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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-07-10
An Ideal Home.

The most perfect home ever saw was
in little house, into the sweet incense
of whose fire went no costly things. Six
hundred dollors served for a years living
of father, mother, and three children.
But the mother was creator of home,
and her relations with her children were
the most beautiful l have ever seen.
Even dull and commonplace man was
lifted up and enabled to work for souls
b. the atmosphere which this woman
created. Every inmate of her house in
voluntarily looked into her face for the
key note of the day, and it always rang
clear. From the rosebud or the clover
leaf, which in spite of her Homework she
always found time to put by our plates
at breakfast, down to the essay or story
she had on hand to be read or discussed
in the evening, there was no intermission
of her influence. She always has been:
and always will be, my ideal Of a wife
anu IL "
loving heart, and exquisite tact had been
added the appliance of wealth and the
enlargement of wider culture, hers
would have been absolutely the ideal
home As it was, it is the best have
ever seen. 1t has beea more than TWEEN
ty years since l crossed its threshold. l
do not know whether she is living or not.
But as see house after house 10 which
fathers, mothers and children are drag
ging out their lives in haphazard alter
nation of listless routine and unpleasant
collision, ! always think with sigh of
that little cottage by the sea shore, and
the woman who was the eight thereof"
and l find in the face Of many women
and children, as plainly written and as
sad to see as in the newspaper columns of
Personals -"Wanted-A Home"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-07-10
What Does the Apple Tree Eat.

Everything that has life, must cat to
live. Plants and trees are no exception;
they must have food upon which to sub
sist, or they die-and to have trees do
we'll, they must have a particular kind
of diet. They must have what they
like. The question started, then is a
practical one: What does the apple
tree eat?
1t lives for the most part upon spoon
victuals; that is, it takes its bread and
milk without the bread-nothing enters
the stomach of tree but in the form of
a liquid, save such gases as may be taken
up and enter into the circulation. 1t is
found upon analysis, that the apple
tree feeds largely upon carbonic acid,
this substance affording one-fourth more
of its whole diet: This it gets in part
from the air, and is absorbed through
the leaves, and also it is taken up from
the soil by the roots in the form of water.
This material is supplied to the soil by
the decay of vegetable and animal sub
stances, which is applied directly to the
soil in the shape of manure or green
crops plowed under. Lime is another
ingredient which enters largely into the
food proper for trees. Nearly one-third
part of the ash of the apple tree is lime.
This we furnish by direct application to
the soil of lime, plaster orgypsum. Pot:
ash is another ingredient. More than
one-twelfth part is potash, and little
less than one-twelfth part is phosphate
of lime one twentieth is magnesia, and
about the same quantity is soda. Hence
wood ashes become an excellent applica
ton for our orchard lands.
Besides these, there is SILICA, iron,
sugar, sulphuric acid and other SUBJ
stances, which are required in the food
furnished to the apple orchard, besides
the oxygen and hydrogen which the
trees drink in with water.
Barn-yard manures contain nearly all
the elements that enter into the tree
food, and if this is judiciously supplied,
your apple trees will never die of star
walton. But 1 have seen orchard trees
starved to death, and it is my conviction
that orchards suffer more from starvation
than from any other cause.
We live in a most favored region for
growing fine apples. Our sunlight, our
heat, our rainfalls. and even our win
tiers, are favorable for success in growing
the apple; and it is our privilege to fur
nish the hotter and more humid eli
mate with the best apples in the world.
Today the nations of Europe and other
countries are eating of our fruits. In
England our Newton Pippins are de-
servedly famous. I have heard it said
that royalty has its well-furnished tables
continually supplied with them.-Cor.
in Colaan's Rural World.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-07-10
A New Way to Measure Grain.

