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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-01-15

had made expiation stood the bishop
and Harry Sanderson. Jessica knelt
beside it, and the judge and those who
stood near him in the background
knew that the curtain was falling upon
a strange and tangled drama Of life
and love and death
After the one long. sobbing cry of
realization. throughout the excitement
and confusion, Jessica had been
strangely calm She read the swift
certainty in DR. Brent's face and she
felt painful thankfulness The last
appeal would not be to mans justice.
but to Gods mercy! The memories
of the old blind days and the knowl-
edge that this man-not the one to
whom she had given her love at
Smoky Mountain. at whom she dared
not look had been her lover, was now
in very truth her husband. rolled about
her in singing mist. But as she
knelt by the sofa the hand that chafed
the nerveless one was firm. and she
wiped the cold lips deftly and ten.
derby.
Hugh's eyes were filming That har-
rowing struggle of soul. hat convul-
siye effort of the injured body. had
demanded its price. The direful agony
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-01-15

the light glanced and sparked from
the running fume, and bcyo.d giiEi-
mered the long street of the town
where the dead past of Satan SANGER
sou had been buried forever and the
old remorseful pain Of conscience had
found its surcease. In the far distance,
tender haze softening their outline.
stood the violet silhouette of the end
ing ranges, and far beyond them lay
AniSton, where waited his newer life.
his newer, better work ana the hope
that was the April of his dreams.
Since that tragic day in the court
room he had seen Jessica once only
in the hour when the bishops solemn
dust to dust had been spoken above
the man who had been her husband.
One thought had comforted him-the
town of Smoky Mountain had never
known, need never know. the secret
Of her wifehood And Aniston was far
away. About the coming of Hugh in
jured and dying to his rescue would
be thrown a glamour of knight errantry
that would bespeak charity of judg-
ment. When Jessica went back to the
white house in the aspens she would
meet only tenderness and sympathy.
And that was well.
He shut the door of his cabin and.
whistling to his dog. climbed the steep
path where the wrinkled creeper flung
Its splash of scarlet and along the trail
to the Knob, under the needed song
Of the redwoods There In the dappled
shade stood Jessica's rock statue. and
now it looked upon two mounds. The
prodigal had returned at last. father
and son rested side by side. and that.
too, was well.
He went slowly through the brown
hollows to the winding mountain road
crossed 1t and entered the denser for
est. He wanted to see once more the
dear spot where he and .Jessica had
met-that deep, sweet day before the
rude awakening. He walked on in Il
reverie; his thoughts were very fai
away.
| He stopped suddenly. There before
! him was the little knoll where she haC
stood waiting on the threshold of his
| palace Of enchantment that one roseate
morning. And she was there today
not standing with parted lips and eager
eyes under the twittering trees. but ly
Ing face down on the moss, her rec
bronze hair shaming the gold of the
fallen leaves
| There was gesture in the out
stretched arms that caught at hi!
heart He stepped forward, and a
the sound she looked up. startled
He saw the creeping color tina
mounted to her brow. the proud We
passionate hunger of her eyes II,
dropped on his knees and took he
hands and kissed them
my dear love that ISL he whispered
"My dearer wife that Is to be!''
TUE END
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-01-15

number of others also, all of which
are present in the soil in such large
amounts that there will probably al
ways be all that the crops can use.
Two of these minerals, however, po-
tassium and phosphorus, are not so
plentiful. When the plant cannot get
enough potassium the grain will not
be filled out well. If there is too little
phosphorus, especially in the case Of
is checked. Adding barnyard manure
to the soil helps to keep up the supply
Of these two materials. On farms
where little stock is kept or where
grain has been raised continually for
years and little attention paid to the
soil 1t is sometimes necessary to apply
phosphorus and potassium in the form
Of commercial fertilizers.
In the eastern part of this country
there are many farms that have be-
come so badly run down that crops
will not grow at all unless they are
fed with commercial fertilizers. These
are very expensive, and 1t often takes
nearly all farmer makes to pay his
fertilizer bills. These farms would
never have become so worn out if they
had been properly cared for Leaving
plowed ground. especially on hillsides,
exposed for several months during the
fall and winter allows much plant food
to wash away. Growing the same
crop year after year wears out the
land rapidly. Different crops require
different kinds of food. BY changing
crops from year to year no one food
material is used to excess and the
others wasted. BY keeping as much
stock on the farm as possible. saving
the manure carefully and spreading it
! on the fields before it rots or teaches
away and by using leguminous plants
to gather nitrogen the soil can be kept
well supplied with plant food.
1t is much more profitable to feed
the crops in this way than to buy
plant food IN the market at excessive
prices. Usually. however. the plant is
hungry for the mineral elements not
because they are not in the soil. but
because they are in form in which
it cannot get at them. The roots OF
the plant spread all through the sol
in search of food If you will look al
little root through magnifyins
glass you will see that it is covered
with root hairs. 1t is through these
root hairs that the plant takes up food
from the soil. There are no openings
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-01-15

