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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-03-29
Compulsory Education.

Some social economists would 90 SO
far as to abrogate the ownership Of
children by their own parents, and as
man is the only real wealth of any
country, by adopting all its offspring,
do away with the neglect, starvation
and ignorance that too frequently either
destroy an item Of population or allow
it to grow up in ignorance, to crime,
and make it burden rather than q
blessing.
This is of course an extreme opinion,
but that the government, either Nation
al or State, should interfere with the
infancy Of its citizens where parental
neglect may render it necessary, ap
pears to be gaining ground in public
favor, especially in the education Of ou
youth. Senator Beardsley has q bill
which has already passed the Senate
making it compulsory for all children
between eight and fourteen, to be sen
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-03-29

as Johns home? He would like amuse
ments suited to his young, restless,
Drumming nature; how much real
thought and care did you ever give in
schemes, devices, plans, efforts, with a
view to meeting this passionate year.
ming of his mind? How much do YOU
play with him, tell stories with him,
make riddles with him, talk with him Of
what you have done and seen, Of what
your father did and saw? What games,
what sports, what efforts at skill with
slate and pencil, with knife, saw, and
gimlet' have you devised for him, while
your look and action were saying, "My
boy, want you to love your home
more than any other spot of earth?
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-03-29
Things Assured.

Congress will shortly grant the D. 8,
St. P. full rights to approach the new
railroad bridge. The right to pass over
it was granted to all companies in the
original bill by which the bridge was
created. The proper steps first taken
in obtaining rights of way, no less will
be lost in prosecuting the work. In
fact we expect to see the approaches on
both sides, complete this season, and
that by the first Of December next,
through cars running from St. Paul to
the East, via this bridge-that is to say
we may expect by that time to see Penn
nsylvania Railway cars traversing the
Milwaukee & St. Paul track from St.
Paul to Cresco, (if that line shall be
chosen), thence by the Davenport &
St. Paul road to Davenport-crossing
the bridge and taking the Peoria & Rock
Island on their way to the seabord. 1t
may all be accomplished little sooner
than December ncxt-or little later,
but the enterprise is right on the slate;
and the money has been raised to back
it. It is no local sidetrack affair, this
D. & st. p. road, but an Integral part
Of the most extensive railroad corpora
tion in the country-a road embracing
four thousand miles in actual operation
and adding hundreds of miles annually;
company whose through palace cars
start from various points of the south
and northwest, daily, and eliminating
at Pittsburgh from daily trains of palace
coaches for New York; a company that
reaches far out into every agricultural
centre Of the country, and which will
soon be prepared to pour more western
grain into the New York market than
all other roads centering there COM
bined;-this is the great railroad scheme
of which the d. &. St. P. forms a part.
Shall we not, as city, extend every
reasonable facility for the development
of this enterprise here?-Davenport
Democrat
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-03-29
Wanting to be an Angel.

II want to be an aigel,' Bobby
kept singing at the top Of his voice,
except when he was teasing the cat,
spilling his milk, contradicting Bridget,
or making mudpies; II want to be an
angel, and with tie angels stand"
THAT is all well and good when the
time eomes,'' cried Bridget at last,
quite out of temper; ''but before you
can get to be an angel, Bobby, you
must just want to be good boy. Good
children are the stuff angels are made
of; mind that, sir. Put it this way,
i want to be a good boy, aad with the
good boys stand Then folks can know
how much you meant it.
Bobby did not like Bridget's view of
the case, 50 he made up lip and walk
ed off.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-03-29

