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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-28
HAD s1,14o IN SKIRT HEM.
Aged spinster Domestic Chose Strange
Hiding Place for Wages.

st. Louis. -sewed in the hem of her
old black skirt Miss Bridget Hessian
had $1,140 in five-dollar bills when the
nurses at the City hospital undressed
her for bed.
She is IS years old, unmarried, and
lived in the rear Of 1888 South Second
street. She worked in factory and
saved the money from her wages. Her
neighbors notified the police that she
was acting strangely. A policeman
took her to the hospital for medical
investigation.
Physicians at the hospital said she
was demented and that she must be
undressed, bathed and put to bed and
watched. She fought against the
nurses when they began to take off
her clothing, and she chung to her old
faded black skirt. The nurses felt the
lump in 1t and ripped it open and
found the money.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-28

Hearst's sensational papers have
come out against Bryan and are trying
to cajole the laboring people into so
called Independent" party. If the
laboring people and that means the
vast majority of the people of the
United States should throw away their
votes on such Matchmaking scheme
as that of Hearst and refuse to vote
for the man who has stood up for their
rights and privileges more than any
public man that ever lived in this coun-
try, they would deserve to be everlast-
ingly enslaved to the trusts and monopo-
lists of the East. But, we predict that
Hearst will not lure away many votes
from Bryan, certainly not in Iowa. =
Iowa Stats Anzeiger.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-28
Why One Business Man is for Bryan.

Melville E. Ingalls,, formerly presi-
dent of the Big Four and the Cheese
peak and Ohio railroads, and who is
still heavily interested in them and
other railroads, has come out as sup
porter of Bryan. If Bryanis elected, !"
he said to Hot Springs interviewer,
there will be h of time up there
in Wall street for a month, and then
things will return to normal. If Taft
is elected there will not be any disturb
ance, but in month after election it
will come to the same thing, so far as
the railroads are concerned, with either
the winner.
1T is nonsense to say that the cleo
tion of any man will wreck the coun-
try. Andrew Johns on and Theodore
Roosevelt put a great strain on it, but
they were unable to affect it beyond
quick recovery.
Zone of my reasons for supporting
Bryan is that am tired of hearing the
panicky talk about his election raising
Ned with our prosperity. don't be-
lieve it. Anyhow, l am boy enough
still to want to try it and see. Besides,
/ believe that the moment Bryan en-
tered the white house he would become
sober and conservative statesman. y
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-28

tune invested chiefly in farm, mill
and a country store in Knoxville and
Greenville, Tenn.
Lincoln was a poor man when he
Joined the majority Buchanan was
well on and Van Buren, died rich. In
fact, Van Buren, was so wealthy that
he did not bother to draw his salary
while he was in the White House, but
allowed it to accumulate, paying all
his expenses out of his own private
purse, and drew 100000 in lump at
the end of the four years of his term.
Polk, Fillmore and Pierce were all
rich men, and left considerable prop
critics when they died. Andrew Jack
son was Impoverished during the last
years of his life by assuming the debts
OF his son, Andrew Jackson, Jr. At all
events, his fortune was much reduced.
though in his will he managed to leave
at least one slave to each member of
his family, including his infant grand
children.
John Quincy Adams died a rich
man. His will, which is preserved in
the records of the District of Column
bia, is of great length, and is notable
otherwise in more than one respect.
1t makes no mention whatever of the
deity or of future state-a remarka-
BILE omission in those days-and it
mentions the name of the testator as
John Quincy Adams. doctor of laws.
/ The title conferred by Harvard gave
him great pride.
William Henry Harrison, Benjamin's
grandfather, left only moderate es-
tate. He was a man of very simple
ways.
James Monroe died poor. He was
in debt when he left the White House.
and, going to New York to practice his
profession of law, he made rather a
failure of it financially.
James Madison was pretty we'll off
at the time Of his death, but the money
he left to Dolly was dissipated by
worthless relative.
Thomas Jefferson, after leaving the
White House, lived for II years at
Monticello, where he tried to be
farmer. The business was not profita-
BILE and, partly by reason of the money
drain caused by an exuberant and
never-failing hospitality, the author OF
the declaration was reduced in his old
age to disagreeable straits. He was
relieved to some extent by the pur-
chase of his library, for which con-
gress paid him.
When he died. George Washington
was one of the richest men in Ameri-
ca, being worth at least 100000.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-28

