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FLAxsEED PRICE GOES UP.
Rain Makes Rate Soar in Minneapolis
Chamber of Commerce.

Minneapolis. Because it rained
Sunday and was cold Monday, the
price of flax seed went up 16 cents
bushel. There was snappy bull
market on at the Chamber of Com
merce and some excitement.
Minnesota and the Dakotas have
raised a good flaxseed crop, but it has
not been moving in very fast from the
farms. Only 318 cars were brought in
by the railroads, compared with 1856
year ago.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-10-22
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The Great Northern and Northern
Pacific figures do not fairly represent
tonnage being handled, as those roads
ire moving much grain to Duluth.
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The Home of Gloom.

The London Lancet lives in a hor.
rid world where whatever is is wrong.
All its visible universe is fraught
with deadly and hideous peril. 1t
finds terrible germ-menace in the eel
1uloid collar button, cholera morbus,
let US say, in a leather razor strop,
sudden death in a blue shirt. What
ever is natural and pleasant and IA
miliar, that our contemporary holds
to be fatal and can prove it. A cor
rect Lancet man would lead a life SO
thoroughly sterilized that escape
from it in the bottom of the Thames
would be the grandest joy in sight.
The Lancet's new fear that cheap
transportation by bus and car line is
paving the way to a ace of physical
weaklings is relatively sane and sen.
sible. Walking a mile is good for the
body, and most men will not do it
when they can ride for tuppence.
Hence the relation between tram cars
and spindleshanks. But it ought to
be remembered that walking is not
the only exercise in the world.
There r men who will ride five
miles in a degenerate vehicle, only to
dismount at the end and work them.
selves into a lather at tennis, golf OF
what not. A very large proportion
of men are rather interested in keep.
ing themselves eft" If the buses
are making them 1abby they will get
out and walk. Moreover, the Lancet
must admit that many men practice
pedestrianism professionally. There
are postmen, for instance. = Rich.
mond Post Dispatch.
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CONFESSIONS OF A CLOWN.
At Last, There is on Sale a Book
Brimful of American Humor.

At Last, There is on Sale a Book
Brimful of American Humor.
Any bookseller will tell you that
the constant quest of his customers
is for "a book which will make me
laugh" The booknan is compelled
to reply that the race of American
humorists has run out and comic lit
erature is scarcer than funny plays.
A wide sale is therefore predicted for
the Memoirs of Dan Rice" the
Clown of Our Daddies, written by
Maria Ward Brown, a book guaran-
teed to make you roar with laughter.
The author presents to the public a
volume of the great TESTERS most
pungent jokes, comic harangues,
caustic hits upon men and manners.
lectures, anecdotes, sketches of ad-
venture, original songs and poetical
illusions; wise and witty, serious,
satirical, and sentimental sayings of
the sawdust arena of other days.
Old Dan Rice, as proprietor of the
famous zone Horse Show" was more
of a national character than Artemus
Ward, and this volume contains the
humor which made the nation laugh
even while the great Civil War ragged.
This fascinating book of 500 pages,
beautifully illustrated, will be sent
you postpaid for $3.50 by Book Pub
fishing House, 1874 Leonard street,
New York.
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The a Problem.

Race problems are solved by natu-
raj laws. The new generations OF
negroes. with their growing demand
for social equality, will find the South
untenable for all such. They viii
emigrate to Northern States. They
have been emigrating for years, and
the movement will constantly inc
rease. In most of the Northern
States there is no legal bar to the
mingling of the two races. The new
er generations of negroes will refuse
to work on the plantation and VIII
crowd to the cities. They will be OF
no use in the South and their exit VIII
be FASTENED on every side. The re-
sources and opportunities for labor
and investment III the South will at
tract classes that are willing to work,
and they viii come largely from
Northern States BY q social endos-
mosis and exosrnosissther will be an
interchange 81 population, n IN
that way thoEraro problem will be
solved by 4 : 5|on of the negroes
through tho $popuiation. FL.
before this ( !spt viii be
accomplished 15zeans fica-
:yune,
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STRIKING FEATURES OF THE
CELEBRATION.

