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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-04-26
The Careless pa- Dreamer.


1t was about len O'Clock one beatti~
fnl spring morning. The cool balmy
zcphyrs swayed the fragrant flowers
TOO and fro The trees we're clad in
delicate pink tinted blossoms and the
grass shot out its tiny bIa -. rs il to
get glimpse OF the br gh sunshine.
Back in the yard. facing one of the
village roads, stood u large. old
fash oncd farm house. surrounded by
trees. belonging 10 Mr.. Foster.
Gertrude. his eldest daughter. was =
1.-THE. slender girl. Of medium height
with far complexion. sweet smiling
expression and hair Of a rich golden
hue.
She sal Oh an old rust e chair on the
piazza. solilequizing thus: "Ah. mel
that a princes wife might he. I
would have plenty Of carriages and bay
horses. ! would have hosts of seryj
ants 10 wait on me at evcrysbeck or,
call And dainty food and drink :
would have IN large quantities. Our;
narrow kitchen walls would expand
into the grandest of castle halls Then
would si; III one of the bay ndowS
of the luxuriouslv furnished drawing!
room entertain ny ladies of high rank
The rich satin curtains should be drawn,
rs dc. in deep. thick folds. by ribbons
Of the same material and color. The
carpets and rugs would be Of the iincst
TO be bought in Turkey and Persia
The furniture would be OF the best ma
hogany and rosewood All my wear
ing apparel would be bought in Paris,
and made up at the most stylish dress
makers there ! would not forget my
friends in my state Of luxury but
would have them all dressed in tho
height Of fashion, and they should all
be very happy and
Crash! crash! at that instant inter-
rupted her rcverie. Starting up. she
perceived the large Newfoundland dog
lcaping over the high side fence with
one of the roast chickens that had been
nicely prepared for the morrow IN its
mouth. The fact was that when Ter
trude went out To rest she left the cup
board door little way open. The dog
seeing this went directly to the cup
board and succeeded in opening the
door little further. Jumping upon
the shelf he knocked of a jar OF jams.
also the little china cream pitcher that
Mrs. Foster priced SO much. Fearing
some one would come he caught mp one
OF the chickens and ran away.
Gertrude resolved never again 10 in
dulge in day dreams when she had not
carefully attended 80 every bill OF her
work.
Moral-H you are careless some
thing will be sure TO come to harm
Lille Iingley, tn Cincinnati Enquirer
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-04-26
Two Chances Left.

Aspiring Youth have called, sir,
to ask your advice. am very anxious
to become m editor. but don't know
whether I'm fitted for it or not.
Able Editor-Like to write. Ell?
well, no. hate writing"
..Humpb! Well posted in politics,
crhaps3"
Never cared anything for poll
tics"
pretty we'll read on any subject"
mo. / don't know much about any
thing; don't like reading"
where have you lived all your
life?''
In New York CITY,"
How did you pass your time
thercp"
painting the town red."
"Well. don't believe you'll do for
anything unless it is running an agri-
cultural paper or religious weekly"
--OmahG World.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-04-26
Was This a Pirates Hoard?

We are informed that one Of the
Southport pilots has recently found
quite a number Of old Spanish coins on
Bald Head. which have been exposed by
the blowing of the sand from them
during the heavy winds OF the past
winter. One of these coins bears tho
date of 17l3,and others have been found
Of about the same date. They arc bad>
" corroded, SO that in many instances
the date and other inscriptions upon
them are hardly decipherable. The
questions now arise: How came they
there? Who placed them thereP and
when were they buried :here?- iIash-
mgton (N. e. Star.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-04-26

MEETING OF the general freight agents
Of the Iowa roads will be held 10 Chicago
soon for the purpose Of adjusting Iowa
freight rates in accordance with the new
State law just passed.
CEDAR RArrDs is Growing like boy
over his first boots because its postofiice
has been advanced to first class rank.
There are only three others in the State,
Des Moines. Dubuque and Burlington.
Cedar Rapids becomes the fourth, and il
to be congratulated. Her receipts for the
year ending March II were s4a,255.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-04-26
L.c.t flr ii..na. Naf..

