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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-02-13
Russian liJdSeS in Winter.

The windows are invariably double
and space between the saihes Invariably
covered with layer of fine sand design,
ed to absorb moisture and prevent the
frost from silrering the panes. Twisted
horns of paper containing salt are set in
it, and sometimes the sand is cpncealed
by bed of moss. There are no outside
shutters or blinds, for they would be
useless, since the window remains closed
all winter, being carefully filled in
around the edges with kind of cement.
Heavy curtains of rich materials still
further deaden the effect Of the cold upon
the glass, substance much more per-
meable than is generally believed. Open
fireplaces are rare; when they do exist,
they are used only in spring and autumn
They are closed and filled with flowers
flowers, which arc truley Russian luxury!
The houses overflow with them; flowers
receive you at the door. and so with you
up the stairway; Irish ivies festoon
balusters; jardinieres adorn the landing:
on every floor. In the embrasure of the
window, bananas spread out theiI
broad, silken leaves; TALBOT palms, mag
nolias, camellias growing like trees,
mingle their blossoms with the gilded
volutes of cornices orchids hover like
butterflies around lamp shades of crystal
porcelain, and couriously wrought ter.
racotta. From hornshaped vaces Of
japanese porcelain to Bohemian glass,
placed in the center of table or at the
corner of side-board, spring sheaves Of
suberb exotics; and all this floral
splendor thrives as in dollhouse; in
the street you are ut the Pole; within
doors you might believe your self in the
tropica
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The Power Of Organization.

Small and Insignificant in number as
compared with the agricultural classes,
capitalists rule the world, not so much
on account of their better brain power,
but because they are thoroughly organ
lied; and their organization controls the
method by which the wealth of the world
is created, collected and distributed.
However divided the members of this
class may be, into manufacturers, mer-
chants, bankers, brokers or transporters,
or however sharp the competition be-
tween them, the exchange and board of
trade make them q unit. There, at high
noon they meet in every city on the
globe, with all the appliances at their
command that genius has invented or
wealth can buy, for rapid communication
with the great industrial and commercial
censers of the world.--Through these
systematic APPLIANCES they manipulate
the markets, rates of exchange, interes:
rents, and the pay of labor. 1t is organ
ization that gives them this mighty pow
err; it is organization which creates such
active and intense sympathies between
all members of this class, however d.
verse their occupation what one feels
all feels, what one knows all know; one
instinct seems to fill every mind, and SO
out of organization comes unity, and out
of unity there comes great power.
Farmers, arise from your lethargy. and
work hard to build up your organization.
Three millions of farmers are a power in
the land, and when added to the good
and true men of this nation, will be a
power that is at once irresistible and
overwhelming. We say again, farmers.
work; work and continue to build up
and cement your organization.
The outlook for the farmer is indeed
more hopeful. If ina few years the
voice of enlightened agriculturists is not
the voice of the nation, the fault will be
your own; for nothing but division and
want of organization can defeat such
consummatiOn.-Fdrmers' Tindicdte.
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Migration Of Plants.

The plants of Europe have, in many
cases, driven off the vegetable tribes Of
America and Australia, and occupied
their sites and while the footsteps of the
white man are sounding the death knell
of the aboriginal people. his plants are
destroying those of the poor savage.
There is no kingdom on earth so revo-
lutionary as the vegetable kingdom.
Plants may be said to live amidst strife
and constant struggles, and to slay each
other mercilessly, though without any
bloodshed or cruelty. The larger trees
of the tropical forests are entwined and
throttled by trailers and Rugged by linas
till they die smaller plants seem to wait
for the places filled by their stronger
neighbors. There is less rivalry in Eu-
ropeian forests, only because a few SOW.
ereign species of timber trees, like the
Scotch and SPRUCE frs of Scandinavia,
hold the possession of the soil and do not
allow the approach of rivals. The
plants that feed the population of the
world have prevailed in the fields of
nature and OF cultivation and by virtue
of conquest, effected with or without the
aid of man and it is remarkable that the
most useful plants are the most robust
and elastic, such as the hardy grasses and
those great wanderers, wheat, rice, maze
and millet, which have followed man in
all his migrations. What a determine
ton of physical character wheat, the
banana tree, cassaya, and others must
possess, since they have pushed their way
among their compeers, till they each
dominate over wide surfaces of the
globe, and their true or native country
cannot now be Observation-Disclosures
lG ra=ine.
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Make the Grange Progressive.

