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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
EXPORTS TO BRITISH AFRICA
Decrease of Nearly Fifty Per Cent. Il
Shown for Eight Months az COM
pared with Last Year.

Exports from the United States to
British Africa were about 81, 500 900 in
the eight months ending August 81. 1904.
as compared with over $4,000. 900 for
the corresponding period in each Of the
two years preceding. OF this I'll, 451 900
exports to all British Africa. S9,65s,000.
Or IS per cent, went to British South
Africa; and it is noteworthy fact that
South Africa is our only foreign market
In which our sales do not seem to be
increasing. The department Of COM
merce and labor, through Its bureau OF
statistics, has recently received some
foreign periodicals which show that the
decrease is due to a general reduction
In imports Of South Africa from all coun-
tries.
OF the goods entering the ports Of
Cape Colony and Natal in 1903 the fol-
lowing countries contributed: Great
Britain, $146,338823; United States,
$30.227,306; British colonies, 21,s47,-
972; Germany, s10,9os.567; Belgium,
$334o,o54; Holland. s1,653.754; France,
H,151, 141. Detailed figures for the pres
ent year are not available to show how
much the trade of each of these countries
has fallen of.
AS compared with the trade in the
other direction imports into the United
States from British Africa are very
small, but even here there has been a
large proportionate decrease. For the
eight months of the present year the
United States imported 1923, 900, much
less than in 1903, when the correspond
ing amount was 1904 900 more than
1902. when the eight months imports
amounted to $640,0O0.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23

because people CT the buying age have
long been accustomed to buying dolls.
and are slow to notice that little girls
care less for them than they did. OF
course, too, almost any girl is fond of
her doll while it is novelty to her; but
she plays with it less than her grand
mother did with one not one-tenth part
SO fine.
Philosophers like H. B. Marriott Wat
son, who says that American women
have slain love-" and who has got into
mess by saying it. may explain this
| tendency along race suicidal lines, and
! preach about the decay OF the maternal
instincts-a line of argument which
would be nonsense.
The real reason why little girls tire
sooner of dolls is that SO many of them
at least lead more active lives than their
mothers did. They skate and swim and
ride ponies. if they are so fortunate as
to have them, or bicycles, II they are
not, and they are altogether too active te
sit for hours grooming over doll.
That again is why the most popular
doll of the season is really mechanical
toy masquerading as doll. The little
figure that can talk by concealed pho
nograph Or bow by concealed spring
has taken the place of the doll that cal
only open and shut its eyes, just as tina
improvement spoiled the plain old-lin
doll for half the little girls that used tt
love them. The shrewdest toy maker
! in the country are allowing for thi
change of sentiment, and have provide,
q tremendous stock of mechanical toy
upon the sound theory that girls ar
just as much interested in them as boys
Both sexes alike in early youth deman
more strenuous" occupation when the.
play. And perhaps the little womel
gain as much in health as they lose Il
sentiment But. after all, a doll is a dol
and she who has never played with on
has missed much,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
Revolution Imminent.

A sure sign of approaching revnltand
serious trouble in your system is ner-
vou>neS-, .,letplessnees, or stomach up.
sets Electric BitterS will quickly dis
member the troublesome causes. Il
never fails To tone the stomach, reglI-
late the Kidneys and Bowels, stimu-
tate the Liver and clarlfy the blood.
Run down systems benefit par ticulaI-
~ ard all the usual attending ache S
vanish under its searching and thor-
ugh effectiveness Electric Bittcrs il
only SOC, and that is returned III IL
dnn'r give perfect satisfaction. Guar
anteed by p. A Clemmer, Druggist. F
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
The field for S.

