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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-03-05

cal Indiana lawyer
of high standing.
He has been a valu-
a b ! e member of
Gen. Harrison's law
firm in indianapolis
for about ten years,
having left a large
practice at + or
Wayne, Ind, TO
join it. He is a man
on whom the new
president has been
accustomed to rely.
Mr.. Miller is not
auUracSiva htYf ba
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-03-05

James Gillespie Blaine was born in West
Brownsville, Washington county, Pa, Jan.
81, 1880. At the age of Is years he entered
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-02-21
A Word- Counting Machine.

"A telegraph operator in Minneapolis
has invented word-counting machine
which may be used by itself or at
tached to typewriter. 1t IS much
the same sort Of thing as pedometer,
only it is more accurate. 1t is as large
as d small clock. The works are in
side the nickel case, on ono side Of
which is the face. The machine will
count up to $500 words, and can be
used for any number by keeping q
tally Of the number of times it passes
the 2, 500 mark. There are two hands,
like the hour and second hand OF a
watch. Every time a word on the
typewriter is finished, the same mo.
ton which spaces the word registers
on the word-counter. When the Sec
ond hand comes up to twenty-five
words, the large hand moves forward q
quarter OF a space. The face is divided
into twenty-five spaces. one for each 1Ol
words, and glance at it shows at once
how many words have been written
The use of the word counter is not linn
tied TO typc-writing machines, but il
can be used in writing and dictation by
keeping it at hand and making slight
pressure at the end Of each word
Some operators attach it to their desks
and work it with string fastened t.
their feet. 1t is useful invention
especially in telegraphy, and in making
an article of a specific length.-N. Y
Sun.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-02-21
YOUTHS DEPARTMENT.
"BUT-LET NE THINK. /"

I'd like to he tiny bird. tiny bird. q tiny bird.
With wings or red, or wings OF blue, flying
about from tree to tree:
I'd sing the very sweetest songs was ever heard
was ever heard,
And all the other birds should come to learn
that song OF me.
Or else Id like TO be fow'r, pretty fowr, q
pretty fiow'r
A cunning pansy or pink, q wild rose or a
daisy white:
I'd swing and dance with every shown, with ev.
cry shown, with every shown
That brought me sparkling drops Of rain to
make ne sweet and bright
merry brook.
Running through meadows green with skies
rs blue as violets overhead
And grasses tall that bent TO look, that bent TO
look. that bent 10 look
At me. and wondered greatly when they saw
themselves instead.
But--'et me think--would /; No, no, / wouldn't
be- / wouldn't be
A tiny bird. or lrook or flow'r; for ] can sing
and can play.
And can swing. and dance and see, and dance
and see. and dance ard see
Tho grass. the sky, the field and all around as
well rs they.
And they have no mamma 10 kiss, mamma to
kiss, mamma TO kiss.
And no papa to love. nor yet an aunt 10 call
them pet and 10y:
And so It's better far. think to stay like this,
10 stay like this.
AID be happy little chi'd--a curly-hcaded
boy.
Margaret Eytinge in Wide Awake.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-02-21
"ChUMlE AND T."

A True Story About MY Dog and Myself
The story ] am going to tell you il
really true one, about my dog and
me.
am six years old, but / think my
dog must be near fifty, because have
had him ever since / could remember.
Chum Is his name, and he knows il too,
just as well as yon boys and girls know
your names. When ] ask him ii he
wants his breakfast, his tail wags yes:
but never no, to question like that.
think his tail could wag a no ii it want
ed to, as my dog can do most any
thing.
OF all the things that we do for play,
taking turns being horse is most fun
NEST. My brother made nice har-
ness-not for me to wear, but for Chum.
He likes ii as well as do, / believe,
for when get on the sled he is fastcn-
ed to. and say: ''Now, 60 it Chumic!'
that's what ! sometimes call him
how he docs skip along! Don't the
wind just whistle through my ears, and
the snow fly in my face. And all shout
and wave their hats when they see lie
60 down the street, past the slow old
horses, just rs easy.
Sometimes the farmers going into
the city will race with us; but when
ChuInie hears me say: eli there!
Stur boy" he just runs away from
those old horses as If they were stand
ing still. Then the men and boys
scream, and throw their hats in the air,
and the butcher gives Chumic a piece
OF meat. Every one pats him on the
head. and calls him good fellow. and
sometimes ] have candy given me be.
cause own such fine dog.
Then it is my turn to be the horse.
Chum gets on the sled, and l put my
little whip in his collar. which carry
when ! ride just to be like real man;
but | never touch it to Chum. He goes
fast enough, and it would make him
sorry, and then should be sorry; and
that's why / don't use it.
Chum is such a heavy dog that can't
60 very fast, and all the teams pass me
trotting along the road. l say to the
men | have raced with: ''Wait until
Chum is horse again. and | will &C
BY YOU" II VIC can't travel as fast.
am very proud to see the people all
stop and look. and hear them laugh
ard say: What wonderful dog &c
sit SO still, and hold the rcins in his
mouth as well rs boy could in his
hands" S. Cox, IN Our Little Ones.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-02-21

