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The Florida star., 1902-01-24

urine scalds the flesh or if. when the child
reaches an age when il should be able 70
control the passage. it is yet afflicted with
bed-wetting. depend upon II. the cause ct
the difficulty is kidney trouble, and the first
step should be towards the treatment Of
these important organs. This unpleasant
trouble is due to diseased condition Of the
kidneys and bladder and not to a habit as
most people suppose.
Women as well as men are made mis-
cradle with kidney and bladder trouble.
and both need the same great remedy.
The mild and the immediate effect Of
Swamp-Root is soon realized Il IS sold
by druggists, in fifty EE
cent and one dollar Ess1k1 -
sizes. You may have q s. ,-.zll -
sample bottle by mail FL =el53ess s-.ssizsskss
free. also pamphlet tell Home Of swamp. Rect
ing all about it. including many Of the
thousands of testimonial letters received
from sufferers cured. In writing Or. kil1eF
& Co.. Binghamton. N. Y, be sure and
mention this paper.
The Florida star., 1902-01-24

n. jackson, Danville. III writes: "Mv
daughter had a severe attack of II grippe
and terrible cough settled on her lungs
We tried great many remedies without
giving relief She tried Folev's Honey
and Tar. which cured her. She has new
er been troubled with cough since"
Wilson < Son.
The Florida star., 1902-01-24
New Line a Certainty.

New Decatur, Ala, Jan. 1O.-That
the Decatur. Danville and Southwest
ern railroad will be built at an early
date is now an assured fact. The work
OF continuation will commence within
the next few weeks and will be push
ed to completion. The Decaturs have
complied with all the requests for
donations made by the railroad people.
which were s2.5U0 in cash, the right
of way to the Lawrence county line
And terminal facilities in this city.
The Florida star., 1902-01-24
COUNTY DIRECTORY.

COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD. NJ. Dixon
Trtusville; r. N. Andrews. Cocoa; G. p
Platts Fort Pierce
The Florida star., 1902-01-24

by druggists, IN tltty-
cent and one dollar
sizes. You may have a
sample bottle by mail
free. also paTnphlet tell
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-12
Teachers OF Moral Duties.

Do clergymen and Sunday school
teachers make the best use of their
opportunities? Are they constantly in
gear with that which is best for man
kind in this swirl of modern advance,
or do they waste portion of their
time in endeavors to explain the my TIL
illogical stories of the past? These
are questions which have doubtless
suggested themselves to the minds OF
many. The vulgarity Of i'll temper,
the vice of quarrelsomeness, the dis
grace of dishonesty and injustice, the
virtue Of self-control, the nobility OF
forgiveness, the desirability Of court.
egy and kindness and other themes
kindred to these furnish field fol
moral instructors which can never b.
oVerworked. Work in this field pro
notes culture, morality and true re
Bpectability. 1t helps to make home.
happier, helps to do away with al
forms of wretchedness, infamy, ant
immorality.-M Manchester Dem.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-12
Food Prices and Politics.

The medium-clasS restaurants and
hotels have felt obliged to raise their
prices for food. One Of the proprietors
explains to reporter that sit is a
case of put up prices or shutup shop. ="
He says that during the last five years
about the era of mckinley pros
perity"-food prices have advanced
80 per cent, and SO per cent. of this
has been scored since last January"
Every hlsekeeper who is obliged to
take account OF expenses is conscious
of an increase in the cost Of living,
without (in the great majority OF
cases. any compromising increase in
wages or salary.
If this state of things shall continue
until the fall election-and there are
no signs Of an abatementof the troub-
Lett will very possibly effect the vot-
ing seriously for the party in power.
The farmers and the trusts may be
satisfied with prosperity" but how
about the conSumers-who outnum.
Der them many times.
When the republican party was de
feated after the rise in prices due tt
the Mckinley tariff Mr.. Blaine said
SIT was the shopping women who did
it," May not the dining men and the
billpayipg housewives edo some thing
this year?-N. Y. World.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-12
The Republican Platform.
tManchester Democrat.]

