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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-06-15

differently remaining where birth or
events have placed them. Having food
and raiment they are content. They
have no ideals to rebuke them, no thot
of possible advancement or desire OF
achievements to smite their content
ment. Not really bad, they are but
indifferently good and therefore are the
material out of which the typical half
way man is made.
But little better are those men with
only intermittent ideals than uninter-
rupted contentment. To them come
luminous hours rebuking their worth
less life, when they long for valor,
virtue, glory and fame. What heroes
they are, what great things are they
not going to accomplish while these
vision hours last! Remarkable is their
fortitude when the battle is in the
futures; but when the conflict comes
their courage goes. They build castles
in the air; their impulses are like the
designs upon the window pane-they
disappear with the first trifling change
of conditions. They do not seem to re-
member that
True worth is in being, not seeming.
In doing each day that goes by
Some little good, not in dreaming
OF great things to do by and by"
n Is nj Of rcfo -rr<Ni ,rr toll,
ne "oriG - IN, ~ Jus.,a
ne,,iS mo,,1 umo Sho,,iI 1l ~ Mo sh ~
but for ~ certain o S an1ee ~ .s no
1919 M Ia.n Justao te " uiseou,ase
n ae.s .,,o aneS long a1r sucSess saes
but 40 Vr not ,a o o; ~ tb In d;oMl,
SLOWS as ~ o wh M ~ oi; nhe anahaa
Tbppv ~ o onarsm iool - oa4 n
and sm n snfaoe or lUag ia1 ;
he tb o ,aast n ass @nere oneie VIII
~ oo tb hSa dar ,a;ta.n y, ~ ,d
story vs. '' ioi''i's' '"iii - '''o s''i'ie ~
Tomorrow, and the next more dilatory;
Each ma in ,s brings ts own delays
Are YOU i in earnests Seize this v very Minute
What you can do or think you can begin il.
as 1--WE ana mage IT.
Begin it and the work viii Viii be com ss
| There are too MANY people with
whom TODAY is never tha suitable ri ma.
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tnere is a tomorrow Wnen they expeci
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-06-15
Deadly Serpent Bites

are as common in India as are stom-
ach and liver disorders with US. For
the latter however there Is a sure
remedy: Electric Bitters; the great re-
storative medicine, CT which S. A
Brown, Of Bennettsville, S. @, says:
"They restored my wife to perfect
health, after years OF suffering with
dyspepsia and a chronically torpid
liver" Electric Bltters cures chills
and fever, malaria. biltousness, lame
back, kidney troubles and bladder dis
orders. Sold on guarantee by P. A.
Clemmer, Druggist. Price Soc. F
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-06-15
in the United States today have been

in the United States today have been
invented during the past century and a
quarter.
These are only fewof the things we
enjoy that were denied our forefathers.
One so often hears people say Give US
the good old days of our grand parents
when they were unmolested by modern
improvements" but does any one
really regret that he is living in an age
of such opportunity as the Twentieth
Century?
(, r FsTRTI,A Pr oppRR
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-06-15
RELIEF IN SIX HOURS

Distressing Kidney and Bladder Dis
ease relieved in six hours by ''NEw
GREAT SOUTH AMERICAN KIDNEY
CURE" 1t is a great surprise on ac-
count of its exceeding promptness in
relieving pain in bladder, kidneys and
back, In male or female. Relieves re-
tention OF water almost Immediately.
II you want quick relief and cure this
IS the remedy. Sold by j. HI. Luers
Drug Co., Cresco. Iowa. 24m6
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-06-15
Notice |!

l am prepared to do cement work OF
all kinds; sidewalk, curbing and
cistern work specially Prices
reasonable. Residence third house
north OF Congregational church,
Cresco, la. R, A. REGISTER
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-06-15

BLOOD .. DErCHoN,s ANTI
DlURETIC may be worth to you more
than 300 III you have child who soils
bedding from incontinence Of water
during sleep. Cures old and young
alike. 1t arrests the tronble at once.
81. Sold by j. H. Luers Drug Co. !,
Cresco, Iowa. 24m6
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-06-15
Democratic State Convention.

