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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-19
Dad Arises to Remark

he is not the only Clam In the basket,
neither are his hens as big as his
neighbors turkeys. Will say modest
ly he has some very fine tested Big
Silver Mine and Early White Seed
Oats, free of all foul seeds, for sale;
also seed wheat, corn food, two cents
worth make a meal for one person
Nonesnch chick fsed, q great egg pro.
ducer. All kinds of grain ground OF
unground, bran, shorts and millet
Dad has the largest institution of the
kind In Howard county, over ten
Thousand feet OF door space at Nos. "
to %, Market st. Cresco.
khope No. 1Qa
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-19
CHURCH NOTES.
EPISCOPAL.

Services will be held in Grace church
Sunday morning and evening at the
usual hours. Sunday school imme-
diately after morning service. Choir
practice at 1880 Saturday evening at
Mrs. G. f. Miller's.
GERMAN LUTHERAN
Services next Sunday, Feb. 2lst, as
follows: At Cresco, 1890 q: m.; at
Davis Corners, 2:20 p. m. ALI men,
bers cordially invited.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-19

His method of corrupting the ballot
box through the improper use of
money was poisoning the stream at
its fountain head, a sin which should
not be ignored or condoned by those
who love and would perpetuate for
the people American institutions,
based upon law, order, liberty and
justice.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-19
DAYS OF DIZZINESS.
Come to hundreds d crssco
People.

There are days of dizziness.
Spells Of headache, sideache, back.
ache;
Sometimes rheumatic pains:
Often urinary disorders;
ALI tell you plsinly the kidneys are
sick.
Doans Kidney Pills cure all Kidney
ills.
Here Is proof In Cresco.
Mrs. Stephen PEGGY, wife Of Steph.
en- PEGGY, miller, says: "For years
had attacks Of kidney complaint some
of them causing pain SO nevere that
could neither stoop nor lift anything;
been SO bad that I actually could not
sit still on account Cof the aching
across the small of the back. Even
after q supposed nights rest / arose In
the morning SO lame and sore across
the loins that 1t required quite an eff.
fort to dress myself. Headaches and
dizziness followed and bluring Of the
vision so that at times I could scarce.
ly see. Advertisements about Doan4
Kidney Pills impressed me that !
procured box at the Shuttlewort th
Drug CO.. store. The treatment gave
almost immediate relief. A continue
tlon for some time brought such un.
doubted results that I am forced to
say that Doan's Kidney Pills did me
more good than all the medicines
ever took put together. The backache
is gone, headaches and dizziness are
gone and I feel better in every way
For sale by all dealers. Price so cts.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y,
sole agents for the q. s.
Remember the name Doanis and
take no substitute.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-19

Piano Lessons.
Miss Angie Lyons is prepared to
give instruction on the piano at her
home on reasonable terms.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-18
Forced TO Sneak RudeIx.

There is a young man in town who
is newly come out of the West and II
YOU ask a certain Rhode Island ave-
nue. girl about him you will be very
likely to hear most disparaging ac-
count of his manners. 1t happened
this way: Last summer the Rhode
Island avenue girl went out to the
western town where this young man
was born and brought UP to visit
friends. Everybody was exceedingly
cordial to her, and possibly this gave
her an undue idea of her own i'm
portance.
At any rate she took it upon her
self to criticise the West and western
ways in a fashion that is far from
pleasant to Westerners, though, good
ness knows, they've heard 1t long
enough to be pretty well hardened.
The young man l am telling you
about took her driving one evening
and it happened that she was in an
unusually critical mood She made
fun of the town and the people and
pointed out wherein they were lack
ing in the essentials of civilization
till the young man felt that her re-
marks were getting on his nerves.
''Things are so different here from
what they. are in Washington" she
said. why, at home really nice girls
never go driving in the evening with
men,"
The young mans patience snapped
off short He looked at the girl with
a smile.
ITS the same here he said coolly.
That's why we fellows have to take
girls from out Of town.
Post
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-18
How to stop Auto Fiends.

