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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-01-06
MISS DUNLAP ACQUITTED.
Guilty of Murder of Allie

!! Aledo, ILL.,, Jan. 5.-Miss Tony DUN.
lap, on trial for the murder of Allie
Dool, was acquitted by the jury shortly
before noon Saturday.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-01-06
THE MARKETS.


0tUInS FFovNIUns' Etc'
Chicago, JanS.
wHDATrweak. January. 7lMa7Asci
May. 7Ax@15c.
CORN-Active.
OATs-Moderate. No. . white. s59s7o.
BUTTER-Quotably steady. Creameriest
1s02sc: dairies. l7@22c-
EGGs-Ruling steady. At mark. case.
included. 21@2SAc; loss Oh. cases returned
&c.
LIVE PoULTRY-ouiet. Turkeys. 100
lac: chickens. springs. l2c; old hens. 12ci
ducks. 1a@1Yhc.
PoTAToES-slow and easy. Rurals. IVA
~: Burbanks. &@Ec; Rose and Kings. 4od
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-01-06
Live Stock.

Chicago, Jan. 5.
HoGs-Good to prime heavy shipping,
Ss.00S6; good TO choice heavy packing,
Se.lb@&0: plain to choice heavy mixed,
3s109s.s6: assorted light. $ss0as25; com.
mon TO fair light mixed. S6.75@S.o5: thin to
choice. SAe6@6s5: stags and rough lots,
e3oG4s0o.
cATTLE-christmas beeves, se.25@6. GO:
good TO choice beeves. t76a6.2o; medium
beef steers. N7505.ao: plain and rough.
ish steers. S3.s06AT0: common to rough.
33.o06a.s0: good to fancy heifers. s4.2ospl.s5;
good TO choice feeders. $3.4og4T5; poor to
fair stockers and feeders. 32.7663.S0; bulls.
plain to fancy, s2.6d46.
Omaha, Neb., Jan. 8.
CATTLE Steady. Native steers, $3.50
e.1b; cows and heifers, $a.001l. 10; western
steers. S.758460: Texas steers, $27564.45;
range cows and heifers. 32.6O@3.75; cam
nsrs. Nco02.eo; stockers ana feeders. g. 500
- 20: caves. 2.0oas.0o: bulls, stays. etc.,
HOGlLower. Heavy, ;s.3ds,4o: mixed.
S@us.S: light. ss.00aS2S: pigs. S5.0Oa6. OO:
bulk Of sales. >e.2s96ao .'''
eHEEP-Steady. Fed muttons Il osSn
an; wethers. $1,000 go; ewes, s.5nna IS az.
common an0 stockers. N.z5as. 81: Isrnbs.
h6o06.5a ''o''
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-01-06
The Best Leundrv work

AAO 0esS Aouhdty WORK
is done by the use OF Russ Bleaching
Blue. All groUofs. 10c. Get the
|tenNluN
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-01-06
Dress Goods.

Reductions that will sur
prise you. q to n the usual
price. Everything goes for
next week at this big cut.
Take advantage Of it. None
after that date.
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seemed to do great deal Of thinking
His fellow townsmen naturally ex-
pressed considerable curiosity and in
terest in the affair, and we gratified
them by giving them the particulars
of the duel which didn't come off. Re-
marks of redhot nature were address,
ed to Brother W. on all sides. but it
wasn't his day for talking. The prone
made was concluded and his ear re-
leased after three-quarters of an hour
and we left him at the office and in the
bosom of his family as we rode away.
He made no response to our goodby,
but at the same time seemed to be
highly relieved to see us canter away.
We have nothing against Brother
Watkins, and we wish him success in
the editorial field. In a fatherly way,
however, we would suggest that he
cease to monkey with the buzz saw.
In case he fails to do so we might re-
peat the performance of the other day
and go no further, but on the other
hand we might think it best to make a
vacancy at the head of his editorial
staff and convince his widow and or
phans that we had only done our duty
in the case. NJ. QUAD.
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lie "cITY oF cRIcKETs.o

