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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-04-29

The committee appointed to investi-
gate the subject Of ladies' lunches when
travelling report that they invariably
consist of a very small sandwich, large
quantities of white and yellow cake, and
an immense pickle; if the latter is alb
sent the affair is considered failure.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-04-29

In order to make agriculture or horti-
culture pay satisfactory pro6t, our
most successful managers adopt system
of mixed husbandry, and raising stock
enough to eat up the crop, and the better
the profit. afA
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-04-29

LEMON PIE.-The juice and rind of
lemon grated into cup of water, cup
full of Loaf sugar, the yelks of two eggs,
8 tablespoonfuls flour. Frosting-beat
the whites of eggs. add 4 tablespoon
fuls white sugar, spread on the pie, and
bake lightly in the oven.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-04-29

PorATo PUFFs.-One pint of milk,
boiled, one-fourth peund butter or lard,
one tablespoonful of sugar, six good po-
tatoes mashed hot, -four to make thick
batter. Let rise very light, then knead
into soft dough, rell thin, put two to-
gether let rise two hoars and bake in
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-04-29

Imagine the feelings of the North
Carolina lady who, while incensed at the
receipt of comic valentine, threw an
gfily into the fire another letter, which
subseY uently proved to be from friend
in the country, and contained eight dol
lars in PAYMENT of debt.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-04-29

Zinc that is used under stoves should
never be dampened. fit becomes soiled
or dim, rub with soft flannel and a little
fresh lard. Cleaned in this way, zinc
may always be kept as bright as when
first purchased.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-04-29

fwork about the house is done quiet
" it seems to be easier. Slamming oven
doors, Gathering dishes, and other kind
red noises, weary and bewilder almost
as much as the work itself. The most
successful -housekeepers are generally
Quiet workers,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-04-29

OocoANUT PUDDING.-To the grated
meat of a cOcoanut take 6 eggs, 6 large
spoonfuls of sugar ! teacup OF butter and
a little soda. Line a dish with puff
paste and FIJI with the mixture. Bake
in q quick oven.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-04-29

To sprinkle damp bran upon q carpet
before sweeping is good way Of laying
the dust without injury to the carpet.
Oil cloths should be cleaned in warm,
not hot water, and rubbed dry with a
cloth wrung out of milk and water.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-04-29

GRAHAM GEMS cups buttermilk,
l cup sweet milk, 8 tablespoonfuls of
sugar, teaspoons soda, l of salt, -four
for batter-Dot extra thick; bake in gem
tins, till light brown. l always sift
my flour.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-04-29

"Don't you think" said husband in
a mild form of rebuke to his wife, "that
women are possessed by the devil p
"Yes," was the answer, '.as soon as they
are married"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-04-29

Gilt frames should have q coat of
'demar varnish, which will keep them
from becoming soiled with dust or fly
.specks, and permit their being cleansed
with damp cloth.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-04-29

JOB WORK of great variety and Of
y superior style done promptly at the
Office of The lola REGISTER.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-04-29
CHOICE
FLOWER AND GARDEN SEEDS,
Strawberries and Peaches
NEW SORTS nv Mali

Plants of the newest ami finest i'm
proved sorts, carefully packed and pre-
paid by mail. My collection Of Straw
berries took the first premium for the
best, Collection, q: tbs great show of the
Mass. Horticultural Society, in Boston,
last season. grow nearly 100 varieties,
the most complete collection in the
Country, including all the new, lar e
American and imported kinds. Priced
Descriptive Catalogue, gratis by mail.
Also, Bulbs. Fruit Trees, Roses, Ever
green's. IS packets Flower or Garden
Seeds, $500 by neil.
q The True Cape Cod cranber-
>~'y, best sort for Upland, Low
4. land, or Garden, by mail, pre-
paid. 81 per 100, SIS per 1000. Whole
sale Catalogue TO the Trade. Agents
Wanted.
B. M. WATSON, Old Colony Nurse
ries and Seed Wafshouse, Plymouth,
Mass. Established Ie4z. 6:st
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-04-29

To remove smoke and dust from wall
paper, carefully rub it with soft cloth
and plenty of dry bran or Indian meal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-04-29

