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The Osceola times., 1884-07-26
AMERICAN GIRLS.
Countryman's Impressions after Pro.
Ionged Absence In Europe.
Albany IN. " Express.

Albany IN. " Express.
American girls are apt to hear. with
good deal of irritation, any criticism on
their habits and manners from foreign
ers, but they will probably listen with
patience to the impressions of one of
their own countrymen on this subject,
on his return home after prolonged alb
sence of years in Europe. He is man
well known in she scientific world.
"When came back" he said lately,
81 felt like stranger People and things
had recedeI into an unfamiliar distance.
l believed that judged them wholly
without prejudice, as would have done
of things and people in Norway or rur-
key.
"My first thought when | saw the
young girls in Boston and New York
was, that nowhere in any country had l
found so much distinction in the faces
of women. Nor is this delicacy and re-
fnement confined to the gentler sex.
"The daughters of many an American
| mechanic have aristocratic features,
which would become the princesses of
the houses of Hapsburg and Guelph bet
ter than do their own. The claims of
long descent have often resulted in
heavy, sodden, sensual traits-the results
of high living and inactivity; while the
daughter Of our workingman frequently
has the fine, sensitive features which are
supposed to indicate generations of gen
tie blood and thorough breeding.
"The American girl is more keen wit
ted and better informed than her Eng
lish sister; her sympathies are finer. She
has taste in dress and tact of manner
wholly wanting to the other. Her gown
or her words are never offensive. She is
| brilliant, virtuous, friendly-but she is
not womanly. Men like TO protect
woman, and the chief aim of American
| girls seems to be TO show that they need
no protection. Hence the dullest, home
liest European woman has charm
which most American women lack"
The President of "A Quaker college
1 where II VIC WIZ Nbul
| TO point his classes OF boys and girls to
| couple of trees growing in the midst of
the campus. THAT elm is as tail as the
oak" he would say. at is as green as
deep rooted and as useful. But it is not
an oak, and it does not try to be-"
The good old Quaker had the key
word of the secret. There has been. since
the war, such struggle among many Of
our women to force their way into the
career, the education, and the civil rights
hitherto monoplized by men, and to show
that they are Intellectually their
equals that they forget that they
really are not men, but have graces aud
rights exclusively their own.
A younggirl enters ballroom, street
car or church with the air Il can take
care of myself" Hence she is left TO
take care of herself, which usually is,
secretly, the last thing she desires.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-26
Sugar ana Candy.

II is not true that sugar and candies are
ofthemselves injurious to the teeth or the
health of those whou them; so far from
it, they are less injurious than any
of the ordinary forms of food VIII m en-
ployed IN moderation. Any scientific
dentist will, tell you that the parts OF
teeth most liable TO decay are those
which afford lodgment to particles of
food; such particles, being decomposed
by moisture and heat, give out an acid
which will corrode steel as well as teeth;
but pure sugar and pure candies are
wholly dissolved; there is no remnant to
be decomposed to yield this destructive
acid.
We remember now no item of food
which is so perfectly dissolved in the
mouth as sugar or candy. When visit
ing the sugar plantations ofCuba, the at
tention was constantly arrested by the
apparently white and solid teeth of the
negroes who superintendent the process
of cane grinding; they drank the cane
juice like water; there was no restraint
as to lis use, and the little urchins play
ing about would chew the sugar. yielding
cane 10y the hour 1t is much the same
in Louisiana, where the shining faces
and broad grins of the blacks are equally
indictati, c ofexuberant health and splen-
didteeth.
How does it happen, then, that there
should be ''the preve liant belief" that
sugar and sugar candy destroy the
teeth and undermine the healthp Per-
haps the most correct reply is Tradition,
the father If progeny errors in theory
and practice; oferrors in doctrine and ex.
ample "too tedious TO mention"
The Osceola times., 1884-07-26
THE . FAULT OF THE AGE.
ELLA WHIEI.ER.