An Appropriate Name For San An
tonic.
"San Antonio ought to be called the
City Of Crickets,'" said man who
has just returned to New Orleans fror
Texas, ''for | never have found as
many crickets anywhere on earth as !
found out there. The streets are liter.
ally filed with them. 1t is not simply
a case of the cricket on the hearth. 1t
is a case Of the cricket everywhere you
go. | have been trying to figure out
why it is that these insects are so plen-
tiful in the Texas town in question. At
night they swarm around the electric
lights like the bugs we are familiar
with in other places. 1t is impossible
to walk along the streets without step
ping on them. And there is just bit
of poetry about the situation in Sap
Antonio with respect to cricket life
there.
1.-THE people generally look upon them
with a feeling of affection, and it is
rare thing to see citizen show any
sort of Indifference to the members of
think of treading on cricket. They
take particular pains not to do any
thing that would in any way injure the
lives or limbs of crickets. | was speak
ing of the poetry of the situation. 1t is
q fine thing to hear the crickets Groom
ing early in the evenings. They chirp
as cheerily as if they were hidden
away in the weeds of some romantic
hedge or on the hearth which has been
immortalized in verse and song. Men
hurry along the streets, women brush
along with their musical skirts, and all
the while the crickets keep on grooming
their little love songs, just as if the
pulses of humanity were not beating
about them. 1t is interesting, pictur-
esque, poetic, and. if l had my way.
would christen San Antonio the City
of Crickets' l think the name would
add color to city already romantic
in its rich coloring. New Orleans
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STEVENSON.
So limp He Looked Though just
Fished From the Sea.

So LAmp He Looked as Though just
Fished From the Sea.
He was tall, thin, spare-indeed he
struck me as almost Enthusiastically
spare. l remember thinking that the
station draft caught him like torn
leaf flowing at the end of a branch.
His clothes hung about him as the
clothes of a convalescent who has lost
bulk and weight after long fever. He
cannot swear to the color, but that de-
tail always comes back in the recalled
picture-a flannel shirt, with a loose
necktie bundled into a sailors knot,
somewhat fantastical trousers, though
no doubt this effect was due In part to
their limp amplitude about what
seemed rather the thin green poles ia
miliar in dahlia pots than the legs Of a
human creature. He wore q straw hat
that in its rear rim suggested forget
fitness on the part of its wearer, who
had apparently, in sleep or needless
ness, treated it as cloth cap. These,
however, were details in themselves
trivial and were not consciously noted
till later. The long, narrow face, then
almost sallow, with somewhat long,
loose hair, that draggled from beneath
the yellow straw hat well over the
ears, along the dusky hollows of tenn
pie and cheek, was what Immediately
attracted attention. But the extraor-
dinariness of the impression was Of
man who had just been rescued from
the sea or a river. Except for the fact
that his clothes did not drip, that the
long black locks hung limp, but not
moist, and that the short velveteen
jacket was disreputable, but not damp,
this impression Of man just come or
taken from the water was overwhelm-
ing.-William Sharp in Pail Mall Mag
azine
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What He was.

A man of letters-of poor physique
recently knocked policeman down and
is still at large to tell the tale. 1t was
on the bank Of the upper Thames,
where notice bids Pedestrians to en-
ter the towing path by the roadway"
The man of letters, however, knew the
short cut and took it, running into a
huge Berkshire constable. "See that
notice board?" remarked the constable,
blocking the narrow path. The man Of
letters looked, considered, and replied,
"But you see I'm not pedestrian"
The constable considered him from his
hat to his boots and back again. why,
what are you them" he asked I'm a
Congregationalist, said the man of let
tiers. The constable dropped. -London
Chronicle.
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A question often asked, according to
the United Service, is why the army
cadets at West Point wear gray uni
form, while the uniform of the army
is blue. The origin of the distinction
dates back to the war of 1924,
when the commissary general of the
army could not procure the blue cloth
required for General Winfield SCOTS
brigade, and so they were clad in gray.
So distinguished was the conduct of
that brigade at Lundy's Lane and Chip
pewa that when, after the war of 1912,
reorganization of West Point Mill
tary academy was made, out of compli-
ment to General Scott and his brigade
the uniform Of the corps Of cadets was
changed from blue to gray.
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THE KICKER'S
EDITOR.
He Taker an E.rteemed Contemporary
to Tack For Slander.
Copyright, 1903, by c. B. Lewts.l

