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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-07
Ex.Mayor Takes a Shovel.

That his family might continue to
have home to shelter them, James
Brenton, ex-mayor of Des Moines,
took pick and shovel and commenced
work last week upon the public
streets. OF the members of the board
of public works who had received
their appointments at his hands he
asked the privilege OF joining the
street working gang and the request
was granted at salary of 81 per day.
Brenton's case has been peculiar. I'm
educated, he went into politics and
was nominated and elected county
superintendent of schools there. Later
he was elected mayor. During his adj
ministration the mayors Office was a
political storm-center. He served but
one term and went out of Office with
scarcely dollar Next he appeared
as bartender in Des Moines sa-
loon. He has now declared that re-
spect has reasserted itself and that he
will redeem himself in the eyes of the
people of Des Moines If honest toll
will do 1t.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-07
Killed by Train.

William Jones of st. Paul met his
death in a frightful manner at the
Rock Island station in Davenport last
week. In attempting to board the
Rocky Mountain limited as it was
leaving the station he collided with
one of the projecting Orders of the
viaduct over Ripley street and was
hurled beneath the wheels of the
train. His body was cut and bruised
and one leg was completely severed
from his body. Death was instantan-
eous.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-07
Ancient Coins Found.

Thirty pieces of silver, dating for
centuries back, were last week found
by Nicholas Goetzinger, while dig
ging fence postholes at Templeton.
The money has evidently been in a
roll, but the outer covering had
dropped away. Some of the coins
were minted by the electors of Prus-
STA. others were from Hungary, Elan
ders and Bavaria.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-07
consumptIve Cattle Increasing.

tuberculosis in Iowa cattle, like
that in humans, is on the increase in
this state and state veterinarians
have been kept busy examining herds
which have had the disease, and have
ordered the owner of any cattle in
which signs Of this contagion have
been noticed to kill the stock at once,
that being the only way to prevent a
spread of that trouble.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-07
Met a Horrible Death.

David Copenhaver of Sloan, while
cutting down big oak tree. met a
horrible death. He had cut it half
through, and it fell, the trunk splitting.
While the tree lay he proceeded with
an ak to cut the remainder of the tree
through. When he had cut through,
two halves of the split trunk snapped
back tobether, catching him by the
body as he bent over to strike. Life
was crushed out Of him instantly. The
chest and body and hardly an unbro.
ken bone and the eyes were forced
from their sockets.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-07
Liable TO Murder Charge.

L. Hotchkiss. engineer on the
Rocky Mountain limited, which Eric
Kutzlevin says he wrecked near
Homestead over week ago, died last
week of injuries received. Kutzlevin
viii probably be held for murder,
pending an investigation of his sanity
Later Kutzlevin was indicted for muir
der at Marengo.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-07

asking to have their names entered
on the roll, or they can fill out and
mail the blank which is printed below.
"The Commoner will be pleased to
publish limited number Of brief let
tiers on this subject. Mr.. Bryan is en-
couraged by his correspondence to be-
lieve that there will be prompt and
hearty response to .the above propo-
sition. THE Commoner.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-07
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Boughi'
s' sssss sss 81 lnz1z;1z@

Settlers Rates to Points in the Southeast,
On the first and third Tuesdays of
each month, January to April inclu-
seye, the Chicago Great Western Rail
way will sell one way tickets to points
in Alabama, Florida. Georgia, Ken
lucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North
and South Carolina, Tennessee and
Virginia at very low rates. For fur
ther information apply to any Great
Western Agent or j. P. Elmer, G.. p.
A.. Chicago, Ill. apr Is
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-07
Kick in Head crazes a Man.

Ed Fountain, blacksmith at GAIA,
was kicked in the head by a horse
while he was shoeing the animal and
was made insane. He has wandered
away, and 1t Is feared he has destroy
ed his life. The people of the little
town are searching for the unfortu-
nate man. who is respected and has
family.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-07
Desires to succeed poIIiver.

Governor Cummins, according to
authority which is not disputed In
political circles, will soon announce
his candidacy for United States sena-
tor to succeed Jonathan Prentiss Dol
liver Of Fort Dodge.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-07
Donation From Carnegie.

Officers of Drake university at Des
Moines received an offer of dona-
ton from Andrew Carnegie of $780,
600 for the erection of a library. The
offer has the usual provision that the
university must raise like sum.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-07
Accused.

The visitor paused beside the humor-
lists desk and looked him over.
So" he said, you are the man who
sees the funny side Of life, eh?"
i suppose So" was the reply. ri
have even been accused Of seeing the
funny side of my own jokes. Chicago
News.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-07
For Sale.

