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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-04-16

time and circumstances permit. The
cost of this first operation, in land free
from stones, has not with us exceeded
two cents q rod. Aud by it we have
drained acres that before had laid under
water eight months in the year. Fences,
if needed, can now be placed on the
bank thrown up. The Usage orange
and black Thorn grow better on
these banks than on the undrain-
ed low ground. But the ground
may be rolling with low places
surrounded by higher ground, which
keeps the water from runniNg of. II
this high ground be many feet high,
drainage can only be effected by cutting
through the high ground. and putting
in tiles, boards A-shaped, poles, rails or
stone, where they abound. and cover
ing. If this is not feasible and it is de-
sired to drain the punch bowl, resort
must be had to vertical draining. Bore
with an auger-a two-inch auger will
do, but the larger the better--down
through the clay sub-soil, to the under
lying strata of water gravel; as soon
as this strata is reached the water will
sink into the hole and disappear; if the
hole is kept open. Any cheap iron,
lead or wooden tubing will suffice. I'm
derdraining, with tile, brush, rails,
poles or stones, for the central portions
of cultivated fields, is by far the most
desirable method of carrying off the
water, as it induces the water to perco-
late through the soil, depositing its fer
tilizing elements held in solution, and
raises the average temperature of the
ground from two to ten degrees, &C
cording to English experiments.
For the purpose of understanding,
the ditch should be made as narrow as
possible, and from two to three feet
deep. and even greater depth is de-
sirable, as the deeper the ditch the
more it drains and the further may they
be cut apart. Pine brush, tips down
ward, beginning at the upper end OF
the drain and deeply covered. lest a
good many years and effectually drain
the land, as we know.-Cor. Ohio
Farmer.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-04-16
Draining Wet Land.

THERE are three methods of draining
wet land worthy of notice. The first
and cheapest is open draining or ditch
ing. This method carries off SUPER
fiuous water the most rapidly, and on
very cheap lands is the only advisable
method on any large scale. We will,
for illustration, take farm of low land,
such as exists in any quantity in all the
Western States. The highest elevation
on a half section is only five feet. The
water line during half of the, year is
within two or three inches of the sur
face. In summer it drops down for two
or three months to six, eight. ten or
many more inches. By cutting bitches
two feet deep, around ten-acre fields,
drawing toward the lowest part of the
land. the average water line may be
lowered several inches. Every inch
that the water line on such land can be
lowered, to the depth of twelve inches,
increases its agricultural products one
sixth.
Stake out the ditch where desired.
throw out with q large pillow and q
strong team as deep as possible, the
first furrow. Throw another furrow
from the first one, leaving only core
sufficient to hold the pillow steady;
throw out this core with q spade, ten
inches deep. This is the first step to-
ward a good open drain. Deepen it as
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-04-16
SWindlerS Abroad.

