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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-11-03
4 Brahmin Who Moves Materials BY
Will.

DR.. PEBBLES, who was formerly Consul
at Trebizond, tells the following, which
excels the powers Of the average Spirit
ualist:
The old man SAID : !" II you will take
your seats will say my prayers then
think l shall have power to move any
object in this ROOM" He prayed most
devoutly. saw on the table manu-
script book ; over on the corner were
some peacock plumes or feathers. He
went through with his prayers, and
burned incense. He then prayed again.
"Now," said the old man, !" have the
power tomoveby my will. Hyouplease to
call it, will command anything in this
room to move" l said, evil You please
to move that book on the stand, COM
mand that book > and he pointed to it,
and said, Come this way" andthe book
tremble,l, fell to the floor, and slipped
along the floor to his feet. He told the
feathers to come out Of the case. They
leaped aroand the room. was aston
ished. ! was surprised. said, "Tell
me how yon do this" He said, "You,
an enlightened man, ask q poor Brahmin
heather how hc does this. / believe in
Brahm, the one living and true God, us
you say and Brahm is powerful. He
moves all material things, and just SO
far become Brahm-like or Gol-like,
just SO far as control my passions, SUBJ
due my earthly nature and live in the Iii.
vine, in the same ratio do Ihavepowcr to
move anything within range Of my voice
or my radiations. And So, said lie, ..hy
prayer, by the holy life, Ihave obtained
this divine power from Brahm." And
then he told me how he lived about his
bathing, about his food, about his pray
ers, most devout life. Before rose to
go, said to him that in our country We
ate considerable animal food. He re-
piled, shave soheard." Hesaid fnrther-
more, II have heard thatin your country
you actually eat sWines flesh. Is it SOP
told him "Yes, We ate swine" Saidhe,
As the lobster is the scavenger Of tho
sea, swine are the scavengers OF the earth.
They eat the filthiest food, they are IN
healthy and full Of scrofula, forbidden
by the Vetlas. And | have heard you
actually kill these hogs. and bury them
and eat them when they have been six
months dead Good day" said he, and
the old man would not shake hands with
me-
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-11-03
A Famous Place Of One House.

Chancellorsville is desolate clearing
on the southern edge of the wilderness.
Time was when hundred Virginians III
the first families clinked glasses in the
long dining hall Of the hostelry. and
many a day did Jefferson, Madison and
those who came after take nonltide rest
under the surrounding elms. Blu. the
planks OF the plank-rnaa are gone.
Coaches and four no longer shake dust
from the shallow ruts oi the pike, and
lovers no longer seek the eross- roads
tavern rs the halfway IA Gr.sna Green.
In the old days the Chancellor House
WAS a massive brick binding, shaped
like squat L. Around it oa every size
were level fields tina. stretched Tor
quarter of mile or more, while three
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-11-03
Gillette ON Monopoly.

We have given the railroads land
enough to make Maine, New Hump
shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, New York, New
Jersey, Delaware. Maryland. Indiana
and Ohio. The President Of the North
ern Pacific railroad made statement Il
while ago, showing that the land grant
ed them would not only build the road
and equip it, but would give them $780,
OO0.OOO beside. Now. after having
built them, Congress allowed the cor
pomtions to tax the people all they
would bear, and Jay Gould says the
rule is to tax produce all it will bear.
And for every mouthful You eat You
have to pay 4 tribute. You have to pay
enormous tribute for it to those rail
roads that you built. How do you like
1T? We make laws for the hackmen.
They cannot exceed the law. They are
liable to arrest ii they charge any more
than the law allows them. But these
great companies are allowed to tax the
people all they can bear; not only that,
but they water their stock and compel
the people to pay dividends on that
water
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-11-03
The TwO.FOld Movement.

