Inter-Iowa Record (Newspaper) - July 14, 1887, Cedar Rapids, Iowa THE Old New 5 CEDAR LINN JULY Whole Managing FIRST by SECOND The Farmer is THIRD PAGE Comb Cells are FOURTH The FIFTH x SIXTH Veterinary SEVENTH A Short EIGHTH Local NEW and Olmsted Whiting Manufacturing and The and Leather Mower Agents Danish Weston Cream Separ Swab Western Agents De Laval Sep Barber and Ash Butter Messner and Steam The Grand Hayes Postoffice Shoo It is with pleasure that we call the attention of our readers to of new advertisements given Every house is a leading one in its class and In correspond ing with them our readers will confer a favor by mentioning this 7 Washington Capital It appears that there are some posts in Iowa composed of men not yet They are unwilling It be well to brigade these veterans with the Mississippi troops that f of line at the national drill because Virginia sent colored soldiers to the The two are of the same We shall be pleased to mail to any farmer in the county who will send his name on a postal or otherwise a copy of the Constitution and Bye Laws of The Farmers Alliance together with a statement of the objects and a plan of We should have two or three of these clubs in every township in tho If fur ther information is desired write to August secretary ol The State o Marshalltown Statesman Before the last Presidential election Senator Sherman was suro that his Vice President of the Cincinnati Fidelity would be forced to go put of business if Cleveland should bo Just this thing has and John is a true The effect of the proph ecy is from the fact that Harper is in jail foi fraudulently issuing certificates of deposit to help out his partners in the great Chicago wheat How do farmers of tho county like the idea of the expenditure of seven thousand five hundred dollars per year in an attempt to en force sumptuary laws in Cedar Rapids when with a proper regula tion of the traffic at least fifty thousand dollars might be Will the Republican please explain away the statement tho RECORD lost week and answer tho question to the satis faction of taxpayers In it Tho announcement is now made from that tho officials of the have never had anything to do with stir ring up the feeling over the presidents proposed visit to Loui and that everything is In this connection the that has been repeatedly asked and which so far as i wo know has been treated with silent contempt becomes pertinent wo repeat it Did you tell a reporter of the 1 that if the president appeared at the encampment at St Louis you would tell him that if ho had the same solicitude foi his safety that he had in 1801 that bettor not appear before tho boys in It will be well for the and for Gen if this charge can be Weekly has made the astonishing discovery that of 184 of government Including some fourth class presidential laud officers have stepped down since the Democrats came into pow er to make places for Regarding this wholesale re moval through his the sanguine civil service re former of 1884 with enforced calmness says It is to be deeply Will the of the Republi can please tell us when and whore such an expression as It is to j be deeply regretted in connection with presidential removals appointments has ever appeared in Harpers have reread the journal referred to carefully but must have overlooked it I Public opinion seems to bo centering upon as Democratic candidate for governor and I What a spectacle In a free country I In a time of profound peace the of the republic is prevented from visiting one of the chief cities of the union by the threats made by tho members of a partisan There is danger in this condition of and it is time a halt was And now to counter act this cowardly insult the statement is telegraphed from Wash that President Cleveland has takon tho course he has In or der to divide the What arrant Taking nto account tho splendid record tho administration has made in pension and other matters we very much misunderstand the pat of the If its membership does not discard its lead ers and make amends for these o World The conservative party in England has gone fur ther than any preceding and has induced parliament to make tho action of the coercion This is a greater violation of the Act of Union between England and Ireland than any measure proposed by Gladstone when in England has past many bills through her parliament of which she was after wards heartily but none will be more regretted in the future than the present coercion with the perpetual clause at It does seem possible that the English people will much longer tolerate a ministry which proceeds to such lengths in its attempts to crush a part of the empire of Great Coercion is bad but coercion made perpetual is an outrage on mod ern civilization which deserves and will undoubtedly receive before long an overwhelming Henry Watterson says Cleveland will and without doubt Thero is no possible exigency which he can im agine which will defeat the What he does under stand he knows thoroughly and hits the nail on the head every His letter declining the Louis invitation is the thing and will have a President Cleveland grows with the people and will carry the Mugwump vote in and that will bo larger than in The vote will go solidly with As to tho Labor Watterson thinks it will run a separate ticket and draw from both of the old