A cold blooded scheme for prevent
ing automobiles from exceeding the
speed limit is to be put into effect at
Mishwaka, Ind. The town has a single
street of asphalt several miles long,
which is a favorite speedway for
tourists. The office of the Chief of
Police is in the center of this stretch.
III front of the office groove will be
cut in the paving and in this will be
set a knife blade extending the width
of the street. A lever in the police
station will raise this knife about two
inches above the level of the pave
ment whenever a word Is given that
a scorcher - approaching and refuses
to stop. The blade is sharp and will
cut all four tires on the car and rem
der the machine helpless. What may
happen to the occupants of the car
by the sudden severance and defiation
of the tires seems not to have entered
into the calculation. They may be
thrown out and killed, but the police
will have the satisfaction of having
stopped the vehicle and having ruined
about 500 worth of tires. A cheaper
and equally effective plan would seem
TO he 20 use double-barrel shotgun
loaded with slugs.-Savannah News.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-18
MARRIED.

BERGK-woODs-In this city. September S.
1904 by the Rev II. s. Collier William
Be-gk and May Woods.
CUTLER-OBER-In this city September T.
1904, by the Rev. Frank 5. Ford Charles
Franklin Cutler and Mary {. Ober, both OF
San Francisco
DAVIS-PHILLIPS-In this city. September
4 1904 b. the Rev. Frank S. Ford William
W Davis and Kate Phillips both of san
Francisco.
GINGG-HAHN-In this city, September a.
by the Rev. J. Fuendeling. Emil Gingg ana
Ida Hahn.
GUMMoW-WELDE this city, septem-
Der 10. 1904. by the Rev i. w Fischer
pastor Of Emanuel Evangelical Church Leon
l. Gummow and Lulu h Weldon, both OF
San Francisco.
ElsTERKNECHT-In this city.
September -. 1904 by the Rev. J. Fuenre-
ling. Carl F. Koehn and Maydalena Meis-
terknecht OF Brooklyn. n. Y.
MULLER-scHLINGH this CITY
September :. by the Rev r. Bonn August
II, Muller and Adele Schlingheyde both OF
this city %
sHERlDAN-DALY-in this city. September
.. 1904, at St. Josephs Church. by the Rev
FATHER %. Cantillon. Philip p Sheridan ana
Mary Daily. both Of this city.
TARP-sMrrH-In this city September u
1904 BY the Rev. o. Groensberg Henry ~
Tarp and Anne NJ. f. Smith.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-18
Euronean Banking.

The Credit Anstalt, the largest bank
ing institution of the Austrian empire.
has contributed as. a silent partner Of
the concern /, zoo, 900 crowns ($20S,O0 to
the working capital of the exporting
firm of Alois Schweiger of Vienna. This
firm, having a capital of its own of
500, 900 crowns ($101, 5000, is engaged in
exporting Austrian manufactures to
China and Japan. With its capital in
creased it will now open branch offices
in Hamburg, London. China and japan.
This firm was the pioneer for the Aus
trian export trade to Eastern Asia
In Europe the banks are the hackers
in many cases the prime movers-of
great ventures, such as the construc-
ton of railroads at home and in foreign
countries, the establishment of steam
ship lines and financial institutions,
colonization enterprises, the operating
of mines and the promoting of facto-
ries and industrial undertakings in for
eign countries. 1t is due largely to this
financial aid by their great banking in
situations that Germany. France, Bel
GUM and Switzerland have secured
such large business interests in foreign
countries, thereby giving employment
to manufacturing interests at home and
benefiting home capital.-New York
Commercial.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-18
cold REGIONS OF South Africa.