A good story is told of Tioga county
merchant who agreed to take a farmers
oats at forty cents per bushel if the lat
ter would let him tramp the measure
when filled. The farmer agreed to it.
The buyer paid for sixty bushels and the
next day went after them. The farmer
filed the half-bushel and then the mer-
chant got in and tramped them down,
whereupon the farmer poured the oats so
compressed into the bag. The merchant
demanded that the measure should be
filled up after tramping. Tho farmer
informed him there was no agreement of
that sort but that he might tramp down
the oats to his hearts content after they
were measured.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-07-10

Use OF ToADs.-French horticultur-
lists have followed the example of the
English ones and peopled their gardens
with toads. These reptiles are deter
mined enemies of all kinds of snails
and slugs, which, it is well known can
in single night destroy vast quantity
of lettuce, carrots, asparagus, etc. In
Paris toads are sold at the rate of fifty
cents dozen. The dealers in this un-
inviting article keep it in large tubs,
into which they plunge their bare hands
and arms, without any fear of the pois.
onous bite to which they are supposed
to expose themselves. loads are also
kept in vineyards, where they devour
during the night millions of insects that
escape the pursuit of nocturnal birds.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-07-10
A HOrSe-l;rake.

A San Francisco inventor has applied
for patent on horse brake of his con-
trivance. 1t is intended to control a
horse in much the same way as wagon
is governed in its movements by a
brake. A buckle with belt is attached
to the breeching on the left side Of the
horse, and the belt is continued around
the latter's breast, where it is fastened
to the martingale. Thence it passes to
the right-hand side of the buggy seat,
where it is caught by buckle and a
loop. When. the reins are pulled tight
the brake presses on the fore legs of the
horse Immediately before the breast,
stopping him instantly, and preventing
him from rearing or kicking. Should
the reins slip from the hands Of the driv-
er or break, the horse can be brought to
a stand-still by pulling the strap, which
is buckled at the right-hand side of the
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-07-10
Il Looks Profitable.

A farmer of our acquaintance in this
country cleared last year cool $4,000
on flock of sheep numbering in the
spring not over $50 ewes, and did it so
easy that the wonder is, some one else
doesn't go and do likewise. He is one
of those hold fast men, who stick to a
thing until they prove whether it is good
Or not. Years ago he went into the
business with hundreds of others, and
through one misfortune or another kept
on the even tenor of his way, until to.
day he is-well, better off than most of
his brethren who dropped sheep and went
into something else. He started with
Merinos. and has bred strictly in this
line. Each year he has sought to i'm
prove the wool of his flock by judicious-
ly breeding to long and fine wooded
bucks, and the result reached is certain
Iy hattering to his skill and judgment as
a breeder. The staple is superior in
every way, and commands the highest
price in the market. Not only this but
his flock has attained some celebrity, and
his lambs go OF at good prices to ready
customers. According to the old rule an
acre Of tame grass viii keep three sheep
through the year. At this rate, so acres
if properly fcnced-a part for pasturage
and part for hay-would feed $50
sheep, leaving them if on so, so acres
for crops to support them. Not every
one cound make $4,000 year off it, yet
many could make 81 900, and this is ten
times more than many of US have cleared
for the last ten years on wheat.-Farmers'
Union
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-07-10
A New Kind of Cider.

NJ. Rlouard, lawyer of Andelys
France, has invented a new cider, said
to be of excellent favor-the popularity
of which is that a large proportion Of
sugar beets is mixed with the apples be.
fore pressing; eighty pounds of beets is
mixed in with the apples before pressing
eighty pounds of beets are mixed with
seven hundred quarts of apples, or about
eleven pounds to one hundred quarts
The beets and apples are pressed togeth.
er, then saturated with water, left quiet
in cellar for twenty>four hours, and
pressed anew. This is repeated seven
times. The inventor says he makes one
hundred quarts of cider for eighty cents.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-07-10
How to Make Maryland Biscuits.

