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Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-03-07
A Word for the Women.

SOMEBODY once said that the women of
to-day are so extravagant in dress, and so
helpless in other respects, that none but
rich mel can afford to marry, and foolish
people have been saying the same thing or
something very like ii ever since. Every
time man fails in business. people take
mental inventory of his wifcs wardrobe.
and cry out Poor fellow, he was ruined
by her extravaganza" No account is
taken of his club expenses, or his unnec-
essary restaurant bills, or his fast horses,
or the vanity that prompted him TO buy
a bigger and liner house than he needed
Nothing is said of the drcss-coats made
by some Monsieur Snip, who charges an
extra price because he calls himself an
artist tailor" The man may have gam
bled his money away or have lost it in
reckless stock speculation for all anybody
knows TO the contrary, while his wife, be-
licvng him to be rich, has dressed and
lived only as his circumstances warranted
doing it, too, only for his sake that he
might not be ashamed TO introduce her as
his wife Or if She has been as extrava-
giant as he, the fault is usually his, so long
as the fact remains that any proper man
can lovingly control the course of any
proper wife.
Women are often cxtravagant. The
fact can not be denied But that they are
more so than men is by no means true.
As a rule every woman wishes TO live
within her husbands income, and in nine
families out Of ten all the economizing
done at all is done by The wife.
This constant iteration of the charge
against women, however, has secured
kind of passive acceptance for the theory,
and nothing is more common now than
for young men with salaries of two or
three thousand a year to lament their
inability to marry, because women are so
cXtrayagant One of these has recently
told the public through the newspapers
how il takes all his income of two thous-
and dollars to support him as single
man, and after looking over his bill of
items and finding that it takes fifty-two
dollars worth of pcrfumcry every year to
keep him sweet, we quite agree with him
~ thinking that he should not marry. A
would probably give him trouble even
with much larger income than his to
draw upon.
The trouble is, men want to live In
more costly style than their incomes will
allow. They hire houses they cannot
afford, and buy furniture beyond their
means, and put on Style generally,
which they can not maintain Their
wives, knowing less than they of the
purse-depths at command, accept the
husbands estimate Of their ability to live,
and they dress as their lords clearly wish
them TO do. And so the crash comes,
and "poor Charley" is commiseratcd,
while his little wife's shoulders are sad
died with the blame. -Iiea7M and Home.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-03-07
The Poor Rich and the Rich Poor
Man.

Young men cannot learn too early that
money alone does not make "A Torture \
bag of doubloons was nothing TO Robin
son Crusoe. Whole chests full of gold
were worth less than single rough plank
to the returning Californians when the
great steamer was on fire.
Money is only worth what ii will buy.
Old Ben. W was counted to be rich
man in my childhood He had money in
stocks and many farms with old buildings
OF them. He lived in one of the worst
and rented the others. A few old stray
Cling currant bushes decorated his front
yard, and there were several wild cherry
trees which bore abundantly around the
place. He made butter and cheese, and
raised fat cattle for the market, which all
brought him in ready money Hard
drudgery was the order of the day at his
house from January to December. He
was hard man to dead WITH and furious
at every new demand for clothing from
his large family. The boys learned early
to shift for themselves, and the poor
girls married unhappily To escape from
the dismal home of tyranny. b. W
died rich" as the world called it, but
who would covct such riches?
There was the poor miller who lived
just across the stream, who only owned
his house and little farm, but OH how
much richer and happier he was than the
churlish miscr. His house was buried in
roses, and before il were two large and
well kept flower beds, with no uncommon
flowers in them, but just the ones the
children love best. A grand row of 10
Gust trees shaded the sidewalk, and on
the sunny, southwark slope were such
cherry trees rs we seldom see nowadays.
The garden abounded in well-pruncd cur
rant and raspberry bushes, red and white
and black and fire grapevine ran over
a pleasant arbor. I was thirty years ago,
and modern cultivated small fruits were
unknown, but M. Mather had made the
most out of common material. He had
succession Of delicious fruits from the
time the goose5erries came until the win
ter apples were gone, and many cups and
jars of preserves and bags Of dried fruit
were stored ayav in the capacious pantry
for winter use Within doors thrift and
taste and neitncss combined to make the
home one Of those sunny pictures the
mind delights to recall When his days
task at the mill was over, you might al
WAYS see he CHEEKY miller al work in his
garden With hoe or pruning knife, and
though quite poor and compelled to dress
most plainly, there was not family in
the place whose table was supplied SO
luxurioqsly, and all from the fruit OF his
o..,- :-.a e-..y.
Remember, young men, it is the htde
comforts of life that make you indepen-
dent rish men you may be poor with
million-you may be rich on four hun
dred year.
If you own little farm, a beautiful
home though it be small, a COW, horse,
garden full Of fruit and vegetables, IA
poultry yard and such like Injuries, you
may count yourself among the rich men.
If youwould have such an estate, remem.
Der you must delye for it.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-03-07
Pauperism in New York.