There are three quartz mining dis
tricts in the Transvaal. The Lyden
burg district was discovered in 1876;
the product for 1898 from four COM
panies, operating 135 stamps, was
valued at f392,378. The De Kaap
gold fields were discovered in 1884,
and in 1898 seven companies, with
200 stamps, produced gold valued at
f314,792. But by far the most i'm
portant district in the famous Wit
watersrand white Waters Range) of
Johannesburg, consisting of almost a
continuous outcropping of over thirty
miles in length, passing through the
city Of Johannesburg and extending
about half that distance on either side.
The veins consist of practically
parallel beds of quartz pebble con-
glomerate, impregnated with gold.
These beds are known in South Africa
as reefs" equivalent to hedges" or
'lodes' in America. The first openings
were made along the outcrop and fol-
lowed the dip of the vein, which aver
ages 80 degrees, usually being some
what sleeper at the surface and flat
tening as it goes down. In 1898 the
output of seventy-seven companies
operating stamp batteries produced
gold to the value of 15,141,376. The
total number of stamps in use was
4765, while in 1899 1852 stamps were
in use.-Mines and Minerals. .
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-18
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Tie following marriage licenses were issued
yesterday:
Louis A Franchi. %. So Lombard street.
and Lena Buzzoto Is. 2lT Vallejo street.
Lanceot L. Mulloy 26 52O Turk street, ana
Gertrude Hofer, is 39Is Merritt street.
George Johnson, 81 921 Powell street, ana
Irene Chester, 81 921 Powell street.
William f Valencia. 2s city. and Lyllian
Brandlein. 20 1889 McAllister street.
Samuel shapiro IS Napa, and Saidee M.
Mendesohn. 20 2lC9 O'Farrell street.
Angelo Coccellato 81. 15A Nandewater
street and Sarina Bosceino, "a, 15A Nande-
water street
Pietro DelIoca. "a Duncans Mills. and Rosa
Baizardi. p, Duncans Mills
Mamie l. Silva Il 2555 Steuart street.
John H Dohrman, % Oakland and Theresa
F. Wexelberger 10 600 Mnna street.
Johan E. Bryngelson. 49, 344 San Miguel
street and Augusta Erickson 49, city.
FiorindO Mel. %. 925 Jackson street. and
Guiseppina Gianni. %, $50 Jackson street.
Amanda Reynolds. Is. 1858 Broderick str eet.
Philip G. May 2S. % Isis street and Emma
Lutter. % 1873 Sacramento street
James J. Morris %, 125 Welch street, and
Sadie Duran 20 429A Tehama street.
Hugh Kraus %, ZIG Filbert street. and
May Butts, 10 1412 Powell street.
John F. Lucid, 81. Pinole, and Mary Nc
Linden. &c. Pinole.
Charles phillips %. All Clementina street
and Margaret O'Connell. D. $50 Mnna street
John A Hartman SO 91T Howard street
and Bridget Kelly. &c 60sC Natoma street.
Pedro F. Michel. %, 1410 Mason street, and
Archie Mcdonald "a, Benicia and Mary c.
Jensen. 26 Collinsville.
Frank Johnson SO Fields Landing, and Evie
Keliet, p, Oakland.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-18

The imports into New South Wales
from the United States exceeded in
1903 those from France and Germany
combined by $S,6S2,430, although
those countries took $S,106,275 more
from Australia than the United States
did. Both France and Germany have
fine line of first-class steamers ply
ing between Australia and Europe,
and yet with all the money they ex-
pend in the furtherance of trade the
value of their imports into Australia
falls far below that of the United
States. The imports from the United
States were valued at s14.02S.4 APO and
from France and Germany at $685.
$50. The exports to the United States
and dependencies were s10,069.O45 and
to France and Germany s19.069,O45.
The imports from the Hawaiian and
Philippine islands were $13O,470 and
the exports to them and Alaska were
$1,262, 350.-New York Commercial.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-18
English and american Girls.

About a score of English maids and
matrons, we'll bred, intelligent and or
the upper ten, were lately in evidence
in the lobby of one Of Washington's
best hostelries for about a week. Dur
ing the stay of the fair ones from
abroad they were the objects of much
curious attention. People seemed to
know at a glance that they were
foreigners.
"Yes, the women of England do look
queer alongside ours" said the wife Of
a Congressman, when appealed to for
an explanation. There are several i'm
portant points Of difference. In the
first place they do not as rule possess
good figures, neither do they carry
themselves with the grace and ease
that are so common with all classes
Of women in this country. But the par
ticular distinction after all is in the
matter of dress. An English woman S
clothes scarcely ever sit on her be-
comingly, even if they were made to
fit, which is rare. They are not up to
the American standard in the knowl-
edge of arranging themselves in gar
ments that show off the good points
in the female form. OF the French
chic in dress they are densely igno-
rant. See that young British female
over there with the long neck. which,
instead of being partly concealed, is
wholly revealed by the absence Of a
collar. No Yankee girl would ever sin
against good taste that way.'-Wash-
ington Post.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-18

The prevalence of the companion or
private secretary, who now seems in
dispensable to women of fashion, is en-
phasized by the sight of the parties
leaving daily for Newport from the
Grand Central station. In every one Of
these groups there Is the woman COM
panion, who, in charge Of the maids.
seems to exact from them the same
Difference they show to their mistress
The place of this woman companion is
that Of a friendly equal. who stands
between her employer and the rest Of
the world. and she appears to enjoy
most of the pleasure of wealth. with
none Of it's responsibilities York
Sun.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-18
The Acoustics Were Bad.