his appeal in behalf of temperance
after demonstrating by figures that a
majority of the crime, pauperism, ep-
ilepsy and poverty are due to alcohol.
The message says: alcohol must
be held responsible for about four
fifths of the propensities that make
necessary the huge paraphernalia of
police systems, criminal courts, Jail,
prisons and reformatories that consti-
tute so serious blot upon present-day
civilization. The general relation be-
tween alcohol and pauperism is every
where recognized"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-01-15

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full weakness, evidential-
ly speaking. Of his posi-
ton. He had no illusions on this score.
A little while--after such deliberation
as was decent and seemly-and he
would be a condemned criminal wait
ing in the shadow of the hempen
moose In such localities justice was
swift. There would be scant time be.
tween verdict and pcnality-not enoug'
doubtless, for the problem to solve It,
self. For the only solution possible
was Hugh's dying in the hospital at
Aniston. So long as the other lived
he must play out the role.
And if Hugh did die, but died too
late? What satire on truth and JUS
tice! The same error which put the
rope about his own neck would fold
the real Hugh in the odor of sanctity.
He would lie in the little Jail yard in
a felon's grave. and Hugh in the Gene
terry on the hill beneath u marble mon
ument erected by st. James parish to
the Rev. Henry Sanderson. In the
dock or in the cell, with the death
watch sitting at it's door. 1t was all one.
He had elected the path. and if it led
to the bleak edge of life. to the barren
abyss of shame. he must tread 1t. He
was powerless to help himself still. He
had given over his life into the keep
ing of power in which his better
manhood had trusted. If it exacted
the final tribute for those ribald years
of Satan Sanderson the price would be
paid.
A step came in the corridor. A voice
spoke his name. The summons had
come
Before the opening of the door the
hum of voices in the courtroom sank
to stiffness itself The jury had taken
their places. Their looks were sober
and downcast. The judge was in his
seat, his hand combing his beard. Har-
ry faced him calmly. The door Of
side room was partly open. and a
girls white face looked in, but he did
not see.
Gentlemen Of the jury, have you ar
rived at verdict"
1--WE have"
There was confusion In the hall
abrupt voices and the sound Of feet.
The crowd stirred. and the judge
frowningly lifted his gavel.
"What say you, guilty or not guilty?"
The foreman did not answer. He
was leaning forward, looking over the
heads of the crowd. The judge stood
up. People turned. and the room was
suddenly a-rustle with surprised move
ment The crowd at the back Of the
room parted. and up the center aisle
toward the judges desk staggered a
figure-a man whose face. CHASTITY and
convulsed. was partly swathed in band
ages. AT the door Of the Judges room
girl stood transfixed and staring.
The crowd gasped. They saw the
familiar profile, replica Of the pris-
oner's; the mark that slanted across
the brow. the eyes preternaturally
bright and fevered.
A pale faced. breathless man in cler-
ical dress pushed forward through the
press as the figure stopped-thrust out
his hands blindly.
"Not-guilty. your honor" he said.
A cry came from the prisoner at the
bar. He leaped toward him as he fell
and caught him in his arms.
The group in the judges room was
hushed in awestruck silence. The
door was shut. but through the panels,
from the courtroom. came the MUIR
muir of many wondering voices. By
the sofa on which lay the man who
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-01-15
HANLY LAYS CRIME TO LIQUOR.
Indiana Governor in Message to Legis-
lature Defends Option Law.

