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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-28
RUSSIAN MUSIC.
How It Was Murdered by y Raw Native
Vocalist.

How It Was Murdered by = Raw Native
Vocalist.
An amusing incident occurred at the
Carnegie library the other day at an
hour when there were but few visitors
in the gallery where the verestchagin
collection is on exhibition, says the
Pittsburgh Press. Alexander, one of
the Russian attendants, slipped behind
the large Daghestan rug that concealed
the piano from view and began to play
. Russian tune with one finger. His
patriotism carried him away TO the ex-
tent of causing him to accompany the
tune with his voice. Now, Alexander
Is nice gentlemanly sort of fellow,
but all the good breeding and upright
principles will not give man good
voice. The result of his vocal attempts
was rasping noise which was aggra-
yated by the gutterals Of the Muscovite
idiom. In this manner the would-be
singer hauled up 'For God and for the
Gear, "The Red Sarafan," "Trom AL
calls Must PART" ETC., from the re-
cesses of his memory. AS the tender
recollections inspired by his song
crowded upon him his lay grew louder
and wierder until his notes were not
unlike the liscords Of dime museum
hannibal OF Of an 'Arapahoe ghost
dancer. A little girl accompanied by
her mother was looking at the pictures
in the room next to the piano. At the
first sounds she pricked up her ears and
asked: Mamma, what is that?" Her
mother was unable to tell. For awhile
they listened attentively and by no
means.rapturousiy. Suddelly the little
one ran up to her mother, chung to her
skirts, and exhibiting all the symptoms
Of extreme terror exclaimed: "Oh,
mamma, let us run; one Of the Russians
must have broken looss,'
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This for You.

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afraid to sent 1t 70 the newspaper.
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make improvements of any kind, let
US hear about it. If q former resi-
dent writes to you any news about
himself, not O: private nature, 1t
will also interest many others if made
known through these columns. Ii
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see Q public cyl, or ap opportunity
to benefit the people or town, we will
give you space to make it known.
But remember don't send any item
to which you would be ashamed to
sign your name. Don't try to mix us
up in any Of your quarrels. And do
not send us family affairs or troubles
which should not concern outsiders.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-28
JARGON OF THE GYPSIES.

| The R0many Tongue Ii Descended from
| tho Greatest Of Ancient Languages.
It is because gypsies OF all lands
wherever they go are Romantics, as
they call themselves, and not French
men, or Hungarians, or Englishmen, or
American, that they have always
seemed mysterious race. They were
looked upon in old times as sorcerers
and magicians. Many poor gypsy has
been accused of magic for no better
reason than was Esmeralda in Victor
Hugo's novel, 'Notre Dame dc Paris
the gypsy girl who was killed because
she had a trained goat that could dance
and play tricks. Even nowadays there
fingers q mystery about the gypsies in
their tents.
1t is this difference, this mystery, that
has set not few scholars to the study
of the Romany and his manner of life.
It fascinated George Borrow, who went
to wander with the wanderers and
pitch his tent by theirs in quiet dingle
or by the roadside; and Charles G.
Leland, who in all his travels, in En-
gland or Egypt, America or Russia, has
given his first thoughts to the Romantics
Of the country; Francis Groome spends
days and hours "In Gypsy Tents;
Hubert Smith married gypsy. 1t is
not merely the Romany himself that in
tercsts these men; it is his language, or
jargon-for language it really is no
longer. But the strange words the
gypsies use, stringing them together
with English phrases and expressions,
are the ssrest proof Of their Hindoo or
igin, says Wide Awake. Some con-
stantly in the mouths Of these shabby,
shiftless wanderers are to be found in
the Vedas, the Oldest sacred hymns in
existence; others are in common use to-
day In India. A friend of mine once
told me she was learning Romany as .
beginning to the study OF ST. crit and
uiudoostanee.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-28
The Raum Scandal.