kc.,t for iifega. SALE.
See. s.-@IIii .ct being deemed q. ii4.arftja.t
Importance shall take effect and be- in fsrep
from ani after it, publication III tlle Iowa
State Reuis,.r AMI DIS Mpin.s L.atler, neas-
papers published at DE- Noinrs, Iowa.
Approved April 18th. 1855
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-04-26
veioss Three Pension Bills

Washington dispatch: The president
to-day returned to the senate unsigned
the acts granting PENSIONS to Hannah
r. Langdon, Bette Mansfield and
Laura A. Wright. These acts are We
toed on the grounds that the deaths did
not result from injuries received during
the war or sickness incident to army
service, and until it is established as q
policy that all soldiers widows should
be pensioned it is unfair and unjust to
make exceptions in favor of only such
rs procure the passage of special acts.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-11-21
A Sorry Figure.

The third party has cut a sorry figure
in the campaign just closed. Powerless
to make, it has marred what others have
made. 1t boasts loudly of an increase
over the vote of four years ago; but its
tide has ebbed since the flood of 1886,
and never was its feebleness as an iu-
strument forpositive achievement more
marked than In the elections of last
week. AS an infant has power to drag
down and destroy a costly vase, so the
third party in districts where the rum
democracy and the temperance repub-
licans were closely matched, has been
able to defeat temperance candidates
and elect saloon men. With a wicked
ness rarely paralleled in politics they
have fought the cause of local option
and increased restriction in New jersey,
and done what they could to throw the
legislature into the hands of the rum
democrats. While republican candi-
dates were pledged to uphold the local
option high-license law the democratic
candidates were pledged to repeal it.
In the face of this peril the third party
trotted out their own candidates with a
sublime disregard of results. The issue
was quite as sharply defined in this
state where Warner Miller took the
stump in behalf of churches and de-
cency against the saloon, and the third
party to its lasting shame treated the
brave champion of temperance as
though, in their estimation, he was on
no higher plane than the champion
of the saloons. TO the credit of thou
sands hitherto identified with the third
party, they voted for Warner Miller and
for the republican ticket in New Jersey,
leaving the third party weaker than it
was in 1886 and 1887. We shall give
some attention to the returns when
they are gathered in and show how
earnest temperance people repudiate
its mischievous policy. Nothing more
clearly indicates the doom of the party
than the frantic appeal of The Voice for
signatures to the following pledge:
Until the liquor question is rightly
settled, l will never vote for a man for
a state or national Office who is not a
prohibitionist, or who has been put in
nomination by a party that does not
believe in prohibition" Desperate
fear of desertion must have inspired
this foolish pledge. -Independent.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-11-21
The Death March of Humanity.

A week or two ago we published an
item which showed that the last sur
viving soldier of the American Revolu-
ton died in 1S69-eighty-six years after
the conclusion of peace in 1888. We
believe he was only wagon boy in the
closing years of the struggle. 1t was
claimed that he reached the age of one
hundred nine. Allowing this to be
true, and that possibly one or more of
the men who fought during the war of
the rebellion may attain an equal Ion
gevity, the last of the combatants be-
tween 1861 and 1865 will have passed
away with the dawn of the second half
of the twentieth century. For a score
of years previous to 1851, only small
and annually decreasing band of in
firm veterans will remain objects of re-
spectful curiosity to the children and
grandchildren of the little boys and
girls born since 1880, and cherished as
" zone of the last surviving patriots " in
the obituary department of the news
papers. The children now eight years
of age who pass their seventy-frst year
will live to read the obituary of the
very last volunteer under Grant or
Sherman, for in 1861 even Johnny
Glen, the " little drummer boy" the
youngest or next to youngest Union
soldier, will, if living, be celebrating
his centennial. AS are the leaves of
tree so are the generations of men,
sang Homer, more than twenty-five
hundred years ago. The poets philos-
ophy is as true to-day as in his own
time. We are all, without exception,
beating" funeral marches to the grave"
Yet we are all prone to live, even those
who affirm the contrary, as if this pres
ent existence was all. Indeed, it has
been affirmed with at least a suggestion
of truth that every man believes himself
to be terrestrally immortal while recog-
nizing the inevitable mortality of others.
Infinite wisdom was denied to men in
general a knowledge of the time or
manner of their death. Could the
facts be foreknown they would lead
either to apathetic indifference or to
wild despair. Our duty therefore is to
use our minds and bodies as if we were
to stay here forever, yet influenced by a
conscientiousness and faith which rem
der us always prepared for the sum
mons that must come sooner or later.
Blessed is that servant" we are told,
whom his Lord found Watching" and
he is most genuinely watchful of the
future who most faithfully discharges
all the responsibilities of the present.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-11-21