Ex-Governor Winthrop Murray
Crane Of Massachusetts, related this
convention story to a couple of friends
while at the Manhattan Wednesday
last. The story was told to him, he
said. by an acquaintance who was in
st. Louis at the time of the Demo-
cratic National Convention there:
The incident in the story" said the
Governor, occurred at q Democratic
meeting for wOrkingmen in a small
hall some distance from where the
Democratic convention was being
held. The story as it was told to me
went, as nearly as I can repeat 1t, like
this:
" Fellow citizens said the orator
of the meeting, passionately, as he
brought his fist down with a bang on
the table. what, 1 ask, are the 'Repub-
licans bringing our country to? And
echo answers what %
% Excuse me, SIR interposed a man
in the audience Che must have been
good Republican,, rising to his feet
did 1 understand your question to be
What are the Republicans bringing
our country to?"'
90 Yes, sir
".And you say Echo answers
'What?' "'
THAT is what I said, sir
Then there's something mighty
wrong with the acoustics OF this build
ing said the man in the audience, as
he sat down"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-18
STRANGE WAYS OF DEALING
IN RUBIES IN BURMA
Trade Conducted in Silence-By Grips
and Signs All the Bargain-
ING Is Done.

The peculiar business methods OF ORR
entail merchants are illustrated by the
manner of buying rubies in Burma In
the examination of ruDies artificial
light is not used. the merchants hold
ing that full sunlight alone can bring
out the color and brilliancy Of the
gems. Sales must, therefore. take place
between a m. and 8 D. M, and the
sky must be clear.
The purchaser, placed near window,
has before him a large copper plate.
The sellers come to him one by one,
and each empties upon this plate his
little bag of rubies. The purchaser
proceeds to arrange them for valuation
in number Of small heaps. The first
division is into three grades, according
to size: each of these plies in turn is
again divided into three piles, accord
ing to color, and each of these piles in
turn is again divided into three groups,
according to shape. The bright copper
plate has q curious use. The sunlight
reflected from it through the stones
brings out, with true rubies, color eff
feet different from that with red spin
els and tourmalines, which are thus
easily separated.
The buyer and seller then go through
a very peculiar method Of bargaining
by signs, or rather grips, in perfect
silence. After agreeing upon the fair
ness Of the classification they join their
right hands, covered with a handker-
chief or the flap of a garment, and by
grips and preSsures mutually under
stood among all these dealers they
make. modify and accept proposals Of
purchase and sale. The hands are then
uncovered and the prices are recorded.
Jewellers Circular Weekly.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-18
MAKING SEA BREEZES
BY ARTIFICIAL MEANS
French Scientist Claims to Have Dis
covered New Processes for
COOLING Air
Cooling Air.

A member of the French Academy
of Science is said to be enjoying sea
breeZes in his Paris home by manu-
featuring a liquid which he diffuses
through the air of his apartment. The
recipe for the compound is given as
follows: In ten volumes of oxygenat-
ed water containing a hundredth part
of ether charged with some ozone he
dissolves a small quantity of sea salt.
BY means of a vaporizer this liquid is
distributed in the air at the rate of 120
grammes per hour. 1t is said that by
this means the apartment becomes
saturated with the scent of the sea and
that the slightest draught Of air ere
ates the illusion of a wind sweeping
over a sandy beach direct from the
wide waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
Ones faith is not strengthened,
however, when the narrative proceeds
to relate how this ingenious scientist,
while inhaling this mixture, seats him.
self in his armchair. with his eyes
closed, and listens to the tapping Of
the waves while breathing their odor,
for he holds to his ear shell In which
he can hear the Eurmur OF the rest
less sea. Such an attitude and occu-
patton seems more fitting for an old
poet than for a professional man of
science.-Washingto Star.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-18
SOME QUEER BLUNDERS
MADE IN PARLIAMENT
Mixed Metaphors and Bulls Made In
Offhand Speeches Made by
EDgliShmen.