Indianapolis, Ind, Jan. 81 am
aware there are some who have al
ready celebrated the county option
laws repeal, but l beg to remind all
those who contemplate its repeal that
1t is the Invest wire in the political ma
chinery of the commonwealth and is
charged with enough electricity to kill
the party that repeats it."
In these words Gov j. Frank Hanly,
in his final message to the legislature
of Indiana, delivered yesterday, closes
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-01-15

At any time when your stomach is
not in good condition, you should take
Kodol, because Kodol digests all
the food you eat and it supplies health
health and strength for the stomach in
that way. You take Kodol just for a
little while when you have Slight at
tacks of Indigestion, and you take it
just little longer in order to get re-
lief from severe attacks of Indigestion
or Nervous Dyspepsia. Try Kodol to-
day. Sold by Edward T. Tomas.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-01-15
Dr.. Charles Denison is Dead.

Denver Col, Jan. 12.-Dr. Charles
Denison, specialist in the treatment of
tuberculosis and of worldwide fame as
a leader in the war on that disease,
died at his home in this city yester-
day as result of gangrene of the
liver and acute septicaemia due to gall
stones.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-01-15

directly into une1n. pur the walls are
so thin that the water can soak
through to the inside Solid sub
stances, of course, cannot get in, SO
that the plant food must be dissolved
in water before 1t can get into the
roots and so up to the chlorophyll,
which is waiting to build 1t into seeds
or leaves.
If the soil has been worked until 1t
is fine and loose each little particle
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-01-15
KILL WORDS OF I. R.
Part of Presidents Message
Tabled by House.
soLoNS RESENT CRITICISMS
Roosevelt and His Ways Torn to
Pieces by Lower Branch, and Strong
Resolution Passed -Tawney, Sher-
ley, Smith and Fitzgerald Roast"

Washington, Jan 9.-Having given
consideration to the presidents fur
Their views regarding the secret ser,
vice, contained in his message to the
house of representatives last Monday,
the special committee appointed to
deal with the subject yesterday
brought in it's final report, which was
adopted by the house.
Accompanying it was a resolution
which declared it to be the sense of
the house that it shall decline to con-
slider any communication from any
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-01-15
Brave Fire Ladies'

often receive severe burns, putting out
fires, then use Bucklen's Arnica Salve
and forget them. 1t soon drives out
pain. For Burns, Scalds, Wounds, Cuts
and Bruises its earth's greatest healer.
Quickly cures Skin Eruptions, Old
Sores, Boils, Ulcers, Felons; best Pile
cure made. Relief is instant. Csc. at
P. A. Clemmer's drug store. F
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-01-15

@VERY growing plant is little
* factory. The green coloring
H. matter Of the leaves, or chic
rophyll, is the engine. The
sunlight is the power that makes the
engine go, and the air, water and some
of the substances in the soil are the
raw materials.
Under the stimulating influence of
sunlight the chlorophyll takes the car
bon dioxide gas of the air and the wa
ter, nitrogen and minerals which the
roots send up in the form of crude sap
and tears them to pieces. Then it puts
them together again in hundreds Of
different ways. 1t makes them into
the starch of the potato or the sugar Of
the sugar beet. 1t puts them together
in another way and makes the hard,
horny gluten of a kernel of popcorn or
the tough fiber of cornstalk. By
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-01-15

Jap Paper Advises Hawaii Strike.
Honolulu, Jan. 1.-THE Japanese
Newspaper Jill in violent editorial
to-day advises plantation laborers 70
strike for higher wages at once.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-01-15

