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The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-26

Buffalo N. Y, June 25.-The Goth Saen
eerfest of the North American Ssenger-
bund opened with an afternoon matinee
and a concert tonight.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-26
THE MEDITERRANEAN FLEET.
Tender Topic to BE Discussed In
Parliament.

London. June 26.-It is asserted that ev-
cry effort will be exerted to compel tho
British government to discuss in Parlia-
ment the condition of the Mediterranean
feet.
Lord Beresford had good reason to be-
lieve his letter would be published and 1t
is understood that he is ready to resign.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-26
VAUGHN AND CHAPMAN WIN.
Worlds Record Broken In Ten-MiIe
Motor Paced Race.

Salt Lake. Utah, June 25.-In a special
ten-mile motor paced race on the Salt
Palace saucer track between Vaughn of
Los Angeles and Chapman of Atlanta
Ga and the Turviile brothers of Phila-
delphia, the worlds record was broken,
the race being won by Vaughn and Chap
man in 17:15
The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-26

Arlington, June g-The President
e.. a.. appointed Il, A. Grimm postmaster At
Nlitman, ca -.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-26

Jules Verne Is writing his ninety -nlnt n
volume lie celebrated HIS seyenty.third
birthday q short while ago. 49,
The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-26
GERMAN ARMY STRENGTH.
Effective Force Now $4,000 Greater
Than That of France.

Than That of France.
Berlin, June 25--For number Of weeks
past a portion of the German press has
claimed that the imperial government in
tends further to increase the effective
strength of the German army, The F'reis-
sinnige Zeitung, arguing against this
talked of increase, points out that the eff
fective strength of the French army is
now 5000 men less than Germanys.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-26
THE v. M. i. COMMENCEMENT.

Hon. John @ Moncure Delivers the
Address
Lexington, Va, June 2S-The feature Of
to-day's commencement exercises at the
Virginia Military Institute was the dedi-
cation of the Francis H. Smith academic
building. The address was delivered by
Hon. John c. Moncure of Shreveport. La,
a graduate of the class of 1S47 and a dis
unguished Confederate officer on the
slan of Gen. c. J. Polignac OF France.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-08-06
Walter Kendall and P. T.. Thayre

Walter Kendall and P. L. Thayre
has just completed barn for Ed M.
Barnes, near Kendallville, 52x6O feet
on the ground, posts 26 feet. Under
the old part of the barn to which this
is an addition there is basement 26x
SO feet, hight feet. He has also a
granary in which the grain will be
elevated with his hay fork apparatus,
having the first floor for storing farm
implements.
Supervisor Wallace has made efforts
to serve the public faithfully in every
duty intrusted to him. While his
view has not always coincided with
ours, we give him the credit of acting
from the purest motives and always
for what he deemed the right. His
work and influence in fitting up the
court house grounds are based upon
the question of right to the public and
duty in office.
A church concert will be given in
the United Norwegian Lutheran
J, church on Friday evening, Aug. 18th
The Decorah choir which assisted al
the dedicatory services last May and
which created such good impression
with our people at that time, will
sing. They will be assisted by some
of the best local talent and will
give program well worth hearing.
The program will be published later.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-08-06

Turkish Mite Killer should be used
now. 1t is guaranteed. Your dealer
sells it.-Turkish Oil Co.
Will Wilbur, lately employed at the
Times office, was up from Decorah,
where he is now at work, on Friday
last.
James Budin and Fred Dobson left
Thursday afternoon for Park River,
N. D., where the will work in the
harvest fields.
A daughter Of Jos. Schafer who
belonngs to a sisterhood located in
Milwaukee visited in Cresco recently,
returning last Thursday.
Farmers! Feed your porkers Turk
ish Hog Remedy and they will not
have cholera. For sale by your local
dealer-Turkish Oil Co. s9tfltaw
Helps young ladies to withstand the
shock of sudden proposals, that's what
Rocky Mountain Tea has done. 35c.
Made by Madison Medicine Co.-Dr.
Connolly.
Lawrence Breen returned last
Friday evening, looking hale and
hearty, from Butte, Montana. He
will remain visiting in this locality
for several weeks.
A printer of IS years experience de-
sires situation in an office where faith
full work will be appreciated. Wages
reasonable permanent ituation the
main object. Address lock box Isl,
Cresco, Iowa.
A letter recently received from
Howard Marshall, dated at Liverpool,
Eng, July goth, says that he will
probably be at home about the 20th
of this month as he leaves there or
the Cunard S. S. "Saxonia," which
sails for Boston on Aug. 9Th.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-08-06

