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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-07-06

the moist earth. After the tubers are
dropped the stirring pillow may again
be brought into use to cover them, or
disk cultivator may be used. The
main thing is to get them covered
deeply. After covering two or three
borrowings should be given to level the
ground and kill any sprouting weeds.
The cut tubers Should be dropped
from twelve to sixteen inches apart,
one in place. The amount of seed
to use per acre will depend on the
price. If seed potatoes are not too eX-
pensive it pays to be liberal with them.
Where medium sized potatoes are cut
into quarters and dropped every fif-
teen inches In rows three and one half
feet apart twelve to fifteen bushels
per acre will be needed.
On western farms. where land is
cheap and labor scarce, potatoes are
often planted in rows both ways. This
can be readily done by running n
planter wire across the field and drop
ping piece of potato at each button
on the wire. The wire is moved at
each end us in planting corn. When
planted in this way half tuber in
stead of quarter should be dropped
In place. Such a plan will not give
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-07-06
.Uth wuth wuth nth uthl" She Said.

would be glad to chaperone Sue, but
she didn't believe a word of that non
sense about the frost in the post glue
ing Sues tongue to it, and she showed
Uncle Ashdod that it was all nonsense
by sticking her own tongue to the
post and there 1t stuck! So then
Uncle Ashdod was sure Aunt Rhino-
colura would not go away and leave
Sue unprotected, and he went home
satisfied in his mind.
The next morning the committee
came around quite early, after it had
done up its home chores, and 1t found
Aunt Rhinocolura and Sue were real
peevish. 1t looked as If they had quar-
relied during the night over who should
sit on that high stool.
nth with with wuth!" said
Sue, angrily, but Aunt Rhinocolura
Just drew herself up Indignantly and
said:
nth a with with with"
Anybody could see that they were
mortal enemies from that minute on,
but we had nothing to do with that,
and we consulted and decided that the
thing to do was to put both of them
in hospital. and as there wasn't any
hospital in BetZville, somebody's
house would have to be used. So they
chose Aunt Rhinocoluras, and we dug
up the lamp-post and put it in
wagon, with Sue on one side of it and
Aunt Rhinocolura on the other, and
when we got them to Aunt Rhinoco-
luras the women put them to bed. 1
guess it was pretty cold lamp-post,
for we could hear the two of them yell
about the time they ought to have
been undressed.
The committee gave the case to
Doc Perkins, and the first thing he did
was to take the temperature of the
lamppost, and he said it showed low
temperature and no fever, and he
would advise packing the lamp-post
in snow to take the frost out So they
did But the lamp-post didn't seem
to improve. So Doc Wilkins was called
In consultation, and he said what the
lamp-post needed was hot-water bags
at Its foot and mustard plasters up its
sides to heat it up So they tried that
No good. Then Doc Perkins wanted
to amputate the tongues of the la
dies. but Doc Wilkins objected. He
wanted to saw the lamp-post down the
middle, so each lady could have half,
and Sue could go home. Objected to.
So nobody knew what to do, and those
two females might have stayed in bed
with that lamp-post forever II Sue
hadn't thought of the only possible
thing to do We were all surprised to
think we had not thought of it our
selves. What she told us was this:
nth a thuth-thuth, with nth nth.
9TH with nth with wuth-uth!"
Well, of course, as soon as we did
that both their tongues came loose.
You can see for yourself that they
would
Copyright. 1909. by w. G. Chapman.l
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-07-06

FIG. xv-wEL1 SHAPED SEED POTATO.

