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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-08-25
secretary.

The Emporia Democrat is opposed to
the anti-prohihitiop plank being inser-
ted in their platform, and thinks "a
little judicious silence" will be worth
a great deal to their party just now.
Even so
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-08-25

The Wichita Daily Times has haul
ed down the Republican ticket and
refuses to support the nominees. Its
arguments in defense of a poor position
are ingenious.
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The Junction City Union hoists the
Republican State ticket minus st
John-in other words lit will do all it
can to beat HIM.
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The Republican State Central Com
mlttee will meet at Topeka September
18th, at which time the campaign will
be opened in earnest. Hon. A. l..
Redden, of Butter county is chairman
and Writ Walton, of Clay Center is
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SheriFs Sale.

STATE OF cd KANsAs. Ice.
In the Seventh Judicial District Court.
Rhoda Coniand. Piainfi6,)
Lorena Hook, Rhoda Spece,
Ruth Riddle, Harriet Cofiand
Mary Cortland, Anna Conland,
william Command, Ruth Went
ling, Ellen Banta, Samuel
Coffland, Eliza Butler, Mary
j. Sharritts, Manville Tom
linson and Chas. Tomlinson,
Defendants.
By virtue of an order Of sale to me directed
and delivered Issued out of the Seventh Judicl-
al District Court OF the State Of Kansas, sitting
in and for Woodson county, In said State,
will, on
Saturday, the End day of Sept, 1882,
between the hours of one O'Clock p. m and two
O'Clock p. m. of said day, at the front door Of
the court house in lola, in the county and state
aforesaid, offer at public sale and sell to the
title and interest Of the above named Defend
ants In and to the following described proper.
ty, tO-wit:
fhe southwest quarter of the northwest quar-.
ter of section "a town q, south of range II east,
in Allen county, Kansas, containing 40 acres.
Also the southeast quarter of the northeast
quarter Of section %, town %, south Of range
u east, In Allen county, Kansas, containing
40 acres
Also the west half and the west half Of the
east quarter Of section IS, town %, south Of
range IL east, in Allen county Kansas, contain
ing 30 acres.
The above described land is appraised ct
81 90.
DAVID WORST,
Sheriff OF Allen county, Kansas.
HI. ID. DICKSON, Atty for Llt'f.
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The will of majority of the people
fairly expressed 10 the lay. Why not
80 in parties?
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1, VIM. H. Mcclure, Treasurer of Allen Co. !,
Kansas, do solemnly swear that the above
is correct to the best Of my knOwl-
edge and belief WIN. II. MCCLURE.
Treasurer Allen Co. Kans.
Sworn to before me this LIST day Of Aug. 1882.
T. s. SLOWER, County Clerk
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The question of female suffrage was
voted upon in Kansas in 1867, and re-
ceived 900 votes for to 1887 against.
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CHURCH DIRECTORY.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL.

Corner of Jefferson Avenue and Broadway St
Services every Sabbath at II am. and ] 80 p. m
Glass meeting Immediately after the morning
service. Sunday School ot $3.50 q. M, A. 8
Hsnkins Superintendent. Prayer meeting every
Thursday evening at I 80 D. m Strangers and
visitors in the city and all Others cordially invit
ed to all these services.
S. s. WEATHERBY, Pastor.
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BAPTIST.

On Sycamore Street. Large brick northeast
of the square. Preaching every Sunday at II o
M, and at the usual hour in the evening. SUM-
day School at 9:45 I'm. A. l.. Dibble, Superin-
tendent. Prayer meeting every Thursday eve
ming at pm. This notice is inserted to assure
YOU of warm welcome at any of these services.
T. c. CoFFKY, Pastor.
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Statement

Showing the balances, debtor
and credit, Of the several funds as Is
shown by the books in the treasurer's
Office, Of Allen County, Kansas, July
18th, 1882:
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CHRISTIAN

CHRISTIAN.
The Christian Church OF lola, Allen county
Kansas, meets at the Court House for wor-
ship every Lords Day in each month at p. m
j. G.. TODD, Elder.
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CHRIST

CHRISTIAN.
Services on first Sunday Of every month at II
O'Clock q. m. at the Court House.
THos. BARTLETT, Pastor.
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RTRJ,E SOCIETY.

A supply of Bibles and Testaments may b.
found at the Allen County Bible Depository, a
Charles A Steele's place of business
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Subscription Rates.