Dear grandmother was old and bent. her cap
Was white and neat.
She wore her kerchief Quakcr-wise. her look
Was calm and sweet.
With many cares size stepped about 70 mold
white ioavcs OF bread,
To sweep the rooms. to feed the hens, TO weed
the garden bed.
OF the old simple times she came, knew how 10
weave and spin
While yet child. / wonder what her play
time could have been!
She worked her sampler, every flne and curious
stitch she learned.
Made cheese. dipped candles, twisted yarn. and
golden butter churned
wrought.
And TO her husbands home her share Of well.
spun linen brought,
Then worked from day to day, and met with
courage what befell
To keep her household and to guide and rear
her children well.
One son died in the far-on West, one son Was
lost at sea,
And one death took. q little ono, that safe upon
her knee,
A daughter faded from her side, another and
another
Widowed She was. and dcsolatc, my gentle,
dear GRANDMOTHER.
To me, . growing schoolgirl. full OF studies.
plans ard rlay.
Grandmothcr's garden was the place where
best loved &c stray;
Her house my refuge, AZ her shelves freely
broke my fast,
1ioved her dearly, but scarce gave . thought
10 all her PCS.
aired my l.tt.c knowledge, while she made
me tiny pies.
ratified on the boundaries 10 raise wonder
in her eyes.
She had never studied rhetoric, nor hours DER
Latin spent,
Ismslcd aside because one day she asked what
.tempus" meant!
Smiled at that angel: Now think with tc>
der. longing pam,
Oh! could see her shoulders bent, her sweet
worn face again.
Could she but tell me how she bore so patient
~ the strife.
The toll. the partings, and the fears, that min.
gle close IN life.
This / remember-day by day, some quiet
hour she took,
And by the window sat to read in Gods most
holy Book.
This was her fount OF grace and strength, this,
for she had no other.
And now In Gods high Heaven she dwells, my
gentle, dear grandmother
MARY 1. b. Branch, in Good Housekeeping.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-02-21

ETHICS OF SUCCESS.
C0nditi ons Under Which Mans Eleva.
tion Makes Him Enemies.

tion Makes Him Enemies.
It is common remark that success
makes enemies. This is one Of those
superficial truths that seen, in their
completeness. are not true at all.
There arc aspects of success that pro-
duce this effect. "A man suddenly be-
comes rich. and proceeds to costume his
life in all the scenery Of wealth. He
builds fine mansion which is finished
and furnished with every conceivable
luxury; his family bear the personal
advertisement Of his business success in
their appearance, their equipage, their
entertainments. They hold all this ac-
ccssion Of power and freedom as some.
thing for personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
They become more or less devoted tc
personal pleasures, and less thoughtful
for others, less accessible to those
ordinary demands Of life which are its
salt and SAVIOR; less interested in gen.
eral process. And SO there rise up
enemies, and often unjust and unfair
things are said of their life, which may
be. and probably is, only negatively
good. not positively bad. And SO it is
said that success begets enemies. A
man rises from obscurity and struggles
to commanding place in his chosen
profession. He has climbed, but when
on the loftier rounds of the ladder he
becomes cold and unsympathetic tc
those less fortunate, and thus is dis.
liked, and he complacently tells him.
self that his success has excited jeal-
ously and made enemies Of those who
have attained less. But this is fal.
lacy. Let us examine it little nearer
and we shall see that it is not success,
in its best sense, that makes enemies,
but the want of that complete and noble
success which is one OF character as
well as OF competence. The prosperous
man who does not feel that every stroke
OF good fortune. or achievement, in
finance Or in fame. does not deepen his
responsibilities to humanity, has not
attained complete and a permanent
but only partial and temporary sue.
cess. II a mans elevation in material
ways makes him enemies, he may de-
pend upon it that the fault is his own:
that he has failed in the great essentials
Of life that imply the fine consideration,
the delicate sympathy, the noble gen
crosby and the inspiring faith that
make up LIES best gift. And let him
look to it that he redeem mere pros
perity by correcting its possible false
ideals BY higher nobleness OF character.
boston Traveller.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-02-21
PROFITS PER COW.
What m Average Dairy Animal Shout
ing In Per Tear.

