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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-07-12
CzAR'S SPIES ALERT
Every Russian In New York Un'
der Espionage.
Emperor's HireIIngs Haunt the L.
brarIes and Make Note of What
Is Read by Supposed
RevoIutIonlsts.

New York-If Russian Jew dwell
Ing in an East side tenement house
spends his evenings in a public IL
brary reading the history of his ia
therland or porting over books on
democracy or socialism, the secret pc
lice of the czar of Russia will know
about It, sooner or later. The name
age, sex, New York address, and occu
patton of the library reader will IN
the course of routine business be in
scribed on the official records at St
Petersburg, together with a descrip
ton of the listed persons physical
appearance.
leaders of the movement with whom
he is working, this city harbors many
secret agents of the home govern
ment whose business 1t is to keep the
police informed of the revolutionary
activities here, and especially to cable
leaves New York for a visit to Rus
STA. His departure is known in st.
Petersburg before his ship is half way
across the Atlantic, and if he ven,
lures to cross the Russian border
some pretext is found for arresting
him.
1t is optional with each spy in this
city what ostensible occupation he
shall have. He may push a peddler's
cart, or keep a shop, or print books,
or have a job in some city depart
ment. Anything will do so long as his
neighbors do not suspect him and ad'
NIT him to membership in one or
more of the many little organizations
Of the revolutionists. He attends the
meetings of these various circles,
takes part in their debates, often as
not is a leader and noted for the
earnestness of his denunciation of the
car. His real business is to report
to the chief Of the spies in New York,
who in turn communicates with the
Russian police and makes call at
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-07-12
FOX SKINS SELL For s2.51l
Fabulous Prices Paid for Hides ct An
finals in londcn-Furs Of Otter
Also Come High.

London. -Twenty-fve hundred dol
lars for an undressed fox skin seems
almost incredible and yet that record
was made at the recent spring tur
sale in London. Another skin from
the same kind of animal went at the
bargain price of $3.50, because it had
a few more white hairs in it than are
permitted to enable skin to rank
Al at the furriers' Lloyds. BY the time
mis- $500 skin reaches its destined
wearer it will be worth $4,000 and 1t
would take two skins to make stole.
The color fades in the wearing, so
that this costly fur will very shortly
be worth only third of its present
value. Vanity! Thy name is really
man. For, truth to tell, it IS only in
a country where the magnificence OF
his women's clothes fatters mans
self-esteem that colossal sums will be
spent on them.
While these are the most valuable
of furs there are others calculated to
make an ordinary man think he Is
dreaming when he knows the prices
paid for them.
Next to the costly foxes are the
long mouse-gray or dark sea otter
skins. Sea offers once abounded in
the Boring sea and even as far down
as Vancouver But they are not pro
life and more than century Of
slaughter has rendered them rare.
The Russians buy these skins for
$4,000 apiece and will cut them into
coat collars for their wealthy mobiles.
Dark Siberian sables. about foot
long and nearly as wide. sold for
from $3.50 to $3.50 each.
All furs are advancing enormously
III price. Silver fox leads, with rise
of 100 per cent. since March, 1909;
skunk and opossum come next with
65 per cent.
Real skins worth only IS each 40
years ago are now worth $40 each.
So it goes through the entire list.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-07-12
WOODEN LEG INDUSTRY NOVEL
Interesting Little Shop in Portland,
Oregon, Where Patrons Discuss
Ailments of "Stumps."

Portland, Ore.-Unique among Port
lands thriving business industries is
the busy little shop for the manufac-
ture. fitting and sale of artificial
limbs. conducted by ]. H. Lutes. Mr..
Lutes and his entire staff of assist
ants, including his wife, who acts as
bookkeeper and typist in the office,
have each suffered the loss of a leg
and are equipped with artificial sub
stitutes.
The shop where wooden legs and
arms are made and fitted is an inter-
esting place. While one waits in the
office. wooden-legged and wooden
armed customers wander in and out,
and there is much shop talk" which
would be hardly ineligible to one in
possession of all his natural arms and
legs. One hears of 'stumps" and their
ailments, and of the various remedies
for the same: and now and then leg
with its stocking and shoe looking
most life-like. is deity pulled off and
handed in to the inner work-room for
repairs. or for "oii:ng up"
Women, as well as men, are among
those that stump in and out, and lit
tie children are all too numerous The
women and children are sympathetic
ally ministered to by Mrs. Lutes,
whose own artificial legs are so skill
fully made and adjusted that only the
slightest limp is perceptible. and
whose cheerful smile and pleasant
personality is convincing evidence
that the loss of a limb need not nee
essarily be the horrifying affection
that it would seem to a person still
happily in possession of two good
natural legs and both arms.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-07-12

