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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-15
THE EAST,


WHILE skating at keyport. n. j.. Ed
ward and Henry Spiers and Harry
Slower, aged respectively 10, Is and
90 years. We're drowned.
THE Legislature of New York met at
Albany on the 9th. and Governor Hill
in his message announced that he would
not again be Il candidate for the Guber-
Material chair.
THE Pennsylvania and Delaware
Legislatures met on the 9Th.
THE firm of Decker, Howell e. Co.,
New York brokers who failed for Sl2,-
OO0. 600. has resumed business.
Ar Bayonne, \. j., tenements oecu-
pied by lIungarians We're burned, rem
dering about 1000 persons homeless
The victims lost all their effects.
HIRAM \. TrrTLE tRep.1 was elected
Governor over Amsden lDem.) by "A
vote of ls5 to- 150 at the joint convention
of the houses of the New Hampshire
Legislature.
\ scANrIING fell at the new edifice
of the st. Johns Lutheran Church at
Lancaster. Pa, causing the death of
four men.
setts. in his inaugural address advo-
Gated an amendment to the constitu-
tion of the State annulling SO much of
it as requires the payment of tax as a
qualification for voting.
FIRE nearly destroyed the village of
Spri ngtield Center. \. Y.
On the sth Hiram A. Tuttle was in
augurated as Governor of New lIamp-
shire. and in his message he said the
best statistics at command showed that
there had been left in the State by
summer tourists during the past year
more than S5.oao,oO0, and Il large por-
ton of this has been left with the farm
| ers.
| FRANK NJ. CoNLEY, of Cohocton, \.
". leading member of the Steuben
| County bar, disappeared, leaving debts
| of 100000.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-15

A DENVER publication gives bit of
advice which is worth needing. Don't
worry. whether the man who says nice
things to you means them or not. The
fact that he takes the pains to say them
is a compliment. lie doubtless has an
axe to grind. but it doesn't follow that
you must turn the grindstone."
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-15

BERLIN. with its 1900. 900 inhabitants.
l2O licensed apothecaries. For every
10000 persons there are therefore 9.3.
physicians and four-tifths of an apothe-
cary. There are thirty-four hospitals,
with 4.635 beds. in the city.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-15

CERTAIN New York firms have been
trying good-lool1ing women as bill col
lectors. So far the scheme has been un-
successful. Three of the women mar
ried inside of week and four more
were engaged, while the balance SYM
pathized with the poor fellows who had
run into debt and had not collected cent
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-15
THE chinch bug is the latest pest to

THE chinch bug is the latest pest to
attract the warfare of science. Chan
cellor Snow. of the Kansas State Uni
versity. is declared to have discovered a
way to rid the fields of this arrant little
cereal destroyer. lie inoculates sam
pie bugs with cholera and turns them
loose. Contasion does the rest. The
chinch bug is as deadly a parasite to the
farmer as the tuberculosis bacillus is to
the consumptive. 1t will afford happi-
ness to mankind to see both destroyed
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-15

THE most valuable printed document
in existence in relation to Columbus is
that in the possession of B. Quaritah, of
London. 1t is the first printed copy of
the first letter of Columbus written
from Lisbon to Ferdinand and Isabella
when the court was in Barcelona. and
printed there. This is held for I'll 900.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-15
A TRUST GOES UP.
rhe American Harvester Company Dis
solved.

The american HarVester company Dis.
solved.
CHICAGO, Jan. 1u-Owing to the anti
rust laws of several of the States the
srcat harvesting-machine trust. known
,> the American Harvester Company,
With its enormous capital Of S35,-
$4,000, has been dissolved. At q
.aeeting of the directors of the COM
pany held at the offices of Warder,
bushnell & Glessner it was decided to
discontinue the project The directors
rrpresenting the organization in the
different States We're instructed to see
that the charters obtained in their re-
spectiye States he Slrren enlerea
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-15

ELECTRICITY has not been practically
applied i'm the art of music heretofore,
except perhaps. in the operating
mechanism of church organs George
Breed of the United States navy. has
devised Il method ny which the passage
of a broken current over conductor i'm
magnetic field produces musical tones
of varying pitch and volume
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-15
Bushels of Rogus Dollars,

