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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-04
GROWING PLANTS IN WATER.
Cora Grows without the Aid
OF Any Soil.

It would surprise q Massachusetts
farmer to see healthy, prolific stalk
OF Indian corn growing from vessel
OF clear water, but such spectacle is
now often presented at the Harvard
botanical gardens, says the Boston
Advertiser. For years Prof Goodale
has been experimenting with different
plants and different chemical sub
stances to determine just what part
they play in the necessary nourish.
ment OF plant life. and it is result
OF these experiments that plant
growths can be made to flourish with
their roots entirely submerged in wa.
ter, without the least particle of soil.
VI course, this knowledge cannot yet
be applied to commercial purposes d.
rectly, but it is applied indirectly BY
the farmer who learns what chemical
agents are valuable as fertilizers or
stimulants to plant life.
Indian corn has been mentioned as
an illustration because it has been the
most conspicuous, but there are in
Vulnerable vegetables and even shrubs
and trees which thrive in water which
has a deposit of certain chemical sub
stances, such as chloride OF potash,
sulphate of magnesia, phosphate Of
iron, phosphate of potassium and some
Of the nitrates. With the use Of these
1t has often been found that plant
Will grow, even though the water in
which its roots rest may be partly
frozen. The chemical elements are
Just as active, and the growth shoots
upward in its natural manner.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-04
DISASTER IN CHICAGO.
scaholding In New Post oAice Falls
One Man Killed and Two
Injured.

Chicago. Feb. 27.-One mar was killed,
two were severely injured and 10 had
narrow escapes from being crushed be-
meath ten tons Of lumber shortly after
noon Friday when monster scaffold
reaching from the main floor Of the new
post Office building to the top of the
large dome in the center Of the struc-
ture. distance of ITO feet, collapsed.
The dead man is James Byron, plas-
terer, who fell with the scaffolding from
the ninth floor, and was crushed be-
meath the debris. Thirteen men were
at work on the scaffold when the crash
occurred. In Its descent the large tim
bers crashed into scaffold on the sec
ond floor. Nine men were at work on
this structure at the time. but escaped in
inrv
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-04
PREDICT LIGHTNING SPEED.
Autonobilists Declare Mile Will Be
Made In Thirty Seconds BY Ma
chimes in Near Future,

Automobiles are so much impressed
by the advantages for speeding afforded
by the track at Ormonde, Fla. that they
IRE predicting speed of mile in 30
seconds, and it is probable one or more
OF them will build special racing auto
mobiles to try for such record. w. K.
Vanderbilt, Jr., when asked regarding
the possible speed to be reached by a
man in an automobile and the dangers
encountered, said:
! can go faster. The mile in 81 sec
onds will be accomplished this year, and
next year, with faster machines, we will
go much faster than that. The mile
record can be placed below IS seconds,
that | know. Regarding 30 seconds.
am not SO sure, but that will come when
machines are perfected and constructed
especially for the work. Such speed will
follow naturally in time"
Barney Oldfield, the champion, said:
''The mile In IS seconds will be reached
within year. We shall have to con-
struct special cars, scoop-shaped in the
body and of special build, for straight-
away racing only, when it may be possi-
BILE to go in 80 seconds. / believe that in
two years We shall reach that mark,
and ] predict that ere the half minute
is reached there will be a death to mark
the way. That Is frightful gait. and
something totally unexpected and Sc
rious trouble ia likely to happen to tho
machine"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-04
NEW CURE FOR APPENDICITIS.
Surgery Superseded and Patient Has
But to Walk ON All Fours
Four Times Day.