ELLA WHEELER.
The fault of the age Is n mad endeavor
Tol cap to its heights that were made to
climb:
BY burst Of strength or a thought that is
We plan to outwit and forestall Time.
We scorn TO wait for the thing worth having;
We want high noon at the days dim dawn;
We and no pleasure in toiling and saving
As our forefathers did in the good times
gone.
We fierce our roses before their season
To bloom and blossom that we may wear;
And then we wonder and ask the reason
Why perfect buds are SO few and rare.
we'crave the gain, but despise the getting;
We want wealth, not as reward, but dover;
And the strength that il wasted in useless
frctting
pwould fell forest or build tower.
To covet the prize, yet to shrink from the
winning;
To thirst for glory, yet fear the nght-
why, what can II lead to at last but SHINING,
To mental lanRuor and moral blightr
Better the old slow way of striving
And counting small gains when the year Is
Than To use our forces all in contriving
And to grasp for pleasures we have not
won.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-26
Decoy I,athers.
New York Vines

Since the opening at Coney Island the
weather has been too cold for comforta-
BILE bathing, which has made business
bad for the bathing masters. One OF
these, who is genius, if nothing else
grew restive on account of the dullness
and in order to capture those who wan
dered up the sad sea waves he manu-.
factured some figures, clad them in bath
ing suits, and placed them in the water
in such position tnat they looked like
bathers clinging on TO the life-lines and
enjoying the water with remarkable
zest. The scheme worked well for him,
but it was cold day for the bathers; SC
cold, in fact, that only one person ven.
tured out to where the dummies were
gleefully disporting themselves. The
proprietor offered to refund his money
but he wouldn't have it, considering the
Joke worth all he paid for it.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-26

sign OF daisies and roses In silk floss or
linen. They will wash nicely when a
little ammonia is put in the water
Willow carriages with revolving para
sol tops and run with blue or cherry rib
bons are in fashion, Some of them come
in designs of shoes, canoes and cradles,
A novelty for babies going TO the
country is a hammock-cradle with a
mosquito netting attachment.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-26
A KENTUCKY IDYL.
tween two sweet Things.
Kentucky State Journal

Kentucky State journal.
Carrie, why wasn't you at home last
evening when ! called, as promised the
last time we walked out would?"
"Why, you see, Robert, Mr.. Alsworth
called before you got here and proposed
taking me TO the ice-cream saloon, and
indeed couldn't resist the temptation
for you know when we were out walking
the last time you teok me right past the
ice-cream saloons and YOU never even
looked in the door"
"Then YOU love ice-cream more than
you do ne?"
"Well. no yes-no; don't think do
81 know you do. Take the cieam.
Good night"
"Oh, Robert, Pm faintingl" cried the
fair Carrie, as she walked over TO and
threw herself gently on the lounge; for
the mad slam of the front gait told her
in great big bold-faced, Italic letters
that he, her affianced, had gone gone
for-to come back again next evening
and kiss and make up and take her TO
ell the ice-cream saloons in town, for she
is whale on eating that kind OF stuf.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-26
THE FLOWER GIRL.
CHARLES @. LELAND.

CHARLES @. LELAND.
I'm going 10 tho garden
where summer roses blow;
I'll make me a little sister
Of all the flowers that grow.
IN make her body Of lilies,
Because they're soft and white ;
I'll make her eyes OF violets,
With dew1rops shining bright;
Ill make her lips of rosebuds;
Her cheeks OF rose leaves-red,
Her hair of silky corn tops
All braided round her head;
With apple tree and pear leaves
I'll make her lovely gown,
With rows OF golden buttercups
For buttons, up and down.
I'll dance with my little sister
Away to the river strand
Away across the water
Away into fairy land.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-26

lease of life, and there is much reioicn,
in Hildesheim at the fact. The person
who take, charge of the ancient rose
bush is instructed never TO give away a
cutting, and its flowers, which are pro.
nounced the very sweetest of their Kind
are also jealously guarded from vandal
hands.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-26

1t is said that they are now making
false teeth for dogs. To young men who
have not got through romancing yet
this information is important, if true
Yonkers Statesman.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-26

A young man wants TO know what
will bring out mustache. Tie a cord
around il tightly. hitch the cord to 3
fence post and then run backwards.-
Burlington Free Press.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-26

Turquoise and pearl rings are very
fashionable for young ladies. The de
signs are exceedingly unique, showing
crescents of little turquoise, with tiny
pearl set in star, two stars intertwined
and one set with peall and the other
with turquoise; also, two crescents
crossed, one of the turquoise and the
other Of pearls.
A wild woman is s9id TO be running
at large in the mountains of Oregon.
As il is leap year the men there are
afraid TO 30 out of nights.-Phi.adelphia
Call.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-02-14

