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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-12-01
The Household Recipe,

In the Information column of some Of
our exchanges, the startling assertion
that a watermelon may be vanished and
will keep till Christmas, 10 still going
around.
The watermelon is our favorite fruit
and we thought last fall that we would
vanish one and surprise our friends with
it Christmas. The surprise was all right
but the melon wasn't good for much.
After the turkey and cranberry sauce
had been demolished, We remarked as We
sharpened the carving knife on our boot
leg, that we would now deal out the
fruit
When we showed the glittering blade
through the vanished shell Of the water
melon, about quart Of melon Juice in
bad state Of preservation squirted around
the festive board and stopped the flow Of
conversation.
Yes, you can varnish watermelon and
keep it till next fall, but when you hold
the autopsy YOU want to have nobody
around but the coroner and the en-
balmcr.
When we threw that melon over into
the alley we remember that it went to
pieces like an cid seed cucumber thrown
against the side of barn.
You can't always bet Oh these recipes
that you read in the papers. We re-
member once Of reading that a certain
preparation would keep eggs for year
aud they would taste better when yon
peeled them than when they were first
picked.
We tried it.
They seemed filled with malaria when
We opened them and they popped like n
champagne cork.
The family had to move ont on ranch
till the affair had blown over. And while
We were gone, the coroner broke into the
house to see who had been killed and
locked up there in order to conceal the
crime.
Some of these editors who compile
recipes for housekeepers don't know a
blanc mango from paletot. Boomer.
dng.
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Liberal people are generally happy
people, and get more enjoyment Of what
they have than folks of churlish minds.
Misers never rest till they are put to bed
with shovel. They often get SO
wretched that they would hang them
selves, only they grudge the expense OF
arope. Generous souls are made happy
by the happiness Of Others. The money
they give to the poor buys them more
pleasure than any other that they lay
out. i have seen men OF means give
coppers, and they have been coppery in
everything. They carried on q tin.pot
business, lived like beggars and died like
dogs. Others, who gave freely of their
means to others, were happy and cheer
full through life, and, dying Is Christians
should, felt that they had not lived in
vain.
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PLATFORM OF PRINCIPLES
Or THE NATIONAL GREENP.cK.T ARoR PARr
ADOPTED AT MARsHAIIToWN JUNE = 1881

Or THE NATIONAL GREENP.cK.I AEoR PARTY,
ADOPTED AT MARsHALLTowN. JUNE ?, 1881.
l. The right to make and issuc monty i n
sovereign constitutional power 10 lie main-
tanned hy the people for the common benefit.
We demand the abs lition Of all banks Of issue
and the substitution Of full legal-tendcr green
backs in len OF their notes
3 We oppose the rc.nndng Of the national
debt or the issue o; intercs.-bearms non-,a IA
be bonds upon any prct,xt and demand the
payment ard destruction OF those outst Edina,
at the earliest possible moment
3 We demand n gradual in ONE tax where
lay capital shall bear just s!ia OF tielu lie
burden.
4. We regard The act suhs,ltntil; a IA Tread
commission f,r Law governing ir, isht rates in
this State a frani procured by the r:i'read
companies through n Republican Legislature,
an demand its rcp,a Nhile We fay3r LIBERAL
national appropriations for the creation and
inn r0vcn.cnt u waterways, We demand Laws
pr, tecting the people Of Iowa from discrimina-
tor. pooling. M;terng OF stoci. dfaNhaehs CT
rebates. and all unjust charges on the part Of
railroads, until SUCH time "a the people. nEo
IN II most Of thu &c roads with land graft.
taxes and subsidies, shall own an! operate or
fully coatrul them.
5. We d,mand i rev sion 81 our pa.cns-iisht
laws. placing iair limit upon ,hr royalties Il
inventors. and protc ting the peop.e from IN
justice.
6. We demand taat all | nd grants faif.itci
hy reason Of the non-fG,hmcHt Of caGai IONS
by r iroad companies s.sail he at on c reclaimed
hy the Government, ana hence:oith that the
public domain Le reserved exclusively for home
steaders or &C ual settlers.
I. We demand absolu ely democratic ,u'es
for the government Or Congress ard State
Legislatures, placing all representatives, af the
people upon an equal footing, and taking from
all c .mnitt.es \ veto power upon proposed
legislation.
q. We denou.ce as most dangerous the re-
stricsoas of the right OF suif age IN many States
and it's aho ition in the district Of Columbia,
and demand equal poll zeal rights for all men
and women.
2. reievin: that all qiestions affecting the
public interest should he decided hy the people,
We favor the submission Of the proposed con-
sti.ntional amendment to the popular vote.
II. We demand that ali ballots in this state
shall be Of uniform slze, color and mater ial,
aud that each party having State o'ganza-
ton shall have one M mh.r on III. Election
Board OF each town hip precinct.
IL. In the futtlcraHae of these ends, NE ask
the cooperation of all M. Ii aud waaatn With
out regard to previous larty afii.iatlen or
preilui q.
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An Infamous scheme Of Robbery.

