Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-16
It is crime to play progressive
euchre in Georgia. So holds grave

AS consequence there is consterna-
tion among the votaries of the right
and left bower, reports special to the
st. Louis Republic. Judge Fite makes
no distinction between the ladies and
gentlemen who, attired in the height
OF Georgia fashion, meetin their draw
ing-rooms and pass pleasant evening
at euchre, and the dropping mustached
habitues of the "poker joint" in diff
1erent part of the town. playing
euehre for prizes is crime 'malum
prohibitum,' to give the. legal phrase
ology," says Judge Fite. "In addition
to that, it is moral crime. / intend
to break up the practice, SO far as my
influence extends" In pursuance of
this policy, Judge Fite is playing no
favorites." He has called all his per-
sonal friends around him and re-
marked that they mustn't play euchre
Tor prizes. He has instructed the grand
jury to be unremitting in it's investI-
cations, and to return true bills against
all persons found playing at the pro-
hibited game. He says he can find no
legal precedent for suppressing gam
ping in one form and allowing it to
flourish in different guise. This stu
alton will strike most New Yorkers as
bordering on the comic operatic. When
Manhattan man hears euchre men.
toned, he involuntarily thinks of
Brooklyn and associates it in his mind
with perambulators and churches and
weak lemonade and lights out at II,
bus he never thinks Of it as q really
naughty diversion.
This is what a young lady IL reported
IN the Magazine of Mysteries recently
to have said, apropos of marriage:
well. no, don't know if would
marry for money alone; but If man
had plenty of money, allied to sweet
disposition, and a mustache that curled
at both ends, and nice blue eyes, and
social disposition; if he had distin-
gu1shed status in a profession, OF even
as merchant, and his father was rich
and his mother and sisters aristocrat-
&c, and he wanted to marry me, and he
would promise to let me have my own
way in everything, and keep me liber-
ally supplied with money, and have
sPlendidly furnished town house and
handsome country residence, was lib
eral about diamonds and other gems,
also about the milliner, never grum.
bling, and really and truly loved him,
shouldn't consider marriage draw
back"
The charge made by a Chicago profes-
sor against the American girl that she
takes all from father OF brother, CIV
ing nothing in return, is likely to
meet with some contradiction. The
man OF learning either forgets or never
knew what wealth Of Brightness and
cheer the American girl dspenses on
her way through life, how her sym.
pathy and help is so often above any
price. The inference to be drawn from
the professors remarks, says the Bal
timore American, is that either he is
entirely ignorant of women and their
ways OF he is suffering from a disap-
pointment in love OF indigestion.
The latest fad of critics. the New
York Press says, is to rebel against the
ames OF months. They point out that
it is absurd for Europeans and Amer
leans of to-day to dedicate one-sixth
OF the year to the memory of julius
Caesar and Augustus, to name third
after heather gods and goddesses two
nave two months of doubtful nomeu-
clature, and to designate the remain
ing four by misleading numerals, Sep
tember being obviously ninth and not
seventh in order.
just about the time when the peonle
OF New Jersey have exterminated the
mosquitoes in response to the advice
OF the scientific sharps, remarks a
Pittsburgh contemporary, some other
scientific sharp will rise up and tell
them that the mosquitoes are among
mans best friends, and they will be
compelled to import the creatures and
start hatcheries.
A musician in New York asserts
that not only animals but plants have
passion for sweet music. and Bos-
tonian musician AYERS that when he
plays harmonies his sensitive plant
stretches abroad drinking in the mu-
sic like sunshine" If, on the other
hand, he strikes discord, the plant
trembles and closes.
A Baltimore man convicted on a
charge of having willfully neglected
to supply dumb animal-a horse
with the necessaries of life" and SEN
fenced to pay the costs, told the
Judge that he might have the horse
for the fine, but the magistrate in
sisted upon getting the money, $1.45.
The prize fish story comes from
Hodgenville, Ky. 1t is related that
thousands of pounds of fish have been
floating down the Rolling, Fork river
at that place during the past few days,
and in explanation it is stated that the
river being out of its banks flows
through the stock pens of the distil-
lery, and carries the debris from the
whisky mash into the water, where it
intoxicates the fish. Catfish weighing
as high as rs pounds were taken from
the river in helpless condition, and