The New York Evening Post says:
No intelligent survey of the nations
defenses against Organism can blink
the truth that they have been greatly
weakened during the past four years.
1t is not possible today to rally the
conservative forces of the country in
opposition to Bryan so splendidly as in
1896. Everybody knows the reason
why. You can not revile man whom
you have initiated. A party that has
appropriated Bryan's ideas can not,
with good effect, attack his person.
At the very beginning of the republi-
can campaign, it is the part whether of
frankness or sound generalship to admit
that power of resistance to Bryan has
been been much broken by four years of
yielding to him. President Roosevelt s
avowed and deliberate purpose has
been to head off Bryan by stealing his
issues. The argument, or threat, which
he has constantly used has been: '1f
you do not go half way with me, you
will have to go the whole way with
Bryan" Well, we see now what comes
Of the plan of Sighting dangerous en-.
envy by surrendering to him. The
Bryan who was to be sxtinguished is
exalted higher than ever.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-28
STATE OF OHIO, CRY OF TOLEDO, 50.

Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he is senior
partner of the firm Of F. J. Cheney & Co.. doing
business in the City Of Toledo, County and
State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the
sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each
and every case of.Catarrh that cannot be cured
by the use of Halls Catarrh Cure.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9th day of December. A. d. 1886
A. W. GLEASON,
[SEAL.1 NOTARY PUBLIC.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. Send for testimonials free.
F.J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, o.
Sold by all Druggists. 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for Constipation.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-28
BY Canoe to Wyoming. !

Pawtucket. R. Kenneth Hall and
William Adams left Phillipsdale, a
suburb of this city, in a canoe for
Wyoming. Their craft is 16 feet long
weighing SO to 60 pounds. They will
follow the Narragansett to Point
Judith thence through the sound to
the Hudson, the Erie canal, the great
lakes. the Chicago canal, the Illinois
river the Mississippi, the Missouri,
thence through smaller streams to the
Platte andSto their destination.
Hall has an uncle in the mining
business in Wyoming, and they expect
to locate there.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-28
Taft and Cannon.

The Odebolt Chronicle, (Rep.,) very
frankly asks: what is the use of vot-
ing for Taft if Cannon is to be permit
ted to nullify Taft's work." The Sioux
City Tribune amends the inquiry:
Nay, not given the opportunity but a
commission to do that very thing! 1t
is to make the whole party humbug. !"
The Tribune continues:
Under such circumstances it is not
like Roosevelt republicans to keep still.
The Tribune agrees with the Odebolt
Chronicle that demand should be made
upon the republican candidates for the
house for pledge to oppose Cannon or
any of his kind for speaker. The next
republican administration will be a
Taft administration or Cannon adj
ministration. If the country wanted it
to be Cannon administration, it would
have nominated him for the presidency.
He was asking for it. The way to
make Taft's election certain and hon.
est is to face him away from Cannon. I"
We thus have the highly important
admission by two newspapers support
ing Taft's candidacy that the Ohioan's
election as president will accomplish
nothing unless Cannon shall be de-
throned as speaker. Cannon is going
back to congress and without doubt
will again WELD the gavel if the re-
publicans control the house.
1t is entirely logical and wholly in
keeping with things that he should re-
tain his place of power if the republican
party is returned triumphant in the
November elections. The republican
platform is documentary vindication of
the Cannon administration. 1t pro-
poses nothing which he does not favor,
1t promises tariff revision, and Can
non, high priest of protection and de-
fender of the trusts in fair weather
and in bad, will name the house com
mittee to prune the shelter of the
trusts! And it is Cannon who will put
on the gag and hopples when the COM
mittee has reported, and crowd the re-
vision bill through! 1t is to laugh. :
Telegraph Herald.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-28
BY MEAD PUBLISHING CO
Official Paper of City and County.
The Character of the Opposition to
BRYAN.

