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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-07
Congregational Supper.

The ladies of the Congregational
church and society will hold a sale
and supper Thursday afternoon Dec.
13, Supper in the dining room from
5 O'Clock until all are served.
MENU.
Scalloped Oysters Potato Chips
Veal Loaf Rolls
Brown Bread Cabbage Salad
Cranberry Sauce
Assorted Cake
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-07
W. 0. W.

Regular meeting of Cresco Camp
No. III, w. o. W., next Tuesday
evening, Dec. 11th. Election of Off
GERS and degree work. All members
should attend.
VIM. G. KUNEs, G. @.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-07
Card of Thanks.

We wish to thank the friends who
SO kindly assisted at the death of our
little daughter, and also those who
contributed flowers.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Alhertsnn
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-07
Lodge Elections
C. A. r.

G. A. r.
Memorial Post No. ZIG, G. A. R. at
their annual election held Saturday,
Dec. 3, made the following selections:
P. C.-John Hallman.
Sr. V.-Thomas Walsh.
Jr. V.-Samuel L. Nelson.
Surgeon-D. P. Andrus.
Q. Mn. S. Durgin.
Chaplain-M A. Taft
O. DID. H. Brooks.
o. G.-S. D. Towne.
Delegate-Samuel L. Nelson.
Alternate-D. P. Andrus.
w. R. c.
Following are the officers-elect of the
w. R. c. chosen at their annual cleo
ton held last Saturday.
Pres.-Mrs. Ida Cornish.
Sr. V.-Mrs. Mary A. Watts.
Jr. V.-Mrs. Ferd Goettel.
Treas.-Mrs. Mae Ryan.
Chaplain-Mrs. Media Clark.
Guard-Mrs. A. N. Wentworth.
Assistant Guard-Mrs Mary Andrus.
Conductor-Mrs. Olive Register.
Asst Cond. Mrs. Elizabeth Siddall.
Sec'y-Mrs. Edith Cameron.
Delegate-Mrs. Olive Register.
Alternate--Miss Sadie Watts.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-07
For Sale,

For Sale.
100 Poland China pigs OF large bone
ana excellent quality. Come early
and bny cheap and have your choice.
hing me up. M. P. LYDoN.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-07

The Mid Winter Term, of the Gel
vein Business University, begins
Monday, Jan. 7th. For catalogue or
further information address Oelwein
Business University, Oelwein, Iowa.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-07

Mrs. Joseph Marsh has been serious
ly i'll for few days past, but is some
what better at this time. Her sister,
Mrs. s. e. Rafferty, arrived Thursday
from Grinnell, Ia. to assist in caring
for her.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11
PETITION TO BRUSSELS
ABOUT AFRICAN SPIRITS
Special Cable to The Herald.


BRUSSELS, Nov. 10.-Although the
United States is not interested in the
African spirit question, it is worthy of
notice to record the presence in Brus-
sells, in connection with the conference
for the revision of the spirit trade in
Africa, of Wilbur Crafts, superintend-
ent of the international reform bureau
of Washington. That gentleman has
come here as bearer of a monster petit
tion, signed by 586 philanthropic and
commercial bodies of the United States,
representing some 100000 people, for
the increased protection of savages
against Intoxicating liquors and opium
The petition was presented to the dele
gates of the European powers repre-
sented at the conference. 1t requests
the conference to recognize as the goal
to be reached as speedily as practi-
cable the prohibition of the selling of
Intoxicating liquors and opium to all
aboriginal races. 1t is understood here
that the petition was drawn up at the
suggestion of President Roosevelt.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11
RUSSIA'S MARMAN COAST
STATION STIRS NORWAY
Special Cable to The Herald.

COPENHAGEN. Nov. 10-The Rus
sian plan of constructing a naval sta
tion at AleXandrocsk, on the Marman
coast of the Arctic seas, is attracting
a good deal OF attention in Norway.
Great energy is being displayed by
Russia in pushing forward the works
at Alexandrovsk, despite the difficulties
of her internal affairs, and It Is stated
that in less than a year the new sta
ton will afford accommodations for five
large warships. In order to facilitate
communication between st. Petersburg
and Alexandrovsk a railway is being
built, via Kola Kondalaks, and along
the southwestern shore OF the White
Sea. from the new naval station to the
Russian capital A good deal of work
has already been done. In the spring
q large staff of workmen will arrive at
Alexandrovsk to begin the building OF
workshops and arsenals at that place
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11
A Ready Resource