FIG. Xv-wELL SHAPED SEED POTATO.
gave yield of seven bushels to the
acre more than two eye pieces and fif
teen bushels more than one eye pieces.
The seed potatoes should be kept in
dark place until planting time to
keep them from sprouting us much as
possible. New sprouts will grow If
the old ones are broken off, but they
will not be as strong. If the seed Is
at all scabby it should be treated be-
fore planting. This is done by soak
ing the tubers for two hours in solu-
ton Of one pound Of formalin to forty
gallons of water. Afterward the po-
tatoes should be spread out to dry
and then cut. The cutting should not
be done until just before planting, as
otherwise they will shrivel and lose
some of their vitality. The plan Of
getting the seed potatoes cut several
weeks or even days before planting is
not to be commended. Even If the seed
thus prepared is kept In dark cellar
the starchy part Of the tuber Is GER
tain to lose much of its freshness, and
the vitality of the seed may be i'm
paired.
Planting.
Early potatoes should be planted as
soon as the ground can be worked.
The later varieties, which comprise
the bulk of the crop, should be planted
about corn planting time or little
later. In the corn belt it Is most con-
venient to mark off the rows with the
corn planter. Where land is high and
it Is desired to work it to its fullest
capacity the rows may be rs close az
.hree feet. Where ten or more acre
are grown potato planter will sool
pay for itself. Where the acreage 1
smaller than this two or three neigh
bors can often combine to purchas
such machine.
Where hand planting is practices
the rows should be opened with
stirring plow to a depth of four to 81
inches. The practice Of dropping tn
tubers in cultivator track and cover
ing them lightly is responsible 70
many of the low yields. Potatoe
send up a strong sprout that is abb
to penetrate six inches Of soil easily
and the roots need to be. well down
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-07-06
OPPOSE CORPORATION TAX.
Minneapolis Commercial Club Say
Plan Is Unconstitutional.

Minneapolis, June 29.-The board of
directors of the Minneapolis CONNER
cial Club has gone on record in OPP
position to the corporation tax plan
which President Taft has fathered in
it's present form. The following reso-
luton was offered and met unanimous
adoption.
Resolved, that while we approve
the principles embodied in the pro-
posed legislation to tax the earnings
of corporations we do protest against
the plan to apply 1t to corporations
only, as this clearly is class legisla-
ton and unconstitutional"
Senator Knute Nelson and Senator
Moses e. Clapp will receive copy of
the resolution by wire and the Mime
sofa representatives In congress will
be made acquainted with sentiment
here, as reflected in the personnel of
the Commercial clubs board of d.
rectors.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-07-06
Sees Mother Grow Young.

cit would be hard to overstate the
wonderful change in my mother since
she began to use Electric Bitter"
writes Mrs w. l.. Fitzpatrick of Dan
forth, Me. although past 70 she
seems really to be growing younger
again. She suffered untold misery from
dyspepsia for 20 years. At last she
could neither eat, drink or sleep. Doc
tors gave her up and all remedies failed
till Electric Bitters worked such Won
ders for her health" They invigor-
ate all vital organs, cure Liver and
Kidney troubles, induce sleep, impart
strength and appetite. Only SOC at P.
A. Clemmers.. T
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-07-06

Farmers, mechanics, railroaders,
laborers rely on DR.. Thomas Eclectric
Oil. Takes the sting out of cuts, burns
or bruises at once. Pain cannot stay
stay where it is used.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-07-06

Bilious? Feel heavy after dinner?
Tongue coated? Bitter taste? Complex
ion sallow? Liver needs waking up.
Doan's Regulets cure bilious attacks.
Is cents at any drug store.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-07-06

Generally debilitated for years. Had
sick headaches. lacked ambition, was
worn-out and all rundown. Burdock
Mrs. Chas. Freitoy. Moosup, Conn.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-07-06

Don't think that piles can't be cured.
Thousands of obstinate cases have been
cured by Doan's Ointment. so cents
at any drug store.
Smyrna times., 1909-08-04
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Tuesday, july 27.


Miss Josie Pomfret, one OF the
claimants to the s17.OOO,OOO Pomfret
estate in England, died in the county
poor farm in independence, Kan.
DR.. Albert M. Curry, of Brooklyn,
was stricken with heart failure while
bathing at Atlantic City and died be-
fore he could be taken to a hospital.
Rev. William R. Huntington, aged
seventy-one years. rector of Grace
Episcopal church, New York city, died
at Nahant, Mass, after a lingering ill
ness caused by intestinal trouble.
Wednesday, July %.
Dilla Killebrew, colOred, aged one
hundred and sixteen years, probably
the oldest person in Tennessee, died
at her home near Needmore
Fire destroyed the Peterboro Lum-
Der company's mills and the store
house of Florence & Co., at Peter
boro, Ont, entailing a loss of S125,000.
Any woman in Georgia who rides
astride will become a felon If the bill
introduced in the house by Represen-
tative Wright, of Stewart county, be-
comes a law.
Robert Wilson, one of the four ne
groes under arrest at Elkton, Md, for
the murder Of Railroad Detective
Harry H. Boon, confessed and exon.
Grated the three other negroes.
Thursday, July 2e.
Miss Morgan, daughter of J. Pier
pont Morgan, of New York, made a
trip aboard a dirigible balloon al
Nancy, France.
The union scale has been signed tt
cover the tin plate mill at Cumber
land, Md, of the N. & G. Taylor Co.
of Philadelphia
The Western Federation Of Miners
instructed the executive board to prin
Socialist literature in a number of Ian
guages for distribution.
While working in bayfield, at Lack
awack, Ulster county, N. j., John Hoft
Sr., seventy-eight years of age, drop
ped dead from heart disease.
One man was killed and two wer
injured when a mortar exploded dur
ing a fireworks display in connection
with the convention of the Nationa
Hay Dealers association at Ceda
Point, near Sandusky. o.
Smyrna times., 1909-08-04
HIGHWAYMAN GETS $4,000

