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Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-12-17
GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES
Duluth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, Dec. 11.-Wheat-On track
and to arrive, No. 1 hard, $1.10A; No.
Northern, $1O9A; No. 2 Northern,
S1.O5A@$106. Flax-On track and to
arrive, $2.00%.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-12-17
Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago. Dec. 11.-Cattle-Steers,
S5.5O@1O.5O; cows and heifers, $2.6O@
$40; calves, s6.50@1O.25. Hogs
Light, $5.50@635; mixed, $5.S5@6.65;
heavy. $6.1O@6.65; rough, $6.10@6.-
25; pigs, s4.50@5.50. Sheep-Native,
$6.10@6.75; lambs, $7.25@9.40.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-12-17
Chicago Grain and Provisions.

Chicago, Dec. l1.-Wheat-Dec.,
S1.13T: May. $1.15; July, $1.o7h.
Corn-Dec., 67kc; May. INC. Oats
Dec. 41kc; May. 44xc. PORK
Dec, $16.25; jan, $1S.05; May. $1S.es.
Butter-Creameries, 26033Mc. Legs
-z7030c. Poultry-Springs. 13c;
fowls, l23kc; turkeys. Ice.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-12-17

The first step toward the resump-
ton of full diplomatic relations be.
tween the United States and Mexico
was taken in the appointment OF Eli
SEQ Arredondo, General Carranzas
confidential representative in Wash
ington, as Mexican ambassador to the
United States.
The appointment of an American
ambassador to Mexico in all likeli-
hood, Henry P. Fletcher, at present
ambassador to Chile, will be announc-
ed soon.
The broad ax., 1915-11-20
Pan-America,

The combined area Of pan-America,
exclusive of Canada. is 100000
square miles. of which the Latin
American countries occupy approx
mately 100000 and the United States
100000. This physical extent of pan
America is better realized when it
is compared with that of Europe.
which has 3.750GO0 square miles, with
Africa, which has II, 100000, and with
Asia, which has 100000.
Pan-America's real greatness, sig
nificance and power in world relation
ship are emphasized by appreciation of
its present population and the future
possibilities for a vast increase. Its
twenty-one nations can now boast of
a population of 1SO,OOO,OOO, Of which
1O0OO0,OO0 are living in United States
territory and 100000 in Latin Amer
ica.-John Barrett in North American
Review.
The broad ax., 1915-11-20

Miss Beulah Livingstone enjoys the
woman theatrical business manager I'm
the country.
Still girl of twenty-five, Miss Liv-
ingstone has forged ahead remarka-
bly, from Il kindergarten teacher tim
idly venturing into the magazines by
composing children's tales to position
of tremendous responsibility, requir-
ing the handling of large sums of mon
ey and constant judgment in the writ
ing of all advertisements, booklets,
window cards, designing the three
sheets, attending to correspondence.
paying salaries and generally running
the business end Of play in one of
New York city's new theaters.
This southern girl, with her golden
hair and laughing eyes, is the very last
person you would expect to find in an
office with her own name on the door
She was born and educated in Georgia
A few years ago she went north and
entered normal school, later becoming
a kindergarten teacher ON the east side
In this corner of the great melting
pot nearly every nationality was rep
resented. These children could not un-
derStand, as q class, tales that the
average American child can grasp. So
she wrote her own stories and finger
plays. One morning the supervisor de-
manded where she had got them,
as she had not seen them in the other
schools. The young pedagogue blush
ingly replied that she had written
them herself. Later she sold these.
her first masterpieces" to the New
York Tribune.
At the end of her first scribbling year
Miss Livingstone had saved enough
money for a trip abroad.
Armed with letters of introduction
to Rodin. Zuluoga, D'Annunzio, Beer
bohm Tree and Sir Oliver Wyndham,
she travelled through Europe and At
RIGA, selling her stories Of a trip
through the desert on camels. Return
ing home, she resigned her position as
schoolteacher and. thrilled by her sue
cess at breaking into print, began free
lance work, writing everything from
"how to ice cake" to stage stories.
While in France she met Lou Tel
Logan, Sarah Bernhardts leading man,
who asked her to become his press
agent Few women have made good
In this line Of work. Most press agents
are men, But Miss Livingstone was
soon recognized as one Of the most
successful members Of her profession,
next representing such stars as Anna
Pavlowa and Mr.. and Mrs. Castle, and
last winter she did the press work for
the company that produced "Alice In
Wonderland"
The theater business promises to be
a fascinating field for women Of spe-
cial gifts, both as producers and as
managers.
The broad ax., 1915-11-20
MelanchoIia,