the office of the Russian consul gen.
eral credited to this city.
This chief agent is supposed to be
Alexander M. Evenlenko, who calls
himself a publisher, and who de-
clares that he is loyal to the same
cause that his accusers are working
for. But it is said that Evenlenko
makes too many calls at the con-
sulate, and he is specifically charged
with informing st. Petersburg of the
coming of Matushenko. Matushenko
was one of the cOnspirators who
brought about the mutiny on the Rus
sian warship Potemkin. He escaped
to this country, where he was har-
bored by Evenlenko, and then re-
turned to Russia upon the latter's adj
vice. He was captured at the border
and hanged three days later.
For every drop of blood spilled in
this revolutionary work there are
oceans of printers ink involved.
Bomb throwing is infreGuent, but
pamphlets attacking the car and
printed in New York and Paris are
struggled over the Russian border
every day by the CARLOAD. So, in
the opinion of the secret police. the
first step toward disloyalty to the
government is reading about it.
That is why the spies in New York
have their instructions to watch the
libraries. One of these agents is an
old man with long white beard.
He is great reader himself. He
public libraries on the East side.
But he never forgets that he is on
duty, and looks away from his fiction
pages from time to time to see who is
reading the heavier books of phloso-
ply and history and political econ
omy. If he sees that some other
reader is there regularly he will walk
behind him to get a glimpse at his
book. If it is of the sort of litera.
ture supposed to breed discomfort
with monarchies in the mind of the
reader, the old spy will find some
way of learning that readers name
and address. He will report to the
chief agent, who will give the name
of the suspect to the spy assigned
to the students particular neighbor
hood The second spy will learn what
organization. if any, the library patron
belongs to- and then attend meeting
to learn how much of what has heen
absorbed from the books is poured
out in speeches dcnouncirg The czar
Then, after this investigation, If the
watched man or woman is considered
at all dangerous by the agent, the
name is forwarded to Russia.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-07-12
MANY CITIES BURIED IN SEA
Hungarian ArcheoIosist Says Awful
Cataclysm Submerged Central
American Capitals.

New Orleans.-There are buried
cities of magnificent proportions be-
meath the waters of the Caribbean sea
at no very great depth, according to
DR.. Emil Monsonyi of Budapest, Hun
gary, well-known geologist
Doctor Monsonyi has spent some
time in Central America In archeolog-
zeal research. He says that he is con-
WINGED that the cities of Central Amer
lea are not as old as they are thought
to be.
By a terrible cataclysm, he de-
clared, the land which was once a
solid mass along the twentieth parallel
became submerged, causing the de-
struction of thousands of people
Those on the outer edge escaped to
North America, he said.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-07-12
BALL00N.NG|N ARMY
Aeronautics Boosted at Fort
Omaha War School.
Col. w. A. GIassford, Commanding
Officer, Has Spent Life In Signal
Work-Studies Methods In
Europe.

Omaha, Neb.-Ballooning and q
the United States army is receiving
great boost from the balloon school
now open at Fort Omaha, the head.
quarters of the signal corps of the
army. Hundreds of officers from the
different army posts are being given
the instruction and in groups of from
25 to so are being taught to navigate
the air.
The course includes the building of
balloons. imitation, the ascent. flight
and descent. During the flight In
struction is given in handling the bal
loon and in searching for desired air
currents.
At Fort Omaha the government has
erected the largest balloon house IN
the world and has installed and
equipped the only plant on the Amer
lean continent for securing hydrogen
by the electrolysis of water. From
this plant hydrogen, under enormous
pressure, is shipped in steel tubes to
other posts in different portions of
the country.
The feature of the present school
Is the imported German balloon. 1t
is SO built in sections that should any
section be torn by shot or by acct
dent, the great bag would not collapse
and fall. The German is more than
one hundred feet in height and is guild
ed and controlled by rudder COM
posed. of numerous small parachutes.
The army dirigib}e No. I, weather
balloons, sphericals and balloons OF
numerous shapes make their home In
the big balloon house.
Col w. A. Glassford, commanding
officer at Fort Omaha, has spent his
life in signal work and was for sew
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-07-12
Home Course
In Domestic
Science
XVII. -Suegestions on
Home Nursing.
By EDITH G. CHARLTON,
In Charge Of Domestic Economy. Iowa
State College.
Copyright. 1910. by American Press
Association.