EDITOR RURAL WORLD: Your letter
of inquiry is received. 1 think that
although we are not resolving quite as
much as we did twelve months ago we
are as Patrons prepared to do more and
better work than at that time. While
it is true that there is apparently less
enthusiasm, there is, in reality, full rs
much, if not more, of fixed determi-
nation to remedy many existing evils,
such as over taxation, and many other
things of which we as class have reason
to complain. Everything seems to react
upon the farming classes. five complain
and succeed in securing reduction in
one direction, it is sure TO be added in
another. If We require the railroads to
pay y reasonable tax upon the real valu-
alton of their property. they think it
exorbitant, and make it pretext for the
increase of freight rates. This matter Of
taxation should be looked into more
than it is by the Patrons. As some
writer ia your wide awake paper says;
The assessor can see just what the
farmer has, ami tax it accordingly, or
perhaps require him not only to pay a
tax on what he owns, but upon his lands
which are mortgaged while the holder OF
the mortgage escapes taxation. These
and many other things must be remedied
sooner or later, and think they will be.
Many OF the oranges are consolidating,
which will isercase their power and elf
cheney, as one good strong, active grange
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-02-13

can accomplish more than several feeble
ones. Much time has been absorbed by
limitations and the comforting of degrees
during the past year. and not q much
time could be devoted to the discussion
of the educational and business features
Of the grange Is was desirable. In our
grange standing committees (who do
something else besides stand have been
appointed, and haye commenced making
their reports on the subject of stock,
pastures and meadows, grain, gardening,
fruits, fertilizers, etc. These tend to
make the meetings interesting because
they are profitable and incite discussion,
and comment, and there is always full
attendance. In our grange harmony and
good feeling prevails, and the education.
al advantages we are securing will un-
doubtedly do much toward inc.easi ny
the happiness and welfare of every MEM
Der of the grange.
Nodaray county, Jan. 20 rs R. B. NJ.
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Must Dram to Succeed.

About three-fourths of the complaints
that reach US of the misbehavior of
fruit trees, and the failure of vegetable
crops and the unsatisfactory blooming
of roses end many other things, have one
common origin-the want of drainage.
We see people laboring away at the sur
face, raising the level by additions Of
soil, manuring literally, removing plants
that have not prospered, and planting
others in hope of better luck; and we
can tell them, when all this is done, that
unless they secure the first essential Of
success rapid removal of surplus
water-there can be no success to their
efforts, manure and plant as they may.
At this time of year you have but to
open hole one spade deep, and in less
than ten minutes that hole will be filled
with water, which proves that the whole
surface soil is saturated, and that any
cavity, tunnel or opening would imme-
diately draw off the surplus water, &C.
cording to the capacity of the opening,
and that therefore very simple and in
expensive means would suffice to enable
the soil to get rid of water which is in
excess of its power of absorption. A two
or three inch pipe laid at a regular fall
at about three feet beneath the surface,
will effsctually drain bredth from
twenty to one hundred feet in width,
according to the nature of the soil and
its relative level. Generally speaking
the drains should be three feet deep and
twenty four feet apart; but in a wet
clay they will not be too close at twelve
feet apart. In districts where there is
any apprehension of the disturbance OF
drains by molcs, one inch pipe should be
used. On very fiat land fall in one of
fifty will suffice to keep the water NOV
ing but rapid fall is preferable if the
outlet is low enough to admit of it, as in
times of sudden heavy rainfall, a quick
removal is very desirable. Of course We
cannot here enter into the details of the
subject; but as this is good time to
drain land that requires it. W. again
remind our readers that good drainage
promotes the warmth and fertility Of the
soil; and on the other hand, a water
logged soil is almost poisonous to every
kind of plant that come under the care
of Gardner's Magazine.
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Gloster, another famous trotter, late
heir apparent to the throne of Goldsmith
Maid, was by Volunteer, dam by Stock
bridge Chief. Two noted trotting fam.
Uses stand behind the big hero of many
gallant struggles to crown him emperor
Of the trotting turf.
The history ofgreat trotters Is repeated
the character and conduct of their pro-
duce. Show us the parents, and we will
predict with assurance the character Of
their colts. Speed and stoutness are the
gifts of inheritance. Disease isinherited
in the blood, and may entail its defects
upon the offspring. Curbs, ringbones,
and spavins are natures admonitions to
breed to sound parents to prevent the
misfortune of diseased colts. The dis.
eliminating breeder will select progen-
itors with sound constitutions, strong
will power, and undaunted courage.
with the irresistible hereditary influence
to stamp their indomnitable will and iron
const.tutioa upon their issue with that
indellible impress that the stout inheri-
tance will be re-entailed to their distant
posterity.
The country is the favored home of this
horse. We are destined to produce more
than all Europe combined. Our fertile
soil and genial climate are adapted to the
equine family. The broad acres in our
vast domain, filled with ripling streams
Of water, covered with rich. grasses, and
Astounding with nutritious cereals, fur.
nish abundant food to encourage their
production. There is no reason why we
cannot furnisl, Europe. in case of war OF
public danger, cheaper than they can
raise them on their scanty pastures of
WORKOUT soil. The trotlipg horse is des-
tined to find demand wherever known.
The enthusiasm stirred up in the public
mind by that class gives them notoriety !;
the tales that are told of their wonderful
achievements excite the passion to own
them. Those with abundant means will
procure the heet-footed roadster, to save
time and increase their business capacity.
The supply of 2:30 horses has increased
more than 300 per cent. in less than one
halfcentury. At this rate of increase
the exorbitant prices that have hitherto
fuled the trotting horse market, must
come down to nearer the cost of prOduc-
tiOn.-Junius in the Spirit Of the Times.
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Vegetile is Sold BY all Drlllish
MISSOURI KANSAS 4 TEXAS
RAILWAY.