and Its weakness had seized" him. His
stiffening fingers We're slipping from
the ledge of life. and he knew 1t.
He heard the bishops earnest voice
speaking from the void. "Love-cover-
eth-all-sins' The words seemed to
stand out sharply. with black CULTS of
nothingness between. They reused his
fading senses called them back to the
outpost of feeling
Not because loved" he said 1T
was because l. WAS afraid!'
False as his habit of life had been. in
that moment only the bare truth re-
NAMED With last effort the dying
man thrust his hand into his pocket
drew out small. battered. red disk
and laid 1t in the others hand.
Satan" he whispered as Harry bent
over him and the flicker of light fell in
mis- eyes, 80 you-tiiink it wi,l-count
when l cash in:"
But Harry's answer Hugh did not
hear. He had passed out OF the sound
of mortal speech forever.
y
There came Gay when the brown
ravincs Of Smoky Mountain laughed in
genial sunshine, when the tangled
thicEets and the fo.iaged reaches,
painted with the cardinal and bishops
purple of late autumn, flushed and
stirred to the touch of their golden
, lover and the silver water gushing
through the fumes sang to quicker
melody. There was no wind. Every.
where save for the breathing life of the
forest was dreamy beauty and waiting
peace
In the soft stiffness Harry stood or
the doorstep Of the hillside cabin fol
! the last time. Below him In the gulct
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-01-15
Home Course In
rlodern Agriculture
Flow Plants Eat and Grow
BY c. v. GREGORY,
Agricultural Diyision. Iotya .sfa.e coHese

copyrisht 1908 by American Association
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-01-15
Chapter3 81

GANWHILE in the mar
row cell Harry was alone
with his bitterness. His
judicial sense. keenly
alive. from the very first
had appreciated the Woe
full weakness, evidential-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-19
HAVANA, ILL,
FISH MARKET
Government Report Shows it to be the
Biggest Fish store en- the
Rivers.

The United States authorities VINO
have been compiling history OF tne
fishing business in the United States
during the past few years have some
things to say about Ha-
yana as fish market and the Illinois
river as producer of edible varleties
of fish. In part the report says:
"Illinois furnishes more than one
third of the fishes sent to the market
from the streams of the mississippi
valley. The Illinois river and its
tributaries produce 70 per cent OF all
the fishes taken from the streams OF
the state, and fourth of the entire
fish product of the Mississippi valley.
saThe dozen most productive kinds
of Illinois fishes, according to the sta
tistics of the census year, were as
follows: European carp. bufaio, ca'
fishes and bullheads, sheephead OF
drum, crappies, sunfsh, black bass
suckers and red-nose, paddle hsh
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-19
BALL PLAYER
TO MARRY NURSE
Broke His Leg Sliding the Bases and
Romance Started in the Hos
pitaI Ward.

Quincy Wing: Wallace G. Reece,
of Montpelier, Ohio. a former base
ball player, is not the least bit sorry
that he had his leg broken while a
member of the Peoria Three Eye team
when it was playing an exhibition
game in this city early in the season
three years ago. 1t was only an in
cident that is calculated to bring
about the happiest and most joysome
event of his life,. as on Wednesday
evening, October 20, he will be united
in marriage with the nurse that so
tenderly cared for him when he was
taken to Blessing hospital after the
accident.
The occasion of the breaking OF
the young mans limb is well remem-
bered by the baseball fans of the city.
Young Reece was making daring
slide toward second base when his
foot caught under him in such a man
ner as to cause it to break with a
crack that could be heard all over the
field An ambulance was called and
While there all his wants We're care
fully and tenderly looked after by
Miss Laura Huffman. daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. w. NJ. Huffman, well known
Beverly township residents, who was
then nurse at the hospital. Before
| he was able to leave the institution
an attachment was formed between
the patient and the nurse which was
/ romantic from the start. Since thai
time the attachment continued tc
grow and finally developed into love
During the past summer Miss Huff
man gave up her post to prepare fol
4 the wedding. which will take place al
I the home OF her parents in Beverl,
township tomorrow evening at 500
o'clock. with Rev. Jupin, pastor of thu
Methodist church at Kingston, OF
floating.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-19
Kidneys Cured by This
Simpie Treatment.

Get your druggist to mix the iolioW-
ing ingredients: One-half ounce nuio
extract Buchu, one ounce OF compound
fluid Balmwort and two ounces OF
syrup sarsaparilla compound: Shake
we'll and take teaspoonful after each
meaI and one when retiring. Drink
plenty Of water, but little of any liquid
at meal times.
The great urinary specialist. Gaut,
whose single fees range from $500 to
$1,000. acknowledge in his latest re-
norts that this simple mixture is most
reliable and will cure all but the most
complicated and aggravated kidney
and bladder affections and rheuma-
tism; therefore, it is we'll worth try
ing.
putting under tho eyes, back c're.
headache and dizziness burning of the
eyes. blurred vision extreme nervous
ness and insomnia all indicate urinars
trouble. Manv more SYMPTOMS could
be named. but the reader will surely
recognize them.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-19

