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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-05-22
RlPENlNC BANANAS.


Gas Makes the Only Heat That VIII Take
the Place ri Nature.
Few people outside OF those directly
Interested In tho fruit business know
exactly how the large quantities OF
bananas which come to Boston are cared
FOR by the dealers. Two or three large
steamer loads Of the yellow fruit come
to Boston weekly. When they arrive
about nine-tenths Of tho lunches arc
perfectly green. In fact, all OF them
were green when they lef Jamaica, the
yellow ones having ripened on the pas
sage up.
The Green punches have to be handled
and ripened with great care, and it was
for the purpose Of seeing this done that
tho writer visited one OF the oldest
fruit and produce commission houses in
the city.
"Ion sce," said member OF the firm,
bananas are divided into four classes
or grades, the finest lunches being
known to the trade as golden wells
These are the very best fruit grown,
ard in . cargo Of say $4,000 lunches
there will be only from 200 to 400
UuHIuGo Va BOiuSH SeIiS. NeAt W GlCSC
come No. 1, then come eight hands, and
the small lunches are styled No. 2's
and are the cheapest These are the
kind that arc sold by street hawkers.
THE moment we receive out fruit va
hang the lunches up in our hot room"
lie then led the way to his fruit ripen-
ing room, which is double-decker, and
is brilt into tho left wall of the store.
these two rooms are heated by gas"
he continued, and the temperature is
kept at about seventy. There is no heat
that will perfectly ripen bananas or
other fruit but that from gas. We have
tried every thing else, and we found
that all but the gas shriveled the fruit,
ripened it too quickly. or ripencd it un-
evenly; therefore, everybody in the
business now uses gas"
This heat-ripening process is, Of
course, only for the winter time, for as
soon as the weather begins to get mild
we take away the gas heat, allowing the
fruit to ripen in natural manner, and
when the hotter months are reached We
are obliged to hang up our fruit In tn
cellar. Boston Globe.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-05-22
WHERE THE KISSES GROW.

they leap from the soul o. baby
And then all over IL spread.
From the white and pink OF its toe tips
To the halo OF gold round its head.
From the depths Of its dainty dimples.
From the roseate laughfer.turned lips,
From the smooth, shapely neck and shoulders
TO the tapering finger tips.
They're hidden within every heart fold,
And cudiled down close TO the core,
And. tho they are evermore gathered,
Still find there thousand fold more!
And each one seems softer and sweeter
Than the treasure found just before
Till l wonder II ever the Sweetest
Is taken from baby's vast store.
So daily search for and seize them.
And hourly pluck new prize
Sometimes from the whitest OF foreheads
Sometimes from the brightest Of eyes;
And whisper-oi angesissad baby,
Do you feel--can you ever quite know
OF the wonderful worth OF these kisses
That ever continue TO grow.
or the wcarisome woes that they soften.
OF the heart cares they curtain from sights
That their magic scars out through the sun
shine.
And on thro' the knells Of the night.
hold that we're higher ard better
For every fresh kiss that we take,
For every fond love token given
When given fer sacred loves sake:
For. II purity.s planted in earthdom.
Then surely II springs from the soul
OF that beautiful. angel.like being,
As its life page begins to unroll.
30 I'll gather them early ard often.
From the bright curly head TO the toe,
I can't rob the wee tot OF its treasures
For still they'll continue 10 grow:
And II after years there.l CLEAN . mem'ry
That backward forever will flow,
To that bonnte-eyed babe OF the bygone,
Whose kisses no longer may grow.
Detroit Free Press.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-05-22

The age Of the heroine OF the novel IL
slipping along the scale 1T marvellous
rate. She used to be the ''sweet seven
teen" in the days Of Lydia Languish I"
She is ten years older now. and the
novel of the next decade may find her
most available at forty. For 1t is
largely question Of availability after
all" said . successful novelist. 1.-THE
modera subjective and analytic novel
has nscessitated the change. The mind
Of the very young woman is lacking in
the depth, in the discipline and com.
plexity which must 60 to make up tn,
available subject OF the modern dissec.
ton methods. She Is charming, but she
won't go as . modern heroine. This
must be woman who has thought who
has achieved something, who has had
experience in life, who stands for some.
thing. and whose personality offers op
portunity for study and critical analy'
hA.-N. Y. Star.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-05-22
THE DEACON'S WOOING.
Hie Quest After Western Land on
the r Sc.