to school at least sixteen weeks an.
nually, eight Of which must be consecu.
tive. The best and only method Of
Judging of the wisdom Of such legisla-
tion, is by experience gained from ma
tions which have adopted this plan.
The compulsory system has been tried
thoroughly in Switzerland, Norway,
Sweden and Denmark, while in Prussia
and some other German States it has
been in operation for upwards Of a CEN
tury. The success in the former four
is questioned, while in Prussia the in
nate and universal belief in the primary
Importance of education, and the adap-
tation Of plan which secures the first
talent, the last improvement and every
facility, seems to have done more than
compulsory law. Now in Holland,
where no legal interference has ever
been allowed, every adult citizen male
and female can read and write. In
Massachusetts, the compulsory law has
signally failed, and General H. K. Oil
yer says the law has been killed by
sheer neglect, although, as State Con-
stable, it was his duty to see it carried
out. The State Superintendent of
Pennsylvania pays considerable atten-
tion to this subject in his last annual
report, and proposes what he thinks
would be more eligible and useful plans
than the compulsory school law. He
very wisely says that no law can bring
into the schools the naked, the hungry,
the homeless, unless it also provides
these primary needs, homes, clothes,
food, are the first to be provided, and
then education will, as matter of
course follow. Whether the compulso-
ry system is in harmony with our in
stitutions remains an open question !;
in the mean time, feeling as we do,
that popular education is the only path
to popular prosperity, we would like to
hear from the favorers Of the comtulso-
ry bill how they intend to carry out its
provisions.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-03-29
Good Advice

We were sitting with Horace one
afternoon, says Don Piatt, in that little
disreputable sanctum of his adjoining
the counting-room Of the Tribune. The
old gentleman was in one of his chronic
conditions of grumble and discomfort.
He had that mealy appearance 50 COM
mon to him. that made him resemble a
blond miller fresh from the dust of his
flour mill, and was expressing his pri-
vate opinion in a public and somewhat
profane way, when colored gentleman
was announced. "Let him come in, >"
roared the philosopher, and an aged
darkey, clad in broadcloth, gold-rim-
med spectacles, and a cane headed with
the same precious metal. stalked in.
"Mister Greeley I believer" he in
quired.
eyes, I'm Mister Greeley; what do
you want?' was the gruff response.
"Well, sab, ;" said old Ebony Specs,
seating himself as he deposited his hat
and cane on the foor-"Well, sab, I've
been thinkin' that our race don't lay
enough attention to scientific pursuits,
sah.'
We saw the cloud gather on the in
tellectual countenancc Of the great
journalistic Bohemian. It broke in
thunder at that point. In voice
wherein were blended the shrill tones of
a hysterical woman and the growl of a
tiger he exclaimed:
Scientific pursuits! you id fool!
You want hoe-handle and patch Of
New.Jersey-that's the scientific pur-
suit you want. Get out"
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-03-29
"A story with Il Moral.

a young man paying special atten-
tion to young lady, met with the fol-
lowing incident during one Of his Wis
it's
Being invited into the parlor to await
the lady's appearance, he entertained
himself as best he might for some time,
and was becoming very weary, when a
little girl about FIVE years old slipped in
and began to converse with him.
Il can always tell when you are COM
ing to our house," she said: .'Why,
when you are going to be here, sister
begins to sing and get good; sac gives
me cake and pie and everything want
apd she sings so sweet when you are
here, and when I speak to her she smiles
50 pleasantly. l wish you would stay
here all the while, then I would have a
good time. But when you go off sister
is not good. She gets mad, and if l
ask her anything she slaps and bangs
me abont.'
This was poser for the young man.
"Fools and children tell the TRUTH he
muttered, and taking his hat he left and
returned no more.
MoRAL.-Parents wishing their i'll ma
tured daughters married, should keep
their small children out of the parlor
when strangers are there.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-03-29
now L Lay Me Down to sIecD,

