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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-16
OIL AS NAVAL FUEL.
British Expert Discusses Problems
to Be Met.
Prediction Made Thst Coal WIN be
supplanted in Time-Question
81 Danger . Most Sc
rious One.

The new British battleship Hibernia
and sister ships, Britannia and Africa,
ire to be fitted for storage Of oil as fuel
In large quantities. The announcement
has raised suggestion whether coal
firing will not be altogether abolished
In the three latest additions to the King
Edward VII. class in the navy. A Brit
ish construction Official gave it as his
opinion that oil fuel would long remain
as merely supplementary to coal firing
In warships. He admitted that the meth
cd Of employing 1t would soon be devel-
oped to a stage at which it would prove
quite as effective means of generating
motive power as coal, this notwithstand-
Ing that coal bunkers are not likely TO
become thing Of the past in warships
for long time to come.
One point which in the experts view
seriously initiates against a general
adoption of oil as fuel for warship pur-
poses is the dangerously infiammable
quality. An example of this was cited
BY a construction official some time ago.
When the German battleship Kaiser
! Wilhelm II. was carrying out steaming
trials 1t touched rock with sufficient
force to perforate Its bilge plating amid
ships. An thrush of water followed, and
oil stored in the fuel tanks came floating
to the surface Had this reached the
level Of the furnace doors both boiler
and engine rooms would have flashed o
j blue sheet Of unquenchable flame. Luck
lily the pumps were set to work in time
and proved equal to keeping the leak
= under.
While the danger might be minimized
by distributing the oil in as many her
metically sealed tanks as possible, II
could never be quite eliminated, and q
bursting shell would doubtless cause
havoc.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-16

In 1902 the def1ictin the post office
department was 1890 ,00e; in 1903 1t was
$4,000, 900; for the present fiscal year 1t
Is officially estimated toreach 81, 200 900,
Notwithstanding the fact that for these
three years the increase in the receipta
IL $25,000,000 This, aside from the rot
teness revealed throughout the depart
ment, can afford little encouragement to
those who advocate government control
OF SO many lines Of the country's busi-
ness Louisville Courier Journal
Little Gov. Yates, of Illinois, look
Ing for reelection on the old:war goy-
errors record settles one thing; there
10 . punishment after deAth.-Albany
Argus.
The growth Of executive power al
ready has become too dangerous for the
best interests Of the country. Ills taking
us all to rapidly away from the original
limitations Of the federal government set
by the fathers Of the republic. What IL
imperatively demanded. now is q check
upon executive authority and not addi-
snonal power placed In the hands Of the
president for the veal or woe Of the "a.
Hon. Fittsbufg Post. .-..-...
G.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-16


Z II do not think professors Of science
should marry. A scientist is so wrapped
up in his work that he has no time to
give to the details of married existence.
A scientist must give all his attention
to his subject if he would be successful.
To marry would mean to divorce oneself
partially from his science. believe
have been more successful because Of my
single state"
Prof. A. v. 3. Young, who is dean Of
the unmarried professors, said:
"Dr. Harper's theory is unsubstanti-
ated by the past examples of scholars.
In the middle ages scholar was re-
cluse who shut himself up in his monas-
terry cell with his books of learning.
Not little Of this recluseness must all
ways cling to the teacher and scholar.
I believe that domestic life robs uni
versity professor of much Of his enthusi-
asm in his work"
Prof. o. F. Long said:
Northwestern university has not suf-
fered from its unusual number of un-
married instructors. Family life is
broadening in its effect on the mind, and
yet by this virtue 1t tends to defeat spe-
cialization, which is now a perquisits
OF the university teacher"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-16
NEW AFFLICTION.
The Latest Form of Caisson Disease
Which Spots Its Victims.
Medical Explanation of the Curious
Ailment Which Affects UNDER
grouna Workmen-Caused
by High Pressure.

