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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-03
$3.50 BRIDE COSTS MAN $40
Preacher sIedded Forty Miles and
Charges 81 Mileage for Fee In
Newfoundland.

bennington, Can.-Charles McGill,
who left for Newfoundland oil fields
Is driller, sent a descriptive and inter
esting letter to bennington friend.
Among other things he described q
native wedding.
The bride was bought for $3.50,
about the price of an ordinary mink
skin, but when 1t came to the preach
er there was a different story.
He had to travel forty miles by dog
sled to perform the ceremony. and the
husband was assessed $40, or just a
dollar q mile
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-03
Wilson Family 10 pined.

Hamilton, Burmuda, Nov. 1.-THE
president-elect and Mrs. Wilson and
their two daughters we're the guestr
ut dinner Of Sir Beorge NJ. Bullock
the governor. This was the first big
social function since the arrival Of
the distinguished American and was
attended by many officials and army
and naval officers. The governors
home was decorated with British and
American flags while the tables were
loaded with flowers. Toasts were giv-
en- to King George, President Taft and
the Dresident-elect.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-03
For Salel

At the Plain View Stock Farm; 40
Registered Poland China Bears. sired
by Iowa Big Bill (No. 16l797), A. Mas
todon (1S4629). Charmer Boy mo.
l8lOO3. If you want a herd header or
pork maker, l can fit you out either
in size or price. Come or write.
Prices from $1,000 up.
Jos. j. PRoCHAsKA, Prop,
Protivin, Iowa.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-03
Believed cIubman Was Shot.

Milwaukee, Nov. 81. = That Joseph
Vogel, who was shot to death in a
hotel in the Bronx, New York, sew
eral days ago and Sam V. Davidor,
formerly Milwaukee clubman, STOCK
and mining promoter and man about
town. were one is the opinion of Mil
waukee police officials. The identif-
cation of Vogel as Davidor. by the
police of Milwaukee was the result
of the receipt of a communication ac-
companied by a photograph.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-03
rxo Hetd for Bank Frauds.

Fort Dodge, Iowa, Nov. &c. A.
Isaacs. cashier Of the Forest City Ma
tional bank of Forest City, Iowa. and
H. M. Martinson, former cashier Of
the First National Bank Of Lake Mills,
have been arrested on the charge OF
making false entries on books of the
tank with intent to defraud.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-03
No Credit There.

No Creolt tner0.
She-What an atrocious necktie!
wouldn't trust you to select anything
on earth. l never knew q man with
20 little taste.
He (chuckling)-You forget that !
selected you, my dear.
She-That was something you
couldn't help.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-03
Nav TAX Foreian Go dc.

wellington, New leland, Nov. ~
The minister of customs announced
that a tariff bill will be introduced at
The next session of parliament taxing
foreign goods in favor Of those Of Brit.
ish origin.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-03
Trolley Men Win Victory.

Atlanta, Ca, Nov. 27.-Conductors
and trainmen of the Georgia railroad,
who recently went on strike because
OF discharging Of two employees by the
system have won what they consider
decisive victory when an arbitra.
tnstate the discharged men.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-03
Attorney Generals il Session.

Attorney Generals in Session.
St. Louis. Nov. 27.-The attorney
generals of different states assembled
here for two days convention. Gov.
ernor Hadley, who was one of the or
ganizers of the association when he
leld that office in Missouri delivered
IN address of welcome
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-03
Flax Straw Wanted.

Haul your Flax Straw in while you
can get 81. 90 per ton for good, clean,
dry straw. Farmers can dry their wet
straw in the field cheaper than we can,
and we would not be able to pay over
So. so per ton for the wet.
NAPERvILLE LOUNGE Co.,
F. H. WHITE, Foreman.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-03

Shoots Man Who leased Her.
Manwah. N. J.-Alice Winters.
fourteen, shot and killed Leo Ear
mond, a boarder IN the house where
she was working. because he teased
her
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-03
A Mattsr Of Force,

DO you believe in capital punish
snent?"
Il have to. because I'm forced to
listen to my neighbor's daughter exc
cutting her pieces on the piano"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-10-05
TOOK AEROPLANE FOR ENEMY
French Birds Investigated Strange
Creature OF the Air and Appear
Satisfied.