To IN observer there is Il two.fold
movement in society, developed more
clearly in our day than formerly. Both
branches are founded on organization
and the metholical distribution Of func.
tlons, and yet tending in opposite Iii
rcctions--the one tending toward the
disintegration Of society Ivy dividing il
into hostile classes, the other toward the
maintenance OF society by integral Oh
franchisement; the difference being in
the ratio Of distribution Of products.
One founded on the association CT CAPT.
tai and hireling labor, and operated fol
the benefit Of the capitalist md manager;
the other, the association of capitalists
and labor, and an equitable distribution
Of products,
The former includes the banking,
mining, manufacturing and transpor.
tation interests, land monopolists and
other speculative combinations, and
tax consumers. These seek the largcs.
immediate return for their services,
Irrespective Of the final equities.
These classes, for such they are, arc
absorbing the fruits OF productive labor
and the sources ri production. They
arc impellcd by Ill the past and by the
cumulative force Of existing institutions
to go on absorbing surplus products and
the land. The progress Of invention
multiplies their power and carries re-
munerative production more and more
beyond the scope Of private enterprise.
Unchecked, this branch Of the socie-
tary movement will control all the land
MS now it does mining, manufacturing,
transportation and the issue and circu-
latiny volume Of money, and society will
be resolved into three principal classes
wealthy corporations, their hireling
dependents and the paupcr and rreda-
tory classes.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-11-03

How Tacks Are Made.

Described in few words, the process
OF making tacks is as follows The
iron, as received from the rolling-m mills,
is in sheets from three to twelve inches
wide, and from three feet to nine feet in
length, the thickness varying, according
to the work into which it is to be made,
from one-eighth to one-thirty-second Of
m inch. These sheets nre oil cut into
about three-feet pieces, and by INNER
sion in acid cleaned Of the hard outside
flinty scale. They are then chopped
into strips Of q width corresponding
to the length Of the mil or tack re-
quired.
Surprising the tack to be cut is an
eight-ounce carpet tack, the strip Of
iron, rs chopped and ready for the mn.
chine, would be about eleven.sixteenths
Of IN inch thick aud three feet long,
This piece is placed firmly in the feed
ing apparatus, and by this arrangement
carried between the knives Of the ma.
chine.
At each revolution Of the balance.
wheel the knives cut off small piece
from the end of this plate. The piece
cut off is pointed ct one end, md square
for forming the head Mt the other. It is
then carried between two dies by the
action Of the knives, and these dies
coming together form the body of the
tack under the head. Enough Of the
iron projects beyond the face Of the dies
to form the head, md while, held firmly
by them, lever strikes this projecting
piece into round head. This as We
have said before, is Ill done during one
revolution of the balance wheel, and
the knives, MS soon us the tack drops
from the machine, are ready to cut OF
another piece These machines are run at
the rate Of about $50 revolutions per min
ute. The shoe-nail machines for cutting
headlcss shoe nails are run ut about 500
revolutions per minute, and cut from
three to five nails at each revolution.
When we think Of the number Of ma
chimes being now run in the United
States, namely. about |, ZOO, aud Of the
quantity Of tacks and nails they can
produce, it is rs much Of mystery
where they go as it is what becomes Of
the pins.
The tack maker fifty or sixty years
ago worked Us follows: He took small
rod Of iron, and, after heating it ir
charcoal fire, hammered it down SO rs
to make point, then piece was cut
of, placed in n wise worked by foot pow
er, and the head formed by n few blows
Of the hammer.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-11-03

important stage rohls came together lii
front OF the yard. Now only one-third
Of the bnilding--the northern end
stands and even that Ind to be re-erect-
ed after battle, when fire left nothing
but bare walls, shot shattered and bui
lct-picrced. From the northern end Of
this poor remnant Of the ruined inn
stick out five pieces Of shrapnel-bolts
that, ns Mr.. Oliver fears, may yet play
the mischief. Above these grim things
is ragged rent III the gable end near
the root, showing where sholls knocked
for admission rs they paused in their
screaming flight eighteen yenrs ago.
The porch pillar, near which Hooker
had the misfortune to stand when 1t
was shattered by round shot, WIS de-
stroved by the fire, and in the places OF
the pillars are wooden columns freshly
painted and without scratch. In the
yard the visitor sees the outlines Of the
old house marked by shrubs, weeds and
stray bricks, while Il dozen sweet holly
hocks growing near tho porch remain rs
sentinels Of garden beauty long since
syona - l,,anun,nno
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-11-03
10 Husbands.