Farmer % Clarkson endorsed a
fraud. editorially, In his department
OF the State Register for $500. The
Newton Journal, republican pa.
per which sneezes when Farmer
Clarkson takes snuff. copied the ar
tiole. An exposure OF the fraud
called for an explanation which was
that $500 did the business. There
Is Farmers paper in Chicago, "The
Western Rural" which money can.
not bride to betray the peoples
CAUSE. Farmers. when your inter.
ests have been tritled with sufrlc-
icntly, perhaps yoall drop the sheet
that sells you Us merchandise to the
highest bidder.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-02-14

vorv young, Mra. Stowe married. it an
pears. . widower. il va are to trust Nr.
L. D. A!ansfield's Memories" which
soy that Prof. Stowe had for first
wife Il handsome New England lady. !"
MIR. Stowe was ten years older than bis
wife, who wrote her great work ct tho
age Of 40, and her second important
novel, "Dred,' at the age Of A..
The Bcechor family seem to owe their
literary vitality to their transportation
to the west, where their father, Lyman
Beecher, went about 1882. and lie re-
manned there many years. Mrs. Stowe
lived in Cincinnati about seventeen
years, or till the time she planned
Uncle Tom,' which novel was not
drawn from eastern or Virginia slave
sources, but from Kentucky, and the
escaping slaves who came up through
Ohio and Indiana. Among these was
Eliza Harris" whose feat Of crossing
the river with her child on floating
cakes of loo is fully testified to in the
recently published "reminiscences az
Levi Coffin, the president Of the West
ern Underground railroad, Who abel.
tered her ut his house.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-02-14

The speckled hen is on now. From
various exchanges we learn that the
Iowa prohibitionists discountenance
entering the Pittsburg pool. How is
thi ? It is simply an old orthodox
move--salvation for Iowa, and hell
for the rest OF the United States.
There is most too much politics and
policy mixed up with temperance
and religion to make any OF them
strictly honest. By this last dodge
we take 1t the prohibi.ionists OF Iowa
believe in States Rights, o doctrine
which they fought twenty years ago.
They evidently fear that Illinois
might 60 for prohibition and so the
little brown jug would have IL come
from beyond Rock Island.-[Postnl
Card.
But worse than this; II all the
states should become prohibitory in
fact, where would the big distillery
market its goods? To maintain
market for Iowa products will prob
ably be sufficient inducemcnt to pre-
vent Iowa prohibitionists from as
sisting to form a National party OF
that character.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-02-14

Senator Marshalps bill for estab.
fishing a uniform system Of text
books and organizing u board OF
compilers for their preparation for
the press should have all after the
enacting clause struck out except
the ninth section. That in force
would provide those with books. un-
able to provide for themselves. An
examination OF the bill convinces US
that there Is no merit or any bene-
1T to the people in any other por-
ton OF tho bill. We need reform,
but the bill presented only increas-
cd the muddle it seeks to correct.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-02-14

Ecce Montezuma is the title OF 4
twenty page magazine, OF four col.
umns to the page, that greets the new
year and asks popular support, hall
Ing from albuquerque, New Mexico.
It Is devoted to the interests OF the
Southwest, and represents them
admirably. The subscription price
IL . u year. For the initial number
we are indebted to Mrs. J. B. Tarbox
who resides with her husband and
son, at the promising city from
which the publication emanates,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-02-14
[Cincinnati ENQUIRER. !

lCincinnatl Enquirer
A German medical charlatan. h ~
Ing sal,e to put on the market. went
to q respectable dfag"ist and o:e. Ell
him the agency of il, te!lin, him ut =
same time that If h wis e.
to satisfy himself absolutely a,
to its freedom from del i. ;.
GUS Distances he might -eni i d
OF it r. any tsom died author i -
he ttheca,.r atanJ woa.d p4s til II u i
somei.g or tie n,..v,is al p,..o
he d ngtist found tie pr
posal reason .ble and the o. h
sent the samples to the d.
gist, who 70. w,.rded thrsa, ". Ii
list Of the in.red ents of which hey
We're com aesel, 70 tine ninent toctors
Ii is true that the charlatan LETT Oh, OF
his list the particular drug -arsenic-
upon which tho ya.ue Of the saive de,
pended, but this little trick remained
undi covered. from the fact that the
doctors knowing tina. the preparation
came from very respectable druggis.,
felt they We're safe in taking the prof
fered foe without going through
troublesome analysis. They accord.
ingly declared the article to he made
up In ccnsonance. with the az
knowledged I'll ea o. science, and t. be
wholly liee from any deleterlo Is sub
stance. The sales Wore heavy and the
profits were large. But when the
Carlsraha sanitary council condemned
the salve as composed largely OF an ar,
sen.cal compound, the eminent doctors
lou al themselves ia u bad fix. While
the professional palayer over the Ill.,,
ter was going on, tue charlatan sayel
himself from tine and imprisonment
W quietly slipping over the bordsr
with his money bag.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-02-14