Now THAT that class who get their
living by their wits are appraised of the
fact that farmers are reasonably favored,
and quite likely to have little money
on hand, or a good name at the banks,
they are on the alert. Nearly every loft
in the larger cities is supplied with
shafting, whirled by steam power in the
basement. Over the pulleys of this
shafting, belts 60 to rooms here and
there, in which every sort of catch
penny device, and sprinkling of useful
things are made. Look at the adver-
tisements in a city daily and read the
inquiries for partners ''to manufacture
something sure to SELL" and on which
the profits are reported to be all the
way from one hundred to three hundred
per cent. To sell the products o. these
upper lofts, especially the catch-penny
portion, men with oily tongues are sent
hither and thither, and their hurried
pull at the bell rope is familiar sound
to housewives, the country over. For
there is hardly hamlet, or nook or cor
ner into which their audacity has not
led them. In the absence of something
to sell, they are not at loss, as for in
stance, the recent new dodge brought
out in an Eastern State. A well dressed
chap with business air, drives up hur-
riedly to farmers door, representing
himself as employed by the Govern
ment to obtain the agricultural
statistics for the census. He demands
to know the number of cattle and
othao stock, acres under cultivation,
kind of crops, etc. Having filled
up his blank in very business-like
statement, first running over the figures,
that the farmer may see that no mistake
is made in the numbers entered in the
blank. This is merely done as blind.
diverting attention from the fact that
there is a space just above the signature
giving room to fill in note of hand. In
a month or SO the farmer gets notice
from neighboring bank that his note
for an amount named in the notice will
fall due on a given day, and to which his
prompt attention will be expected. Now
there is no dodge too audacious for these
chaps to undertake, and, whether it be
the census trick or some other equally
bold, the farmers should show them the
door early in the interview. If they
meet you and attempt an interview in
side of the gate. then show them the
gate, with hint about big dog in the
back yard, always promptly at hand
upon call. If they climb the fence to
you while in the field, point to the way
back over the fence, and if the dog is
not at hand point significantly to the
toe of YOUR StOgy boot, or hint that YOU
know exactly how 70 take a man of his
size by the seat of his breeches.-West-
e7'n Farm Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-04-16
Before SebastOpOl.

REMEMBER four of the finest men in
our ''grenadiers' who. belong to No.
l tent of that company. One night,
wrapping their damp blankets about
them, they lay down together in their
place near the slit in the tent-side
called door. That night the ice-kng
seized all nature with terrible grip,
and in the morning, when the starving,
half frozen buglers sounded the call to
arms, a great number were missing and
these four among the rest. The SER
geant of the company who called the
roll that morning endeavored, first by
nudges, and then by kicks, to arouse
them. Pulling the blanket from the
face of the form nearest the door, he
started back exclaiming: my God!
they're dead" They toere dead, and
frozen tight to the ground, too, never
to rouse till the last s.fall i'm is sounded
by the angel trumpeter.-Boston Com
naerci0l Bulletin.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-04-16
A Street Scene in Panama.

The washerwoman's art is very
necessary, if not particularly elevated
one, and no one with proper sympathy
for large, laborious and not particu-
larly highly remunerated class would
think for moment of attempting to
circumscribe their liberty or render
their weary task more burdensome.
However, we think it is not one of
their inherent rights to occupy the
streets with their clothes lines. To
string them along above the sidewalks,
where, burdened with their dripping
load, they compel the passer-by to
seek the middle of the streets; or, pro-
jected by long poles still farther into
the street, they constantly endanger
the safety of persons mounted upon OF
driving spirited and nervous animals,
as well as interfere with ordinary
travel. We recommend the matter to
the consideration of the Governor and
hope to see the nuisance abated.-Rn-
anna Star and Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-04-16
An Irish Farm.

IMAGINE level country, with few
trees and no forests, cut up into very
small, irregular fields by stone walls.
It is of such land that Irish farms are
composed. In most counties there is
a great deal of Doggy, swampy land,
from which the farmers cut peat, which
serves them as fuel.
An Irish farm is generally about as
large as an ordinary village green of
New York or New England, say, from
five to fifteen acres. In some districts,
farm of ten acres is considered rather
large, and it is often the sole support
of an immense family-father, mother,
ten children, and, perhaps, an old grand
mother.
Boston Common contains forty-eight
acres of land. It would make six good
sized Irish farms; which would main
tain fifty or sixty human beings, half-a-
dozen COWS, horse or two, some don.
keys and many pigs, besides paying
about three hundred dollars year to
the landlord, and something to the
priest.
In good seasons, all this teeming and
swarming life can just be maintained.
But suppose crop fails! Suppose the
peat cannot be dried! Then what?
Why, hunger and starvation, OF course.
And, remember, there are no factories
or other business to fall back upon. If
the crops fail, all fails.
If the crops of New England should
be as poor this year as they were in
Ireland last year, it would be great
calamity, but very few persons would
60 hungry on that account. The fish
cries, the shops, the factories, COM
MERGE and the savings-banks would 60
on about as usual, and the people
would buy their food from other States.
Irish farms do not all lie along high
road, as with us. Farms are behind
farms; and great number of them can
only be reached by a-donkey path three
or four feet wide. All the work is done
by hand. The fields are dug, not
plowed, and many farmers have no i'm
plements but q spade, hoe and turf
cutter. and no vehicle except a small
donkey-cart.
The farmhouse is generally one story
high, and very often consists of single
large room, with perhaps recess for a
bed. It is commonly built of stone,
with roof of thatch, but many of the
houses are made of earth, with hard
floor of homemade cement. In this
one room, the dairy-work is done, and
all the family live, the pig coming in and
going out as he pleases.
Are the people then miserable and de-
graded? By no means. When the
harvest is good and the rent reasonable.
they are among the most cheerful peo-
pie in Europe; and, in all the world,
there is no land where the women are
more modest and pure. The children
are rudy and robust. The houses are
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-04-16