The field for such an enterprise has been
carefully studied and the great difficulty
is that any project for a gambling out
fit will lack tremendously in patronage
If 1t is too far from New York. If a
man must take sea voyage, anyhow,
he might as we'll oto the original Monte
! Carlo, and be done with 1t. Hence the
beautiful plan that was once suggested
of building big floating island and tow
| ing it outside of the three mile limit to
sea, where, under the flag of some cheap
power, it could be immune to the law of
| the metropolis only 80 miles away. To
such an island business men could go for
an evenings sport at bucking the tiger.
without losing the next days business.
! 1t would be a very pretty problem In in
ternational law, would it not, such an is
| land?
Practically unlimited capital could be
found for good gambling investment.
| The district attorney in New York is too
/ vigilant, the politicians who insist upon
sharing the kitty are too rapacious.
The necessity of making "double-OO"
boards. throwing six per cent, instead Of
II
has often been accounted for in New
York by the fact that the political ring
insists upon addition, division and
silence With the "single-O" game,
that Is to say, with such odds as the
Monaco tables esta blish in their own ia
vor. a million year could easily be taken
in as profits by syndicate that could
guarantee no police interference. That
would be over thirty millions of money
passing over the bosrds. In Monte Carlo
$3.50, 100000 year pass across the green
cloth. The company's little three per
cent. upon the total business" is the
sole income Of the province, whose ex-
penditures are upon lavish scale, be-
sides providing bride money for hun
dreds of functioraries and magnificent
private income for the prince. No won
der the Canfieds are looking for an
American Monte Carlo!
OWEN I,ANGDON
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23

Ike the wealth that Rockefeller and a
few associates command and control. In
deed, in these days the Rothschild wealth
does no more than keep pace with the
necessary subdivision to meet the in
crease OF the prolific family. The es-
tate, which IL most conservatively man.
aged, does we'll II 1t nets four per cent.
year upon Its vast capital; In the Span
ash war the Rothschilds lost heavily
upon Spanish bonds. the head of the
house, Baron Alphonse. having taken
from association the common Partisan
view that Spain must be victorious.
The social gentilization of Roths-
child 10 no new idea in this country.
Old New Workers remember well that
August Belmont. who came over to rep
resent the Rothschilds in what was then
unimportant America, came of family
whose original name was "Schon-
berg" which had been gallicized into
Belmont" The family he founded is
one Of the highest placed in New York
society. Similar rank may be claimed
by the head OF the great international
banking house Of the speyers; who mar
ried one Of New York's fashionable ma
irons. and whose muniticent benefac-
lions for New York are a pattern for
others.
Meanwhile. the latest international
romancs" to agitate society is the re-
cent marriage OF Miss Edith Deyereux
Clapp to Count Rene du Temple de
Rougemont. OF Memellon, France. De
Rougemont is good-looking young fell.
low, who has considerable family es-
tates. HIS bride was not in the inner
circle Of New York's wealthy society, but
had lived very quietly before the mar.
riage. which came after brief wooing
and is called love match.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
CreSCO Union
Savings Bank
ROBERT THOMSON. Cashier

That is 10 say, depend up
on yourself. Have you,a Saw
ings account?
The man or woman who ex-
poets to make money had bet
ter learn how to save some
thing out of their present in
come.
Fortune is for those who by
diligence, honesty and fru-
gallty place themselves in a
position to grasp hold of for
tune when it.appears in view.
Application in youth makes
old age comforta Bile.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
THE HOUSE OF RoTHscHILD
Are the Austrian Noblemen Seeking
American Wivesp - Bill Smith
Gone Broke on Automobiles
Other Gotham Gossip.
EW YOR K.-The
presence of two
grandsons of the
g re at e S t Roths-
child, and their an
nouncement ID a t
I h e y propose to
stay all winter, has
somewhat fustered
society circl e S.
Rig hit or wrong, the
ip1nre cSinn will NOT