"All the seaside resorts now appear
TO be well supplied with books"
why not? Haven't they volumes OF
the ocean"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-16


him to take up a question of such
magnitude On the spur of the mo-
ment.''
"of course" she said sympathetic
ally. Il knew they. would find way.
What are you doing?''
/. Kent laughed in spite of his sore
amour-propre ~
AT this present moment l am do
ing precisely what you said should:
unloading my woes upon you
oh, but l didn't say that. l said
you would come to me for help. Have
you2"
I'D say yes, if 1 didn't know so
we'll just what l am up against
Miss Van Brock laughed unfeeling
ly.
rs it mans weakness to fight bet
ter in the dark"
1T is mans common sense to
know when he is knocked OUT he re-
torted.
She held him with her eyes while
she said:
Tell me what You want to accom-
plish. David; at the end of the ends.
mean. Is it only that you wish to
save Miss Brentwood's little marriage
portion?"
He told the simple truth .-as who
could help, with Portals eyes demand
ing it.
ut was that at first: III. admit
But Iatterly-''
"Latterly you have begun to think
larger things?" She looked away from
him, and her next word seemed to be
part of an unspoken thought Il have
been wondering if you are great
| enough. David
He shook his head despondently.
Haven't just been showing you
that L am not?"
You have been showing me that
you cannot always out-plan the other
person. That is lack, but it is not
fatal. Are you great enough to run
| fast and far when it is Straight-away
race depending only upon mere man.
strength and indomitable determine
| tion?'
TRY me- he said. impulsively.
"Would yotr like to have your quo
warranto blind alley turned into a
| thoroughfare?
Il believe you can do it if you try"
he admitted, Frightening little.
Maybe l can; or rather l can put
you in the way of doing it. You say
Mr. Meigs is obstinate, and the gov
ernor is likely to prove still more oh
stinate.. Have you thought of any way
| of softening them?"
7 <hor e,fo ,.I-
| impossibility from my point of view"
| Nothing is impossible; it is always
| 4 question of ways and means" Then,
suddenly: '.Have you been paying
any attention to the development of
| the Belmount Oil field?"
ITO Be Continued
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-16

Recently there has come to this
country Russian author whose life
has been as picturesque as any char.
acter by his vivid pen portrayed.
Gorky, The Bitter One" has himself
dwelt in the cellar of life," the mes
sage he brings from the underworld
and the underworld in> Russia is very
deep down indeed-cries from the
heart of things, from the soul.
Maxim Gorky, whose real name is
Alexei Maximovitch Pyeshkoff, jour
neys to this country in the interests of
the Russian revolutionary movement
He arrives in ill health, result of las.
years Imprisonment, suffered because
of political offenses.
When the Russian government "a
rested Gorky this last time, laid hands
of violence on the man whose genius
was becoming recognized in many
lands, united protest was raised in
Europe. In this country Gorky as yet
is not well known, but those fam lar
with his work are most enthusiastic in
their homage.
On the supposition that generally
American readers are unaouuaiatei
with this most modern member of the
body of great Russian novelists, let us
present list of his published works.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-16
SELTZER FOR THE CUCKOO.
Bird of tl,e Clock Had HiccOughs
When He Finished His Be-
lated story.

The aggressive man finished his
story. and regarded US with such a SUI
perior air, says Short Stories, that we
trotted out the little anecdote about
the cuckoo clock.
Yes. SIR we concluded, lust as he
shouted upstairs that it was II o'clock
the cuckoo clock cuckoOed three times
and the man didn't have to do thing
but stand there on the stairs and
cuckoo nine more to make 12''
We laughed uproariously and con-
graduated ourselves that the traveller
was, cffectually squelched.
We'll, go on, said he with some i'm
patience
ION where?" we asked
ION with the story"
Why, man., We expostulated. that
is the story. Don't(you see? Just as
he shouted upstairs-''
ooh, rats!" said the man. Next
morning when the man was going to
work his wife said: Tom, don't forget
to bring home some settler water.
What for?' asked Thomas why, for
your cuckoo said his wife. 4 noticed
that he had the hiccoughs last night
when he struck 12'1
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-16

