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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-08-19
THE CLUB TICKET.

The action Of the Republican Club
last night in giving all hands a fair
chance tn nominate and vote for whom
thay pleased leaves no peg ON which
even the chronic and profrssio> al erowl-
ers can hang an objection on. 1t was a
square deal all round md resulted in
the selection If the following unpletig. d
delegation to be voted for ut the prlma-
ries to-day. ..-....e
u. A. RENDER,
&. r. SWIFT,
FRANK BOSKOWITZ,
w. n. TORREYSON,
s. G. WRIGHT.
The abnve ticket carried the Club by
a sweeping majority and comprises
men who constitute some Of the best
material Of the party. With such a
delegation at Reno there Is no fear of
Orn,sby county being anything else
than we'll represented. Every we'll
meaning Republican should vote this
ticket.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-15
A Dilemma.

An Austin boy had the bad habit of
reading after he went to bed, and leav-
ing the candle burning. much to the
alarm of his parents, who were afraid
he would set the house on fire. As the
boy did pretty much as he pleased. his
father told the colored boy who waited
on the table to go up into the sons room
afterhe had gone to sleep and put out the
light. which programme was carried
out for several months. One night,
however, the parents of the boy were
aroused from a sound slumber by the
bow calling out:
"Boss, oh Boss! what am ter do?"
.'Merciful Moses! what has hap
pened?'
"De boy has done"
"Merciful Heavens! has he set the
house on fire?'
"No, but he put de light out hisself.
/ want to know what Pm gwine ter do
about it?'-Teras SJtings.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-15
How the Car Enjoys Himself.

In the meanwhile the Emperor enjoys
himself after his style at Peterhof, de-
Tended on every side like fortress, but
occasionally openly showing himself to
the enemy-the public. The Empress
is slowly recovering from her confine-
ment, but the nervous prostration still
remains, and it is said that it is largely
for her sake that the coronation has
been left in its present uncertain cOndi-
tiun. Personally she is averse to its
celebration, and shares the view of sew
eral of the Cars advisers, that If he
can rule Russia without a crown as well
as with one why should he run the risk
of coronation? The Gar has been
amusing himself of late with a sloop,
propelled by electricity, which arrived
at Peterhoff short time ago from CrOn-
stadt. where it had been constructed for
the heir-apparent. Quite fiotilla Of
gunboats and torpedo cutters is MAIN
tanned at Peterhoff to guard the palace.
Great changes are being made. in the
personnel Of the Imperial household, and
it is stated that, for the future the main
tenance of the servants of the palace
viii only cost f13,OOO a year, instead
of nearly 100000. as in the time Of
the late Emperor. Economy and
simplicity characterize not only the
course of life at Peterhoff, but also the
entire higher administration of the En-
pire. The ostentation that marked ev-
cry movement and act of the late Car S
brothers, the Grand Duke Constantine,
of the navy, and the Grand Duke Mich
olas, of the army, has been replaced by
the austere simplicity of the present
Cars brothers. Alexis and Vladimir.
The parasites of the late court are hav-
ing a terribly bad time of it now. No
mercy is shown them in the reorganiza-
tons that are daily taking place, and.
as might be expected, their opinion
of the Car is very bad one and goes
to swell the popular clamor against him.
The Winter Palace is under repair and
many suits of apartments are ordered
to be furnished afresh. A few weeks
ago deal of old lumber found in one
of the garrets of the palace was sold
for 1000 rubles to dealer in curiosi-
ties of the Nevsky Prospect. The rub
bish filled several wagons, and although
not one-half has vet been properly ex-
amired the dealer has already Melted
20, rubles by the sale of two valua-
BILE pictures he found the first day
among it.-&. Petersburg Cor. London
Past
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-15

facing and gives the requisite strength
and finish. Now comes the long seam.
closing both the sleeve and the body,
and almost finishing the garment This
seam must be carefully felled. Make
the narrowest hem possible round the
bottom of the shirt. Stay the ends of
seams with tiny gussets or a tape
stitched firmly across. The pattern
ought to be SO perfect that the neck
will need no trimming out. A circular
band is. the best fitting, and this re-
quires q pattern. Remember that upon
the set of the neck-band depends the
tit of the bosom and the comfort of the
wearer, and use tape measure that it
may be neither too large nor too small.
but just right Shirt bosoms should
always be lined. They are sometimes
purchased with coarse linen lining,
but the ordinary linen bosom sewed
over the front, and the cloth beneath
allowed to remain instead of cutting
away, is quite as good-Wisconsin
State Journal
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-15
Parental Influence.