Stove backing mixed with vinegar in
stead of water is more permanent and
gives higher polish.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-04-29
2,2l6 Premiums amounting to $4,OO'
PREMIUMS for 5000 Yearly Subscri
beers to the WEEKLY TINES, at SLIGO


beers to the WEEKLY TINES, at $1.6O.
One Grain Drill ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 81
One Farm Wagon. ......... ..-.......... 10
One Threshing Machine-Complefe with
mounted horse power and all attachments $50
One Reaper and MOwer-with latest imprOv-
ed attachments. II5
Five Family Bibles-EXtra large size, gilt
edge, gold clasps; album pages for l6Pho- >.
toSr,nhs ........ IS
One Silver PlatedTea set-six pieces. ....-. 81
Ten Sets Silver Plaied SpOons-Extra heavy
. weight. ...........-.... .-.:.:.:.-.:-. 50
ira heavy weight. .........-.-........:.. "
Twenty Napkin Rings-Rich and attractive
v IN design ,i.;, u.,:;;;;c,, 70 M.x;co;;
BY Major Sohn n. Edwards; cloth. so
One Hundred Shelby 3 Expedition to Mex
,r nTpaper i,c,,n,;
cOlOrei maps Of Missouri, kapsas, Texas
and Colorado, with q vast fund Of other
valuable information. Observation-Disclosures. q, 900
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-04-29

To render flat-irons smooth, rub them
weH'with salt, and then over piece Of
beeswax after heating.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-04-29
IT PAYS! IT PAYS!
WHAT PA YS2

1t pays every Manufacturer, Merchant, Me-
chanic, Inventor, Farmer or Professional man,
to keep informed o. all the Improvements and
discoveries Of the age.
1t pays the head Of every family to introduce
into his household y newspaper that IL instruc-
tive, one that fosters taste for Investigation,
and encourages discussion among the members.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-04-29

4sps a S.s ss for . and e =
SEQ; WOODS e CO, cambridgeport, Mass:
fHE WY "A ling Musical youn. Of .ed valuable
- WOODS CO. Psbns cHa,o"t iron
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-04-29
- . . 9 3 8 . .

In order to place it in the hands of all,
the Price has been fixed at: the
asso1nshingly Low Rate Of
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-02-26
Offensive Taste in Mutton.

Almost every person who feels compe
tent to assign a reason for the "sheepy"
taste of mutton, will attribute this pecui.
liarity to different cause from any tina,
has been given by Others. A correspon-
dent in one of our exchanges claims that
it is caused by the contact of the wool
with the meat. This is mistake which
has caused much prejudice against NUT
ton as food.
The true cause of this taste or odor is
to be found in delay in disemboweling
the carcass. The intestines should be re-
moved 1T the earliest possible moment
after life is extinct and before the reno
val of the pelt. If the intestines are al
lowed to remain until the pelt is taken
off the gases emitted from them will be
disseminated through the flesh and pro-
duce the Objectionable taste and odor-
If proper attention is paid to butchering
well-fatted sheep, there will be nothing,
either in the odor or taste, to offend the
most fastidicus. Properly served lamb
or mutton on the table furnishes most
wholesome, delicate, delicious and nutri
tious food, which should largely sup
plant the hog meat usually on the tables
of farmers.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-02-26
Spoiled Pork.

We hear from every direction of the
loss of meat the present winter. There
may be three main causes, and no doubt
each has had its share in the usual loss
of late. In the first place, many hogs
that were slaughtered were diseased at
the time. The extreme, mild, in fact
warm weather. And lastly, but by no
means least, careless handling. One day
my boys helped neighbor to butcher,
and on returning about four o'clock with
report that they had finished up all,
even to the sailing of the meat although
one of them told the owner that his meat
would spoil. Since then we have found
out that it did spoil. Now, if thirty
years experience, of one ,ho has put up
from five hundred to fifteen hundred
pounds year, is a criterian to go by, we
will give our method; and in all that
time we never lost piece. On butch
ering day, lay the meet out on table or
on the cellar floor; skin side down, on a
canvas or clean straw. Leave there un-
til next day, then salt a barrel or large
stand, as the case may require. Pack
lightly skin down again, sailing about
what would keep it. In eight days,
thereafter, make brine that will bear a
fresh egg dissolve in the pickle before
pouring it, about gallon of good mo-
lasses to ten gallons. Pour over the
meat until covered, and leave thus tor
four or five weeks. Take out, hang up
and smoke for three or four weeks
Before the flies begin to buzz about in
the spring, take the meat down and
wrap in paper and pack in a box with
wood ashes, so that the pieces do not
touch. Better hams do not meet with
abroad, than our own treated in just
this way. s. MILLER.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-02-26
influence Of Eating Upon Character.

