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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-12-31

name furnishes the definition and ex-
plains the proposed policy. Kate Field
has happily defined Blaine's scheme as
free trade on the half SHE'LL 1t
simply says to the powers approached:
Throw your ports open to our COM
merce and we will reciprocate. 1t goes
farther than the conservative demo-
cratic doctrine of tariff for revenue
only, and yet the republicans who sing
the praises of reciprocity ring forth
their hallelujahs for the blessings Of
protection. Great is Mckinley for he
protects you! Great is Blaine for he
will make breaches in the Chinese wall
that has SO long prevented your exer-
cising the right of buying where you
can buy the cheapest! II you want
protection. we have all there is Of it.
II you want free trade, we'll give you
piece of it. Such is the sophistry of
the situation.
There is lack of accuracy in the
republican writer's who are crediting
Blaine with first suggesting ''recip-
procity" as the name Of his proposed
international policy. The magnetic
statesman no doubt read 1.-THE Rise Of
Silas Lapham," by William D. How
ellis. and without going further he
could have found there suggestion OF
both policy and name. Lapham, man
of rugged honesty and with strong
common sense as the best accompani-
ment for honesty. was lamenting the
fact that the home market was over
stocked with almost every commodity,
and especially with the mineral paint
! which was his hoped-for means OF
fortune. These were among his words
to his good wife and counselor: They
say we cant expect to extend our com
merce under the high. tariff system
we've got now, because there amt any
sort Of reciprocity on our side. We
want the other fellows to show all the
reciprocity and the English have the
best Of us every time. Detroit Free
Press.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-12-31
IN WOMAN'S WAY.

GRACE M. THOMAS is said to be tho
only woman real estate agent in Wash
ington She has had tolerable success
during the year she has been in bust.
ness
ONE Of the best mining experts OF Ar
izona is Nellie eastman. q tall, dark
eyed young woman less than 80 She
is known all over the state as . most
reliable worker.
MRS NJ. H. HIGGlNs. of Washington,
has been engaged by the native women
Of Ceylon as director Of their society for
the promotion Of women's education.
She gives her services, receiving only
her expenses as remuneration.
In spite Of the slurs cast upon the
housewifely knowledge Of literary and
society women, there are many Of them
who. II popular report be true, look Is
well to the ways Of their households Is
any Marthas who do nothing else.
Among those who have q practical
knowledge Of cookery and housekeep-
ing may be mentioned Mra Burton
Harrison, Mrs Van Rensselaer, Cruger,
Mrs w. c. Whitney. Mrs Levi p. Nor.
ton. Mrs Chauncy NJ. Depcw and Mrs
Cyrus w. Field.
THE Silver Cross club is new enter.
prise in which some New York women
are interested. The club proposes to
reach out to all self-supporting women,
and the aim is to be helpful to each
other in practical way. They pro-
pose to cooperate in purchasing the
necessaries OF life for one thing. They
will conduct . bureau of information
whose business it will be to find en-
ployment for women. They will con-
duct women who are strangers in the
city to respectable boarding places
within the limits of their purse The
expenses of the club are to be met
through the ducA The latter will be
q nominal gum per year. Elnily Yer.
dery- Bsttey = The p..u,- ,er Of tn.
olrh
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-12-31
THE "BuTS" HAVE IT.
Blaine and Blarney Had for Hoosier
Hen.