"EPEAKIN1 of duck shooting on St.
Clair Flats" sighed an old citizen, as
he took seat ina gun store yesterday.
81 don't think there are as many birds
up there as there was ten or fifteen
years ago. Why, sir, the channels FUSED
to be Just black with 'em, and they were
so tame that you could knock 'em on
the head"
Everybody signed to think those good
old days and ducks could never return,
and the veteran hunter continued:
81 remember was out one day in
April. I got in among the bipeds, and
how many do you suppose I countedP"
.Three hundred,' ventured one of
the audience after long interval.
''Three hundred! Why, I always
killed over a thousand every time 1
went out! No, sir, counted over six
teen thousand great big, fat. plump,
delicious ducks, and then I had only
counted those on one side of the boat!'
"How long did it take you?''
81 don't know, sir, I had no watch
with me. Time is nothing to a man
counting ducks. l counted aloud, and
when the ducks were small I counted
two for one. BY and by I got tired
of counting and got ready for the
slaughter.
"How many did you kill?''
"Well, now, I suppose 1 could lie
about it and say 1 killed nine or ten
hundred, but I'm getting too near the
grave for that. No, I didn't kill a
blasted one, and that's where the
strange part of the story comes in.
When began to lift that gun up those
ducks knew what l was up to Just as
well as human being, and what did
they doP Why. sir, about two hun
dred of 'em made sudden dive, swan
under the boat, and all raised on her
port side at once and upset her! Yes,
sir, they did, and there I was in the
North Channel, in ten feet of water,
boat upset, night coming on and l in
my wet clothes.'
"Wellg'
= "Well, I climbed up on the bottom
of the boat, aoated five miles, and was
picked up by two Indians. We lowed
that upset boat to an island, and here
another curious thing comes in. Under
the boat were 264 large, plump ducks.
They had been caught there when she
upset, and all we had to do was to haul
'em out and rap 'em on the head"
"Why, why didn't they dive down
and get from under the boat p asked
an amateur duck-shooter.
"Why didn't they, sir-why didn't
they? Well, sir, I might have asked
'em why they didn't, but it was late, a
cold wind had sprung up, and didn't
feel like talking! All know is that I
counted over 10000 ducks. was upset,
captured 264, and have afidavits here
in my wallet to prove everything l have
stated. Does any man here want tosee
the documents p'
No man did. They all looked out of
the windows and wondered if they could
lie that way when they had passed three
score years.-Detroit Free Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-04-16

generally clean and neat. The people
enjoy life so much upon those little
black, Doggy farms, that when they em-
igrate to America or Australia, they
sometimes almost die of homesickness.
In many instances, poor Irish girl
among us never goes to bed for six
months after leaving home, without
crying q little for the old house of mud
and thatch, and the old folks within it.
-YontHs Companion.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-04-16