The Riceyille Recorder has risen
from the ashes of the recent confa-
grafton, Illustrated with a fine view
Of the doomed village before the fire
and also with view taken since the
fire, showing the general devastation
wrought. The paper will be re-estab-
lished and regularly issued as soon as
suitable place can be provided forit.
In the mean time it is issued from the
Office of the McIntire Gazette. Par
ties who were burned out in Riceville
are making ready to put in substan-
tial brick buildings in place of those
that were burned. Many of the mer-
chants were ready for business three
days after the fire, serving patrons
from temporarily constructed build
ings.
Prof Thompson, Principal of Valdez
business College, Decorah, graduated
from that Institution II years ago.
In 1890 he was Principal of Actual
Business and Practice Departments of
Valdez Business College, then entered
Minneapolis Academy and completed
the four years Scientific Course;
afterward he graduated from the
University of Minnesota. He has had
two years experience as teacher in
Normal work and three Of Commercial
and is therefore familiar with all the
details of advanced modern Business
College work. He resigned the Prin-
cipalship of the Sauk Center Academy
and Business College to accept the
work in the Valdez College. One
months tuition free and the car fare
paid.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-08-06

Miss Mayme Connolly returned from
her visit to the Pacific coast last week.
She visited at Portland, Tacoma, Sc
attic, and with her brother in Mon
tana, having altogether very enjoy
able trip and pleasant outing.
Mrs. Richard Frost and little son
Victor, came down from Lime Springs,
Saturday, for short visit, and to ac-
company her little daughter Nancy
home, who has been the guest Of
Cresco relatives for about week.
Choice farms in large or small tracts,
improved or unimproved in either
North or South Dakota. Excursion
tickets at one fare for the round trip
may be obtained for any day. Call on
or address BYRON MABoN, Land
Agent, Cresco, Iowa.
For the ensuing six weeks this office
will have collector in the field for
money and subscribers. Those in.
debted, if liable to be from home,
should leave with the family money
to pay him what they are owing fol
the paper when he calls.
| Mr.. w. +. Rathert has torn down
the old ware house built and occupied
by G. M. Harris, and since his death
bought and used by MIRA thert, who
has also torn down his coal sheds and
is having both the ware house and the
coal sheds replaced with new and
better structurs, both of which will
be ready for use in few days.
John w. Booth has badly smashed
hand, the injury being received while
oiling windmill. He laid his hand
on the gearing, and the wheel start
ing to move caught his hand and he was
compelled toilet it pass clear through
to get it released. The hand was bad
| ly Injured and it was feared amputa
tion of the thumb might be necessary
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-08-06

Fred Doan was over from Elma
Sunday.
Enter in the Farmers Bicycle race
for the Fair.
New and novel attractions at the
Fair this year.
We want you to come to the How
ard county Fair.
G. J. Somsen was down from Lime
Springs on Monday.
Don't miss the big Howard county
Fair, Sept. 8, 4,5, 6.
Second hand buggy for sale cheap.
Enquire of T. j. Prann.
There will be some great racing at
the Howard county Fair.
James Macarthur was an over
Sunday visitor at Decorah.
See Prof. and Madam Jackson in
their great race at the Fair.
Ossian holds her Third Annual
Street Fair, Aug. 23rd and oath.
A half a dozen farms to rent. En-
quire of G.. ]. SoMsEN, Lime Springs.
Chester is arranging for Street
Fair to be held Sept. IL, 13 and 14th.
Money loaned on real estate securi-
ties, small or large loans made.-J. M.
Cannon.
slO0 fine for any man that is found
running a threshing machine during
Fair week.
L. P. Barth left Monday for Cedar
Rapids to attend the republican state
convention.
Very low prices will be made on q
line Of new buggies and surreys just
received by T. S. Johnson's Bonair
Store.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-08-06