The platform adopted by the Iowa
republicans, at their state convention
last month, is in some respects, an adj
mirable statement of democratic prin-
ciples, and singing rebuke to most
of the republican delegation in con-
gress.
This plank for example:
We favor such amendments to the
Interstate commerce act as will more
fully carry out its prohibition of dis
elimination in rate-making, and any
modification of the tariff scheduled
that may be required to prevent their
atfording shelter to monopoly.
Verify the republicans of Iowa are
beginning to get their eyes open. This
shelter to monopoly" plank was not
alone adopted, but its presentation by
the platform committee was greeted
by generous applause.
For the past ten years or more the
democrats in and out of congress have
been contending, that the tariff sched-
uleS should be 50 revised as to prevent
their use by trusts as shelter for
their eXtorGl0ns. And during all these
years the republican party, and espec-
tally the congressman from Iowa,
have been accepting enormous CAM
paign contributions from the trusts
aud tariff benefciaries, and working
increasingly to keep the prohibitive
tariff wall as high as possible and pre-
vent its revision for any purpose.
1t is not to be wondered that the
Iowa congressional delegation felt
furious over the rplatform, for it re-
fleets Upon their record in more re-
spects than one.
Congressman Cousins probably spoke
the sentiments of the whole delega-
tion when he said:
"This platform is a dirty, lousy lie,
fabricated by lot of trucking, tenn
PORTING hypocrites, and II be preach
Ing the doctrines of true republican
lam when the pansy is growing over
their grave. III support the ticket
and make some speeches, bus | want
everyone to know where stand"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-12
THE COST OF IRRIGATION.
Immense Sums Expended by Eng
land in Africa and India
for That Purpose.

Those who look forward to the con-
troll of the great rivers of America and
the use of funds supplied by the gov
eminent for that purpose point to the
fact that England has spent about
s3o, 100000 on the new Nile dams ana
other works for controlling the great
Egyptian river and making certain
the crops of the valley below, and that
she has invested the sum of $500, 100000
for irrigation purposes in India dur
ing the last 80 years, says Ray stannard
Baker, in Century. a single canal
from the Ganges cost s15,0oo,ooo; ~
has total length, including trios-
taTies and drainage cuts, OF 1910 miles,
and irrigates over 100000 acres OF
land. These works in India, costly
and stupendous as they have been, are
regarded by the English as profit
able investments. There are 6,O0O,OOO
ucres of land under cultivation in the
valley of the Nile. supporting popula'
ton of over 100000 people. Mr.. Ell
wood Mead, an irrigation expert OF the
United States government, estimates
that the Missouri river and its tribu
taries, if properly controlled, will It'll
gate five times as much territory, fur
nishing an opportunity for the expan
sion of surplus population that vii
last the American people for Ions
time to come. No, these westerners dt
not believe in the necessity of foreign
islands as an outlet for American col
onization; they point rather to thei
own expanses of unclaimed, cheap, ricf
land in climate that is nearly perfect
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-12
PRESS COMMENTS.

So far no apologist for the
Philippine policy of coercion and
cruelty has answered the speech of
Senator Hoar. 1t is invulnerable be-
cause it is true.-N. Y. World.
The Cuban reciprocity measure
could be brought in home with sac
rifice hit on tariff revision, but that
strike the republicans are unwilling
to malie.-Indianap News Ind.)
The Philadelphia Press re-
marks that "the democratic party is
having whole lot of trouble to get
an issue that will keep over night"
Perhaps this is a mere ruse to get the
democrats to show their hand. The
democrats are not in power now, and
it is not incumbent on them to come
forward with issues. Their present
business is, rather, to poster the Re.
publicans about what they have on
their hands. 1t is the party in power
which just now, has to make good
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Having bought the Philippines
from Spain for 100000 Q-with an ip>
surrection thrown in-ittnow appears
that we are likewise to buy up the
real estate holdings of the religious
orders in the islands. Just when We
shall get through paying for prop
erty which is already netting us a
loss of perhaps $5o,ooo,UUo per year
Is question which is eventually gu-
ing to interest the taxpayer, whether
his sympathies be i1nprrialistic OF
otherwise Chicago Chronicle.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-12
COST AND PROSPERITY.
Benefits Which Are Realized Mainly
by Members of Trusts and
Monopolies.

