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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
CHAPTER v.
uLrIMAruMs TWAIN.

When all is said, sober second
thought, so much vaunted and be-
praised, is but an ignoble thing.
How many a. fine project, conceived
in impulsive unselfshness and sent
rocket-wise on its course starward,
has come to earth again a mere
smoke-blackened stick in tho chill
downpour Of reflection. How many
an emprise which seemed altogether
promising and feasible when planned
overnight has become a thing pre-
posterous in the cold gray light Of
the morning.
Some such reflective misgiving as
sailed me when I came to write the
letter to my friend in the Glenlivat
company's directorate. Doubtless,
the passport into the camp of the
enemy would be Forthcoming; but
once safely within the lines, what
could 1 hope to accomplish? Would
Wykamp straightway proceed to I'M
bosom himself to me?-make a con-
fdant of stranger, an emergency
guest foisted upon him by the good
nature of one of his directors? The
idea was absurd. And if he should
do such an Incredible thing, the end
would but indifferently justify the
means; one could hardly eat HIS
salt and betray him.
The letter was written and Dan
Connolly was saddling for the ride
to the fort. In a few minutes the
undertaking would be afoot and re-
consideration impossible. But a
shorter respite has saved an army,
and my reprieve was already on the
way. Connolly shaded his eyes I'M
der his hand and Intercepted a
hlmy dust-cloud on the up-valley
trail. It was approaching the ranch,
and the level rays of the newly
arisen sun turned 1t into hazy MIN
bus of gold-dust.
"Wan av thim's the Greaser, an
t'other's the scut av an ingineer,''
says my Mercury, scowling. "Now
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
s1-sss-s-sll5 I.I. = 49,
A LIVELY INTRODUCTION.
How Sir Harry westwood Cooper, the
English ForEer, Met Detective
aeymOur.

Sir Harry Westwood Cooper, the
English forger, accused Of nobility,
is far more docile creature since
his course In rigorous western po-
lice treatment than he was when
Capt. John Seymour. chief of detec-
tives, first introduced himself, says
the San Francisco News Letter. The
story of the introduction is good.
Capt. Seymour then without other
title than plain badge, was sent
over to the Langham hotel one day
to bring in this exceptional scion to
police headquarters. To the cap
tain's query if the nobleman was in,
the clerk merely pointed to the ele-
vator and remarked: Just going up,
sir; won't see anybody" At the
entrance to the elevator stood gem
tleman in elegant afternoon attire,
and straight up to him went the de-
tective.
pardon me-" said Seymour, lone
moment, please"
Sir Harry moved away as if to be
rid of the intruder, and just then
the elevator came down. The detec-
tive moved nearer.
Pardon me again." he said, "but
"Some trades person." concluded
Sir Harry; 81 cawn't see you"
Capt. Seymour put his hands on Sir
Harry's shoulders and began again.
But Sir Harry did something sudden
ly; the detective did something more
suddenly; there was crashing and
breaking, rush Of excited people,
and one little fellow in the back
ground, crying: "How dare you
touch an English nobleman! How
dare you touch my fwend, Sub Haw-
wy!"-then the clearing Of the smoke
revealed the 'fwend, sub Hawwy,"
sitting handcuffed on the floor, his
top hat crushed in, his Prince Albert
torn, and the blood from cut on
his face streaming down onto his
white vest.
The captain was winded, but other
wise in good form.
"You will pardon me-" he remarked
again, "but when you interrupted me,
l was about to introduce myself. ]
am John Seymour, of the detective
/ agency"
"That will do" said the nobleman
"but frankness compels me to say
! that I do not desire your acquain.
lance" Then-frst looking down al
the manacles-he added slowly:
you will pardon me for not-ah-
offering you my hands"
Certainly" replied the detective
with equal wit, "but may I take your
| arm?"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
HoNoRED THE FLAG OF TRUCE
ovsrruled by the old German
Emperor.