Blaine and Blarney Had for Hoosier
II is pretty much the same story
throughout the republican camp
President Harrison is real good man,
but
The butts all have the same termina-
tion-their objective point is J. G.
Blaine, now reported by an enthusias-
tic organ to be in the saddle. He was
not in the saddle during the war. pre-
ferring gainful pursuits not disasso-
ciated from army contracts to the
pride, pomp and peril Of glorious war.
He never came nearer . pitched battle
than in 1884, when. though he had the
dashing soldier, John A. Logan. at his
back, he was routed. horse. foot and
substitutes. 1t was not until after the
war Of the rebellion that the mighty
Blaine became voracious devourer Of
confederate brigadiers
This dashing knight, without fear
after BATTLE and without reproach il
timely illness intervenes to prevent
formal corroboration of accusation, is
now the great hero of all cbevaliers Of
IuuuStIye nS OUCH HC ID IuC IGClplGut
of the benefit Of the butts.
One republican journal dearly loves
the distinguished Hoosier, but prefers
Little Rock s. Fort Smith; another
cannot think sufficiently we'll Of dea.
Mr.. Harrison. but the dashing burn.
this-letter hero is SO magnetic that Mr.
Harrison doesn't draw; another thinks
well Of the white house tenant, but Mr..
Blaine is on the ground floor, and, in
his own graphic language. will prove no
deadhead in the enterprise: another
would not have Mr.. Harrison set aside,
but the secretary is now SO well. so
entirely in kind-regards-to-Mrs Fish.
er humor, SO affable and gushy. SO pat.
YOU on the back and shake you with.
both-hands popular that the carrying
of the banner must be intrusted to him
in campaign calling Justify for re.
cruits. So it runs-all BENJAMIN and
"buts," all Blaine and blarney.
1t may be Blaine. it probably will be
Blaine at Minneapolis, but the butts
will only then have begun. 1t will be
"a over again with vengeance.
cagO Times
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-12-31
A Colored woman.s Work.

Mrs. Carrie l.. Steele, q colorcd wo-
man, has founded home for orphan
and has just succeeded in raising S3. 600
of s.. O0o needed to complete and fur
nish the building. Mrs Steele is about
fifty years Of age. and since beginning
her work for orphans has learned to
read and write. She now has twenty
four children in charge. All the labor
of the home is done by friendless old
people who find refuge there; she has
garden which supplies the table and
aids in making the home self-sustain-
ing; and day school and Sunday school
have been started.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-12-31
SMiTHY SONG.
When am half a-dreaming.
And only half aalcen

When am half a-drenming
And only half asleep.
When daylight's grayest cleaning
Gins through the blinds to peep,
Oh. then hear the dinging
OF the smithy hammers ringing,
Ching ching. ching. ching.
Ching ching. ching ching
Al eve when I'm returning
From labors OF the day.
Their forges yet are burning.
And still their hammers play;
And oft tho smiths are singing
To that measured. merry ringing
Ching. ching. ching. ching.
Ching. ching. ching ching.
Often with rhythmic bending
OF bodies to and fro
They toll in couples. sending
The sparks out. blow on blow:
One hammer always swinging
The while the others ringing,
Ching ching. ching ching.
Ching ching. ching ching.
o merry anvils sounding
All day till set Of SUM
II Is BY steady pounding
That noblest tasks are done.
BY sturdy blows and swinging
That keep the world a-ringing.
Ching ching, ching ching.
Ching ching. chiag ching.
George Horton. in Century.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-12-31
FAMOUS BEAUTY At NINETY.