What m Average Dairy Animal ShOule
ing In Per Tear.
A good average dairy cow ought te
give at least 1900 pounds Of milk in 6
year. which should return the farmer
whether sold or made into butter anG
cheese, at least cent a pound, SO that
such cows ought to bring in at leas,
$40 a year per head. This is the calcu
lation of Josiah Shull, secretary of the
New York State Dairymen's Associa
ton. This is probably close average
estimate, and yet. what a spectacle il
presents! Here is a farmer working
hard over his dairy the year around,
and only getting $40 year receipts fol
each COW, out of which he has to pay
the cost of their keep. as well as for
his own labor. Contrast this expert
ence with that of the patrons of some
of our New England cream gathering
creameries. For instance, George +.
Humphrey, during the year ended
October q, 1883, sold to the Highland
Comm creamery $1,066 worth oil
cream, and also received S271 for the
skim-milk sold at his door. He thus
received over 81, 800 in one year from
his thirteen cows, or an average OF g
little more than 500 per COW annually.
More than this, he received dividend
of 5 per cent. for the stock he held in
the creamery, if he was a stakeholder,
and had none of the work or worry OF
making butter at home or marketing
it. 1t is true that comparatively few
farmers have such a chance to sell
their skim-milk. but supposing the
skim. milk was fed to pigs or calves, il
ought at least to make his net receipts
81, 100. or over 500 per COW. Nor are
Mr.. Humphreys cows any thing more
than well-kcpt grade stock. At the
same time his receipts are probably
above the average, although many
patrons of these cooperative factories
receive from SO to s90per each COW pei
annum, where their cows are in good
condition and in good milk the year
round. The reason of this is, that
these dairymen get all the money there
is in the business instead Of having .
creamery proprietor get the lions
share. Only the actual expense OF run
ming the creamery is deducted from
the amount received for butter, thu
balance being wholly given to the far
mers who make the cream.-Stock
Farm and Home
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-02-21
THE DAIRY.

Milk IL almost as sensitive to at
mosphcric changes as mercury.
A kind, gentle, good-natured
mixer Is treasure dairyman can not
over-estimatc.
A good COW should give milk equal
to her own weight in from ten to
eleven months.
Worrying COW in any way what
ever affects the quality Of the butter to
a greater or less extent. Judd
Farmer.
Milk is the most perfect ration: the
most nutritious OF all foods. The
nearer the ration Of the growing ami
NAL comes to this. the better and
healthier the growth. Western Rural.
1t is good coz that will give
5000 quarts OF milk in year. Yet by
breeding from choice sircs. even on or.
binary dams. that quantity can easily
be obtained from every COW in a herd
in a few years. Dairy World.
A hcifer becomes COW after she
drops her first calf and begins giving
milk-no matter ut what age, and the
distinction is accepted generally that
she remains a hcifer until maternal
obligations are assumed. This seems
to be the only satisfactory classification
that can be made to avoid confusion
and establish an intelligent UNDER
standing. Troy On. Y. Times.
A keen, practical dairyman gave
Hoard's Dairyman striking illnstra,
tion of the reason why he was more
successful with his cows than his neigh.
bors were. .I'll tell you,' said he, ''it
all depends where man looks when he
feeds his cows. My neighbors all look
at the feed; consequently they easily
learn to scrimp the COW all they dare
to. When feed l look at the COW just
as would any machine if l was feeding
it. You want to watch the machine
and not the feed. 1t is a mighty easy
thing for a farmer to get stingy feeding
COW and beat himself out of dollars
in trying to save cents
A cow that will not yield an av.
crage OF six quarts q day the year
round, besides raising calf, had best
be sent to the shambles. No farmer
can afford TO keep such an animal. Al
this average, the yearly yield would be
2.l9O quarts, which at 2! cents would
amount to $54.75. Or, If made into
butter. allowing quarts of milk to the
pound, the Weld would be 273s pounds.
which at % cents would give IN income
Of Sos. 45. On one farm there has beer
received from 3 ordinary grade cows
1920 or $40 per COW from butter sold q
% cents. These cows had but little
grain. and supplied family of sis
persons with an abundance Of milk and
butter. If the milk had been sold a
p cents. the income would have beer
considerably greater.-C. II. Osgood
in Farm and Home.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-02-21
FACTS ABOUT OLIVES.
Their Many Varieties and Different Trad
Designa tiOns.

