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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-05
USEFUL ANo. SUGGESTIVE.

Give the boys good tools if yS1
want them to keep up with able-bodied
men.
Some authorities consider potash
the most essential food for all vege-
tables.
I'm general way it may be said
that appearance, quite as much as quail
ity, sells fruit.
Milking should be done at the reg
1lar hours if possible. winter and sum
mer, Snd the same rule should be OBJ
served as 20 feeding. The cows do not
have watches, but they know when the
business hours come around and ara
fretful if the business does not go on
San Francisco Chronicle.
DO not neglect your dry cows Just
before calving time, as it is then that
they need especial attention and care.
They should be well and judiciously
fed so as to keep them in good condt-
ton, for when poor and thin in flesh
they can not digest as much food and
will not be strong and thrifty.-Prairie
Farmer.
The business all over these United
States depends to a great extent upon
the success the farmer meets with each
year. The success of the professional
man, the merchant or mechanic-jn
fact, the success of the entire country
depends, to great extent, upon the
prosperity or adversely of the farming
world. Western Pl01man.
Around. almost all old sa~-mills
there is an immense accumulation OF
old rotten sawdust This sawdust, after
it becomes.well rotted, makes the very
best of fertilizer for the vegetable gar
den, and especially for onions and po-
tatoes, but it is also excellent for any
farm crop, and will pay well for Lau-
ing on the fiehs.-Ioiedo Blade.
Good Molasses Cake: Put good
teaspoonful baking soda in coffee-cup
and heaping tablespoonful of shorten
ing, then add four tablespoonful boil
ing water; stir; then fill up with mo-
lasses. Add spice or not, as you wish;
thicken with good cupful of flour; bake
quickly. A few raisins or currants are
an addition to those who favor fruit
Boston Budget.
Stuffed Ham: Select nice ham and
boil; when done let it get cold before
you skin and trim it. Prepare a stuff
ing of bread crumbs, butter, pepper,
parsley, thyme and celery. Begin al
the hook and make missions with
large knife about an inch apart, and
put in the stuffing as you draw 0uf
the knife. Rub smooth paste of flour
and water together and spread thickly
over the top, put the ham in the oven
and let it brown well, but slowly. TIC
be eaten colo.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-05
WORSTED WORK.
Revival of an Industrial Pastime Which
Was Once Very Popular.

Revival of an Industrial Pastime Which
Was Once Very Popular.
Many ladies will welcome the revival
of the cross-stitch worsted work, which
promises to regain all its old-time pop
ularity. The designs follow closely the
antique, and are in lovely, delicate
shades. Sofa pillows worked on can
vas, and strips for chair seats, footrest,
ETC., to be upholstered with rich, dark
plush, follow some of the fashionable
designs for Kensington work, and as sc
many ladies are familiar with this style
of work. it is being adopted even more
than the applique work, for which one
is constantly finding new and lovely de-
signs. A very pretty fancy at present
is the making of bags of silk handker-
chiefs with bright-colored borders. The
handkerchief is first trimmed around
all four sides with white lace about two
and half inches wide. A place for a
drawing string is then made in a COM
plete circle in the handkerchief, leav-
ing about three inches of the border.
exclusive of the lace, to fall over the
outside, the circle forming the bag part
After the drawing string or elastic is
put in, finish with long loops of ribbon
about an inch wide. The bags are very
handsome and are also useful. Bags
are in fact seen everywhere, at the
present time, suspended from chande-
Tiers or from little brass hooks beside
mantel-pieces and windows. and even
hanging from the tall backs of old
fashioned chairs. They are of all sizes
and shapes. Quite pretty bag is made
of bed ticking. that with wide stripes.
Over the srst blue stripe tack black vel
vet the same width, tack it on with
fancy stitches, embroider the white
stripe in some simple design or with
two or three rows of herring bone
stitches. On the next blue stripe tack
gold or silver braid the same width,
fastening it on the velvet, and so on
with each stripe. Make the ticking sey-
en- or eight inches square and line with
some rich color, drawing up the lining
with handsome satin ribbons of the
same or a contrasting color. Although
almost everybody has a macreme bag
few ladies carry them, and they are
how fastened on the wall or on door.
and trimmed with few peacock feath-
ers and bright ribbon, or with large
punches of artificial flowers, and used
for ferns and leaves, or cones and
moses, mementos of summer journey
ings in the country Demorest's
MO7athlu
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-05
OAHlIAS,
An Expert Cultivator's Instructions How
to Grow Them.