DR.. Everett delivered a lecture upon
health at Boston, maintained that eating
had very important bearing upon indi-
vilual character anil temperament, NOR
ally and socially, and fully subscribed
to the sentiment ian animal can be cor
rectly judged at feast" The doctor di-
vided his subject into easy parts, and
dwelt upon the great prevalent evil OF
eating too fast, and said that thousands
were annually hurried into dyspepsia
and its disagreeable accompanim ents,
and its many other maladies by this
system. He discussed lucidly the Gus
tom of much drinking while eating. and
held in common with the great physiolo-
gists that it was preferable to drink after
eating, or at least to drink very little of
any liquid during justification. He
clearly showed that over-eating was the
source of facial and even bodily disfg.
urements. He was of the opinion that
men, as rule, were guilty of sin against
nature. Many men, perhaps the major
ity of men, ate more than they needed
or could readily digest, and of necessity
nature rebelled in various ways AGAINST
the hurdensome imposition.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-02-26
Good Coffee.

"Aunt Prudence" writes in the Amer
lean Grocer: If we Drowned our own cof-
fee, which we confess We never do, we
should certainly adopt plan which we
see spoken of in Halls Journal, and which
carries conviction of its excellence to the
mind of an old housekeeper. 1t is this
When the coffee is roasted, and before il
is quite cold, while you can hold the Der.
ries quite comfortably in the hand, add
to every pound of coffee the white of an
egg, and stir it thoroughly through the
mass, so that every berry will be wet
with it. 1t would have two advantages ;
the first is the one spoken of by the
writer of the article, Of settling the coffee
without the addition of anything but
boiling water; and the second would be
to coat the berry so as to preserve the
aroma, which will pass away in meas
ure from the roasted berry.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-02-26

THE RIGHT WAY TO Boil EGGs.-
There is an objection to the common
way of boiling eggs, which people do not
understand. 1t is this: The white, nn-
der three minutes cooking becomes tough
and indigestible, while the yelk is still
soft. When properly cooked, eggs are
done evenly through like any other food.
This result may be obtained by putting
the eggs into dish with e cover, as a tin
pail, and then pouring upon them boiling
water, two quarts or more to dozen eggs
and cover and set away from the stove
for fifteen minutes. The heat of the
water cooks the eggs slowly, evenly and
sufficiently, and to a jelly-like censisten'
cy, leaving the centre or yelk harder than
the white, and the eggs taste much rich
er and nicer
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-02-26
How to rl.nt : Tree.

When planting tree don't dig hole
like bowl ciztefn, but d. it just as
deep a. the sell il, and no deeper; make
the bottom Of it one-third larger round
than the top, and loosen up the very
bottom. Then as the tree is planted
throw in first an inch of good, fresh soil
set in the tree holding it with one hand
while on your knees you spread its roots
carefully with the other; let the assist
ant drop the dirt upon the roots as if he
had sieve, and as it is dropped in, do
you who hold the tree upon your Bonded
knee work every root carefully out
straight on q level line with the point of
the junction of it with the main stem,
use the fingers outspread in mingling
the fine dirt with the roots, and be care
ful that not an air space is left at the
bottom. and also that the lower root is
packed the hardest and highest of any
As you reach the upper roots only see
that each root is surely surrounded with
earth, and then let the last four inches
of earth be sprinkled on with spade or
shovel, without pressure of foot or any
thing else, don't even fiat it With SHOW
ell, and be sure you keep your own and
Paddy's feet off, for every pressure will
destroy the natural position of the roots
below.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-02-26
Poultry for Profit.