The great prosperity of the country
rebounds most to the benefit of trust
proprietors, the manufacturers who
are combined in trusts with a tariff
which gives them vast profits on their
products and to corporations trans
acting business in violation of the ma
tional and state antitrust laws. The
prosperity is abundant, but it is con-
fined to few, says the Chicago Chzom-
cle.
The great mass of the people OF the
country live on stated wages. All the
money earned by the vast majority
comes to them as wages and salaries
which cannot be advanced as the cost
of living increases day by day.
The result is obvious. The man liv-
ing on his salary or wages finds his
daily expenses for himself and family
much greater than formerly, while his
wages or salary remains about the
same. The men living on fixed wages
and they compose nine-tenths of the
male population-have no share IN the
national prosperity.
On the contrary, they ere worse of
relatively than they were before the
tidal wave of prosperity swept ove3
the country. The cost of living-ths
daily expenses of life in every home
can be stated at an average Of 25 per
cent. more than the cost before pros
perity arrived. Every householder can
estimate for himself the harvest Of
prosperity which he has gathered.
90
that have not advanced at least 10 per
cent. in cost within two years. Many
of the, neeessaries of life have adj
xantett~4O or so per cent IN cost. Some
necessaries have advanced from 90 to
80 per cent. The average is at least IS
per cent.
Therehas been no corresponding in
crease In the amounts received by any
wage earners in the country. The
monopolized the harvest of prosperity
None of the fruits goes to the common
everyday citizen trying to live on his
| earnings, which are the same as they
were before we had our prosperity"
| 1t is true that there are few or no
idle men. Our prosperity has given
employment to many thousands who
had been unable for years to obtain
| a livelihood by labor which they were
willing and anxious to perform. In
| that respect our prosperity has been
| of benefit to others aside from mem
bers of the trusts and combines.
But that is its limit. While it has
given means for livelihood to many
thousands who before it came were
idle it has not increased the means Of
livelihood enjoyed by those who had
not been idle. On the contrary while
not increasing their pay and wages it
has increased by at least one-quarter
all the expenses of their homes and
methods of life
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-12
To NV Friends.

1t is with JOY / tell you what Kodol
did for me. l was troubled with my
stomach for several months. Upon be.
ing advised to use Kodol, l did SO, and
words cannot tell the good it has done
me. A neighbor had dyspepsia so that
he had trisd most every thing. I told
him to use Kodol. Words of gratitude
have coma to me from him because /
recommended it.-Geo. w. Fry, Viola
Iowa. Health and strength, Of mind
and body, depend on the stomach, and
normal activity Of the digestive or
gans Kodol, the grcat reconBtructive
tonic, cures all stomach and bowel
troubles, indigestion, dyspepsia. Ko-
dol digests any good food you eat.
Take = dose after mealS.-Shuttle-
worth Drug Co.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-12
Coal Over 81 a Ton and Beef at
Famine Prices.

Seven dollars and quarter ton
for hard coal, and the Winters de-
mand in prospect, with a practical
certainty that the price willgo higher
yet. and still the Coal Trust says it
has nothing to arbitrate with its
striking e1nyloyeSi
This means higher prices for manu-
featured articles, higher rent for the
dwel}ers in heated flats, and larger
coal bills for the rest Of the jewellers
in cities and larger gas bills for all.
With the Food Trust holding up
the price Of meat, with no more care
for injunctions than the complaints
of it's victims, the share of the poor
in the wlde-heralded prosperity OF the
time is certainly not conspicuous.
Congress, if there had been anything
more than sound in the Republican
anti trust declarations, could have
forced the Food Trust to lower the
price OF meat by simple threat te
take of the duty on beef, mutton
pork and veal.
Attorney General Knox, If he had
enforced the law against the railroads
which are combined against the fed
eral law and which mine coal, which I:
forbidden by their charters, coule
have broken down the potent con
solidation that SAYS the the coal bust
ness is no concern of the public, ant
with competition once more estab
lished in the coal fields the strike
would soon be settled, for it is only
the massed power of the trust tina
would essay the destruction Of Min
ers' Union.
These are things to think Of whel
the people pay their rent, gas, foo
and coal bills-and likewise when the
vote.-Chicago American.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-12
Use Aliens Foot-Rase,

powder to be shaken into the shoes.
Your feet feel swollen, nervous and
hot, and get tired easily. II you have
smarting feet or tight shoes, try
Aliens Foot-Ease. 1t cools the fee t,
and makes walking easy. Cures
swollen, sweating feet, ingrowing nails
blisters and callous spots. Relieves
corns and bunionS of all pain and gives
rest and comfort. Try itto-day. Sold
by all druggists and shoe stores fol
25c. Don't accept any substitute
Trial package FREE. Address Aller
S. OlmSted, Lie Roy, n. Y.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-12
ANecsssarx Prscaution.