The Chicago Times il authority for
the statement that Secretary Folger will
probably not continue the Window pol
icy Of calling the matured or EXTEND
ed bonds and paying them OF 1t
par. The Times argues that unless
there shall be very considerable falling
of in the revenues, which is improbable,
the last Of the continued bonds would be
eAtinguished under the policy OF calling
before the 4. per cents. became subject
TO call. There would remain then Of
Government bonds outstanding only
S74O, OOO, 900 of 1 per cents. having thir-
teen years to run before being subject
to call. Then the Government could dis
pose Of its surplus in no other way than
by buying the bonds in open market,
paying very high premium, the bonds
going to $50 or higher. And says the
Tines. "upon the chances that they
may 60 to these extravagant figures, the
Government ought now to pay ns high.
Il necessary, as l3h" The banks now
bsss e20A t6a $50 Of the 81 per csuts.,
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&70 u week. eiat dsy AZ hame ess,ly made. Costly
VIZ OGtht tive. Aa ls..s IgrE Co. Augusta, Me-.
ISL
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or continued bonds, on deposit to secure
their circulation, every dollar OF which
is subject to call, and payment at par,
and If the policy is pursued IT is asserted
that tho banks will retire their circula-
ton rather than pay the exorbitant
premiums on the n per cents.
The Times gives the following as
reason why Mr.. Window pursued the
policy he did.
"Mr. Window himself would have
adopted this policy butfor the fact that he
had made up his mind, before it became
necessary to decide upon any definite
mode Of dealing with the surplus, to
leave the Cabinet and become can.
didate for the vacant seat for Minnesota
in the United States Senate. Having
made up his mind to that, it occurred to
him-such ig the snggestion---that it
would not be popular thing with the
Minnesota grangers to pay 116 and ne
crned interest for bonds when lie could
get other bonds for 100 and accrued in
terest. Therefore, in disregard OF the
public interests, he determined that
when he had a surplus Of $40. 600, 900 he
would use it to extinguish $50, 900, 900 Of
principal, instead of using it to extin-
gnish only $17, 241, 900 Of principal"
The result therefore threatened is
bank contraction to the extent Of over
$3.50, 600, 900 in about five years. ITO
avert this ruinous contraction" says the
Times, lit is urged that the Govern
ment should sacrifice from $50, OOO, 900
to $3.50, 600, 900 in premiums on the pur-
chase of per cents.
Here is aAlazzling piece Of wholesale
robbery Of the public treasury proposed
in the interest Of the bondholders. After
sacrificing every industrial enterprise,
and robbing the wealth producers and
property holders OF 1000, 900, 900 to
bring the credit up to high premium,
on the 100, the Government is called
upon now to sacrifice S13O, 600, 900 more
to give the fund holders market for
their inflated. value bonds. There is a
way within both the law and the option
Of the Government to prevent this ex-
trayagant premium anl to save the sac
rifice proposed by the bondholdcrs, and
that is silver payment Of the interest,
and declaration on the part Of Congress
that the Government shall recognize its
option to pay the principal in the same
at its convenience.
No 4-per-cent security is worth any
such premium. The annual Weld will
not warrant it, and If the market price Of
these bonds is forced above their legiti-
mate value it will be the result OF collu-
sion between the holders and the treas
ury officials for the express purpose Of
swindllng the Government and the neo-
pie out OF the excess.
This is the most daring and outrage
Gus proposition yet made public, and,
unless the people keep their eye upon
their servants III Congress to prevent it,
il need be, by prolllbitory legislation,
1t will be carried out. E'r1x.ss
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and their picture galleries more talked
about. Their thought is only Of self
and their personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
When the great financial catastrophe
which is brewing comes, as it always
does, when least expected, what will
these men Of many millions be able to
reply to the Denis Kearneys Of New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston
and all our large cities? What plea will
they have to offer for their robberies ,ill-
der the form OF law, for their debauch-
ing Of the press and Legislative bodies,
for their plundering of the community
by stock waterings and money-market
manipulations?
Thoughtful people cannot but realize
that the poor are getting poorer, and
the middle class il seriously diminishing
in numbers, some few Of them becoming
millionaircs, but the great bulk degen-
Grating into people who work for wages.
In the gigantic operations Of modern
commerce, due to the railroad and the
telegraph, there is little or no place for
tho small trader or the capitalist with
modcra Ell means. Two well known houses
monopolize nearly the entire retail gro
Gerry business Of the city Of New York.
Builders say that it is only the costly
houses that are bought. With all our
prosperity. purchasers cannot be found
for the thousands Of dwellings which
have been erected during the past two
years for people Of moderate means.
The signs Of the times are Ominous. It
is true that labor is employed, and ut
what would have seemed four years ago
good wages but since that time there
has been such all addition to the price
of rent and cost Of living as to make the
lot Of the very poor as hard rs ever. In
statement published recently it was
shown that there has been nh average
advance Of over Al per cent. III the
prices Of the necessaries Of life, while
rents are still rising. and the price Of
food is almost sure to advance.
1t needs no prophet to foretell how
this will all end. The preternatural
activity in business will some day sud.
denly collapse. The swarms Of work
men now employed in onr factories and
workshops ami in building railroads will
be thrown out Of employment. The
wealth Of the community will be found
lodged in a very few hands, and then
will come tho strain upon our institu-
tions SO wildly foretold by Macaulay.
At that time, the Hour, then as now,
will be on the side of law, order and
property but, as the friend Of all three,
it but does its duty to-day in giving ut
terance to this timely warning.
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Term En-