w. II. Todd in an address delivered
before the Indiana Poultry Association,
stated that:
A Brahma pullet will commence lay
ing at about six months old; and il
Matched in the spring and kept till
twelve or fourteen months old, and il
not permitted to waste any time setting
will have laid at least ten dozen of eggs
which at % cents dozen would net
$3.50. Tie hen could be sold for mar.
ket, at the beginning of summer, when
there is scarcity of poultry, for about
81, making $3.50 for one hen, which has
not cost to exceed $3.50, leaving a net
profit of 50; but, lest some may think
our figures too high, we will say that
SL75, or 100 per cent, is q pretty fair
profit. The fertilizer product will offse,
the labor of attending, etc. Cockereis,
if kept by themselves and fed high till
the following spring, will dress ten
pounds, ready for New York market
That is, for this marke. they are only
plucked and bred with waste Of about
half a pound to the bird, for this class of
fowls the average price is 25 cents per
pound in the spring, and netting 90 cents
to 81 each. As capons they would net
80 or 40 per cent. more. These estimate;
are no milkmaid's air castle building
and counting chickens before they are
Matched, but the results of our own ex
perience, and what we have seen done
by others, time and again.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-02-26
FatteniEg Poultry.

The London Field states that poultry
properly fed will acquire all the fairness
needed for marketing purposes, in fort
night or three weeks at most. Their
diet should be Indian, oat, or barley
meal, scalded in milk or water-the for
mer is the best as it will expedite the
fattening process. They should be fed
early in the morning, at noon, and also
in the evening just before going to roost.
A plentiful supply of fresh wa:er-plenty
of gravel, sliced cabbage OF turnip tops.
If the fowls are required to be very fat.
some trimmings Of fresh mutton suet
may be chopped mp and scalded with
their other feed, or they may he boiled
in milk alone and poured over the meal.
This renders the flesh firmer than it 9TH
wise would he. When fit to kill, feed
ing should be stopped for twelve hours
or more, that the intestines may become
comparatively empty.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-02-26
Educating The Horse.

Horses can be educated to the extent
of their understandings as we'll as chill.
dren, and can be as easily damaged o,
ruined by bad management. We believe
the great difference found in horses, a.
to vicious habits or reliability, come.
more from the different management o.
men than from variances of natural
disposition in the animals. Horses with
high mettle are more easily educated
than those Of less Or dull spirits, and are
more susceptible to i'll training, and con-
sequently may be good or bad, accord
to the education they receive.
Horses with dull spirits are not by
any means proof against bad manage
ment, for in them may often be found
the most provoking obstinacy; vicious
habits of different characters that render
them almost entirely worthless. Could
the coming generations of horses in this
country be kept from their days of colt
hood to the age of five years in the
hands of good, careful managers, there
would be seen vast difference in the
general characters of the noble animals
II colt is never allowed to get an
advantage, it will never know that it
possesses power that man cannot con-
troll; and if made familiar with strange
objects, it will not be skittish and ner-
vous. If horse is made accustomed
from his early days to have objects hit
him on the heels, back and hips he will
paw no attention to the giving out of a
harness or of wagon running against
him at an unexpected moment.
A gun can be fired from the back of a
horse, an umbrella held over his head, a
buffalo robe thrown over his neck, a rail-
road engine pass close by his heels,
bumped with sticks, and the animal
take it all as a natural condition of
things, if only Taught by careful man.
agement he will not be injured thereby.
There is great need of Improvement in
the management of this noble animal i;
less beating wanted and more of educa,
ton. A. F. II.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-02-26

At meeting OF the South Deerfe!d
(Mass) Farmers Club, Prest. c. Smith
related several experiments which he
had tried to ascertain the comparative
profit between fatteaipg young stock in
the barn in summer and fattening in a
hill pasture, the result of which was a
large preponderance of evidence in favor
of soiliac. from the amount of manure
saved and the healthy, thrifty growth of
animals; heifer calves, Kept at home till
two years old, Instead of running in a
large pasture. will be worth at least $40
more for COW.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-02-26
Common Sense in piowins.