Paymaster and Six Others Leave
Money on River Bank.
Charleston, w. Va, Aug. 2.-When
the paymaster of the Rush Run mines,
with $4,000, got off the train and start
ed across the river with six men in a
boat, a masked man with rife step
ped out of the bushes and ordered the
money left on the bank, which was
done. He then ordered the party to
cross the river and escaped with the
money.
Smyrna times., 1909-08-04

Most cases of Collie are caused by
undigested and fermented foods in
the horses stomach. Fairfield s
Blood Tonic for Horses Only streng-
thens the digestive organs and pre-
vents Collie by preventing fermenta-
tion of foods. Sold under guarantee
by The Clayton Enterprise Company.
Clayton, Del.
Smyrna times., 1909-08-04
Pennsylvania Railroad
Bulletin.
Bulletin.
FORTY FAIRGROUNDS By THE SEA

This is seashore time.
The dog days call to the worker in home, office.
and mill, and the answer brings up thoughts Of the
many resorts beside the sea where comfort, recrea-
ton, and pleasure, alike, await the coming OF the
holiday-maker.
Along the shores Of New Jersey, from Cape
May to Sandy Hook, lie forty beaches each offering
delights for outings long short, and each easily
accessible by the splendid train service of the Penn
sylvania Railroad.
Atlantic City, with its myriad attractions for
young and old, needs introduction, for its charms
are known from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Cape May, for century the summering place
of satisfied thousands OF seekers after cool breezes
fine bathing and the refined amusements of the sea-
side, is attractive than ever in its new life.
Ocean City, Wildwood, Sea Isle City, with their
smaller neighbors, Angesea, Holly Beach, Wildwood
Crest, Avalon and Stone Harbor, afford summer
pleasure to thousands.
To the north lie Beach Haven, Seaside Park,
Island Heights and the other resorts about Barnegat
Bay where the lover of fishing and sailing finds the
choicest sport.
Asbury Park, Ocean Grove, Spring Lake, Long
Branch, Sea Girt, Point Pleasant, Allenhurst,
Elberon, and Bemar on the Upper Coast where the
country meets the right the beach, appeal
with mighty force to the vacatonist
Any Pennsylvania Railroad Ticket Agent will be
glad to give full information regarding excursion
rates, time of trains, and arrange your outing,
whether it be for day, week the whole summer.
Smyrna times., 1909-08-04
PRODUCE QUOTATIONS.
The Latest Closing Prices For Produce
and Live Stock.

The Latest Closing Prices ror Froouce
and Live Stock.
PHLADELP LPHIA = FLOUR quiet;
winter low grades. $4.25Q 4;75; winter
RYE FLOUR quiet; per barrel.
WHEAT quiet; new, No. red
CORN steady; No. 2 white, local,
OATS quiet; No. white. clipped,
54055c.; lower grades, 5Sc.
POULTRY: Live steady; hens, l512
016c.; old roosters, 10h Ollie. Dress
ed steady; choice fowls, 17c.; old roos-
BUTTER firm; extra creamery
30c. per lb. 1900
nearby. 24c.; western, 24c.
POTATOES steady; new, per bar
rel, 5c.Q$1.75.
Smyrna times., 1909-08-04
Live Stock Markets.