down that they have come to seek Amer
lean wives.
Barons Alphonse and Louis are sons
Of the head of the Austrian branch of
their great house, and grandsons of the
Partisan Rothschild. They are quite sim
eere in their protestations to report
ers that they know nothing of fee
Darnce" 1t is quite true. They do not.
There is no such thing as hereditary
leadership in the world of money, and
these young men are merely Austrian
noblemen and gentlemen, members of q
crack military corps. and by the favor of
the emperor ennobled to 16 quarterings,
which would carry them far past that
not 80 remote Nathan of the Red Shield
sign, who buried princes treasures in
time of wal, and restored them enhanced
when peace came.
Sixteen Quarterings would carry the
Rothschild nobility back to the six
teenth century; as matter Of fact, he
Rothschild fortunes in the old world are
Of newer growth than the Aston fortunes
IN the new world. The original Roths-
SAAAa0 W61 . QOO1 pduhSl, IuSduluS pTdC-
tically q pawnbroker and goldsmith in
. crowded ghetto, when the original
John Jacob Aston was already pros
porous man in New York The great
Rothschild fortune. as we of to-day
know It, was founded during the Ma.
poleonic wars from 1907 to 1915, less thar
. century ago. when all the nations o.
Europe were floating bonds at rates tina
would be to-day ruinous and impossible
and when advance information of Wa
terloo in the absence of telegraph.
meant great fortune.
The Rothschilds are one of the three
families Of Jewish blood who rank witt
the bluest FLOODED aristocrats at all tn,
courts Of Europe. Everyone knows tn,
pretty story about Lord Rosebery plan
ming when still schoolboy to wed tn,
richest heiress in England. to be prim,
minister, and to win the Derby. He dit
all three: the heiress was the daughte
Of the London Rothschild.
So society does not look unfavorabl,
upon the two young Austrian nobleme1
who have sought New York's hospitals
ity.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
WILL PREVENT EXPLOSIONS
Device Invented by an Englishman to
Be Attached to Receptacles Con-
tanning Infammable Liquids.

England has devise for preventing
the explosion of receptacles containing
highly inflammable liquids which give
of explosive gases. 1t is an application
of the principle of the Humphrey Davy
safety lamp used in mines. If vessel
Of ordinary type, containing an explo-
sive liquid. be subjected to sufficient
at orif1ce, the walls of the tank will burst
by the force of the expansion. A 20-gal-
Ion tank was partly filled with gasoline
and placed upon lighted bonfire. The
fusible screw cap, made in two parts
which were simply soldered together.
soon blew out, the solder having melted,
and the ascending vapor caught fire i'm
mediately; but no explosion followed.
because the orifice of the tank formed
the upper end of tube which projected
down inside the vessel to its bottom,
where it was closed to allow the oil or
gas to penetrate from the interior Of
the tank. Each of the metal layers OF
which this tube was composed had been
perforated, and while the perforations
"ou1u PSl lulI luc oplllI W VIC pun 0
out, they prevented the passage of the
burning gas to the interior, by absorbing
its heat as the wire gauze does in the
Davy lamp. While the gasoline con-
tanned in the tube burned, the flame did
not extend to the liquid or accumulated
vapor in the half full tank. The flame
was easily extinguished with bundle
of rags, and then lighted and put out
several times. A motor car tank to
which the device was affixed, was lighted
with match. and extinguished at will.
A gasoline can without the device ex-
ploded almost instantaneously.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
SHIP TO BE UNIQUE.
INSCRIPTION OF NEW ARCTIC
EXPLORATION VESSEL.
Aald-Headed Schooner, Steel sheathed
| with Powerful Engines - First
Graft Ever Constructed Es-
pecially for Such Work.

J The new arctic ship upon which Robert
p. Peary will make his final try for the
north pole is now unoer way, at Bangor,
Me-, and from her plans she will be SUI
nerior to the famous Fran, aboard which
Nansen made his voy age in the polar sea-
The Peary ship is to be balo-headed
three-masted schooner-that is, three
masted schooner without topmasts, with
rather limited sail area, but powerful en-
Gines. The hull is to be built by Mckay
& DIX, of New York, at their yards in
Verona, 10 miles below Bangor, on the
Penobscot river, and the machinery is TO
be supplied by the Portland company, Of
Portland.
The hull is to be delivered at Portland
on February 10, and the machinery is to
be Installed by April Is, when the vessel
VII have trial cruise off the coast of
kaine.
The vessel will have very strong
Srame of Virginia oak, with ceiling and
planking OF yellow pine. Part Of the
frame and lot of the planking have ar
rived at Verona. but the keel has been
side-tracked somewhere. and its nom
arrival delays the operations.
She Is to be 100 feet long on deck, 1874
feet on the load water line, IS feet beam,
~ feet depth of hold 16 feet inches
draft. ready for sea with 800 tons OF coal
In her bunkers. The bottom will be
double planked. and she will be strongly
Heenforced In bow and stern by masses
iOf oak timbers, while the hull at the
water will be sheathed with steel, hal.
An inch thick amidships and one inch
ut bow and stern.
Her model will be such that the ice
pressure will lift. instead Of pinchins
her. She will have long overhang for
ward. the stem being set at an angle oi
about As degrees. SO that she will ride
the ice flows she runs into.
She will be provided with engines Of
the compound condensing type, capable
OF developing 1000 horse power under
natural draft and 1,40O under forced
draft. Her displacement will be 300
tons; net register, 800.
The propeller will be two-bladed,
which type is better designed for arctic
voyaging than the three or four bladed
kind. The ship will not be fast, but will
have great cruising radius at fair speed,
The design Of the vessel Is by Com
mander Peary himself. while the ma.
chinery is to be built from designs by
Chief Engineer Wilson Sprague, of the
Portland company.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23

