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Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-12-26

. FRIDAY.
May Hauber was up from Ridgeway,
Saturday.
Mayme Button was down from Bon.
air, Friday. s''s
For Sale-Two young springers. H.
E. Schaefer. ..
Mrs. C. Den was up from Ridge
way Monday. ..,. s7.f .,.l....
Mrs. Sarah Lapham was down from
Bona'r, Saturday. ~ \
Mrs. Henry Hovey was up from
Ridgeway, Friday.
Ruth Cue was down from Lime
Springs, Saturday.
Mrs. E. E. Griffith was down from
Lime Springs, Friday.
Mrs. VIM Kratz. of Ridgeway, was
Cresco caller Monday. p.
Mrs. Frank Kyle returned Friday
from visit at Conover.
HAY WANTED, by ]. H. Jones. Phone
AZ, Lime Springs, Iowa. 8tf
! Mrs. C. o. Jones was down from
Lime Springs, Tuesday.
WANTED-300O bushels of corn. In
quire of C. D. NICHOLS. l3ts
The Rebekahs will hold their install
lation Thursday, Jan. LIST. =, 49,"
n Milo Woodland has been on the sick
u list for the past few days.
Found Near my place on 3rd Ave
East, cot. A. A. Biga)k.
N. A. Blackburn, Lawyer, Office over
the Fields furniture store. ..s..
Maude Bigley, of Maple Leaf, visited
Cresco relatives, last week.
Celia Baldwin went to Chester We'd
Rnesday, for visit at home.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Hastings were
Il pwn from Chester, Monday.
, ssay Rose Kakac went to Bonair, Satur-
day, to spend Xmas at home.
Lottie Falnes went to Calmar, Satur-
day, to spend Xmas at home.
Wanted-I wish to buy 800 bushels
of good corn. w. J. Webster.
s. j. Moore came up from DEBORAH
to spend Xmas with his parents.
Percy Peck came Saturday from
Iowa City to spend Xmas at home.
Martha Martinez left Tuesday for a
visit at her home at Fl. Atkinson.
Stephana Wandas left Friday for a
visit at her home in Fl. Atkinson.
Mrs. G. r. Drake went to Lime
Springs, Tuesday, for short visit.
L. Holub and wife went to Ridgeway
for few days visit with relatives.
Mrs. Albert Billman and daughter
Alice were Cresco callers, Tuesday.
A full line of the best cigars in town
at the MODEL PANAToRIUM.
Get your French Dry Cleaning done
, at the MODEL PANATORIUM.
Margaret Moore came up from De-
corab. SATURDAY., for visit at home.
The best shoe sinner in town at the
MODEL PANATORIUM.
Ed King and son Harold, of Lime
Springs, were Cresco callers, Saturday.
Media Black went to Lime Springs
Tuesday for visit with Rita Stevens.
Mrs. A. j. Evans returned Wednes-
day evening from her Mason City visit.
Mrs. A. Albertson and son Theodore,
of Bonair, were Cresco callers Tuesday
Ella Caward went to DEBORAH,
Wednesday, for short visit at home.
Susie Rounds was down from Chest.
er, Saturday, to attend teachers meet
ing.
Mrs. Frank Vinegar and daughter
Avis were down from Chester, Satpr-
day. 49," t
Cora Stevenson, who has been visit.
1 ing friends here, left Fridsy for Charles
City.
DR.. and Mrs. Becker came down from
lie Roy. Friday, for visit with rela'
tives. .,,s
Miss Masters left Tuesday to spend
the holidays at her home in Monteith,
Iowa. g.
49, Get your clothes cleaned and pressed
at the MODEL PANAToRIUM. Prices
right. '' ''
Earl Brophy came up from Dubuque,
- coon1 tho hn1i1avo ~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-12
Passage of the Webb Bill

The Webb liquor bill has been
passed by both houses Of Congress
and only technicality as to the num-
ber of the bill remains to be adjusted
before it is sent to the President for
his signature. 1t is as good as law.
The measure is the most drastic
ever passed. Liquors have been shut
out of Indian reservations, but never
before have they been shut out OF
states filled with palefaces. Under the
Webb bill no liquors can be shipped
into a state "intended to be received,
possessed, sold or in any manner
used either in the original package
or otherwise, in violation of any law
of such state, territory or district" A
"dry" county operates equally as well
as "dry" state under the Webb bill.
No liquors can be shipped into either.
The effect of the bill upon the rev.
enue of the government is problemati-
cal An income tax to meet about
$40 900 900 in tariff reductions had
been planned, but the income tax will
have to be carried far enough to cover
total deficit of at least 100000, 900.
No amendments were permitted to
the Webb bill, and the man who de-
sires to import package for his own
use is on the same level with the man
who orders liquors to sell again. The
bill is drastic with current of states
rights running through it, which real
ly added to its strength in both houses
Of Congress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-12
LIFE ON PLANET MARS

