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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
A Case of Telepnthy.

A curious case of telepathy is re-
ported from Athens. NJ. Lazare Ly-
rites, Greek sculptor, was quietly
talking to his wife, when suddenly he
became greatly excited and began ute
tering incompreAensible phrases.
When his excitement had subsidized
somewhat he told his wife that he
had heard voice saying that his
brothers wife was dead. The scnlp-
tor and his wife noted the date and
hour of this strange occurrence, ard
some days later q letter was received
announcing that tha lady in question
had died exactly at this time at .
place 600 miles distant.-Londou
News,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
WILL NOT REFORM TARIFF.
ing t,e Republican Party to
It's Undoins.

1t is practically settled that there
will be no tariff tinkering by the
present congress. The organization
Of the present representatives of the
people is in the hands of the protec-
tionists, who are of the Hanna "stand
pat" stripe. The trusts are therefore
secure in their eXtortion, at least un-
| til 1904, and can continue to sell thei;
products to foreigners for from 90 to
so per cent. less than they compel
the people of the United States to
pay. How long the voters will con-
tinue to condone this discrimination
against themselves is question that
is postponed for two more years. At
the presidential election in 1904 they
will have another opportunity to de-
eide the question, and with further
enlightenment they may reverse
their decision of this year.
The trust question and reciprocity
are forced to the front by the presi-
dent in his annual message to cor
gress with the evident intention of
inspiring the people with hope of re-
lief and relieving the republican
party of the more important tariff
question, on which it is SO, sorely di-
Nided.
AS the president has not, by any
means. exhausted the power to pun
ish bad trIsta which the law already
gives him, especially the criminal
section of the Sherman law, which he
has never invoked, it is hardly fair
to shoulder upon congress all the ills
that the trusts have brought upon us.
As the trusts and corporations are
quite willing to have members of
congress. knowing that they have
a friendly majority which will man.
ass. Mt least. to do nothing to sesi-
onsly cripple them, the outlook for
The people is dark indeed.
BY the time the national election
takes place the voters will have fur
ther proof that no relief can be ex-
pected from the trust md corpora
sion-controlled party which they have
Entrusted with power. and they will
be more than willing to give the dem.
ocratic party an opportunity 10 en-
force the criminal section of the
Sherman law, to amend the interstate
commerce law to prevent discrimina.
ton. and TO reform the tariff law by
placing trust productions on the freq
list.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
4 xonr way from the rinf.A.

The Cape-to-Cairo railway would be
$500 miles long in direct line be-
tween Cape Town and Cairo. At the
present time the rails are laid to with
in 200 miles of the Zambesi, or about
1900 miles from Cape Town, and there
is now railway from Cairo to the
junction of the blue and white Nile.
or 1,4oO miles from Cairo. 1t is thus
seen that a line $500 miles long must
vet be built to connect these terminal
systems. The Uganda railway is
built, connecting the port of Nom
basa, on the Pacific ocean, with Port
Florence, on Lake Nyanza; the length
of the line is 500 miles. The Bulawayo-
Beira railway connects the system
with the ocean at the last mentioned
port. At Bulawayo the line is 4,469
feet above sea level.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24

A careful and conscientious Judge in
Newark, n. j.. has decided that wom-
ans home is her castle and that there
In she is privileged to scold and rail
as long as she pleases. The same rnl-
ing holds good of course as to the club
1ooms, with the difference that here
Che privileges of loud and aggressive
conversation are divided among the
members. With this instance fresh in
mind, Chicago Post writer is led to
declare that the position of man be-
comes each year more trying and diff
fcult. If he remains at home he may
be vigorously berated by the lady who
knows her legal rights. If he wanders
from his own fireside he may be taken
before magistrate for neglecting his
family or arraigned in divorce court
for desertion. This is cold world for
man and it's getting colder every win
ter.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24

An editor has been looking it up
and tells why a trust is like a river:
1t looks on the level, but it isn't.
There are Sometimes a great many
bluffs along the way. Some are a
"dam site" worse than others. There
is lots of water in some of them Its
course is strewn with wrecks. Itflows
through many communities of inter-
est. 1t floats bubbles very nicely.
The big fish G. bible up the small fry.
1t runs smoothest where the waters
are deepest. 1t aboundS with rocks.
Suckers are numerous. 1t takes an
awful frost to stop it. Beware of run
ming the rapids Trusts are like
rivers. Dam the trusts. Especially
the coal trusts.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
Abode Of Eolu..

