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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18
THE PRACTICAL COURSE.

How 20 Proceed 70 Procure the Emanci-
patton Of Woman.
In recent letter to Mrs. Stone, Hon.
George William Curtis wrote - FOL.
lows:
II Is more than twenty years since /
moved in the C Constitutional Convention
Of New York that the word "male"
should be stricken from the suffrage
section. The vote upon the proposition
was interesting as an expression OF
opinion. Among those who supported
it in committee Of the whole were the
late Sanford E Church and the late
Charles J. Folger. But upon this ques-
ton they had few followers. The JUS
tice Of . proposition. however, IS not
determined by vote, and ! have never
seen any reason to change my opinion
that the change would be wise, nor to
doubt that it will one day be made.
The proposition encountered no seri-
GUS argument, partly. undoubtedly. be-
cause argument was not felt to be nec-
essary, but mainly because it does not
exist Every change in the restrictive
laws regarding women is an acknowl-
edgment Of the justice Of the demand
for equal suffrage. The case was con-
ceded when they became property
holders, and taxpayers in their own
right. In every way their interest in
society is the same as that OF men, and
the reason for their voting in school
meetings Is conclusive for their voting
upon the appropriation Of other taxes
which they pay.
There can be little doubt, suppose,
that q general demand for the suffrage
upon the part OF women would secure
it. But ! can not deny the obvious
fact that the feeling among women is
not general enough or strong enough
to produce that demand. This fact, ol
course, does not affect the justice Of
the demand, but it serves and will con.
tinue to serve as an excuse for inac-
tion. The practical course, therefore,
1t seems to me, 10 to continue to appeal
to women. It Is not necessary to argue
that the concession Of suffrage would
be fair and logical, because that is moi
disputed; but it is indispensable to per.
suadc women TO desire it and to de.
mand it. The laxity of interest on the
part Of many women is not indeed Q
valid reason for denying the suffrage to
those who do desire it. But unhappily
it is found to be q satisfactory pretext.
Your example, dear madame, in the
constant and convincing public pres.
ertation Of the question might we'll in
spire others. II all American women
wefC like you, the laws would author.
ize them to vote for the next President.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18

WHILE the engineer Of train was
making his way down grade toward
the Ohoopie river on Georgia rail-
road recently he saw a woman stand
ing on the track waving her handker-
chief. He stopped, imagining there
was some danger. when the woman
scrambled aboard and asked him to
take her across the bridge. as it made
her head dizzy to walk on the cross
ties. He didn't swear.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18
FLock.No TO OUR SHORES.

Emigration from Europe to tho United
States Assuming Large Proportions.
LONDON, April 1l.-Spring emigration to
the United States has assumed large pro-
portions. Four thousand emigrants, main
ly Germans and Swcdes, sailed Wednesday
from Liverpool All available steerage space
on several steamers there and at continental
ports has been taken up for intending emf
grants The movement is more voluntary
in character and less the work of agents
than hitherto. The people are Of better
class and evidently 60 to stay. The in
crease ID due to the pressure Of the immense
burdens Of military and taxation imposed
ON the continental nations
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18

IT is stated that George Meredith,
the English novelist, once lived en-
tirely upon oatmeal for 4 year. As
George IL . literary man. we would
remind him of the fact that he was in
great luck to be able to get even oat-
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18

In special report, in answer to a
Senate resolution, General Greely, of
the Signal Office, states that Oregon
and Washington are Favored with a
climate Of unusual mildness and equa-
bility, and that the conditions favor
to marked extent the growth of most
cereals and other important staples"
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18
EvlcTIoNs SUSPENDED.

Judge Shiras stops the Actions Against
Des MOines River Land Settlers Pend
ing Investigation by Attorney -Gcneral
Miller.
DUBUQUE, Ia, April 1l.-An order from
Judge Shiras of the United States
District Court, issued Wednesday, ends
for the present all proceedings against the
Des Moines river land settlers. The Judge
considers it his duty to suspend for rea-
sonablc time the execution Of process Tor
eviction in these cases pending the action
Of the Attorney General Of the United
States. who was recently requested by the
Secretary Of the Interior to examine into
the matt~<-
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18
Mountain Fires ln Alarylapdl.