The medical Journals Of Berlin re-
port that some remarkable cures OF
mild cases Of appendicitis are being
made by a new method Of treating the
disease before the knife is needed.
Certainly it is an original-almost an
aboriginal-method.
1t is nothing less than to require the
patient to walk on all tours for 20 min
utes four times day. It is claimed
that certain muscles around the vermi-
form appendix are brought into play
and strengthened by this quadrupedal
cure, which are unused when a biped
walks erect. Others are relaxed, and
the localized Inflammation has oppor-
tunity to subside.
A well known diplomat, celebrated
for his haughtiness and punctilious-
ness. was cured Of beginning Appendix
citis by this method lately. His asso-
ciates and the fashionables are laugh
ing in their sleeves when their imagi-
nations conjure up his proud excel
lency's posture while undergoing treat
ment. The four-footed dose is recon-
pended in dyspepsia, too. but, OF
course, it should be taken before meals.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-04
2l1 last year, and ~ il Canada compared
with "a a vnar o0r

211 last year. and ~ In Canada compared
with 2S q year ago"
Bradstreet's says: Spring trade is
asserting itself despite abnormally cold
weather. heavy SHOWS or congested
transportation facilities in widely sepa-
rated sections. Where weather condi-
lions have been favorable, as in the
south. distributive trade has been good
and generally in excess Of year ago.
In the southwest milder weather has
brought out more country buyers, and
there is also moro doing In dry goods,
shoes and millinery at Chicago, though
unlike Kansas City and st. Louis, bust
ness at the former city is unequal to a
year ago. Buying is generally classed as
conservative. It Is still too early to re.
port apon the winter wheat situation,
but advices SO far received from the
southwest are hardly encouraging, abb
sence OF snow covering or lack Of mois-
ture being reported in Missouri, Okla
homa and Kansas. New record prices
Tor the year, and the highest, in fact,
since May, 1898, were reached in wheat
this week, the market, though irregular,
closing near the top, cash wheat and the
May option moving together partly on
war talk. but largely on reported con-
tinued eager demand for good milling
wheat. Flour prices reflect the strength.
and corn and oats have sympathized, as
have also nearly all kinds of provisions,
except eggs, which have broken sharply,
the advance Of pork to the highest point
being helped by small receipts. The
eastern war also Affects other products,
such as tea and camphor. which are
closely connected with the scene OF hos
&iiiAinn
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-04
OFFICIAL PAPER OF COUNTY
THE TRUSTS ESCAPE.
pertelyou's Bureau of Industries Hal
Failed to Find One That
In NBad.0

Secretary Cortelyou is at the head OF
The new department of commerce, whose
bureau Of industries has been trying SO
hard for whole year to find bad trust.
II such trust is found the life is to be
frightened out Of it by publishing the
acts in regard to its crookedness.
Although we have frequently taken
the trouble to tell Mr. Cortelyou where
70 fish il he wants to catch a big string
Of trusts, yet there is no evidence that
ne has as yet got nibble. His patience
must be nearly exhausted. Once more
We Will tell him that the trade and COM
mercial papers and journals are filled
with information about old and new
trusts, many Of which are Of the most
obnoxious type.
The Iron Age of Feb. 4 lie filled with
such information. Thus, the manufac-
iurers OF axes have just formed new
trust, which, at one jump, advanced the
price OF axes 81 dozen. The Ratchet
manufacturers have behaved in q sim
lar way. Their organization" says
he Iron Age, is strong one, regulat-
$sAA>A PAOouSS1OA, anu IN XJ8
general features resembles the shovel
association"
The axe, Ratchet and shovel trusts.
when they put up prices from 25 to 1ol
per cent, are most obnoxious to farm
ers, carpenters and others. They should
be ferreted out and held up to public
scorn. Then, if publicity don't make
them ashamed Of themselves and cause
them to mend their wicked ways, per
haps 1t will occur to some bright mem
Der Of President Rooseyelt's oflcial
household to take away the tariif that
protects these pestiferous trusts.
Mr.. Cortelyou may remember the
story of the bad boys up in the tree
stealing the apples. who laughed at the
farmer while he tried to drive them out
by throwing tufts of grass at them, but
who changed their tunes and ran away
when he began to throw stones. Thai
:armer was not such an everlasting
chump, after all.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-04