showed any signs Of life AMI energy.
The rest Of the week it drowsed and
languished after tho fashion OF small
country towns remote from railway and
manufacturing centers.
whoa. Mary Jane!' said the deacon.
with unnecessary emphasis, throwing
the reins on the mares broad back and
springing to the ground.
But the desrondent Mary Jane had al
force of habit Ten years service with
the deacon had made her perfectly faril.
jar with the accustomed round OF stop
ping-placea Wednesday night it was
prayer-meeting; Sunday. the church
service, and Saturday night invariably
the postoffice, and, as a late variation,
an after pause at the house OF Mrs.
Betsey Hill, the milliner, who. for .
quarter Of . century, had supplied the
women of New Bethany with headgear
fearfully AMI wonderfully made.
The moment the deacon stepped inside
the Office he knew, from the unusual
buzz of conversation. that something
extraordinary had happened.
..IIcard the news-eh, deacon?" asked
one of the village loungers.
The deacon looked up, inquiringly.
.Miss Keziah's had an amazin' streak
OF luck"
Its been nothin' but an amazin'
streak OF luck ever since she was born"
returned the deacon. IF ownin' the best
farm in town and havin' money at inter-
est isn't luck, Id like to know what is"
''Yes; but this is something out Of
common. You used to know her broth
er, who died years ago and left his only
child for Miss Keziah to bring up?
Wa'al, when the old man Mead died,
Miss keziah took the farm as her share
of the property, and her brother, bein'
Of royin' turn of mind, took the few
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-05-22

The greatest bridge on earth was
opened in March at Edinburgh, Scotland.
It's length is 8. o9G feet. 1t stands fifth
in the list Of highest structures in tho
world: Eiffel Tower, Washington Monu-
lnent Cologne Cathedral and Old 81
Paul's, London. Engineering experts
declare it marvel of skill, the public .
marvel of convenience. 1t is also most
unsightly and puts blot on one Of the
loveliest views in the world. Lovers of
natural beauty are saying to the cheer
ing public with Ruskin: ''iou make
railroads OF the aisles OF the cathed rails
of the earth, and eat OF their affairs. -"
Chautauuuan.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-05-22

Shortly before his departure from
Berlin Prince Bismarck visited rcstau
rant keeper who had been his cook for
many years. Sitting at one OF the lit
tie tables he ordered u cup of coffee, and
then, making his old cook sit down at
the same table, he told him that the cof-
fee tasted all the better for being made
in SO big cup; especially" he added.
"since have been forbidden to drink
any coffee ct ALL"
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-05-22
THE ENGLISH SOvEREiGNS.
James I. the First Believer In the Divine
Rights Of Kings.

James /. the First Believer In the Divine
Rights OF Kings.
There seems to be little ground for
contending that in England the monarch
was ever held to rule by divine right,
at least by any other divine right than
that which sees the benediction of
Heaven in acual possession-tedH posi-
dentcs. 1t was not much heard of till
the accession Of James l., and was used
by him to supplement notorious defect
of hereditary title, which he was un-
willing to strengthen by an acknowl-
edgment that he owed his throne to
election by the nation. The factis that
James !. was King Of England by kind
OF adoption, not altogether dissimilar
to that which prevailed under the Roman
Empire, and with the working Of which
NJ. Renan is SO we'll pleased that he
would like to see 1t introduced into the
public law of modern Europe. The ex-
treme doctrine Of divine right which
Shakespeare puts into the mouth Of
Richard ii. is an anachronism. 1t be-
longs not to the fourteenth century, bat
in germ. perhaps, to the closing years
of the sixteenth and the commencement
of the seventeenth, to the Tudors and
Stuarts, and not to the Plantagenets.
In the words
mot all the water In the wide rough sea
Can wash the balm from an anOinted King;
The breath Of worldly men can not depose
The deputy elected by the Lord"
1t is noticeable that it Is not the heredi-
tary title. but election by the Lord the
consecrating balm and not primogeni-
ture and rule Of birth. Oh which an in
alienable right is based. So in Hamlet,
the usurper and murderer. Claudius,
avows himself safe in tho shelter Of
that divinity which doth so hedge Q
King that treason can but peep to what
it will. A subject and courtier of Eliza
beth and of James |. could not identify
divine right with hereditary title, in
which they were lacking. Elizabeth,
indeed, during the Essex rebellion, is
said to have detected incentives to sedi-
ton in the story Of Bolingbroke's ad-
venture, and to have exclaimed: know
We not that / am Richard II.?" But ii
we are to 81 pose that Shakespeare was
writing as politician and not as poet,
1t must be kept in mind that his politics,
il they were not, as is sometimes con.
tended, those of the House Of Lancaster,
were certainly in succession those OF the
houses of Tudor and Stuart, whose title
was through the House Of Lancaster.
Till near the close of the fourteenth
century of our history the doctrine that
the King never dies, expressed in the
formula OF the French monarchy, 1.-The
King is dead; long live che King" did
not prevail. The reign OF the new mon.
arch was supposed to begin, rot on the
day of what is now called his accession
but on the day OF his coronation; the in
terval between the two was often law.
less anarchy. and the Kings peace died
with him. The Inconvenience which
this state Of things produced when aay
considerable interval elapsed between
the death Of the King and his corona
ton made it necessary to adopt the sys
tenn which recognizes no interregnum
Contemporary Review.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-05-22
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