Their Many Varieties and Different Trade
Designa tiOns.
The designation Of Queen has
no reference to size, only the variety,
they being round-the others oval
in shape. The olives put up for table
use by the Bordeaux bottlers are OF
several different varieties. The large
Spanish olives. known to us as "Queen
Olives" are known to the trade as
.Padrones Sevillas." These, by the
way, are quite a distinct variety from
the other varieties grown in Spain.
known as Manzanillas." which are
used for making oil, the Gordalles, =
having much more meat but less oil.
The smaller olives put up in Bordeaux
arc principally of French growth and
are known as Amelleaux, Yer.
dalles'' and Lucques," the latter
called here Crescent Olives on ac-
count OF their shape, and are much
preferred TO any other for table use.
The "Verdalles" have a strong, full
| flavor, and are much used for sauces,
to be served with meats. while the
Amelleaux' have a little more oil
| and less flavor. There is also fourth
| variety, known as Picholies.' SINH.
| lar to the Amelleaux" in character,
but larger and longer .Oliye far.
Gales are Amelleaux olives stuffed
with anchovies and capers. AS a rule,
the American trade prefers the Queen
Olives" or account of their size and
fine appearance, the smaller size be
ing as large as the largest of other
varieties; but in Europe the smaller
olives are quite generally preferred on
account of their flavor and the finer
quality OF the meat - American Ana.
lyst
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-02-21
WEEKLY CHURNlNGS.
How to Keep Cream In Good Condition
for q Week or Two.

How to Keep Cream In Good Condition
for . Week or Two.
There need be no trouble in keeping
cream a week when the quantity is SO
small as to make only one weekly
churning. All that is necessary is to
keep the cream in a cool place. but not
to have it too cold. and in the afternoon
before the churning day to put it in
warm place. where it may gradually
rise TO sixty-five degrees; it should be
stirred once an hour, gently, to get the
temperature even and have the sour
ness the same all through. II it be-
comes too acid by being kept in warm
place, SO long as u week. it will foam
uL in the churn; when this happens,
pour into the churn one or two quarts
OF water of the same temperature as
the cream. This foaming is some
times caused by the cream being too
warm as we'll as too sour. A proper
degree of sourness or ripeness may be
produced in this way. when the churn-
ing is once week. Keep the milk in
u closet or room where it will not get
above ffty-fve degrees or sixty de-
grees, and not below fifty degrees at
night. Skim the cream as soon as it
has risen, and before the milk has be-
come sour. Keep the cream jar in
some place where it will be at fifty de-
grecs or little less, and every time
fresh cream is added. stir the whole
gently. taking care that the bottom is
stirred with the rest. The afternoon
before churning bring the jar into a
warm room, where it will gradually
reach the right temperatures to
sixty-iive degrees-by the next morn
ing; then chnrn in warm place, where
the cream will not be chilled. 1t would
be better to use shallow pans just now
than the deep pals. when there is but
little milk. Country Gentleman.
"A small boy remarked the other
day that il children made the chill
\ Sc, h. al hn al
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-02-21