The west half of the southeast
quarter of section IL, township 80,
range IL, Howard county, Iowa. En-
quire of John Rathart and Stephen
Dotzler, Bonair, Iowa, or J. A. Dreier
Billings, Mo. 15tf.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-07
The Brute

John" said Mrs. Twicewed, you
are brute! You don't express any
sorrow that my mother is dying. /
don't believe you'd care if all my rela-
tives died!"
Yes, would" answered the brute,
cheerfully. 81 often find myself grew
ing over the death of your first hus-
band. "-Cleveland Leader.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-07
Pure Milk

Bacon-You say he claims the milk
he sells is pure?
Egbert-Oh, yes; he always boils the
water before putting it in the milk
Yonkers Statesman.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-07
Next

II hear Miss Passee has such a beau-
tiful complexion. Were you not next to
her at the theater last nisht?"
II certainly was; it's homsmade."-
Houston Post.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-07
Not Critical.

rs your husband s condition critical 7"
mo-" answered the patient-lookins
woman. That's wnat makes me think
he must be sick. He doesn't find any
fault at all. "-Washington Star.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-07
Iowa Law Student Drowned.

Frank Byers. junior law student
in the University of Michigan from
Harlan, Ia, was drowned while canoe
ing on the Huron river.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-07

IN contest with Japan we would be at
greater disadvantage than Russia Is, for
Russia has the choice OF land and water
routes, while we have only the water
route. The same is true of France or
Germany. Neither of them could fight
Japan in the east
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-07
Just 80.

Lady-Give you an old newspaper al
a bed. Why, what kind Of bed would
you call a newspaper
Tramp folding bed. Chica-
go News.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-07
In a Pinch, use ALIENS roor-EAsF.

IN FIhch, use ALLEN's FOUT-EASF.
Shake into your shoes Aliens Foot
Ease, powder. Itcures Corns, Bun
ions, Painful, Smarting, Hot, Swollen
feet. At all Druggists and Shoe
Stores, zoe. 62w4
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-07
The Primary pledge

promise 70 attend all the primaries Of
nanona convention unless
and and
aon the partY position which the the
party desire - - 80 -
Street. ..Postomce ........,..... State - .
county. Voting precinct
ELL out blanks Office, Lincoln Neb
Hs ' 49,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-07
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Letter :: ;:


Especial Washington letter.
\ HE big stick policy is meeting
with some difficulties. Even
after the senate had emascu-
IL. 4 Z L.. 4. ~
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-07

lateu the SantO domingo treaty
1t failed to ratify it and adjourned,
leaving 1t suspended betwixt heaven
and earth after the manner of Moham-
med's coffin. Perhaps that was only
an easy way of letting the president
down easy. The chances are that it
will never be ratified. 4he more people
reflect upon Uncle Sam setting up as
receiver general for all the bankrupt
republics in this hemisphere the less
they will like it. Them the idea Of
our government assuming the role Of
bad debt collector for spectators In
foreign countries, as some mighty per-
sonages would have us do in the Vene-
zuelan matter, is likely to prove re-
pugnant to public sentiment when cool
ing time is allowed. On the whole, 1t
Is good time For reflection. We should
take long look ahead and carefully
count the consequences before we take
what Benjamin Disraeli was wont to
characterize as "a leap in the dark"
It is better to think first and then act
than to act first and then think. Post
norton regrets never yet did any good.
Our old policy made us great and
strong and safe. Wherefore change 1t?
Better bear the Ills we have than fly
to others we know not Of.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-07
A * - - "a. i g
Bears tho nlhs Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature ct le,z1AzzzzI

A lazy liver makes lazy.man. Bur
never falling REMEDY for lazy liver.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-07

engaged In those departments Of hui
man endeavor constitute powerful
and thoroughly organized class, who
fight for their profits courageously and
effectively. Do the Republican lead
ers dare to offend them? Hardly, for
they can hurl them from power be-
twixt sun and sun. So the Republican
chieftains are, poor things, betwixt the
devil and the deep blue sea. If they
tax coffee the coffee drinkers will swat
them. If they raise the tax on beer
and whisky and tobacco and cigars
those Interested therein will pull them
down. If they issue new bonds they
will at once become the laughingstock
for men and angels, considering what
they have said about G. G. and his Ill
starred performances. They seem to
be doomed-a delightful prospect for
honest men.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-07

The Washington gossip is to the eff
feet that when Governor Leslie NJ.
Shaw Of Iowa quits the treasury de-
partment to nurse bis presidential
boom Hon. George Bruce Cortelyou,
ex-secretary Of commerce and labor,
now postmaster general, will succeed
him. Few men have ever held three
different cabinet Offices.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-03
More FriIls for Our Schools.