but from the In tho great in the presiden tial campaign of 1888 the Labor party will bo and itwill not change tho general A tariff reform will be draft ed by tho administration for introduction early in tho next Con after consultation with the Democratic members of the and this measure will be the important plank in tho plat form of tho party in the next national Paul Globe Though since tha coming of the Demo cratic administration into power the efficiency of every department has been vastly and for the first time in these many the government has been obtaining an adequate return for the money paid for c lerk in the pension office the better perr of routine duties has been especially It pears that during the fiscal year just closed the number of pension claims filed and recorded was while in the lost year of the Republican regime the number was showing a balance in favor of tho present administration of the office of over be it was done without additional clerical but it has been done by replacing a good many Re publican laggards with competent and requir ing an employe to work as faithfully for the government as he would tar a private Our Republican friends have had a good deal to say about tho injustice done the old soldiers by the Cleveland but with the accepted statement figures dont it will be observed that under Democratic dir in one year over more old soldiers have had claims adjusted than under Republican The party is running the business of the government on business princi and the people are not likely to forget that fact when the nox takes X iy i as tho Democratic candidate for governor and all signs are not at and unless a decided change takes place be nominated without only other date that is being talked of is but of course is and will not be seriously considered by the nominating Richardson is a conservative able man and wil kji splendid to His connection with a leading 8PaPer and his general acquaintance will bring to him a per ional following that will greatly assist in the might win the but if Richardson is nominated l ft platform we his The has many visits from farmers and the are always Tho patronage of the comes from this class of citizens and it is the intention of the to make the RECORD more acceptable to them than it has bj devoting more space to that are all important to ever man that tills tho And in this connection we would suggest that our columns are open for discussion of points pertaining to farm work of all A great many of you have something to say to each other which will prove of interest to all and wo offer a medium of Lot each giro tho of his ox that all may A groat doal may be said on the sub ject of hog cholera and its aud if any of our have been able to combat tho dread disease even in a partially sue we should bo glad to have the fact made in our next and succeeding Few people outside the farm ing class have any idea of the ravages of disease among Lim county and very few of the most interested class realize To Linn farmers this year the loss has been almost and when we say that it has reached a hundred thousand dollars those who have not thought with a knowledge of will say we are wide of tho But we go As t mat tor of fact the loss has been a hundred thousand dollars in a single township and at a low estimate the farmers of the county ore a million dollars short of what they would have been had there been no disease among the This amount of a is so easily so quickly that we scarcely realize the enormity of the Yet a million dollars equip dozens of manufacturing on a large buy and stock many would even build a We havi in mind one farmer whose loss this year is and included nearly every hog on the Another who came into the REO ORD office to pay his subscription the other day had just sold his hogs and got had there been to decrease the he would have received Some farmers near Cedai Rapids were commenting on the remarkable ravages of the disease when one them remarked that the loss in that township would be a The others laughed at what the considered the They sat down on a pile of and figured for a few On farms along three oov ering but a fraction of the township they footed up losses of fifty thousand dollars and quit figuring because the truthfulness o the gentlemans statement had become too Hero is i matter that needs If any light can be thrown upon tin best methods of dealing with this disease it ought to I this farmer has been partially successful in one and tha stockman in in treating the they should get ideas and methods and out of the whole perhaps some good may GROWING SURPRISE WHICH SEIZES THE MUNDANE A TUTURE WHICH SHRINKS AND A FAST WHICH EN PROBLEM THAT DEFIES SOLUTION AND PROVOKES IMPENETRABLE FRANC WILKIE IN CHICAGO There comes a time in the life of a man who has journeyed some distance beyond middle age when he begins to experience certain They are preceded by attenuated something as the advent of the full moon above the horizon is announced by dim and then increasing light against the The man thus affected notices from time to time with astonishment that this and hat acquaintance is very much younger than he had The number of this class and the knowledge of the fact suddenly bursts into the conviction that he is older than the ma of his Impossible It can not be And yet the on ex shows no The