One copy one year. - 90
One copy six months ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. l 90
Three months, 80 cents. Six weeks, Is cents.
Single copy, 8 cents.
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Allen county general revenue fund -. 22s4 s.
Allen county poor farm fund ......... so
Allen county comp bond fund. 952 A
Salem township road fund. ... SO
Humboldt city general revenue fund 46 OF
Humboldt city side walk fund.-. 10l
School district No Is bond fund. % 10
School district No. 16 ........... 136 %
School district No "a ................. %
School district No IS .......... 80 %
School district No 81 bonds. ........ A 80
School district No. 57.................. 30
School district No. 81. Observation-Disclosures. 50
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-10-05
Late Tests With Improyed Gatlinps

Thorough test trials have been in
progress at Sandy Hook with DR.. Cat
ling improved guns, before the United
States Ordnance Board, for the past two
weeks. These trials, which have been
eminently successful. may be prolonged
for another week. DR.. Calling was
present during the first ten days. The
new feed allows the musket-caliber Cat
ling to be fred at any degree of eleva-
ton. The penetration Al 5000 yards
was through II and a half inches of
timber. and at $500 yards (giving the
gun Sc degrees elevation), the bullets
struck the targets (Which were COM
posed Of boards lying fiat ON the ground)
passing through two one-inch boards
penetrating the sand four inches. At
1900 yards-664 eleyation-the bullets
passed through two one-inch boards
and five or six inches in the sand. In
every case the bullets struck the targets
point on and retained their rotary mo-
ton. This was proved by the spiral
scratches on the balls after they had
passed through the boards. The gun is
now being tried at shorter ranges
These experiments have established the
fact that a Calling gun fired at various
elevations can kill men in entrenched
positions at all ranges from 100 to s.
800 yards. The elevation required for
different distances is determined by .
quadrant ard noted. As the gun re-
mains quite steady while being fired,
the bullets can be made to drop at the
point desired. The value of such q
weapon of warfare is unquestioned. DR..
Gatling's new torpedo. one-barreled gun
was also fired and worked well, making
excellent targets at one mile range
Army and Macy Journal
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-10-05
A Gentle Horse.

Eli Perkins writes: My wife, having
been run away with once, is always
afraid the horse is going to run away
with her again. Yesterday when Har-
rington, who runs the Maplewood Hall
stables, brought up a span, he had to
stand the usual questioning:
Now, are they very gentle?'
20. certainly--kind as Kittens"
Ibid they ever run away?"
Never"
"Do you think they could run away"
Harrington looked at the horses sadly
and said: Madame to be frank with
you, I don't think they could"
"Well, have they ever been frighten-
ed?"
mo, never. Nothin' could frighten
'em," said Harrington.
HAS anything ever happened to them
that would have frightened them if they
had been skittish?" continued my wife,
earnestly.
well, yes, ma'am; su'thin' did hap
pen thuther day that would have skeer-
ed 'em eff they'd been skittish."
What, Harrington-whatp"
"Why, / was drivin' along down the
Woolsey hill; a storm came up, an six
streaks of lightnin' struck them horses
right on the head, and"
Did they rum"
mo, ma'am; they didn't move; they
jest stood still and paved the ground for
more lightnin'. They liked it."
can, the next day." continued Har-
rington, "a city teller was drivin' this
team, an he let a railroad train 60 right
through EN-"
Ibid it kill them?"
mo, hut the city Teller was all used
up. But you oughter a seen them
horses. They acted so human like
Why, when they picked them out of the
trees, they walked straight up to the city
Teller. took him by the seat Of his pan
falcons"
"Oh, my"
Lifted himright back into the wagon
again, and"
my gracious mer
"And then they hitched themselves
back onto the wagon and drove them.
selves home. Didn't they Mr.. Ket-
telle?"-NeW York Commercial AdUer-
tiser.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-10-05