Melancholia does not mean depres-
sion of spirits. A man may be as de-
pressed as it Is possible to be and still
not have melancholia. Melancholia is
dependency on account Of painful de-
lusions. One of the two typical delu-
sions Of melancholia Is that the unpar-
donable sin has been committed, that
God has been offended beyond redemp-
ton and that hell Is to be the ultimate
goal; the other is that Of impending
poverty. Everything is lost or is about
to be. The patient and his family are
going to end up in the poorhouse. His
acts alone have brought about this ter
nble calamity from which there is nc
escape. 1t can be readily seen that a
person having decisions of this type
must be necessarily depressed. There
is probably no form of insanity in
which the anguish Of the patient equals
that Of the melancholiac. Life is one
continuous horror.-EXchange.
The broad ax., 1915-11-20
Winter FOLIAGE.

Cook has hanging basket all Of her
own in sunny window Of her kitchen
which IS pleasure to the calling
tradesman as well as herself. She took
a good sized sponge and planted it full
Of rice, oats and a little barley. Then
she placed it for a week or ten days
in shallow dish Of water, as much
as the sponge would absorb, and soon
tiny green shoots began to appear from
the sponge. Then she ran q narrow
ribbon through the sponge and suspend
ed it to the top Of a sunny window,
where it now has become a mass of
fluffy green which will keep all winter.
When it dries she takes it down and
immerses it in bowl Of water, letting
it absorb all that it will. Later on she
will SOW grapefruit, orange and lemon
seeds among the others, as they have
a glossy green leaf which will make a
pleasing contrast to the other foliage.
The broad ax., 1915-11-20
Hominq instinct of Crabs.


Who would believe that among crea-
lures having well developed domestic
instincts we must include the humble
crabs, the spiders Of the sea-" as Vic
tor Hugo calls them? Once under wa
ter, we might expect one part Of the
sea to be as homelike as another, but
that only shows how little the average
human being understands a crabs
point Of view. Some one, however.
suspected them Of the homing instinct
and so tried the experiment Of catch
ing a pair Of them on the Yorkshire
coast, in England, and, after marking
them, carrying them south fifty miles
or more, returning first one and then
the other to the water at different
points on the shore. Then the York
shire crabbers carefully searched their
traps as they made each haul, on the
lookout for the possible return Of the
wanderers. Strange to relate, one day
not one, but both Of the crabs were
caught a second time, having made
their way back across the intervening
miles of sea bottom to their Yorkshire
honest. Nicholas.
The broad ax., 1915-11-20
NURSING a Crouch,

What dissatisfied bunch Of mortals
we areI Three hundred and sixty-five
days Of the year we grumble about the
weather. It's either too hot or too cold,
too wet or too dry. You meet friend
who says, Its a fine day today" You
answer, "Delightful~ The next one
you meet says, Amt this beastly
weather." You answer, 1.-The foulest
everr' You're always ready to agree
with and join the knocker. Even the
poor, innocent weather cannot escape
your hammer. Everything in this
world was made wrong-except your
self, mean. You are the quintessence
Of perfection in your OWL mind. When
you're invited to a party you are mad
because you are invited, and If you are
ignored you're mad again just because
that condition fits your disposition.
Why don't you, for change, look at
the bright side Of things and maybe
your "disgustion" will improve.-Car.
toons Magazine.
The broad ax., 1915-11-20
The Horned Lark.

Looks like Satan, the horned lark
does, with his two black horns of feath-
ers sticking out on top Of his head.
He wears a suit Of a grayish brown
touched with pink. A black curve over
bis eyes and another black crescent
under his chin help give him a wicked
aspect His satanic topknot, the two
tiny tufts of black feathers on the
back Of his head, gives him the name.
He's the horned lark.
But really he's not so bad as he
looks. You know that the minute you
see his brown eyes and hear him sing
The farmer knows he isn't such a
wicked bird too. The horned lark eats
all kinds of wild seeds, beetles, weevils
and bugs. If he gets tired Of his diet
he will start in and clean up the grass
hopper and cutworm crop.
Sometimes he will visit an oat field.
but he doesn't cause enough damage to
get his picture in the rogues' gallery
as a dangerous thief. - Philadelphia
North American.
The broad ax., 1915-11-20
WaterspoutS.