From Current Opinion.
Careful and thorough investigation OF
Mars has Just revealed to astronomomicai
science a world Of great beauty, but falieu
with signs of age, a world peopied py
Intelligent beings, but world which has
reached the period when there Is no more
sea. Thus may be summed up the results
of the most exhaustive as well as the
most authoritative studies of any planet
since the perfection of the spectroscope.
The investigations have been conducted
upon an elaborate scale at the 1aineo
observatory of Flagstaff under the super
vision of astronomers and astro-physicists
and the most recent methods of optical
research were drawn upon in arriving
at the deductions An authorized report
from the pen of the wel-known student
of astro-physics. Dr. James ii. Worth
ington, makes even more sensauonai
reading than will be found in the papers
of Prof. Perciyal Lowell, one of the first
to insist that Mars is the abode oil a race
of intelligent beings.
Worthington declares now that the ex-
plorers of the planet from the STANDPOINT
of Flagstaff find abundant reason TO De-
lieye In the existence of a highly devei-
oped and intelligent race, making last
stan dagainst the increasing deserts Oh
its world The famous canals are evil
dences of tremendous and united efforts
to exc out the decreasing water supply
TO the last drop. In this struggle we see
in some sense the forecast of what tue
earth must also become in the fullness of
time. The astronomers at Flagstaff set
out to learn definitely an important truth
respecting another planet, but they ike
wise learned much of our own. Incl
dentally our eyes are opened to the rem
onstration of truth long held by IN
stinct, that we are not alone in the cos
mos--that other worlds beyond the earth
are no longer the dreams of fantastic
poetry, but firmly established facts OF OBJ
servational science We sec how the
law of evolution which has shaped us 10
fit our surroundings here has fitted other
creatures in another world to cope with
their own special needs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-12
LineyiIIe and Ashland

Bennett W. Pruitt of Ashland. who
was introduced yesterday by Superin-
tendent of Education Henry ]. willing
ham, as former country school teach
er who had abandoned that profession,
entered the banking business. and ac-
quired competency, was a visitor
yesterday Mr.. Pruitt is president of
one of the leading banks of Clay coun-
ty
When the subject of population came
up for discussion, Mr.. Pruitt said I'VE
had always contended that Ashland
was more populous than Lineville, our
closest rival in Clay county. The peo-
pie of that city had always said that
Lineville was the larger There was
considerable amusement and some con-
sternation when the census report was
made. 1t showed the two towns to be
of the same size. practically. Ashland
having the edge by seven people. Each
town had less than 1900 inhabitants.
but both are solid, and growing rap
idly"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-12
New York's House Cleaning

Mayor Gaynor of New York has or
dered all departments of the city gov
ernment to cooperate in the removal
of rubbish and dirt. Cellars are to be
cleaned, and so are roofs, yards, va
cant lots, catch basins and streets. The
crusade also contemplates a minimiz-
ing of smoke and cinders and often
sive odors and also a fight against
flies and mosquitoes by eliminating
their breeding places.
This effort, we are told, is to be
made on scale never before attempt
ed, and it is very certain that the peo-
pie to be served will gladly get be-
hind it. The big rich city will not lack
funds to carry the movement to its
limit, and the prospect therefore is
that the mayor will in this way re-
gain his popularity and influence.
The effort will be of value to the
rest of the country, for anything done
in the country's metropolis is done
in the eyes of the other cities. What
is accomplished in New York will be
attempted elsewhere. Let New York
proceed, and the greater its success
the more it will induce all other cities
of the land to do likewise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-12
GRANTS GREATEsT FIGHT