If dealer asks you to take some
thing said to be "just as good as Rocky
Mountain Tea made by Madison Medi
cine Co." ask him If he makes more
money.-Dr. Connolly.
Turkish Poultry Food will keep
your poultry in good health and in
crease the egg production. Try it.
Your local dealer wants to tell you
about it.-Turkish OH Co
Miss Gertrude Ryan went to Cresco
for visit WednesdaY...... Mrs. J. S..
Roome and Mrs. Rinkle went to
Cresco Wednesday for a visit with
relatives. Courier.
Dairymen, talk to your dealer about
the Turkish Cow Remedy. Satisfac-
tion guaranteed. Every remedy we
prepare sold on same terms. See your
dealer. TURKISH OIL Co.
The beauty thief has come to stay,
Unless you drive the pimples and
blackheads awasys
Do this; don't look Like a fright;
Take Rocky Mountain Tea tonight
DIR. Connolly.
Don't forget the dance at York
Mimi, on Friday evening of this
week. Music by Mead s orchestra Of
| five pieces including harp. If you
want good time attend, for the York
dances are always success.
| The man who bases his fitness fol
Representative in the state legisla
ture upon his hostility to one section
Of the county he seeks to represent
mistakes his calling. Justice to every
section of the district one would rep
resent, is a much better recommenda
tion. A house to house canvass through
the west part of the county denounc
ing Cresco is two edged sword thai
will injure instead of benefit.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-08-06

VIM. Miller is having an addition
built to his residence in the old town
of Vernon.
Mrs. Kendall will live in town, hav-
ing moved into rooms in the former
L. ]. Glass residence.
DR.. w. T. DAILY, physician and sur
geon. Office over Fields Furniture
store, opposite postof1ce.
Bring in your stock, your poultry,
your fruits, your vegetables and ETC.,
for the Howard county fair.
The Banda Rosa passed through
here Saturday afternoon enroute from
Minneapolis to Kansas City.
II. T. Williams is giving full price
for butter and eggs, in trade for goods
at his store at Granger, Mimi.
Mrs. j. Fl. Hayes left Monday for a
three weeks visit among relatives and
friends in Green county, Wisconsin,.
Mrs. L. R. Crowley gave an outing
to several Cresco ladies in her beauti-
full grove near the fair grounds last
week.
Wednesday, Sept. 4th, will be chill
drens day at the Howard county Fair.
All children under Is years of age ad-
mitted free.
A telegram from Mr.. and Mrs. Clin-
ton Farnsworth, at Great Falls. brings
the sorrowful tidings that their only
child is dead.
Mrs. w. L. Converse and the chill
dren returned from their Sioux City
visit last Friday, having had pleas
ant home visit of several weeks.
WANTED.-A cat. Who will be
kind enough to bring one to US? We
are overrun with mice.
| ARTHUR BELTS.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-08-06
Ice Cream Social.

On Tuesday evening, Aug. 18th, an
ice cream social will be given on the
lawn at Capt. j. T. Donahugh's-ice
cream and cake 10 cents. Music by
the New Band. Come and have a
good time. Proceeds for Grace Episco-
pal church.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-08-06
For Sale at a Bargain.S

A nice room house with shade and
fruit trees, good well and cistern,
barn and buggy shed. No reasonable
offer refused Three blocks from
Court House. Enquire at this office.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-08-22

The tramcsrs in Vienna are small
and dingy, and, like everything else,
are controlled by the government,
writes a correspondent in the New
York Times. If you infringe upon the
law, however slightly, you find the
good right hand of Franz Josef clutch
ing you by the neck. AS an instance,
the windows of the cars can only be
opened on one side; there is law to
that effect, as the Austrians regard a
draught even in midsummer as some
thing deadly. The passenger must also
see to it that his fare is paid; the
duty is not on the conductor at all.
Should he happen to pass you by, you
must keep your eyes upon him, as the
government inspector is liable to jump
on the car at any moment, and if you
have no ticket showing that you have
paid, you are arrested then and there.
Another thing, you are allowed to
jump off and on horse car, but if you
do the same thing in the case of an
electric car you are arrested
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-08-22
A Remarkable Lake.

