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Masterpiece Of Glass Work

as great e. puzzle as the story 1t illustrates.
Breyal refers to it rs 1.-The famous vase of
chaledony;" Nilsson calls it an agate; Bartoll
a sardonyx; while Caylus and others correctly
decided that it was made Of glass. The blue
body was first formed, and while still red hot,
coated over as far as the bas reliefs were in
tended to reach with semiopaque white glass.
the delicate figure being afterwards cut Town
to the blue ground in the same manner as with
real canoes.
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EuiLt Bath for Mine Mules

veterinarians were convinced that a
daily bath would p~rolong the life and
the vigor of the mules which they
used in the mines. At any rate, they
built a big bath about 40 feet long
and something like four feet deep, near
the entrance TO The stables. The
mules are pretty tired. as you can i'm
agine, at the end OF a days work.
But you should see them race from
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Couldn't Do II.

II can't stay long," said the chair
man Of the committee from the col
ored church. II just came to see II
yo' wouldn't join de mission band"
$50 de LAM sakes, honey" replied
the old nanny, "doan' come to mel
l can't even play a mouf-organ."'-
Lippincott's.
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t0-daya well woman Mrs. WILLIAM
AHRENs, 9ss W. 21st St, Chicago, IN.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com.
pound, made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotics or harm
full drugs, and to-day holds the record;
for the largest number Of actual cures
Of female diseases Of any similar medi-
cine In the country, and thousands of
voluntary testimonials are on file 81
the Pinkham laboratory at Lynn,
Mass, from women who have been
cured from almost every form OF
female complaints, Inflammation, nj
ceration, displacements, fbroid tumorH
Irregularities, periodic pains, backache.
Indigestion and nervous prostration.
Every such suffering woman owesitto
herself to give Lydia e. Pinkham,a
Vegetable Compound a trial
If you would like special advice
about your case write q confidan-
,Hal letter to Mrs. Pinkhams %
Lynn, Mass. Her advice Is free
and always helpful
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coIIIery Proprietor's Scheme Was
Appreciated by the Animals and
Prolonged Life and Vigor.

Some time ago the proprietor of
a c~olliery at Plains. Pa. which is
known as the Henry, built a big bath
tub for the mules in the company's
mines. | can't say that this was
done altogether from an a~ltruistic mo-
i've. The owners, after consulting with
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Of Michigan, Wno' al,
though only thirty-eight
years old, is older than
most of the generals COM
handing the forces in the
Civil war, and who is.
too, q statistically scar
red hero, a veteran IN
government service, and
likely to prove the most
practical and efficient d.
rector connected with
any Of the past censuses.
Then there is the assist
ant director, William H.
Willoughby, of Washing
ton, D. c., former secre-
tary of state Of Porto
Rico. Next in rank are
the five chief statisti-
clans: William c. Hunt,
in charge Of the popula-
ton division; LIE Grand
Powers, heading the ag-
ricultural division; VIII
liam M. Stuart, oversee
ing the manufacturing d.
vision; DR.. Greasy L.
Wilbur, the vital statts-'
tics work, and DR.. 10
seph Adna Hill, the d.
vision Of revision and re-
suits. Charles S. Sloane
is the geographer; Al
bertus H. Baldwin Is the
chief clerk; Voler v.
Is chief Of the publica-
ton division; Hugh M.
Brown is private Sec
rotary to the direct
or; Robert M. Pindell,
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Twin Extravagances.
II don't suppose there Is anything
gets out Of date quicker than q WON
ans hat?"
Unless 1t is q battleship."
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said I could NOT
get well unless T
had an operation.
/ knew / could not
stand the strain Of
one, 80 I wrote to
you sometime ago,
about my health
and you told ma
what 70 do. After
.taking Lydia Z
'Pinkham's Vegeta-
bic Compound and
R1o0d Purifier r am
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Penitent.