HAGERsrowN, Nd, April ll.-Three large
mountain fires are now raging on the South
mountain, near Edgemont The fire caught
from the sparks OF q passing engine.
vast lot Of timber has already been de-
stroyed and the fire is still unchecked. The
wind Is fQrcing tho fire In the direction Of
the Blue Mountain House, and there is
good ground for fear that the building viii
b8 consumed
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18

The Oklahoma boomers nearly went
crazy with joy when they heard the
news Of the Presidents proclamation
opening the lands for settlement
Flags were hoisted nearly everywhere
in Southern Kansas. cannons were
fred and bonfires built, and general
jubilee was in order Some of the
towns in Southern Kansas will be al
most depOpulated.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18
HOW WOMAN IS TAXED.
what 10 Demanded Of Women That 10 Ne
Demanded Of Men.

what II Demanded OF Women That 10 Net
Demanded Of Men.
One OF the most marked characteris-
tics OF modern life, says the Boston
Courier. is the enormous increase
which it makes in its demands upon
women. 1t has always been true from
the dawn OF civilization, that the role
Of women in society and in life has been
more intricate. although less broad,
than that OF men. Il has always been
asked at the hands Of women that they
should be thousand times more fexi-
BILE than men; that they should adapt
themselves to hundred conditions
which men ignored or scorned, and
that they play in the drama Of life q
score Of parts to every one which was
undertaken by their fathers. and
brothers and sons As life has CON
stantly grown more and more complex,
this difference between the sexes has
increased rather than diminished. Life
to-day demands of a woman more
changes in day than q man is re.
quired to compass in . month. She
must, from moment to moment, be one
thing after another, the wife
the mother, the woman OF society
the leader in reforms. sharel
in this work. OF charity. and tina,
labor Of intellectual progress, until it j,
miracle that she is able to do any O
the multitudinous duties imposed upor
her. OF course, il. . great measure
this is due to the fact that women viii
accept these burdens. Men escape
much by the simple method of refusing
to take it upon them. 1t is idle to ex
poet men to bend to all changes with
which women cucumber their lives, ani
so tho lives of men remain more simple
than those Of the other sex. Womer
are. as rule. sufficiently we'll able t.
oppose their Wills to personal opposi
tion, but the women are few and far Il
seek who are capable Of standing ou
against circumstances Perhaps th,
difference is that q man argues will
himself and is satisfied with his conclu
sions- while woman must argue viii
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18
A, FARMER AND HIS DOG.
Together They XIII Tramp riear Find-
lay, q.

Together They XIII . Tramp Fear Finl-
lay, q.
& FNDLAY, O., April 1.-THE Republican
has dispatch from Union township, this
county, stating that Thomas Bergel, q
farmer, was awakened on Monday morn
ing by piteous cries for help and sounds Of
> struggle coming from the front porch
He found his dog, huge mastiff, tearing at
the throat OF q tramp who had evidently
sought the porch as place to sleep. The
farmer. it said, took hand in the work and
assisted the dog in killing the tramp, who
was buried In rough grave in secluded
field. The farmers children who witnessed
the murder were unable to keep the secret,
and through them the facts were made
public, No arrests have yet been reported
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18

By his will the late Justice Stanley
Matthews left all of his property
($200. .00O) to his wife and children,
there being no public bequests. The
will is dated Juno %. 1886, the day of
his'marriagc, and in it he states that
his wife is entitled, as against him and
his representatives, to all OF the prop
erty which was hers before marriage
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18

LoTTA BRIDGES, of Keene, N. H.
has been poisoned and made seriously
sick by wearing green flannel dress.
Her symptoms were those of arsenical
poisoning Other and similar cases
are reported from time to time with
the opinion of medical men generally
appended that no green garment
should be worn continuously; and yet
many ladies still persist in wearing
this dangerous though beautiful color.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18