An Expert Cultivator's Instructions How
to Grow Them.
always notice that the farmer who
has a few flowers around his home is
generally a good one. As they cost
little or nothing, excepting little time
and trouble (Which is amply repaid by
the enjoyment they BRING, have often
wondered why more of them are not
found growing about the farm houses.
The dahlia is a very handsome flower
and may be easily grown. For the ben
efit of those VINO have never had any
experience l will give the following
hints: Put the tubulars to sprout in .
box of dirt near the stove about the last
of April, wet them occasionally with
warm water. When the sprouts are
about four inches high separate the
tubulars SO that only one sprout remains
on toe. This should be done with q
sharp knife. Set ont in good, rich
bed as soon as the season will permit
(say about the middle of May). Protect
from the frost by covering them up at
night with a wooden box-never use
tin-this should be removed during the
day. As soon as the danger of the
frost is over drive stout stick firmly
into the ground beside the stalk and tie
the stalk TO it so the wind can not blow
it over. The soil shout be rich and the
plant kept well watered-this should
be put on the roots at night. Let the
plants stand two and one-half feet
apart. Clip off all the blossoms as soon
as they begin to dry up-this will cause
the plant to blossom more freely. When
the tops are frozen dig the tubulars,
cut the tops of, and store them in .
dry cellar where they will not freeze
Let the support be firm and be prodiga
with the water-after wetting them
thoroughly then wet them little more
Follow these directions and you will DO
amply repaid for your trouble -Cor.
Western H0uman.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-05
TRUTH.
The Commodity, Though Scarce, il
Mighty and Will Prevail

The Commodity, Though Scarce, Js
Mighty and Will Prevail.
VIII Coon is q truthful traveller, who
is at present selling baking powder.
Not long since William called on Gus
toner in Northern Ohio and wanted to
sell him case.
'Never heard of it." said the mer-
chant, CURLY.
"Course not" replied William, smil-
ing confidently, '.if you had, and had
used it, your standard of intelligence
would have been raised. Why, sir, I"
ratified away the valuable traveller, 1--WE
sent five barrels of it to Pittsburgh in
February of last year, and that's what
raised the river so. Our house was in
the Cincinnati flooded district at the
time, but we left only one barrel in the
cellar and as soon as it got wet, it raised
the house clear above the water. 1t
is
"Hold on" interrupted the dazed
merchant you are the infernalest-
"As was saying" he went on, ..it is
the best powder in the market. We
sent two barrels to New York in No
vember, and raised the Democratic ma
jority enough to beat Blaine"
"Well don't want such q -"
''Of course you don't. You don't
want baking powder that will raise
money enough in a day to pay for itself
for six months. No man does. Why,
sir, /"
what did you say was the price?"
interrupted the merchant, becoming in
terested.
swell, don't know what it is ex.
actly, now. You see when l get warm
talking about it the dampness gets in
and raises the price. That's why l al.
ways want to sell quick. so l won't
have to make any discounts on the new
figures"
do you give any premiums?"
''Of course. The best one is my new
Walker. Every subscriber every
purchaser of a case gets one. This ma.
chine is a graduated tube, with the
hours marked on it. Say you want tc
get up at seven a. m; you load the ma.
chine for that hour, set it under the bed
rail and by seven o'clock the powder
has raised the bed up and turned you
out on the floor. Then the cook takes
the machine, empties the powder into
the bread pan, and makes beautiful bis.
cults for breakfast. No waste of pow.
der, either. See?'
mo, but / hear" said the merchant,
"and you may send me case; and
and-if your house hasn't got another
liar to take your place in case you should
leave. it had better put in some baking
powder to raise your salary, and make
perpetual contract with you" -Mer.
chant IraUcLer.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-05
BUDDENSIEK MORTGAGES.
A Warning to Those Who Advance None,
to Builders.