In the quiet narsery chambers,
Snowy pillows yet Impressed,
See the forms Of little children
kneelng white-robed for their rest.
All in quiet nursery chambers,
While the dusky shadows creep,
Hear the voices of the children
Snow Hay me down to sleep"
On the meadow and the mountain
Calmly shine the winter stars,
But across the glistening lowlands
Slant the moonlight's silver bars.
In the silence and the d. rkness.
Darkness growing still more deep.
listen to the little children,
Praying God heir souls to keep.
"lf we die''-so pray the children,
And the mothers head droops low,
One from out her fold is sleeping
Deep beneath the winters snow)
"Take our souls,' and past the easement
Fits CLEAN Of crystal light,
Like the trailing of His garments
Walking evermore in white.
Little souls that stand expsctant.
Listening at the gates of life,
Hearing far away the murmur
Of the tumult and the strife.
We who fight beneath the banners,
Meeting ranks of foemen there,
Find deeper, broader meaning
In your simple vesper prayer.
When your hands shall grasp this standard
Which to-day you watch from far,
When your deeds shall shape the conflict
In this universal war
Pray to Him, the God of battles,
Whose strong eyes can never sleep,
In the warning Of temptation,
Firm and true your souls to keep.
When the combat ends, and slowly
Clears the smoke from out the skies,
When, far down the purple distance,
All the noise of battle dies
When the last nights solemn shadow
Settles down on you and me,
May the love that never faileth
Take our souls eternally.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-03-29
Mems Rights.

Herewith we give list of few un-
questioned rights of men, merely as a
variation upon the rights of women,
which have been more fairly discussed
The list, it may be mentioned, is not
exhaustive: To fight; to work at the
plow, the s!edge-hammer, the bellows,
the anvil; to cut down trees; to build
houses; to dig canals, construct rail-
roads, make steam-yessels, cast cannon,
create ci ties, climb to the top of the mast
where the seas roll and the wind blows;
to furl sail that will save the lives of
forty female passengers; to chunk coal
into the furnace, to feed the fire that
heats the water that makes the
steam that urges the ship that bears the
husband that loves the wife to the
house that love butt in the city tha,
men built; to stand the pittiless storm
at night, and guard the slumbers of /
town; or, in the front of battle, brave
the assault that would oyerwhelm ballo,
and bonnet, and life and liberty; o.
when the fierce flames lick the chamber
to mount through its terrors to save s
woman who has tainted with a child
clinging to her bosom; and not to get
the incest parts Of a turkey or chick
en- or anything else, if woman is b,
and wants them.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-03-29

Clarence Kings California '.dialect"
style rather beats Bret Harte's. His
sketches Of mountain men are very life
like. He describes the teamster Billy,
who thus talks about swearing: 'No,
| can't blasphemc worth cuss. You'd
Just order to hear Pete Green. He can
exhort the impenitcnt mule. I've
known ten-mule team to renounce the
flesh and haul thirty-onc thousand
through foot Of clay mud under one Of
his outpourings." /.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-03-29

Horace Greeley says that the mater
nal yearnings of hens may be stihed if
properly managed. To keep hen
from setting, she must be braced firmly
but the best way is to tie her legs to-
gether and let her head hang down. 1t
is not necessary in all eases to wiring her
neck, unless you need the feathers for
something. 1t was the last straw, or
the last hair, and not the last feather,
that broke the camel's back. Some say
that it didn't break the camels back;
that it only made him .'hump." Should
the hen show signs Of deeortication, the
sight Of some feed viii reviv, her, as .
hens appetite is always trustworthy. A
great many hens die Of decortication.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-03-29

A farmer near Tcrre Haute, Ind,
sells all his wheat and feeds his family
on bread that he buys at half price at a
bakery after it has become stale. His
family visit around among the neigh
bors considerable, and he is the most
regular man about attending prayer
meetings there is in Indiana.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-03-29

A recent case in Wisconsin shows how
it is going to work when the women
vote. A woma n went to the polls at
Ripon and wanted to vote, and because
man told her she had better run homo
and nurse her baby, she knocked out a
set of teeth for him and pulled his hair,
and kicked him over fence, and acted
unruly.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-03-29
B0utyyell'S Lying ikeDOrt