country school. 1t will increase its at
tendance, procure its proper furnish
ings, provide it a better teacher, give it
professional supervision, establish in it
system, uniformity and progressive
tendencies, all of which it has long
lacked, the absence of all which adj
vantages has caused its decay, the
presence of all whose opposites has
been for sixty years depored by every
administrative head which the state
has had. And if you ask why this
state of affairs has been suffered to
exist so long the answer must be given
because of the uniform disinterest on
the part of the people in one of their
noblest and wisest public institutions.
But ii the act is accepted by the legisla-
ture and is made law, even then to
insure us in our hope, the people every
where must give it their moral support.
For without the sanction, the financial
backing, the energetic, patriotic inter-
est of the people, no measure, in this
land of popular government, can be
fruitful of effects. But with that help
from the citizen, the Vermont school,
everywhere, large or small, in town or
on hillside, shall become, what the
founders of our state constitution wished
it to be, a center of public culture, a
teacher of American citizenship, an
advocate of all that is true and noble,
moral and wise PETER KNIFER.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-11-21

We must take things as we find them;
but, If there was an honest count in all
the states, the majority would be at
least fifty.
IT will take strong hand to hold the
balance between the changes demanded
by reform and the changes demanded
by hunger for office, but we believe
President Harrison has it. The coun-
try has already learned to know him as
a singularly well-poised, self-contained
man. Broader than Arthur and with
larger civil experience; less emotional
than Garfield; having qualities of lead
ership which Hayes did not possess;
a statesman by nature and soldier
only on occasion, unlike Grant, who
was soldier by nature and statesman
only by accident, we believe President
Harrison will leave record behind
him second only to that of Lincoln
Ne,c York Tribune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-11-21
Reunion of Vermont Officers.

Wednesday, Colonel Z. NJ. Mansur
of Island Pond was chosen president;
Captain f. S. Stranahan of st. Adams
first vice presidents j. l.. Buttertield
of Derby second vice-president Major
l.. G. Kingsley of Rutland secretary and
treasurer; Lyman Knapp, Colonel Tracy
and Captain Dunshee of Middlebury, eX-
ecutive committee. Mddlebury was chosen
for the place of the next meeting.
At eight o'clock in the evening the officers
and their ladies marched to the state house
to the music of the Montpelier military
band and assembled in representatives
hall to listen to an address by Lieutenant
f. f. Palmer of Waterbury. The Grafton,
which was an able and scholarly effort
treated of the results of the war of the re-
bellion, and the place which that war was
entitled to occupy, in comparison with the
other great struggles of history.
AT its close a vote of thanks was extended
to the orator of the evening for his interest
ing address, The members of the society
then marched to the Pavilion parlors and
later to the dining-hall, headed by Governor
and Mrs, Dillingham; After the banquet had
been disposed of in the usual manner and
the ruins cleared away, Colonel Man
sur called the society to order ana an
nounced that at the request OF Colonel
Hooker he had selected that gentleman as
the presiding officer of the evening. The
colonel always makes the best of toast
masters, and last evening he was in his ele-
ment The speakers We're introduced in
the style peculiar to the unique and only
Hooker" as the presiding officer was des-
ignated by ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Woodbury.
Governor Dillingham;, who was first called
upon, declined TO occupy the time of the
society with an address, as the object of the
reunion was to bring together the brothers
who had part in the great struggle of the
rebellion and he wished to hear from them
Short sharp and spicy speeches were the
order and the following gentlemen We're
ernor Woodbury., Major Grout, Colonel f.
Il. Smith, ex-Governors Ormsbee and Farm
ham, Judge Veazey, General w. W. Grout
Colonel Benton of Minnesota, eX-Lieuten-
ant-Governor Fuller, Colonel G. G.. Bene-
the management of Captain Mimms enliv-
ened the occasion at intervals by selections
which We're heartily applauded. Colonel
Carpenter of Boston read an original poem,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-11-21
Southern Opinions.