stained boots knew little of literature,
but a great deal of life. During all
those years of hopeless, baffied effort,
when he tramped over the sun
scorched or snow-driven expanse OF
Russia he had been studying human
nature at first hand. It was not mere
ly observation but experience, for he
himself knew the blacklist misery and
despair. On one occasion he even
tried suicide, but was unwillingly
nursed back to life on crude hos
pital cot in KaZan. The bits of color
and of character which caught his eye
or burned themselves into his brain
formed the raw material of each
story, each sketch that now flowed so
freely from his pen. In it's outward
traits Gorky's work is reflex a record
of the life he lived. Within it is
passionate protest against the condi-
tions, social and economic, of his ma.
tive land"
Shortly after the public began to
read Gorky's tales, he became a popu-
lar idol. Each of the three leading
political parties, the Nationalists,
Marxists and Conservatives, claimed
him and made use of his works the
one party against the other. Every
body read his stories and articles, his
picture was seen everywhere.
In appearance Gorky is tall and
raw boned, with a face of marked
strength. A reddish mustache dr09ps
over his large, firm mouth, his eye3
are keen gray, his low brows are
set in continual frown. Perhaps the
fancy is not an idle one that he looks
his part-"The Bitter One" one that
had drunk deep of the gall in LIES
cup. OF himself and his co-workers
in the revolutionary movement he
has this to say: I'VE. are not anar-
chists-the people interested in this
movement of which am small part.
We are seeking reforms that must
and will come. The Russian soyern-
ment OF to-day is nothing less than
anarchy and it's members anarchists.
There is no law, no order; 1t Is anar-
chy pure and simple under the guise
OF organized government, in which
those who are not absolutely debased
are kept in entire Ignorance OF the
true condition of affairs in our dis
tressed country
In 1901 Gorlky was arrested for mr..
ticipating in tie student troubles. buf
on account Of broken health was -
leased and permitted to go to he
Crimee Is recuperate. In 1902 ~
government rescinded hts eleofiops q
the Imprial academy. His recenk It'll
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-16

domed towns. The boy now dreamed
the wild dream. OF entering as student
at the University of Kazan, but when
he made the attempt was but laughed
at. Bitterly disappointed. forced to
work, he settled down to toll in a
sitting bakery. But the misery ex-
perienced there, coupled with an in
nate restlessness, drove him forth
again: he peeled apples, worked as
gardener, railway Waterman and
porter. and for time was clerk in the
Office of an attorney. Restless, un-
happy, he finally took to the road, be-
came tramp. He wandered far and
wide. here and there in southern Rus
STA, into Little Russia and Bess-
arabia, through the Crimea and the
Kuban district of the Caucasus. At
Tif1is, where he worked for sea
son as navy, he published his first
story. Christian Brinton, writing in
the Worlds Work, says: 1T is i'm
possible not to feel that the bitter
privations of this forlorn and shabby
Odyssey, the ceaseless heartache and
bodily anguish. were precisely those
factors which contributed to Gorky's
development. The young man who
Numbered into the Office of the Tiflis
"Kavsky" in soiled smock and mxI
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-16
CHAPTER XIV.
THE JCNKETERS.


When Receiver Gpilford took pos
session of the properties, appurte-
nances and appendages of the seques-
tered Trans-Western railway. one of
the luxuries to which he fell heir was
private car "Naught-seven," a COM
modious hotel on wheels originally
used as the directors ear of the West
ern Pacific, and later taken over by
Loring to be put in commission as the
general managers special
In the hands of friendly receiver
this car became a boon to the capitol
contingent; its observation platform
served as a shifting rostrum from
which a deep-chested executive or a
mellif1uous Hawk often addressed adj
miring crowds at way stations, and it's
dining saloon was the moving scene of
many little relaXative feasts, at which
Veuve Cliquot flowed freely, priceless
cigars were burned, and the members
of the organization unbent, each after
his kind.
But to the men of the throttle and
oil can, car Naught-seven, in the gift
of hospital receiver, shortly became
a nightmare Like most private cars,
it was heavier than the heaviest Pull
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-16
Eloauence In the saddle.

