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~efe treated as we'll as the
other cattle. But now, we don't
belong to anybody. and citizens
of no country, and its noboby's
business who kills us. Those big
folks up at Washington pass all
sorts of bills. but they are not
coming down here TO see them
enforced; they better not come
down hero bothsring with these
white folks The laws they pass
in favor Of the negroes they would
not enforce them for the negroes
ii the negroes were North.
Gabe wishes those Northern
white folks would stop making
these Southern white folks mad.
Every time they do it. some ne
groes have got to die. The
truth oft is. they are doing us
harm. Let that election bill 20
to the winds. Let the white
folks haye everything their way :;
they are going to have it anyhow;
they tell you so right In congress =.
Gabe can just tell you. these
Southern white folks are no
towards. II the North don't be-
lieve it, let them ask the negroes
Gabs wants three things
peace, something to eat and a
little money. White folks. give
Gabe these and you may have
the whole world and the fence
around it too. Gabe is going to
try and make it to ut. Zion,
where the preachers say he will
hunger no more" GABE.
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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-03-06
Our ret bird.

We call him Bobby. Johnny found
him when he was hardly fiedged out.
He was cuddlcd close to big rock in the
wheat field and crying As If his little
heart would break. just as you would
cry il some great giant should burn your
home and kill your dear brothers and
sisters. That was what happened to this
dear little robin. Some cruel boy had de.
stroyed the home nest, and killed all the
robins but this one. He had slipped
away among the wheat.
He was alone, and cold, and hungry,
50 Johnny brought him home. He soon
grew to be very tame, and ate the bread
and egg which Johnny gave him, readily.
1t was easy to teach him tricks. And
now, while the winter winds blow cold,
and the snow whirls against the win
dows, we have great fun with Bobby.
He will kiss us very prettily, but II Z
stranger offers his mouth for kiss hi
will nip his lip with his long, sharp bill
He will sit on mammals shoulder
for IN hour at time, softly
singing . pretty song, but II she begin.
to eat an apple, and does not offer him .
bite, he will twcak her ear sharply.
Sometimes he will not let her sew. bu,
will fly toward her, seize the thread
and pull it out of the needle before shs
can take stitch. No matter how many
times she threads 1t, he will not let hel
sew until he is tired of the fun. lie viii
climb tiny ladder, then fall down and
make believe he is dead. lie will 'ssin,
for his supper" when wo hold up IN!
dainty and tell him to sing for it.
He will play "hide-and-seek." Blu
we generally let him hide, because HI
pulls our hair when he finds us.-Littl,
Men and Women.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-03-06
THE OLD KITCHEN CLOCK.


II used 10 tick away the years upon the parlor
shelf.
When nrst we wen, keepin' house Belindy
an m self
An thar fer more'n twenty year, il seemed 10
he content
To serve the hours in proper time. an be IN
ornament
An. you d er thought twas almost made 10 reg
erlate the sun.
So Study. round an round each day. the
wheels an pinfers run.
But when the girls rrowed up. ye see they haA
some strange ideas
They didn't consult NJ much bout things. nor
drop an If you please.
But wen hus'lin things around. an ehangin
eyrv room.
An noihin had the same old place. less twas
the kitchen broom.
] didn't much mind the COINS on. but shan't
forget the shock
II gin M WREN they oustei out that good old
faithful clock.
An. then little bronze concern was got TO fiji
its Place,
With dragons crawling up its sides. and just
above the face
A gal they cal -Terpsichorc'' is settin' in a
An playin' on a harp-al,houyh never heard
the air
An when II strikes the half hours out you'd
think fairy sighed.
that a little mouse hal gin faint squeak
fore he died
Then 1t sort O. stirs my conscience when the old
clock strikes the time
With o KIM o. ringing music. in its dear old
honest chin:
For IL seems TO be . sayin'. in a solemn sort o.
way:
"It's just the way OF all the world: we flourish
for day.
An onct went right out thar an says 1: odd
clock see here.
You're with dozen fancy clocks with colnpli
Gated gear
Though taken AZ an ornament las things go
nowadays.
Mebby that tother one deserves passing word
o'praiss.
But when il gifts q balky turn-determined not
to GO
Think it's tou' like folks I've seen-a sort o.
holier show;
An strikes me when clock. or friend. Is faith
full out an out.
'Taint best to change for suthin' that you don't
know nothin' bout
Katharine H. Terry. in Good Housekeeping.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-03-06