disagreeable truth is forced upon him that he is older than the average of the mass by whom he is He glances about and sees that in front of him along the pathway of time the travelers are the minority he looks and there extend the thronging masses of the great He sees that the most of life is behind him and for the first he is confronted with the fact that he Is growing It affects him like a strong electric At first he throws off the depressing and for the moment he is again yonng a little he finds himself in the pos session of the which is thrown off only to return at short er intervals until it comes to go away no This unexpected visitant has the effect to transform the life of him on whom it has imposed Great ambitious which hav held their place in his life suddenly lose their substantial na tufe and become vaporous and float Tiia horizon of the fu instead of remaining at the illimitable which it has occupied all the shrinks back on the foreground of and seems almost within the reach of the outstretched Its endless radiant with light aud roseate in becomes a save us to a few limping figures with white heads and despairing At the Same time the long past extends its dimensions and increases in light and The charms which have so long deco rated the future have changed their and now expand their glory over the area that stretches back to It is a a pathetic fact in the life of a that age Should force him to to long the unattainable and to dread and recoil from the inevitable There is a lack of of in a condition which he and to lose that which he would cling Everything in the future is hidden from the human vision What is the motive of a plan which places in to morrow only one and that one horrifying and intolerable Why should the apparent future be simply a and the only real view one that permits the sight of a grinning and deadly When he reaches the stage in life where he suddenly ers that the living majority is far behind there begin to be developed new and curious phases in his daily He all in a that ho is possessed by a singular inter est in the current His first after one at the name of the is at the date of his If it be one a trifle later than his he experiences a shock a thought He was younger than I flows through his soul with a chill If the year of birth antedates his by a decade or it affords him a thrill of Men do live years longer than I have is the swift It is with intense gratification that the man at the period re ferred to read of the eighty years and the and activity of men like the late and Commo dore There is for him much comfort as he reads of the centenarian who has just or of the one who is yet alive and has a promise of further Still other phases are present at this He finds himself taking an interest in mortuary That so many died dur ing such a period at a tender age does not affect him largely it is as the deaths at certain decades approach his own total of that his interest is so many between 50 and and so many between 00 and 70 How his eager curiosity inspects these and his hopes rise as they promise good or ill The announcement of the death of one of his own strikes him like a little stab in the Wait I What were his his his disease P It is almost with a a devilish glee that ho learns that the other was a drunkard that he was constitutionally frail that he worked and worried himself to death in he died from some exceptional Happy is he after scanning the causes of the he can say None of those have So interested does ho become in this morbid study that when lie meets a funeral procession he curiously and anxiously scans the and if it bo short enough to indicate that its contents are not the remains of an he experiences a throb of It is not the fullgrown who are is his exultant To him the past presents itself in constantly varying Hitherto it has given him but little occasion for Now it spreads out like a and he studies Under this examination it changes and things which before were prominent shrink into insignificant and others which had been re garded as petty and inconsequential assume many acts which were regarded at the moment of their occurrence as being possessed of of resolve themselves into puny trivial in their and unworthy in these This view over the stretches of the when ta ken from the heights rising beyond strangely dwarfs the and reduces the most of the distance into a monot What Is curious about this back view is not only the leveling of the bringing Into view of the and of people that have long been out of They rise as It were from graves in which they have been entombed for a gen or and which would be supposed to contain only But they are not They reappear in all the freshness of their original They relate to no ar period of save that perhaps they are fresher and more dis the nearer are to the sow on a cold winters nestling in the lap of his moth He recalls distinctly the grateful warmth to his bare feet of the woolen the cracking of the and the flying sparks n the open hundreds of incidents of this pe long since come into tho memory and repeople he While the early portion of his life is thus hat which is nearer him grows more The last dozen years are sparsely A lithe figure remains hero and butthe vast throngs which once occupied the space have A haze hangs over the nearer which things are seen or are