Wilson: "Rambles in Colonial Byways.'
In the house at East Sixty-sixth
street. New York, General Grant passed
the most heroic period of his life. The
house was bought by friends of the
general and presented to Mrs. Grant
soon after their return from Europe
in 1879. Here the long illness that end
ed at Mount McGregor came upon him.
and here, battling firmly with death,
he wrote his memories, in order that
his wife and children might not be In
want after he was gone. 1t was the
greatest battle of his life, and the pic
ture of the hero who had earned and
worn the highest earthly honors work
ing amid the miseries of the sick cham
Der to CLEAN the gains he knew he
could never enjoy, is one to which his
tory offers no parallel.
He won in this race with death, and
finished his task few days before the
end came.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-12
probib;,,on in Georgia

"One effect of the Webb anti-ship-
ping bill. which will probably be
signed by the President within the
next few days. will be to take Georgia
out of the prohibition column said
f. L. weidmann of Baltimore.
Il have never been connected in any
way with the liquor traffic and have
never taken much interest in prohibi-
ton agitation, but the measure which
Congress has adopted strikes me as
being just Those states that have
statutory prohibition should not have
their laws to some extent nulified by
liquor shipped in from other states, l
have always been democrat and be-
lieve In the democratic doctrine of local
option. Counties that vote themselves
dry should be able to give the dry
policy a thorough test soon.
After Georgia had state wide pro-
hibition by some special legislation,
near-beer was licensed and as / UNDER
stand it, under the name of near-beer
real beer is sold in great quantities
visit Atlanta about once year, and
I note the steady increase in the beer
habit there. l seldom drink anything
stronger than beer and l believe it is
a great mistake even for prohibition
state to exclude malt beverages. But
"a condition and not a theory confronts
Georgia and think it is a safe predic-
tion that within the next two years
that great state will hFve local option
just as Alabama has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-12

acter, truth and integrity. His in
nuence has been for courage, strength
and steadfastness of purpose to meet
the problems of life earnestly and
hopefully.
Great as have been his Worldwide
acknowledged intellectual achievements
In science, these seem to fade into in
significance when compared with the
impress. of character which he has
stamped upon the generation of men
who have sat at his feet in this uni
versity He was the soul of honor. truth
and courage; he hated sham, deceit
and charlatanism in all their FORMS
and, regardless of the consequences
never permitted himself to swerVe
hairbreadth from what he recognized
to be a principle. He stood in his spot
less character and lofty ideals as an
Illuminating example of the honor prin-
cipIe of this university. He lived MS
life before all men as manly man
and kindly gentleman Without fear
and above reproaeh."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-12
The Late Professor Ma,,ct

The University of Virginia Alumni
Bulletin just issued contains just trib-
utes to the late John w. Mallet, pro-
fessor of chemistry. who died at his
home In Charlottesville November a.
1912. Professor Mallet was one of the
worlds foremost chemists, and as he
had many friends In this state, where
he had once lived, the publication will
be of especial interest hereabouts.
Born In Dublin in 1882, Professor
Mallet was a graduate of Trinity col
lege. He came to the United States
in 1853 and in 1857 married the eldest
daughter of Judge John j. Ormond of
Tuscaloosa. He achieved distinc-
ton in the Confederate army. but prior
to the war he was professor of chem
istry at the University of Alabama,
and in 1S6o-61 he was a professor in
the Medical College of Alabama in Mo-
bile. In the resolutions adopted by the
faculty of the University of Virginia
is this tribute:
''rhe close of DIR. Mallets service
marks the end of a never TO be forgot
ten epoch in the life of the Univer-
sity of Virginia. He was the last of
a faculty bred OF the war between the
states which, among its greatest her
itages to our people, gave us the liv-
ing men it left to u.s. Almost contin-
uously since 1866 DIR. Mallet has been
professor of chemistry in this uniter
sity and through the long, lean years
of adversity following the war he stood
like q rock for principle. high char
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-12
HUMANITIEs OF DAVID b. HILL

