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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-06-02
The Bad Boy Writes of Ancient and
Modern ELECTROMAGNETIC Gets a
Taste Of High Life and His Dad
Tells the Story Of the
Pickleman's Daughter.
by HON. GEORGE w. PECK.

BY HON. GEORGE w. PECK.
of Wisconsin, formerly pub
Usher of "Peck's Sum-" author of
"Peck's Bad Boy" etc.)
copyright, 1904, by Joseph b. Bowles)
LONDON, England.-My Dear Old
Skate: Well, if we are going to see any
of the other countries on this side OF
the water before our return ticket ex-
pires, we have got to be getting move
on. and dad says in about week we Will
be doing stunts in Paris that will bring
about a revolution, and wind up the re-
public of France, and seat some nine
spot on the throne that Napoleon used
to wear out his buckskin pants on.
Dad asked me tother day what cared
most to see in London, and | told him
wanted to visit Newgate prison, and
the places made famous by the bold
highwaymen Of century or two ago.
He thought was daffy, but when told
him how had read Claude Duval' and
"Sixteen-String jack and all the high
way literature, in the haymow, when dad
thought was wedding the garden, he
confessed that he used to hunt those
yellow covered books out Of the manger
when was not reading them, and that
he had read them all himself, when
thought he was studying for his cam
paign speeches, and so he said he would
60 with me. So we visited Homestead
Heath, where Claude Duval used to ride
'Black Bess," and hold up people who
travelled at night in post chaises, and VIC
| found splendid spots where there had
been more highway robbery going on
than any place east OF Missouri, but l
| was disguised when l thought what
| chumps those old highway robbers were,
compared to the American highway rob-
bers and hold up men Of the present day.
| In Claude Duval's time he had brace
| of flint-lock pistols, which he had to ex-
anime the printing every time victim
showed up, and while he was polite
when he robbed duchess. he used to kill
people all right, though If they had had
cameras at that time the flash from the
printing pan would have taken flash
light picture of the robber, SO he could
have been identified when he rode off in
the night to roadside inn and filled W
on beer, while he counted the ten shil.
lings he had taken from the silk purse
OF the victim. Why, one of our Ameri
can gangs that hold up train, and ge
an express safe full of greenbacks, ant
shoots up a mess of railroad hands ant
passengers with Winchesters and an
tomato pistols, and blows up cars witt
dynamite and gets away and has to have
bookkkeeper and cashier to keel
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-06-02

where he didn't know any titled persons.
That night couple of dukes came
around to the hotel to sell dad some
stock in a diamond mine in South Africa.
and they got to talking about how Eng
lish society held over our crude Ameri-
can society, until dad got an addition to
the mad he had when he called on our
girl, and when one of the dukes said
America was being helped socially by
the marriage of American women to
titled persons, dad got hot box, like
stalled freight train.
Says dad, says he: You Johnnies
are a lot OF confidence men, who live
only to rope in rich American girls, SO
you can marry them and have their dads
lift the mortgages on your ancestral es-
tates. and put on tin roofs in place of the
mortgages, cause mortgage will NOT
shed rain, and you get their money and
spend 1t on other women" One of the
dukes turned red like lobster, and
think he is lobster, anyway, and he
was going to make dad stop talking, but
the duke didn't know dad, and he con
tinued. Says dad, says he: II know a
rich old man in the States, who made
ten million dollars on pickles, or break
fast food, and he had daughter that
was SO homely they couldn't keep clock
going in the house.
"She came over here and got exposed
to duke, and she had never been yacci-
mated, and the first her father knew she
caught the duke, and came home, and he
followed her. Say, he didn't know
enough to pound sand, and the old man
got several doctors for her, but they
couldn't break up the duke fever, and
finally the old pickle citizen asked him
how much the mortgage was, and how
much they could live on, and he bought
her the duke, and sent them OF, and the
duke covered his castle with building
paper, SO it would hold water, and they
set up housekeeping with a hundred
servants. Then the duke wanted rae.
Ing stable, after the baby came, and the
old pickle man went over to zee m
! baby, snd Il losEed 20 nvsA lirs ths cld
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-06-02

It. The ion. Mr. MccMary anu his
trowel are deeply interested. Congress,
even a stand pat congress, left down 4
gap. and heresy. a box car full o. It,
walked right In and took scat at the
table Of the elect and reared Its htdeous
heed and looked all the defiance OF a very
Kesgregor. We see the result.
The thing is DONE Congress will not be
here until October. and before the next
ways and means committee Is named the
government will have spent millions with
the free traders unless our protected mills
sell their wares to Uncle Sam at sur
plps" prices.
Ths Roosevelt object lesson Is likely to
beat the Carlisle logic lesson in the next
campaign Of education.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-06-02
city That Has No Taxes.