RICE AND APPLE SOUFFLE.-Boil
two tablespoonful of rice in half a
pint of milk; add, when soft, the yelks
Of two eggs, and sugar to taste; make
a wall with it around the sides of the
dish. Stew some pared and cored ap-
Piles until soft, fill the center of the
dish with them. fill up the apertures in
the apples with candied sweetmeats OF
jelly, and cover the whole with the
whites of the eggs beaten to stiff
froth and sprinkled thick with white
powdered sugar. Brown in the oven
and serve with cream.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-04-16
HuoP AlbuS

Ben edy; A
1nhning cure fer
Se@inal Weak.
neA, SPermator.
vhA, 1mpoteoey,
and all diseases
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AsHnAAA - 4AYH
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-04-16

TIE steamship Great Eastern is to be
fitted up with new boilers and machin-
cry at cost of E14O, 900, to carry cattle
between London and Texas. She is
capable of holding 1900 head of cattle
and sc, 1000 head Of sheep.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-04-16

Glen Farr, who lives in Morgan.
town, N. c., has won local renown as
q pole-climber. In 1874 he climbed q
sixty-feet pole at a Henry Clay mass
meeting and from its top waved the
banner, and twenty-four years later he
climbed q Seymour pole and took q
drink sixty feet from the ground.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-04-16

A PANTHER measuring seven feet
from tip to tip was shot on Humbug
Creek, Siskiyou County, Cal.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-01-22

The Blue Mountains. looking towards
the Coluubis. was the prsttisst sight
~ ever saw. There we're tens Of thou
sands Of acres of yellow grain, with
sharp straight liaes through their
oidst. Next TO this evidence Of cea-
tort and civilization. and divided by .
bee line, vas the bleak Umatills rcser.
vatioo. We proceeded from Pendleton
% the Dalles. end thence to this plsce,
(st the Cascades on the Columbia where
We ara winterinG. Next spring. with
three other families. We will take our
place With you ~ citizens of Washing,
ton Territory.
EDWARD BALLAINR.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-01-22
BUSINESS CHANGE.
the ELECTRO MAGNETIC SOLE

r ArELY INv8rTgD-lo uAlD TO ExCEL
IL oil rsu,esiiss yet known for the complete
cure of Rssumstis1. They have beso known to
cure the disssss after tt he's bern sassed tor
many yeass. HasAlysis snd negv0us a1scttoos
yisid 20 thsls trsoAmeal. ssd psssoos hsvtsg cold
fest viii 0od this da11eulty allovistea By the use
of the Bl.ECf1O.0A0N4TlC oOL8. For eale at
~ Drse osors u KglLY Z YOUNG. Authorised
Agsess foe Puess 0sund. q the low price 0f 81 ~
pss ps6. ssat b nsil - say sadrsss. jsdsf
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-01-22
MISCELLANEOUS.
MUSIC! MUSIC!

HAvIN0 LOCATED HUE WILL rCRNl1u
L nn0te Tor eli occasions q seattle sud ad)s-
cent towns: Will givs tsstrucsious on violia,
Piano o. OrRaa. Pianos tuned: terms modsrato.
Orders Isis q y. .. Ysmphrey's VIII nsss Win
peo0pt sEesnttoo.
h1ldkv IN, HAID
, 1880-08-11