John Moore. in February National
Monthly.
David Bennett Hill as lawyer, pub
licist, statesman and democratic politi-
cal leader, has been much written
about, and. the public side of his emil
nent career has been widely discussed.
The personal side of the sage of 'Wol-
fert's Roost," with his fancies, foibles
and humanities, has not received like
attention.
Mr. Hill possessed many charms OF
person and genialities of manner, of
which the public knew little, possessed
qualities which endeared him to all
who love and venerate the elements of
the better sort" found in men who
lead or dominate in life, A tribute
to Mr. Hilrs political acumen, to his
eminence as a lawyer, to his attributes
as leader in public life, in the sell
ence of parties and of government, is
not the present purpose. This is in
tended to be a little appreciation of the
human aspects of a very human man
gone hence.
In his private capacity Mr.. Hill, of
his own volition, lived a rather seclud-
ed and sometimes, lonely life. In his
public duties he was open to all men
having business with him. He never
shirked a public appearance when duty
called. This was true of his life in the
courts, in the state executive chamber
and in the United States Senate, but,
in the hours that were his own, he
chose much privacy. 1t was then that
Mr.. HILL the modest man, of simple
life and simpler tastes, could be seen
| by his intimates as he liked best to
| be seen. 1t is true that he also did
enjoy the open and public diversions
! of the theatre and the baseball field,
but his indulgences were limited, and
| mild
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-12
A Contemporaries Misfortune

The Age-Herald expresses regret
and extends its sympathy to the Bir-
mingham News, whose plant was so
badly damaged by fire yesterday as
to make it impossible to publish the
regular edition of the paper in the
News building.
1t was with pleasure that The Age
Herald extended the use of it's plant
and mechanical facilities for the regu-
lar publication of the News yester-
day. The Age-Herald's plant is at the
of the News until such time
as it can readjust matters to resume
work in its own building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-12

lar to that of France or England. The
Emperor seems to prefer government
on the German plan.
The matter will doubtless be ami
cably settled by the resignation of the
Katsura ministry. The Emperor is new
to his job and he may have an ex-
aggerated idea of his power. Prince
Katsura is the object of the mob's
wrath, not the Emperor. 1t is tenn
pest in teapot, although the prin-
ciple at stake is popular rule through
the diet rather than rule of the Ger
man or Russian sort. Even in the lat
ter rule is never arbitrary, for all ap-
propriations must come from the
hands of a parliament.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-12
Political Riots i'm Toxic

The trouble in Toxic is wholly in
ternal and governmental. The diet ex-
pressed in vote last week lack of
confidence in the government. In Eng
land or France such vote would have
been followed by the resignation of
the premier and his cabinet. In Japan
the premier and his cabinet hesitated,
while the diet stood firmly by its vote
Of want of confidence.
Rioting in the crowded streets fol-
lowed, but this rioting was but skin
deep. 1t did not relate to the EN-
peror or the established methods of
government. 1t was and is desire on
the part of the people for constitu-
Gonal rule--for rule by the diet SINH
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-12
.,. n.,er
postoffice Site Settled

Birmingham's postoffice site is now
/, nractically settled. The bill carrying
an appropriation Of $1,00O,OOO con-
tains provision that 100000 OF the
amount may be spent for additional
ground, leaving 100000 for the edi-
flee.
Some time ago the government
bought ground at the northeast cor
ner of Fifth avenue and Nineteenth
street-25O feet on the avenue and
100 feet on Nineteenth street. Con-
cressman Underwood recently OBJ
tanned an option for the government
on the additional $50 feet on the ave
nue. for 100000, and that option will
soon be exercised. A full block front
of 400 feet with a depth of 100 feet
will make an ideal site, especially as 1T
is centrally located and has good ele-
walton. But Notwithstanding Birming-
ham's pressing need for large mod
ern postoffice building it required no
little effort on the part of Mr.. I'm
derwood and Chairman Burnett OF the
postoffice committee to get a $1,000
900 appropriation from the SiXty-sec-
ond Congress, for the democratic
policy of retrenehment and reform has
been particularly insisted upon in the
closing days of this Congress.
AS Mr.. Underwood says, $80O,O0o
will erect very handsome and sub
stantial building; and he expresses the
feeling that the people of Birmingham
will be generally pleased with the re-
suit.
The construction Of the new build
ing will be under the supervision of
the chief architect of the treasury de-
partment and it may be taken for
granted that plans will be drawn call
ing for building which, when entire
ly completed with artistic interior
finishings, will cost more than $780,
900. But as the government will have
spent 100000 on ground and is about
to make available 100000 for con-
struction, additional appropriations
can be obtained when the architects
are ready for the final touches.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-12