From the Lipari islands of myth
ology, the abode of Eolus, the ruler
of the winds. and the scene of his
meeting with Ulysses, to the Lipari
island of to-day, is very far cry
indeed. There are no hotels, and tho
islands are almost unknown to tour
lists, while the $4,000 inhabitants are
almost in a state of primitive and
patriarchal simplicity. They tender
iheir services voluntarily as guides
and refuse payment, regarding all
visitors as their guests. The dom
key is the only means of locomotiol.
Horses are unknown in the islands,
LondoR Mail.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
The country mouse envies the city
mouse. The country wife thinks with


The country mouse envies the city
mouse. The country wife thinks with
Ho.... x,-.. longing of the con-
certs, the theaters
nut MONIES scarce the tempting shops
and the congenial people of the city,
and compares them with the solitude
the drudgery and the poverty OF re-
source offered by village or farm. hut
the country woman, says the Youths
Companion, has one treasure that
many of her city cousins may well
covet. She takes it for granted-as she
takes the sky, the air and the music OF
her children's voices; to great many
city women it has become lost dream.
1t is home-a real home, where the
chairs and the dishes and the beds and
the walls and the roof belong to the
family; where new curtain or new
rose-bush is permanent acquisition;
where even Inconvenience are prob
lens to be solved, not miseries to be
endured. The city family of moderate
means is driven more and more fire.
quently to the boarding house, the ho-
tel or the apartment house. One is
scarcely better than the Others so far
as the gracious atmosphere of home is
concerned. Poor and expensive serv-
ice, high rents in the city, railway ex-
penses in the suburb, the perplexities
of market and kitchen and furnace
and sidewalk dismay more and more
the men and women in the city. The
boarding house offers relief, and the
tired housekeeper fiutters to it, as q
moth does to the candle, regardless for
the moment of what she is doing.
When she realizes that her home has
gone, the whole family may have &C
quired the hotel habit, habit as per-
nicious as it is permanent. One after
another the unselfishnesses that -four
ish in home have dropped away. In
+; their place have come passion for
, ease and cynical disregard of the finer
sacrifices of domestic life. This is the
dark side of the picture. Life may be
| well lived anywhere, but it is deeper
/; truth that real home is the best soil
for the cultivation of family love and
/, of mutual helpfulness.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
CONGRESS IN SESSION.
Needed Reforms Will Hardly Receive
Duc Attention by the Party.
in Power.