An extraordinary instance OF the In
telligence of birds forms the subject
of a letter received by the French
ministry of agriculture from an In
Ispector of forests.
Some time ago the inspector re-
ceived complaints from sportsmen
that quail and partridges had become
scarce in certain districts. On exam
lining the matter he found the birds
had deserted the regions In which
aerodomes had been installed. Seem
ingly they took the monoplanes and
biplanes for enormous birds of pey.
Finding after some time, however,
that their ranks were not thinned by
the strange creatures lowering over
head, partridges and quail dispatched
scouts to the aerodomes to examine
the air craft at close quarters. The
result of the Investigations of these
feathered ENJOYS was evidently reas-
suring, for the birds returned to their
former haunts and the preserves
around lie Mans and Rheims are now
as well stocked as formerly.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-10-05

The other day when the milkman.
who is a new man on the route. called
at Mrs. Green's apartment. to collect
the bill, she said to him severely; do
you know that several mornings late
ly have not heard you whistle when
you left the milk on the dumbwaiterf
"Sure that's good. ma'am." returned
the milkman, complacently, oblivious
OF the note OF severity in Mrs. Green's
voice, "and hope I'll soon git It down
SO fine ye'll not hear me at all. Ye
see, ma'am tbs impossible for me to
be leavin' the milk any later than l
do, but since the day ye told me I
came too airly and woke ye from
your sleep in the mornin' I've been
careful to blow the doombwaiter
whistle as softly as can so as not to
disturb We. But sometimes ! do put
more breath into the toob than ! In
tind to. and thim's the times ye hear
me whistle"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-10-05
Mothers-in-Law.

The editor OF woman's magazine
got letter the other day from q cor
respondent who asked, What mourn
ing. IL any. should be worn for a
motherin-law? This question Is
freighted with meaning. The longer
you look at 1t the weightier 1t be-
comes. The editor answered that 1t
all depends on the mother-in-law, and
Immediately we have an answer quitr
as weighty as the question. In the
funny papers and in fiction no mother
in-law was ever taken seriously. In
real life we not only take them sert
ously but we sometimes take them
with great deal of affection and re-
spect. The motherin-law joke should
have had its day, and yet out of a
clear sky-well, as / say. the woman
wants to know what mourning-IF
ANYl-should be worn.-New York
Press.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-10-05
FROM AN AUSTRALIAN DIARY
voracious Ants of All kInds-One
Species that Evlnces Fondness
for Sheet Lead.

About noon II got too hot for any
thing and took a well earned swim
in secluded creek. amid shoals OF
fish. large and small, who apparently
resented my intrusion, from the way
they came and stared at me.
found on emerging from the water
that a host of blue brown ants had
when they were shaken out they re-
venged themselves by biting my bare
feet In a way which was exceedingly
painful.
There are thousands of ants every
where. says writer in the Gentle
woman. Some OF the anthills are
three feet high and six feet across
but except for sharp nip at the time,
the ordinary ants bite is not notice
able. But IL soldier ant or bull ant
or a green head Gan ant about one and
a half inches long, with a green head)
bites you, 1t Is not to be forgotten, be-
cause they take quite big piece out.
Then there are the white ants (not
really ants, but termites), which
cheerfully eat the inside out of the
beams OF the wooden houses, and re-
Gently have been eating the sheet lead
on the top of the Sydney museum. The
city fathers thought this was going a
little far, 30 now the ants are pre-
served inside the museum with sam
pies of the half consumed lead as
warning to all who allow their appe-
tites to run away with them.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-10-05

The Chocos Indians. who live on the
southwestern coast OF Panama, are be-
iavad 20 ho- doacendanta of the tribes
which inhabited that part OF the world
when Columbus discovered Santo Do
mingo
They are tall and sta1wart, with
kindly natures, a free hospitality and
an innate honesty. Few white men
have ever been among them. Tribes of
somewhat similar nature are also
found on the southeast coast. many OF
them having never seen white face
In their lives. While the republic OF
Panama nominally rules this section.
the truth is that these Indians govern
themselves entirely, and have absolute
ly no intercourse with the white. They
do not allow white man to visit their
lands and still fly the Colombian flag.
Their houses are grass huts, their
clothing is almost nothing. but they
seem to enjoy life In spite OF the fact
that they are unacquainted with the
benefits of religion. fashion. society
and government.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-10-05