Irate Father-Wretch! l saw you.
stealing kisses from my daughter.
Young Mani admit 1t, but I am
quite willing to give them back
to her. I
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OWES
/. Her
LIFE TO
Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Chicago, Hl.-"I was troubled with
falling and Inflammation. and the doc.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-02-04

Don't forget that Owen Mnrray's
sale takes place next Tuesday, the Sth,
at which time IA head of horses, so
head of high grade Short-horn cattle,
80 Shropshire sheep, 20 shoats and
big lot of machinery, grain and hay
will be sold.
There will be masquerade ball in
the Mikesh hall at Protivin on Monday
Feb. 7th, with music by Prochaska's
Harp Orchestra. Dance starts at 3
p M; masquerade at p. m. Cash
prizes for the maskers. Supper served
down stairs.
Chas. FRANKIE has resigned his posi-
tion in the Champlin bakery and is sue
ceeded by Wga Krause, of Black River
Falls, Wis, who comes recommended
as first class baker. Mr.. FRANKIE has
not yet decided upon his future loca-
tion or occupation.
James Costigan has sold his l2O acre
farm adjoining town to Elmar Glass at
a confederation of S10O per acre. Mr..
Costigan has not yet decided upon his
future location but intends to go where
he can buy cheaper land and enough
enough of it to keep his boys busy.
There will be social gathering with
short musical program at w. O. w.
hall, Tuesday evening, Feb. Sth, at 8
O'Clock sharp. Refreshments will be
served and good social time in gener-
al is expected. All W. O. w. mem
bers and families are requested to be
present. All w. c. members also
invited. This entertainment and supper
free. Good musit.
Albert Stinson was badly injured by
a fall from scaffolding on Wednesday
while at work on house at Lime
Springs for which Geo. Gill has the
ohtract. Mr.. Stinson was handling a
board which was caught by the wind
and lcarried him off the scaffolding,
falling about ID feet and alighting on
rock. chad two ribs broken, his
back badly bruised and suffers much
pain in one of his shoulders.
REDUCTION SALE-For 80 days only.
| have on hand few overcoatings that
1 will close out at cost or less, and also
lot of up-to-date suitings that l am
| going to make up at yery low prices.
at from 81. 90 to 800 reduction during
January to make room for spring
goods. Call early and make your
choice. 1t is only going to last 80 days.
Ifgou can use4the stuff, now is the
time to buy it Respectfully yours,
DAVID AMUNDSoN,
Merchant Tailor,
Cresco, Iowa
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-02-04
Mr.. Editor /!

Dad says no; there is no prosperity
for city where taxation increases and
Ihevalue of real estate decreases. No
one with push and capital will invest
where the home capitalist does nothing
for his own city. l am the inventor
and patentee of one of the greatest
little money making devices of the age
Anyone interested are cordially invited
to call and examine my U. S.. patent
and see the manufactured article.
Take time and investigate it's merits
and if a satisfactory deal can be made
with responsible parties, l will put in
$5,00O.0O, Give Thousand Dollars) of
my own money to manufacture it in
Cresco.
DAD, that's me, STEVE PEcoY.
P. S. Read this carefully as it will
not appear again. S. P.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-02-04
A Free Lecture on Christian Science.

At Star opera house, Lime Springs,
Iowa, Friday evening, Feb. IL, 1910,
by Prof. Hermann S. Herring, C. S. B.,
member of the Board of Lectureship
of the Mother Church. The First
Church of Christ Scientist in Boston,
Mass
Prof. Hermann S. Herring, C. S. B.,
native of Philadelphia, Pa, and son
of the late DR.. Constantine Herring,
whom Hahnemann called ''The Father
of Homeopathy in America" is a
graduate of the University of Pennsyl-
vania from the department of mechani-
cal engineering, receiving the profes-
sional degree of M. E. in 1886. He was
made professor of mechanics and cleo
trical engineering by the Philadelphia
board of public education in 1887, and
in 1891 was called to the Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore, Md, as asso-
ciate in electrical engineering, where
he remained eight years engaged in
lecturing, and in conducting laboratory
and research work.
| In 1899 he gave up his profession for
the purpose of devoting himself entire
ly to Christian Science work, and was
a practitioner, reader, and teacher in
Baltimore, and publication committee
for Maryland and the District of
Columbia. In 1902 he was elected
First Reader of the Mother Church in
Boston for term of three years, and
subsequently was made president of
the church and a lecturer.
! A cordial invitation is extended to all,
and all who will avail themselves of
this opportunity will find the lecture
| edifying.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-02-04
Former Cresco Lady Dead.