WHILE its pauperism is its shame, the
charity of New York is its glory, and
covers multitude of its sins. The city
has one hundred and five private chart
ties fully organized, and constantly en-
gagged in succoring the distressed. Such
institutions as the Five Points Mission,
the Children's Aid Society, the several
orphan asylums, homes for the INDECENT
and hospitals for the sick, which are
mainly supported by private funds, are
aggressive charities. They seek suffering
instead of waiting for it to seek them
as almoners Of public funds must always
do. and they find a vast deal more OF IL.
While they do not wait for the last ex-
tremity of distress before extending relief,
they discover cases of poverty as urgent
as any which have been stated, and many
only little less abject, which never come
to the knowledge Of public functlonaries.
In the relief of such restitution as they
find, these private charities expend more
money annually than is required by the
Commissioners of Charities and Correc-
ton for all the sick, destitute, and crimi.
nails coming INTO their charge. II Is
therefore apparent that hardly half the
pauperism of the city is matter OF OH.
cial knowledge, and the gaunt legion Of
90, 1872 starving people is but fraction Oh
the army of misery which the city can
muster
Another and perhaps more sorrowful
phase of human helplessness is found in
the public hospitals; and ii is equally
convincing proof of the fact that New
York in her youth is afflicted with the
disease Of pauperism to an extent normal
only TO city in its decreptitude. Belle
yue Hospital, at the foot Of East Twenty
sixth street, and Charity Hospital, on
Rlackwells Island, which are the tive
great rcceptacles for the sick and injured
thrown upon the public authorities, last
wear received II, 100 patients. Or tins
army of the helpless, many when II
health we're self-sustaining, but all, with
few exceptions among the victims o.
street accident, belonged TO the class tina
is constantly doing uncertain battle WIN
the wolf at the door, so that II disabled
even for a day they must receive charity
In this sense they are paupers and to d.
added to the public burdens. Besides
these, the hospitals for contagious dis
eases received during the year D, 100, ane
the Bureau for the Relief OF Outdoo
Sick prescribed for 1850 persons, who
become paupers for the hour by some
simple sickness for which they conls
not provide the means OF reliei
Grouping now all the poor Tor gen
eral view of this metropolitan misery,
must add to the list the 4,3l5 permanent
inmates Of the public almshouses. which
brings the startling total OF 66,2S6 per
sons dependent during the year upon I'M
public charities. To these must be added
at least $1,000 succored by the private
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-03-07
Small Deceits.

NrS at first deceive, knowing 1t ; but
bv the constant use of deception they
cease to even know that they are dong IL;
Gradually il blinds the moral sense. Ana
II is in this direction that great lies are
less harmful than little ones. Men thihk
a GREAT black lie is very culpable sup
nose il is. But when an armorer wishes,
bv securing. to cut the very surface OF
metal down. what does he do? rake
har of iron and rub it, No; he takes
emery It's particles are as small as
Minis point and these he puts on, ana by
Securing he cuts down the surface-takes
off the enamel You think that great
lie is great sin, and great shame 10
man hut after all, these little lies are
more dangerous. because there are SO
many az them: and because each OF them
T. diamond .pointed And these little
netty untruths which are so small thal
YOU do not notice them, ana so nuihero ~ :
that YOU cannot estimate them, are the
ones that take off the very enamel OF ths
moral sense-cut away its SURFACE. anu
men become so accustomed 10 IL, .ha'
they do not recognize that they are put:
ting things in false lights, when, by word,
by deed, by indirections, by exaseera,
tions. by shifting the emphasis, by various
dynamical means, they present things, not
as they see them, but as they want to see
them.
This phantasmagoric process by which
men are throwing false lights upon action
and motive; upon what is happening and
Going to happen; the ten Thousand h'sie
5Soaes by which men are seeking to per.
xert things, and make them seem different
from what they really are; the petty
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-03-07