In the near future girls won't have
to sail under fsise cflors. The ro-se
pot iS dvstrneu 10 gU to the scrap
heap. No longer will Ii be necessary
for Jennie to hide her redeemed piece
OF chamois skin In her hat. Listen,
girls Apples are going to save the
compilations of all American womeni
u. Grant Border of Baltimore, address
ing the International Shippers asso-
citation, at Chicago, said: IF women
knew that eating apples will do more
to make their compilations beautiful
than all the face remedies in the
world, they would eat them morning,
noon and night. Five years from now,
when the countless apple orchards
that have come into existence the past
few years begin to bear fun crops, the
apple production In the United States
will exceed 100.000,000 barrels. That
viii give every woman a chance to
get good. steady, reliable, fast-color
complexion for little cost"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-10-05

It's what a man is, not what he has,
which makes him real man, after
all. Acquired powers have their fas-
cination. 1t must be admitted, but,
compared with genuine qualities, are
not important. Which do you wish
the ability of husband to swear at
you In seven languages, or a loving
tenderness that will prompt your hus-
band to speak words Of sympathy to
you in commonplace accents? Are
you contemplating living with clever
ness that can cut you to the heart, or
with great tenderness of nature that
can sympathize?
Technical facilities. encyclopedia In
formation. polished manners, all ac-
Quired points. usually attract a wom-
m. They are veneers. and the wise
girl will look beneath. A continental
bow, polite speech OF apology with a
French phrase thrown In, can never
counterbalance the black eye given In
. blind rage.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-10-05

Crabs, no matter how fresh they be.
make some fellows sick nearly every
time they eat them. Still they take
chance on 1t every once in so often
just the same. Crabs must be very
fine eating and have a lovely taste as
they are being munched and put into
the paunches of the crab-eaters. Crabs
will eat dead horse, or rats, pigs,
cats or dogs decaying In the ocean.
Perhaps II the crabs we're penned up
and fed on the choicest of foods for
some days, so as to get a few of the
dirty germs out of them, as we'll as rid
them OF the filth they eat. then In q
somewhat cleaner condition they might
not, after being eaten, turn the insides
wrong side out and inside outward
both ways at the same time. Some
foolish fellows feel highly insulted
when told that they take a chance
every time they eat crabs. Eat 'em
and don't kick at the doctor bill.-Ex-
change.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-10-05
PET AVERSION OF THE SAILOR
Stormy Petrol IL Regarded with Dis
favor by Even the Most Stout
Hearted Seamen.

There are few persons who have
crossed the ocean that have not OBJ
served the stormy petrol skimming
along the surface OF the water. They
fit past the vessel like swallows. TAX
ing their scanty portion of food from
the waves.
Habited In black and making their
appearance generally in larger num-
bers Just previous to. or during, q
storm, they have long been regarded
by the superstitious not only as fore
boding messengers, but as agents In
some way responsible for bad
weather.
Nobody can tell where they come
from or where they breed. Sailors as
sert they hatch the egg under the wing
and rear the young on pieces Of fiot-
sam. That mysterious origin has CIV
en- rise to an opinion prevalent among
mariners that they are In some way
connected with the supernatural agen-
cies of the air.
They are variously known AZ
stormy petrels, witch birds, the devils
birds and Mother Carey's chickens.
Their sudden appearance often makes
the stoutest hearted seaman finch.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-10-05

There is a superstition connected
with the death watch which, like most
superstitions, Is based upon the the
ory OF probabilities. The death watch
is usually heard in the spring of the
year and superstition runs to the ef-
feet that some one In the house Will
die within the year. Persons who are
superstitious are never very strict In
the Interpretation OF the predictions
and therefore, whenever q person dies
in the house or out of 1t, In the same
room where the death watch was
heard, or across the Atlantic, % that
there be some kind of q relationship,
or even acquaintance. between the
person who hears the omen and the
person dying, the event IL sure to be
connected with the prophetic sounds
Of the insect.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-10-05
CLOSE TO HEART OF NATURE
sanltariums In the Black Forest at
Which Marvellous Cures Have
Been Recorded.