(San Francisco) Star (dem. DENY;
July 1.-Bryan is the only man in
history who, having been twice defeated
for the highest Office in his country,
has received third nomination.. There
is no doubt that he was defeated in
1896 by fraud and the corrupt use of
money contributed by special privilege
corporations, nor is there much less
doubt that he was defeated in the same
way in 1900. That is the view that is
becoming as well fixed in the American
mind as that Tilden was robbed of the
Presidency in 1876 Bryan's political
faith may be summed up in the sentence:
He believes in public ownership of
government, and has devoted his life to
that end. He sees that the people do
not control their own government. He
sees that it is controlled by the owners
of special privileges, and that they
control it by the corrupt use of money
unjustly taken from the people by the
power of taxation, without representa-
ton, possessed by the owners of private
monopoly. 1t is said, and will be said
during this campaign, that Bryan is
opposed in his own party. He is, thank
God, opposed by such men as Ryan and
Belmont and Murphy of New York,
Guffey of Pennsylvania, Jim Hill of
the Great Northern and Northern
Pacific and Burlington railroads, and
by every other man who, calling him
self Democrat, stands for and with
special privilege. The element in the
Democratic party that opposes Bryan
is the same element in the Republican
party that controls the United States
Senate and the House of Representa-
tives, and that so completely controlled
the convention that nominated Mr.
Taft. The element in the Democratic
party that tried to defeat Bryan ant
tried to frame Republican platform
at Denver is the same element tina
now straddles and guides the Republi
can elephant with its two distinguished
passengers Taft and Sherman. TIL,
men in the Democratic party tina
oppose Bryan are of the same kind a!
the men who nominated Sherman
because of his willing obedience to the
orders of Speaker Cannon.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-28
The American Plan.

Business Man-Very fine bananas
these, Spaghetti. But what are you so
solemn about this morning?
Fruit Vender-I notta able to pay
renta. ! notta maka money. l getta
morea poor every day.
Business Man-Oh, that's easily
fixed in this country. Organize cor
poration for the buying and selling Of
fruit. Issue stock, sell it, pay your
debts, pocket the rest. then gracefully
retire and allow the stockholders to
run the corporation. New York
Weekly.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-28
MY LADY's LID.

Ny scat!
Where did you get that hat1
Who ever did
Invent a 1ady's lid
Who had the nerve to roll It out
And stretch it more and more,
From centerpiece to rim, until
1t spreads from shore to shore,
And likewise lifts Its summit un
On birds and others wings,
Above the earth until it scrapes
The clouds and other things?
Who added to its wondrous width
OF brim, so that the space
Could easily accommodate
An automobile race?
Say, who done that?
Who built her hat?
Who made it something never seen
On earth or in the sky,
A fat Of Understanding plain,
A mountain towering high?
Cut wider doors for her to get
Inside of any place.
And put the ceiling on the roof
To give her nodding space.
Push up the clouds to let her stand
Erect upon the ground,
And shove the wide horizon back
To let her turn around.
Oh, weirdly, witching, Woody hat
That flattens out and towers
Who ever saw thing like that
A pancake filled with flowers?
A hat misunderstanding Yes
That names the Merry Wild;
And she who fails to catch 1t should
Slip out and change her lid.
Gee whiz!
What wonder woman Is!
And my scat!
Where did she get that hat?
New York World.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-28
Best the World Affords.

ut gives me unbounded pleasure to
recommend Bucklen's Arnica Salve,,
says j. w. jenkins, of Chapel Hill, N.
c. Il am convinced it. the best salve
the world affords. 1t cured felon on
my thumb, and it never fails to heal
every sore, burn or wound to which it
is applied 26c. at P. A. Clemmer's
drug store. T
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-28
A Disobedient Patient.