agencies, making grand total of 116, ESQ
human beings who IN the year 1870 in
this city of New York, were the recipi-
ents of elemosynary aid Ibis shows
the poverty of the city colnplete but to
see its poverty, its improvideuce, and its
crime at a glance, add to the figures given
the 40,205 who during the year applied
for work at the Labor Bureau Of the
Commissioners of Charities, and the a.
$40 who became inmates of the various
prisons and reformatories of The city.
Here we are face to face with the fact that
22S $50 out of population of 942, 292, or
only small fraction less than one-quar-
ter of the whole population of the city,
were dependent during the year, in whole
or in part, upon the other three quarters.
=" Neither Side Of NeW York" IN The Cal
arg for March.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-03-07

THE Chignon Fungus has been dis
cussed by the Massachusetts Board of
Health, and DR.. J. G. White reports to
the Board that he has seen mot few
cases of disease of the scalp supposed by
the patient to have heen caught from some
impurity attached to the chignon worn.
Such fears are groundlcss There have
been observed little globular masses upon
the shafts Of the hair before cleansing,
and in cases where such cleansing il not
properly done, also upon the hair after
being manufactured into shape for wear.
These masses are composed Of the elc-
mcnt of a fungus, and there Is no reason
to suppose il capable Of attaching itself
to living tissue or of creating any disease
Of the parts with which IL might be
brought in contact" The possibility Of
receiving animal parasites through the
false hair worn is a question for ign to
the Board, but the Doctor states that the
dried sebaceous concretions which form
at times upon the shafts Of the hair, and
are properly called chair eaters" and
supposed to be a cause of loss Of hair,
are not TO be COMPOUNDED with anything
OF parasitic nature.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-03-07
A Plea for Night Air.

BuTin Heavens name what air, as Mis-
Nightingale says, can we breathe at nigh
cyceptnight air. The choice lies between
pure night air from without and foul nigh
air frol within; most people prefer TIA,
latter, { is true, but it is night air all th,
same, hough they may not be aware OF
the fac.
Did on ever test these two kinds oI
night a, by going early in the morning
into thToom Of "A person brought up 10
sleep VIII closed windows, and immcdi
ately af,rward into one where the sash
has beeilowcred six inches from the top,
and raisl six from the bottomg Well,
what digou fndY In one, however
pretty al well arranged, however healthy.
neat, an well-bred its occupant, a smell
Of bed cthes, Of damp towels, Of dust, Of
carpet-4l slight, but all indicative of
that useap condition Of the atmosphere
which $50 fatal TO sleeper In the other,
no bettesituatcd or furnished, an elastic
feeling, perfume of freshness which
made brthing pleasant. Was il not so;
Or dldou ever compare your own SEN
sations Gr sleeping in fresh air with
those pruced after sleeping in foul,
How MAJ Of the failures, the mischanccs
of life, tn morning dizziness which hin
dered thi'r that, the refusal Of the brain
TO work "a critical moment, the apathy,
the blindrs Of perception, date back TO
that unait bedroom which sent us forth
unrefresh to our work, and ushcrcd in
a depressE and discouraged day
But IL useless to contend with so
deeply-rosd a prejudice. Let us go
back to oiexiled friend, who certainly
has dayne claim, though he be denied
a nightly C, to our sufferance.
How feof us recognize, as the long
winters cps away, and, shrinking from
the outwa chill, we cover into fire-side
corners arTarm wraps, how day by day
we are imsibly contentiDg ourselves
| with the se brcathed over air which,
scarcely iovated since, supplied our
lungs yesday and the day before.
"Open tlwindJws, indeed" we cry
"why, it'll we can do TO exist with
them tight,hut !"
Yes, butaradox as 1t seems, there is
warmth in. very cold which an open
window wd admit. That is, the oxy-
gen of the 'er air, quickening the circu-
lation andringing the temperature Of
head, hanc and feet into proper bal
ance, will Itself induce glow which
helps the ito rewarm the room after
its airing. I'd with the equipose of cir
culation gOhumor comes; and cheer
fulness, arhe capacity to be amused.
How we ldbese things-how dull we
grow stewiDver registers, or before an.
| thracite- bung stoves. The winter
seems to geto us--our wits stificn and
freeze vert laugh or enjoy, we sim.
ply endure and with desperate long
ing sit wal, for the spring. Home
and Society,s ScySJner's, tDr March.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-03-07