SOME women in England mako good
salaries BY manufacturing the dainty
silk and laco lamp shades now SO popu-
lar. A dealer in London, who glories in
the royal patronage. pays one woman
two hundred dollars month for the
shades she makes.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18

Two LITTLE eight-year-old children
playing with gun. The gun was ex-
ploded and left only one. That was
what happened in an Iowa town the
other day. BY and by it may be dis
covered that fire EARNS are dangerous
toys for children.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18

The gentleman who stole red-hOt
stove pales into insignificance in COM
parison with Moiles Bros, Of Michi-
gan, who have just succeeded in pick
Ing up a saw-mill-building and all
and skipping to Canada with 1t.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18

DIR. CHARLES H. DE TRoILON, a
famous French veterinary surgeon, is
In this country examining our methods
OF treating the diseases Of animals.
He says that he is astonisbed at our
progress in veterinary science.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18

THERE fs u family in Watorboro.
Me-, that is certainly blessed with per.
feet health and immunity from acci
dents. David Scribner, Of that town,
is in his .nineticth year and his vito Is
but two fyears younger. They have
been married sixty-fivo years and have
three children living, the oldest being
upward Of sixty years of age. These
children all have children OF their
own and grandchildren, and In the
whole line Of descent from Mr. and
Mrs. Scribner to their great grand.
children, no death has ever yet CO.
CURED.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18

A CHICAGO man has invented a
spring gong to be attached to an UNI
brella or cane. 50 arranged that II any
unauthorized person picks up the ar
ticle he will get surprise that will
project him about five feet into space.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18

A LATE official report shows that in
New York State 1862, 252 persons
have an average Of 1884. % in the
savings banks. That is probably more
than an average Of one person to each
family. and speaks we'll for the econ
omy and prudence Of the masses.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18

Now THAT the thirteen" supersti.
ton and its alleged fatalistic Influences
are being so generally discussed. It II
time that some wiseacre tell us why
the original thirteen States Of the Amer.
ican Union were % exceptionally lucky.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18

REV. DIR. Scorr, President Harri-
sons father-in-law, it is said. keeps
steadily at work at his desk in the
Pension Office His daNghter dnd the
President have asked himsto resign. but
he refusesetof 1.-Two in idpnesa !. Soon
after the election Mrs. Harrison wrote
to her father asking him to. quit work
and live at the White House. Her hus-
band also wrote to DIR. Scott support
ing his wife's request. But the old gen.
tleman sturdily refused, and said that
he had bcen 50 long used to the rou-
tine OF his Office that he could not give
IL I'm
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18
THE MARRIAGE SYSTEM.

A Better Law Demanded for the Covers.
ment Of Husbands and Wives.
My theory Of marriage in its relation
to society would give this postulate,
says writer in the Chicago Tribune.
Husband and wife are one. and that one
is-husband and wife. / believe they
will never come to the heights Of purity,
of power and peace for which they were
designed in Heaven, until this better
law prevails:
Two heads In council two beside tho hearth,
Two In the tangled business OF the world,
Two in the liberal ofices OF life;
Two plummets dropped to sound the abyss Of
science
And the secrets OF the mind"
Poets are prophets. and the greatest
poet Of our time has set the goal before
us only to be gained
.when reign the worlds great bridalA
Chaste and calm"
One-half the world for the wife-an
undivided half apiece for wife and hus-
band; co-education to mate them on
the plane Of mind, equal property
rights to make her Gods own free
woman, not coerced into marriage for
the sake Of support or bond.slAve
after she is married, who asks her
master for the price Of q paper Of pins
and gives him back the change. or. II .
petted favorite. owing her lease oi
purse wholly to his will and never 70
her right; free TO 60 her honored and
self-respecting way as q maiden pes>
petuo rather than marry man whoss
deterioration through alcohol and
nicotine habits is q deadly menace ia
herself and the descendants that such q
marriage must have invoked-these
are the outlooks Of the future that shall
make the marriage system, never q
failure since it became monogamic. an
assured, q permanent, paradisaical
success.
In that day the wife shall surrender
1t marriage no right not equally sur-
rendered BY the husband even her
own name. Emile OLIVER, that keen
sighted writer OF France, says that II q
SO much eas 'er, for obvious reasons, to
trace ancestry along the mothers line,
that historic records have intellectually
suffered by the arbitrary relinquish.
mcnt OF her name. Probably the French
have hit upon the best expedient: the
union of the two. Thus l recall thai
In Paris my home was with an accom-.
plished lady whose maiden name was
Farjon and whose husbands was Per
rot, her visiting-card bearing the in
scription, Madame Byzantine Perrot
Farjon." The growing custom. in thi,
country at least, to give the mother,
name to q SON or daughter indicates
the increasing. though perhaps uncon
scious, recognition Of woman as Al
equal partner In the marriage sacra
ment and compact. But the tendency
even among men Of intelligence, Il
sign themselves, "John Jones. wife
child and NURSE" as we see it in th,
registers Of fashionab BILE hotels, 10 . fre
quent reminder OF the pit from which
wives are slowly being digged. tn,
man who writes '.Mr. John and Mrs
Jane Jones'" may be regarded as vel
on the road to q successful evolution
The time will come when the mother
custody OF children will constructivel.
be preferred in law to thatof the fathe
on the ground that 1t Is surer and NOR,
consonant with natural laws.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18
HAL1 a million dollars worth OF
canned goods were shipped from this
country to tropical regions last year.