- ~~.S> - . -
eding it.
Ex.l Term Er.
MISSISSIPPI.
1888 James 4. George. 1887
lss5 4. q. c. Lamar. 1883
MISSOURI.
1851 Francis VI. C9krvH. 1887
1885 George g. Test. lss5
NEBRASKA.
1871 chas. II. Van Wyck. 1857
lss5 Alvin Saunders. 1883
NEVADA.
1883 James g. Fair. 1887
1885 John p. Jones. .lssj
j. NEW HAMPSHIRE.
1897 Edward H. Rollins. .lsS3
1855 Henry W. Blair. 1885
NEW JERSEY.
1887 Vim. J. Sewcll. 1887
1855 John n. Mcpherson. 1859
NEW YORK.
1887 Warner Miller. 1887
1855 E,hridge @. I.apham. 1885
NORTH CAROLINA.
1888 Matt ". Ransom, 1883
1885 Ze6nloa u. J'antS....Iss5
OHIO.
1873 John Sherman .1ss7
1Ss5 George II. Hniicf0n. .isss
OREGON.
1887 In fan~tG Grorrr lAs3
1885 John III. Slater. 1855
PENNSYLVANIA.
1853 John /. Mitchell. !. .las7
1851. Donald Cameron. 1885
RHODE ISLAND.
1883 Nelson w. Aldrich. 1887
lsss Henry b. Anthony 1883
SOUTH CAROLINA.
1855 N. c. R,fier. ....... lssa
1885, Wade Hampton. -. ISIS
TENNESSEE.
1881 HosreH Il. Jackson. .1sss
lsss Isham g. Ha,r.s. 49,
TEXAS.
1851 !srta,tet u. .MaE .Iss7
1881 Richard Cake. lisa
VERMONT.
1887 George F. Edmunds. 1877
16ss Justin \. Morrill,. 1855
=. VIRGINIA.
1as5iWM. MALONE. 1887
1883 John ". Johnston 1888
WEST VIRGINIA.
1887 Johnson y. Cdmdea. 1897
lsS3 if-arU q. fhris. =. 1854
WISCONSIN.
1857 Philetus Sawyer. -. las-
1883 Angus Cameron. j. 1855
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FORTY-SEyENTH COMPRESS.