copyright, 1903, by c. B. Lewis.1
~ OR more than two years past
Jim Watkins, the owner and
editor Of dishrag Of weekly
called the Lone Jack Recorder,
has vilified and slandered us in almost
every issue. A hundred times over our
friends have asked why we paid no
attention to his ebullitions, but we have
gone our way and let him have full
swing and been rather curious to see
how far he would carry things.
Two weeks ago, determined to make
us take notice of him, he devoted one
full page to us, and we must admit
that it was rather racy reading. The
picture he published over our name
was that of an Ohio murderer, and in
the so called history he gave of us we
counted up 240 lies 1874 ISLANDERS and
21S libels.
If we had had business at Lone Jack
fast week we should have visited the
Recorder office and taken Brother Wat
kins by the nose and led him slowly
up and down the main street of his
town, but we had matters to see to al
home and paid no attention to his at
tack This probably encouraged him to
believe that we were afraid to move in
the case and that his chance had come
to make a strike.
Notwithstanding that we were the
insulted party, he sent us challenge
to fight duel, and we understand that
he made bet of $40 that we would
refuse to accept the honor. He had our
answer within ten minutes after his
challenge had been received. The day
was set for Wednesday last, and the
place was at Johnson's Ford. We were
on the spot with our second ten min
utes before the hour named, and after
we had been kept waiting full hour
messenger brought word from Brother
Watkins that as he had boil on his
leg the affair must be postponed for
TWO weeks.
Our action in the case might not have
been strictly up to the "code," but it
was the best we could do under the
circumstances. AS a first move we
took off our coat and gave the messen
ger humping he will remember to
the end of the year and beyond We
did not wallop him because he bore Il
message. but because he grinned in a
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-10-23
SHERIFF,S SALE.
In CHANcERY OF NEW JERsl

In CHANCERY OF NEW JERSEY.
Wherein John B. Vreeland, Trustee, &C., is
complainant. and James Coulter, Jr.,
James Coulter, Robert Coulter sarah Agnes
Coulter john Coulter, David Daniel Coul
ter, Margaret Jeanette Coulter and Lizzie
G. Coulter, are def udants. FL IA. for sale
If mort gagged premises. Returnabie to Octo-
Der Term, A. ID, l9'5
VREELANp KING, WILSON Il LINDABURY,
- $500 Solrs,
by virtue of the above stated writ of Fieri
ID Facias in my hands, l shall expose for sale
at Public Vendue at the Court House in Nor
ristown, N. j., on
MONDAY, the End DAY of NOVEMBER
next. A. D. 1903, between the hours of II M.
and o'clock P. NJ, that is to say at o'clock
in the afternoon of said day. All that IL act or
parcel of land and pre- misses, hereinafter par
the Township of Morris in the County Of Nor
ris and State of New Jersey
BEING Lots five. six, seven and eight in
Block Il on map of lots OF the late William
h Wilson, dec ased, bounded togets err as
BEGINNING at point in the WESTERLY
lire of First st as shown on said Map which
point is a corner common to lots numbered
one and five in said Block and from thence
running % North twenty-six and q baif de-
grees West along lines of lols Nos. / 2 3 &
common to lots Ms. IS 20 & q in said
Rlock; thence % South twenty seven aud a
half degrees West along lines If lots Nos. 20
~ 10 " IL III sdlu DlOCh Olc lfct W
corner common 10 lots Nos 5 IL ID q n;
thence 60 along lines of lots N 8. Il II 10 Il
in said Block South sixty two degrees and a
half East OF Q hundred feet to the Westerly line
OF First street: thence "a along the West
erly line Of First street North twenty seven
aud Il half degrees East one hundred feet to
the ulace of BEGINNING.
BEING the same premisea conveyed to
Mar garet Coulter by Jane l.. Willis on By deed
d. ted July 18th, 1883, and recorded N the
Morris County Clerks Office in Book H.
page 1877. &c.
Reserving and Excepting however out OF
the above described PREMISES much thereof
to John Hughes by deed dated September
22nd. 1888. and reco ded in said Clerks office
in Book IL of Deeds on page $3.50, &c
Dated Sept. 10, 1908.
ABRAHAM RYERSON,
Sheriff
Chronicle and Jerseyman. Pr $ll 25 4034
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Administrators Sale Of Land.

