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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-22
TH1sTLEs AS A CROP.
Russian Variety Makes Good Hay
Tlourished as a Pest But Is
Dying Ont Now.

F. d. Cobhrn, secretary OF the Kan
sas board Of agriculture, issued bulle-
tin two years ago in which he declared
that the Russian thistle. when properly
cured, made excellent feed for stock.
Since then the thistle has ceased to
grow wild in the northwestern part of
the state, where 1t was most plentiful at
that time. In many counties where 1t
was common . few years ago 1t has be-
come extinct, says the New York Her
aid.
The Russian thistle few years ago
was the most dreaded weed pest known
to farmers. It was said that II 1t once
started 1t would drive out all the other
vegetables. Notwithstanding all pre-
cautions, the seed was brought into
northwestern Kansas with other seed
and the plant gained arm foothold in
several counties.
The papers printed columns about the
necessity of uprooting 1t and the legis-
lature passed law on the subject, but
the thistle continued to thrive.
Then cattlemen In the northwest dis
covered that cattle ate 1t and they tried
putting some up as hay. The expert
ment was success, as the cattle would
eat It in preference to most other kinds
Of hay, and it produced good results.
Now 1t seems that the weed is dying out
since 1t has been discovered to have
merits.
A report from Wyoming says that an
attempt to cultivate the plant there
as forage crop was failure owing to
the wet season. 1t is said that in ordi-
nary years this weed can be raised in
large quantities on the Laramie plains
as 1t fiourishes only on extremely dry
ground.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-22
Dissimilar Views.

Stern Parent-Young man, 1 saw
you kissing my daughter as passed
the parlor door, and want you to
know that don't like it. What have
you to say about it?
Young Man-All I've got to say is
that you evidently don't know good
thing when you see it.-Cincinnati
ENQUIRER.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-22
Catarrh and HAY Fever.

Liquid Cream Balm is becoming quite
as popular in many localities as Ely Is
Cream Balm solid. 1T is prepared for
use in atomizars, and is highly priced
by those VINO have been accustomed
to call upon physicians for such =
treatment. Many physicians are US
ing and prescribir Z it. All the medic
inal properties of the celebrated Cream
Balm are contalned in the Liquid
form, which is IS cts. including a
spraying tnbe. All druggists, or by
mail. Ely Brothers, Sc Warren ST.,
New York.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-22

urine scalds the flesh or if. when the child
reaches an age when it should be able to
control the passage, it is yet afflicted with
ped-wetting. depend Upon it. the cause Of
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 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. Ii is sold
:: &: =; :: e 81: !: E: #:
free, also pamphlet tell Homo Of swaupRoos.
ing all about it. including many Of the
thousands of testimonial letters received
from sufferers cured. In writing DR.. Kilmer
& Co.. Binghamton. N. r.. be sure and
mention this paper.
Don't make any mistake, but re-
member The name, Swamp-Root, DR..
kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the ad,
dress, Binghamtop, N. Y, on every
bottle.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-22
POTATO CULT IN ENGLAND.
ed to Encourage Cultivation of
Only the Hest Varieties.


There are nearly 100000 potato eat
ers in the British Isles, and the majority
of them do not get the full value out OF
the tuber because of bad cooking and the
culture of bad varieties, says the London
Mail.
This year has seen remarkable re-
crudescence of the attempt to produce
perfect English variety. 1t has been
successful in at least three new sorts,
and their disease-resisting power, their
great fruitfulness and their eating quail
tiles have led to extravagant prices be-
ing paid for single tubers-prices which
range from $500 to $4,000 ton. These
are, of course, seed growers prices. The
prolific nature of the new varieties will
make them available to most growers
next season, and then will follow the
usual deterioration due to careless cul-
ture and the variation of soil.
The suggestion has been made, how
ever, that now is a fitting time for the
formation of national potato society
to further the cult of the potato. A
central council will be formed for Lon
don, with the county committees, whose
duties will be to conduct trials of new or
not generally known varieties. Coupled
with this will be systematic and prac-
tical endeavor to secure for consumers
a steady supply Of the best potatoes
grown in the kingdom.
The Gardener is leading the movement
on the subject, and there is every pros
| pect of the society becoming a tangible
benefit to growers and consumers. What
is even more urgently needed, however.
is an association to impress upon house
wives the fact that potatoes are tenn
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-22
Artincia1ly Produced Pearls.