Many Christian parents, although
aiming to train their children in princi-
Piles of right, forget the wide-reaching
and long enduring character of their
work. When one looks upon the null
titude of youthful criminals in this land,
the miseries and cruelties which grow
out of parental thoughtlessness, care
lessness and evil example, we cannot
lightly think of the value of the work
of those who train their children into
habits of self-respect, integrity and
consideration of others. The good citi-
zenship of the country comes from we'll
regulated, Christian homes. 1.-THE
more of moral meaning there is in any
life or family the more powerful are
they as facts and forces in the world y
There is need that home influence
should be everything that is desirable.
The father of a family who has an alb
horrence of all that is mean, tricky and
undetermined in business, and the moth
er who despises untruthfulnesS, gossip
and SANDER. can no more help forming
desirable characters in their children
than the sun can help aiding the growth
of the golden grain.
1t has been said that work done foc
God "dieth not" This is truth which
has not the influence on Christian peo-
pie. in general, which it deserves. Men
are often stimulated to endeavor by the
thought that their work will live after
them. but when it is work which es-
pecially honors God they forget its per-
manent character. Weekly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-15
Religious Department.
"V MY BARK SINKS, IT'S To
ANOTHER SEA"

soul affrightedl striving through the dark
That like q huge black cloud surrounds thy
bark
To override the gale, so conquering fate,
What matters it. ween, III coon or late
Thy ship goes down, since other seas are nigh
On which thy storm-tossed bark can safely lie2
o weary hands thst to the rudder holdl
Powerless to help as maddened waves are
rolled
About thy bark, why not In faith let go
Since other seas where peaceful waters How
Are thine for aye? Rest now from thy
despair:
What II thy ship go down, If home be there?
o eyes grown blind in vain attempt to pierce
The blackness of the nights, and days made
fierce
By nights despairl o ears that hear no cry
Because of wind and tempest bowling by!
Why strain q voice TO hear. light to see,
When God on other seas will answer thee?
There on sparkling stream thy bark shall
glide,
And neither storm. nor gale, nor changeful
tide,
Can drive thee from thy course. There milk
white sails
With heavenly breezes fill. and love prevails
To keep the waters blue, the heavens fair.
What if thy ship goes down, another sea is
there.
Eleanor Kirk in s. s. Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-15
Hard to Be q Christian |!

Hard to be a Christian! Of course it
is. But, whether you believe it or not,
it is a great deal harder not to be one.
That is to say, you have harder time
than if you were one. You have at least
as many cares and trials as if you were
a Christian, and as many temptations.
Every sad and trying element of human
life is manifested in your experience as
often and as signally as it would be if
you were one of Christ's followers; you
thrust yourself inevitably upon many
sharp points of evil habits which you
might in that case escape; and you lack
what true Christian-however feeble
and imperfect his success as yet may be
always possesses, the consciousness
that his Creator and he are no longer
working at cross purposes; that he is in
harmony with God will and plan for
him; that omniscience, omnipotence and
infinite love are occupied in shaping his
circumstances so that, however painful
they may be to-day, they are sure to
prove full of blessing in the end. You
may not think this consciousness very
solid advantage, but if you had it, in
the sense that the Christian has it. you
would. Congregationalist.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-15
How Tarantulas Fight.