However. we expect to see the high
school societies continue TO fourish.
High schools give an education equai
to that of colleges not so very many
wears ago and put on college frllls ac-
cordingly. The grammar schools are
making progress similarly ana no
doubt will soon have their freshmen
and sophomores, their commence
ments, etc. 1t is part of the pro-
gressiye movement of the century
He who gets in front of it will be run
over. and that will be the end of HIM
Young America is not to be stopped III
his advance. Burlington News.
The "frill" idea is beginning to con-
stitute the most serious problem IN
school life to-day. Simplicity is being
left so far behind that we shall pres
emily have but a few scanty hours per
week devoted to the good, old needtul
elements. Glass rides, class parties
class pins, or different ball teams
commandments" of high ana low
degree "doings" for all national ana
some state holidays, rehearsals, new
dresses. plays, minstrel shows and now
Creek letter societies! Where is TINS
complexity going to stop ana now
long are we going to pay the frelght
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-03

The United States supreme court
has decided that compulsory vaccina-
ton, as ordered by local boards of
health under authority Of state legis-
latures, is not an infraction of indi-
vidual liberty guaranteed by the con-
stitution This should end all protest
in the matter as far as loyal citizens
of the republic are concerned. The
contention that vaccination is dan
gerous to health and life is not sup
ported by medical authority, which
insists that, properly administered
and cared for, it never is. That 1t
has been the means of subduing one
of the most dreadful of diseases and
saving innumerable lives, is reason
enough why, for the good of the
many, it should be deferred to by the
timid and doubling few, in spite OF
inconvenience and misgivings.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-03

The members of the senior class al
the Massachusetts Agricultural col
lege have proven their manliness and
good sense, individually and collect
lively. by going back to school and
apologizing They recently Withdrew
in a body because three Of their num-
Der had been suspended for bad be-
havior during a recitation. 1t may be
noble to stand by a classmate through
certain kinds of trouble. but 1t Is
quite another thing to support him IN
INSTRUMENTATION to school authority
No pupil of any school has the right
to indulge in ungentlemanly conduct
in the school room and if he thinks
he has, he should properly go back
home and learn common courtesy.
The incident has terminated well for
the school and creditably to young
New England manhood.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-03

The Hardwick Gazette admits the
Inconsistency, in no-license town. OF
a petition by the citizens for the
nardon of a convicted illegal liquor
seller, because his family comes on
to the town to the tune of about $40
per month" 1t explains the proceed
ing thus:
Men who ought to know better
and who do--put down their names
without thinking twice. There is no
lodging the fact that this petition is
a direct insult to the states attorney.
He has a perfect right to expect all
law abiding and law respecting citi-
zens to aid him with their moral sup
port in his endeavors to maintain the
laws The Gazette doesn't peileVe
the petition will carry any weight
with Governor Bell, and hopes II
won't. Nobody need feel hurt at TINS
plain English, for the writer was one
of those who signed the petition.
was a simple case of signing hrst'
and thinking afterwards.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-03
rbe nublic may we'll doubt the wis

The public may we'll doubt the WIS
dom of giving the pardoning power
to a governor, in view of the uses 10
which It is sometimes put by state
executives. Gov Higgins of New
York has recently pardoned Miller
the swindler who robbed thousands
of people of their hard-earned saw
ings and who had served less than
half of his ten-year sentence. he
goes free in return for 'peaching" on
the man who secured most OF the
plunder. Gov. Higgins has also par
doned, conditionally, the Stewart BOY
who deliberately cut playmate 5
throat while playing barber shop ana
who was sentenced in 1900 for TWEEN
ty years. Pardons in cases like THESE
should never be granted except where
innocence. or a degree of innocence
is proven. Clemency is inappropriate
" applied where simple justice Is de-
manded.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-03
Effective. II RiqhtfulIy Enforced.

frank Foycroft, in The Atlantic.l
The hasty survey of conditions in
the two states vermont and New
Hampshire) indicates that in both
public sentiment has not yet crystal
iized into full approval Of the change
The old system worked i'll, but the
new is not working well. The revul-
sion against state prohibition was so
strong that even the smallest towns
with only a handful of voters-for
example, Glastonbury and Norton IN
Vermont, the former casting only ~
and the latter only % votes. and
Drummer and Lincoln in New Hamp-
shire. the one casting only "a and the
other AZ votes-were swept away by
If But the force of this revolt has
spent itself as is shown by the d.
unfinished number of places voting for
license. It is now local option when
is on trial before the bar of pubic
opinion. If it continues to make SO
bad a showing in Vermont as regards
increase of drunkenness as is DIS
closed in the figures which have been
quoted, it will scarcely maintain 1t
self. II the referendum in that state
were to be taken over again to-mor-
row, probably the result would be the
reverse of what it was in 1908. But
if the new system is given falr
trial. it may be found that the legal
lied liquor traffic can be restricted
under it within extremely narrow lin
its, and that where public sentiment
tolerates its existence it will be able
to regulate its excuses more effect
lively than was possible under sys-
TEN which ignored local sentiment.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-03