A book that is likely to make some
stir"-the cook-book.-Norristown Her.
AID.
-Bacon-"The doctor said you had
very high fever, last week." Egbert-
II guess he was right. notice by
his bill his charge was ."-Yonker
Statesman.
-Gilhooly-"I heard you were not ex.
pected to live" Gus De Smith-"Yes,
the doctors gave me up" "How did you
come to get well?" Il gave up the
doctors. Texas Siftings.
Miss Gushlere-''IIow torturing. how
fearful the thought must be for great
singer to know she has lost her voice"
Mr.. Praclere-''It'sn much more torturing
when she doesn't know it."-Hartford
Lampoon.
-''Sir!' he said to the proprietor OF q
dry goods store, 81 have called to notify
you not to trust my wife on my account,
IS She" Don't worry. sir, it has
been ten years since you had any credit
at this store!"-Detroit Free Press.
Get out OF this!" said tailor to an
untidy looking tramp, who had strayed
into his store. This is not fitting
place for YOU" Il doubt if it's fitting
place for any body. replied the tramp.
Light.
Two busy doctors meet and speak Of
the influenza "You must have plenty
Of work, " says one. Don't speak Of it, !"
replied the other, 81 am absolutely
played out. The patients are killing
their doctors at present" Revenge is
sweet" the other retorts.-Le Figaro.
Tit for Tat. Younger Injecting
Miss Winters on the street)-.Why,
how do you do?" Miss Winters with .
cold stare)-"You have evidently made
> mistake. SIR" Mr.. Younger-"I beg .
thousand pardons-I mistook you for
your mother. Epoch.
don { take much stock
In the idea that fish diet builds up the
brain. I've lived on fish, Ash, fish for
three straight weeks and feel less like
doing mental labor than did before
began. Fish phosphorus is humbug. y
Kiljordan-"You have been expecting
too much from it. Phosphorus oni ]
stimulates the brains. It won't create
them" Chicago Tribune.
Manager Ito young playwright
'I'm sorry we cant accept your play. II
doesn't quite. suit" Playwright
That's unfortunate, sir. Win you
kindly suggest wherein it may DO i'm
proved?" Manager-"Sorry again, but
I'm just like you in that respect: dom,
know thing about writing good play,
Washington Star.
~ think" said Mr.. Jason to hi.
wife, that II my health does not i'm
prove shall not last through the sum
mer." I'm sorry to hear II" was tbs
answer, in . not-deeply interested tone
well. that is surprising. I'd just like
to know what in the world you feel sor
ry about?" because, ii you should *
and die in the hot weather it is going K
cost me such q lot OF money for ice."-
Terre Haute Express.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-05-22
THE DAIRY.

You have no need Of dog In bring
ing the cattle home from pastures.
If you desire your cows to do their
best at the pail, give them change Of
food frequently.
To sell milk pays better than to
make it into butter or cheese and sell 1t
IS solids.
Butter can not be made prontably
unless you first select butter cows, and
feed such food as contain rich butter fats.
Should the cows tcats show signs OF
soreness or cracking, heal ut once by
applying little vaseline or mutton
tallow.
-Butter-makers and chccse-makers
should have enough honesty never to
seek foremanship in factory until
they are thoroughly competent
-Butter can be sailed too much when
1t is dry-salted, but not when 1t is brine
salted. The latter method requires the
most salt and the least labor, besides
being sure to salt the butter evenly.
An extraordinary New England COW
of seventy-five years ago is being mem
tA0uCA Ia VIE pAOSSs ASnC Sc1A
pounds Of butter when nine years old.
A contemporary says that the informa-
ton Is useless because the breed Is not
named. Well, as New England has al
ways been foil Of cattle of Swiss descent,
the cows ancestry can be pretty &C
curatcly guessed.
When the heifer drops her first calf
In the spring. 1t gives good chance for
delaying her breeding 50 that she will
drop her second calf early in the fall Of
the next year and her third one late In
the fall Of the year after. This pre-
pares the way for winter dairying, and
gives the Leifer chance to develop
into full cowhood, after which she may
be bred oftener without SO much tax on
her system, which vii, then be matured.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-05-22
MEN WHO FASCiNATE.
Female Views on the Fellows Who Ha
Winning Ways.