The Hudson-Fulton Celebra-
ton will begin Saturday, Sep
TENDER 25, and end Saturday,
October 8.
The first eight days will be de-
voted to events in and about
New York, the closing week to
exercises along the Hudson from
Yonkers to Troy.
In the illuminations six bill
lions candle power will be en-
ployed nightly.
Every nation in the world will
be represented.
A great historical pageant will
be seen in New York on Tues
day, September 2S; in Brooklyn
on Friday, October /, and on
Staten Island on Saturday, Octo-
Der 2.
Many prominent aviators will
participate in airship flights
which will be begin on Monday,
September 81.
In a naval spectacle craft in
two divisions, one from New
York, another from Albany, will
meet in Newburg Bay on Friday,
October 1. The vessels will in
clude c~ounterparts of Hudson's
Half Moon and Fulton's Cler-
mont.
More than five hundred thou
sand school children will partici-
pate in festivals in Manhattan on
Saturday, October q.
The expense of the celebration
will exceed 100000.
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Yankee Tars Amaze Neapolitans.

Some American sailors who had
been INDUCING in liberal potations
and had had rows with some of the
many bad characters of Naples were
conducted By the police to the Gen.
trail police station yesterday.
Tired of waiting in the courtyard,
two of them noticed a column leading
to an upper story, and climbed it like
monkeys, while the astonished police
ordered them to descend. Arrived at
the upper story, the sailors climbed
the balustrade and entered the town
hall amid the lively curiosity of ush-
ers, clerks and porters. Then they
leisurely passed through the halls,
and at last descended the central
staircase, where they found their way
to the street.
In a few minutes they sauntered
back into the courtyard, to the fur
Their surprise of the guard. All were
then marched off to the police magis-
trate, who on hearing of the adven-
ture and seeing the laughing faces of
the sailors, liberated the whole batch.
The sailors gayly thanked him, and
the whole crowd went back to the
snip thoroughly amused. = Naples
Correspondence New York World.
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reaching the @farthest north DR..
Cook, on the other hand, had held the
public attention to a lesser degree.
He made his departure quietly and
his purpose was hardly known except
to those keenly interested In polar
research.
Then suddenly, and with no word
OF warning, a steamer touched at
Lerwick, in the Shetland Islands, and
DR.. Cooks claim to having succeeded
where expedition after expedition of
the hardest explorers of the world
had failed vas made known. DIR.
Cooks announcement was that he had
reached the pole on April 81, 1908.
Three days later DIR. Cook arrived
at Copenhagen and received a well
come such as no explorer had ever
received before.
Five days after the receipt of the
Lerwick message, almost to the hour,
came the sensational statement from
Indian Harbor, Labrador, that Com
mander Peary also had been successful
on his third expedition to the coveted
goal, the date being April 6, 1909.
He filed his brief messages and
continued on his way to the south,
lCOsAu5 IuC WITH " uldIVtt dL d
dramatic situation such as has seldom
been recorded-the double achieve
ment of a purpose that for almost ten
centuries had bafled the endeavor of
man and had taken many an explorer
to his death in the frozen North.
1t Is almost certain that COM
mander Peary did not know Of DR..
Cooks announcement when he sent
his messages from Indian Harbor.
According to DR.. Cooks account of
his expedition, he buried the Amer
lean flag at the pole in a metal tube;
Peary's words would indicate that
the Stars and Stripes were raised by
him and left standing.
Robert Edwin Peary is a Pennsyl-
vanian by birth, but is claimed by
Maine as n of her most distin-
guished sons. Born at Cresson, Pa,
May 6, 1856, he got his preliminary
education at an academy in North
Bridgeton, Me-, and then entered
Bowdoin College, Maine, graduating
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The Secret of Meredith.