There was recently received in Den
yer, for store exhibition, two full-grown
tarantulas, one of the brown and the
other of the black variety. The brown
fellow was Gagged in common cigar
box and the black one in glass jar.
As they could not be exhibited to adj
vantage in contriyances of this kind,
and as they were not very pleasant
company to have running about loose,
a box almost two feet square with a
glass top was procured, on the bottom
of which layer of sand was spread to
make the animals feel at home. The
cover was then drawn and the two
spiders pitched into it from their sepa-
rate cages. No sooner did the one dis
cover the others presence than they
rushed at each other as viciously as two
panthers, and Immediately closed in
deadly embrace. They came together
with bound, and then twining their
long hairy legs about each other rolled
over and over in the sand, biting each
other savagely, and then Juggling with
all their might as if endeavoring to crush
each other by sheer muscular power.
Incredible as it may seem, this sort of
warfare was kept up for six hours,
during most of which time it could not
be seen that either was gaining the
slightest advantage, as neither showed
any sign of disposition to end the fight
except by the death of his adversary.
At last the black one rolled over dead
on the sand while the victor Immediate
ly proceeded to reap the spoils. of his
long battle. Selling his vanquished
enemy in his stout horns, or pincers. or
whatever contrivance he has for that
purpose, he rapidly tore him limb from
limb, and coolly proceeded. in the
cannibalistic fashion to make meal of
him. In very short time nothing was
left except little pile of legs and
pieces of shell to mark the spot where
one tarantula had fallen and another
had dined.-Denrer Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-15
Directions for Making a Shirt.

The very first thing to do is to set
the linen bosom on the front. Stitch it
twice across the lower edge, and cut
out the neck by the shirt pattern. Next
finish the back. If a yoke shirt is to
be made. gather the fullness, and
placing it between the front and back
of the yoke, sew the seam and turn
the yoke. leaving the seam inside. If
it be sack-shirt. face the back for .
depth of twelve inches. Next sew up
the shoulder seams, always leaving the
facing of the back. or the lining of the
yoke. to stitch down on the right side.
This makes all smooth and well
finished Then take the sleeves, which
have already had the Wristbands sewed
on. but are still open from wrist-band
to shoulder, sew them into the body of
the shirt, leaving half an inch to turn
down for q facing. This makes un-
necessary the troublesome arm-hole
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-15
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Among Presbyterian clergymen
there are over 600 who wear the title Of
D. D.
AT home the Moravians number
only 20, 900; but they have gathered 49,
900 heather into the fold.
The Oldest Presbyterian Church in
the world. the Waldensian, sends out
more missionaries from her highland
valleys than all her ministers at home.
Three thousand five hundred church.
es have been built in this country dur
ing the past fifteen years, and more than
one for every day in the year during the
last twelve months.
L "A candidate for teachers certiff-
cate in the recent examination at Ell Do
radio, gave as q reason for the length
ened DAYS of summer that they were ex-
banded by the heat. Of course they
contract in the winter. -LedUentv0rtb
Times.
Rev. Miss Anna Oliver says that the
ideal Christian woman its the salvation
of the Church, and expresses the belief
if women lose faith in the Church and
Christian religion in its general outlines
the whole fabric of modern theology
will fall apart.
"A Hindoo mother, after listening
hour after hour to the lady missionary
as she explained the way Of free saliva
ton, exclaimed: "Tell me more" At
last when the long talk must close the
old mother drew from under her veil
the thin. gray hairs, saying: ''These
hairs have grown white waiting for
such words as these"
The industrial schools are having
an apparently good eject upon the In
dams. The red men have begun t
work well and to take pride in their
work. General Armstrong believes
that within tive years, with tho 100 In
dams at Hampton, Va, and the 800 at
Carlisle, Pa. and others under intruc
ton elsewhere, all the shoes and har-
ness needed on the plains can be made
by the young men at home.-ChicagO
Journal.
MIR. Spurgeon, while in Scotland,
recently preached in the grounds OF
Kenmore. A temporary pulpit was
erected on the lawn, and MIR. Spurgeon
duuTcSScu III OpcII-du COHSicSdeiou VI
nearly 5000 people. who had come in
from "all the country side,' many per-
sons having walked over ten miles ex-
pressly to be present. for the austere
Puritans of this part of Scotland would
regard driving on such an occasion a:
"Sabbath Dissertation" of the most
heinous nature,-N Y Post.
The pastors of the Methodist Epis-
copal Churches of York, Pa, publish a
card giving their reasons for refusing to
attend "sO-called Methodist camp-meet-
ings.' Many of these enterprises. they
say, are not under the control of any de-
partment of the church, and are man.
aged by grossly immoral men. who use
money to bride uneducated consciences,
and obtain this money by collision with
railroad corporations. "We are in IA
vor of camp-meetings," the clergymen
add, whenever it can be demonstrated
that their influence is more helpful than
hurtful to the cause of Christ. "-Chica-
40 Tribune
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-15
Harmony in Human Life.