Irate PatronY You advertise to cure
consumption, don't you?
Doctor Quack-Yes, sir. I never fail
when my instructions are followed.
Irate Patron-My son took your
medicine for year and died an hour
after the last dose.
Doctor Quack-My instructions were
not followed. / told him to take 1t two
yearG.--New York Weekly,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-28
An Average Neiahbor.

Miss Skinpenny-This ere cheap
butter amt fit to eat.
Mrs. S.-No, it amt. Run into Mrs.
Goodsoul's and borrow a pound She
always has good butter-the highest
priced in market. Tell her we'll pay
her back tomorrow.
Miss s.-Goin' to git butter to-mor-
row?
Mrs. s.-Well pay her with this
New York Weekly.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-28
One Bit of Evidence.

The young widow was trying to
make a favorable impression.
Don't you think. Mr.. Oldbach," she
said, that of late years people are
growing more and more intelli-
CENT?"
Il do" replied Oldbach. II notice
among other things there has been a
great falling off in the number of mar
riages. Chicago Daily News.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-28
How Ohio. Taft's Home DELEGATION. Voted

On all these senators by the valuation of
railroad property publication funds LFo
ettes ideasOho Mr. Tafts Home and
unanimously each instance with the exception the
election by the people which TWO VOTES FROM OHIO
cast in the affirmative
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-28

Baby won't suffer five minutes with
Group if you apply DR.. Thomas Eclec-
trio Oil at once. 1t acts like magic.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-28

Impure blood runs you down makes
you an easy victim for organic diseases.
Burdock Blood Bitters purifies the blood
cures the cause-builds you up.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-28

Regulates the bowels, promotes easy
natural movements, cures constipation
Regulets. Ask your druggist
for them. Is cents box.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-28

tack the vital organs, causing catarrli of
the bladder, or the kidneys themselves
break down and waste away cell by cell.
Bladder troubles almost always result
from arrangement of the kidneys and
cure is obtained quickest by proper
treatment of the kidneys. If you are feel
ing badly you can make no mistake by
taking DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the
great kidney, liver. and bladder remedy.
1t corrects inability to hold urine and
sca1ding pain iii passing it, and over.
comes that unpleasant necessity of being
compelled to go often through the day,
and to get up many times during the
night. The mild and the extraordinary
effect of Swanlp-Root is soon realized.
1t stands the highest for its wonderful
cures of the most distressing cases.
Swanp-Root is pleasant to take and is.
sold by all druggists i'll fifty-cent and
one-dollar size bottles. You may have
sample bottle of this wonderful new dis
covery and a book that tells all about it,
both sent free by mail. Address, DIR. Kill
ner s. Co., Binghamton, N. Y. When
writing mention reading this generous
offer i'll this paper. Don't make any
mistake, but remember the name, Swamp.
Root, DR.. Kilnler's Swamp Root, and the
address, Bilghamtou, N. Y, on every
bottle.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-28
LaFOllette'S Platform Generallu

The entire minority report offered by Representative Coope
and embodyng Senator LaFetes ideas generally
$50 NAYS to % YEAS
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-28
Publicity of Campaign Funds

The plank providing that campaign managers
during the campaign" the names of all contrib
tributed or promised, and the amount and purpose
whom paid, was defeated by vote of $50 NAYS
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-28
Physical Valuation of Railroads

The plank providing for LaFoetes plan for the physical
railroads basis for the fixing of railroad defeated
917 NAYS to SO YEAS.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-28
The Cause Of Many
Sudden Deaths.

prevailing in this
,us because SO decep-
\ tive. Many sudden
4 deaths are caused
3 by it-lieart dis
I ease, pneumonia,
& heart failure or
: apoplexy are often
the result of kid
lley disease. If
kidney trouble is
: allowedtoadv
: the kidney-poisoil-
ed blood will at
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-18
Too Polite to Interrupt.

Too Polite to Interrupt.
Police Justice-You saw that cock
fight? Why didn't you stop it and ar
rest the men?
Police Oficer-I did, Y'r Amer
afther tn fight was over.-Chicago
Tribune.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-18
The Eastertide's Lesson.