Lake Titicaca, in Peru, is the tradi-
tional cradle Of the Inca civilization.
OF all lakes in the world, this lake, the
largest in South America, is in many
respects the most remarkable. Its alti-
tude, according to the railway survey,
is 1856 feet above sea level. In the
rainy season it rises about five feet
higher. Its area is over 5000 square
miles, half the size Of Lake Ontario,
fourteen times the size of Lake Gene
va 1t is over 100 miles in length and
averages thirty miles in width. Twenty
streams empty into it. The Rio Des-
aguadero very slowly flows out of it
to Lake .Toopo, fifty leagues away to
the southeast, from which lake there
is no surface exit. The level Of the sur
face of both lakes has sunk within
the historical period. Three hundred
years ago the margin of Titicaca was
near the ruins OF Tiahuanaco, which
now lie over sixty miles from the wa
ter's edge. AT an earlier date, when the
temple was built, it stood upon an Is
land. At an even earlier, but still re-
cent geological epoch the southern
limit of the great inland sea was IN
about latitude 21 degrees south.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-08-22
Chamberlain.s Orchids.

AS all all the world knows, Mr..
Chamberlain is one of the great Or
chid-groTers of the kingdom. He takes
his hobby, as, indeed, he seems to take
his politics, seriously. Many orchid
growers have to go some way to find
their favorite blossoms-not SO Mr.
Chamberlain. His wifes drawing
room, one of the finest apartments in
the large, roomy house. opens into a
winter garden, from which the visitor
may make his way in few moments
through the whole 30 greenhouses, for
orchids are not the only dollhouse
flowers cultivated at Highbury. Each
conservatory opens off long corridor,
itself most charming winter garden.
Appropos of his love for orchids-a
taste shared by Mrs. Chamberlain
,he colonial secretary is fond of boast
ing that he has never given anything
like record price for any of his
specimens He is fond of exchanging
one rare plant against another, and
above all, he deals in hybridiZation,
much time being devoted by him and
his clever head gardener to this form
of hybrid culture.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-08-22
Queer Cats in Maine.

The cats of Maine have been MAX
ing new records for queer doing lately.
A Portland woman owns striped tab
by that cries for hot water and is not
appeased until a saucer of water as
hot as any one could drink is poured
out for her. The cat has been drinking
hot water for six weeks and seems to
thrive upon it, How she acquired the
habit no one knows. A Biddeford man
has a two-legged cat that he raised
from kitten. Tom is big and has a
beautiful black coat, but was born
without fore paws. On the right
shoulder a small bone protrudes and
on the left there is small stub. The
cat walks erect and goes about with
ease, not seeming to mind his de-
formity. A Bar Harbor cat fancier
says there is great profit in raising
coon cats so-called if one has good
luck to help out tireless industry in
caring for the animals, but that it does
not pay to attempt to raise them on a
large scale. Until year old coon cats
are very delicate and subject to many
diseases such as pneumonia, fits,
spasms, and dysentry and more die
than survive. Seal brown and pure
white cats are most priced and the
man who can raise to maturity any
considerable number of these colors is
sure of big profits.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-08-22
LONG LOST SECRETS.
Anclents Possessed Knowledge Modem