DETROIT, Mich. Jan 1O.-John Stin-
son, three sons, and their housekeeper
were arrested thirty miles north of here
Thursday by American and Canadian
officers. A counterfeiting outfit and
bushels of counterfeit American dol
lars were seized. They will be ex-
iradtel.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-15

NAL.HALLA, $. c., Jan. 10. w. d.
Errman, whisky distiller for whom
Louis X. Redmond, the famous ex-
moonshine outlaw, was Government
gauger, has assigned. His liabilities
are over S7O,QOn
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-15

Mrs. BELyA LOCKWOOD has officially
withdrawn from National politics. She
says she will never run for President
again. This leaves the track trifie
clearer for 1sg9
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-15

A COLUMBUS celebration in 1892 will
he held by Spain at Auleva. in Andal-
nsia, the discoverer having sailed from
the estuary now known as Huelva
harbor''
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-15

VIENNA is now the third largest city
in Europe. the Austrian Emperor hav-
ing given his sanction to the law adding
5'orty five communes to the city's ter
4'itory. The population is 1,al5,6a6, a
formidable lead over Berlin, its chief
rival.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-15

AN express robbery, which promises
to increase in importance with inyesti-
cation, occurred on the Michigan Cen
trail railroad between Chicago and de-
troit on the night of the 10TH When
No. III, one of the heaviest express
trains Oh the road, arrived at Detroit.
Mich,, at 6:ao 1t was found that one of
the American Express company's
through cars from Chicago to New York
had been ransacked and everything of
value that could be carried of had been
taken.
JERRY SULLIVAN, At Lynchburg, Va.
on the 18th, caught hold of guy wire
that reached to an electric light pole.
and received a shock that killed him
instantly.
OK the morning Of the llth, a grip
car on the State street cable line, Chica-
go, ran into funeral cortcge. The car
struck the hearse smashing it in piec, s
and throwing the coffin. containing the
remains of little child distance OF
ten feet. The driver of the hearse was
fatally injured.
POVERTY. old age and despair. result
ed in the death of Nicholas Brokovitch
Il by suicide at Kansas City, Mo-, on the
| llth. He was an cXiled Russian colo
mel, banished from his country some
years ago on account Of his nihilistio
sentiments.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-15

THE list of Harvard clubs which have
been established in different parts of
the country is interesting. Nineteen in
all are given. with total membership
of nearly , 600
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-15

THE State of New York has upward
of five thousand Indians who keep up
tribal organizations. They have in their
reservations ninety thousand acres of
1anJ
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-15
MUST DECIDE FOR HERSELF.
What Women shall and shall Not study
Can Not he Arbitrarily Determined.

"
Can Not he Arbitrarily Determined.
In some future age ii may become
possible to map out the whole field OF
human knowledge, and to say what
part Of ii should be cultivated by one
sex and what part by the other. writes
}. g. Fitch in the Contemporary Re-
view. But at present the materials for
a decision do not exist. and any assnmp-
tion that we are in a position to decide
will serve only to make the future solu-
tion Of the problem in wise and salts
factory way more difficult. Meanwhile.
women have right to say to all in
authority: Make your own schemes Of
instruction and your tests Of scholarship
for men as perfect as you can. Devise
as many new and effective forms Of
mental discipline and courses Of in
struction as you think can be wisely
offered to men of various attitudes and
fill the same preliminary conditions,
to exercise the same choice. and to
avail ourselves Of just SO much of
your system as we feel will be helpful
to US. We do not want your ideal Of a
liberal education to be lowered or m0di-
fed to suit rs. But we want to knC :
how far our own aims and achievements
correspond to that ideal, and we ask
leave to be measured bv the recognized
tests. Men will be helped in giving a
wise and generous response to this APP
peal in just the proportion in which they
view it in the light Of their own person
al history and experience If a man
who is destined. forexample. to the law
or the church. were to take up some
subject. such as botany or chemistry.
were to write treatise on Grimm's law
or on the fourth dimension. and any
public authority were to interpose with
a reminder that such studies had
no relation to the proper business of his
life. and ought therefore not to be pur-
sued. he would regard such interference
as impertinent. lie would claim to be
the best judge of his own interests
In like manner we are not entitled to
affirm respecting any one department
of intellectual effort that it is unsuited
of woman. There is no kind of knowl-
edge. if honestly acquired. which may
not be available in unexpected ways for
the enrichment and adornment of life.
whether the life be that Of man or Il
woman. And even though the knowl-
edge or power which is the product of a
liberal education may seem to have no
bearing at all upon the special business
or definite duties Of woman. yet if it
be felt by its possessor to make life
more full. more varied. and more inter-
esting. and better worth living. no 9TH
er justification is needed for placing the
largest opportunities within her reach.
and to solve the problem for herself.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-15