On application of Frederick Potts. administra-
tor of John Potts, decd, for an order to sell
lands to pay debts
PURSUANT to an order made October ID.
1908, by Morris Orphans Court in above
matter, the subscriber Administrator of the
at public vendue to the highest bidder, at the
Court House in Morristown N j., on
MONDAY, the 2Srd DAY of NOVEMBER,
A. D., 1908, at o'clock p. M, certain lands of
which said John Potts died seized, to-wit:
"a II that certain tract or parcel Of land and
premises hereinafter particu arly described,
situate, lying and being in the township of
Passaic in the County of Morris and State of
New Jersey:
Beginning in the forks of the road leading
from Richey's saw mill to Ezra Kinds grist
mill, a corner of John Whtenack's land ;
thence along the same North twenty seven de-
grees and one-quarter East seven chains IL The
road; thence South sixty eight degrees East
two chains and fifteen links; thence South five
chains and twenty links to the road leading
from Richey's saw mill to New Vernon thence
along he same South eighty-eight degrees
West five chains and ten links to the beginning
corner Containing two acres and eighteen
hundredths of nd BE- the same more or less
Being lhe san premises conveyed by Samuel
Roberts, Jr., and wife by deed dated October
20, 1878, and not yet recorded to John White
mack, decd the father of Thomas Whitenack
aforesaid and grandfather of said Maria Van
Horn Della Whitenack Susan Thomas, John
Whitenack and Margaret A. Brewer1, and from
which old deed the above description is taken
B ing also the same tract conveyed to John
Potts by Thomas Whitenack and others, by
deed bearing date December goth, 1852 and re
corded in Morris County Clerks Office in Book
Y-10 of Deeds on pages 10Y &c.
Dated October 49, 1908
FREDERICK POTTS
Administrator,
New Vernon, N j..
Jerseyman and Chronicle. 5000.
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In CHANcERY OF NEW

In CHANCERY OF New JERSEY.
Wherein Eunice A, Lambert is complainant
and Helen Louise Fibiger, Albert +. Fibiger
her husband and Diedrich Beckemann are
defendants. FL. ia. for sale of morteaged
premises. Returnable to October Term, A.
d. 1903.
CHARLES A RATHBUN, Solr.
DY virtue of the above stated writ of Fieri
ID Facias in my hands. l shall expose for sale
at Public Vendue at the Court House i'll Morris
town. N. j., on
MONDAY, THO 23rd DAY OF NOVEMBER
next, A D. 1908 between the hours of IL M.
and O'Clock P. NJ. that is to say at 2 o'clock in
the afternoon of said day. All those tracts
or parcels Of land and premises, hereinafter
described, si6uate, lying and be-
ing in the Borough of Madison and in the
Townships of Chatham and Passaic, in the
County of Morris and State of New Jersey.
The two tracts of land in the Borough of
Madison are the same as conveyed by willard
w cutler and wife to said Helen L. Fibiger by
deed bearing date July 10Th, 1890, and recorded
in Morris County Clerks office on July 31St,
1880, in Book B-l3 of Deeds, pages 355, &c, and
for a particular description Of which, refer
enc. is hereby made to the said decd.
The two tracts of land situate in the Town
ships of Chatham and Passaic are the same as
conveyed by Nicholas G. Godfrey and wife. to
said Helen Louise Fibiger by deed bearing
da e May 24th, 1901, and recorded in the said
Clerk S office on the twenty fifth day of May
Nineteen Hundred and One, in Book PIG OF
Deeds for said County, pages ALI, &C., and for
a particular description of which, reference is
Dated October II, 1903.
Sheriff
Chronicle and Madison Eagle. P.F. $50 4O7C
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The unauestioned Proof.