The Paris Figaro contain. some in
teresting revelations concerning the
private opinions Of the late President
Faure, of France, and recently turned
to the "Schaebele affair."" in which it
isshown how Prince Munster de Derne-
burg averted what threatened to be
another war between France and
Germany. Schaebele was arrested IS
years ago by German detective
named Gautsch on the French-Ger-
man frontier. The difficulties which
followed this arrest produced a war
scare in Europe.
According to M. Faure, Frances as
sertion that Schaebele had been ar
rested on French territory was bitter
ly contested by Prince Bismarck. At
this point of the proceedings letter
from Gautsch to Schaebele summon
ing the latter to conference was
found. This letter was Immediately
sent to M. Herbette, French ambas-
sador to Berlin, but the latter had
found Prince Bismarck so unfavora-
bly, disposed that he hesitated to in
trust such an important document to
his tender mercies. AT this juncture
Prince Munster de Derneburg, who
was visiting in Berlin, called upon M.
Herbette. saying he ardently desired
the maintenance of peace, and offer
ing to aid the French minister. When
he was shown the Gautsch letter the
German diplomat said:
"Give it to me; confide it to me; I
will bring it back at three o'clock"
M. Herbette hesitated to turn over
the letter. Prince Munster demanded
the original. NJ. Herbette finally con-
sented and intrusted Frances trump
card to the German ambassador at
Paris.
Prince Munster went to Prince Bis
marck and showed him the Gautsch
letter. Bismarck angrily asked the
diplomat what business he had to at
tend to M. Herbette's commissions.
Munster firmly replied that he had
only come to warn Bismarck, and
that he was going to show the let
ter to the emperor Of Germany. This
he did. The emperor read the letter
carefully and said:
''Then Schaebele was under flag
of truce. If we do not release that
man no one will ever dare to send q
flag of truce into Prussian camp
He must be released. l will at once
give the order, and you can tell Her
bette what I have done"
A few hours later Bismarck set
Schaebele at liberty, and the war
cloud rolled away.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06

fwhat'll thin two be dom on our
reservation betune daybreak an,
breakfast, I'd like to know?"
70 be consistent 1 should have
gone indoors and kept out of sight.
II / were to serve Macpherson's turn
as spy in the engineers camp, it
said itself that 1 must not be llno wn
as Macpherson's friend. But shame
pricked into the lists, sword out and
visor down, and stood my ground
when the pair galloped up.
Wykamp drew rein at the door
stone, or, to record the fact, he
dragged at the leather and his horse
danced an accompaniment. The animal
was a fine-blooded bay which-with
humane gentling and snafae-bit-
might have been ridden by woman;
but it had been spurred cruelty in
the race down the valley. In the bit
of equestrian by-play I had an OPP
portunity to observe the two men.
The engineer was disappointment.
Prefigurings of person described,
but otherwise unknown, are newt
able; hence, out Of the material
gathered from Macpherson's conf
dences had fashioned a rather
melodramatic villain of the fictional
school. No fancy sketch could have
been farther from the fact. The en-
gineer was a trim-built, athletic
young fellow, as handsome in his
way as Macpherson, though quite at
the opposite extreme of the gamut
OF types, carefully groomed from his
close-trimmed beard and curling
mustaches to the well-fitting tweeds
and tan leather leggings; a man OF
business, clear-cut, concise, aggres-
sive, one would say, emotional only
In some food-tide of passion, and
vindictive only when thwarted.
His Mexican henchmans could be
summed up in terser phrase. Dark
skinned as Zambo, small and 1.-the
"a the. savage Little tigsr-oat Of Biz
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
coAsT1NG WITHOUT SNOW.
Fourth of July Celebrated in Los
Angeles In an Unusual
Manner