A delegate convention Of Democrats Of Iowa
Is hereby called to meet ct waterloo. Tuesday.
August 4, 1905. the object of said gathering be-
ing 70 place II nomination candidate for each
OF the state oflces to be filled at the general
election to be held on November 9th of the
present year, and for the transaction OF such
other business - may be deemed appropriate
and proper. $50
Dy our committee, assigns to each comfy two
delegates and one additional delegate for each
800 votes and fraction thereof above 100 cast for
Alton B. Parker In 1904. Upon this basis the
counties are entitled to representation ~ below
set forths s. fs5
Worth. ..............4 Chickasaw.
Cerro 0ordo. ...........6 Winneshiek.
Mitchell ................b Fayette. ~
Floyd. Alamakee. 10
Howard Clayton. -.
Your committee respectfully recommends and
urges that county and township organizations
be completed before the meeting OF the state
convention, and that reports Of such Organiza-
lions accompany the credentials from each
county. 49, z
By order OF the State Committee.
Done at Des Mofnes, Iowa, May IS, 1905.
8. B. MOkRIsEY, Chairman.
O. W. MILLER, Secretary.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-06-15

1.EGAT. A written opinion
NA 49, OF your rights on
"A nV1GEany question of law
- vAfor Sl00. Every
thing confidential State your case
plain but briefly. % years practice
in courts OF Iowa. References cheer
fully furnished on application. Paul
b. Ryan, $50 Tenth Street, Des
Hoines, lows.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-06-15
COMMENCEMENT ESSAYS
Read at the Class Day Exercises 0
Cresco High School, Thursday
Afternoon, June 9Th.
CLASS OF 'os.

y
Composed of girls five and three boys;
The jolliest class all of them bricks
And the High Schools greatest joy.
First there's Perry and Dora 8 her name;
A fun-loving, kind hearted lass,
Who has studied and worked until, in
the game,
She ranks No. in the class.
Some day, no doubt, geometry she'll
teach,
And with chalk and with ruler in hand
Solid and plain, she'll expound and
explain,
Till the dullest can't help understand.
An artist, also we have, as you know,
A Mabon, Sir Thomas by name,
Who ere many years such progress
will make,
AS to surpass the great Raphael in
fame.
His grand works of art, SO life-like
and nice,
Will hang in both palace and hall,
And all Of the people will pay great
price,
To have one of Toms works on their
wall.
It travelling some day and music you
hear
Some music that seems near divine,
Just listen a moment and you'll quickly
learn
'Tis produced by our dear Emeline.
Our Beethoven, she we'll may called,
All lost to the world she sits,
Her hearers all interest-souls COM
pletely enthralled
While her hand from key to key fits.
But bark! Who is speakingf What
does he say?
o, nearer we must step if we'd hear
His voice it is gentle, soft, sweet ant
low,
A thing held, in woman, most dear.
But Eddie will take his place 'monl
the great
OF women and men Of his day;
And his life devote to affairs of tn
state,
His thought Ito aid the weaker Away
Stella, the Jelly, friend among friends
The Shakespeare, she is, Of the class
Who'll make; some fine day, the natiol
so proud
That it owns such a sweet little lass
At Sella's call the nations will thrill,
Or smile in delight when she's near
And none the idle question will ask,
Have we an authoress here?
Deep, down deep into science, Kenneth
win delve
Among 'ologists Of worldwide fame
And strange fossil forms arrange ant
shelve,
And call them by some long name.
"A chemist also, Of great renown
Will Kenneth's fate be some day;
And the apparatus he'll then own
WlA pc the one thing nell olsplay.
You lnayswish Of the class's future
to know,
Consult our astrologer-West;
OF all the astrologers, above or below
Leone indeed is the best.
The stars she has viewed and studied
for years
In her art, to be greatest and best
So, Il Of the class you more would know,
just consult our astroleger- West.
Lydia, the poet, last Of the eight,
Must bring her wall to close;
And II nothing worse than to verse bt
her fate,
Her life will fade out as the rose.
IynrA nENpExvoyr j
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-06-15
Estray Taken Up.

Came to my place in Paris twp,
either in April or May, a yearling
heifer, black with some white on bel
". Owner will please prove property,
pay charges and remove same.
P. FITZGERALD,
8OW3 Elma, Iowa,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-06-15
Lime!

Strictly fresh Maquoketa lime
always on hand at the Brick Yard
@. A. MARSHALL Jr.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-06-15
For Sale or Rent.