Our surroundings should be harmoni-
Gus with our life. 1t is not necessary
to sound the same notes to produce
harmony. The word implies blending,
but it almost forbids repetition. Nat
ure is the great teacher. Her means
and ends are consistent with each other
Nature. understands too well the art of
harmony to attempt impossibilities. She
is always up to the mark, but she does
not overstep herself Where the soil
will not grow lilies and roses, she con-
tents herself with daisies, but left to
herself, she will always cover man s
mistakes with carefully spun shroud.
1t is to learn this lesson more perfectly
that in later life we are drawn away
from mankind to live with Nature. A
fuller growth takes place when We feel
ourselves in unison with all we see. and
when intercourse with nature restores in
us the balance that human conflict has
destroyed. Life in great cities is in
imical to harmony. The clash of interests
is too fierce, and those who live much
in great centers of human effort cannot
sustain the sense of harmony, unless
they come away for time. The form
and manner of modern society increase
the difficulty. The multitude of &C
quaintances. and the little time given
to each, make intercourse necessarily
broken and unharmonious. Converse
ton takes the form of epigram, and
each sentence must be cast into such a
form as not necessarily to demand a
second for its completion. By degrees,
our thoughts follow our words, and
each opinion becomes rounded and
finished off to fit into each question that
may arise. Nothing can be viewed as
whole-we are too near to its de-
tails. So near are we in great cities
that it is almost impossible not to take
each detail for the whole. Then arises
irritation, from the sense of the I'M
fitness of each separate opinion ex-
pressed to bear the structure of our
whole line of thought. We have
uttered an epigram. but we have not
stated our judgment as it really is. To
do that requires time and opportunity,
which society, neglectful of the in
dividual in its care for the whole. can
not afford to any one of its members.
The utterance. unfathered and without
offspring, must stand or fall by itself,
while we may be thankful if we are not
through it labeled and placed in a
pigeon-hole to which we are as foreign
as dove to hawks nest. Then it is
that we fall back for consolation upon
ourselves as whole.-LOndoss Specta-
f0r
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-15
Why . Kerosene Lamp Bursts.

Girls. as well as boys, need to under
stand about kerosene explosions. A
great many fatal accidents happen from
trying to pour little kerosene on, the
fire to make it kindle better. also by
pouring oil into lamp while it is light
ed. Most persons suppose that it is the
kerosene itself which explodes, and that
if they are very careful to keep the oil
itself from being touched by the fire or
the light there win be no danger. But
this is not so. If can or a lamp is left
about half full of kerosene oil the oil
will dry up-that is, "evaporate "a
little and will form, by mingling with
the air in the upper part, a very explo-
sive gas. You cannot see this gas any
more than you can see air. But if it is
disturbed and driven out, and blaze
reaches it, there will be a terrible explo-
sion, although the blaze did not touch
the oil. There are several other liquids
used in houses and workshops which
will produce an explosive vapor in this
way. Benzine is one; burning fluid is
another; and naphtha, alcohol, ether,
chloroform may do the same thing.
In a New York workshop lately, there
was can of benzine, or gasoline, stand
ing on the floor. A boy sixteen years
old lighted a cigarette, and threw the
burning match on the floor close to the
can. He did not dream there was any
danger, because the liquid was cOrked
up in the can. But there was great
explosion, and he was badly hurt. This
seems very mysterious The probable
ity is that the can had been standing
there good while and good deal of
vapor had formed. some of which had
leaked out around the stopper and was
hanging in a sort of invisible cloud over
and around the can; and this cloud,
when the match struck it, exploded.
Suppose girl tries to fill a kerosene
lamp without first blowing 1t out. OF
course the lamp is nearly empty or she
would not care to fill it. This empty
space is filled with cloud of explosive
vspor arising from the oil in the lamp.
When she pushes the nozzle of the can
into the lamp at the top. and begins to
pour, the oil, running into the lamp,
fills the empty space and pushes the
cloud of explosive vapor up; the vapor
is obliged to pour out over the edges of
the lamp, at the top. into the room out
side. Of course it strikes against the
blazing wick. which the girl is holding
down BY one side. The blaze of the
wick sets the invisible cloud of vapor
afire. and there is an explosion which
ignites the oil and scatters it over her
clothes and over the furniture of the
room. This is the way in which kerr
osene lamp bursts. The same thing
may happen when girl pours the oil
over the fire in the range or stove, if
there is cloud of explosive vapor in the
upper part of the can, or if the stove is
hot enough to vaporize quickly some OF
the oil as it falls. Remember that it is
not the oil but the invisible vapor which
explodes. Taking care of the oil will
not protect you. There is no safety ex-
cept in the rule: Never pour oil on a
lighted fire or into lighted lamp
Christian Union.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-15
Curing Millet for Hay.