Municipal taxes are not levied in Bur-
3onyille, Ill. They are not necessary.
- the sum of $4,000 collected for saloon
licenses is SUFFICIENT for municipal ex-
pensss. The town has population of
900, but many of them must be afflicted
With constant thirst when the saloons
cxn afford to pay licenses annually
amounting to $1,000.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-06-02
ONCE SOCIETY'S HOME
GOTHAM DISTRICT HAs UNDER
GONE GREAT CHANGE.
italian squatters, Factories and Lum-
Der Yards Now Reign Where Pa
trician Leaders Once Lived
Some Good Examples.

New York.-In no part Of old New
York has the hand Of change pressed
more heavily than on the countryside
that 10 covered to-day by Astoria and
Flushing.
Fifty years ago this stretch of land, all
the way from Hunters Point to Flush
ing meadows, was the resort and the
home Of q society even more select and
fashionable than that which now mi
CRATES to Its Berkshires, its Bar Har-
bors and its Newport. In their sim
pie, general way, they were the patri-
clans, instead OF the plutocrats, of their
day, and one needs only to read such
names as La Rogue, Blackwell, Law
renee, ;Riker, Rapelye, Holmstrom, Pot
ter, Barclay and Wolcott among them
to realize that this little colony across
the river was indeed the home of the
very leaders OF New York. Great
weather-worn mansions still stand
there to testify how stoutly they were
built, and on how stately plan; but
they are shut in to-day among cheap
modern dwellings, with here and there
h mill or q factory. Buildings crowd in
on the burial places Of these old New
Workers on every side, and the whole
Astoria district is taking on the appear
ance and the airs Of city life. The COM
pletion Of the Blackwelrs Island bridge,
which will open this section to great de-
/ Felopment, will hasten the transforms
ton which now is under way.
OF the hundreds Of persons who pass
along the main thoroughfares in the
changing trolley cars only an occasional
antiquarian understands why the en-
trance wayeto tile factory has moss
grown walls round 1t and wide gateway
sweeping inward, through which the
road runs on under an avenue OF state
" shade trees to pile Of modern
brick. Only he cares to read the
story told in the view of a weather
beaten old house with Corinthian col
umns and spacious porticos, damned IL
among lumber yards and factory walls
tsiYet 1t 10 safe to say that between New
town creek and Hallett's cove there ART
still standing more than 200 Of such ole
mansions, all of which are deserted say
Ior a few Italian squatters. Most o
the buildings date back to the earl.
Z
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-06-02
Woman Wins Painting PRICE.

TO Mrs. Charlotte B. Conan, the
veteran woman Landscape painter, now
more than 20 years old, has been award
I'D In New York the Shaw memorial prize
OF 5000 for the best work OF a woman at
The exhibition Of the Society Of Amsri-
csn artists Her work was September
Morning" delicately colored, hazy
landscape.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-06-02
A or..t pl,oovery.