A WRITER in the Medieal Times amt
Gazette refers to the fatigue Of the limbs
produced after long railway journey az
due mainly To the trembling motion Of
the floor under the feet, and states that,
having suffered considerably from this
abuse, he was induced to try an air cush-
ion as a foot-stool. This answered SO
well that he has never Travelled without
using one in this way, and found the et
feet to be remarkable improvement.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-03-07

A sToREKEEPER at Quincy, Mich, hav-
ing pup that habltuaily upset the paint
cans in the rear end Of the store, rubbed
the dogs nose IN the spilled paint as a re-
minder that he must not do so again.
Recently the animal again spilled the
paint, and observing that his master was
engaged in waiting on customer, the
doclle pup rubbed his own nose in the
mixture and ran bowling out the back
way.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-03-07

EXTRA alton and feed given cows
when dry, be repaid next season in
added thriftd produce.
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-01-13

That WATER RIGHT DEcTsIoN.-
The decision OF the Supreme Court
in the Haines-Nansickle case. we
have commented upon but give 1t
IN full to-day, by request OF readers
in this county who are interested in
the ruling. We do not hesitate to
repeat what We have already said !;
that We regard it as one of the great
est. most iniGuitous error that ever
three honest men were guilty Of
White Pine News. eth.
Some of our eastern exchanges
We're slow to comprehend the magni-
tude Of the interests involved in the
decision in the case Of Haines VS..
Eansickle. and the extent of the dis
astrous effect flowing from the ruling
Of the Court. We infer from the
foregoing paragraphtha the lament
able consequences Of the. decision
are not confined to Western Nevada,
hut that White Pineas wellas Doug
las, Ormsby and Washoe, IS begin
ming to comprehend the startling
effect Of the decision on rights to
water, long regarded as absolute and
unquestionable. That this is the
case also in Landercounty is evident
from the Eureka Sentinel. The
water rights Of that county are M
merous and valuable, their acquisi-
ton in many cases dating back to
1S62-3. All these have been i'm
perilIed by the decision Of the Su-
preme Court, and new claimants
have already commenced to enforce
their demands in the courts. 1t Is
impossible to determine where the
~pernicious effects Of this most IN
fortunate decision will terminate.
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-01-13

But while the supposed borate
fields of Nevada are thus likely to
suffer curtailment. rumors come to
hand of important discoveries made
in Del Norte county-a quantity
rich in this valuable salt having late
ly been brought to this city, said to
represent a large deposit existing in
that quarter of the State. How
much there may be in fact, or what
would he the cost Of hauling to a
shipping point, we have not been
able to ascertain. though there is
reason to believe that the quantity
reported, has, as is usual with the
first announcement OF mineral dis
~cOveries. been somewhat exaggerated.
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-01-13

THE DIvIDENDs.-Yesterday the
Belcher Mining Company disbursed
a dividend of so per share, amount
ing to Sl04, 900, payably on the 10th
instant. This is the first dividend
announced by the company, and yet
the mine has been under develop
ment for years. On the 9TH of De-
tober, 1870, the stock sold at 81 per
share, o at the rate of S10,40 for
the mine. On the ID instant it sold
for $500 per share. or -, 096. 900 for
the mine. The Crown Point Mining
Company disbursed a dividend Of
SO per share. amounting to SEQ. 600
payable on the 10Th instant. This
is the first dividend paid since Sep
TENDER, 1871. The company paid
four monthly dividends. each 10 per
share. last year. These have been
the only dividends since September.
1865. In November. 1870. the stock
sold for - 80 per share. or at the
rate Of 500 900 Tor the mine. From
that time it has been increasing in
public favor, rising to SIS in the
following month. In January it
opened at SIG and advanced to $40.
In February it reached SO: March,
500; April, S195: May, $500; June.
S33I, July. S325; October, S3l6;
November. 500; December. $40;
and on the 2d instant $3.50. or at the
rate OF $500 600 for the mine
Gold Hill News. 11th.
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-01-13