The strange thing about Susan b
Anthony's new lecture What Woman
Wants" is that it only takes about
three hours for her to deliver 1t.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18
DEATH OF ADMIRAL PATTERSON

He Passes Away at Was hington. Aged 90
Ycars-Sketch of His Career.
WASHINGTON, April IL. - Rear Adhira:
Thomas Harmer Patterson, q retired naval
officer, died at his home In this city early
Wednesday morning ut the advanced age Of
G9 years
tAdmiral Patterson twas born in louisiana
In 1870. He entered the navy as midshipman
In 1885,. and during the war OF the rebellion
served as commander. His last sea duty was
on the flagship Tennessee, us commandant OF
the Asatic station, from 1879 to 1880 His M.
pointment % Rear Admiral was made in fS.s,
and on May 10, 1852, he was placed on tho re-
tired list
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18
AssAsSin2ted.

BUTLER, Ky, April ll.-At Morning View,
KY, Tuesday evening German shoe
maker named Laurer was shot In the head
and instantly killed while at work. The
person who did the shooting Is unknown.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

DISPATCHES of the 9th from Western India
announced the failure OF the pearl fisheries
owing to the prevalence or cholera
A WAGER was made by four Russian offi-
GERS on the 9th that they could ride O..
horseback from St Petersburg to Paris in
forty five days. They will start in May
In the Erin colliery ut castrop Australia,
m explosion on the 10th caused the death
Of twenty five persons
ADvIcEs of the 10th from Spain announced
heavy gales of the coast, interrupting tele-
graphic communication, delaying mails and
steamers, and doing great deal of damage
the distinguished French chemist, occurred
in Paris on the 9th. He was born in
Anglers, August /, 17Sj, and was therefore
nearly one hundred and three years of age
ADyICEs OF the 10th from London say that
the spring emigration to the United States
had assumed large proportions All the
available steerage space on the several
! steamers at Liverpool! and ut continental
ports had been taken up for intending en-
igrantS The movement was more volun-
tary in character and less the work OF
agents than hitherto, and the people were
OF the better class.
On the 1lth fifty-three hundred emigrants
sailed from Bremen and Hamburg for New
York.
On the 18th the trial of General Boulan-
4 ger, Count Dillon and Henri Rochcfort was
4 commenced before the Fkanch Senate.
UPoN arriving ut Queenstown on tho 18th
| the Inman steamer City Of Chester reported
having sighted the steamer Danmark of the
Thingvalla line, on April in a disabled
! and sinking condition, having apparently
been abandoned in niid-ocean The Dam
mark, when she sailed from Christiania.
Norway, for New York, had about seven
| hundred persons on board. and the infer
cnce was that these had either been lost or
were at sea in the ships boats
MEXICO advices of the 18th say that four
| of the men arrested ON q charge of being
implicated in the derailment of President
! Diaz's train had been shot
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18

We can not all be as wise as Solo
mon, but we can all stop pretending
that we are.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18
WEsT AND SOUTH.