PITTSBURG CUnion Stock Yards
CATTLE steady; choice, $6.5O@7.75;
prime, $6.15Q640.
SHEEP slow; prime wethers, $50
05.25; cuhs and common, $1.5003;
lambs, $4.5O@725; veal calves, $50
$50.
HOGS higher; prime heavies. $8.15
M820 MEDIUMS. $4,000; heavy
Workers, S7.900795; light Workers,
s7.SO@7S5; pigs. $77O@175; roughs,
S667.
Mother Gray's Sweet POwdsrs For Children.
Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in the
Children's Home in New York. Feverishness Bad
Stomach. Teething Disorders. move and regulate
the Bowels and DistrOy Worms. Over 10000 testi'
mOnials They never fail. At all Druggists, 25c
MY.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-02-04
Life and Speeches of
ThoS. E. Watson

Mr.. Watson tells us The story of his
life. His gallant fight for reform is
told in his speeches, which cover ev-
cry social, political and economic ques-
ton that has come to the front in the
last thirty years. The subjects that
are now prominent in the peoples
mind,-Child Labor National Finance,
the Tariff system, National Banks, the
Government Ownership of Railroads.
are treated extensively.
Bound in cloth, illustrated. Price,
$3.50.
Given as a Premium
For three subscriptions to the JEFF
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to the Weekly Jeffersonian at $1.0O.
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PAGE THREE
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DZSER:

merely glanclng at him, as he walked
along the road one morning, that he
was exceedingly angry; and one who
prldes himself upon being a shrewd
prier into an individuals mind, tax
ing up each thread of motive and trac-
ing it to the end, would have declared
that Nose was beset by that con-
Stunning and hopeless anger which finds
no relief in prospective revenge. I
am not inclined to think that Nose
was directly descended. from the poet
whose "Faerie Queene" Hume de-
clares is never read except by people
who look upon such a performance
as duty, for there was not about
Nose even the most remote suggestion
OF that refinement which contemplates
poetry. In appearance he was a typi-
cal backwoodsman, but his extreme
harshness Of face could not rest upon
this fact for its origin, for many of
the mlldest countenances and faces
Of gentlest oppression are found in
places where the pedagogue has made
but few tracks. Nobody liked Nose.
He took such delight in cruelty that
he would climb fence and go through
patch of briars to throw stone at
harmless dog.
AS Nose neared blacksmith shop,
where several men were lounging, he
hesitated upon beholding certain
"devilish fellows" as if he dreaded
something, but when one of them yell
ed at him, he shrugged his shoulders
and approached them
"We've hearn all about it," said
Sam Stoveall "Hearn it this morn
in'."
eyes, Andrew Horn joined in,
Can we're all mighty sorry fur you.''
81 want you fellers to shet up,
Nose replied, lifting up the tail of
his long jeans coat and seating him
self on a stump. FThe internal luck
is enough without SIGH talk
"W'y, what's the matter, Mose?"
the blacksmith asked. "I ain t heard
nothin'."
"Gal horned at my house last
night" Nose answered.
"Wall, now, that amt nothin' to
cripple man, is it? Thar's been
gal borned at my house ever year
from about as fur back as I ken rec
olleck, it pears to me, an [ amt
seed nobody lmpin' round on that
account. wy, confound yore onery
pictur' man, you oughter be glad that
it is a gal. Boys don't do nothin' but
cause trouble, nohow."
"That's all right Nose rejoin-
ed, "but I wanted boy, an this gal
business makes me as mad as hor-
net. I had jest sot my heart on boy
had prayed for one, an dreamed
that it would be boy, an now, con-
found it, miserable little ole gala
common ever day gal comes to take
his place. Fellers, it makes me mad,
thar amt no gettin' round that
fack It makes me so mad
that / have dun tuck oath that
T111 novov houa nOthin, RI do with
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an wouldn't take a heap o. no
mans money fur her." Sam Stoveall
remarked. "She's jest nachully the
puttiest thing ever seed, an I'll be
dinged if I'd give her for ever boy
on the place.
"You fellers might talk thiser way
till-till whut's his name blows his
trumpet, an it wouldn't change my
mind none," Nose replied. can
eff she lives I m goin to show her that
she found her way inter the wrong
house,
"A man that'll talk thater way is
blamed fool!" exclaimed Andrew
Horn.
"Be kinder keerful, Andy" Nose
replied. "Ricolleck that I amt took
no oath to put up with ever thing that
a Teller is mind to say to me-
81 don't kere whut you we done nor
whut you hahn IT done, Nose Spencer,
but I'll just l'arn you you kahn It talk
thater way whar I am without findin'
out whut | think Of you :"
1t amt none o. yore bus ness
whut l say about my own affairs"
It mout not be in the sight O. the
law" Horn rejoined, "but it is in
the sight O. the Lawd, an as T rid
circuit two seasons, you must know
that I've got more respeck fur the
Lawd than [ have fur any law our
legislature ken make"
cit don It make no difference if you
have rid dozen circuits, you ain
got no right to NEEDLE with me. -
''Don't git ashy, boys; don't git
ashy," said the blacksmith.
wall, let him tend to his own bus
mess" rejoined Nose. "He's got
no right to come around givin' me
printers, even if he did ride circuit.
could a rid circuit, too, eff I'd
wanted to-
''It's a mighty fine circuit you
could ride" rejoined Horn. "W'y,
you mout try for ten years to get
religion, an even then the fust thing
you'd know old Satan would nab you
jest the same as if you hadn't prayed
pra r."
II don't low no man to talk to
me that way" exclaimed Nose,
springing to his feet. give got
enough trouble an disapp 'intment ON
my mind without being insulted. "
'Ketch you jest the same as if
you hadn't prayed a single pra r"
Horn repeated.
Nose sprang forward, but the pow
erful blacksmith seized him and SHOW
ed him back. "Don't let us have
no skylarkin Mose," said he. "Some
fellers got to skylarkin in this neigh
borhood onct, an one o. 'em trod on
a cob, fell an hurt hisse'f, an ever
sence then I have thought it was dan
gers fur fellers to skylark. Andy"
addressing Horne, "yore horse is dun
shod, an reckon you mout as we'll
go on home.''
Andy grinned. and, whistling
camp-meeting tune, mounted his horse
nyJ r.oJo ool
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Dbe Jeffer.on,an
By Opie Read