Female Views on the Fellows Who Have
Winning Ways.
"And would you marry the sort Of
man who fascinates you?"
"Yes. indeed. don't think there are
any of them good enough, SO there's not
much choice, and you are more apt to be
happy with the man who fascinates you
to the extent of making you forget his
faults than with the one who has so few
faults and is SO moral he just isn't any
thing else"
I'll tell you the kind of man l call
fascinating" said right chatty married
lady with well-esta blished opinions. 1T
is the one who always says the courte-
GUS, agreeable thing, whether he means
it or not. The one who helps you out Of
a street car as If you were princess
royal. The one who continually piques
your curiosity by making you feel that
he is keeping something back, and that
never really allows you to believe that
you know all about him. | like him to
be cultured in the broadcast sense, to
have travelled and read and thought SO
much that he has something to say. and
with authority, on all subjects, and yet
who pays you the most subtle of all
compliments by occasionally referring
to your opinion or asking your indorse-
ment of his views"
1.-THE man call fascinating" said .
girl with q reputation. for possessing all
the Vaccinations belonging to women, as
we'll as understanding those peculiar to
men, lis the big, manly, strong, gentle
one. don't admire that detestable
one who, when thrown with person of
tho opposite sox, makes her feel, for
the time being at least, that she is the
only woman in the world worth talking
to.n-N. Y. Evening Sun,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-05-22
The Largest Cake Ever Made,

TIE ''iubilee cake" presented to
Isue3a Victoria by the Messrs. Gunter,
the ianoNs London surveyors, In June.
1887. WAS triumph 81 the bakers and
confectioners' art. 1t was 2 feet 6 inches
in circumference, 10 feet high, and
weighed over 600 pounds without the
decorations, which alone were over 800
pounds. The design was that of crown.
guarded by lions and surmounted by .
temple bearing figures of Fame and
Glory, each holding trumpets in the>1
hands, heralding theiubilee to the four
quarters OF the world. These, again
were surmounted by temples with min
gled figures of Peace. The panels Of
the base were embroidered in gold on
white satin, bearing the royal mono
gram, while between them were figures
in relief representing the four quarters
of the world. Between the lions which
guarded the crown were medallions
bearing portraits Of her Majesty and the
prince consort IS they appeared on the
wedding day in 1870. Other portraits
represented her Majesty at various ages,
the last being from the photograph
taken in May, 1ss7.-Notes and Queries.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-05-22
THE MAYFLOWER.
Interesting Facts Concerning the vease
That Landed the Pilgrims.

Interesting Facts Concerning the Vessel
That Landed the Pilgrims.
A new training brig has recently been
launched at the Pembroke dockyard in
England. This latest conner in the En-
glish navy has been christcned May.
flower. the last of long line Of vesself
of that name. This has brought out the
interesting and little known fact that
one time an English war ship. The
name is one Of the oldest ship names in
the English navy. going back to 1915.
when vessel with that name carried
some of the knights who fought al
Agincourt across the channel. Her sue.
cessor-the Mayfiower of 1447-was the
flagship Of Richard. Duke of Gloucester.
but the Mayhower of 1920 was an ole
Armada veteran long before she came
across the Atlantic. and took promi-
ment part in that historic sea fight in
1888, fighting alongside OF brakes Re-
yenge and Hawkins Victory. In the
fight off Grayelines, WLeG shc Armada
made . last desperate attempt to save
itself from utter rout, the Mayflower's
part was prominent one. According
to recent writer in the London Graphic,
the ship was one of the chief ones
contributed to Queen Elizabeth's feet
by the merchants Of the city of London,
but Goodwin's Pilgrim Republic states
that the officials of Lynn offered the
Mayfower (5O tons) to join the feet
against the dreaded Spanish Armada.
The Graphic enormously implies that
the Mayfower endsd her days inglori-
ously in the slave trade between Guinea
and America. Goodwin, in reference to
this rumor. says that the SLAYER May
flower was ship of $50 tons, while the
Pilgrim vessel was only $50. The latter
came to Salem in 1929, and the last
known Of her was when she was one of
a feet that landed John Winthrop and
his colonists at Charlestown in 1850.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-05-22
1t Was Original.