The multimillionaire frowned darkly
as he strobe to and fro in his luxurious
office.
II am tired, deadly tired, of all these
petty ways of showing ones extrava
gance," he muttered. what want to
do is to prove to everybody that / am
a cheerful buyer and an eager spender,
and that I've got the money that talks
loud"
He suddenly paused and smile ir-
radiated his face.
Then he went out and bought full
pound of radium. - Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
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When Mother Cans.

/ Travelled to the village. Nell. and saw
your mother, dear,
Her arms were stained with jam and
Juice. her sleeves rolled up to here
The cookstove roared like 1t was mad the
room was full of heat
And Jimmies face was smeared with jell
and apple butter sweet.
A dozen pans were on the stove, their
contents bubbling DER,
And there were apples on the beds and
peaches on the floor,
And when / walked into the house I Slip
ped upon a pear,
And, sitting down, I smashed big tomato
In the chair.
She took an inventory, Nell: Two hundred
Jars OF jam,
One hundred cans of Bartlett pears and
catchup Chats for Sam:
Twelve dozen jars of marInalade of sew
eral different kinds
And twenty tubs of peach preserves and
watermelon rinds,
And grapes and ounces. berries, plums
and apples-tons or more;
The pantry shelves are loaded down, the
cellar running DER
But go and get your cookbook, dear, for
thus she spake, 90 course
I want to get NelPs new receipt fer maxim
chill sorce!'
- T.
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MORRIsTowN PosToFFICE.
Open from In the Morning Until Z
In the Evening.

MAILS CLOSE.
7sOA M.-For New York and all intermedi
ate stations.
s.15 A. M..-For Easton, Newton, Chester and
all intermediate stations. Whippany.
8.l5 A. M.-For Brookside, Mendham and all
stations on the Rockaway Valley Railroad.
015A M.-For New York and intermediate
stations.
9.15A M.-For Mount Freedom.
a45 A. M.-For Newark, New York and be
yond.
n.25 A. M.-For Newark. New York and be
yond.
l2.45 p. M.-For New York and ali inferno,
date stations.
l245 p. M.--For Rockaway and Dover.
$50 p M.-For New York and all inferno
diate stations.
MAILS READY FOR DELIVERY.
+7.sOA. M.-From New York and intermedi
ate stations.
$50 A. M.-From Hackettstown and inter
mediate stations. Whippany Mt. Freedom,
M.-From Brookside, Mendham and al
stations on the Rockaway Valley Railroad.
1920 A. M-From New York and intermedi
ate stations
12 A. M.-From Dover.
al1o P. NJ. From New York and intermedi
ate stations.
l.28 p. M.--From New York
$50 p. M From Philadelphia, Easton, New
ton, Chester and intermediate stations.
4sOP. M.-From Brookside, Mendham and ali
stations on the Rockaway Valley Railroad.
+4.4l p M.-From New York and intermedi
ate stations.
*4l4 From Newark and New York.
delivered by carriers.
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TOOK HIM BY THE EARS AND LED HIM OUT
DOORS