With the thermometer registering
100 degrees in the shade and mid
summer sun beating down upon the
semi-tropical land, the boys and girls
and many of the grown people of Los
Angeles celebrated the Fourth coast
ing on sleds down long hill slopes
where not flake of snow ever has
fallen, says the Chicago Tribune. 1t
probably was the first time on record
that children with bare feet and sun
bonnets ever enjoyed "sleighing,"
and there can be no doubt that it is
the most unique shedding ever at
tempted.
1t all came about through discov-
cry by boy with penchant for in
vestigating and experimenting, who
found that snow isn't the only thing
that makes the hills slippery, and
the result is that the people can and
do now enjoy winter sport where
winter never comes, and without the
necessity of wrapping up their heads
to keep biting frost from nipping %
their precious ears and noses.
After the spring rains the southern
California mountains and hills be-
come thickly covered with weeds and
grasses, which lie and dry in the sum-
mer heat, leaving a brown coating so
thick that it remains until the fol-
lowing season. While playing on a
hill an inquisitive lad found the dead
wild mustard so slick that he could
scarcely walk over it. Instinct sug-
gested that he get board and take
slide, and he did. Other boys saw
him and took hand, and everything
was lovely! Evolution brought sleds
and by common consent the Fourth
was chosen as the time for sort of
"grand opening" A smooth slope a
quarter of a mile long was selected,
and everybody who had anything to
coast on, as well as many who hadn't,
was there to enter into the exhilarat-
ing sport. 1t was winter carnival
in summer and a remarka BILE affair.
And hereafter coasting will be COM
mon pleasure in southern California.
The spectacle of half a hundred
yelling boys and shrieking girls
shooting down the hill at lightning
express speed, landing in heaps at
the end of the run, AID trudging and
| pulling their sleds up the long slope
was as strange as it was interesting,
and crowd stood in the swelterine
heat and watched the unusual per.
Torrance. There were exciting races
thrilling tumbles when obstructions
CHANGED in the way, and hairbreadth
escapes, just like those where snow
| and ice afford smooth but chilly
| glideway. At the sleeper places the
sleds go so fast that it did not take
the youngsters long to discover it
would require brake to keep them
from flying into kingdom come, and
one was improvised. Now they are
in use on all the sleds. A young lady
who took the trip pulled the lever
too far at the wrong moment and
went through performance that
would shame an acrobat. Before she
was through standing on her head
dozen other sleds and their occu-
| pants were piled on top of her.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06

. show for my investment. Iney may
do it in the end, but I'll give them q
run for their money"
laughed. Lets be frank with
each other, Angus. 1t goes a good
bit deeper with you than any struggle
to hold the Torolito. You will have
to admit that If Wykamp hadn't"
"But he has," broke in Maophsr-
son, with rising wrath. HE might
have had the Torolito and welcome
it he had left me that which is worth
more to me than all the stock ranges
that lie out of doors. But he
wouldn't, and now he's got to take
the consequences. She won't let me
obliterate him, but I'll break him
world without end before I'm
through with him"
There was vindiotive emphasis
In the threat which started the mill
stones Of reflection. Could oircum-
stances, and sharp turn Of the
purely personal thumb-scrsws, trans
form frank fighter into vengeful
enemy? Macpherson had always
been hearty combatant, but his an
tagonism was of the kind which
seeks an early hand-shaking after
the fact.
Break him in business way, you
mean? How can you do that?"
His smile was inscrutable. There's
more in my placer claim than ap-
pears on the surface. Do you know
where it is?"
"It's anywhere you $50 At to locate
ton the line Of the ditch, sup
pose"
THAT'S where you're wrong.
didn't invent 1t. It is an actual gold-
bearing bar, and it lies at tho mouth
Of the upper canyon just above w
site Of the 0lenlivat company's pro-
posed DAM"
80 Wykamp will have to 90 above
or below it; is that it?"
eyes; without the choice. He'll
have to 60 above. The lay Of the
land is such that he can't build below
the gap in the 'hog-baol,' and II he
builds on the site selected by tho
man who made the preliminary sur
vey last summer, my claim Will be a.
the bottom Of his reservoir"
Il see. But he can 60 above, can't
her"
'It's possible, but 10 will be OK
pensive. He will have to tunnel Q
small mountain to get his outlet
from the head-gates. And that isn't
the worst of it."
what is the worst OF it?"
Macpherson pushed his stool from
the table and began to fill his pipe.
He was provokingly deliberate, and
when the tobacco was fairly alight
his explanation was of the vaguest.
eff he hasn't already done so, he'll
go farther up the canyon and find
his site ready-made and waiting for
him. only hope he'll take it,"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
Eating for . Husband.