Always complain Of being tired, and
rcmeinbef that nobody else gets tired
Your wife should hive everything in
readiness for yon, but you should not dc
anything for her.
When your wife nsks for money, give
her a nickle; ask her what she want.
with it, and when she tells You, ask llel
II she can't do without it. Then go down
town and spend ten times the amount
for cigars, for they are necessity.
Go down town Of an evening. stand
around on the staeet corner and talk pol
tiles; it's more interesting than to stay
ut home with your family.
Charge your wife not to gossip, Blu,
you con spin MI the yarns you wish.
Have your wife get up and make fires,
bnt don't get up yourself till the rest OF
the family are eating breakfast, rs You
might take cold
Wear old clothes, and make yourself
as untily ms possible until Your wifc's
health fails, then it would be best for
You to fix up some, for III MI probability
You viii want another when she is gone.
Have smile for everybody you meet
but get frown OH before you 60 home.
-Nysioioyist.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-11-03
PLATFORM OF PRINCIPLES

Or THE NATIONAL GREESrAcK-LAHoR PARTY,
ADOPTED At MARsHALLrowN, JUNE 2, 1881.
l. The right to make and issue money Is a
sovereign constitutional power to he msin-
tanned by the people for the common benefit.
We demand the abolition Of all banks of issue
and the substitution OF full legal-tender green
backs in lieu Of their notes.
.. We oppose the refnnding Of the national
debt or the issue Of Understanding non-taxa-
BILE bonds upon any pretext, and demand the
payment and destruction of those outstanding
1t the earliest possible moment.
3 We demand gradual income tax where
by capital shall bear just share Of the public
burden.
1. W. regard the act substituting railroad
commission for laws governing freight rates in
this State fraud procured by the railroad
companies through Republican Legislature,
AM demand its repeal. While We favor liberal
national appropriations for the creation and
Improvement of waterways, We demand laws
protecting the people of Iowa from dscrimina-
ton. pooling. watering Of stock, drawbacks or
rebates. and all unjust charges on the part Of
railroads, until such time AS the people. who
built most Of these roads with land grant !.
taxes and subsidies, shall own and operate or
fully control them.
5. We demand revision Of our patcnt-lght
laws. placing fair limit upon the royalties Of
inventors, and protecting the people from IN
justice.
6. We demand that all land grants forfeited
by reason Of the non-fulillmcnt OF conditions
by railroad companies shall be at once reclaimed
by the Government, and hcnceforth that the
public domain be reserved exclusively for home
steadors or actual settlers.
7. We demand absolutely democratic rules
for the government Of Congress aud State
Legislatures, placing all representatives Of the
people upon an equal footing, and taking from
all committees veto power upon proposed
legislation.
3. We denounce as most dangerous the 10
stIictions Of the right Of suffrage in many States
and its abolition i'll the District of Columbia,
and demand equal political rights for all men
and women.
=. Believing that all questions affecting the
public interest should be decided by the people.
We favor the submission of the proposed con-
stitutsonal amendment To the popular vote.
10. We demand that ali ballots i'll this State
shall he OF uniform s,xe, color and material.
and that each party having State organiza-
ton shall have one member on tho Election
Board of each township precinct.
IL. In the futheraIce of these ends, We AJAX
the cooperation of all men and women With
on, regard to previous party atiiliation or
prejudice.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-11-03
Indians OF Salt Lake CITY.

One of the features of Salt Lake City
is tho festive red man. He comes in
here with a gunny sack full Of yenison
and trades it off for fire water, and has a
good time generally. The average red
man who visits Zion is not SO handsome
as the steel engraving Of him that you
find ON the grecnback. He wears a
coarse gray blanket generally, and when
the wind catches up this blanket and
blows It over his head, the true aspect Of
tho Indian question is apparent to every
one.
The Salt Lake Indian is not OH tho
war-path. / went among them with my
usual fcarlessness and proud bearing. -
Blu .Nye.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-11-03

Lord Byron was not far out of the
way when he defined fame as "being
killed in battle and having your name
spelled wrong III the Gazette" There
is good deal Of emptiness in fame.
Some Of the first men Of the world,
whose names have been, aud will be,
reyered by succeeding generations, have
been called upon to suffer disrespect
through being personally unknown.
The words Of Bunthorne: "Oh, hollow,
hollow, hollow!' may well be applied to
worldly honors. Horace Greeley WINS
once relegated to the attic Of Chicago
hotel, as being party Of no particular
consequence. Prot. Agassiz was char
acterized rs a crazy Dutchman trying to
catch bugs. Gov. Andrew was denied
admission to a camp of Massachusetts,
volunteers by sentry who didn't know
him and refused to be convinced. The
tragedian Bandmann, on giving his nau.1
to the doorkeeper Of theatre, was ne
fused admission unless he coald prove
what band he belonged to. President
Hayes, at Cleveland, while trespassing,
was shouted to by policeman Hi |!
there ; get off that grass T.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-11-03
ORGANIC WEAKNESS