The increase in area of this crop and
the favorable reports of those who have
fed it in quantities, so as to test its ex-
cellent qualities, are now causing it to
be counted an important factor in our
agricultural economy; for its great pro-
ducing ard feeding qualities are becom-
ing better known, and its coming in at
opportune times tides many farmer
over time when otherwise he would
have to buy feed very largely. Being
easily raised and, if one knows how,
harvested, it is truly an economical
feed, and first-class one besides.
Strange it is that one is continually
hearing of the difficulty of curing it; but
the trouble is that, under wrong i'm
preston, q "big job is planned, when
one no greater than the curing of a
heavy crop of Timothy hay is needed,
and so, to meet this "demand," much
useless labor is performed. The idea
is that it must be made "as dry as tin
DER" by stirring, raking, cooking, air
ing, recocking, and airing again, before
setting up; when the fact is that it will
go in as green as any hay and does not
need more work.
When the weather promises fair for q
few days, cut down about four or five
acres and let it lie until the third day.
Then. as soon as the dew is of, 1 put it
into large cocks of 200 or even more
pounds each. Then the fifth or sixth
day. as the work may direct, it is
pitched directly from the cocks into the
barn. In the intervening days l cut
more. and work it also towards the
barn, by the same means.
If on the second day the weather be-
tokens foul turn, the millet is raked
up and put in smaller and higher
cocks; and when the weather again be-
comes fair the cocks are simply
''whopped'' bottom upward, and in the
afternoon one large cock is made ftwo,
and then, when their time comes, they
are drawn either to the stack or barn.
Two things are peculiar to millet.
If it does get rained upon before it is
dry, no visible damage is done; and
when put in cocks it settles down very
compactly, and long stalks of the millet
make very complete thatch and il
takes very heavy rain to wet into
them.
1t needs judgment when pitching. for
its weight is always underestimated. A
acknowledgement load by estimate
will always weigh few hundred
pounds more on the scales, and.
in pitching, small forkfulls will
be amply large before. night.
In securing, the barn is preferable to a
stack and one handling is thus saved.
Cured and secured in this way, do
not. see how any large crop can be
gathered with very much less labor,
and when. in March and April, one has
a big NOW of well-cured millet to feed.
he laughs at snow-stOrms. throws down
an extra forkfuI of blossom cut millet;
and. in return, ''old Brindle. NOW known
as Coomassie Jersey, l think. gives q
summer mess of milk, and her owner
declares that he will pillow up that old
north meadow in April and put the
whole lot into German millet.-John
Gould, in Rural NeW Yorker.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-15
Christian Efforts in Egypt.

The world has little idea of the civil
izing power of Christianity, and of what
has been accomplished by its apostles
in that direction. There are few coun-
tries on the globe where the missiona-
ries of the Cross have not erected their
standard, and as rule, wherever they
have gone they have remained. Later,
when diplomacy would seek to open
up relations with unknown and distant
lands, missionaries, familiar with the
language and customs, have been their
most efficient helpers. On the occasion
of the negotiation of our last treaty
with China, the President of the Amer