Well Fixed for Dirt-Farmer's
wife to Tramp-Well, now that you have
got your cold meat, l suppose you
,would like Worcestershire sauce
French mustard, cream salad, ground
colery. Tramp-Madam, l don't want
the earth! Farmers Wife, shouldn',
think you would. You have got more
than your share OF it on your face now
Burlington Free Press.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-02-21

"A small boy remarked the other
day that If children made the chill
dren's books they would not be SO silly.
Book Buyer.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-02-21

What will be the end OF the hui
man race" inquired the orator, and
one fellow in the audience remarked
that If cremation continued to grow in
popularity the race would end in a
dead heat --Terre Haute Express.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-02-21

"A Wichita (Kan.) man is said t.
have sat up three successive nights Il
kill cat, but the cat never found i
out-Kansas City Star.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-02-21

AHu you ACTUALLY UOOh Hill " lAc
theater with you"
II did, and he was in bad humor
all through the performance because
| hadn't taken a private box He
said he wasn't accustomed to sitting
out there among common people in
the parquet."
That's fact; the gallery would
have suited him better
wasn't .hirty-five dollars rather
high for him to charge me?"
.Since he consented to eat with
you sundry times and accompany you
to dollar-and-half seats in the theater,
possibly, it is not very excessive
That's just what he said, and
added that he should have made il
more, only he thought that I'd come
down with a ten-dollar bill at least as
a tip for him personally. But, you
see, didn ask him to eat with me
or go to the theater, either. The re-
quests came from him."
"Well, what did you do?" wa.
Il compromised by giving him five
dollars-that is to say, forty dollars in
all had heard that hackmer
charged pretty high, but confess
didn't think they asked as much a,
that He said. though, that twas
pretty trying to drive through the
parks and by the prominent buildings
day after day, and that they ought te
get more than they do"
''When did all this happen?"
Last night. I did expect to stay
over until tomorrow, but my unfortu
nate blunder in not properly under
standing the clerk busted my calcula
tions. You see he asked me il
wanted room single or en- suite
that's the way he explained it to M
this morning What ! thought b
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-11-07

They are all singing Johnny Jones and
his Sister Sue" The rendition is admira-
BILE and has an undercurrent of ghoulish
glee which Digby Bell can never hope to
initiate. Vino? Why the druggists of
course. They take to that song like
ducks to water. That same peach, ="
that Same, old, globular affair" has
done them many a good turn when bust
ness was dull.
1t is sad to think that they can take
such a keen delight in the horrible fate OF
those misguided children, but, if you are
in the least morbid in your tastes, go to
the corner of Patton avenue and North
Main street. Here, above the rumbling
of the carts and the emphatic asides of
the would-be passengers in that long ex-
pccted electric car, can ever be heard
those sweet, mournful strains, so replete
with visions dear to every undertakcr's S
heart. We make a distinction between
them and the druggists in this respect.
The latter, although they "speed the
parting guest" always wish that he
would tarry just on this side of Jordan.
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-11-07

Mayor Blanton'S office was crowded
to-day with the cusualnumber offenders,
who desired to deposit their contribu-
tions. The emulation was so great that
the sum of thirty-fve dollars was col
lected during the morning During the
afternoon the rush became less, and only
ten dollars was added to the fund.
H. X. McAbee and w. Fowler seemed
to feel that the mayor had been sighted,
and arranged a little impromptu fight,
which was very short, but contained a
good deal of condensed excitement. At
least, the crowd seemed to think so. In
fact, one of the combatants was SO stimu-
lated by the popular applause, that his
opponent, i'll his haste to secure a good
position from which to admire him, mis-
took the bottom of the wagon tor the
top, and took i'll the show through the
spokes of the wheels. The feature of the
occasion was his features which were
covered with gore. However, he got the
belt and ought to be contented. What
kind of belt it was, has been accurately
ascertained. All agree that it was wooden
and very hard.
The mayor, i'll his usual bland way,
evinced his appreciation of their ell
deavors to amuse the public, and bound
each over i'll the sum of one hundred dol
lars to appear at the next session of the
criminal court