The Philadelphia Inquirer has . great
head. 1t has discovered simple way
Of remedying the deficit. Here 1t II:
1.-THE thing to do is to restore some Of
the duties which were originally Inn
posed on account Of the war with Spain
seven years ago" As the American
Economist reproduces the Inquirer edi-
torial from which that sentence 10 tax
en- 1t evidently stands by coDsentn0, as
did Saul Of Tarsus at the stontns Of
Stephen. A careful reading Of the edi-
torial shows that the Inquirer means
internal revenue taxes and not Gus
toms Duties" as might be concluded.
1t goes on to say that ANY movement
toward revision Of customs duties, no
matter how restricted In Its scope or
how conservative in its intention, al
ways has disturbing effect upon the
business Of the country" OF course it
means revision downward. for it would
not be the orthodox stand patter which
1t Is IL 1t antagonized revision up
ward. Having thus tersely and COM
prehensively stated Its objection to a
revision Of customs duties" it says:
"a partial restoration Of what we're
called the war taxes Is free from these
objections. 1t would unsettle nothing.
It would not be burdensome to any
one" That any tax Is not burdensome
to some one will be taken as new dis
covery in political economy. When the
Inquirer asserts that ut would unset
tie nothing" 1t makes severe reflec-
ton on the minds of those who would
have to pay these war taxes imposed in
time Of profound peace, for their
minds would be unsettled-at least the
peace thereof-which, according to the
Inquirer, is nothing" The richness Of
the Inquirer's editorial increases 40 II
proceeds, for farther on It sagely as.
severates, ut would affect class Of PEG.
pie who would never miss the money
Will the esteemed Inquirer file bill of
particulars as to the names and habi
fats of the peculiar" class of people
who will not miss the money! Il
would be good for sore eyes to see
that class or any specimen thereof
People who really enjoy paying taxes
belong to the same class and are pre-
cisely as multitudlnous as those othe,
mythical chaps who would rathe,
work than eat" They do not exist
except In the imagination. A celebrat
ed author in writing history of Ire
land concluded that he ought to have {
chapter on snakes. Here It is yer
batim: There are no snakes in Ire
/ land." 1t liz just as true that there Is
not beneath the blue vault Of heaven
| single human being who likes to pay
taxes, for all sensible persons knew
that taxes are necessary evil-tht
less the better. The plain truth Is thai
the inquirer and, for that matter, TIL
entire school Of stand patters are Will
Ing and anxious to adopt any scheme
Of taxation that will leave intact tn
blessed Dingley rates. They may sue
coed, but before they do they win know
that they have been In a hsht.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-06-02
No Secret;About II.

1t is no secret, that for Cuts. Burns,
Ulcers, Fever Sores, Sore Eyes, Boils,
etc !, nothing is SO effective as Buck
lens Arnica Salve. at didn't take
long to cure bad sore had, and it is
ali 0. K. for sore eyes,n writes ID. L..
Gregory, Of Hope, Tex. Csc at P. a..
Clemmer'S drug store. T
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-06-02
he smell Of that ditch off his clothes

yet.
Now he has got new idea, and that ia
to go to some country where there are
bandits, different from the bandits here
in London, and be captured and taken to
the mountain Businesses, and held for
ransom until our government makes a
fuss about it, and sends warships after
U.S. tell dad it would be just our luck
to have our government fail to try to get
us, and the bandits might cut our heads
off and stick them on pole as warn
ing to people not to travel unless they
had ransom concealed about their
clothes. But dad says he is out to see
all the sights, and he is going to be ran
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-06-02
Wise Robinson.

J Robinson Crusoe had just named his
man Friday.
III 1t had been Wednesday or Satur-
Hay" he explained, he might have be
some matinee idol"
Thus. with keen foresight, did he try
p cave him from the pesils ot eivtlisa-
h3Un. =. etif.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-06-02
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ECENTLY ! was on q lee


tour In southeastern Kansas
IN and attended great Demo
cratic banquet given by the
Monroe club Of st. Joseph, Mo-, at
which function was POSTMASTER,
while Colonel William Jennings Bryan,
Ex-Governor Alexander Monroe Dock
cry and Colonel John A. Atwood of
Kansas were the principal speakers.
Ny observations In Kansas and Mis-
souri, lead me to believe that Demo
cratic prospects are Frightening in that
region. In Kansas the people are thor
oughly aroused by the exactions Of the
Standard Oil company, and unless the
Garfield Investigation leads to relief,
of which they have little hope, judging
by his famous 80 cents report as to the
beef trust, the state is quite likely to
elect Democratic governor next year
and Democratic delegation to con-
gress. To the uninformed Republican
that statement will seem preposterous,
butinformed persons will remember that
Il
| ton, Kansas gave General Benjamin
Harrison the largest majority Of oil the
large states in the Union, while in 1892
1t parted company with the G. o. P.
Most Of the men who revolutionized
the politics of the sunfiower State are
still alive and in good health. What
they did then they are quite likely to
do again II they do not get results-pos-
tive, patent and satisfactory results
from the administration IN the matter
Of trust extorton.
The action Of the Kansas legislature,
overwhelmingly Republican in both
branches, in asking President Roose,
welt to throw Mr.. Commissioner Gar
; fields beef trust report into the fire Il
one evidence out Of many that the gen
; tie Jayhawkers are not In heavenly
, frame of mind and have well developed
suspicious that all this much adver
tised Republican crusade against trusts
is sound and fury, signifying nothing
IL their suspicious are confirmed BY
, events In the immediate future the
land Of old John Brown and 5oh1
! James Ingalls, is almost certain to fol
to the Democrats.
AS matter Of justice the Kansai
: Republicans should send deputation
a headed Ivy Governor Hoch, to the Pc
!. cos valley, in New Mexico, and humbl,
supplicate that illustrious farmer, Jer
ry Simpson, to return to Kansas ant
become the head Of the Republican or
2 ganization. for they have adopted al
I Of Jerry's ideas Of government.
1t Is very rare indeed that . MAJ
so bitterly reviled as was Simpson
lives to see himself 80 thoroughly vim
.z.s.syu a5 ne uas Deen vaMu1Gotea
He was denounced as radical, pes
tilent demagogue and an anarchist fol
advocating governmental theories lssi
radical than are now advocated b,
those who pulled him down. Upon "a
Election Jerry must be amazed at hi
own conservatism. He laughs best wh'
lauRoa last
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-06-02
Take Notice