white, yellow and rock bass, lake and
shovel nose sturgeon, wall-eyed pike.
About three dozen of our $50 spe-
cies of Illinois fishes have a market
able value as food, and dozen or
more may be classed as edible, al
though not popular enough or abund-
ant enough within our limits to have
any commercial value as Illinois prod
ucts.
IA report on fish culture at the Ha-
vana hatchery by Superintendent W..
F. Hutchinson gives much information
regarding the institution. He has
been in charge of the hatchery since
April, 1908. From July to Nov. l..
1908, the Havana hatchery distributed
1S,477,942 fish of various kinds to diff
ferent parts of the state
"The report of E. E. Caldwell, chief
fish warden, indicates that there has
been turned into the state treasury
almost $1,000 from licenses, which Is
surely a good showing. considering
that the river has been high for sein-
ing the greater part Of the time. The
purpose of the law is that the license
money shall be used to establish and
further the work of the hatchery at
the more important places where the
propagation of the finer varieties can
be done cheaply and successfully.
From jan !, 1907. to Jan. 1, 1909
there was shipped from Havana g.
100000 pounds of fish, the last year
showing an increase of more than 4
million pounds over the preceding
year. Pekin ranks second with 300,
| 600 pounds less than Havana. Next
in rank are Peoria, Beardstown. Bath
Browning, Henry Meredosia. M
other places have a record of more
( than million pounds
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-19
ARRESTED FOR
SMOKING CIGARETTES
centerviIle Boy Of II Years Was Sent
to Jail for Three Days for
the Crime.

Centerville Citizen: Hardly had
John b. Hammond arrived in the city
until in the very corridors OF the APP
panoose county court house he en-
countered II year old boy putting
away at a cigarette otherwise known
as comm nail There is new state
law against the use Of cigarettes by
minors but Leo Slaughter, the young
ster in this case, evidently either was
ignorant Of or had contempt for the
law, at least, he didn't know who
had him under observation.
Don't you know it is against the
law to smoke cigarettes" asked MT.
Hammond. accosting the boy. The
only answer was shrug OF tue
shoulders and the boy threw down
the stub and cody began the manu-
facture of another cigarette.
Mr.. Hammond stepped into the
sheriffs Office and had Deputy Sheriff
Grant Clark take young Slaughter In
to custody and lead him over to JUS
tice Zimmers' Office where it was a
matter Of only a short space OF time
to receive the boys plea OF guilty and
to commit him to jail for three days
in default of payment of ten dollar
fine.
Had the boy been willing to d.
vulge the name of the person who sup
piled him with the ''makins" he could
have gone clear under the law. but
he refused to do so, saying that he
had found the papers. He IS color
ed boy we'll known at Relay.
Mr.. Hammond stated that the case
was brought as a warning to other
boys who probably do not take the
new law seriously, no previous arrests
having been made. He believes that
while no cigarettes are openly sold IN
Centerville, some stores have the
papers lying around convenient for
purchasers of tobacco. He says he
will be back again soon to make fur
Their arrangements for temperance
meeting and will then go more deep
w into the matter, intimating that
there may be some sensational de-
velopments. AS head Of the Trimmer
club he was instrumental In getting
the anti-cigarette law passed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-19
GETTING READY
FOR THE CRUISE
Torpedo Flctilla Leaves Saturday
at Sunrise to Preced Taft
Down the River.

ST. LOUIS, Oct 19.-The torpedo
fiotilla will weigh anchor for Memphis
at sunrise Saturday and precede the
Presidents fleet by two days in the
trip to New Orleans. Lieut. Mitchell,
in command of the flotilla, yesterday
said this decision had been arrived at
on account of the possibility of low
water impending the vessels and caus-
ing them to interfere with the sched-
u,e Of the main feet 1t was consider
ed best, he said. that the fotilla get an
early start and make the run to Mem
phis in advance of the fleet and wait
for it there. This plan will not be
changed unless the river should rise
so rapidly between now and Saturday
morning as to entirely obviate any
chance Of the warships going aground.