The waterspout at sea and the tor
nado on land are manifestations Of
great instability Of the atmosphere In
a vertical direction, caused either by
an abnormally warm surface layer Of
air or an abnormally cold layer at the
cloud level, says Nature. The former
cause is common in summer; the lat
ter occurs both In summer and winter
and is usually associated with Zine
squall" or v shaped barometric de-
preston. The waterspout shows the
track along which surface air passes
spirally upward to restore equilibrium.
The commotion Of the sea rs due to
the exceedingly violent character Of
the phenomenon. The funnel itself Is
probably composed partly Of moisture
condensed out Of air by the sudden
diminutiOn of pressure which occurs
and partly Of sea water in the form of
spray. Sometimes the middle portion
Of the visible funnel is absent, but
there must In that case be a CORE
spending complete funnel Of rotating
air from the surface of the cloud
The broad ax., 1915-11-20
Curious Street Names.

The list Of curious street names is
hexhaustible. Bermondsey possesses
a Pickle Herring street Near Gray's
inn there is to be found a Cold Bath
square. Most Of the Nightingale lanes
and Love lanes are hidden ironically
enough in the slums Of the east end.
But for really bizarre street names
one should go to Brussels. The Short
Street of the Long Chariot, the Street
Of the Red Haired Woman and the
Street Of Sorrows are remarkable
enough to catch the least observant
eye. The Street Of the One Person Is,
as one might guess, considerably mar
rover than whitehall But the cream
Of Brussels street names surely belongs
to the Street Of the Uncracked Silver
Cocoanut. This In the original appears
as one ponderous thirty-six letter word.
London Chronicle.
The broad ax., 1915-11-20
He Didn't Sprout Horns


The first japanese to drink milk did
30 with misgivings lest he sprout horns
like a COW. That was In 1851. The
man that took that big chance Is Mr..
Tsuboi, who Is still alive and absolute
ly free from horns.
At that time Mr.. Tsuboi was an ap-
prentice. He became I'LL Of a disease
that baf1ed the skill Of the japanese
physicians, so his master called in Dr..
Hepburn, an American physician, who
then lived in that district. DR.. Hep
burn prescribed milk, one bottle to be
taken" every morning. The poor boy,
believing that the growth Of horns was
inevitable If one drank cows milk,
begged his master not to make him
take the doctors prescription, but his
frantic pleas were denied.
There was considerable difficulty
about getting milk then because, as
there was no demand for miIk-the
greater part Of the population sharing
the boys belief that its consumption
was sure to raiss horns+there was no
dairy or milkmen. Finally some was
obtained from a japanese who cared
for cow kept by a foreigner.-Japan
Advertiser.
The broad ax., 1915-11-20
An Artists Struggles.

Professor Won Herkomer, the famous
painter. had such a struggle to gain
a living in his early days that had 1t
not been for his inexhaustible stock of
patience and self confidence he would
probably have abandoned art entirely.
He sold his first picture for 2 guineas
and later on earned for a short time
a couple of pounds weekly for a wood
cut which he supplied to comic paper
This modest salary coming to a stop,
he was at his wits end to know what
to do. He applied to a troupe Of min
strels for an engagement as either
player, but in vain, and then took to
designing carpets. For some years he
battled with poverty, achieving no sue
cess until he obtained employment on
weekly illustrated journal.-London
Globe
The broad ax., 1915-11-20
OWNERSHIP of Deserts.

The national government virtually
owns all our deserts, although in Texas
the state owns all the public lands. 1t
is probable that eventually the desert
lands will pass from public ownership
into the hands of private owners by
allotment of areas. the size of which
will be relative to their productiveness.
For it must be realized that whereas In
a well watered region five acres may
be enough to support family, any
where from 500 TO 10000 acres may be
needed to support family in the des-
ert. 1t is all matter of water supply,
for water is primarily the basis of land
utility and value. as it is the prime
means of subsistence of all living
things. whether plants or animals
Youths Companion.
The broad ax., 1915-11-20
An Economical Wife.


"A friend of mine," says q clever
needlewoman, "had occasion to open
my shirtwaist box the other day. She
came to me, saying, My, but you are
extravagant! You have eleven pretty
silk waists In that one box How did
you happen to buy so much wash silk?
My answer surprised her. My husband
works In q bank and must wear clean
linen He Is partial to silk shirts, but
es soon as there Is the least break near
the collar they are thrown away.
Shortly afterward appear in a new
silk waist, for the rest Of the shirt Is
perfectly good He is large man, and
there is not the least trouble In getting
the waist from the shirt. Sometimes /
vary them by putting ON a plain collar
and cuffs.
you will find that when using this
idea you do not mind at all how many
new shirts the man Of the house
chooses to buy. You will even suggest
at times that a certain shirt In the win
dow would look well on him-and, in
cidentally, on you."-Pittsburgh Dis
patch.
The broad ax., 1915-11-20
Dog Hero of Austerlitz.