Since the regular elections last year the menu
bership in both the Senate and House Of the
Forty-scvcnth Congress has undergone notable
changes. Three Senatorial seats were vacated
by calls to President Garficlds Cabinet, two
others by the resignation Of Conkling and
Plat, and another by the death Of Gen. Burn
side. Mr.. Window returns to the Senate; but
the other vacancies in that body have been
filled by promotion from the House. The
whole number Of vacancies in the House, by
promotion, death or resignation, have been
nine. and a special election in Rhode Island,
Nov. 70, having filed the last Of them, the list
OF the new Congress is now complete.
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Tern
ALABAMA.
James y. Morran.
James u. pagh -.
ABRAMS AZ.
Ina. II. Garland
James II. Walker
CALIFORNIA.
john +. Miller.
James 4. Earley..
COLORADO.
Henry NJ. Teller.
Nathaniel r. Hill.
CONNECTICUT
Joseph II. Hawley...
Orvillc II. p.att
DELAWARE.
Thomas n. Bay0rd.
Eli SduiSl,o u.
FLORIDA.
Charles VI. jones.
Wilkinson Gail.
GEORGIA.
BENJAMIN N. Hill.
Joseph \. EroWn....
ILLINOIS.
DAWN DAVIS. ......
John A. Logan.
INDIANA.
BENZ. Harrison
Daniel ". VOORHEES,.
IOWA.
James w. McDill.
William b. Allison
KANSAS.
Preston Is. Plumb. :.
John j. ingalls,.
KENTUCKY.
James n, Rck.
John s. Williams.
LOUISIANA.
VIM. p. Kellogg
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Republicans, in Roman, lag Democrats, in
ndlic. 1856; Greenbaceers. Independents and
Readjusters. i'll SMALL CAPITALS ii.
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Republicans, in Roman, 81; Democratic. In
italic, 81 Indepcnde nts, in SMALL CAPITALS, 2.
Mr.. McDill, Of Iowa, holds by Executive APP
pointment, and the Legislature, to meet in jan
nary, will elect for the unexpired term and for
the full term succeeding il,
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The Perfumes Used by Egyptians.

The consumption OF essences must have
been enormous at the highest tide %!
Egyptian splendor. for the people were
actually en.ioined to perfume themselves
on Fridays: corpses were amounted with
aromatic essences: sherbets and sweet
meats were favored with fine vegetable
well-to do house. and saturated the let
tiers aud presents which were constantly
being exchanged. The ladies' bathed in
perfumed water. the men used scented
oils for the hair. and both made use of
red. yellow and green soap.
During great festivals incense was
burned in all the streets, so that even
the poorest might be RECALLED by the mere
act of breathing. Nor was there any
lack of narcotics. The mode of prepar-
inc opium, introduced from Syoot, in
Upper Egypt, was well known and the
Sultan Beybars promulgated several
cdicts prohibiting the use of hasheesh, a
>tupelSlnS ana intoxicating preparation
of Indian hemp. In spite of the Pro-
phet's prohibition. the juice of the grape
continued to be INDUCED in. Alcohol
Gas its name indicates) is an Arab dis
covery, and beer-the favorite beverage
of the ancient Eyyptians-was also brew
ed and drank under the Caliphs
Many a jovial song in praise of wine
was sung by Arab poets, and in early
mes many Arabs would by no means
admit that the Prophet had forbidden
its use. In an old Ms. copy OF Tina 'alibi
is is said. The Prophet-may God bless
him and accept him-permitted wine,
and mercifully allows us to strengthen
ourselves with it at our meals, and to
lift the veil of our cares and SORROWS.
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WIT AND WISDOM.

\ Maine minister has just preached a
sermon which local paper compares to
Il Jack screw raising earth to heaven
\ woman's beauty is not a source o
as much satisfaction to her as another
woman's ugliness.
II prefer lighter literature. said tie
equity man when Worcester's Unabridg-
ed fell on his toes.
\ dairyman furnished butter to a cir.
Gus company recently, and wanted to
get in on the strength of it. The tickle,
agent examined the butter and granted
the request.
The scent of flowers does not travel
against the wind: but the odor of good
people travels even against the wind;
good man pervade> every place.
Blessings brighten as they take
their tlight-and so do summer visitors.
remarked farmer Jones. as he saw the
last of his city relations skip for home.
The Boston Tromscript has discovered
a man who never laughs when he tells a
joke. But it adds that nobody else laughs
either.
\ boy defined salt as ",he stuff that
makes potatoes taste bad when You don I
put it on" He was twin brother to the
boy who said that pins had saved Il great
many lives by not being swallowed.
Ask no woman her age, says re-
cent writer on social ethics. OF course
not Ask her next best lady friend.
Sic will never fail to give the iuforma-
tion.
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annihilate its foundations. And observe
that every such experiment has succeed
ed. The weight OF this evidence is not
lessenei by the necessity of balancing
All the tracks lead one way. And if
not absolutely necessary. the death pen
atty must be extremely injurious. All
experience confirms the universal judg.
ment Of those who have studied this
subject and which Rantoul utters which
he says, The strongest safeguard OF
life is sanctity: and this sentiment every
execution diminishes." Indeed, unless
the death penalty can be shown to be
absolutely necessary. it has been well
said that society. in intlicting it. com
mits a second murder.
The number of persons sent to execu-
ton by the courts. and afterward proved
to be innocent. has been counted by
hundreds in Great Britain. and must
probably be counted by thousands, tax
ing in even only the civilized States.--
When We add those probably innocent.
but never clearly proved so, and thus
run up the number of tens of thou sands
what fearful power such fact gives to
the protest of Lafayette: Il shall, per
sist in demanding abolition of the pun
ishment of death until have the infalh-
bility Of human judgment demonstrated
to me.'-WENDELL PHILIPS, in tie
North america Reri6r.
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THE DEATH PENALTY.