Don't you think said an author to
an acquaintance, "that have writton
an original book?'
Eyes, think So"
"You will acknowledge, then. that you
have never seen any book just like it?"
"Yes, I'll do that"
"Ah, I'm glad that l have compelled
you to give me even a wormed-out
acknowledgement Of my ability. You
actually hate to compliment man, but
will you please tell me in what way my
book is strictly originate"
20, yes; it is original In this way: II
is the poorest book that has ever been
published. "-Arkansaw Traveller.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-05-22
IOHN FARNSNORTH, n.
Il W. YOUNG, cashies
bAEK 0FCREsG0}
CREsCO, IOWA.
Receives Deposits, and Makes cDl
lectiOns.

Buzz and eells Exchange, 0oveTnment Don0e
and other securities and does. . generA banking
business.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-22
FIRST SUPERVISOR DISTRICT.
FIRST PRECINCT

FIRST Precinct
Bounded north and west By the city limits,
east by the center of Second street; south by
the center of X street, and including Slater's
addition.
Polling place-west side of Second street, be-
tween and X
Inspectors-AIthur Miller. Fred Werner.
Jndges-prank Gregory, John Sch.oth.
C.erks-C Addington, II Diliman.
SECOND PRECINCT.
pounded north by the city limits: east by the
center of Fourth street; south By the center of
street; ives. by center of Second street.
Polling p'ace-306 street.
Inspectors-W A Anderson, J Bauer.
Judges-Eugene Wachhorst, Adolph Hebron.
Clerks-Aaron Nathan, II Megerle.
THIRD PRECINCT.
Bounded north by the city limits; east by the
center of Sixth street; south by the center of X
street; west by center of Fourth street.
Polling pace-Northwest corner of Sixth and
l streets.
Inspectors-H Nelson, John F brennan
Judges-Clare- &c n Nelson, Fred Kolliker.
Clerks-James Tryon, Warren Starr.
FOURTH PRECINCT.
Bounded north by the city limits; east by cen
ter of Seventh street; south by the center of K
street, and west by center OF Sixth street.
Polling place-603 street.
Inspectors-C Brown, Charles Rood.
Judges-David Harris. Samuel Beede.
Clerks-Herman Fisher, ] 1ubbs.
Fir IN fhESlNSl.
Bounded north by the city limits; east by the
center of Eighth street; south by the center of
street. west by the center of Seventh street.
Polling place-Windsor Hotel, Eighth and J
streets.
Observation-Disclosures Davis, H Melvin.
Judges-Louis Lothhammer A Christensen.
Clerks-Y Gum, Fred iosse.
SIXTH PRECINCT.
Bounded north by the city limits; east by the
center of Ninth street; south by the center of X
street; west by the center of Eighth street.
Polling place-Gillis' Stable, Eighth street, be-
tween ! and J.
Inspectors-D ellis. Hiram Cook.
Judges-L J Harrigan, Porter.
Clerks-F W McFadden William Price.
SEVENTH PRECINCT.
Bounded north by the city limits; east by the
center of Tenth street; south by the center of K
street; west by the center of Ninth street.
Pc ling place-9l0 J street.
Inspectors-H L Nichols, George Kuechler.
Judges-Chsrles Barnes W Boyd.
Clerks A NJ Martin, T Ryan.
EIGHTH PRECINCT.
Bounded north by the city limits east by the
center of Eleventh street; south by the center
of street; west by the center of Tenth street.
Polling place-Whites stable, street, be-
tween Tenth and Eleventh.
Observation-Disclosures Tryon, P H Russell.
Judges-W E osborn, NJ Burke
Clerks-C A Sawtelle, II l. Wise.
NINTH PRECINCT.
Bounded on the north by the city limits; east
center of K street; west by the center of Elev
enth street.
Polling place-No 1870 street
Inspectors-J NJ Milliken, A NJ Smith.
Judges C Z Adams, C Il Krebs.
Clerks-S W McKim, Fred IL Pierce.