Visitors to quaint little church in
England observe curious relic in the
shape of high stool with leather
top like a saddle. The parish clerk
shows not little pride in this relic
and tells its story with relish. During
the seventeenth and eighteenth cen
turtles the country parsons were &C
customed to spend much of their time
hunting with their country squires.
Oftentimes the fox got more attention
than the sermon on the following Sun
day. Such was the case with the par
son who left the saddle stool behind
him as relic of the days of fox hunt
ing parsons. He was "a good deal more
at home in the saddle than in the pull
pit, SO in order to introduce some Of
the life and spirit into his discourses
which he felt while in the hunting
field. the reverend gentleman had this
saddle stool made 1t was placed in
the pulpit before the parson mounted
the steps. Once astride this hobby,
the parson was able to reach e much
higher degree of enthusiasm and elo-
.quenee than he could have unmounted.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-16

In 1892 appeared the story .'Makau
Chudra;" and then followed in rapid
succession ''Emelyan Pilyai," "Chel-
kash," "Konovalau," THE Orlov Cou-
pie" THE Steppe," '.Malva," Com
rades," and "Twenty-six and One"
STORY now succeeded story. each stark
and brutal in it's setting, yet each an
apOtheosis of pity and of poverty"
With "Foma GordyeefH' Gorky came to
international fame. "Foma Gordyeef"
was followed by THE Trio and his
suppressed work "The Peasants In
the field of drama, too, Maxim Gorky
has triumphed, produced THE Bour-
geois, THE Night Refuge" AT \the
Bottom
Benjamin De Casseres writing in the
Critic declares Gorky is more than
Tolstoy, more than Turgeneff, the soll
of the Russian people,, and adds: The
philosophy of non-resistance to him is
the philosophy of towards. In his
stories he has chanted the glories OF
strength-because he has seen the
evils of weakness. Red Sunday in ST.
Petersburg made of Gorky world-fig-
-ure. In times that try mems souls the
safe and sane fly to cover: and
thank heaven-Gorky is neither. safe
nor sane. He typifies the spirit of re-
volt-has become the Byron of Russia
Gorky's childhood and early man,
hood were spent in bftterest poverty
He was born at Mini Novgorod in
1868, son of poor upholsterer. Early
left an orphan and at the tender mer
cies of a bigoted old grandfather,
misery was his constant attendant.
Five months of schooling was all that
was allowed, and at the age of nine
the boy was apprenticed to a cobbler
His duties evidently were not wholly
confined to the shop, for we are told
that one day he was set to making the
cabbage soup for the family, and that,
not very deft, the youthful cook got
part of the contents of the kettle on
himself, was very badly scalded. In
anger the cobbler sent him forth, this
poor little Russian Oliver Twist put
out to struggle as he might.
His next employment was with q
mechanical craftsman. and later he
worked with a painter of ikons
(sacred pictures); then one day he
ran away. Next we hear of him as
cooks boy on v0lga steamer. The
cook, q friendly fellow, gave his help
er books to read and encouraged him
to form the reading habit, started
GoriSy to pore over any and every bit
Of writing he could lay his hands on.
"Trtatises on Freemasonry. Lives Of
the Saints. Gogol, Dumas, ETC.. we're
thus indiscriminately deyoured while
/ plying the riyer between busy gold
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-16

man; and the engineer who was con-
strained to haul it like a dragging an
Choir at the tail end of fast-train was
prone to say words not to be found in
any vocabulary known to respectable
philologists.
1t was in the evening of a wind
blown day, a week after Kent's visit
to CASTOR, that Engineer Red Gala
han, oiling around for the all-night
run With the Flyer on the western di-
vision, heard above the din and clamor
OF Union station noises the sullen
thump betokening the addition of an
other car to his train
Now fwhat the divvle will that be?''
lie rasped, pausing, torch in hand, to
apostrophiZe his fireman.
The answer came up out of the shad-
ows to the rear on the lips of M'Tosh
the trainmaster
You have the Naught-seven to-
night, Callahan, and a pretty severe
head wind Can you make your time?''
Haven't thin bloody fools in the
uptown office anything betther to do
than to tie that siyinty-ton balkan
chain to my leg such night as this?''
This is not what Callahan said; it is
merely printable paraphrase of his
rejoinder:
M'Tosh shook his head He was a
hold-over from the .Loring admins
tration, not because his place was not
worth taking, but because as yet no
political heller had turned up with
the requisite technical ability to hold
it.
Il don't blame you for GUESSING it
cut" he said; and the saying of il
was a mark of the relaxed discipline
which was creeping into all branches
of the service. Mr. Loring's car is
anybody's private wagon these days
Can you make your time with herr"
Not on yer life" Callahan growled
rs it the ovid potgutted thafe iv a
rayceiver that's in herr"
Yes; with Gov. Bucks and party
tof his friends. take it you ought to
feel honored.
| do II" snapped Callahan. IF
| don't make thin junketers think
| they're in the scuff iy cyclone ,whir
get thin on the crooks beyant Dolores
ye can gimme time, Misther M7Tosh
Where do get shut iv thim?'
AT Aqua Caliente They are going
| to the hotel at Breezeland. suppose
There is your signal to pull out"
Breezeland Inn. the hotel at Agus
Caliente, is year-round resort fol
I ESTIMATES and other health seekers
with a sanatorium annex which sutil
ICES the waters of the warm spring,
for therapeutic purposes But durin,
the hot months the capital and tn,
plains cities to the eastward send thei
quota of summer idlers and the hous'
fills to its capacity. .I
1t was for this reason that Mr.
Brookes Ormsby, looking for a com
Portable resort to which he might TAX
Mrs. Brentwood and her daughters 10
an outing, hit upon the expedient o
going first in person to Breezeland
partly to make sure of accommoda
tons and partly to check up the al
fractions of the place against pic
turesoue descriptions in the advertise
. ments.
Il When he turned out Of his sleepe
in the early morning at Aqua Calient
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-16