Don't neglect a cold. 1t is worse
than unpleasant. 1t is dangerous. BY
using One Minute Cough Cure you can
euro it at once. Allays inflammation,
clears the head, soothcs and Streagth-
ems the mucous membrane. Cures
coughs, Group, throat and lung troub-
les. Absolutely safe. Acts Immediate
ly. Children like it.-Shuttleworth
Drug Co,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-12
II Nssds a Tonic.

There are times when your liver
needs tonic, Don't give purgatives
that grippe and weaken. DeWitt's Lit
tie E1rly Risers e1pal all poison from
the system and act rs a tonic TO the
liver. w. Scott, 5sl Highland ave-,
Milton, Pa, says: 81 have carried De-
Wits Little Early Risers with me
for several years and would not be
without them" Small and easy to
take. Purely vegetable. They never
grippe or distress. -Shuttleworth Drug
o.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-12
straight
Easy on the Eye.

A Russian specialist has decided that,
contrary to the general opinion, cleo
trio light plays less havoc with the eyes
than other forms of artificial light. He
bases his deductions on the fact that
disease and damage to the eye is pro-
portioned to the frequency of the
closure of the lids. He found that the
lids close in minute G.s times with
candle light, 2.s with gas light, 80 times
with sunlight and 1.s times with eIec-
trio light.-Science.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-12
Homo Seekers Excursions

Homeseekers tickets to nearly all
points on sale at low rates by Chicago
Great Western Railway on first and
third Tuesdays Of each month, June
to October inclusive. For particulars
apply to any Great Western Agent, or
]. P. Elmer, G.. P. A., Chicago. oct
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-12
WanfedI

100 horses years and upwards,
weighing 1000 pounds and upwards,
for the Eastern markets. Will be at
summer. 5svf Il ANrEHssuN.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-12
HAND KISSING LEAGUE.
An Extraordinary Organization Rec
Gently Formed by Partisan
Exquisites.

Some Partisan exquisites Of both
sexes have just formed the "hand-
kissing league" Men belonging to it
vow never to shake, or even squeeze,
a woman's hand. In lieu of that form
of salute they imprint light kiss on
her fingers or her wrist. Women be-
longing to the league bind themselves
to cut any man refusing to discard
what our neighbors call "le shake
hand" in favor of the dainty and
daintily named sic baise-main."
The new association, reports Lon
don paper, is framing code of hand
kissing. This will define various
forms of "baise-main," and will
specify under what particular circum-
stances each is to be employed. 1t ia
already decided that the slight touch.
ing of the tips of two fingers of a
feminine hand by mans lips is the
most frigid form of the greeting,
while the kiss on the wrist is a priv
lege of intimacy.
Intermediate usages are the oscula-
tory salute on the knuckles, on the
back, and on the palm Of the hand
The last named form, which is some
what of an innovation, obviously re-
quires the exercise of dexterity by
the lady if she does not want to look
awkward during he performance.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-12
Avoid Fraudulent limitations /.

Use the genuine Russ Bleaching
Blue and preserve your clothes. All
grocers, LOG.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-12
"I Am So SORRY"

"a child came to her father yesterday.
Wet-eyed and trembling-npped. yet un-
afraid,
AND pardon for some wrong deed swssty
prayed.
II am SO sorry" low l heard her say:
FEATHER. did not mean to disobey."
Quick the sorrowful father bent and
smiled,
And drew her to his breast. Then. recon
ctled,
The little girl went singing on her way
So. dearest Father, I-so old In years
Add yet child. in that blindly do
Wrong deeds that hurt and grieye you
every day
Come. unafraid, yettrembling and h tearst
II am SO sorry have troubled you!
Father, did not mean to disobey."
ELLA Higg!nson, In Womans Home Com
DaDinp
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-12
Don't Take any Chances

Russ Bleaching Blue does the best
work. Ali good grocers. LOG. Avoid
cheap limitations.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-12
Democratic State Convention.