GO to r. Wentworth, opposite Tow
mill to get wagon boxes, Secondhand
buggies and stoves, wagon and buggy
repairing and all kinds Of blacksmith.
ing done. oct1
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-06-02

These are a fine lot, all
fancy bred, and pedigree fur
nished. If you are in need of
a good pig there is a chance
to get one cheap, as 1 am over
stocked atpresent. Will sell
these very low in order to de-
crease herd. Come and see
or write. Farm mile east
of Protivin.
Joseph Bouska. CaImar, Iowa.
r. r. 2.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-06-02

Low Rates to Portland. Oregon, via Chica-
go Great Western Il .ilway.

Tickets on sale frequently beginning
May 23rd till Sept. 29th. Also very
low rates t. Seattle, Tacoma, Belling-
ham AID Everett, WASH, Victoria
and Vancouver, B. G., and San Fran
cisco, Los Angeles and San Diego,
Cal. For low rates, dates of sale and
other information apply to any Great
Western Agent or j. P. Elmer, G.. p.
A., st. Paul, MINI. sept 90
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-06-02

Governor Albert B. Cummins of
Iowa is a mild sort Of tariff revisionist
merely that and nothing more Never
theless he is denounced savagely as a
free trader by the stand pat organs.
Anybody who proposes to reduce their
largess is in their estimation traitor
to his country, for they believe that
the country's whole duty Is to feed
them on pap.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-06-02

tour In southeastern Kansas
and attended a great Demo-
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-07-07
THE FARMERS HOME
SHARES IN THE BENEFITS OF
SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS.
Mrs. l. o. Law Shows How the Burden
Of the Farmers wife May Be
Iightened

The traveller through fields Of corn
and grain in such states as Kansas,
sees from the car windows numerous ap-
plications Of modern inventive skill to
the production of the farmers wealth,
and in every county seat he finds a
large display of machinery for culti-
waiting and harvesting crops. He can
not so readily learn TO what extent the
farmer g home has shared in the gen.
eral advance, but he knows how essen
tial to the farmers happiness must be
everything that ministers TO the
strength and cheerfulness of his part
ner-the faithful housewife. Thous-
ands Of farmers wives, in the Great
West particularly, will read with inter
est the story Of the struggle Of one Of
their number to meet the constant de-
mand upon her strength until she found
that she was losing ground in the une-
quail contest, and must cease TO be a
holpmate and enter the class of con.
flrmed invalids, il help did not come
from some source that would renew her
strength
Mrs. L. o. Law, of No. 324 North
Street, Horton, Kansas, says: "Im
1897, while we were living on a farm
in this neighborhood, 1 became gener-
ally debilitated as the result Of over.
work. I had serious indigestion, lost
my appetite, suffered from senSe Of
suffocation and from obstruction Of the
circulation, 50 that artificial means
had to be used TO restore it. After
suffering for months without finding
any relief, / tried n box Of DR.. Will
Hams Pink Pills which had seen ad-
vertised in a newspaper. The first few
boxes made me lots better, and after
using the third box 1 felt entirely well.
About two years afterward 1 ran down
again and Immediately resumed taking
the pills. In two months 1 was fully re-
stored to vigor and have held the gain
tNNA ho" IN NAN'AANAh
health and am able not only to take
care Of my house bat also able to
assist my husband in a store which he
has lately taken. Pink Pills have
helped me every time I have taken
them. They deserve to be recommend
ed. They are so simple, so easily taken
and 50 prompt in their action. I have
said this to many already and am glad
to say il still more"
This remedy, being in the form Of a
pill, is manifestly free from alcohol,
against which So much has been print
ed, and it is guaranteed 10 contain
nothing that can injure the most deli
cate constitution. The pills can be OBJ
tanned from all druggists and at most
general stores.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-07-07
CITY
COUNCIL
DECIDES
Will Submit Proposition to
Build Bridges to Vote
July "a