$50 acres) all in cultivation, 300 acres in c.t'iiva-
ton. balance in blue grass and timothy, large
prick and frame house with 10 rooms, ice house,
buggy hOure and ;ii necessary improvements,
three good orchards. running water through the
farm, good coal bank 50 inch vein. A splendid
farm OF humble one land. Price low.
No. 70.
$50 acres in farm, all under fence, 10 acres TIM
bered pasture 40 acres good meadow go acres
Tor home use creek runs through farm good
orchard. Good one and a half story, frame
dwelling in good repair outbuildings fair. The
miles northeast o. lhfexico, Missouri. frice. $40
per acre.
Farm of so Ocres all well fenced, good one story
tached. good frame barn 44X4t feet, and other
out buildings, yOund orchard and abundance Of
small fruit, 10 acres in cultivation balance tim
bered pasture. situgte 2 . miles west OF Mexico.
Price 32,5aU. terms easy.
NO. 1O6
$50 acres under fence, 20 acres timber de-
tached. Farm divided into 3 fields, 25 acres
timber, GU acres blue grass. balance i'm cultiva-
ton. Tins IS rich rolling prairie land good 2
story frame house. 4 rooms good barn shed, all
sound good gran try, good Out-nnuses. good or
chard-fiye varieties OF fruIt-Shade and orna-
mental trees ; 2 good %cisterns good stock water ;
school house on corner of land, good neighborS.
Situated Z miles southeast of Mexico, and one
mile south of Benton City. Price $3.50 per
acre. one half cash. balance TO suit purchaser.
500 acres. 6 miles southwest of Mexico. All
fenced with hedge and rails, save 20 acres tim
Der detached: $40 acres blue grass Il d timothy,
balance cultivatlng land. Good comfortable
house Of 8 IO0ms,g good frame barn 4UX4O, good
well watered by artificial ponds. and running
rolling. Price SIS 90 per acre, one-third cash,
balance to suit purchaser. Z
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-10-05
Egyptian Soldiers,

Colonel Dye has much to say con-
corning the fighting capacity of the fall
lahiu. and seeing that he speaks from
experience, gained both in the barrack
and the field, his structures possess at
the presentmoment a more than ordinary
value. His estimate of the Egyptian
peasants soldierly aptitude is very low.
Through gifted with a wonderful power
of physical endurance, and a doci1e and
a good campaigner, the fellah is neith-
or combative nor intelligent, has not a
spark ofpatriotism, dislikes and distrusts
his officers, and hates soldering with so
intense a hatred that. in order to avoid
it. he will often cut off one of his fingers
or put out one of his eyes. When Col.
Dye was in Egypt the artillery. as well
as the cavalry, consisted exclusively of
fellahin. The gunners were taken from
q class superior to that which supplied
recruits to the other arms of the SER
vice. The officers, moreover. were bet
ter instructed than their brethren of the
line, an advantage which they owed to
the exertiens of the commandant of the
artillery school, a highly educated
French officer. To the teaching of this
Frenchman probably the stout defense
made recently by the forts at Alexan-
dria is in some measure due. A great
drawback to the efficiency of the fellah
as a fighting man is the shortness of his
sight. resulting from ophthalmia- So
defective is the vision Of Egyptian SOL
diers. says Col. Dye, that hardly any of
them can see further through q rifle
sight than a few rods. The eyes of the
black soldiers are better. Under the
same conditions he can mark 80 to 40
per cent more hits han his Egyptian
comrade. This superior shooting may,
however, be in part due to the negroes
greater nerve, confidence and eagerness
to excel. The black regiments, being
differed exclusively by Egyptians, are
in no way better organized than the
other regiments; albeit, the negroes being
Injured from childhood to war and the
chase, they make far better fighting
material than the fellahin. With the
exception of a few who have risen from
the ranks, the higher officers are the de-
scendants of Turkish fathers and Cir
cassian mothers. They are generally
sufficiently brave, but cruel, aTaricious,
corrupt and fearfully immoral, mentally
inert and physically lazy. The younger
regimental and staff officers are, for the
most part. the sons of pashas and beys
in government service, trained in the
military schools established by Ismail.
They are inferior, morally and physic-
ally, to the men they command.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-10-05
A Mosaic Portrait of Garfield.

DR.. Salviati, who gave to this country
the fine mosaic portrait of Lincoln now
in the library of congrass, and who is
now completing a COMPANION portrait
OF Garfield, which he will also give to
America. was formerly a leading lawyer
of Vieenza in Venetia- Seeing the
magnificent mosaics in st. Marks
church, Venice, going to destruction
because no one understood how to re-
store and preserve them, he abandoned
his profession and began studying the
lost art Of the Byzantines. By his skill
the mosaies of st. Marks were restored,
and he has executed many other Inn
portant works in Westminster abbey
and st. Paurs. London; in the cathedral
OF Aix-la-C hapelle, where three thou
sand square feet of surface were cover
ed in two years and q half; and at
Bangkok. where the outside Of acupola
OF the kings palace, seventeen thousand
square feet in area, was covered with
some 100000 bits of gold enamel.
The portrait of Garfield is now almost
hnished in DR.. Salviati's studio in Ven
Ice, and Is described - . maryelously
perfect piece OF work.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-10-05
Cleanliness Next to Goodness,