Virginia, whose chief claim to
distinction is that in the land
slide of 1894 he defeated Will
nam l.. Wilson for congress, celebrated
Washington's birthday by reading Rep
resentative Burton of Cleveland, O..
out Of the Republican party. Indeed
Dayton seemed to think he was endow-
ed with plenary powers in the case,
Tor while he was about it he also read
Burton out of the Democratic party, a
party to which he never belonged.
Burton had stirred Dayton's gorge by
opposing the naval appropriation bill,
which carries SOC, 900, 900 in round num-
bers. Dayton is a member of the naval
committee, and the Republican mem-
bers of the naval committee think they
own the United States absolutely and
that the other people in the world nre
trying to steal part Of their possessions.
Burton is not only one Of the ablest
men on the Republican side, but Is one
of the most omnivorous readers in con-
gress. He was fighting the bill not
only on the ground of the extravaganza
VI eAC AAAStiSulS, Jul dlSO Oh tue theory
that we do not need an immense navy.
At one point in his speech he ex-
claimed:
Oh, but It is said '"This is merely q de-
fensive measure. The best way to secure
peace Is to be ready for war and SO build
up great navy" How similar to that
are the words of Uriah Heep when he
said, I'VE know that we are humble, but
we are afraid that other people that are
not humble will get the start OF u.s.
Dayton may not know it-indeed, the
chances are thousand to one that he
didn't know it-but he wasn't doing
the Republican party any good when
he undertook to read Theodore Z. Bur-
ton out of it. All this talk about the
Monroe doctrine being lust as strong
as the American navy and no stron-
GER is absolute. tommyrot. 1t sounds
well, but it is idiotic. Our navy was
as a pygmy to giant when compared
with England's navy at the time Mr..
Cleveland issued his famous pronuncia-
mento in the Venezuelan matter, but
it has not been forgotten that England
needed what G. c. said.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-04
Meals Of a Giant.

The Russian giant Machnow is
suing Snowman sedelmeyer In Paris
for starving him. The latter alleges
that he supplied the giant every day
for breakfast with two quarts Of tea.
pound Of butter, cheese, and eight
rolls; for dinner, i've plates of broth,
four pounds Of meat. and several
pounds Of potatoes. and for supper
two quarts Of coffee. pound Of bacon,
and four pounds Of black bread.
Woman's Way.
He-Why. I'd marry that girl in a
minute.
She-lhat would be the only way. If
you gave her two minutes to think 1t over
she'd fiank. -Jpdys. ,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-04
Before and After.

Grumpy with newspaper)-When
I'm at home you are forever hammering
1t that piano, or else your tongue is
running like triphammer. It wasn't
20 before we were married.
Mrs.. Grumpy-No. 1t wasn't. Before
We were married you held my hands SO
! couldn't play, and kept my lips 20 busy
MAT ] csvlda't tallt,-T!t.Hlsy. s.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-04
1z..i'zz
4. q. o. w.

Regular meeting Cresco Lodge Is,
and Bird Tues each month, in Oval
leyS Hall. Visitors always swalcnme
B. B. WOODWARD. GBo MILLER.
Recorder. Nj. w
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-04

old conception Of a great republic of
American freemen worthy Of their her.
itage? The savages and semisayages
"appurtenant to the United States will
soon outnumber those in "the United
States proper" beautiful kettle Of
fish surely!
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-04

To Cure Cold III One Day.
Take Laxative Rrom" Quinine Tab
lets All druggists refund the none,
II 1t fails tn cure. E. w. Groves sig
nature h on each box. pc
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-04
FOR SALE!

We st;!!! have a few good
Chester White boars of SER
viceab1e age. We are now
offering a number of good,
pure Chester White sows.
bred to good, pure Chester
White boar.
F. "A, ECKsTEIN & BRO.
X. +. D. 2. Chester, la.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-04

Mr.. Secretary Of the Treasury Leslie
N. Shaw may know all about finance,
but his ideas on poultry are hazy, not
to say preposterous. He has decided
that frog legs are dressed poultry.
Since when did fowl or bird have
four legs, Mr.. Secretary?
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-04