Mrs. L. B. McCartey, a resident of
Cresco 25 years ago, and widow of the
late H. c. McCartey, once a promi-
nent attorney here, died at the home
of her only son, N. D. Barker, of Mar
shall, Minn., Jan. 10, 1910, of cancer,
at the age'of &C. Mr.. Barker and his
mother left Cresco in 1885, and she has
never been back, though Mr.. Barker,
who is now on the road for the Mer-
genthaler Linotype Co., of Chicago,
has been here occasionally during the
past few years, and is well known to
many of the old settlers.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-02-04

girls is on the farm. The best things
are from the farm and humanity could
not exist without it. If farmers are
not satisfied or happy today the best
way to secure better feeling is to
compare the present advantages with
the past. The Dr.. dwelt at length on
the evolution of machinery during a
quarter of century and comparing
the opportunities of youths, past and
present. The present need is for lead
ers and to accept leadership or there
will be no progress. The most per-
picking thing in the world is to put
2x4 opinion against expert knowledge.
About rs per cent of the making of
boys and girls depends on the home, its
privileges for enjoyment, its attrac-
tiveness, books and reading aloud to
the family in the evening and other
diversions. He deplored the passing
of the spelling and debating schools for
youths haye instincts for each others
company and must find it somewhere.
Idealize country life. 1t teaches in
dustry and is safe. In town they have
to ring bell at night to call the chill
dren home. to herd them; no one cares
to look after them.
Only 25 per cent of the making of
boys and girls depends on school life
and much of that is mere mummery
of words. Too long has the high
school pupil been crowded into the
Chinese shoe of college entrance re-
quirements. A blending of the theo-
retical and practical is demanded to
produce a well grounded American
citizen.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-02-04
Brother Breeders and Farmers
Read.

30 choice Duroc Jersey bred Gilts,
all are bred to No. hog, the best
that could be found in the country.
Has very heavy hone with length
of body combined; will make 1000 lb.
hog. Many of these Gilts by the last
of January will tip the beam at 300 lbs.
Everyone guaranteed. Also closing out
8 Poland China Gifts to make room for
the Reds; these are also bred and safe.
Write, or better, come and see me,
and will show them to you.
JOSEPH BoUsKA,
36tf Calmar, Iowa.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-02-04
Church Notes.
BAPTIST.

During the month of February at the
Baptist church, series of special
sermons will be given by the pastor on
the Typology of Joseph These
sermons will be given Sunday morning.
Also Sunday evening sermons will be
given upon some advancing theme
Sunday evening, Feb. 9th, the theme
will be "The Value of Man" Good
music will be given at all these services.
Everybody welcome.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-02-04
Live Stock at Auction.

M. P. Lydon will hold public sale
of his entire herd of Short Horn cattle
on Saturday, Feb. 18th. He will also
sell bunch of Poland China brood
ysows and some good young horses.
See advertisement elsewhere in this
paper.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-02-04
Timber.

| have 80 acres of good timber near
Cresco, can be bought at bargain.
Inquire of Geo. H. Owens,
Office over First National Bank,
Cresco, Iowa.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-02-04
Duroc Jersey Gifts For Sale.

| have several Duroc Jersey Gifts for
sale, sired by Sutton's Banker, No.
1928, and bred to Chief Decorab, No
27269, both boars being of the most
fashionable breeding.
S. A. SUTTON, Cresco, Iowa,
N. |. Phone %. K. r. d. No. 6.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-02-04
Farm for Rent.

liz acre farm across the road from
the Woodman hall at Bonair, Iowa.
Terms cash. MRS. E. F. WILDE,
Lake Mills, Wis.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-02-04
FOR SALE!
Canada Land in the 1912 Worlds
Fair Belt
Fair Belt

OlD YOU KNOW THAT WINNIPEG the capital of the
omiron of Canada, will hold the Biggest Worlds Fair
that held this continent? Canada fashe
had exhibition showing the splendid rich
" hich that country can show
In opinion investment in the Worlds Fair Bet'
you from so to $50 per cent profit your
investment two years. Prices range from $15 to $25
per Terms easy. The said lands lie about 80 to 70
mies from Winnipeg and railroads close by in all
The only taxation in Canada is land which is onehaf
what land owner pays here. When you buy 100
in. canady you GET 16O In other words, you do
have pay for roads, the government takes of
them,
IT WILL PAY YOU to to this office and get spe-
cihc and reliable informal Canada lands and learn
of the advantages that offered
By buying near Winnipeg you from Sc to 10c per
bushel your grain Shipments all grain that export
ed has to through Winnipeg and Port Arthur and later
will go through port at Hudson Bay which will be
short The distance from Calgary (Rocky Mountans)
Winnipeg about 1900 miles hence the saving the
freight charges
If you want to Make Money and Save Money Canada
Land come to office and will show you how to dot
Yours truly,
]. II. LUERS
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-02-04
For Sale.