DGFlQCi GbgG - sdLS ~otlSSiiAsSti'
y delegate convention OF the Democrats CT
the state of IOWA Will be held at Des Moines,
iowa, On
WEDNESDAY, September 3, 1909,
to place in nomination candidates TOE the
following offices, to-wft:
Secretary OF State, Auditor OF State, treasurer
of State, Attorney General, Judge OF Supreme
Court, Clerk of Supreme Court, Reporter of su.
preme Court, Railroad Commissioner and to
transact such Other business as may properly
come before said convention.
The ratio OF representation will be one dele
gate-at-large from each county and one delegate
for each 800 votes or fraction of 100 or over cast
for the Democratic candidate for Governor al
the last general election The several counties
of this district viii be entitled TO the following
delegates:
FOURTH DISTRICT:
acknowledgements Floyd .......... ......s
Celro Gordo. .........3 Howard. ..............1
Chickasaw. Mtchell................3
(naytou .,,,.l2 Winneshiek ............s
Eayetse.. Worth ............"... x
ali voters VINO endorse the principles OF the
Democratic party are invited to participate il
the selection of delegates to this convention
BY order OF Committee.
n, O. RoBERPs, s. y. MCCONNELL
Secretary. Chairman.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-12

y delegate convention Of the Democrats ct
the state of IOWA Will be held at Des Moines,
IOWA. On
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-03-20
SOLDIERS BREAD.
The Terrible Time Some English
Troopers in South Africa Have
in Making Up a Batch.

A trooper in service in South Africa
says that at one time on the march
the biscuits gave out, and the soldiers
were served with -four, says Youths
Companion.
What job we had baking it! Four
of us generally put our -four together,
and took turns in cooking.
"You've got it too wet" one would
say. Far too wet.
sit would taste just as well,' said
another. "if you dispensed with some
of the dirt you're mixing with it."
There came arguments about the
heat of the fire.
"It's too hot!"
Its not hot enough"
"You must put ashes on the top
first"
After the paste was baked it looked
like a piece of hardened mud. If any
cf us had eaten the same thing at
home. it would have stopped every
working organ in our bodies. Perhaps
the outdoor life gave US an ability
to digest anything.
Some of the fellows who could not
find any fat to anoint the bal of dough
used the dublin we had for cleaning
our saddles. If we baked a big cake,
to last for three or four DAYS. we had
nothing large enough to carry it In
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-03-20
&c uoME WHERE LOVE ADDE'S.

,,ssed rich mans mansion looked IN
at the door, "
bounteous store;
ay the silver cleaning, saw the cut
glass shine,
:, > mehow, there was not a wish that
all of that was mine.
MARC sat the rich mans family; and he
| was at the head;
a, servants stood like sentinels, to see
that all were fed,
e,urse of this, a course of that, and
everything was fine,
| La for each course there seemed to be
different kind of wine.
The rich mans wife, in silken gown and
Jewels In her hair,
Ike some most proud and naughty queen
In regal state was there.
-bs children did not dare to smile, in
silence lips were set
Il xas a scene of splenGor pride, Of wealth
and-etiquette.
Ipassed poor mans cottage, I looked in.
and my eyes
/ psheld an humble bit of home that
spoke of Paradise.
I saw a happy father with laughter on
/ his face,
While pleasure and contentment were
all about the place.
kind-faced little mother, with baby on
her knee;
i group of merry children who loved to
show their glee;
Enough of food to satisfy. well-earned and
theirs by right.
And labor's recompense of zest to sweeten
appetite.
No wine but sparkling water; no servants
standing by
But That's the feast that I would share,
| had l my choice said 1,
For home is where your loved ones are
| and where that love is shown,
Though you have but days supply-each
day supplies its own.
so in the rich mans mansion, or in the
poor mans cot,
/ The rich are those whom love endows, the
poor who have it not.
looked into the palace, my heart it could
not win,
But when l saw the cottage l longed to
enter in.
Arthur Lewis Tubbs. in Rams Horn.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-03-20
Base Use for Wagner's Letters.

Autograph letters of Wagner have
been discovered in use as jam-pot COW
ers. A German journalist found them
at the house of two maiden ladies, sis
ters of a musician long since deceased,
who had formerly been in intimate
correspondence with the author Of
"Parsifal." The ladies were exhibiting
to him with much pride their cup
boards full of jam, when the journalist
saw some writing on the covers which
he recognized as that of Wagner. The
superior thickness of the paper, which
almost resembles parchment, had sup
piled the reason for its applica ton to
this domestic use.-Figaro.