The last session of the Fifty-sev-
enth Congress having begun, the gen.
eral expectation that it will be I'M
fruitful of important legislation is
not likely to be disappointed, says
the New York World.
The regulation of trusts with a
view to suppressing monopolies is the
subject of first Importance. In HIS
message year ago and in MS
speeches on the stump last summer,
President Roosevelt insisted upon the
need of a constitutional amendment
to confer upon congress the power to
deal adequately with monopolies.
But in his speech at Philadelphia on
November %, he said:
at is idle to tell the people that we have
not the power to solve such problem as
that of exercising adequate supervision
over the great industrial combinations OF
to-day. We have the power and we shall
find out the way"
And in the same speech he strongly
/ Endorsed the remedy proposed by At
torney General Knox, which is, in sub
stance, enforced publicity for the af-
fairs of all corporations doing an in
terstate business, for which he con-
tended there is already ample author
ity of law. Whether a stringent law
of this character can get by the trust
agents in the senate is very doubtful.
What effect mere publicity would
have in curing the worst evil of the
trusts their tariff-chartered privi-
lege of putting monopoly prices upon
their enthusiastically has yet at
tempted to explain.
The subject of next Importance is
the revision of the tariff and the re-
lated question of reciprocity. 1t is
| evident from all that the president
has said that he is not in favor of at
tempting revision of even the most
oppressive tariff schedules-like those
on coal, meat, lumber and hides-at
this time. The most that he is likely
to do is to recommend tariff COM
mission to examine and report''-a
favorite method of sidetracking the
issue.
But even if the president were an
advocate of necessary and reasonable
| ttIih ISloIul tHcIc NOuiu uOl DC CAe
slightest chance of securing action by
this congress. The speaker, the
chairman of the ways and mean.
committee and nearly all the influen
tial members of the majority hav,
expressed themselves since the cleo
tions as opposed even to taking tn.
subject up at this session. They al
lege lack of time though they once
passed in three days a bill imposing
more than $1OO,OOO.0OO of interna
revenue taxes, and it is beyond ques
ton that the majority can pass i.
short order under it's ironclad rule
any bill which it decided to pu
through. 1t is the will, not the time
that is lacking. Yet even if the house
were to pass measure of relief il
would be killed in the senate. Ever,
republican of influence in the upper
house is infiexlbly opposed to any
tariff changes.
So that the main work of the SEES
\ sion is likely to he the passing of tn
appropriation bills, and perhaps tn
i ratification of some sort of reciproe
ity treaty with Cuba-thongh eve
this is doubtful Needed reform
must wait until the people see fit t
put in power party that believes 81
them.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
A Weak Stomach

causes a weak body and invites disease
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cures and siren
CITIZENS the stomach, and wards # and
overcomes disease. j. B. Taylor, a
prominent merchant of Cbriesman,
Tex, says: ''could not eat because of a
weak stomach. l lost all strength and
run down in weight. All that money
could do was done, but all hope Of re-
covery vanished. Hearing of some
wonderful cures effected by use of Ko-
dol, concluded to try 1t. The first
bottle benefited me, and after taking
four bottles am fully restored to my
usual strength. weight and health. ~
Shuttleworth Drug Co.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
uomeseeker.s Excursions,

Homeseekers rates to nearly all
points on sale at low rates by Chicago
Great Western Ry., The first and
third Tuesday Of each month, Novem-
Der to April incluiive. Available in
the through tourist sleeping cars. For
particulars apply to any Great Yves
tern Agent, or j. p. Elmer, G. p. A.,
Chicago, Ill. dec. 81 or apr 81
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
A letter was sent recently t,

A letter was sent recently to q
resident of the capital of Vermont,
addressed to him at Mont Pelee, Yer.
mont. 1t was figured out that this
must have meant Montpelier, and
this surmise proved to be right. A
citizen who saw the envelope allowed
that he hadn't known any eruptions
up that way, except eruptions of pol.
tiles and eloquence, and sometimes
he though them worse than the vol
canic kind.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
a Choice Of Maus,

To California is afforded by taking
the Chicago Great Western Railway.
CT Sc connection is made at Kansas
City with the finest tranS-continenta
Limited" The choice OF two
through tourist cars via different
rou ties may be had via this line. Ask
ny Great Yves tern Agent about them.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
A Slight Difference.

"Of course, it won't go any further -
promised Mrs. Black, when secret had
been confided to her keeping. "What I
heard just goes in one ear an out
t'other.9
NO, it doR'ttn cautioned her bosom
friend. 1T often goes in one ear AMI
out your mouth. "-Womaa's Hong
Companion.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
Agents Wanted-No Experience
NECESSARY.

To take orders Tor a new education
al chart; new combination pan
which will net you IS a day; commits
sion 33b per cent; express and freight
charges paid; active workers send 75c
for sample outfit, which will be re-
turned to you upon receipt of your
first $40 order. Address-Agents De-
partment, 2os, Pic neer Press build
ing, ST. Paul, Mimi. 4Sl3
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24

Almost any reason is good enough ia
induce some people to marry. One
couple took the step because they
failed to get seats at theater, and an
other because "the spirits" advised it,
Aud st;ll there are people who wonder
at the activity ct the divorce courts.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
Very Low Rates,

To points 10 Montana, Idaho, Wash,
ington, Oregon, British Columbia,
Utah and Colorado, in effect daily from
Feb. 18th to April Both. via Chicago
Great Western Railway. Write to J..
p. Elmer, g. p. A, Chicago for full
particulars. apr 20
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
CALIFORNIA.

