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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-02-25
IN TIME TO COME.

Tho flowers are dead that made . summer
splsndor
By wayside nooks and on the sunny hill,
And With regret these hearts Of ours grow
tender,
AS some times all hearts will.
We loved the blossoms, for they helped to
brighten
The lives 20 dark with wearying toll and
care,
A hopes and dreams forever help TO tighten
The heavy loads We bear.
How Ike TIE tlowers, whose transient life
Tho hopes and dreams are, that for ono
brief hour
Mako the glad heart garden bright and
Above Loves latticed bower.
And little hour Of almost perfect pleasure,
4 foretaste Of the happiness to come;
Then sudden frost-the garden yields its
And stands In sorrow dumb.
OBJ, listen, heart. The flowers may loose its
Beneath the touch Of frost, yet does not
In spring It will repeat the old sweet story,
OF Gods dear by and by.
In Heaven, il ever here, the hopes We cher
The flowers Of human lives We count as
lost
Will live again. such beauty cannot perish,
And Heaven has no frost.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-02-25
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Yields 70 the Vatican.

A Berlin cablegram Ct the 18th says:
There IS great excitement In Berlin over
apparently well authenticated reports
that Prince Bismarck Is preparing to yield
entirely TO the Vatican in the religious
dispute which has been waged by Prussia
against the papacy for the past fifteen
years. A bill has been deposited by the
government with the upper house Of
the landtag revoking, with q few
trivial exceptions, all the features Of the
to the Catholics Of Germany. The
bill enacts that young Catholics
destined for the priesthood shall be admit
ted TO the royal gymnasia, where they will
receive . gratuiti0us education and be pro-
vided with residence free Of charge. Sim
liar privileges shall be granted TO Catholic
theological students In the universities and
ecclesiastical seminaries, but In the latter
cases the students will remain subject to
state supervisions. Meanwhile the ecclesi-
astical tribunal has been abolished, the
ministry Of state deciding disputes between
the inferior and superior clergy when re-
quired.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-02-25

In foreign city, some years ago,
horses were continually slipping on
the smooth and icy pavement of a
steep hill, up which loaded wagons
and carts were constantly moving.
Yet no one seemed to think of any bet
ter remedy than to beat and curse the
poor animals who tugged and pulled,
and slipped on the hard stones. No
one thought of better way, except a
poor old woman, who lived at the foot
of the hill. It hurt her SO to see the
poor horses slip and fall on the slip
perry pavement, that very morning,
old and feeble as she was, with trem-
bling steps she climbed the hill and emp
tied her ash-pan and such ashes
as she could collect from her neigh
bors, on the smoothest spot. At first
the teamstcrs paid her very little at
tention, but after time they began 10
look for her, to appreciate her kind
ness, and to be ashamed Of their own
cruelty. and to listen to her requests
that they would be more gentle to
their beasts. The town officials heard
of the old lady's work and they We're
ashamed, too, and set to work leyeling
the hill and re-opening the pavement.
Prominent men came to Fnow what
the old woman had done, and it sug-
gested to them an organization for do
ing such work as the old woman had
inaugurated. All this made the team
sters SO grateful. that they went among
their employers and others with sub
scription paper. and raised fund that
brought the old lady an annuity for
life. So one poor old woman and her
ash-pan not only kept the poor over
loaded horses from falling aud stopped
the blows and curses Of their drivers.
but made every animal in the city
more comfortable, improved and beau
titled the city itself. and excited an
epoch OF good feeling and kindness,
the end of which no one can tell.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-02-25
XLKth. CONGRESS.
Monday. Feb. 10.

SENATE-A bill introduced by Mr..
Hawley, relating to the taxation Of rail-
road lands, and for other purposes" and
aimed particularly at the Northern
Pacific railroad, led to quite q lengthy
debate, in which Van Wyck, Teller, Plumb
and others, in which the action Of land
grant roads were severely criticised
Consideration Of the education bill was
resumed, and Mr.. Morgan opposed 1t as
unconstitutional. After an executive
session, in which q number OF nominations
were confirmed, adjourned.
HOUsE-Under the call OF state Mr.. Nor
rison introduced q bill for revision and
reduction Of present tariff revenues. The
bill adds largely to the free list and re-
ducers, while the duties on wood, iron,
cloths. and other articles are scaled down
10 to 50 per cent. The ag .regate reduction
in the revenues, it is estimated will amount
to s55,OOO,OOO annually. Another bill in
trOduced was to terminate certain treaty
stipulation between the United States and
China. A resolution by Mr.. Hanback,, for
q special committee for an investigation of
of the telephone scandal, Involving
the charges against attorney general, was
adopted. A bill granting q pension Of s.,
600 year to the widow of the late Gen.
Hancock was introduced. In committee of
the whole Mr.. Walford supported the Fitz
John Porter bill, and Messrs. Negly and
Fuller opposed it.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-02-25