no have good health is the birth
right Of every individual. Some.
i times this gift has been denied.
and there is an inherited tend.
ency to disease. But even when this
is the case good health may still be
attained and. having been attained.
may be kept if the path Of wisdom Is
followed. To be free from disease. to
be normal individual. lies more Of
ten within our own power than many
people suppose A simple prescription
which will help the person who al
ready has good health to retain 1t and
will also do much in gaining it for the
individual not so blessed, If 1t is faith
fully followed, is this:
Nourishing food in right amount.
Sufficient fresh air and exercise.
A fair share of work and fair
amount Of recreation.
Eight hours sleep out of each twen-
ty-fOur.
A cheerful mind free from worry.
A few moments thought will show
the Intelligent person that each one
of these rules is essential to good
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-07-12
THE sELF-EDUCATED WOMAN
A Library of Good Books for Cor
ner Out of Earshot of the
Tea Table.

When all is said and done, those Of
us who are really educated are self
educated. The best that schools and
colleges can do is to teach US to read
and tell us what books to read and
perhaps help a little to form our taste
For those of us who have, however,
missed schools and colleges, who have
been busy and perhaps won our leisure
too late, there is still education near
at hand and cheap.
A half-dozen great books much read,
halfdozen or a dozen good books
constantly returned to and thoroughly
known, will be an education to any
one. 1t has so often been said that
the Bible and Shakespeare furnish a
complete education, that it is truism
to repeat it. For devotional books
every one, Protestant no less than
Catholic, should own that wonderful
book, Limitation of Christ" and Cath
Ollie no less than Protestant should
own Theological Germanica." Then.
because devotion Is not always at
white heat, "The Sayings Of Epictetus"
and the Thoughts of Marcus Aureli-
us" should be kept for strengthening
and quiet.
For the poets, after Shakespeare, a
Milton and Dante preferably in the
little Temple edition, with the Italian
and English side by side), Shelley
and Keats. and Palgrave's Golden
Treasury"
For amusement, Bunyan's "Pil-
grim's Progress" and DefOe's Robin
son Crusoe," Fielding's "Tom JONES'
Miss Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre" Thack.
eray's Vanity Fair" Dickens David
Copperfield." George Eliot's Mill on
the Floss" and Meredith's "Egoist'
will serve well to give a good idea OF
the English novel.
This entire library could be bought
for less than $25 and would be not
only an education, but a mine of hap
piness and joy. If one cares to extend
ones view a little bit one may
add Kingey's Greek Heroes and
Plutarch's Lives -Harper's Bazaar.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-07-12

Bethlehem, Pain among sacks of
grain in his barn Postmaster Oscar
BetZ of Switzer found nest of red
squirrels. At home the family cat had
a litter of kittens. which arrived the
day before. Thinking the squirrels
would be a dainty morsel for the cat,
they We're taken to her. but, instead Of
eating them, old Tabby Immediately
adopted the squirrels, and now Is
nursing them with her kittens.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-07-12
Charitable.

'Why are you so sad, my poor
man. asked the housewife. pausina
moment from her house cleaning.
"Ah, num- sighed the tired tramp
81 can't help being sad when ! think
of dis cold, cold world. | asked de
woman down de Sweet for nights
lodging and she Jays l could sleep
in her bin of anthracite. You wouldn't
be so cruel, would you, mum?'
NO. indeed, my poor man. If you
will shake these two rugs I'll let you
sleep in my bituminous bin. That "a
soft coal, you know"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-07-12
II! Luck in Horseshoe.