The Chicago Great Western Ry.
offers the choice of two through
tourist cars via different routes max
ing fast time and having every com
fort. ASK for booklet about them.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24

Mrs. Wassling-Did your husband
get anything from the railroad COM
pany for the scalp wound he received
when be was in the wreck?
Mrs: PembertpRpee-Np. The attor-
pey of the road said it served him right
for buying a scalper's ticket.-Judge.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
He Knew.

Teacher Ito class in geography
And who knows what the people WHO
live in Turkey are called?
Class (unanimously)-Inrks!
Teacher-Right. Now WHO can tell
me what those living in Austria ars
called?
Little Boy-Please, mum, l know.
Ostriches!-Troy Budget.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24

A Judge in Palmer, Mass. Is deal
from inhaling particles of arsenic
from the wall paper in his room
The number of reasons why man
should not spend his evenings at
honG is increasing.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
Many School Children are sicklv

MOther Cray 3 Sweet Powders for
Childrep. used by Mother GRAY. n
nurse III Chiidren's Home, New York.
Break up Colds In "a hours, cure Eey,
efisi,ness, Headache, Stomach Trouh-
les, Ieething Disorders, and Destroy
worms. All druggists, &c. Sampl,.
mailed FREE. Address, Alien S. DIN.
A4eny' =. 4. .46w6u
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
Ills Maxim.

cts always well to be on the safe
side" unused the burglar with glow
of satisfaction as he crawled into the
bank through the opening in the wall.
NJ Y. Times.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
UnaelasA.

Mr.. smith-You are looking fop
work, are you? Well, think can find
something for you to do.
Uncle Eph-'scuse me, boss; but 1t
amt TO- mahself I'm lookin' TO- wuhk-
it's TO- nah wife.-Judge,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
Mixdom Of Ace

Bess (sweet 1s)-Did you notice
what knightly air Mr. Dashing has?
Aunt May (of more age)-Yes-soit
OF an up-all-nightly air, as it were
Chicago Daily News.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24

How to have money at Christmas:
Wonderful discovery Pny ySnr
Christmas presents in October, SON,
remember this next year.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
Boys Great Smokers.

In German periodical teacher
named Boer reports that he has found
fully one-half of the boys in the schools
examined by him addicted to habitual
smoking, none Of them being oyes
10 years old.-Indianapolis News.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
sign. ana Token.

Harriet-shall we announce our en-.
gagement2
Harry-Well. I suppose you will
wear the ring; and, of course, w.
shall beth Tooas foolish.-Detroit Free
Press, ''' -. :
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
He. a Jewel Nov,

clara-Why, my dear you declared
you detested the man. - =. !,
clariee-fes. darling. T did; but yoy
must remember that was before hiSi
proposal.-Town Topics.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24

All Up-To-Date HouseIssepers
use Russ. Bleaching Blue. 1t makes clothes
| cleaR and sweet as when new. All grooers,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
DeWitt's Witch Hazel salye.

The only positive cure for blind
bleeding, itching an iprotruding piles
uts, turns, bruises, eczema and al!
aoTaSlnns OF the ski !. DeWitt's is the
.nly Witch Hazel Salve that is mace
rom the pure. unadplterated witch
nazel-all Others are counterfeits. De-
Wits Witch Hazel Salve ia made to
ccufe-counterfeits are made to SELL
Shuttleworth Drug Co.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
The Sons Choice.

Son Of the House-Won't you sing
something, Miss Muriel?
Miss M.-Oh, l daren't after such
good music as we have been listen.
ing to.
But I'd rather listen to your sing.
ing than to any amount of good mu-
sic" London Punch.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24

Men who are always telling yor,
things for your own good mean well,
but lhef are awfully liresome.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
Wantad!