WEST AND SOUTH.
DURING fire in KOkomO, Ind, on the
sth, which destroyed Lynch Brothers boiler
works, three firemen were fatally injured
by falling wall.
On the 9th r. F. Schor, boo's-keeper of
the First National Bank Of Evansville, Ind. !,
committed suicide by hanging. Unsuccess-
full speculation was the cause.
CAPTAIN COUCH, the Oklahoma leader,
stated on the 9th that about every body
without authority to remain had been
driven out by the troops
A FIRE destroyed Arkwright's cotton
factory at Savannah, Ga, on the 9th. Loss,
100000
FRANCIS E. WARREN was inaugurated
Governor Of Wyoming on the nth, at Chey-
enne, with military and civic honors.
The recent storm which ragged in Balti-
more swept over the lower Chesapeake bay,
causing great disaster to shipping. Over q
dozen seamen lost their lives and thirty or
forty vessels were wrecked.
NEAR Edgemont, Md. mountain tres were
raging on the 10th, and great damage had
been done. ~. .s
EARLY on the morning of the 10Th prt-
vate car containing aparty of seven Boston
people returning from q tour of California
was wrecked In q collision on the Santa Fo
road near Joliet, Ill. and Miss Winslow,
Henry Hartt, Harry, the porter, and Smith,
the cook, We're instantly killed, and the 9TH
ers were dangerously wounded
ON the 10th Farmer" McClaughrey, one
of the Cook County ILL., boodlers, was ro-
leased from the penitentiary, his sentence
OF two years having been reduced one month
by the Governor. He went direct to his
home ut Palos
FLAMES swept away almost the entire bus
mess portion of Camden, small town In
Jay County, Ind, on the 10th
AFTER five miputes' deliberatiOn tho Jury
at Omaha, Neb, in the case OF Elizabeth
Beechler, who killed Harry W. King. il. /.
of Chicago, returned verdict ON tho 10th
of not guilty.
JUDGE THAYER decided at St Louis, Mo-,
on the llth that stealing papers from ,ths
top of mail box was no more an offenso
against the mail laws than taking package
from the steps Of the post office.
A FIRE nearly destroyed the village Of
Cannonsburg, Mich, ON the llthL
ON the 1lth the evidence of Des Motnes
river land settlers in Iowa were stopped
by court order, pending an investigation
instituted by the Secretary of the Interior
A FIRE on the l1th destroyed the stable Of
Marie, Mich. and seventeen mules burned
IT was said on the 1lth that Samuel w.
Myers. business manager for the Booth
Packing Company Mt Indianapolis was SO,
000 short In his accounts He had fed
TaE three children Of Sebastian Merdam,
Bayarian farmer at St Joseph, Mimi. were
poisoned on the llth by eating wild parsnip
roots which their father had plowed up and
all died In few hours
L ]. FARwEL1., Governor OF Wisconsin In
1881. died ON the 18th at Grant City, No. i,
aged seventy years. He was noted poll
tician Of the Northwest forty years ago.
A FARNsR named Henry Roam, living near
Mount Vernon, Ind, was called to the door
Of his house on the 11th and fata " shot by
Joseph Maynard, . neighbor with whom he
was at Variance,
DURING the absence on the llth of w. p.
Wood, carpenter living In Robin County,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18

A NAN IN Connecticut was arralgned
few days ago and pleaded guilty to
killing another man, and was sent
enced to three months in Jail and to
pay fine Of one dolla. About the
same time man was convicted in
Boston Of mutilating book in one Of
the public libraries. and was sent
enced to five months in Jail. 1t would
appear from this that books are rated
unduly high in Boston. or that
human life is held much too
cheap in the wooden-nutmeg
State.