DURING 1890 3.107 carloads of or
anges were shipped from California.
The wine product Of the State was IS
300, 900 gallons
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-15
Snow I'm the south.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Jan. ll.-Snow
fell last night at Del Rio, $50 miles
west of here on the Southern Pacific
railroad. This was the first snow in
four years and the fall was the deepest
on record, being about five inches. The
storm was general and from Del Rio
east to San Antonio brought rain. This
mornings train from Del Rio presented
a novel sight, as the tops OF the cars
still had snow on them.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-15
MINISTER'S WIVES.
What Some of the More Prominent Think
About Parish Work.

What Some of the More Prominent Think
About Parish Work.
Clergymen's wives do not all believe
that they are bound by their position to
perform parish duties. Mrs. Lyman
Abbott. the wife Of Henry Ward Beech
er's successor. says. for example. that a
minister's wife is first Of all. d wife and
mother. and that the duties which she
has in common with other matrons are
to be attended to first. These accom-
plished. she looks upon any church
work which may then confront her as
privilege. but not as duty Mrs.
Charles Parkhurst. wife of the pastor of
the Madison Square congregational
Church. holds similar views. but adds
that if a minister's wife is not in SYM
pathy with her husband $ work her use-
fulness is impaired. DR.. John Halls
wife seldom sees the public. This is
also true of the wife of Rev. William NJ.
Taylor, the highest-salaried pastor in
New Iork-he draws SD. 900 annually
and of Mrs. Richard III. Storrs of
Brooklyn. Mrs. Henry Potter. wife Of
the bishop of New York. shuns the pub
lie when at home. but has large circle
Of private friends. She divides her time
between this city and Newport. New
ertheless Mrs. Potter and her daughters
are indefatigable voluntary workers in
the missions of the city. Mrs. Rains
ford. wife of the fashionable rector Of
st. Georges. is more Of IA society woman
than church or mission worker.
%,%1.,
an should always be in sympathy with
her husbands work. whether il be that
of clergyman or layman. but that par
ish work with the wife is entirely a
matter Of choice. Like other clergy
mems wives in town. She will not make
the first calls on members of her hus-
bands church. Young Mrs. Winchester
Donald. wife of the rector of the Church
of the Ascension. feels that the parish
demands nothing of her. hut says she
would not be satisfied unless she was
identified with the interests of thechurch
She makes the first call On her hus-
bands Pensioners because She thinks
it pleasant to know the people one meets
at church. Mrs. ieber Newton lived
20 miles away from New York. until
| this fall. because she thought country
air beneficial to her children Now
that her children are grown she has
| moved into the rectory on Madison
avenue and will probably take an inter-
est in parish work. DIR. Howard Gross
| by's wife. when asked for her views as
to the duties of clergyman's wife. re-
| piled coldly: Il have not the least idea;
not the least in the world. Pittsburgh
| Leader.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-15

Nor all society girls eat the bread of
idleness. Miss Mildred Conway, only
daughter of that favorite author. Mon
cure ID. Conway, assists her father in
his literary work. plays the piano like
professional performer, has SO much
dramatic ability as to have procured her
good offers from the theatrical man.
ayers. and is one of the most faithful
and Jealous workers in the successful
College Settlement" in Rivington
street, while, in addition to her gift of
clcverness, her fairy godmother gave
her gypsylke beauty and charming
ypioe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-07
Manners and Morals.