10 Wonderful COuntenance and Charac.
ter Of the Mother OF Bartholdi.
The late Nine. Bartholdi was no ordi-
nary person, and on her nintieth birth
lay she looked SO full of life and
oeamed SO with mental vigor and
aeartiness that it was . wonder she did
aot live to . hundred. She was left .
widow early. and devoted herself to the
education of her sons and the steward
ship of their paternal properties. which.
1nder her management. were increased
20 fortunes. Though SO well endowed
with the money.making faculty she
was . person of generous disposition
Ind given to hospitality.
In youth she was reputed to be the
handsomest girl in Alsace. As an old
woman she was more than handsome
The pure outlines remained. and the fire
II the kindest, quickest and most lam
bent eyes imaginable Was never
luenched 50 long as life remained. The
son must have had her in his head as he
remembered her in her you niger days
when he was sketching the design of
the colossal statue Of Liberty Enlight-
.ning the World"
It was her idea that Liberty should
not be en- pate de guimauve. but Of .
grave and severe aspect. Liberty was
The best of all conditions, she used to
say, for those who were severe upon
themselves, and the worst for the self
indulgent One never saw . trace of
self-righteous harshness in the old lady.
She was very indulgent toward the
srring; but that grace, she said, came
with the wide experience Of old age.
1t was q source Of enjoyment to her
10 drive to the isle Of Swans, in tho
Seine. and look at the reduced copy
which was set up there few years ago
Of the famous statue which now stands
st the entrance of New York harbor.
One of her sayings was: "Do not re-
press badness; crowd it with good
ideaA"-London Truth.
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the sexea Once every day they send
to the sub-treasury and buy large
quantity Of brand new bills, SO that
when q woman presents check she
will be paid in crisp money fresh from
the mint. $. !. Frissell, president Of
the Fifth Avenue bank, says Of his
women depositors:
II find them much more careful in
that respect than men are apt TO be.
They sometimes make mistakes, OF
course, but they are not SO liable to
overdraw purposely and take chances
on making it good before the check
gets here as men are. They are very
quick to learn the process of depositing
and checking out money, and seldom
have to be told the same thing twice.
Many of our female customers have
large accounts and keep handsome bal.
ances with Us. and there are also many
who keep an account for household ex-
penses, The latter accounts swell up
at the first of each month, and as rule
dwindle gradually down toward the
last, but the depositor generally man.
ages to add something to her balance
each month until quite snug sum is
laid away for q rainy day. The custom
is growing among men of moderate
means to give their wives . stated sum
for pin money and household expenses.
This goes into the bank nowadays,
whereas it used to 60 into the bureau
drawer Women can save money bet
ter than men, and many . poor fellow,
when he thought he had reached the
end of his financial tether, has been
agreeably surprised ~ his wife's hank
account and helped out OF q very tight
pinch. Other men of improvident hab-
its. but with good salaries. give every
dollar they earn to their wives as soon
as they get it These men always ben
eft by it. for when it comes to close
financiering in the humble, everyday
walks of life. the women are away
ahead OF us" s."-Springfield Mass Re-
publican
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-12-31
Reasonable Progress.

Detective Ito Chief has
killed q woman and two children in q
house on Mulberry street
Chief-Have you any clue to the MUIR
derer:
Detective-ko; but have the house
located all right.--Puck.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-12-31
KnA that Mind n

Not that Kind Of IN Expert.
DR.. Emdee-Ny man, you are sadly in
nesd of change.
Hardup-Yes; but I called you Is .
medical not - financial expert
Jury.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-12-31
BlAlNE'S POSITION.
The Game Of Plot as Played by Repub-
lican Gamesters.

The Game Of Plot as Played by Repub-
lican Gamesters.
The position of Hon. James G. Blaine
as constructively an aspirant for the
republican nomination for president
next year. while at the same time Sec
retary of state under. President Harri-
son, who is an avowed candidate for re-
nomination. is so anomalous that there
is reason to believe Mr.. Blaine must
soon announce the abandonment of his
ambition or the resignation of his cab
met Office.
The Blaine movement already under
way in several states is avowedly an
anti Harrison movement. In the state
of New York it is engineered by the
Warner Miller opposition to Thomas
c. Platt's control Of the party. which
has been made absolute by federal pat
ronage. This opposition has already
taken form in the organization of
Blaine clubs, work in which Hon.
James J. Belden appears to be the
prime mover. In Pennsylvania Sena-
tor Quay has already carried through
his plot for conventions in early Jam
uary in Philadelphia to forestall the
work of the Harrison officeholders. and
IN Indiana the anti-Harrison men have
well-laid plans to capture the delega-
tion from that state for Blaine as
marked humiliation to the national ad-
ministration. In brief. wherever
throughout the country there is to be
found q republican disguised with
Harrison there is to be found vocif-
erous Blaine shouter.
Ordinary political decency, of course.
forbids the secretary of state to hold
his present position in politics to the
end of the month. If he is to lead the
revolt against the head of the admins
tration, courtesy to his chief requires
that he tender forthwith his resigna-
tion to the president But, on the
other hand, If he does not intend to be
a candidate for the nomination next
year, it is equally duty to the presi-
dent to announce that fact and put an
end to the use of his name az an anti
Harrison rallying cry. The ways of
Blaine. however. have always been
devious, and as the situation demands
a frank statement from him, which
almost any other man in public life
under like conditions would hasten to
make. that probably is the last thing
to be expected from Mr.. Blaine. Al
bany Argus.
RECIPROCITY AND THE G. @. p.
Blaine's Jingo Policy OF Free Trade on
tho Half Shell.
Just now the republican organs are
teeming with such sentiments as these:
Ring out the joyous praise OF protec-
tion's honest reign. Reciprocity is the
watch word for the ninety-two cam
paign." "Protection is triumphant,
now ON to reciprocity"
What is reciprocity but free trade
between the countries involved? The
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-16