"Mr. Spencer, don't you want to
see the babyq" she asked.
sect outen here"
"Miz Spencer lowed that you''-
sect outen here, I tell you"
"My conscience alive, man, won't
you let person talkq l want you to
understand that you air orderin' yore
betters around when you order me.
Eff you wuz little blacker than you
air, wy, I've seed the time [ could
buy an sell you three times in day.
You ought to be ashamed o. yourself,
you great big, lubberly, good-fur-nuth-
in thing, to get mad at that po' little
baby, jest like she could hep bein' a
girl; an eff [ wuz in yore place I'd
be afeard the Lord would strike me
down, an it wouldn't be no mo- than
right, nuther. Yore wife wants to see
you mint"
II don't want to see her, nur you
nuther. Git out.''
"Now, Mr.. Spencer, if you will be
a fool, let me advise you not to be SIGH
hard-headed one. Go on in thar a
minnit, please. Eff you don't, I'll
VOW an declar' that I'll trudge right
off home an let you get somebody
else to stay here"
"Wall, then," exclaimed Spencer,
fhrnwinO tho hooE oc;do ond rn++inn
up, "ef nothin else will do I will go
in, but I want it understood right now
that | won't have nothin' to do with
that diserp 'intin' critter."
When he entered the room he found
his wife weeping bitterly.
''Mose," she said, "fur the Lawd's
sake don't stay mad this ERE way.
| know you wanted a boy, but it
couldn't be Helped. Look at the po'
little"-
He turned away, and slammed the
door as he went out.
With stubborn cruelty Nose had in
sisted upon naming the child "Diser-
'intment," which was in time short
ened to Diser She was a remarkably
beautiful child, with long yellow hair
and with eyes which looked up with
charming inquisitiveness. Until she
was two years Of age her father took
not the slightest notice of her; and
once, when he had frowningly turned
away from her outstretched arms,
Mrs. Spencer said:
"Mose, how ken you do that9"
"Don't talk to me thater way, Sue.
You know we'll enough THAT don't
want nothin to do with her,
Diser grew more beautiful as the
years came. One day, when the child
was about four years old, Mrs. Spen-
Ger, upon returning home from visit
to neighbor, saw her husband, with
Diser on his back, trotting around the
house.
"What on earth has happened?"
the delighted woman exclaimed.
Nose, easing the child to the
ground and then talxiOop haY into hic
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-08-04
The Day They Celebrate.

Ojibways of the Mississippi band
have regularly each year since 1868
celebrated their acceptance of the
White Earth reservation in western
Minnesota.
Within the limits of its boundaries
in northern Minnesota these people
have come out of barbarism into an
advanced stage of civilization. From
being American wards and helpless
children they are now citizens and
owners of the land, with deeds duly
signed with their own signatures prov
ing their claims.
Even to this year the days of June
10 and 16 are celebrated instead of
July 4, though it is possible that here
after the Americans independence
day will be accepted as their own
time of rejoicing.-Fur News.