Burlington. n. J.-Ciflord Price, liv-
eryman and boniiace, has lost his faith
in the horseshoe as an emblem of good
luck While examining the foot of Il
horse attac hed 10 coal cart the other
morning the animal, made restless by
loose nail il its hoot. Knocked the
liyerymar 10 Tie ground and dragged
the cart. with = ten q. coal aboard,
over hin. Friends thogght Price had
been killed &nG - H.,. l;t.yn 10 his
hotel, but. al+ho IN ,ndiF bruised,
there were n" t'.e7 t.oHer, and his
physician lrCN.e.a ~; e,,r,y .elovsr
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-07-12
Cat and Ely Cause Death,

Jersey City. N. J.-According to
the coroner cat and a fly were re-
sponsible for the death of Edward H.
Pratt, manufacturer. While petting
q kitten a week ago Mr.. Pratt was
scratched on the hand. A few hours
later he crushed fly in that hand
Sertic poisoning, which even ampu.
tation of the hand could no. check.
caused death.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-07-12
Work "a Hours a Day.

The busiest little things ever made
are DR.. Kings New Life Pills. Every
pill is asugarcoated gloubule ofhealth,
that changes weakness into strength,
languor into energy, brain-fag into
mental power; curing Constipation.
Headache, Chills, Dyspepsia, Malaria.
Csc at P. A. Clemmer's T
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-07-12
ChiIdren Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CA 8 T oRIA

Don't think that piles can't be cured.
Thousands of obstinate cases have been
cured by LOANS Ointment SO cents at
any drug store,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-07-12

Farmers, mechanics, railroaders,
laborers rely on DR.. Thomas Eclectric
Oil. Takes the sting out of cuts, burns
or bruises at once. Pain cannot stay
where it is used
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-07-12

eral years stationed in Europe as
the representative of this government
in studying aeronautics as cractised
in the great camps of the armies Of
England, France, Germany and Italy.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-16
OPEN GRAVE; FIND NO FOUL PLAY
First Burial Case ordered Investi-.
gated Comes to Naught.


First bnriai Case oraerea inses',-
Eated Comes 10 Nausns'
Coroner F.. O.. Richards, of Madison
County, In his report to DR.. Sumner,
secretary Of the State Board Of Health,
on his findings in connection with the
opening of grave at Maxburg will
say that in his opinion there was no
foul play connected with the death
of the three day old babe which was
mysteriously buried at that place some
time ago. This Is one OF the cases
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-16

Of the entire bushels wa3
used almost entirely feeding. HE
The sugar.
nothing Of whisky
won't on drke rapidly becoming
popular few years
exclusive
which maize oup spelled
the menu hungry
TESTIFY Fed to steers corn supples MANKIND tho
beef the
and products is rapidly increasing
The average person has little idea
IN nndries for food e
stnening
and asbestos brewing
Corn rups used mixing pre-
serves for the manufacture vinegar brewing
ure chewing tobacco
mods IN IRON oundres extracts ogwood sieng
mirrors caramel or
sugar colorng and Tactic acid tanning
IN vinegar Inc uses oil
soft
for edible frying
ana cooking ana salad OIL for
varsh and for sizing in textile
lowing lines business:
the fiber finishing
for thckenng printing dressings
for food sauces gums and Clues and ink mucilage.
American ingenuity has made hog
There squeals thrifty farmers know who use the
cobs Fertilizers winter fuel
one ton Of the
cornstalks the entire
commercial uses Of the
s possibilities r. S8-S.
From the huks hats large ex
tent the southern
/ of
The woody part Of the SHE'LL com
plosiyes 1t is treated with and sui
phurc acids Gun cotton is the result Nitro
explosive be readily the
varnah -ls
Alter soft fuzzy coat mon
mattresses sINE1
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-16
ATcH1soN GLOBE SIGHTS.

Why do they call it the mourner's
bench?
We have remarked that when man
cannot find work, his wife can.
E Always speak the truth" needs an
amendment: Don't always speak.
Lots Of people are afraid of a cy-
clone who are not afraid of the devil.
Radishes and lettuce bear the same
relation to food that Platonic love does
3 to love.
It is well there are uniforms; other
wise some men would escape notice
entirely.
Promptness doesn't amount to much
unless you manage to do something
after you arrive.
Let the whole work of boycotting go
on. Down with the Cranberry. OF the
Sour Disposition.
The man who feels like sneezing
and cannot, has some notion Of the
real thing In disappointment.
The general belief is that prices are
high. and Christian Science seems
low In proving this is an error.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-16