Ny house and lot on High street,
one block west OF Park Hotel.
O. l.. TERRY.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-06-15
THE HALFWAY MAN.
by EMILY BEADLE

Too proud to live as poor man.
Too poor to live with the proud,
Too nice to work rs chore-man
And mix with the common crowd;
Too great for the constable's office,
Too small for the governors chair,
Not yet exactly a novice,
Nor yet OF professional air.
Too brilliant to work for a living,
Too foolish to live without work,
Too mean to be wholly forgiving,
To good to avenge with the dirk;
And so like the pendulum swinging.
Or boat on q half-angY wave,
To gravity's force he is clinging,
Midway 'twixt cradle and grave.
The common class beckon him over,
He swings to the opposite side;
The weather. ones soon discover
He hasn't thing but his pride;
So then back thru the arc he must travel,
With no constant bearing, wis
Not heaven. nor man nor the devil,
n ne fpr a fa11n,,- 1il,e, A &c
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-06-15


The great struggle which the early
settlers waged with nature was Of ne
cessity the great characteristic Of the
early years Of the new states. But
through all their struggles the early
settlers, whether born on European or
American soil, held steadily to some
things that are better than crops and
railroad rates. Even during the dark
years of the early nineties they re-
manned loyal to their ideals and in spite
of foreclosed mortgages and drouths
they voted their annual appropriations
for their state universities and normal
schools.
1t is on these universities and col
leges that the foundation Of culture is
built. The Western college man and
woman are to be found everywhere.
They do not segregate themselves in
cities. In these days Of rural deliv-
cry, telephones, ready transportation
and high prices, farming has no terrors
for the Western people. Our farmers
are increasing in numbers, are educat-
ing their children well, expecting them
to come back to the farm. The in
fluence Of the universities is compli-
mented and to very large extent con-
firmed by extension lectures and cor
respondence schools.
The West is playing remarkable
role in literature. Few are the recent
books of Importance which are not
written by young men who were born
in the West. The West does not pro-
dpce literary critics. Il IL yet too
Okolona messenger., 1906-08-15
Americas Political BuzZard and Where 1t ROOstS.
fol Springfield Illinois

Our constitution is dead letter, the Declaration
OF Independence but the glamor Of the diseased
brains Of men long since dead. Our republic has
passed, and we are today living in q monarchy
ruled by five men, Our state Legislatures, our con-
gress and our senate can make laws and the Presi.
dent sign them, and FIVE men Of the United States
supreme court can pronounce them void. And this
court was not elected by the people, simply appoint
ed by the President and moreover got their appoint
ments through the influence OF powerful corpora
tions. Most OF them were, before their appoint
ments railroad attorneys.
Think Of our science Of selfgovernment being
reduced to five lawyers And did not the decision
on the income tax law tell you who owned the fifth
Okolona messenger., 1906-08-15
OKOLONA. MISS WEDNESDAY. AUG. Is 1906

Secretary Taft is spoken OF as possible presi
Dental candidate. he recognizes, and so do biz
friends, that he has serious drawback, which be
has ''talked OveT' with them in confidence. Taft
was formerly Judge in the State OF Ohio, and years
ago, before he had the presidential bee, he issued
sweeping iujunctions against the working people Of
that state 1t is the fear Of what organized labor
will do to him now that haunts him nightly. The
other day he made the discovery that he had the
power to enforce the eight.hour law on government
work comiPg under the direction of the war depart
ment. With much flourish Of trumpets, he an
nounced that in consideration of his dear friends,
the laboring classes, he would see that the eight
hour law was observed. With q contented smile,
he lolled back in his easy chair and congratulated
himself upon this master stroke. His supporters
will take up the cue, and we will begin to hear
what great friend Of labor is Taft, Of Ohio iDunc
tion fame. Smaller lunches of taffy than this how
ever, have caught the fancy Of labor in the United
States, and it is question il the Giant won't be
fooled again.
Okolona messenger., 1906-08-15

mani Yes, my brother, it will require some time
and some brains to pass under the lash before the
massse will get their eyes open and pass from under
the hypnotic spell Of party bOssism.
OF course change will come, as all great evils
are self destructive Come slowly, Of course, but
come it must; for party lines are breaking, and the
signs OF returning to the faith Of Jefferson and
Lincoln are apparent. The noise Of the gathering
host is heard, and an invoice is going on; and In
1908 the fact will go TO the God grant that
the spirits Of Jefferson and Lincoln may animate
and lead the people back to the Promised Land
through which flows the Jordan, in which the ma
tion may be rebaptized and rededicated TO life lib
erty and happiness Of man, woman and child.
Okolona messenger., 1906-08-15

edtO receive popular 81 subscriptions SO the great
common people could chip in--snd it was expected
that at least $4,000 would roll in like JOhnstown
food. Now the Bryan managers are puzzled BY a
deluge that didn't come. Exactly So had been re-
ceived at the end Of three weeks 90 it appears the
great common people don't care 80 much for Bryan,
or at least they willing to let the plutes pay for
his welcome home Now II Is proposed to take up
italists and big bosses will be squeezed to put MP
for the great spontaneous uprising Of the masses.
Okolona messenger., 1906-08-15
How Does 1t Seem to You?
EUGENE FELD.)