1t is thought that pearls may be pro.
duced by the incubation of mother-of-
pearl with serum distilled from a para
site. This is the theory Of Prof. Dubois,
of Paris. His researches confirm the
conception that the pearl disease Of the
oyster shell is due to the secretion of
mother-of-pearl under parasitic action,
and that the disease can be communicate
ed to oysters of similar genus living
under like conditions. The professor
says he has produced one OF more pearls
from every ten oysters.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-22
Feminine Ioric

II just know that my new dress
does not look at all neat or stylish. !"
said Mrs. Wedderly.
why do you think that, my dear?"
replied the bill-footer of the combine.
Because it's too comfortable" re-
piled Mrs W.-Cincinnau ENQUIRER.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-22
The administration organs ar

The administration organs are
now assuring themselves that Mr.. Han
ma wouldn't do such a thing.-Bing-
hamton IN. ~ Leader.
Foraker has moved over to the
republican side Of the senate. The En-
quirer has always suspected that this
man was not really and truly" dem
ocrat.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The situation on the isthmus-
the hasty and suspicious recognition
Of revolutionary government, and
the rumors for months back that the
administration was behind the plots Of
the Panama secessionists-not only
warrant attention being given to the
protest Of Colombia, friendly repub-
lie, but will no doubt call for thor
oush and sweeping Investigation
Albany Areus.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-22

American Locomotives in Bavaria.
According to dispatches from Munich,
the locomotives which had been bought
in order to study the American system
of locomotive building have proved, be-
cause of their simplicity, their original
ity of constructionand their remarkable
locomotion for fast and freight trains.
most acceptable, especially as to dura-
bility and efficiency, and that up to this
time nothing has been discovered to war
rant a statement that, with the same
care bestowed upon them as upon the
Bavarian locomotives, the American To-
comotives would prove less durable than
those built abroad. Indeed, many of the
parts of construction have been found so
simple and practical that they will be
adopted in the construction of Bavarian
locomotives
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-22

peramental and require varying treat
ment in cooking. The reform Of res
taurants is apparently hopeless, be-
cause they treat the potato as vegeta-
BILE which can be cooked and kept hot
Indefinitely.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-22
Wcnt;,er-Eeaten

"Why do so many writer's use that
hackneyed phrase. the wea;her-beaten
farmer?'" said the young man who
reaIs novels.
II Dunno" answered Mr.. Corntossel
as he laid down the paper containing
the latest freshet news. "onless it's be-
cause the weather beats us out of SO
many crops. '-Washington Star.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-22
SCHOOLS FOR OYSTERS.
London Dealers Teach Bivalves to
Keep Their Shells Closed Ttght
When Out of the Water.

"A school for oysters" said dealer In
fish in London's great market for the
finny and crustacean tribes, lis an insti-
tuition that you would be positive could
not exist, for oysters are notorious TOR
their stupidity. 1t is, however, fact
that there are many oyster schools.
Years ago certain wise fish dealers dis
covered that if you take an oyster sud-
denly from its subaqueous bed it opens
its shell, wheTeupon the life-giving wa
ter inside it all escapes and the oyster
dies.
But if you expose an oyster to the air
gradually, lifting it out of the watersfor
a few minutes and then returning it
again, it gradually 1earns that to keep
its shell closed when out of the water
is the best thing for its health. These
investigators found that they ecould
take two oysters, one trained and one
unframed, and the trained oyster, keep
ing it's shell closed while out of the wa
ter, would live long time, while the I'M
trained one, opening it's shell, would die
in few hours. Therefore training
schools are in appearance nothing more
than reservoirs full of water. Oysters
are put in them and the water is
drained off and then returned again. 1t
is kept off for few minutes at first,
then for ten minutes, then for half an
hour, and so one. Oysters in these
schools learn that they will live longest
and keep healthiest out of water if they
keep the shells tight shut. AS soon as
they learn this their education is fin
ished."
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-22
Attractiye Adyerti.inr