Immediately cured and full vigor restored. This af
niction-which renders life burden and mArr4aap
imposeib!es the penalty paid by the victim OF inn
proper indulgence. Young persons arc 700 apt TO
commit eAcesaes from not being aware Of the dread
fnl consequences that may ensne. Now who that
understands this subject will deny that procreation
Is lost sooner Il. those falling into improper habits
than by the PRUDENT Besides Icing deprived Of
the pleasure Of healthy offspring the most serous
and DI<ERl symptoms of both mind
aitd body arise. The system becomes deranged, tho
physical and mental functions weakened loss o. pro-
creative power nervous irritabiity, dyspepsia, pail
ptaon OF tie heart indigestion, constitutional de-
bilty, wasting Of the frame, cough, consumption,
decay and death.
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TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE.

Dr. f. addresses all those who have injured them
selves by improper ndugences ana SOLITARY hahitr,
which ruin both mind and body, uniting them for
business study society marriage. These are some
Of the sad and melancholy effects produced by the
early habits If youth. viz: Weakness in the back and
limbs. pam in the head. aimness If sight, loss Of
msc ar power. papitaiion eft the heart, dyspepsia.
nervous irritahiity, arrangement Of the digestive
functions, debility. consumption, &c.
ea-r s.-Al correspondence win receive prompt
attention. Address
4. n. FGSgEDs.AT-r, NJ. n,
Surgical and Medical lMstitsltes
29,n6 EBurlkng tom. lOvgA.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-11-03
DR.. 1lATT,

Graduate of one OF the most eminent colleges OF the
T. s. has effected OF the most astonishing cures
that we're ever known; many troubled with ringing
IN the head and when nseep great nerepushees,
being alarmed at certain sounds, with frequent
blushing, attended sometimes with arrangement Of
the minl were cured at once.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-11-03
A Place Where No. ody lOncnes Any
thing.

A gentleman, who had been hns' rea ~
the announcement of "quiet conn. y
hotel" came down tic mcrning after his
arrival and made complain. that HE
boots had Eeen outside the door nil right
and until 8 o'clock that morning and
"nobody had touched .hsm.' The
landlord, who, in his shirt-sleevec, was
tipped back in a chair and picking his
teeth with jack knife, beamingly re.
marked:
"Law bless ye, We might have left yer
purse ont there all night nobody would
have tcched it,, Honest critters daown
here. / tell We.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-11-03
4 CURE WARRANTED,

Persons ruined In health by lin earnel pretenders,
who keep them trnng mouth after month taking
poisonous and injurious compounds, should apply
mn obi ntcix.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-11-03

THOROUGHLY chemical girl-rSal soda
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-11-03
DIR. FISHBLATT
MAR RAGE.

Married persons, or young men contemplating mar-
Rage aware Of physical weakness oss Of procreative
powers, impocncy, nervous debities, or any other
speedily relieved. He who places
himself under the care OF Dr. Fshhlatt may religious
Is connde In his honor ~ gentleman, and CONN.,
d0ntiv rslv urf,u h,a eki \ nhySician
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-11-03

haunted by the saddest s,,rmiscs, he
sometimes in the bitterness of insane
despair asks if this wor Il really lie the
one chaotic pandemouium .. the UNI
versa penal settlement in the sea of
stars a giadiatorial arena where higher
lntelligences keep us for their am,,>e.
ment, AS Of old the Roman Emperars
kept wild beasts to tear and lesour each
other? And il this were 81, what plan
conld ever have been devised SD perfect
III its action to work out this result rs
the dreadful money system naw binding
the race helpless as PsanetheGs to his
rock, while. like the vul,ure, il deyours
its constantly growing hu. never dying
heart?
Yet men tell Us that the money lues-
tion-the system of di>trihntion-is not
matter OF sufficient import upon which
To build y party. Revolution after rev
olution has rolled its waves backward
into the deal past. leaving only its
splendid results for pasterity to carry
onward into the future. Each revolution
has III succession involved principles of
q finer, Of a more interior or spiritual
nature than the preceding one. As the
WOAIu kIOWb oiuSi tic Iace TeuLeS In
its refining process it reaches epochs
where it lays down some lung-borne
burden Of the past. At first these bur-
dens were purely physical and contin-
ued to be SO until the race had sufficiently
emerged from animalhool to recognize
the fact that there were other lyrannles
than those Of a corporal character.
Revolutions began to be foughtfo iaess,
religious and political. The spirit If
freedom awoke; burden after burden was
laid aside. So evolution worked from
the interior outward, land earth east off
a slough Of darkness, an.eclnsa I'll hell
and sin, in each cycle Of her b.,,Ig, rs
Al adder casts her skin" Only few
years ago the most splendid nation in
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-11-03