was drowned, but the pony swan
ashore. It will be several days before
traffic can be resumed on the Leiccs-
ter and Peterborough branch and on
the line from Kettering and Manton
to Nottingham. At night the floods
mad subsidized somewhat, although
still very high, the fields for 20 miles
along the valley Of the Soar present
ing the appearance of large lakes:
The atmosphere at Liverpool was
almost as dark as night, the streets
were flooded for some hours, but no
accidents either from the lightning or
the floods are reported. A similar
storm burst over Chester, where the
rain is described as the heaviest ex-
perienced for a long time. Roads
and fields were flooded, and the River
Dee, already swollen, was reported
TO be rising all along its course,
especially in the upper reaches.
Seven sheep were killed at Twenlows,
and at Ightfeld, near Whitchurch, a
uuIlU0I Vi COWS W0Io hIlIcO. al ClAO
Ash, a 40ft. wall was washed entirely
away, and a hedge swept clean off.
Cork, July Is.
Reports from the rural districts to
the north of Cork and in the direction
of Mallow represent the storm as of a
terrific character. At the telegraph
offices at the railway stations all the
instruments ,,were destroyed. A ball
of fire struck some of the instruments
and fell on the floor, breaking as it
did so into small globules. One Of
these on being examined was found
to consist of quicksilver. A telegraph
clerk, named Walpole, was rendered
insensibIe, but is nov recovering.
Telegraph communication between
Cork and Mallow is interrupted. At
Clonakilty a woman was struck dead
by lightning while driving cattle from
the fields.
, 1880-08-11
THE EASTERN QUESTION.

The renewed excitement over the
Eastern Question is felt in the Money
Market, as the following passage from
the Times city article for 10th June
illustrates.
1.-THE intelligence from Turkey
published this morning made al I'M
favourable. impression on the Foreign
Stock Market. 1t is feared that dis
turbances must now be looked for in
several parts of the empire, particu-
larly on the Greek, Montenegro, and
Roumelian frontiers, and the pros
poets of their spreading are by no
means small. Then, again, much
speculation has been caused by the
announcement of the arrival of Ger
man fnanciers in Constantinop)e.
People ask whether Prince Bismarck
is going to assume the role of protector
to the Sultan, and if so, what that may
mean. Altogether the outlook is
perplexing, and gives anything but
a stimulus to speculative activity on
the Stock markets. Here, according
ly, the tendency was to wait on
impulses from abroad, and prices
moved in response to movements in
Paris, Berlin, and Vienna. At the
opening all stocks were dull; then
strong prices came from Paris, and
the market hardened; and finally
a reaction set in all around, the
market closing weak. Few changes
are shown in prices as compared with
yesterday, for very little business was
done; but, with one or two excep-
tons, the changes were downwards.
Among the exceptions were Turkish
stocks, which were bought 10 the
afternoon. The buying was helped
or followed by an improbable story
to the effect that England was going
to send fnanciers to help the Sultan"
, 1880-08-11
THE FRENCH NATIONAL FETE.
From the SpectGtor.)

It Is wise of the French to celebrate the
Fall of the B~astille, for precisely the same TEA
son that it is wise of the English to celebrate
the Queens Birthday. The celebration brings
home to all classes, 10 a visible and concrete.
vet pleasant way, the regime under which they
live, and the essential or central peculiarity OF
that reqime. The monarchy OF England 10
perfectly settled, and has no converts to make,
nor has any serious party any alternative to
propose to the people 10 exchange for It; and
everybody, therefore. 10 left to keep or over
look the Queens Birthday as he pleases. Ths
Kings Day was, however, much more impor-
tant 10 the Jaoobite time; and If in our age
there were doubts about the stability Of the
Throne or about the Queens title, Parliament
would have been right 10 msking that day the
greatest of statute holidays. In France, where
nothing is secure except the social system, the
popular recognition of the regime cannot be
left entirely to individual will, and as q grand
f4te suits the national manners, q grand fete
10 honour of the Republic is an excellent
method of acknowledging and p~rocfainIng the
continued authority of the Republican regime
and as a day had to be fixed, we do not know
that q better could be found. The capture OF
the Bastille did not found Q Republic 10 Franco
or possibly do very much for French freedoms
it only proclaimed that the French people
were tired Of the old regime, and had found
out their own strength; but in such matters
more depends On the popular tradition about
facts than on the facts themselves, and rightly
or wrongly, the French believe the attack On
the Bastille to be the turning. point In their
history, the birthday Of the Revolution.
Whether the child then born vas worthy OF
honour, whether the Revolution has, on the
whole, accomplished more good or more evil
for France and for mankind, ID . question
upon which very few thoughtful mtads ere