$1,000 ~@--~
DOORS
malicious way as he delivered it. Hav-
ing finished with him, we mounted our
cayuse and galloped into Lone Jack
We hoped to find and surprise Broth
er Watkins and his boil. and we We're
not disappointed. He sat in his sane
tum with look of complacency on his
face as he thought of us waiting al
Johnson's Ford for him. We entered
his presence unannounced. and as we
stood before him that look Of cOmpla-
cency faded away into one Of terror.
He turned white as flour. and his Jaw
dropped and his eyes rolled The man
he had so often characterized as vi
lain. liar. cheat. swindler. robber bun
ko steerer and hundred other thing
stood before him. He couldn't make
it out, but sat and stared and stared
and the Adams apple in his throat
moved up and down as If trying Ia
find a way out.
We remarked that we presumed W
had the honor or addressing Jim Wat
kins. coworker in the field of litera.
ture, but he only gurgled in reply
We observed that we had hoped to
have the honor of meeting him at
Johnson's Ford two hours earlier and
had been considerably disappointed al
his nonappearance. and he closed his
eyes and groaned.
We made inquiry as to how he was
getting along in a financial way and
whether the circulation of the Record
err had yet included the south sea is
lands. but he didn't encourage us to
pursue that particular vein of humor.
1t being a hot day. we expressed a
suspicion that Brother Watkins had
been working his brain too much and
was on the point of collapse. and
something like a faint smile chased it
self across his face.
The foreman of the office, who APP
peared to be a very intelligent and fair
minded man. entered the sanctum after
awhile and expressed the hope that we
wouldn't do any more shooting before
he had received the $14 back salary due
| him. We ascertained from him that
Brother Watkins was a good husband
and fond father and that his favorite
drink was lemonade with a blackberry
floating around in it. He further in
formed us that Brother w. had set Out
to become a new humorist in the west
ern field and that all he had said about
us in the last two years was in the way
of joke. Brother W. neither corrob
GRATED nor denied this, but looked out
or the window in Il lonalns way. Lt
longed TO lie in New Mexico
After i'm hour of rather solid enjoy
ment we took Brother w by the nose
and lifted him UP, and then we tool
him by the ear and led him outdoors.
Ills Wife and two children had mp
peared upon the scene. but they t9cS
our word for it that we didn't intend t,
deprive them Of husband and father
We promenaded Brother W. the length
of Kyote avenue and return. and ",
must do him the justice to say That Ii,
tried to keep step with us and that HI
never once sought TO release lis en-
from our grasp. lie hid little or moth
ing to say during the promenade, bu
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"Cloves," said a physician, make an
excellent and handy remedy for nau-
sea, for the headache due to train rides
and for slight attacks Of seasickness.
/ went abroad last year, and on the
boat the first day out I began to feel
the approaches of seasickness. 1 took
a Glove every hour all the rest of the
day, and by midnight the attack had
left me, and it did not return again.
My wife is much given to indigestion,
particularly when she eats pastry, but
experience has taught her that she
may now eat pastry with impunity
provided that she swallows a Glove
now and then for several hours after
the meal"
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In note ca SAlnIoi LaArencc'S Dor-
trait of Thackeray-that representing
the novelists face in full-the Illus
trated London News of Oct 10, 1855,
says:
1T is not, we must confess, alto
gether true to his present appearance,
for it wants a recent and becoming
addition to the upper lip in the shape
of a black mustache that contrasts
most admirably with head Of silver
gray, but it is like the man and will
be welcome to his many admirers"
The reference here to the mustache
is interesting for the reason that every
portrait of Thackeray, with one excep-
ton, represents him with clean
shaven upper lip, the exception being
Maclise's pencil drawing of the famous
''Titmarsh," which, however, belongs
to much earlier date-viz, about
1870 and in which there is just a
suspicion of mustache. Presumably
the hirsute appendage of 1855 was
merely a passing fancy, which. the RAJ
zor speedily disposed of.-Notes and
| Queries.