The secret of George Meredith's
mystery may perhaps lie in the fact
that never before has a writer of such
eminence partaken at one time in so
full a measure of the critical and the
creative faculty. Shakespeare knew
how to write a play, Aristotle knew
how one ought to be written; we shall
rarely find in the study of any period
an author pre-eminent both as critic
and creator. That word which is able
to make flesh of abstract material
comes seldom from the mouth of the
scientist, however fine and true be
his knowledge, potent his voice or
sturdy his faith. What a monstrosity
indeed was that Frankenstein, mar
created by the hand of man to scare
the public of a century agoi Nor
could eve a workman, however Gu
rious his art, make of any dry bones
a Zagloba. This it is then which
marks George Meredith as unique
among artists: that being first a critic
of man, he is in a secondary degree,
and yet in a degree extraordinary, a
creator of man.-Atlantic Monthly.
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New York City.-Excelling in mag
nitude of scope and brilliance of de-
sign any celebration ever held in New
York, the Hudson-Fulton celebra lion
will begin on Saturday, September
%, and close on Saturday, October 9.
The commission having in charge the
details of the celebration has issued
an official circular announcing the
schedule. of events for the first time.
ma
tons, especially England, Germany,
France and Holland, in the successful
outcome of the celebration was a
source of great encouragement to the
commission in the early days of it's
labors. The countries named. not
to speak of others in South America
and the Orient, will be represented
in the big naval parade on September
25 by from n to five war ships, all
representative of their class. The
United States war ships then in the
harbor will join in the naval pageant.
While from time to time fragment
airy items bearing upon the celebra-
ton have been published, they lacked
the authoritative stamp of the COM
mission. The official schedule now is
at hand. and it is an imposing array
OF events. The celebration will begin
with a rendezvous of all foreign and
American vessels in the harbor. dip
ping of flags, firing of salutes and
other evidences of the entent cordiale
existing between the United States
and the world Powers. Then will
follow the first naval parade, during
which the foreign war ships will be
encircled, after which there will be
4 reception of officials and other not
ables at 10th street and Riverside
drive, at three o'clock in the after
noon.
The evening of the first day will
witness the opening Examinations. If
one can imagine the light a bunch of
six billion wax candles, burning 81
multaneously, car send to the clouds,
then one will have some idea |of the
~brilliancy in and about Manhattan
nightly during the celebration Mar
liners say lesser Examinations have
seen from the decks of ships one
hundred miles at sea, so that it is
safe to say that many an incoming
ship will view the glare before the
coast has been sighted.
There will be nothing doing Of
ficially on Sunday, September 2)6, that
day being set aside for religious OBJ
servances. The following dayI Mon
day, there will be official receptions,
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in 1877. His wife he sound in the
town of Fryburg, Me.
The Roosevelt, the ship which took
him on the sixth and seventh trips to
the Arctic, was built in a Maine ship
yard, and several members of the
crew of the vessel are sons of Maine.
For years Commander Peary has had
a summer home on In island in Casco
Bay, near Portland; in fact, he owns
than a dozen of the small ISL
ands at that place.
1t was in 1886, when thirty years
old, that Peary made his first trip
north and caught the Arctic fever as
no man ever had it before. The
twenty-three years since then has
been a continuous period of planning
and, effort to reach the North Pole.
His initial trip north was for the pur-
pose of making q reconnaissance of
the Greenland inland ice cap.
On his return Peary devoted all of
his spare time preparing for another
expedition north. This started in
June, 1891. 1t was financed by the
Academy of Natural Sciences, Phila-
delphia. This trip added immensely
to the knowledge of geographers. 1t
determined the fact that the great
inland ice cap terminates south of
latitude 80 and that Greenland is an
island. Lying beyond Greenland he
discovered and named Melville Land
and Heilprin Land. On this expedi-
ton he made a notable Journey of
1900 miles over the inland ice at an
altitude of from 5000 to 5000 feet.
In 1893 Peary went on his third
trip north, the voyage lasting until
1895. He made a thorough study of
a little tribe of Arctic Highlanders
and discovered the famous "iron
mountain" first heard of from Ross
in 1918. This mountain proved to be
three meteorites, n of them weigh
ing ninety tons and the largest known
to exist. The meteorites were later
brought to New York.
On all but the severest parts of
some of the expeditions his wife has
gone with him. Their Oldest daugh-
ter, Marie Ahmighito, was born in
one of the long Arctic nights at a
point further north than any other
white child was ever born.
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The Labor World.

Spokane fWash.) labor unions
have organized a metal trades coun-
Gil.
Members of Minneapolis Typogra-
phical' Union, No. AZ, are interested
in obtaining the 1910 international
convention for that city.
The Trades and Labor Council of
Hamilton, Canada. has appointed a.
committee to decide on the advisable
fty Of building a labor temple.
In Stockholm the local street rail-
way company scored a complete vic
tory over the strikers, and take the
latter back at minimum wages.
Steps will be formally taken to or
ganize a union OF cooks at Mi1wau-
kee, Wis.
King Edward has Instituted two
grades Of medals to be given to min
ers and quarrymen for gallant con-
duct In endeayoring to a v life.
Wisconsin's State labor body will
ask the Legislature to adopt an act tc
prohibit private detective agencies
from taking part in labor disputes.
One OF the most important steps
by the recent convention Of the
nd shoe workers at Toronto.
/, was thefrejection Of the ref.
Inn vote for the election OF gem
34oJz0mcers.
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"Vhat Shall Do?"

