Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-09-11
iugtor. hut this walbr!dge boom t1tist
be treated decorous!y and must not be
whistled down the wind.
Take 1t up tenderly;
Lift 1t with care:
Fashioned so slenderly.

Lift 1t with care:
Fashioned so slenderly.
Young and so fair!
For has not good DR.. Richard Bar
tholdt solemnly asseverated at the
Washington pie counter that Missouri
will go Republican next year? What,
therefore, could be more appropriate
than the vice presidential candidacy of
Colonel Walbridge?
Don't.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Bristow somewhat resembles-not IN
personal appearance. but in actions
the COW which gives a bucket of good
milk and then proceeds to kick 1t over.
In prosecuting the Republican thieves
and graftcrs in the post Office depart
ment he rendered the country good
service. which rendered him justly pop
ular in the country and which caused
many of his adnilr;ng fellow citizens to
couple his name with the vice presiden-
tial nomination. But Joseph, SO the
Washington dispatches say. is evolving
out Of his inner consciousness scheme
to restrict the establishment of rural
free delivery mail routes. In the Ian
guage of Ma. Puck, Don't" You are
liable to get lynched, Joseph, if you do
that and then venture into the remote
districts. So "Don't!'
Vanderbilt Children.
The New York Evening World thus
philosophers:
The arrival of a new Vanderbilt grand
child points again to the prolific record CT
this dynasty OF great wealth. With the
Vanderbilts at least there Is no hint Of
the race suicide charged generally against
the rich. 1t is a family notable for early
and fruitful marriages.
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. who
died in 1877, left twelve children. His
eldest son. William H.. dying in 1855. left
eight, and the eldest grandson. Cornelius.
! who died In 1899, six. The old commodore
has had forty great-grandchildren and
F: twenty-thrce g-ent-great-grandchil
They form q genealogical exhibit which
may be compared for fecuntlity with that
of the early Dutch and Puritan colonists.
whose large broods furnish frequent texts
for homilies on race degeneration.
This newcomer, an Elliot F. Shepard
granddaughter. is born to a double her
itage of wealth and brains her mother
having gained fame as the prize essayist
of the woman's law class of the Univer-
sity of New York. Is there any Wander
bilt child who is not born to at least mod
i crate wealth? A casual examination OF
the family tree shows none. 1t Is rare
distinction for family of such size.
Father and Son.
. Once in awhile a really good anec.
dote is found in political paper
Here is one from the New York
! Times:
! President Jacob Gould Schurman OF
Cornell university tells this story on him
self: One Fourth of July q few years age
the presidents eldest son Robert hac
exploded all of the firecrac!Sers that he
had provided for the occasion much be
fore dark. The youngster and his little
friends were very anxious for more cele
bration, so young Bob sought out his
father and asked for more money where
with to buy firecrackers. Papa, will 20,
please give me some more money? M,
firecrackers are all gone. and 1t isn't
O'Clock yet
81 viii, my son. II you can tell nae wha
you are celebrating with all Of these irs
works." replied Mr.. Schurman. who. b!
the way, was born In Nova Scotia. Will
the boy was born in New York state.
~ can do that easy enough. pop" sal
the boy. This Is the anniversary Of tn
day we licked you fellows"
The money was at once Forthcoming.
HeartIess.
Surely the government of Hondura
is the most Ill hammered and conscience
less on top of ground. 1t has seizet
confiscated and converted to its ow
use railroad belonging chiefly to tha
illustrious senator, inexhaustible or;
tor and prince of humorists, Chaunce
Mitchell Depew. Evidently that go'
eminent deserves the execration c
mankind. II it had seized a railroa
belonging to j. Pierpont Morgan
James ]. Hill, John W. Gates or Georl
Gould nobody would have cared ra
but to rob the New York optimist {
} his little railroad has tendency
throw the entire world into gloor
President Roosevelt should order Il
restoration of that railroad to Chau
cey instanter.
Badly Frightened.
There is no question but that the r
publicans are badly shaken up by II
revelations in the postal service. Fro
high authority there comes the hi
: that Representative Burton, one of Il
| ablest Republicans in the house, is
be made chairman of the post Off
committee of the house next winter
order that he may try to bring ord
{ out of chaos. It's big job.
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