THE Florida Times-UniOn, COM
menting upon the report appearing
in Northern and Eastern papers and
notably in the Tribune, Sun and Her.
aid of New York City regarding the
damage done by the cold-snap freeze,
mentioned the dispatch in the Tribune
placing the damage at fifty million
dollars, and says that ''as the entire
assessed value of all the property in
the entire state is but little over $780,
OOO, 900, the Tribune is obviously enti-
tied to the Ananias and Sapphira med
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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-02-25

Captain John Goldman declares that
he has succeeded in warding off sea-
sickness by what he calls self-control.
He states that when the sickness first
comes. the victim will notice that he
invariably ''braces up his nerves and
muscles against the foe. He uncon-
sciously tightens and stiffens all his
chest and abdominal muscles. What
he should do is the very reverse. Cap
tain Goldman says: when the first
symptoms are felt, undo everything
that confines the waist; do not lie
down. but remain quietly seated, and
let your whole structure respond easily
and freely to the motion Of the vessel,
even adding swing and sway by your
own effort. The stomach will soon
grow accustomed to the novelty of the
thing, and you will soon be knowing
to the full Joy of the restlessness of the
oceans life. Have faith and you will
be successful. There may be moments
when you think the next will be your
last, but it won't; and the victor once
won, your triumph will be enduring.
The whole process is the best example
Of conquering through yielding that
the physical world has so far shown." !"
This is worth trying at any rate. All
accounts agree that eating heartily at
sea, if you can do so. is one way of al
lcyiating the horrors Of the NAL dc
mer.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-02-25

In the county Of Herts l stopped to
talk with a farmer who was cutting
down bis tall, handsome hayrick and
loading the hay for the London
market. He was lively, progressive
sort Of man, who had been an
emigrant to Australia. and, after a
long residence there, had again
returned to the home farm in England,
and like many others who had lived
years away from England, he had
returned home with many broad ideas
in his mind. Speaking with him OF
the bad beer drinking habits OF the
English laborers, he said the great
trouble was they would not use the
beer in moderation. A moderate use
of beer. he thought, might be beneficial
to them. asked him to tell me what
his idea of moderation in this regard
was. He replied that in haying time,
which in Old as in New England, is a
period when the farm hand Is expected
to work unusually hard, a laboring
man ought to be able to get along on
gallon Of beer day. II the men
would put up with about that quantity
beer would not hurt them.
These very astonishing Temperance"
views | afterward heard advanced by
other quite intelligent English farmers.
In giving the statement Of the vast
number of arrests for drunkenness
that are actually made in England, an
American ought to remember that
laws are probably more strictly en-
forced in England than in apy other
country on the face Of the earth.
found out many English laborers
seem to live almost entirely on beer.
A very little bread and large amount
of beer seemed to make MP their
daily sustenance. / remember seeing
an English laborer, who had himself
abandoned its use. holding up before
me . very small loaf OF bread-a loaf
about the size of a coffee cup--and
exclaiming,-
'.See this; one of our hard workers
will make day food of this if you
will give him beer enough to 60 with
used frequently to see these beer
drinkers sitting in the tap-rooms at
all times Of the day, but they were
most in the habit Of swarming into
these places at night. It is often the
custom for little clique OF British
wOrkmen to sit down around the
plain pine table in the beer-house and
begin the evening by ordering quart
pewter pot of beer between them.
They pass this around from mouth to
mouth with .'drink, mate." chatting
the while. When the mug is ex-
hausted it is. Here, missus, another
pot of beer;" and so they keep it up
until the evening is over.
The quantity Of beer an English
| workfngman will get away with is
certainly astonishing. A Bedfordshire
man told me of neighbor of his who
was what they there termed ..bread-
and-cheese carpenter" or ..follow-
the field carpenter that is, carpen-
ter who has no regular job of his own,
but who did odd jobs at his trade out
Of doors, who made regular practice
Of drinking ten quarts Of beer day.
He would do this year in and year out
and keep steady at his work.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-02-25

Death OF senator clark.

Hon. 2. B. Clark, State senator from
Swift county, died at his home in Benson of
consumption on the afternoon of the 18th.
Mr. Clark had been in failing health for
fined to his bed some five weeks. Mr.. Clark
was . native of OaiO, being born In 1874.
He came to Minnesota when eleven years
Of age, first settling in Olmstead county.
During the war he served four years In
company G. Third Minnesota volunteers.
In 1870 he located In Lac qui Parls county,
Of which he was county clerk for three
terms. In 1873 he was elected to the legis-
lature. Meeting with business reverses in
1875 he moved to Benson where he has
since lived, and where he was active in bus
iness until his health began to fail him. He
was elected State Senator in 1883. and was
chairman Of the last State Republican con.
ventiOn. He was very popular rs politi-
He will be buried Sunday with Masonic
ceremonies.