Customer see you advertise bicy-
cles from ten cents to one hundred dol
lars.
Dealer-Yes, sir.
What kind Of bicycles do you sell
for ten cents?"
Candy ones. IN. Y. Weekly.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-22

and cheerfulness soon
disappear when the kid
neys are out Of order
or diseased.
Kidney trouble has
become so prevalent
that 1t is notuncommon
for a child to be born
afflicted with weak kid
neys. 1.-THE child urin-
akA~ 49, -fk az II
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-22
In Worldly Goods,

ut isn't every man that knows when
he Is we'll off,"
z mo; but lots Of us know that We are
not."-orspkiXa Life.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-22
KILLED by Wood Alcohol,

New York, Dec. 1.-two men were
found dead early Tuesday in fur
ntshed-room house here, death being
due to drinking wood alcohol. A third
man is in the hospital dying. and the
.ourth member Of the party, crazed by
the drink. has disappeared. The four
men, it was found. had been drinking
heavily for several days, their beverage
being mixture of wood alcohol and
cheap whisky.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-22
Women as Well as Men
Are Made Miserable by
Kidney Trouble.

Kidney trouble preys upon the mind, dis
courages and lessons ambition: beauty. vipor
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-22
Good Girl.

did you engage the cook, rear?"
said the young husband.
Eyes. did," replied the young
wife.
DO you think she's good cook?"
"She must be; she says she goes to
church twice every Sunday!"-Yon-
kers Statesman.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-22
Not Engaged.

Football Man-We would like to have
some music at our game this afternoon.
You are bandmaster, I believe. /.
Won Tooter-Yah, but mein musicians
hat struck. shust begin bracticing nit
news ones, und We gan blay only Won tune;
We'll, maybe that will do. What ia
It"
Shonny Get Your Hair Cut IN. Y.
Weekly.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-22

To Cure a Cold IN One Day.
Take Laxative Promo Quinine Tab.
let's. All druggists refund the none,
II 1T fails to cure E. w. Groves sig
nature is On each box. 25c.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-22

NOW Are Your Eiousysv
sess gsss: f Ess:.yS 81 u, e.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-02-28
THE MOUNTAIN,

6ehind the mountain the sun droops
Yet band OF his golden misty light,
Like the mountains grand, aerial crown.
he casts athwart of the purple height,
"nere the great pine forests are rich and
deep.
And the rocks are blue on the scarry
y mountain, sweet is the slow farewell
VI the summer day with its trailing
beam!
From the huge old trees where the fairies
dwell
To Toner vantage recedes the CLEAN;
While the dark blue shadow. serene and
Ascends thy breast with it's mantling fold
BY her green, dim curtains of dusk and
dew,
Away from the warm and festive light,
Earth bears thee back in the solemn blue
sne bears thee. o mountain, her pensive
child,
Through lonesome aeons her undefled!
And the tones of thy rivers are praying
God,
They murmur their chants of the deep
old time;
And sweet are the ferns of thy messy sod
AS when they sprang to the heat SUBJ
lime,
And thy brow Is trod by the rising stars
AS when 1t cleaned from the glacial bars.
The golden light from thy outmost pines
Is gathered home to immensity,
And thy calm, unwearied. eternal lines
Are darkly drawn on the rose-fushed
sky,
While forever past, and forever more,
With one deep longing thou dost adore!
Irene Putnam, in Youths Companion.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-02-28

ture, the weavers say. Already cur
tains are made of asbestos and cloth
manufactured from chalk, while a GER
tain spinner has an armchair covered
with soft and silky fabric of Titan
red which he wove toilsomely out of
a rock-red shell. The weaver, says the
Detroit Free Press, thus describes the
weaving: 81 threw ton of rock,
in Jumps as big as your head, into the
picker. The picker blades were dulled,
but the rocks were crushed and came
out good stock with staple an inch
long like asbestos. This fluffy stuff l
threw into my carding machine, and
first it become soft inch-thick rope,
then a harder quarter-inch Irvine, and
at this point my mule took it and
twisted it till it was an ordinary
thread, like that you see on spool of
cotton. Iwove it on hand loom then.
This little piece of cloth-it's IS inches
squares all got. It took ton Of
rock to make it. claim it is the first
cloth ever woven out of real rock in
the history of the world"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-02-28
Beaten by the CombinatiOn