In an article on "The Friendly Sum-
mer Trees" in the Woman's Home
Companion Frank A. Waugh. profes-
sor of horticulture In Massachusetts,
agricultural college said:
"In Germany one finds all kinds of
cures. Every enterprising town has
OF Often the cure house is the
iii st public building In the city. A
German talks of going to his cure as
an American of going to his vacation.
There are milk cures and mud cures,
mountain cures and surf cures, but my
choice is the forest cure. Not only
does II best please my personal taste,
but / notice that 1t gets the more
serious cases-those where radical
and heroic cures are needed. First OF
all there are the tuberculosis patients
strewn about on their cots under the
pungent shades of the Black forest as
about Or. Trudeau's camp In the Adj
rondacks. Then there are the de-
votees of indigestion and the nervous
wrecks, bilious, alcoholic and society
wrecks. drug fiends, bridge fiends and
everybody; that is. everybody who
can spend the money to come hither
for the forest cure. Naturally in Ger
many, as In America. folks who have
to work and support families cannot
AFFORD to be cured. They can't even
afford the disease in the first place.
ut liz curious how friendly the for.
ests arc to sick and discouraged peo-
pie. The trees reach out their arms to
shelter them. In the stiffness OF the
morning and through the long nights
they whisper reassuringly to every
one who listens"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-10-05
PAYS TRIBUTE TO BRONCO
Writer GlowingIy Points Out Useful
4 ness Of Little Arizona Animal
! on the Trail.

/ When the Arizona bronco wishes to
be safe for you and himself, he Ia the
safest thing In the world; and when
he wishes to be unsafe, life is a mer-
ry chance. / went up and down trails
In Arizona which were almost perpen-
dicular, and rough and stone-strewn,
too; but there was little danger, for
the bronco has, not the "ten pound"
but the thousand pound" look! His
nose is to the ground, his eyes fast
ened on the trail, his footstep the
most beautifully careful thing the
mind can conceive. One foot, placed
before another eases, preserves the
balance, adjusts the weight for an
other; and all this wonderful machin-
cry of eQuipoise, stability and safety
you feel working under you like deli
cate machine. Yet this sage pioneer
of the trail, with his meticulous care
of you and himself, was Just wild
range-pony, hunted down by range
rider, driven, coaxed or duped into a
corral, broken, saddled, bridled and
ridden all In one hour; wrenched out
of his wildness, having his heart brok-
en-, and made into slave while you
would eat your breakfast. He is not
beauty; he Is just mongrel; but
his legs and his feet are made of iron
and steel, and the work he does over
awful trails, in rough and ragged
country, strewn with stones and fiints
and boulders and lava and scrub,
week after week, month after month
and year after year, would spoil the
legs of thoroughbred in three days.
Gilbert Parker in Metropolitan Mag
azine.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-10-05
CAPTURING BEARS IN INDIA
Plan for Destroying Animals ls Novel
and Said to BE Always
Successful.

"A curious method of capturing wild
bears is employed In certain parts of
India, the New York Herald remarks.
-Four or five sturdy men are armed
two with long spears crossbarred on
the handles close to the sharp two
edged blade, and two or three with
ten foot bamboos, OF which the ends
are smeared with bird lime.
Thus equipped and leading several
powerful dogs, the hunters sally forth
an hour or SO before dawn. They pass
along the base of the hills with the
fresh morning wind blowing up from
the plains below.
Should the hunters be lucky It Is
not long before the fierce dogs wind
the bear, and, though dogs of this spe-
cies hunt silently, their straining on
the leash informs their owners that
the game is nigh.
The dogs are slipped and disappear
In the semidarkness. Soon their roar
ing and growing indicate that they
have found the game. The hunters run
up to the spot where the bear is fight
ing with the dogs
The men with the lined poles poke
the bear in the ribs and adroitly twist
the ends In its long hair, thus holding
II fast on each flank. The spearmen
complete the operation by repeated
spear thrusts.
1t is said that a party of expert
enced men with good dogs never fail
to secure the bear In this way.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-10-05

One often hears 1t stated that York
shire can boast more acres than th5-e
are letters in the Bible, and most
people. on hearing the statement for
the FIRST time, are inclined to doubt
its accuracy. 1t is perfectly true.
however. Authorities differ az to the
exact acreage OF orkshiro, one CIV
ing 1t as 3,sS2.S4S acres. another as
3.771,843: but as ne number Of let
ters in the Bible, according to labori-
Gus computation, is only 1865, ,4S0, the
acres beat the letters with something
to spare.--London Tit-Bits.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-10-05
Making Artificial Diamonds.