The completion of the great iron
bridge over the Missouri river at Boon
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-
bic portion of Texas.
Any one contemplating trip to
Southern Kansas, the Indian Nation or
Texas, should address Thomas Dorwin,
general passenger agent, Sedalia, NO.,
for a correct map, with time tables, rates
of fare SC.
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mould in it, even il covered with saw.
dust, ashes. charcoal, etc. For the pres
ervation of smoked meat, a warm room
is also preferable to enclosures liable to
great varieties in temperature, since, the
latter moisture is apt to condense upon
it. By far the best place, in most cases,
for keeping smoked meat, is a suitable
smoke house in which it remains dry,
without drying out entirely, as it does
when hung in q chimney.
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Sinking and Keeping Neat.

The following suggestions are among
those made by Prof. Nessler in regard
to the preservation of meat, as given the
New York Tribune:
The keeping qualities of smoked meat
do not depend upon the amount of smok-
ing, but upon the uniform and proper
drying of the meat. Smoking of high
temperature and moisture, and the con-
densation of water upon meat, are all
injurious in smoking meat. With hot
dry smoke the surface is dried too rap
idly a crust, filled with cracks, is formed
and the fat may partially liquify, and
the drying of the inferior of the meat be
Kindred. Bacon is often met with that
is brown to the debpth of an inch, or
even more, simply because it was two
warm, or at times moist (sweat), either
during the smoking or the subsequent
storing. 1t is doubtless of considerable
advantage to roll the meat, on its reno
val from the salt, before smoking, in
sawdust or bran, or tn strew it with
them, since the crust formed in smoking
will not be SO thick, and if moisture con-
denses upon the meat (sweating) it re-
mains in the bran or sawdust, and the
brown eoloring matter o. the smoke does
not peReirate the meat. The bran. etc,
can easily be removed before using the
meat. Warmth, of itself. is not re-
garled a. injurious to smoked meat if
moisture is absent and air il not ton
confined. In Greece, meat is preserved
in the shade Of trees, in an airy place.
rather than in cellars, although the lat
ter are much cooler, because they are at
the same time much damper fla cellar
is NOT very dry, smoked meat will soon
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Adpinistrator's Sale Of Real Estate.

Notice is hereby given that I, as administrator
IN Of theestate OF Mortimer Merton. deceased.
will offer for sale at public auction nj the door of
the court house in lola, Allen county, Kansas. ON
Monday, the Sth day of March, 1875, commencing
at 10 O'Clock, a. m. Of said Hay. the following
described neal estate. situated in said county,
to-wit:
The west half of the southwest quarter Of Sec
ton nussroeT "a in township number = south, Of
range II eist and also the f0llOwtBg lots In the
city Of lola in said county tO-wit;
Lot II, in Block ~, Lot l, n Block !.
Lot !, in Block g. Lot 8, In Block 90
Tie said real estate is offered for sale in pursu
ance Of an order OF sale issued from the Probate
Court of said eounfy, the same being necessary
in order to pay the debts Of said estate. Terms
Of sale made known at the sale.
n6it J. &. MERRITT, administrator.
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Boston, Dec. II, l60

Gentlemen-My only object in giving You this
testimonial Is to spread valuable information.
Having been badly aniicted with Salt Rheum,
and the whole surface Of my skin being covered
with pimples and eruptions, many Of which
caused me great pain and annoyance, and know
ing il to be blood disease, took many Of the
advertised blood preparations, among which Was
any quantity Of Sarsaparills, without obtain.
ing any benefit until I commenced taking
the VEGErINE, and before I had completed
the first bottle saw that had got the right
medicine. Consequently, followed ON with IL
until had taken seven bottles, when was pro.
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joyed SO good health before, and ut ribufe all to
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with Rheumatism, win make mention also OF
the VEGErINE's wonderful power Of curing me
Of this acute complaint, of which have suffered
SO intensely.
c. H. TUCKER, Pass. Ag't Mich. C. B. B.,
Cd Washington street, BostOn.
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Indiana pauses to reflect upon the
statistical circumstances that the ap
plications for divorces exceed those for
marriage licenses by one hundred and
fifty per cent.
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eff you don't give ME penny" said
a young hopeful to his mamma, 81 know
boy whose got the measels, and I'll 60
and catch them"
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s.. s =! ';:;|:;; EMPLOYMENT! !

We wanta suitable person in every neighborhood
to take orders and deliver goods for our establish
ed G, o. ID. Sales of staple and family goods of
all kinds in constant use and wear. The oldest
million in 1874. LARGE CvsH PAY to the right
person. A real chance for all, male or female, at
your homes or travelling. No risk, you 90 to
Of a samples and complete outfit. Address ut
once and secure your territory. II. J. HALL
CO., 6, North Howard Street, Baltimore Nd
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Fortune is the goddess of breathing
men; to feel her favors truly we mus,
live and be men, who toll with their
living minds and bodies, and enjoy with
them also,
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