At the special meeting of the city
eouncil held last evening the ordinance
salling for a special election for the
purpose Of submitting to the electors
NJ the city the proposition of bonding
thc city for $4,000 with which to
construct seven concrete bridges with
in the city, was passed with but one
dissenting vote. Alderman Bayne was
the lone member voting against it. The
Election will be held July "a. Alder
tnan Bayne also made an effort to have
this part of the ordinance amended and
10 have the election put off until the
next regular municipal election which
D December 4. He argued that this
would save the city the unnecessary ex-
pense Of holding a special election. The
however, maintained that
Die bridges needed to be attended to
% once and that If the election was
put off until December 4 that IL would
Be necessary to expend much more for
rtpairs than they would save, not to
nertion the danger Of lawsuit which
szisted all the time, and might mate
fialize at any moment.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-07-07
STATE NEWS

The Eugene Stars defeated the Che
mawa Indian team the Fourth by a
score Of 16 to 0.
Charles Grulling, rancher living
near Dallas, was kicked in the face by
horse Wednesday and very seriously
injured.
Marshfeld was defeated Sunday by
North Bend and Monday by Coquille.
This puts North Bend at the head of
the league, with Coquille close sec
ond
Mamie Hart, a telephone girl in
Haas drug store in Portland, was
found locked in a small closet at the
German beer garden and dance hall di-
rectly in front Of the entrance to tho
Lewis and Clark fair Wednesday night.
She had been robbed Of her money and
jewelry.
William +. Beckman, who murdered
his wife and stepson, Robert Ring, at
Oak Creek, near Roseburg, in 1890 and
was convicted and sentenced to the
penitentiary for life, and who was par
doned by Governor T. T. Geer in 1892,
is to be brought back to Roseburg and
tried for the murder Of Robert Ring.
When Beckman was pardoned, he was
told to leave the state and never to
return. He did so, but recently return
ed TO Portland, and when this fact be-
came known to the authorities he was
arrested.
Eli Miller, a miner of Myrtle creek,
aged 20 years, was found dead at his
mine 13 miles northeast Of Myrtle
Creek, Monday. By the side Of his
body was Miller's sole companion, a
hound, that was nearly dead from star
vation. Circumstances show that the
accident occurred on June 25 and that
he died by his own hand. A knife was
found in his hand which was covered
with blood. He had been pinioned by
one leg by the roots of a huge stump
which had fallen in on him while he
was digging a ditch, and it is supposed
that he despaired of ever getting help
in that isolated place and he cut his
throat in preference to starvation.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-07-07
To Gauge the Streams.

State Engineer Lewis yesterday af
ternoon received word from the secre
tary Of the interior, stating that his
plan for the geographic and typograph
ic work to be carried on In Oregon this
summer had been adopted, and that
the government would expend $250C
for the work Of each Of these branches
This means that the $500 appropriated
by this state for this purpose is now
available for use between now and the
end Of tho year. Mr.. Lewis will also
be appointed by the government hydro.
grapher for tho state of Oregon, and
will thus have charge of all stream.
guaging work in the state, under both
state and national appropriations
Mr.. Lewis and assistant, Mr.. Allen,
who has been in the employ Of the De
sehutes Irrigation Company for some
time, left for the upper branches Of the
Willamette for the purpose Of doing
some preliminary work on the proposed
gauging stations, which it will be nee
essary to establish in order TO deter
mine the water supply Of these
streams.