Norfolk Landmark. Democratic November lo.l
THE principle of selfishness so far
predominates in this world that we are
inclined to think, upon reflection, that
the southern country is too fair field
for investment and there is already too
much northern capital planted here for
the adoption of measures which will
destroy our industry or our civilization,
even if it could be done, by partisan
legislation.
Augusta Chronicle. mocratic.l
THE people of Georgia and the peo-
pie of the south must stand together in
favor of white supremacy and good
government. In this rests our only
hope for the development and civiliza-
ton of the southern states. On this
supreme issue we must and shall stand =,
unconquered and uncOnquerable. We
must and will preserve the solidarity of
the southern states.
Memphis Appeal, Democratic.l
THE breaking up of the solid South
is to be the chief aim of the president
elect as the head of the republican party
with a view to its perpetuity. This
means direct Interference in our con-
gressionAl elections, and an attempt to
terrorize the white people by reviving
in the breasts of the negroes the dreams
of race ascendency, which the four
years of Cleveland's administration had
dispelled. Dakota, Montana and Wash
ington are first to be admitted TO the
Union, in order to increase the repub-
lican majorities in both houses of con-
nd
New Orleans Picayune, Democratic.l
THE South is to be shorn of its po-
litical power. If this can be assured
by the creation of few republican
states, well and good. If, however, it
be thought necessary not merely to out
vote the South, but permanently to dis
able its people by placing their public
elections under federal supervision
vested with power to supeuntend, de-
termine and declare in all matters of
detail in their elections, then the con-
sequences will be direful indeed and
would result in placing every southern
seat in congress at the dictation of fed
eral control. These are possibilities
that must be considered, because bill
to compass just such results has been
actually introduced into the senate by
Mr. Chandler of New Hampshire.
Galveston News, Democratic.l
WE have been assured with dismal
eloquence by some papers and some
orators that republican victory would
be the prelude to measures for harass-
ing the South and paralyzing its indus
tries in the interest of northern manu-
facturers and capitalists jealous of the
recent prosperity of these industries.
Whatever bloody-shirt shriekers may
threaten or suggest, the visible hand
of destiny does not point that way. 1t
points now, and for nearly twelve years
has pointed the other way. And for
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-11-21

FURL the banners. The campaign is
over. The victory-and it was famous
triumph-has been celebrated. Put
up the torches, transparencies and all
the paraphernalia of political war. The
people have been surfeited with poll
tics and the republicans with glory.
How best to keep this land of liberty
spinning along her shining track of ma
tional progress, securing the blessings
of real freedom to every square inch of
her territory and every individual
citizen, making her in very truth the
freest and happiest nation on this ter
restrial ball-this is now the foremost
task. Though republicans or demo-
Gratis we are all patriots, and country is
the foremost concern.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-11-21
Vermont, would be trifling with the
cornerstone of the political fabric.
The University of Vermont.