AScIOS"S 4" pap
that cannot be charged with leanings
toward the Democracy, thus alludcs
to the discrepancies in Secretary Bout
wells reports, to which we invite the
careful attention of the reader. 1t
says:
During the next six months all sorts
Of financial bugbears and statements
may be expected to be put forth to in
fluence the public mind at the Presi-
Dental election. But that there arc
nevertheless discrepancies in the book
keeping Of the Treasury Department
which requires an explanation would
seem to be unquestionable. The books
of the Register of the Treasury should
possess the only authorized and true
exhibit of the public debt, and former
| ly these books were received as the
best authority but lately, Mr.. Bout
well having assumed the function of
making monthly statements, large dis
crepancies appear. Mr.. Boutwell's S
statements are monthly, and those of
the Register Of the Treasury once a
year, yet both should agree to a cent;
but they do not, as is witnessed by the
following comparison from the official
documents
Boutwell,. Register. Discrepancy
1859. s2,a56,5o3,a53 s.4S9, ,oo2, ,4so Sl57 6ol AS
1879. 2,4so,672,+o7 2,3,6,3js,599 sl,3i3sas
Contradiction does not cease here:
For 1869, See Boutwell's report of
lse9. - ,656, ,OOo, 600
For 1863, see Boutwel's report of
lo'o'..... ................. 2,9ss,ooo, 900
Discrepancy ..........-........S6s SIS 900 900
! The public will not be satisfied with
such confusion in the most important
public accounts--nor should it be. They
may be susceptible to explanation !;
but such diverse statements of the
condition of the public finances should
not be sent broadcast throughout the
country under official sanction. It will
be seen by the above figures that the
debt statement of 1869 is represented
in one report to be $6s, ,o0O,0 900 great
er than the other, in the Secretary's 8
report for 1871 he recites the public
debt year by year, from 1861 to 1868
inclusive, and by comparing statements
with the official report of Secretary
Chase, Fessenden and McCulloch for
the same years, there will be found an
aggregate discrepancy of $25s, 52s,-
376. Has there been any ..'doctoring''
of these accounts, or have any treasury
officials been taking lessons from some
large corporations in the use of book
keeping, or rather the art of mistifca-
tion !? Again, if we compare tho an.
nual reports Of the secretary and the
register, there will be found the mon
strous discrepancy of $3.50, 929, ,4s3.
They have never agreed during the
course Of these ten years, and the diff
ference swells from $3.50, 900 in 1861
to nearly $1oO, 100000 in 1870, and
yet this violent conflict between these
officials suddenly disappears in the re
port of 1871, without word Of explana
: tion, and for the first time in ten years
they concur precisely to a cent. /
would be satisfactory to know just how
: the agreement was forced.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-03-29

Oryille Grant, the brother Of the
president, said he made the whiskey
proposal to Colonel Jessen to test his
integrity. Then why was he removed
from Office for refusing to comply?
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-03-29
WE'LL DRILLING.

YvHE undersigned is prepared to drill
u Wells in Town. or country or reasonable
terms, and with Large or Small Bore
Lsng experience warrants him in guaran-
tssing good work and perfect satisfaction.
He 10 also fully prepared with all neces-
sary apparatus for moving buildings.
Call at his farm three miles South East Of
Crssco, or address
DANIEL WHEELER,
assm3) crssoo, Iowa.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-03-29

We hear great deal about labor
reform, but there seems to be greater
need of reforming some of those fellows
who don't labor. ~
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-03-29

The american Agriculturist goes
for the great national seed shop at
Washington in this wise: We do OBJ
ject-and so does every right-thinking
man---to furnish to members of Con-
gress at public expense innumerablc
packages of seeds with which to court
favor with their constituents. These
seed packages are thorough fraud ;
they contain the. seeds sold everywhere,
Of the commonest sorts. It is fragrant
injustice to the scotsman, and no one
can tell why government should inter-
fere with their business any more than
with that of the druggist or grocer. If
we are to have general free seed dis
tribution, let us have one also of family
pills and spices. Let us also have the
hoes and rakes, and all other imple-
ments necessary TO cultivate the plants
sent by mail with the seeds.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-03-29
"A New CateclliSsll. j.