GREEN b. RAUM, Jr., has resigned
his place as Chief Clerk in the Pen
sion Office, under charges of having
sold places in the civil service and OF
Justification in Civil-Service examina.
tons. These charges, Secretary
Noble has said, he is satisfied are
true
Why, then, was Green B. Raum,
Jr., permitted to resign. Why was
he not dismis sed in the disgrace he
deserves and prosecuted in the courts
for his gross offensess
II these charges are true Green b.
Raum, Jr., is something much worse
than an unfaithful officer of the Gov
eminent. If he has sold places in
the Civil Service he has sold Govern
ment property. If he has abetted
false impersonation in Civil Service
examinations he is a swindler who
should be dealt with as such. Ii he is
not guilty of these things he is wrong.
ed when his resignation is demanded.
II he is guilty the government il
wronged and public morality is out
ragged by the Secretary's act in per
hitting his dismissal to take the
form of resignation.
But the subject has a broader NOR,
al. If the young man has done the
things he is charged with he has on
ly made gross application Of the
principles upon which his father, the
Pension Commissioner, has run the
office. He has sought as his father
has, to use his Office 'for all it il
worth" in his own interest.
In selling places he has only done
what is morally identical with his
fathers act in appointing him and
other members Of the Commissioners
family to Office. He has given places
to those who paid him for the sake
of the money gained; his father hes
given places to those for whom he il
interested in getting living for the
sake OF taking a money burden of
his own shoulders. In essence the
two things are identical.
And the commissioner has applied
the same principle in permitting an
other son to solicit pension business
by exploiting his relationship to tn,
Chief Of the Pension Bureau, which
is another form of sale, with touch
of fraud added.
If Mr.. Noble really cares for tn,
credit of the Administration and tn,
preservation of the Department fron
malodorous scandal he will not res
content with turning young RAus
adrift, but insist that the Presiden
shall turn the whole unscrupulous
shifty, specializing Raum family on
of the public service. The Pension
Bureau is in need of cleansing an,
thorough disinfection.-N. Y. World
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Democratic County Convention.

The Democratic electors of Howard
County are requested to meet in
mass convention in the Court House
in Cresco, Iowa on
SATURDAY JUNE 13. 1891
at one o'clock p. H.. for the purpose
Of elccting seven delegates to at
tend the Democratic State Conven-
ton which meets at Ottumwa, June
"a, 1891.
A County Central Committee in ac-
cordance with the call of the State
central committee will also be select
ed, end such other business trans
acted as may properly come before
the convention.
By order of Democratic County
Central Committee:
JOHN E. PECK, J. J. LOWRY,
Secretary. Chairman.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-28
GERMAN IDEAS OF AMERICA.
strange Impressions Of the peasantry
About This Country.

strange Impressions Of the peaSantfy
About This Country.
Americans who leave the beaten
tracks Of travel in Germany are always
objects of more or less interest to the
people. There is the curiosity due to
the great distance that the visitors have
come from, and, besides, German who
has not relative or at least friend In
this country is a rarity. The traveller
is asked all kinds Of questions about
the United States, and often q most la
mcntable ignorance is displayed by the
Germans about the distant country.
A case in point is related by New
Yorker who spent some time last sum-
mer in a village in Hanover, at some
distance from a railroad, says the New
York Tribune. lie was visiting physi-
clan whom he had met at Berlin in the
university days of both of them.
One afternoon the physician, accom-
panied by his friend, drove to a farm
house to visit sick child. Wien he
alightdl the American remained in the
vehicle. In the course of his call the
physician happened to mention that
his companion was from the United
States. AS they drove away an old
woman rushed out of the house, gcsticu-
lating wildly and calling on them to
stop They did this, and she ran up all
out of breath, shouting:
''How is my son? lie is in America. :"
She did not hear Of the New Workers.
nationality until after the physician
left the house, and ran to make inquir-
les about her son, who had been in
America for fifteen years. The poor
woman had received no word from or
about him for several years. She
thought, OF course, that every one in
America knew every one else there.
The foreigner had much difficulty in
explaining that he had never heard Of
her son, who was in Minnesota when
he wrote his last letter. For some time
the good woman believed that the
New Yorker was an impostor who did
not come from America at all.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-28