Aunt Leisurely tells us, in the Ladies
Floral Cabinet how she found out thu
true way of making genuine Maryland
biscuits, which are good either warm OF
cold, invaluable for sandwiches fol
lunch, travelling and picnics, and will
keep fresh a long time. She says the
trouble was, she could not obtain a cor
rect recipe for making them ; everybody
said they were easily made; the mair
thing was to pound them well, as that
was what made them light; but they
could not give the exact proportions fol
mixing. In despair, she applied to an
old colored woman, who made them to
perfection, and this is the result of their
conference:
Aunt Dinah, will you please tell me
how you make your biscuit? Yours are
so nice that want the recipe
wy, bless your heart, .honey, dey's
noflin to make; ole Diner don't have nc
'ceit nor muffin. and her bixits is allus
good
Eyes, 1 know aunty but there are
some people have such genius fol
cooking, that no matter how they mix
anything, it always comes out right; but
Pm not one of that kind, and l know !
won't get them right unless you tell me
exactly how much of everything to put
in.
well, honey, jest yer take pan Of
flour-and it must be good flour too
and clever sized lump of shortnin' and
smart pinch of salt, and some water
and tote it to the bixit block, and poun'
it as if ole Nick hisself was in it make
them out the size of cake o sassage,
hab yer stove jes so, shove EN- in, and
when dey's done take 'em out, and dats
ALL
1 was disappointed but after all, her
recipe was as definite as that lob de
white folks for eli had told me to take
pan of -four and a lump of lard.
Grammar informs us that "a or AN
are the only indefinite articles We have,
but | have found out another, and that
is lump; for, after wayering between one
the size of walnut and one the size Of
your fist, you are in a miserable state of
indecision whether, after all, one the
size of your head was not intended. So,
in our recipes, dear friends, don't let us
have any Jumps, please, for some Of us
are SO stupid we don't know how much
it is.
So, having exhausted all available
sources of information with about the
same result set to work to find out my
self, and by dint of measuring and some
shrewd calculating, and adding that
pinch of salt and some water, the dough
was ready to pound. This l did with
something heavy, constantly turning it,
not forgetting to continue it for long
time. I then took small piece at L
time, and rolled it out very thin, cut
with a small tin, stamped them with the
clock key, baked them very quickly, and
the result was, that l had far better
crackers than could buy.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-07-10
Wool MOVEMENT IN MICHIGAN

Wool MOVEMENT IN MICHIGAN
Accounts from Michigan are some
what contradictory regarding the move
ment in the new clip of wool. The De
troit Advertiser states that it is being
marketed freely all along the line of the
Central Railroad, while at Wayne, How
ell and Owasso the season has just opened
and quite vigorously, the average price
being Csc to 40c, while both extremes
for washing feeces are Soc to 45c. On
the other hand, the Michigan Farmer,
published also at Detroit, denies that
the movement has become at all general
or active, and says that most of the
farmers are holding back and watching
the indications, relying upon the high
price Of foreign wool, which practically
preciudes its importation, to compel the
manufacturers to accede to their de-
mands for higher prices than have been
paid SO far. Yet it admits that much
higher basis of value is very improbable
in view of the condition of the market
for wooden goods and the depressed state
of the manufacturing industries.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-07-10
Farm ano Firesioc.
How TO Stack Grain.

J. H., of Ames, Iowa, gives US the fol
lowing as the result of his experience
in stacking grain. He says: l wish to
say few words to the farmer through
the Inter- Ocean in regard to saving small
grain. Much has been said about pre-
pairing the land for crop and how to
raise it, but 1 have never seen one
word in print as to how to save it after
it was raised. As q general thing farm
ers are careless how their grains are
stacked, and 1 believe my experience
would justify me in saying that enough
grain is spoiled in the stack yearly t.
pay the threshing bill, which would
amount to a large sum of money. Town
one-half of a thresher, and have been
threshing for five seasons, and many of
the stacks would have turned the rain
better if the stack had been turned over,
or the other end up. We often find
stacks huddlcd together so close that a
machine cannot get in until forty or
fifty dozen of bundles are taken out, and
the farmer will grumble because it takes
SO long to set the machine. Ten feet is
enough for bottom for stack and
wide enough for rick, and they should
be far enough apart to leave seven feet
span between them at the bulge. The
inside course should be laid down closely
and solid, in order that the center will
not settle, and the outside course laid
loosely that it may settle more than the
center. All stacks should have a good
bulge. In stacking flax never tramp the
outside, but stand or walk around in the
center, leaving the outside to settle.
This is the way l find grain keeps best.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-07-10
Cheap Poultry Yard.