Much interest is shown at Gouverneur
hospital in New York city in the latest
fern Of caisson disease developed among
the workmen in the new Manhattan
bridge caisson. Frank Aess The six man
In the case, was brough.to the hospital
from the caisson, NOT only suffering Sc
we're pains. but also spotted all over
with large blacklist patches. After he
had been inrthe hospital a few days the
spots entirely disappeared.
The hospital physicians account fol
this strange development in this way:
When the men are put under pressure in
the caisson the blood is driven entirely
away from the surface of the body and
brain back to the regions of the heart
The arteries and veins become relaxed
and collapse At the same time guam
tity of air is forced through the skin and
hnds lodgment in the tissues Of the
flesh itself.
When the men are taken from the
caisson, unless they are decompressed
very slowly, the system is unable to
return to its normal condition before
| the outer air is reached. When this Is
the case the blood still remaining in the
interior Of the body rushes to the surface
and tears along the veins with fierce
rush.
The relaxed veins are subjected to a
sudden strain and in some cases give
way. causing the blood to come to the
surface Of the body in great clots, very
much like blood blisters.
The rush of blood is rendered the more
dangerous by the effort of the imprisoned
air to get free at the same time. This
has tendency to pull the veins and ar
teries out of place, causing additional
strain.
/ Sometimes blood vessel will burst in
the ear from this cause, forming cloi
of blood just inside the ear drum. This
always results In deafness, and many
Of the workers in caissons become per.
, fectly deaf.
The region that seems to be especial
, ly subject to such attacks is the abdomen
and chest. 1t is here that the sandhogs
as the men who work in caissons ar
called, suffer the worst pain.
They are also attacked in the legs an,
arms. but these are the forms of tn
disease SO common and called by tn
men themselves the bends, because 0
the tendency one has to double up whel
attacked by these cramps. Bleeding a
the nose, fainting, light-headedness ar
the usual symptoms, but sometime
bleeding will begin at the eyes.
u Physicians say that half an hour, a
. least, should be taken in decompressin
Y the men. II that is done, they say, ther
Q would be fewer cases of the disease.
So many men have been taken fro1
q the Manhattan bridge caisson sufferin
from caisson disease that the engineer
= are having trouble in getting enoug
y men to do the work.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-16
PRAISE FOR AMERICAN ARMY.
Lord Wolseley Says England Must
Adopt Methods of United States
in Recruiting.

Field Marshal Lord Wolseley, former
ly commander in chief Of the British
army, has written again in reference to
the decline in military recruiting in
Great Britain. He reaff1rms his belief
in the superiority Of the army of the
United States, saying: "The American
governments wiser than ours. They pay
their men we'll, with the result that the
American army, so far as it goes in num-
bers, is the finest in the world. Until
we adopt similar method Of obtaining
recruits our army never will be in thor
oughly satisfactory state"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-16
"cLEAN MONEY" LEGISLATION.
President of New York Health Board
Tells National Legislators of
Germ-Killing Process.

Daily cleansing of money as sani-
tary precaution is a possibility In this
country. A system of official steriliza-
ton of the supplies of money passing
through the great arteries of trade in
the big cities is the plan proposed.
New York is the pioneer in the
movement. Dr. Thomas Darlington,
president of the board of health of
that city, told of his investigations,
and outlined his plans when he ap-
peared before the committee on bank
ing and currency of the house Of rep
resentatives recently. Pending legis-
lation for clean money" was heartily
endorsed by him, and he gave valuable
suggestions as to how the disease
germs In currency can be stamped out
Experiments now under way by DR..
Park, Of the New York psychological
laboratory, tend to confirm the belief
entertained by the medical profession
that old bills are active mediums in
t =; tsesa.s,.n-.e- - di.s...eeo.....
ton said, prove that the money l4ow IN
circulation In that city is loaded with
these germs. as is feared, his plan for
daily sterilization will be put into eff
feet.
The method outlined by DIR. Darling
ton is to have the money from the
chief mediums of circulation, such as
the great retail stores and the street
car companies, put through a germ
killing process, and to have the gov
eminent redeem such as is beyond
cleansing. He said he would submit
metal coins as well as paper money to
10 process.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-16
His Years.
Not I'm the Swim.

Mrs. suddenrich-I never heard no
such way OF talkin' as you've got into
ut boardin' school.
Daughter-I'ys learned to speak as
the teachers do.
Mrs. Suddenrich-Well, JUS drop 1t.
Them poverty-stricken hirelings don't
rave in our set.-N. Y. Weekly
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-16
University Professors Assert That
Married Life Prevents the Proper
Application to study.

Eight bachelor professors of the
Northwestern university faculty re-
fuse to agree to DR.. William r. Harper's
definition of the ideal college professor.
They present strong arguments in favor
OF the single state Of the university in
structor. Three declare they have 10
contemplation of marriage, viewing
married life as detrimental to their sue
cess as instructors.
Prof. ALA r. Crook, the most striking
example Of the bachelor" professor at
the Evanston institution Of learning,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-16

urine scalds the flesh or if, when the child
reaches an age when it should be able to
control the passage, it is yet afflicted with
Ded-wetting. depend upon 1t. the cause of
the difficulty is kidney trouble, and the first
step should be towards the treatment Of
these important organs. This unpleasant
trouble is due to diseased condition of the
kidneys and bladder and not to a habit Is
most people suppose.
Women as well as men are made mis-
cradle with kidney and bladder trouble,
and both need the same great remedy.
The mild and the immediate effect Of
Swamp-Root is soon realized. II is sold
by druggists. In fifty Esk
cent and one dollar 1ss: .::55
sizes. You may have ::iSi
sample bottle by mail as4s!1: @ 1eEs.
free, also pamphlet tell Homo Of swampRoos
ing all about it. including many Of the
thousands of testimonial letters received
from sufferers cured. In writing DR.. kilmer
& Co., Binghamton. N. T.. be sure and
mention this paper.
F Don't make any mistake, but re-
member the NAM, SWamp-ROot, DR.
Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the ad
dress, Binghamt ton, N. Y, on every
bottle.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-16
TELEPHONE HIS ONLY CHANCE.
Injured Night Waterman Painfully
Crawls to Where He Can Tell
"Central" His Awful Plight.