Property known as the Cole place.
on the Howard Center road. Enquire
OF HAM BROWN.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-04-11
Youna Commentators.

Jerome s. McWade, In Sunday
;chool address at Duluth. quoted oddi-
les from a number Of children's Bihli
cal compositions that had been submit.
ted to him in competition for SIS
New Year prize,
Among the more whimsical oddities
we're:
Mana Is being polite"
Jerusalem was surrounded with
walls to keep In the milk and honey
Jacob was patriarch by trade. In
them days people lived on corn, like
aorses do now They always called
1udden and porridge messes. Jacob
could eat good mess. but Esau. who
was the oldest, could not eat as much
rs you might think. The patriarch
Noses never ate nothing except when
there was famine"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-04-11
REy0LTS AT MEATLESs MENU
New Jersey Hungry Mans Resent
mems Le5ds TO Court, But He Is
Finally Discharged.

Paterson, N. 1.-THE meat boycott
Is blamed for the marital woes OF
Samuel Barrymore, who, arraigned in
the police court the other day, told
Recorder Carroll that he raised a rum
pus because his wife would not buy
meat. My wife is In favor Of re.
ducing meat prices" said the prisoner,
"and she started this boycott business
on me In December.
Since then I've lived on all sorts
OF patented foods. and I'm tired OF
being confronted by vegetable gar.
den on the table every night. | told
her I'd get divorce unless she gave
me some meat. But she won't listen
Sentence was suspended on Barry
more, who was charged with disorder
ly conduct
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-04-11

operation was performed, and four
days afterward the patient succumbed.
AS Mr. Coombe had no relations in
England, Mr. Medland carried out the
funeral arrangements and a few days
afterwards, Mrs. Medland, while han
ding the deceased mans clothes, no
tlced something peculiar about the
padding In the shoulders Of one of the
coats. and Sitting open the lining, was
astonished to find bundle Of papers.
Those proved to be American notes
to The value Of $4,000, and several
deeds relating to property in America.
lii. Medland at once communicated
with Mr. Coombe's brother In America,
70 whom be forwarded the documents
Ind the numbers Of the notes.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-04-11

The Pulaski Tribune declares that
Cairo's meek and lowly postmaster
packed" all four of the grand juries
which denounced Mayor Parsons po-
lice government Presumably, also,
the meek and lowly postmaster also
packed the Cairo Board of Trade and
the Cairo Commercial Club which
brought about the organization of the
Citizens League, that he also insti.
tuted the Pure Ballot League and the
Social Purity League---all of which
were organized against gross evils OF
for which Mayor Parsons
was In part or wholly responsible. II
the Tribune keeps on giving the
meek and lowly postmaster credit for
all the really good things in Cairo
we will begin to think the contem-
porary is in the pay of the meek and
Lowry postmaster and is boosting him
for something or other,
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-04-11

Directors of the Cairo Board Of
Trade and Cairo Commercial Club
viii meet today to TOOK into the
proposition from the Mobile 4 Ohio
railroad promotion department. ~
prepare and distribute $4,000 copies
of 32-page booklet setting forth
Cares advantages from commercial,
Industrial and other points Of view,
It looks like the best scheme that
has ever come to Cairo in this line.
There can be no more effective adj
vertising than that done by railroads,
and when railroad company has de-
.termined to become actively interest
led In the up-building of town il is
sure to be built up. With the Mobile
& Ohio's experts gathering and pre-
pairing the data, getting out the books
and circulating them. the work is sure
to be more thoroughly and less eS-
pensively done than would be the
case ordinarily.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-04-11
How Elnner Mails Crow.

II has been computed that the aver
age growth Of the finger nail Is 1872
Of an inch per week, or little more
than an inch and half per year. The
growth. however, depends to great
extent upon the rate OF nutrition, and
during periods of sickness ii Is retard-
ed. 1t goes on faster In summer than
in winter, and differs for different fin
gers, being most rapid In the middle
finger, and slowest in the thumb Ac-
cording to the rate of growth stated
the average time taken for each finger
nail to grow Its full length Is about
four and a half months, and at this
rate man of seventy would have re-
newed his nails 1856 times. Taking
the length of each nail at half an
inch, he would have grown seven feet
nine inches of nail on each finger
and on all his fingers and thumbs an
aggregate length Of IT feet six inches.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-04-11
Made Cats His Booty.