Aunt Lois was going out one day for
. walk.
She put on. her warm cloak, and went
into her closet and took down the box
where she kept her neat, gray bonnet.
She put it carefully on, over her soft,
white curls. tied the smooth, pearl-color.
cd strings before the looking-gl and
went out.
She had not gone far before she felt
something funny in her bonnet!
Really" said Aunt Lois to herself,
Il must have fixed my hair very queer.
ly."
So she shook her head as hard as she
could-for she thought that one of her
curls might be caught in the ribbons Of
her bonnet.
Suddenly she felt the funniest tick.
ling on the top Of her head. What could
there be inside Of her bonnet? She
stopped: she looked around.
II must take on my bonnet" said
Aunt Lois, land find out what Is the
matter with the inside Of it."
When she took it on, fat little gray
mouse jumped out, and ran as fast as HI
could along the sidewalk.
Poor little mouse, he had gone to sleev
in a coy box in warm and quiet closet
lie walked to find himself carried along
the street, he did not know where. NJ
wonder he ran away, but am afraid
that he never found his way homo again
-E. c. C0rbett, in Santa Claus.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-03-06
FOR GIRLS AND BOYS.
FIVE USEFUL SERVANTS.

All. Miss Grisclda Grumblegirl,
Your lips are all awry:
A frown IL twisted. like q curl,
Above your hazel eye.
ave are so poor" hear you fling.
Il never can have any thing
Come. take your sewing up. and stitch.
And will tell you true;
You arc not poor. but very rich,
With slaves to work Tor you
Five little slaves who never tire.
Who need no whip and ask no hire.
One pretty servant all the day
Takes boards Of treasure bright
And stores them in your mind away:
His name is Perfect Sight
Give him, my dear. the best OF care.
That when you're old he'll still be fair.
Another smiling with his task,
Makes your dry crust OF bread
Seem sweetcr than the sweets you ss1.
And wish you had, instead.
Oh do not spoil him as you 20.
Lest he into y monster grow.
Another works in glare or gloom,
Scizes the zephyr's sigh.
AHn DflHEs I'D you Sucn SWcct peTlum0
As money can not buy.
Watch over b m. or when too late,
You'll find him grown less delicate.
Then there is sharp young Hearing; he.
With flying footsteps. brings
Wise words, and foods OF melody,
AMI stores OF merry things.
Pc wary. lest he chill with cold,
And fail to work when you are old.
The last Is lord Of all the rest,
And yet your servant. too;
He gives ycu JOY when you're carcsse0
And kisses fall on you.
With these live little slaves, m sure
You can not say that you are poor.
Clara G. Deliver. in Christian Union.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-03-06
"But thought upon II ! long time

"But thought upon II . long time
and concluded in my naughtiness II
could only in some way get there unbe.
known. why then it couldn't be helped
So went on planning, till by and by :
bright scheme came into my silly head
1.-The sleighs Of those days had high
backs that would reach above the heads
OF anybody riding, and the seats were .
kind of box, with lid, that would hold
bushel or two.
Near the night Of the party slyly
put on my linsey-woolsey cloak and
wooden hood, and crept into tins box.
1T was pretty snug at. for was .
chubby girl Of eight, and the lid
wouldn't come down very close; but
when father and mother got in it came
down so quick on the top Of my head
that 1t made me see > whole skyful Of
stars for . minL-e.
But I didn't dare to cry out, and
away we went rumblety-bump across
the meadow, through the long stretch Of
pine woods, down into Kicks Hollow.
then away up steep Young Hill that was
nearly mile long and full of curves and
twists.
Il giggled to myself and thought ]
was having great fun. But 1t was cut
short pretty quick. About half way uF
Young Hill, in the very steepest part,
was the Elbow. Here it always drifted
badly and was awful siding. Mother
wanted to get out, but father thought
twas safe.
'A1l at once we went over, bedquilts.
hot-water jugs and father and mother
together. The lid Of the sleigh-seat
flew up and ont l tumbled with shrek
on top Of the heap
PATTY Jane Swiftr THAT was my
name then,) where under the sun did
you come FROM cried mother, strug.
Cling from under huge wool bedquilt
and looking ct me with stern astonish.
ment.
Il couldn't say = word.
Ibid in the sleigh-box, Ill be
bound she added. Now you may
just march home alone for your disobe-
diencer
There was NO help for it. March ]
must. All, shall never forget how
ran up and down hill, for it was now
quite dusk! Then there was the long
stretch Of gloomy pine woods to GO
through. l stopped on its edge.
thought nerer could; but waiting only
made it worse. shut my teeth hard
and ran with all my might. Twas about
halfway through when
I" ho-,cAo-WHoO-Oor sounded right
close beside me.
II nearly dropped in my tracks with
fright.
"Who, sh0!, rhOo-OO-oO.'
1T was only an owl in tree over my
head. But when got home was ready
to stay at home when l was told to by
those who knew best. Youths Com.
panion.
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Corn stalk Disease In Cows.