When the parents of young man
in Russia decide that certain young
lady would make suita BILE mate for
him they say nothing about the mat
ter to anyone, but on some evening
they will drop around unexpectedly
to the prospective brides home and
will stay for supper. During the
meal they will keep close watch on
the young lady. Ii she eats fast she
will perform her work speedily, if
she goes neatly and clearly about
her plate she will perform her work
neatly and Clearly; if she does not
talk much she will work and not talk
and prove faithful and obedient
wife to her husband; if she prefers
rye bread to white she will be salts
fed with her lot; if she does not
gaze and stare at the visitors she
will be wife that will not continu-
ally pry into her husbands business,
and if she Immediately proceeds to
clean up the dishes after the meal
she will bring prosperity to her hus-
band and will be economical with his
money. A most peculiar thing about
the marriage ceremony is the fact
that when the couple enter the
church both groom and bride make
dash for the platform on which is
the pulpit. 1t is believed that the
one whose foot touches the platform
first will live the longer and the chill
dren will take after that one in size,
health and beauty.-N. o. Picayune.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
Business Opportunities for All.

Business Opportunities for All.
Location in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota
and Missouri on the Chicago Great
Western Railway: the very best agri-
cultural section of the United States
where farmers are prosperous and
business men successful. We have a
demand for competent men, with the
necessary capital, for all branches of
business. Some special opportunities
for creamery men ond millers. Good
locations for general merchandise,
hardware, harness, hotels, banks and
stockbuyers. Correspondence solicit
led. Write for Map and Maple Leaf
lets. w. ]. Reed, Industrial Agent,
6N Endicott Bid G st Paul Mimi.
dec RI
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
Probably Got Them Mixed.

MY dear Miss Billmore," sadly
wrote young Hankinson, II return
herewith your kind note in which
you accept my offer of marriage.
You will observe that 1T begins Dear
George do not know who George
is, but my name, as you know, is
Millism."-ChissE Trihv9s,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
A Gentle Hint

do you always preach without
notes?" inquired the new vestryman.
YES" replied the old minister.
Don't you think you might do bet
ter If you preached with notes?"
Undoubtedly would If they were
five or ten-dollar s."-Philadel-
phia Press.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
Force of Habit.

"Have you no regret?" we asked of
the druggist who had served arsenic
instead of quinine.
NO" he replied, "but have some
thing just as good"
However, he we'll knew that we ex-
pected him to say this, else why
would we have written the first ques-
ton Baltimore American.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
convincing proof that I

der are out of order.
What to Do.
There is comfort in the knowledge so
often expressed, that DR.. Kmer's Swamp
Root, the great kidney remedy fulfills every
wish in curing rheumatism, pain in the
back, kidneys, liver, bladder and every part
OF the urinary passage. 1t corrects inability
to hold water and scalding pain in passing
1t, or bad effects following use of liquor,
wine or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant
necessity of being compelled to 20 often
during the day, and to get up many times
during the night. The mild and the extra
ordinary effect of Swamp.Root is soon
realized. 1t stands the highest for its won
derful cures of the most distressing cases.
II you need medicine you should have the
best. Sold by druggists in SOC. and ST. sizes.
You may have sample bottle Of this
wonderful discovery Et
and book that tells zs%"$sssa
more aboutit, both sent F!:a;;i
absolutely free by mail, ssaslses MeE@
address DR.. Kimer & Home of swampRoos.
Co., Binghamton, N. Y. When writing men
ton reading this generous offer in this paper.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06

nary food do its
duty.
This picture represents
the Trade Mark of SCOTS
Emulsion and is on the
wrapper of every bottle.
Send for free sample.
SCOTT & BOVINE,
4oe Pearl ST., New York.
soc and 81. all druggists.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
One are Plus 80 for the Round Trip.

Is the rate the Norther Pacific will
make to western points reached via
its line on account of Home-SeekerS
excursions. Selling dates will be Oct.
18th, Nov. 9TH and 10Th and Dec. 3rd
aud 18th. For further information
write G. d. ROGERS, d. P, N. p. r.
No. SOB Locust ST., Des Moines, Ia,
or address CHAs S. FEE, G.. P. g. T..
A., N. P. r., st. Paul, MINI. dec Is
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06

sediment or set
Ting indicates an
unhealthy condi-
ton of the kid
neys; If 1t stains
your linen 1t is
evidence of kid
ney trouble; too
frequent desire to
pass 1t or pain in
the back is also
G;Jpa,y, arJ h,al
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06

Poor complexion is usually the re-
suit of torpid liver or irregularity of
the bowels. DeWitt's Little Early
Risers stimulate the liver. Promote
regular action of the bowels. Never
distress. -Shuttleworth Drug Go.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
Thousands Have Kidney Trouble
and Don't Know It.
How TO Find Out.