Ancients Possessed Knowledge Modern
Science Cannot supply.
Although marvellous strides nave
been made in almost every branch OF
knowledge in the last 100 years, secrets
known to scientists, mechanics ana
others long before the beginning OF
that period have been lost. For IN
stance, thousands of years ago tho
Egyptians used to embalm the bodies
of their dead Kings and nobility SO
perfectly that the bodies are IN Won
derful preservation to-day. The valu-
able secret is lost, and modern science
cannot recover the lost knoWledse.
We can, of course and we do empaih
bodies, but only for temporary preser
walton, and, comparatively speaking.
in most unsatisfactory manner.
Bodies which are embalmed nowadays
will not be preserved for more than
few years at most; very many OF the
bodies Gle Egyptians chained before
the birth of Christ are still so we'll
preserved that the lines of their races
are as clearly marked to-day as Whep
they We're first embalmed.
People do not know how to put stones
and bricks together as the anc1ents
did, and consequently the buildings
raised nowadays are mere temporary
structures and will be in ruins When
the ancient buildings of Greece and
Italy, which were built thousands OF
years ago, are in as good condition as
they are now. The secret is not In the
bricks or the stone, but in the cement
and mortar, neither of which essentials
can the moderns make as the anclents
made them.
In modern buildings the cement and
mortar are the weakest points; IN
buildings which the Romans and
Greeks raised thousands of years ago
the cement and mortar are the strong
est points and hold good while the
very stones they bind crumble away
with age. We cannot, with all our
! science, make such cement and mortar.
| Modern chemists cannot compound
| such dies as were commonly used when
the great nations of to-day were still
unborn. Now and again it happens
that searchers after antiquities come
across fragments of fabrics which were
dyed thousands of years ago, and they
are astonished by the wonderful rich
ness of the colors of the cloths, which,
despite their age, are brighter and
purer than anything produced nova
days.
Modern artists buy their colors
ready made and spend large sums of
money on pigments with which to
color their canvases. The pictures of
modern artists will be colorless when
many of the works of the ancient mas
tiers are as bright as they are to-day.
Just as the secret of dyeing has been
lost, so has the secret of preserving the
colors of artists paints. Yet the Sc
cret was known to every ancient artist,
for they all mixed their own colors.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-08-22

After spending weeks so near the
South Pole as to share in the long
night of that lone region, the crew of
the Belgica prepared for dawn. Every
man had suffered from the unnatural
conditions of that Imprisonment, void
of light and solar heat. Physically and
mentally they were all next door to
entire collapse. Yet the sun, for which
they had barely lived, was about to
rise once more. Says the author of the
book, Through the First Antarctic
Night: Every man on board has
long since chosen favorite elevation
from which to watch the coming dawn.
Some are in the crow s-nest, others on
the ropes and spars of the rigging;
but these are the men who do little
travelling. The adventurous fellows are
scattered over the pack upon icebergs
and high hammocks. These positions
were taken about II o'clock. The
northern sky at this time was nearly
clear, and clothed with the usual haze
A bright lemon glow was just chang
ing into an even glimmer of rose. At
half-past eleven a few clouds spread
over the heavenly color. There were
spaces of gold, orange, blue, green and
a hundred harmonious blends, with an
occasional band Of polished silver.
Precisely at twelve o'clock fiery
cloud separated, disclosing a bit of the
upper rim of the sun. We could not
Snnak There wara M words to ay-
press the buoyancy of our relief, or the
feeling Of new life that ran coursing
through our arteries. following the
beat Of our enfeebled hearts. On every
countenance were signs Of the accumu-
lated suffering Of seventy dayless
nights. We were haggard, our faces
lined and habby, of an unnatural col
oring. Perhaps we had not known UNI
til that moment how terrible cur ex-
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-08-22
A Convention of Whales.

Word comes from Pasadena, Cal,
that the residents of the Island of San
ia Catalina witness some strange
sights in the course of the year. Peo-
pie on the beach are sometimes bonn
barded with flying fishes that jump out
OF the water when chased by the tunas,
and a few days ago a school of large
squids dashed in, leaping upon the
beach and filling the water with their
ink. 1t is supposed the squids were try
ing to escape the orcas. The orcas is
a whale about thirty feet in length,
entirely black with the exception of
a pure white collar and saddle. 1t has
teeth and is so active that it chases
seals and sea lions out of the water
upon the beach, and has actually been
known to snatch sea lion from the
rocks. This season whales have been
particularly common here, and recent
ly vast convention of them was OBJ
served at the entrance of the Bay of
Avalon. A steamer had collision with
one Of them. These wales have way
of collecting together" said the cap
tain of steamer, land for what pur-
pose do not know. Several years ago
when was running small yacht they
gathered at deep bank to the south
east of the island went out to them
number of times, and they stayed SO
long that excursions were run out to
see them. 1t was a wonderful sight. I
can't say how many whales there were.
There may have been nearly hun
dred or possibly fifty, but enough to
keep the deep water over the bank
boiling. The games they played were
worth seeing. Sometimes they would
leap into the air; sometimes they
would shoot along the surface, but the
finest sight was when, looking down
upon them from the boat, they would
be seen twenty or more feet below
swimming in great circles. I saw there
were great numbers of jellyfish about
the whale food-and l reckon that
was what they were after"