Mrs. Colonel Percy Yerger, one OF
the most fashionable ladies in Austin,
ordered Matilda, her servant, to bring
in a pitcher of iced lemonade and some
cake for some ladies who had called.
Matilda brought the pitcher in one
hand and the cake in the other, instead
of bringing the cake on a plate.
Matilda, did you wash your hands
before you took hold of that cake?''
asked Mrs. Yerger, looking sharply at
Matilda.
Eyes, num-"
"Are you sure you washed your
hands,"
Yes, mum; 1 washed my hands on
de Jumps OBJ ice l put in de lemonade"
This so disguised Mrs. Colonel Percy
Yerger with Matilda and the lemonade
that she put on her sunbonnet. went
e to the corner grocery and brought
back a bucketful of beer. There is
more satisfaction in beer than there is
in lemonade, anyhow.-Aler. Sweet.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-10-05

No4.
365 acres In farm. 100 acres timbered land
Watered by Young's creek. 1ao acres grass land
ton. Young orchard just beginning to beaf,
plenty small truit, twO-stofy frame house OF 8
roolns. tenant house OF 2 rooms. ice-house,
barn 58xA feet. good double corn crib, living
stream OF water runs throuhh farm. two good
ponds, schoOlhouse within l mile and 2 churches
within = mile.
20 acres, fronting half mile on public road.
100 acres In meadow, orchard Of 10 acres. balance
number one illable land, large tWO-stOry house
handsomely finished. all necessary out build
!ngs. Situated ala miles south Of Mexico.
Price ~ per acre.
l60acres all well fenced and nicely s.b-divid-
Cd, 70 acres good timothy meadow, 70 acres good
pasture, balance In cultivation and timber. good
orchard. good ! Ia story frame house iye OOlns
good stable and other out buildings. high rolling
land as hood rs any In the county. Price @eo.oo
per acre.
TO acres. All under hedge and rail fence.
i6O acres acres OF which il in meadow and culti-
Walton, 10 acres Of timber detached, good or.
clh,rd-weil watered by artificial ponds and
wells; 80 acres IN meadow. one story frame
miles north OF Mexico. near church and school.
Price. $2l.0o per acre, Sl,O0O, balance to suit
purchaser.
NO. l26.
100 acres. All well fenced with hedge and
RAJ save Dorth side Of farm. Snbdivided into
ing with 4 rooms and cellar good stable and
corn crib. Orchard OF $50 trees. Living well at
stock good coal bank, Of 30 inch vein, and good
quality Of coal. Situated 10 miles northeast Of
Mexico. in good neighborhOOd. near pOstOfiice,
half cash. balance in / and 2 years. at 8 per
cent.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-10-05
Patented Articles.

The most valuable and money-mak-
ing patents are those which are OBJ
tanned upon small articles. The IRE
turn ball." which sells for ten cents
yields to the holder of the patent an in
come equal to that on q capital of five
hundred thousand dollars. The rubber
tip on the end of lead pencils, which is
used for erasing false marks, is also Sc
cured by patent, and for every tip used
the manufacturers pay a royalty to the
inventor, which gives him an independ-
ent income. The consumption of these
pencils is very great, and the simple
idea OF tipping them with rubber has
placed the man who originated it be-
yond the reach of need in the future, so
long as he clings to his patent. An
other very simple but very valuable in
v%ention is the gummed paper wrappers,
which obviate the necessity of using
mucilage or paste to secure papers for
the mails. the patent is on the appli-
cation Of the gum to the wrappers. and
q royalty is paid to the inventor of eve
ry wrapper thus prepared. AS the num-
Der OF wrappers used daily in the for
warding of mails amounts to hundreds
OF thousands, the income derived by the
inventor from his royalty will be seen to
be a magnificent one. The gimlet-
pointed screw was patented in 1876. 1t
is familiar TO everybody, and millions
have been realized from its manufac-
ture, yet SO simple is the principle that
the wonder is that it was not thought
out and applied almost as far back as
the age of iron. The patent .shoe-tip,
noyr ,,p.o-eaI- -,o = lz- -
has brought its inventor somewhere
about two millions of dollars. Proba-
bly, the most valuable patent in the toy
line ever taken out in any country is
that which secures the Plympton roller
skates to its holder. Skating on rollers
bears but a faint resemblance to skating
on ice, but it is exhilarating sport, new
ertheless, and sprang at once into pop
ularity with the young of both sexes.
In Brazil and tropical countries where
ice is unknown and skating impossible,
except upon artiticially frozen ponds,
the rollers were greeted as a veritable
godsend, and Kinks with smooth earth
ern floors sprang up like magic. The
value OF the patent on the roller skates
to its holder is estimated at over one
million dollars, aud he expended over
one hundred and twenty-five thousand
dollars in legal expenses alone to pre-
vent the patent from infringement in
England. The dancing negro; which
can be seen in any toy-shop, and which
is simply a figure of a Dinah or a Jum-
DO balanced by q wire, which is moved
rapidly up and down by a system OF
clock work in the box upon which it
dances, provides an income for its in
ventor of thirty thousand dollars a year.
The common needle-threader, to be
found on sale at nearly every street cor
ner, is worth ten thousand dollars a
year to the man who thought out the
problem which might easily have been
solved by a boy Of ten years, only it was
not And these are but q few of the
trifies which have enriched men.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-10-05