Fill bottle or common glass with your
water and let it stand twenty-four hours; q
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
Piles! Piles! PiIes!:

Dr. Williams India1 Pile Ointment
will cure Blind, Bleeding, Ulcerastd
and Itching Piles. T. ahsorbs the
sumors, aliays the itching at once,
acts as pouitice, give; Instant reAet.
Dr. Williams Indian Pile Ointment
is prepared only Tor lilies and itching
~ t:M private paris, &Aa 40 lhlnG else.
Every box is eutirtil Ted. SGld bV
ii W per box. WILLIAMS -..'E'G %.
Props Cleveland, 0hio Fer sale by
Shnttiewortti DING ca. 9Tv1
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
Gaod Iu.L
"Your friend p,,,h,..

Your friend Bumhunter was out
cunning again to-day"
Yes, and he had great luck"
Nonsense! he didn't bag thing"
! Know. but the last time he was
out he bagged adelphia
Press.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
The Obvious Remedy.

"If there is such a thing as a
towel trust" reared the shaggy.
haired boarder, sit ought to be
or,chediS
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06

Wouldn't it be better" suggested
the dyspeptic boarder, ito wipe it
out3"-Chieago Tribune.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06

ITO be Continued
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1901-07-09
DRAINS AND SANITATION.
ways and Means Of Caring for the
Public health.

Public health.
The basis of knowledge on which
sanitation rests is furnished by the
observation of facts on a large scale
as they occur in actual life, says the
Contemporary Review. Its aim has
been the removal Of conditions which
experience has shown to be favorable
to the propagation and spread Of dis
ease, and the substitution of other
conditions In general this means the
removal Of what we call dirt. Hence
we get the publication Of the ground
by drainage, by refuse disposal, by
imperyious paving, and so on; the
publication Of drinking water by sub
sidence and filtration, or by having
recourse to unpolluted sources, deep
wells and springs; the publication of
food stuffs by inspection, and the de-
struction of unwholesome articles;
the publication Of the air by ventil.
lation and regulations as to space;
the publication of rivers by the diver
sion Of polluting materials, and SO
on. Such was the line ofactivity, the
aim being the improvement Of the
general conditions Of life. 1t acts in
two ways; it removes those agencies
by which disease is fostered and
spread and it promotes health, there
by rendering individuals less suscep-
tible to such risks as they may en-
counter Another measure must be
added, of a different character
namely, the segregation of the sick
as centers of Infection; hence isola-
ton, hospitals. Bpt this movement
was carried a very little way during
the first period, its development be-
longs to the second, Of which it is
a very important feature Twenty
years ago isolation hardly existed
nobody went to the fever hospitals
there were scarcely any to go to: and
the only infectious disease not re-
ceived and treated in the general hos.
pital was smallpox.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1901-07-09
COUQn, Cough,

Night and day, until the strength IS
entirely exhausted, and that dreaded
word CoRSnmbfiONp begins to be wills
pered among friends. That's a common
story, familiar to the people of every
town and village.
There's another story which ought to
be as widely known as the story OF dis
ease, and that is the story of the cures
effected by the use of Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. Bronchitis, asthma,
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of the lungs, and other forms of disease
which affect the respiratory organs are
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Medical Discovery"
oOnlv for DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
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writes Mr. Moses Miles, Of billiard, Uinta Co..
wyoming III had asthma 50 bad could not
sleep at night and was compelled to give up
work It affected my lungs so that coughed
ali the time, both night and day. My friends
all thought / had consumption. My wife in
sisted on my trviug Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery Il which l did I have taken four
bottles aud am now a we'll man. weighing 1855
pounds. thanks to DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery"
Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
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to pay expense Of mailing 0HiY. Send Fl
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