Like many another reformatory craze,
that which has swept over Kansas recently
only needed plenty of rope and it was
sure to hang itself. 1t got plenty of rope.
1t secured complete control of everything
in sight, including an overwhelming ma
jority in the legislature pledged to all
manner of wild reactionary and revolu-
tionary schemes.
That legislature has just adjourned,
having accomplished worse than nothing
where so much was promised or expected.
The disappointment among the PEOPLE is
even greater than they realized from the
inefiiciency of judges who were chosen be-
cause they were ignoraat Of law. Through
out Kansas. among those who hoped by
political revolution to remedy evils that
wee due to bad finsnciering and climatic
conditions, the inevitable failure of the
imagined panacea has intensified their dis
satisfaction.
To treachery or Incompetence on the
part of their representatives is attributed
failure which the utmost fidelity and the
highest capacity could not have avoided
Those representatives soon discovered
that there is a wide difference between
perceiving and complaining about evils or
grievances, and the devising and spplica-
ton of effective remedies. They soon per-
ceived that legislation was relied upon to
correct conditions with which legislation
had and conld have nothing whatever TO
do. They soon perceived that Law cannot
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cure the effects Of reckless investments,
improvidence or an unpropitious season
And so it has come to pass that those
who bIindly depended upon legislature
born of political revolution to devise some
occult means Of wiping out farm mort
cages and raising full crop in spite
of . drorth have been griev-
ously disappointed But it is to
be hoped that when they come
to the point Of calling their representatives
to account, and hearing their reasons for
failure to realize expectations, they. too,
may be brought to perceive that those ex-
pectations were unreasonable and impossi-
bic Of realization. And thus, perhaps and
probablySfrom having been given plenty
Of rope, instead Of hanging themselves
they viii simply hang these erroneous mo-
tons, and for themselves the rope viii
have worked cure.
And then We may hope and expect to see
thousands of them vending their way
westward, where production and honest
finance will pay of farm mortgages, where
drouths are unknown, and where there Is
better and surer dependence than upon
Wild legislation for prosperity and progress.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-16
AUDITING CITY BILLS.

The disclosures recently made by Alder
man Pontius and Delegate Kittinger, have
stimulated the city officials to the inven-
ton of some system of book keeping by
which bills against the city can be
checked against duplication, goods ordered
vouched for as received and as in accord
ance with acquisitions, and method
adopted of charging expenses to the in
curing department.
The City Council is considering an or
dinance which will extend the power of
the purchasing age mt SO that discretion
may be exercised in honoring acquisitions
from the departments. The Board of Pub
lie Works, mainly through the efforts of its
secretary, Mr.. F. w. d. Holbrook, has es-
tablished a system by which goods cannot
be recklessly ordered. and an account is
kept of all articles received.
City Comptroller Ferris proposes to so
step further and give that character to his
office which it was intended by the char
ter to have. He suggests that every reouisi-
ton be numbered, and duplicate of that
kept by the Board of Public Works shall be
stamped by him and recorded in a book
relating the date issued, or when drawn,
amount, date of sending bill, date of pay
ment, amount paid. number of warrant
and the fund drawn upon. 1t would
seem impossible with such simple but
clear system of bookkeeping to have
bill paid which is not thoroughly authenti-
Gated. The city has power beyond the
stage at which the old style of sticking a
bill in pigeon hole until its correctness
was beyond Ineligible inquiry and then
having warrant drawn to pay it because
there was no alternative left.
Of far more Importance than any cleri-
cal correctness, however, is the necessity
for a firm stand by the council against ex-
penses. Officials are always wanting
something. If the rule is established that
nothing is to be purchased by any de-
partment for the next six months except
the barest necessaries of official life. the
city will be able to catch up with its drafts
upon the future.
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coLLocArIoN or SCRIP.