kee s st. Paul railroad, on any rail-
road pass that l ever received from
the hands Of the officials OF said
railroad company.
800
To any person that will disprove my
present statement, that saw Gov.
Buren, II. Sherman ride from Cedar
Rapids to independence, Iowa, on a
railroad pass, and that, after he had
received adnlonition at the hands OF
his party on II platform containing q.
plank against such passes.
800
To any person who will disprove
my present statement, that on or
about December 1882, /, received ut
the hand, by letter. OF the Hon. J. A.
4. Hull, secretary OF state OF the &.
0. D., d pass over the lines OF the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul rnil-
road. That soon after went to Des
Moines and met said Hall at the
State House and rendered said pass
back to him, when he In most gen.
ial manner stated that he sent 1t to
ME and I might regard i: as COM
pliment from him, which I did.
800
To any person who will satisfac-
torily prove that I ever missed n
opportunity to ride on
that Dass, except once, and that was
an oversight, called to my attention
thereafter by sneak Of republic
can who sought to make capital for
said g, o. p, by showing that l was
q bad man to accept pass at the
hands OF 50 good man as the Hon
J. A. I. Hull. secretary Of state. To
my grief snid secretary failed to re.
peat this year.
FURTHER.
will give a reward which shall to
me seem proper and adequate for
satisfactory proof that any person
ever missed an opportunity to ride on
the cars on free pass by mistake
or otherwise, save they found nc
personal friend like unto the Hon. J
A. 7. Hull, Secretary OF State, OF
other person or persons. to gran,
them such high considerations oil
personal regards.
And further, deponent at this writ.
ing sayeth not, except to intimate
the.propriety that certain high hood.
lums Of the editorial chair in the
Fourth Congressional District might
do better by discussing my errors in
voting repeatedly this session to re.
store to the people forfeited land
grants to the extent OF many mil
lions OF acres, which have already
done. (see record than In being ..
very industrious to rob my wife aud
children OF that which can enrich
nobody but may make us poor Ind Cd
OF horors honestly earned, but with
held by caluMny. With malice to
none and charity to all, respectfully
i. H. WELLER.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-02-14
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= 10

Business failures In the United
States the first week in February
1884.
Only 210 more failures for the year
1864. than for the first week OF the
second month OF 1884.
THE REASON FOR THIS.
In 1864 tho money in use was
$4,000. 100000. Every body who de-
sired to labor could do so at remu-
nerative wages for ready pay. The
money was then among the people,
and in use.
In 1884, $500, 100000 Of the peo-
pies money which is to labor what
blood Is to man, is locked up away
from business to answer the pur-
poses OF Il sham called resumption.
Locking up the money for any pre-
tended purpose enables usurers to
get in their work eflectually.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-02-14
Chicago Tribune.

The question was raised recently
whether Henry Ward Beecher va.
younger or older than his sister, Mrs.
stowe. 1t Was found that Mrs. Stove
was born in 1912. and Mr.. BeecAer ia
lsl3, he il little more than year
the younger, Catherine Beeclser MAS
born nearly twelve years before her
bstter-knowu sister. While Catherine
lost her lover. Prof Fisher. Of Yals. col
lsgs b. shigars.k. vhsn shs was still
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-02-14