The WATCHMAN believes in freedom
of speech. 1t is ready to give both sides
of a question fair showing in its
columns, provided always the commu-
nications are decently made. We be-
lieve that we quite as often publish
opinions that are opposed to the views
of the publishers as those that are
in harmony with them. In this spirit
we have been admitting to our columns
communications on agricultural educa-
ton signed Plowman," by an intell
gent citizen of Lamolle county. He
has, so far as we know, confined him
self to Legitimate subjects of criticism,
and has never in any of his writings
for the WATCHMAN been guilty of max
ing personal attack on any of the
officers of the Burlington institution.
Last week we published communica-
ton from Hon. E. p. Walton, in behalf
of the University of Vermont, which,
contrary to custom, considering the
authorship and the pressure of many
duties, was only casually scanned and
its full text was not read till attention
was directed to some personal references
in the article. Mr.. Walton seems TO
have jumped hastily at conclusions
which he or his clients had formed as
to the identity of Plowman; and if 9TH
ers have been harboring similar mis-
conceptions, it is but fair to all con-
cerned that they should be undeceived.
1t may occur to many of the common
people, that the wiser course for the
University to have pursued would be
to meet criticism candidly and squarely,
to employ honorable means to dispel
prejudice and disprove the existence
of grounds for criticism. If the Uni
versity proposed to go into print
at all, such a course would have
been more reassuring to the public
and far more dignified than imputa-
tons of personal pique and of an
iconoclastic spirit towards the existing
order of things at the Burlington Col
lege. In this matter we esteem Plow-
man more "honest and fair" than his
assailants. In this style of personal
attack and imputation of false motives
for criticism, the University, to adopt
our correspondents figure, is only
sticking in the bark, unmindful that
it is the bark of tree' that has been
as fatal as the hemlock to the existence
of good will between it and the farm
ers. By reason of this schism be-
tween the college and the farmers, for
which the latterare by no means chiefly
and primarily responsible, call the
great interests involved in this case"
are suffering, and it is regretable that
the institution appears more inclined
on vengeance than to meet criticisms
which seem warranted by the facts of
history. Without radical shange of
heart as well as tactics, it will long re-
main "a University in name "-only.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-11-21

ANOTHER bond of international
amity between the United States and
Great Britain was forged in Washing
ton yesterday in the marriage of Miss
Mary Endicott, daughter of the secre-
tary of war, to the Right Hon. Sir
Joseph Chamberlain, a distinguished
Englishman and parliamentary leader.
Mr.. Chamberlain was member of the
fisheries commission, and met Miss
Endicott at ball in Washington. 1t
was case of love at first sight, and
marriage follows very soon after a
pleasant courtship. Mr.. Chamberlain
is wealthy manufacturer, and is re-
ported to have an income of $150,OOO
year. With rigid economy the twain
ought to get on fairly well.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-11-21

IT is undoubtedly true, as Mrs. Fos-
ter suggests, that the alliance of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
with the third party, and that party's
consorting with the democracy to defeat
the republican party, has had its infu-
ence with those who have hitherto
looked with some favorupon the propo-
sition to confer municipal suffrage on
woman. The facts of political history
show that in respect of temperance
legislation the republican party has
passed the prohibitory and restrictive
laws now in existence throughout the
north, where that party is allowed to
have an existence, and that it has
passed those laws invariably in the teeth
of democratic opposition. The official
action of this distinctive body of women
has probably been more fatal to the cause
of woman suffrage than a sea of adverse,
abstract reasoning by male opponents.
1t was argument intensely concrete.
But while the cause has labored under
the disadvantage imposed upon it by
the indiscretion, or lack of judgment,
or unwisdom, of the majority of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
we think the real, decisive, underlying
cause of the defeat-as it always will
be-is the opposition of women them
selves to assuming the burdens and re-
sponsibilities of suffrage. This fact has
always been clear at previous contests
before the legislature, and the opposi-
ton of woman herself was more pro-
nounced this year than it has ever been
before. If the state ever makes a
change so radical as the lost measure
contemplated, it should only be after an
adequate popular agitation, by legis-
lature chosen on this issue. On a
question of such grave importance, leg
islative action based on perfunctory
petitions, representing at the best but
a very small fraction of the women of