Set posts firmly in the ground, six
feet high and eight feet apart. Take
No. 9 wire and stretch it from post to
post outside, fastening with staples made
OF wire driven to the posts. Place three
wires one inch apart, one foot from the
ground, another three at top of the
posts. Take common laths and weave
in, leaving three inches space between
sides of each. This makes the fence
four feet high. Then take other laths,
picket one end, chamfer the other like a
chisel blade and Intervene among the
top wires; then shove the chamfered
edge down beside the top of the bottom
lath, tapping under wire two inches.
This makes cheap, durable and pretty
fence, seven feet and ten inches high,
and is fowl tight. The wires should be
left somewhat slack, as Intervening the
laths will make it up.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-07-10
Eating.

As so much of mans happiness and
usefulness in life depends upon eating
correctly, and as the housekeeper has so
much control over this part of our liv-
ing, we have no thought that a few sug-
gestions ON the science and art of eating
might not be inappropriate.-We House
keeper.
Every emotion of the heart, every op-
Grafton of the mind, every motion of the
body, or of any organ or member thereof
consumes power which must be supplied
by the food we eat and while it is ofthe
utmost importance that our food shall
be wholesome, nutritious and digestible,
it is of scarcely less importance that it
be eaten correctly, at the right time and
with our systems in the right condition.
AS first in order we would say, never
eat when the body is exhausted. Under
judicious management, farmers and
farmers wives need never have dyspep-
sia, for their plain fresh diet and free ex-
ercise should prevent that terrible disease,
but statistics we think will prove that
they are no more exempt from it than
other classes. That they are not, we
think, is attributable to the fact that
they too often eat when they ought to
rest; when their powers are too much
exhausted to perform the functions of
digestion.
The housewife, does her own work, or
at least assists about it, workes hard to
hurry up dinner and have it ready
promptly on time. calls the men before
dinner is ready, hurrying to the last
moment, and then, when she ought to
lie down and rest, she sits down to the
table and eats. She is so much exhaus-
ted that hunger has ceased, her organs of
taste are inactive, her salivary glands do
not perfectly perform their functions,
she does not masticate well, and the food
enters stomach not prepared to per-
form the work OF digestion.
The farmer hurries from the field and
his severe labor, and while yet weary and
exhausted, sits down and swallows his
food, hurrying back to his labor. 1t is
surprising that, after few years, the
digestive organs become impaired and so
many farmers and farmers wives have
wrecked their health before arriving at
middle age ?-Rmdl Home.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-07-10
PUBLIC REPORT
POLICEMAN.

have not enjoyed good health for several years
past, yet have not allowed it to Interfere with my
labor. Every one belonging to the laboring class
knows the Inconvenience Of being Obliged 10
labor when the body, from debility, almost re-
fuses to perform its daily task. 1 never was Il
believer in dosing with medicines; but having
heard the Vegetine spoken of SO highly, was de-
termined to try it, and shall regret that de
termination. As a tonic (Which every one needs
some time) it surpasses anything ever heard of.
Ii invigOrates the whole system; it is great
cleanser and purifier of the blood. There are
many of my acquaintance who have taken it, and
all unite in praise of its satisfactory effect.
Especially among the aged class of people, it
imparts TO them the thing most neetlful in old
age-nights of calm, sweet repose, thereby
strengthening the mind as well as the body. One
aged lady, who has been suffering through life
with scrofiIla, and has become blind from its
effects, having tried many remedies with IA
vorable result, was induced by friends to try the
yegetine. After taking few bottles, she obtain
ed such great relief that she expressed wish for
her sight, that she might be able to look upon the
man who had sent her such a blessing. Yours
respectfully, o. L. II. HODGE,
Police officer, Station 6.
Boston, Mass, May 3, 1871.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-07-10

GREEN BEANs.-Select those which
shell easily; it is a great waste both OF
time and beans to shell those which are
very young and small, and the product
is not rich nor sweet. Have them as
nearly alike in size as possible, otherwise
tie very young beans will be cooked SO
much as to lose their flavor before the
older ones are done. They should be
picked by-a person of some judgment.
Cook gently until all are done, the time
depending entirely on the age of the
bean. Serve them in their own juice,
which should fill them nearly full when
done.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-07-10
MISSOURI KANSAS & TEXAS
RAILWAY.