Does smut on corn hurt the COW? Some
say yes and some say no. Some affirm
that it causes abortion. The corn stalk
disease is nothing but dry murrain,
caused by gorging the stomach with corn
stalks when first turned into the field,
with perhaps q lack of water. So far as
smut is concerned, experiments were
made by Prof Gamgee, who gave forty
two pounds Of smut to two cows in three
weeks, without any bad effects. We
should not care to feed cows on smut,
and should not care to run any
risks from turning them into q field
where there was good deal OF smut;
but we do believe that the trouble called
corn stalk disease comes principally
from gorging the stomach with this
somewhat naturally irritating fodder
Western Rural.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-03-06

A son Of Erin was passing through .
barnyard in our town, Marlborough,
where cross bull had just been dis.
horned: the bull got the best Of Pat and
rolled him in the mud. He wiggled out
and grabbed the bull by the tail. They
had circus around the yard for some
time, when the farmer. hearing Pat.
cries, ran out and cried: ''What is the
matter? The bull cant hurt you, he il
dishorned." '.Yis," said Pat, ION wsr
end, and be jabers I'm thankful to vel
honor that ye didn't dishorn his tail."-
Exch0nDe
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But Arthur was too dumb-founded 70
speak. His father kindly repeats the
question. and finally Arthur says: Just
anywhere to get away from home"
Don't know where you are going toll
II strikes me that's bad management
very unbusinesslikc. Now, IL l were :
boy, planning to leave my home, I'd
want TO make sure Of q better place to
go TO before starting place where the
people would be sure To want me, es-
pecially the women folks; place where
I'd be clothed, boarded and educated
free Of charge when in health, and where
Id get loving care and attention when
sick. Yes, and I'd want to improve on
the old state of things. or else 1t wouldn't
pay TO change, don't you see? Id want
10 find a man with fewer faults than my
father had. and who would love me just
as much as he did: yes. and Id want to
improve on the mother business, too,
and get in somewhere with gentle. re-
fined woman. who'd have great deal Of
patience with my pranks, and love me a
little better than the other one had
done-yes, Id want to find place fill
ing all these conditions. or else. what in
the mischief would be the use OF max
ing change. at all. old fellow? Don't
you see?' and Mr.. Medford passed his
arms over the shoulders OF the boy and
patted him confidingly.
Such talk and treatment as this from
his father quite broke down the logged
resolution with which Arthur had set
out on the trip, and he blurted out:
but it's Julia. papa: there's no living
in the same house with her. She hates
us boys
Tut, tut. Arthur
"She does; she told me this morning
that four boys are too many for one
house; and told her thought so, too,
II they had her for sister, and that I
was going to run away. Then she tan
talized me until l was provoked into
saying those ugly words that you
heard
well, we'll; ought to have known
the other side before
"You didn't think we'd blow on girl,
did you? We boys don't blow on each
other"
20, we'll, these little matters can soon
be Strengthened out. Julia has been
sick a good deal, and is nervous. But
she has a good heart. and / know she
loves her brothers. There's the whistle
for the next station. Suppose you and
just step of the train when it stops,
and return home together about noon,
just as though nothing had happened. =
just as you say, papa: but don't
want Julia to think l hadn't the pluck
to stay away hair day.
.Nonsense! Danish such thoughts.
Very likely she's crying her eyes out
about you by this time"
And to Arthur's amazement, SO
finds her. She is tho first one to spring
and embrace him, assuring him at once
that less than four boys in that house
can never be enough.
Afterward his mother holds him by the
hand, stroking his hair, as she gently
says:
You thoughtlessly managed to give
us sad morning, my son. There q
young runaway in the basement who
would DO puzzled to guess why any boy
should want to run away from this
home. l shall want you to hear his
story, by and by, and see for yourself
what he has suffered.-Maria Barrett
Butler, in Vick's Magazine.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-03-06