~ r,sh,.,, ~. deyo4ed - years TO the study and
treatment Of Chronic Diseases md his vast expert
ence in the Hospitals In New York. , ne ns..rr
cessfuy treated t0,060 cases Of CHI n.n,s1 TIA.
gcrofulous diseases, and diAcases 81 the \,
nary Organs, has given him reputasaOn = i'A =
world wide.
, 1881-05-02

nvnlled themselves of llls great knowledge Of
tho capnhiiltica Of tho land MD MS ncaunint-
Rnco With tho resident nl,d Rhschtee prOpric-
tors, tho titles, and otler tlntni|s. atl,( ho
acted throughout ns their aeent in acquiring
the desired property.
The losses .wliich (ol. Bowen suatained by
tho financial rbshls1or Ut 181l would ttavn
crushed any ordinary man. But he ind
faith 1T tho manifest destiny Of Chicago, md
.wns Instant, f., season MID out 1T He'll
a0h, II, working, for tic interests Of
the city. The B$ectltiGn Of tho plnns devised
pass into 0eher) hntals, but his works will
live nftGr. him, md pnstarfty will recognize
Cnl. Bowen rs hetnE III truth atll decd tho
f0tnttr OF South ,ChtcaED, nt1tl rnntt who
DID more tlinn any .0thor. to l.lf1d q city
where once WAS nothing but thousands Of
, 1881-05-02
Another Through North and South
Trunk Line to the Ohio
River.
An Immense Amount of Railway Build.
Ing Now Going IN In WIS.
c0nsfus
New Giant Locomotive on The Pennsyl-
vania Central Built for Mile a
Minute.
Work On the New York, Chicago &:
st. Louis to Commence This
Week,

AN IMPORTANT ACQUISITION.
A private dispatch received 1lure yesterday
statcs Tint tho Chicago 4 Eastern Illinois
1lns secured q majority Ut the stock Of tho
Evansville l. Terre 11aute Railroad. Tint
solno partlcs wcro buying up the stock Of this
rond llas been known for soine titne, but 1t
was not ascartaiDed who the purchasers
wcre.. Some thought It was the LoulsvIlle &
Nashville. ThIs road, MS we'll us some Of the
trunk lines. were bidders for tho property,
but. the Chicago j. Eastern Illinois EOt away
with tho rrtze. 1t ts understood that the
nl'!otll1t pRftl was 800 per aliRrU OF $50 par
value for black ut 1900 shares,
md S75 pr share for 4,000 slarcs.
Tile Evansville u Tarre IInitu property
IL esttnatetl vt 50 5oo 900, 1t being first-class
steel r0nh Will. Ill unusually lNrEu supply
Of ruling stock n11d terminal facilities Of
great value Mt Evnnsvlltc.
This new ncutl!sition will K1ye the Chicago
& Eastern 1lllllUls q through lite frotn CHI
cnsu 10 the Ohio River .tEyalsvlliel, 1t 1iRv-
tnK previously Acqttrcd the Evansville, Terre
1tnite 4 ChieAgU Railroad, antl will place 1t
III tho front RINK Of north and south rontls.
4 bridge Is to l'e constructed ncrDss the Ohio
River Mt Evansville at nuce which VIII pro-
Wits direct connection with tho st. Louis &
Southeastern and nil the Southern railroad
systulns.
Sir. ilindekoper certainly deserves credit
for having worked up the Chicago s. Eaatorn
Illinois front 4 small local road to Otle of tito
nlaat Important north and south trunk lines
Ill the country,