100 horses s years and upwards.
weighing 1000 pounds and upwards
for the Eastern markets. viii he af
Ruddy's barn during the spring and
summer. tStf e. ANDERSON.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24

Alas, too true-Most ycgng men g,
a lot OF rye mixed with their wild
oats.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
The Hero of the Hour.

You want to lionize him and,
He gladly lets you.
He smiles and shakes you by the hand
And then fcrgets you.
Washington Star.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
lsass Bles clliur Blu
When You i,uy n,uiuv

should he In every home. ASK your grocer fc
IL and take no substitnts. 100. package.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
A Threadbare compensat,o

"She isn't at all handsome"
"But she's very good
aDenr me, that's what they always
say."-Cieseland Plain Dealer.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24

convincing proof that the kidneys and blad-
der are out of order.
What to DO.
There is comfort In the knowledge so
often expressed, that DR.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root. the great kidney remedy fulfills every
wish in curing rheumatism, pain in the
back, kidneys, liver. bladder and every part
Of the urinary passage. 1t corrects inability
to hold water and scalding pain in passing
It. or bad effects following use of liquor,
wine or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant
necessity of being compelled to 20 often
during the day, and to get up many times
during the night. The mild and the extra
ordinary effect of Swamp.Root is soon
realized. 1t stands the highest for its won
derful cures of the most distressing cases.
you need medicine you should have the
best. Sold by druggists in Soc. and 81. sizes.
You may have sample bottle Of this
wonderful discovery Esst
and book that tells Y 1s::s:%s
more aboutit, both sent s 4 81.
absolutely free by mail, asl Y@ zz4
address Or. Kilmer & Home Of swanpaoos.
Co., Binghamton, N. Y. When writing mem
ton reading this generous offer in this paper.
Don't make any mistake, but re-
memb'r the name, Swamp Root. DR..
Niimer's Swamp-Root, and the ad.
dress, Binghamton, N. Y, on every
bottle.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24
Thousands Have Kidney Trouble
and Don't Know 1t.
How 70 Find Out.

Fill bottle or common glass with your
water and let it stand twenty-four hours; a
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24

Not Acquainted with Her.
HE who runs may read" began the
wise one.
"But who in the worlds May Reed ?'
asked his foolish friend.-Princeton
Tiger. T..
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24

insist on getting Rrss BE actip Blue. non,
take Oh up Imitation. All grocers. 100.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24

Do Your Clothes Look Yellow?
~ 20. use Russ Rleaching Blue. II win make
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-24

sediment or set
thing indicates an
unhealthy condi-
ton of the kid
neys; if it stains
your linen 1t is
evidence Of kid
ney trouble; too
frequent desire to
pass 1t or pain in
the back is also
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1903-07-10
Royalty and Chess.

Cards have been the amusement Of
kings and queens for centuries. super.
scding lattcrly the royal game of chess.
which filed up the leisure moments OF
William the Conqueror, Queen Eliza
beth and Charles l. The latter was so
absorbed in his favorite pastime when
the news reached him that Scotland
had determined to sell him to the Eng
lsh parliament that. though well
Queen Victorio ,r1tfiGanse nrnfonasnnse h9ded, he
cards. though during her old age she
round diversion by playing patience. +"
A Keen chess player, the great Napo.
icon would not submit to be beaten,
and If he found his skill ineffective
would throw board and chessmen an.
grily on the ground.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1903-07-10
NGrant's LucIfD

did not go out to see the surrender
or General Lee. | remember we'll the
event OF General Grants return nftcr
the surrender. I think there were not
more than three persons present when
the general came in and took n seat MT
table to write. He looked up with
some expression Of animation and re-
marked:
More Of Grants luck"
This was an allusion to the ncwspa.
per critics who had been In the habit of
calling his success luck.
This little comment on the surrender
or Lee was the only word OF cyultation
! ever heard from the victorious SOL
dirr.
IL was very slight expression of tri-
uhlph to follow S"c! stupcndous
achievement hut wholly Characteristic
-Natio,:ai Magazine.