Alone in the great building of the
Edison storage works in Edgewater,
N. j., at three o'clock in the morning.
with his right arm and right leg
crushed, William Alexander, the watch
man, crawled to the telephone and
summoned doctor and an ambulance,
and but for this effort he would have
bled to death in four hours before help
could possibly have reached him. The
doctors at Roosevelt hospital, where
his leg was amputated, say there Is
but bare chance Of his recovery.
Shortly before three o'clock the 9th.
er morning, while working at the ma
chinery in the engine room, his sleeve
caught in belt, he was drawn up.
ward, and before he could extricate
himself his right arm and leg had been
crushed between the ceiling and the
wheel. When the belt revolved he
dropped to the floor unconscious. Att.
er little time he recovered his senses.
His own blood had formed pool
about him and he knew no one would
enter the building until seven o'clock.
Across the engine room was a tele-
phone. With what agony he dragged
himself across the floor and upon q
chair alongside the telephone none can
imagine but himself. With his good
arm and hand he managed to ring the
bell and tell his plight to the operator
and she called a surgeon and ambu.
lance.
Beyond His Years.
Small Harold was reading aloud to his
mother about ship, and came across
this passage: "And she began to steam
slowly down the bay"
why is a ship called 'she,' Harry"
his mother asked.
"Oh." replied the little fellow, Il sup
pose it's because she has to have man
to boss her."-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-16
Women as Well as Men
Are Made Miserable by
Kidney Trouble.
Kidney trouble preys upon the mind. dis
courapes and lessons ambition: beauty. Yigor

and cheerfulness soon
disappear when the kid
neys are out Of order
or diseased.
Kidney trouble has
become so prevalent
that 1t is notuncommon
for a child to be born
afflicted with weak kid
neys. 1.-THE child urin-
ates too often. II the
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-16

The alleged inevitableness Of Mr..
Roosevelt's nomination seems to be
gradually disappearing under the wear
and tear Of q candidacy that was thought
to be in no danger Of coming into at
tritive contact with anything hard
Binghamton IN. W Leader.
There are the days when the re-
publicans Of Indiana having gone way
back and sat down. people can begin to
get true idea Of what the state will
look like on the 9th If November. so
damnably democratic" as Uncle Mark"
put it when he learned of the results Of
the last election in Missouri Indianap-
oils Sentinel.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-16
No PIace for Snorer..

A Utica man has been arrested and
fined for snoring in church. People who
can't sleep noiselessly, remarks the Buff
falo Express, should stay at home on
Sunday
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-16
Up against II.

The Blotter- You look blue. What's
the matter? ~
The Cancellation Machine oh, I'm up
against the two cent stamps all the while,
and what with the statute OF limitations
and the defective indictments. I'm
ashamed to look George Washington in
the ce!-AlbAny Argus.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-16

Mr.. Bickers-You talk of my flirting!
What about yourself? You know what
the proverb says of people who live in
glass houses?
Mrs. Bickers-oh, yes. 1t says they
ought to pull down the blinds, doesn't It'll
Chicago Chronicle.
WIVES VS.. SCIENCE.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-16

The Power of Money.
my! that ugly Miss Elder is actually
going to be married"
Eyes; it's all the outcome Of her in
come. Bulletin.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-16
The Best Kind.

Have you any good neighbors?"
Eyes, indeed, my neighbors are all
good enough to mind their own BUSH
ness. "-Philadelphia Bulletin.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-16
Proteetiea yer.u. Bouati...


Over in Canada the government 10
having trouble with some Of the protect
Cd steel plants about the amount OF
bounty due them. 1t says the manufac-
tursrs are not entitled to all they claim.
This shows what q coarse, clumsy sys-
tenn they have there in comparison with
our smooth working tariff system. The
Canadian manufacturers are only ask
ing for few millions year In bountiss,
while one Of our steel manufacturing
organizations, by means Of the tarin
system, took about 80. 000, 900 from the
people last year, AID there was no dis
pute with the government as to the
amount, and only now and then Few
trifiing kicks from the plundered VIC
Tins. A small sum like 100000 or
$4,000. 900 looks big when taken openly
from the government treasury and
turned over to the trusts: but $40 OO0.-
900 can betaken secretly and given to the
trusts and not word will be said. The
bounty system 10 not "in 1t" with pro-
lection,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-16
When Trouble Begins.

when Trouble Begins.
She-How long Is the honeymoon sup
posed to last7
Hs-untA the bride begins cooking
YNaksrS etatamsA
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-01
STOCKS AND BONDS.