The first Sunday law on record was
made by Constantine the Great in the
first quarter of the fourth century, and
e since that time Sunday has been
more or less fortified as a n~on-secular
day in Christian countries by civil leg
ialatinn.
1t is not generally known that . few
springs Of cedar bush, mixed with hay
or any kind Of litter for hens nests viii
keep them entirely free from hen lice,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-10-05
PLAY.

Play. you think, comes naturally to
puppies, kittens, children, and allyoung
~things-yes, if they lead natural lives.
But shut your kitten, for a week, up in
q box, without much light or air, or
even g cotton reel to roll about, and see
how much it will play when it is at last
set free. Play is the voluntary
exercise of all our faculties under asense
of freedom; where we exert ourselves
because we like. and not because we
must, that power is developed by exer-
cise-and exercise only. 1t is. in fact,
q branch of education that is very much
neglected. -MacmiHan's MAGAZINE.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-10-05
NO. LEG.

400 acres. All under fence save 20 acres, 100
acres in blue grass, 100 acres in timber, balance
cultivating land 2 story frame house 46x4S con-
tanning 8 rooms, has good rOomy hall. 2 good
barns smoke house, Ice house and other good
Out -buildings, good orchard of fine selection OF
fruit. fine garden spot, nice lawn In frJnt of
house of 2 acres. good well at house. creek
running through farm, good ponds with water
farm Situated a miles south of Mexico In good
neighb0rhOOd. with excellent school and church
facilities, half mile to school house and two and
one-half miles to church. Can be bought for so
per acre, one-third cash balance, TO suit pur-
chaser.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-10-05
NO. 1870.

100 acres-C0 acres In cultivation and under
rali fence , goad house, 9 rooms good orchard,
good garden. good well-2i feet deep and 8 feet
In diameter stable for six horses with corn crib
attached good pond, creek rms through TIM
Der situated four and q half miles south Of
Mexico. Price $500 per acre, 5000 cash bal
ance, to suit purchaser.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-10-05

no. 1872.
GO acres. two and one-haif miles west of Next
buildiniis in good repair orchard of about 200
trees garden fenced witn pickets barn with
room for @ horses and I tons hay corn crib AMI
granary. Farm fenced with hedge, plank and
rails 2 good cis:erns. Price $1,000. 90, 0ne-thlrd
cash, balance to suit purchaser
NO. IT'S,
800 acres, all unner fence save 30 acres. SnL-
divided into 5 fields 100 acres pasture, 40 acres
meadow all enclosed susceptible of cultiva-
tiOl ; creek running through pasture. furnishing
water all year r0iinl. 2 story frame dwelling,
with one story L. rooms In all, good we'll and
good 0tlt-bulldingS. Barn and stable sufficient,
fair orchard. Good tena I house. good rich land,
and one OF the best stock farms in the county.
In good neighborhOod convenient to school and
church situated 8 miles north of Mexico. Price
suit.
NO. 1873.
21O acres. all under fence. I25 acres in cultiva-
ton, W acres In pasture good orchard fenced
with plank, containing 200 trees good garden
fenced with pickets good frame dwelling OF 4
rooms. hen house, smoke house, log stable she'd
ded all around, room for eight horses good corn
crib, good well, two large ponds school house
within 225 yards of dwelling. Situated 6 miles
cas, balance. Time to suit sIien n1 M; pel acre Sioo
NO. 2O3.
i0i acres, all under fence. 30 acres IN clover.
40 acres corn ground, balance In pasture and
timber. Good one and half story frame dwell
Ing of 6 rooms. good orchard, good out buildings.
good plank fence around tie yard, ali other
iencin. in good condition. Moderate barn, good
Ponds. good ~cistern, good living well that never
goes dry store and post Office within 100 yards
OF the house church and school house near by.
Situated 10 miles west of Mexico. and 4 miles
50 southwest th \ 81 Ihompsons' Station; on the branch
time, to suit purchaser.