"A warning Co InOSe VINO ADVANCE money
to Builders.
The Sanitary World offers a warning
to persons who are in the habit of ad.
vancing money on mortgage to build.
ers without examining the structures
intended to secure the loan. which de.
rives additional emphasis from the re.
cent fall of one Buddensiek block in
New York and the enforced rebuilding
of others, which is now going on by
direction of the Building Bureau. In
the English case to which the SANITARY
World refers, a builder of the Budden-
sick sort of work erected in London
two houses, the workmanship of which
was far from satisfactory to the dis.
trict surveyor, who complained against
him for using bad mortar, and had him
fined sor the offense, and ordered t.
change his method of building forth.
with. The builder took no notice of the
order, but completed the houses ready
for occupancy, and then managed to
obtain, as builders know how to do, a
large loan upon them, giving a mort
gage in return. The Metropolitan
Board of Works, whose mandate he
had disobeyed, had in the meanwhile.
however, instituted legal proceedings
against him, and obtaining a verdict,
with the necessary authority from the
court, it proceeded, after ordering out
the occupants, to demolish both the
houses. and with them the security OF
the unfortunate lender, who had really
bought the houses at high price from
the builder, without troubling himself
to inquire about defects, which, as it
proved, made them worse than worth
less. The Sanitary World, while de-
ploring the success of the trick by
which the rascally builder shifted the
consequences of his misdeeds upon the
innocent MORTGAGE, points out that the
latter, by taking the precaution to in
quire of the district surveyor as to the
character of the houses, might easily
have ascertained that they were not
only defective but had been actually
condemned and ordered to be taken
down, and would thus have been warned
against throwing away his money in
loan upon them, and truly says that
Notwithstanding the hardship to the
mortgage, his want of prudence should
not be allowed to interfere with the
public welfare, which unquestionably
demanded the destruction of the build
Egs.-A7nerican Architect.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-05
A PHYsIoeNoMIsT FOOLED.
He Has Little Experience with q Polite
Young Man.

He Has q Little Experience with Polite
Young Man.
An old gentleman with philanthropy
ic look boarded Ridge avenue car and
cast a coaxing glance at the crowded
seats. Directly young man arose
and proffered the aged citizen seat.
"Ahn' exclaimed the grateful old
man, II knew I would not have to
stand long. Thank you, my young
friend" he continued. as he placed his
hands on the shoulders of the polite
passenger. when see a young man
so kind to the aged / can always tell
which of his parents he resembles
most"
That's interesting" observed the
other, feeling it incumbent upon him to
make some reply.
"Now, don't you look like your
mother?" cheerfully asked the aged
man.
Perhaps" was the laconic reply.
'.Ah, | knew it." delightfully."- ex-
claimed the grateful passenger. II
think the resemblance is so striking
that l would recognize your dear
mother if l should meet her."
Then the young man left The car.
.'My gracious!' the old gentleman
was heard to remark in few minutes,
IL have lost my watch"
Perhaps the youth who looks like
his mother took it." suggested youth
with dinner-pail.
"But l don't know him." sadly OBJ
served the aged party.
"You might know his mother" piped
up little woman.
'Thunderation with him and his
mother!" retorted the victim as he re-
lapsed into silence. Subsequently he
told the police about his loss, giving his
name as Josiah Greenleaf. He lives at
Roxboro'. .-Philadelphia Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-05

he had ever hoped to be. From that in
slant it was as if he had been a mere
slave to some demon that dwelt therein.
Fancies run riot at such moments as
these. The ring-it was the symbol of
broken faith and falsehood and all evil.
if it Were not the cause. 1t should
curse the finger of a true lover and an
honest man no more. With bitter
pang he recalled the triumph of first
putting it thereon; then, with wrench
like the crushing of heart and brain to-
gether, he tore it from the hand that
had carried it through despair, hope,
death, exile. and threw it from him far
away.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-05

