just been received, the department IN
formed Mr.. Thompson that his brother
could not be found. Mr.. Thompson is
at loss to know how the department
procured his Kansas address, unless 1t
was taken from the records of the pen.
sion office.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21
Nerves Like a FIat-Iron.

A woman who suffered forthree years
from nervous proStration says, two
bottles of Lichty's Celery Nerve Com
pound effected complete cure. She
hardly knows today whether she has
nerves or not, as she never feels them.
tits certainly a wonderfulremedy. Sold
by j. FL. Luers Drug Co. CrcSco, and
the Lowry Drug Co., Chester.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21

Young Peoples Convention, Iowa Evan
gelical Association. Waterloo, H., Aug.
:3-2S, 1900.
For this convention and Campmeet-
ing th Chicago Great Western Ry
will on Aug. 20-25 sell excursion tick
cts on the certificate plan, good to re-
turn Aug. 3lstat a fare and one-third
for the round trip. For furnher infor-
nation inquire of any Great Western
Agent or address f. III. Lord, G.. p. &
T. A., lib Adams St, Chicago. aug25
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21

The wolf in the fable put on sheep 5
clothing because if he travelled on his
own reputation he couldn't accomp-
lish his purpose. Counterfeiters of DE
Wits Witch Hazel Salve couldn't
sell their worthless salvcs on their
merits, so they put them in boxes and
wrappers like DeWitt's. Look out for
them. Take only DcWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve. 1t cures piles and skin
diseases. j. II. Luers Drug Co.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21

In India, the land of famine, thous-
ands die because they cannot obtain
food. In America, the land of plenty
many suffer and die because they can
not digest the food they eat Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure digests what you eat,
1t instantly relieves and radically
cures all stomach troubles. j. II.
LuerS Drug Co.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21

Mr.. Richard Harding Davis
went to the Transvaal with decided
British sympathies and after arriving
there went to view the struggle
from the Boer side, whom he did rot
find as the British painted them,
ignorant and uncouth, and not cruel
and indicative toward their enemies
who had come to steal their country
and their homes from them, and In a
recent letter he expressed the world
opinion of the English war upon the
Beers In the terse sentence: "Guilty
of murder with intent to rob.''
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21
The nO-Y.,r-o,d No,

A statistician has estimated that a
man so years old has worked {, 500 DAYS.
has slept 5000, has amused himself
1000, has walked 10000 miles, has been
ill 500 days, has partaken of 10000
meals, eaten $4,000 pounds of meat and
1000 of fish, eggs and vegetables, and
drunk 1000 gallons of fluid.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21
Farmers and Horsemen.

Are your Horses afflicted with IIeavcs,
Short-windedness, Coughs, Indiges-
ton, etc. If so you should at once
procure bottle of ''Luers" Sure Cure
Heaye Drops. 1t is guaranteed togive
satisfaction. For sale by Lowry Drug
Co., Chester, Ia, and ]. II. Luers Drug
Co., Cresco, Iowa.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21
The OnIy Headache Cure.

Frank ]. Baker, of Colorado Springs,
says: "Krause's Headache Capsules is
the only remedy that ever checked my
sick headache, and / have cured scores
of my friends with them" Price 25c.
Sold by j. Luers Drug Co., Crcsco, and
the Lowry Drug Co. Chester.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21

Millions will be spent in politics this
year. We can't keep the campaign go
ing without money any more than we
can keep the body vigorous without
food. DyspepticS used to starve them
selves. Now Kodol Dyspepsia Cure d.
gestS what you eat and allows you to
eat all the good food you want. 1t
radically cures stomach troubles. j.
III. LuerS Drug Co.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21
A Genius,

Bramble-They say Skinner is the
best corporation lawyer in New York.
Thorne-Yes, understand he got
damages for the company from o man
who was knocked down by trolley
ear,-N. Y. Journal.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21
Swinging a scythe is fine exerc,s

Swinging scythe is fine exercise
just after sunrise, if you can avoid ev-
erything save the grass, says an east
ern contemporary, who probably
knows. The legs and feet seem to
have a quiet knacls of getting in the
way, and It's bad for them.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21
For Sale.

A valuable home with about ten
acres of land, owned and occupied by
The late James Fl. Brown, south of the
Railroad and east of the Stock yards.
For price and terms enquire of HAM
BROWN, near the premises. 96tf
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21
Stop Colds

when you feel one coming on by TAX.
Ing Krause'S Cold Cure. Prepared in
convenient capsules that cure while
you work. Price 25c. Sold by j. H..
Luers DRUG Co., Cresco, and Lowry
Drug Co., Chester.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21
His Part,

Won Blumer-My wife wants two or
three new gowns, and can't afford to
buy them.
Castleton-What DO you do in case
like that?
Won Blumer-Nothing. She gets the
gowns.-Town Topics.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21

1t seems as if Aguinaldo never camps
over night without leaving i'm portant
papers behind filled with state secrets
Of great value to the Americans.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21
Iowa ate Fair, Des Moines, Iowa, August
9th tn Sent L 1lnn

24th to Sept. ], 1900.
For this important agricultural
meeting the Chicago Great Western
Ry will on August 23rd to Sept. 1st.
sell excursion tickets to Des Moines,
good to return Sept. 3rd, at one fare
for the round trip. For further infor-
nation enquire of any Great Western
Agent, or address L. H. Lord, G. p. &
T. A., III Adams st, Chicago.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21
For Sale.

dwellings, 2 business places, and
one Of the best farms in Howard
county. All very desirahly located.
Q. +. MILLER.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21

To Break Up a Cold In One Night
Or to quickly cure La Grippe take
Weeks Break Up-A-Cold Tablets. y
We will cheerfully refund the pur-
chase price if it fails to cure. Price %
cents. j. Fl. Luers Drug Co.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-21