Miss Van Brock drew long breath
that was more than half a sigh.
you spoke the simple truth, David,
when you said that his excellency is
a great man. 1t seems utterly hope
less now that We have cleared up all
the little mysteries" =
Kent rose to take his leave.
mo; that is where they all go out
and l stay in" he said cheerfully.
''The shrewder he is, the more credit
there will be in making him. let go.
And you mark my words: I am going
to make him let go. Good night"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-16
THE ENTERPRISE.

= know an infant industry
Whose orders never cease,
The manufactured products sell
At just a cent apiece.
Within building three feet high
The business has its home;
The gates are made of ivory,
And golden is the dome.
The factory runs all day long,
A most inspiring sight;
The heavy shipments mainly leave
BY six o'clock at night.
rs been established just four years,
- OF strikes is not afraid,
Small competition does it meet,
And loyal is it's trade. :
The owner. drummer, worker, all
Are found in one small miss
When Mabel perches on my knee
And tries to sell a kiss.
McLandburgh Wilson, in n. Y. Sun.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-16
A slight Mistake.

Sir Montstuart E. Grant Duff tells
the following in his diary: 'Suar'
means in Hindustani pig and is a
term. especially when applied to Mo-
hammedans, of the most furious abuse.
'Sowar' is a trooper. .Billa' means q
medal, while .billi' means cat. At
the time when Queen Victoria was
proclaimed empress of India the coli
onel Of a regiment In an evil hour in
sisted on addressing it in q Hindu
stani speech, in commemoration Of the
great event and this Is what he said:
Pigs, the queen-empress has sent to
me q number Of cats. which shall
now distribute among you. She re-
quests that you win hang them round
your necks and continue to wear them
in that manner. Chicago Daily
News
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1906-11-10

"There is nothing like Il sense of
humor," said a naval officer, according
TO the Philadelphia Bulletin. "In Il
woman, in Il soldier, in sailor, In n
clerk. a sense of humOr Is n help and
Il blessing through life. At the same
time even sense of humor may exist
in excess. |, for my part. shouldn't
care to have SO great Il sense of humor
as a British soldier | once heard about
This soldier was ordered tO be logged.
During the nog@ing he laughed con
tinually. The lash was laid on all the
h:a Ter, but under the rain of blows the
soldier laughed.
What are you laughing at| the
sergeant finally asked
"Why,' tn" soldier chuckled, I'm
the wrong man."
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1906-11-10

a MISSOURI FAHMFR'S DEVICE FOR
IMPROVING THE HIGHWAYS.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1906-11-10

y fishing yarn from Al%irrs: Some
Arabs We're fishing from boat with
lines off the coast when Il dolphin sev-
rut"cn feet long. eleven feet in circum-
ference and weighing four tons swal-
lowed one of the baitrd hooks and
dashed off at a tremendous speed. The
fishermen paid out as much line as
possible and then made it fast This
brou2ht the dolphin UP sharply, but
the strain snapped the line. The mon
Strr thea attacked the boat and cap
sized if, hinging the fishermen into the
water. Other Arabs ashore waited till
the dolphin was clear Of the men and
then killed il with rifles"