'"They can get up combinations in
the west to beat the band" said a
Philadelphia drummer who had come
in off trip and had shortage to
explain.
'In a town in western Iowa I had a
difference of opinion with a landlord
and called him liar. He was a
deputy sheriff and he arrested me.
His brother was prosecuting attor-
ney and he was against me. The
Judge was his brother-in-law and he
tried the case.
81 said I'd take ten days in jail
sooner than pay the fine, but when
I came to be locked up the jailer said
to me: You'd better pay. Fm the
father-in-law of the judge and it will
be my duty to put you in cell with
a prisoner who's gone crazy and
wants to kill somebody
Il paid and was released" said the
drummer, "but I wanted revenge.
I went to the only lawyer in town
with reputation and stated my case
and asked him to take it.
eyes, he replied, but think how
it would look. I'm son-in-law to the
jailer.' Boston Globe.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-02-28
AN OWLS ODD FIGHT.
Sample of the Wonderful Stories That
Brighten Life in q Penn
aylYauia Town.

Story telling is favorite pastime
winter nights in a comfortable sitting
room of one of the taverns of Susque-
hanna, Pa, says the New York World.
Many of the yarns spun are wonders.
Here is sample:
AS Zach Chandler, Deep Hollow
wood-chopper, was out on Turks Hill
one day last fall in search of game, he
saw what he supposed to be two birds
sitting upon the limb of a red poplar
tree. Crouching and creeping ahead,
he hid behind a stump, when he saw
the objects above him were evidently
two white owls. The owls were fight
ing savagely for the possession of a
ground mouse which they had cap
tured in an adjoining field.
The struggle was lively and noisy.
For moment the mouse could be seen
in the bill of ON, bird, then in the
claws of the other. There were loud
boots and shrieks, and feathers fell
from the tree into the underbrush.
Fearing that the game would fly away
and escape, Chandler fred at the OBJ
ject and it came tumbling down.
Chandler rushed forward, and was
amazed to find but one owl, yet it
had two heads and four legs and feet.
There was but one body. The two
heads had been fighting for the posses
sion of the mouse.
The freak bird was badly riddled
by shot, but Chandler had sense
enough to know that he had a valuable
curiosity, and he worked faithfully to
save it, but it gave up the ghost the
next day. One head appeared to be
ifeless half an hour before the other
one died.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-02-28
DOG IS MANS BEST FRIEND.
Made the Point Of q Telling Speech
by Senator Vest in q Suit
for Damages.

In Missouri town a man brought
suit for 5000, claiming neighbor had
killed his dog, and he engaged Senator
Vest to plead his case, says the Atchi-
son Globe. The senator made the fol-
lowing speech:
Gentlemen of the Jury: The best
friend a man has in the world may
turn against him and become his enc
my. His son or daughter that he has
reared with loving care may prove
ungrateful. Those who are nearest
and dearest to us, those whom we trust
with our happiness and our good name
may become traitors to their faith.
The money that man hashe may lose.
1t flies away from him, perhaps, when
he needs it most. A mans reputation
may be sacrificed in a moment of ILL
considered action. The people who
are prone to fall on their knees to do
US honor when success is with us may
be the first to throw the stone Of mall
ice when failure settles it's cloud upon
our heads. The one absolutely I'M
selfish friend that man can have in
this selfish world, the one that never
deceives him, the one that never proves
ungrateful and treacherous, is his dog.
"a mans dog stands by him in pros
perity and in poverty, in health and
in sickness. He will sleep on the cold
ground, where the wintry wind blows
and the snow drives fercely, if only he
may be near his masters side. He
will kiss the hand that has no food
to offer. He will lick the wounds and
sores that come in encounter with the
roughness of the world. He guards the
sleep Of his pauper master as if he
were a prince. When all other friends
desert he remains. When riches take
wings and reputation falls to pieces
he is as constant in his love as the sun
in its journeys through the heavens.
If fortune drives the master forth an
outcast in the world, friendless and
homeless, the faithful dog asks no
higher privilege than that of accom-
panying, to guard against danger, to
fight against his enemies. and when
the last scene of all comes and when
death takes the master in it's embrace
and his body is laid away in the cold
ground, no matter if all other friends
pursue their way, there by the grave
side may be the noble dog be found,
his head between his paws, his eyes
sad but open in alert watchfulness,
faithful and true even in, death"
Then Mr.. Vest sat down. He had
spoken in a low voice, without ges-
ture. He made no reference to the
evidence or the merits of the case.
When he finished the judge and jury
were wiping their eyes. The jury filed
out, but soon returned with verdict
in favor of the plaintiff for $500. He
had sued for 5000. 1t is even said that
some of the jurors wanted to hang the
defendant. .E
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-02-28
NO SMOKING AT WHITE HOUSE.
Sign Has Been Posted in the ReceD-
ton Room Bearing the
Notice.