The mayors veto Of the ordinance pro-
viding for the redemption of scrip viii be
the subject of an early debate by the board
Of aldermen. A principle of public policy
is involved. and it is to that the attention
of the legislative body must be directed.
The opinion of the corporation counsel
the official legal adviser of the city council
lis very decidedly and unequivocaliy ex-
pressed against any doubt of its constitu-
tionality. His opinion receives strength
from the informal concurrence of other
distinguished lawyers. and there is no
body officially competent to controvert
him, unless an appeal should be taken to
the supreme court.
The ordinance, in brief. provides that
the city may issue several series Of bonds,
each series equivalent to the amount Of
scrip outstanding against any local inn
provement fund, which shall take the
place Of the outstanding scrip. The differ
ence between the scrip and the proposed
bonds is that the first bears 10 per cent.
interest which need not be paid until the
scrip is called in. while the new bond bears
only per cent, but the interest is payable
semi-annually until the bonds are called
in. If they should not be redeemed by
funds collected from the interested prop
erty owners, at the expiration Of i've years
from the date of their issue, they will be
payable out of the general fund.
This last provision has been the STUN
bling block. Up to that point it is gener-
ally conceded there is no objection to the
plan, but that indeed it has very meri-
torious features. There was fear that it
attempted to constructively validate an in
debtedness or primarily assume q liability
for which the city is at present only con-
tingently responsible, and it was upon this
ground that the mayor vetoed it. The
city has already had to issue warrants to
meet judgments obtained in the courts
compelling it to pay scrip, and if the ordi-
nance is not passed there is every indica-
ton that many more suits of like
character will be brought. They could be
carried to the Supreme Court and time
gained; but there is too much reason 10
fear that in some cases at least the city
would receive adverse judgment, and
heavy costs would be added. The damage
done the city's credit in such an event
is q serious contingency.
A strong point made in favor Of the
bonds is that they are no more valid
so far as the constitutionality of the
debt is concerned-shan the scrip they will
replace; and if the holders are content to
take them now and await collection of
grade taxes, the city viii benefit greatly by
reduced interest, by the compacting of
scattered evidences of debt, and immunity
from Law suits.
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Spokane Review.

Major r D. Gwydir, who has lust returned
from Olympia. viii soon camp on the trail of the
siwash and take census OF their number. He
said yesterday that the trouble experienced by
the census takers heretofore is that the Indian
agent could not easily count their noses because
they never stay long enough to kill grass in one
place. He said that the usual method was TO
have the different tribes counted BY farmers in
the vicinity OF the tribe, but the work was al.
ways imperfectiy done. The most effective
work In taking census OF the Indians has been
accomplished BY the priests" said he, ssbus they
do not know to what tribe any Of the Indians
belong and the fact that the British Columbia
rednen and the lower tribes mingie, causes con.
siderable trouble. The object Of the census in
TO see how much land the Indians need in order
that mineral claims may be opened to the
whites At present there are about 80 acres for
each Indian"
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1t is automatically stated that the can't
tai Of California swarms with detectives.
and that every doubtful legislator is shad.
owed, so as to prevent or expose any buy
ing of votes in the pending senatorial con-
test. As il is only claimed that there are
Is out of the 10 members above suspicion,
the employment of a formidable detective
force is implied. 1t is intimated that GER
tain potent influences think that if no
money is used by anybody their favorite
stands the best chance. But outraged
solons may resent this interference with
their perquisites.