In the annals Of the French army
Mustache is still celebrity. Mustache
was one Of the dogs used in the Italian
campaign when Napoleon was first
consul He saved the French army
from a night surprise and humiliation.
Later he tracked and captured a spy
who had secured valuable information.
But this dogs crowning achievement
was at the battle of Austerlitz. The
standard bearer Of the regiment had
just fallen dead. Mustache's teeth and
an Austrian soldiers hand grasped the
tattered banner. simultaneously. Mus
tache flew at his enemy's throat and
bore him down. Then, Selling the flag,
he carried it back to the regiment
Napoleon gave Mustache the highest
decoration for his valor. He met a SOL
dier's death not long after this, racing
forward beside the flag, leading the
regiment in a furious charge.-New
York Sun.
The broad ax., 1915-11-20
For THANKSGIVING.

On a table covered with the snow
lest Of white linen is spread a circle
Of red oak leaves, gathered in October
before they could become shriveled
and dried. From this circle at the
center Of the cloth extends to each
corner n line of the leaves tackled light
ly In place.
But the glory Of the table is huge
pumpkin followed out and filed with a
golden mass Of yellow chrysanthe-
NUNS AS the turkey is brought to
the table it should have an enormous
chrysanthemum in the breast.
Where artificial light is preferred for
the long dinner at the middle or end
Of the day oak leaves are not used on
the cloth. Instead two large branch
ing candelabra adorn the ends Of the
table on either SHE Of the flower filed
pumpkin. Their candles furnish the
only illumination in the. room except
perhaps for one or two candlestcks or
lamps on mantelpiece or serving table.
The latter should be hidden beneath
Grape paper shades or inexpensive pa
pier mache globes in the shape Of pump
kins with grimacing faces. which are
on sale at all good confectioners.
The broad ax., 1915-11-20
Fashion FriIls.

Some women wear comfortable
clothes, while others dress in style
Macon News.
Short skirts for general wear are
still cutting in upon the-business of the
burlesque Chicago News.
But, at that. perhaps with the women
going in for trouserettes the men can't
be blamed if they turn to near corsets.
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Women in America dress better
than men," remarks a woman writer
Oh, huh, and at last accounts water
was still running downhill.-Philadcl-
phia Inquirer.
Fashion" says an authority, sis a
state of mind" What horrible mental
disorders some Of those designers of
late styles must be suffering 'FRONT.'
Detroit Free Press.
The broad ax., 1915-11-20
Echoes of the War.

The sights of many famous European
cities are now spelled "sites."-Mem
phis Commercial Appeal.
The declarations of war since the
first one in August, 1914, are now
twenty-f1ve.-Bosto Herald.
Why not put Europe's trenches to
some good use? They would be an ex.
cellent place to bury the hatchet.-Chi.
cago News.
''War is a disguised blessing" says
a preacher. There may be two opin-
ions about the blessing, but only one
on the effectiveness of the Disguise
Wall Street Journal
Lord Kitchener now says that it is a
struggle between Birmingham and the
Krupps. The man behind the guns has
given way to the man who makes the
gun.-Detroit Free Press.
The broad ax., 1915-11-20
Tropical Snake Killer.

Among the rare reptiles in the Bronx
zoo, in New York. is the musSarama,
or snake killer. 1t is nOnpOisOnOus it
self, but attacks. cOnquerS and kills
such deadly reptiles rs the tropical
viper and the fer-dc-lance. To their
poison it is altogether immune. The
snake kills by coiling about its victim
and squeezing it to death. Against
the coral snakes poison. however, the
snake killer has no protection and
quickly succumbs To the paralyzing eff
fects of coral snake bite.
The broad ax., 1915-11-20
Defining an Art Patron,

as your husband so very fond OF
art?'
Art! He doesn't know a Raphael
from q hair cut
"Why, understood him to say that
he was an art patron"
"PatronI That man wouldn't trade
a club sandwich for a Bouguereau
What does he mean by calling himself
an art patron"
"Why, he says it costs him ten
thousand a year to pay for the bogus
masters the smooth dealers coax you
to buy-and that makes him an art
patron. Plain Dealer.
The broad ax., 1915-11-20
Minced Chicken With Cream Sauce.

Put into a saucepan one tablespoon
full of butter. one gill OF stock and two
tablespOonfuls of stale breadcrumbs
and stir until boiling. Then add one
pint of cold chicken chopped fine. tea
spoonful of salt. Il dash of pepper and
a teaspoonful of chopped parsley. Re
move from the fire and add two well
beaten eggs: fill into small creased
molds. stand in hot water and cook In
the oven for fifteen minutes Serve
hot with a cream sauce made from
rich milk thickened to the consistency
Of cream.
The broad ax., 1915-11-20
Indian Statistics.

