Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-09-19

TO give 1t all, but I haven't. Here
are his remarks on the bargain counter,
and they constitute what the late un-
lamented Professor Squeers Of Dothe-
boys Hall would have called "rich-
ness:"
want to say word upon another sub
ject to the young women here today.
Don't become bargain counter ficnd.
Don't waste the one life which God gave
you chasing special sale" or trying to
run down a bargain counter bonanza
Whenever l see a lot of women strug-
Cling around q bargain counter am III
doubt as to whether life is q comedy or
q tragedy. II there is any spectacle in
modern life that tends to make sane
person lose hope In the future, 1t Is to
see lot OF women with hair disheveled
and rainent awry crushing and jam
ming through living ocean Of frenzied
femininity In order to reach that modern
misnomer called a bargain counter"
wherein Is displayed everything that peo-
pie don't need. In what I am saying now
have no intention of being funny. 1t is
a serious subject. In the last few years
there has been developed new ana dis.
tinct type Of disease In the American
woman, and 1t might aptly be called "bar.
gainitis."
It is proper in this world for people to
buy what they need and to take whatever
time Is necessary to buy 1t and to go
wherever they think they can get what
they need at the most satisfactory price,
but there is no sense in rushing to every
bargain sale. whether you need anything
or not. I have known women in my life
who would rush down into the front hall
in the morning before they had combed
their hair, and with feverish haste and
bated breath they would seize the morn
Ing paper. Its headlines might tell of a
bloody race war in the south. of famine
in India, of the slaughter OF the Armenian
by the Turk or the death Of thousands
before the walls Of Port Arthur. It
might tell OF flood and fire and famine
and panic. but without a glance she
would turn past the tears OF the world
out what particular CASTOR remnant had
been marked down "a to IS cents.
Girls of America-you In whose veins
courses the blood of a noble and illus
trious race remember that you are
sprung from race that gave to civiliza-
ton and to America its brightest names
and most shining examples; that gave to
us Dolly Madison and Mollie Stark,
Mother Hodge and Mollie Pitcher,
Frances e. Willard and Susan B. An
thony. a line of illustrious and noble wo-
manhood that stretches clear back to
Martha Washington and reaches clear
down to Clara Barton, a line that has
added luster to our civilization and honor
to our Institutions. Girls, as you go out
into the world, for heavens sake lift your
eyes above the fads and freaks and fol-
lies of life and be worthy of the age in
which you live and the race from which
you sprung.
Better Come Home.
OF course l am neither the spiritual
nor political adviser Of Mr.. Secretary
Taft, but If 1 were 1 would advise
him to hurry home, provided he has
any designs on the Republican presi-
Dental nomination next year, for the
latest news from Ohio Is ominous for
him and his aspirations. It Is to the
effect that Herrick and Foraker have
buried the Ratchet, that Foraker is to
make speeches in every county in Ohio
and to be the central figure in the cam.
paign. AS reward for his herculean
efforts to save Herrick from the PEG.
pies wrath Foraker is to have a unan.
imous, enthusiastic (D delegation from
Buckeyedom to the national convention
All Of which means that the Cox Dick.
Herrick gang are scared as to the out.
come Of the state election this fall and
have made terms with Senator For
aker. OF course IL all the foregoing
is true Secretary Taft will have to up
peal to the people and fight the combin
ed Foraker and Cox-Dick- Herrick ma
chimes.
And the cry is "still they comet
that is, presidential candidates. II tn,
newspapers are to be believed ex-Gov
ernor David r. Francis of Missouri
declared In an interview In Mime
apolis while en- route to the Portlan,
exposition that If Colonel William Jeu
nings Bryan was not q presidents
candidate he would be, but there ISM
any type short Of circus poster typ
big enough to print that If" In tn
meantime the enthusiastic admirers q
Governor Joseph Wingate Folk Of Mis-
souri, are swearing by the great fyin
mackerel that he will be both nom
mated and elected president.
Strange to relate, our new fellow eli
liens in Porto Rico are dissatisfied wit
their present status and are agltatin
for more self government. Certainl
they are an impudent and ungratefr
set. They must surely have stumble
on to an old document called the Dec
laration Of independence, in which
is stated inter ALA that "all men ar
created equal" and that government
derive their just power from the cor
sent Of the governed"