New York, Dec. 31.-Nothing more was
attempted in today's stock market than
to hold prices. This attempt was emit
nently successful, the market presenting
hard and unyielding surface. No great
power OF resistance was required, In fact,
for the pressure upon the market was
the highest with the running up of The
money, rate late in the day to 9 per cent,
the highest of the movement, was not
unexpected and was of little Influence on
stocks. The rise was much less than Of
ten happens at this period of the year.
and speculative commitments are appar-
emily not over extended and not in weak
hands, so that the shifting of loans dis
lodged little stock. Even in the cotton
market more tranquil tone prevailed
and immediate necessities in the way OF
closing up contracts seemed to be met
and a conservative spirit manifested III
entering upon new ones. There was no
buying demand of Importance for stocks
and the firmness of the market was rather
due to absence OF pressure than to airy
active show of strength. The most prom
inent stock in the speculation was Anal
gamated Copper, which rose ITO new
high level on a report of large foreign
buying of copper. The report that the
United Copper syndicate had been dis
solved also had favorable affect. The
movement in Atchison was a turn against
the shorts. The current earnings state
ments of the Coalers and an
announcement Of cut in price of steam
sizes by Reading rather depressed that
group for time. London also reflected
depressing influence upon this market.
Much interest attaches to the amount of
the expected loan expansion in this weeks
bank statement. The increase in net
earnings of the Union Pacific for Novem.
Der made what was regarded az a salts
factory showing.
Some comment was given to the num-
Der of railroad accidents in Tie recent past
and the important trains which have
been affected The eliminating horror of
the Chicago disaster gave force to the
consideration of accidents as destructive
factors. The closing tone was dull and
heavy.
Bonds were in light demand but firm
in tone. Total sales (par value) 81 1896. 900.
United States bonds were unchanged on
call.
Total sales 10000 shares. including At
Gibson 1850; c. and o., 100; Erie 5,o7c.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-01
Ware g. Eeland's
Cotton Letter.

Raleigh, N. c.. Dec. 31.-A week ago
the cotton market was making new
records daily, and there seemed to be no
limit to the advance. In the twlnkllng
of an eye all this has changed. The ac-
cumulations of months are now being
thrown on the market, sales being made
at any price the buyer desires to pay.
Yet all this cotton cannot be sold in an
hour or a day The value of cotton plays
no part in a market where liquidation is
on, as stop loss orders are reached the
avalanche increases in weight, gains in
moment and carries with it widespread
loss 1t is the same story of over specula-
ton, imitation and over staying the mark
ct There is but one end of all this sort
of thing. one inevitable end Something
must break No one ever knows how, or
when, it simply ends in a collapse. The
year closes under conditions of such ex-
citement as results from frenzied buying
week after week, ending with equally
frantic selling in the effort to get out.
1t needed no Cassondra like spirit of
prophesy for the letter Of last week,
when all holders we're begged to take
profits before it was too late. While the
furere was on, one could sell Bv over
staying a market would come where prices
break so rapidly there is no chance to
get out. All this has happened, and it
may be the end is not yet.
Cotton is very, very high. crash
under 13 cents may bring out more cotton
than can be taken care of, and the decline
continued. Until some idea of the crop
can be had through the census report and
the January movement. it is as yet no
market to buy in for investment. On
good break from Is cents we would not
hesitate to begin moderate purchases for
q sharp reaction, But cotton so bought
should be sold out quickly on any bulge.
With today the most eventful year in the
history of cotton speculation becomes
thing of the past. No man knows what
1904 will bring forth AS far as we are
concerned we can only hope for repeti
ton for the success of 1903 for every one
interested in cotton, and it is no more
than natural that our good wishes should
be extended to those in particular who
have become interested in the cotton
market through us. 1t will be the aim
in 1903 to furnish every one who takes
the trouble to enquire the best opinions
that can be gathered on the cotton situa-
ton We take this opportunity of thank
ing you for your patronage and of as
surfing you that we will do everything in
our power to help in the realization is
the wish for happy New Year.
WARE & LELAND.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-01

THE NATIONAL BANK OF RALEIGH
Raleigh N. c., Dec. II, 1903.
The annual meeting of the shareholders
of this bank for the election Of directors,
and for the transaction of such other
business as may come before it, will be
held in their banking house at IL M,
Tuesday, January 18th, 1904.
F. H. BRIGGS, CASHIER.
12-18-tf.