obscured beyond Yearly tha vaporous obscurity grows and he comprehends that the time is not remote when this portion of his life will be obliterated from his But as the darkness increases in tha foreground of the the dimness of the distance wherein are located infancy and youth is becoming infused with a growing as the obscurity of night is made effulgent by the glories the He is as it back to this early period of He dwells in it more than in tho His weary frame is again rocked in the cradle he races over the hillsides boys he once more trembles and shivers in the presence of some de mure school and dreams over the delicious and disturbing expe riences of He is ajain with indefinable without and hopeful of the bright and apparently endless future which extends before These occasional excursions into the past afford him some lit tle He then forgets for the moment his failing the brevity of the space which lies in front of and is for a brief of the harrowing uncertainties of his memories of youth are his single All the greater efforts of his life distress him with their littleness as he contemplates them from his distant When near them they were and now they have sunk down on the hori and exhibit no more than a wavy line against the Ho sees them now as the world if hq sees them at all noth ing which he has built at the cost of infinite labor remains within There comes to him tne humiliating conviction that his life has been and that when he goes away he will be forgotten as instantly as if he had never Directly in front of and so close that he can almost touch hangs a which shuts off his He regards it with unmixed horror and Beyond it lies the un the the the troublous with all its frightful possibilities and its dread uncer In vain are the efforts to obtain a glimpse of the secrets lying beyond the veil with which the man who has grown old occupies It is a course of He haunts the adyta of the Christian inhales the mystic so called listens to the the promises of the no assurances that leave him at Prom Delphi to from Colophon far he invok ing the priestesses of of eternal of immortal fe and from each Still the impenetrable cur tain shuts out the beyond and to his frantic interrogations there is no A deaf silence receives his de mands and shuts out the beyond aud to his frantic interrogations tuere is no A deaf silence receives his demands and absorbs them with a sublime and tranquil ference Battled at every step thrust down when he attempts to climb given gauzy legends and mystic speculations when he asks for facts told to hope dizzy and ho is about to fall in to appalling and bottomless depths when weak and lean on intangible faith given a vapor when asking for a substance with regret behind and despair before he falls into a condition of reckless and as likely as not blasphemes over a destiny which forces him to stake his tem poral eternal happiness on the solving of a problem whose at least in reaching a unanimous has defied the genius of forty The Republican papers have just discovered after the association has been in effective operation for over seven years that there is such a thing in the state as a Democratic soldiers organization and profess to be greatly astonished to find that the veterans dare ex press their opinions after having been so safely advised as they have been by the Republican bosses and the These very patriotic editors now would convoy the idea that the Republican soldiers have never used the for political purposes and that after having kept alive the hate and animosities of the war through such associations as the Boys in Blue and the order of the tho Loyal Legion that the Democratic veteran after having been annoyed and insulted for years have no right to maintain an or of their another theory that gives these valliant now that the war is more cause for grief than any thing else is the fact that there is such a host of the old soldiers of tho war who have dared to throw off tho fetters and declare them selves free The next thing we shall see will be the statement that while such an organization may exist no soldier of any prom inence in the state belongs to This organization is in no man ner but we do to satisfy these gentlemen by giving them its full considering it sufficient to name a few of its officers aud The association was organized in 1880 taking the name of the Hancock with the gallant Harry Trimble as President and with such men as Lee of Red Merrill of Sam West of of Keatley of Council Bluffs constituting its executive The organization a year or so later changed its name aud became a part of the National Veteran association with on active member ship in nearly every county in the The present officers are Lee of Reid who was lost year Adjutant General of the of Carroll and of We have no attack to make on the but it is clear that pol will again rend it asunder In the near future and while we would not advice any soldier to withdraw from it we do most earnestly advise every Democratic and there are thous ands of them in the State not to write get a copy of the constitution and bylaws aud join the National Veteran A large number of saloons are being reopened in Des and it Is predicted that there will be 75 in full operation in ten days It is reported that the Republican officials have promised them immunity until after