Says the Pekin and Tientsin Times.
IA novel sort OF crime was discovered
by the Tientsin police when portly
native was arrested and asked to ex-
plain hts embonpoint, He had a
thieves bag around his waist. filled
with dead cats to the number Of sew
en- One Of them, very fine speci
men Of the tortoise-shell, was still
quite warm. In a smaller bag was
found the lure; II consisted Of bits
8of dried fish treated will some deadly
poison. The man was seht UP to the
yamen. where he received thirty blows
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-04-11
INSECTS Triple ON PLANTS
EntomoIogist Finds That Flowers
Make Racchanallan Festival for
Files and Moths.

Little Rock, Ark.--It is not very
obvious, from the human point OF
view, why the ivy should be called
the plant Of Bacchus. since no wine
is made from it's berries. Entomolo-
gista, however, have found that its
flowers make veritable Bacchanalian
festival for number Of insects.
They are won't to sally forth at
night with lanterns to capture the
intoxicated moths that crowd around
the greenish blossoms. When the vii.
low is III bloom they find similar
scene Of dissipation around It's vel
low catkins.
The tippling insect may be used TO
point moral by the temperance lee
turer, for rum not infrequently leads
to its ruin. A distinguished entomolo-
gist. after giving recipe for the mix
ture of sugaring trees for moths
which included beer--said: Add
some Jamaica rum just before using
1t is the rum which attracts them
After slipping this mixture the moths
and butterflies fall from the tree in
toxicated. II the entomologist Ia not
there to capture them by and by they
recover and get up again for another
dip
There Is a fly so addicted to wine
that Linnaeus named 1t the cellar fly
which appellation Kirby changed tc
the more appropriate one of the eel
lar wine drinker The latter distin
guished chronological writes OF II
thus: %'he larva Of this little fly
as can witness from my own Oh
servations, disdains to feed on any
thing but wine or beer, which, like
Boniface In the play, 1t may be sale
both to eat and drink, though unlike
its topping counterfeit, 1t IL Indifferent
to the age of the liquor, which. wheth
or sweet or sour, is equally accepta
BILE"
There is another insect--a moth
which also loves the cellar and thu
wine bottle. But strange to say, !
takes its liquor merely as fiavorins
to the cork In the bottle, on which i
really feeds, that Is to say. the larvae
pasture on the corks Of wine bottles
sometimes causing the wine to rur
out. The moth belongs to that trou
blesome family which works such de
struction in clothes and furs.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-04-11
Passion
for
Collecting
Old Junk
By ". Z. THOMAS

pieces combining himself entirely to nuts and bolts washers and other
like trnke Several times lis employers have asked him why he gath
collection Of ongm products His response always
that lie did not know he could resist the impulse pick up
Even threat of discharge did not him of his mania
education and breeding and his been told Of him that
when passing through the streets in evening d he las filed the pockets
of his "ciaw-hammer" with his finds
Naturally his employers grew curious to learn what disposition
Of the old and visit paid to the mans home for
purpose they eeld amazing In the hear of his
piled high clear to the ceiling of old When
again questioned what disposition he intended make Of the
replied 81 really do not know But suppose that shall
Letting until | am more"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-04-11
KEPT WEALTH ON SHOULDER
Remarkable Discovery Of Bank Notes
Found in Padding of Coat Used
by American.

London.A remarkable discovery OF
ago by Mr. William Medland, New
Gardens official, who lives at Victoria
cottages, Sandycombe road. New Gar
dens. About six months ago MIR, John
Coomhe, who was q friend Of Mr.. Med
lands family for over 40 years, came
from America on visit to this coun-
try. Az he was In q poor state Of health
be consulted a doctor before returning
to America, and was advised to enter
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-04-11
March Circulation

The above is correct statement
Of the circulation of The Cairo Bulle
tin for the year 1909 and for the
month of March 1910
CLYDE SULLIVAN
Business Manager
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 9Th day OF April, 1910.
LEO J. KLEB,
Notary Public.