One OF the most jus, measures in
aid OF cx-soldiers OF the rebellion is
that Of L. H. Weller OF Iowa. It is
bill for the relief of soldiers and
sailors. proposing to issue $500, OOO.-
GOO OF legal tender greenbncks TO
cqnalize the difference In value be-
tween the money paid the soldier
during the war, and the bond holder
after the war. II there ever was an
attempt at just legislation, there Is
one. The government pledged its
faith to pay soldiers in gold or its
equivalent. 1t paid him In paper
which by legislation favorable TO the
gold holder and bond buyer, dcprc-
ciated the soldier money. It prom
ised TO pay soldiers in gold. II
promised TO pay bond holders In
paper. II reversed its policy and
Was trescherous to those who de.
Tended II with their lives, and paid
the shyiocks by cutting pound OF
desh from every soldier breast
Damn such injustice. II Buckeye
yidettc.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-02-14

The proposition OF Mr.. Weller OF
Iowa. TO offer reward OF 100000
Tor tho rescue Of the prisoners In the
artic Ice is not bad one. It would
save the government a good deal of
N pnev. even il the reward were
doubled. and private enterprises
would doubtless do the work more
thoroughly. But there is a touch OF
either fanaticism or meanness in the
suggestion that the reward should
be paid in standard silve rdollars ). I"
New York Times.
How so? Would you pay in trade
dollars for the Japanese trade?
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-02-14
Cooking bJ Electricity.
lCshica0o Times

Some parties in Canada are reported
20 have invented = machine for cooking
by electricity. 1t consists Of sau e
pan or hot plate SO isolated by non-
conductors that the bottom forms the
positive pole Of current. The other
pole is attached TO movable point.
which travels over tho under surface OF
the pan in circles sufficiently quick not
to burn hole through. Some cakes
we're cooked III tho apparatus and eaten
by the inventor aud his family, who are
believed to DO tho first members Of the
human race who have eaten food cooked
by the electric spark. One lady de-
clared she tasted the flavor Of electricity
quite strong"
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-02-14

J. r. Sovereign's god bye, as ed
itor Of the Iowa Free Press, appears
In that paper of last week. The Free
Pres during the time Nr.Scvereign
has had charge OF 1t has taken q
leading position among the reform
papers OF the state. We are glad to
note that he expects to remain above
ground to cheer his friends and an
nov his enemies.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-02-14

The Chicago Sentinel OF the 7th,
appeared in new dress, and is as
hot Us red-pepper. It's issue OF Feb.
2stll, will be regular Gattling gun.
Send the names Of your greenback
or other friends to Col: Norton, box
S35, Chicago. ILL.,, enclosing pen.
ny stamp for each name that he may
send them the Sentinel OF that date.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-02-14

The McGregor News says "the
chargcs against tho Iowa Senators
were preferred u quarter OF century
ago. Is 1t possible. and they out or
the penitentiary all this time? Well,
we'll, there IRE two guilty men who
have escaped In spite OF Grants
celebrated order to the contrary.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-02-14

The grand jury ut Fargo, d. T., Is
understood to have indicted many
persons for fraudulent entries OF
government land. That seems to be
following republican custom, indiot-
Ing the men guilty OF petit Larceny
while the men who have stolen
an empire hold the high places in
the government II they desire them.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-02-14

The following ages have, on Che au-
thority OF skilled arboriculturists, been
attained by trees Yew, 1920 years;
schubertia, 1900; cedar, 1900; oak.
800; spruce, l,2Oo; lime. LOO; Orr
entail plane, 1000; walnut, $40; oliys
snd cypress, 500; orange, $50; maple,
Niu: elm, JDU
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-02-14
An Only Daughter Cured Of Con
SUMPTION.

When death was hourly expected, al RENE
dies having failed, and Or. II, James was cx-
penmenting with the many herbs OF Calcutta,
his only child Of Consumption. His child 4
now IN this country, and enjoying the best OF
health. He has proved to the world that Con.
sumption can be positively and permanently
cured. The Doctor now gives this receipt free,
only asking two cent stamps TO Day expon-
ses This Herb also cures Night Sweats, Naus-
ca Of the stomach. and viii break up . fresh
cold In tWenty-four hours Address CHAODOCK
Co. lO02 Race street, Philadelphia. naming
this paper. 1874
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-02-14
Walter Il. Butler asks OF G. n. Tai.
mage through the Intervention OF the
courts tho sum Of 5000.

G. j. Cownn, the ex republican
Treasurer OF Hardin county IL n
defaulter in the sum OF 5000, and
is under $17. 900 bonds to answer at
the May term OF the District court.