hadn't any lack of uses; most of all he
was entranced by automobiles. HIS
first important purchase, after New Mar
ket's thirst was assuaged as never be-
fore, was a big red automobiles in which
he tried hard to initiate his sisters fate.
But apparently he who is fated to be
bankrupted by automobiles is not to be
killed by them. Trading as the Plain
field Auto Carriage company, Smith has
failed for tidy sum. The odds and
ends and leavines of the Fair money
are still sufficient to keep all the
Smiths in comfort, if they will consent
in comfort to remain But
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
NEW SPECIES OF MONKEYS
Strange Race Discovered in Island Of
Java Thought 70 Be Long-Looked-
For Missing Link.

Prof. Van Sickle Of Amsterdam, who
for some months has been making geo
logical charts Of the northern part Of
Java. cables the Academy Of Sciences
in this city that he feels certain that
he has discovered the long-looked-for
missing link. He does not claim the
honor Of the discovery himself, but says
that some weeks ago he was informed
by Dutch merchant, Van Bsufen, that
he had discovered new species Of mon
keys in q dense forest in which he had
lost his way.
The professor started out to look into
the discovery Of the merchant, and while
watching for the animals to appear he
heard a peculiar half human voice. Look
ing up. he saw an enormous nest and
two ape-like animals looking down upon
him.
The natives of that part Of the island
have long known the presence Of these
apes. which they call ash Pstrizi.
Unlike any other apes. they battle fire.
Quently and the females wear strange
necklaces OF twigs and red berries, and
nurse their young singing half-articu-
lated words. They have, in fact. a Ian
guage, but 1t consists Of very few words.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23

AIh Is revived OF all
American M o n t 9
Carlo, in which Mr..
Garfield is said to
be interested. This
time gossip places
it in Havana; l
have known Yucca
t a n Nicaragua.
Panama, and other
o u t. f. t b e : way
points suggested.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
Precise,

who is the villain in your produc-
ton?" asked the hotel clerk.
WELL" answered Mr.. Stormington
Barnes. "the man who plays the vii
lain is named Smith; but the real vii
lain is the manager who got US out
ere."-Washington Star.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
A Suggestion.

If the Arizona man who wants to
rattle himself off to the ladies at one
dollar chance finds his scheme comes
in conflict with the postal authorities,
says tie Chicago Daily News, he might
arrange with some big store to give
him as premium for certain num-
Der of trading stamps.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
S E E D
7 l M T.

Ue experienced farmer
has learned that some
grains require far differ
ent soil than others;
some crops need differ
enthandling than others.
He knows that a great
deal depends upon right
planting at the right
time, and that the soil
must be kept enriched.
Nc use Of complaining
in summer about a mis-
take made in the spring.
Decide before the seed
is planted.
Ue best time to rene
dy wasting conditions in
the human body is be-
fore the evil is too deep
rooted. At the first evil
dence Of loss of flesh
Scott 8 Emulsion
should be taken irnme.
diately. There is moth
ing that will repair
wasted tbs sue more
quickly or replace lost
flesh more abundantly
than SCOTS Emulsion.
It nourishes and builds
up the body when ordi-
nary food s absolutely
fail.
We HukH send Won a sample free.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
Writers and Warriors.