Whom did Adam marry, and when
did he marry her? One Eve.
What was her bridal dress d? Barely
nothing
Not even ribbon? No; she had no
need of one: she was rib-bon'e herself.
When Adam and Eve were in the
garden business, what time did they
commence picking apples In the
Fall.
Why did not Cain make good sugar?
Because he was not Able.
Spirits as we'll as sugar comes from
cane; what evil resulted from this
Gains spirit. Able was slowed.
What reason have we to suppose
that Cain also got slewed? He went
Immediately to the land of Nod.
Who was the wisest man? Knowcr
What did he know? He knew en-
ough to go in out of the rain.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-03-29

"Welcome & Berry is the name Of
firm Of physicians in Minnesota
town. They have little patronage.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-03-29
g G.. CANFIELD.

cANFIELD - MINI.
Justice OG the Peace and col
lecting agent. Will attend to collections
and pay taxes for non-residents in any part
Of Fillmore county, Minn.
Refers by permission to Hon. Reuben
Wells, Preston, Minn
Peter velie, Lime Springs station, Iowa
]. H. Easton, Banker, Decorah. Iowa.
Q. 8. Thurbsr, Crssco, IOWA.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-03-29
GROVER L. BAKER
HlG HEST PREMIUM
SEWING Machines.

We give more attachments than any other
machine in the market and better
time to responsible parties than can be
obtained elsewhere
Sample .gEtgcisssse can be
seen at Mrs. Ames' Millinery Store.
H. B. SCHRINER, AGENT,
~ IL ly CREsCo, Iowa.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-03-29
r =. BEERS,

B. =. BEERS
Takes this method Of notifying the public
shat having purchased the
MEAT MARKET
.atthe South end Of tho Brick Block, that
no effort will ba.spared to more than main
4rin its reputation, under the management
it, late proprietor. He solicts u share of
patronage, promising to spare no effort to
deserve it. l3-1tf
E ID. SLOAN,
TAILOR AND DRAPER,
CRE6CO, IOWA.
Shop first door south Of Newton & Cav
ards store. Garments Of all kinds made to
order.
~ Particular attention to cutting.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1872-08-14
Albright.

How many, of US but use the
expressionja dozen times a<week,
and have it stick in the throat, at
least half Of them? It is coming
to be hypocritical appendage OF
business and social intercourse.
a spcnger goes behind the coun-
ter, cuts off a dimes worth Of to-
bacco or cheese, with. an excuse
thai heEwants a sample" p and
the grocery man says, ';that's all
right"
A customer returns O. pair of
shoes to the dry goods man soiled
and injured after half a days
wear. grunting, 'sthey are too
small" and the merchant says,
"that's all right
A church member puts his
name down for s25 to pay the
preacher, and when called on,
gives only SO, with the remark,
that "times are too hard" and
the parson says, "that's all right" :"
a loafer makes q regular prac-
tice OF coming into a printing Of
fee, and begging copy OF the
paper, stating that che just wants
to read it," the edition is short,
and the editor groans with ghast-
ly politeness, "that's all right"
An extravagant debtor tells a
patient creditor every time ne
meets him that he intends to pay
the account 'sto-m orrow, certain" !"
and the poor man turns off with
"that's all right"
And so it goes. 1t is all wrong,
and we say it's all right, and by
our want Of spirit and indepen-
dence encourage laziness, imposi-
tion, stinginess, and every other
sin under the sun.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1872-08-14

4 FENoxoUs SERPEST.--We learn that
the patriarch and king of the Snake
tribe, was killed near the residence Of
Richard Cain, Jr., on last Saturday. He
Sas an ancient and respectable Rattle
snake, between Z and S feet long, about
le inches IN girth, and had seventy
seven rattles and one button. Accord
ing to some auguologisss, he was in.his
18th year, while other snakists, would
make his age, aboutS years. We leave
that question to the decision of those
who know and love the Reptile race,
better than we do. We give all such
customers wide berth. He was smart
snake, if he lodged his mortal enemy,
the negro, for seveutY.e!ght years. I. is
q religious duty with the negro, and one
which be observes with scrupulous devo'
ton, to kill every snake be encounters on
life's journey. He imagines every blow
given to the snake, is inflicted on the
old serpent Satan himself - Sumter
News. ..-; .---,'..:... % Z, Z.