+. ". Higginson in Harper's Bszsr.
We have to fall back at last fo- the standard
Of good manners and good morals not upon the
few, but upon the many. The masses of the
people are unquestionably more critical az to
morality than any exclusive circle; and as to
the essentials-not the conventionalities-of
good manners. they are to be found more
securely among the many than among the
few. We have the high authority of Bronson
Howard for saying that Bowery audience is
far quicker than fashionable New York au-
dience to frown on anything really immoral
in play. More than one English nobleman
has been forgiven in American drawing rooms
for conduct which would have caused him. if
known, to be summarily elected from a Rocky
mountain mining camp. Howells, with his
usual penetration selects q rough Californian
as the man who patrols the sleeping car
to be the self-appointed protector of the
ladies. An unprotected girl may travel
by rail from the Atlantic to the Pacific and
meet with less of real rudeness or unkindnoss
than she might encounter in a single evening,
even from her own sex. at some very exclusive
ball. The little social circles have their value;
they furnish part of the education and ex,
perience in social life. Where they happen to
be under the leadership Of a really cultivated
and high-minded woman-like the late Mrs
John Jacob Aston, for instance-they afford
not merely . school Of department, but Of life.
Where they aro-as is quite as ikely-under a
very different style Of leadership, the results
correspond. He dcspises me-" said Ben
johnson, because live in an alley. Tell him
his soul lives in an alley" In all parts Of the
world there are women whose forms are COW
cred with diamonds. but who still carry the
habits Of the alley in their souls. In the long
run, the safety of our national morals and man
mere does not lie in any Of the little social cir
cles, but in the average sense and breeding of
the vast public from which those circles are
constantly recruited.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-07
RISING sun MORSE.
Tom Reeds Recognition Happened to Have
string to Il.

Tom Reeds Recognition Happened to Have
. string to II.
From the New York sun.
Representative Elijah Adams Morse of Massa-
chusetts knows what is meant by "a recognition
by the Speaker with a string to it." He related
an incident today to illustrate the point. Some
days ago he asked Speaker Reed to recognize
him to call upa bill locating a life-saving
station on the coast Of Massachusetts and the
Speaker agreed to do 30. When Mr. Morse
arose he produced photograph Of q vessel
floating quietly at sea and began to give an OBJ
ject lesson to show the needs Of the life-saving
station. He had shown it to Speaker Reed and
told him long story to the effect that this vessel
had been wrecked of the very point where he
wanted the new station because there was
no light. He wanted something done before
any more vessels went down. He wac going
to repeat this story, when Mr.. Cannon objected
and Mr.. Morse sat down. Some one told him q
little later that Speaker Reed had sent a note
down to Mr.. Cannon asking him TO object as
soon as recognition was granted. Mr.. Morse
went to Mr.. Cannon and asked him il this was
true.
q never told any one it was true" replied
Mr.. Cannon.
Blu. I ask you, Is a man, is this true9' went
"And ! tell you, as a man" replied Uncle Joe,
shat it is true"
Then Mr.. Morse went to the Speaker.
Say. Reed" he whined, what made you
send down that note to Cannon asking him 70
object to my billY'
speaker Reeds face assumed q wholly in
drawi:
well, wanted to get rid of YOU"
'This, said Mr.. Morse, lis wha. call .
recognition with string to it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-07
HER ARDUOUs DUTIES,

Servant Galism Asserts Itself in . Mid and
Innocent Way.
From the Cleveland PlandeaIsr.
The prophet says that the time is going to
come when house affairs will be run to suit the
convenience of the servant girl, il it has not
como already. A gentleman advertised for .
good girl who was not subject to somnambu-
lism. The girl preceding had been in the habit
Of walking in her sleep and soaring the folks
half to death. One night she coasted down
stairs on the bannister and sat down At the
foot with . thud that awakened every one and
caused them to believe that an army was in
vading the domicile.
The first girl who applied for the place
wanted TO know il washing was done in the
house, and II so, was the laundry equipped
with stationary bath tubs; whether il was Gus
tomary TO have early suppers, whether . sec
ond girl was employed to build the fires in the
morning, whether she could be OF Sunday and
Thursday afternoons, whether she could have
three evenings . week 10 herself and how many
children were there in the house. An these
questions being answered satisfactorily, she re-
guessed 10 know what would be required Of her.
what did You do ct the lass placer" vas
aaked.
"Oh, !" she ssid, 81 dusted Tie library end
played with the baby"
She was not engaged
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-07
This BegEar Had Indigestion.