In Germany only about one manu-
script out of every 300 offered to the pub
fishers is accepted, and Germany's out
put Of books is enormous. Evidently,
says the Chicago Record Herald, that is
Q country OF scribblers as well as Of SOLE
1strk
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
Says Moon Controls Hair.

The hair is controlled by the moon.
If you cut 1t when the moon is full 1t
will "bleed" and change color. The
study Of the hair is a science of which
the ordinary barber knows nothing.
This is the warning of Mrs. Anna
Finch, a hair expert. She has issued
an offer to grow luxuriant crop on
the bald poll of John D. Rockefeller.
The answer of the Standard Oil mag
nafe IL awaffoA
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
Decadence of the Doll.

DON'T suppose that
old people in gen.
eral know that the
doll is no longer SO
popular as it was
with young people
in general. B u t
that's the fact. OF
course, more and
finer dolls are sold
than ever before.
but that is in part
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
Money and Society.

NCE the rise OF the
"S t a n d ard OIL
crowd" In this coun-
try, the old talk
about Rothschilds
has subsidized. No
single member of
the Jewish family
has anything like
the wealth of Rock
efeller; the entire
family has nothing
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
What he would Do

"What would you do II you were .
king?" asked the man Of vanlting am.
bition.
II don't know" answered the matter
of-fact person; II suppose I'd follow
the fashion and wear look of worry
and bullet-proof shirt. Washington
Star.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
Ideal.

What is your idea Of quiet life?,
"A deaf and dumb couple marrying
and going to Philadelphia to i've
Town Topics.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
Why Te TREATED,

First Tenant Why did sou give the
jani;or i}e cream?
Second Tenant--l want him to feel
eald.--M. Y. Sun.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23

Charles Fair. who. with her husband wa.
the brother Of the unfortunate Ms.
Afflicted by speed madness" in France.
an0 unoer its spell was fatally hurt upon
y road near PARIS. Far was the pleas
srs-loying son OF the great California
millionaire. the brother OF Mrs. Hermann
oslrteh and Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr.
1he question Of the settlement OF his
sstAse depended somewhat upon de-
easion OF the nice legal point whether
SSs or his wife died first, upon which
eussr French testimony was offered.
Other things being equal, the man IS
Supposed to be stronger and TO livelonger
A. Any rate. the case was compromised
~ me payment Of considerable sum
g hM Smith's mother. Q simple old soul.
~ oeo9t We lsaDt -Sse tur h. Sasi.sa
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
Insinuatinp.

1.-THE world is stage" she said dra-
matically. land we women are really
the star performers. Men are mere
clowns"
Perhaps" he retorteG. slancins It
her cheeks, "but It keeps the star per.
formers busy making up."-Chicaeo
News
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
The Breaking Of Bill Smith

J L L S M l TIL is
broke" Not great
ly to the surprise of
his associates and
friends in N e W
Mark ct, N. ].
BY automobiles
Smith became rich;
by the same rapid
t r a n S 1T contriv-
arces h is riches
took wings. He is
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
Worse Than Germs.

do you think poetry is dying out?"
"No: but you might say a good deal
Of the poetry that's being ground out
nowadays is perfectly killing ,-Chi-
cago Record Herald.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
Talk of Gambling syndicates.

1 ak is revived of al
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

GF'rom the Chicago News.1
The man who was born great may
not die that way.
No, Cordelia, the little dears are not
seen at stag parties.
Keep your temper if it is good, and
don't lose it if it is bad.
You can usually judge a ma.n't hap
piness by his self-importance.
A mans seIf-respect is often pune
tured by the suspicious of his neigh
bors.
Two-thirds of the dignity we encoun-
ter in our daily walks is merely bluff.
In order to join the great silent ma
jority a man must either die or get
married. -s.4-}.-s s.sf-s--.
Some automobiles, are called run
abOuts and others should be known as
stopa bouts.
The best way to keep people from
getting onto your curves is to be per
fectly straight.
1t is bootless for a man to have an
aim in life unless he has the ammunf-
ton to back it up.
An actress may not be an angel her
self but she doesn't object to having
one lowering around at times.
A man with all kinds of money usual
ly acquires a wife who develops a
mania for breaking up his collection