The rural delivery men are certain
ly earning their money at this sea-
son of the Waterbury Record.
So are the nilkmen, the express
men, brakemen on railroads, and dots
of others. But isn't everybody VINO
draws his pay supposed to earn ms
money at all seasons of the year, and
every day? The other fellows job Is
the only cinch man ever sees ana
ones own work is always full OF we'll
nigh insurmountable difficulties. IL
has been a hard winter for all out
door workers, but they Will have the
compensation of long season Oh
pleasant weather, during the summer
and fall, the benefits of which indoor
workers will miss, Perhaps the rurai
delivery men are underpaid, as the
Record intimates but we do not thlhk
their work is attended with uncom-
mon hardship or trial.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-03

The decision of the international
commission on the North Sea Incl
dent" is a great triumph for ar5i'
tration principles, since it closes a
very dsagreeable and war provoking
affair with the conclusion that while
everybody concerned is to be pitied,
nobody is to blame. The fishing boats,
it seems, committed no hostile act,
and therefore the firing upon them
was not justified; but Admiral Ro-
iestvensky had good reason to believe
that torpedo boats We're about and
that he might be attacked, therefore
his orders were justified. If arbitra-
ton principles like these had been
applied to the Japanese dis
pute, long ago, it is plain that the
war would never have begun and
this regrettable incident" would new
err have occurred.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-03

The latest proposition for pardon Is
in behalf of Jesse Pomeroy the Mas
sachusetts child murderer. He was
only IA when incarcerated for life.
but the nature of his crime was such
as to make the sentence seem light.
To liberate him now, at the age OF
AZ, with a love for killing apparently
inherent in him, would be an argu-
ment in favor of the death penalty
as the only sure means of public pro-
lection from the murderer. Let the
man be given work, reading or other
amusement to brighten his lot, If his
condition or behavior seems to war
rant leniency; but don't turn him
loose upon human life. He has done
enough of butchery
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-03

DO YOU want to pay taxes to sup
port paupers and criminals maze py
the rumshops?" This is question
which has been publicly asked by the
no-license people of Brattleboro III
answer to this question we ask anoth-
er: Are paupers as numerous under
license as under prohibition? and we
answer it by submitting the following
facts and figures. The net poor eX-
penses" for the year ending Feb. l.
1905 according to the town report
lust issued) are $1,722.54. The yearly
average under license thus far is ST.
672. As. During the last five years I'M
der prohibition, when the town farm
was managed by the same overseer'
the average net expenses for poor
were $2,13S.S0-2S per cent above the
for the first two years under license.
During the last Is years under pro-
hibition the average poor expenses
were $222O.19-33 per cent above the
average under the first two years OF
license. In proportion to the grand
list and population the net expenses
for town poor during the year just
past is the smallest since. 1857 with
one exception. Are not these statis-
tics sufficient to show that a yes vote
is the right move toward reducing the
number of paupers?
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-03

Advocates of painless" capital
punishment will do well to read the
following description of electrocution
by Thomas A. Edison: There is a
sensation of a moment only-as quick
as the bat of an eye. But in that
second there is pain indescribable.
The flash comes and the shock; 1t is
ten times more excruciating than the
feeling that results from ones placing
his hands on live Goals. 1t is a burning,
deyilish, narrowing feeling. Imagine
the quick thrusting of ten thousand
hot needle points into the body at one
time. and you may have a faint idea
of the shock when the current is
turned on
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-03

We want to protest and protest hard
against the growing disposition on the
part of parents TO force their children
to live in duplicate the social life of
their elders. Little children ten OF
twelve years old have their card par
ties. their dances, their chatting dish
parties and so on.-Lyndonviile Jour
nal
This protest is shared by every par
ent who wants the little ones to enjoy
and prolong their happy childhood
Let us keep our babies with us as long
as We can; they'll grow away from us
only too fast
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-03
Banking by Mail.

Persons who have money to deposit
in savings banks and who wish to
have their money kept in Vermont to
foster Vermont enterprises and build
up Vermont industries may send
funds to the Lamoille County Savings
Bank and Trust Co, Hyde Park, VT,
feeling fully assured that every dollar
will be loaned in Vermont. Deposl-
tors can remit funds at banks risk If
sent by check or postal money order.
Address either the treasurer. C. a.
Knight. or the president. c. s. Page,
Hyde Park. VT.
The Hyde Park Bank holds the rec
ord of having never owned a poor
note since its organization in jan
uary. 1889; a fact which is easily ac-
couted for when il is considered that
the ioans are all in Vermont and the
security therefor where il can easily
be examined by banks officials. Alb
solute safety rather than the high
rate of interest that can be secured
on western loans is the first prerequi-
site demanded by the Hyde Park
Bank in making loans