From the time that Timothy took
a little wine for the stonach's sake
to drink or not to drink has been the
question The republican party OF
this state says thou shalt not drink"
and have said SO for several years,
but the people keep on drinking just
the same. The democratic party are
conversant with all the evils of in.
temperance, but are too familiar
with mans perverse nature to say to
him 'syou shall not They believe
in moral suasiop, in education, in
making the use Of the ''cup' qRpop,
ular, but they don't have faith in the
force bill.'-Greenfiel Democrat.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-28

AMong the astonishing discoveries
of the chief Protection organ as to
the effects Of the Mckinley law Is the
alleged fact that prices Of neces-
saries Of life effected by the tariff
have not been enhanced" Speaker
Reeds ''shoppin women" found diff
ferently. But il prices on domestic
manufacturers have not been ad-
vanced, and are not to be, how will
the protected monopolists be able to
pay the higher wages which it was
the professed object of the law to
insure?
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-28
The Electioneering Tour.

With extraordinary assurance the
Administration organ says Of the
Presidents speeches in the South
that he frankly and candidly' set
forth his views upon all those ques.
tions' on which the views of that
section are divergent from his own.
Did he? In which of his Southern
speeches did he venture to explain to
the Southern people why he regards
them as even unfit to be intrusted
with the conduct OF their elections
without the paternal supervision OF
QUAY, DUDLEY and their agents. In
what Southern speech did he ex-
pound the necessity for n ''bayonet
behind every BALLOT" Where, in
the South did he assert the negro
vote is wickedly suppressed, and con-
denim it's suppression as frankly and
candidly" as he condemned polyga-
my in Utah, Territory that has no
ELECTORAL votes?
what Is the use OF talking folderOl
and disappearing facts perfectly
familiar to every reader Of ordinary
intelligence?
The fact is that in none of Mr..
Harrison's 139 speeches did he frank
ly and candidly" deal with questions
upon which parties are divided. He
spoke with a good deal of rhetorical
grace, but with very great care not
to offend anybody likely to be Of use
to him in securing his nomination
and reelection.
The trip was a great electioneering
tour, and was conducted after the
manner of a man soliciting support
by oil the arts known to him.
World.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-28
a Definition Wanted.

When the state democratic conven.
ton comes to declare itself on the sill.
yer question, it should define the
kind OF free coinage it demands.
What all but the politicians OF the
party want is free, independent, un.
limited coinage of silver at the pres.
ent ratio of 371i grains of pure silver
to %. 2 grains OF pure gold. They do
not desire and will not sanction the
proposition of Editor Richardson OF
Davenport that the money value oil
the dollar be adjusted to its CONNER.
cial value. Under this system OF free
coinage. the silver dollar would not
be standard. Instead of fixing the
price Of the metal contained in it, the
price Of the metal would fix its value.
1t would be q commodity and not
money; and spectators would find it
practicable to rob the millions and
enrich themselves by diminishing or
increasing its purchasing power.
Richardson proposes to continue the
degradation of silver, and to this the
democratic farmers and wage-earners
OF the state are opposed. Therefore
q definition Of what the party means
by free coinage is necessary. The old
kind, under which the bullion value
of silver never fell below the money
value, and not the new-fangled kind
is Observation-Disclosures Telegraph.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-28

Nearly $4,000, 600 in gold have
been exported in the last year. 1t i,
said to be owing to the demaed made
by Russia on London and Berlin.
This ought to begin to open the eyes
OF those who favor q gold basis
Forty millions Of our base gone to
accommodate Russia. This contracts
our circulation tho amount of the
base and all the currency based on
this forty millions. Thus Russia can
seriously interfere with our financial
prosperity without SO much US saying
by your left, Sirs. 1t is utterly impos.
sible for us to be an independent
nation SO long US we hold to a gold
basis. Every little speck of war or
actual war in any other country
effects the price of gold and it leaves
US. Base our money on our farms
and the whole wealth Of the country
and it will be good and stay at home
where it is made for.-National Free
Press.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-28
UNGALLANT, BUT. COURTEOUS.
A Strcet-Car Scene In One Of tho Twin
Cities.