D.
With the laundering of two ships,
the burning of another and the loss
Of fifty-two lives in the bitter cold
and storm of the first weeks in De.
cember, the 1909 season of great lakes
navigation closed a season in serious
disasters, loss Of life and property and
tragic incident one Of the most re-
markable in the history OF shipping
on the lakes. Storm and wrecks claim
ed more than a hundred lives in the
eight months of navigation. Property
Of value estimated to be greater than
$2,000.000 was destroyed. Channels
were blocked by the hulks of lost
ships and the shores were hardly ever
free from wreckage after the middle
of April 4,
The season Of 1909 was the most
disastrous to shipping of any with the
exception Of 1905. The property loss
in that year was placed at $2.341, 500.
Fifty-one ships were wrecked repre-
senting net tonnage of 98,095. The
following table for the six years prior
to 1906 gives some idea of the tribute
shippers must pay.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-16
2 Q9LLgeDEA1H.
TREAT LA,KES

"a few pieces OF wreckage were found
floating in the vicinity Of Whiteflsh
Point. They were the last signs OF the
Adella Shores.
Even more mysterious was the loss
Of the big freighter D. M. Cleminson,
on Lake Superior. Dec. 5, 1898. This;
boat carried crew of twenty-four
men. How or why she foundered is
one of the unexplained tragedies of
lake navigation. The bodies of two
Of the crew were found. but they bore
no evidence to explain the disaster.
The climax came with the loss Of
the Bessemer.and Marquette car ferry
No. 2. plying between Conneaut and
Port Stanley. The car ferry was a
large and very seaworthy boat, valued
at nearly half million dollars with
cargo. It left Conneaut for It's regu-
lar trip Dec. Z. It carried crew OF
thirty-one men and one passenger.
The loss of the car ferry will go
down in lake history as another unex.
planned tragedy. At first no alarm was
felt for the big craft. 1t was thought
she had sheltered until the violence OF
the storm should be past. Two days
went by, then three and four. Ankle
ty gave way to fear and finally to the
conviction that hope was futile! Five
days after the car ferry disappeared
mute evidence was forzld which
proved the wreck beyond all doubt.
The heavy loss of life on the Great
Lakes last season has aroused strong
opposition to prolonging the season OF
navigation into the storms and gales
OF the early winter. Most of the sac.
rtfice of life and loss OF property
comes at the beginning OF close of the
season. The Pittsburg Steamship
Company, the lake branch Of the Unit.
ed States Steel Corporation. has an.
nounced that 1t will no longer need.
lessly inperil the lives Of its men for
the sake of bringing few more tons
of ore to the lower lake ports. Here
after, it is announced. navigation will
close on Nov. 80, no matter what con.
ditions may be.
The disasters of the year have call.
ed attention to the necessity for wire.
less telegraph outfits on lake vessels.
1t is said that at the present time
hardly more than fifty Of the $500
boats on the lakes are equipped with
wireless. Practically all the loss of
life and property on the lakes is con-
fined to freight boats 1t has been
many years since passenger boat
was wrecked or a passenger lost in a
disaster of any kind.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-16
coLD-sroRAaE FIGURES.


Three Billion Dollars, worth Of
Food ON Ice Each Year.
While the housewives are being
driven by the high prices to boycott
meat, here is what the ice and refrig-
Grafton blue book says is being held in
cold storage, says the Philadelphia
Record:
Six million calves.
Fourteen million cattle.
TWENTY-FIVE million sheep and lambs.
Fifty million hogs.
According to these figures from the
Official guide book, circulated only
among the cold storage men, there is
in storage one entire animal for, each
adult in the United States, with
enough whole animals left over to give
two to each family.
This meat is being held in sos cold
storage plants. In addition it may In
terest the worried housekeepers to
know that in seyenty-eight fsh-freez-
ing plants In the country there are fish
waiting to be doled out that are val
ued at s25,000,00O,
In other cold-storage plants during
any year now, according to the storage
mems own statistics. the struggling
wage-earner will find:
One billion eight hundred million
eggs.
One hundred thirty million pounds
OF poultry.
Fruits valued at s50,00O,O00 4
Then. besides, there are millions Of
pounds Of potatoes, onions. thousands
Of turtles, cells. cases of canned goods,
and milk. butter and cheese valued at
nearly s100.000,0O0
The total value Of meat and food
stuffs placed in cold storage during a
year at present is, according to the fig
ures Of the storage concerns. close to
SS.000,000.0 900.