1MovIns Against High Finance Pirates"
Under the above head the Philadel-
phia Inquirer, a stanch Republican or
gan, speaks out in meeting in this Wig
orous fashion;
One Of the developments Of the week IL
the possibility that criminal action may
be taken against Charles M, schwab as q
result Of his methods of handling the
bodybuilding trust. II the information re-
ceivsd by the New York World is ac-
curate, there ID more than q possibility,
There is probability, Of It. Important In
terests, 10 the information goes, that have
been acting with Mr.. schwab's adherents
have deserted him. and in certain contin-
gencies criminal suits will be brought for
which abundant grounds exist"
It iS to be hoped that the threatened
steps will be taken. High time 1t is that
an end should be put to the swindling Of
the public on gigantic scale. The
jail very promptly, But It Is "high
finance" and commendable to mislead tho
people into purchasing worthless stock
for the hsneht Of few millionaire pro-
motors.
echwab 10 very good man to begin
on. Gould he BE- hauled into the criminal
dock and the iniquities OF the shipbuild-
ing outrage laid bare such movements
might become popular. They might. in
deed. be extended even to United States
Steel. Suffering and deluded stockhold-
Srs. putting their faith and money In the
promises of men Of supposed integrity.
would welcome the day that should bring
the financial sharks up with round turn.
Let us turn on the limelight OF pub
licity and thrust the probe to the very
core.
Schwab is just as good man now as
he was year or two ago when he was
held up by the Republican papers as
the highest type of American citizen
ship whom our boys were urged to
initiate. He has been found out
that's all.
A Buckeye Boss.
A recent issue Of the Pittsburg Post
contains this startling editorial:
An amazing story Of legislative schem-
ing-amazing even for Ohio-has found its
way from Columbus. It is to the effect
that Boss Cox has everything fixed to
put bill through the legislature this
winter that will virtually give him title
to the Miami and Erie canal which runs
the entire length OF the state from Toledo
TO Cincinnati. That canal cost the people
e1 Ohio someth!ng evyr lS.o9oo00, but tt 10
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-04
= CHAMP "
!. CLARk'S *
Il LETTER H
Especial Washington Letter.

~HIS year Mr.. Dayton of West
Virginia, whose chief claim to
distinction is that in the land
slide of 1894 he Defeated Will
The river press., 1904-11-30
POISON RINGS.
Jewelry Novelty Adopted by Women
of Fashion,.

Jewelry Novelty Adopted by Women
of Fashion.
Poison rings are in high demand in
Tuxedo, not that there are any modern
Borgias or Iedicis in the fashionable
colony, but because Mrs. Grenville
Kane wore one at a dance short time
ago, and Mrs. Casimir de Rham, on her
recent arrival from Newport showed
another, says the New York Press. The
suggestion was adopted instantly by
the new beauty, Mrs. William Pierson
Hamilton, and by Mrs. Arthur 3. Gran
mis-, who never is beh1ndhand in recoG-
nizing the value Of novelty. Need
less to say, none Of the rings contains
the tiniest drop Of poison. Instead the
little chamber in each circlet once filed
with a deadly drug now holds wee
bit of powerful smelling salts.
Mrs. Henry Trevor wears a poison
ring that is said to have belonged to
a member of Richelieu's household 1t
Is set with a sapphire hedged with al
ternating diamonds and topazes. Pres
sure on Il spring in one side Of the hoop
distllls microscopic drop of liquid
through one Of the surrounding stones
which, though necessarily hollow, is SO
small the aperture Is impcrceptible
save Oh the closest examination.
The river press., 1904-11-30
ROODLE FUND RETURNED.
Court Orders That Bribe Money Be Re.
paid to Original Owners.

ST. LOUIS, New. 22.-Judge Wood,
of the circuit court, in the case of
Henry Nicolaus against Thomas B.
Barnes, formerly president of the Su-
burban Railway company, the Ger
man Savings institution, Ellis Vain
wright and others, decided today that
the plaintiff was entitled to the recov-
cry of $50, 900, the Doodle fund placed
on deposit with the Lincoln Trust
company by the Suburban Railway
company to bribe members Of the
house of delegates.
Judge Wood issued an order direct
ing that the $4,000 be procured from
the Lincoln Trust company on an ex.
ecution, but suspended the decree until
the criminal division of the circuit
court shall decide that the Suburban
fund is no longer necessary as testi-
mony in the trial Of bribery cases.
The testimony submitted to Judge
| Wood showed that on November %,
1900, Charles H. Turner, then presi-
dent of the St. Louis and Suburban
company, borrowed from the German
Savings institution the sum of S75, 900,
for which he executed two notes.
Nicolaus, as one of the Suburban
company directors, authorized the
loan, and indorsed the notes on which
the money was secured. The money
thus obtained was deposited in a
safety vault Of the Lincoln Trust com
pany, to be used in bribing mem bers
Of the house of deleg ates to procure
the passage Of an ordinance for the
benefit of the Suburban Street Rail.
way company. One key to the box
was held by Philip Stock as legisla'
tive or financial agent of the Subur.
ban company, and the other by Johr
K. Murrell, business agent Of the
house of delegates combine.
The river press., 1904-11-30
Butte ROhhcr EVadcS ENtraditiOn.

LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. 222.-Deputy
Sheriff Haggerty of Butte, Mont, left
for home today after an unsuccessful
trip to Nebraska to get Avery, alias
Morris, wanted in Butte for highway
robbery. Last August Sheriff Quinn
of Butte was in Lincoln to secure Nor
ris. He was then held at Albion, this
state, but refused to come without a
requisition. While the officers were
getting a requisition Avery escaped
from custody. This time the officer
had information from Albion that he
was again under arrest in this state.
He came here and found that Avery
had pleaded guilty to burglary in Cen
trail City, Neb., and that the authori.
ties there would not give him up. |,
is claimed that Avery pleaded guilty
here to escape sentence in Montana.
The river press., 1904-11-30
WALKING CLUB FOR GIRLS.
Wellesley College Women Organized
to Take Cross Country Tralr;S.

to Take Cross Country Trnncs.
Girls Of Wellesley college who do not
look upon solting. rowing, SLOT putting
and basket ball as womanly pastines
have organized a walking club to be
known as the Wellesley Cross Country
| club, says a Wellesley (AIass.) special
to the New York Herald.
It was Miss Ida Parker, 'O6, who
at recent class meeting called Miss
there are girls at Wellesley who rarely
take exercise because they disdain
boisterous athletics. Miss Hill, who is
physical director Of the college, stated
that it was not her aim to make ath-
letics speciality for a few, but to in
luce all the girls to take regular eXer-
else in some form. At Miss Parker S
suggestion walking club was formed.
Miss Alice Walmsley, '06, was elect
ed president and Miss Amelia st. John,
'O7, secretary.
The registering Of the members has
closed. This walking club is the most
exclusive in Wellesley. No freshmen
forty charter members Later more
will be admitted
The only rules of the organization
are that each member must walk at
least three hours each week, and each
walk must last an hour. Each mem
Der must keep a journal of what she
has seen and turn 1t in to the secre-
tary.
| In this way the Cross Country club
expects to become sort Of infOrlna-
| ton bureau of the geography of the
surrounding country and Of places
where botanical and geological speci
mems can be found.
OF the club and it's purpose Miss
Walmsley said:
"The minimum length Of time for
walking each week Is three hours, but
every girl is expected to do more. We
will take long tramps into the country
and then come back on the street cars
if we have gone too far. Each girl
will keep a journal and describe hel
trip.
"Wellesley is gradually taking he1
place with the foremost colleges in
athletics, and Miss Hill hopes this
walking club will be the means Of In
ducing the quiet girls to try more Wig
orous exercise. Later we are going ir
for hill climbing and snowshoeing
and each girl will be furnished with q
pedometer and try to outdo the Others
In distance"
Among the enthusiastic members OF
the club are the Misses Florence Besse
Ida Parker, Grace Herrick and lone
Morrison.
The river press., 1904-11-30
Where PeculatiOn Is Etiquette.

peculaton is the etiquette In Russia,
says the London Chronicle. They are
building just off the Newslli Prospect
in St. Petersburg memorial church
on the spot where Alexander II. was
assassinated. IT cannot get finished.
The present writer has seen it at inter
vals Of years. knowing that several
hundreds Of thousands Of rubles are
yearly devoted to its completion No
progress is visible. Year after year the
scaffoldings are as before. On the last
occasion he inquired from his compan-
ion a Cossack officer Of the guards.
The officer smiled and explained that
the funds passed through the hands Of
a grand duke an uncle Of the present
car, who drove down now and then to
see how things We're going, but-the
officer shrugged his shoulders and
laughed. Just what a grand duke
would do, was the implication.