Street-Car Scene In One Of tho Twin
Cities.
It was on Fourth avenue car that
1t happened, says the Minneapolis Jour-
asL The recent snow-storm had made
fradlc Unusually heavy, a.d tho line
was only running single cars. The fneh
on the car had all risen but one, and he
sat next the stove unmoved. The other
side Of the car had been filed by ladies,
most OF whom had been given seats by
the prompt sacrifice Of the men who
now filled the aisle. The ladies were
loosely distributed along the seat; one
Sat sidewise gazing ont Of tho window;
? second allowed her child room enough
tor a gpod-sized man by clamber;ng
around with his taco to ths pane; &
third, dressed in silk, sat as though
afraid Of the touch Of woman next to
her.
A lady entered and looked around for
. seat, and there was none. The men
all looked ct the man by the stove. Hc
wss q stous. hearty fellow, growing lust
= little DlA. i'iIU sat stin, apparently
unconscious. All the ladies across the
aisle looked at him; the lady In silk
glared. He didn't move. The lady
moved up opposite him In the car and
took bold Of a strap, and still he sat
stnl; '~''' - * I. - Eth = &c
"Aadam," said he at last, courteously
nough. but in voice plainly heard nil
through the ear; madam, do not feel
inclined to give you my seat when so
many OF your own sex on the opposite
side OF the car can make no move to
make room for you"
And maybe there WASH; shuttle GA
tho psher side pf'sheircar; The l9dy ~
silk damned up against the plainly
dressed woman, the child was hastily
deposited in its mothers lap and the
woman who gazcd out the window saw
something to attract her attention
straight ahead OF her. The lady who
was standing fnd two elderly GENTLE
men occupied the room MadA. T. =,
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THE UNHOLY ALLIANCE. /,