Wong Chin Foo writes that, owing
to the jealousies and rivalries Of the diff
ferent Chinese families in New York .
new temple has been provided and =
rival joss set up 1t No. 6 Mott street.
The name of this new God is Kwan Ii
Gwin-God Of Heaven and Earth-and
he is said to possess much more power
than Kwan Koon, the joss 1T No. IL
Mott street.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-03-06

I'm . recent grammar examination in
one of our Boston schools class WAS re.
quired to write sentence containing q
noun in the objective case. One of the
boys wrote the following sentence:
what noun is there in the objective
case?" asked the teacher. ''Cow," said
the boy. ''Why is cow in the objective
case?' because the COW objects to be-
ing licked. Boston Transcript.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-03-06

1T takes 80 little to make child
happy that 1t Is pity, in world OF
sunshine and pleasant things, that there
should be any wistful faces, empty
hands, OF lonely young hesrts.-Church
man.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-03-06

The orderly mother. with walking
baby in the house, has place for every
thing--and the baby knows where il Is,
-Somersille Journa
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-03-06

The grizzly must go: Old hunters
of the West estimate that not more than
100 grizzly bears. large and small, are
left alive in this country, and it is evil
dent that 'Old Reuben" has to step
down and out before many moons have
passed. Probably all will 60 in bunch
next summer, when the store clerks of
Detroit get vacation. Free
Press.
Evening journal., 1890-12-30
pELAwAse's STATESMEN.
The General Assembly VIII Meet Ne,
week-Important Measures TO be Coz
sidered.

The General Assembly WIN Meet Mex,
Week-ImpOrtant Measures TO be Con
sidered.
The General Assembly of the State OF
Delaware meets in Dover on next Tues.
day. The party csucuses for orraniza-
tion and to lay down the lines OF action
will be held on Monday night. In the
Senate there will be FIVE Democrats and
four Republicans In the House. four.
teen Democrats and seven Republicans
The Democrats will have the orpaniza
tion in both branches. The members Of
the Assembly are already receiving many
bills upon minor matters, but il will he
some time before the more important
measures are in proper shape for
even caucus consideration. The imnort-
ant measures to be brought before the
body comprise, holding a constitutional
convention, abolishing the Levy Court
OF New Castle county and appointing
i've commissioners: district represents.
tioni the Australian voting system or
something similar; state registration
making the sheriff's office a salarled one
divorcing the prisoners feed bill from the
sheriff g Office and placing it in the hands
of jail commission, rs, and making exten.
sive improvements upon the State Insane
Asylum upon the recommendation Of the
superintendent Of that institution.
Seven bills are already being prepared
by as many lovers Of New Castle county
having for their object the abolishment Of
the Levy Court, and every one of the
seven men who are preparing the bills
wants the member Of the Legislature
from bis hundred to pledge himself to
the support of that particular bill. The
LEGISLATORS in caucus will probably take
all seven Of the bills into confederation
ana, selecting the good features from
each, frame a measure that will meet
the approval of their constituents.
II call for a constitutional convention
IS to be made It must be a
compromise measure, as the Demo
Gratis have not the requisite two
Thirds majority to act Independently in
the matter.
divorce bills are accumulating in the
hands Of the members, and Senator John
Z. Donahoe has already received ten or
twelve applications from those who
have had rude swaking after Young
loves sweet dream
Taken altogether the session promises
to be an interesting one, but should the
republican members see fit to adopt
obstructive tao les in county and state
reforms, they may have it in their power
70 prevent the passage Of many remedial
measures.