MISSOURI KANSAS q TEXAS
RAILWAY.
The completion of the great iron
bridge over the Missouri river at Boom
vile, enables this popular line to offer
still better facilities for the business be.
tween the Northeast and the great South
west.
Two daily trains will be run between
Hannibal and points in the great Neosho
valley, in direct connection with all lines.
Also, two daily trains between St. Louis
and points in Southern Kansas.
For the Texas trade, new and better
facilities are offered. The rates have
been greatly reduced, and arrangements
have been made whereby through Pull
man palace sleeping cars are run from
Chicago, Quincy, Hannibal and st.
Louis, to Galveston, without change,
passing through the finest portion Of
Southwest Missouri, Southern Kansas,
and Indian Nation, and the most desira-
BILE portion of Texas.
Any one contemplating q trip to
Southern Kansas, the Indian Nation or
Texas, should address Thomas Dorwin,
general passenger agent, Sedalia, Mo-,
for correct map, with time tables, Mates
of fare &c.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-07-10
System in Farm Labor.

The amount of muscle that can be
saved by little brain labor i3wonder-
full. And yet the science of doing every
thing in proper season and place, in fact
properly is something that agricultural
papers, or farming books, cannot teach.
Experience, calculation and fore
thought, are the mentors. A month be-
fore piece of machinery is to be used,
a glance at it will show where it is defec-
tive. A rainy day. spare hour, a
chance to take it to town to be repaired
without going on purpose. These pres
ent themselves to the intelligent farmer
and when the harvest is ripe, o. the
corn ready for the cultivator, there will
be no delay for the mending of damaged
machinery.
There is no such weak laziness, or
wicked waste Of time and opportunity,
as the man practices who never has time
to do anything properly. He goes to
town with three errands, and comes
home with only one finished, he has no
time for the others. He piows for fifty
acres of corn, but has no time to get in
but forty, He plows with dull pillow,
and chops with duller axe, for lack of
time to sharpen them. All these are the
lack of forethought and system. A neg
lect to use the brain that God has given
him to shape and direct and save the
muscle. An OK will do the work, but
he cannot plan it. The horse is power
full, but he is controlled by his master,
and his power is utilized. Mans labor
is but brute strength, and the stronger
the brain is brougt to bear upon it the
more surely every stroke tells, and the
more grand will be the results.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-07-10
HEARTFELT PRAYER

ST.. PAUI, Aug. p, 1854.
H. r. STEVENS, ESQ:
Dear Sir-I should be wanting in gratitude if ]
failed to acknowlede what the yege!ine has done
for me. l was attacked about eleven months
since with Bronchitis, which settled into Con-
sumption. had night sweats and fever chills;
Was distressed for breath, and frequently spit
blood; was all EN- aciated, very weak, and SO low
that my friends thought my case hopeless.
1 was advised to make trial of the vegetine,
which under the providence of God has cured me.
That he may bless the Use of your medicine to
others, as he has to me, and that his divine grace
may attend you is the heartfelt prayer of your
admiring humble servant,
BENJAMIN PETTINGILL.
p S.-Mine is but one among the many cures
your medicine has effected in this place. Il. z.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-07-10

The enormous whisky frauds have not
been without their tragic features. For
the purpose of guarding against the posi-
bility of detection by the revenue Off
GERS, st. Louis distillery firm construc-
ted a secret vat, unknown to their work
men, one of whom fell in and was
drowned. Of course the funeral like the
cause of death, was private.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-07-10

The Germen washerwomen use mix
ture of ozs. turpentine and l OF spirits
of ammonia well mixed together. This
is put into bucket of warm water, in
which pound of soap has been dis
solved. The clothes are immersed for
"a hours, and then washed. The clean
sing is said to be greatly quickened, and
2 or rinsipgs in cold water remove the
turpentine smell.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-07-10

A young man in Oswego jumped into
the canal and ruined a fifty dollar suit
of clothes to save cross-eyed girl, and
then wouldn't accept a button string
which she collected for him. He said
honesty was its own reward.