The average congressman who goes
busting around from department to
department is inclined to smoke where
he listeth and knock the ashes from
his cigar where he pleases, says the
Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Press. The practice is all
right for the ante-rooms OF cabinet
officers, but President Roosevelt
thought it should not be carried into
the white house reception room. So
he gave orders to Arthur Simmons,
the colored doorkeeper from North
Carolina, to request gentlemen not to
smoke. Arthur Simmons had num-
Der of strenuous interviews in carry
ing out his instructions. Southern
and western congressman were fire.
quently moved to consign Arthur to
a superheated climate for his pains.
Arthur is one of the pillars of the
church in colored circles, and he final
ly complained to Secretary Cortelyou
that it panied him to hear gentlemen
using such violent language. At his
request the "No Smoking Allowed"
sign has been posted in the reception
room, and when gentlemen come in
with lighted cigars Arthur merely
looks meaningly toward the sign.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-02-28
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

There are q boys for every 70 able
seamen in the British channel fleet.
Il never cross the street in front OF
any approaching vehicle except an
omnibus a Londoner recently re-
marked; sit is the only vehicle I can
trust to pull up and not go over my
body if should fall"
1t is estimated that two decades ago
the entire population of Eskimo lands
ALASKA, Labrador, Greenland) was
10000, but that it is now only $4,000.
owing to the determination of the
seal, walrus, polar bear and other
sources of food supply. 49,.
In the restaurants of Germany veni-
son is as cheap and as abundant as
beef. Great pains are taken to pre-
serve and improve the deer. 1t has
been found advantageous to cross
them with Siberian animals, and the
demand for these consequently far ex-
ceeds the supply.
The horse in a PEASANTS cart in the
south of France became FESTIVE on the
u a ACAoS, SAASS am vAAAAO
they were being quoted the menag-
erie elephant deity made away with
the peasants dinner, which it swal-
lowed in a single mouthful, serviette
and all; and now the elephants owner
is being proceeded against for theft.
The volcano of Santa Maria, which
recently created such havoc in Guate-
mala, was accessible from Quesalte-
mango, town of 10000 Inhabitants,
by means of a road which was cut
through deposits of birthstone that
were in some places 30 yards deep.
On the top of the volcano there was
a little chapel to which the Indians
used to make pilgrimages, and pray
to the Virgin Mary.
The excavations on the site of the
old Canaanite Hill fortress of Gezer,
near the road between Jaffa and
Jerusalem, which are being carried out
by Mr.. r. A. S. Macalister on behalf Of
the Palestine exploration fund, have
resulted in further important and
interesting discovery in the shape of
temple built for the goddess Astarte,
called by jeremiah "Queen of Heaven"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-02-28
Feilea.

A Fayette woman suspected that
her husband was in the habit of kiss
ing the hired girl, and resolved to de-
tect him in the act, One Saturday
night she saw him pass quietly into
the kitchen. The hired girl was out,
and the kitchen was dark. The ieal-
our wife took a few matches in her
hand, and, hastily placing shawl over
her head, as the hired girl often did,
entered the back door, and Immediate
ly she was seized ard kissed and en-.
braced in an ardent manner. With
heart almost bursting the wife pre-
pared to administer terrible rebuke
to the faithless spouse, and, tearing
herself away from his fond embrace,
she struck match and stood face to
face with-the hired man.-Salisbury