You will never find any other pills so
prompt and SO pleasant as DeWitt'S
Little Early Risers. j. Ii. Luers
Drug Co,
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-05-25

A New England grower gives the fol-
lowing information concerning the care
of the plant beds:
The use of canvas Or plant bed cloth
as substitute for glass is great step in
advance of old methods. Here we lay
the canvas fiat on the bed as soon as the
seed is sown, but this method is better
adapted to hurley than to cigar leaf va
rieties, Where plants start slowly, the
growth may be improved by watering
with liqaid manures, made by teachings
from barrel or box filed with hen ma
nure, ior even that from the stable' [
know successful grower who applies
strong liquid manure by making holes s
or 10 in. deep, 2 ft. apart, over the bed
with stick 2 in. in diameter. These
holes are filled with the liquid every
three or four days.
Ii beds are not more than #. wide.
they may be weeded with ease, without
trampling the plants; if wider the work
is best done from heavy plank extend
ing across the bed and supported at the
ends by blocks. Be careful to take out
every weed, no matter how small. Some
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-05-25
Connecticut Tobacco Prospect.

Though the spring is late, yet the to-
bacco plants are better off in the beds at
the present time than they would be,
transplanted in the fields. From all &C
counts there will evidently be an in
creased acreage of the weed this year..
But in many cases that will be unfortu-
nate. A small field we'll grown and cured,
which always commands good price, is
worth more to the farmer than lots of it
rushed on through to the poles, which
often becomes quite bore to dispose of
it at any labor saving price. Hence
moderation in the outlay and intensified
culture should be the watch word for the
growers in this state, that our reputation
for fine leaf should meet with no draw
back but be sure to come to the front in
competitor with the political expansion"
possibilities of the future. Therefore,
brother farmers, spare no pains in culti-
walton this season, and thus strive to
bring forth tue best crop that was ever
harvested in the Connecticut valley. In
fact, make it of such a good quality that
it will require no effort to dispose of the
Farmer.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-05-25
Hicks June Weather

The first days of June rising temper
ature and falling barometer will indicate
thnnder storms followed by cooler and
clearing weather by the 5th or 9Th.
Storms will again occur during the Vul-
can period from 9Th to 18th. A constant
tendency to storms prevails during the
June solstice.
Among the phenomena to be expected
in marked degrees, we shall mention
seismic and volcanic disturbances gen.
eraly, excessive lightning and thunder,
peculiar manifestations of magnetic and
electric currents in the earth and at
mosphere, with phenomenal extremes of
temperature. AS to rainfall, the ten
dency will be toward cloudburst and
local floods in coast and mountain re-
gions with growing scarcity over much of
the great interior known as the western,
northwestern and central grain belts.
We have often warned our readers
against the danger of taking shelter un-
der trees during these solstice thunder
storms also of sitting or standing any
where so as to make easy connection with
damp or moist earth. We have also ex-
planned many times that the excessive
sheet lightning, SO common at the June
solstice, is absolutely harmless.
Very cool weather for the season fol-
lows this storm period. A warm spell
favorable to the development of hail and
thunder storms is due about "a to 27.
Drouth will not be serious this early in
most sections.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-05-25
New York.
New YORK May 16, 1900.

The domestic leaf market has evinceo
signs of picking up with some houses and
a few firms report having done a fairly
good business during the past week. The
trade, generally, however, has felt no in
creased activity, and complaints are
heard from all sides.
The principal sellers for the first half
of the month, ending today. has been
1898 Wisconsin, and this weeks report
shows that it continues in favor. Two
houses have sold something over 2OOOcs
since May l, and other sales will make
the aggregate close to 5000 cases. The
bulk OF this amount, however, changed
hands without going out of the market.
+ Havana-The week has been very
satisfactory one in the Havana branch.
No particularly large sales are reported,
but the business was we'll distributed.
and importers claim that the month thus
far has been favored with remarkab bly
active trade, taking the scarcity of stock
into consideration. One prominent i'm
porting firm closed out the balance of
their 1898 Vueltas at 80 cents, in bond.
The sale of about $50 bales of 1899 Re
medios, first and second capaduras, is re-
ported at ruling prices.
Sumatra. Samples of new goods con-
tlnue to be shipped to all parts of the
country, and it is hoped that when they
have been put to the test an active bust
ness will follow. Reported sales for the
week were about 275 bales.-Leaf
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-05-25
New YORK. Nav 10. 1900.

The market seems to have resigned it.
self to state of leisure, and hardly any
| body is expecting a rush for some time
to come. The strikes, which are spread
ing rather than collapsing, have naturally
restrictive effect on the leaf market.
With labor troubles on his hands and his
factory either entirely closed or working
only piece-meal, the manufactures is
neither in a mood Or in a position to
make extensive purchases. Besides, as
pointed out repeatedly in this place, the
purchasable stocks, particularly in do
mestic leaf, have dwindled down to such
narrow margin that no selections can
be made from it. The quantity of our
filler and binder stock has been almost
exhausted and the demand for wrapper
leaf is supplied by the force -sweated new
crop. Altogether the transactions in
seed leaf did not exceed eight hundred
boxes
In the Havana market sales are being
made almost exclusively for immediate
consumption. That means, also, a linn
tied trade. The reason is not the slack
ness in the clear Havana cigar business,
for that never was in more progressive
condition, as the consumption of our Ha-
vana cigars is spreading most phenom-
enelly, but the impression is that the
abundance of the new crop will bring
about a reduction in prices. All reports
from Havana, however, are deceiving
such an impression.
AS for the Sumatra market, it is never