Even those who claim that govern
ment does possess the right. have been
| driven by stress of argument and the
most convincing experience to agree
| with DIR. Cheever. that the death penal.
| ty should be restricted to murder -
not, as in centuries gone by, be visited
on trihing offences. from mistaken idea
that mere severity of punishment proven
| ted crime. Hut even if we restrict the
punishment of death to murder alone
when we remember our experience that
| the infliction of the death penalty nour-
ishes the spirit Of revenge. demoralizes
| the community Ga fact confessed by the
now almost universal custom of private
executors), lessons the sacredness OF
human life, largely prevents the prosecu-
| ton and to great extent, the punish
lnent of crime. it becomes evident that
you must prove the death penalty abso-
, lutcly necessary before government is
| justified in using it. No amount of ex
! pediency will authorize "breakins into
the bloody house OF life at the risk of
such evil results. The opinion of old
| Sam johnson. that unnecessarily severe
| punishment very rarely binders the
! commission of crime. but naturally and
| commonly prevents its detection of
| Chief Justice Denmau, that extreme Sc
verify has operated more as preven-
| tetive to crime:' of Whately. that the
punishment which community deems
too severe leads the very suffers by a
| crime ito promote the escape of the
guilty all these testimonies get fresh
support from the memorial Of the Attor-
ney General of Massachusetts to the
Legislature in 1912. when Massachusetts
| punished only six crimes with death:
In the present state of society it is
no longer an abstract question whether
capital punishment is right, but whether
it is practicable: and there is good reason
to believe that the punishment OF death
for crime would more certainly follow
the commission if the Legislature should
still farther abrogate the penalty OF
death. As the law now stands. its ettica-
cy is mostly in its threateningS: but the
terror of trial is diminishing, and the
cuip,it finds his impunity in the severity
which it denounces.
Now the capital punishment is not alb
soiutely necessary for the protection Of
society, i'll almost any epoch of civiliza
ton. is proved by the amplest testimony.
Egypt, for fifty years during the reign
Sabacon: Rome for two hundred and tif-
ty years: Tuscany for more than twenty
five years; Russia for % years of the reign
of Elizabeth aud substantially during
the reign of her successor. Catherine;
Sir James ackintosh in India for seven
wears: the State of Rhode Island since
1852; Michigan since 1871: Maine since
1888; Holland since 1870: Saxony since
1868: Belgium since 1881; and several
other States prove, by their experiences,
that life and property are safer with no
death penalty threatened or inflicted.
than in the neighboring countries which
still use the death penalty. The evidence
is ample and the demonstration perfect:
the plea that this fearful penalty is nee
essary is no longer admissible. Facts
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npon another persons pocket lavish
display of their generosity.

apon another persons pocket-a lavish
display of their generosity.
This is not intended as an excuse for
the seltiShness of men who appropriate
the whole of the income. and grudgingl,
dole out what is required. and no more.
treating their hard worked wives with
! less consideration than servant maids
and refusing often the most reasonable
demands for such funds as are needed
for family festival and social purposes
Such men are not fit to be husbands or
fathers: they are not fit to participate in
the miltennial strain which at this one
season of the year rises from so many
hearts: and their wives, and those de
pended upon them, are subjects for the
proioundest pth. Unfortunately. it is
not because women fail in duty that men
are hard: often it is the best women who
are tortured by hardness and meanness
on the part of their husbands: and ttre
cCr&a, the selfish. indolent woman who
receives the most kindness and indulr.
encc at the hands of her husband. But
this is not because goodness creates it,
opposite. but because nature in bringing
together oppo>ites preserves the equi.
librium of it's forces, and leaves the in
dividual and woman to deal with them
as best they may.
All have something to bear: but do not
let it mar our efforts to make Christmas
d Joyons season, or prevent us from an
endeavor to obtain that mastery over
ourselves. our own passions, our own
tendencies to evil, as will most surely
bring nearer that happy time when peace
and good will shall reign upon the earth.