A Havana letter, referring to the
late slaughter of the students hy the
Spaniards, says. A pail OF mourn
ing has fallen owe the city. All tie
young boys belonged to the best and
wealthiest families OF the island,
and grief has entered many a house
hold. contented and happy so long.
The father Of Alvarez de la Campo
has died since the execution Of his
son. He it was who offered one
million of dollars to the volunteers
for the life his son, but was refused.
Bernardo del Riesgo, one of the
most eminent lawyers of the place,
whose son was condemned to the
chain-gang, has gone mad, and IS a
raving maniac to-day. The mother
of one of the boys shot, by the name
of Molina, was struck dumb when
hearing of her sons late; another
threw herself out of the second story
/ window Of her dwelling when she
heard the shots that killed her boy"
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-01-13

JUDICIAL LIGHT EXTINGUISHED.-
The well-knOwn Jeter Clinton, Al
derman and ex-officio Justice Of the
Peace at Salt Lake, has been pretty
effectually squalched by the courts
of Utah. First, they held that I'M
der the organic act no such officer
was known as ''ex-oficio Justice of
the Peace" and secondly it was held
this week that as ClintOn's commits
sion reads Peter Clinton Jeter
Clinton has no standing in that
court. Clinton is q MOrmOn-has held
the Office for many .years-and was
always relied on to execute the city
ordinances which were particularly
obnoxious to the free and easy Gen
tiles, both male and female. Jetef
has had a rough time of it during
the past year. \ Miss Annie Miller
had the honor of eXtinguishing his
judicial light finally, under . ruling
of Judge Hawley.
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-01-13

WASHINGTON, January 10.-Wil-
liams to-day formally assumed
charge of the Department of Justice.
1t is understood that he will pursue
the exact course i'll the ku kluX
trials laid out by Alderman.
The National Woman's Suffrage
Convention held a regular semi
annual meeting here to-day. The
usual force a present. Elizabeth
Cady Stanton vas elected President
and made a speech, as did also Mrs.
Woodruff. the latter II advocacy of
Spiritualism.
At ameeting tonight Mrs. Beecher
Hooker announced that Senator
Trumbull had consented that the
Judiciary Committee would give a
hearing to Il delegation of the Con
vention in the Committee-roOm next
Friday. Mrs. Hooker claimed that
this concession was the precursor
almost of Immediate victory of wO-
man over prejudice, intolerance. etc.
The committee of Philadelphia
Republicans having the matter in
charge claim that the majority Of the
National Republi an Executive Com
mittee are in favor Of holding the
National in Philadelphia,
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-01-13

The original, or at least an early
and unfamiliar, form Of a well-worn
maxim is furnished by Hon. E. Ct.
Squier, a descendant of one Of
Cromwell's captains who came 10
this country after the English civil
war. Letters from Cromwell to this
ancestor were fo,tnl among the
family papers, FLED away with the
device of a sword crossing a pen
upon them, and the legend, Ten
TO one the feather Leafs the iron"
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-01-13

A woman who was travelling or
the Grand Trunk Railroad, with a
ticket marked Good only for this
train and the day received; not good
to stop over;' and was then put off
the train, has received 5000 and costs
as damages.
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-01-13

Mr.. LYHCH.-We regret to hear
that Nh. Lynch of the Gold Hill
News is again dangerously i'll. He
is suffering from hemorrage of the
stomach, the disease which nearly
proved fatal some weeks since.
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-01-13

PRAYER WEEK.-The Gold Hill
News reminds its readers that this is
the Grand Prayer Week, set apart by
the Evangelical Alliance in England
for that purpose. The week COM
menced last Sunday, and closes next
Sunday. The prayer for to-day
Saturday. IS for a larger outpoUr-
ing of the Holy Spirit for the in
crease of Christian love and holy
zeal. and the union Of believers in
PRAYER and effort for Gods glory.
Sundav-Sermons Thy kingdom
come, Thy Will be done III earth As
it is in heaven. Matt. Vi 70.
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-01-13

BEAN x Co, Pacific Coast Advertising Agency.
10 Montgomery ST., are our authorized Agents
in san Francisco.
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-01-13

BUCKEYE AssEsSMENT.-Ihe Buck
eve Mining Company has levied an
assessment Of 81 per share Gold
Hill News.