"Beggars nowadays know" says the New York
Herald, shat the old stories common to their
profession won't 60 down with the average New
Yorker Who reads the papers and keeps up with
the times, said young broker at the Hoffman
House the other evening.
Being aware Of that fact, they are
ever ON the lookout for some new
method Of approaching passers by 90
they may Be reasonably sure Of getting
moments sstention and incidentally .
quarter. or ct least a dime. Sometime they
size man up from his appearance. and walk
ing mp 10 hum they say boldly. Mister. am
suffering ewfully for drink, and IL you'd give
me the price you'd ave me . lot Of suffering ;
'Tu making this appeal the mendicant knows
that II the man 70 whom he sppeals i . man
about town he Win have known what IL = 20
have bssa sufsring for . drink himself and
readily give up dime 10 aid . man in he
same plight
s'1Hs hungry man, the nswsboy Who hau't
cold his papers, the stranger who wants lode
ing over night end The cd woman Who asks for
her fare back 70 HaxlsD are al familiar heures
70 the New Yorhsr, bat really NET . man with
IN original tdsa yesterday" continued he bro
ksr. He approached ne = usual and I MD:
'Yse, know yoa ere hungry and N that but
can't do anything for you
'Te ny surprise, however. hs rspiisd: Ne, !
s!nt A1ngry, bossl Just 49, . ~ diaasr and
Tn su6osing iron indigestion. Csnt you Giye
n eenseh1sg 70 bug 1sdisins viShr
10 0ot e00nseBs"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-07
DE BRAzzA's THEODOLITE.
An Astronomical Instrument the Means ol
Procuring Food In Africa.

An Astronomical Instrument the Meaus of
Procuring Food In Africa.
mo one who has ever seen De Brazza on his
travels" said Stecklemsn in the Geographical
Magazine, could fail TO recognize that he was
born to be an explorer. l shall never forget
the time met him far up the Kwilu river
One day / came to tribe that seldom "a
white men. They were not very hospitable,
but finally decided to sell me food. I got on
rather friendly terms with them and they
allowed me to camp in the village. Suddenly
observed a commotion among the natives A
few carriers emerged from the forest and with
them was q slender, sad-faced. poorly clad
white man. He was the governor of the
French Congo and he was of on one Of his
long tramps. De Brazza approached the
natives and asked them for food.
"a mo- they said grufay, you can't get any
food here. We have one white man here al
ready. You had better go on your way
The explorer said nothing. He simply or
dered his carriers to lay down their loads in
the middle Of the village. Then one Of his
men unpacked the astronomical and other in
struments. and the explorer set about making
observations for position aud altitude. The
strnngest sight the natives ever sAw WAS this
white man studying his instruments and fgur-
ing away on a bit Of paper. They concluded
tnat ne was not person 10 be trified with. and
that his theodolite was powerful fetch. Soon
a crowd gathered around. but the explorer
frightened them away by his gruff manner and
impatient gestures.
Get away from me. Clear out. Don't you
see I'm busy! Let me alone = he said
AT length he finished his work. Some ma
tives had been cooking their evening meal near
by. Their meat and vegetables which had
been boiling in a pot. we're ready. and the
group gathered around and began to eat. DE
Brazza arose, took e tin plate and large spoon.
quietly walked up TO the pot. helped himself
literally without saying a word &c ANYBODY. sat
down by tree and RECALLED himself with native
cookery. He knew Just what effect his actions
had produced upon the native mind and Just
what to do. Then he told the villagers his men
were hungry and must be fed. The natives
gave them all they could eat. for who dare OPP
pose great medicine man who carried such a
remarkable fetch a theodolite? DE Brazza
slept in the village that night and next morn
ing he paid the natives well for what they had
given him and took his departure