1t seems to me I'd like to go
Where bells don't ring nor whistles blow,
Nor clocks don't strike, nor gongs don't sou
And I'd have stiffness all around.
Not really stiffness, but just the trees
Low whisperings, and the hum of bees,
Or brooks faint babbling over stones
In strangely softly tangled tones.
Or maybe cricket or katydid,
Or the songs of birds in the hedges hid,
Or Just some such sweet sounds as these
TO fill tired heart with ease
If 'tweren't for sight and sound and smell,
I'd like city pretty we'll,
But when it comes to getting rest
like the country lots the best.
Sometimes it seems to me | must
Just quit the city's din and dust,
And get out where the sky is blue,
And say, Now how does it seem to you?
Okolona messenger., 1906-08-15

This years crops OF spring and winter wheat are
estimated al 76O OOO, 900 bushels-the largest yield
in the history OF the United States. AT the same
time there will be harvest $780, OOO 900 bushels Of
corn. This country is bound to continue as the
Worlds Breadbaeket.
Okolona messenger., 1906-08-15

Don't offer any tainted money to help Mr.. Bryan
along with brass bands and ice cream when he ar
rives, for he will not listen to the bands or eat the
ice cream. Accordions and cOrned beef are good
enough for Jeffersonian simplicitariat.
Okolona messenger., 1906-08-15

A dispatch states that Walter Wellman ir his
search for the pole will stick to the arship. u is
to be hoped he will, but there have been aeronauts
ere this who, with the best intentions in the world
were unable to do so.
Okolona messenger., 1906-08-15

"Think what dreadful world this would be- n
says exchange, III all the people were iust like
you." But think how much more dreadful it would
be II they were just like your neighbor.
Okolona messenger., 1906-08-15

London is to have an exhibition OF souvenirs Of
the American War OF Independence this week. We
have on permanent exhibition as a souvenir Of that
great struggle the greater part OF the North Amer
can continent.
Okolona messenger., 1906-08-15

Constitutional government Is 10 he gwen to Per-
sia. Even Turkey may yet beat Russia to the goal
OF freedom
Okolona messenger., 1906-08-15

Chinese laborers are to succeed Jamaica negroes
on the Panama canal. The Digger indians ought
to be tried next
Okolona messenger., 1906-08-15

A dispatch from Russia states that members Of
the DOuma afraid to return to their constituents
after the futile session Of that body. We have q
great many congressmen who are 10 the same tx.
Okolona messenger., 1906-08-15

The big Bryan celebration and banquet in New
York, to welcome home the Democratic Moses, is
not starting off very we'll. Bryan's idea was adopt.
Okolona messenger., 1906-08-15

A professor in the University OF Chicago says
that woman was once mans boss Evidently he is
not married.
Okolona messenger., 1906-08-15

The latest prediction il that the world will come
to an end in 1910. Put no faith In it. There have
been countless predctihns OF the world coming to an
end, and very few Of them were ever fulfilled.
Okolona messenger., 1906-08-15

The Gar, the cables announce is going to take
q vacation. He needs one.
Okolona messenger., 1906-08-15

Texas is another one Of those states where there
is not enough difference Of opinion to support two
parties.
Okolona messenger., 1906-08-15

HE secret Of success with the mo-
nopolistic class lies in the interpre-
tation Of the law. What does 1t
matter what the law says SO long as
the court that is to interpret the
law is a creature of corporation in
fluencel In New York State the
court decides that the lower courts
Okolona messenger., 1906-08-15