Following are instances Of queer
plumbers in Offhand parliamentary
speeches, says the London Spectator
Sir, we are told that by this legis-
lation the heart of the country has
been shaken to its very foundations"
II am only too thankful that we
have removed one of these miserable
barbed wire entanglements and that
we find ourselves in smooth waters at
last
THE Secretary of the Education
Department was the father of a state
ment of which the bottom was
knocked out by those who followed
him in the second reading debate, yet
the honorable member for st. Pancras
has thought fit to trOt it out again"
Among the many Earring notes
heard in this house on military affairs
this subject at least must be regarded
as an oasis.
1.-THE interests of the employers and
employed are the same nine times out
of ten-I will even say ninety-nine
times out of ten"
Our tongues are tied, our hands
are fettered and we are really beating
the air to no purpose"
Il will now repeat what I was about
to say when the honorable member
interrupted me-" ,
The West Indies will now have a
future which they never had in the
past"
"A thorny subject which has long
been a bone of contention among U.s."
"A slumbering volcano which at
any moment spark might set
afiame. Exchange
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-18
Freaks of a Geyser.

Some Maori laundresses using one of
the hot pools in the reserve at Wha-
karewarewa had a strange experience
recently. Having put the clothes in
the pool, the girls accompanied some
visitors round the reserve, states the
Hot Lakes Chronicle, and just as they
were returning to the pool in which
they had deposited the clothes they
were more than surprised to see the
washing violently thrown into the
air, with each eruption of the geyser
that had broken out in the pool. The
Maoris could do nothing but look on,
and while doing so they witnessed a
portion of their clothing suddenly dis
appear into the mouth of the geyser
After bemoaning the loss Of their gar
ments to their friends, and all were
about to move away, one Of the party
picked up q lady's purse which had
been shot out of the pool. 1t was well
saturated with water. In the purse
was a greensboro brooch, the pin Of
which had become disconnected. On
the greensboro, in gold letters, was the
name Lucy" How long the purse had
been in the pool it is difficult to say, but
beyond being saturated with water, it
was in a good state of preservation
Auckland News.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-18
ART OF TRAINING MEN
AS GUN POINTERS
They Must Learn to Shoot Accurately
From Moving Ship at Moving
Tar~et

When China found herself arrayed
against japan she offered $500 cash a
month for skilled gun pointers, but in
all great navies gun pointers are
trained, not bought, and when the fight
is on it is too late for instruction.
How does a man become an expert
gunner? Diligent drill and constant
training are not enough, without
certain amount of natural aptitude.
One man after another is tried. A few
days drill in the turrets eliminates all
except the fairly promising. For the
talent of eye and nerve which makes
the born gun pointer the Government
pays from 81 to SO month in addi-
ton to the regular pay. This pre-
MUM is not confined to any race, creed
or color. On one vessel in the navy
one of the gun pointers IS negro.
Selecting gun pointers is one of the
most important duties of the navy.
Having selected the men for gun point
ers, the next step is to train them. Two
methods are now in vogue, both having
the same principle, but differing in de-
tail. In the old days of sails and
smooth-bore guns the invariable rule
and the only rule the gun captains
knew-was this: Fire at the top Of
the downward roll Gust as the ship
begins to roll toward the targetl, and
aim at the enemy's water line"
This rule lasted far into the age Of
steam and turret guns, and has only
recently been supplanted by "continu-
Gus aim firing" or the art of keeping
a gun trained on the target, regardless
of the oscillation of the vessel, during
the whole or a portion of the roll.
The method of training men by the
new system-by the use of "dotter'-
was devised by Captain Percy Scott OF
the British navy. The dotter is me-
chanical device which causes a small
target to move across the face Of
gun, with a combined vertical and hori-
zontal motion. The gun pointer must
make the gun follow the target. and
whenever the sights are on the bulls
eye he presses a button. This causes
a pencil to dot the target. That is his
shot. The other method of instruction
is with the Morris tube, which consists
of a small gallery rifle fitted on the
gun, to take the place Of the dotter's
pencil.
So proficient have the bluejackets be-
come in handling the turret guns that
in actual target practice on board the
Alabama a 13-inch gun is loaded and
fired in thirty-eight seconds. Two kinds
of target practice are employed now in
all navies, one in which the target is
stationary and the ship moving; the
other in which both ship and target are
moving.-Washingto Star.