"A London contemporary is author
ity for the statement that young doc
tor has made great professional sue
cess in that metropolis by his poiiteness.
He was consulted by lady Who suf.
fered from cold feet THE reason OF
your cold feet" said the young doctor,
sis that they are not large enough to
hold blood sufficient to heat them.
Since then all the pretty girls in Lon
don swear by him, and some of our
young doctors might do good business
these hard times by pro6ting by his ex-
ample.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-05

"A delicate potato cream soup is
made as follows: Make a PURGE of
potatoes, thin it with boiling water and
pass it through a sieve; add the yoll O.
six eggs, mix well and add little finely
minced parsley and chervil. Serve
with crontonsL Household.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-05

Measures should at once be taken
for renewing the forests, which are rap
idly wasting away. This can not be
done by speech-making, hymn-singing
and setting out saplings and bushes
about schoOlhouses.- PhiladelphM BuL
Letin.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-05

Are You enriching yourself eagerly
with knowledge, experience, influences,
wealth, that you may pour all thes
things out upon world that calls for
you as Macedonia called for Psal-
Christian Union.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-05

1t is stated that one or two churches
are burned throughout the United
States every week.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-05
FACE TO FACE.
"A Fact Related In Seven Well
Told Fables.

BY r. e. FRANCILLON,
author OF "a GREAT REIREss," "QuITu
Ar LAST" "A REAL QUEEN" EARL's
DIVE" ETC, ETC.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-12-10

A telegram from Kingston, New
York, relates that Jennie Jones is a
pretty young dressmaker of Highland,
in Ulster county. While employed in
New York city, about a year ago, ''she
befriended an old lady who had lost
her pocketbook, by loaning her a
small amount of money, and also as
sisted her across the street, when the
horse car in which she had met her
came to the place where the old lady
wished to alight. Miss Jones gave
her name and place of residence to the
old lady, at her request, and thought
no more of it. A day or so ago Miss
Jones received letter from a lawyer
in Buffalo, which stated that by the
death of an old lady in that city she
was heiress of $50,OO0 The lady who
bequeathed the money was the person
whom Miss Jones had assisted a year
ago."
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-12-10

A dentist in New York city says that
women who talk the most loose their
teeth the soonest. 1t is hard to CON
tradict one who is supposed to know
all about women and teeth, etc., but
as long asst isn't so, the public ought
to know it. To prove that the New
York dentist is off his pedestal, there is
a lady living in this city, who is deaf
and dumb, never having spoken word
in her life, and yet she lost her teeth
two hours after they were put into her
mouth. She received them from her
dentist, and on returning home sneezed
them into the well while drawing a
bucket of water, and up to the present
writing they have not been recovered.
Camden Democrat.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-12-10

A hogshead or big barrel, is often
the handiest thing a farmer has to
scald pigs in. When it is inclined to
one side, and the pigs are slid into it
from a wood sled, used for a scraping
table, it works very well, but the small
quantity of water it will hold when in
this position soon gets cold, or too cool,
and long delays are often caused if
many pigs are to be scalded To avoid
this delay, and use the hogshead in an
upright position, lever may be rugged
like a we'll sweep, using a crotched
stick-such as every farmer who can
do so, should have laid up to season.
The iron on which the sweep moves
must be strong and stiff. Atrace chain
is attached to the upper end, and if the
end Of the chain has a ring instead of
a hook it will be quite as convenient.
In use, table is improvised, unless a
strong one for the purpose is at hand,
and this is set near the barrel A
moose is made with the chain about
the leg CT the pig, and he is soused in,
going entirely under water, lifted out
when the bristles start easily, and laid
upon the table, while another is made
ready.-America1 1gficult,Wist
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-12-10

The sweet potato crop has been very
prolific this Fall, and that succulent
and popular vegetable has in conse-
quence ruled at a reasonable price.
The principal source of supply has been
from the eastern shore of Virginia, par
ticularly the old county of Accomack,
the home of the late Henry A. Wise.
From this section the New York, Phil
adelphia and Norfolk Railroad has car
ried 100000 barrels of potatoes this
Fall, and before the season has ended
about $4,000 more barrels will have
been shipped North. 1t is estimated
that more than half of these shipments
have found market in Philadelphia.
The railroad company furnishes the
barrels at the cost of their manufacture.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-12-10