Canada's Indians number about 1OO,-
600, or, including Eskimos. 107,221, a
decrease of PIG compared with 1913.
Since 1850 the Indian population of
this country has increased materially.
There are now 100000 members of
various tribes compared with 254, 30O
in 1850. They own lands valued rough
ly at $6OOOOO.OOO.
Over 5000 students have been fully
graduated from government Indian
schools and several hundred from mis-
sion schools of various denominations.
The majority of these are well known
and respected citizens in their respec-
tive communities.
The broad ax., 1915-11-20
FIippant filings.

At any rate. this administration may
go down as the weddingest adminiStra-
ton in our hiStory.-ChicaSo News.
If this war keeps on for another year
We'll probably find ont how far kilo-
meter iS-New York Evening Sun.
Possibly il wOul,B he the correct en-
cheering thing tot roof over the PAN
anna canal and make it subway
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A flag for the vice president being
demanded. we suggest an emblem with
that imperiShable device. Hope springs
eternal. Post.
The broad ax., 1915-11-20
Some Kinds of Talking Women.

The woman who tells you all about
something in such a way as to leave
you In complete ignorance of the essen
tial things which you wanted to know
about.
The woman who fiatters you about
yourself as a screen to give herself the
opportunity to talk about herself.
The woman who Is silent when she
has nothing to say. This woman talks
necessarily.
The woman who asks you what you
think about something and then heads
you off from telling by keeping on talk
ing herself.
The woman you marry.-Life.
The broad ax., 1915-11-20
Pert Personals.

Schwab has bought another steel
company. Charley believes in doing his
early.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Just as though the president did not
have troubles enough. his daughter
has told the reporters that he has a
really beautiful tenor vOice."-Boston
Herald.
Rudyard Kipling must be the great
est OF modern poets. since he Is the
only one for whose works a glossary
and concordance have been issued
Chicago News
The broad ax., 1915-11-20
EXPRESSIONS of Love.

1t Is In keeping the love OF others
that most of us wOefully fail. And We
fail very largely because we are not
careful in expressing love. Here we
ought not to be confused by terms Elk
pressing love does not necessarily mean
using the language Of endearment. On
the contrary. those who love most
deeply are likely to be the least given
10 endearing terms, which may hdi-
cate a poverty Of deep love or the alb
sence Of any love.
The broad ax., 1915-11-20
Temperament In Folly.

The fool I'm his heart saith a num-
Der Of things. Suppose he happens to
be a phlegmatic fool with a fondness
for luxury.
81 do not care" saith he, In that
case, ito go out into the damp, chill
woods and mistake a toadstool for a
mushroom. / much prefer to get up in
the night, in my comfortable fiat, and
drink out of the wrong bottle. Dos
ton Journal.
The broad ax., 1915-11-20
BRIGHT BRIEFS.

Envy has torpedoed many a friend
ship.
Railroad men certainly have their
own TRIALS.
It's getting about time for father to
intrench for Christmas.
The worst use that can be made of
success is to boast of it.
And when the canal is open again
how long will it stay open?
The last straw couldn't break the
camel's back without great deal of
assistance.
The first step toward being a politi-
clan is learning to call strangers by
their first names.
Here and there some little nation on
the outer edge Of things has not vet
entered the big war.
Discovery Of new planet is an
nounced, but it's no recompense for
tearing this one to pieces.
If wishing is praying some people are
praying nearly all the time and with
out getting their knees dusty.
Few things are necessary for the
wants Of this life, but it takes an inf
mite number to satisfy the demands of
opinion.
Yale university is almost a million
dollars richer than a year ago, says an
exchange, again illustrating the power
Of knowledge.
At least they were good enough to
wait until the American doctors cleaned
up the typhus in Servia before they re-
sumed fighting.
Spain has submitted a bid for the
peace conference, but it may be barred
by the statute of limitations before the
date for opening the bids arrives.
The broad ax., 1915-11-20
ObeYinq Directions.

Good heavens, John. what made
you pick out such an ugly woman to
send home? She scared the baby al
most into fits"
"Just did what you told me, Maria.
You said you wanted plain cook. and
I got the plainest one to be had."-BaL
timore American.
The broad ax., 1915-11-20
The DiHerence.

Mrs. Dash-The idea of Mrs. Rash
having society aspirations! Why. her
father was Il peddler! Mr.. Dash-Yes,
she's entirely too forward. She ought
to hang back until people have forgot
ten it. Now. in your case. my dear.
it was your grandfather who was a
peddler