Since our existence Is divided into
two sections, the one under the temp
tations and sufferings of this present
life, and the other that which is at
tanned in the security and joy Of
eternity through Christ, so the circle
of the Easter festival is divided into
two sections, the time before and after
Easter. The time before Easter points
us to the conflict of this present life,
the time after Easter to the blessed
ness which we can obtain through
Christ. The Lords passion shows us
the present life of suffering. The res
direction and glorification of the Lord
shows the life which we shall receive.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-18
He-Farewell! Farewell, I said,
thou iade,,!
GIRL WAS DELIRIoUS
With Fearful Eczema-Pain, Heat,
and Tinging Were Excruciating-
Cutcura Acted Like Magic.

can eruption broke out on my
daughters chest. l took her to a
doctor, and he pronounced it to be
eczema of very bad form. He treated
her, but the disease spread to her back,
and then the whole of her head was
affected, and all her hair had to be cut
off. The pain she suffered was excru-
ciating, and with that and the heat
and tingling her life was almost I'M
bearable. Occasionally she was deliri-
Gus and she did not have properho
sleep for many nights. The second
doctor we tried afforded her just as
little relief as the first Then 1 pur-
chased Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and
Pills, and before the Ointment was
three-quarters finished every trace of
the disease was gone. 1t really seemed
like magic. Mrs. T. W. Hyde, Brent
wood, Essex, England, Mar. 8, 1907"
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-18

Hicks Capudine Cures Women.
Periodic pains, backache, nervousness
and headache relieved Immediately and
assists nature. Prescribed by physicians
with best results. Trial bottle 10c. Regular
size 25c and SOC at all druggists
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-18
4nly l1BRfk
lit Rntttr
71nndrrfu1 EASTER Seruires
Held IN OLD st. prtpr's
by
9nra Grernrur1l 7l1rGtres1rrp

Inexhaustible in it's mystic signifi-
canoe, the Holy Week in Rome, how
ever familiar to the memory or I'M
agination, stirs always renewed
wonder in those who witness it.
Above all else Rome is a city Of
memories The walls and arches of
imperial days, the Renaissance pal
aces, and the churches which mark
every step in the long march from
primitive Christianity to papal SUI
premacy-these stamp themselves on
elements are as transitory in their
impression as is the whirling dust
from a motor car blown past the
tombs on the Appian Way.
The walls of Aurelian, the statue of
Marcus Aurelius, benignant on the
capitol, the august disarray Of the
Forum-these are actual and imperish-
able. So. too, is the spacious splen-
dor Of st. Peters, with it's solemn
sequence of ritual, in which, as the
Holy Week advances, so mystic and
superb a drama of divinity is en-
acted.
There are many moods in which
to approach the great Easter services
in the great papal city. from that of
the devote to whom the burning
lamps round the apostles tomb marx
spot only less sacred than that of
the holy sepulcher itself, to that of
the casua. sight-seer, who futterS his
Baedeker unabashed through the aw-
full mystery of the mass Perhaps
those do not see least of the signif-
canoe who look on the magnificent
ceremonies with haunting conscious.
ness Of Rome's twofold greatness, and
who never quite lose sight of the city
of the Caesars in the city of the
saints.
1t is impossible even to approach
| st. Peters, where most Of us choose
to see the services, in spite of the ri
val claims of the Lateran, mother oil
churches--it is impossible to reac1
| the curving colonnades and mighty
front without passing by memorials o.
an earlier, hostile life and creed. Per
haps in driving thither the wanderel
may catch glimpse Of the immorta
pair. the Great Twin Brethren, who
guard in stone the stairs to the CAPT
tol. Or. it may be. the shattered, ma
jestie columns of the temple of Mar.
Ultor have lifted for a moment thei
stern memorial OF Caesars death ant
Augustus vengeance.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-18

Truth, like a rose, often blossoms
upon a thorny stem.-Hafiz.