Teams drawing heavy loads on the
roads get breathing spell on the
descending ground, while in blowing the
draft is the same from morning till night
There is certain number of pounds tina,
a team can draw day after day and moi
worry them, but if more be added, even
a. little as fifteen or twenty pounds.
they walk unsteadily, fret, and soon tire
No amount of feeding will keep them in
good condition. have many plows in
use on which it has been an easy matter
to decrease the draft twenty-five pounds
and if men had been drawing them in
stead of horses i. would have been done.
1t must be plain tn the farmer that every
pound taken off from the draft of hi-
pillow is 50 much gained for his horses.
1t may be done in this way: For any
soil except sand or gravel use q steel
pillow. Their cost is but little more, and
the draft enough less to pay the differ
ence in blowing twenty acres. In plow-
ing sod the coulter does great deal of
the work, and should be kept sharp by
forging at the blacksmiths and grinding
every day if necessary. Of course it will
wear out sooner, but new coulters are
cheaper than new teams. Set the coul-
ter in line with the pillow, the edge square
in front, with an angle of forty-five de-
grees from the point to where it is at
tached to the beam. When the share
gets worn out it is poor economy to use
it any longer, but replace it with new
one. Let the traces be as short as will
allow the horses to walk without hitting
their heels against the whifletrees, and
have just pressure enough of the wheels
on the ground to run steady. If the
handles crowd continually one way the
draft is not right, and, if the pillow is a
good one, it can be easily remedied at
the clevis. To prevent the horses step
ping over the traces in turning, fasten a
weight of about three fourths of pound
on the outside of each singletree-that is
on the right end when you turn to the
left, and vice versa. Every observing
farmer knows that horses are susceptible
of kindness and equally SO to unkind
ness. 1 have seen horses that were
working steadily made reckless with
sweat in a short time, by a short word
or jerk at the bit. Let your horses do
their work as you do yours, as easily as
Possible, and be as willing to overlook
their mistakes as you would the mistakes
of human beings.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-02-26
ToBAcco-NEw METHOD OF CURING

TOBAcCo-NEw METHOD OF CURING.
The successful raising ola fine quality
of tobacco in the western portion of North
Carolina, is the latest agricultural
achievement. The probability Of such a
thing would have been ridiculed ten
years ago. A new method of curing, by
curing the leaf of the stalk, has also
been introduced. The advantages OBJ
tanned in this way is shown in the fol-
lowing yield of 29O pounds of green to-
bacco, one half of which was cured on,
and the other half off the stalk: That
cured off the stalk, ~ lbs, 10 OLA. stalks
weighed 6 lbs. IL ozs total, 10 pounds
ozs. Cured on stalk, / lbs. IL ozs
stalks Oh this top, 8 lbs. /; total, 10 lbs. II
uzs. 1t will be observed that the grand
fetal is just the same except 6 ounces,
and in this lot cured off the stalk Is
ounces or something like s per cent. on
the leaf is gained, while the other gains
I pound but that gain is in worthless
stalk, -.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-02-26

MOLDING CANDLEs.-Thew icks should
not be too large or the candles will burn
away too fast. Double and twist the
wicks, to make them as compact as posi-
BILE Before dropping them into the moulds
or the candles will run down as they
burn. Do not have the tallow too hot.
Moderate freezing weather is the best for
molding candles. If the tallow cools too
fast it is apt to crack and cleave away
from the wicks. Candles burn better il
they have been made some time before
they are used. Every housekeeper wor-
thy of the name will have candles to go
about the house with instead of kerosene
lamps. If they do not make them they
will buy them
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-02-26
nLossED SH1Rr.BosoMs.-Take two

CLOSED SHIRT-BosoMs.-Take two
ounces of fine white gum arabic powder,
put it in pitcher and pour on pint or
more of water, and then, having covered
it. let it stand all night. In the morn
ing pour it carefully from the dregs into
a clean bottle, cork, and keep it for use.
A teaspoonfui of this gum water in a
pint of starch, made in the usual way,
will give to lawns, white er printed, a
look of newness when nothing else can
restore them, after they have been
washed,