AHe bIedt UPRISING OI the farmers
from South Carolina to South Dakota
last fall in the Alliance movement,
sent thrill OF terror into tn. ranks
of the two old political parties. So
long as the farmers could be persua-
ded to limit their Alliance discussions
to pumpkins, potatoes and pastures,
the political bosses slept well Of
nights and patted the members Of
the Alliance on their backs in mild
approval. But when the Alliance
began to discus the Mckinley bill.
free coinage Of American silver two
cent railroad fare, an income tax,
the Stanford farm loan bill, and med
die with politics generally without
permission Of the political bosses,
there was CONSERVATION among the
members of the steering commit
tees" all along the line. And when
the Alliance cyclone swept over Kan.
sas, Nebraska. Minnesota, Wiscon-
lin, Illinois and Michigan prostrating
the Office holders Of generation, the
situation became truly alarming.
The old chairmen of the steering
dommittees" saw they must have
help or Iowa would swing into line
with the Alliance and the stampede
would become general.
In this Emergency the shire widest Of
the old wire pullers counseled to-
gether and hit upon a scheme that
equals Jay Goulds sharpest, manipu-
iations or the great Napoleon's finest
generalship. Where your adversar-
les outnumber you, divide them by
strategy and the battle is half won"
Who it was that suggested the Ma
poleon-Gould tactics is not known,
but the edict has gone forth. The
lance that is to divide and destroy
the great Alliance movement has
been poised in the air and waving
from the staff is the old well worn
thread bare "bloody shirt Of quar-
ter of d century ago. The Zine Ital-
ian hand" that is to wave it over
the unsuspecting farmers of Iowa is
stretched out in the guise Of an old
friend and though well concealed
with farmers garb it reaches out
from the sanctum of we'll known
farm journal. In the thin guise of a
friend the old Homestead which
once represented all that the great
corporations most feared and hated
since great wealth has come to its
treasury is doing the most effective
service for Wall Street Republicanism
OF any papers in the west. All Of its
we'll masked batteries are now open
ed upon the great Alliance army that
recently revolutioned kansas, Neb-
raska and South Dakota, and carried
CONSERVATION to the political bosses
throughout the west and south.
What open enemies could never do,
has been delegated to the Benedict
Arnold style of patriots to accomp-
fish by secret strategy. As against
the Alliance uprising we find arrayed
in the south, the old Bourbon Demo
cratic leaders of the lost cause in
the North the Wall Street, gold
standard, corporation Republican
bosses; and as secret allies of these
foes, hiding behind hay
stacks and manure wagons is openea
a stealthy fire in the rear" from the
new recruits, shooting from under
cover at their farmer friends. Can
such an ''unholy Alliance" succeed
in dividing and overthrowing the
great farmers movement?-The Rural
Northwest.
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1t is not necessarily conclusive
against the value of q theory that
somebody attempts to put it in pract-
iceand fails. II individual failure is to
be considered conclusive proof that a
theory is q humbug We should be
compelled to condemn every line Of
failed in everything. People have
failed in living and yet life can be
made success. 1t is the croaker
who does an incalculable amount of
damage in this world. He croaks be-
cause he does not stop to think. He
is too lazy or too stupid to think and
so he croaks which Is always easy to
do. He tells us the country viii le
ruined il we have free coinage OF sill
yer. How does he know? He knows
nothing at all about it. He is croak,
ing. He tells us that it is stupid to
suppose that tbs government can
issue money direct. What Goes he
know about it. The government can
do it If it wishes to and as to the re-
suit the croaker knows no more
than any other man. The croaker a
dozen years ago declared the silver
dollar would drive gold out of circu-
lation. He did not know anything
about it. He said that the govern
ment could not issue legal tender
paper money in times OF peace. He
wax eroaking. The supreme court
declared 1t gould. But while We who
are engaged Ia public reforms may
expect to find croakefs outside the
ranks of those who have felt. felt
keenly the need Of reforms, we ought
not to haye croakers within our ranks
But we have Z good many. They
are always looking upon the dark
side Of things. They are constantly
saying that we cannot regulate the
railroad, do away with the national
banks, change the financial policy OF
the government, or do many other
needed things, because there is too
much money against u.s. Do not let
us be croakers. Free Americans can
do anything that should be done
They have always proved themselves
equal to G1y emergency and always
will. Western Hural.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-28

1.-THE establishment ct the tin plate
industry in the United States will be
a calamity to the democratic party
observes the republican Sioux City
Journal. i no other calamity strikes
it the party has precious little to be
afraid Of. -Burlington Gazette.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-28

As m original proposition the
American people did not care two
cents whether the Itata was seized OF
not, but after she was seized they
would, as a matter of pride, have
subscribed the price Of a new fast
cruiser rather than have her get
aWay
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-28

There is difference of opinion as
to young Raumss resignation between
his father and Secretary Noble. The
former says that he advised it; the
latter asserts that he demanded it.
Whichever speaks the truth each one
has condemned himself,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-28

The various district caucuses viii be held at
O'Clock n. M
A county central committee consisting OF one
from each ward. precinct or township must be
elected at the county convention at which dele.
gates to the state convention are chosen.
All persons In sympathy with the principles
enunctated in our state platform are invited to
cooperate with us.
BY order oil the State Central Committee.
4. II. LEE, CHAs. ID. FULLEN,
Secretary Chairman
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Democratic State Convention.

The Democrats OF Iowa will meet In consen
tion nj ottulnwa on wednesday. June "a, 1891.
at 10 O'Clock a. M. for the purpose OF placing in
nomination candidates for the following
state Offices.
Governor
Lieutenant Goyefn0 v
Judge OF supreme Court.
Superintendent OF Public Instruction.
Railway commissioner.
And FOR the transaction OF such other bust
ness as may properly como before the conyen-
ton. The ratio of representation will BE- two
delegates from each county and one additional
delegate for every .s25 votes and traction OF lis
or over cast for W. ii. Chamberlain for s,cre-
tary OF state i'm 1890.
The counties In the 4fh congressional district
will be entitled 10 delegates n follows.
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