NOTABLE WOMEN FINANCIERs

From Leslies.
Mrs. Hetty Green, Mrs. Russell Sage
and Mrs, E. II. Hartman are all women
we'll UP in years, Mrs. Sage having
reached her eighty-fifth birthday with
vigor unimpaired and financial Judgment
clean cut, believing in maintaining the
policies that made her husband famous,
though her liberality is of much wider
scope, and there is no record Of her in
dorsing the pie and milk meals which
made Uncle RUSSELL at once the despair
and delight of embryo financiers, eager
to emulate his methods.
In all her distribution of immense
funds, Mrs. Sage is willing to be guided
by trustees whom she personally ap-
points, but no decision is made in any
matter involving large sums in which
she does not have the dominant voice.
Without children, 1t is matter of con-
lecture into whose control the immense
Sage fortune will pass, If it is not entire
ly given away to charity. The late Rus
sell Sage left only a few minor bequests
to nephews and nieces, thus indicating
his confidence in the financial manage
nent of Mrs Sage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-12
A MOUTH KNIFE
From the Strand.

FROM tfS Otidiiu.
Some years ago in the district of jail
paigori, Bengal, there was sudden epi-
demic of petty thefts and burglaries.
The police. completely baffled for some
time, finally arrested an individual on
suspicion, who. after preliminary mag
isterial investigation, was remanded in
custody with view to further inquiries
as to his antecedents. On being searched,
a police officer, suspecting he had some
thing concealed in his mouth, ordered him
to open it, when. imbedded round one OF
his back teeth was found hard sub
stance which, on being extracted, proved
to be a small semi-circular clasp knife.
The suspect, who had hitherto protested
his innocence. now made a full confess
sion, and eventually turned out to be a
member of the notorious criminal tribe Of
'Burwars'' from the district of Gonda.
in Oudh, and had already been convicted
of IA previous offenses. He admitted that
the knife had been specially made for
him. and that he used it for cutting open
bales of cloth, and also for pocket pick
ing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-12

Uncle Ike Stephenson, the oldest and
richest of the senators. is exhibiting at
present draft for $l5Oo,Ooo. The senator
got it for lumber and timber lands sold
to Louisiana company. One of the em-
ployes asked Senator Stephenson II he
were not afraid he might lose the draft
If he carried it around and displayed 1t
so carelessly. ''If did lose it," remarked
the senator, at would make little differ
ence; nobody who would find ii could get
|. cashed today You know, the banks
closed at noon.' This is the largest de-
nomination of exchange that has been
seen around the Senate since the mem-
orable day many years ago when Henry
G. Davis of West Virginia, then a sena-
tor called one of his colleagues into the
cloak room and displayed a draft for
81 100000, which he got as the purchase
price of a railroad.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-12
a NORTHERN MEDrTERRANEAN

From the American Review of Reviews.
The reason why the Hudson Bay prof.
ect is advocated so warmly is that this
bay itself, described by some as "the
Mediterranean of the north,' is the third
largest sea in the world and gives ac-
cess to a region that promises to rival
in the future the group of northwestern
states of the American union. The area
OF the Mediterranean is $4,000 square
miles. of the Baltic $4,000; Of Hudson
Bav $4,000. It's length is SEQ miles and
breadth 500, and. compared with the
Great Lakes, it is a veritable ocean, for
Lake Superior's area is only $1,000
souare miles; Lake Huron's but $4,000;
Lake Michigans a scant 22500; Lake
E,rie's merely 1860, and Lake Ontario's
barely 7e4O. The outlet of Hudson Bay
to the Atlantic is Hudson Strait. nearly
200 miles long. with an average breadth
OF 100 miles, it's narrowest width being 60
miles. so that this whole marine waste
Is a great landlocked sea, susceptible OF
development into a magnificent CONNER
cial waterway. The farstretching ex-
nanse of continent which drains into it.
formerly known as Rupert's Land, after
Prince Rupert the famous cavalry gem
eral and first governor of the Hudson Bay
company, has become the seat of what
may far outstrip the empires of old and
become the homes of peaceful and pros
porous millions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-12
WIFE STAYED IN BED
nm the London Mail.

From the Iondon Mail.
How to deal with woman who per-
sistently stayed in bed was problem
presented to the Exeter magistrates
recently, when Margaret Whatley ap-
peared on an adjourned charge of neg
lecting her two children.
The husband said that his wife went
to bed December 26. and he had not
seen her up until she came to the court,
1t had been suggested that he should
leave her without food, but he did not
like to see her starye. AS far as he
knew. there was nothing the matter
with her.
The magistrates sent the woman to
prison for four months with hard labor,
specially requesting the medical officer
and chaplain to look after her in the
hope that regular discipline would re-
store her mentally and physically.