The minute artificial diamonds of
Moissan were produced by causing
the carbon of molten iron to crystal
lie out under great pressure. A
Berlin chemist, DR.. w. Won Bolton,
now uses coal gas. or other gaseous
carbon compound. and on decompos-
ing 1t by the action OF mercury vapor
obtains carbon both In the amorphous
form and az diamond dust. BY intro
ducing q diamond chip as nucleus
or mother crystal. 1t is expected a
diamond growth OF appreciable size
can be brought about. In the expert
ment made. the mercury was supplied
by sodium amalgam, which was placed
IN long testing tube under a coating
OF water-glass solution and amorphous
diamond dust, and the tube was kept
at 100 degrees O.. while slow cur
rent Of coal gas was passed through
for one month. The brilliant crystals
formed. too small for analysis. burned
In oxygen like diamond&
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-10-05
INSPIRATION OF THE COLORS
ates With tho Flag Have Turned
Many Battles.

Instance after instance could be
quoted from military history In which
the mere sight of the colors has In
spired men and carried them to ulti-
mate victory when the tide of battle
appeared to have turned against them
and all seemed lost. Great generals
have themselves taken the colors In
their hands and rallied their forces to
supreme effort in the hour of trial.
Obviously 1t was not the mere piece
OF tattered silk that wrought these
wonders; II was the sentiment insep-
larably associated with the colors that
acted az the spell.
We know, too, that the capture or
the loss OF colors has always been as
signed vital importance by the
worlds greatest commanders, be-
cause they knew that these regimen
tai emblems typified all that their
possessors held most dear-prestige,
honor, victory. Let any man visit
Napoleon's tomb at the Invalides, and,
taking on the solemn spirit of the
hour, gaze down into the circular
shrine In which lies the huge porphyry
sarcophagus containing the body of
the great captain whose legions made
all Europe tremble. Apart from the
sarcophagus itself, what Is 1t that
most impresses nine out Of every ten
spectators? Surely the stands of col
ors-the trophies of war--that stand
grouped round the tomb. They are
the mutely eloquent witnesses to the
greatness OF the man whose dust rests
in their midst-London Telegraph.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-10-05

The safe deposit vault II an Ameri-
can idea, and was developed at the
time OF the Civil war. Bank robberies
were SO frequent at that time that
banks refused to take care Of their
customers valuables. An institution
referred its clients to the porter -
willing to take the risk For = small
sum he took charge of the boxes and
safes and made fortune. From this
arose the modern safe deposit, which
IL now plrt Of every bank. The Eng
iish, ever slow and cautious, did not
take quickly to the idea Of storing
their valuables In public vaults, whom
the idea was introduced In London.
and Il was % years before safe d.
noelt Yanlts yere wi11ly 11tnA11nh1A
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-10-05

An angler once missed his gold
cigarette-case, and, being very much
upset about It. but not being quite
certain whether 1t had been lost or
stolen, resolved not to mention the
matter to soul--not even to his wife.
Two years had passed by when, on his
happening to meet with piscatorial
acquaintance by the riverside, the
man astonished him by remarking:
II say. did you find that cigarette
case you lost some time agof"
NO." replied the angler to the more
astonished inquirer; but you did!"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-10-05
Home Run hal Hoston.

Here is how they describe homo
run in Boston:
McSwipe struck the ball terrific
blow; propelled 1t In sslateral direc-
tion to the uttermost lengths of the
field. BY means Of this notable per-
formance he was enabled to complete
the entire circuit Of the bases. The
audience applauded cordially.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-10-05
s.s-sa4~ ----s
Inhnltssimal.

Visitor-Your rival town, Bunkville.
n quite town. ism itf
Uncle Eben-Bah! That town isn't
big enough TO get : metropolitan
daily's scarshsad on ''The Eyes Of the
Entire Country Arc Turned on Bunk
VIE Today" whom they hold Presi-
oenkial pFscersnce primary.