That is the problem which FREE
quently co%nfronts everyone - espe-
cially parents with small children. A
slight Illness treated at once often
a long period of sickness and
expense-sometimes prevents death.
The trouble is that so few people can
think on the instant what treatment
to apply, even If they have the knowl-
edge necessary to recognize the dis
ease and know what simple remedies
are best. To meet this want at small
expense the Book Publishing House,
1874 Leonard street, New York City,
is sending postpaid a doctor book on
receipt of sixty cents in stamps. The
book is illustrated, contains sos
pages, explains symptoms, causes
and simple means of overcoming or
binary illnesses. 1t was written by
the eminent J.. Hamilton Ayrea, A..
M, Nj. D. It is a volume which
should be in every household, as no
n car tell what moment he may re-
Quire the knowledge it contains.
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SENSE ABOUT FOOD
Facts About Food Worth Knowing.

1t Is a serious question sometimes
to know just what to eat when a per-
sons stomach is out of order, and
most foods cause trouble.
Grape-Nuts food can be taken at
any time with the certainty that 1t
will digest. Actual experience of peo-
pie is valuable to any one interested
in foods.
A Terre Haute m writes: 81
had suffered with indigestion for
about four years, ever since at attack
Of typhoid fever, and at times could
eat nothing but the very lightest food
and then suffer such agony with nv
stomach l would wish l never had to
eat anything.
Il was urged to try Grape-Nuts,
and since using 1t l do moi have to
starve myself any more, but | can eat
1T at any time and feel nourished and
satisfied; dyspepsia is a thing of the
past, and am now strong and well.
MY husband also had an exper.
fence with Grape-Nuts. He was very
weak and sickly in the spring. Could
not attend to his work. He was put
under the doctors care, but medicine
did not seem to do him any good un-
til he began to leave off ordinary food
and use Grape-Nuts. 1t was positive
ly surprising to see the change in
him. He grew better right of, and
naturally he has none but words of
praise for Grape-Nuts.
"Our boy thinks he cannot eat a
meal without Grape-Nuts, and he
learns so fast at school that his teach
er and other scholars comment on ii.
I I'm satisfied that 1t is because of the
great nourishing elements in Grape
Nuts"
There's a Reason"
It contains the phosphate of potash
from wheat and barley, which COM
bines with albumen to make the gray
matter to daily refill the brain and
nerve centres.
It Is a pity that people do not know
what to feed their children. Therea are
many mothers who give their young
sters almost any kind of food, and
when they become sick begin to pour
the medicine down them. The real
way is to stick to proper food and be
healthy and get along without medi-
cine and expense.
Ever read the above letter? A new
m appears from time to time. They
are genuine. true. and full Of human
1nterest.
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Commander Peary also sent a mes
sage to his wife at South Harpswell,
Me-. where she has been spending the
Summer.
"Have made good at last" said the
explorer to his wife. 81 have the old
pole. Am well. Love-"
The message was signed simply
Bert" an abbreviation of Robert,
Commander Peary's first name. Mrs.
Peary sent a wife's characteristic re-
ply, with love and a blessing and a
request for him to hurry home"
By a strange coincidence, Mrs.
Frederick A. Cook, too, vas in South
Harpswell, Me-, when she received
the first news from her husband.
Two messages were received in this
country also from Donald B. McMil-
Ian, who accompanied Peary. Mr..
Mcmillan was an Instructor in math-
ematics and physical training at the
academy in Worcester, Mass, until
the close of school last year, when he
obtained a leave of absence of two
years to go IN the Peary expedition.
In addition to his message to DR..
d. L. A~bercrombie, principal of the
academy, Mr.. Mcmillan sent the fol-
lowing to Mrs. w. G. Fogg, his sister,
who is postmistress at Freeport, Me-:
Indian Harbor, Sept. 6, 1909.
Mrs. w. c. Fogg, Freeport, Me-:
Arrived safe. Pole on board, Best
year of my life. BEN.
These messages, flashed from the
coast of Labrador to New York City
and thence to the four n of the
globe while DR.. Frederick A. Cook
was being acclaimed by the crowned
heads of Europe and the world at
large as the discoverer of the North
Pole, added a remarkable chapter to
the story of an achievement that has
held the civilized world up to the
highest pitch of interest since DR..
Cooks claim to having reached the
stop Of the world" was t~elegraphed
from the Shetland Islands.
The two explorers, DR.. Frederick A..
Cook and Commander Robert E..
Peary, both Americans, had been in
the Arctic seeking the goal of cen
turtles, the impossible North Pole,
whose attainment has at times seemed
beyond the reach of man. Both were
determined and courageous, and both
had started expressing the belief that
their efforts would be crowned with
success.
Peary was well known to both sci
entists and the general public as a
persistent striver for the honor of
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taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound to see what it would do,
and / am restored to my natural
health."-Mrs. ETA DONOVAN, Box
300, Willimantic, Conn.
The success of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, made from roots
and herbs, is unparalleled. 1t may be
used with perfect confidence by women
who suffer from displacements, iniam-
nation, liberation, fbroid tumors, IT.
r~egularities, periodic pains, backaehe.
bearing-down feeling, fatulency, indi-
gestion, dizziness, OF nervous prostTa-
ton.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has been the
standard remedy for female ills, and
suffering women owe it to themselves
to at least give this medicine a trial.
Proof is abundant that it has cured
thousands of others. and why should it
not cure YOuP
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Policeman in a Quandary.