One of the boarders in private
boarding house, not over prompt in
paying his board bills, grumblingly Oh
served morning or two ago, in the
hearing of the boarding mistress:
This coffee isn't settled"
Il guess it will be settled before your
bill is settled" she quickly retorted
This was a settler he little expected.
1t set little ripple of laughter in mo-
ton around the table, and when it set
tied the peacemaker of the house OBJ
served that there were probably
grounds for complaint on both sides,
which settled the matter, and harmony
resumed her reign.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-12-10
WHAT A BABY CAN DO,

1t can wear out a 81 pair of kid shoes
in twenty-four hours.
1t can keep its father busy advertis-
ing in the newspaper for nurse
1t can occupy both sides of the larg-
est sized bed manufactured, simultane
ously.
1t can make the author of its beings
wash bills, foot up to S. a week, and
not be feeling at all well.
1t can crowd to suffocation the smok-
ing car of a railroad train with indig-
nant passengers between two stations.
1t can cause its father to be insulted
by every second class boarding house
keeper in the city "who never take
children, (which in nine cases out of ten
is very fortunate for the children.
1t can make itself look like u fiend
just at the moment when its mamma
wants to show what pretty baby
she has
1t can look its father innocently in
the face and five seconds later spoil
the only good coat that he has in the
world.
1t can make an old bachelor in the
room adjoining, use language that if
uttered in the street would get him in
the penitentiary for two years.
1t can go from the fatherest end of a
room to the foot of the stairs in the
hall adjoining, quicker than its mother
can just step into the closet and out
again.
1t can go to sleep like a little angel"
and just as mamma and papa are start
ing for the theatre, it can wake up and
stay awake until the beginning of the
last act.
1t can in ten minutes drive a man
frantically from his home, and cause
him to seek the companionship of
locomotive blowing off steam in order
that he may obtain the rest and
quietude which his weary frame de-
mands.
These are some of the things that
baby can do. But there are other
things as we'll. A baby can make the
commonest home the brightest spot
on earth. 1t can tighten the burdens of
loving mothers life by adding to
them; it can fatten its dirty little face
against the window pane in such a
way that the tired father can see it as
picture before he rounds the corner.
Yes, babies are great institutions, par
ticularly ones own baby,-Chestnm.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-12-10

Charles H. Barker, a resident of
Newburyport, Mass, has been in
formed that he and his brothers and
sister are heirs to e1,500,000, left
by deceased relative in England.
The lady from whom the millions are
to come, Mrs. Mary Thurburn, of Lon
don, was the wife of a baronet and
rich banker, who was the London
agent of the Shah of Persia. Her
brother, Charles H., was for many
years British Consul at Messina.
Emigrating to this country in 1S49, he
subsequently,, for some years, was an
instructor in languages at Harvard,
having by series of misfortunes lost
a little fortune.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-12-10

A dress reformer says: "In connec-
ton with coughs and weak throats,
few people consider to what an extent
these are due to chills caused by the
impervious starched linen collar. l
would recommend an unstarched wool
en- collar
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-12-10

Peat smoke is heavily charged with
antiseptics-tar creosote, taurine and
various volatile oils and eesius-and the
salutary influence of these more than
make up for the adulteration of the air
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-12-10

Azari, Silvestre and Gelardi, the three
Italians convicted of the murder of a
countryman whose remains were found
in trunk in Pittsburg last May, were
hanged on Saturday in Chicago.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-12-10

A wash of one part of nitric acid in
ten parts of water, will, it is said, i'm
part stain resembling mahogany, to
pine wood that does not contain much
resin. When the wood is thoroughly
dry, shellac varnish will impart a fine
finish to the surface.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-12-10

Paper and leather may be rendered
very pliable by soaking in solution
of one part acetate of sodium or po-
tassium in four to ten parts of water,
and drying.