world is athirst for men and women of education,
and it will only require certain adjustment before
the absorption will be complete. The old"iashloned
theory that culture s unnecessary, and sometimes
positive handicap in many vOcatiOns, is no longer
generally held. 1t was Rufus Choate who gave ut
terance to this dctum: tThere is not an cupatlon
of civilized life from the making OF laws and poems
and histories down to the opening of New Jersey
oysters with iackknfe that is not done better by
a bright than dull man, by an instructed than
gross or q simple man."
or these thousands Of young men and women
thrown into the worlds activities this last month
very many are equipped with specialized knowledge
that will permit them to proceed at once to the work
of their future lives. Doctors, lawyers, engineers,
pharmacists and teachers have only to select
avenues of occupation. Others will have to ''loOk
about" for some employment which will be congen-
al and afford fitting opportunities for the exercise
OF their talents In many home today there is
boy or girl fresh from school who looks to the future
with indecision. The school days are over, and
now comes the realization that the world has as
sumed different face. Instead of being pampered
and caioled, these former students suddenly en-
countered by the terribly serious fact that they are
men and women of whom the world expects results.
| AxiOms without end deal with education and the
state all of which may be consolidated into the one
all dominating idea that the enlightened nation is
the nation that will survive. America looks to the
annual product Of its educational system to supply
its enlightenment. There is, then, direct ratio be-
tween this product and the assurances Of national
survival. And as long as our schools and colleges
maintain the high standard they have attained, no
one need worry about the nations future. Never
was there a crisis in history that man or men
did not rise to it. Therefore we may depend upon
the splendid citizenship of these thousands of Amer
leans to help solve the problems that cloud our ma.
tional way.
I
| Hundreds of little girls are employed by
Racine contractor in work on army uniforms.
America is too saturated with chivary and senti-
ment to permit it's women to go to war The men
of this glorious republic are too Inflated with
patriotic passion and persistent piety to permit
glorious woman Ia contamination on the fed Of
battle or the field Of politics; but common consent
s given to the drafting of babies into the industrial
army Of avaricious cOntractOra-grl babies who are
not permitted to die the battle field, but are
PEELED by necessity to live and die in the sweatshop
Of an army contractor. Great is militarism, but
greater is capitalism!
Okolona messenger., 1906-08-15
OUR NEW CITIZENSHIP.

ROM the halls OF learning last month
went thousands OF young men and
women with what equipment edu-
cation can give them for the tu-
multuous competition we call life,
says the Kansas City Journal.
That every one of these collegians
is at an advantage in this struggle
there is no shadow OF a doubt. The
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-24
WHITE SOX LOSE
BEFORE BIG CROWD
Showed Out CT Tie for First in Anferi-
can by New York in to o
Game.

Chicago, Sept. 24-Griffith's New
York Highlanders defeated the White
Sox yesterday on the South Side
grounds by the score of 1 to 0. When
the game started the contestants were
tied for first place in the pennant race,
and as a consequence of the Gotham
victory the Sox are now one game to
the bad in the championship reckon
ing. The CORY battle will go sizzling
on until Oct. Z, and Chicago's chances
for the grand old flag are still con-
sidered the best, as New York is
abroad all the time, whereas the Sox
have only one series away from home.
The final game between the two lead
ers, going neck and neck into the home
stretch of the race, brought out the
fans in countless numbers. Never be-
fore had such a throng pushed and
damned it's way into the South Side
grounds. Easily $4,000 people viewed
the struggle.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-24
KiNSELLA PROVES
EASY FOR WASHINGTON
Ttree-Eye Senators in Consequence
Are Defeated BY American
League Senators.

Springfield. H.. Sept. 24-Spring-
field was defeated yesterday by the
score Of ; to / by Washington. Kin
selIa was an easy proposition ana al
lowed - hits. while Hardy was 4 puz-
zle at all times. The only run given
to the locals was due to 4 bad throw
to the plate by Schlafy. Manager
Jake Stahl was greeted by a large
delegation from Logan county, his old
home Einsella was not in good con
dition. or may have been frightened
by the fact that he was against a bic
league team. Hardy allowed but three
hits. and two Of these were made by
Purten. formerly of Decatur, team
mate OF HaTdy's. The score:
Springfield ......0 0 OO1 0 o.
Washington 100 o 0 0 0 %
Batteries-KinseIla and Novacek;
Hardy and Wakefield.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-24
BURLINGTON EASY
PENNANT WINNER
Captures Flag in Iowa State League,
Which Closes Season-First by
Big Margin.

Marshalltown, Iowa, Sept. 24-The
third season of the Iowa State league
came to a close yesterday, Burlington
winning the pennant by a big margin.
weeks ago. and interest was shifted
to the fight for second and third plac-
es. Within the last week Oskaloosa
forced Fort Dodge out of second and
held to it 10 the end. Fort Dodge fin
ished third and Marshalltown fourth
The season was not as interesting as
former ones have been. Burlington
jumped to first place before midsea-
son, steadily increasing its lead. Bur
lington won on its merits with an ex-
cellent fielding and hitting team