1t is not all pleasure, the life of a
country policeman, says the London
Globe. The guardian of Pigbury-
super-Splosh's morals was observed
the other day to be looking careworn.
Whats, the natter" he echoed, in
response to kind inquiries. Why,
It's those three tramps I locked up
this morning. They are Kicking up
a row because they want to play
bridge and l can't find them a
fourth"
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as If broken. A friend urged me to
try Doan's Kidney Pills, which l did,
and they helped me from the start.
1t made me feel like a new woman,
and soon / was doing my work the
same as ever"
Sold by all dealers. SO cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
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Civic characteristics.

A young man who had money was
out in a rowboat with three young
women of the chorus. The boat sud-
denly developed a leak. The leak
gained so rapidly that it required Wig
orous bailing to keep the craft afoat
until the young mar could row
it ashore.
The New York girl bailed with her
hat. The st. Louis girl used her
hands. And the Chicago girl utilized
her slipper.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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KILLS HIS WIFE'S PARENTS.
Husband Also Injuries Her, Making
Attacks Without Warning.

Ocala, Fla.-John Bevil, a promin-
ent young man and a son of Thomas
Devil, County Commissioner, shot
and killed his wife's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harter, and then injured his
wife, in Sumterville, near here.
Bevil drove to the Harter home,
and, without warning, opened fire on
the couple, who were in the yard. He
subsequently was surrounded and
lodged in jail.
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RAISES AMERICAN
FLAG At NORTH POLE
Wires From Labrador That He
Reached It.
RETURNING ON THE ROOSEVELT
After Twenty-three Years Of Toll and
Hardship an American Sends
Messages to Amaze the Civilized
World.

New York City.-Commander Rob-
ert E. Peary, U. S. N, has discovered
the North Pole. Following the re-
port of DR.. F. A. Cook that he had
reached the top of the world comes
the certain announcement from Mr..
Peary, the hero of eight polar expe-
ditions, covering a period of twenty
three years, that at last his ambition
has been realized, and from all over
the world comes full acknowledgment
of Peary's feat and congratulations
IN his success.
The announcement OF Peary's ex-
plot was received in the following
message:
Indian Harbor, Via Cape Ray, N. F..
TO Associated Press, New York:
Stars and Stripes nailedto the pole.
PEARY.
To Herbert L. Bridgman, Secretary
Of the Peary Arctic Club, he tele-
graphed as follows:
Pole reached. Roosevelt safe.
PEARY.
The telegram to Mr.. Bridgman was
sent in cipher. The cipher used was
a private one and indicated clearly
that the dispatch was undoubtedly
from Commander Peary.
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Two Masked Bandits Hold
Up a Bank in Iowa.

Mineola, Iowa.-Search is being
made for the two masked men, ,eao.
armed with pistols, held up Cashier
F. H. Nipp, of the Mills County Ger
man Bank here and escaped with
$500 in cash. Nipp and two custom
ers were kept in the back room by
order of n of the robbers, while the
other took the money from the safe
and counter. The bandits fed afoot
and went east along the Wabash Rail-
road toward Silver City, near which
place they disappeared in a cornfield.